Two months later, Haizhou, the fog in the early morning was a little heavy, hazy, and the visibility was not enough, a ray of red light rose on the eastern skyline, dispelling the deep night, the wind was mixed with a strong smell of the sea, a long convoy slowly moved along the dirt road, the small villages passed along the way looked dilapidated, and there was no popularity, a few thin stray dogs saw someone coming, and they were so frightened that they turned around and ran, in a carriage, Li Yong's eyes were a little cold when he looked at this scene, mixed with anger, after the catastrophe, no one cared about the life and death of the people, I don't know how many years it will take to regain life? At this time, in front, a man galloped over, stopped beside Li Yong and said.

"General, three miles ahead is where Yantian is located, and there is a brother who has gone to inform the commander to greet him."

"It's hard work, be vigilant."

Li Yong admonished, and then put down the curtains of the car, not long after, the convoy came to a leeward col, the col was very large, built a lot of mud houses, some of the cooking smoke, finally saw the smell of fireworks, Li Yong jumped out of the car, saw Liu Renliang with Yu Chi Baolin, Qin Huairen and a few of them walked up, not seen for a few months, Li Yong found that a few of their boys became darker, but more strong, calm, he knew that they were handed over to Liu Renliang to practice, the bitterness must not be less, the training of the Xishan camp is notoriously bitter.

"Chief Instructor."

Qin Huairen shouted in surprise, and wanted to rush up, but was directly persuaded by Liu Renliang with a look, and stood behind Liu Renliang obediently, Li Yong didn't say anything about it, after all, the military discipline of the Xishan Battalion is very strict, Liu Renliang is the main general, he naturally won't slap Liu Renliang in the face, he said with a smile.

"Yes, it seems that I have practiced well during this time, so the others should be busy, there is no need to be so restrained and disbanded."

"Yes, disband."

After Liu Renliang gave all the officers the order to disband, Qin Huairen and the others hurried back to their camp, while Liu Renliang accompanied Li Yong to report the situation.

"Tell me about the current situation."

"Up to now, I have collected less than 1,000 households here, all of which have survived from all over Haizhou, and some are from Yizhou and Chuzhou, and it was not easy to collect them, I heard that there is work to do, there is food to eat, everyone finally lives with peace of mind, and slowly forms the current scale, however, there is also the fact that the recruits have been trained."

Liu Renliang reported all the situation to Li Yong simply and clearly.

"Where?"

Liu Renliang pointed to the east and said.

"There is an island to the east of the sea, there were originally a hundred fishermen living on it, and they were slaughtered by those dog-beeping pirates, and those boys were also trained by the Marine Corps, I went to see it, and it was very good, by the way, why did it come all of a sudden, the boat?"

Liu Renliang has been here for almost half a year, and the combined fleet has returned to the shipyard in batches to upgrade, and he can only go back to the days when there was no ship to train the navy, he just wants to train the navy now, and then find those small days to take revenge, he looked at Li Yong's long convoy, and did not find the sea ships, a little confused.

"The ship has begun to be upgraded, the key parts have been done, and the upgraded battleship will be different, so the transformation is more complicated, so I won't explain it to you."

What Li Yong means is, you don't understand it, and when the boat is ready, it will naturally be given to you, don't ask, Li Yong looked at the surrounding terrain, his eyes gradually fell on the highest hillside, and walked forward. When Liu Renliang heard that the ship had begun to be upgraded, and it was different from other ships, he was a little puzzled, aren't the ships all the same? But he absolutely believes that Li Yong will not deceive himself, there must be his reason for saying that it is different, he has waited for so long, no hurry, he hurriedly followed Li Yong, the two of them came to the hillside, a gust of sea breeze blew, Li Yong's spirits lifted, looking at it, the front is a flat salt pan, as far as the eye can see, the sea is farther away, the waves are rolling, rushing to the shore, the red sun shines on the sea, the reflection is colorful, sparkling, it is beautiful, Liu Renliang pointed to the front and said.

"The island in front of it, no one usually goes, and the food is regularly sent to the island, and it used to take about an hour here, and everyone planted vegetables on it, fished in their spare time, and lived a good life."

