Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 381, encounter Japanese pirates
"That's how it is~ Thank you, Captain Li, for your guidance."

After Li Yuanshan taught it himself, Zhang Lun finally figured out how to use the sextant to calculate the position, so he also expressed his gratitude to Li Yuanshan.

"Thank you, they are all on the same boat."

Li Yuanshan smiled and said, this sentence is very popular in Tianjin now, and naturally it was first spread from Tianjin or the academy.

We go to sea, share life and death, share weal and woe, and live and work together for a long time, so the relationship between each other is very important. In this regard, Tianjin Maritime Academy attaches great importance to the cultivation of this aspect.

Therefore, people from Tianjin Maritime Academy are very united. If there is any problem, everyone will come to help, and the sentence is all on the same boat, which slowly spread in Tianjin and became a buzzword.

"Captain Li, how long will it take us to reach Ryukyu?"

Zhang Lun smiled, and then chatted with Li Yuanshan.

At first he didn't adapt to this kind of life, but after getting used to it, he gradually fell in love with the current life. For people like Li Yuanshan, he looked down on them from the beginning to slowly admire them.

But Zhang Lun knows that people like Li Yuanshan are from mud-legged backgrounds. They used to be illiterate, but now, these people not only know how to read, but also have a wealth of knowledge, especially those who graduated from Tianjin Maritime Academy. For these people, that is even more so.

It's hard to imagine how Liu Jin changed these people. He casually pulled out some people from the industries under his command. Everyone was literate, able to count, and knew a lot of astronomy and geography. Compared with those who only Those who know what they know are also much stronger scholars.

"It takes almost half a month to reach Ryukyu~"

Li Yuanshan took out the map, pointed to the location of Ryukyu and said.

"The location of Ryukyu is very important. If you go north, you can go to North Korea and Japan, and if you go south, you can go to Nanyang Luzon."

Zhang Lun looked at the map in front of him, thought carefully and said.

"That's right, Mr. Liu organized everyone to go to Ryukyu to establish an advance base, and it must be for future consideration."

Li Yuanshan said with a smile.

The two chatted, and the more they chatted, the more involved they became, and they slowly talked about the development of navigation in the future around Ryukyu.

Time passed day by day, and twelve days passed in the blink of an eye. With the continuous sailing to the south, it was obvious that the temperature was getting hotter and hotter.

On the "Huo Qu Bing", Dong Mu, the captain of the advance team, was holding a fan to keep fanning the wind. From time to time, he pulled the uniform of the advance team on his body. He always felt that the uniform was ugly and wanted to tear it off.

Thinking about the official mansion he wore before, and looking at the current team uniform, he always felt that he was at a disadvantage. He used to be the commander of the emperor's guard, an official of the fifth rank, and a general of the eight classics.

He was extremely reluctant to be sent by Emperor Hongzhi to control the advance team and become the captain of the advance team, but the emperor ordered him to come even if he didn't want to.

"It's still comfortable in the old days~"

Thinking about his life during this period of time, he couldn't help but miss the days when he was an official in the palace.

For more than a month, he also trained and studied at Tianjin Maritime Academy with everyone. He felt that the training of Tianjin Maritime Academy was much stricter than their previous training, and it was really more tiring.

The key is to learn, even if you can read and write, but you still need to learn this navigation knowledge and various military knowledge, which makes him, who is used to a good life, very uncomfortable.

But he had to learn, and he didn't dare to show any temper, because His Royal Highness and the British Duke Zhang Mao were in Tianjin at that time, and there were a few people from the same background as him making trouble.

Not only was he punished severely by the Tianjin Maritime Academy, but he was also directly dismissed from his official position by His Royal Highness the Prince, and became a commoner directly.

So although people like Dong Mu looked down on Li Yuanshan and his mud-legged people, they were more polite when they got along with each other, and they didn't dare to do anything radical.

Otherwise, it would be miserable to be turned into a commoner. The official positions of these people were earned by their ancestors.

"It has been twelve days, and now we have reached the East China Sea east of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In a few days, we will reach Ryukyu. I heard that Ryukyu is full of miasma and the barbarians are fierce. My life is really hard. I have to go to such a barbaric place. place."

Opening a map, Dong Mu looked at the Ryukyu Island on the map, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Clang~clang~"

"There are Japanese pirates~ There are Japanese pirates~"

At this moment, a bell rang from the boat, and the person in charge of watching shouted loudly, and the whole boat suddenly became chaotic, and the crew rushed out one by one, looking at the sea.

"what?"

"There are Japanese pirates?"

Dong Mu, who heard the voice, hurried out, picked up the binoculars and looked at the surrounding sea, trying to find traces of Japanese pirates.

