Chapter 888: The Battle Curtain Opens
Ming Yang.
"Lord Wang, I have already brought people!" In the cabin, Li Yuntian was playing against Liu Wenqing, and a military attache walked in and bowed his hand to him, and said in a deep voice.
Li Yuntian bowed slightly when he heard this, and dropped the sunspot in his hand on the chessboard.
The two big dragons formed by the black and white sons on the chessboard are fighting bravely together, and Li Yuntian and Liu Wenqing, who are a little careless, may fall short, so neither of them dares to concentrate on a game.
"Villain Zhao Siguo, knock on the prince!" The military attache quickly brought in Zhao Siguo, who was wearing the uniform of a soldier of the Xiaowu Army, and after Zhao Siguo entered the house, he hurriedly knelt on the ground and saluted Li Yuntian.
"I heard you want to see this king?" Li Yuntian stared at the chessboard and asked without raising his head.
"Lord Wang, although there are Japanese robbers in Jilong Harbor, many of the people living there are ordinary people, and the villain hopes that the prince will spare the lives of those people." Zhao Lao Liu knew that the elegant man in front of him in a straight military uniform was a county king of the Ming Dynasty, so he knelt there and begged in a deep voice.
"Listen to your accent, the ancestral home is from the north, if this king remembers correctly, Emperor Taizu has already moved all the residents of Xiaoliuqiu Island back inland, where are the people on Xiaoliuqiu Island?" Li Yuntian was playing with a sunspot in his hand and asked casually.
"Lord Wang, the villain's ancestral home is Shandong, his ancestor was a military household, and he was requisitioned and transferred to Fujian by Emperor Taizu." Zhao Siguo suddenly became a little anxious when he heard this, and repeatedly defended to Li Yuntian and said, "Lord Wang, the villain heard from the villain's father that twenty years ago, due to the compulsion of life, the villain's father had to move his family to Xiaoliuqiu Island. As far as the villain knows, after Emperor Taizu issued the holy decree of internal relocation, there were still many people left on Xiaoliuqiu Island. ”
"Having a personal relationship with a Japanese coward is the same crime as a Japanese coward, you should understand this truth, right?" Li Yuntian still didn't look at Zhao Siguo when he heard this, and said lightly.
"Lord, we are not personal friends with the Japanese Invaders, the Japanese invaded Xiaoliuqiu Island uninvited, the people on the island are all victims, and the people on the island are all looking forward to the arrival of the officials and soldiers."
Zhao Siguo suddenly oozed beads of sweat on his forehead when he heard this, the Japanese on Xiaoliuqiu Island have a history of forty or fifty years, and they have more or less a relationship with the local residents, so Li Yuntian said that it is not inappropriate for the residents on the island to have a personal relationship with the Japanese Kou, and then he thought of a reason, and said to Li Yuntian with a nervous face.
"Really?" Li Yuntian couldn't help but show a smile at the corner of his mouth when he heard this, and then looked at Zhao Siguo quietly, he felt that this Zhao Siguo was quite interesting, not only did he dare to come to him, but he was also a little anxious and knew how to answer himself, if he was an ordinary person, he would have been stunned by his previous words and deeds.
"It's true, the people in the town have been bullied by the Japanese bandits, if they didn't really have nowhere to go, they would have left here long ago, and they have long been looking forward to the officials and soldiers driving away those Japanese robbers." Zhao Siguo saw that Li Yuntian's tone softened, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, and nodded to Li Yuntian again and again.
"Give it to him!" Li Yuntian groaned for a moment when he heard this, and said to Keiko Yamaguchi, who was standing on the side.
"Literate?" Keiko Yamaguchi stepped forward and handed an official document in his hand to Zhao Siguo, and Li Yuntian looked at him with a stern expression and asked.
"I went to private school for a few years." Zhao Siguo was a little confused, so he nodded with both hands holding the official document.
"Take a look." Li Yuntian nodded at Zhao Siguo at the official text, and his gaze fell on the chessboard again.
Zhao Siguo wiped the sweat from his forehead and hurriedly opened the official document, carefully examining it one by one, a look of surprise appeared on his face at first, and then he was full of joy.
The content of this official document was a notice to reassure the people, and the government decided to pardon the people of the island for fornicating with the Japanese bandits, and only severely punish those who assisted the Japanese in committing murder, arson, rape, and plunder.
The official document is signed as "King Zhongwu", because the news of Xiaoliuqiu Island is blocked, so Zhao Siguo does not know who the "King Zhongwu" is, and thinks that Li Yuntian is a child of the royal family, but since this official document was issued by a prince, there is no doubt about its authenticity, which means that the people on Xiaoliuqiu Island have escaped and have a way to live.
"After my Daming Sailor recovers Jilong Harbor, are you willing to take this official document to find those people who have fled and persuade them to return to the town?" Li Yuntian looked at Zhao Siguo who looked excitedly behind the sunspot in his hand on the chessboard, if he used a person from a town like Zhao Siguo to appease those frightened people, the effect would undoubtedly be better.
Although Zhao Siguo was happy in his heart, he couldn't believe that Li Yuntian would let go of the people on Xiaoliuqiu Island so lightly, because if those people were regarded as Japanese robbers, wouldn't it be Li Yuntian who could make greater contributions, you must know that those local guards along the coast were very common to kill good people and take advantage of the merits, and many innocent people were killed as Japanese robbers, which made him a little suspicious of Li Yuntian's motives for this move, worried that it was a trap.
