Above the sea, 30 warships lined up and slowly moved forward, while at the same time bombarding an island two miles away.

On the island, the Japanese who were about to board the ship to beat the officers and soldiers of the guard station were overwhelmed by the shells that flew all over the sky, and the ghosts cried wolf.

30 warships, all of which were medium-sized warships of 4,000 materials.

It is 85.3 meters long and 42.6 meters wide.

There are 4 floors above and below, and the lower layer is the bottom floor, which is where the loading items and the ship stone are located.

On the upper floor, the boatman is where he is located, and is responsible for rocking the oars to keep the boat moving forward and backward.

The upper and middle decks are where the guns are placed.

In terms of naval artillery configuration, one gun is placed every 2.98 meters.

Excluding the bow and stern of the ship, a total of 16 guns were placed on the first floor.

There are a total of 32 doors on the upper and lower floors.

That is to say, a battleship has a total of 32 guns on one side, plus 4 guns in the tail, and two heavy guns in the bow, the Ming Navy warship, a warship has a total of 68 medium guns, and two heavy guns A total of 70 guns.

In addition to the flagship of the largest Fuku, the Navy has a total of 45 warships of this type.

In addition to the guns of the Fuchuan flagship, the entire Ming naval fleet has a total of 3,150 light and heavy guns.

If you add the largest Fuchuan flagship, small speedboats, and light artillery to support the battleships, the Ming naval fleet has a total of more than 4,000 guns of various types.

Of course, only 70% of them are currently equipped, and the rest are still manufactured in the artillery factory.

In order to supply the Navy with artillery, the artillery plant worked three shifts last year for 12 hours.

Although Zhu Zhangui provided the barrel, they still needed to do the follow-up assembly and processing.

In order to supply the navy with these guns, the craftsmen of the artillery factory were tired and sick several times.

And it is interesting that when these guns were shipped out of the artillery factories a few years ago, ready to be equipped for the Navy.

The officers of the battalions in the Beijing division blew up their nests.

One by one, they found the old man and shouted that they also wanted to equip their battalion with artillery.

Zhang Fu of the Fifth Military Battalion even played an emotional card with the old man, hoping that these artillery pieces could be transferred to the Fifth Military Battalion.

It was a plan to conquer overseas in the future, and the old man naturally refused to hand it over to them.

So he sent them off directly on the grounds that these guns were all custom-made by Zhu Zhangui's navy and that the money had already been paid.

But these people are naturally not reconciled.

The old man couldn't make sense here, so they found the talkative Zhu Chubby.

A large group of generals took a burst of sycophants, which made Zhu Fatpang, who was so complimented by the generals for the first time, almost fall in.

Later, he was anxious to remind himself not to float, so he stabilized his mood.

But in the end, Zhu Fatpang still paid some artillery.

There is no way, everyone is begging to come to the door, and the old man doesn't seem to care about it, Zhu Fatpang promised to provide them with a batch before the end of the thirteenth year of Yongle in order to win the hearts of these generals.

As for whether the artillery factory will give these artillery, Zhu Fatpang believes that his father, he still has a certain amount of face on his son's side.

Thirty warships lined up on the sea, and they drove slowly in a circle, while the guns on one side fired wildly.

A battleship with 32 guns on one side.

30 warships came down in one round, and it was 960 shots and nearly 1,000 shots.

The navy is also arrogant enough to not spare shells at all.

It's a great training opportunity.

Since these guns were equipped on the ship, they have only fired a few shots during training, and they have really never experienced such a painful fire.

Therefore, Zhu Zhangui regarded this battle as training and ordered all ships not to spare shells and bombard hard.

The fleet moved forward, and when this side was finished, it immediately turned around and returned, allowing the other side to continue the bombardment.

It took 30 battleships two guns on each side to stop this heroic bombardment.

As the artillery stopped firing, the area where the pirates were located on the island had been bombarded and out of shape.

More than a dozen warships, large and small, docked at a small pier on the edge of the island, had been bombed to pieces at this time, and they were planted in the sea with blazing flames.

