Shenmi Island, the largest island in North Korea in later generations, covers an area of 53 square kilometers, after Mao Wenlong occupies Phi Island, it is renamed Yuncong Island, there are several peaks above 200 meters above sea level on the island, the highest is more than 400 meters, it is summer at this time, the vegetation on the mountain is dense, under the blowing of the sea breeze, there are bursts of green waves.

The coast of the north of the island is mostly rocky, there is a large flat area in the northwest, the area is not large, Mao Wenlong used to be in the tuntian here, after the Jin army came to the island, a small number of military households on the island have fled into the mountains and forests in the south.

Hundreds of North Korean craftsmen are cutting down trees on the side of the mountain, and there are many tents around them, but the Houjin tents are very rudimentary, most of them can only accommodate one or two people, and when the troops are sent out, they are prepared and carried by each soldier himself, and the styles and materials are different, so that their camps look more like refugee camps.

Standing on a hill, Mandarhan looked worriedly at a group of fishing boats that docked, some with a small sail, some of which were rowed by manpower, and a group of armored soldiers disembarked from the fishing boats with a curse, and some of them lay on the ground as soon as they got off the boat, and had to rely on other partners to help them up before they could walk. Most of the Houjin soldiers were fishing and hunting people from the mountains and forests, and most of them fainted as soon as they took the boat, and their combat power was greatly damaged after they went ashore, and they could also be intercepted by the Dongjiang Naval Division when crossing the sea, so Mandarhan was very worried about this.

Kaktuli was furious yesterday, and both Mandarhan and Dong Nami had to volunteer to be in the first echelon to make up for their ineffective handling of North Korea.

Mandarhan turned in the direction of Phi Island, where the sea was quiet and a flock of seabirds flew over the sea. If the sailors of Dongjiang Town did not show up before tomorrow, Kakduli's plan would be half successful, and in Mandalhan's opinion, as long as 300 armor soldiers came ashore, the Han people on Phi Island would be captured.

Dong Nami beside him also had a sad face, they were all petty officers, and this time they were given a heavy responsibility. It was not done well, and he was also worried that he would be liquidated after returning to Shenyang, so he had to come to Shenmi Island together. In addition to them, there are also Shi Tingzhu and a red flag Jia La Ezhen on the island, temporarily headed by that Jia La Ezhen. This time Huang Taiji's personnel arrangements are also very peculiar, the army has no commander, Leng Eli and Kake Duli are each responsible for a wing, now Leng Eli is camped in Xuanchuanpu, intending to reach the north of Phi Island along the coast of the Tieshan Peninsula, and then start to cross the sea, this route is obviously a little timid, once the shape is not good, can quickly go ashore, he is ready to send troops directly from Xuanchuanpu tomorrow. Kak Duli occupied the island on his own, and there was a bit of open and secret fighting between the two, depending on who would move first tomorrow, and both sides wanted to let the other party attract the Phi Dao sailors first.

At this time, the place where the boat disembarked on the north side was raised, and the white flag of Kakdu Li, Gushan Ezhen, was raised, and Dong Nami was full of Darhan. The two of them descended the mountain together, ready to meet the rough commander.

As soon as the two of them were halfway there, they heard a burst of exclamations from the other side of the mountain, and then many armored soldiers ran to the high ground at the bottom of the mountain, and the two looked at each other and hurried back to the top of the mountain. More than a dozen armored soldiers there were pointing and shouting in the northwest direction, and Mandarhan looked in the direction of their fingers and opened his mouth slightly.

In the distance, there was a dense set of sails, and hundreds of ships were riding the wind towards Shenmi Island, and they used the Iron Mountain Peninsula as a cover, so that the Houjin army could not find their ship shadow in time.

"It's the sailors of Dongjiang Town, they are going north, and we are blocked on the island by them." Dong Nami said in despair, he was not afraid of any Ming army on land, but now that he was in the middle of the ocean, all the psychological states of the Houjin army were as unstable as him.

Mandarhan found a large ship in the shadow of the ship, with a tall mast more than twice that of ordinary warships, and his heart was shocked, and he turned around and fled to the north, and said to Dong Nami: "Quick, go to Lord Gushan Ezhen, there is a ship just docked, and there is still time to go back." ”

The camp of the Houjin army was like a beehive of bombed nests, and countless armored soldiers ran out of the tents, forming a camp in horror at the center of the shouts of Niu Lu Ezhen and Paishku......

Lu Zhi stood on the bow of the largest warship of the Dengzhou Naval Division, this is a No. 2 lucky ship, and it is also the only one to come to Phi Island this time, the surrounding thousands of sails have passed, and more than 200 ships from Dongjiang Town and Dengzhou Water Camp have all set out and arrived in the direction of the north of Shenmi Island.

There are two or three Jiannu ships on the sea in front of Lu Zhi who are escaping from Xuansha Island, and several bird boats are chasing, he can already see some panicked figures on Xuansha Island, this small island is between Shenmi Island and the coast, the area is very narrow, and a small number of Jiannu on it have nothing to hide, and they have run towards the mountains.

