After following the hook rope to the roof of the Korean warship, Shen Lian took a deep breath to calm his inner emotions, so as not to get too excited and cause a fire later.

That's right, this Shen Lian is the family who has followed the young master Shen Shuren for three years.

When Shen Shuren first arrived in Huangzhou, he wanted to expand the army, so he was the first to be the commander among the recruits recruited from the dock workers and hunters. Later, he followed Zuo Zixiong to fight a few battles with Liu Xiyao, performed well, and was promoted to the total manager of 1,000 in the second year.

Later, he fought fiercely with Erhe, occupied Wuchang with the Shen Shuren, and practiced consistently diligently, plus he was quite bold from running to the sea, and gradually accumulated hard work, and now he has been promoted to the garrison.

This time, the Shen family selected 5,000 "family ding" private soldiers to deal with Zheng Chenggong, and Shen Lian was also among them, he was one of the three garrisons sent by the Shen family, and he was the only one of the three garrisons from the Shen family.

He happened to be by Zheng Chenggong's side, nominally to protect Zheng Chenggong and be a guide, but in fact, he also took care of the mission of helping Shen Shuren monitor Zheng Chenggong.

Today, Zheng Chenggong suddenly encountered a good opportunity on the battlefield, and it was possible to capture the Korean warship that had no intention of fighting, and Shen Lian was selected as the leading officer because he had run the Korean sea trade with his family master for several years in his early years and was well versed in the Korean language.

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"Put down the bird's gun! Those who descend will not be killed! ”

As the trained soldiers took control of the roof of the cabin and let a few strong men hold the hatch with iron sand cannons (grenades of the Ming Dynasty), he shouted for the officers and soldiers inside to surrender.

If he doesn't agree, he can throw a mine directly into the cabin. This kind of indoor combat with a wooden structure is definitely the scene where the earth grenade can exert its most power.

However, a Chinese response soon came from the cabin: "My general is the son of the Korean soldier Cao Jushu, and he is invincible today, and he is willing to surrender to the Ming Dynasty!" Don't fire! We're willing to let go of the birds! ”

Then Shen Lian heard a sound from the cabin, and several bird guns were symbolically thrown out of the hatch, and more bird guns should have just been lowered on the spot.

Shen Xian's vigilance eased slightly, but a new suspicion arose, and a look motioned to his five or six soldiers to take control of the situation with their loaded bayonets and birds, and then he followed.

After entering the cabin, he glanced at it quickly, and saw that one of the officers was wearing satin cotton armor, which should not be of low rank, he walked up to the other party vigilantly, and suddenly asked in Korean:

"What is the surname of Bing Cao's judgment? When he raised military rations for Mao Zongzhen in Dongjiang, who handled the transportation? ”

Li Yu was caught off guard and was stunned for a moment, he knew Chinese, just now he was afraid that the Ming generals opposite would not understand, so he deliberately shouted in Chinese, but he didn't expect the Ming generals on the other side to say Korean to him in turn.

But he also quickly realized that the other party was deceiving his identity, and wanted to confirm whether he was a North Korean pretended to be a Tartar, so he hurriedly replied in Korean:

"My father, Li Shibai, did raise 'three-handed rice' for the king fifteen years ago and the military rations of Mao Zongzhen in Dongjiang. I don't know who the general is? How do you know so much about my North Korean affairs, and even know all this?

I was still young in the next year, and I don't remember it clearly, but I vaguely heard my father mention that after he raised military rations, he had a maritime merchant from the Ming Kingdom to subscribe and transport it to Mao Zongzhen, and the maritime merchant seemed to be called Shen Tingyang.

But since the early years of Chongzhen's Ding Mao chaos, my North Korea must not continue to cut off the military rations of Mao Zongzhen, I heard that Shen Tingyang later gave up business and entered politics, bought an official job, and never came to North Korea again. The Shen family's trade in North Korea should still be done secretly, but it is all entrusted to the family. ”

Shen Lian breathed a sigh of relief, listening to the other party's informative speech, and speaking Korean fluently, he finally confirmed that there was no problem:

"Alright, get the bird, let's all lay down our weapons and tow the boat back to the docks. Whatever your reason, thank you, General Lee, for turning away from darkness and turning to light. ”

Li Yu was finally relieved, but he surrendered peacefully without anyone dying on the ship. Otherwise, if there is no difference, there will inevitably be individual casualties in the conflict and misunderstanding.

