Dragon Sea Empire

After the spies sent by Lin Xiao and Lin Shuisheng were intercepted and killed by the enemy spies, they quickly counterattacked with good training foundation and sharp weapons. The next day, the catchers were within [-] miles north of Changhua They intercepted and killed more than a dozen military spies, and captured two of them. As soon as Lin Xiao and Lin Shuisheng saw the two spies, they understood why their capture of the newcomers failed a few days ago: these spies They were not Han people, but Yao crossbow soldiers sent by the chieftains of the Yao nationality in Guangxi. Like the Chinese army's novice soldiers, they were best at moving in the dense forests.

From the activities of the forward spies of the Ming army, Lin Shuisheng instinctively felt that his opponent was from the same Chinese military academy as himself, while Yu Zigao immediately guessed that the enemy on the opposite side was in a situation where the forward spies disappeared without a trace and suffered heavy losses. The army is no longer an unorganized and undisciplined rebel army, but the Chinese army.

He was able to lead the army alone to break through to Changhua, which was actually the result of sending troops without authorization in violation of the general's order.

More than ten days ago, Luo Ying, a member of the Jin Qi family who stationed troops on the front line of Lingao, was seriously ill and unable to see things. Yu Zigao took the initiative to ask Ying to go to the front line of Lingao to supervise the battle. Even Qiongya General’s headquarters soldiers were not allowed to take away, but he was only allowed to take dozens of his own soldiers to Lingao to supervise the battle. Before Yu Zigao left, Jin Zongbing repeatedly told him: Just stick to Lingao , It is not allowed to send troops across the Wenlan River to the south without authorization.

Yu Zigao discovered on the front line of Lingao that seven or eight thousand officers and troops dispatched from Guangxi were stationed by a small river that was only a few feet wide, and there were only a few hundred scattered rebels on the other side of the river.

He immediately gathered all the generals and schools for a meeting, and proposed a plan to cross the river and go down to dig out the bandit's nest. The problem is that the early investigation work of the officers and soldiers was a mess. However, almost all the generals were unwilling to fight, and Yu Zigao was just Qiong General Yashen, the Guangxi soldiers did not obey him, and the generals just gave him face and no one objected to him face to face, but no one responded.

In the end, Yu Zigao took out his remaining family property as a reward, and made a promise: capture the thief's nest and lay down prefectures and counties, and allow soldiers to plunder. Once Zong Luo was willing to lead the team to attack with him, once Luo was Yu Dayou's subordinate, he was willing to take risks with Yu Zigao this time, it was for Naifu's sake.

As soon as Yu Zigao found out that the opponent was the Chinese Army, he immediately stopped marching, and began to send spies to investigate the situation. However, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Army in catching new hands was not comparable to those of the Yao people in the mountains. If we talk about the experience of living in the mountains, the Yao people Humans are naturally better than most of the Han Chinese’s novice catchers, but reconnaissance intelligence and special warfare involve many aspects such as weapons, personal techniques and tactics, and team tactics, as well as the interpretation and discovery of intelligence. What can be cultivated by simple life and hunting experience, so the Yao hunters were defeated one after another, and they were unable to detect the actual situation in Changhua County.

However, after such and such, the two sides that have not yet formally fought have returned to the situation where the Chinese Army has unilateral intelligence and transparency.

In the dense forest at dusk, the indigenous battalion of Siraya in Taiwan is advancing rapidly. They are divided into hundreds of teams in the impenetrable forest, using whistles and imitating bird calls as signals to communicate with each other, holding traditional spears and crossbows, and at the same time They also carried matchlock guns and other weapons. Under the guidance of several Li nationality guides, they made a detour to the mountains east of Changhua and rushed northward. They planned to sneak attack on the officers and soldiers camp after nightfall. On the Beimen River, which is only fifteen miles away from Changhua County, the aboriginal battalion planned to detour to their northeast, the upper reaches of the Beimen River, and then launch a surprise attack.

Major Yaku, the commander of the Taiwanese Indigenous Battalion, suddenly squatted down in front of a dense forest and raised his right hand to signal everyone to stop. There are enemies.

The night fell quietly into the tropical jungle, and a large number of flying insects were dispatched under the moonlight, flying over everyone's heads.

All the soldiers of the Siraya Aboriginal Battalion lay quietly in the woods, silently spending time with the unknown opponent in the opposite jungle.

Yaku leaned into Yan Song's ear and whispered, "It's not right, the person on the other side is also a forest hunter,"

Yan Song had no objection to the judgment of Yaku, who was originally a hunting master in the clan, and asked in a low voice: "Are we just wasting time with them here?"

Yaku nodded: "At this time, whoever moves first will be finished,"

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In order to cover the sneak attack of the Taiwan Aboriginal Battalion, Lin Shuisheng led the student army, five sentry teams of sailor musketeers, and one sentry team of artillery, swaggered out of the county town at noon on this day, and searched for Beimen River; The sailors of three sentry teams were placed, and the support troops in the middle were the student army and the artillery sentry team, and there were two more sentry teams at the rear. The raft carried [-] fleet sailors upstream, ready to cooperate with the frontal infantry to attack the officers and soldiers camp.

