Chapter 337: Fall! Fight Outside the City! ?

Jilong Island.

Northeast, thirty miles away.

The five warships, like ghosts, lowered their sails and floated on the sea, slowly approaching Jilong Island with the tide of the sea.

On every warship, red lanterns light up from time to time.

Extraordinarily penetrating.

This is the contact method for night sea voyages.

The lantern is always on and the risk of exposure is extremely high.

Warships also need to communicate with each other to avoid getting lost unknowingly or colliding.

Yu Jing stood at the bow of the ship, staring in the distance, in a vaguely brightly lit direction.

In the dark night, the bright eyes showed a trace of nervousness.

Sailing on the sea, or launching a sneak attack at night.

Don't tell me it's his first time.

Among the entire Daming navy, he was the first to try something new.

Fortunately, the servants around Shen Zhi had traveled to the sea before and had rich experience in night sea navigation.

And he knows water fighting.

Combine each other.

It’s almost like a naval battle, right?

Anyway, he felt pretty much the same.

In the past few days, he had memorized the essentials of sea navigation described by Shen Zhi and his servants, as well as the climate of the sea areas around Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

If you don't die in this battle.

When I get back, I'll sort it out.

Your Highness will definitely build an army of the sea.

By then, these things will be valuable experience and knowledge that can be passed on to every soldier on the warship.

According to the tradition of the Ming Navy.

These essentials and knowledge mastered by generals will never be passed on to ordinary soldiers.

If ordinary soldiers want to learn, they have to explore for themselves.

Anyway, the Yu family, Liao family and other navy generals used to do this.

But he didn't want to.

Holding on to these experiences is not conducive to his ideal of an army of the sea.

He also thought that in a few years, when the prince went north to conquer the Yuan Dynasty and the King of Yan led the elite back to the court to help in the war, he could use his naval warships to send the King of Yan back to Jinling!

navy.

It is the abbreviation of the Army of the Sea,

After fighting this battle, after returning home, he discussed with His Highness whether their navy could be called a navy in the future.

This is mainly to differentiate from the imperial navy.

At the same time, he also wanted to completely draw a clear line between the Navy and the Navy.

The navy, as its name suggests, will be based on the sea in the future.

He chose another name because he was afraid that their sea army would one day turn into a navy. The moment he renamed it, he would set a rule and imprint a brand on this army. .

People like the imperial navy who only wander around rivers, lakes and offshore bays are shameful to their navy!

The tradition of discrimination is imprinted in our bones.

In the future, the descendants of His Highness, even if they are not successful, will still have to consider the feelings of the navy officers.

Don't dare to take this beast that should be swimming in the sea lightly.

Trapped in rivers, seas and lakes.

It smells a bit like plotting against His Highness.

With His Highness's wisdom, he can definitely see it.

Therefore, we must fight a good victory this time.

Destroying Chen Zuyi's Jilong Island stronghold in one fell swoop would be a hearty victory. Even if His Highness sees through it, he might agree to it.

"Yu Qianhu, there is light ahead." Shen Zhi's voice brought Yu Jing back to reality.

Yu Jing focused his attention and saw a regular green light flashing in front of him.

This was the agreed signal when sending the scouts away.

Immediately, he turned around and ordered: "Reply immediately!"

The navy officers on the mast immediately lit the green lanterns they had prepared and sent a signal.

After a while, the scout boat guided the direction according to the signal and quickly approached the flagship. The scout boarded the flagship and reported excitedly: "Qianhu, pirate warships are almost out in force. There are no warships on Jilong Island, but there are about five hundred pirates defending... …”

After Yu Jing heard this, he thought about it silently.

Five hundred pirates is not a lot.

His five warships also have almost enough troops to fight.

As long as the warship rushes into Jilong Island, uses the catapult on the ship to shoot out the fireball, ignites the buildings on Jilong Island, causing chaos, and then sends the elite to land and kill...

After a while, Yu Jing came up with a plan and immediately ordered: "I will send you ten brothers with the best water skills. Take the brothers back to Jilong Island and deal with the pirates in the watchtower first..."

It would be best if the warship quietly entered Jilong Island while the pirates were sleeping, and then launched a surprise attack.

In this case, we must solve it in advance and build the watchtower sentry on the reef at the entrance of Jilong Island.

…

After visually scouting the boat, it left carrying ten brothers with excellent water skills.

Yu Jing turned around and ordered: "Hang the pirate flag we prepared!"

The Chen Zi Banner, Liang Zi Banner, and Lu Zi Flag immediately replaced the Ming Dynasty Dragon Flag and slowly rose.

…

It's approaching midnight.

Jilong Island fell into silence.

