Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Battle of the Sea

"Look, Eunuch, there are some black flags on the ships in front of you, and they should be dressed as ronin gangsters just now."

"Is it Chen Zuyi and the like again? It seems that all the pirates in Guangdong are under the hands of the old man, Zhou Bao, you let people erect my Daming banner in the wind, light the beacon fire at the lookout, and each ship is called by wolf smoke, and pass my order: The five warships on the left flank will not move, and the warships on the right flank will open an intersection to let the warships transporting troops enter it, and we will close the door and beat the dogs for these warlords. ”

"It's a subordinate who obeys orders."

The ronins who had run out of the boat on the shore were shouting and starting to make short contact with the armored guards, while the other ronins guarding the ship were still drawing their bows and shooting arrows, and occasionally a few well-dressed people were holding a few long-handled firearms in their hands, and these outlaws did not care that their own people were still fighting in front, and rows of dense feathered arrows shot across the field and immediately fell a few people.

On the side of the Ming army, today was originally to welcome Zheng He's fleet into Hong Kong, so the political envoy Ai Guang was surrounded by mostly people who greeted and saw off officials and sang on stage, and there were only less than 100 guards around him. Behind these more than 100 people are the coastal people who came to watch this grand event. This sudden attack caught a group of civil officials off guard, but at this moment, the people under his rule were all behind him, and the chief was struggling to command in front, and all the civil officials whose legs were weakened were not advancing or retreating at this moment, nor was the originally arid sand a lot wetter.

"Grandpa, is that Lord Zheng He's fleet? It's not as big as you say, are they acting? It's much better than the drama in the garden. A child who was lying on his grandfather's back with his mouth deflated to the side innocently asked.

At the beginning, he was attacked by feather arrows, but he couldn't reach the people around him, and he was still confused. After a moment of agitation in the crowd, I don't know who took the lead and shouted: "That's the Japanese Kou, they're back again." The onlookers immediately reacted, and the image of the Japanese who had landed and plundered in early March immediately came to their minds. Immediately after hearing the sound of a whooshing, a long feather arrow that had been fired at the defenders of the island seemed to be missing, and it was only stuck in the number of stems not far from the crowd. The crowd of onlookers suddenly fled backwards like ants that had been blown up, and for a while the fat ones squeezed the thin, the tall ones stepped on the short, the men squeezed the women, and the women squeezed the children, crying, shouting, beating and scolding. The crowd was chaotic, and few people on the viewing platform of more than 1,000 people could squeeze out the intersection that was more than a foot wide.

"Grandpa, where are you?" The children in the crowd who had just innocently watched the performance of "In Front of the Shore" had already fallen off their grandfather's back and fell into the crowd, but fortunately, at this moment, few people dared to think of it on the first floor of the human wall closest to the coast, and the children would not be trampled on for a while.

"Sandou run." Grandpa's weak cry suddenly came, and the child who had very little food in the house on weekdays, so he was called Sandou heard the sound and looked in the direction of the shouting. I saw that my grandfather, who was still able to shout for himself to run just now, had fallen to the ground at the moment and couldn't make a sound, and he couldn't stop swallowing blood foam in his mouth. Not far from his corpse stood a shirtless and smiling ronin, who had already alarmed several of the would-be robbers who were not far from them.

"Grandpa, grandpa, what's wrong with you?" Xiao Sandou, who was frightened by the person in front of him, suddenly stood in place, watching the ronin walk forward step by step with a blood-dripping sword in his hand.

Exclamations began to sound in the crowd that couldn't stop scurrying forward, only to hear a few screams, and a line of bright red blood splashed under the clear blue sky, and in an instant, several young men also fell in a pool of blood. The crowd crowded forward.

The stage on the shore was no one to take care of at the moment, a few bald men with obscene eyes had already crawled to the stage with saliva in drool, the servants who had been dressed up and were about to go on the stage were crying back to back, and were guarded by two widows in a circle, and those who were hidden in the dressing room backstage were pulled out with their hair upside down. These hungry wolves, who had not seen women for a long time, didn't care about their companions who were fighting on the side, and when they saw a good look, they touched their lower bodies, but after a while, they picked out a few Hua Dan dressed as women from among the women. Seeing that several women were about to be taken captive to the boat, several martial artists who had just been kicked to the ground in the troupe couldn't bear it anymore, and picked up the big knives and tassels that were placed on the shelves on weekdays to decorate and stabbed at several Japanese people. Several widows who were about to leave with the female singer in their arms also left the beauty in their arms, shouting and going to the battle group behind them. During the war, a female girl who was tied to a pillar was cut off half of her arm by a Japanese sword. A female singer who had just been tied up saw that her sister, who had been practicing juggling together since childhood, had her arm cut off, stood up screaming, and used all her strength to knock a widow who was about to sneak attack from behind the stage. There was a burst of applause among the maidens, but then she was greeted by a shiny sword, and the screams began again, and the maid who had just knocked down a widow was cut off half of her head by an oncoming knife. The smell of blood is overwhelming. I saw that the widow who had just cut off half of his head actually put the knife in front of his mouth and tapped it with the tip of his tongue. Hysterical laughter rang out: "The girl's blood is delicious." The man spoke Chinese.