Li Yong nodded, he didn't have any opinion on Liu Renliang's arrangement, after all, he was the commander of the combined fleet, and he was just named an admiral, Li Yong came this time mainly to see how Liu Renliang's navy training was doing, and how Du Ruhui's sons were doing, which was regarded as an inspection, but now it seems that the situation is still very good, Du He and Wei Chi Baolin became sailors, Qin Huairen and they became marines, anyway, they have completed the training of recruits, and several of them have been trained by the Longwei battalion, Some foundations, even if there is no foundation, they will be trained by Liu Renliang to have a foundation, and they are all the sons of the prime minister, after the generals, there is still a talent for learning, Li Yong believes that they will become the best navy like other naval recruits, the next day, at noon, it is still sunny here, the sound of the waves, thousands of naval recruits are in daily training, everything is in order.

"Emergency Gather~"

Suddenly, an emergency assembly sounded, the naval recruits who were training reflexively, stopped the training in their hands, and then gathered to their respective officers, Li Yong turned his head to look at the direction of the sea, his face was solemn, Li Yong had just arrived, he didn't know what was going on, and he faintly felt that something was wrong, and then someone rushed over and shouted loudly.

"All withdraw to the col, and do not run without orders."

All the navy recruits had gloomy faces one by one, and they retreated silently with their officers, and Liu Renliang also rushed to Li Yong and hurriedly said.

"The warning signal should be that the sentry has spotted someone coming at sea, and it may be a pirate."

"Pirates have been here before? And what about our fleet? ”

Li Yong asked in surprise, the ships of the combined fleet are returning to port in batches for upgrading, and the rest are distributed in various major sea areas, and Liu Renliang naturally left a few warships to guard it.

"I've never been here, I'm very hidden here, the mountain col where I live can't be seen on the sea, and I only go out to take care of the salt pans every day when there is no one at sea, just for fear of exposure, but I didn't expect it to be exposed, and today the fleet just pulled the recruits out to sea to practice, which is a hell of a life."

Li Yong's face changed, there was no reason to expose it so secretly, and he took advantage of the fact that the fleet left without protection, saying that no one revealed the news, and the ghosts didn't believe it, but now is not the time to dwell on this, turning his head to look at his guards.

"You're really in time, all of you, open the box, equip the latest weapons, move quickly, I'll have people guide them separately."

"Yes."

The guards took everyone and hurriedly ran to the col, Li Yong said that the new weapon, in fact, is a rifle, after having a steam engine, the rear-loading rifle can be produced, due to the tight time constraints, Li Yong can only choose the quick route, Li Yong is designed for the ship, for these guns are still very clear, he borrowed from the Swiss armor technology at that time, and changed the bullet to a copper armor lead core bullet. In addition, the new rifle uses a tubular magazine to feed the ammunition, and the bullet problem is more prominent, but fortunately, the technicians of the military workshop and the research institute have accumulated a lot of experience and successfully solved the problem of the primer of the bullet. After some revisions and modifications, the pointed rifle cartridge was finally adopted, while improving the ballistic performance and improving the shooting accuracy, but also in order to prevent the drawbacks of the magazine from ignition, they processed an annular groove at the bottom of the bullet to accommodate the bullet tip to avoid triggering the primer, and at the same time processed a thread in the magazine to make the bullet warhead and the bottom edge of the bullet staggered, in this way, the new Xishan nine type eight millimeter rifle cartridge was born, after the completion of the gun design, the development of the new rifle was also immediately followed up by Li Yong, the bolt structure of the new Xishan nine rifleIn order to withstand the high bore pressure brought by smokeless gunpowder, the strength of the bolt parts was strengthened, and two symmetrical locking tenons were designed at the front end of the bolt, the empty gun of the new Xishan Type 9 rifle weighed more than eight pounds, the gun was one meter long, the trajectory of the new Xishan Type 9 rifle was straighter, the accuracy was higher, the effective firing range was up to 400 meters, and the maximum firing range was up to 2,400 meters, the box magazine ammunition capacity of the new Xishan Type 9 rifle was 8 rounds, in addition, 1 round could be preloaded on the bullet plate, and 1 round could also be loaded in the chamber, so that the total ammunition capacity reached 10 rounds, But this practice of loading the gun is very dangerous, although Li Yong has set up a manual insurance, otherwise it will be easy to misfire and accidentally injure himself or his teammates, so in Li Yong's new drill code, it is required to carry a gun empty-bore, and the new Xishan Type 9 rifle is also equipped with a magazine blocker, which means that after starting, the magazine is prevented from supplying ammunition, which can only be loaded with one shot. It is no exaggeration to say that the emergence of the new Xishan Type 9 rifle made the previous black powder rifles all outdated overnight. Originally, Li Yong wanted Liu Renliang to practice these newly produced Xinxishan Type 9 rifles first, but who knew that before he could tell Liu Renliang, the pirates were coming, so he couldn't hide it anymore, Li Yong looked at the calf and said.

