About a week later, it was another bright dawn.

Several large sailing ships silently approached a shallow harbor. On the bows of the ships, several telescopes were raised at the same time. From behind the coated lenses that should not belong to this era, pairs of vigilant eyes were watching not far ahead.

There, that seemingly peaceful little fishing village...

"Is this right here?"

North Latitude looked at the land that was destined to be flooded with blood and fire in the near future with an expressionless face. It looked no different from an ordinary fishing village. If there was any difference, it was the lookout posts and warnings outside the port.

There were more ships. Many of them were painted black, which was consistent with the image of the ones that attacked them before.

"That's right, it's right here, Boss Yang's lair. If you don't believe it, you only need to look at those boats to know that the villain is indeed not telling lies!"

Behind Bei Wei, a wretched man who was tied up had a nervous look on his face, bared his big yellow teeth, and swore and swore that he was not lying. But Bei Wei ignored him, but the judge next to him said coldly:

"Whether it is true or not, we have to fight in to find out. If the explanation is not thorough, you will naturally know the consequences - what do you people here call that kind of death...is it also called planting a lotus?"

The man shivered and knelt on the ground, kowtowing like he was pounding garlic:

"It's absolutely true, I don't dare to hide anything..."

Everyone here stopped paying attention to him and ordered him to be detained. Several people looked at the enlarged topographic map of the island and began to discuss tactics.

——According to the confessions of the captives, the local name is Miaojiazhuang, but it is an island. Because it is close to the main route of ships on the sea, several nearby villages are mainly engaged in such capital-free businesses, such as fishing.

Instead, it became a side job.

They jointly supported a man named Yang as their leader, who was nicknamed Yang Da by the people in the world. Because they were all from the same village and fellow countrymen, they were united and could gather hundreds of strong men and more than a dozen ironwoods with just one order.

The Clippers can be regarded as a powerful force in the South China Sea. No matter whether they are officers and soldiers of the imperial court or heroes from outside, no one dares to underestimate them.

"Based on our atlas, this place is close to Zhenhai, Guangdong. It should be the location of the Chuanshan Islands and the Shatang Village area of ​​Shangchuan Island. Among the pirates in the late Ming Dynasty, the most famous one with the surname Yang seemed to be Yang Liu and Yang Qi?

But those two people should have taken refuge with Zheng Zhilong a long time ago. I don’t know if Boss Yang has anything to do with them."

Holding a detailed atlas of Guangdong's coastal areas, Pang Yu said that this time the troops were sent out in a hurry, so instead of letting Bei Lai lead a reconnaissance team to explore the terrain like before, he directly led a large force to the door.

Fortunately, they have a complete set of geographical atlases at hand. As long as they figure out where this place belongs in modern times, they can have a general understanding of the local topography.

"It doesn't matter whether they are related or not. Anyway, their endings are the same."

Northern Latitude still held up the telescope and only responded lightly. This operation no longer belonged to the category of secret operations. They had brought enough guns and manpower to attack with great fanfare. However, Northern Latitude still asked to join in and take the lead—

—He always felt that he was responsible for Xu Lei's serious injury.

Several small fishing boats that got up early came towards this direction. They seemed to have seen them, and they immediately turned around and returned in a panic. At the same time, an alarm horn sounded from the fishing village. But the fleet here remained calm, and the five large sailing boats

They lined up in a row, with the sides of the ships facing the coast - this was obviously a shelling posture.

"Ship No. 2 is ready and can be launched at any time!"

Zhang Shenyue's voice came from the walkie-talkie, and then Wu Ji on the No. 3 ship, Lin Shenhe on the No. 4 ship, and Artillery Director Ma Qianshan on the No. 5 ship all came to the news: the artillery is ready.

, ready to fire.

As the commander-in-chief of the operation, the order to start the war should obviously be issued by the commander, but he handed the walkie-talkie to Beiwei. The latter nodded slightly to express his gratitude, and then simply issued the order on the phone:

"Fire!"

"...boom...boom...boom..."

The tranquility of the early morning was instantly broken. Waves of smoke rose from the sea, and then the fishing village on the shore began to burn violently. The village was suddenly filled with people, and countless people ran out of each house, panicking and chaos everywhere.

Running around, like an ant nest that has been splashed by floods.

"They are all young and middle-aged people. There are almost no old people and children, and there are also very few women... Dahuangya explained well, this is indeed a pirate stronghold."

What Pang Yu saw in the telescope made him feel relieved. Although he knew intellectually that there could be no innocent people in a village where all the people were robbers, if they were only killing the old, weak, sick and disabled, it would be psychologically unreasonable.

After all, there is a layer of burden.

"This is their main village. The elderly and children... and all the population considered useless have been driven to the barren mountainous areas inland. This group of pirates are cruel to others and unkind to their own people."