After controlling the situation here, Zheng Chenggong soon came to inspect the situation out of curiosity, and then talked about all the twists and turns.

Li Yu also explained a little why he had no choice but to surrender, hoping that Zheng Chenggong would help him keep it secret, and only said that they had died in battle, let alone being captured and surrendered.

Of course, Zheng Chenggong and the others were secretly happy in their hearts: they came this time to help Shen Shuren get private soldiers. It just so happens that there are some North Koreans here who want to hide their identities to death, so they just hit it off and take what they need.

After this side was settled, the large fleet of Kong Youde's rear army a few miles away had gradually approached, and Zheng Chenggong's peripheral patrol ships had already exchanged fire with Kong Youde's troops.

Zheng Chenggong didn't have time to deal with the situation here, so he hurriedly ordered Shen Lian to help him put the thirty North Korean boats on the flag first, pretend to be prisoners, and then drag them all away and pull them back to Shuizhai.

Zheng Chenggong himself returned to the flagship and led all the Hongyi artillery ships of the Chinese army to kill Kong Youde.

Kong Youde's fleet of arson dead soldiers was completely wiped out, only a single-digit number of ships and some dock facilities of the Ming army were burned, and the Korean fleet was also "completely annihilated".

Kong Youde's remaining combat strength also plummeted from 11,000 to about 7,000 in an instant, and he also lost the opportunity to sneak attack. Zheng Chenggong has brought the elite who have been fighting at sea for many years, and Hongyi still has an advantage in terms of artillery, and the follow-up battle is of course crushing.

However, when Kong Youde first watched Zheng Chenggong and Li Yu fight, there were mostly gunshots here, but he almost didn't hear the roar of Hongyi's cannon, which caused Kong Youde to underestimate the enemy.

It was thought that the number of Hongyi cannons of Zheng Chenggong was far less than expected, or that the cannons had already been transported to land and deployed in the water village, and it was temporarily impossible to turn the muzzle to bombard sea targets.

Kong Youde relied on his eagerness to still step forward to fight Zheng Chenggong. As a result, the two armies approached to the point of only two or three hundred paces, and the Hongyi artillery on both sides opened fire one after another.

Kong Youde also had a few ships with guns, but the total number was only five or six, and the quality was not as good as Zheng Chenggong. Zheng Chenggong had more than 20 doors, and he concentrated his firepower and fired indiscriminately, which immediately caused Kong Youde's department to fall into a short panic.

The fierce battle lasted only a quarter of an hour, and after finding that he was invincible, Kong Youde frantically turned the bow of the ship and began to retreat. At this moment, the time is already more than half of the hour, and it will be dawn before you leave.

The other warships of Kong Youde's department also fled one after another when they saw that the flagship had run away. Zheng Chenggong covered up the killing, and killed and wounded many Qing soldiers with firearms one after another.

It's a pity that the solid shells of this era were still very difficult to sink the warship - at the same time, the Western Galen gunboats often blew a bunch of big holes in the upper cabins, but they couldn't sink the ship.

The wooden hull is too light, the reserve buoyancy required is not large, and the watertight compartment technology of the Ming Dynasty has been very mature, unlike the iron-hulled ships of later generations that can enter a large amount of water with a few holes.

In the early days, it was difficult for the artillery to hit the part below the waterline of the warship, and after a bloody battle, many Confucian warships had several large holes, but they just did not enter the water. It's just that the soldiers in the cabin were beaten to a bloody lake and pierced by the splashing wood.

Kong Youde saw that the sky would be completely bright if he didn't open the distance again, so he had to grit his teeth and fight back again, but in fact, he accelerated with the main force of the Chinese army.

A few unwitting Qing Navy warships mistakenly believed the general's counterattack fire, and as a result, they helped their teammates fight and were surrounded and annihilated by Zheng Chenggong.

It was not easy to sink the ship, and in the end, Zheng Chenggong used firearms to kill and wound most of the people on board, and then sent the killer team to jump to clean up the battlefield, killing all the people who should be killed and the prisoners who should be captured.

Then a torch broke and the ship burned, and if the ship was in good condition and could be repaired, it would be pulled back directly.

In the bloody battle of more than half an hour, Kong Youde lost nearly 2,000 men and horses, and finally survived miserably.

