Naval warfare is far less troublesome and cumbersome than land warfare, and the counting of the spoils is omitted, and the main job of the sailors is to capture some enemy soldiers who have fallen into the water, which also depends on whether they need it or what mood they are in.

Wallace apparently did not intend to rescue all the pirates who had fallen into the water, and only fished some of them out of the icy waters for interrogation. Li Xin personally questioned these people and found that there were all kinds of people, including Han Chinese, Japanese, and island natives who did not know where.

"You! Come here! ”

Li Xin pointed to a roe-headed rat-eyed pirate and told him that it must be a Han Chinese. Sure enough, the Haikou who was spotted immediately knelt down and kowtowed and begged for mercy.

"The general spares his life! The villain was taken captive by the pirates, not that the villain is willing to be a thief......"

A servile appearance, which made Li Xin frown secretly, even if he was a thief, he didn't have the temperament of a good man in the green forest, it was really a shame for the Han people, look at the Japanese and natives on the side didn't beg for mercy.

"Ben Shuai didn't ask you why you were a thief, you told the truth who you belonged to, and what was the purpose of coming to my Daming coast?"

The Han man kowtowed like pounding garlic and cried, but when answering the question, he spoke clearly: "The villain belongs to the seven leaders of Yang, and he came to Zhejiang to transport a group of brothers, go ashore, go ashore and loot!" The general spares his life, the villain is forced, and the villain swears here, from now on, get rid of Yang Qigou thief, do, be a good citizen, a good citizen! ”

Yang Qiqi and Li Xin also know a little bit about it, they are all a large group of Haikou that Zheng Zhilong subdued a few years ago, and they are now concentrated, if this matter has nothing to do with Zheng Zhilong, then it is a ghost! Li Xin pointed to the group of people of all colors, and asked the Haikou again.

"Are these people all Yang Qi's subordinates?"

The Haikou replied with a very stammering voice: "Yang Qida, there are only a dozen boats under the big dog thief, and most of the rest are Japanese robbers, and there are some islands, and the natives on the islands ......."

After asking for a while, Li Xin finally figured out that these people were a rabble of several forces entangled, and the Three Guards had not been afraid of anyone in the land battle. With this more certain news, he finally took a reassuring pill, and now all he needs to do is to go ashore as soon as possible to find those rabble of Japanese robbers, and completely annihilate them on the mainland, so that those covetous people from other countries can see that the coastal area of the Ming Dynasty is not the year of Jiajing, and the Japanese will come as soon as they say, and it is time to leave.

It was very easy for the infantry battalion of the Three Guards to land on the shore, and they all jumped off the boat in small boats to the shallow sea and waded ashore. A headache was the artillery and gunpowder of the artillery battalion. Since Li Xin arrived in Nanjing, what he has attached the most importance to is the development of the artillery battalion, especially after the construction of the iron works in Nanjing, casting cannons is not a problem, and what is lacking is skilled artillery soldiers. In this regard, Heisenberg and Kong Youde each had their own training methods, so in just half a year, the two artillery battalions of the Three Guards Army were expanded to eight artillery battalions.

Zhang Shishi took two artillery battalions from Jiangxi to Fujian, and Cheng Mingjiu took two more artillery battalions from the southwest Zhili Pingjing rebels. This time, Li Xin personally went to Hangzhou and brought two artillery battalions, which came in handy unexpectedly.

Seeing that the east was already faintly white, the cannons and ammunition were still slowly passing through the small boats over and over again, and the ants were moving to the shore. Li Xin looked anxious, so he decided to split up, and had already arrived at an artillery battalion on the shore, led by Kong Youde, who first took a part of the supplies and the infantry battalion of the Three Guards Army to break through to Xiaoshan County in the west. The remaining artillery battalion waited on the spot for all the supplies and gunpowder to come ashore, and then rushed up to join the main force.

"Why should His Excellency the Marquis take the risk himself, it is better to sit on the ship and wait for the news of victory and triumph!"

Li Xin didn't plan to sit on the boat and wait for the news, he was used to going into battle in person, this kind of anxious waiting was not comfortable, besides, if he only sat on the sea and waited for the news, what was the point of going south in person this time?

"Not necessarily! You take the fleet to the sea off the coast of Xiaoshan County and have a round with me! ”

Li Xin and Wallace agreed that the two sides would advance by land and water and meet in the sea off the coast of Xiaoshan County.

As soon as their feet stepped on land, these soldiers of the Three Guards, who were tortured by seasickness, immediately recovered their spirits, had the confidence to speak, and their feet were not empty, and they clamored to march into Xiaoshan immediately to eradicate the Japanese invaders.

They didn't bring cavalry with them when they went south this time, because the few cavalry they had were taken away by Zhang Shi and Cheng Mingjiu. Therefore, only the hundreds of his personal soldiers who followed Li Xin were considered to be formed cavalry. The rest only have horses.

Tanma scattered, but after a while, he saw the firecrackers and fireworks of rumors rising in the sky, and as the fireworks exploded in mid-air, the soldiers of the three guards suddenly burst into cheers, and they could finally kill happily.

