Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 345 Wrong
The naval battle in Dai Quyang lasted all night. The Ming army took advantage of their superiority in numbers and weapons to firmly trap the Dingxi Army in the waterway less than 30 miles between Daishan Island and Qushan Island.

With the continuous arrival of follow-up reinforcements and fishermen, the encirclement on this piece of water became more and more dense.

The Dingxi army, like a trapped beast, tried many times to break through the night, but the results were all in vain.

Some of the pirates also tried to abandon the ship and escape, thinking that as long as they could swim to the nearby islands, it would not be difficult for them, and there might be a way out when the time came.

However, despite the cold sea water in spring, I finally swam past the Ming army's ship area, came to the periphery, saw those fishermen's ships, thought it was all right, and was relaxing, but my body was suddenly bound by something.

It's a fishing net!
Since the imperial court levied a tax on hemp materials last year, the problem of materials for shipbuilding and net weaving in Yinghai Division was solved at once. In Mingzhou, not to mention other things, there are absolutely a lot of fishing nets.

And it's all kinds of things.

In order to prevent the pirates from abandoning their boats and swimming away, the deputy governor of the navy, Wu Zhen, led his troops to Daiquyang. After confirming that a night battle was unavoidable, he immediately ordered them to go out and asked the fishermen near Daiquyang to bring all their fishing nets and gather around the battlefield. .

By the time the desperate pirates thought of abandoning their boats and fleeing at night, the fishermen gathered around the battlefield had already laid down countless fishing nets, and there were various types of them, such as trawl nets, gill nets, seine nets, Flow net, string net, and so on.

Some of these drift nets were specially designed for the previous winter fishing to catch adult hairtails in the deep sea. The depth even reached 20 feet. drowned in the deep sea.

The fishermen are even more unkind to pirates who have no hope of lurking and dare to rise up, and greet them with various harpoons and spears.

The navy has issued an order, just to be prudent, if the peripheral fishermen encounter pirates, they don't need to keep alive, they will be killed directly.

The fishermen have just lived a happy life that they never dared to imagine in the past. They hate pirates who may destroy their lives more than the navy, and they are even more rude when they get a military order.

And so on until dawn.

Thirty of the first month.

God also gave me face, not only was it a cloudless day, there was not even fog on the sea.

The lineup of the Ming army that fought all night was still neat. Among the encirclement, there were less than 173 of the original [-] pirate ships floating on the water, and the Ming army had no regrets about it.

Daming's shipbuilding capacity has been rising rapidly, and it would be better if it could be captured, but it doesn't matter if it can't be captured.

In the morning light, when one of the Kou ships shouted and chose to surrender, the other enemy ships in the encirclement were also forced to follow.

It doesn't work if you don't follow.

It was dawn, and the Dingxi Army, which was aggressive the day before, had grown from more than 3200 people at the beginning to less than [-] now.

Looking around, there are no less than [-] regular Ming troops.

The fishing boats of the Yinghai Division continued to come to the periphery until dawn. Even if they had no fighting power, the number was enough to make one's scalp tingle.

What's up with this?
While Wu Zhen, the deputy governor of the navy, sent someone forward to accept the surrender, he also sent an order to find the bandit leader.

After interrogation and searching, it was learned that Chen Ning, a military strategist of the Dingxi Army, was hacked to death by Zhao Dingxi, and that during the battle last night, he fell into the bottom of the sea along with Zhao Dingxi's sunk two-thousand-material boat.

Knowing the inside story of this pirate attack, even if he died, Chen Ning couldn't let it go.

Wu Zhen immediately ordered someone to salvage it.

After all, in this sea... Whether it is one's own or the enemy's corpses, it is not suitable to throw them away at will after all. They should be transported to the shore and disposed of properly.

Fortunately, the swollen body of Chen Ning was quickly found.

But the other person, Zhao Dingxi, the leader of the pirates, has never been found.

According to the confession of the pirates who surrendered, after Zhao Dingxi overthrew Chen Ning, he apparently commanded his boat to charge the Ming army in an attempt to break through, but in fact, he dived and left halfway.

The leader of the bandits, Zhao Dingxi, cannot be let go.

Wu Zhen was worried that Zhao Dingxi, who was very good at water, might have successfully bypassed layers of siege, or had already landed on a nearby island, and immediately sent an order to go out, and even made preparations to find the person by digging three feet, and then, News came from the fishermen outside.

Zhao Dingxi was beaten to death.

The corpse was recognized by the surrender pirates.

It turned out that last night Zhao Dingxi abandoned all his plans and tried to escape by swimming, but he did not expect that the fishing nets laid by the fishermen outside would be so dense. In a gillnet.

