Fourteenth Shenjiamen
The first battle after Yu Dayou returned to Li Yanzhi happened in Zhoushan.
Zhoushan is the largest island on the eastern sea surface of Zhejiang. The island is irregularly rectangular from northwest to southeast. Cengang where Li Yanzhi is located is located in the northwest. Shenjiamen, which is in Yuqi, is located in the southeast of Zhoushan. From Shenjiamen, there is only a shallow waterway that is Putuo Mountain. Tens of thousands of pirates led by Yuqi gather here - in the current Zhejiang Sea, this is one of the two thieves who are still resisting Li Yanzhi. The Shuangyu, which has been filled, is not far from Zhoushan. It can be said that this area is one of the most complex areas of Zhejiang East Sea Road, one of the most complex islands.
In the middle of Zhoushan Island, there was once a Zhongzuo of Dinghai in the Ming Dynasty, but it has now been abandoned and only the old site is preserved - it is where Yu Dayou marched.
Fighting pirates in such places is not so much a naval battle as a shore war. The fleet is set up and the artillery fire is basically not the case. Pirates drive small boats in ports, rivers appear, and officers and soldiers need to follow the same path.
Yu Dayou's troops were not far from Cengang, so the war report was very fast, so a future troupe reported to Li Yanzhi that Yu Dayou was aggressive, but Li Yanzhi did not interfere. Yin Zhengmao asked the order and said, "Don't go and have a look."
Li Yanzhi refused and said, "Brother Yu and Lu Tong are both generals of war, not Ma Su, just keep Cengang well."
On the second day, Guanhaiwei, the Dinghaihouhou, Longshanhou, and Dasong Institute, a total of 1,500 officers and soldiers from Guanhaiwei arrived at the Zhongzuohou of Dinghai. The three coalition forces should have more than 3,000 people, but at this time, less than half of them were all dispatched. It is possible to imagine how serious the empty salary was. Most of them were old and weak. Lu Tong sighed: "After breaking Shuangyu that day, I wanted to rectify the ward, but unexpectedly..." When I said this, I remembered that it was useless to talk about it, so I shut up.
Yu Dayou's subordinates attacked the Shen family, taking the 1,500 official troops as the vanguard. The news came back to Cengang. Zhang Yue stayed in Shuangyu for a long time. He knew that the officers and soldiers of Dinghai Housing, Longshan District, and Dasong District were not good goods. He couldn't help but feel a little worried and surprised. He thought: "The surname Yu and the surname Lu are both from the official troops, so they want to use officers and soldiers, but they don't know that the officers and soldiers are useless now! This time I'm afraid they will miss the matter." But seeing that Li Yanzhi was still in a hurry and had no intention of interfering, he couldn't speak, but just prayed: "Mazu bless it, it doesn't matter if those officers and soldiers die, just don't lose our family."
As Zhang Yue expected, not long after, a war report came, saying that the vanguard encountered an ambush when approaching the Shen family. More than a thousand officers and soldiers saw the pirates, but they didn't even fight. They threw down their weapons and ran away, crying for their parents. The thief army drove a boat to the mudflat and covered the attack. Yin Zhengmao cursed: "Shame, shame!"
Fu Yuan asked Li Yanzhi if he wanted to go to rescue him, but Li Yanzhi said no, "Brother Yu's main force has not yet appeared."
The battle reports in front continued to come, but the defeated soldiers retreated to Zhongzuo Instrument. Yu Dayou had already led his troops to retreat, and the ships were not left behind. The defeated soldiers had no choice but to hide in the former site of Zhongzuo Instrument and resisted stubbornly. Some of the defeated soldiers ran towards Cengang directly. Li Yanzhi's face darkened and said to Fu Yuan: "Send the supervisory team to retreat without fighting. The military law in front of the formation! If there are any pirates who are defeated and rush to the camp, they will not care about the soldiers and thieves, and serve bird guns!"
