There were more than 600 pirates this time, and there were less than 500 on the shore due to two battles with the bandits. There are about 100 people left on the ship.

The pirates were not strong, and if they fought on land, the 200 men of the land and water battalion could destroy them. The difficulty is how to snatch these sea vessels. The Tianjin shipyard is still experimenting with new warships and fishing boats. After opening a shop in Nanjing, many things had to be transported from the capital, and now they are taking the canal, which is very slow. If you can grab the pirate ships, you will be able to send people and supplies by sea in the future.

Zhu Houwei, Wu Yiheng and others talked in the room for more than 1 hour, and then they had lunch. In a corner of the Dengzhou Sailor camp, Wu Yiheng was talking to Yang Xiaonu. Yang Xiaonu looked up at Wu Yiheng and said with concern, "On the battlefield, the sword has no eyes, the master must be careful." The slave and maid waited for the master to return triumphantly. Wu Yiheng said helplessly, "I've told you a few times, just call me by my name, and don't call yourself a slave, just say 'I'." Yang Xiaonu shook his little head and said firmly, "If a slave wants to serve the master, she must do her duty, and you must not mess with the rules." Wu Yiheng said, "There are still many pirates in Shahekou now, when we defeat them and help you really take revenge, I don't have any other requirements, as long as you call yourself me in the future, this will always work, right?" Yang Xiaonu thought for a moment, then nodded with a smile.

After lunch, I started to get busy. The main thing is to move all the supplies on the ship, and then clean the ship and prepare for the battle. Wu Yiheng was influenced by Zhu Houwei and attached great importance to details.

At about one o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Yiheng took Li Dayong, Guo Chengzhi and others, a total of more than 350 soldiers of the land and water battalion, 1 Dafu boat, 4 No. 2 Fu boats, and the Longjiang to the southeast.

Zhu Yuan's Longjiang had already returned at noon to report the news of the pirates, and the pirates had already begun to prepare the last supplies for loading on the ship. It is estimated that I will leave tomorrow at the latest.

Zhu Houwei and Zhu Yuan took the remaining more than 150 soldiers of the land and water battalion to Dengzhou on a sand boat. When I arrived at Dengzhou City, I saw Liu Yushan again. His expression was depressed, his eyes were bloodshot, and he seemed to be having a bad time.

After entering the prefect's yamen, Liu Yushan knelt down and said, "The guilty minister is a capital crime." Zhu Houwei waved his hand impatiently when he heard this, "Okay, don't talk about these useless things." What's the latest news. Liu Yushan wiped the sweat from his forehead, did not stand up, and continued, "Early this morning, the pirates sent a letter asking for 200,000 taels to redeem the prefect. There are also about 200 bandits from Baidong Mountain, who are confronting the pirates. ”

Zhu Houwei smiled disdainfully at Liu Yushan, "In these years, the official army is not as good as the bandits, what a big joke." Liu Yushan immediately knelt down and said, "The guilty minister is a capital crime." Zhu Houwei asked directly, "How did you deal with it?" Liu Yushan said in a panic: "This silver is not ready." The sinner has already exhausted all his wealth, and now it is unthinkable. Zhu Houwei also guessed that Liu Yushan was telling the truth, just these two ransoms were more than 30 taels, almost 120,000 taels were paid by Liu Yushan, except for some real estate such as shops and houses, Liu Yushan's family really has no money. The prefect's family also took out 100,000 taels, and the prefect has just been in office for less than 2 years, so he has basically made so much money. As for the rich families in Dengzhou City, they will definitely not do their best to raise money. Everyone understands that no matter whether the prefect can be rescued or not, these prefects and counties are basically over, and whether they can save their lives or not. So I'm not afraid that the prefect will go crazy when he comes back.

Zhu Houwei took a long breath, and then said, "I will lead people to attack in the evening, and those "elite soldiers" of yours will stay away from me, and then come to clean up the battlefield when it is over." Liu Yushan shouted affectionately, "No, the prince's golden body, how can he come to the danger in person, the prince thinks twice." Zhu Houwei smiled self-deprecatingly, "Our Daming, there are too many gentlemen, and no one is willing to go to this dangerous place, so it is getting weaker and weaker." The literati are like this, and the warriors are like this, they all want to save their lives to live a prosperous and rich life. But in my opinion, being soft like that, this can't be that, is there still a bit of a man's responsibility? It's all killed at home, just watching it like this? In addition to glory and wealth, people have to pursue something else, right? Okay, don't persuade me, the things I decided are not easy for anyone except my father to speak. ”

