Chapter 64: A Small Victory
When the news of the invasion of the Mingsha Mountain people reached the Akiyama Peninsula, the first thing that came to Ba Niu's mind was the Kangle people. His thoughts are the same as Lu Xinghe's, without the support of the Kangle people, the people of Mingshashan definitely don't have the courage to invade Dongduo. At the same time, he also judged the support route of the Kangle people, Dayan Harbor. So he decided to intervene, so he selected 500 people from the escort army, led by him himself, and went straight to Dayan Harbor by water.
The purpose of his trip was mainly to cut off the back road of the Kangle people. He didn't know that Lu Xinghe had already set a trap, and he didn't expect that Kangle people would fail so badly. But in any case, it was always a pleasure to burn their ship.
The time when they arrived at Dayan Port was earlier than the time when Wu Shixun was ambushed. So I saw their battleship clearly. The whole twenty large ships, arranged in a line, the scene is very spectacular, especially Wu Shixun's command ship and his auxiliary ship, which makes people salivate when they see it.
"Compared to these ships, our ship is a wooden box"! Young people love to talk, even with their immediate superiors, and they don't hold back.
"General, otherwise we will get it, what a pity it will burn it"?
Ba Niu also thought so in his heart, but he thought about it carefully, and felt that it was impossible to take it all, and it was already the maximum limit to take the command ship and auxiliary ship.
"Do you know the flag language?" He asked a few people around him. They look at me, I look at you, and they don't understand what he means.
Seeing that there was no answer, he did not ask any more questions, but ordered to halt his advance and hide himself in a remote place. Wait until it gets completely dark, and then quietly touch it under the cover of night.
The Kangle people never expected anyone to sneak up on them, otherwise they wouldn't have left only sailors, logistical supplies, and gunners. At this moment, they are devoting themselves to the joyful atmosphere of the reception. They are blindly celebrating victory, and in their minds, victory is already within reach, and it is only a matter of time before the good news is achieved.
When they reached the deck, they carefully probed the probe, and when they found that there was no one to guard them, they climbed up one by one, and then hid in the shadows to observe the situation. There were only five or six people on the deck who were on guard, and at this moment, they were gathering together and chatting hotly.
"There are a lot of beautiful women in Dongduo", one of them seemed to have drunk some wine, and said astringently: "It's also in good shape, more than ten years ago, when my father and I came here to do business, we often went downstairs from Guangyun, and the girls there, boys, I guarantee that you have never seen them in your life"!
"Come on, can't our Bliss Fang compare to their Guangyun Building? Just Miss Hu Bingqing alone, they can't be compared together." A person said rather angrily.
"It's a pity to say that Hu Bingqing is really a pity", and the other continued: "It disappeared for no reason."
Speaking of which, a few people sighed and regretted once, it seems that everyone has a love for beauty. As bystanders who can only watch from afar and cannot be approached, they are all worried about them.
At this time, Ba Niu suddenly felt that the back of his head and face were hot, and he hurriedly looked around, only to see that all eyes were staring at him, as if they were going to swallow him.
A few people were still talking and laughing, but Ba Niu took these young people and touched them behind them. I made a code and swarmed up. Before a few people could react, they were subdued.
From below, it was already a behemoth, and when I came to the top, I was even more shocked by its enormity. It should be about 70 meters long and 156 meters wide. It is conservatively speculated that the draft is also more than eight meters. The heavy gun deck is about 60 meters long, the height of the main mast is also more than 60 meters, the height of the front mast is about 50 meters, the height of the rear mast is about 40 meters, and the sail area is at least 5,000 square meters. Thirty cannons. The middle gun deck was equipped with twenty-eight long guns. The upper gun deck was equipped with a short gun of thirty guns. The first deck is equipped with four medium guns, and the aft deck is equipped with twelve short guns. This ship alone can fit more than 3,000 people, and the sailors need more than 800 people. However, there are only more than 200 people on the ship now, and they are mainly sailors who drive the ship, and other gunners, conductors and others have followed ashore.
They admired it once, and then quietly touched the sailor's rest chamber, dragged the sailor lying on the bed down, and rushed to the storage room to tie him up. Then let a person who could wave the flag signal the neighboring ship with a lantern to keep them still, and he drove out of the queue. Immediately after that, the auxiliary ships also drove out, and the two battleships were blatantly stolen.
After walking a distance, they put down their hanging hearts, how dangerous just now, only they know.
"General, where are you going now"?
Ba Niu thought about it and felt that it was really dangerous to walk at night on the vast sea. He ordered the ship to be anchored at the place where it had been moored, and waited until it was almost dawn to make calculations. In addition, he also wanted to see if those Kangle people would carry out a sneak attack and leave, or if they were ready to drive straight in, and he even planned to go ashore to take a look, to see where the Kangle people had gone and whether they had encountered resistance. Soon, though, he got the answer.
"General, it's almost dawn"! A young man pointed into the distance and shouted.
"Nonsense, that's the north, whose sun comes out from the north"! But he still looked around, and sure enough, the sky was bright, as if the sun was about to come out.
"It's really the sun coming out"! The other shouted. The others followed suit.
Of course, Ba Niu knew it was impossible, but the sight was so similar that it was no wonder they were wrong.
After pondering for a long time, he suddenly came to his senses, and in order to verify his speculation, he asked the young man next to him: "Is it in the direction of Qujiayu ahead"?
There are a few hometowns in this area, and they immediately replied: "It seems that it should be Qujiayu."
"I see, I see"! He burst out laughing, looking at these people inexplicably.
"What stimulated the general"?
"It may not be irritated, it is a recurrence of an old disease."
"Don't talk nonsense to me", he immediately knocked heavily on the heads of the two cheap-mouthed people, twice, and they hugged their heads and snored in pain.
"Let me tell you, the chief guard has set up an ambush in Qujiayu, and the Kangle people should have become roast suckling pigs at this time." He burst into another burst of laughter, prompting countless whispers.
He knew that with their intellect, they could not guess what they meant by what they were saying. But I am also glad for their innocence, because, at the same age, I have completely lost it.
"Hide the boat, let's go ashore and have a look." He got off the big boat with a dozen people and sailed to the shore in a small boat. They groped their way through the darkness of the night, and soon came to the top of a dirt mountain.
They waited here for a long time before they saw Wu Shixun's defeated army rushing towards the big ship like a tide. Next, a tragic scene appeared, eighteen big ships fired at the same time, the sound of cannons shook the sky, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, countless people were blown away like ants, and the screams came and went. This made these fledgling young people experience the cruelty of war for the first time. A lot of people were scared to pee their pants directly.
Ba Niu also saw the true face of war for the first time, which made his understanding of war reach another level.
"Someone"! The young man beside him suddenly shouted.
Ba Niu looked into the distance, and sure enough, he saw a group of people running towards him. He immediately beckoned to the men, told them to bend down, and carefully observe the movements of the visitors. Soon, they found out that these people were clustered around a person, fleeing for their lives. He immediately led the crowd to follow. When they stopped to rest, he quietly surrounded them and arrested them. These people are Wu Shixun and several of his personal soldiers.
Before dawn, they began to return home. Two ships full of supplies and the sailors and gunners they needed the most made their trip a full trip. It was their first time on a nominal expedition, and the first time they were greeted with the cheers of the people of the island as victors.
Watching the countless trophies being removed from the ship and the captives coming in a line with their heads down, these young men were excited, standing on the shore and raising their arms and shouting, as if to vent their pent-up emotions.
Although he did not participate directly in the battle, Ba Niu rewarded all those who followed him on this mission, and it was important to have clear rewards and punishments for governing the army.