More than half an hour later, seeing that it was already dusk, Zhang Yue and Yin Zhengmao were already a little anxious. Yin Zhengmao said, "I'll go patrol the port, don't let the pirates take advantage of the situation to rush here." Li Yanzhi was very calm and asked, "Where has Brother Yu's fleet gone?" But no one knew, at this time, Luo Laoba, the former leader of Cengang, presented fish soup and bamboo tube rice, and Li Yan said, "Let's have dinner first." Then he had a meal with the generals.
The generals were nervous, fearing that the pirates suddenly arrived. Halfway through the meal, news came again, saying that the pirates were in chaos, and suddenly rushed back towards the Shen family, not knowing what happened.
The generals were stunned, and Li Yan said straight: "Eat, eat."
Zhang Yue and Yin Zhengmao finished their dinner in the wind. The battle report came, saying that the sound of killing in the Shen family was shocking, and it seemed like a pirate was attacking. Yin Zhengmao stroked his palm and smiled, "Miao! Miao! It turned out that those useless officers and soldiers were actually bait. It must be that Yu Tongzhi sent elite soldiers to him and seized the Shen family."
Zhang Yue and others were stunned when they heard this, and then they felt that it was very likely.
It was dark at this time, and the war situation on Shen's house party reached Cengang was delayed. I believe the battle to capture Shen's house must have happened in the afternoon.
Zhoushan is a large island with a large hinterland. Among the troops brought by Yu Dayou, there are 500 Japanese swordsmen and more than 2,000 bird guns. If one of the elite troops bypasses the pirates and rushes into the Shen family, cut off the pirates' retreat to wait for labor, and safeguard the bird guns and set up shields to wait for the pirates to return to the nest...
Everyone imagined the scene of the pirates hearing that their retreat was cut off and hurried back to the Shen family, but they heard thousands of bird guns sing together, and the Japanese swords stopped him, and the person who was in charge was killed immediately, and countless corpses were pounced on in the mud of the ravines. They couldn't help but sigh.
The actual situation is similar to the imagination of the generals of Cengang.
On the afternoon of that day, when the pirates were attracted by the officers and soldiers of the three institutes, Lu Tong led the elite troops around from the northeast of Zhoushan Island and rushed to Shenjiamen.
Shenjiamen is the stronghold leading to Putuo in Zhoushan. There is a village. At this time, there was a war in front of him. People were in and out. Lu Tong suddenly attacked. The defending pirates caught off guard and were snatched in by the spearmen. Lu Tong shouted: "The first contribution to the East China Sea is today! Fight!"
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Five hundred Japanese swordsmen who had been through the battle formation had already rushed in, and they were like chopping melons and vegetables. Some of the pirates scattered outside the village came to rescue, but most of them escaped. The troops followed the army occupied the gate of Shenjiamen Village, the watchtower, and installed bird guns and shields. The Japanese swordsmen continued to clear out the remaining thieves in the village. Lu Tong led 500 people to seize the dock. Seeing that the remaining pirates in the village were not good, hundreds of people had already escaped. However, most of them were small boats. The sailboats above the brig were slow to start, and none of them escaped.
After Lu Tong took the Shen family, he turned off the attack to defend, and then the arrangement was made, and a large number of pirates rushed back.
"Speed the gun!"
The bird guns that had already pounded gunpowder were set off together. Yu Dayou, who was anchored in the sea between Xiao Xieshan and Qitou, heard the gunshot and started anchoring.
Yu Qiruo had some quality generals. When he heard that the rear was intercepted, he did not come back to rescue and went straight to Cengang. Perhaps he still had a chance to turn defeat into victory. Unfortunately, Li Yanzhi's banner was stuck there. How could he have the courage to go? He heard that the Shen family was captured and rushed back, but he was surrounded by Lu Tong again.
The pirates who rushed in front fell down when the bird guns sounded in the first round. Yu Qi's direct line only accounted for 30% of the pirates. The others were all mobs of each island and village. Even Yu Qi's subordinates, the discipline was average. Their numbers were actually more than 10,000. If they rushed, a thousand and eight hundred people might have the chance to step on their brother's bodies and break into the gate of the village. But there was no such courage and awareness in these loose pirates? But seeing that the village had been taken away, they were already panicked. When they heard the gunshots, they were in a panic. When they saw that the people in front kept falling down, blood smeared the mud by the river, and the bodies filled the gullies in front of the water village, they became panic and frightened. Most of the people called "Oh my God" and fled back.
