Chapter 640 Encirclement and Suppression of Shuangyu Port (2)
Yu Dayou led dozens of ships, biting behind the buttocks of the two Western ships, and chasing them reluctantly. It was probably because of the three masts that broke, so one of the Western ships was getting slower and slower. After chasing for dozens of miles, the Western ships slowly stopped and could not move. The stern of the ship was raised high, and it seemed to have been stranded. Moreover, perhaps because he was worried that the ship would capsize, the Japanese on the ship lowered all the sails and even threw the anchor.
"Haha, Boss Yu, our method has worked." Feng Laoliu grinned, so happy that he could not see the teeth.
Yu Dayou also showed excitement at this time and immediately ordered the fleet to sail over and surrounded the Western ship. Only then did everyone see clearly that the Western ship was not stranded, but was entangled by large groups of fish nets. Moreover, these fish nets also involved a large number of dead wood stumps, which undoubtedly brought huge resistance to the Western ship, and finally even pulled the entire ship up to its "tail".
It turned out that these fish nets and wood were arranged by Yu Dayou to scatter Su Qingsnake on the waterway. He was not sure whether it worked. Unexpectedly, these fish nets and wood actually made unexpected achievements.
In fact, these fishing nets are not enough to entangle the six-mast Western ship, but the unlucky Western ship was blown off three masts, and its power was severely weakened, so it was entangled by the fishing nets. The undamaged Western ship fled with hundreds of fishing nets.
Although he failed to keep both Western ships, it was good to capture one. Yu Dayou had long been salivating at the Franco cannons on the Western ships, so he immediately ordered an attack.
There were about sixty or seventy people on the Western ship. These Westerners obviously did not intend to wait for death. They used a stubborn counterattack, a rifle, a bow, a spear, and a big knife.
After a fierce bloody battle and nearly a hundred lives, the Ming army successfully boarded the Western ship. The Jinshan Guards, who were red-eyed, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, directly killed the surviving Westerners. The injured and undying ones also cut off their heads and put them in a sack as military success.
The words show that the dynasty do not have the habit of preferential treatment of foreigners as Chinese people. In their eyes, foreigners are just a group of foreign barbarians. In the official writing, the court also directly called foreigners the foreigners. "Fan" has a derogatory meaning, which shows that Chinese people at this time generally looked down on foreigners.
When Yu Dayou dragged a Western ship back to Shuangyu Port, it was already the hour when the sunset was full of sunset, and golden snakes danced on the sea. When Qi Jingtong heard that Yu Dayou had captured a Western ship, he was very surprised and hurried to see what was going on.
When Qi Jingtong saw that Yu Dayou had really dragged a large Western ship back, and the ship was still preserved in full, he couldn't help but give a thumbs up in surprise.
The soldiers of Jinshan Guard proudly held their heads and chests, carrying the combs seized from foreigners on their shoulders, and proudly accepted the attention of their comrades. It was so cool!
"Is this the Western musket? Let me show it!" Guo Jindiao snatched a colloid from Feng Laoliu's hand, played with it for a while, and threw it back to Feng Laoliu. He said disappointedly: "What a broken thing is not as good as the flintlock rifle of our 500th battalion."
The shape and structure of Western clamp guns are very similar to that of flintlock guns. They also have plate machines and buttstocks, but they still need to be lit to stimulate them. When hooking the plate machines, the rope head with Mars will be inserted into the fire door to ignite gunpowder and fire the bullets. Therefore, although the clamp gun is stronger than the Ming army's musket, it is relatively backward compared to the flintlock guns and cannot be used in rainy days. Moreover, open flames are easy to expose their location, which is not conducive to ambush battles.
Feng Laoliu rolled his eyes, rubbed the body of the mesh rope gun like a treasure, and said sourly: "Master Guo, your five hundred battalions are raised by your mother, and our local garrison troops are raised by stepmothers, so it's not comparable. It's good to use a mesh rope gun."
Qi Jingtong laughed and scolded, "Come on, don't be so sad, our five hundred battalion equipment is good and the treatment is high, but the battles are all tough, and the things you chew are all tough. What's wrong with you guys?"