Lu Zhi laughed and said: "Jiannu is not Erer, as soon as my navy army arrives, Jiannu is already at the end of the road." ”

"Your Excellency is wise, if it weren't for the fact that the Prison Commander wanted to capture and indulge, Jiannu would have died by himself." The one who spoke was the zanhua guerrilla Zhang Tao, he was Sun Yuanhua's confidant, but he didn't dare to offend Lu Zhi, he had been careful to flatter him recently, and now he saw Jiannu trapped, hoping to get some military merits.

In fact, Dongjiang Town had already discovered Jiannu's camp in Xuanchuan the day before yesterday, and Lu Zhi pressed against the sailors to dispatch, and the generals of Dongjiang Town did not know that there were soldiers and horses in the Wendeng camp nearby, and they were worried that Jiannu would land in the dark at night, and the crowd was surging and asked for an early attack.

He pointed to Shenmi Island with satisfaction, and said loudly to Zhang Tao with a sharp voice: "The dead land is the dead land, but it is not dead, there are thousands of Jiannu heads on the Shenmi Island, and our family will be bombarded to death." ”……

Plumes of white smoke rose from the sea, seven Hongyi cannons spewed out cannon flames from the bows of each ship, iron bullets whistled out of their chambers, and clumps of stone chips were smashed out on Shenmi Island, and the Jiannu on the shore fled farther away.

Zhang Tao's Dafu boat did not move, he was using the scale plate to aim at the place where the crowd was most dense, estimating the distance.

The scale plate he used was also imported from Europe, the appearance is a square plate, with twelve scales engraved on both sides, and there is a pendant at the opposite corner of the angle formed on both sides.

Zhang Tao stood upright at the bow of the boat and placed the scale plate in front of him. With the eyes along the top side of the board, aimed at the distance of Jiannu, the square plate has an inclined angle, the pendant and the side close to Zhang Tao to form an angle, on this side separated a small triangle, this triangle is the key to the distance of the board, Zhang Tao's own height and the goal in the distance is a big triangle. The small triangle formed by the scale plate is a similar triangle to this large triangle. Zhang Tao quickly measured the diagonal side length, calculated the proportion according to his height, and then used his own side length to obtain the distance from the target in proportion.

This is one of the secret techniques of the military that Xu Guangqi said. There is still a lot of mathematical knowledge used, and only a few people can use it at that time, and the methods used are recorded in the "Records of the Soldiers" and "The Divine Machine of Western Methods".

There was also no full-fledged ballistic doctrine in Europe at this time. Italian mathematician Tartaglia wrote a book "New Science" in 37 years, the plate and the gauge came from this book, which put forward some superficial ballistic principles, but far from being mature enough, at this time European gunners were basically based on this book as a guide, and the more in-depth study was Galileo, who devoted himself to the study of the application of mathematics to military engineering in the early years of the seventeenth century, and his results were not written until the eleventh year of Chongzhen, that is, "The Discourse of Two New Sciences", which proposed the use of trigonometric functions to calculate the range. But his theories were not widely circulated, and until the end of the seventeenth century, European gunners still used Tartalia's theories.

The ship's public sand dungeon was one such European gunner, and he was also one of the best in Macao, and at this time the skilled command soldiers operated the artillery. Adjusting the elevation angle according to the distance estimated by Zhang Tao and measuring it with a gun gauge, the Gongsha Diungeon was quite familiar with the gun on the ship, and there was no need to use a gun ruler to determine the medicine and ammunition.

The artillery of this era could not be standardized, and each cannon had to be tested after it was made, and a set of tools was made separately when it was shipped. To help the gunner use it correctly, the gun crews of the Hongyi cannon are generally not interchangeable, and when Dolgon attacked Taiyuan, the order sent to Beijing named a certain gunner for such and such a gunner, which is the reason.

The gun on the bow of the ship was quickly loaded, Zhang Tao personally lit the fire, and an iron bullet flew out in the roar, and the luck happened to be smashed in a group of running slaves, Lu Zhi saw the blood splash in the telescope, and praised Zhang Tao a few words.

Zhang Tao was humble again and again, claiming that it was Hongfu who fought against Lu Jianjun and Governor Sun, he was secretly proud in his heart, Lu Zhi was the biggest official here, and he was a close minister of the emperor, if he expressed himself well, it was also possible to take this opportunity to be in the emperor's heart.

"The heart of the Jiannu army has been lost, and General Chen's Wendeng camp should be almost here, with them, this battle of Phi Dao will definitely become a great victory in Liaodong." As soon as Zhang Tao heard Wen Dengying's face, his face darkened, and in a distraction, the twelve-pounder Hongyi cannon on the bow of the ship fired again, and the sound shook the whole island......

Bang, accompanied by a panicked scream, a nine-pound iron bullet roared, crashed into a crowd of people who were blue and ruined, and effortlessly stepped out of a flesh alley, and the remaining people of Niu Lu scattered in a hurry and fled in all directions.