Zhao Dingxi found that he couldn't break free, so he just pushed the boat along and pretended to be dead, thinking that the fishermen would catch him up and then make trouble.

Things... began as he had imagined.

The fishermen on the corresponding fishing boat discovered that a "big fish" might have been caught in their gillnet, and the "big fish" might have been trapped to death, so they pulled up the net.

However, what Zhao Dingxi did not expect was that these fishermen were also cautious.

Zhao Dingxi was pulled out of the water just now, and he was not given a chance to attack him, so several harpoons were thrown at him together.

Although Zhao Dingxi even fiercely pulled a fisherman into the water when he was dying, he couldn't find another back for him, and he died in a useless way.

The frightened fishermen were worried that Zhao Dingxi would 'cheat the corpse' again, and stabbed the head of the bandit indiscriminately, so that, at dawn, the first round of identity verification was not even recognized.

It wasn't until Wu Zhen ordered Zhao Dingxi's second round of identity verification that a thief who was close to Zhao Dingxi felt that... a corpse with a tattered head seemed, seemed, probably... his own commander.

Both the Kou Shou and the Thief Deputy have been conferred, and the battle is finally settled.

Wu Zhen's coach was on the boat, and the clock sent from Jinling some time ago showed that at two o'clock in the afternoon, the report on the Daiqu naval battle was finally sent to Dinghai.

The battle report first introduced the basic situation of this group of thieves.

Zhao Dingxi, the 'Zhendongyang' who was born in Huaidong, and Chen Ning, who escaped after a certain assassination last year, have both been awarded the leadership.

This group of pirates is called the "Dingxi Army", with a total of more than 3200 people, [-]% of whom are Japanese recruited by Zhao Dingxi in the Wa Kingdom.Not only that, Zhao Dingxi has also established his own stronghold in the Wa country, occupying Jiuwei Island with a radius of fifty miles, and extending his tentacles to Kyushu.

Furthermore, Zhao Dingxi only brought out [-]% of the most elite forces this time, and the other [-]% were deployed to stay in Japan.

Then, there are casualties on both sides of this battle.

The biggest casualty of the Ming army was when Xia Hai's troops intercepted and intercepted Zhao Dingxi's escape. In the subsequent night battle, relying on absolute force suppression and careful battle deployment, the bandits did not take too much advantage.

According to preliminary statistics, the Ming army killed a total of 461 people and injured 1129 people.

The Dingxi Army was completely annihilated, with more than 2700 wiped out and 534 surrendered.

After that, at the end of the battle report, Wu Zhen also mentioned two things.

The ship built by Mr. Yinghai Envoy last year showed too many advantages in this naval battle. Therefore, it should become the focus of the development of the Ming Dynasty Navy.

And, through preliminary interrogation, this side has also been confirmed.

The person who led the Dingxi army to attack Haiyan in Jiaxing was the guard of Murata, a Japanese businessman. He should be arrested immediately and dealt with as a crime.

In the end, Wu Zhen also asked people to send back a few things along with the battle report. The Dingxi Army used the same stargazers, telescopes, and even maps as the Ming Navy. The Deputy Commander of the Navy did not comment on this.

Dinghai.

Admiral Hua Gao of the Navy received the news that Xia Hai's troops had encountered pirates last night, but when he heard that the scale of the pirates was larger than his initial estimate of 2000 people, he couldn't help but feel worried.

After all, judging by the time, not to mention whether Xia Hai's troops can successfully intercept the escape of the bandits, even if they do, when Wu Zhen's troops arrive, it will inevitably be a night battle based on the time.

Night battles are always full of variables!
In the lobby of the Naval Governor's Mansion, Hua Gao, who hadn't slept all night, stood calmly at the head of the chairman's table, muttering about studying the chart in front of him, when he heard footsteps, he raised his head suddenly.

It is disappointing.

The one who came in was Liu Lian, deputy envoy of Yinghai.

Liu Lian also looked extremely tired, with obvious strong anger in his fatigue.

yesterday……

When it was confirmed that it was indeed Jiaxing Haiyan who was attacked, Liu Lian personally rushed over with the personnel and supplies of the Ying Hai Division, hoping to help the people who suffered from the military disaster. Then, Liu Lian saw that scene and kept him up all night A sleepless and tragic scene, the charred old man, the drowned child, and the corpse of a woman who was stripped of her clothes and hung up high...

Is this something that humans can do?

This intense anger has continued to this day.

Arriving at the lobby of the Navy Governor's Mansion, looking at Hua Gao above him, Liu Lian followed the Confucian's instinct to salute, his anger was still uncontrollable, he stared at Hua Gao with wide eyes, and asked dryly: "Commander, The thief...has he caught up?"

If the navy can't catch up, he, Liu Lian, is willing to join the army and go after him himself.

