Beginning in May of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, North Korean and Japanese merchant ships traveling through the Tsushima Strait were in bad luck. A group of pirates appeared out of nowhere and drove fast ships. When they saw the merchant ships, they robbed them.
.If you dare to resist, you will be immediately bombarded by cannons and unable to find the north.
These days, the artillery of the indigenous people is still front-loading cannon. How can it withstand the bombardment of breech-loading cannon?
Chen Cheng asked the support team to continue building gun towers on Jeju Island...ahem, they continued to build fortresses. He and Lin Mengchu took the combat team out for less than a day and robbed a North Korean ship.
Merchant ship. When they saw the pirate ship catching up "suddenly", the people on the merchant ship were stunned. How could they run so fast without sails and oars?
Lin Mengchu picked up the electric horn and shouted in his newly learned Korean: "Looting, stop moving forward immediately, or we will open fire!"
There is a small cannon installed on the ship. It is the one that Chen Cheng dragged out last time. It has a caliber of 80mm. After modification, it will probably not destroy the ship as soon as it is fired. But it is best not to use it if possible. This
The small boat was not designed as a battleship, and its tonnage was so small that Chen Cheng didn't even bother to give it a name.
When the people on the merchant ship heard that they were coming to rob, they ran faster, and then Lin Mengchu immediately ordered his men to fire a cannon.
"boom!"
The shells flew out and almost broke the merchant ship into two pieces. For this kind of artillery, the distance of two hundred meters was no different than pressing it against the enemy's chest. Seeing such a terrifying bombardment, the people on the ship immediately became honest.
, lowered the sails, and shouted loudly.
Then Chen Cheng led his men to jump on the merchant ship and swept away the goods. Not only that, he also tied up more than a dozen people and returned to his stronghold on Jeju Island. The first attack made a huge profit, and morale immediately
He became very high-spirited. The Koreans under Kim Sun Yang were not polite to their compatriots at all, and they were tied tightly with ropes.
Returning to the stronghold, Chen Cheng first distributed the trophies to the soldiers who fought, and then used the captured Koreans as free coolies and threw them on the construction site. Those who stayed behind were transferred to supervisors.
Chen Cheng can observe movements within a hundred miles, and the Tsushima Strait is only four hundred miles long and one hundred miles wide, so the attack efficiency is very high. Anyone who dares to take this route will most likely be killed.
Within a month, Chen Cheng and others robbed more than ten boats and arrested two to three hundred people.
The only problem is that there is no place to replenish diesel in this era. The ship is running very fast and the oil is burning badly. There is no place to maintain it. But Chen Cheng has his own plan. He has already used the free labor to dig out the base.
A dock, and he is planning to dig another boat. There is no place to get diesel and gasoline these days, but there is still a lot of coal. It just so happens that he still has a lot of coal-burning steam engines on hand, which will be used in a few months.
Steamboat.
Such a group of powerful pirates suddenly appeared on the sea. No matter how corrupt the Joseon Dynasty was, they got the news more than a month later. At first, they thought it was the Japanese pirates who had started to cause trouble again, so they didn't take it to heart.
What about a ghost ship that can run very fast with a "chu tu tu tu", or such a thing as the Black Dragon King? These are all lies. How could such a thing possibly exist?
The untouchables below have no knowledge. When they see a wild boar, they will think it is a mountain spirit and ghost. What they say cannot be taken seriously. With this idea, the Korean court protested to the Japanese shogunate, saying that you must restrain the pirates.
Well, it took a lot of effort for everyone to sit down and live a peaceful life for several decades.
Wouldn't it be nice to make a fortune together? Do we have to rob?
The Tokugawa shogunate was confused after receiving the protest. Now the number of ronin and low-level samurai in the country has increased again, and there are people everywhere who want to cause trouble. How can they take care of the pirates? Now they are already exhausted.
By July, the castle in the south of Jeju Island was finally repaired. The size of the team also expanded to more than 400 people, organized into two squadrons, and the rest were slave workers. Although they were used as slaves,
But these people can still have enough to eat, and there are actually many people who think this life is better.
Of course, there are still many people who don't like to be slaves. Koreans are human beings too and have the most basic human needs. Many people escaped while working and ran to the north of Jeju Island, reporting to local officials in the south.
There's something about a gang of pirates.
Those officials were shocked when they heard the news. If the court knew that such gangsters appeared under their rule, everyone might lose their hat. Being sent to a place like Jeju Island has already proved that they are nothing.
Backer. But at least he can still maintain a decent life by exploiting the people below.
If we really don't even have this bit of dignity, then wouldn't everyone be just like those mud-legged people?
This is absolutely intolerable!
Soon, a crusade team of more than 200 people was formed to kill the pirates. In order to prevent the superiors from finding excuses to kill them all, the local officials suppressed the news.
I thought that after the pirates were eliminated, we could report them together.