Seven or eight out of ten of the six infantry battalions that came with Li Xin this time were recruits, but due to the ears and eyes of the old soldiers, these people were like newborn calves, and they didn't even know what a lion and tiger were.

Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!

"Array, array!"

With the shouting of the officers and the rhythmic beat of the drums, the soldiers soon formed a phalanx that had been practiced for more than half a year, shouting trumpets and slowly moving forward.

Tagawaemon suddenly saw beautiful fireworks rising into the eastern sky, which made him very strange, thinking that this was not the New Year's Day, so why did the Ming people set off fireworks? Soon, there was a noisy noise and shouting ahead, and his intuition made Tagawaemon happy, maybe he had encountered the local officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

With this thought in mind, he grabbed the hilt of his katana at his waist with his right hand and ran quickly forward through the crowd. He didn't want to be like last time, and he didn't even have a single bone residue left when he ran to the front.

Tagawaemon was very agile and swift, rushing left and right in the crowd, and the farther he went, all he saw was panicked rout. This made Tagawaemon happy again, and he said that this time his hundred people finally had hope. Tagawaemon pulled out the only remaining katana from his waist with a snort, and rushed forward with a shout in his mouth, and with his rapid breathing, his mouth and nose were suddenly filled with the smell of burning sulfur.

A rapid and bean-like sound came from the front, after all, Tagawa Emon is not unseen in the world, Western muskets have also been used by the head of the family when they were on the island, it seems that the Ming army on the opposite side has a lot of sunset muskets. He knew that it could shoot as far as a bow and arrow, so when he heard the crackling sound of a musket salvo, he immediately lay on the ground to avoid the musket projectiles that could come at any moment.

However, Tagawaemon was not afraid of this kind of musket, at most after three shots, the musket was not as good as a burning stick, and if the opposing officers and soldiers were not strictly trained and were only afraid of one shot, the musket would become a burning stick. Therefore, he was not in a hurry to get up, but let the Japanese who came with him charge forward, and after the second and third shots were over, he rushed forward and slaughtered the Quartet, so that the hundred people could be killed in an instant.

After the third volley of the front Ming army was completed, Tagawa Emon suddenly jumped up, brandished the katana in his hand and sent forward. But then there was a loud bang that made his ears buzz and the ground tremble.

The Ming army is firing artillery! Tagawaemon was slightly surprised in his heart, these Ming troops were really stupid, the range of artillery was much higher than that of muskets, they actually fired muskets first, and then fired artillery.

The artillery of this era, despite its impressive momentum, was never aimed at killing or injuring enemy troops, and artillery was more often used to demoralize enemy troops and bombard fortified cities. Therefore, Tagawa Emon is not very afraid of this kind of firearm that has a very poor hit rate, unless his luck is extremely bad, as long as a distance of dozens of steps has passed, he has already killed in the Ming army's formation, and then it will be the time when he has succeeded in killing 100 people.

It's just that Tagawa Weimen ran less than three steps, and the Ming army on the opposite side crackled and fired a volley of muskets again, and he was blinded at once, what is the situation? He was puzzled in his heart, but he was already like an arrow on the string, and he had to send it, and at the same time he was sure that the other party's Ming army would not be able to have one more salvo at most, so he would let it go.

But how did he expect that in the short distance of twenty paces, the Ming army actually fired three more volleys, and the Japanese accomplices around him were shot one after another and fell to the ground. And now the nearest Ming soldier is less than ten paces away, and with just a few blinks of his eyes, he can swing his katana into the Ming army and slash at will.

After running for two or three steps, in the semi-darkness, he suddenly felt countless stones thrown in front of him, Tagawa Emon couldn't help but laugh in his stomach, these Ming soldiers are really stupid, they actually want to use stones to repel the samurai, it's ridiculous!

However, this ridicule was his last thought before losing consciousness, and as the explosion blossomed, Tagawa Emon suddenly saw a black eye and knew nothing, and the katana in his hand flew out due to inertia, and disappeared.

The salvo of the Three Guards was orderly, and although it was a new army, it did not have the slightest fear in the face of the menacing Japanese Bandits. Niu Jinsong was afraid that these recruits would not be able to suppress the formation, so he personally led the old battalion soldiers to suppress the formation. After several rounds of volleys, Niu Jinsong suddenly ordered to throw the blossom thunder that he carried with him, and it was this last round of blossom thunder that blew up a person on his back, and then his morale was exhausted and he fled.

Seeing this, Niu Jin scolded angrily: "His damn Kong Youde, the artillery battalion is always mistaken in his hands, if there is a vice general at this moment, he will definitely not let this rabble rush to within ten steps of our army!" ”

As the Japanese invaders fled, Niu Jinsong ordered in a loud voice: "Form a formation and pursue forward!" Be sure to repel all enemies that stand in your way! ”

At the same time, Li Xin even sent hundreds of his personal cavalry out to pursue the defeated Japanese from the flanks. The infantry battalion is only to block the enemy, but to annihilate the remnants of the enemy, it must be cavalry!