The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 327 Shielding the Sea Area
On June 27th, Li Guozhu came as promised, and brought 96 large and small warships, and there were fifty warships above the grass boat, and he really did his best.

Zhoushan is still more than [-] nautical miles away from Xiamen. Huang Sheng has experience and believes that he should be able to reach it within seven or eight days. If he is lucky, it will take five or six days.

It's a pity that I miscalculated, Li Guozhu's warships were not driven by the Huang family's unique propellers, and many of them didn't even rely on the wind power obtained by a few hard sails to sail too slowly.

In the end, Wang Lian came up with the idea of ​​joining together and dragging everyone to sail together. The pirates under Li Guozhu also came to the engine room of Huang's ship to accelerate manually. Sure enough, it was faster, and finally crossed the waters of Quanzhou on the tenth day.

We are approaching Xiamen Port soon, Huang Sheng doesn't want people to find such a huge fleet and start disturbing the people, of course not to loot, but to stop all ship activities along the way for three to five days.

The Huang family's nine sentinel boats, 24 straw boats, and six new main warships began to separate from the huge fleet because they received orders from the Patriarch to block the passing sea area.

All ships in sight were seized, even fishing boats. If anyone dared to resist, they were probably pirates, and they were seized or sunk according to circumstances.

Huang Sheng represented the Daming Navy, and the naval battle flag fluttering high could be seen from afar. The common people dared not be obedient when they saw the officers and soldiers asking them to stop the ship. The pirates would definitely flee when they saw a large number of officers and soldiers.

Therefore, there should be no good people in the sea ships that were sunk and tried to escape. Besides, pirates are rampant here. The reason why Zheng Yiguan was able to successfully attack the coastal villages and towns of Daming repeatedly is that the eyeliners and sentinel boats arranged by him must be quite old and young.

Huang Mingdao couldn't sit still anymore, please let him go to the main battleship 'Yangzhou' to command the battle, he is the supreme commander of the Huang family's navy, of course Huang Sheng wants him to gain actual combat experience.

The high-spirited Huang Mingdao led the fleet of warships out more than ten nautical miles and began to create a no-ship zone. Soon, dozens of fishing boats and several merchant ships were forced to stop. As for whether there were any pirates inside, they were all escorted to the fleet The vicinity was handed over to Huang Dongshan and the musketeers to slowly screen.

Seeing that it was getting closer and closer to Xiamen Port, Huang Mingdao's observation post 'Yangzhou' found several sentinel ships, which did not carry the flag of the Ming Fujian Navy, and there was a big Zheng character on the flag.

Huang Mingli confirmed that it was Zheng Yiguan's pirate warship, and immediately arranged nine sentry horse clippers and six straw boats to disperse left and right to outflank the enemy ships. His own "Yangzhou", "Datong" and six grass boats Skimmer hits head-on.

'Jiangyin' and 'Kunshan' together with six straw boats outflanked from the west, and 'Jiading', 'Guangzhou' and six grass boats attacked from the east.

This is the advantage of high technology, because the lookout posts of the Huang's warship are all fixed binoculars with high focal length.

Before Zheng Yiguan's sentry ship found its own fleet, it deployed a huge encirclement circle, which stretched as far as the eye can see on the sea. It was easier to use high-powered binoculars to predict the enemy in advance than to fight a mobile ambush on land.

There are ditches and dense forests and hills on the land. After the enemy is attacked and flees, there is still the possibility of successfully hiding. Where can we hide at sea?
The sentry boat of the Zheng family, who knew nothing about it, fled at full speed when they spotted the Ming army warship, but unfortunately things backfired and were immediately blocked by the outflanking clippers.

It is definitely a lion fighting a rabbit. Zheng Yiguan's sentry boat has only a few copper blunderbuss like a large gun, and it has no fighting power against a strong boat and sharp guns.

Soon, one of the three sentinel boats that were trying to escape was sunk. The sentinel boat was too small to bear the direct shells. The Huang family also used solid bullets to catch more prisoners and reduce the damage effect. A nine-pound iron ball was hit directly. The sentinel ship was broken up, and the other two surrendered rationally seeing that there was no way to escape.

