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Chapter 179 Shooting in the sky, throwing when encountering the enemy
The sea outside Bijia Mountain was extremely calm just now, but now there are loud gunshots.

A total of one or two hundred fireboats lit up one after another, and rushed towards the anchorage of the Ming army with full sails.

Because the fire crew had to evacuate in advance and could no longer adjust the course, the dead soldiers on the fire boat also knew that it was almost impossible to hit the moving enemy ship.

It can only be bet that the military discipline is corrupt, sleeps too much at night, and the ship in the moored state is slow to heave anchor in an emergency, so as to ensure that the fire ship rushes in front of it and there is no time to dodge it.

Since ancient times, the use of fire boats has been very limited.

Only in the face of Cao Cao's clumsy serial boats, or crowded into a pile of parked boats in the port, can it play a miraculous effect.And if you want to hit a big ship in sailing state, the difficulty is as difficult as skyrocketing.

In the Naval Battle of Liuluo Bay nine years ago, Zheng Zhilong actually burned and sank two Dutch heavy Galen warships while sailing, and burned several ships.

But that time was a special case. Zheng Zhilong set up a net to ambush hundreds of arson ships and deal with the Dutch's less than ten large warships.

Unfortunately, this time Kong Youde obviously underestimated the reaction speed of the Shen family's elite sailors and the dispatching ability of Zheng Chenggong's confidant pirate officers.

Now that there was an advance warning of gunshots, the reaction time for the last mile or two was enough.

When the fireships rushed in front of them, most of the docked warships had already left their berths.Even if it is too late to operate the full set of sails for the time being, it is necessary to start quickly if the temporary paddling is used as auxiliary power.

Although there are still a few ships that were blocked at the inner berth and were burned due to channel congestion, it has not hurt the overall situation.

Anyway, it is close to the port, and the soldiers can immediately flee back to the shore to avoid casualties.

If the boat is lost, both people and the boat will be lost;

For the Ming army, the only unavoidable major loss was nothing more than the wooden trestle on the pier, which was completely burned down, and the port facilities were severely damaged.These fixed facilities cannot run away, and the fireboat can only watch it being destroyed when it hits it.

After this battle, it was necessary to urgently repair it again, or evacuate people to board the ship later, and the only way to ferry was to use a small sampan.

Considering that Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong are not too afraid of Azig's attack on the water village in a short period of time, so the loading and unloading speed is not bad.

The counterattack of the Ming army was also very quick. Zheng Chenggong immediately directed the warships that had just set sail to search and kill the small sampans on the sea, staring at the retreating arsonists and shooting arrows. Hit it directly and sink the small sampan.

Suddenly, the sound of wailing on the sea gradually rose.

At least dozens of small sampans used to retreat the arsonists were besieged by the navy of the Ming army, and hundreds of people were shot and killed instantly and fell into the sea. speed growth.

The main ship of Kong Youde's rear army in the distance has not yet arrived on the battlefield. This kind of battle between a large ship and a small ship is of course overwhelmingly crushed.

It's like an assassin who only has the strength of a single blow. If he wants to assassinate a powerful general, if he misses a single blow, he can only be slaughtered unilaterally.

On the battlefield of the former army, the only variable factor was the thirty medium-sized North Korean clippers.

……

It is a pity that at the same time that Kong Youde cursed the North Korean general "Li Yue" for his incompetence, and hoped that "Li Yue" could help him to bring back some fireboat dead soldiers.

In front of the battlefield, on the largest shuttle-shaped wooden houseboat, North Korean general Li Yu was acting and sabotaging work.

"Continue to implement the plan that was secretly agreed before the war! Let me charge to the middle of the Ming army! Each ship adapts to its own circumstances! Pretend to be brave!"

"When you encounter a large ship of the Ming army, continue to shoot into the sky! The Ming army should be able to see that we are not threatening, and will not deliberately fight against us. Let the gunners hide behind the bunker of the wooden house, and do not need to go out to aim.

As long as it is not attacked by Hongyi cannons, our wooden boats can block all other bows and arrows.If the big ships of the Ming army insist on jumping up and jumping to help, let those who can speak Chinese shout out surrender in unison, explaining that we are Koreans! "

The reason why this North Korean general named Li Yu was mistaken for "Li Yue" by Kong Youde and other Qing army generals has to start with a public case two years ago.

Li Yu is the concubine son of Li Shibai, the incumbent military officer of the Joseon Dynasty, and can be regarded as a distant relative of the Lee royal family in North Korea.

After Chongzhen's ten-year rebellion in Bingzi, North Korea surrendered to the Qing Dynasty instead.Three years later, in the 13th year of Chongzhen, the Qing Dynasty asked North Korea to send the prince and the six sons of Cao Gongqing to Shengjing as hostages.

North Korea's official system is all imitated by Ming Dynasty, but because North Korea is a kingdom rather than an empire, it is not qualified to set up "six ministries", and the corresponding agencies must be downgraded to one level, called "six cao".

North Korea's Bingcao Judgment is equivalent to the Minister of War of Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Li Shibai can be regarded as a high-level minister in North Korea.A few years later in history, he also became the "Leader", which is equivalent to the "chief minister of the cabinet" of Ming Dynasty.

But now the Li family is in a lot of trouble:

Two years ago, when the Qing Dynasty requested to send hostages, the Li family should have sent their son, Li Yue, here.But Li Shibai's regular wife, Yin Shi, was very strong and doted on her own son very much. She would not allow her husband to send any of her legitimate sons as hostages.