"Inform the Guards to come to the battle quickly, knowing that all naval recruits use new rifles."

"Yes."

After the calf saluted, he gave the order to the guards.

"Let's go, let's see."

Li Yong rushed forward with a cold face, Liu Renliang hurriedly followed, the two quickly rushed to a commanding height, and found that there were countless sea ships on the sea, Li Yong roughly counted, there were as many as fifty, the distance was still a little far, it was not very real, judging from the size of the ships, each ship was at least forty or fifty people, that is to say, the enemy was between two thousand and three thousand.

"There are quite a few people, and this group of people is strange."

Li Yong said coldly.

"Whatever, kill it, I'm panicking, although there are only more than 300 people on my side, our weapons and equipment are better than those turtles, boss, you just said that you brought new weapons?"

This militant said very indifferently, what he cared about was what Li Yong said about the new weapon, originally there were more than 3,000 recruits here, but today almost all of them went to sea for training, only these 300 or so people remained, plus dozens of people in his own guards, it was really a huge disparity between the strength of the enemy and us, but Liu Renliang's words were right, his weapons and equipment were good, not to mention the sturdiness of the Xishan helmet, the new Xishan Nine Style could make them collapse, Although this time he only brought the first batch of 100 Xinxishan Type 9 rifles produced urgently, but in terms of firepower, pirates can't bear these small days, not to mention that Li Yong's army is a firearms army, although there is no artillery here, but it is a combination of muskets and rifles, completely crushed.

"I'll lead someone to kill first?"

Yu Chi Baolin proposed, his eyes full of murderous aura.

These pirates of the Japanese Kingdom played hide and seek with him everywhere like mice, and Commander Liu was holding back the evil fire for too long, and he couldn't wait to kill him.

"No, you can't be brute, the terrain ahead is flat, unobstructed, pirates must rush over after docking, about five hundred zhang wide, it will take some time to rush up, let people seize the commanding heights on both sides, force them to rush in from low-lying places, and let them taste the power of our new weapons and muskets when the time comes."

Li Yong decisively refused, pointed to the front and said, the terrain around this is slightly higher on both sides, low in the middle, the weeds and trees in the low-lying places have been cleared, ready to dig trenches, and the field of vision is broad, as long as the height of both sides is occupied, the pirates can only rush in from the low-lying places, Liu Renliang is a general with rich combat experience in land and sea, and he can see through it at one point.

"I'll arrange it, and it's enough to deploy a hundred people on one side."

shouted as he ran towards the col.

"Don't panic, listen to me, don't do it first after the two sides are deployed in place, unless the pirates also want to seize the commanding heights, and the rest will be brought to the low-lying places to assemble, where there are barbed wire and trenches we have arranged, as long as all the pirates go ashore and kill them, wait for all the muskets behind the pirates to suddenly open fire, and kill them by surprise."

"Understood, I'll deploy."

After Liu Renliang listened, he hurriedly went to give an order to the people below, in the col, the little cow gathered all the naval recruits, and quickly explained the use of the new Xishan nine-style rifle and precautions, Liu Renliang saw the new Xishan nine-style after he saw it, it was like looking at a big beauty, more beautiful than his newly married wife, the new Xishan nine-style only a hundred, all priority was given to the veterans, the recruits still continued to use the old-fashioned Xishan nine-style, although the recruits were unwilling, but also knew that at this time, the veterans had combat experience, This choice is also understandable, not to mention that they will also be distributed in the future, and it is not bad at this time, after the Xishan helmet and the new and old Xishan nine styles are distributed, three hundred naval recruits and some veterans stand neatly in front of Liu Renliang and Li Yong, and at this time Liu Renliang ordered.

