Chapter 379: Disguise

"Boom boom boom..."

The artillery continued to pour shells on the pirates' artillery positions. Read

The pirates on the position were terrified and could only lie on the ground, unable to fight back.

At this moment, another pirate shouted, "Lord Yamada, soldiers are leaving the city."

Yamada looked and saw many Yanzhou soldiers wearing scale armor and holding muskets coming out of the south gate and the north gate.

Then, these soldiers formed a tight horizontal team and approached them, with a tendency to surround them.

This scene made Yamada very happy.

These Yan Wang soldiers stayed in the city and they had no way to deal with it.

But they were not afraid of going out of the city to fight them head-on.

The Dasong army was defeated by them again and again in hand-to-hand combat.

"Looking for death!"

He immediately ordered the soldiers holding muskets in the team to line up.

Under his order, more than 2,000 musketmen formed five hollow square formations.

But the soldiers stood sparsely between each other.

This is their experience. When the matchlock gun is fired, the flame and smoke are very large, which can easily ignite the matchlock of the soldiers next door.

The pirates holding swords and knives stood in the middle of the square.

They will rush to the enemy for hand-to-hand combat when they find an opportunity.

"Kill them!"

"Come on!"

"..."

The pirates waved their swords and knives and shouted again.

On the city wall, Bai Shang saw everything, and the smile on his mouth became even stronger.

He admired King Yan more and more, and he explained the characteristics of the matchlock gun formation clearly.

Such a sparse formation is no match for the tight formation of the royal army.

What's more, these pirates have no protection on their bodies, just a thin layer of clothes.

Looking at the pirate artillery suppressed by the artillery on the top of the city, who could not fire at the royal soldiers, he smiled again.

...

Pingcheng, Guan County.

At this time, a fleet was moving slowly in the Haihe River.

The people on the river bank saw it, just looked at it and then busy themselves.

For them, these fleets have long been accustomed to it.

After all, merchants from all over the world come to the palace for the goods.

There are many merchant ships coming from the sea, and there are also forty merchant ships connected like this.

At this moment, Heishan stood at the bow.

The flag of Wufeng Island on the mast was taken down and replaced with an ordinary merchant flag.

Looking at a crew member beside him, he asked, "How long will it take to reach Pingcheng?"

This pirate was from Yanzhou and was very familiar with Yanzhou, so he became the guide of the fleet.

"Reply to the deputy island owner, this is the territory of Guan County, and it will take another day to arrive." The crew looked at the shore, looking for familiar geographical landmarks.

Heishan nodded solemnly, lowered his head and looked at the oars that kept sliding on the bottom of the boat. He secretly prayed in his heart that this sneak attack on the Pingcheng shipyard would be successful.

Although the Liang family gave them a lot of silver for this matter.

But even if it weren't for these silvers, the island owner Lu Zheng was willing to destroy the warships that the King of Yan was building.

For them, this ocean can belong to Japan, Portugal, or Britain, but it must not be allowed to be touched by Dasong, especially by a prince of Dasong.

If it weren't for the need for a window like the Liang family to buy and sell Dasong's goods.

They wouldn't even allow the Liang family's ships to go to sea.

In addition, this sneak attack was mixed with resentment.

Resentment that the King of Yan sold a large number of artillery to the Liang family.

Let the Liang family, this dog, dare to show their teeth to them, demanding to reduce tolls and raise the price of goods.

But it won't be long before the Liang family will pay a heavy price.

They will make the Liang family recognize their position on the ocean.

Looking around and appreciating the scenery for a while, he went down to the cabin, where the crew were gambling.

He played two games, and then he urged the crew to go back to sleep, to recuperate and wait for tomorrow's sneak attack.

...

Outside Jinghai City.

The soldiers of the royal palace kept squeezing the space of the pirates.

The generals who marched with the army faced the hollow square formation of the pirates.

This surprised them slightly. They didn't expect the pirates to know this tactic.

But even so, they were still confident of victory.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

When they were a hundred meters apart, the pirates shot at the soldiers of the palace.

Some soldiers in the front row were hit and fell to the ground.

The soldiers behind him immediately took a quick step forward to fill the position of the injured soldiers.

The team marched forward at a speed that did not slow down at all.

"Fire at a fifty-meter position!" A lieutenant in the queue shouted to his soldiers.

Although they could shoot the enemy at a hundred meters.

The King of Yan told them that at a distance of fifty meters, the flintlock rifle could better guarantee accuracy and cause greater casualties to the enemy.

The huge casualty rate could even defeat the enemy in one wave.