Not only the 'Huo Qubing' was like this, but also bells rang on other ships, almost all of them found the Japanese pirates on the sea at the same time.

"It's really a Japanese pirate~"

Dong Mu looked at one direction of the sea with the binoculars, and saw that between the water and the sky, there were hundreds of ships rushing towards him and the others.

These ships are not big, they are basically small boats, only a few of them are bigger, but there are a lot of them, there are hundreds of them.

Every ship was full of Japanese pirates and pirates, holding weapons in their hands, yelling, and constantly rowing towards their side.

Through the binoculars, it can be clearly seen that these people are Japanese pirates. The clothes and the flags hanging on the boat are the flags of the Japanese side, and there are also a large number of Japanese warriors on board.

"Not only Japanese pirates, but also pirates~"

Dong Mu took a telescope to watch carefully, and soon he found that there were a lot of Daming people among these Japanese pirates. The clothes of these people can be clearly seen, and there is a clear difference from the Japanese pirates, and these should be Daming's pirate.

"Ready to fight~"

Dong Mu became scared and nervous all over.

Although he used to serve as the emperor's guard and protect the emperor, he had never participated in any battles. Now he met Japanese pirates and pirates. Thinking about the ferocity of Japanese pirates and pirates, he felt a little at a loss.

But soon, he also issued an order to prepare for battle.

The flag bearer on the ship began to convey his orders to other ships through semaphore, and all of them became busy all of a sudden. In fact, not only Dong Mu became nervous and afraid, but everyone in the entire advance team was also like this.

The cannons on each ship were pushed out. The team members put on the armor produced by Miyun Iron Works, picked up swords and firecrackers, and began to nervously look at the fast-moving Japanese pirates and pirates.

"Whoo~"

Li Yuanshan took a deep breath. He was the vice-captain of the advance team, and also the captain of the "Grand General" he was riding on. Seeing the pirates and Japanese pirates rushing over, his breathing became heavier, and his palms were full of danger. Sweating.

"Not only Japanese pirates, but also pirates~"

"This is a bit unusual. They are clearly prepared to ambush us here."

Next to Li Yuanshan, Zhang Lun observed carefully with a telescope, and soon noticed something unusual.

Logically speaking, they dispatched more than a dozen large ships, where did the pirates and the sea dare to provoke them, and now they not only dare to provoke them, but also appear to be well prepared, which is obviously unusual.

"It's very unusual~"

Li Yuanshan calmed down, then nodded after thinking about it.

The advance team has more than ten large ships, more than [-] people, such a huge team, unexpectedly there are Japanese pirates and pirates who do not have long eyes to attack, and now it is an obvious ambush, they know your route and location in advance, waiting for you here .

"No matter what, what we have to do now is to defeat these Japanese pirates and pirates, and let's talk about surviving first."

Then Li Yuanshan didn't think about these things any more, but put all his energy on the battle in front of him. The Japanese pirates and pirates were very cruel, and the visitors were not kind. If he wanted to survive, he had to defeat them.

"All listen to the order and prepare for battle~"

On the other side of the sea, on the largest ship, a group of people gathered together, also discussing something.

"General Matsuura, what do you think of these ships?"

A man in a long robe, holding a fan, and dressed as a scholar of the Ming Dynasty said to a Japanese man in armor and a samurai sword on his waist.

This Wa countryman is called Matsuura Takanobu. He used to be the commander of a daimyo from Wa country. Later, when the daimyo was defeated, he led some of the samurai under his former command to become Japanese pirates.

And the person next to him is Wang Zhi, a big merchant in the Jiangnan area of ​​the daimyo, and also the main supporter of pirates in the East China Sea. This time, he also joined hands with Matsuura Takanobu to do a big business.

The dozen or so big ships in front of them all went south from Tianjin Port. As for where they went, they still don't know, but the big ships coming out of Tianjin Port are all big fat sheep.

"Although the style is strange, they are the best ships~"

"Although these ships are large, their speed is very certain, and they are also quite flexible. They are much stronger than the Matsuura we are currently riding on."

Matsuura Takanobu spoke fluent Ming Mandarin, and his vision was also very sharp. He immediately saw that the dozen or so big ships in front of him were the best big ships of this era.

At the same time, his eyes were also slightly reddened. He really wanted to capture these dozens of large ships. If he had these dozen large ships, his strength would increase exponentially.

"Pass me an order, these ships are not allowed to be damaged, I want these ships!"

　After checking the information, the Japanese pirates in the Ming Dynasty basically colluded with the merchants of the Ming Dynasty and the big families in the Jiangnan area. Wang Zhi is the most famous Japanese pirate in history, and he is a great Ming Hui merchant~
　　
　
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