Only occasionally would a pirate get very drunk and come out of the tavern opened by the Japanese pirates, hugging a docile Japanese woman and shouting and drinking.

With drunken eyes, he watched five warships with flags of different families sailing in. He didn't notice anything unusual, and he laughed and shouted: "The warship delivering the trophies has returned! You can make a fortune again, but I'm afraid you will be very tired, haha …”

In the quiet bay.

The pirate's dirty words reached Yu Jing's ears very clearly.

A smile appeared on Yu Jing's lips.

Looking at the five catapults, they were already ready. He sneered and waved: "Light up and shoot!"

The soldiers preparing to go next to them instantly lit torches and then ignited the flammable materials in the catapult net bag.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh...

Bang bang bang...

The fireball flew and hit the densest rows of wooden houses on the coast. Flames flew and flames suddenly burst into flames.

"Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack!"

…

Screams of terror echoed throughout the bay.

…

The next day.

Smoke rises.

Almost all the buildings in Jilong Island were burned to the ground.

A group of prisoners squatted by the improvised embankment.

The navy officers and soldiers formed a circle and prepared for guarding.

Yu Jing, Shen Zhi and others came from a distance, with excitement on their faces.

Yu Jing's cheerful voice could be heard from far away, "No wonder these people would rather leave their homes and become pirates than even their ancestors. They are really rich. They have goods worth two hundred thousand taels. It's up to us to save them." Those who came down were even more burned by the fire! Of these 200,000 taels, His Highness must spend 100,000 taels to build the navy!"

The prisoner listened to the high pitched sounds coming closer and closer.

The contents made the prisoners' faces full of pain.

It's all their money!

Now the money is gone.

People also became prisoners.

Yu Jing came over and looked at the prisoners. They were so dark that they couldn't help but frown slightly. There were probably more than 2,000 prisoners but less than 3,000.

Among them, there are about 300 young and strong people.

The rest were all killed by them in the battle last night.

There aren't many old people either.

Old man, in an environment like pirates where the weak and the strong prey on the strong, the chance of survival is too small.

On the contrary, it is mostly women and children.

Among them, there are more than 700 Japanese women who are engaged in the leather and meat business.

Guaiguai, the permanent population of Jilong Island is probably not more than 3,000, but the number of Japanese women who are engaged in the leather and meat business is only about 700.

He has a lot of experience.

He is a little worried now.

With so many people, we definitely can’t take them away.

According to the maximum authority given to him by His Highness, he should kill them all, but he was a little reluctant to do so.

It’s not that you can’t be cruel.

I just can’t bear it.

Population is also very important to His Highness.

More than 2,000 people will be settled on Jilong Island in the future. They will all cultivate land, produce food, and pay land taxes. They will be able to feed two warships and soldiers.

If we select those young and ingenious women to engage in weaving, we can make even more money!

In his eyes, these prisoners are not human beings!

It's money!

It’s a naval warship!

Shen Zhi saw Yu Jing's eyes shining and felt a little scared. This Yu Qianhu was now obsessed with money.

Whatever you look at, you must first silently calculate the value.

Calculate how much it will help him build a navy.

It was obvious that in Yu Qianhu's eyes, each of the captives had turned into ingots of money and naval warships.

However, His Highness's navy is strong.

His sea trade is also strong.

He should help find a way.

Shen Zhi looked around without noticing anything, and his eyes were very bright.

The captives secretly spied on the two of them, only to feel creepy.

At a certain moment, a smile appeared on the corner of Shen's lips, pointing to the mountains and forests on both sides, "Yu Qianhu, I have a way, maybe we can take these people away."

"Say it quickly!" Yu Jing turned around.

Mother!

When their eyes met, Yu Jing was startled by Shen Zhi's shining eyes, 'Old Shen and the rest of the businessmen are really not good people! You have to be careful when dating in the future. This guy only cares about money. If you are not careful, if you are sold by this guy, you may have to happily count the money for this guy. ’

Shen Zhi didn't know Yu Jing's active inner thoughts.

Pointing to the trees in the mountains on both sides, he said with a smile: "Choose some prisoners to cut down trees, tie them up with tree trunks, and make a simple raft. We will drag them with warships and let these prisoners sit on the raft..."

Yu Jing immediately beamed.

Isolated from the warship.

We are not afraid of the prisoners rebelling.

As for the prisoners cutting the leash and escaping?

Don't be afraid of that.

On the vast sea, the prisoners really dare to do this.

He directly used the catapult from the warship to smash the raft into pieces and let the prisoners feed the fish.

After making a plan.

The two half-hearted guys immediately started to implement it.

…

at the same time.

Another day of offensive in Min County begins.

After a whole day of attacking, Zhu Di drove all the captured young gangsters and troublemaking gentry and young men to the top of the city.

