The night in the South China Sea is mysterious and silent, with a waning moon hanging in the sky and waves of waves lapping at the quiet beach. Everything is so familiar, yet a little strange.

In Daming, the sea breeze has turned cooler at this time of the year. The fattest season for flying crabs is coming soon. Just pick up a crab from the sea and it will be full of yellow fat when steamed.

But in the South China Sea, all seafood is still the same. Li Xiu looked at the lights on the coast in the distance and threw the huge crab into the sea. The crab he caught was the size of a basin, and when he cooked it, he ate it in his mouth.

It is far less flavorful than the crabs in Bohai Bay.

Since crabs are not delicious, I wonder what the Temasek in front of me tastes like.

After sailing in the vast South China Sea for half a year, we finally arrived at this legendary place. We can launch an attack tomorrow morning and capture this city that we have been sailing for eight months. All the soldiers are very excited, because they don’t have to stay on the ship tomorrow and can go

Spend the night on land.

After eight months on the ship, we could only go ashore to take a look when we were docked for supplies. The boring life almost drove everyone crazy. Everyone wanted to go ashore to see what the miserable Temasek looked like. Is it worth crossing the ocean to capture it?

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Li Xiu did not receive the flying pigeon message from Li Xiao, so he naturally did not know what happened in Yinchuan. Everyone in the fleet was very optimistic, and sending tens of thousands of troops to capture a small city was simply killing a chicken with a knife.

Especially those soldiers who had participated in the Battle of Java were even more dismissive of Temasek. Temasek was just another Java island.

No matter how fierce the natives are, they are no match for guns and cannons.

Li Xiu and the soldiers had the same idea. They would use cannons to bombard them tomorrow. Then they would send people to run around the beach and plant a flag to count as occupation. The rest was to capture the locals to work and build a huge

According to the previous division of labor, these are the affairs of the Japanese people. The Marine Corps is just the supervisor who supervises the work of the Japanese people.

The sky was twilight, and the fleet approached the Temasek coast. Through the telescope, you can see the light yellow beach and tall coconut trees. A few dozen meters away from the Hainan line, there is lush green vegetation. The entire Temasek coast is wrapped in plants.

There are only a few small fishing villages scattered along the coast.

The swarthy natives, wearing burlap clothes, were packing up fishing nets on the coast, preparing to go into the sea to fish.

At this time in the Bohai Bay, people have to wear long-sleeved clothes at the beach. But in Temasek, people on the boat want to strip naked.

The sun came out, and the fleet cut through the waves, crushing the waves. The white waves smashed into pieces on the bow of the ship and turned into dots of golden light. When the sun came out completely, the fleet had arrived off Temasek.

"Order the Japanese to go ashore and seize the beach." Li Xiu noticed that after entering the strait, a stone pier appeared on the Temasek coast. There were several five-masted ships docked on the pier, which looked like warships.

The best way is to order to run into these warships, sink them and then land ashore. But Li Xiu felt that these warships were not bad. Before there were Zhenyuan and Zhiyuan class ironclads, Li Xiu always drove five-masted ships to fight.

He knew that although this kind of warship was still an old-fashioned warship, its speed and firepower were not completely outdated. If a few could be captured, they would be good as cargo ships in the future. After all, the power of the five-masted ship was the sail, not the black coal.

.The Ming Navy needs every ship!

The signal soldiers immediately informed the Japanese warships through semaphores. After eight months of sailing at sea, the signals between the fleets could be accurately transmitted.

"Hey!" Tokugawa Seimei muttered when he saw the signal in the distance. Although Japanese people also grew up by the sea, eight months of sailing life almost drove him crazy. Now that he can go ashore, it's so damned

alright.

"My Lord, I will lead my men to attack the coast." Ezuo Shinyuemon took the initiative to ask for a fight. He wanted to go ashore so much.

"Well! Ezuo-kun, you have to be careful." Tokugawa Seimei was still relieved about Ezuo Shinyuemon.

The boats were put down on the ship, and dozens of boats carrying Japanese soldiers rowed towards the coast.

Ezuo Shinyuemon had a samurai sword on his waist and a flintlock gun in his hand. He looked at the quiet Temasek coast like an eagle with his eyes. The natives did not seem to be panicked when they saw the huge fleet.

. Just pointed with their fingers, and then sat on the beach to watch the excitement. It seemed that the upcoming war had nothing to do with them.

