"I thought they were something great, but that's it."

Mao Zongxian said with a laugh.

"That's right, if we can capture two of these giant ships, then we will be famous enough for the whole of Fujian."

Su Daren also laughed and said.

In the face of the wolf pack tactics of the Ming army, these two giant ships were really difficult to deal with.

It was at this time that a musketeer became known above the two ships.

They aimed at the Ming soldiers on the bow of the ship and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

“……”

A burst of smoke sounded, and dense projectiles shot at the Ming troops on those decks.

The Ming troops who were casting rockets immediately burst into a scream.

The Ming troops on those ships unceremoniously returned fire with rockets!

Small rockets were fired into the two Hongyi ships.

At this time, the guns on the two giant ships opened fire again, and dense shotguns and chain shells were fired at those Ming troops, and due to the close distance, the Ming troops standing on the deck were almost swept away.

Seeing this, Mao Zongxian and Su Daren's faces became gloomy again.

The enemy's artillery is simply terrible!

In the face of such a dense rain of bullets, unless they hid in the cabin, not many Ming troops would survive.

The ships of the Ming army drifted in the wind because the soldiers on board were almost killed.

In the face of such a terrible artillery, the other Ming soldiers were also frightened and hid in the cabin.

Some Ming military attachés reprimanded the soldiers and told them to come out and release arrows at the two ships, but the Ming soldiers refused to agree.

"Do you want to order the ships to open fire!"

Su Daren said.

"It's useless to open fire! Hongyi's ships have always been very strong, and they are not afraid of our shelling at all, and arson is the right thing to do! ”

Mao Zongxian shook his head and said.

These two Western ships were so high that even if they fired their guns and used shotguns, they could not hit the enemy on the deck of the enemy ship.

And it was very difficult for them to jump into the gang, because the two ships were so tall that it was very difficult to climb on the enemy ships under enemy attack.

"If we go on like this, I think our morale will collapse."

Su Daren said with a gloomy face.

Mao Zongxian's face was also ugly, their losses were too great if they continued like this, they were all this group of damn pirates.

Seeing that the rockets of the Ming army had become sparse, the "Holy Trinity" raised its sails again.

It slowly changed the angle of its body, and then slanted towards the middle of the Ming army's fleet.

For this behavior of the pirates, Mao Zongxian and Su Daren were stunned.

Do they want to get up close and personal?

In fact, they didn't guess wrong, Deng Zilong did have the idea of getting close to meat.

This kind of side-chord shooting like this can't give full play to the powerful firepower of the ship, so he plans to rush the "Holy Trinity" into the ranks of the Ming army.

Then use its ferocious artillery fire to destroy a large number of Ming troops on the surrounding ships.

Since they were upwind, they were able to insert themselves into the Ming convoy without any problems.

Now the "Holy Trinity" is completely powerful, and because the distance between the two sides is very close, some ships are not even ten steps away from it, and they can hit it with just a casual aim.

A large number of shotguns and chain bombs kept firing at those Ming ships.

The deck of the Ming army was swept over and over again, and almost no Ming army dared to come out.

To the horror of those Ming troops, the "San Jose" was also inserted into the Ming army's fleet.

Nearly 200 artillery pieces roared incessantly in the ranks of the Ming army, so that the Ming soldiers only dared to stay in the cabin.

Some Ming troops also returned fire with artillery, but how could their artillery be the opponent of this giant artillery.

All of a sudden, the sound of artillery roaring was almost incessant, and the battlefield was filled with gunsmoke.

Although the sea breeze was strong, it still could not blow away the smoke from the battlefield.

More and more ships had their masts broken, and small boats were struck and sunk by the two ships.

The corpses of the Ming soldiers were floating everywhere on the sea, and some of the Ming soldiers who did not die had to hold on tightly to a floating object and then shout for help.

Both Mao Zongxian and Su Daren were stunned by this sudden change.

Once inserted into the Ming army's fleet, the firepower of these two ships doubled, coupled with a fairly high hit rate, the Ming army was completely powerless to fight back.

"What should we do?"

Mao Zongxian's face was full of fear.

By this time, the Holy Trinity was already heading straight for the ship he was on.