This group of young men, who had only received training for a few days, were directly driven to the front line by Zhu Di after landing on the city, where they guarded the ladder in groups of five.

The damage skyrocketed.

In one day, a total of more than 800 young people were invested.

The battle lasted until dark, with only more than two hundred people left.

Plus the young and strong people who invested on the first day.

The total investment in two days was more than 1,200.

In the end, only more than 300 people survived.

Because these young men are too weak to fight, the city defenses were broken through by Japanese pirates several times today, which was even more dangerous than the first day.

Several Japanese pirate leaders from Nancheng even came to the city in person to boost morale, and Nancheng almost fell.

It's approaching evening.

The Japanese pirates were unwilling to retreat, and the battle finally ended in one day.

The tense nerves of both the enemy and ourselves finally relaxed.

After treating the injured Baoze, the survivors didn't even bother to clean up the corpses on the city wall, and sat on the ground leaning against the wall.

Li Yu, wearing armor and carrying a sword on his waist, came from the east city to the west city.

Looking at the city head stained red with blood, his face turned slightly pale.

The brother-in-law continued to draw troops from the west gate to support the south gate and the north gate, causing the west gate's military strength to become very thin.

What Ximen has to face is the Chen family's elite who spend a lot of money and are armed to the teeth.

This group is an elite group composed of overseas Han Chinese and Malacca natives.

The combat effectiveness is actually not bad at all.

Especially the indigenous ones.

It is said that once you start fighting, you are not afraid of death.

Why are barbarians called barbarians?

It's just this fierceness about him.

It is said that Major General Chen also participated in today's siege.

He mingled with the armored soldiers, rushed to the top of the city, and even fought with his brother-in-law.

My brother-in-law was forced to do it himself.

In the end, under the desperate protection of more than twenty armored soldiers who followed him to the city, Major General Chen fled down the city in embarrassment.

Li Yu came all the way to the gate of the tower.

Just listen to the discussion inside.

"King Yan is so fierce!"

"No, if you strike with a knife, the opponent's knife will break immediately, not to mention that the whole body of iron armor will be broken in an instant!"

"We saw with our own eyes that King Yan directly broke the armor of an armored soldier from his right shoulder blade and split it into two pieces at an angle!"

…

Li Yu stood at the door, watching a group of generals and generals discussing together, and couldn't help but chuckle to himself.

After two days of fighting, these people no longer dared to be cautious.

Walk in silently.

Looking for her husband Xu Huizu.

Xu Huizu was sitting with Zhang Wu, closing his eyes to rest, when he noticed a familiar scent approaching him, a smile appeared on his lips, he opened his eyes, raised his head, and asked with a low smile: "You're here?"

Li Yu smiled and nodded.

He sat down next to him and asked softly: "Where is my brother-in-law?"

Xu Huizu looked around, Zhang Wu closed his eyes and rested, and the others gathered the general manager and the general banner together, and the discussion was so lively that they didn't notice them at all.

Quietly, he reached out to hold Li Yu's hand and whispered: "Old Jiang and Xiao Jiang said that the gentry in Fujian County had something to do with their brother-in-law. After the Japanese pirates retreated, my brother-in-law hurried back to the county."

Li Yu looked at everyone from the corner of his eye and tried to free his hands, but failed in the end. He felt sweet in his heart but quietly glared.

I asked out of curiosity: "What do these gentlemen do with their brother-in-law?"

"It's no accident. I must be grateful to my brother-in-law. Do you still remember what he said when he insisted on coming to Min County to lead the soldiers and civilians of Min County to defend Min County when he was in Fuzhou..."

…

Zhang Wu kept his eyes closed, but the sound of the young couple biting their ears kept coming into his ears, and the smile on his lips grew stronger.

I couldn’t help but feel a little homesick.

After fighting this battle, he returned to Jian'an.

Even if His Highness laughs at him, he still has the shamelessness to spend a day with His Highness...

No!

One day is not enough!

Take three days off and go home to see Mingxia.

…

Ta-ta-ta...

The sound of steady and powerful footsteps came in, and everyone's discussions and thoughts disappeared instantly, and they all looked towards the door...

Zhu Di walked in with a smile...

"Greetings to Your Highness!"

A group of commanders and general flags stood up together, staring at Zhu Di with burning eyes and saluting.

Jiang Jinzhong, who followed Zhu Di in, was startled, and then he couldn't help but laugh. These coastal defense generals were already impressed by His Highness!

Zhu Di smiled and nodded, "I'll tell you some good news. The gentry of Min County proposed to me that each family should organize about five hundred young people who are good at sticks to help us defend the city tomorrow."

