Dragon Sea Empire

"Wen Chuyutai Jin Yan's general's department, the generals of Jinpan and Haining have one leader of the whistle flag officer, one of the Japanese generals, two sentry officers of the department, and the Chinese army's famous color commander. One member, a number of soldiers; one member of the general sentry officer of Huanghuaguan, one member of the departmental sentry officer... what is this, there is no specific number of soldiers and horses, what's going on, "

Yin Feng didn't know much about the specific organization of the Ming army and the relationship between superiors and subordinates, and Luo Qing's level of education was average, so it took a lot of thinking to interpret the information provided. Lin Xiao was originally a child of a military family, so naturally he knew it better Seeing that Yin Feng was in a bad mood, he could only patiently explain: "This is about the officers sent by the Zhejiang General Army to go to Fujian. According to the number of people under the jurisdiction of these officers on weekdays, I estimate that Zhejiang dispatched about 3000 to 4000 people. "

"According to Xu Xinsu's information, the total number of officers and soldiers dispatched in this battle will not be less than [-]. Moreover, all the five major water fortresses of the Fujian Navy will be dispatched, and the main force will gather in Penghu. In this way, the coast of Fujian will inevitably be empty. If we What do you all think about using the Flying Leopard to directly raid Fuzhou or Quanzhou," the calm Maid said slowly.

This is Yin Feng's usual style in meetings. Everyone speaks freely regardless of class. It is the first time for Huang Cheng to attend a board meeting. He is very curious about this form of meeting, but he is not used to speaking on such occasions.

Han Ping shook his head: "To fight Fuzhou directly, the officers and soldiers will probably leave Penghu to go back to rescue, but, are we really going to fight the imperial court over this?"

Lu Shitou sneered: "The officers and soldiers have already torn their faces, what else should we worry about?"

Yin Feng said distressedly: "This is the first time since the establishment of our Chinese company that we have confronted the officers and soldiers of the imperial court head-on. We cannot fail, otherwise it will seriously damage the vitality and damage the Taiwan base; nor can we really wipe out all the officers and soldiers in Fujian. , that would provoke the imperial court to send troops to encircle and suppress us, and we will fight endlessly, we cannot fight Fuzhou,"

Han Ping has always been not interested in military affairs, but in peace talks with the imperial court: "Captain, how about our peace talks with the government?"

Yin Feng shook his head and said: "The governor's office has always refused to allow the headquarters of the Chinese company to stay in Taiwan, and asked us to give up the Taiwan base. We will never agree to such a condition. Therefore, in the past two months, the Zeng family has had very little contact with the Fuzhou side. "

Mai De has been looking at the map, and at this moment he suddenly stood up and pointed to the Fujian map on the desk and said: "Boss, masters, have you noticed that there are so many officers and soldiers gathered in Penghu just to besiege a small fortress? Not very unreasonable,"

Lu Shitou approached the map and asked curiously: "What is unreasonable? A bunch of idiots are gathered there. It will be typhoon season soon. If the hurricane comes, I will see how they go to sea to cruise and replenish their supplies."

Yin Feng patted Mai De on the shoulder and nodded: "Made, you now have a strategic vision."

Mai De doesn't know what strategic vision is, but he is originally an introverted and careful person. Now after more than three years in the military, he has the outward temperament of a soldier. Coupled with his always reserved personality, everyone present is very impressed. He didn't dare to underestimate him. Originally, those merchant sailors who had been wandering outside all the year round had no class distinction with the Dan people. He saluted Yin Feng, and then continued: "The officers and soldiers have so many troops. Trapped our Penghu defenders, large forces directly attacked our Taiwan base, our fleet in Penghu has been solved by the officers and soldiers, and will not threaten the officers and soldiers at all,"

Yin Feng had a flash of inspiration, and laughed: "There is a way, everyone, we have to solve the current crisis by targeting the root cause of the incident; this war must be a good thing that Governor Xu and Eunuch Gao jointly did. They retreated in spite of the difficulties, "

Han Ping and Huang Yan jumped up almost at the same time, glanced at each other, and laughed, Huang Yan cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Let's talk about the shopkeeper Han Da, the next point is not worth mentioning."

Yin Feng interrupted the polite conversation between the two of them: "Okay, the two shopkeepers, time is urgent now, so speak directly."

Han Ping was already used to Yin Feng's informality, so he cupped his hands and said, "If the government should take the initiative to retreat, I think one way is to take the company's fleet to the gate of Fuzhou and force them to retreat by themselves; Another way is to beat the officers and soldiers in Penghu thoroughly, so that they will retreat in the face of difficulties, and they will have to think twice before taking action against us in the future."

Everyone didn't expect that Han Ping, who was usually timid, would be so bold to deal with the government, and they looked at him with admiration.

This is also the impact of Zhonghua Company's victory in Luzon Island, which made some shareholders and shopkeepers of Zhonghua Company unintentionally increase their self-confidence and gain a new understanding of the company's own armed forces.

Yin Feng walked back and forth in the room a few times, slapped the table, and said loudly: "So, we will use two prongs to meet the officers and soldiers in Penghu."

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Hundreds of Fujian's best shipwrights and boatmen worked day and night on the Flying Leopard, and finally completed the maintenance project. A day later, Mai Dahai led the Xinxing warship from Taipei's Jilong Harbor to Yao Harbor. .

Yin Feng wanted to take Xinxing to attack the coast of Fujian, while Mai Dahai fully supported the Fengguiwei defenders in Penghu, and resolutely dragged the officers and soldiers to the Penghu Islands.

