I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 205 Powerful Confidence Brought by Technology

Chapter 204

Although there are fewer enemies and more enemies, the soldiers of the Ning Navy are not worried, because the speed of this new ship is fast, they will be invincible.

Even if you can't beat them, you can run away. If there is their delay, the merchant ship being chased by the little day pirates can also escape.

In fact, this could be regarded as a wrong shot. Cheng Shijie was investigating the disappearance of five sea ships. This time they ran into him. The chances of being caught by them this time are actually not high, but it is far greater than the first hit.

If these seventeen pirate ships wanted to sink these four merchant ships, it would be very easy. In fact, they had already done so. But sinking a merchant ship is a loss-making business for pirates. They still need to spend a lot of money to purchase shells , and they get nothing.

What the pirates in Xiaotian wanted was the goods on the four ships. They had already found out that some of the goods on these four ships were tung oil, and some were Jiangnan rice destined for Liaodong.

Especially these rice, it is really too precious for pirates these days.

With the eighth year of Kanyong (1632) of the Xiaori Kingdom, the second generation of Tokugawa shogun Tokugawa Hidetada passed away. In the previous era, although Tokugawa Iemitsu was conferred the title of Edo Chunayan, and in the Tokugawa shogunate, Tokugawa Hidetada and his son Tokugawa Iemitsu were in power together, and they were also known as the dual government of the shogunate.

After Tokugawa Iemitsu came to power, he quickly made a big move and began to clean up the forces in the shogunate. Tokugawa Tadaga, who had competed with Tokugawa Iemitsu for the reserve position, was the first to be cleaned up. In the name of Tadacho's cruelty, there are eyeliners who say that Tokugawa Tadaga hunted and killed apes, beheaded servants and servants several times for trivial matters, and dissected pregnant women to examine their fetuses.

Therefore, Tokugawa Iemitsu confiscated Tokugawa Tadaga's territory, Suruga and Kai, and then exiled Tokugawa Tadaga to Ueno Takasaki.And ten years with Kanei, Tokugawa Tadaga went crazy, and Tokugawa Iemitsu ordered him to commit seppuku. Another theory is that Tokugawa Tadaga committed suicide by himself, not Tokugawa Iemitsu's order.

This is actually not important. In short, Tokugawa Tadaga finally died in Takasaki Castle at the age of 28.With the death of Tokugawa Tadacho, Tokugawa Iemitsu began to concentrate the power of the shogunate, and the ministers of Tokugawa Hidetada's era were gradually cleaned up. In the current Xiaori Kingdom, because of Tokugawa Hidetada's death, a large number of people who lost their power warrior.

After all, Little Days was influenced by Chinese culture and got the essence of it. Once the emperor and a courtier, some ministers who were originally loyal to his father Tokugawa Hidetada lost power one after another, and then Tokugawa Iemitsu's confidant Matsudaira Nobuzuna, Hotta Masamori, Miura Shoji, Abe Tadaaki, Ota Takamune and Abe Shige are the "six people".Afterwards, the shogunate's Laozhong, Ruo Nianji, Fengxing, Omeko, and Muko were successively established, and the duties and powers were also standardized.

But the samurai who lost the feudal lord became ronin.But the rogues had no salary, and they also had no land. If they wanted to survive, they could only find their own jobs. Under such circumstances, most of the warriors who had lost their power took refuge in Zheng Zhilong. There were six or seven thousand people in this group.

All of them are samurai with strong skills and rich combat experience. With the deepening of Tokugawa Iemitsu's reform, some people rose to power and some lost power. Since then, more and more people have lost power. They want to continue to rely on Zheng Zhilong , As a result, Zheng Zhilong didn't want it anymore. Zheng Zhilong only occupied the central area of ​​Dayuan at this time, and organized tens of thousands of people to farm in Dayuan.

The output of tens of thousands of people's farming is limited, and Zheng Zhilong can't expand his army without limit. These small-time warriors who were rejected by Zheng Zhilong can only fend for themselves.