Hearing this, everyone was surprised and laughed easily.

These wealthy families always raise a few martial arts masters who know how to use fists, kicks, and sticks, and then select some young and strong servants to let the martial arts masters teach them two moves.

These people are more powerful than the green-skinned scoundrels who have been driven to the city in the past two days.

It will most likely not be difficult to defend the city tomorrow.

…

Just when Zhu Di was adjusting the troops at the city gate.

outside the city.

The atmosphere in the pirate camp is very solemn.

The sound of enduring pain sounded from time to time.

Around the campfire.

Chen Shou had a white cloth wrapped around his head and listened to the report and summary of his confidants.

"Because we changed our tactics today and no longer concentrated a large number of soldiers near the ladder, the number of battle deaths and injuries has been significantly reduced compared to yesterday..."

"In two days, a total of three thousand people were killed in the battle, and a hundred were seriously injured and slightly injured... almost everyone was slightly injured."

…

Chen Shou pursed his lips tightly, silently clenching his fists as he listened to the report.

In fact, if it were not for the huge wealth of Min County to support them, with this battle loss ratio, they would have lost their fighting power.

Today, we were almost, just almost, able to conquer Min County.

The south gate and the north gate were in danger one after another, and the east gate was also restrained by his troops.

The fourth prince of the Ming Dynasty could only mobilize troops from Ximen.

Ximen's army was empty.

He led the armored soldiers to charge to the top of the city.

According to their experience in siegeing the city of Malacca, as long as the defense is strong, the iron warriors holding a hammer in hand, and the arrogant armored soldiers rush to the top of the city, the city will be unbreakable!

But the fourth prince is too cruel.

Almost all of the twenty or so armored soldiers left died at the hands of the fourth prince of the Ming Dynasty.

If it weren't for the loyalty and bravery of the armored warrior.

He almost died in battle at the head of the city.

Even so, the fourth prince of the Ming Dynasty took a piece of his scalp!

The dull pain on the top of his head reminded him of the fear of approaching death.

He didn't want to fight.

Want to retreat!

The Chen family should never have come to provoke Ming Dynasty or the fourth prince of Ming Dynasty!

The Central Plains Celestial Empire is not something they, the foreign Han people, can mess with!

Not only did he have the intention of quitting.

Everyone else present was pretty much the same.

"Major General, Min County is too difficult to defeat. Let's avoid Min County and plunder the countryside outside the city, right?" Kanda Takanobu suddenly looked at Chen Shou.

The others instantly became more energetic and looked at Chen Shou.

Ikeda Hengxing echoed: "Maybe if we attack everywhere, we can force the fourth prince of Ming Dynasty to go out of the city to fight with us!"

"Major General, we can't attack the city anymore!"

"Major General, we should change our mindset."

...

Chen Shou looked around at everyone. These people were worried about suffering heavy losses and not getting any benefits.

So he proposed to plunder the countryside.

Force the Fourth Prince of Ming to leave the city.

Although it was just their excuse.

It may not be unsuccessful.

In fact, he had already written to his father, proposing to withdraw troops, but now...

Chen Shou forced himself to think about it, and said, "I have an idea. Are you willing to listen to it? We threaten to plunder the countryside of Min County and force the Fourth Prince of Ming to leave the city and fight with us in the field. If he dares not leave the city, we will go to plunder. If he agrees..."

As he spoke, Chen Shou sneered.

If the Fourth Prince of Ming agrees.

They still have more than 4,000 people left.

With the Fourth Prince of Ming's troops, winning the battle in the field will definitely lead to defeat!

Others frowned and thought.

Will the Fourth Prince of Ming agree?

Anyway, if it were them, they would never agree.

Seeing everyone's hesitation, Chen Shou smiled and said, "Everyone, let's just give it a try. Maybe the Fourth Prince of Ming will agree for the sake of face?"

"The farmers outside the city are also the people of the Ming Dynasty. If he doesn't care about these people, it will affect his reputation..."

The Han people attach great importance to reputation.

What's more, Zhu Silang is the prince of the Ming Dynasty.

He must care more about his reputation.

"Let's do it!"

"It doesn't matter if we give it a try. If the Fourth Prince of Ming agrees for the sake of reputation, we can defeat him in the field battle and then go to Min County to plunder!"

...

A group of pirates and Japanese pirate leaders immediately agreed with a smile.

It's just a try.

If the Fourth Prince of Ming agrees for the sake of reputation.

We will definitely win and we can go to Min County to plunder!

Soon, Zhu Di received a letter of challenge shot from outside the city with a threatening meaning.

Pirate leaders such as Chen Shou waited nervously.

They were not afraid that Zhu Di would agree.

They were afraid that Zhu Di would not agree!

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