Chapter 15                                                             �

In this way, this situation is formed.

The firearms of the Ming Dynasty's official army were not as good as those of the Japanese pirates, so they could only send more people. Moreover, among the Japanese pirates, there were also small teams of real Japanese who were very bold. After they dared to shoot muskets, they broke into the Ming army brigade and fought with various units of the Ming army.

If the attacks of firearms could still be withstood by various units of the Ming army. After all, the muskets at this time were still relatively primitive, while the Japanese pirates were still relatively chaotic and could not exert the power of firearms well.

But they can't bear this kind of close combat.

One thing that has to be admitted is that the combat skills trained by Japanese samurai since childhood and the sharpness of the samurai sword have greatly damaged the armorless Ming army. Zhou Mengchen saw with his own eyes that the Ming army's gun rods and some wooden weapon handles were cut off by the Japanese samurai sword.

This made Zhou Mengchen secretly angry and said to Yu Dayou: "Gen Yu, do the soldiers have such weapons?"

It’s not that Zhou Mengchen was angry, but that it was too much.

Zhou Mengchen is not a novice in the army, and he was even responsible for the production of military weapons. When he was in the military weapons supervision, he also had a special carpentry workshop. He didn’t know that the gun could be cut off like this?

Yes, the Japanese knife is sharp. But the gun rod is not used casually by cutting a piece of wood. You need to choose special hardwood. There are also soaking tung oil and repeating it several times. Even the best weapon handle is wrapped with cloth curtain wood chips outside to shape it. In short, it is light and tough. Such a wooden handle is no longer a wooden handle and can be called a composite material.

Of course, it is also very expensive. Most soldiers cannot use it. It is more used as handles of horse lances, which take several years.

However, even the simplest tung oil treatment, as long as it is handled, even the sharpest samurai sword will not be cut off in one or two? After this processing of the wooden pole, even the knives of later generations may not be cut off in one or two, let alone the samurai swords of this era. It is actually difficult to exert comfortably on the battlefield. When weapons intersect, they are not too comfortable and it is impossible to completely emit power.

Therefore, Zhou Mengchen could judge that these weapons, the simplest spear, are also unqualified ordnances.

To be honest, Zhou Mengchen endured it because the army had not trained much. After all, Jiangnan had been peaceful for many years, and there were not even any officers to train. In addition, the military situation was urgent, he could not do anything. Without enough armor, Zhou Mengchen also understood that although the production of armor in Datong had been very simplified, the latest technology in the north had not yet been introduced to Jiangnan. Armor was very expensive, and it was time-consuming, and there was no way to do it if it was not equipped.

But the simplest, the wooden handles on the spear, the most commonly equipped spear, are shoddy. This simply breaks the lower limit that Zhou Mengchen thought.

Yes, Zhou Mengchen did not send several troops that could fight, including Yu Dayou, and other Ming troops in Jiangnan. However, Zhou Mengchen did not choose the worst one. The one that looked good.

After all, Zhou Mengchen did not want to deliberately murder these soldiers, but wanted to see what the average level of most of the army in Jiangnan was?

As a result, this is how?

Faced with this situation, Yu Dayou was speechless and could only remain silent.

In history, Qi Jiguang was defeated and offended by his subordinates, which was that he had suffered Japanese pirates. Then Qi Jiguang rushed forward and looked back and saw that all his subordinates ran away. This was because Qi Jiguang was very good at it, otherwise he would have died in this battle.

Most of Yu Dayou's army was recruited by himself. It was just borrowing the title of the garrison.

In fact, in Yu Dayou's opinion, these troops performed well today and at least dared to fight with the Japanese pirates. It seemed that a large group of people were in the back, and with the new official Zhou Mengchen took office, the people below did not dare to neglect them.

I have persisted until I failed but not defeated, but I can't hold on for long.

Yu Dayou said, "Sir, let's make a sound of gold. Let Lu Tong or General Tang come."

Although Zhou Mengchen was angry, he knew that it was not the time to be willful, and it would be useless to continue fighting. It was just that the disciples were killed and injured. Zhou Mengchen could only order the Jin and sent Lu Tong to take him back so that they could withdraw.

Zhou Mengchen thought to himself: "Fortunately, I am just a feint attack now, otherwise my first defeat since I, Zhou, joined the army, would have been here."