In the spirit of humanitarianism, the Huang family's warship rescued the pirates who had fallen into the water and captured 26 people in total.Huang Mingdao immediately tied them into rice dumplings and threw them on the sentry horse clipper boat to the flagship where the owner was.

After Li Guozhu came to Zhoushan to join forces, he found that the Huang family's ship was strong and powerful, and its strength was several times stronger than he imagined. He was full of confidence in Zheng Yiguan's attack this time, and he offered to come to Master Huang's flagship "Liaodong" as an errand. So that I can give Mr. Huang advice at any time.

This kid has a very good attitude. He did this to avoid Huang Sheng's suspicion. Another advantage is that his subordinates see the Patriarch commanding together on Master Huang's flagship. If they want to play tricks, they have to consider the consequences.

Li Guozhu came to Master Huang's flagship and was amazed by the equipment of the 'Liaodong'. He was even more confident. He believed that such a huge ship, with such fierce firepower, would be defeated by ten No. [-] Fuchuan-class warships. And return.

Living in the flagship for a few days, he has seen his father lead sailors since he was a child, and he himself has been on warships for more than ten years. Now he sees the brave and fierce fighters of the Huang family and sees their uniform movements. It turned out that he could practice like this, and he admired Master Huang even more.

Today, I heard that Master Huang Mingdao had already captured and captured many prisoners, so he immediately came to the discussion cabin as a staff officer.

The pirate captives had been carried by Mr. Huang's personal team to kneel in front of the owner of the meeting room. The pirates were knowledgeable. They were shocked by the huge fleet of the Daming Navy just now, and after being thrown onto a large ship, they found This ship does not know how many cannons they have not seen before.

The pirates trembled and knelt on the ground to beg for mercy. It was nothing more than an eighty-year-old mother and a three-year-old child, asking the officers and soldiers to raise their hands.

Li Guozhu stood up, walked around the pirates, and suddenly said: "Ling Hong, I recognize you, but I didn't expect you to be alive."

An old pirate with a wrinkled face among the pirate prisoners was dumbfounded. He looked very old, but he was not yet 40 years old. It was really unexpected that there was an adult in the navy of the Ming Army who knew him.

Looking intently, he suddenly burst into tears, and said, "Little master, I never imagined that I would be able to see you again in this life!"

It turned out that this old sailor named Ling Hong was a small boss, in charge of a sentry ship and nine pirate soldiers.He followed Li Guozhu's father, Li Dan, to the sea more than ten years ago, but he didn't expect to see the little master Li Guozhu today, and he felt sad and happy for a while.

Huang Sheng carefully observed Ling Hong's expression, and then asked him about his situation in the past two years in detail. He knew that this Ling Hong was also an old pirate. With a sentry ship, it must have not been reused.

The sentry boat is equivalent to the army's Yebushu and horse scouts. It is a high-risk unit. He is almost forty, and he was appointed to such an errand.

Li Guozhu felt a lot of emotion when he saw the old man at first sight, he knelt down to intercede for the old sailor.Huang Sheng went along with the flow to accept Ling Hong, and appointed him as an official from the seventh-rank deputy general banner, and immediately asked He Xiang to handle the official certificate for him, and stayed on the flagship as a guide.

Huang Sheng now only needs to report for the appointment of a military officer below the sixth rank. It is impossible to be rejected when he arrives at the Ministry of War. After reporting to the court, he will definitely pass the customs smoothly.

The military officer of the Ming court and the leader of the pirates are more important than Ling Hong. How could Ling Hong not know that the old sailor had achieved a good result, and he kowtowed and wept.

Huang Sheng gave Lin Hong a seventh-rank official status, which does not mean that he was included in the ranks of the Huang family's private soldiers. This official position is a deputy chief banner officer under the chief executive Qian of the Water Camp of Daming Juehua Island.

(End of this chapter)