The beach was littered with shapeless corpses.

Under the call of the scholars, almost all of them were dispatched.

As a result, as soon as I arrived at the beach, I saw the naval warship on the sea, and before I could turn around and run away, I was smashed down by countless shells.

Being shot by artillery fire on the beach without any cover, even if it is a solid shell, the Japanese can't bear it.

After 4 shellings.

Of the 2,780 Japanese who originally rushed out, it is estimated that less than 1,000 people have survived now.

"Woooooo

The horn of the attack sounded.

The marines who had just disembarked from the big boat under artillery fire, and the marines who had boarded the small boat, under the command of the horn, launched an attack on the shore.

Not all of the Marines are equipped with firearms.

Each assault boat can carry 10 soldiers, that is, a small team.

Three of the soldiers were armed with swords and shields, two with spears, two with wolf heads, and the captain and two other members were armed with flintlock muskets, and the captain was armed with a flintlock pistol.

There are too many variables at sea, and storms can occur at any time.

In the event of such a great storm, the flintlock pistol becomes a burning stick.

At a time when firearms were not upgraded to the era of bullet shells, it was still necessary for the navy, a maritime arm, to be issued with certain cold weapons.

In order to speed up the charge, the soldiers on the assault boat, in addition to the shield bearer in front of them, also held small oars and rowed the boat quickly.

"Sun and Moon"

The sky is beautiful, and the waves are not big today.

The boat quickly approached the shore, and the Marines quickly jumped out of the boat and washed up on the beach.

"Stabilize the front, don't rush forward, wait for follow-up reinforcements!"

There are a total of 20 squads on this registration, plus the deputy Qianhu and the entourage under the command, a total of 205 people.

Deputy Qianhe, who jumped off the boat, shouted loudly and ordered the soldiers to hurry up and build a defensive line, while staring at the corpse-strewn beach to prevent the enemy from taking the opportunity to sneak attack.

Deputy Qianhu's worries are actually a bit too much.

The Japanese on the island were already terrified by the artillery bombardment.

The moment the shelling stopped, they ran to the other side of the island, crying and crawling, regardless of their dead and wounded comrades.

There were a few small boats there, which were the last retreat for the pirates.

It's just that these pirates didn't think about whether the small boat they had high hopes for could break through the naval blockade and escape.

Soon the second and third groups of Marines were transported.

When a thousand-man squad was formed, Chito, the commanding officer who rushed over, ordered the thousand-man squad to advance slowly.

"Everyone is not allowed to rush forward, according to the previous training, if there is a complete corpse around you, there is no need to report, immediately make up for Lao Tzu!"

Chino, armed with a broken pistol in one hand and wielding a saber in the other, ran back and forth through the ranks.

This is the first time that the Marines have been fighting, and His Royal Highness is still watching from the battleship, and he can't let these bastards disgrace him.

Fortunately, the members of the Marine Corps, who had undergone rigorous training, although they felt disgusted by the scattered corpses, still listened to the trumpet and walked slowly forward with neat steps.

Occasionally, when they pass by an enemy with a complete corpse or still screaming in pain, the recruits will strictly follow the training requirements and stab or make up for it.

The team marched all the way and soon arrived at the cottage of the Wakos.

It was a mess inside, like it had been blown by a typhoon.

Broken bowls, pots, and clothes were everywhere, and there were even a few corpses lying there.

The most conspicuous of them is a guy dressed as a scholar.

Its corpse was pierced through the chest with a spear pierced through the chest and nailed to a door.

"Search all the rooms, and if you find an enemy, those who don't surrender will be killed on the spot!"

Chinohe gave the order to search, and the soldiers quickly dispersed in small groups, searching the thatched huts and caves one by one.

"No enemy found!"

"This house is empty..."

Soon the search team reported on the thatched huts and caves.

"Boom, boom..."

"Leave five squads to continue the search, and the others will follow me to chase the enemy."

Chiho glanced at the sound of artillery on the side of the island, and understood that these soft eggs had probably all run away.

After leaving 50 people here to continue the search, he took the remaining soldiers and quickly ran to the location where the artillery fire rang out.

