The night in the South China Sea is mysterious and silent, with a waning moon hanging in the sky, and waves crashing against the quiet sand. Everything was so familiar, yet a little unfamiliar.

In Daming, the sea breeze has cooled down at this time. The fattest time of the year for flying crabs is coming. Just catch a crab in the sea, and steam it out to be full of yellow fat.

But in the South China Sea, all the seafood is still the same. Li Xiu looked at the lights on the coast in the distance, and casually threw the huge crab into the sea. The crabs are the size of a basin, and when cooked, they are far less flavorful than the crabs in Bohai Bay.

Since the crab is not tasty, I don't know what the previous Temasek tastes like.

After sailing for half a year in the vast South China Sea, I finally arrived at this legendary place. Tomorrow morning it will be possible to launch an offensive and capture the city for which it has been sailing for eight months. All the soldiers were excited, because they would not have to stay on the ship tomorrow and could go to land for the night.

After eight months on board, it was only possible to go ashore to see it when it was time to dock for supplies. The boring life drives almost everyone crazy, and everyone wants to go ashore to see what Temasek looks like in Dogday, which is worth crossing the ocean to conquer.

Li Xiu did not receive Li Xiao's flying pigeon message, and naturally he didn't know what happened in Yinchuan. Everyone in the fleet was very optimistic, and sent tens of thousands of troops to capture a small city, which was simply a knife to kill chickens. In particular, those soldiers who fought in the Battle of Java were even more dismissive of Temasek. Temasek is just another island in Java.

No matter how fierce the natives are, they are far from being the opponents of guns.

Li Xiu and the soldiers had an idea to bombard it with artillery tomorrow. Then send someone to run around the beach, and plant a flag to count it as an occupation. All that's left is to grab the native and build a huge castle. According to the division of labor in advance, these are the affairs of the Japanese people. The Marines are nothing more than overseers who supervise the work of the Japanese people.

As the sky darkened, the fleet approached Temasek's shore. Through the binoculars, you can see the pale yellow sand beach and tall coconut palms. A few dozen meters away from the Hainan line, there is lush green vegetation. The entire Temasek coast is covered in vegetation, with only a few small fishing villages scattered along the coast.

The swarthy natives were dressed in burlap clothes. Pack your nets on the coast and get ready to go out to fish.

At this time in Bohai Bay, people have to wear long-sleeved clothes by the sea. But here in Temasek, the people on the ship want to strip naked.

The sun came out, and the fleet cleaved the waves, crushing the waves, and the white spray smashed into the bow of the ship, turning into bits of golden light. By the time the sun was fully out, the fleet had reached Temasek's open sea.

"Order the Japanese to go ashore and seize the beachhead." Lee noticed that after entering the strait, a stone-walled pier appeared on the shores of Temasek. There are several large five-masted ships docked on the dock, which look like warships.

The best thing to do is to give the order to run into these warships, sink them, and then go ashore. But Li Xiu felt that these warships were not bad. Before there were no ironclad ships of the Zhenyuan and Zhiyuan classes, Li Xiu drove a five-masted ship to fight.

He knew that although this kind of battleship was still an old-fashioned warship, its speed and firepower were not completely outdated. If a few ships can be captured, it will be good to be a cargo ship in the future. After all, the power of the five-masted ship is the sails, not the black coal. The Ming Navy needs every ship!

The signal soldier immediately passed the flag and informed the warship. After eight months of sea voyages, signals between fleets have been able to be accurately communicated.

"Yo Xi!" Haruaki Tokugawa muttered when he saw the signal in the distance. Although the Japanese people also grew up by the sea, the eight-month sailing life almost drove him crazy. It's fucking good to be able to go ashore now.

"Lord, I will take men to the coast." Jiang Zuo Xinyouemon took the initiative to ask for battle, he wanted to go ashore too much.

"Hmmm! Jiang Zuojun, you have to be careful. "For Ezo Shinyouemon, Tokugawa Harumi is still relieved.

The boats were lowered, and dozens of boats carrying Japanese soldiers rowed to the coast.

Ezo Shinyouemon carried a katana at his waist and a flintlock pistol in his hand. The two eyes looked at the quiet Temasek coast like eagles, and the natives did not seem to panic when they saw the huge fleet. Just a finger click, and then just sit on the beach and watch the excitement. It seems that the coming big war has nothing to do with them.

