Daming Yinghua

Chapter 81 Bloody Battle
The Spaniards in this world have established the so-called Armada at sea, but their thinking in naval warfare is quite different from that of the British who defeated them decades later. They are still in the stage of short- and medium-range firepower attacks, and then ramming or jumping to fight. Therefore It was not equipped with long-range artillery.

And the Spanish sailing ship that attacked tonight had no intention of directly destroying the enemy ship.

Because there is cargo on board.

The Ming people promised them that not only could they kill the Chinese captain who meddled in Luzon Island and rescued the women, children and many men, but they could also share the cargo on the ship.

The artillery attack, as the ships drew closer, ended quickly.

Li Guozhu stood beside Cai Feng, the deputy envoy of the Fujian Sea Patrol, on the Daming sea patrol ship slanting behind the Spanish sailing ship, and said flatteringly: "Daotai, the Frankie's shells are very accurate. They ruined the small boat and injured the big one, but you should It won't hurt the silk and tea in the big ship. This time, Yan Siqi sold the spices halfway and bought enough goods from Fujian merchants. 1 taels of silver."

Cai Feng snorted softly: "What's the accuracy? I think it's because the Frankies are reluctant to use their guns and expect us to go up and take people. It's a good idea. They want revenge and money, so they have to give it to them." This official will work hard!"

"Hey, okay, what Daotai said is right," Li Guozhu hurriedly agreed, "Our boat will sail next to them, and then we will flank Fengzhou with them."

Cai Feng still said coldly: "Let's jump to the gang later, you kid don't expect our brothers patrolling the sea to rush up and kill people. Whether you have internal strife or revenge from the Frankies, Yan Siqi and those heads under him, You go and chop it up, and bring it back to the officer after you chop it off."

"Of course, of course, you can't work for the soldiers who patrol the sea. But the credit for suppressing the Japanese must belong to Daotai."

"Stop talking nonsense," Cai Feng interrupted Li Guozhu, turned to the helmsman, and commanded, "Would you fucking look at the boat and see that the boat doesn't move, and there will be a bird man? Go over there , after the Frankies hit the big ship a few times, we will take over on the other side!"

"Yes, yes, sir, little fool."

The helmsman hastily complied.

His surname is also Cai, and several other sailors are fellow confidants of Daotai.

Now that they are still in the middle of the year, they follow Cai Feng out to do private work, and they have no complaints.After all, the imperial court has been in arrears for more than half a year. If Master Cai hadn't raised them like family members, their wives and children would have starved to death long ago.

It's just that they have never needed to fight at night like today, and their eyesight really can't keep up, and they don't have the clairvoyance that the Frankies are said to have.

"Bang, bang."

In front of the open ship, the Spanish sailing ship that blocked Fengzhou's way opened fire again.

The helmsman heard that this time the foreign monkey was only using firecrackers.It must be because the distance is too close, fearing that if Feng Zhou is bombarded and sunk, there will be no time to grab the goods.

Almost at the same time, the ship patrolling the seaway circled out of the huge shadow of the sailboat, and the bow continued to drift, preparing to attack Fengzhou together with the sailboat.

Cai's helmsman suddenly felt that his eyes suddenly brightened. Dozens of torches and lanterns on the sailboat and the sealed boat illuminated the deck and ship's side that became the battlefield like daylight.

The helmsman couldn't help squinting his eyes instinctively.

When he opened it again, he froze immediately.

"Dao, master Daotai, this, this is the imperial court's ship!"

Already other sailors shouted out in a panic.

Cai Feng, deputy envoy of Haidao, had already retreated with the soldiers, ready to give way to the side of the ship, and let Li Guo help them connect the strings and dance.

But I saw at least [-] to [-] young and strong men on the deck of the sealed boat, some with guns in their hands, some with bows and arrows, and even a tall man with a silver gun, jumping and running on the swaying ship. , As if walking on the ground, the tip of the gun was as quick as lightning, and stabbed three or four Frankies who were about to join the gang.

Who is that if it's not Ma Xianglin?
Cai Feng stared wide-eyed, and saw Ma Xianglin, the dragon flag high in the air, and the words "Weaving Bureau" on the surrounding lanterns.

Surprised and angry, he grabbed Li Guozhu who was about to throw the grappling hook, and cursed: "You motherfucker, tell me, what's going on?"

Li Guozhu was also dumbfounded.

impossible.

Yan Siqi obviously parked Feng Zhou on this deserted island in Penghu, and changed to a sand boat to meet that dubious woman. He saw it with his own eyes four or five hours ago, and acted out with Xun Haidao according to the plan. The two people's boat forced them back to Penghu.

If it wasn't to please the Frankies who can't get into the seaside of Fujian, but also to spread the rumor that Cai Feng exterminated Yan's Japanese king, why did he go back and forth like this, he was at sea, and found a chance to stab Yan Siqi, who made his father intend to pass on the mantle The so-called righteous son, it will be over.

But now, why is there a large group of people out of thin air?
Weaving Bureau?