There was no reaction from the five-masted ships docked at the pier. Ezasa Shinyuemon, who was holding a telescope, even saw the crew stretching and yawning from the ship.

Everything shows that this is a simple task. As long as they land on the coast, the Japanese can do whatever they want.

Just as the small boat was getting closer to the coast, suddenly several bright lights flashed on the five-masted ship. Before Ezuo Shinyuemon could react, the seawater more than 20 meters away from the bow of the ship suddenly burst into flames.

The huge explosion raised a column of water more than ten meters high. The boat shook violently like leaves falling in the wind.

"Shells!" Ezuo Shinyuemon roared. He knew that this was the first launch. As the distance shortened, the shells would hit more accurately. It was useless for him to yell, and the boat could only rush forward.

Whether he can wash ashore depends entirely on luck. Ezasa Shinyuemon does not think that the bamboo armor on his body can withstand the bombardment.

"Boom!" Less than a minute after the first round of shelling, a shell accurately hit a small boat.

The explosion of the cannonball directly tore the small boat into pieces. Dozens of Japanese soldiers were blown up into the air screaming, and the living people fell into the sea together with the burning wood with their claws open.

"Speed ​​up and row faster." There are still seven or eight hundred meters away from the coast, which is a terrible seven or eight hundred meters. An experienced gunner can basically hit wherever he wants at this distance.

The sailors paddled the wooden oars vigorously, and the speed of the boat suddenly increased. The triangular bow of the boat crashed into countless waves and slid forward in a straight line along the water.

"Boom! Boom!" The shells continued to explode in the surrounding area, and the waves caused by it fell down like a heavy rain. Ezasa Shinyuemon prayed in the heavy rain not to let the cannonballs from the battleships fall on his head.

"Fuck! Kill those five-masted ships." The small boats were blown to pieces one after another. Li Xiu, who had been thinking about capturing those five-masted ships that morning, finally ordered those five-masted ships to be sunk.

Zhenyuan and Dingyuan took the lead. The two ironclad ships rushed towards the coast at full speed. The twin main guns fired quickly, and the observers nervously measured the distance.

"Let go!" The ship's hull shook, and the huge cannonball flew out with a whistling sound.

Orange flames erupted from the five-masted ship that was still weighing anchor on the dock, and the sailors and pieces of the warship were blown up. Then thick smoke rose into the sky, and the sailors jumped into the sea to escape.

The first hit hit, which made Li Xiu let out a sigh of relief. When it came to naval guns, the naval guns on the five-masted ship were no match for him.

The main guns were reloaded quickly, and only three rounds of shelling were fired. The five-masted ships on the dock all emitted thick smoke, and even the fastest warships could not complete the action of weighing anchor.

Of the dozens of small boats that set out, only ten were lost at this time. However, the remaining small boats were enough to send hundreds of people to the coast. There should be no problem for these people to occupy the pier.

No matter which country those warships are from, Li Xiu's experience is that Europeans generally do not station a large number of troops in the jungle. The most likely scenario is that all troops are stationed on warships. As long as those warships are killed, they are considered destroyed.

The biggest threat to the landing force.

Sure enough, Ezuo Shinyuemon encountered no resistance. Only a few symbolic shots were fired on the dock, and the Europeans with yellow hair and red hair began to flee into the jungle.

When the boat shook violently and ran aground on the beach, Ezasa Shinyuemon felt ecstatic. He was finally about to set foot on land!

"Get off the boat, get off the boat!" Ezuo Shinyuemon called out, and the Japanese soldiers wearing bamboo armor got into the boat one after another. They waded through waist-deep water and struggled to the shore. In fact, the water was not deep, but the Japanese soldiers were too

Being short makes it look like the water is very deep.

As soon as they landed, a group of Europeans rushed out of the woods. These guys held long guns in their hands and shot at the Japanese who came ashore.

Ezuo Shinyuemon, who was standing in the sea, raised his gun and wanted to fight back, but he only heard a "click" in his ears.

"Damn it!" The flintlock gun was filled with water, and the flint could not ignite the gunpowder.

The Japanese guns almost never fired, but the guns in the hands of the Europeans kept firing. People kept getting shot, and the bamboo armor was a joke in front of the bullets. The blood dyed the sea water red, and more than a hundred warriors fell into the sea water and were killed.

Rush to the beach.

"Haga!" Ezuo Shinyuemon drew out his katana and rushed forward crazily. This was his last weapon!

