Chapter 184: Lessons from Jiannu Sailor
The second year of Tianqi, this year was definitely a relatively difficult time for Jiannu. On the one hand, the Ming army in Liaodong Town, commanded by Sun Chengzong, built a tight line of defense on the front line of Guangning, which made the wild boar skin unable to find any opportunity to rob. ± small,...o On the other hand, production was still harassed by a large number of guerrillas.&1t;/p>
Such harassment has lasted for a long time. The production activities of Jiannu were greatly hindered. Fortunately, the wild boar skin still had some assets. By looting various towns on the Liaodong Plain and slaughtering rural Han people, the wild boar skin obtained a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, grain and other supplies. These things can be eaten in the warehouse for a long time. In addition, there are Shanxi merchants who can transport materials with them, and they can still hold on in a few years.&1t;/p>
Now the wild boar skin is trying to find a breakthrough. Only by breaking through the Ming army's strict defense and finding another opportunity to rob, can it be maintained.&1t;/p>
After all, it is a gang of robbers, and the idea of loyalty to the emperor is a bit nonsense. Those Jiannu are willing to follow him, but they can only rob with him and get it without any effort. As long as you cannot open up the situation in a few years and find the opportunity to rob, people's hearts will naturally disperse. At that time, it is not a question of whether the food is sufficient, but whether those people are willing to continue to live like this with wild boar skin.&1t;/p>
If you want to plunder the Ming Dynasty from the front, you must eliminate the Ming army in Jinzhou and Dongjiang. Otherwise, every time the Ming army in these two places jumped out like a mess, making it impossible for the wild boar skin to invest most of its strength to attack Guangning.&1t;/p>
After half a year of hard work, Wild Boar Skin successfully built a navy in Zhenjiang. The navy's ships reached nearly 500, which could scare people to death. However, most of these 500 ships were very small boats. It is not an exaggeration to call them small boats.&1t;/p>
There are some tables in real mountain, that is, more than 100 ships with eight white and many materials. Converted to tonnage, it is about 25o.&1t;/p>
Wild Boar Skin handed the navy to his son-in-law Li Yongfang, who was also very concerned about it and kept practicing this navy in Zhenjiang day and night.&1t;/p>
After several months of training, the wild boar skin could no longer bear it, so he went to Zhenjiang for inspection.&1t;/p>
"Yongfang, how is the navy trainer trained?" asked the wild boar skin to Li Yongfang. Li Yongfang replied confidently: "You are the knight, the navy trainer trained almost all. It is already a battle. Please go to the inspection."&1t;/p>
"Okay, I'll go and have a look." The wild boar skin showed a happy expression on her face, and she couldn't wait to go to the beach to review the navy. Li Yongfang hurriedly surrounded the wild boar skin and came to the Zhenjiang seaside, which was the estuary of the Yalu River. A Jiannu navy with more than 8,000 people was already treated solemnly.&1t;/p>
As the horn sounded, a group of naval troopers quickly boarded the ships, and then performed a sea battle skill in front of the wild boar skin. It was archery and fighting on the side. It was very lively for a while, but it looked neat and orderly.&1t;/p>
Exercise!&1t;/p>
Of course it's like this.&1t;/p>
But Wild Boar Skin is an amateur. He ran horses on the 6th all his life, and he was basically in the dark against the navy, so he could only follow his feelings. Seeing that the navy was very strolling, he was immediately overjoyed. Seeing that his father-in-law was happy, Li Yongfang continued to say, "King, the Ming army also had a navy in Denglai, which was trained by Yuan Keli, the Denglai navy. However, Yuan Keli's navy had only more than 5,000 people. However, we had more than 8,000 people. When we met at sea, we had completely gained the upper hand in military strength. And you also know that most of the Ming soldiers were weak and unable to fight. Now we can run horses on the 6th and fight at sea. Now we have overcome seasickness and other problems. The Ming navy is not our opponent at all."&1t;/p>