Li Guozhu knew that this was the court's yamen.

No, it's more powerful than the Yamen, it's too regulated.

Why did the Weaving Bureau get involved?
In the light of the fire, Li Guozhu could see more clearly that the Fengzhou in front of him was not the Fengzhou that Yan Siqi brought to Nanyang to run goods at all.

Suddenly, Li Guozhu's eyes lit up, and he pointed at the big man who was wielding a Japanese knife and fighting fiercely with a Frankie and said, "Master Cai, that, that is Yan Siqi! That's right, that's right."

"That's right, shit!"

Cai Feng pretended to be exasperated, but he was quickly planning in his mind, he had a dagger in his sleeve, if he suddenly violently stabbed Li Guozhu.

But there are still eight or nine pirates brought by Li Guozhu on board, and the number of his own servants is almost the same, so it’s okay if they may not win the fight, as long as one of them shouts "Cai Daotai colluded with the Frankies", Ma Xianglin will surely I can also hear it, and besides, Ma Xianglin couldn't understand the previous performance of the ship patrolling the sea route.

Cai Feng had dealt with Ma Xianglin before, this kid was ruthless and shrewd despite his young age, he really wasn't a native who had never seen the world in the barren land of the Southwest.

I just don't know if the old fox Eunuch Liu is also on the boat.

Or, I might as well join in the killing of Li Guozhu and the Frankies. Anyway, there are only these three ships in the vast sea at this moment...

For Cai Feng's hesitation, the insidious Li Guozhu had figured it out before him.

We must force these fourth-rank officials to kill the people from the Weaving Bureau to silence them. Otherwise, Cai Feng might want to destroy the alliance before the battle, and in turn kill himself with the brocade guards from the Weaving Bureau.

Without any hesitation, Li Guozhu immediately threw out the grapple with all his strength, and with a clang, the iron hook caught the girder of the opposite Fengzhou.

The people under him followed suit, and then they put their arms on the deck and put their feet on the deck, shouting wildly.

The Chinese ship and the Spanish ship have different ways of jumping gangs. Li Guozhu adopted this Chinese pirate's combat method and quickly shortened the distance between the two ships.

The crowd threw the throwing rope again, and replaced it with a hook with a slender wooden pole, and stretched forward, trying to hook the bottom edge of the vertical girder.

"The leader of the weaving bureau, Tong Wo, killed Yan Siqi, the eunuch, and the spear general! The three heads cost 1000 taels each, and the rest each cost 200 taels! Kill!"

Li Guozhu shouted with red eyes.

With a sound of "Dang", a young man on the seal boat straightened up, held up the Japanese sword, and forcibly caught the scratching hook that Li Guozhu stretched out.

"Li Guozhu, you actually betrayed the eldest brother, Mother Serin!"

Zheng Zhilong's eyes widened with anger, he gritted his teeth and pressed against the iron hook, swearing a foul word in Hokkien.

At this time, the main battlefield of Fengzhou was on the other side of the ship, and the Spaniards who kept jumping gang restrained Ma Xianglin, Yan Siqi, their subordinates and the Jin Yiwei led by Liu Shimin. Only Zheng Zhilong and three or four other sailors were on the side of the ship.

After a few moments of effort, a strong man on Li Guozhu's side had already grabbed onto the side of the leaking boat, shouted loudly and finished jumping, raised his knife and rushed over, intending to chop Zheng Zhilong on top of his head.

"Uh, ah!"

However, this person took a few steps, but he let out a scream, bent his knees violently, and fell forward, the Japanese sword fell on the deck, and his hands went to cover his thighs.

Zheng Haizhu got out from the cable on the ship's side, holding a Muramasa knife in both hands, the blade was still shining coldly with blood on it.

It was given to her by Yan Siqi in the evening.

……

After Fangcai and Yan Siqi fled to Fengzhou by climbing the ladder, Zheng Haizhu briefly told Eunuch Liu and Ma Xianglin that he was a fellow of Yan Siqi's hometown, and that he was doing business with him privately. People are enemies, and it is very likely that the Fujian Sea Patrol Road was bribed by the Frankies, and together they robbed and killed Yan Siqi at sea.

Liu Shimin saw that this girl was deliberately showing her intention to protect her childhood sweetheart, but a thought flashed in her mind, should she hand Yan Siqi over to the Frankies, and then she and Ma Xianglin would retreat completely, and the girl surnamed Zheng would cry and make a fuss. How else.

But the doggy Frankie, after blasting the cannon and smashing the stern of the boat, rushed over, ignored the dragon-shaped flag, and continued to shoot the people on the boat with firecrackers.

He also broke two masts, and directly beat one of Ma Xianglin's Sichuan soldiers to a bloody mess, and a piece of intestine flew into Liu Shimin's face.

A brocade guard from the Weaving Bureau also had half of his head blown off, and fell to the ground in a miserable state.