Li Shibai was helpless, and finally remembered that his concubine Li Yu was very similar to his first brother Li Yue in appearance, and Li Yu's mother came from a humble background and was dead, so no one in her natal family made trouble.Li Shibai asked Li Yu to pretend to be Li Yue as a hostage.

It had been two years since this happened, and Li Yu didn't leak any flaws in the Qing Dynasty.But his elder brother Li Yue, who escaped the fate of being a hostage, did not stop in North Korea.

Because Li Yue wants to live as Li Yu, without the prestige of the former son-in-law, it would be shameless to go out and socialize with others.For the sake of his own dignity, this guy actually leaked his words, saying that he is the real Li Yue, flaunting his prestige in Seoul, and then was overheard by Qing spies through certain channels.

Li Shibai's family is about to get into trouble because of this.Historically, this case will break out this year, and then Li Sibai will be dismissed by the king of North Korea, Lee Ji, and exiled to Tonsan, Chungcheong Province.

It would take two years for Li Shibai to be secretly employed by the king again after the limelight had passed.

As for the fake proton Li Yu, her fate was even worse.

Historically, because Li Yu was the proton of the Korean soldier Cao Judgment, during the Qing Dynasty, he could help the Qing Dynasty command the reinforcements sent by the North Korean blunderbuss (but the Manchu Qing would send senior generals to supervise, and Li Yu needed to listen to Jierhalang Commander) has been in the Jinzhou siege battlefield for two years, and has no chance to escape. In the end, the case was directly taken down by the Qing people for questioning.

But now, because of the butterfly effect between Shen Shuren and Zheng Chenggong, Li Yu got an opportunity to follow Kong Youde to fight at sea, which made him realize the golden opportunity last night——

His father had given him a secret letter a while ago, and he burned it after reading it. The letter said that his third brother was out of tune and talking nonsense in Seoul.

That being the case, now that you have a chance to directly cast your name, pretend that you and your subordinates are all dead in battle!Come to the dead without proof!No one can prove whether he is Li Yu or Li Yue.

As for the third brother, let him carry his identity on his back for the rest of his life!Let him be reduced to the status of a bastard for the rest of his life!This is also the retribution of his arrogant and arrogant talk!

Kong Youde didn't pay attention to this, and he can't blame Kong Youde for his low IQ, but he really didn't know there were so many inside stories.

In the past two years, when Li Yu helped Jierhalang besiege Jinzhou, he has always been diligent. The North Korean bird gun team under his command, every time they encounter Jierhalang and ask them to provide fire cover for the ascending troops, they also have Work hard.

Who would have thought that the model army that had been submissive for the past two years would suddenly have such an undercurrent in the interior?
Kong Youde himself felt that it was an honor to be a traitor, and he judged others by himself, so he felt that the troops who came from North Korea to surrender to the Qing should also be proud of being a traitor to Korea.

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Zheng Chenggong's troops, of course, did not realize that the general of the North Korean bird gun army in front of him had so many twists and turns.

However, as the battle lasted for a little while, they also saw an abnormality in the combat performance of this strange North Korean fleet. (The country of the ship can be seen at a glance, because the appearance of the North Korean ship is different from that of the Ming and Qing Dynasties)
First of all, as long as the gunners on this fleet approached the warships of the Ming army, almost no one would show their heads at the portholes.

Secondly, after observing for a while, the soldiers of the Ming army discovered that many of the sampans carrying dead men from the Qing army's fireboats who had fled away were actually boarded by North Korean ships when they tried to approach these North Korean ships to request support. Sneak attack and kill with the blunderbuss—

Of course, if these North Korean ships were still very close to the Ming military ships, then for their own safety, they would have no chance to probe and aim.But if they were a little far away from the Ming military ship and there were only fire boats and sampans nearby, they would boldly show their heads and aim.

This point can be proved by the screams coming from a distance. Many of Kong Youde's confidantes were all far away from the Ming army and had not been caught up. They were suddenly killed and screamed again and again.

After some probing, Zheng Chenggong finally figured out a little taste, and ordered his subordinates to try to jump up to help catch the work.

As expected, the North Koreans did not resist. Several ships were empty and shouted to kill, and then their flags were changed and new fire horns were lit.

In the dark, as long as the boarding sailors waved the torch rhythm on the cabin roof, friendly troops in the distance can confirm that these ships have been captured.

Zheng Chenggong was determined, so he went on the stage in person, took a flagship with a Hongyi cannon, and directly approached the largest ship in the North Korean fleet, and then used hooks to hold the ship. Zheng Cheng, a group of pirates, The elite of the family immediately jumped up to help.

Of course, Zheng Chenggong himself is the son of a daughter, and he can't sit still. He wouldn't have boarded the ship himself before he fully understood the situation between the enemy and ourselves.

However, he was cautious, and at the same time he let the Zheng family members jump into the gang, he also included a few Shen family members in the team-these Shen family members were all asked by Zheng Chenggong temporarily, carefully selected, and they all followed Shen Tingyang's escort After many years of North Korean trade, I can speak Korean.

The Zheng family is only the king of the East China Sea and the King of the South China Sea. Fuchuan is not suitable for North Korea trade, so the Shen family has monopolized the trade between Daming and North Korea over the years. There is a deep talent pool in this area, and foreign languages ​​are of course not a problem.

Soon, the soldiers of the Ming army led by Ding, the interpreter of the Shen family, swarmed onto Li Yu's boat, ready to capture them all.

(End of this chapter)