national surname chiming

Chapter 180
After swinging with the hook rope to the cabin roof of the Korean warship, Shen Lian took a deep breath to calm down his inner emotions, so as not to get too excited and cause a fire later.

That's right, this Shen Lian is the servant who has followed the young master Shen Shuren for three years.

When Shen Shuren first arrived in Huangzhou, to expand the army, he was asked to be the general manager among the recruits recruited from dock workers and hunters.Later, he followed Zuo Zixiong and fought a few battles with Liu Xiyao, and performed well, and was promoted to President Qian in the second year.

Later, he fought fiercely with Erhe and occupied Wuchang with Shen Shuren. Shen Lian has always been diligent, plus he was quite courageous from a seafaring background, gradually accumulated hard work, and now he has been promoted to the defense.

This time the Shen family selected [-] "household" private soldiers to work with Zheng Chenggong, and Shen Lian was one of them.

He happened to follow Zheng Chenggong, nominally to protect Zheng Chenggong and act as a guide, but in fact he also took care of the mission of helping Shen Shuren monitor Zheng Chenggong.

Today, Zheng Chenggong suddenly encountered a good opportunity on the battlefield, and it was possible to capture a North Korean warship that had no fighting intentions. Shen Lian was selected as the leader of the team because he traveled with the owner of the Korean sea trade for several years in his early years and was proficient in Korean.

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"Put down the blunderbuss! Those who descend will not be killed!"

After Shen Lian's soldiers took control of the top of the cabin and let a few strong men hold iron sand hand cannons (Ming Dynasty grenades) to guard the hatch door, he shouted for the officers and soldiers inside to surrender.

If the inside does not agree, he can directly throw mines into the cabin.This kind of indoor battle with wooden structures is definitely the scene where earthen grenades can exert their power the most.

However, a response in Chinese soon came from the cabin: "My general is the son of Cao Banshu, a Korean soldier. He was defeated today and is willing to surrender to Daming! Don't open fire! We are willing to put down the bird guns!"

Afterwards, Shen Lian heard a noise from inside the cabin, and several blunderbusses were symbolically thrown out of the hatch, and more blunderbusses should have just been put down on the spot.

Shen Lian's guard was slightly relieved, but new doubts arose again. With a look, he signaled five or six soldiers under his command to open the way with loaded bayonets and blunderbusses to control the situation, and then he followed.

After entering the cabin, he took a quick glance and saw that one of the officers was wearing a satin padded armor. He should be of high rank. He walked up to the other officer warily, and suddenly asked in Korean:
"Who is the name of the Bing Cao Judgment Book? When he raised military rations for Dongjiang Maozong Town, who handled the transportation?"

Li Yu was caught off guard and stunned for a moment. He knew Chinese, and just now he was afraid that the Ming general opposite him would not understand, so he deliberately shouted in Chinese. Unexpectedly, the Ming general opposite him actually spoke Korean to him instead.

But he also quickly realized that the other party was deceiving his identity, and wanted to confirm whether he was a Korean man pretending to be a Tartar, so he quickly replied in Korean:

"My father, Li Shibai, did raise 'three hands of rice' for the king 15 years ago and the army rations for Dongjiang Maozong Town. I wonder who the general is? He knows so much about my North Korean affairs, even these things?
I was still young at the time, so I don’t remember clearly, but I vaguely heard my father mentioned that after he raised the military rations, he had a marine merchant from the Ming Dynasty to subscribe and transport it to Mr. Mao. The marine merchant seemed to be called Shen Tingyang.

But since Dingmao’s rebellion in the early years of Chongzhen, North Korea had to cut off the military rations in Maozong Town. I heard that Shen Tingyang later abandoned business and became a politician, bought an official job, and never came to North Korea again.The Shen family's trade in North Korea should still be done secretly, but they are all entrusted to the family. "

Shen Lian heaved a sigh of relief. Hearing what the other party said was so informative and fluent in Korean, he finally confirmed that there was no problem:

"Okay, put away the blunderbuss, everyone put down their weapons, and drag the boat back to the pier. No matter what your reason is, thank you, General Li, for turning your back on the dark."

Li Yu finally felt relieved, at least no one on board died and surrendered peacefully.Otherwise, if the language is different, conflicts and misunderstandings will inevitably lead to individual casualties.

