Nearly 200 sub-mother ships rushed into the Jiannu ship array, and the Ming troops on it left with one blow, and some did not need to get close, they were disconnected dozens of meters away, and the burned sub-ships would continue to rush forward under the action of the sails.

Jiannu's ship formation was immediately in disarray, and most of the mother ships managed to distance themselves from Jiannu and then look back to admire their masterpiece.

There were already a lot of slave ships on fire.

In the twilight and sunset, it looks incomparably brilliant, and in the eyes of the Ming army, this is simply the most beautiful fireworks. In the chaos of the Jiannu warship, the main force of the Denglai Naval Division did not run, but got closer, and then fired a large number of rockets and fire bricks at the Jiannu Naval Division's warship.

After a while, the ship formation of the Jiannu sailors became blazing and full of smoke, and in the fireworks, the Jiannu sailors went to perdition.

"Ming people, despicable!"

A Jiannu soldier was burned to death in the firelight, yelled before dying, and then died without looking at him. Most of the Jiannu soldiers rushed to jump into the sea.

Fortunately, when Li Yongfang trained this water division, the Jiannu soldiers mastered swimming skills and did not drown in the sea, but it was so far away from the coastline that they would have been hung up long ago when they swam to the shore.

"Spread out, spread it all, put out the fire quickly." Li Yongfang stood on the deck with red eyes and yelled, but unfortunately there was fire all around, and the smoke from the fire bricks quickly covered Li Yongfang's vision.

It's nothing short of a disaster.

"My lord, go quickly. If you don't leave, you won't have a chance. Li Yongfang's family member yelled.

"Hey! The tide is over. Li Yongfang shook his hand in annoyance and ordered decisively: "Go." ”

In the chaos, Li Yongfang got on a small boat. Then quickly rowed out of the boat formation.

Five hundred warships. Nearly half of it is burning. Especially in the smoke of fire bricks. Many Jiannu warships couldn't tell the direction, and they panicked, so they soon collided with those burning warships, and they were soon ruthlessly ignited. Obviously, Jiannu did not anticipate the tactic of fire attack, which is the problem of being too uneducated.

The tactics of fire attack were very common in naval warfare in Chinese history. To guard against this tactic, you can use silt to wet the warship, which is a stupid method. It's also more cumbersome, but it's the most effective.

In the burning flames, the Jiannu sailor fell into the abyss from which he could never recover.

Without any suspense, the Jiannu Sailor was easily annihilated by the Denglai Sailor. Most of the scattered warships were also intercepted by the Denglai Naval Division.

I saw a naval warship of nearly 500 tons, quickly approaching a 250-ton Jiannu warship. The hook claw on the ship was thrown, and it hooked the Jiannu warship very neatly, and then it was quickly pulled over.

Bang bang bang......

On the deck of the warship of the Denglai Naval Division, there were five or six light one-pound guns, which opened fire directly after approaching the Jiannu warship. At the same time, rows of musketeers pulled the trigger. Dense fire was formed in an instant. The soldiers on the Jiannu warship are lining up in a dense formation to cope with the docketing battle. Shun was shot to the ground in rows.

The formation of the Jiannu sailors on the deck was directly chaotic, and then the Ming army jumped onto the deck of the Jiannu warship with steel knives and started a brutal broadside battle with Jiannu. The Jiannu soldiers were beaten to the point of crying and crying for their mothers, and many simply jumped into the water. It's just that after a while, the Jiannu on the warship was killed.

Almost all the large warships of Jiannu were intercepted by the Denglai Naval Division. Those Denglai Navy Division warships that intercepted the Jiannu boats simply ran over directly in front of them, and directly knocked the small sampans into the sky, purely bullying them for their small tonnage. The 'flagship' commanded by Sun Yiguo also joined in the interception, because the tonnage was the largest, and wherever it went, the Jiannu warships scattered and fled in all directions.

"It's a good fight, haha!" Sun Yiguo laughed out loud as he watched a large number of Jiannu sailors fall into the water.

After some fighting, only some of the boats escaped. Most of the ships were burned and intercepted. After more than an hour, the battlefield gradually fell silent. As far as the eye can see, there is no longer an enemy to resist.

"Clean up the battlefield and pull those Jiannu sailors up." Sun Yiguo had a smile on his face, and after a hearty victory, he was naturally in a very comfortable mood.

"Yes, sir."

The Denglai sailors began to clean up the battlefield, fished up the Jiannu sailors who had fallen into the water, and salvaged the corpses everywhere in order to count the battle exploits.

In the warring waters, more than 3,000 corpses of Jiannu were recovered. And the captured Jiannu also had more than 3,000 people.