The five-masted ships docked on the dock did not react, and Ezo Shinyouemon, who was holding binoculars, even saw the crew yawning from the ship.

Everything indicates that this is a simple task. As long as they get to the coast, the Japanese people can do whatever they want.

Just as the dinghy was getting closer and closer to the shore, suddenly several bright lights flashed on the five-masted ship. Before Ezo Shinyouemon could react, the sea water more than 20 meters away from the bow of the ship suddenly burst open. A huge explosion shook up a column of water more than ten meters high. The dinghy shook violently like a leaf in the wind.

"Shelling!" Jiang Zuo Xinyouemon roared wildly, he knew that this was the starter. As the distance decreases, the shells will be more accurate. It was useless for him to roar, and the dinghy could only rush forward. Whether or not you can rush ashore depends entirely on luck. Jiang Zuo Xinyouemon didn't think that the bamboo armor on his body could withstand the bombardment of cannonballs.

"Boom!" Less than a minute after the first round of shelling, a shell accurately hit a dinghy.

The explosion of the shell directly tore the dinghy to pieces. Dozens of Japanese soldiers screamed and were blown into the air, and the living fell into the sea with their teeth and claws and burning wood.

"Speed up, row faster." There are still seven or eight hundred meters from the coast, which is a terrible seven or eight hundred meters. Experienced gunners, at this distance, basically point where to fight.

The sailors rowed their oars hard, and the speed of the dinghy increased sharply. The triangular bow crushed the waves and glided forward in a straight line against the water.

"Boom! Boom! "The shells kept exploding in the surrounding area, and the waves that stirred up fell like a torrential rain. Ezo Shinyouemon prayed in the torrential rain not to let the shells from those battleships fall on his head.

"! Kill the five-masted ships. The boats were blown up one after another, and Li Xiu, who was still thinking about capturing those five-masted ships in the morning, finally ordered the sinking of those five-masted ships.

Zhenyuan, Dingyuan takes the lead. The two ironclad ships rushed towards the shore at full speed. The twin main guns quickly started to move, and the observers nervously measured the distance.

"Put!" The hull of the ship shook, and huge cannonballs flew out with a whistling sound.

The five-masted ship still at anchor on the dock burst into orange flames, and the sailors and the ship's debris were blown up. Then smoke rose into the air, and the sailors jumped into the sea to escape.

The starter hit both shots, which made Li Xiu breathe a sigh of relief. When it comes to naval guns, the naval guns on five-masted ships are their opponents.

The main guns were quickly reloaded, only three rounds of shelling were fired. The five-masted ships on the dock were all in smoke, and the fastest warship failed to complete the action of lifting anchor.

Of the dozens of dinghys that departed, only ten were lost at this time. However, the remaining dinghy was enough to carry hundreds of people to shore. These people occupy the docks, there should be no problem.

Regardless of the country of which the warships belonged to, Li Xiu's experience was that Europeans generally did not garrison large numbers in the jungle. The most likely is that all the armies, stationed on warships. As long as those few warships are killed, it will be the biggest threat to the landing force.

Sure enough, Jiang Zuo Xinyouemon did not encounter any resistance. There were only a few symbolic shots on the pier, and the yellow-haired and red-haired Europeans began to flee into the jungle.

When the dinghy shook violently and ran aground on the beach, Ezo Shinyouemon was shocked and ecstatic. It's finally time to hit land!

"Get off the boat, get off the boat!" Jiangzuo Xinyouemon greeted him, and the Japanese soldiers in bamboo armor took boats one after another. Wading waist-deep water, it was difficult to advance to the shore. In fact, the sea water is not deep, but the Japanese soldiers are too short, which makes the sea water very deep.

As soon as they came ashore, a group of Europeans rushed out of the woods. These guys had spears in their hands and shot at the Japanese people who came ashore as they went.

Standing in the seawater, Jiang Zuo Xinyouemon raised his gun and wanted to shoot back, but he only heard a "click" in his ears.

"Damn it!" The flintlock pistol got into the water, and the flint did not ignite the gunpowder.

The guns of the Japanese were hardly fired, but the guns in the hands of the Europeans kept firing. People are constantly being shot, and bamboo armor is a joke in front of bullets. Blood stained the sea, and more than 100 samurai fell into the sea and washed up on the beach.

"Yaga!" Ezo Shinyouemon drew his katana and rushed forward frantically. This is his last weapon!

