Twenty-seven road encounters

It's a little late. I went to Wuxi on a business trip yesterday and didn't get back until two in the middle of the night. I got up at ten in the morning and was busy writing... It's miserable if I don't save the manuscript, haha.

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"It's so depressing..."

Sitting on a pile of broken boxes at the stern of the ship, Pang Yu sighed and continued to carefully wipe the Qionghai rifle on hand - even though he had wiped it from the inside out several times. Xu Lei next to him raised his head in a daze.

I looked at who was talking, then lowered my head and fell asleep.

——At this moment, they are anchored on an ocean outside a bay in Xiamen, about four to five hundred meters away from the land. However, according to the requirements of northern latitude, they can only wait here, not at all.

Allowed to go ashore.

Several raids on the coastal facilities of the Ming Empire have been carried out. The assault team led by Bei Lai successfully destroyed or damaged several material warehouses belonging to the Ming Dynasty army, and also destroyed a dock. The operation itself should be said to be very serious.

Success, but for the rear responders, this action was far less romantic and interesting than imagined at the beginning.

When Hu Kai and the others boarded the ferry carrying long guns and short cannons in the first batch, they certainly did not expect that Northern Latitude would have this arrangement for them:

"You guys are all armed with guns and cannons, and you pretend to be nothing but pirates if you want to be seen by others... Just stay on the ship with peace of mind. If there is any trouble, I will call you."

Then Bei Latitude took an action team of no more than ten people to the shore in a rubber boat to "work", leaving a large group of heavily armed men sitting in the cabin waiting, and they could only listen through the intercom.

Occasionally, I heard a few short passwords. However, the investigation brigade still used internal secret words, and they couldn't even tell whether the situation was good or bad...

When it was almost dawn, a large fire suddenly appeared at the location of the target, and there was a lot of noise. However, they returned easily from the northern latitude. There was no fighting, no pursuers, and the response personnel were completely useless.

After two days of drifting on the sea in vain, the boat was pulled back the same way it came from without even getting off the boat. When they came back, everyone in the group screamed that they had been cheated.

Later, according to Beiwei, the Ming army's defense on the mainland was extremely lax. Otherwise, in order to let the Ming army see that the bad things were done by "Japanese pirates", they could even sneak into the warehouse and set fire to it without alerting a single sentry. However,

Even after deliberately alerting the sentries, they did not encounter any trouble - as soon as those Ming soldiers saw their shaved foreheads, fake buns, and shiny Japanese swords, they immediately shouted "The real Japanese are coming!"

He ran away in the blink of an eye.

This was good, to avoid killing more people and committing crimes. After that, the action team did whatever they had to do. After setting off a few fires, the Ming army came to put out the fire with pots and pans, but seeing that these Japanese pirates were still there, they all

They just patrolled from a distance and didn't dare to get close. It wasn't until Beiwei and the others left that they swarmed up and started to rescue... But by then the fire was already out of control.

"This doesn't look like an army. It's just a bunch of kind-hearted, law-abiding old farmers!"

Beiwei sighed again and again when he talked about this. Although he had known that these people responsible for the rear defense could not be elite soldiers, they were so ruined that even their enemies could not stand it.

"I'm afraid they are really just farmers - these should be guardsmen. According to the military household system of the Ming Empire, guardsmen usually make a living by farming. From the middle of the Ming Dynasty, guardsmen were no longer used in wars.

Become the main force."

Professor Li's words finally gave Beiwei some comfort. The Ming Dynasty was not completely hopeless. If all the Ming Dynasty's armies were in this state, then Beiwei would really have to think carefully about whether he would continue to agree with what the committee had always advocated.

What about the policy of recruiting and seeking refuge? Or should we consider the “replacement” route that some young people privately advocate?

The subsequent operations were similar and went unbelievably smoothly. Of course, this is also related to the careful planning before each operation in the North Latitude - first, get the information from the intelligence office in Guangzhou: where are the Japanese pirates or other bandits?

Bandits and other armed groups appear, and then compare the table of targets scheduled to be destroyed, and choose the one closest to it and least likely to arouse suspicion to attack.

The forces they impersonate are also diverse. In addition to Japanese pirates, they have also acted as pirate gangs, ethnic minority forces, and even Western red-haired people. So much so that there have been frequent alarms in Guangzhou recently, and Wang Zunde, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, has been on the rise.

The Tangbao notice sent by the head of the Tang Dynasty read: "Recently, the Guangdong and Guangxi roads have been quite uneasy. Bandits and pirates are coming one after another. It is not the fault of a single bandit family..."

Everything was successful, except for those unlucky ones who were assigned to be the reception staff - each operation lasted for at least two days and more than half a month. The troops boarded the ship from Baisha Pier, and then disembarked from Baisha Pier. After boarding the ship, they would either be in a daze or sleep.

There is nothing else. Although there are still so many troops deployed each time and the weapons they carry are still so powerful, everyone has changed from enthusiastically signing up to hiding when they can. In the end, the decision has to be made by tossing a coin.

