Li Xiao's warships sailed unscrupulously on the surface of the Bohai Sea, and after nearly a month of encirclement and suppression by Li Xiu. The Bohai Sea became calm, not clean, but really calm.

Chen Hailong's ancestors were pirates, and his family background was a navy. But now most of his pirate sailors have sunk to the bottom of the sea. The rest was captured by the Japanese army that quickly interspersed on land and became the spoils of war of the Japanese state.

From now on, even a grasshopper boat can walk sideways in the Bohai Sea. The guys who were originally sheltered by Chen Hailong are all gone.

Chen Hailong lost this battle very badly, and he never dreamed of it. A few years ago, Li Xiao, who had to rely on his head to change ships with him, now has such a strong sea combat power.

There is no reason to lose badly, and there is no way to do it. The pirate thing can't be moved to the table, and he doesn't dare to say that he killed Chen Hailong, and the pirates under his command were beaten by Li Xiao.

Penglai!

This place, where Li Xiao drank wine with Chen Fu several times, is one of the most important ports for Chen Hailong. In order to consolidate this port, Chen Hailong also made a bloody investment.

Around the harbor there was a fort with a Franc cannon that had been purchased with a lot of money. There are still several warships remaining in the harbor, two of which also have guns on them. More than 3,000 fierce Haifei rebelled under the leadership of Chen Hailong's younger brother Chen Haibao.

It can be said that the essence of the Chen family is here. In order to protect the last port of the Chen family, Chen Haibao vows to fight the Japanese to the death here.

"Lord Commander, this is the situation now. We attacked several times, but the opponent's artillery was very strong, losing more than 200 men, and we could not get close to Penglai Port. "Greeting Li Xiao was Tokugawa Katsuyori, as the leader of the new generation of the Tokugawa family, Tokugawa Ieyasu's most important grandson. Tokugawa Katsuyori became the commander-in-chief of this "invasion of China"!

"Oh, little things. I just want to know if your soldiers have harmed the people. For this bottom line, Li Xiao still attaches more importance to it. After all, the reputation of the Japanese people is too bad, and it hasn't changed much in hundreds of years.

"There is absolutely no such thing, as long as we don't attack our Ming people, we won't attack them either." Tokugawa Katsuyori made a solemn guarantee.

"Big boss, some villagers have been bewitched. He took the initiative to attack Tokugawa-sama's men, and as a result, he caused a lot of casualties. Tokugawa Daichi ordered an attack! Afterwards, Tokugawa-sama did not go on a killing spree.

Oh yes! The other side had mortars, and it was because of the mortars that the Japanese soldiers were thwarted in their attacks. Ai Husheng took the initiative to help Tokugawa Katsuyori speak.

The Goryeo stick is just unreliable, and now the damn one nostril is puffing out with the Japanese cowards.

"Let your people guard the existing positions, and you are not allowed to enter the places where the Ming people live at will. If you find that your people enter the Daming village at will, you will be killed! Li Xiao looked at Tokugawa Katsuyori with vicious eyes, and the rookie of the Tokugawa family immediately bowed his head and remained silent.

When he came, Tokugawa Ieyasu had already explained very clearly, and this time all arrangements had to follow Li Xiao's orders. relied on a granddaughter to ease the relationship with Li Xiao. Tokugawa Ieyasu very much hopes to use this incident to further get closer to Li Xiao. Can't let that old guy from Maori Terumoto have any chance.

Li Xiao looked at Penglai Port with a telescope, and then looked at the latest map.

There is no scale on the map surveyed and mapped in these years, and it can only be said that the approximate location of the fort can be seen.

"Big brother, what are you afraid of. Let my gunboat rush over and crack open his box with a cannonball. Li Xiu, who rushed over from the Yellow Sea to meet Li Xiao, looked at the map and said.

"No! The draft of Penglai Port is very shallow, and the channel is full of reefs. Your boat has a deep draft, and the channel their ship travels is fine, and your ship may run aground. You only have these two treasures under your command, and if they sink, the loss will be great. Li Xiao shook his head and rejected Li Xiu's suggestion.

"Second master! The big boss is right, the draft of Penglai Port is not deep. Moreover, there are indeed many reefs in the waterway, and it is very dangerous for our ships to approach them rashly. Chen Laohu was also on the side to persuade Li Xiu.

