The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 124
The host and guest had a good time drinking and chatting, when Huang Mingdao came.

Huang Sheng put down his chopsticks and said to Li Guozhu and Li Er: "I found a group of pirates nearby, and I want to hunt them with my army. I haven't seen blood for a long time. The soldiers' hands are itchy!"

Li Er was shocked and said: "My lord, you must not do it. If you make a mistake, how can we go back?"

Huang Sheng said disapprovingly: "Some clowns will come as soon as they go, so they won't miss the return date."

Hearing this, Li Guozhu became more interested in Huang Sheng, and did not stop him, saying: "There are many pirates nearby, I wonder which one my lord is planning to attack? I am very familiar with the surroundings, and I can also help my lord!"

"Mr. Li is really generous. I thank you. Those pirates are not worth mentioning. You don't need to worry about me. I will be back in at least three days. I wonder if there will be a missed return date?"

"Just go, my lord. It will take a few days to get all the goods on board the ship for the return journey, so we can't miss the return journey."

Li Guozhu saw that this adult didn't know good and bad, and was too arrogant, so he decided to stand by and watch, just to see if he was really good at fighting.

When Huang Sheng came to the pier, all the fighters were ready to go. They heard Huang Dongshan and Liu Liangcai introduce the situation of the pirate lair, and they knew that there were only more than 200 people there.

Most of them were not warriors, and they didn't even have defenses, let alone forts and cities. As for the twenty cannons on board, everyone doubted whether the pirates would have time to fire them.

During the exercise, the Fuchuan equipped with artillery was used as the imaginary enemy many times. The soldiers all knew that the warships of the Huang family were much shorter.

And at this time, our own warship has already arrived under the No. [-] Fuchuan, and it is already dark under the lights, even if the shells are successfully fired, they will not hit.

All the ships of the Huang family came to Japan to participate in the plowing operation. Huang Sheng liked to have more people bullying the few. He knew that there would not be more than 50 samurai in the pirate team, so he used all his strike forces.

Arranging combat missions on the vast ocean and carrying out a detailed division of labor, this time is completely different from crossing the sea to attack Jiannu.

The most important thing in attacking Jiannu is the word 'quick', because it was fighting alone in the enemy-occupied area, under the watchful eyes of the Jiannu army.

If the enemy discovers the whereabouts of our troops and uses cavalry to attack and cut off our army's return, all the raiding troops will fall into a hard fight, and the final result will of course be an honorable sacrifice.

The hard fight is actually meaningless, it just proves the unyieldingness of the Huang family's private soldiers, and the Patriarch led his subordinates to death on the way to charge!

But this time, the most important thing to fight against pirates is the word "steady". You can take it slowly, first easy and then difficult. Pirates will not have thousands of troops to reinforce them. If you kill one, you will lose one. We are not in a hurry, and we must ensure ourselves first. safety, and strive to continue to have zero casualties.

In the evening, the fleet moored at the large reef in the bay to the east of Kuga Island, north of Fukue Island, and the port could be clearly seen by bypassing the reef.

Huang Sheng arranged for everyone to eat and sleep, get up at the third watch to prepare, and set off at the fourth watch. They should be able to enter the port before the fifth watch, and the sky should be bright at this time.

At the end of July, the dawn is still relatively early.

All the soldiers of Huang Sheng's fleet rested for four hours in peace of mind, got up early in the morning and enjoyed a hearty breakfast comfortably, and then turned around the big reef in the dark, slowly approaching the enemy's lair.

At this time, the sky was slightly bright, and all the ships rushed directly to this port with full sails, without manpower driving, all depended on the speed of the sails.

The fleet is not afraid of the danger of running aground at all, because the waterline of the straw boat is nearly three feet higher than that of the No. [-] Fuchuan. The Chinese ship has a multi-seat structure, and it is difficult to sink if it hits a rock. It is very close to the land, so you can safely and boldly pounce on it. Enemy lair.

'Guangning' and 'Gaizhou' brought four horse boats straight to the port, preparing to land at the fastest speed and establish a beachhead.

The 'Golden State' with a horse boat was targeting the No. [-] blessing ship, and the 'Fuzhou' would also attack that pirate warship with a horse boat.

Yuuji Aoi never expected that his new home port would be attacked by surprise. It was actually just a coincidence that he chose this place to settle down.

Last year, when he hurriedly fled to the north of Fukue Island, he encountered heavy fog. His warship lost its direction. When the clouds cleared and the sunrise and the fog cleared, he found that there was land not far from where he was.

He was going to land to find fresh water, and found this natural port. After landing, he found that there was a sweet spring at the foot of the mountain within two hundred steps.

Yuji Aoi, who urgently needs his home port, feels that the conditions here are unique, and there is no human habitation. The entrance of the waterway is blocked by a large reef.

This sea area is densely covered with hidden reefs, and it is necessary to go around the big reefs to enter safely. Sea ships that don't know where they are are afraid of hitting the reefs will not rush into it in a daze.

He knew that he only had 61 subordinates left, and he must never choose a port where ships come and go, because there are too few subordinates and it is impossible to deploy defenses. If his colleagues find that his strength is weak, they may come to eat them anytime, anywhere. Just dozens of people.

It is the best choice to choose a hidden place to develop secretly. Although it is inconvenient, he has taken a fancy to this place as a nest where no one cares about and is safer.

Yuji Aoi started to run the old nest, and began to plunder wildly everywhere. They wanted everything, including population, property, and food. After more than a year of development, they also accumulated a lot of property.

What is particularly satisfying is that he attacked a shipyard and captured more than a dozen shipbuilders. It is a compulsory course for every pirate to repair and transform ships by himself, and he did it.

Now the home port has a population of more than a hundred and dozens, and successfully sold the four snubbed Zhuyin ships and a lot of goods that it snatched, and sold a dozen unsatisfactory artillery pieces.

Through the relationship network of several Japanese daimyo who helped sell the stolen goods in the past, they bought ten six-pound copper-core iron cannons produced by Westerners at a high price, and they could dispatch two warships to improve the efficiency of robbery.

Unexpectedly, at such a time, he suffered the loss of only one warship going to sea, and was attacked for no reason by a grass boat that he had never looked down upon before.

Yuji Aoi's need for more warships was even more urgent. On the day he came back, he asked his brothers to help him, and cooperated with those craftsmen to build the warships.

His subordinates are all old gangsters. This time, he was bullied like this by a little grass. The warships can go to sea to fight as soon as possible.

If they acted in time, they might be able to avenge their vengeance on that damned Daming Grass, and the pirates knew the rules of the ships on the route all too well.

Knowing with certainty that Daming's fleet would return by the same route within a few days, they were impatient to try to complete the ship repair and alteration work as soon as possible, hoping to catch up with the time to take revenge.

(End of this chapter)