People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 286: Vulnerable! The navy arrives at the critical moment! Twenty thousand pirates were wiped out in half an hour!

After Xia Yuanji saw the soldiers working together, he pulled out the sword from his waist.

He shouted: "Soldiers, I will live and die with you today!

I have already written a letter. From now on, your family and children will receive pensions from the court, so please don't worry. "

In fact, what these soldiers are most worried about is not their own death or immortality. From the moment they became soldiers, they knew that they had to face life and death.

In particular, many of them are guards officers. They and their descendants will serve as soldiers throughout their lives.

If it is because of their own merit, their children will receive better treatment.

Their biggest concern is that they cannot fight for their children.

But now Xia Yuanji had already helped them think through all the problems before going to the battlefield.

At this moment, these soldiers no longer had any worries.

They raised their weapons and shouted loudly, "Sir, since you trust me so much, and since you have arranged my escape, then we have nothing to worry about. I will be able to work with you together." On the road, there is also smoke rising from my ancestral graves.

Brothers, do you think so or not? "

After hearing this, the remaining three thousand navy soldiers raised their weapons and torches in the dark night, and shouted loudly, "It is our honor to live and die with you!"

Xia Yuanji's hand holding the sword was trembling.

His eyes are red.

He finally knows why he went to the battlefield?

He finally understood what the glory of being a soldier was?

At this moment, it was very clear why he went to the battlefield and why he led the officers and soldiers to protect Guangdong?

Just for this moment.

Behind him are thousands of families, and in front of him are brothers who are willing to live and die together with him.

With these two things to support myself, everything is enough.

He just regretted that he could not implement the reform to the end with Chen Han;

He just regrets that the reclamation of fertile land in Lingnan has just entered a large scale;

He just regrets that he did not make great achievements in his position as Chief Secretary of Guangdong and failed to completely lift the people out of poverty.

But the moment of decision has come.

He didn't have that much time to think.

After the soldiers finished taking the oath, Xia Yuanji shouted: "Kill the enemy!"

Then a strange scene happened for Chen Zuyi and his gang of pirates.

Originally, Xia Yuanji had been huddled in the city.

But at this moment, the door of the walled city opened.

Then, although the naval warship was not big, it came out of the gate of the water village like a sharp sword and charged towards the pirates.

Is Xia Yuanji really stupid?

Do you really want to go all-in?

totally not.

But he knew very well that if he had been hiding in the city and waiting for the pirates to attack him,

Such a small amount of troops cannot have any effect.

On the contrary, a charge at this time can bring a huge boost to the morale of the defenders.

At the same time, it may also disrupt the Pirates' offensive pace.

And this blow was indeed effective.

Chen Zuyi and the others never expected that the Ming army, which was clearly at a disadvantage, would dare to take the initiative at this time.

He was not fully prepared for the moment, and was directly killed by the death squad led by Xia Yuanji.

In an hour of back and forth fighting, Xia Yuanji forcefully used the three thousand remaining soldiers in his hands to overturn Chen Zuyi's three large ships.

Only when they returned to existence did Chen Zuyi and the others react.

But such an action can only happen once.

Because Chen Zuyi and the others were prepared for the second time.

And in the process, Xia Yuanji and the others were not without injuries.

Three thousand people went out and only 2,500 came back, which was a loss of 500 people.

They died tragically.

But everyone has no time to come, they just want to rush out again as soon as possible.

But this time, the big guy is even more tragic.

Because everyone knows that the first time is a fluke, and the pirates will be prepared for the second time.

Sure enough, after going out for the second time, this time he lost 800 people.

Only 1,700 people came back.

Just when they were about to die with the pirates for the third time, they suddenly felt that the pirates had stopped attacking.

Then a strange but very safe feeling came to them.

Or a sixth sense.

Because they felt that the pirates suddenly became quiet.

It was unnervingly quiet.

But for Xia Yuanji and the others, this kind of silence is very beneficial.

Chen Zuyi felt that he was 100% sure this time and would be able to quickly eliminate the Chief Secretary of Guangdong who had no time to send additional troops.