Mandalhan avoided the helmet that was smashed by a cannonball, panting and running wildly with more than 30 people from his own Niu Lu, and retreated to a hill in a panic, no one in this era knows how to climb on the ground with the sound of cannons, but the safety behind the mountain is still known, and when he arrives here, he can finally stop and take a breath, turn his head to look at the armor soldiers around him, many people have lost their weapons and helmets, and their eyes are staring at themselves in a panic, and there are groups of fleeing armor soldiers everywhere, and the wounded on the ground are ignored.

Mandalhan hurriedly calmed down for himself, he was also experienced in a hundred battles, but in the face of the bombardment of the Hongyi cannon, it was still so wolf, the general armor soldiers were more conceivable, if it was on the shore, this situation would not occur at all, they had horses and armor, and they had the confidence to defeat several times the Ming army, but the environment at this time made the psychology of the Houjin army very fragile, which required him to calm down in order to stabilize these armor soldiers.

When the artillery fire stopped, he looked around, a group of small Ming fishing boats were approaching the shore, shooting rockets at the boats left behind by the Jin soldiers, and a few of them dared to lean over and directly tow the boats away. Mandarhan couldn't help but scold Kak Duli in his heart, when the Ming army's sailors first appeared, this solid mountain was really hesitant, and it seemed that he couldn't judge how long it would take for the Ming army to arrive, and as a result, he wasted time to escape, and now as soon as the ship burned, he was trapped on the island.

There were only a few Goshkha Dong Nami who said indignantly behind his back: "These Nikan barbarians don't have the courage to go ashore, they only dare to shoot cannons from a distance, and they are all rats. ”

Mandarhan looked at the coast carefully and said: "How can the cannon compare to our bows and arrows, everyone is scared, you see how many people were killed, but thirty or forty, Lao Tzu beat Liaoyang and killed more than twenty barbarians, Kak Duli is also extremely useless, soldiers and horses are scattered everywhere." ”

Dong Nami also probed out to look, just in time to see two ships open fire, two iron bullets smashed into a clearing, one smashed a stone, the other jumped a few times, brought up a few clouds of smoke and dust and stopped, the nearest armor soldier was also dozens of steps away, although the momentum was amazing, but it really didn't hit anyone, there were some corpses near the shore, and the number was not much.

He said to Mandarhan: "I really didn't kill a few, but as soon as this cannon hits, a few layers of armor are useless, and the corpse can't be found, so no one is afraid." The ship burned, we only have a few days of food on the island, what should we do later. ”

Mandarhan snorted, turned his head to look at the Zhengbaigushan flag in the distance, now Phi Dao doesn't have to think about it, just look at how to escape back to the shore "These small boats can't stay at sea at night, there are only a few big boats, and the Dongjiang soldiers don't have the courage to go ashore, we still have rafts and boats on the island, there is no difficulty in going back, let's go and catch a few more Koreans first, let them row, we don't need to worry......"

While the two were talking, a conch horn sounded in the direction of the Gushan banner, followed by a gong sounded, which was the signal to gather the armor soldiers to form a formation, and some Bayalas took off their armor and ran as fast as they could, and went to various places to give orders.

When a white flag came, the two hurriedly stood up, and the Ba Yala stopped and said loudly to the side and back: "Go to Gushan Ezhen, a group of Ming soldiers are taking this side to shoot cannons and go ashore over there, let's go and cut them down." ”

The Houjin army, which had a belly full of fire, screamed in unison, and the Houjin soldiers began to gather one after another under the Gushan banner, which was more than two miles from the coast, and there was no need to worry too much about the Ming artillery, they had never been so cowardly, so they wanted to kill more than ever.

After waiting for a quarter of an hour, Kak Duli finally gathered more than 800 people, a total of more than 500 soldiers and Bayala, and the rest were Yu Ding of each banner, he left some generals to continue to gather the team, and he led more than 700 armor soldiers to the direction of the Ming army's landing, they formed a formation while marching, although the organization of the Houjin army is very similar to the primitive tribe, but not only is the individual brave and aggressive, its formation is also skillful, Nurhachi sold himself to Li Chengliang, or learned a lot of things, in the Nurhachi era Jiannu training was very strict, The old slave often had to review the armies of the banners.

These veterans were engaged in the battle mode they were most familiar with, and soon formed a battle formation according to Niu Lu, and Kak Duli also showed the ability of the veteran at this time, and quickly assigned the commanders of the left and right flanks to form their own temporary command system.

They came to a hill in the northwest nearly two miles from the sea, and there were more than 30 Ming warships floating in the bay in front of them, among which there were several large warships, some small warships were very close to the shore, and more foot boats were coming and going by sea, transporting batches of Ming troops to land, there were already hundreds of Ming troops on the shore, they formed a simple and strict long phalanx on the beach, and what was particularly eye-catching was the middle section of the queue, which was full of dense spears. (To be continued.)