Ma Xianglin regarded his followers as brothers of flesh and blood, and suddenly his eyes were about to burst. With a roar, he picked up his spear, not afraid of the power of Frankie's firearms, and jumped onto the side of the ship, using the advantage of the spear to block Frankie Basic people jump to help.

Liu Shimin's Jinyi guards who are good at handling firecrackers also immediately pulled out the iron flash, stuffed them into the subguns, and fired at the sailors in Frankie's boat. The one who jumped over was a shot.

Yan Siqi saw that the soldiers of the Weaving Bureau had joined the battle with all their strength, so he and another Jinyi guard escorted Zheng Haizhu and Liu Shimin to the small watchtower at the stern.

Half of the stairs had been bombarded by bombardment, but the pillars supporting the round platform on top were still intact.

"Go up and hide!"

Yan Siqi didn't have time to say anything, so he turned back and rushed into the battle formation.

Seeing that the stairs were no bigger than a palm, Zheng Haizhu didn't delay, so he asked Liu Shimin to go upstairs and asked the Jin Yi guards to guard under the pillars, while he himself got into a large pile of cables a few steps away.

Therefore, there was the knife that appeared halfway and cut across the legs of Li Guo's assistant.

Once Zheng Haizhu made the first cut, he didn't tremble as he did when he was in the bandit's den.

She, who had no experience in fighting or knife skills, was commanded by the survival instinct of her brain, making her jump straight to the side of the screaming sailor with a broken leg, and jabbed at his still intact upper body no matter what happened.

Muramasa's knife was too sharp, maybe the second or third knife pierced a large blood vessel near the heart, and the blood rain hit Zheng Haizhu's face like hot water sprayed from a shower.

Zheng Haizhu swallowed a small mouthful of blood uncontrollably, the strong fishy smell immediately made her retch, she was so disgusted that she screamed and jumped away.

Then, the soaring adrenaline made her rush to Zheng Zhilong's side, back to back with him, stretching out the not-so-long Muramasa knife in front of her, gasping for breath, and retching several times at the same time.

"Sister Azhu, don't hold the knife like this. The handle of the knife protects the heart, and the blade protects the head. If the opponent comes with the knife, just chop it. The opponent puts the knife away, and be careful that he sweeps the hall."

Zheng Zhilong said loudly, his calm voice was also a kind of comfort.

From the figure of Zheng Haizhu stumbling forward with the knife in hand, Zheng Zhilong could tell that she was definitely not a Lianjiazi.

But there is a saying, "People are cruel like wives, ghosts are fierce like babies".

The young Zheng Zhilong had great confidence in sister Azhu's ruthlessness just a moment ago, and told her the key points of self-defense and anti-killing in the simplest terms.

At this time, Li Guozhu's minions had already landed on Fengzhou's deck, but they left Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Haizhu first, and went straight to kill Yan Siqi and Ma Xianglin.

After all, the combined heads of the half-sized man and the little girl are worth 400 taels of silver.

If he stabbed Yan Dadao or any of the spear generals, he would get 1000 taels of silver!
Li Guozhu didn't blame his brothers for being greedy for money.

Only those who are greedy for money will help him accomplish what he is doing today.As for the brat on the other side who was fighting hard against him, how could he not be able to deal with him.

Li Guozhu then suddenly turned his wrist, put his toes against the side guard, and pulled back the scratching hook.

Zheng Zhilong felt the sudden pressure on the knife, thinking that Li Guozhu was about to press forward on the iron hook, and he was also breathing on the top of his dantian to give strength to his arm, so he might as well cheat his opponent, and he rushed forward suddenly, his center of gravity was unstable, he staggered, and his back Zheng Haizhu also leaned sideways on the deck.

Before the two of them could get up, Li Guozhu let out a smirk, threw away the useless hook, picked up the Japanese sword, which was more suitable for close combat, and jumped onto the side of the boat, with a big stride, he jumped onto the deck of Fengzhou.

"Little bastard, little bitch!"

Li Guozhu swung his saber and was about to slash, but was blocked by a Jin Yiwei who came out from a diagonal stab, and the two immediately fought together.

Suddenly, there was a bang from the upstairs, and the round platform was directly blown into powder.

Zheng Haizhu was shocked. Looking back, he saw smoke coming from a small Frankie cannon on the ship patrolling the sea.

Cai Feng, deputy envoy of Fujian Xunhai Road, raised his head slightly, looking at the watchtower filled with gunpowder.

He just shrank behind several Cai surnamed sailors, staring around looking for Liu Shimin.

Finally, he saw a faintly dressed man wearing a crown on the round platform.

Thinking of Liu Shimin getting in the first batch of Dutchmen a few days ago without telling him, and making a big deal with them, Cai Feng has already realized that if he can't handle the exclusive territory of the Spaniards secretly in Yuegang, he will sooner or later accident.

Just tonight, let's take advantage of the chaos and get rid of this dead eunuch.

Cai Feng gritted his teeth and made a decision.

However, after firing a cannon, he was about to order his sailors to jump to fight, when a sharp arrow roared towards him.

Right in Cai Feng's heart.

(End of this chapter)