This laid the foundation for the final tragedy.

He had no troops of his own. Once he failed to recruit him, he was arrested and imprisoned, and his head was beheaded the following year.

If you have your own troops, you won't be afraid.

Zuo Liangyu and Zu Dashou were both famous generals who escaped, and survived until the end, and were handled with care by the court.

The next night.

There is moonlight.

Wen Rensheng sent out men who dared to die and encouraged them again before the battle.

This seems to interfere with Da Tao's military power, but don't forget that Wen Rensheng is a civilian official.

Even if he is just a civil servant with the governor behind him, he is also a civilian supervising the war.

Whether he doesn't care or not, if he really wants to intervene, he is the commander-in-chief.

Just like it is not difficult for the supervisory army to obtain command power, but the generals will also obey the orders and go against the will. The main thing is to save their lives on the battlefield.

However, Wen Rensheng chose the people himself, so he avoided the issue of generals.

"Everyone knows how to move forward with all our strength. If you die in battle, I will take care of your wife!"

"If you can come back alive, those who retreat without success will be killed, and those with merit will be heavily rewarded!"

"Two military judges per ship."

Yes, this is the characteristic of this era:

If you don't add a military judge, don't expect the soldiers not to escape at night and save their lives.

Only a small number of people make meritorious deeds; most people just want to save their lives.

This is another reason why night attacks are difficult to carry out.

You can't see clearly the little movements of soldiers at night, and many of them just don't work hard.

When in danger, take the opportunity to escape.

Not during the day. During the day, there are cavalry and supervising troops who want to escape and kill them on the spot.

It is not easy to supervise battles at sea.

But if you run away for no reason, you will either become a pirate, or you will have to return to the harbor and be punished.

Generally, there is no way to escape from a knife.

Therefore, many ships that fled at sea often went to the outer sea to become pirates.

This is also the reason why naval construction often stagnates and is unwilling to continue to develop. It is not easy to maintain and soldiers can easily flee with their ships.

But now Wen Rensheng deliberately selects people who can guarantee that at least 60% of them are willing to complete the task.

Moreover, this task has been trained for three months, and many people know how to do it with their eyes closed.

The clipper rushed in, the water ghost entered the water, and then attacked and set fire to it.

However, the red-haired people also realized early on that the Ming navy would attack at night.

Therefore, they hung up many, many red lanterns, and then there were lighthouses, which illuminated not only the harbor surface, but also the key ship berths.

But this also just pointed out the target for their sneak attack.

Their clipper ship quickly approached the port.

Three miles away, he was finally discovered.

There are no searchlights now, so being able to see them from this distance is enough to prove how attentive the opponent's sentries are.

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Soon the cannon sounded.

However, they did not have searchlights, so they could only see the sea near them with the lanterns, but not the sea far away.

Therefore, the hit rate was very low and the roar soon stopped.

Instead, wait until within 200 steps before firing.

However, they didn't know that this was playing into their opponent's plan.

The distance of 200 steps is approximately equivalent to 200 meters. The world freestyle record is 1 minute and 42 seconds.

No matter how slow these water ghosts are, they can be done in 5 minutes.

How many shots can the opponent fire in 5 minutes? How many shots can the opponent fire?

Moreover, the matchlock gun is a front-loading smoothbore gun, and the downward-sloping mouth cannot be too large, otherwise the bullets will fall out.

Unless you wrap it in deerskin and poke it in with a rod.

The shooting speed will be very slow.

At least ten seconds slower.

And when in a hurry, the arquebusiers cannot do such a thing.

At this moment, the clipper was approaching quickly.

At 200 steps or less than 300 steps, there will be forts and ships firing.

I have to say that the red-haired man is very good at gunnery, and he fires from a stationary state.

At one time, four or five ships were hit.

But this time, a bird boat was placed in front of the Clippers as a shield.

Today's cannons cannot shoot in a straight direction, they are basically just a simple straight parabola.

The bird ship can still withstand more than a dozen shots.

This is also the fundamental reason why the red-haired people cannot conquer the Ming Dynasty: the cannon is not powerful enough and the rate of fire is not enough.

The absolute manpower advantage of the Eastern Dynasty cannot be completely defeated by the superiority of weapons.

It will take another 200 years to develop.

So under the cover of the bird boat, the clipper finally approached 300 steps, and then began to paddle quickly and charge.

After the attack entered 100 steps, the water ghost was dispatched.

They all brought bamboo tube explosives and used the Zheng family's fighting methods.

Wen Rensheng did not invent it himself.

Then they dived underwater, and there were 100 water ghosts in total.

Fifty-four of them chose to move forward bravely.

Another forty-six people chose real paddling.

Just watching the changes on the battlefield underwater, I didn't dare to attack those behemoths.

This is true human nature.

There are always a few brave people.

Unless you train and have faith to reach 9, everyone will have the courage to fight.

Wen Rensheng was very happy now that half of the people were brave enough to carry out night raid missions.

This also shows that he has a high ability to recognize people.

Fifty-four true warriors, carrying pig urine bubbles to provide oxygen, sneaked all the way underwater.

The weather in southern China is quite hot at this time, and it’s not cold even when you enter the water.

If it were winter in the north, it would be impossible to implement this tactic and they would have been frozen to death.

Under the light of the lantern, the other party's ship actually saw dumplings being launched into the water one by one.

But there is nothing you can do.

Because the cannon can't shoot downwards either.

"Run quickly, there's a water ghost!"

The sailors on the ship were already panicking.

"Go into the water and kill them!"

"Set the ship quickly!"

However, few sailors took to the water.

However, some small boats were put down from the big ship to kill the water ghosts.

However, they put down the boat, and the clipper carrying the water ghost on the opposite side also rushed forward bravely.

So he was defeated and retreated.

The fastest swimming water ghosts had already taken out their gunpowder bamboo tubes and pierced the bamboo tubes with nails into the side of the ship.
To be continued...