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Chapter 50 Wei Family Army

The sea is vast and the surface is calm.

A large ship, more than ten meters long and several meters high, was sailing steadily on the sea.

There are ships all around, and the ships keep a certain distance from each other.

In the flagship command room, in front of Su Qing, there was a sand table of the Zhoushan Islands.

This sand table is made to a very high standard.

The main islands of the Zhoushan Archipelago, as well as the inlets and outlets and important facilities on the islands are also clearly marked.

If the Zhoushan Islands are regarded as a city, this sand table would definitely be the city's defense map.

Without years of hard work, it is impossible to achieve it.

"Brother Dalin, just for creating such a detailed sand table of the Zhoushan Islands, you'll be promoted three ranks at a time!"

Dalin?

In the cabin, besides Su Qing, there was another man.

This man's physique is neither tall nor burly, but he gives people a feeling of fortitude.

He was as majestic as a mountain, and had a murderous and imposing aura, giving off the feeling of a fierce general who treated his enemies as nothing amidst a vast army.

Dalin, Wei Dalin, also known as Wei Sheng.

A native of Jinsha, Longhua, Xianyou, Fujian, he excelled in swordplay, spearmanship, crossbows, and other cold weapon techniques, making him a truly versatile general.

During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, he was appointed as the chief constable by the county magistrate Peng Zhao, responsible for local public security and anti-Japanese command. He was the actual leader of the anti-Japanese operations in Xianyou area.

He organized the "Wei Family Army" under his command, which was based on local militia and had the functions of both militia and regular army, and was specifically responsible for suppressing Japanese pirates.

He was also a man of great merit. He had led his troops to victory in more than 20 battles in the Xingquan area, effectively curbing the invasion of Japanese pirates.

This is a person of the same level as Hu Zongxian and Qi Jiguang.

The only difference between him and the two.

After the Battle of Tumu, the Ministry of War gradually took control of military power and was controlled by civil officials.

Behind Hu Zongxian was the cabinet minister Yan Song, and behind Qi Jiguang was the cabinet minister Zhang Juzheng.

In his early years, Hu Zongxian had difficulty getting promoted due to official corruption, so he chose to attach himself to Yan Song's godson Zhao Wenhua. By "saving the country in a roundabout way", he entered the core circle of Yan's party. Within three years, he was promoted from a seventh-rank county magistrate to the governor of the southeast, and took control of the military power in Zhejiang.

In Qi Jiguang's early period, there was Hu Zongxian, and in his later period, there was Zhang Juzheng.

During Zhang Juzheng's tenure as Prime Minister, he promoted Qi Jiguang to the position of General of Ji-Liao against all odds, broke the ancestral system, allowed him to recruit soldiers from Zhejiang, and removed the eunuchs who supervised the army, making him the actual controller of the northern border defense.

Wei Sheng had no support from the civil servants and was destined to be unable to enter the upper echelons of the military.

Su Qing is very powerful, but military ability is not just a test of strength, it requires overall coordination.

He has one good thing, he doesn't pretend to know something he doesn't.

What a leader needs to do is to know people and assign them to the right positions. If he doesn't understand something, he should let someone who does.

He came up with the idea of ​​annihilating the Japanese pirates, so he asked the Western Factory and the Embroidered Uniform Guard to make a secret visit to Fujian and find Wei Sheng and the Wei family army.

After a conversation, both the host and the guests were happy.

"I don't want promotion, I just want peace at sea."

These words came from Wei Sheng's heart.

Only those who lived on the coast of Fujian, experienced being plundered by Japanese pirates, and witnessed the tragic scene of Japanese pirates slaughtering villages, could understand Wei Sheng’s bitter hatred.

Not only Wei Sheng, but most of the Wei family soldiers under his command were civilians from villages and towns along the coast of Fujian who had suffered from looting and voluntarily joined the army.

They just want to kill the enemy and take revenge.

At the same time, Wei Sheng also understood that although the Wei family army had won many victories, the battlefields were all on the coast of Fujian.

