The naval battle that took place in Daiquyang lasted overnight, and the Ming army took advantage of its superiority in numbers and weapons to trap the Dingxi army firmly in a waterway less than 30 miles between Daishan Island and Qushan Island.

With the continuous arrival of reinforcements and fishermen, the encirclement on this water has become more and more dense.

Like a trapped beast, the Dingxi army tried to break through the night many times, but the results were in vain.

Some of them also tried to abandon their ships and flee, thinking that as long as they could swim to the nearby islands, it would not be difficult for them, and when the time came, they might have a way to live.

However, in the cold of the spring sea, I finally swam through the Ming army's ship area, came to the periphery, and saw those fishermen's boats, thinking that it was okay, and was soothing, but my body was suddenly restrained by something.

It's a fishing net!

Since last year, the imperial court levied a tax on hemp, and suddenly solved the problem of materials for shipbuilding and weaving nets in Yinghai Division.

And varied.

In order to prevent the pirates from abandoning their boats and escaping, Wu Zhen, the deputy governor of the navy, led his troops to Daiquyang, and confirmed that a night battle could not be avoided, so he immediately ordered to go out and asked the fishermen near Daiquyang to gather on the periphery of the battlefield with all their fishing nets.

By the time the desperate pirates thought of abandoning their ships and fleeing at night, the fishermen who had gathered around the battlefield had already laid down many fishing nets in three layers and three layers outside, and there were various types, such as trawls, gillnets, purse seine nets, drift nets, and string nets.

Some of them are specially tailored for the previous winter fishing to catch deep-sea adult hairtail nets, and the depth even reaches 20 zhang, which makes some of the Haikou who perceive the fishing net want to dive around it are weak, and one of them drowns in the deep sea due to physical exhaustion during the dive.

For the hopeless sea robbers who dare to float, the fishermen are even more polite, and all kinds of harpoons and spears are greeted.

The navy has issued an order, for the sake of caution, the fishermen on the periphery do not need to stay alive when they encounter pirates, and they will be killed directly.

The fishermen had just lived a good life that they had never dared to think of before, and they hated the pirates who might ruin their lives more than the navy, and they were even more unkind when they got military orders.

And so on until dawn.

The thirtieth day of the first month.

God also gives face, not only is it a cloudless day, there is not even fog on the sea.

The lineup of the Ming army after a night of fighting is still neat, and in the encirclement, the original 173 Haikou ships are still floating on the water, which is less than 30, and the Ming army has no pity for this.

Daming's shipbuilding capacity has been rising rapidly, and it is naturally better to be able to capture it externally, but if it can't be captured, it doesn't matter.

In the morning light, when one of the ships shouted that it had chosen to surrender, the other enemy ships in the encirclement were forced to follow.

You can't follow it.

The sky was dawning, and the Dingxi Army, which was still vigorous the day before, had fought from more than 3,200 people at the beginning to less than 600 now.

Looking around, just the regular Ming army, there are no less than 20,000.

The fishing boats of the Yinghai Division, which were still coming one after another until dawn, even if they had no combat effectiveness, only that number was enough to make people's scalps tingle.

What else is this fighting?

Wu Zhen, the deputy governor of the navy, sent people to surrender at the same time, and also issued an order to find the head of the Kou.

After interrogation and searching, it was learned that Chen Ning, a military commander of the Dingxi Army, was hacked to death by Zhao Dingxi, and in last night's battle, he fell to the bottom of the sea along with Zhao Dingxi's sinking 2,000 boats.

Knowing the inside story of this Haikou attack, even if he died, Chen Ning couldn't let it go.

Wu Zhen immediately ordered someone to salvage it.

After all, this is in the sea...... Whether it is one's own or the enemy's corpse, after all, it is not suitable to be discarded at will, and it must be transported to the shore and properly disposed of.

Luckily, Chen Ning's body, which had been soaked to puffiness, was quickly fished out.

But there is another person, Zhao Dingxi, the leader of the pirates, who has never been found.

According to the confession of the surrendered Haikou, after Zhao Dingxi cut down Chen Ning, he ostensibly commanded his boat to charge the Ming army and tried to break through, but in fact, he had already jumped into the water and left halfway.

Kou Shou Zhao Dingxi can't let it go.

Wu Zhen was worried that Zhao Dingxi, who had excellent water properties, might have successfully bypassed the layers of encirclement, or had already landed on a nearby island, so he immediately sent another order out, and even prepared to dig three feet into the ground to find people out, and then, news came from the fishermen on the periphery.

Zhao Dingxi was killed.

The corpse was still recognized by the surrendered pirates.

It turned out that Zhao Dingxi abandoned all the deployments last night and tried to swim away, but he didn't expect the fishing nets laid by the fishermen on the periphery to be so dense, and he finally used a short knife to cut through several layers of nets, and in the end he was still entangled in a gillnet.