"It's too far to unload the ship at Yantai Port, which is more than 100 miles away from Penglai. We have so much baggage, if we can't land in Penglai Port. Then everyone has to walk more than 100 miles, and they can't tire people to death on this broken road in Shandong. Li Xiu looked at the map and was a little anxious.

"Penglai Port must be brought down, not only because we have to go ashore here. is also because there is the most elite family background of the Chen family. Chen Hailong's side can fight, I guess it's all here.

I was still worried, how to catch them all. Now it's a good thing to take the initiative to get into an encirclement. Li Xiao took the coin in his hand, drew a circle around Penglai Port and the surrounding forts, and then made a big cross.

"I have an idea, slowly knock on the elite of the Chen family in Penglai Port. They couldn't stand it, so they naturally asked Chen Hailong in Jinan for help. At that time, we will set up an ambush on the road to wait for work. You can easily take out the reinforcements, and then destroy this Chen seal.

The army advanced all the way inland, and finally laid siege to the city of Jinan. "Ao Canghai drew a straight line from the direction of Jinan to Penglai. There are many suitable places to set up ambushes along this line.

Li Xiao glanced at Ao Canghai, this is a damn standard encirclement tactic. When did this guy learn? I didn't see it, Ao Ye has grown a lot during this time.

"What do you see? Let's just say no! Ao Canghai glanced at Li Xiao, very smug.

"If you're hitting someone, that's a good idea. But this time, we are here to seek revenge on Chen Hailong. I don't want the hands of the brothers to be stained with too much blood of the Ming soldiers. Chen Hailong, he is now the governor of Shandong, and he will definitely send the garrison of Shandong to reinforce him.

They are all poor military households, and they are all people of the Ming Dynasty. If we open fire, it will be a matter of casualties. Da Ming has shed too much blood, and it takes eighteen years for a brick-sized doll to grow into a big man. This kind of internal friction, Daming can't afford to lose. Li Xiao frowned, this method would work in the Wa Kingdom. It works in both North Korea and Liaodong. Because it was a battlefield against aliens, but now it's a civil war.

They are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, and Li Xiao really can't do this. The things that the fisherman made up are all murderous weapons. If it is really used to deal with those Shandong garrisons, it is a certain thing that the blood will flow like a river.

The hatred forged by blood is difficult to dissolve. Shandong is too important to Li Xiao, but he can't make a blood feud here.

"There are no immortals in war, there is no reason to talk about the battlefield here. If you don't kill them, do you want them to kill our soldiers, and you will be at ease? Ao Canghai's eyes widened, if you don't let you kill the enemy on the battlefield, how can you fight this battle?

"What I'm talking about is trying not to hurt the military households in Shandong, as for Chen Hailong's family soldiers, how can they be resolutely killed. Today is the fifteenth, and there should be a big tide. What time was the high tide yesterday? Li Xiao looked at the round moon overhead, and there are usually big tides on the fifteenth. At high tide, the channel becomes deeper. The danger of hitting the reef is also much smaller!

"Yesterday the tide was at 8 p.m., and according to the two-hour delay every day, it should be at 10 p.m." Li Xiu took out his pocket watch, and now Li Xiu was used to saying the hour, not the hour.

"The moon is fine tonight, so it's okay to keep an eye on the target at sea."

"No problem, as long as you reach the range, you can't run away." Li Xiu replied confidently.

"At ten o'clock in the evening, Li Xiu, your gunboat began to advance. Our artillery has the advantage of range, and the outer batteries are eliminated first. At eleven o'clock sharp, the first division and one regiment began to land with sampans.

After the first landings, positions should be quickly established, and grenades should be allocated. Send some dinghy with mortars for artillery support.

A regiment landed and quickly attacked the interior of the port. You have to pay attention, Chen Hailong's men have bought our firearms. There are even a couple of mortars, which, according to Ai Husheng, should also be here. Plus, grenades and all of these things.

Lao Ao, you have to be mentally prepared, this battle is not easy for us to fight. Probably a lot of people will die! Li Xiao stared at the map and made pre-war deployments.

"You kid, why did you sell so many arms to Chen Hailong in the first place." Hearing Li Xiao's words, Ao Canghai also scratched his head a little. It was the first time he had fought against an army of comparable equipment.

"Why don't we use the arsenal ships?" Ao Canghai suddenly thought of the powerful arsenal ship.

"It's better not to let them know about the arsenal ship for the time being. Perhaps in the future, it will be able to play a greater role. Li Xiao knew that what rocket artillery was most afraid of was the dispersion of enemy troops. It's impossible for this thing to do precision strikes, it relies on covered shooting.

