Dragon Sea Empire

When Yin Feng's fleet arrived at the mouth of Penghu Bay, Li Kuiqi and his son of the pirate ship Feihu were taken aboard the battleship Feilong.Lu Shitou was waiting for them to board the boat.

Seeing him, Li San cupped his hands and said, "Boss Lu, it's a pleasure to meet you!"

Lu Shitou said angrily: "Stop talking nonsense, talk about what's going on, why do some people disobey orders and go to war with Hong Maoyi? Aren't you embarrassing me?"

Li San hurriedly said, "Yuan Ba ​​and the others did it..."

"Captain Yin already knows, and his people have rescued Yuan Jin at the exit of the bay. Come on, let me introduce you to Dadong Yin's family." Lu Shitou shook his head and led the way ahead.

Yuan Jin is a good swimmer who claims to be able to swim in the sea for a whole day without incident.After being beaten by the Dutch this time, the ship sank and everyone died, he spent half a day swimming out of the bay alone, and was rescued by most of the people who had just arrived at Yin Feng.However, his partner Li Zhong was sunk by the Dutch cannon and disappeared because he came to rescue him.

Yin Feng walked back and forth in front of Yuan Jin very annoyed.

Yuan Jin knelt on the deck, bowed his head and wept bitterly: "Captain Yin, Da Dong, let me take someone to charge again! Brother Li Zhong died unjustly! I dragged him down, let me Avenge him!"

Yin Feng restrained his urge to beat Yuan Jin violently: recently he found that his temper was soaring, and he seemed to lose his temper easily.He picked up Yuan Jin.Yin Feng's tall stature and the physical strength formed by years of judo training made the small Yuan Jin unable to resist at all, and was easily dragged to the side of the boat.Yin Feng pointed in the direction of Penghu Bay and said, "Because of your impulsiveness and disobedience, more than 50 brothers died in this bay. Do you want to drag more brothers to die?"

Yin Feng let go, and Yuan Jin knelt down on the deck again with a plop, crying loudly.

Lu Shitou led the Li family father and son to see this scene. The Li family father and son looked at each other for a while. Li Kuiqi stuck out his tongue and quickly hid behind his father obediently.

Yin Feng saw Lu Shitou and said angrily: "Brother Lu, I always emphasize military discipline! Yuan Jin was the first to join the Jinghai Gang, how could he be so lawless and openly violate my orders? Brother Lu, you How did you bring your subordinates?"

These words were very serious, and the faces of the brothers from the former pirate gang changed, worrying that Lu Shitou, who had always been rebellious, would lose face.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, Lu Shitou bowed his head and admitted his mistake: "Brother Yin is right, I don't know how to manage people, and I don't know how to manage so many people."

Yin Feng was also a bit unexpected: "Brother Lu, I'm just discussing the matter, I have no other intentions."

Lu Shitou chuckled: "Brother Yin, don't worry, I'm not complaining about your words, I'm telling the truth. I was originally Master Zeng's second driver (meaning deputy), I can fight and kill, use my brain In the war, I have to lead so many brothers. I really can’t do anything. In this way, Brother Yin, you can be the leader of the Jinghai gang, and I will be your second driver, contact the old brothers, and fight the battle. I can do this. arrive."

Yin Feng knew that Lu Shishitou was rough on the surface, but he was actually a sensible person. These words should have been formally proposed after long-term consideration.

As the big boss of the China United Company, Yin Feng basically controls all the armed forces owned by the company. Only the Jinghai Gang is an outlying organization, which was convened in the name of Lu Shitou, although all participants know that Yin Feng is actually the boss behind the scenes , but the actual manager is Lu Shitou.

Now, Lu Shitou's move is actually to use Yuan Jin's affairs to transfer his power to Yin Feng.

There was silence on the deck, even Yuan Jin didn't make a sound.Yin Feng looked around and saw that all the pirate brothers were looking at him eagerly, knowing that this must be Lu Shitou's idea.He could only frown and said, "Let's discuss this matter later. Now, let's see how the naval battle will be fought tomorrow."

"Report! Mai Xiaoliu of Battle Fleet is here!"

At this time, a sailor rushed to report.

Mai Xiaoliu hurriedly walked up to Yin Feng, cupped his hands and saluted: "Boss owner, Mai Xiaoliu has fulfilled our mission, we have guarded the Mazu Palace camp."

"Excellent!" Yin Feng was very happy, and turned his head to Lu Shitou and said, "Brother Lu, first take Yuan Jin to the bottom cabin and enforce the military law; let him be locked up for 10 days first!"

When Yin Feng transferred to the Flying Dragon, the number of ships in his fleet had swelled to a frightening level: including more than 50 ships of the Battle Fleet he brought, plus the pirate ships of the Jinghai Gang who came one after another, The total number of boats brought by fishermen, boat people, and small businessmen from all over the world has exceeded 300, and the boats directly belonging to Yin Feng's Zhonghua United Company accounted for two-thirds.

On the original historical level, Shen Yourong surrounded the Dutch with more than 50 sailboats, and fooled the Dutch with his words, and this alone has been immortalized forever.Yin Feng thought to himself, if he defeated the Dutchman this time, he would definitely be famous forever.