"Hehe, it's really average!"

Zhu Zhangui, who was holding a telescope and observing the entire battlefield on the flagship, shook his head with a chuckle as he listened to the reports that kept coming.

How badly the Japanese were blown in history, Zhu Zhangui also thought that these Japanese were really strong, so as soon as they came up, he ordered the fleet to open full fire.

As a result, he was greatly disappointed.

Originally, he thought there should be a tough battle to be fought.

I didn't expect these gangs to be so unbeaten, and they were destroyed in just a few rounds of artillery.

The Marines sent to prepare for close combat are completely up to clean up the battlefield.

Looking at Zhu Zhangui, who was a little disappointed, Li Hu, who was accompanying him, said with a smile.

"I told you, these guys are really average."

"It's also on land, and they don't have a place to run."

"When we were at sea, we met them a few times."

"We only had a tough fight in the first encounter, and then the last few times, they all ran away as soon as they saw us."

"Later, these guys didn't even have their heads out, so they shrank on the islands and leaned against the reef to block our attack."

Zhu Zhangui chuckled and shook his head.

You really can't trust history.

But at the same time, Zhu Zhangui is also a little sad.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it became a big disaster, and even dozens of people could hit Jinling.

It is difficult for Zhu Zhangui to imagine how weak the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty was at that time.

It is estimated that the so-called elite troops at that time may be about the same as the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers of the current guard.

The battle on the island, to be precise, is still going on.

The marines, who were still vigilant at the beginning, encountered several waves of fleeing pirates, and found that the combat effectiveness of these pirates was really weak and could not be seen.

Later, Qianhu felt that the pursuit was too slow, and directly ordered a team pursuit.

The members of the Marine Corps who went to the battlefield for the first time and wanted to make meritorious contributions.

After they dispersed, they screamed excitedly and searched for the Japanese in the mountains and fields on the island.

Finding the traces of the Japanese Bandits, the soldiers chased after them with their brandished weapons as if they were celebrating the New Year.

Zhu Zhangui has promised.

If you capture a Ming man, you can get five pieces of silver, and if you cut off your head, you can get three pieces of silver.

If it is a real widow, one or two pieces of silver for life, and five coins of silver for death.

Although the navy's income is not low, who would think that they have a lot of money.

Each squad also has its own distribution method.

Work together to catch an enemy, and the reward will be divided equally among everyone.

If you catch it alone, you can get eighty percent.

In order to get a reward for the family to improve their lives, the soldiers were screaming with excitement when they captured the prisoners.

It's like catching a rabbit in the autumn harvest.

As soon as someone spotted the Japanese bandits, a large group of Marines would surround them and intercept them.

If it were the kind of real widow, the people in the team that caught it would be as if they had just married their daughters-in-law, and their mouths would be crooked.

As for how to distinguish between a real and a fake one.

This has already been explained above.

Those who scold the gossip road, or shout the linen belt, are all real widows.

The others are not.

The reason for this division is that most of the members of the Marine Corps are from Shandong.

The official dialect of the Ming Dynasty was not as widespread as modern Mandarin.

Many soldiers and civilians use local dialects for most of their daily conversations.

Only when you reach the rank of an officer, you will learn the official language because you have to contact your superiors.

If a soldier or a civilian encounters someone from another province, most of the conversation is a matter of guesswork.

"Linen belt, don't hide, come out quickly, we will work in the captive land with preferential treatment!"

On a cliff, a team searches the area.

The captain of the squad who could speak a little official language, carrying a flintlock pistol equipped with a bayonet, shouted words of persuasion to surrender while picking at the surrounding grass.

"Head, I don't understand a question, what does linen belt mean!"

A pikeman, who was stabbing the grass with a spear, glanced at the side of the island, which was still thinking about the sound of the cannon, and asked a question that had been hidden in his mind for a long time.

The squad leader doesn't know what the linen belt means.

But as the boss, you can't lose face under your hands.