"Bang!" A bullet hit Ezuo Shinyuemon's chest. A hole was drilled in the bamboo armor on the front of his chest, and a hole as big as the mouth of a bowl was broken in the bamboo armor on the back. His body was carried flying by the bullet.

After falling into the sea water, he struggled for a few times and then stopped moving.

Their guns actually fired continuously.

This was Ezuo Shinyuemon's last thought!

Hundreds of Europeans squatted on the edge of the jungle and fired wildly. The Japanese warriors holding samurai swords high were shot and killed as if they were shooting at targets. The beach that was calm just now was filled with the smell of blood in a short time.

"Boom" a grenade exploded in the crowd, directly sending the Japanese warrior who rushed to the front flying backwards.

In the blink of an eye, more than two hundred Japanese warriors were killed. Blood dyed the beach red, and the strong smell of blood spread everywhere. Seagulls screamed "ooh" and "ooh" and rushed up into the sky, never to fall again.

"What the hell!" Li Xiu was so angry that he hammered the side of the ship. Unexpectedly, the attack was not successful. The landing battle that he thought would be an easy victory ended up being annihilated by accident.

Although those who died in the battle were all Japanese, they were also under Li Xiu now, so this man was in great disgrace.

"Lean over and blast with cannons." Li Xiu roared angrily.

"Second Master! There's something wrong with this. Look, those people retreated into the forest again. We don't even have a target, so how can we bombard them." Chen Laohu pointed at the Europeans who retreated into the jungle.

Li Xiu raised his telescope and took a look. Sure enough, those Europeans had gone back into the jungle again.

If the target is lost, the effect of the bombardment will be greatly reduced. You can't waste precious artillery shells on the jungle! The fleet's arms supply depends on several ammunition supply ships. Once the ammunition is used up, it has to be transported back to Guangzhou. There are ships from Liaodong

Transport the ammunition!

It takes more than five months to travel by sailboat from Temasek to Guangzhou.

"Seize the pier!" Since you can't land on the beach, you can only seize the pier.

As long as the dock is occupied, large warships can dock. The landing efficiency is much higher than that of small boats!

This time, Li Xiu also paid attention to it. Two heavy ironclads, Zhiyuan and Laiyuan, were at the front, followed by Zhenyuan and Dingyuan. Behind them were a dozen five-masted ships. As long as those Europeans dared to come out,

.I greeted them fiercely with cannonballs, not believing that their guns could beat cannons.

After rushing to a place four miles away from the dock, Zhiyuan and Laiyuan did not dare to go any further. Getting too close would easily lead to stranding. Once these two ironclad ships ran aground, there really was no boat that could tow them away.

The five-masted ship on the dock was still burning, and the bodies of many sailors were floating on the sea. The billowing smoke obscured the entire dock. Li Xiu raised his telescope and could see nothing but smoke.

"Let the Japanese land." Li Xiu put down his telescope and gave the order.

Following Li Xiu's order, two Japanese square-headed boats came out. This kind of boat is actually a flat-bottomed boat, and it usually runs along the coastal areas. Because this kind of boat has a flat bottom, although it is not resistant to wind and waves, it is better than

It has a shallow draft and is perfect for landing.

Each square-head boat carried more than five hundred Japanese warriors. There were shooting holes on the slipway. You could lie down on the slipway and shoot towards the shore.

After losing the first battle, Tokugawa Seimei was also in a very gloomy mood. Ezuo Shinyuemon was an elite retainer of the Tokugawa family, but he did not expect to be defeated in the first battle. This time he was not so stupid. Two warships. One was theirs.

There were five hundred samurai from the Tokugawa family, and the other one was led by Kogoro Mori from the Mori family.

If someone wants to die, it can't always be someone from the Tokugawa family. The Maori family must also bleed.

The flat-bottomed boat slides towards the stone pier. Because it has a flat bottom, there is no risk of running aground.

As they approached the pier, the fireworks from the five-masted ship choked them and made them cough. The entire pier was shrouded in smoke, and it was impossible to see what was on the pier.

"Get ready to dock!"

"Get ready to dock!"

The voices of orders came one after another, and the sails were lowered. The warship was driven entirely by the sailors' oars!

The warship passed through the thick smoke and was about to dock at the dock.

"Boom!" A cannonball exploded at the bow of the ship, and countless shrapnel tore into pieces the bodies of more than a dozen Japanese warriors at the bow. The wooden deck was also shattered, and human body parts and broken wood fragments were flying all over the sky.
Chapter completed!