"Wow, yes, you wait for the Han people to be thieves, it's shameless, wait for my second master Guan to behead you, a thief." A red student dressed in makeup and long beard sang a drama in his mouth, and held up the statue of Guan Gong in the ancestral hall behind him, and Zhou Cang held the glaive knife and slashed at the Japanese man. The blood-stained man seemed stunned when he saw this scene. For a while, he forgot to raise his knife to parry. was split in half by the red life's knife.

For a while, the Lingren troupe, which was originally crying, was fighting with several Japanese people at this moment.

Xu was because of the counterattack of the troupe, and the warriors dressed as two monks on the viewing platform also began to block the Japanese ronin who were outflanked from the side.

"Uncle Shi, hurry up, those would-be robbers are coming." In the tea pavilion outside the sea viewing platform, a monk covered in sweat persuaded another middle-aged monk beside him.

"Jing Zhen and Jing Yi watched all the people on the stage die under the swords of those Japanese people? You and I are both people who cultivate the mind, how can we just leave? ”

"Uncle Sangyu, before leaving, the master instructed the four of us to protect your safety, if the two of us leave again, you are in danger here again, then who will inherit the grand wish of my Buddha Pudu world, and please think twice, master." Jing Zhen persuaded bitterly.

"What Senior Brother Shi Bo Jingzhen said is true, otherwise my senior brother will send you to the town first, and we will come back to save people when you are in a safe place." Jing Yi, who looked at the front with a look of resentment, also persuaded him.

"Senior Brother Jingyi, you are confused, recently those eagle talons have been eyeing us foreign Pudu monks, how can you leave your senior uncle alone in the town."

"Are you two unwilling to obey me today?" The bald monk who was called Sang Yu shouted angrily.

"How dare you disobey your orders, it's really hard to disobey the master's orders, and what if someone in that crowd recognizes you." Jing Zhen said in embarrassment.

"Alas, well, since you insist on this, then I ......" Master Sang Yu saw that the two of them were blocking in front of him and couldn't move, and sighed slightly.

The two of them saw that the stubborn monk who had been persuading for a long time finally relented, and couldn't help but feel a joy in their hearts, and the two looked at each other and were about to speak, when they suddenly felt a sore waist, and when they looked back at the monk again, the monk took advantage of the two of them to lose their minds and went to the crowd of people on the viewing platform.

"Amitabha, how can this be like a master's explanation."

"Confess, don't chase after a fart."

The two of them rushed under their feet, and called the two monks who had taken the stage before, and for a while, the five of them faced dozens of Japanese people.

Looking at the officers and soldiers on the coast, almost all of them were wounded at this moment, and even the newly appointed Abu envoy's palace was stained with the blood of the Japanese who did not know whether it was himself or the Japanese people. Then he picked up the Japanese swords and arrows that fell to the ground, and scrambled with several people, and all the civil officials who stabbed a Japanese were also injured at this moment.

"Lord Bu Political Envoy, otherwise we will fight and retreat, and this group of red-eyed widows will not be able to kill them all." An officer sweating profusely and not yet wounded.

"No, behind us are the people of our province, and if we take a step back at this moment, we will add another danger to them. The soldiers held me up for a few more moments, and Zheng Gong's fleet was about to arrive. ”

"Look, what is that?"

Ai Guang, who was struggling to cut down a widow, followed the man's eyes, and saw that the sea suddenly seemed to be crushed by black clouds, and countless huge figures in the distance had come towards the island with smoke and fire.

"The adults are wolf smoke, it is our wolf smoke, and it is Zheng Gong who is coming."

It was not only Ai Guang and the others who saw the wolf smoke, but even the widows on the boat had seen the behemoth that suddenly appeared. A strange shout sounded and the sound of gongs and drums sounded, and the Japanese people, who had seemed to be tireless, suddenly retreated to the surface of the sea.