The huge hull put tremendous pressure on Mao Zongxian.

Once hit by this ship, even his lucky ship will only be sunk.

"Look, sir."

At this time, a sailor pointed to the south and said.

Mao Zongxian and Su Daren hurriedly looked in the direction he was pointing and found that the three Hongyi giant ships were sailing towards here at full speed.

Seeing this, Mao Zongxian couldn't help but be shocked: "Damn, why do they have three more helpers." ”

"Oops! It's definitely a trap! They're luring us into battle! ”

Su Daren said loudly.

"That's right!"

Mao Zongxian also quickly understood this principle, if the enemy found that there were five such huge ships, they would not fight anyway, they would only send people to the governor for help, and then defend the Tongshan Fortress.

It was precisely because the enemy only sent two Hongyi ships that they mistakenly thought that the enemy was not strong, so they had this big battle with the enemy.

Who was the hell who thought of destroying the officers and soldiers of their Tongshan Fortress?

Thinking of this, both Mao Zongxian and Su Daren broke out in a cold sweat.

"It's not good, the direction they came from is the direction of Tongshan Shui Village."

Mao Zongxian suddenly thought of something and said again.

Hearing this, Su Daren's face changed again.

So their back road was cut off!

And maybe the Tongshan Fortress was captured by them!

What a serial plan!

Mao Zongxian and Su Daren both felt that something was wrong, and today's incident was definitely a conspiracy that the enemy had been planning for a long time.

"Let's get out of here and report the situation here to the governor."

Su Daren said.

"Withdraw! Evacuate me! ”

Mao Zongxian nodded in agreement without thinking about it.

After receiving the order from the two, the other ships, which were already panicked, began to flee in all directions.

Of course, Tongshan Shan Zhai can't go back, otherwise it will just hit the three Hongyi warships.

So a group of people fled north in confusion.

*****

*****

Lu Yan held the clairvoyant mirror and looked at the "Holy Trinity" in the distance that was fighting bravely in the Ming army's fleet, but he frowned.

Because there were several places on its hull that caught fire.

He had repeatedly overestimated the strength of the Ming Dynasty's fire attack, but he didn't expect that the fight would still be a little embarrassing.

It seems that the Ming army's fire attack tactics still have merit.

"It looks like the big picture is decided."

Jia Xu said with a smile on his face.

Tongshan Water Village is located in a key area, if he does not defeat the water army of Tongshan Water Village, Lu Yan really can't carry out his great cause of entering the army with peace of mind.

However, the Tongshan Fortress is built on the mountain, and even if you want to capture it with Hongyi cannons, it will cost a lot of ammunition.

It's a bit more than worth it for him.

So he discussed with Jia Xu, first lured out the main force of the Ming army in Tongshan Fortress with two ships, and then annihilated them at sea.

At least they shouldn't be allowed to return to Tongshan Shrine again, threatening his great career.

So there was the lure of Deng Zilong and others to attack.

Lu Yan said, "The hull is too big, there are pros and cons, at least those rockets are very easy to hit." Looks like we need to add some boats. ”

Jia Xu smiled and nodded.

A real fleet is definitely not only battleships, and those small ships have their own uses.

After the two fleets converged, Deng Zilong couldn't care about pursuing the Ming army, and hurriedly ordered people to extinguish the fire.

Soon the flames on the hull were extinguished, although the hull was somewhat unsightly, covered with black scars.

However, it does not have much impact on combat effectiveness, and it only needs to be repaired a little and it will be completely new again.

Of course, those Ming troops who fell into the water must also be saved.

Soon, one by one the Ming soldiers were fished up.

As for how to deal with these Ming troops, Lu Yan felt a lot of headaches.

It's not to kill, it's not to let go, in the end, you can only take care of it first, and when you return to Taiwan, you can transport them back to Taiwan, how to say it's a good laborer.

So next, Lu Yan once again sent someone to clean up the Ming warships outside the Tongshan Water Village, and after making sure that they did not pose any threat, Lu Yan finally began his vigorous career of entering the Kou.

More than 2,000 soldiers entered Kou Zhao'an, and its momentum caused a sensation throughout Fujian for a while.