Flying Leopard and Xinxing led ten three-masted warships and 30 two-masted warships out of Huanggang, bypassed Penghu and headed for the coast of Fujian. After arriving in the Jinxia area, they completely burned Wuyu and Dacheng Water Villages The main force went out to Penghu, and the officers, soldiers and sailors near Quanzhou Bay, which were empty of defense, were immediately beaten to the ground, discarded their helmets and armor, and disappeared.

The Xiamen Navy of Zhejiang Town still has more than 30 warships staying in Quanzhou, but in the eyes of the sailors of the Chinese company’s fleet, these ships are almost garbage. The Zhejiang Navy has always pursued rapid deployment at sea. The warships are mainly used Patrol at sea is not for combat, so what they want is speed, so the ships they use are small trumpet boats or sand boats, most of which are flat-bottomed boats, just in line with the depth of the ocean near Zhejiang, and there are many along the coast. The situation on the beach, therefore, the Zhejiang warships were handled by only a few three-masted warships, and all were sunk and burned outside Quanzhou Port.

It took a total of three days for the navy of the Zhonghua Company to clear the outskirts of Quanzhou Bay. That night, the brigade moored at Kinmen Island, and the flagship Xinxing stopped at Kinmen Inspection City (the city site was formerly named Wushan, and later known as Chengzai. top) shore.

"Report to the ship owner, we rescued more than 200 officers and soldiers in the sea, and they are now locked up on Kinmen Island. Commander Mai asked for instructions on how to deal with it,"

Yin Feng stood at the bow of the Xinxing ship, looking towards the dark continent, and sighed lightly.

In any case, pointing a knife at the government is one thing. When faced with the reality of war, those officers and soldiers who were killed or injured by the shelling and fire of their own troops are ordinary people. Yin Feng cannot ignore them anyway. After all, he is a traverser, not a real hero of the sea, although he has already begun to change unconsciously.

Without turning back, he ordered Lin Yue behind him in a heavy tone: "Let them all go, and give them a few of the officers, soldiers and warships captured today. Two denarii, let them go,"

"Wait a minute," Yin Feng stopped Lin Yue, thought for a while and said, "Talk to Mai Dahai, I will take the Xinxing to Fuzhou tonight, and let him lurk on the coast near Jinmen, waiting for news from Penghu. The navy has left Penghu Bay and set out to intercept immediately,"

Yin Feng took Xinxing, five three-masted warships, and ten two-masted warships from Xiamen to break into the Daquanzhou Bay area, first going south and then north, sweeping away all the remaining officers, soldiers and naval ships from Haicheng to Quanzhou , It also made the fishing ban by the officers and soldiers a dead letter. The fishermen can go to sea, which means that the source of intelligence of the Chinese company has been restored.

Yin Feng learned that there were only ten ships of the Fenghuomen Navy on patrol near the coast of Fuzhou, and there were only a thousand officers and soldiers around the Fuzhou City. Resisting the temptation to go ashore and occupy Fuzhou City in one fell swoop, he drove north until he reached the sea area at the junction of Zhejiang and Fujian. Within [-] days, the coast of Fujian was full of wars and alarms.

Governor Xu Xueju, Haidao Deputy Envoy Zhang Ju, Tax Envoy Eunuch Gao Cai and others jumped up and down in the city of Fujian in a hurry, and they rushed to Penghu one after another. They were worried that the ship reporting the letter would not be able to rush out of the coast of Fujian due to the interception of the Chinese company navy. The messenger ships all successfully arrived in Penghu, and Zhu Wenda, the commander-in-chief, was asked to send people back to Fujian as soon as possible.

In the past ten days, Lin Xiao sent dozens of fast warships to attack Penghu Bay continuously, and fought with the officers and sailors. When shooting, it slows down part of the recoil and reduces the damage to the hull caused by the recoil of the cannon. Therefore, the Chinese company's navy is equipped with cannons on ordinary sloops and brigs. The tactics of the navy are very uncomfortable.

The most important shipboard long-range weapon for officers and sailors is the Franc machine gun; the biggest feature of this type of rear-mounted gun is its fast rate of fire, which is much faster than the Chinese navy ship-borne gun that can only fire once every 2 minutes, but , because the air-tightness of the rear gun is very poor, so the thrust loss of the propellant is too large, and the range of the Franco gun shells is far inferior to that of other artillery. However, the range of the artillery is not as good as human beings. They can't hit the enemy but they are always pointed at their noses. The Chinese navy warships keep turning around to keep the distance, constantly hitting the navy ships with shells, but the poor officers and soldiers are always being beaten. The position of being unable to fight back is miserable.

Riding the entanglement between the officers and soldiers and the Chinese company's navy, the Haihun once again sent more than 100 soldiers from the second Maid regiment to the coast of Fengguiwei, and brought a 6-pound bronze cannon to Zhao Xuanming. Countless gunpowder and some grain, traumatic medicine and so on.

The infantry of the officers and soldiers has only launched a large-scale siege these days. One route was sent to the narrow northern beach by boat, the other route was attacked from the passage connecting the Fengguiwei peninsula to the main island, and the third route was transported by boat to the southern beach of Fengguiwei. login.

However, the Ming army's three-way siege did not cooperate with each other in terms of time. As a result, they were defeated one by one by the defenders of Fengguiwei Fortress. More than [-] officers and soldiers were killed or injured by firearms.