Chapter 341: The Battle of Tsushima (Part I)
Bracelet's marriage also made Zhou Chong very headache, intellectually speaking, Zhou Zhong really wanted to marry Bang'er, after all, Bracelet is indeed at the age of marriage, although sixteen years old is just a high school student in the later generations, but in the era of Daming, she is already an old girl who married late, and other girls may have become mothers at this age, even if they are not good, they have already been engaged to get married, just waiting for their husband's family to marry, but if they wait until they are eighteen or even twenty years old, then don't want to marry Lu.
However, reason is reason, emotionally speaking, Zhou Chong does not want to force his favorite sister to marry, although he knows that it is not good for Bang'er to do this, but he still doesn't want Bang'er to be sad because of this matter, so Zhou Chong made a decision and sent Wu Shan to Songjiang the next day.
A few days later, Zhou Zhong found Aunt Wang with a stack of reports, then sighed and put the report in front of her and said: "Auntie, that Xu Chengcheng who proposed marriage is not a good match, you look at the information collected by these Jinyi Guards, this Xu Cheng not only raises women outside, but even has an unclear relationship with his cousin's concubine, where can such a person be worthy of our bracelet?" ”
Zhou Zhong sent Wu Shan to investigate the details of that Xu Cheng, although that Xu Cheng was born in a family of eunuchs, but the more such a family, the more filthy there must be, and it was not investigated at all, in fact, it was indeed as he expected, Wu Shan found out a lot of Xu Cheng's bad deeds within a few days.
Aunt Wang was very surprised when she heard Zhou Chong's words, and immediately picked up the paper and looked at it, but it was okay not to look at it, the more she looked at it, the more scared she was, that Xu Cheng's bad deeds were not only what Zhou Chong said, but also many things that had not been said, and even that Xu Cheng not only liked women, but also liked men, and there were several scholars around him. All of them are very handsome.
"This ...... This...... The Xu family is also a family of poetry and books, how could they do such a thing? After reading the information in her hand, Aunt Wang asked with a shocked face, and at the same time she was a little afraid, she couldn't believe that if she married Bang'er to such a person, how would her daughter live in the future?
"Auntie, the more you read, the more unreliable you are, I am a reader myself, and I know the dirtiness between scholars best, so in the future, as long as a scholar comes up to ask for marriage. You tell me first, and then find out their old bottoms, so as not to harm the bracelet! Zhou Chong said earnestly, he is also very unaccustomed to the current scholars of Daming. It's okay to just write some bullshit articles, but the atmosphere among readers is very bad. Forget about going to the brothel of the Qinglou. But their homosexuality one by one is a little too perverted.
Hearing Zhou Chong say that scholars are unreliable, Aunt Wang first nodded in agreement, but then said with a smile: "You can't say that, scholars are also good, such as you, like Chong'er, aren't you just good." So I don't think people are good or not has nothing to do with reading, everything is still tutoring. ”
"Ha Luha, this is true, I am so promising. Everything is still taught by my aunt. Zhou Chong said with a smile at this time, Aunt Wang is praising herself by changing the law, and Zhou Chong naturally will not ruin her interest.
After chatting with Aunt Wang for a while, Zhou Chong came to Bang'er's courtyard again and told her that the Xu family's proposal had been rejected by her aunt, which made Bang'er jump up happily, and then ran to share the good news with Mengwan.
Watching Bang'er leave happily, Zhou Zhong sighed, although Bang'er is happy now, but her age is not small, she will always marry in the future, but I don't know which young talent can touch Bang'er's heart?
Just when Zhou Zhong was dealing with household chores, the 3,000 sailors led by Chang Xiao finally arrived at the southernmost point of Korea, which is the Tsushima Strait on the border between Korea and the Japanese Kingdom, and the southern exit of this not wide strait is Jeju Island in North Korea.
Tsushima Island is divided into upper island and lower island, collectively called Tsushima Island, Tsushima Island plus hundreds of small islands around, called Tsushima, originally this island is a terra nullius, and later the Wa Kingdom was in turmoil, and the Wa people who escaped from the Wa Kingdom occupied this place, which made Tsushima Island become the territory of the Wa Kingdom.
A hundred years ago, North Korea sent troops to clear here, and the results were not bad, killing a lot of Japanese invaders, and forcing the Zong clan who controlled Tsushima Island to surrender to Korea, although North Korea also paid a huge price for this, but it was also the most glorious moment of the Korean war against the Japanese country.
It's a pity that the Japanese are the Japanese people, although they will surrender for a while, they will not surrender for a lifetime, and rebellion has been engraved in their bones. When the Zong clan surrendered to Korea, they also obtained the right to open a shop in Miura, North Korea, and at the same time, many Japanese people lived in Korea, and today, a hundred years later, the Japanese people of Miura and the Zong clan of Tsushima Island united and raised the butcher's knife against Korea again, and now several provinces in the south of Korea are in flames, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians have died under the sword of the Japanese people.