Under such circumstances, Kato Tadahiro, the feudal lord from Kumamoto, was implicated by Tokugawa Iemitsu in the Tokugawa Tadaga incident. He ordered Kato Tadahiro to abdicate and replaced him with the new lord Hosokawa (formerly Fengqian Ogura 39 Wanshi Daimyo) governed, and this pattern lasted until the Meiji Restoration era.

Although the Kato family is the lord of Kumamoto, there are only three generations, namely the first generation lord Kato Otosho, the second generation lord Kato Kiyomasa, and the third generation lord the last lord Kato Tadahiro.Tokugawa Iemitsu ordered Kato Tadahiro, the last feudal lord, to be exiled to the Sakai family of the Dewa Shonai domain to be under control.

As one of the seven samurai of the Tokugawa Ieyasu era, the seven Kato Kiyomasa made illustrious military exploits and are known to the world as the "seven guns of cheap mountains". , Iida Naokage (Iida Jubei), Morimoto Kazuhisa (Morimoto Gitao), Zhuanglin Yixin (Zhuangbayashi Hayato), Morimoto Kazuo (Morimoto Ukon Taifu).

Especially Kazuhisa Morimoto and Kato Morimoto brought the sixteen generals who could not survive the Kato family and others. There was really no way out. Kazuhisa Morimoto couldn't help but think of the beauty of his ancestors looting the coast of Daming and bringing back a large amount of food, gold, silver and jewelry time...

Morimoto Kazuhisa and Morimoto Isabou couldn't care less, he used his last bit of money to gather a group of warriors who also couldn't survive, and set sail to rob Daming!
As the saying goes, these two dubs took the lead, and a large number of Kumamoto and Kyushu samurai, bankrupt businessmen, and farmers followed one after another. After a toss, they actually gathered more than 100 ships, nearly 6000 people, and rushed into the sea excitedly. Became a pirate.

However, the sea is now owned by the sea king Zheng Zhilong in the south, and Cheng Shijie in the north. Kazuhisa Morimoto first robbed the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, which used to be frequented by Japanese pirates. The fishermen found the Japanese pirates, and they were all robbed and scared.

You must know that Jiangsu and Zhejiang were the hardest-hit areas of the Japanese pirate rebellion before, and they were robbed of experience.Hurry up and run away with the gold and silver. Although the big fish ran away, the problem is that the small shrimps are enough for Kazuku Morimoto and others to eat. After all, these fishermen, people, and businessmen fled too hastily. Enough to get their mouths watering.

You must know that Kyushu Island in Xiaotian is a place full of disasters. It is said that Xiaotian has been like this for thousands of years, with low food production, low steel production, low cultural level, backward military technology, but typhoons, earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis. The probability of outbreaks of plague and other disasters is frighteningly high. If there is no earthquake for a day, everyone will feel as if something is missing and feel uncomfortable.

How miserable is the little day?As far as Morimoto Kazuhisa and Morimoto share a house, their landlords are under one person and above tens of thousands of people in the Kumamoto Domain, and their status is almost equivalent to that of Zhou Yandong, Chen Guodong, Shen Mingyu, Zhang Yu and others around Cheng Shijie.

But the problem is that such a high-ranking and powerful Morimoto Kazuhisa, as one of the four generals of the Kumamoto Corps, only has one soup and one dish for his meals. The dish is fish, and the soup is rice soup.

Of course, it’s not that Morimoto Kazuhisa has self-abuse tendencies. It is an indisputable fact that domestic materials are scarce and the economy is seriously backward in the small days. Even the superior samurai are also very poor. Hungry is the normal state of life, which is not surprising.

It is also because of this that the empire on the east side of the sea is particularly attractive. The rich products, fertile land, highly developed culture, majesty that makes the barbarians submit, and the peerless elegance that makes all nations admire, all make the little people jealous It's going to kill me.

However, the problem is that this empire is too powerful. As early as in the Tang Dynasty, Xiaori launched a war to invade Baekje. Baekje was the younger brother of Datang at that time. Datang's father asked for help.