"The first and second teams spread out to the mountainsides on both sides, look for bushes to hide, as soon as the enemy arrives, shoot freely, if the enemy pursues and kills, retreat to the hillside while fighting, eliminate the pursuers one by one in the movement, and then counterattack."

"Yes."

It was temporarily divided into a team and the team quickly responded to the road, then split into two and spread out to the sides.

In this way, there are navies with muskets on the slopes on both sides, and on the mountainside, pirates must pay the price if they want to detour from both sides, Li Yong glanced at the remaining people, and there are about a hundred naval soldiers, they are neat and strict, Li Yong didn't say anything, went to the command post here, the command room here is the trees that have been cut down and piled up, this moment has become the best cover, Li Yong stood on the pile of trees with binoculars to observe, only to see a large number of sea ships approaching, all the sails are filled with the wind, Forming a strong power to push the ship forward, the high mast is hung with nondescript flags fluttering in the wind, the deck is full of people, one by one, shirtless, holding machetes, with a cold expression, angry, some people with white cloth belts tied to their heads, flying in the wind, are greedily talking to the people around them, causing countless people to laugh, seeing this scene Li Yong can already be sure that the person who came is a wolf, as for whether it is a pirate or a regular army, go back and catch a few live interrogations, and then Liu Renliang, who has arranged everything, also returned to the command post of the pile of trees, He and Li Yong stood side by side, and he also looked ahead with a telescope and said.

"Like pirates, there must be two or three thousand people, but this is not logical, normally speaking, pirates are not a group of hundreds, so they should be those miscellaneous pieces of the Japanese country."

"Leave a few questions for a while, won't you?"

"Makes sense."

Liu Renliang said with a smile, this guy is purely a militant and doesn't care about the disparity between himself and the enemy's strength.

"There are not many pirate archers, it may be related to the habits of naval warfare, the threat is not big, it attracts it head-on, one can't run away, this group of people is strange, we must figure out the reason."

Li Yong said murderously.

"That's simple, I'll take some people to rush up to attract their attention, and then I'll attract them, and the pirates won't be suspicious if they don't see people, and it's not good for us to scatter and rush over."

Liu Renliang proposed, seeing Li Yong nodding in agreement, his eyes lit up, and then shouted.

"The guard company comes with me."

A hundred people who were specifically responsible for his safety quickly rushed forward, holding the old-fashioned Xishan Nine Style, wearing Xishan helmets, they were all veterans who had been on the battlefield for a long time, no one was flustered and nervous, but their eyes were beating with a strong fighting spirit, Liu Renliang ordered, at this time, Li Yong's eyes were cold and looked at the pirates who were landing, and Liu Renliang who was catching up, suppressed the doubts in his heart, remained motionless, waited patiently, no matter what the conspiracy was, it was fought out, ahead, Liu Renliang led people to rush up, and he didn't care about stepping on the dirty salt pan, Because the evil fire in his heart became more and more intense, staring at the pirates who began to charge in front of him, how to shout.

"A bunch of crumbs, brothers, fire"

"Bang bang bang ~" familiar voice familiar formula, especially the pirates who were hit by the new Xishan nine-style rifle, were directly pierced by the bullet, Liu Renliang simply loved this baby, he pulled the bolt to load, and then aimed and shot, and soon it was like a cloud, which can make the soldiers without the new Xishan nine-style cry greedily, Liu Renliang's guard company is obviously only a hundred people, but it has the momentum of thousands of people, the power of the musket is what these pirates can resist, although they have long known about the musket, but it is the first time to see it, But these pirates were not deterred by the navy's muskets, but rushed forward not to be outdone, and many of them were barefoot, even bare-chested, screaming, murderous, and arrogant, like a group of demons out of hell, and their momentum was not weak at all.