Zhao Dingxi found that he couldn't break free, so he simply pushed the boat down the river and pretended to be dead, thinking that the fishermen would catch themselves up and make it difficult again.

Thing...... It started out just as he had envisioned.

The fishermen on the corresponding fishing boat found that they might have hit a 'big fish' in their gillnet, and the 'big fish' might have been trapped to death, so they pulled up the nets.

However, what Zhao Dingxi didn't expect was that these fishermen were also cautious.

Zhao Dingxi had just been pulled out of the water, and he didn't have a chance to take the opportunity to attack at all, and several harpoons were stabbed together.

Although Zhao Dingxi even fiercely pulled a fisherman into the water when he was dying, he couldn't find another cushion for himself, and he died.

The frightened fishermen were worried that Zhao Dingxi would 'cheat the corpse' again, so they stabbed the head of the head of the Kou leader, so that by dawn, the first round of identification was confirmed, and he was not even recognized.

It wasn't until Wu Zhen ordered the second round of identity confirmation to find Zhao Dingxi that a thief who was close to Zhao Dingxi felt ...... Somebody with a tattered head, seemingly, like, probably...... It's his own handsome.

The head of the Kou and the deputy of the thief have been awarded, and the battle has finally been decided.

On Wu Zhen's commander's boat, the engraved watch sent from Jinling some time ago showed that at two o'clock in the afternoon, the battle report about this battle of Daiqu was finally sent to Dinghai.

The battle report first introduced the basic situation of this gang of thieves.

It was also last year's navy crackdown on bandits, Zhao Dingxi, who was born in Huaidong, and Chen Ning, who escaped after an assassination last year, both of whom have been beheaded.

This force is known as the 'Dingxi Army', with a total of more than 3,200 people, of which eighty percent are Japanese recruited by Zhao Dingxi in the Japanese Kingdom. Not only that, Zhao Dingxi has also established his own stronghold in the Wa Kingdom, entrenched in a Kuo Island with a radius of fifty miles, and extended his tentacles to Kyushu.

Moreover, Zhao Dingxi only brought out sixty percent of the most elite forces this time, and another forty percent were deployed to stay in the Wa Kingdom.

Then, there were the casualties on both sides of the battle.

The biggest casualty of the Ming army was the section where Xia Hai's troops intercepted Zhao Dingxi's escape, and then in the night battle, with absolute force suppression and their own cautious combat deployment, they did not let the thieves take too much advantage.

According to preliminary statistics, the Ming army killed a total of 461 people and wounded 1,129.

The Dingxi Army was completely annihilated, of which more than 2,700 were annihilated and 534 surrendered.

Later, at the end of the war report, Wu Zhen also mentioned two things.

The ship built by the little adult last year, this naval battle, really reflected too many advantages, therefore, next, should become the focus of the development of the Ming Navy.

And, through preliminary interrogation, this side has also been determined.

The one who led the commander of the Dingxi army to attack Haiyan in Jiaxing was the Murata guard of the Japanese merchants, and he should be immediately arrested and punished.

In the end, Wu Zhen also asked people to send back a few things along with the battle report, such as the same star-holding scope, telescope and even map used by the Dingxi Army as the Ming Navy, but the Deputy Governor of the Navy did not comment on this.

Dinghai.

Naval Governor Hua Gao received the news that Xia Hai's troops had encountered pirates last night, but when he heard that the scale of this group of pirates was larger than his initial estimate of one or two thousand, he was inevitably worried.

After all, judging by the time, not to mention whether Xia Hai's department can successfully intercept the thieves and escape, even if it is stopped, when Wu Zhen's department arrives, according to the time, it will inevitably be a night battle.

Night battles are always full of uncertainties!

In the lobby of the Navy Governor's Palace, Hua Gao, who had not slept all night, stood calmly on the long table of the meeting, and was studying the nautical chart in front of him with a chatter, when he heard the sound of footsteps, he suddenly looked up.

But it was disappointment.

It was Liu Lian, the deputy envoy of Yinghai, who came in.

Liu Lian also looked extremely tired, with obvious strong anger in his exhaustion.

Yesterday......

When it was confirmed that it was Haiyan in Jiaxing that was attacked, Liu Lian personally rushed over with the manpower and supplies of the Yinghai Division, hoping to give some help to the people who suffered from the military disaster, and then Liu Lian saw the tragic scene that kept him awake all night, the charred old man, the drowned child, and the corpse of the woman who was stripped of his clothes and hung high......

Is this something that people can do?

This intense anger continues to this day.

When he arrived at the lobby of the Navy Governor's Mansion, looking at Hua Gao at the top, Liu Lian instinctively saluted according to the Confucianism, the anger was still difficult to suppress, stared at Hua Gao with wide eyes, and asked in a dry tone: "Governor, thief...... Did you catch it? ”

If the navy can't catch up, he, Liu Lian, is willing to put pen to paper and chase after him in person.