Datang's father made a move, the battle of Baijiangkou, there were more than 4 warships that had a good day, but they were slapped to death by Datang. This event is rarely recorded in the history of Datang, only a few short sentences In other words, because the military of the Tang Dynasty is too strong, like Wang Xuance who destroyed a country by himself, it is enough for other dynasties to be named princes and generals.

However, after Wang Xuance returned to China, he sent the captured Alonashun, princesses, sons, etc., 2000 men and women, and more than 13 cattle and horses to Chang'an as prisoners.Tang Taizong felt that Wang Xuance's extermination of a small country in Tianzhu was not a great contribution, so he only named Wang Xuance as Chaosan Doctor. .[-] bits.That is to say, Wang Xuance rose from the sixth rank to the fifth rank, only one level.

This slap hit Xiaori too hard, so Xiaori learned from Datang and sent a large number of envoys to Tang. Send your wife or daughter to China to borrow seeds, and then brag to the people around you: "My wife and daughter were slept by the dignitaries of the Celestial Dynasty!"

Later, I finally felt that Ming was no longer able to do it, and Xiaozi felt that he was no longer able. They invaded North Korea in the era of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Emperor Yu Wanli sent tens of thousands of troops to beat Xiaozi to the ground again.

The current Japanese pirates are different from the previous Japanese pirates. They dare not be as unscrupulous as they used to be, but the problem is that the good times are not long. You must know that although Zheng Zhilong is an admiral of the Fujian Navy, the problem is that he thinks he is from the south of the Yangtze River. It's all his territory.

This Morimoto Yijiu robbed him in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, that was a slap in the face, so Zheng Zhilong shot and directly rubbed Morimoto Yijiu and others on the ground who had just improved.

Originally, Zheng Zhilong wanted to throw these little samurai into the sea to feed the fish, but the problem was that Zheng Zhilong received a secret letter from the Minister of Korea and China, so these Morimoto Kazuku and others were released and strengthened.

Although they originally had more than 100 boats, they were just fishing boats, or just small sampans. Zheng Zhilong gave Morimoto Kazuhisa 25 black-tailed boats.

The black tail boat is a special combat ship for Zheng Zhilong's troops, and it is the master battleship. It has a large hull and can accommodate three to four hundred people.In fact, the bottom of the Canton Boat is Fu Chuan Noodles.Combining the advantages of Guangzhou Shipyard and Fuzhou Shipbuilding, this kind of warship not only has a higher speed, but also has tall guard plates.

In terms of scale, their black-tailed boats are similar to the four King Kong warships of the Ning Navy, which are 24-level warships, and their firepower is similar, and they are all equipped with [-] artillery pieces.

This kind of black-tailed boat can crush all the warships of the Daming Navy, and it has been tested in actual combat. In 1633, the Ming Dynasty Navy and the Netherlands fought fiercely in Liuluo Bay on the southeast coast of Jinmen, Fujian. The Ming government, which was about to collapse, had an absolute advantage Defeating the Netherlands, whose national strength is booming, this battle is known as the Battle of Liaowan in history.After the naval war, in order to maintain the maritime trade of the East India Company, the Dutch government paid 1000 million francs to China every year.

Of course, this naval battle was fought by Zheng Zhilong, and its main force was the black-tailed boats. However, Zheng Zhilong fought more and less. For the Netherlands, there are fifty Liu Xiangbu pirate ships and seven large Galen ships.

However, seven Galenic ships. Brouckersheaven was burned, Weiringen was sunk, Slotendijck was captured (about 100 people on board were captured), and the rest of the ships fled after being seriously injured in the face of the powerful Ming army.Fifty warships of Liu Xiang participated in the battle, and the whole army was wiped out in Liuluo Bay.

"Report to Your Excellency Weimon, the official ship of the Ming Dynasty has arrived!"

In fact, there is no need to report. Now Morimoto Kazuki has also seen this lone warship. The Ning Navy only has a lone large one rushing over. They have [-] ships. Although the new type of ship is larger, Morimoto Kazuki is not worried, but directly orders Said: "Qing Bingwei!"

"exist!"

"Take ten ships with you, ten to one, it's best to capture this ship, it's a new ship!"

"Hay!"