"Xiu Xiu Xiu ~ " pirates began to shoot arrows, one by one feather arrows roared, tearing the void, like poisonous snakes flying, but they couldn't shoot so far at all, the effective range of the new Xishan Nine style can reach 400 meters, the maximum range is 2,400 meters, but yes, only God knows if you can't shoot it, the brave wins when you meet on a narrow road, the soldiers of the navy are not affected in any way, constantly reloading ammunition and shooting, and more than a dozen pirates fell in a blink of an eye, but the pirates obey the law of the jungle, and each one can survive is vegetarian, Seeing that the people in front of them continued to resist them, they pounced more fiercely one by one, like wolves fighting for food, but how did the flesh and blood resist the blow of the hot weapon, for a while the pirates were shouting and killing the sky, but it was also blood splashing all over the sky, but there were too many pirates, Liu Renliang saw that he had succeeded in provoking the opponent, and the fire was almost over, so he took the opportunity to roar.

"Withdraw~"

The soldiers of the guard company did not run immediately when they heard the order, but alternately covered and shot, because they would definitely be caught up if they ran directly, they were all veterans and experienced soldiers, Liu Renliang took the guard company to fight and retreat, and from time to time he came to the rescue of his subordinates, these pirates were angry, screaming and screaming to cover up, and soon, the pirates entered the range of the ambush on the hillside, and the two hundred naval soldiers raised their guns one after another, and did not aim, because there were too many pirates and too dense.

"Bang bang bang~" The new and old Xishan Nine styles made a sound, and the terrifying kinetic energy of smokeless gunpowder sent the bullets out, drawing a terrifying parabola in the air, rushing towards the pirates like a life-killing talisman.

"Puff ......"

"Ah~"

The sound of bullets piercing the flesh and screams sounded, one after another, and the muskets that suddenly came out killed the pirates by surprise, but these pirates were too fierce, cold-blooded, and brutal, no one cared about the life or death of their companions, and continued to rush forward, and some people shouted and shouted something, completely igniting the pirates' fighting spirit, and rushed forward with a roar, seeing this scene, Li Yong frowned, and felt more and more strange, pirates are not regular troops, although they are ferocious and aggressive, but they are also fighting a good fight, and they will hide when they encounter hard bones, and they have nothing to do with fear of death. But there is no motivation to fight, selfishness, and letting others die, but this pirate has a strong will to fight and strict discipline, unlike ordinary pirates, it is greed that defeats selfishness? Or is this a regular army? Seeing that Liu Renliang led people to retreat, and the pirates were still in hot pursuit, like a group of mad dogs, Li Yong didn't think much about it, and shouted.

"Prepare for battle."

Everyone looked indifferent, but the killing intent in their eyes was stronger, a large number of pirates rushed over, affected by the terrain The strength began to shrink, all gathered in the low-lying place, and they were about to chase and kill, the naval soldiers on the hillsides on both sides continued to exert their might, as the distance got closer and closer, the hit rate of the muskets increased greatly, and the pirates divided into forces rushed to the hillside, trying to chase and kill the navy on both sides, at this time, the naval soldiers who were ambushed in the bushes on the hillside on both sides also began to exert their might, and a firepower was output to the past, and the pirates who were separated were shot and killed, but also made the pirates ferocious, Continue to divide more forces to chase and kill, the battle has reached this moment, and the pirates have no better way than to divide their troops to solve the threat on both sides, unless they retreat, but they finally killed, and they died a lot, they are not reconciled, and continue to rush forward to kill.

"Want to play with your life?"

"Fulfill you."

Li Yong's eyes exploded, and a terrifying light flashed out, and he shouted.

"Order all the firepower to go all the way, don't save bullets, and beat them up for me."

"Yes."

The remaining soldiers in the trenches immediately drilled out, and began to fire at the pirates in front, so that the pirates were attacked on three sides, and the recruits of the navy were trained by Liu Renliang to be regarded as well-trained, they were under the command of their respective commanders, lined up, expanding the attack surface, seeing the pirates rushing up and decisively alternately covering and retreating, pulling away the distance, the pace was uniform, the musket fire in the hands continued to output, and the pirates who rushed up were like moths to make fire, and no one could get close, so that someone in front of them blocked, There are also ambushed naval soldiers on both sides to shoot frantically, Liu Renliang's guard company has begun to outflank the pirates, the pirates are surrounded, coupled with the terrain restrictions on the slopes on both sides, the pirates' strength advantage can not be played, only passive beating, at this moment, an unknown salt pan here is like a slaughterhouse, every second there are pirates falling, blood stains the ground red, wailing, screams one after another, the pirates' strength is rapidly decelerating, morale is slipping, no longer fierce and arrogant.