As the main planner of this rebellion, the Zong clan pressed almost all of his net worth, and all the adult men on the entire Tsushima Island were mobilized by the Zong clan and transported to Korea to start their robbery and murder journey, and a boatload of booty was transported back to Tsushima Island, it can be said that since the Japanese rebellion, the route from Korea to Tsushima Island was full of Japanese ships transporting war booty, and these ships used to be merchant ships transporting goods.
There are two main reasons why the Zong clan dared to so blatantly transfer the entire Tsushima men out, and he was not worried that the North Korean sailors would attack his lair, the first was that he had a good sailor in his hands, after all, he was the one who ate this bowl of rice on the sea, and he naturally had his own hole cards in his hand, and with this sailor to protect Tsushima Island, he was not worried that someone could copy his lair.
In addition, there is another reason, that is, after all these years of sea ban in North Korea, the North Korean naval division has long been dilapidated, and it is good to have the actual strength of 1,000 people in the establishment of 10,000 people, not to mention that the warships in the naval division have long been soaked in the sea, and the DPRK has never had the money to build new ships, so the entire Korean naval division has become a joke, not to mention going to sea to fight, and even the strength of defense is gone.
It is precisely for these above reasons that the Zong clan is not worried about the safety of Tsushima Island at all, in his opinion, the sea is his most reliable defense, and it is impossible for the North Koreans to cross the sea to attack him, so he will be so relieved to transfer the men on the island, and even some sturdy women have been transported to North Korea to help transport the spoils of war, leaving only some old, weak, sick and disabled on the island.
Chang Xiao stood on one of the largest Portuguese warships, holding a telescope and looking at the sea conditions in the distance, they had been entering the Tsushima Strait for nearly half a month, and he had been familiarizing the fleet with the sea conditions of the strait for half a month, so that when he met the sailors of the Zong clan in the future, he would not suffer because he was not familiar with the sea conditions.
The fleet went northwest along the strait, and Tsushima Island was soon in sight, but at this time, the Zong sailors who defended Tsushima Island finally discovered this huge fleet, and they recognized at a glance from the tall warships in the fleet that it was the fleet of the Great Ming, after all, only the Great Ming could build such a tall sea ship.
At the beginning, the Zong sailors thought that this was a merchant fleet of the Ming Dynasty, after all, there had been continuous smuggling between the Ming Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom over the years, and some Ming fleets often came to trade in the Tsushima Strait, so there was nothing strange, but when this fleet approached, the people of the Zong Navy Division suddenly discovered that this fleet was not a merchant ship at all, but a warship of the Ming Dynasty.
It was discovered that it was the Ming warship, which made the Zong Clan's sailors greatly frightened, because the other party's warship was not only tall, but also full of weapons, and it was impossible for them to be the opponent of these Ming warships.
However, although they knew this, the Zong Clan's sailors did not dare to run away without permission, after all, they were responsible for protecting the land, and if they escaped, the punishment of the Zong Clan was not something they could bear at all, so these Zong Clan's sailors could only drive their own small warships to meet them.
Originally, the people of the Zong clan sailors still had a trace of extravagant hopes, and they were ready to send someone forward to ask what the intentions of this suddenly appeared Daming sailors, maybe they just lost their routes, so they ran to the Tsushima Strait by mistake?
It's a pity that Chang Xiao didn't give Zong's sailors a chance to speak at all, when the two fleets were still a few hundred steps away, Chang Xiao ordered all ships to open fire, be sure to scatter the Japanese sailors, and definitely not fight with each other, after all, they didn't bring many people on this expedition, and they were on other people's land, so naturally they couldn't waste their own lives.
"Boom ~ Boom ~ Boom ~" The tall Fu ship kept firing guns, the Portuguese warship was across the body, and the guns on the side of the ship were also firing in rows one after another, although Chang Xiaozhi said that the artillery salvo on the ship was more powerful, but the hull of the Portuguese battleship could not resist the shock of the salvo, so it could only be staggered to shoot.
Although the warships of the Japanese are nominally sailors, they are actually a group of pirates, and their main task in peacetime is to plunder at sea, so there is no rule in the battle, and all the ships are swarmed up, as long as they get close to the ships, they immediately throw out their claws and cymbals, and then jump along the rope to jump on the enemy ships.
It's a pity that this kind of broadside battle of the Japanese people has long been behind, Chang Xiao did not give them a chance to get close at all, nearly a thousand guns on more than 30 ships, from the beginning of the war has not stopped, as a result, many Japanese warships have not rushed over to be bombed to pieces, the rest of the ships have long been frightened by the artillery, no need for other people's orders, turn the bow of the ship and immediately run in all directions, Chang Xiao did not intend to let them go at all, commanding the battleship to pursue while using artillery to bombard the other party to the bottom of the sea. (To be continued......)