The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 233 Can't be careless
Jiro Sakashima secretly rejoiced that he was not stupid to command the fort. The first line of defense was easily taken down by the Ming army, and it depended on the killing effect of the second line of defense.

The pirate leader no longer had the self-confidence he had at the beginning, and he even regretted choosing to resist instead of surrendering.

He hid in a six-pounder emplacement disguised as a residence, and stared at the entrance of the waterway with a telescope. Unexpectedly, there were no warships from the Ming army coming, but their shells.

Jiro Sakashima watched helplessly as all his subordinates who were about to bombard the warships of the Ming army chose to abandon their ships and flee ashore, wanting to cry without tears.

However, he still had an illusion. This illusion was that the commander of the Ming army saw that he was easy to lead the officers to the front and was successfully attacked by him. In the case of the Ming army losing command, he might be able to hold on to the island.

The gap between ideal and reality is too big, the Ming army was too careful, and Jiro Sakashima was also an expert in commanding warships. When he saw that the Ming army began to destroy all buildings within the range without distinction, he knew that he was wrong and took it for granted.

If I want to surrender now, I am afraid that the Ming army will not accept it. The six-pound copper-core iron cannon in my cannon can't reach the Ming army's warship. If I hide here stupidly, it will be my turn to be beaten unilaterally.

Jiro Sakashima ran away without firing a shot, because he found that all the old brothers who were hiding and preparing to attack the Ming army ran out.

The Huang family has patience and is not afraid of spending money, because nothing is as precious as the lives of soldiers.Those Japanese tatami-style wooden houses were too easy to destroy, and soon there was a lot of fire near the pier.

When the buildings within the range of the artillery fire were razed, Master Huang Sheng appeared. Although there was a lot of devastation in front of him, the Huang family's private soldiers still landed in an orderly manner and marched alternately according to the troops' marching regulations.

Not only that, all the binoculars on the warship were looking at the battlefield from a distance, because it was obvious that more than one explosive barrel hidden by pirates was blown up during the demolition just now.

The soldiers of the Huang family believed the Patriarch's inference that the pirates had ambushed the artillery, so all the binoculars and binoculars were looking at the buildings on the island that our artillery could not reach and destroyed, looking for possible gun ports.

Huang Sheng thinks that artillery is not scary, but he is afraid that it will fire suddenly. As long as you find its location, it is too easy to deal with artillery that is not heavily armed in this era.

The artillery is slow to reload and has poor accuracy. You can predict where it is going to hit by its direction and elevation angle. As long as the infantry walks around and runs within the range of the flintlock, the artillery will be finished.

The private soldiers of the Huang family took turns to cover and march forward. The General Banner of Quanyong was the first to discover a six-pound copper-core iron cannon covered by the collapsed roof.

Sure enough, Huang Sheng breathed a sigh of relief. With the continuous discovery, the pirates had ambushed as many as nine cannons. If he was careless, although he could win this battle, he would lose hundreds of soldiers.
There is no small matter in the army, and we must be more cautious in the future. We must not learn to behave after paying a bloody lesson. Let all the Huang family horses discuss the benefits of not being afraid of trouble this time, so that everyone must learn to protect themselves and Paoze.

The pirates here are so vicious, I have given them a chance to surrender and avoid death, so I can't blame me for choosing to die.

The Huang family's private soldiers were advancing, shouting in Japanese and Chinese in unison: "Raise your hands high and surrender to avoid death!"

No enemy appeared, and one after another, slaves with their hands raised came out of their hiding places and surrendered. Most of them knew Bian Zhiming, who had voluntarily requested to go ashore to participate in the search.

Under the protection of Liu Guozheng and five personal soldiers, this scholar is safe.

He told the liberated slaves in Chinese and Japanese respectively that all the warships of the pirates had been captured by the Ming army, and none of the pirates on Zuomae Island had been killed or captured.

The Han people cheered first, and the slaves seemed very happy, and soon all the slaves took up sticks and joined the team to hunt down the remnants of the pirates.

The pirate leader of Xun Island chose to escape, presumably he had a way out, no matter how he escaped, he had to go to sea, Huang Sheng asked his subordinates to send an order to Huang Mingdao to keep a close watch on the sea, and found that any small boat would be captured or sunk.

The island was too small, the Huang family had too many horses, and many slaves who were familiar with the island participated in the search. They quickly gathered the people on the island. There were a total of more than a thousand people, and there were not many real pirates. There were more than 200 people.

Huang Dongshan made a surprise interrogation of the captives, and soon these frightened Japanese pirates explained where other places on the island might have their accomplices hiding.

The Huang family was not polite, they did not personally attack the small caves where the Japanese pirates were hiding, but drove the captives in to persuade them to surrender, and continued to send captives carrying [-]-jin bombs to plant them if they did not come out after time.

The Huang family, Ma Ke, didn't care whether the captive death squads would be killed by the matchlock guns fired from inside. It would be best for the captives who planted the bomb to escape successfully.

With bursts of gunshots and intermittent explosions, the pirates on the island who were still trying to escape were killed one after another, and their hideouts were constantly blown up. After two hours, the remnants of the pirates were basically wiped out.

Huang Mingli also sent news that several small boats had escaped from Xiaoyu Island and had been sunk by artillery fire. Whether a few pirates survived the catastrophe depends on his luck.

There are more than a dozen warships of our army patrolling Xiaoyu Island and around the island, and dozens of telescopes are observing. Huang Mingdao expressed doubts whether there are still pirates who can escape such monitoring.

After searching and counting, the body of Jiro Sakashima was not found. This is not surprising. The few small boats sunk at sea did not salvage a few bodies. Maybe the fate of this pirate leader is to feed the fish.

It doesn't matter if he escapes with his life. Pirate leaders who don't have warships don't dare to come out anymore. They have killed and robbed them all year round. The pirates have countless enemies. If their whereabouts are exposed, they will kill themselves.

Some people still think that the pirate leader must be cunning, there must be some treasure, and if he loses his force, he will definitely be rounded up, so no matter whether he slips through the net or not, this group of pirates will not become a threat.

The enemy was wiped out, and the next job was still to return the grains to the warehouse. Another six thousand shi of Japanese rice and property worth more than 30 taels of silver were seized here. The gold and silver treasures of the two brothers were evenly divided.

After fighting pirates for ten days, Huang Sheng returned to Li Guozhu's private port with the loot.

Since he was going to Edo to engage in artillery diplomacy, the stronger his strength, the better. Huang Sheng prepared for three days in the private port, repaired and armed all the eleven captured warships. There were too many sailors and gunners, and most of the slaves were yes.

Choose a skilled and strong Han Chinese as the deputy, and reorganize with the Huang family's gunners and sailors.

Since more than 120 six-pound and four-pound copper-core iron guns were seized from enemy ships and two pirate lairs, the base of the flagship of the "Liaodong" is ready-made, and the designed bearing capacity is completed according to the [-]-pound cannon. , now the largest temporary installation is just a six-pound gun, a piece of cake.

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