After all, this was the first battle with the Japanese since the reconstruction of the Daming Naval Division, and its political significance was far greater than the essence of the war itself. The official academy, the flag army, the sailors, the fire chief, the people's less, the helmsman, and the bankai were all in place, and the army rode the wind and waves to the sea area where Han Wu and the Japanese ships encountered.

Half of the officers and men of the Central Plains Naval Division were the sailors of the sailors, half of the newly recruited and trained recruits, and a small number of Peng Fugui's henchmen were scattered on various warships.

At this time, Peng Fugui was also anxious, the three warships that went to sea were led by Qianhu Han Wu, and the deputy Qianhu was his youngest son Peng Xiaobao, this is the youngest son born to him by the ninth concubine of Old Man Peng, who is only eighteen years old this year.

Peng Fugui easily did not provoke the Oriental Japanese Bandits, only when a small group of Wouldn't be alone, he would start to loot, in order to avoid trouble, all the caught Wouldn't be able to sink into the sea, destroy the corpses, so he didn't know much about the real combat power of the Wouldn't.

The blue sea is endless, the seagulls fly back to the blue sky, and more than 30 warships take a No. 2 fortune ship as the center, cleaving the waves and sailing to the southeast. Three three-masted and three-sail sentinel ships were steered at the front of the fleet.

Because the wind was blowing from the sea to the land at this time, the warships could not move in a straight line against the wind, and had to move diagonally at a certain angle to borrow the force of the wind, and take turns to change directions in order to go around the accident site, so the direction of the fleet was quite different from the place where Han Wu and others exercised martial arts.

On the handsome ship, the helmsman on duty concentrated on maintaining the direction of the sun and correcting the ship's position, while the fire chief used the star-pulling plate to measure and calculate the latitude of the horizon. The standard-bearer kept raising and lowering all kinds of signal flags in accordance with the order, directing the entire fleet to steer the rudder, sail, adjust the sails, and correct the course, marching in an orderly manner.

Yang Ling stood on the handsome boat, watching Zeng Shou and Peng Fugui constantly giving various orders, and his heart was really anxious. Although the entire Hangzhou Navy fleet has poured out, even if it is in danger, it can ensure that the handsome ship is safe, but Yang Ling is Qincha, and Gu Dayong and Bai Chongzan are unwilling to take risks, so they strongly oppose letting him go to sea with the ship.

Yang Ling also knew that it was useless for him to go to sea with the ship, but there was a second brother of the young lady on those three ships, and the young lady and the brother had a deep affection, if Han Wu had a good one, the young lady was pregnant at this time, and the consequences were terrible when she heard the news.

Moreover, this naval battle is of great significance, it is not only related to whether the opening of the sea can be carried out smoothly, and others do not know, but Yang Ling knows that although the emperor has full support, but the funds that the imperial court can invest have been exhausted, and now it is all up to coastal businessmen to raise funds and buy shares.

Therefore, Yang Ling was ruthless, if Han Wu's three warships have been annihilated, then it is to pour the strength of the entire fleet, but also to defeat this Japanese army, so as to save the political passive situation, if he is not on the ship to supervise the battle, it is really difficult to guarantee whether the Hangzhou sailors are willing to do their best, so Yang Ling insisted on going his own way, leaving Cheng Qiyun and others and Gu Dayong, Bai Chongzan and others to sit in the Chinese army, and go to sea with the ship.

The fleet once again turned to approach the place of the exercise, the nine-masted ships were speeding up with full sails, and the two vertical and six seven-masted and fourteen-sail sharp-bottomed warships behind were reluctant, and then the horse clippers and flat-bottomed sand boats behind also lined up in battle formation.

The three sentinel ships were far ahead, the visibility of the clear sky was excellent, standing at the bow of the ship and looking at it, there was no trace of the ship on the clear blue waves, Yang Ling couldn't hold his breath anymore, he couldn't help but walk to the bow of the boat, and the railing overlooked.

The three sentinel ships in front of them had significantly slowed down their speed, and searched around in a diffusion line for the traces of both the enemy and the enemy.