11,000 people went on the expedition, and when they returned to the water village at the mouth of the Daling River in Jinzhou, there were only more than 4,700 people left.

Almost half of his own descendants had been lost, and the Korean Bird Battalion had been completely sent, and even the soldiers lent to him by Geng Zhongming had died.

As a result, the Han army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was severely damaged, and almost half of the banner's troops were gone.

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Zheng Chenggong returned to his division victoriously, and when he arrived at the Beacon Mountain Water Village, the sky was completely bright.

In recent days, they have slept during the day, and in the middle of the night, they have fought bloody battles in the middle of the night, and the soldiers of the Ming army have also been reversed day and night, and the biological clock is extremely disordered.

And Shen Lian, who stayed in the rear to help him collect the prisoners, has also secretly placed all these North Koreans.

The thirty Korean warships can only be given to Li Fuming and Cao Bianjiao who returned to Shanhaiguan, to see if they can exchange more resources at that time, such as not returning other rescued Ming soldiers to Cao and Li in the future.

This is because the Korean warships that were born from the Itaya ship sacrificed their long-distance wave resistance and seaworthiness in order to strengthen their defenses, and this is a kind of coastal warship that sails close to the shore.

Expecting to cross the strait from Beacon Hill to climb it, or even go directly to the sea back to the mouth of the Yangtze River, it is very likely to cause capsizing and sinking halfway.

And it is impossible to leave it to Wu Sangui, Shen Shuren explained before Zheng Chenggong and the others set off this time that in the future, they would rather make friends with the generals of Liaodong and exchange interests, but also beware of Wu Sangui. So I can only give it to Cao and Li.

"I Have a Catalogue of Ghosts and Gods"

Seeing Zheng Chenggong return to the division, Shen Lian and Zhang Mingzhen, who was in charge of guarding the water village, greeted him, talked about the results of the battle, and raised a glass to celebrate by the way, and drank in a big bowl.

Zheng Chenggong had time to ask and practice how he confirmed Li Yu's identity at that time, and why both parties knew each other so well.

Shen Lian said casually: "My lord took over the family's North Korean maritime trade more than 20 years ago, and at that time, while doing business, he made friends with North Korean dignitaries and nobles.

In the early years of the Joseon Dynasty, there was also a dark period of goodwill with the Tatars, when Gwanghaejun was in power, but in the third year of the Apocalypse, the grandfather of General Li supported the 'Guihai Anyway' and deposed the pro-Tatar Emperor, and since then the Joseon has been friendly to the Ming Dynasty again and began to provide support to Dongjiang Mao Wenlong.

My lord took advantage of the situation to take advantage of this line and helped to purchase the military rations raised by the DPRK and resell them to Mao Wenlong, so that the DPRK side could get rid of some suspicions, so as not to directly transport grain to Mao Wenlong and attract the scourge of Tartars on the surface.

It's a pity that this trade only lasted for four years, after North Korea was invaded by the Tatars and Mao Wenlong died, my lord was disheartened and felt that there was no business to do, so he donated an official to do it the following year after Mao Wenlong's death.

Therefore, my family is very familiar with the situation in North Korea, and the high-level nobles of North Korea, all who participated in the support of Mao Wenlong back then, are also very familiar with my father. Speaking of the insider, you know the details. ”

Zheng Chenggong listened to it with relish, but he didn't expect that there were so many opportunities to write a book without coincidence.

He originally only heard Brother Shen say that Shen Gong was an official donated by Chongzhen as a prisoner of the country in the second year, but now in retrospect, isn't this what happened after Chongzhen was invaded by the Tartars in the first year of Chongzhen, and Mao Wenlong was killed by Yuan Chonghuan.

Zheng Chenggong smoothed out the cause and effect, and also encouraged Li Yu with emotion:

"In this way, it is all providential. To tell you the truth, Zheng also followed Brother Shen to do things, Brother Shen is the eldest son of Wumei Gong (Shen Tingyang's number) who raised food for Mao Zongzhen back then, and is now only twenty-two years old.

Wumei Gong is now the Nanjing Household Servant, this time we have a great contribution to protect Cao, after going back, Wumei Gong is afraid that he will not be able to be promoted to Nanjing Household Shangshu! You follow the Shen family, and you will inevitably be crowned with a wife and a son in the future! When the Tartars are destroyed in the future, you won't have to be incognito! ”