"Okay, okay." The wild boar skin was overjoyed, and his eyes looked at Li Yongfang suddenly became much softer. He was really a talent! How wise he was, he had recruited such a talented son-in-law! Just thinking about it casually, he began to admire himself, and he felt proud and wanted to be reluctant.&1t;/p>
The wild boar skin was happy, and Li Yongfang was also happy. Obviously, she performed well this time, and she regained a little bit of her position that she was constantly declining.&1t;/p>
"Since you can fight the Ming Navy, then immediately find the Ming Navy, and then cut off the sea supplies from Dongjiang Town and Jinzhou Town as soon as possible." The wild boar skin was happy and made a decision with a random slap in his mind. Li Yongfang was also full of confidence and half-kneeled on the ground with confidence, "I will obey the order and will live up to the great knight's expectations."&1t;/p>
"Haha, haha!" The wild boar skin laughed heartily and felt extremely comfortable. In the wild boar skin's happy mood, Li Yongfang quickly began to plan to deal with the Dongjiang Army, Jinzhou Army, and the Denglai Navy Division.&1t;/p>
In mid-May of that year, Li Yongfang's navy began to intercept Ming ships everywhere in the Bohai Bay area, which really caused Li Yongfang to rob five or six merchant ships. The Ming army ships soon decreased significantly in the sea area.&1t;/p>
The main thing is the Denglai Navy, who was transferred to suppress the incense sect.&1t;/p>
After smelling the Xiang Sect was suppressed, Yuan Keli received the news and quickly transferred the Denglai Navy back to Denglai, then boarded the ship and continued to escort the merchant ship.&1t;/p>
The confrontation between the two sides at sea soon broke out one after another, and as a result... the navy of the wild boar skin was simply defeated.&1t;/p>
There is a gap in the tonnage of ships between the two sides. Although the Denlei Naval Division also has many small boats, those small boats have special purposes. The main warships are now replaced with more than 50 tons. There are guns installed on each bow and stern. The navy who came out to raid merchant ships, when they encounter the Denlei Naval Division's escort warship, is simply a rhythm of being killed.&1t;/p>
In the long-range attack, the wild boar skin only had crude archery. However, the Denglai Navy had artillery and muskets. The boarding battle was not timid. The Jiannu Navy's ships were too small. Once the boarding battle exploded, the number of people fighting was in trouble.&1t;/p>
The sailors of the Denglai Navy Division were well-equipped and of the same level as the Jingying camp. The spearmen ding poked in front a few times, and Jiannu couldn't stand it.&1t;/p>
Such a sea encounter is simply a torture.&1t;/p>
In less than half a month, the Jiannu Navy lost thousands of troops and more than a dozen warships. At this time, Li Yongfang could no longer sit still, and felt that such a small-scale encounter at sea would not be able to gain any advantage. He could not use his military strength. He had to concentrate and find an opportunity to annihilate the main force of the Denglai Navy. It would be even better if he could grab some warships.&1t;/p>
With this idea in mind, Li Yongfang and the main navy forces dispatched to Guanglu Island to seek a decisive battle with the Denlai Navy.&1t;/p>
Guanglu Island is a military base just selected by the Denlai Navy to prevent the Jiannu Navy. This base has not been completely built.&1t;/p>
At this moment, the Jiannu Navy came to seek a decisive battle, which made the Denglai Navy stunned and overjoyed.&1t;/p>
Sun Yiguo, the general of the Denglai Navy Division, immediately decided to fight. The Denglai Navy Division had hundreds of warships, and 6 continued to sail out of Guanglu Island Military Port, and was far away from the Jiannu Navy at sea.&1t;/p>
The boats of both sides have begun to contact and have launched a mutual attack.&1t;/p>
Sun Yiguo picked up the telescope and carefully observed the situation of Jiannu Navy.&1t;/p>
"There are most small boats in Jiannu, and they have to maintain a dense formation. If they rashly fight with them, although they are not suffering a lot, the casualties will definitely be large, and they can be broken by fire." Sun Yiguo is very experienced in the naval army. When Sun Yiguo was young, he had a naval battle with Japanese pirates at sea. He was a naval talent trained by the anti-Japanese war. After Yuan Keli took office as the governor of Denglai, he appointed him as the general of the naval army. Sun Yiguo observed it and quickly determined the tactics.&1t;/p>
