Late Ming Dynasty: Infinite Violent Soldiers

　　The silver mine still needs to be dug, how can robbery come so fast? !

　　After looking around, Lin Feng felt that it would be more promising to rob the Manchu Tartars.

Chapter 3 New Naval Actions - Escort Action (4/[-])

　　Dozens of warships, ten [-]-ton sailing warships, and thirty [-]-ton sailing warships are moored in the newly built Jinghaiwei Military Port.

　　Although these ships were not equipped with artillery and muskets, the thick crossbow arrows on the deck made it daunting to look at.This kind of crossbow arrow with a length of five or six meters and a thick vertical rod, once it is shot out, its power is also terrifying.

　　Once shot on a person, no battle armor can withstand its strength, and it has to be beaten into a string of gourds.

　　These warships may not be anything in Daming, Fujian, Guangdong and Nanyang.However, on the sea frontier to the north of the Ming Dynasty, it was an incomparably powerful naval force that could hardly find any opponents.

　　What's more, each warship is equipped with a fully-armed skipping team, which has been trained for several months for skipping operations to capture other ships, and is extremely skilled.

　　Because of Lin Feng's consideration of the sea and territory, he decided to expand the sphere of influence of the territory on the sea, training the navy's long-distance navigation ability and actual combat ability.

　　The policy of releasing the three fleets under his command was designated.

　　After all, keeping the naval fleet in the port, near the sea, is not able to train a strong and effective navy.

　　How can it be called a powerful navy without going through long-distance voyages and practice in actual combat? !

　　What's more, keeping them in the port all the time is a huge waste of resources.

　　It is better to send the navy out, let them fight pirates, and subsidize the finances of the territory.

　　"start sailing!"

　　Li Yi, commander of the Jinghai Fleet, gave an order, and the sound of conch shells sounded on his flagship, and through the sound, the order to set sail was passed to each warship.

　　At the same time, on the watchtower, flags were waved, greeting them with flag language.

　　Dozens of warships slowly raised their sails and began to leave the port and row out of the port.

　　As the sails were full, the fleet's speed became faster and faster, all the way to the southern sea.

　　According to the requirements set by Lin Feng for them, the Jinghai Fleet will expand the patrol range to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and investigate around the route, also to protect the safety of the route.

　　With the increasing number of sea trade transactions between Weihaiwei and the South, from the initial hundreds of thousands of silver dollars, the monthly transaction volume now exceeds the tens of millions of silver dollars, and there are more and more merchant ships on this route. , and naturally become more and more lively.

　　The rich oil and water, and many fat sheep, naturally attracted the attention of a large number of pirates.

　　Many pirates who were in the south began to head north, focusing on the north, occupying remote islands, and starting to loot merchant ships on the route.

　　Although on the route to Weihaiwei and the south, many merchants have purchased the thousand-ton large merchant ships produced by Weihaiwei. The speed of the ship is as high as ten knots, making it difficult for the broken ships of the pirates to catch up.

　　But the vast majority of merchants still use old merchant ships to run ships.

　　Because Weihaiwei's thousand-ton merchant ships are too expensive.

　　The price of each ship is as high as [-] silver dollars, which is daunting!

　　Weihaiwei's silver dollar is almost two taels per piece, which is equivalent to the price of nearly one hundred thousand taels of a thousand-ton merchant ship.

　　Not a big businessman with strong capital, can't afford it at all!

　　For many businessmen running the sea, although the boat is a little smaller, the cost is low. Three or five sailors can start it, which is flexible and convenient, and has many benefits.

　　It's just that as the islands heard the news, these dilapidated merchant ships suffered frequent disasters and were easily overtaken by pirates, and then the whole ship was looted.

　　Good point cargo is not guaranteed, unlucky, that is the loss of both people and goods!

　　Although at present, the emergence of pirates has not affected Weihaiwei's sea trade transactions, and because of the emergence of pirates, many goods have been lost in the sea, and many commodity shipments have increased a lot.

　　After breaking through [-] million silver dollars, the monthly transaction volume is still going up.

　　However, Lin Feng knew that the emergence of pirates threatened the safety of the route, which would eventually make a large number of merchants timid about this route, which would definitely cause a serious blow to Weihaiwei's sea trade transactions in the future.

　　After all, he is not a businessman, and he is not looking at the amount of silver dollars.

　　What he values ​​is how much goods are sold and how much raw materials are brought in each month.

　　The larger the volume of goods shipped, the more various industries under his banner will be transferred, because most of Weihaiwei's goods are owned by him.The more shipments, the more he earns, and the more the people in the territory earn, the better the economic development of the territory will be.

　　The entry of a large number of raw materials means that the price of raw materials will drop, which will lead to a great increase in the profit he obtains, and the cost of various weapons and equipment will also be greatly reduced.

　　But once the number of merchant ships decreases and the transportation volume decreases, all the data in his territory will plummet, which will cause a great blow to the economic development and industrial development of the territory.

　　Nowadays, the territory attaches great importance to sea trade transactions and is extremely dependent on it. Lin Feng absolutely cannot tolerate those pirates threatening the safety of his routes.

　　The dispatch of the Jinghai Fleet was also due to Lin Feng's plan in advance.