The three-way attack force had almost exhausted the Chinese army in Changhua County. Lin Shuisheng and Lin Xiao agreed that Yu Zigao's troops must be eliminated at once to keep Changhua County and Shilu Iron Mine.

At this moment, Yu Zigao deeply felt the dilemma of having no one under his command. During this march, he almost went all the way to teach these Yao soldiers and Guilin soldiers all kinds of basic knowledge about battlefield discipline, marching instructions, and combat preparations. The Yao spies were also temporarily selected by him, and now, when he was about to fight the most dangerous enemy, he couldn't find anyone who could help him with the most basic common sense of camping, such as setting up camp, digging ditches, erecting fences, and arranging sentries. He had to teach him how to do it by himself, which exhausted him to death.

Such a predicament is not surprising. The officer-soldier system in the Ming Dynasty was already decayed, and there was no decent training for officers in the military education system of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, as long as general officers can control soldiers in peacetime, they can catch soldiers on the battlefield in wartime. , even if it is good.

On this day, he sent Tuqianhu Wutu of the Yao nationality with his troops to detour to the northeast mountainous area of ​​Changhua to attack Changhua; at this point, he and Lin Shuisheng thought of going together. After more than 800 Yao soldiers set off, He continued to be busy alone until late at night, only then did he realize that he hadn't sent out the night sentry.

However, just as he sent out the secret sentry outside the camp, there was a warning sound from the secret sentry.

Around the officers and soldiers camp to the west of the Beimen River, warnings suddenly sounded everywhere. Thanks to Yu Zigao, he remembered to send out a secret sentry in time, and discovered Lin Shuisheng's sailor musketeers coming out of the forest to the west in time.

The battalion of officers and soldiers responded in time, put the whole battalion on alert immediately, fired rockets towards the outside of the camp, and ignited the fire that had been set up long ago. Slowly retreating back, Lin Shuisheng had already noticed that the officers and soldiers camp was tightly guarded and there was no room to take advantage of, so he had to order the troops to retreat temporarily. He wanted to wait for the aboriginal battalion or the sailors of the navy to launch a sneak attack in the direction of Beimen River before launching an attack.

But they waited until daylight, and the sneak attack did not happen. When the sailors went upstream, they encountered officers and soldiers patrolling the Beimen River. As a result, the sneak attack failed, and the sailors turned around decisively and landed on the west bank to join Lin Shuisheng's troops. .

The Siraya indigenous camp seemed to have disappeared. Lin Shuisheng didn't close his eyes all night, but there was no news from the indigenous camp.

Yu Zigao blocked the land and water attacks of the Chinese army in time, and also hoped that the Yao crossbow soldiers could earn some face, but until the next morning, there was no news from the Yao soldiers.

The Chinese Army simply swaggered and lined up in front of the officers and soldiers' camp, as if preparing for a decisive battle with the officers and soldiers.

Yu Zigao had no interest in a decisive battle with the Chinese Army. He stood on the watchtower of the stockade and looked at the Chinese Army positions outside the camp. He always regretted not being able to steal a telescope from the Chinese Army. After looking at it for a while, I asked suspiciously: "Young Master, why are the flags of these pirates all numbers, and what does the flag with the character 'Xue' mean? Is there anyone named Xue?"

"This is the serial number of their troops. For example, the name of 'Nanyi' refers to the first sentry team of the Guiyang Sailors and Musketeers, and the rest are analogous. Sailors and Musketeers are divided by region. Corps; the red flag with the word 'learning' is the so-called cadet army,"

"What, military academy, student army?" Once Luo was confused by these new terms, Yu Zigao had no time to explain, and shouted to the outside: "Hey, who is the leader of the opposite side, come out and speak."

He asked dozens of his own soldiers to shout at the same time, half pay, and a man walked out from the opposite Chinese army position, wearing a silver-gray overall breastplate, wearing a silver helmet, with a blue streamer and a red streamer on the top of the helmet , indicating that this person is a major officer of the Mariners and Musketeers.

Alone, he walked straight fifty steps away from the officers and soldiers' barracks empty-handed, and then he stopped and said loudly, "Is it Senior Yu? I'm in Xialin Shuisheng. When I was studying in the command department, the senior should have seen me."

Yu Zigao ordered all officers and soldiers not to shoot arrows. He walked down the watchtower, opened the gate of the village, walked out of the camp, walked ten steps away from Lin Shuisheng, took off his helmet, and looked at the short Danmin boy in front of him.

Lin Shuisheng smiled, cupped his hands and saluted: "Senior Yu is now a general of the imperial court, congratulations,"

Yu Zigao sighed, and cupped his hands and said, "Thank you very much. I don't know if the captain sent you here to formally confront the imperial court, or Mr. Yin wants to help the imperial court suppress Li Chao."

Lin Shuisheng replied with a smile: "Of course it's the latter. Master Yin, the captain of the ship, is the training envoy of the Yazhou regiment. This is subject to the official official seal, so of course we have to protect the safety of Yazhou, and it is our duty."