"Peng Qianhu, is this water? Why is there no sign of a ship? Yang Ling's voice trembled slightly.

Peng Fugui saw that there was no trace of the ship on the sea, but he put his mind at ease, and hurriedly said: "My lord, it's good that I can't find any traces, maybe Han Qianhu has already gotten rid of the ship, let's search forward."

When Yang Ling heard this, he was a little boat, and at this moment someone shouted loudly: "Look at the sea, there are planks on the sea."

Yang Ling, Zeng Shou and Peng Qianhu hurriedly walked over when they heard this, and looked at the sea with their hands on the side of the boat, only to see a few broken wooden planks sent by the undulating waves, Peng Fugui had changed color when he saw it, and said: "It's the cabin, a ship has sunk!" ”

Yang Ling's heart sank when he heard this, and he turned his head and shouted: "Slow down, drop half a sail!" ”

At this moment, several more corpses were sent on the faint undulating surface of the water, several adults held their breath, staring nervously at the faint figure in the water, the speed of the boat slowed down, and a flat-bottomed sand boat came out of the crowd, passed between the two large boats, hooked a corpse with a long hook, and then shouted to the handsome boat: "My lord, this is a wolf, not our people."

In fact, even if he didn't say it, Yang Ling and the others could see it clearly from the clothing, and looking at it, the few corpses nearby did not look like soldiers of the Ming Dynasty from the clothing, and they couldn't help but have a glimmer of hope in their hearts.

A sentinel ship in front of him came back, hooked the side of the lower deck of the Daifuku ship with a hook gun, and mounted the sampan after fixing, and a hundred households jumped on the undulating sampan with bare feet and walked over quickly, this person is a henchman who has followed Peng Fugui for many years, and his water kung fu is naturally extraordinary.

He climbed to the second-floor fort and saluted Yang Ling, Zeng Garrison and Peng Fugui: "My lord, we searched the nearby sea, and we couldn't find Han Qianzong or the warships of the Japanese people, we searched for more than forty corpses from the sea, and the dead were all Japanese people."

Peng Fugui's eyes flashed, and he asked: "Han Qianhu's three warships have just come out of the Longjiang Shipyard, they are very recognizable new ships, have you checked those tattered ship boards on the water, are they Han Qianhu's new ships?" ”

The hundred households were stunned for a moment, and said authentically: "This."

Peng Fugui said angrily: "Waste! Why don't you check it out? ”

When the hundred households saw that the boss was angry, they hurriedly agreed, and returned to the sentry ship with a roll, and commanded the soldiers to fish for the boat boards on the water, after inspection, those ship boards were old, and the wood was not the southern hardwood teak used by the battleship driven by Han Wu, and now Yang Ling was also relieved, it was estimated that Han Wu saw that the situation was not good, and he had already led the battleship to escape.

He immediately ordered the battleship to move forward with full sails, and the fleet searched the sea area in the shape of a goose's wing, and traveled about five nautical miles, and the sailors in charge of the lookout on the handsome ship suddenly shouted: "Attention, the sentinel ship in front has sent back a message, a battleship has appeared, and a battleship has appeared in front!" ”

The flag-bearers immediately gave orders to each ship, and the soldiers on the handsome ship were also nervous, and the gunners were in their respective positions, and Yang Ling, Zeng Garrison and others boarded the lookout to look into the distance, only to see a faint shadow of a ship in the distance, which was heading towards them.

After another moment, the lookout shouted again: "My lord, the sentinel ship summons, de-alert, de-alert".

Yang Ling and the others were inexplicable when they heard this, they calmed down, and when the two sides got closer, they saw that the finished glyphs of the three sentinel ships were rushing back, the canvas behind them was open, and the first two and the last three or five big ships were in hot pursuit. The garrison was taken aback, and immediately ordered: "Prepare for battle, and outflank the left and right flanks."

The feather-like formation of the wild goose gradually turned into an inward bent half moon, facing the big ship opposite. At this time, it can be seen that the sails of the two large ships behind the three sentinel ships are painted with the Great Bodhisattva of Hachiman, which is the symbol of the warship of the Japanese invaders. The garrison hurriedly issued a flag order, and the entire fleet began to change course slightly to the sides with the handsome ship as the center, and the side of the ship with the artillery was facing the enemy ship.