Whenever there is a battle on Ming Dynasty territory, civilians will always be injured.

The only way to eliminate the threat of Japanese pirates is to wipe out the Zhoushan Islands where they gather.

So for more than ten years, I secretly described the geography of the Zhoushan Islands and made a sand table.

Of course, if you want to fight across islands, you also need naval combat capabilities.

They also did training in advance, which made it possible for no one in the Wei family army to get seasick when they boarded the warship.

"Sir! There's movement on the sea!"

Just then, Ding Baiying suddenly came in to report.

Su Qing and Wei Sheng walked out of the cabin one after the other.

Looking into the distance, at the end of the sea level, several black dots are cruising quickly.

There were several ships of different sizes.

The leading ship was throwing its cargo into the sea to lighten the ship. They were escaping.

What's a little strange is that this ship and the ship chasing behind it have the same skull on their sails.

"There was an internal conflict among the pirates?"

Su Qing just had an idea.

But he found that the deck of the first ship was filled with ordinary people wearing tattered clothes and with messy hair, and most of them were women.

The person chasing him had dark skin and was a bit short. His most distinctive feature was his bald hairstyle.

The people in the Middle-earth believe that the hair on our body is inherited from our parents. Except for monks who have entered the Buddhist monastery, their hair is full.

Only the Japanese pirates have such a style.

"They must be the children of the Ming Dynasty. They seized a warship and escaped from the pirates' lair, but were discovered by them."

If you understand this, what are you waiting for?
boom!
A loud roar like a thunderstorm sounded.

The soldiers saw an arrow shot out from Su Qing's hand.

At this time, the ship filled with people from the Ming Dynasty was filled with sadness.

Even though they kept throwing out the goods, they could not distance themselves from the pursuers.

Right!

However, they escaped from the Zhoushan Islands and chose the ship with the best performance.

However, most of them are women.

Even though they are from the coastal areas and can operate ships, how can they compare with the Japanese pirates who make a living from this?

At this moment, obvious guilt could be seen on Lu Wanning's face.

“Sister Lu, you don’t have to feel guilty, if it weren’t for you.

We are still trapped in a den of thieves, unable to live or die.

We thank you for getting us out of that den of thieves."

"good!
Regardless, I don't want to go back.

Even if I die here, I am willing."

Not only the women, but also the men with messy hair were ready to die.

“I remember there was some gunpowder in the cabin.

Why don't we split into two groups, with some on the deck and some hiding in the cabin in advance?

When the beasts caught up and boarded the ship, the people on the deck passed the message and the gunpowder in the cabin was immediately detonated.

Even if I die, I will blow up those things that are worse than animals into the sky."

Everyone shared a common hatred for the enemy.

Rumble!
Just then, a sudden roar sounded, interrupting their communication.

Everyone felt very strange.

The weather is sunny and the sky is cloudless. How could there be thunder?

Instinctively, they looked towards the direction where the sound came from.

Suddenly, a blazing fire flashed, tearing through the void like a meteor descending from the night sky, creating an exaggerated and violent explosion.

The intensity of this light is beyond imagination.

Just looking at it gave me a sense of pseudo-blindness.

The storm it stirred up was even more violent.

Even the huge ship under everyone's feet, which was nearly ten feet long, was tilted violently by the wind, and many people stumbled and fell directly on the deck.

In this way, they actually avoided a greater harm.

boom!
A violent explosion sounded from not far away.

Accompanied by a loud roar, a large amount of white steam also rose along with the violent air waves, and actually artificially created a huge wave of more than ten feet high, which almost overturned the boat where Lu Wanning and other women were.

Lu Wanning, who had withstood the huge waves, stood up.

Looking at the closest Japanese pirate warship not far away, its hull exploded and shattered into wooden boards.

The pair of eyes that were like a lake of autumn water shrank rapidly, filled with shock and disbelief.

If I hadn't covered my mouth, I would have screamed.

After a moment, Lu Wanning came to her senses and looked in the direction where the fire came from.

(End of this chapter)