At this time, Yin Feng and his main subordinates were present in the compartment at the tail of the Flying Dragon: the commander of the battle fleet Lu Shitou, the deputy commander Mai Dahai, the captain of the Flying Dragon Ye Hua, and foreign friends, the consultant and staff officer of the battle fleet Barley Captain Trust; the commander of the infantry is concurrently held by Yin Feng himself, and there are also the chiefs of the two sentry infantry on this expedition; the first sentry commander Mai De, the second sentry commander Zheng Dewen, and the chief instructor of the guards, Colonel Kutley , Chen Zhongji and Yan Siqi of Yin Feng's personal guards—this guy volunteered to join Yin Feng's subordinates, fearing that his bold personality would cause trouble, so he stayed under Yin Feng's nose for the time being.

These people were listening to Mai Xiaoliu's story about how the guards stationed in Penghu were guarding the trading house.

Just when the battleship Orange was entangled with Yuan Jin and others' ship, the Dutch auxiliary ship had already sent 100 Hong Maoyi soldiers ashore.And also brought two small cannons ashore.

The coastal beach in Mazu Palace is nearly 3 miles away, barely within the range of the naval guns, but now the Orange has no time to support the infantry, and the Dutch sailors decided to use a quick assault as soon as they landed to seize Mazu Palace in one fell swoop. people's camp.They lined up in three rows in a very irregular line, and launched an attack after a short rest on the beach.

Lin Xiao, Mai Xiaoliu and others were already ready to meet the enemy.

When the unsuspecting Dutch sailors approached the Mazu Palace, there was silence inside and outside the camp of the Chinese company, as if the people inside had abandoned the camp and left.

When only 50 steps away from the wooden fence wall of the camp, Lin Xiao fired the first shot on the top of the wall, and then 50 sailors from the China United Company continued to fire musket bullets behind the wooden fence.

The Dutch sailors who were caught off guard were unprepared, and never expected that the opponent's firepower was so fierce.Their idea is to successfully seize this well-built camp in one attack, and easily take it as their own.

Since the gentle slope of the beach in front of the Mazu Palace had almost no terrain for concealment, the Dutch line was broken by the continuous rain of bullets, and they ran chaotically towards the beach landing site.Lin Xiao obeyed Yin Feng's order and did not go out to pursue him.

Admiral Wei Malang had just ordered the Orange to be moved back to the direction of the beach, when he learned the news of the failure of the attack from the orderly.Admiral Wei Malang, who was normally calm, was furious and ordered the sailors to attack again. The battleship Orange bombarded the Mazu Palace area with its artillery.

Lin Xiao, Mai Xiaoliu and others had already prepared a large amount of wood and thatch, and mixed them with soil and piled them in front of the wooden fence wall to form a layer of artillery defense nearly 1 meters thick.Local fishermen also helped to transport a lot of sand from the beach, piled it on a dozen wheelbarrows (Yin Feng asked the logistics team to transport it to Penghu), and placed it in front of the camp.In this way, when the Dutch cannon hit the sand and wood blocks, a large part of the power was removed, and in the end it was basically unable to form a ricochet, and it could not penetrate the wooden wall when it hit the wooden fence.

This is the defense facility that Yin Feng asked Lin Xiao and others to prepare in advance after learning from the method used by the Ming army to deal with the Dutch cannons.In the original historical time and space, the Dutch came to Penghu for the second time. After more than half a year of siege, the Ming army was unable to resist the Dutch firearms. Finally, the Ming army figured out a way to block the enemy's shells by relying on thick wooden walls wrapped in mud. , The soldiers behind pushed forward and moved forward, thus besieging the Dutch army bit by bit.

Now Yin Feng uses this kind of indigenous method of horse-riding facilities for defense, which is also very effective.This time, when the Dutch lined up neatly and came to a distance of 60 steps from the wooden fence, the Chinese sailors behind the wooden fence stood up and once again fired continuously at the Dutch sailors' team.

The Dutch on the exposed terrain suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat to the landing site under Wei Malang's nose.At this moment, Wei Malang did not dare to underestimate the enemy any more, ordered the shelling to stop, and asked the sailors to go ashore immediately to reinforce their comrades on the island.

Mai Xiaoliu talked about the battle with spit, and finally said proudly: "According to our statistics, we killed 20 Dutchmen and injured countless people. Only one of our brothers was hit by shells. Broken right leg and three others were wounded by bullets."

Yin Feng kept patting Xiao Liuzai on the shoulder: "You did a good job, Guangguang was also very calm this time, and didn't rush out to chase." He looked at the people around him, and said slowly: "This time against the Dutch , finally made a good start on the island. The problem now is how to drive them into the sea!"

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Wei Malang frowned and called Li Jin over, and asked him, "Is the army fighting us on the island today the army of your empire?"

Li Jin shook his head: "Absolutely not. I have had contact with the imperial army. They don't have so many muskets, and their combat effectiveness is not so strong; the cannons that can face our warships can still hold on to the camp."

Wei Malang nodded: "I observed the situation on the battlefield. Their tactics of using muskets to fight are basically the same as the fighting methods that are popular in Europe. Therefore, this army should have been trained by us Europeans. "

Li Jin opened his eyes wide, and asked in amazement, "What country are they from?"