While stabbing the surrounding grass with a bayonet, he said in an educational tone: "If you are asked to read some books, you just don't read them, and you say that you will be sleepy when you read a book, and you don't understand such a simple truth!" ”

"I tell you, you remember, linen belt is the plain name of the Japanese people!"

The soldier nodded as if he didn't understand, and then wondered.

"Then why do you call them the Wo Men and not the Flax Belt?"

The corners of the squad leader's mouth twitched fiercely.

Why the hell this kid has so many problems.

"Head, head... There's a real wreck here! ”

Just as the squad leader was thinking about how to answer this question, behind a large rock in the distance, a musketeer pointed his gun at the stone, and shouted excitedly at this side.

"Is it a real linen belt, don't beat him to death, it's worthless if he dies."

The team leader shouted excitedly, and except for two people who were vigilant around, the others rushed forward excitedly.

When they reached behind the big rock, they saw a small hidden cave behind the stone. At this time, there was a guy with very strange hair inside, who was trembling and raising his hands, and his mouth was dripping, and he didn't know what to say.

"Come out quickly, otherwise your Baga tooth road will be dead!"

The team leader who ran over saw the other party's dress, and his eyes lit up.

This is a serious widow, but it's worth a tael of silver.

Holding a gun and pointing at the mouth of the small hole, the captain learned the half-hung Japanese language learned from the captain, and called out loudly to the Japanese who raised their hands and trembled.

"Ya Butterfly!"

The wolf blinked blankly, looking at the team leader with a puzzled expression.

Hearing the other party's rounded words, the team leader's eyes brightened.

"Damn, I know that what I said is not standard, I don't need you to teach me to fucking me, get out of here, otherwise you will die!"

"Hi Hi Hi..."

As soon as he heard that he was dead, he looked at the blade pointed at him, and the wolf was so frightened that he hurriedly crawled out.

"Raise your hands and let me see yours!"

"Hi Hi Hi..."

The wolf, who was already frightened, didn't know which tendon he had cleared, but he actually understood the meaning of the squad leader's shouting.

He held his head in his hands and moved forward little by little.

"Oh, head... There's one more inside! ”

As the Japanese outside, the soldiers found that there was still one squatting inside.

"Haha, let's send it!"

The squad leader laughed excitedly, and the others looked at the Japanese who came out, and he once again used the Japanese language that he couldn't find in his tune, and shouted loudly into it.

The battle was fought in the evening, taking prisoners to be precise.

Of the more than 3,000 Japanese on the island, more than 2,600 were killed and nearly 400 were taken prisoner.

As for the injured, I'm sorry that no injured ones were found.

In this battle, in addition to wasting some shells, the Marine Corps was a wounded man who ran too fast because he grabbed a prisoner and twisted his foot.

Dusk and sunset.

Zhu Zhangui, under the protection of a large number of guards, landed on the island where the Japanese were located.

Looking at the captives who were pressed by the soldiers and kneeling in several rows, Zhu Zhangui asked Qianhu who had come ashore.

"Have you caught their leader?"

Qianhu shook his head regretfully.

"The last general has already interrogated just now, and when the battle is unfavorable, their leader went back to the camp to pack his things and prepare to run away. As a result, they were bumped into when they returned, and the two sides had an argument and conflict, and in the chaos, their leader was killed by the real Wako. ”

Zhu Zhangui nodded.

"Did you find what I wanted?"

Qianhu hurriedly took out a stack of letters from his arms and handed them to Zhu Zhangui.

"Your Highness, this is all the stuff that has the logo from the camp."

Zhu Zhangui took it and looked at it.

It was found that some of them were written in Wa Chinese characters, and most of the others were torn from books, page by page.

The only one that counts as a letter, the handwriting is already a bit ambiguous, obviously soaked in water, but I can barely read some of the contents.

The letter was written by a person surnamed Zhao, and the recipient was the ringleader.

The content is to invite the leader to a meeting, which will be held ten days later.

It's hard to see what the meeting is going to discuss, but the location of the meeting is very clear.

"Penghu Island!"

Looking at the place where the meeting was held, Zhu Zhangui had a smile on his face.