Li Yongfang's side, after a desperate escape, finally fled back to Zhenjiang. As a result, after collecting some defeated soldiers, I found that only more than 600 people had fled back without tears.

This confident decisive battle at sea was simply a complete defeat. This was completely unexpected, and Li Yongfang was so sad that she didn't know how to explain to the wild boar skin. But it was obviously impossible to conceal it, and Li Yongfang could only gather all the soldiers of the water division together and explain it.

When the wild boar skin learned the news of the defeat of the sailors, he was really furious and threw the battle report to the ground on the spot. He Heli, who was on the side, picked up the battle report and read it, and then said to the wild boar skin: "Great Khan, although Li Yongfang was defeated, he also severely damaged the Denglai Naval Division and annihilated more than 200 enemy ships. I am not good at water warfare, and it is not easy for Li Yongfang to achieve such results. ”

In the battle report, although Li Yongfang admitted defeat, he exaggerated the results. turned the one-sided naval battle process into a fierce battle between the two sides for several hours, and sank more than 200 warships of the Denglai Naval Division.

After this cowhide was blown out, the battle report suddenly looked much better.

"Waste, it's just waste. What about the more than 200 warships that annihilated the Ming army? Has our purpose been defeated? Boar Skin roared, "No, not a single goal has been achieved. The Dongjiang Army and the Jinzhou Army are still attacking our Dajin Kingdom. Now that the sailor is almost clean, can I still build another sailor to fight with the Ming Kingdom at sea? ”

He Heli was speechless for a moment, in the future, if Jin, a weak population, really threw his strength to the sea and consumed the Ming army's naval division, it would not be able to consume the Ming army at all. Even if it is a loss for one, not to mention that the loss is greater than that of the Ming army. How can Houjin have the strength to fight at sea.

The fall of the Mariners. It means that the desired strategic breakthrough of wild boar skin is directly aborted. The threat of the Dongjiang Army and the Houjin Army was still on the back.

After the wild boar skin lost his temper, he quieted down, and after thinking for a while, he couldn't help but think of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and said:

"For today's plan, I can only find a way to break through from within the Ming Kingdom, and find a way to separate the relationship between the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom and Sun Chengzong."

"The Great Khan is wise, but this Sun Chengzong is the emperor of the Ming Emperor. To separate the two of them, I'm afraid it's not so easy. He Heli said suspiciously.

"How do you know if you don't try." Wild boar skin said. If you want to talk about this art of war, strategy or something, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" can be described as an enlightenment work of wild boar skin. The various schemes in it have greatly inspired the wild boar skin. If it were in other eras, wild boar skin would watch "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to fight, and obviously go straight to the street. However, at this time, the Ming Dynasty was late and decaying, even if he showed his flaws, the Ming army might not be able to catch it, and as a result, the wild boar skin passed the practice stage.

In the post-Jin army. It's not just wild boar skin who likes to watch "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it's very popular up and down. This kind of atmosphere is extremely common after entering the customs. Throughout the Qing Dynasty, many wars were actually guided by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

In terms of the Ming Dynasty's combat thinking, it was obvious that there were many achievements. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is just a novel, obviously it is impossible to use it as a guiding work for the generals of the Ming army, and even realized that because of the different times, changes in the social environment and diplomatic environment, it is best not to read "The Art of War", and Qi Jiguang's work has become the main military guidance work in the late Ming Dynasty. It's a pity that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, natural disasters and man-made disasters continued, and the imperial court did not have enough financial investment in the military. At the same time, the atmosphere of embezzlement of military salaries became almost all open after the Donglin Party took control of the court, so that the Ming army could not regain its strength.

But at this time, history has changed, under Zhu Youxiao's crazy accumulation of wealth, the military investment of the Ming army has increased to 28 million yuan in the second year of the Apocalypse, of which 8 million is reserve military spending.

Wild boar skin decided to use the discord strategy, and began to contact the Jin merchants. As for Li Yongfang, he felt that he was still a talent, and he was his son-in-law, so the wild boar skin did not pursue it, and soon ordered Li Yongfang to withdraw the sailor, no longer consider finding a breakthrough from the sea, and completely stopped fighting on the sea and admitted.

When the good news reached the Beijing Division, Zhu Youxiao suddenly looked excited.

"The sailors trained by Lord Yuan are really extremely elite, annihilating more than 6,000 Jiannu sailors, and only losing more than 50 people in Denglai sailors." Shen Yan couldn't help but sigh, but he didn't doubt the authenticity of the battle report. As a veteran minister of the Four Dynasties, Yuan Keli's war report he presented was naturally golden.