Feng Laoliu was speechless. Although they captured a Western ship this time, the one who captured Shuangyu Port was indeed 500 Battalions, so the one who contributed the most was the most, and the one who made the greatest contribution was 500 Battalions.
Qi Jingtong ignored Feng Laoliu. Compared to foreigners' mesh guns, he was more interested in the Franco cannons on the ship, so he walked to a Franco cannon and observed them carefully.
Yu Dayou came up and said like a treasure: "Qi Qianhu, look, Western artillery is always loaded with ammunition on the butt. Each of them is equipped with three sub-cannons. You can fire the cannon by just stuffing the female cannon behind the butt. After the shooting, you can change another sub-cannon immediately, so it greatly shortens the time for filling the gunpowder. His grandma, no wonder this cannon is very fast."
Su Qingshe said proudly: "Qi Qianhu, we have seized 32 Western artillery pieces. Is this a miraculous achievement?"
Qi Jingtong smiled and said, "Excellent skills are definitely not considered a masterpiece, but they are also considered secondary skills, and rewards are indispensable."
Su Qingshe said unconvincedly: "The Western artillery is sharp. Why is it not that we have seized such a powerful weapon for the Ming Dynasty?"
It is necessary to explain here that in the 12th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, military merits are divided into three levels: extraordinary merits, primary merits and secondary merits. The levels of merits are different, and the specifications of rewards are also different. The rewards of extraordinary merits are the most abundant.
Yan Lang, the gunner of the 500th battalion next to him, laughed and said, "Because this kind of Franco cannon has existed in our army for a long time. A few years ago, Lord Xu presented the drawings of the Franco cannon to the late emperor. The late emperor ordered the Nanjing Military Equipment Bureau to develop it, and it was built the year before yesterday. Last year, he had equipped the Guangdong Navy."
Su Qingshe couldn't help but be stunned and said skeptical: "It's true or false. The imperial envoy was a scholar a few years ago. Where did he get the drawings of the Fran machine? Have he seen the Fran machine cannon? Don't just blow it!"
Yan Lang curled his lips and said, "You are ignorant. You are a frog in the well. I think others are also frog in the well? Not to mention anything else, the flintlock rifle was invented by us. You should just blow it for me to see."
Su Qingshe couldn't help but blushed and said unspeakable. After all, the sharpness of the flintlock rifle is obvious to all.
Qi Jingtong picked up a gun and weighed it and said, "Although the Nanjing Military Weapons Bureau has copied the Franco-machine cannons, I have never seen them before, and I don't know if they can compare with the cannons made by Westerners themselves. Therefore, these thirty-two cannons are also very precious. Be careful to preserve them well and don't lose them and break them."
Su Qingshe became proud again when she heard this and asserted: "No need to see, the things made by the Nanjing Military Weapons Bureau will definitely not be as good as these genuine ones. Just look at the bowl-mouth cannons made by those guys. They will burst and explode soon. If they had a firing rate as fast as the Fran machine cannon, they would probably not be able to stand the barrel after more than a dozen shots."
This time it was Yan Lang's turn to roll his eyes and said sarcastically: "Yes, yes, yes, the Fran machine cannon you seized is the most powerful, and you have a magical skill. I am so envious of you."
Qi Jingtong couldn't help but feel a little funny. He left the two guys who were quarreling and pulled Yu Dayou aside and asked, "Have you caught the prisoner?"
Yu Dayou spread his hands and said, "All of them are killed. These guys are stubborn and have killed hundreds of us. As soon as everyone got on the boat, they can endure it, so they all cut them."
Qi Jingtong could only say regretfully, if there was a survivor, he would probably get some useful information about the Westerners. Recently, Westerners have been quite active on the coast of Ming Dynasty. Last year, they fought a battle with the Guangdong Navy on Tuen Mun Island.
When it was almost dark, Xia Yan also took the fleet back to Shuangyu Island. The harvest was not great. He only intercepted five pirate ships, and the rest ran away, including Wang Zhi, Orishimiko and others, but failed to catch them.
A group of officers and soldiers buried pots on the island to cook for a night of rest. The next day, Xia Yan ordered people to bring in various debris, and then sank a large number of seized ships, blocking Shuangyu Port, so as not to make a comeback in the future.
Chapter completed!