But what he didn't expect was that his self-confidence would actually bring him a huge crisis.

As the leader of a pirate gang that runs rampant on the sea.

He has been skillfully navigating the world of swordsmanship over the years.

The ability to sense danger is very strong.

Although the vast sea was pitch black, nothing appeared.

But for some reason, a powerful pressure from the north is slowly coming.

As a battle-hardened pirate.

He knew instantly that something was coming.

And it’s still huge.

Sure enough, at the moment when his senses responded, a huge, invisible, dark-looking thing, like a scourge, suddenly crashed over quietly.

The strong north wind carries a biting murderous intent.

Appeared in front of them all of a sudden.

Chen Zuyi raised his head.

Yes he raised his head.

Then he saw the huge ship that looked like a city wall to him.

The sharp bow was like a sharp plow hitting his men's warship.

Their warships are made of a very hard ash tree from the Nanyang countries.

Even ordinary artillery will only leave a little mark when hitting it.

Relying on such warships, he was invincible in the Nanyang, the Big and Little Ryukyus, and the Japanese slave waters.

The warships of any small country are just children's toys in front of them.

But this time it seems different.

If the opponent's warship is not called a warship, it is called a giant ship.

The opponent's giant ship was like cutting through tofu with a knife, cutting off their warship in the middle.

Before the pirates above could escape, they were crushed underwater by the opponent's giant ship.

Then more than thirty warships appeared behind the giant ship.

Each warship is several times larger than theirs.

This fleet, silently taking advantage of the strong north wind, suddenly appeared in their sight.

Then a huge thunderous sound was heard on the battleship.

Then Chen Zuyi saw about 800 meters behind him, a warship of his own, which was completely blown to pieces on the water.

The hundreds of pirates above barely had time to shout before they were torn apart by something unknown. Not waiting for Chen Zuyi to react again.

The thirty warships that followed all fired their guns.

The same deafening, thunderous sound of cannons came.

Chen Zuyi found that thirty meteorites flew overhead, carrying the sound of howling wind and a tornado-like momentum, and smashed towards his hundreds of warships.

And his warships are the main fleet that he is proud of.

Under the attack of these thirty cannons, it was blown to pieces without any reaction.

Even if there were more than 10,000 pirates on it, they fell directly into the sea.

They barely had time to react before they felt another burst of crackling firecracker-like sounds.

It turned out that on the deck of the opponent's tall warship, there were many soldiers holding stick-like weapons and attacking the pirates below who either fell into the water or remained on the warship.

Chen Zuyi just watched helplessly as his men were beaten into pieces.

What kind of scene is this?

This is a completely crushed scene.

He fought many wars, each of which was difficult.

Although he also won, he still killed one thousand enemies and suffered eight hundred losses.

But he believes that these are the rules on the battlefield, and it is impossible for you to completely crush the opponent.

The reason why these pirates can win is because they are not afraid of death and the excitement of being able to go to the shore to burn, kill and loot after killing the opponent.

However, in the current war, almost 80 of the 120 warships he led were lost.

The remaining warships were lucky enough to escape the first round of bombardment, but were already seriously injured and crippled, and had no combat effectiveness.

Fortunately, Chen Zuyi is not a person who likes to act as a commander on the largest warship.

He likes to charge into battle, so his warships are closest to the water stronghold of the Guangzhou Shipping Department.

It is estimated that the other party was afraid that if a cannonball dropped, it would certainly blow up Chen Zuyi's warship, but it might also blow up the navy's water stronghold, so they did not aim at him.

When Chen Zuyi came to his senses again, he found that the other party was already cleaning the battlefield.

More than thirty warships, as tall as hills, surrounded them.

Then there were no loud slogans, no passionate words.

I saw the largest ship, which was more than sixty meters long and more than ten meters high, flapping its sails like a whale cruising in the ocean.

It's like a huge plow, wandering back and forth.

Cutting up the pirate ships that haven't been blown to pieces yet.

Despite such a huge body, it is extremely flexible when traveling back and forth across the vast sea.