After one shot, trying to reload again is useless.

Li Xiao also has his own thoughts, and an army often fights with the wind. will slowly lose reverence for the battlefield, and this kind of army will not end up well.

It is necessary to let the veterans of the 1st Division see the blood, see how difficult the enemy is to fight with the same weapons as himself. Combat is not only based on the suppression of equipment, but also on the courage of soldiers in many cases.

An army that has truly experienced life and death and dared to face death is the army that can defeat all enemies.

"Alright! First in the group! Ao Canghai reluctantly agreed, the first division was brought out by him, and no one had more affection for the soldiers and officers than him.

"Put Huzi into the first echelon!" Li Xiao continued.

"What?"

"What?"

Ao Canghai and Li Xiu were stunned at the same time, the enemy had the same powerful weapons as himself. There is no equipment suppression in this battle, think about the terrible power of mortars, what kind of casualties will be suffered by the first batch of troops who come ashore.

"Brother Xiao! This is not necessary, after all, Huzi has not received formal training for a long time. The first echelon is just too dangerous! Ao Canghai reacted and hurriedly interceded.

"Big brother, the third can't go up in the first echelon. If something really happens, are you worthy of your parents and the dead eldest sister? Li Xiu suddenly stood in front of Li Xiao and looked at Li Xiao with straight eyes.

"Other people's brothers can go to the battlefield, why can't my Li Xiao's brothers? Second, you also rolled in the blood. If you don't beat, how can you be a man?

As for whether it's worthy of parents and eldest sisters......!

Look at the soldiers outside, which one is not raised by his father and mother, and which one does not have a sister or brother? They can go to the most dangerous places, why can't Huzi. Is it because he's my brother? Let me tell you, if you want to become a qualified soldier and a man who stands up to the sky, you have to let people know that he is Li Hu first, and then Li Xiao's younger brother.

Otherwise, Huzi can only be a gentleman in his life. Li Xiao's eyes sharpened, and Li Xiu was frightened and took a step back.

"Uh......! Brother Xiao, you are brothers. There's something to discuss! Man Gui hurried over and pulled Li Xiu away.

"Li Hu, go ashore in the first echelon. That's an order! ”

"Big brother......!"

"This is an order, what do you say about the three disciplines and eight points of attention? All actions are under command! Obedience, obedience understand! ”

"No!" Li Xiu lowered his head and swore in his heart that he would knock out all the forts within an hour. Then give Li Hu the most ferocious fire support and help the first echelon of the landing team successfully survive the most difficult hour.

"We're going to need a lot of small sampans to collect boats. It is necessary to move as many troops as possible to the beachhead. ”

"No!"

"The Japanese soldiers are responsible for digging trenches and surrounding them by land, and it is important that no one escapes the net. Master Man, you also get some people to go ashore immediately, once the enemy flees, you still have to have horses to chase you. ”

"No!"

Li Xiao issued orders one by one, and the people in the Chinese military tent kept answering the promises. When everyone understood their task, Li Xiao saw Li Hu's stunned pestle outside the door.

"Come in!" Li Xiao beckoned to Li Hu.

"Big brother! I......! ”

"Don't want to go?"

"If I want to go, I will be the first to set foot on the beach of Penglai Port." Li Hu stood up and gave Li Xiao a standard military salute.

"Okay, worthy of being a man from my Li family. If you can't rely on yourself to gain the recognition of others, then you can only be called Li Xiao's younger brother in this life.

If you really fight for a reputation today, when people introduce you in the future, they will say that this is the desperate San Lang of the first division. If you don't want to be looked down upon for the rest of your life, you have to prove your bravery with your courage and the blood of your enemies. ”

"I know big brother, Huzi will not let you down." Li Hu stood up again and saluted Li Xiao.

"Big brother, if I can't come back. You help me take care of Yanrong and Xiaohong, they are good girls. Putting down his hand, Li Hu said a word to Li Xiao, turned around and left.

As soon as he walked out of the cabin, he saw Li Xiu waiting at the hatch.

"Don't be afraid when you get ahead, bullets are for those who are afraid. If you're scared, shout it out. Trust me, it works. Li Xiu looked at this burly brother who was half a head taller than himself and gritted his teeth.

"Got it, second brother!" Li Hu also saluted Li Xiu.

"Bring this!" Li Xiu pulled out the revolver on his waist and inserted it into Li Hu's belt.

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