Even if you chase the sky, you won't let it go!

Hua Gao raised his head, saw Liu Lian's appearance, and wanted to grin habitually, but his expression was probably stiff for too long, and he couldn't grin, but he just nodded slightly.

Chase is to catch.

Outcome...... I don't know yet!

Just as Liu Lian was about to continue to ask, hurried footsteps sounded outside the lobby, and someone shouted: "Governor, great victory, great victory......

When this voice came, whether it was Hua Gao and Liu Lian, or the other generals in the hall who had been pretending to work, they all immediately cheered up.

Everyone watched as the messenger sent by the Deputy Governor delivered the war report to the Governor, and they surrounded him.

Liu Lian also looked at Hua Gao, who tore open the envelope three or two times, and just heard the word 'great victory', and the depression in his heart was slightly released.

Hua Gao briefly browsed it, and saw that the people around him were all looking at him, so he simply read it out.

Liu Lian also learned that it was Zhao Dingxi and ...... who fled last year Chen Ning!

Chen Ning!

When Liu Lian heard this, he gritted his teeth even more.

That Zhao Dingxi was originally a Haikou, and he did the things of Haikou, as a matter of course, so Chen Ning ...... After all, he used to be an official of the imperial court, how could he fall to this point step by step?

Thinking of this, after the Governor finished reading the battle report and ordered to arrest the Murata guard, a merchant of the Japanese Kingdom, Liu Lian's attention couldn't help but turn to the few objects that the messenger had just placed on the conference table together: "These...... What's going on? ”

In front of me were star-pullers, telescopes, and maps that were all too common in the Navy and the Camp Maritime Division.

"I don't know," the Navy Baihu who sent the letter shook his head, thought about it and added: "These are the ...... It was confiscated from the Haikou Kou, and his subordinates were also puzzled, how could this thing that should have been our Ming Dynasty fall into the hands of the Haikou Kou. ”

The others also looked at it.

There are many things in front of you, but they are the most common navigation tools, and everyone can judge that this is not an object made by the Navy or the Battalion Maritime Division, and it is obviously not fine enough.

However, it is obviously also a skill that has been passed down from Dinghai.

Everyone didn't think anything, but they soon found out that a certain deputy envoy of the camp was ...... I don't know what came to mind, my face suddenly turned white, then red, and then turned cyan after a while.

What's going on?

Of course, it is impossible for the people around him to know that Liu Lian suddenly thought of some words from the little adult of the camp last year.

At that time, it was a brick and tile workshop on the south side of the Yongjiang River.

Nahu Shang ......

Ibu Thornavulo, who had left the Ming Dynasty a few years ago, took advantage of a gust of north wind to go to the South Seas and return to his hometown.

Liu Lian was very good friends with Thorn Na Wuluo, so he had some disputes with the Ying Hai Envoy, about things like hospitability and hospitality.

And......

It was already a little vague, but, at this time, for some reason, that conversation was so clear and clear that Liu Lian felt painful.

Then......

Regarding Liu Lian's generous teaching of some knowledge such as navigation to the Thornnavulla, the camp made the little master say, "...... One day in the future, according to the seafaring skills that have been passed down from you, someone will drive a warship into our waters, go on a rampage, burn and kill, and plunder, I hope you will not regret being a good teacher today. ”

Liu Lian also sounded what he had said: "If there is such a day, the lower officials will face the battle, and they will not hesitate to do so." ”

As a person from Huaxia, Liu Lian felt that how could the words of the envoy of Yinghai happen?

How can the overseas barbarians cross the vast ocean and come to the land of China?

Even, even if he comes, it's just a group of local chickens and dogs, how can it cause the slightest harm to Daming?

However, things have not passed many, many years, just less than a year, looking at these star trackers, telescopes and maps in front of him, Liu Lian realized with a chill...... It happened so quickly.

Some people took advantage of the navigation skills passed down by the Yinghai Division, and drove all the way to a prosperous and lively town, burning, killing and looting, and doing all kinds of evil.

The charred old man......

The drowning child......

The body of the woman who had been stripped of her clothes and hung high......

Wrong!

Wrong!

It turned out that I was really wrong.

Although I know in my heart that this is not my own responsibility, the entire Yinghai Division, the entire navy, although they have been talked about by the little adults of the Yinghai Envoy, but they have never had much concept of things like technical secrecy.

However, Liu Lian knows that there must be an absolutely unshirkable responsibility in this.

Not to mention last year, just when I heard the news before, on the side of Jingshi, what kind of 'chemistry major' actually had to strictly review the qualifications of students, Liu Lian felt that he was not frank enough.

Preach and teach, how can that?

Liu Lian almost wrote a letter to refute this.

Right now......

Wrong, wrong, really wrong.

When the people around him felt more and more that the deputy envoy of Yinghai was not caught in a nightmare, Liu Lian, who was chattering, suddenly spurted out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground.

(End of chapter)