Liu Yushan was stunned for a moment, as if he was thinking about something. Liu Yushan's official position was handed down by his father to thousands of households, and then he relied on his own whiskers and horses, exploiting the lower and sending them to the top, so that he had today's status step by step. I've also suffered and thought about it, and I can't think of anything to be proud of, so I've lived like this in this life. I also understand that those people under my command cater to themselves and want to be promoted and make a fortune, and those civil officials seem to take care of themselves, but they don't look down on themselves. What about the military households? If you don't hate yourself to death, if you are the one who is captured by the pirates, maybe those military families will send wine and meat to reward the pirates, so that the pirates can give themselves a good time. Life is a failure, once upon a time, I also wanted to protect my family and defend the country, and lead the military family to live a good life, why did I get to this point now. Thinking about it, I couldn't help but burst into tears.

Zhu Houwei didn't bother, closed his eyes and recuperated. After a long time, Liu Yushan, who was kneeling on the ground, smiled as if relieved, and smiled a little freely, "Since this is the case, the criminal minister will not persuade the prince." Zhu Houwei also began to notice what changes had happened in Liu Yushan, he didn't know, and he wasn't interested in knowing, so he nodded lightly, "Okay, you go down first." ”

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, as soon as the south gate of Dengzhou opened, Zhu Houwei walked out of the city gate with more than 150 soldiers of the land and water battalion, fully armed. There were also 3 middle-aged men wearing county official robes chasing after him breathlessly, shouting, "No, no, the prince can't, if there is a war now, the prefect is in danger." Zhu Houwei walked at the front of the team, and when he heard the words of the three county commanders, he turned his head and said, "The prefect is the full name festival, and he was martyred." "The three county commanders are like a thunderbolt from the sky, and they can't move.

Zhu Houwei ignored them and continued walking. A neat group of 150 people, 4 people in a row, walked in unison, and headed southeast, leaving the three battalions of soldiers guarding the city and the people watching the lively whispering.

After walking about 5 miles, a man appeared on the official road, dressed in armor, unpretentious, with a spear in his hand and a single knife pinned to his waist, waiting with a smile.

Zhu Houwei walked out of the team and asked with some shock, "Why are you here?" The person who came was Liu Yushan, only to hear him smile freely, and then said, "The criminal minister can't persuade the prince, so let's come together." On the battlefield, the criminal can't control others, but he can still control his own. This armor weapon was left by the criminal minister's father, and it is ashamed to say that today is the first time it has really come in handy. Zhu Houwei glanced at him, and then slowed down his tone, "I really misunderstood you, okay, follow me, and listen to my command when you go to the battlefield." Liu Yushan clenched his fists, smiled, and followed behind Zhu Houwei.

It's summer, and the fields on both sides of the road are full of crops. But for 10 days, no one took care of it, weeds grew, and the crops were a little sick. Except for the water and land battalions, there was no movement on either side, only Zhizhi was tirelessly shouting in the woods in the distance.

There were still more than 5 miles to go from the pirates, and everyone stopped to rest, drinking water to those who should drink, and releasing water to those who should release water. Liu Yushan didn't bring a kettle, it is estimated that he hasn't walked so much for a long time, his body is sweating profusely, and his face looks like he has just washed his face, full of beads of sweat. Zhu Houwei took out his kettle, first drank a few sips by himself, and then didn't cover it, and threw it directly to Liu Yushan, "Drink it quickly, I'm going to move it in earnest later." Liu Yushan nodded and drank it in a big gulp.

Zhu Houwei estimated that it was almost half past four. It is very inconvenient not to have a watch these days, but the military factory is already working on it. Now all the clocks are made, and they are almost the size of a wardrobe, so I can't carry them.

After resting for half an hour, he continued on his way and walked about 2 miles before he was discovered by the pirates. If you send money, you must have a box, but this group doesn't have one. If you're here to fight, there's not a lot of people here. However, looking at Zhu Houwei's neat pace of more than 150 people, the military appearance can also tell that the comers are not good. Without saying a word, more than 300 people rushed out, more than 1 kilometer away at this time.

Suddenly, the pirates on the shore began to make a fuss, what happened? Because I saw a flotilla in the southeast direction heading here, the distance was 3,5 kilometers. The pirates were also patrolling the sea vessels, but seeing that it was almost night, they were relieved to come back, but they didn't expect this fleet to attack at this time, and they were ready to fight at night? Dengzhou sailors just a few boats, do they have the guts?