Beiwei had already learned the inside story of this place from the captive Da Huangya. He was not a compassionate person to begin with, and of course he would not have any compassion at this time. Jie Xi, who was next to him, obviously had the same idea:

"Pirate villages like this have been doing this for generations, and I don't know how many seafarers have died at their hands... Let's do a good deed and burn down this dark den!"

——There are five cannons in the five ships, and each ship only carries one. But every time a cannonball hits the ground, a large fire will be sprayed out in all directions, burning whatever it touches. If anyone is splashed by the flames,

Even if it is rolled on the ground or splashed with water, it is difficult to extinguish it. The whole person quickly becomes a moving source of fire, burning wherever it goes - all the fire bombs fired by these five large-caliber mortars are incendiary bombs!

This time, in accordance with Professor Li's request to "ensure nothing goes wrong," Qiongzhou Prefecture alone dispatched two companies of more than 300 people. After hearing the news that Xu Lei was seriously injured, Tang Jian, Wang Haiyang and others from Lingao also

They were furious. When they learned that they were planning to send troops to retaliate, they immediately sent all their artillery talents. Including artillerymen and sailors, there were more than 600 troops, almost a battalion.

In addition to the original two Fu boats, Wang Ruobin also deployed a newly purchased large Fu boat, as well as two self-made sailboats that were just built at the Hongpai Port Shipyard under his personal supervision. These five boats are not professional warships.

It cannot carry too big a gun. However, it is not a big problem to build a temporary gun emplacement on the middle deck and install a mortar with smaller recoil. Anyway, their technical advantage is mainly reflected in the shells. As long as they can throw the shells to the enemy

It doesn't matter if you use a spring sling on your head.

These mortars can only be used to bombard fixed targets and cannot fight naval battles. The opponent seemed to realize this, and soon drove out several black boats from the small port of the fishing village, as well as a large number of small fire boats piled with firewood, trying to set fire to them.

them.

In response, Jie Xi and others just laughed:

"It's this trick again... these idiots don't look at the direction of the wind?"

——Since we dare to use incendiary bombs to deal with the enemy, we must have made the most adequate fire prevention preparations. Fire attack is still the most sharp naval warfare method in this period, but there is a minimum requirement for its use——

There has to be a favorable wind.

The artillery fleet chose to form upwind from the beginning, so these fireships could not take advantage of the wind. Although they still tried their best to rush forward under the power of human oars, it was difficult to get close - after entering the Qionghai rifle range, those fireships were unable to take advantage of the wind.

The shirtless sailor immediately became a target for the musketeers. If you want to continue paddling in this hail-like hail of bullets, you must have great courage and excellent luck.

A very few very brave and lucky people pushed the boat close to the gunboats, but then they found that no matter how hard they tried, the boat could no longer get any closer to the big gunboats - many long bamboo poles had been propped up around the gunboats, densely packed like hedgehogs.

The bamboo poles are branched out to form a protective layer. Under normal circumstances, it is not difficult to cut these bamboo poles with an axe, but on a battlefield where you will encounter random gunfire whenever you show your head, it becomes impossible.

Task.

The fire ship tactic of the Ming Dynasty has left a great reputation in the history books, and time travelers will certainly not be unprepared for this. The fire ship tactic is simple and practical, but its shortcoming is that as long as you are prepared in advance, you can use the same simple and practical method.

It can also be eliminated. Several ships going out this time have installed a circle of poles at the waterline of the ship's side before departure. When sailing, the poles are retracted along the hull and will not affect the speed of the ship. They are like umbrella frames during combat.

It also opens up to all sides, enough to block any floating objects from approaching.

"Shoot! Shoot! Don't let them get close!"

The infantry officers attached to each ship ran back and forth and shouted loudly. A group of Xu Lei's peers, including Hu Kai, Chen Tian, ​​Wei Aiwen and Ye Mengyan, all participated in this battle. After two years of hard training, these former students

Now they have gradually grown into the backbone of the army. They call themselves the "Young Strong Faction" and have always been very united. When they heard the news that Xu Lei was injured, not to mention the people in Qiongzhou, and the group of brothers in Lingao also

Everybody jump up.

The lowest position among these boys is now a platoon leader. Originally, Tang Jian did not want to use them for fear of disrupting the organization. But they all said that even if they did not lead troops and rushed to the front line as ordinary soldiers, they would still fight. Even Wang Haiyang

They couldn't be convinced, and finally had to agree that they would send out all their troops to fight this battle.

However, the gang of pirates were quite tenacious. Even in such a harsh situation where they encountered a surprise attack, failed to counterattack, and could not even reach the small boat, they remained unyielding. Many people jumped directly into the sea and dived towards the gunboat with knives in their mouths.

.In this regard, the gunboat's tactic is to shoot at any position with ripples, and red water will rise from time to time on the sea...
Chapter completed!