"Bang!" A bullet hit Ezuo Shinyouemon's chest, and the bamboo armor in the front chest was drilled into a hole, and the bamboo armor in the back broke a hole the size of the bowl. The body was carried up by the bullet, and it fell into the sea water and struggled twice before it moved.

Their guns were fired in bursts.

This is the last thought of Ezo Shinyouemon!

One hundred and ten Europeans crouched at the edge of the jungle and shot wildly, and the samurai of the Japanese Kingdom, holding their katanas, shot as if they were being shot. The beach, which had just been calm, was filled with the smell of blood rushing to the sky in a short time.

"Boom" A grenade exploded in the crowd, directly blowing up the Japanese samurai who rushed to the front and flew upside down.

In the blink of an eye, more than 200 Japanese warriors were killed. Blood stained the beach red, and the smell of blood wafted everywhere. The seagulls rushed into the sky with a "whoop" and "whoop", never to fall again.

"Holy shit!" Li Xiu was so angry that he hammered the ship's side. Unexpectedly, the division was unfavorable, and the landing battle, which I thought would be won easily, accidentally became a complete annihilation.

Although those who died in battle were all Japanese people, but now they are also Li Xiu's subordinates, and this person is a big loss.

"Lean over and bombard." Li Xiu roared angrily.

"Second master! Something was not right, and you see the people retreated into the woods. We don't even have a target, how can we shell. Chen Laohu pointed to the Europeans who had retreated into the jungle.

Li Xiu raised his binoculars to take a look, and sure enough, those Europeans had returned to the jungle one after another.

If the target is lost, the effect of the shelling will be greatly reduced. Don't waste precious shells in the jungle! The supply of arms to the fleet depended on a few ammunition supply ships. When you run out of ammunition, you have to go back to Guangzhou to transport it. There is ammunition that was transported from Liaodong there!

From Temasek to Guangzhou, the sailboat had to run for more than five months.

"Take the docks!" Since you can't land on the beach, you can only seize the pier.

As long as the pier is occupied, large warships can dock. The landing efficiency is much higher than the dinghy landing!

This time, Li Xiu also paid attention to it. The two heavy ironclad ships, Zhiyuan and Laiyuan are at the front, and Zhenyuan and Dingyuan are close behind. And then there were a dozen five-masted ships, as long as those Europeans dared to come out. They greeted them with cannonballs, and they didn't believe that their guns could beat the cannons.

Rushing to four miles away from the dock, Zhiyuan and Laiyuan did not dare to move forward anymore. If they get too close, it is easy to run aground, and once these two ironclad ships run aground, there is really no ship that can be towed.

The five-masted ship on the dock was still burning, and the bodies of many sailors were floating on the sea. The billowing smoke obscured the entire dock, and Li Xiu raised his binoculars to see nothing but smoke.

"Let the Japanese land." Li Xiu put down the binoculars and gave the order.

With Li Xiu's order, two Wa Fangtou ships crossed the crowd. These boats are actually flat-bottomed boats, and they usually run along the coast. Because this kind of boat is flat-bottomed, although it is not resistant to wind and waves, it is better than the shallow draft, and it is the most suitable for landing.

Each square-headed ship carried more than 500 Japanese warriors. On the slipway, there are also shooting holes. It is possible to lie on the slipway and shoot at the shore.

After losing the first battle, Tokugawa Haruaki's mood was also very gloomy. Ezo Shinyouemon was an elite retainer of the Tokugawa family, but he didn't expect to be damaged in the first battle. This time he wasn't so stupid, two warships. One was led by 500 samurai from their Tokugawa family, and the other was led by Maori Kogoro of the Maori family.

If you want to die, you can't always die from the Tokugawa family, and the Maori family has to bleed.

The punt is sliding toward the pier made of stones, and there is no risk of running aground as it is flat-bottomed.

As they approached the dock, they choked on the smoke and flames of the five-masted ship. The entire dock was shrouded in smoke, and it was impossible to see what was on the pier.

"Prepare to land!"

"Prepare to land!"

The sound of the herald came and went, and the sails had been lowered. The ships are driven entirely by the oars of the sailors!

The ship cut through the smoke and was about to dock.

"Boom!" A shell exploded at the bow of the ship, and countless shrapnel shredded the bodies of a dozen Japanese warriors in the bow of the ship. The wooden deck was shattered, and human limbs and broken pieces of wood flew in the air.

"!" Li Xiu couldn't see what was happening, but he could hear the explosions and the screams of the Japanese people.