Qingbei, that is, Kato Kiyobei, this surname was bestowed by Kato Kiyomasa, and he was also one of the three bestowed surnames among the sixteen generals.

Qing Bingwei also knew what Morimoto Kazuhisa was really thinking. Zheng Zhilong refused to take them in. If they had to rely on themselves to develop, they needed to constantly rob ships. important.

After this period of robbery, they also knew the combat effectiveness of the Ming army's navy. If it weren't for Zheng Zhilong's troops, the other navy basically had no combat effectiveness.

Not to mention ten ships, even if three ships fight one, Kato Kiyobei ​​is confident enough to sink this Ming warship.

The ideal is very full, but the reality is too skinny.

If Morimoto had been indiscriminate for a long time in this sea encounter, he would come up directly to besiege and bombard this new ship of the Ning Navy with more than 400 cannons from [-] black-tailed boats. will be sunk.

However, the problem is that Morimoto Kazujiu wanted to capture this ship. There are 400 warriors on the Wuwei boat, and 4000 people on the ten ships. There are also more than 300 people on the new warship of the Ning Navy. There is no way for them to fight. One against ten.

Kato Kiyobei ​​lined up in a formation of three, four, and three, and rushed towards Ning Haijun's battleship. He planned to encircle and start a boarding battle. This is also one of the advantages of the black tail boat.

The black-tailed boat has five masts, one of which is movable at the front and rear, and can be lowered when approaching an enemy ship, thus forming a ladder with a distance of more than ten feet and a width of about two or three feet, through which the soldiers on board can quickly pass. Sails, rushing to enemy ships, especially the sails of black-tailed boats are traditional hard sails.

Li Zhixiang frowned as he watched the black-tailed boat getting closer and closer.

Shen Shikui smiled wryly: "This is troublesome, they might be Zheng Zhilong's people!"

It is no wonder that Shen Shikui made such a judgment. Zheng Zhilong acted very arrogantly. Everyone knows that he has some small-time warriors under his command, and even many Kunlun slaves. As soon as the slaves landed, the pirates under Liu Xiang's command were terrified. These Kunlun slaves were like devils.

Li Zhixiang said with a firm face: "We, Cheng Shuai, have said that we would rather let the tiger go back to the mountain than harm the tiger's prestige. Who cares about Zheng Zhilong or Zheng Zhihu, a certain family only has Cheng Shuai in their eyes!"

"It's not in our Ning Haijun's interest to fight against Zheng Zhilong's men. Besides, our strength is too weak. Even though we have more than 300 ships, it's not enough to put them in front of Zheng Zhilong!"

Shen Shikui has also heard about the strength of Zheng Zhilong. Their infantry is far inferior to that of the Ning Navy. There are more than [-] black-tailed boats, but the Ning Navy has warships that can fight against the black-tailed boats. There are only four King Kongs and fifteen new ships built by Sun Yuanhua, which are less than a fraction of the Zheng Group.

Li Zhixiang said: "This is something Cheng Shuai needs to consider. There is only one thing I need to consider!"

"what?"

"Fuck these little dwarfs!"

The warships of the two sides rushed towards each other, and the distance between the two ships was getting closer and closer. These days, the samurai waved their katanas, yelled, and prepared to jump into battle.

However, when he entered the range of 500 meters, Li Zhixiang felt a little strange. The cannons carried by these black-tailed boats were British-made cannons, with a range of seven to eight hundred steps.

Li Zhixiang understood that the other party wanted to capture this warship.

"Forever!"

"Father!"

Li Zhixiang said: "Take people to the cabin and get ready. If we can't stop them and blow up the boat, we can't leave them!"

"But……"

"Don't talk nonsense, execute the order!"

300 meters, at this distance, Kato Kiyobei ​​ordered: "Everyone, prepare to lower the sail..."

Before he finished speaking, a three-inch smoothbore rear-loading shell landed on the deck of a black-tailed boat, and as a huge orange-red fireball soared into the air, the shock wave of the shell was like an invisible big hand. , more than a dozen Japanese pirates were smashed to pieces on the spot, the rigging was torn off, the mast was pushed down, and the gunpowder barrels piled up near the artillery positions exploded. You must know that this is hundreds of catties of black powder, which was blown into pieces. Fly, the whole black-tailed warship was shot into flames in the blink of an eye!
"Qinwu" is finished.