However, it was too late to think about this, and as the leader of the pirate Han side, Wu Xiucai Yang En beckoned the rest of the people to board the ship and prepare for a naval battle. Because there were only five ships that came to attack. As for the Japanese who came to the island, they were much bolder, and while sending people to call back the pirates who confronted the bandits, they all went out, with more than 30 Japanese pirates followed by 300 people in front, preparing to eliminate the enemy on land first, and they already understood the strength of the Ming official army.

Soon, the troops on land were separated by less than 500 meters. It was Zhu Yuan who commanded the battle, and Zhu Yuan shouted, "Line up, prepare to attack." "In half a minute, the line became a row of 50 people, a total of three rows. Then in Zhu Yuan's command, he began to load ammunition.

Many of the soldiers of these land and water battalions were recruited from Tianjin, and it was the first time that they actually fought a land battle. Land combat is different from naval warfare, no matter how slow you reload, it is impossible for the enemy to fly over the sea in front of you, and land warfare is different, a distance of tens of meters can quickly run over. Inevitably, some people make mistakes. Zhu Yuan had expected this situation, and shouted loudly, "What are your hands shaking? Old? Have you forgotten your usual training? Is it hard to load a bullet into the barrel? Then he walked to the middle of the first row, and there was no one behind him to align with him, only to hear Zhu Yuan continue to shout, "It's all good, I'm in this position, loading here, shooting here, never taking a step back." Are you still afraid? "150 people yelling" is not afraid. "Bullet loading is quick and much easier.

At this time, the pirate ran at a distance of about 100 meters. Zhu Yuan shouted, "The first row aims." The men in the first row immediately took aim with their guns, looking for their targets. There were also about 5 or 6 soldiers in the ranks of the amphibious battalion with different weapons and standing in the queue. They stood scattered on either side of the line, or at the back.

"Bang Bang Bang" The first to shoot are these guys with scopes on their guns. The pirates were unimpressed, and even somewhat happy. Shooting more than 100 meters away, this team seems to be just a spectacle. I have seen all the firearms, and I understand the effective range, if I can still hit more than 100 meters, it will be hell.

However, what happened was unexpected, and after the gunshot, five people fell, all of whom were brightly dressed. There was no time to react, and there was no time to think, so everyone continued to rush forward. Zhu Yuan shouted loudly, "Stabilize it for me, and level the gun for me." Seeing that a pirate rushed into a distance of 70 meters, Zhu Yuancai shouted, "Fire." "Bang" seems to be 1 gunshot, but in fact, 50 Dingyuan guns have fired. The more than 30 people who rushed to the front fell backwards as if they had hit an invisible wall, and the blood splashed on their bodies even stained their teammates behind.

The pirate did not hesitate, but in fact he didn't have time to think about it, and still rushed forward. The distance is more than 60 meters, and you can already see each other's expressions. Zhu Yuan shouted, "Second row, shoot." "Bang bang Third platoon, shooting. "Bang bang more than 40 people fell.

The distance between the two sides was barely 50 meters, but the pirates reacted. It's only been 3 rounds of shooting, and the attacking pirates are obviously a lot more sparse. This is a battle, it's a massacre. The pirates behind began to run backwards, and a few more real-minded pirates continued to charge. At this time, the first row was reloaded, and under Zhu Yuan's command, it opened fire again. More than 30 pirates fell again, and all the pirates who rushed here also fell, and there was more than one bullet hole in their bodies, who made you so outstanding.

At least 120 people fell in 4 rounds of shooting, Liu Yushan looked stupid, and swallowed his saliva with a sluggish expression. When has war become so simple, the world is changing fast. Zhu Yuan shouted, "The second row fired." "More than 20 people fell, and it was more than 100 meters before the shooting. Although it is also in range, it is not necessary to expose the performance of the musket at once. Zhu Yuan ordered to continue loading, and after about 10 seconds, the team continued to move forward with guns.

The soldiers in the first row held their guns in one hand, the muzzle of the gun was tilted upward, and in the other hand they took out the high-quality Yanling knife hanging from their waists, and when they passed the pirate who fell to the ground, they saw that they were still panting and came forward and stabbed them, but at this time they did not have the energy to guard the prisoners.

About 2 miles to the southwest stood two groups of people, silently looking at the battlefield just now. It was simply too shocking for them, one side charged, and half of them fell at a distance of 50 meters, and the other side suffered no casualties.

These two groups of people are pirates on the one hand, about 100 people, and on the other hand, there are bandits in Baidong Mountain, about 200 people. The pirates reacted suddenly, and hurriedly ran to the shore, ready to board the ship and run away, while the bandits watched and did not move.