During the tea time, they did not launch any decent attack, they just went on a rampage and scattered all the fleet that Chen Zuyi was proud of.

There is nothing grand about this war.

There's no cutthroat competition.

Just a one-sided massacre.

So it's not exciting at all.

Because it is not like Xia Yuanji leading a dozen ships like a death squad, charging into the pile of a hundred enemy warships, killing them back and forth, and finally ten ships went out and seven came back. That is tragic.

Xia Yuanji and the others' adrenaline levels were soaring.

But this time, the fleet seemed to have encountered no decent resistance.

But as soon as they appeared, they fired a round of cannons, blowing up more than 120 pirate warships and sinking more than 80.

Then the main battleship began to ram back and forth like a pirate.

Then the soldiers of more than thirty warships raised their muskets and attacked in a targeted manner based on the relatively dim candlelight on the pirate warships.

Chen Zuyi looked back at all this with a cold look on his face.

He led more than 20,000 pirates and more than 100 warships playing back and forth outside the water village of Guangdong Chief Secretary City.

It was a great time to play the Guangdong Navy as a target.

He understood very well that even if there were hundreds of thousands or two hundred thousand Ming army soldiers on Daming Bank, it was impossible for them all to enter the water.

So he only used more than a hundred warships to fool the Ming army's hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

In the end, when only 3,000 of the more than 10,000 people in the Guangdong Navy were killed, he was ready to go ashore to burn, kill and loot.

But he didn't expect that suddenly a battleship that he had never seen or heard of would come out and kill him.

And as easily as playing with a child, he killed his proud fleet until it had no ability to resist.

After Chen Zuyi was stunned for a long time, he shouted: "Run!"

There were still hundreds of pirates under his command. Hearing this, they rowed as hard as they could.

Normally he would run away quickly, but this time he gave the other party the best chance.

After they ran a few hundred meters away, there was a loud thunder on the main battleship.

Chen Zuyi suddenly felt bad pain and shouted: "No!!!"

His guess was correct, that shell was aimed at him.

boom! !

As soon as he shouted, the cannonball hit his warship.

He finally felt what the pirates under his hands felt like.

The shell hit the middle of the ship and penetrated diagonally above the deck.

Then he felt as if the entire warship had been folded with force.

Taking the middle as the axis, huge force tore the deck apart, and the two broken pieces of the ship quickly came together like scissors.

Chen Zuyi was knocked up and was caught in the warship that broke into two pieces like a meat pie.

It is said that when they later found Chen Zuyi's body, they found that Chen Zuyi had been smashed into the deck and could not be broken out.

Xia Yuanji and the others stared blankly at this scene from the tower of the water village.

There really aren’t many words to describe this war.

Because it's not worth describing.

too fast!

From the appearance of the giant ship to the end, it only took a few sticks of incense.

But the scene was very miserable.

Nothing can be seen at night.

It was not discovered until the next day when the naval generals led the naval officers and soldiers to clean the battlefield.

The vast sea was covered with pirate corpses.

The entire sea is covered with the remains of broken warships.

The battlefield situation they saw that night was very simple, but when they saw the tragedy on the sea the next day, they realized that there are not many words to describe a war with unequal combat power, but it is indeed very spectacular. of.

The navy led by Lan Yu appeared at the most critical moment.

And when the war was over, Lan Yu asked the warships to raise their torches and asked the navy soldiers if there were any remaining enemies. The patrolling warships answered with flags that there were no more.

Lan Yu was stunned for a moment, "How could it be so fast? Didn't there be more than 20,000 pirates? Are there more than a hundred warships?

How come it was solved in less than half an hour?

Did they escape? "

Dingyuan Marquis Wang Bi and others who were on the same battleship as Lan Yu also looked confused.

Isn’t it said that Chen Zuyi’s pirate gang is very powerful?

I heard that Chen Zuyi personally led the pirate warships to surround the water stronghold of the Guangdong Navy and was about to break through the stronghold and attack the land. Why did the Ming Navy just arrive and they were broken?

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(End of this chapter)