Although Zhou Mengchen didn't care about the reputation of the ever-winning general, he was still the first to fight such a cowardly battle in the years since he joined the army, which made Zhou Mengchen very unhappy.

Zhou Mengchen was unhappy, and the generals on the Ming army all felt the low pressure above their heads and did not dare to say more.

But on the opposite side, the Japanese pirates under Xu Hai were cheering. They didn't know the intrigue of the leaders above them.

But at this moment, Xu Hai was not too happy.

Before Xu Hai sent his father to Japan, he grew up in a temple. There was even a Siming Buddhist name. It was because his father Xu Weixue did too many evils and wanted Xu Hai to eliminate his sins in the temple, or a man who fought for his life at sea. When he returned home, he found that he was actually surviving in the temple.

Anyway, when I was a child, Xu Hai's thoughts are a bit complicated.

On the one hand, he had to inherit his father's tribe. He had to walk on the road of pirates. On the other hand, he realized that this road was not long-lasting. It was different from Wang Zhi and Chen Dong. Wang Zhi had a foundation overseas and was known as the owner of the Five Peaks. He had a very high status in Japan. Chen Dong had a close relationship with Japanese Daming and did not regard himself as a Chinese in the city. It was really impossible. In the future, he would change his surname to Shimazu.

Not to mention Ye Ma, it is a Japanese Chinese name, also known as Ye Ming. Anyway, Japanese with relatively high cultural levels cannot be said to be inconsistent in playing the role of Chinese, but it is reasonable.

And Xu Hai didn't want to go to Japan.

What to do when you go to Japan? You will stay under someone else's roof and continue to serve as a subordinate for the old ship owner, Wang Zhi. You have already made a fortune. I'm afraid you can't go back. Xu Hai is not willing to be a dog for Japanese daimyo.

Although he had a friendship with Chen Dong for more than ten years, they didn't care at all. Xu Hai went to Japan after the Ming Dynasty developed the consciousness of the Ming people, and Chen Dong simply grew up in Japan.

Although he received the same education, his foundation was different. Although Chen Dong also felt that he was a Chinese, he knew him better as a member of the Satsuma clan.

Xu Hai was the pride of a Ming people. As long as there was no way, he was unwilling to be a dog for the Japanese. Moreover, the Satsuma clan had made great statements in later generations, but in this era, in Xu Hai's view, he was not as good as a magistrate of the Ming Dynasty.

Even if you really want to surrender, why bother to Japan? Isn’t it good to surrender to the court?

Moreover, after fighting with the Ming Dynasty's official army many times, Xu Hai had realized a problem, that is, the Ming army seemed to have a tendency to fight stronger and stronger, and his life like this would not last long.

He just wanted to find a way out.

It’s not Wang Cuiqiao who can control Xu Hai just by just a woman.

A person like Xu Hai can be influenced by a woman, which is a joke. Moreover, the endings of the two in history also tell everything. After Xu Haihuo and Chen Dong, he was besieged by Hu Zongxian and died at the sea. Wang Cuiqiao immediately jumped into the river.

This was even praised for Wang Cuiqiao's chasteness, in the country and the family, and as the so-called "both together". Xu Hai was placed in a completely passive situation.

But now, the court has changed the ruling official and changed from Zhao Wenhua to Zhou Mengchen. All his previous preparations have been wasted. Xu Hai didn't know that Zhou Mengchen's doing this allowed him to avoid the cowardly death of history. He was not happy at all in the face of such victory. He was even a little confused.

Chen Dong couldn't believe him, nor did he dare to believe Chen Dong anymore. He wanted to retreat alone, but Chen Dong was behind, but he couldn't. It would be meaningless to continue fighting.

It can be said to be in a dilemma.

A mere victory has no relief to his current situation.

How to make him happy.

At this moment, Wang Cuiqiao came over, worthy of being a famous prostitute in Jiangnan. While walking, she was like spring water, looking at her with a look. No matter what happened in her heart, she felt that her heart was a little softer when she saw her.

Wang Cuiqiao is the one who knows Xu Hai the best. Seeing Xu Hai like this, he felt secretly distressed and gently stroked Xu Hai's eyebrows with his hands, as if he wanted to soothe Xu Hai's worries.
Chapter completed!