"The Cabinet has a reward package." Zhu Youxiao was very pleased and decided: "Let the Denglai Sailor come to Tianjin, I will personally review it and award awards to the sailors." ”

"The minister obeys the order, since the emperor wants to inspect in person, why don't you set it for half a month later?" Shen Yan did not stop the emperor from leaving the capital.

Zhu Youxiao went out of the palace twice in three days, he was already used to it, and with the protection of the brocade guard, there was no problem.

"Then half a month later!" Zhu Youxiao nodded, and then asked Shen Yan, "The summer harvest in the north has begun, right?" ”

"Your Majesty, the summer harvest has begun." Shen Xiao nodded.

"Aiqing went to ask someone to draw up a list, this year, the northern provinces, the tax exemption should be tax-free, and the northern Shaanxi Cui Ke is also prohibited." Zhu Youxiao decided.

"The emperor is wise. This time, the imperial court has reformed the conscription, stipulating that the work shall not exceed 20 days and the distance shall not exceed 100 li. The burden on the people in the provinces has been lightened a lot, and if some fields are exempted, the people can recuperate. ”

This year's summer harvest in the north is obviously the best year for the people.

The cabinet soon included all the disaster-stricken areas in the north in the second year of the Apocalypse in the list of exempted from land taxes, and then issued a decree.

In addition, many disaster-stricken areas are exempted from land taxes for two to three years.

Although nothing has been done on the fundamental issue of the gap between the rich and the poor, at least in terms of taxation, it has given the people of the northern provinces a chance to breathe.

Cui Ke, who is the easiest to force the people to rebel, has also been canceled in northern Shaanxi.

Anyway, the summer harvest in the north only has a financial income of six million stones, and it doesn't matter if most of it is exempted. Now, after some reforms, the economy has become more and more prosperous, and there is no need to rely too much on the income of the north's fields.

The summer harvest in the provinces is in the heat of the imperial court, and there are many disasters in the second year of the apocalypse, but there are not many extreme climates that affect the large range, and in general, this year's summer harvest, the harvest is quite good.

Especially in those imperial villages in Beizhili, the wheat in the fields is growing extremely well.

Because of the improvement of water conservancy facilities, a large amount of dry land has been turned into irrigated land. Wheat grown on watered ground will yield a lot higher.

In addition, this year, the number of agricultural technicians of the Royal Agricultural Company has increased significantly, and the wheat yield on the land of Beizhili Huangzhuang has increased significantly under the guidance of planting techniques and the fertilization measures of various farms.

In some areas, the yield of wheat per mu even exceeded four stones, and such yields were also available in the past, but they had to be excellent land. And this year, in Huangzhuang, there are several places where the yield per mu reaches four stones. However, the yield of four stones per mu is only an isolated phenomenon, but the yield of wheat per mu of most irrigated fields has reached about two stones. The yield of wheat on dry land is also about one stone.

Huangzhuang wheat can be described as a bumper harvest.

Such a bumper harvest made the farmers very happy, and with full enthusiasm, they devoted themselves to the busy summer harvest. Generally, in Huangzhuang, each household will plant 25 acres of wheat, and the remaining 5 acres will be used to grow sweet potatoes. There is also a small plot of land that is used to grow vegetables.

Zhang Shishi is an ordinary tenant farmer in Huangzhuang, and his land originally had more than a dozen acres of dry land, but this year it has all been turned into irrigated land. What made him ecstatic about this year's summer harvest was that almost all the wheat in his field yielded two stones per mu. When the wheat was harvested, it was still not enough for the whole family to go into battle, but fortunately, a worker was hired.

After the wheat was harvested and the marrow was removed, it was weighed to 58 koku, and then 30% of the tenant rent was paid, and after deducting 17.4 koku, 40.6 koku remained. Zhang Shishi's family has a total of four people, husband and wife and two children, because Huangzhuang has a pig farm, the difference between the mountains and the five will kill a pig, the meat at home has not been broken, so the consumption of food is also a lot less, leaving only 4 stones of grain, plus the sweet potatoes in the field to eat, these 4 stones of wheat may not be able to be eaten.

The remaining 36.6 stone of grain was sold directly to the grain store, and the grain store bought it at a real price of 0.7 yuan per stone, so that Zhang Shi got 25 silver dollars, plus 310 yuan.

This kind of income made Zhang Shishi's face smile, although he was tired of farming in Huangzhuang, and he didn't have much time to rest throughout the year, but at the same time, he also harvested a lot. (To be continued......)

PS: The first update has arrived!