After Li Yongfang's side, he immediately waved his hand and ordered the entire army to move forward and engage in a battle with the Denglai Navy.&1t;/p>
But Li Yongfang didn't realize anything. He thought it was too simple, or he had no experience in naval combat at all. He treated naval combat as a battle of 6. He thought that as long as the soldiers overcome seasickness and boarding warfare, they could sweep the Dunglai Naval Division with their superiority in military strength.&1t;/p>
Soon, the Denglai Navy taught Li Yongfang a lesson vividly: Naval battle is not that simple.&1t;/p>
Jiannu Navy kept moving forward, but the Denglai Navy seemed to be afraid and scattered on the spot, which made Li Yongfang overjoyed. He stood at the bow of the boat and laughed, shouting: "The Ming army has been dispersed, we will eat them one by one."&1t;/p>
But at this moment, the retreating main warship of the Ming army fired.&1t;/p>
The shells ruthlessly hit the enemy. The dense Jiannu Navy was simply a huge target. These shells hit those small boats, and the boat disintegrated on the spot. The Jiannu soldiers on them were killed and injured. When they hit those big boats, they were directly filled with rice chips, but their ability to resist strikes was much stronger.&1t;/p>
The Ming army had not many naval guns, only hundreds of cannons could fire, and white shells were used. For the Jiannu Navy, who had so many ships, such pain was completely tolerated. As long as you chase after it... and then hold it with your hook claws, then pull it back and chop it up and you will win. Li Yongfang thought happily that he was still very confident in the hand-to-hand combat ability of the Jiannu Navy soldiers.&1t;/p>
The two sides were getting closer and closer, but at this moment, some soldiers of Jiannu Navy soldiers appeared. The small boats that had been scattered just now actually ran to the upper wind position and gathered together while they were chasing the main warships of the Denglai Navy. Then, they rushed towards them in groups at a very fast speed.&1t;/p>
I saw these small boats, but they were divided into two parts, and they looked more like two ships connected together. This was the Ming army's mother and child ship, and the child ship in front was filled with tinder oil and firewood. Unfortunately, the Jiannu Navy didn't recognize such things, and was wondering, and laughing at the time when these small boats suddenly rushed over to die. These mother and child ships were less than a hundred meters away from the Jiannu Navy warship.&1t;/p>
At this time, the sub-ship was ignited by the Ming army on the mother ship, and instantly ignited a raging flame. The flame rushed several meters high. Then, under the blow of the sea breeze, the flames pressed forward several meters. And the mother ship behind, because they were hiding behind the wind, had no effect on them.&1t;/p>
"Fire, fire..." Jiannu soldier shouted in horror, "Roar quickly!"&1t;/p>
"Stop them, stop them."&1t;/p>
"Ah!"&1t;/p>
The formation of Jiannu Navy was in chaos on the spot, and a group of warships were hiding everywhere in panic. The scene was simply chaotic, and the panicked warships collided with each other like headless flies.&1t;/p>
Jiannu could not stop these mother-child ships that were conducting "terrorist attacks". More than 200 mother-child ships rushed directly into Jiannu's formation with the help of the wind.&1t;/p>
The long spike in front of the sub-ship directly crashed into the Jiannu Navy's warship. In an instant, the flames burned on these warships. Faced with such a terrifying torch, the Jiannu on the warship was helpless. It was impossible to put out the fire. There was not so much water on the ship, and the flames were blown several meters by the sea breeze, so they could not get close to these sub-ships. These sub-ships stuck to their warships like dog skin plaster. The Jiannu soldiers could only watch the warships ignited ruthlessly.&1t;/p>
After the sub-ships successfully hit the enemy ship, the mother ship behind them directly released the connection device and then quickly evacuated on the oars. (To be continued...)&1t;/p>
ps: The first update!&1t;/p>&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!