However, the news transmitted by the sailors from the lookout was still that the fighting situation was still cancelled, but fortunately, the artillery was not accurate at a distance of 200 meters, and the lethality was limited, and although the warships of the two sides had seen very clearly, they were still unable to exchange fire.

Peng Fugui's old eyes were very sharp, and at this time he also saw that the situation was wrong, and pointed to the opposite side and shouted: "My lord, you see, the flags of the three warships behind the two warships are the warships of the Ming Dynasty and the warships of Han Qianhu."

Yang Ling and the others looked up, and the warships on both sides got closer, and the flags of the three warships behind them were indeed the military flags of the Ming Dynasty, and the general flag of the middle one was a Korean character.

Seeing that something was wrong, the garrison immediately ordered the army to stand by for battle, and the two Japanese ships of the opposing side also lowered their sails and quietly anchored on the sea, and then waved the common surrender flag among pirates.

Peng Fugui laughed when he saw this, and said excitedly: "My lord, our warships are safe and fine, these two warships must have been captured by Lord Han."

Yang Ling almost bit his tongue when he heard this: Han Wu only had three warships and five hundred recruits, while the other party was eleven warships and 13,400 pirates, Han Wu not only did not defeat or escape, but captured two enemy ships, is this possible? But if this is not the case, how can it be explained?

The fleets of both sides were silently anchored at sea, facing each other. Two of the scoutposts that rushed back were separated from each other, lying between the two fleets, and the third sentinel ship quickly approached the handsome ship, Yang Ling saw the general standing at the bow of the ship, and couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief: That person was Han Wu.

Han Wu since last year when Yang Ling was transferred back to the Beijing Division, he arranged for Ma Ang to take over his position and transferred him to the Naval Division, after more than half a year of tempering at sea, Han Wu's originally somewhat dark face became more black, the sea breeze and the sun blew his skin became rough, and his chin had a short beard, which was a little more calm.

When he boarded the ship and saw Yang Ling, a trace of joy flashed in his eyes, but after these tempering, Han Wu's steadiness was obviously moving closer to his eldest brother Han Wei, and he suppressed the joy of seeing his relatives, and saluted Yang Ling and Zeng Bei seriously according to the military salute.

Yang Ling hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Don't be in a hurry to greet him, Lord Han, what's going on?" I heard that your ship and the Japanese had encountered, and the enemy was afraid that it was extremely dangerous, so Master Zeng and I led the naval fleet to rush to reinforcements, and you also captured two enemy ships, what are the casualties of our army? ”

Zeng Garrison knew the relationship between Yang Ling and Han Wu, and when he saw this, he smiled happily: "It's good that the soldiers and warships of our army are safe, my lord, let's go into the cabin and sit down, and then ask Lord Han to explain it in detail."

Yang Ling nodded again and again, and everyone returned to the cabin living room to sit down, and Han Wei explained the reason in detail.

It turned out that Han Wei and Peng Xiaobao were staging martial arts training on the sea, and more than a dozen warships of the Japanese suddenly appeared on the sea.

The main general Han Wei was already extremely belligerent, and the deputy general Peng Xiaobao was a newborn calf, with strong blood, and he was used to fighting with the shark king Peng Fugui since he was a child.

They live on the islands near their own country, and they rely on the country for supplies and military supplies, and they will collapse with a single blow, and the Japanese from all walks of life have to call friends and friends, and they will come to the Ming Dynasty at their behest to ask for what they want.

The Nine Oni's fleet of eleven warships was made up of three groups of Japanese Invaders, who had already occupied a small island, and because they were unable to defeat the Japanese Invaders, the Nine Demons had to continue to search for a new foothold at sea with his men.