"Intercept them, don't let them run, take advantage of the victory to pursue." Ai Guang shouted.

So suddenly, it was this wolf smoke, and the whole battle situation, which seemed to be a little decadent, was immediately reversed. An officer and soldier led several Japanese people to the side of the boat.

This seems to be a long time, and it is less than half an hour in the anxious waiting of Zheng He and the others on the ship.

"Zhou Bao, why is the wolf smoke so slow?"

"Back to the eunuch, the wind is unstable on this coast, and the brother is afraid that he will misconvey your meaning, so he will be slower."

"Tell the men to move forward quickly, and when they are fifty feet away, they will drag out the cannons, and they will be rewarded with two cannonballs to taste."

"It's a subordinate who obeys orders."

After galloping forward, the earth-shattering roar sounded, and it seemed that the hull of the ship was also shaken, and I saw that the outermost Japanese ship began to tilt back and forth after being hit by two shells.

"Are you trying to make fun of these wretches? It's not enough. Eunuch Zheng asked coldly.

There was another burst of cannons, and in an instant, the large ship anchored at the outermost point began to break apart at a speed visible to the naked eye. First the cabin, then the wings, then the mast. Zhi Ning and the others were nearly 30 zhang apart, and it seemed that they could still hear the sound of wood clattering and breaking.

"Sacho, the rear compartment has been flooded. The ship will not be saved. A ronin on the broken ship reported in the Japanese language.

"Damn, in the middle of the festival they guard the ship. Why didn't you come over? ”

"Zuo Chang doesn't have time to think about this, let's go to the Nanshan Baichang boat."

"That's all I have to say, give the order to abandon ship...... "The chief who was sitting in the cabin and giving the order had not finished speaking. I saw a swarthy cannonball smashed through layers of wooden planks and smashed it on me. Before he could react. It was as if the weight of the whole ship was weighing on him. followed the Nanshan boat that had been smashed to the Nanshan boat just mentioned. There was a boom and an explosion.

"Forget Zhou Bao, let them know that it is powerful, it is a little cheap to use such valuable shells to fight these widows, order the fleet to sail forward another thirty feet, and let the brothers put on the shipboard and go over to relax their muscles."

The behemoth slowly advanced a lot, and the Japanese who had already jumped on the sampan watched as the shadows of forty-four zhang, four wide, and eighteen zhang high gradually covered their small boats, and this was no longer a battle that could be won by the courage of flesh and blood. A kind of fear that bubbled up from the bottom of his heart came up in every Wako ronin.

A short-stature ronin dressed in half-silk and half-armor said in a trembling voice: "General Ishidabe, I'm afraid that we will all die here in this battle, why don't we surrender for the time being, anyway, these stupid guys are very easy to deceive, maybe they will give us some food." ”

"You coward, although we can't beat it hard, our ship is small, but it's not difficult to escape, it's better to let the red ghosts tie up the Han officials on the shore, and see if they don't obediently send the beauties and food over."

The two widows on the ship were in a stalemate. The crowd on the shore suddenly boiled, and it turned out that thousands of officers and men patrolling Jinghai had rushed to hear the news with firearms on their shoulders.

"General Ishidabe has one more person to protect them this time, and it seems that your plan will not succeed."

"Okay, as you said, it's the same as last time in Lianzhou, when we deceive them, we will snatch those huge ships again, and then who will dare to be our enemy at sea." The Japanese who was called Ishidabe Shogun smiled sadly.

On the coast, Ai Guang and the others could already see Zheng He and others standing on the bow of the boat, and immediately ordered the officers and soldiers with loud voices around them to shout to the boat: "Zheng Gong has not seen you for a long time, our lord is the political envoy of Ai Guang Aibu, Lord Ai said that he wanted to meet the eunuch today, but he encountered the attack of the Japanese people, and asked the eunuch to atone for his sins. ”。

Zheng He, who was standing at the bow of the boat, heard the shouting from there, and beckoned a messenger to whisper a few words in his ear. The man stood at the bow of the boat and gasped and was about to shout, but he saw that several white flagpoles suddenly rose out of the boat that was caught in the middle, and only a ronin with a Chinese accent on the small boat said: "Ladies and gentlemen, we are the general of Ishidabe leading the fleet, passing through your land because of the lack of food on the ship and looting, I hope that all the officials will forgive me." Now, we, Ishidabe, have raised a white flag to signal surrender as a sign of remorse. Surrender to you. ”