The one behind was still rushing, the one in front had turned around and fled, and the entire team of returnees was in chaos. Yu Qi shouted: "Don't be confused!" However, some pirate leaders took the lead in chaos. Some saw that the ships that had been snatched from the dock were parked not far from the shore, and shouted: "There is still a ship! Get on the boat and go back to Putuo Mountain!"
As soon as he heard that he had a way out, the pirates lost their fighting intentions. Thousands of people rushed towards the beach like ants. Lu Tong saw in the village that some people had boarded the ship, and the thief formation was in chaos, so he ordered the Japanese swordsman and spearmen to attack together. At this time, the pirates had no intention of fighting and just wanted to escape. Zhou Wenbao led people to chop and kill them all the way. There was no need to pay attention to the sharpness of the Japanese swords, because the pirates had completely lost their fighting intentions, and they could even hit them with wooden sticks.
When Zhou Wenbao chased the shore, about 2,000 people had boarded the boat. Seven or eight ships were stranded because they were overloaded on the shore. Three or four more ships sank not far away. The remaining ships saw the pursuers arrive and dared not stop. They ignored the cries and begged for mercy later, and cut off all the fingers climbing the side of the boat. In a moment, there were hundreds of broken fingers on the sea surface, with blood like ripples, and cries and scolding endlessly.
The pursuers shouted together under Zhou Wenbao's order: "Those who abandon weapons surrender will be exempted from death! Those who abandon weapons surrender will be exempt from death!"
The pirates saw the sea in front and the pursuers behind, and they all turned a blind eye and surrendered one after another.
Yu Qi was not on the shore. Seeing that he could not handle the situation, he fled to a Haicang boat and drove a boat to sea to discuss with Chen Sipan. He was so regretful to think of the heavy losses in this battle: "I would have known that I would rather be a privateer fleet. Being Li Shuangtou's forward might not have died. Why did he listen to Ye Zongman at the beginning?" But looking at his companions who surrendered on the shore, he was secretly glad.
I didn't want to walk out for a while and when I was about to go around the cape and turn Putuo Mountain, the waves suddenly surged. Before Yu Qi could figure out what was going on, he heard his subordinates shouting: "Boat! Boat! Big Boat!"
It was not the ship that was chased out of the Shenjiamen dock, but the ship that was bypassed from the cape! It was Yu Dayou who came to clean up the fleet on the sea battlefield, and the two four-masted big blessed ships were in charge!
These pirates who fled were driving small boats at this moment, and they had no intention of fighting. Seeing this big lucky boat was like a cat seeing a tiger. With the sound of "Don't come over! We surrender-" the two big lucky boats had already been crushed. The horn tigers and fishing boats that the pirates were hit by were either crushed or capsized. Yu Qi panickedly asked the helmsman to turn the rudder, but it was too late. A fishing boat in front retreated too quickly, and the oars stuck to the Haicang boat where Yu Qi was. The two boats were circling on the sea. Yu Qi roared and asked his subordinates to straighten the boat. Before he could finish it, he felt that it was dark in front of him, as if there were dark clouds covering the top!
The four-masted sailboat moved like a moving city. It had a slamming angle in front of it, and it was about to fall down. Only a sound of yelling sounds were heard, and the Haicang boat where Yu Qi was located had been broken into two pieces.
"Report - catch the thief Yu Qi!"
When the battle report reached Cengang, it was already dark. The generals came to congratulate him one after another. Zhang Yue asked, "Governor, will you wait for Yu Tongzhi to report his merit tomorrow, or will we go to meet?" He was going to prepare for the evening.
"Wait for them to report their merits." Li Yanzhi smiled and said, "This time we didn't use the wrong person, so we won't compete with them for merits." (To be continued. If you want to know what happens next, please log in.qidian., more chapters, support the author and support genuine reading!) (To be continued)
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