After the situation was under control here, Zheng Chenggong soon came over to inspect the situation out of curiosity, and Shen Lian went on to explain all the twists and turns.

Li Yu also explained a little bit why he was compelled to surrender, and hoped that Zheng Chenggong would help him keep it a secret, and only said to the outside world that they were killed in battle, let alone captured and surrendered.

Zheng Chenggong and others were of course delighted: they came this time to help Shen Shuren get private soldiers.It just so happens that there are some North Koreans here who want to fake their lives to hide their identities, and they hit it off and get what they need.

After this was settled, the large fleet of Kong Youde's rear army a few miles away was gradually approaching, and Zheng Chenggong's peripheral patrol boats had already exchanged fire with Kong Youde's troops.

Zheng Chenggong didn't have time to deal with the situation here, so he quickly ordered Shen Lian to help him change the flags of the [-] North Korean ships to pretend to be prisoners, and then dragged them all back to the water village.

Zheng Chenggong returned to the flagship by himself, and led all the Hongyi artillery boats of the Chinese army to kill Kong Youde.

Kong Youde's fleet of arsonists was completely wiped out, and only a single-digit number of ships and some wharf facilities of the Ming army were burned. The North Korean fleet was also "wrecked."

Kong Youde's remaining combat power also plummeted from 1000 to about 7000 in an instant, and he also lost the opportunity to sneak attack.Zheng Chenggong brought all the elites who had been at sea for many years, and the Hongyi Cannon still had an advantage, and the subsequent battles would of course be crushed.

However, when Kong Youde first watched the battle between Zheng Chenggong and Li Yu, there were mostly gunshots here, but he hardly heard the roar of the Hongyi cannon, which made Kong Youde underestimate the enemy a little.
It is thought that the number of Zheng Chenggong's Hongyi cannons is far less than expected, or that the cannons have already been transported to land and deployed in the water village, and it is temporarily impossible to turn the muzzle to bombard sea targets.

Kong Youde still stepped forward to fight Zheng Chenggong with a sense of urgency.As a result, the two armies approached until there were only two or three hundred steps left before the Hongyi cannons on both sides opened fire one after another.

Kong Youde also had a few ships with guns, but the total number was only five or six, and the quality was not as good as that of Zheng Chenggong.Zheng Chenggong had more than 20 gates. He concentrated his firepower and fired indiscriminately, immediately causing Kong Youde's troops to fall into a brief panic.

The fierce fighting lasted only a quarter of an hour. After realizing that he was invincible, Kong Youde frantically turned the bow of the ship and began to retreat.At this moment, the time is already more than half of Mao, and it will be dawn if you don't leave.

Seeing that the flagship had escaped, the other warships of Kong Youde also fled one after another.Zheng Chenggong covered up the killing behind him, killing and wounding many Qing army sailors with firearms one after another.

It's a pity that the solid shells of this era are still very difficult to sink warships-the Galen gunships in the West at the same time fired at each other, often blasting a bunch of big holes in the upper cabin, but they couldn't sink the ship.

The wooden hull is too light, and the required reserve buoyancy is not large. In addition, the technology of watertight compartments in the Ming Dynasty is very mature, unlike the iron-hulled ships of later generations that can take in a lot of water with a few holes.

It was also difficult for the early artillery to hit the part of the warship below the waterline. After a bloody battle, many Kong family warships had several large holes, but they just couldn't enter the water.It's just that the soldiers in the cabin were beaten to bloody flesh and stabbed by splashed wood.

Kong Youde saw that the sky would be completely bright if he didn't distance himself, so he gritted his teeth and launched a counterattack again, but in fact he accelerated away with the main force of the Chinese army.

A few uninformed Qing army naval warships mistrusted the general's counterattack fire, and ended up helping his teammates fight against them, and were surrounded and annihilated by Zheng Chenggong.

It was not easy to sink a ship. In the end, Zheng Chenggong used firearms to kill most of the people on board, and then sent a team of killers to clean up the battlefield and kill all those who should be killed and the prisoners who should be captured.

Then burn the wrecked boat with a torch, and pull it back if the boat is in good condition and can be repaired.

In the bloody tug-of-war for more than half an hour, Kong Youde lost another nearly 2000 men and horses, and finally managed to survive miserably.