Selection - now the loser goes out.

Pang Yu's luck has always been bad. In the past, he rarely won when playing games with ROLL points. Now it's the same when tossing coins. Guessing heads always comes up tails, and guessing tails will definitely result in heads. So he was honored to get several overseas trips.

Chance.

"If you don't take into account factors such as seasickness, wind and waves, as well as the small cabin and unpleasant smell, it is a good enjoyment to spend time fishing and daze in your rare free time."

This was the comfort Ade gave Pang Yu before setting off. The latter even brought a fishing rod on board for this purpose. When the boat stopped, he saw that a row of fishing rods had already been stretched out along the side of the boat.

It's not easy to think of any fish that can escape this formation, so I'm just in a daze.

"That's Gulangyu Island over there, right?"

Xu Lei finally woke up, yawned, got up and took out the telescope and looked around. At this time, the sky was already dim, and the undulating outline of the mountains on the distant continent was already vaguely visible. After a while, the sun would "suddenly"

Jumping out from under the sea level, covered with morning glow in the sky, it will be the most beautiful moment of the day.

"Yes, but the outline of Zheng Chenggong's statue is no longer there, and it still looks a bit weird..."

Pang Yu had lived on Gulangyu Island for a period of time before, and was quite familiar with the island. However, his favorite seafood noodle restaurant was definitely missing on the island now, and the melodious sound of the piano could no longer be heard at dusk.

"Let's erect another one in the future. Of course, it's impossible to erect Zheng Chenggong again - it won't be his turn to recover Taiwan. Brother Pang, who do you think will be erected then? Do I have any hope?"

Xu Lei's eyes were shining with longing, while Pang Yu laughed:

"It's probably Captain Tang. He values ​​this the most...or which one of you is going to compete with him?"

"Uh...at worst, we will have two more statues by then, including the followers."

The two chatted casually for a while, and then they saw a sudden burst of fire coming from a certain direction on the mainland, and there was a faint noise of people in the wind.

"The assault team is starting to take action. Get ready to respond. They should be back soon."

They always choose to go out in the middle of the night at Northern Latitude, attack at dawn when people are most sleepy, and then evacuate quickly. Although there were no accidents in the previous few times, Xu Lei still organized a team of musketeers and waited at the side of the ship.

, ready to board the rubber dinghy and rush to the beach at any time to assist the commando team in repelling the enemy's pursuers - if there are any.

Looking figures began to appear on the target beach. They were Bei Lai and his commando members. Judging from their unhurried pace, there was still no one chasing behind them this time.

This group of people was actually not empty-handed. Almost everyone was carrying old hens, big white geese and other poultry in their hands. Beiwei simply carried a little piglet and boarded the ship. After boarding the ship, he smiled bitterly:

"Xiamen is the center of the Zheng Family Navy. I thought the defense here would be tighter, but I didn't expect it to be still lax... ***, we couldn't even pretend to be pirates, so we had to grab two chickens and run away."

"This is the best. Originally, we came all the way to engage the Fujian navy just to embellish it to avoid Wang Zunde from Guangdong and Guangxi becoming suspicious. The Zheng family knows the strength of our firepower. It would be easy to reveal our secrets in a real fight."

Pang Yu was very satisfied with the result. Although it was a bit boring, they did not want to fight to the death with the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers. After all, they were their own compatriots. It was better to avoid meaningless killings as much as possible.

"Another boring operation... set sail as soon as possible and go home."

It is quite a distance from Xiamen to Hainan Island. Even if there is a favorable wind, with the slow speed of these two big fortune ships, it will take about ten days at least to return. This is the furthest they have traveled since the raiding force started the operation.

Not that everything went smoothly the first few times. Liu Tieguo assured him that he had walked this route many times before, and there would definitely be no typhoon at this time. Without the escort of the Qionghai, the committee did not want to engage in such a long-distance attack.

——If you can get to Xiamen, you can almost get to Taiwan.

Because they have complete charts and advanced speed measurement and positioning tools, these two large ships did not take the traditional offshore route of the Ming Dynasty. Instead, they basically traveled along the ocean route, which allowed them to go faster. There was no need to worry about the reefs, and they could travel day and night.

Keep driving.

The first two days were uneventful, but at noon on the third day, the ship's boss, Liu Tiecrocodile, walked into the cabin nervously:

"Commander Pang, it seems that trouble has come to our door... The two black ships have been seen since dawn, and it has been a long time now, and they are still far behind."

"Um?"

Pang Yu jumped up from the bed - these days nautical charts are like heirlooms for every ship owner. A route often takes several generations to explore. If you dare to stay away from the coast, you don't need land.

Those who enter the deep sea for reference are not ordinary people. Although this ocean route is not a secret, it is far from prosperous.

When they came here before, they had only seen a few sail shadows from a distance along the way, but it was definitely not a good thing to see other boat shadows on the sea these days. Neither party was interested in meeting and chatting, so they all went their separate ways.
Chapter completed!