Since the extermination of the Japanese pirates, there has never been such a large-scale invasion of the pirates.

Zhao'an County ordered Zhou Li to know that he was invincible, so Pegasus asked his superiors for help.

When Zhou Zuo, the governor of Fujian, learned about it, he was immediately shocked and angry.

He knew that the origin of this group of pirates was definitely not ordinary, they were the elite from Liaodong.

And not long ago, in addition to attacking Penghu Water Village, they also broke the Ming army in Tongshan Water Village.

The ordinary army was probably not their opponent, so on the one hand, he sent someone to question Lu Yan and ask him why he betrayed the imperial court.

On the other hand, he sent an order to Yu Zhigao, the general of Zhennan Road, and ordered the mobilization of a large army to go to the meeting to suppress Lu Yan.

Speaking of this Yu Zhigao, he is not an ordinary person.

He is the son of the famous general Yu Dayou, and his army is completely built on the old foundation of the Yu family's army.

At that time, this army and Qi Jiguang's Qi family army broke the Japanese invaders together, and played the prestige of "Yu Long Qi Hu, killing people like soil".

Therefore, in Shang Zhouzuo's view, the only force in the entire Fujian that can compete with this elite of Liaodong is probably this army with outstanding achievements.

After receiving Shang Zhouzuo's order, Yu Zhigao's face was heavy.

Although he had never fought against the Liaodong Frontier Army, he had also heard of the prestige of the Liaodong Frontier Army.

Compared with the hinterland, which has been peaceful for a long time, Liaodong is fighting almost every year, and it is impossible to think about it without being elite.

Although the Liaodong border army has been defeated in successive battles recently, the battle of Guangning has almost transferred the elite of the whole country, and even so, it is still a big defeat.

On the other hand, this army is from the only Dongjiang army that has won a big victory over the Jurchens, how can this make Yu Zhigao not pay attention to it.

After reading several newspapers about the Dongjiang Army over and over again, Yu Zhigao fell into deep thought.

"Come on, call Tian Hao and Niu Yi over."

Yu Zhigao said.

Soon the two of his family members were called.

"You're both from Zhao'an, right?"

Yu Zhigao didn't talk nonsense with them, and said straight to the point.

"That's right, the little one is the Zhao'an people."

Tian Hao and Niu Yi hurriedly replied.

"I order you to go back to Zhao'an and inquire about the news of those pirates, to see if they are really elite. After discovering the news, report it immediately, and there must be no mistakes. ”

Yu Zhigao said.

"Yes, my lord."

The two men looked at each other and nodded in agreement.

If those people are the real elite of Liaodong, he must treat them carefully, and whether they are fought or not depends on the development of things.

If they're just so-called impostors, don't blame him for sacrificing his red top with the heads of those pirates.

Not long after the two servants left, his butler hurried in.

"My lord, Huang Sanye of the Zhao'an Huang family wants to come to see you, this is his post."

His butler said with a smile.

Yu Zhigao snorted coldly, Huang Sanye's purpose is not to think about anything, he knows it.

The Huang family is a big family in Zhao'an's first song, presumably the Huang family must have suffered a lot of losses this time, otherwise they would not have sent someone to find him in a hurry.

In fact, the reputation of the Huang family is quite bad, and almost everyone who knows anything about the Huang family knows what kind of family the Huang family is.

If it can be summed up in two words, it is greed.

But as long as there is a business that can make money, the Huang family will find ways to get involved.

For example, mining, business, sea trade, usury, collusion with officials to forcibly occupy people's land, almost all of the Huang family are involved.

As a result, the Huang family has also accumulated incredible wealth.

Compared with the wealth of the Huang family, the people of Zhao'an are even poorer.

I don't know how many people carry the interest of the Huang family that can never be repaid, make cattle and horses for his family all their lives, and even sell their sons and daughters to pay off their debts.

"Just say I'm not there."

Yu Zhigao said without thinking.

"He said he had a way to solve the arrears of our army."

The butler reminded quietly.

Hearing this, Yu Zhigao couldn't help but become interested.

