Chapter 78: The Great Oolong
The armies of the two sides were at a stalemate at sea for nearly two hours. During this period, Zhu Changyuan took advantage of his advantage of having a tailwind and a loudspeaker, and kept changing people to shout to the place, anyway, he didn't make any effort, and he didn't shout in vain.
Two hours later, Li San and Ma Hai finally came with a hint of signal, but because they were too far away, more than ten miles, Zhu Changyuan could only hear the "zizi" radio waves on the walkie-talkie, and he couldn't make out what they were talking about.
But he is not in a hurry, since they are safe, then it will be fine, Geng Zhongming can't get another crossbow machine from somewhere else, so it is impossible for the other party's army to pose any substantial threat to Ma Hai and Li San who are driving motorboats at sea.
The only thing Zhu Changyuan cares about is whether the two of them have scuttled Zheng He's treasure ship now.
After about a quarter of an hour, it is estimated that Ma Hai and Li San quietly came over from the sea, and the intercom sounded again: "Report to the general, report to the general!" ”
"Say!" Zhu Changyuan's face was overjoyed. In the walkie-talkie, Ma Hai's tone was calm and calm, not in a hurry, indicating that the two of them did not encounter danger here.
"General, there is a major discovery. The Phi Islands were empty and almost undefended on them. ”
Ma Hai's voice came from the walkie-talkie, and he didn't say whether he had scuttled the treasure ship, but gave Zhu Changyuan a big surprise first.
Nani?
There is no one on the island, there are no defending soldiers?
"What the hell is going on?" Zhu Changyuan's tone contained a rare excitement.
"Report to the general, Geng Zhongming, this guy is slapping a swollen face and becoming fat, there are no soldiers on his island at all, only a few sentry posts, and all the troops have been pulled to the sea by him."
Ma Hai's voice was clear and full of excitement.
Zhu Changyuan took a deep breath and almost laughed, "Haha, Geng Zhongming, you played an empty city trick for Lao Tzu, I was almost scared to death by you." ”
"You two come back immediately, don't go to the boat again, I'm going to redeploy the offensive plan."
Zhu Changyuan ordered, and Ma Hai and Li San drove the motorboat to speed over in less than half an hour. Of course, it was a detour from the rear, and it was impossible for Geng Zhongming's people to find out.
Several high-level officials held a small meeting on the deck of the big ship, monitoring Geng Zhongming's every move and talking about it, and even Yan Hong, who was seriously injured, came to the meeting.
At this time, Zhu Changyuan knew that it was impossible for Geng Zhongming to take the initiative to attack now, and he was just scaring himself by playing an empty plan.
"Big brother, your legs?" Li San was shocked when he saw Yan Hong's appearance.
Yan Hong pointed to Geng Zhongming on the opposite side and said, "That old boy did a good thing!" These people and Geng Zhongming used to be soldiers together, and although they were not familiar with each other, most of them knew each other.
Li San clenched his fists angrily and gritted his teeth, "Go back and clean up this old boy, I will avenge you." ”
Zhu Changyuan waved his hand, "I want revenge, but now put the hatred in my heart first, and talk about how we will deal with it next." Lao Yan, you are the oldest and most familiar with the situation on Phi Dao, tell me how we will attack! ”
Yan Hong's face not only showed joy, but he was a little worried, and said: "No, Dongjiang has always been an important military town, and it is impossible to send only 2,000 people to defend it, will there be fraud on the island?" ”
Ma Haidao: "Impossible, Lao Li and I even ran to the island for a turn, there is really no one, I don't know the specific situation, and even Zheng Hebao has very few people on the ship." ”
As soon as Yan Hong said this, Zhu Changyuan suddenly became vigilant, and secretly said Could it be that Geng Zhongming, the old boy, deliberately sold a flaw? After thinking about it for a while, he said: "What Lao Yan said is not impossible, but the purpose of our war this time is different from the previous one, we do not seek occupation, we do not seek complete victory, we will consume it at any cost." Therefore, even if this kid is ambushed on the island, there is no need to be afraid, it is just a big deal to die a few more devils. ”
The crowd talked for a while, worked out the order of battle, and began to divide their labor.
First of all, due to the advantage of being in the south, occupying the upwind direction, Zhu Changyuan used two small boats, which were poured with gasoline, to carry out an attack in the way that Zhou Yu attacked Cao Cao, but unfortunately the speed of the small boat was not good, and secondly, Geng Zhongming's big boat was not connected with iron cables like Cao Cao, and it could be dodged at will, so Zhu Changyuan's fire attack had no effect.
Geng Zhongming didn't forget to laugh: "Handan is just a toddler, this is the Three Kingdoms to read too much, and I still learn to burn Chibi!" All the generals laughed too.
Zhu Changyuan didn't plan to take Geng Zhongming with fire, so he led dozens of small boats and six large ships to attack together, and hit Geng Zhongming's fleet directly.
Geng Zhongming did not panic at all, and ordered his ships to disperse, and there was a flag bearer on each ship, commanding the ships by waving the flag, although it was not as good as Zhu Changyuan's walkie-talkie, but it was also quite skillful and easy to use.
Zhu Changyuan ordered an all-out attack, and the big ships and small boats went on together, and they were immediately entangled with Geng Zhongming's fleet. However, what Zhu Changyuan didn't expect was that in Geng Zhongming's navy, there were many soldiers with firearms in their hands.
it!
Zhu Changyuan is about to scold his mother, do you want to be so advanced in this equipment, why did you get all the muskets?
It is natural to think about it, Geng Zhongming was a general of the Ming army before, and it is reasonable to have firearms, the Ming army originally had a magic machine battalion, and Zhu Changyuan had to accept it if he didn't accept it.
The good news is that not all Ming troops have guns, and there is still an essential difference between guns and pistols, not only with small lethality, short range, but also with much worse accuracy.
After their pirates were shot, many of them were able to take up arms and continue fighting. After the firecrackers on the opposite side finished firing a shot, they had to spare time to change the dressing, if there were not a large number of firearms, they could be shot and changed in turn, otherwise the lethality to Zhu Changyuan's army would be limited.
However, Geng Zhongming was really a veteran of naval warfare, leading the fleet to rush left and right. stunned to achieve a better record than Zhu Changyuan under the condition of disadvantage.
Regarding the loss of the pirates, Zhu Changyuan was not worried.
Unbeknownst to Geng Zhongming, Ma Hai had already led more than a dozen small boats and led about 500 pirate soldiers to attack Phi Dao from a long distance.
"Ding Ding Ding Ding ......" Ming Jin withdrew his troops, since Ma Hai had made a detour into Phi Dao, and Zhu Changyuan's cover task was completed, there was no need to continue to fight with Geng Zhongming. Ordered all the ships of all sizes to lower their sails and row backwards by manpower to widen the distance between them and Geng Zhongming.
Geng Zhongming thought that he had taken advantage of it, and did not pursue it.
In a skirmish, Zhu Changyuan lost about 500 pirate soldiers, and Geng Zhongming lost less than 200 people.
Ma Haibing was bloodless, 500 people quickly occupied Phi Island, and the hundreds of old, weak, sick and disabled people guarding the island were eradicated by him after three times and five divided by two, and then took out the walkie-talkie and reported to Zhu Changyuan.
Zhu Changyuan stood on the deck and smiled slightly, but he thought of Princess Gulun in his heart. Before, she pleaded herself to attack Phi Island to consume these pirates, but now she has taken this island without blood, which is really a big oolong for her and Huang Taiji.