One of Kato's sixteen generals, the Akahoshi Senmu, was in flames and exploded again and again. There were miserable screams from inside, and many samurai who were on fire jumped into the sea.

Kato Kiyobei ​​was dumbfounded.

Morimoto was dumbfounded for a long time.

"How is this going?"

Killing a black-tailed boat with one shot, this is a battleship of more than 600 tons, and it is already a giant ship in the small days. Let alone a single shot, even if dozens of shells hit it, it is not a big problem.

You must know that in the naval battle of Liuluowan, Zheng Zhibao's black-tailed boat rushed the fastest, and was directly hit by 48 or 30 shells. Among them, a [-]-pound shell was directly swept off the main mast, killing more than [-] people in one shot. People, but this ship still has no major problems, and it persisted until the end of the battle.

Before they could react, the artillerymen of the Ning Navy Navy continued to fire shells. This time it was four artillery salvos. However, due to the effect of the wind and waves, none of the four artillery hits. Before the smoke from the four artillery cleared Exhausted, the other four cannons fired again.

The warship of the Ning Navy moved sideways quickly and turned around, and the eight side guns fired in turn. In the bombardment of the second round of artillery, this time one shell hit after another, hitting the "Nine Ghosts" black-tailed ship.

Fortunately, Cheng Shijie was not present, otherwise he would have scolded his mother directly. You know, the 24 cannons on this new ship fired more than 40 shells in a short period of time, but only hit two, and the hit rate was only about [-]%. .

However, Cheng Shijie didn't know that this was already a very high target rate. During the naval battle between the British and the Spanish Armada, more than [-] cannons of the Spanish Armada began to fire, and the sound of the cannons was loud like lightning. Thunder, extraordinary momentum.

However, after some excitement, not a single British warship was hit, let alone sank.This is when the naval battle did not invent the artillery gyroscope, the hit rate was extremely poor.

Because the waves will cause the artillery of the battleship to float up and down, left and right irregularly, as the saying goes, it is very difficult to hit the target at sea.

I don’t know if it’s too close, or it’s just luck. The shells of Ning’s naval gun exploded at the waterline, and the “Nine Ghosts” was blasted into a hole of two or three meters. Then the wooden hull of the "Nine Ghosts" was torn apart, and the sea water rushed in, causing chaos.

At this time, under the watchful eyes of the warriors of the small day, Ning Haijun's battleship completed a U-turn, and the two tail guns fired again.

Although there are not many cannons on this Ming army battleship, the rate of fire is very fast. There are only 24 cannons, but they have fired hundreds of cannons.

The warships of the Ning Navy didn't care what the warriors in the small days thought. They fired while retreating. At this time, the advantage of the fast rate of fire of the rear-mounted smoothbore artillery was fully demonstrated.

In particular, the naval guns of the Ning Navy fired flowering ammunition. It must be known that the fastest damage to wooden sailboats was not the loss caused by solid shells, but the fire caused by flowering ammunition.

After losing four warships, Kazuhisa Morimoto finally realized that something was wrong: "Retreat!"

He also ignored the four merchant ships.

However, it's too late to run now.

Li Zhixiang realized that the combat power of this new ship was so strong that in the case of a pair of seventeen, it could still defeat the pirates in the small days.

Just like Cheng Shijie, he never knew how to accept when he was good.If you can kill the opponent, you will never let go of a small day samurai.

"Turn around, turn around immediately, catch up!"

Li Zhixiang said with a smile: "Our brothers have not done any meritorious service. We have long since disliked those infantry!"

In fact, under the military system of Ning Haijun, the only way to get promoted and make a fortune is to kill the enemy and make meritorious service.

"Your Excellency Weimon, now that Ming battleship is catching up again!"

"Don't be afraid, it's getting dark soon, and our chance is here!"

(End of this chapter)