Due to the large number of people in Fujian and the lack of land, except for some maritime merchants, they are all extremely poor.

Therefore, this is a regular occurrence of non-payability.

Yu Zhigao's army has been in arrears for two months, and if he doesn't pay it again, he will have to find a way to make a salary.

If this Huang family can help him solve it, it will be a good thing.

"Then let him in."

Yu Zhigao thought for a while and said.

"Yes, yes."

The housekeeper hurriedly said with a smile.

Soon, Yu Zhigao saw Huang Sanye in the living room.

Huang Sanye is a big fat man, the whole person looks round, his face is full of oil, and with brocade clothes, he looks like a monkey and a crown.

As soon as he came in, he cried and cried out.

"Lord Yu, you have to make the decision for me. Those pirates are so hateful that they not only robbed all my family's property, but also distributed my family's belongings to those untouchables. Your Excellency, you must make decisions for us. ”

As soon as Lu Yan landed in Zhao'an, he went straight to the Huang family, because the information was transmitted too slowly in this era, and his cavalry came and went like the wind, so the Huang family was wiped out before he got the news.

In view of the fact that the Huang family's reputation is quite bad, and it can even be said to be bad, Lu Yan has no intention of being soft-hearted.

He not only started a real sweep in the Huang family, but also distributed the Huang family's furniture, farm tools, cattle and some grain to the poor people, winning the warm support of the local people.

Because there were so many things he snatched, he had to stop in Zhao'an for more than ten days to facilitate the transportation of these things.

Compared with Lu Yan and the local people, the Huang family is as miserable as falling leaves in the autumn wind, and it has changed from a real rich family to a family with four walls.

Not only that, but even those slaves who were forced to sell themselves took this opportunity to rebel and clamored to go to sea with Lu Yan to become pirates.

Some slaves also asked Lu Yan to execute the people of the Huang family, if it wasn't for Lu Yan who felt embarrassed to rob the Huang family of so many things, maybe he would really cut off all the heads of the Huang family.

Huang Sanye went to Zhao'an County because he was dealing with some of his family's accounting problems, so he didn't catch it.

After learning of the tragic situation at home, Huang Sanye was of course filled with grief and anger.

He immediately tried to find a way to ask for help, and after knowing through his own channels that the governor planned to send Yu Zhigao to meet him, he immediately came to ask for Yu Zhigao.

Yu Zhigao snorted coldly, he didn't invite him in to listen to his complaints, but for the sake of salary, he still said patiently: "It's not difficult for me to go and suppress, but we haven't paid money for three months, and the emperor is not hungry soldiers, how can the soldiers go to war when they are hungry." ”

Huang Sanye couldn't help but be stunned, didn't he say that he only owed two months' salary?

Why has it been three months again?

Soon he realized that this was Yu Zhigao blackmailing, although he kept scolding in his stomach, but he didn't dare to turn his face at all.

So he squeezed out a smile with all his might, and then said, "Isn't it just three months' salary?" As long as we take down that group of pirates, our Huang family will take out three months' salary and silver labor army, and after the matter is completed, our Huang family will have a generous gift. ”

"That means that if we don't take down that group of pirates, we'll have to work for you hungry."

Yu Zhigao rolled his eyes and said.

If you want to empty the gloves of the white wolf, don't even think about it.

"This ...... This ......"

Huang Sanye hesitated for a while.

If they can take down the pirates, then although they can't take back all of their property, they can at least grab some of it, and it will be more than enough to pay for these people's salaries.

But it seems that Yu Zhigao doesn't see rabbits and doesn't scatter eagles.

"Our Huang family still has two shops in Zhangzhou Mansion, and if we can squeeze out some silver, and if we borrow some silver, we guarantee that we can make up 10,000 taels of silver within two days. I just hope that you can quickly send troops and capture those pirates. ”

Huang Sanye gritted his teeth and said.

"Hahaha, well, then well, I promise you, the day you gather the money, it will be the time for me to send my troops."

Yu Zhigao said with a laugh.

This silver is the cost of labor and the army, and it is not counted as salary.

At that time, you can also get another copy from the imperial court, and you can put it all in your pocket.

Yu Zhigao's abacus is clanging.