　　On the southward route, the merchant ships on the way cheered when they saw the huge lineup of the Jinghai Fleet.Every merchant ship hangs the flag of the Weihaiwei Sea Trade Chamber of Commerce.

　　This is used to identify the enemy and us. If such a flag is not displayed, it means that it has not been recorded in the Weihaiwei Sea Trade Exchange, and it is impossible to dock at the port of Weihaiwei.

　　At the same time, any ship that Weihaiwei navy found to have not hung such a flag during its patrols, and that it has been registered, is the object of the Weihaiwei navy's strict watch out.

　　The patrols of the Jinghai Fleet on the voyage are extremely popular with the merchant ships, and they also give these merchant ships great safety.

　　Many merchant ships that could keep up with the speed of the ships sailed behind the Jinghai Fleet.

　　"Report, five nautical miles ahead, three suspicious ships without flags and unrecorded are found!" The signal came from the watchtower, and the message immediately entered the ear of Admiral Li Yi.

　　"Order the fleet to catch up, surround it, and conduct a comprehensive search!"

　　"Anyone who resists and blocks anyone will be killed without mercy!"

　　Li Yi gave the order coldly, with a murderous tone in his tone.

　　In order to protect the safety of the route, he must kill on this route, and implement the principle that those who obey me prosper and those who oppose me perish!

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Chapter 4 Suppressing Pirates (4/[-])

　　Following Li Yi's order, there were five or six [-]-ton warships on the spot, full of sails, and rushed towards the three ships in front at a speed of as high as ten or twenty knots.

　　These three boats are similar to fishing boats, only one or two hundred tons. These are very common boats in the Daming Sea.

　　It can be used as both a fishing vessel and a merchant vessel, with a mix of hard sails and soft sails.

　　When they saw the huge fleet approaching them quickly, they panicked. The three ships hung up their soft sails at extremely fast speed, sailed with full sails, and wanted to escape.

　　It's just that even if they were going at full speed, the speed of the boat would not exceed the ten-knot mark, seven or eight knots at most.

　　In front of the fast warships of the Jinghai Fleet, the speed of the ships is simply not enough.

　　In less than half an hour, they were caught up, and six [-]-ton warships surrounded them.

　　It's just that these three ships, without any flags, were not captured and still tried to escape.

　　Seeing this scene, Li Yi sneered and waved his hand: "Suspicious, sink it on the spot!"

　　If you don't reason with these suspicious ships at all, if you don't obey, then you will be sunk and killed!

　　On the six [-]-ton warships, more than a dozen crossbows began to be wound, aiming at the three warships.

　　Bang bang bang!

　　Under the close-range shooting, there is no possibility of failure at all. More than a dozen bows and crossbows are all shot under the waterline of the three ships.

　　The huge force pierced and smashed the three ships with little defense below the waterline!

　　There were five or six large holes in each boat, and the sea water poured back, and suddenly the three boats seemed to be filled with lead, and the sails could not run.

　　But because of the design of the structure of the watertight compartment, the three ships could not sink.

　　The watertight compartment technology is Daming's global leading design in shipbuilding design.

　　You must know that Western ships do not have such a design at all. Once they hit a reef or a large hole is broken under the waterline, once it is not blocked, the water will be discharged.

　　Then the whole ship will be silent.

　　However, Daming's ships are different. Because of the design of watertight compartments, many ships have several large holes under the waterline, even a dozen or so, and they cannot sink.

　　Like a tumbler at sea, it can't sink no matter what!

　　However, because too much water was poured into it, it couldn't sink or run.

　　This design greatly increases the survival probability of the crew on board.

　　The three boats that were so full of water that they could not pull their sails began to panic.Seeing the Jinghai Fleet surrounding them, they were still accumulating bed crossbows, as if they were practicing with them as ship targets.

　　Everyone on the boat started to panic!

　　Especially the navy soldiers who saw the Jinghai Fleet, began to take rockets and eager to try, without the slightest intention to capture them alive, and wanted to burn them all to death

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　　Can't stay longer!

　　Raised the white flag, stepped out of the cabin, and surrendered!

　　You can't do it without surrender, for fear of being burned alive in this sea.

　　Even if you don't burn to death, you have to drown.

　　Three ships and hundreds of people were all taken prisoners.

　　A team of skippers was sent to search, and they soon found a large number of weapons such as knives, guns, arquebuses, and even soil cannons, as well as a large amount of cloth and grain produced by Weihaiwei, which was still stained with blood.

　　The identity of a pirate is undoubtedly confirmed!

　　"Interrogate them all, I want to know where their dens are?!"

　　Li Yi's face turned cold.

　　Under the severe torture, hundreds of pirates could not bear it at all, and they came out one by one.

　　This is a pirate gang with thousands of people, dozens of ships, and ships of different sizes.

　　Their old nest was set up on a small island less than [-] nautical miles away from the shipping route. Their actions were extremely rampant, almost unabashedly looting the merchant ships on the shipping route, and wherever they passed, nothing would grow.

　　The means are extremely brutal, not only for money and goods, but also for life!

　　Because of the looters, no one ran out, and there was no news.

　　Such an existence is tantamount to a cancer on the southern route of Weihaiwei, which must be removed!