And at a distance of one hundred meters, exchanging fire would only consume each other, and the losses of the own side would be greater.

However, shooting at fifty meters requires casualties in the early stage, which requires soldiers and generals to remain calm in the face of the battle.

"God bless." A soldier in the team stared at the pirates and muttered something.

He was afraid, but he still mustered up the courage to move forward steadily.

Now they are facing the bullets of the pirates.

In the future, they will have to face the bows and arrows of Beidi and Xiliang.

He is prepared to be injured or die.

He cannot retreat in the war, otherwise his parents and siblings will suffer.

The generals in the army often tell them about the urgent situation.

Xiliang and Beidi form an alliance, and the war in Yanshan is rising again.

The foreign tribes are eyeing Yanzhou covetously, and they cannot let their guard down.

"Bang bang bang..."

After dozens of breaths, the pirates' muskets continued to emit huge flames and thick smoke.

The gunpowder smoke drifted with the wind, and the battlefield was like a layer of mist, with the smell of gunpowder permeating.

More than a hundred soldiers fell, and they walked another seven or eight meters and stopped.

At this time, they saw the pirates loading ammunition.

"Raise your guns!" The generals in the queue gave an order.

The soldiers immediately raised their flintlocks and aimed at the pirates.

The smile on Yamada Ichino's face disappeared at this time.

Just now they caused casualties to the Yanzhou soldiers.

Now it's their turn to bear casualties.

But he obviously didn't want to be a target for the Yanzhou soldiers.

In his opinion, these Yanzhou soldiers were quite stupid.

They didn't shoot at a distance of more than a hundred steps, and came so close.

Now they don't need to shoot at each other, just charge and fight.

"Kill!"

Raising his long sword, he shouted.

The pirates in the square immediately rushed out.

"Shoot!" At this time, the generals of the palace ordered.

"Bang, bang, bang..." The flintlock guns spewed out flames.

In an instant, the pirates fell like wheat being cut.

Under the attack from the north and south, nearly 600 people fell to the ground.

"Second row, fire!"

"Bang, bang, bang..." The gunshots rang again.

Another 500 to 600 pirates fell, followed by the third row shooting.

While shooting, more than a hundred pirates rushed to the front of the horizontal formation.

But at this time, the soldiers in the front horizontal formation suddenly scattered and ran back.

The pirates saw that they could rush into the soldiers immediately, and they screamed and pretended to be brave.

Seeing this change suddenly, they thought that the Yanzhou soldiers had retreated, and they still chased them.

But the soldiers of the first array disappeared from the gap of the array, and they were desperate.

There was a second array behind the first array.

At this moment, the soldiers in the array all pointed their muskets at them.

"Bang, bang, bang..." Another three rounds of continuous shooting, and the pirates all fell in a pool of blood.

Kill the pirates who rushed over, and the queue continued to move forward.

The soldiers of the original first array had already formed a team behind the second array and followed forward.

The huge casualties stunned Yamada Ichino and the pirates.

At this moment, an emotion that they rarely experienced spread in their hearts, that is, fear.

"Bang bang bang..." The attack of the Yanzhou soldiers continued.

The pirates were completely in chaos. They no longer obeyed the command, but just blindly rushed left and right. Most of the remaining pirates fled directly to the coast.

But when the Yanzhou soldiers marched, they formed a faint encirclement. At this time, they tightened their pockets and trapped the pirates.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

Surrounded by Yanzhou soldiers, Yamada Ichino raised a long knife and chopped the soldiers' flintlock rifles frantically, looking crazy.

A lieutenant noticed that this person seemed to be the leader of the pirates, so he didn't let the soldiers shoot.

Seeing Yamada Ichino constantly swinging his knife, trying to kill the soldier.

He drew out the sword at his waist with a slap, and knocked down Yamada Ichino's knife with an upward thrust.

Then he cut his calf with a knife.

"Capture him!" the lieutenant shouted.

The soldiers immediately pinned Yamada Ichino to the ground and beat him up.

On the city wall, Bai Shang witnessed the entire battle through a telescope.

This time, the 3,000 soldiers were divided into two arrays.

Each array had three rows of soldiers, and this array was actually a tactic.

The soldiers in the first array immediately changed to the second array when faced with hand-to-hand combat, allowing the original second array to continue shooting.

If there were more troops, there would even be a third and fourth array, so that they could fight and retreat at the same time, avoiding hand-to-hand combat with the enemy and giving full play to the advantages of flintlock rifles.

Shaking his head slightly, he smiled contemptuously at the pirates.

"I said you guys messed with the wrong people." Bai Shang got off the city wall and walked out of the city.