As soon as the punitive team here was dispatched, Chen Cheng had already discovered the clues over there before they had gone twenty miles. So he pulled out the soldiers from the two squadrons, while the auxiliary soldiers stayed behind to guard the castle and keep an eye on the slaves.
work, lest they take the opportunity to cause trouble.
Because of some cheating plug-ins, Chen Cheng easily found the route of the North Korean soldiers and found the most suitable place for an ambush. When the North Korean soldiers entered the ambush circle, they first blasted them with a high-explosive bomb and killed them.
Thirty or forty people were killed and wounded, and more importantly, the morale of the opponent was completely destroyed.
While the enemy's morale dropped sharply, the morale of our own army rose a lot. Jin Taiyang raised his long sword and shouted loudly: "Those who advance will live, and those who retreat will die! Everyone, come up with me!"
The original thirty people have been promoted to low-level officers. Not only are they physically stronger, but they are also better equipped. They have also robbed many times with Chen Cheng at sea. They have long since given up. They took the newly joined Koreans with them.
He rushed forward and beat the officers and soldiers to pieces.
The combat effectiveness of the Korean soldiers was already very bad, and the combat effectiveness of the North Korean soldiers on Jeju Island was even worse. They had just received another shot and collapsed before the pirates could rush up. Chen Cheng then led his soldiers to advance north quickly, marching all the way
He chased the defeated troops and entered the territory of the Koreans.
"Sir!" Jin Taiyang, wearing iron armor, ran over and said anxiously: "The county magistrate has closed the city gate, and we are blocked from outside!"
Chen Cheng had already seen some faint Koreans defending on the top of the city, but he didn't take it to heart at all and said casually: "Let your men prepare and rush in after the city gate is blasted open."
"yes!"
Seeing Chen Cheng summoning the cannon again, the soldiers nearby were very excited. Art is explosion. Although these Koreans don't understand art, they all like to watch explosions, especially when these explosions are caused by their own side.
when.
The cannon was quickly ready to fire, and with a roar, the power of steel and gunpowder destroyed the Koreans' simple city gate. Amid the panicked shouts of the defenders, Lin Mengchu led the pirates to swarm in, and soon
The attack reached the vicinity of the county government office. The county magistrate still wanted to rely on the county government office to defend, but those Korean soldiers lost their fighting spirit and fled long ago.
Lin Mengchu rushed into the back hall with her dagger and pistol, and saw the county magistrate hanging on the beam. She circled around the body and was very dissatisfied with the ferocious face, "It's so ugly to die.
Someone, come and untie this guy!"
Relying on the power of artillery, the two counties of the Joseon Dynasty on Jeju Island were quickly captured. One of the two county magistrates committed suicide, and the other had fled back to the Korean Peninsula by boat before the pirates came. In one sentence, they captured
After covering two counties, Jin Tianyang and a group of pirates were extremely happy, thinking that with the power of cannons, it would be easy to attack Pyongyang!
Even Cui Chengxiu, who has always been a bit dull, has an eagerness to try. He has occupied the territory of two counties. Not only have they snatched a lot from Long Gongcheng, but now they can also have a taste of being an official.
"Do you want to stay here?"
Chen Cheng smiled and said: "Then I will make you both county magistrates and help me... well, help His Majesty the Black Dragon King guard these places in the north."
Although Jin Yangyang felt that something was wrong with Chen Cheng's tone, he was so dazzled by the magistrate that he couldn't think of anything else. Cui Chengxiu, on the other hand, shook his head and said, "Although I am from a noble family of two classes
, but he has already been kicked out of his home and is not suitable to be a county magistrate."
Lin Mengchu was not interested in these dilapidated cities. She still felt that the castle in the south was more comfortable. She said to Chen Cheng, "How about we go back to the castle?"
That castle was built under her watch, and it was equipped with a lot of modern equipment. Although it was not as big as here, it was much better to live in. No matter how big the place here was, it didn't have solar water heaters and bathtubs, and it couldn't be used in it.
Watching movies and playing games here, no matter how big it is, what's the use of it?
Chen Cheng smiled and said, "I think so too."
He said to Jin Yangyang: "Cui Chengxiu will return to the south with me, and I will leave the matters in the north to you."
Later, Chen Cheng took hundreds of people back to the south, released all the original slave workers, and distributed fields and land deeds to them around. Although it was said that a pirate leader handed out land deeds to people, many people secretly laughed.
, but many people feel relieved because of it.
Those young men who had followed Chen Cheng for a long time and the original Pyongyang defenders also allocated a lot of fields. However, Jeju Island has a small population and good fields, but not many people come to cultivate them. These people are also used to robbery.
How can I bear the heart to farm?
Many of them still have family members in North Korea. Now that they have so much money, they all want to return home in fine clothes. People are like this. Of course they want to go back and show off when they get rich. Cui Chengxiu reported this situation
When they came up, Chen Cheng asked Squad Leader Lin again, and then he agreed to take everyone back and prepare a lot of food, cloth and other things.