1000 people went out to fight, and when they returned to the water village at the mouth of Daling River in Jinzhou, they counted the troops, and there were only more than 700 people left.

Almost half of his own lineage's strength was lost, and the North Korean Bird Battalion was completely sent away. Even hundreds of soldiers that Geng Zhongming lent him died.

As a result, Zhenghongqi, the Han army banner of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, was severely damaged, and almost half of the banner's troops were gone.

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Zheng Chenggong returned to his teacher with great victory, and when he arrived at Bijia Shanshui Village, the sky was completely bright.

In the past few days, they have been sleeping during the day, and there were bloody battles in the middle of the night. The soldiers of the Ming army were also turned upside down from day to night, and their biological clocks were extremely disordered.

And Shen Lian, who stayed behind to help him collect the prisoners, had already placed all these North Koreans in secret.

The [-] Korean warships can only be given to Li Fuming and Cao Bianjiao who returned to Shanhaiguan. Let’s see if we can exchange some more resources. For example, Cao and Li will not send back other rescued soldiers of the Ming army. .

Because the Korean warships that were born out of the house boats all sacrificed long-distance wave resistance and seaworthiness in order to strengthen their defenses. This is a kind of offshore warship that sails close to the shore.

Expecting to cross the strait from Bijia Mountain to Denglai, or even go directly to the far sea to return to the mouth of the Yangtze River, it is very likely that it will capsize halfway.

It is impossible to leave it to Wu Sangui. Before Zheng Chenggong and others set off this time, Shen Shuren explained that in the future when he makes friends with Liaodong generals, he would rather confide in the rescued generals and exchange interests, and beware of Wu Sangui.So it can only be given to Cao and Li.

Seeing Zheng Chenggong returning to the teacher, Shen Lian and Zhang Mingzhen, who was in charge of guarding the water village, went up to greet him. They talked eloquently and asked about the results of the battle.

Only then did Zheng Chenggong have time to ask how Shen Lian confirmed Li Yu's identity at that time, and why both parties knew each other's details so well.

Only then did Shen Lian casually say: "My master took over the family's North Korean maritime business more than 20 years ago, and while doing business, he made friends with North Korean dignitaries.

In the early years of Joseon, there was also a dark period of being friendly to the Tartars. At that time, Lord Gwanghae was in power, but in the third year of the Apocalypse, the grandfather of General Li supported the "Gui Hai Anyway" and deposed the pro-Tartar and faint king. Since then, North Korea has been friendly to Ming again , began to provide support to Dongjiang Mao Wenlong.

My master took advantage of this opportunity to help purchase the military rations raised by North Korea and resell them to Mao Wenlong, so that the North Korean side could get rid of some suspicions, so that they would not directly transport food to Mao Wenlong in the open, causing the Tartars to scourge.

It's a pity that this kind of trade only lasted for four years. After North Korea was invaded by the Tartars and Mao Wenlong died, my master was disheartened and felt that the business had nothing to do, so he donated an official job the year after Mao Wenlong's death.

Therefore, my family is very familiar with the situation in North Korea, and all the high-ranking nobles in North Korea who participated in supporting Mao Wenlong back then are also very familiar with my master.If you talk about the inside story, you will know the details. "

Zheng Chenggong listened with great interest, but he didn't expect there to be so many coincidences.

He had only heard from elder brother Shen that Duke Shen was an official donated as the son of the imperial concubine in the second year of Chongzhen. Now that he thought about it, it was the first year of Chongzhen, North Korea was invaded by the Tartars, and Mao Wenlong was killed by Yuan Chonghuan. Completely connected in time.

Zheng Chenggong sorted out the cause and effect, and encouraged Li Yu with emotion:

"From this point of view, all of this is God's will. To tell you the truth, Mr. Zheng also worked with Brother Shen. Brother Shen is the eldest son of Wumei Gong (Shen Tingyang's name) who raised food for Mr. Mao Town. I am only 22 years old this year, and I have already become the governor of one party in my Ming Dynasty and suppressed thieves and bandits.

Mr. Wumei is now the minister of the Nanjing household department. This time we have done a great job in protecting the water. After returning, Mr. Wumei might be able to be promoted to the minister of the Nanjing household department!If you follow the Shen family, you will have to seal your wife and son in the future!When the Tartars are destroyed in the future, you don't have to hide your name anymore! "

(End of this chapter)