"Lord Wang, are you really ready to pardon the people on the island?" Therefore, Zhao Siguo did not answer Li Yuntian, but asked tentatively.
"Bold, the prince has always been a man of his word, you actually offended, it is really an unforgivable crime, come on, drag it out and condemn the thirty boards!" As soon as Zhao Siguo's words fell, Keiko Yamaguchi scolded coldly, shouting at the sergeant on duty outside the door.
"The villain lost his words for a while, and he hoped that the prince would forgive his sins." Zhao Siguo was so frightened that he hurriedly touched his head to the ground and begged for mercy loudly.
"Forget it, this is the time to employ people, let him make meritorious contributions." Several tall sergeants poured into the room, and were about to pick up Zhao Siguo, who was kneeling there, and drag him away, Li Yuntian waved his hand and said.
"Thank you, thank you!" Zhao Siguo, who was pale, was immediately relieved when he heard this, and kowtowed to Li Yuntian again and again to thank him.
"Lord Yu, the Japanese in the harbor are swarming out, and it seems that they want to escape while our sailors' ships have not formed an encirclement." At this time, a military attache walked in quickly and said to Li Yuntian in a deep voice.
"Let's go, let's see!" Hearing this, Li Yuntian put down the chess pieces he was holding in his hand, got up and left the cabin.
Lei Ting, Liu Wenqing, Keiko Yamaguchi and others in the house followed behind him, Zhao Siguo hesitated when he saw this, and also bowed down and followed, he also wanted to see the scene of such a large-scale naval battle.
The position of the Ming Yang is relatively forward, behind the three-masted warship, after all, the Ming Yang is not only the flagship of the naval division, but also a powerful three-masted warship itself.
Several Ming warships were guarded around the Mingyang, which were the main ships used for naval battles when Zheng He went to the Western Ocean, but now they have taken a back seat and handed over the charge to the three-masted warships.
The sailors remodeled the warships produced by Zheng He during his voyage to the West, not only strengthened the anti-collision devices of the hull, but also placed the Furlong cannons on the bed, but due to the design of the ship, those Furlong cannons were located on the deck and did not have a special gun cabin.
Moreover, this old warship is equipped with fewer Fran cannons than three-masted warships, usually about 12 to 18 guns according to the size of the shape, although not as powerful as the three-masted warship, but it is enough to kill the enemy's warships in naval battles.
With Li Yuntian's promotion of the three-masted warship with superior performance as the main warship in the naval division, the function of the old warships of the naval division has gradually changed from combat to armed transportation, so as to ensure the supply of materials and transport the marines of the naval division.
Standing on the bow of the Ming Yang, Li Yuntian could clearly see two or three hundred large and small ships pouring out of the port of Jilong Harbor and the soldiers were divided into two routes, one left and one right, trying to break out of the encirclement before the ships of the Ming Naval Division closed.
Seeing this, a smile appeared on the corner of Li Yuntian's mouth, the choice made by the Japanese at this time was exactly what he wanted to see, instead of taking the port in one fell swoop and fighting with the Japanese on land, it was better to destroy them at sea, which could not only reduce the casualties of the sailors but also prevent the Japanese from escaping into the mountains.
Zhao Siguo stood behind the crowd, standing on tiptoe at the Japanese ships that escaped in two groups on the sea in front of him, he was very strange in his heart, he didn't understand why the Ming Sailor wanted to leave such a big flaw for the Japanese Invaders, wouldn't it be in vain to let those Japanese Invaders go?
However, Zhao Siguo found that the people on the deck seemed very calm at this time, and they were not anxious and worried about the escape of the Japanese ships, which made him feel very puzzled.
As the Japanese ships sailed out of Chicken Long Harbor and fled to the sea area on the left and right sides of Chicken Long Harbor, the sailor ships in the sea area in front of Chicken Long Harbor moved, and headed for the direction of Chicken Long Harbor at full speed.
If you carefully observe the distribution of the sailor ships on the sea, you will find that the distance between the Daming Sailor ships in the waters in front of Jilong Harbor is closer to the Jilong Harbor than the Daming Sailor ships in the waters on both sides of the Chicken Long Harbor, which means that they arrive at the Jilong Harbor port faster.
At this moment, the port of Joncoop Harbor.
A group of Japanese pirates stood on the pier surrounded by a man with a gloomy face, watching the movements of the Japanese ships and the ships of the Ming Naval Division escaping on the sea.
"My lord, the ship of the Ming army has already sailed towards the port, and it will be too late if we don't leave." Seeing the grim-faced man looking at the sea with a stern expression, a stout man spoke.
"The Ming army's actions this time are too weird, let's not act rashly." The man with a gloomy face looked at the ships sailing towards Jilong Harbor on the sea, and said in a cold tone.
"My lord, although the ship of the Ming army is large, it is not as fast as our ship, as long as we rush out of the ship out of the port, then the Ming army has no way to take us." At this moment, another tall and thin man bowed down to the man with a gloomy face.
"Since you can expect this kind of thing, how could the Ming army not think of it?" The gloomy man sneered when he heard this, and asked rhetorically.
"This ......" The thin and tall Japanese Kou was suddenly speechless, to be honest, he was also very strange in his heart, he didn't understand why the Ming army did not directly attack Jilong Harbor but put on such a puzzling formation on the sea, it was simply to let the Japanese ship go. R1148