The Japanese don't need to prepare too many supplies, so they rarely detour near North Korea, but come to the Ming Dynasty directly from the sea of Yuebenhai, and have always been to raise soldiers by war, and now the nine ghosts have been coiled at sea for a few days, and the food and drink are almost used, he saw that the Ming army only had three warships, and he expected to win in one fell swoop, not only could he get a large number of supplies, but also could obtain these three large warships to strengthen his own strength, so when he saw the Ming army rushing over, he was in the middle of it, and immediately ordered the warship to meet the battle.

However, Yixiong underestimated the combat power of the Daming Naval Division, in the past, they occasionally encountered the Daming Naval Division head-on, and the Daming Naval Division, which had empty salaries, little training, and low morale of the officers, was defeated in courage and military morale, not because the equipment was inferior to them, but the three ships of Han Wu did not have these problems.

Although some daimyo secretly supported the pirates, they could not cope with the pressure of armaments, and it was impossible to provide the pirates with a large number of weapons. As a result, the Woko's weapons were mainly manufactured through smuggling and underground arsenals, so that they simply did not have the ability to obtain large weapons with complex equipment.

The main weapons of the Japanese were spears and knives, because they did not use coal to make iron, nor did they need to fill steel, but used carburizing steel, and the forging was excellent, so the quality was better than that of the Ming Dynasty. The only long-range attack weapon of the Japanese is the big bow. This kind of bow is made of bamboo and wood, which is labor-saving, and can fire heavy arrows, and its lethality is better than the light arrows of the Ming army, but due to the limitation of materials, it is extremely difficult to maintain at sea, so there are few of them.

As for the armor, it is said that the iron armor, even the leather armor can only be worn by the leader, and the artillery is very rare, and they can only use the spoils from the Ming army after conquering the city or fortress and defeating the official army.

Han Wu's three huge warships were made of fine teak, and the planks could last for at least sixty years, and the whole ship was exceptionally strong. The warships of the Japanese were purely shoddy, due to financial resources and construction limitations, they could not afford to use large ships, mainly using fast merchant ships and imitation of the customs ships, these ships could travel quickly to avoid warships, and were suitable for entering shallow waters and internal waters, but because the ships were small and could not compete with large ships, it was more difficult to resist the attack of firearms, and they were almost the same for carrying people, and they were not suitable for water warfare.

This time, Mr. Kazuo Jiu, who was holding a high-quality steel sword, riding more than a dozen broken ships, and holding a small number of long-range weapons, quickly realized the huge gap in strength between them, just like when the Boxers fought the Eight-Nation Alliance.

When they rushed to meet the anxious Ming sailors, a hundred and forty paces apart, a total of 26 guns on the Ming warships roared and opened fire, and the first two warships immediately scattered and turned into a pile of sampans on the sea, and all the undead Japanese fell into the water.

The rest of the Japanese took advantage of the fact that the ships were fast and light, and the Ming army had huge hulls and ineffective turns, and at the same time the guns were difficult to move, avoiding the three warships that the artillery escaped into the dead corner and approached Han Wu.

Enraged by the fire extinguishing the fire, while shouting to drive the warship to forcibly approach, Kankan distance of forty paces, the Ming warship on the fire dragon sprayed out, this powerful bamboo tube of fuel oil can be sprayed 100 meters downwind, more than 100 'flamethrowers' made the three just rocket fired sails everywhere tattered and on fire of the Japanese ship quickly burned, for a while thick smoke filled the sky.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Peng Xiaobao ordered the battleship to break away from the battle circle, circled half a circle to open the distance, and used firearms to attack from a distance again.

The three Japanese ships with their sails on fire could no longer move, and became a live target standing there, which was ruthlessly destroyed by the artillery of the Ming army, and the remaining six Japanese ships saw that the situation was not good, and immediately turned to escape.

Han Wu and Peng Xiaobao took the surname of killing, and ordered three warships to chase after the six Japanese ships. At this time, the Japanese did not have a weapon that could attack the Ming warships, and the morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted, but the speed of the Japanese ships was very fast, except for the three Japanese ships whose sails were on fire and had no time to be eliminated, they were forced to stop at sea, and the other three ships fled, leaving the Ming army behind.

When Han Wu's three warships approached the Japanese ships that had fallen sail to extinguish the fire, the Japanese still resisted stubbornly, and if they could catch the live Japanese as prisoners, the effect would naturally be better for inspiring the morale of the army.