Even if you chase it to the horizon, you won't let it go!
Hua Gao raised his head, saw Liu Lian's appearance, and wanted to grin habitually, but his expression had been frozen for too long, so he couldn't grin, so he just nodded slightly.

To chase is to catch up.

The result... I don't know yet!
Just when Liu Lian wanted to continue to question, hurried footsteps sounded outside the lobby, and someone shouted: "Captain, great victory, great victory..."

When the voice came, whether it was Hua Gao, Liu Lian, or the other generals in the hall who had been pretending to be working, they all cheered up immediately.

Everyone watched as the messenger sent by the deputy governor delivered the battle report to the governor, and surrounded them together.

Liu Lian also looked at Hua Gao who tore open the envelope in twos and twos. He just heard the word 'great victory', and the depression in his heart was released a little.

Huagao simply browsed through it, and saw that everyone around him was staring at him, so he simply read it out.

Because of this, Liu Lian also learned that it was Zhao Dingxi and...Chen Ning who escaped last year!
Chen Ning!
When Liu Lian heard this, he gritted his teeth even more.

Then Zhao Dingxi was originally a pirate, and he did the pirate's work, as it should be, then Chen Ning... was once an official of the imperial court anyway, how could he be reduced to this step by step?

Thinking of this, after the governor finished reading the battle report and ordered to arrest the Japanese businessman Murata's guard, Liu Lian could not help but turn his attention to the items that the messenger had just put together on the conference table: "These...what's going on? "

In front of him are stargazers, telescopes, maps, etc., which are common in the Navy and the Battalion Navy.

"I don't know," the hundred naval households who sent the letter shook their heads, thinking about it and added, "These...were confiscated from the pirates, and I am also puzzled. This should belong to our Daming, how could it fall into the trap?" into the hands of the pirates."

Others also looked over together.

The things in front of me are just the most common navigation tools, and everyone can judge that these are not objects made by the Navy or the Marine Corps, and they are obviously not fine enough.

However, it is obviously a skill that has been handed down from Dinghai.

Everyone didn't think anything, but soon discovered that a certain deputy envoy of Yinghai... did not know what he thought of, his face suddenly turned pale, then suddenly red, and turned blue after a while.

What's the matter?

Of course, it is impossible for the people around to know, but Liu Lian suddenly thought of some words of the Young Master Yinghai Envoy last year.

At that time, it was a brick and tile workshop in the south of Yongjiang River.

That Hu merchant...

Ibrahimovic Cinara, who left Daming years ago, took advantage of a gust of north wind to go to Nanyang and return to his hometown.

Liu Lian was very friendly with Asana Uro, so there were some disputes with the Yinghai envoy, about things like hospitality or not.

as well as……

It was already a little blurry, but at this time, for some reason, that conversation was so clear, and the clarity made Liu Lian's heart ache.

At that time...

Regarding Liu Lian's generous teaching of some knowledge of navigation to Sanawuluo, the little master Yinghai envoy said: "...one day in the future, someone will drive a warship according to the navigation skills handed down from you, and break into the sea. The waters of our country are rampant, burning, killing and looting, I hope you will not regret being a good teacher today."

Liu Lian also heard what he said: "If this day comes, the lower officials will definitely fight, and they will not hesitate to die."

As a member of Huaxia, Liu Lian thought, how could the words of Yinghai envoy happen?
How can the overseas barbarians cross the vast ocean and come to my land of China?

Even if they come, they are just a group of local chickens and dogs, how can they cause any harm to Daming?

However, the incident has not passed for many, many years, but less than a year. Looking at the stargazers, telescopes and maps in front of him, Liu Lian realized with a chill...that it happened so soon.

Someone took advantage of the sailing skills handed down by Yinghai Division to drive all the way in with precision, and came to a bustling and lively town, where they burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of crimes.

That burnt old man...

The drowned child...

The corpse of the woman whose clothes were stripped and hung high...

wrong!

wrong!

It turned out that I was really wrong.

Although I know in my heart that this is not my responsibility alone, the entire Yinghai Division and the entire navy have been talked about by the young envoy of the Yinghai Envoy, but they have never really had a big idea about things like technical secrecy.

However, Liu Lian knew that there must be an unshirkable responsibility for this.

Not to mention last year, just hearing the news before, that the "chemistry major" in the capital actually had to strictly examine the qualifications of students, Liu Lian felt that it was not frank enough.

Preaching and teaching, how can that be the case?
Liu Lian almost wrote a letter to refute this.

just now……

Wrong, wrong, I was really wrong.

When the people around felt more and more whether the Deputy Envoy Ying Hai was being haunted, Liu Lian, who was muttering, suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)