The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 341
Private secretary He Xiang felt a little anxious. She followed the master for the longest time and was nourished by the master the most. Why didn't she get pregnant?

Now she is the only one serving the master, so the beauty seized the opportunity given by God and changed completely. Every night, there are thousands of styles, and the temptation makes the master want to stop. Red lips serve...  

There are many islands in the Penghu archipelago. When the joint fleet attacked the Xiaomenyu Fort, the rumble of gunfire should have alarmed the nearby pirates.

I just don't know if they ran away?The pirates here should be allies with Zheng Yiguan's group, nominally obeying Zheng Yiguan's command. At this time, the pirate gang who thinks they can't stand a fight should go to Zheng Yiguan's lair, Yaogang Base, to gather together for warmth, right?
The next target selected by Huang Sheng is Xiwei Islet, which is less than ten nautical miles away from Xiaomen Islet. The pirate leader who is entrenched is called He Bin. This kid has forty or fifty warships. Along the coast, many unreasonable things have been done.

The sentry boat of Huang's family kept monitoring Xiweiyu, and found that not only did the warships under He Bin's command fail to escape in the past three days, but warships continued to enter the port.

The Huang family's warships still proceeded step by step, first adopting the mode of encircling the port and monitoring a radius of [-] nautical miles, slowly approaching.

Then the new warships attacked the pirate forts stationed in the port, which was not challenging. In history, the warships of the British and French allied forces used rifled guns to attack the Dagukou forts equipped with hundreds of smoothbore guns with ease.

The fort deployed by the pirates here is nothing more than a few cumbersome red cannons, and they were quickly captured.

In order to show off the might of the army, knowing that the pirate leader He Bin here would not surrender easily, he still sent a sentry boat and ten prisoners from the sentry horse boat captured from Xiwei Island to surrender conditionally.

Half an hour passed, but no white flag was raised in the pirate's lair, and it was obvious that the persuasion to surrender was rejected.

It doesn't matter, use cannons to communicate with them, and the flowering bullets continue to fall into He Bin's home port in Xiweiyu. When the enemy ship's artillery fire is basically cleared, Li Guozhu's warships swarm in, and the battle to seize the ship begins.

In order to avoid unnecessary casualties of his own fighters, Huang Sheng gave this sure-win attack to the idle Li Guozhu pirate force.

Li Guozhu's subordinates have been impatient for a long time, one by one screaming and rushing. Although their equipment is not satisfactory, jumping gangs and seizing ships is a combat skill they are familiar with. The combat effectiveness of those Japanese ronin should not be underestimated. , He Bin's warships all changed their flags.

Li Guozhu only killed dozens of people in the battle, and more than 100 wounded were treated by Huang's medical soldiers in time. Those wounded Japanese wanderers kept bowing to the medical soldiers to express their gratitude.

Immediately, the landing battle began. He Bin thought that his territory was deep, and he could use the fortress on land to resist stubbornly.

Unexpectedly, it is taken for granted that the Ming army has artillery that can be pulled and run with a longer range, and his plan to hold on to the fortress is doomed to abort.

He Bin's base camp was built at the foot of a mountain, more than three miles away from the sea. There was a stone castle with a radius of about [-] steps and a height of more than two feet. Eighteen red barbarian cannons were placed on the top of the wall.

His subordinates all used hot weapons, such as matchlock guns, carrying guns, bowl-mouth guns, etc., and more than 1000 minions were defending the fortress.

The fortress was not small enough for everyone to go in and take shelter, but He Bin was worried about two or three thousand slaves, fearing that they would suddenly turn back when they found out that a strong enemy was attacking, and these people would be shut out.

When Huang Sheng arrived with his army, he found two to three thousand people who did not flee at all, not all of them were Han Chinese, there were even blond-haired and blue-eyed Westerners from Japan, Korea, Luzon, etc.

They are all survivors after being robbed by He Bin, and many of them have become numb on the island.

They didn't care who was snatched from them at all. When they saw the Ming army landed, they immediately knelt down and begged for surrender.Huang Sheng needed people anyway, so after appeasing these people, he asked someone who was familiar with the situation of the castle to describe the layout there again.

The Huang family's private soldiers landed and participated in the battle, including ten Baizong musketeers and all artillery and grenadiers. Li Guozhu led more than 2000 men under his command to carry giant shield ladders to prepare for the ants to attack the city.

The morale of Li Guozhu's pirates was high. Since the Huang's warship almost destroyed the artillery fire of the enemy ship, their losses were limited and their gains were huge when they joined the gang.

Those belongings were nothing more than what the pirates carried with them, and everyone knew that the wealth inside should be astonishing if the fortress that the pirates had been operating for a long time was breached.

Li Guozhu saw that the army's spirit was strong, and he knew that this fortress was not easy to fight, so he still bit the bullet and said to Huang Sheng: "My lord, I will invite you to fight, and the sons under my command are screaming. How about I let the humble leader lead them?"

Xu Xinsu had heard that He Bin's fortress was indestructible, and when he saw that Li Guozhu was going to bring people up in person, he secretly admired him. It seemed that this brother was going to show his loyalty to Master Huang with his bloody military exploits.

It's a pity that he only brought dozens of subordinates, so he really had nothing to show, so he had to say: "Master Huang, the dozens of arquebus gunmen brought by the humble job have experienced many times in defending the city. They have rich experience and can accompany Brother Li Guozhu under his command to attack together."

Huang Sheng looked at the two of them and said with a smile: "You two are not afraid of life and death. I know that the Huang family are experts in attacking fortresses. You don't need to suffer huge casualties. You can just lead your team to block He Bin's retreat. .”

The island that He Bin occupied was a long strip running north-south. Huang's private soldiers attacked from the north, and Li Guozhu led his men to block the south to prevent the pirates from collapsing and fleeing all over the island.It is much easier to capture prisoners!
Li and Xu were greatly moved. This Master Huang is interesting enough. They have taken the initiative to bear the huge casualties and are willing to fight hard.

Their men and horses are their capital, and the situation forced them to call for a battle just now, so of course they will go downhill and obey orders, even if the property in the fortress cannot be shared by their own subordinates, it doesn't matter.

After all, there is too much uncertainty about whether such a strong city will be successful, even if it succeeds, I am afraid that my troops will be devastated.

Li Guozhu and Xu Xinsu sent all their subordinates to block the passage about three miles wide to the south. Neither of them went there in person, but stayed behind. They wanted to see for themselves how Master Huang attacked the stone fortress.

The private soldiers of Huang's family are very busy. They are all making preparations according to the plan. The engineers built three lookout posts with prefabricated parts [-] steps away from the enemy's fortress. The artillery positions have been completed, and all the armored vehicles have been pushed into place. tidy.

The position of He Bin's fortress is higher than that of the Huang family's private soldiers, and their fortress wall is seven meters longer. used.

The artillery commander Gou'er personally went to the lookout post to direct the firing of the three rifled guns, with the purpose of killing the six artillery guns deployed by the enemy on this side of the city wall.

One side of He Bin's fortress is surrounded by mountains, and there are three walls, each equipped with six red cannons.

The biggest disadvantage is that it is bulky and weighs four to five thousand kilograms, and has a strong recoil. It needs a solid fort to launch it. It is wishful thinking to change positions in a hurry.

(End of this chapter)