Such a multi-level weapon attack within 100 paces made it impossible for even a person to stand on the deck of the Japanese ship, let alone fight back, one Japanese ship was blown open by a powder keg thrown into the hold by the Ming army, and was swept into the abyss by the bubbling seawater, and the other two Japanese ships were forced to surrender after firing a few arrows.

Under the deterrence of the Han Wei warship, the Japanese obediently extinguished the fire, took out the spare sails from the cabin and replaced them, and then were guarded all the way to the direction of Daming, just as they met Yang Ling's rescue fleet.

Yang Ling, Zeng Jianxiong and the others laughed in surprise after listening to Han Wu's introduction, and Yang Ling said happily: "So, my sailors destroyed and sank six Japanese ships and captured two, and none of the battleships were damaged?" Haha, good! Good! What about the casualties among the soldiers? ”

Han Wei smiled bitterly: "The soldiers are not dead, more than 40 people have been injured."

Zeng Jianxiong said with relief: "Lord Han, it is a great merit that you can win a great victory against three warships against eleven warships, and five hundred recruits against one thousand, two or three hundred thieves, and the soldiers have only injured more than forty people, which is really nothing."

Han Wei shook his head and smiled bitterly: "My lord doesn't know, the more than forty people who were injured, except for one of them, was injured by the bow and arrow of the Japanese Invaders, the rest of the people were all panicked in the first battle, some fell off the deck, some were injured by collisions, and none of them were injured by the Japanese Invaders, it seems that the officers and men of our naval division are still extremely inexperienced in battle formations, if the Japanese have powerful warships and artillery, the outcome is really unpredictable."

The news of the first victory spread rapidly, and the people of Suzhou and Hangzhou and even the entire Jiangnan rejoiced, and the gentry and celebrities and the labor army expressed their condolences in an endless stream.

However, the battle report of the great victory had just been sent to the capital, and they rushed to the Japanese along the coast of Daming one after another, taking advantage of the coastline that stretched for thousands of miles and could not be fully defended, sneak attacked ashore, and began to enter the invaders in a big way.

Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and thousands of miles along the coast, and at the same time warned that the Japanese who had landed on the shore were like fierce tigers, and for a while wolf smoke was everywhere.

On 7 April, the Japanese invaded Changguowei in Zhejiang. At the same time, the other three groups attacked Taicang County, Zhapu, and plundered Pinghu, Haiyan, Haining, and other places, killing and wounding hundreds of officers and soldiers. On 9 April, a large number of Japanese invaders invaded Shanghai, Zhapusu, Jiangyin, and other places.

On April 10, the Japanese invaded Rongcheng in Shandong, killed the county Cheng Lu Jiacheng, plundered and collected civilian boats, went south along the coast into the territory of Jiangsu, joined up with another group of Japanese invaders, and set up an ambush in Sheyang, defeating the officers and soldiers of the guard, 1,600 Ming troops were ambushed by 500 Japanese invaders, and more than 400 died, the defeated soldiers fled across the river in panic, and nearly 300 people trampled on each other or drowned, and Chen Jingkuan was killed by the commander of the guard.

The momentum of the Japanese invaders was a great victory, in the middle of the three, there were several groups of Japanese invaders attacking Daozhou, Taixing, Haining, Jiaxing, Yangzhou, the officers and soldiers of the Ming army guard chased after the front and back, and the defeat was more than the victory, Yangzhou thousand households Hongxing, Taixing thousand households scribe friends, and Ningde general Feng Zhigong were all killed.

All localities commanded to make the suppression unfavorable, and the Japanese people used the bribed eyeliner to avoid the real and attack the false, and succeeded everywhere, and the military situation rushed to the capital like snowflakes.

Emperor Zhengde was furious, and on April 27, he issued an edict with an urgent edict of 800 miles, ordering Qin to send Yang Ling to urgently supervise the military affairs of Zhejiang, Zhi, Shandong, Liangguang and Fujian, preside over the suppression of bandits, and give the Son of Heaven a sword.

(To be continued)