"Bang bang bang!"
Violent gunshots resounded at the port of Shengsi Island.
The sound of gunshots that kept vibrating the eardrums of the first team was very pleasant to the ears of the first team.
But what the Japanese pirates on the opposite side heard was the whisper of death, which made all the Japanese pirates who were still thinking about charging stop in their tracks.
"Rush, rush over!"
Even though someone was still encouraging them from behind, the Japanese pirates no longer charged forward, but paused and began to wait and see.
At a distance of thirty steps, the Japanese pirates could clearly see each other's every move.
They saw a strange suit of armor on the other side. This type of armor was something they had never seen before.
Even in the Ming Dynasty, they had never seen armor of this style.
But the armor was not important. What frightened them the most was the black firecrackers held up in these people's hands.
I saw that the opponent's array had a total of four columns. After the front column finished shooting, it quickly ran to the back and began to change the gunpowder in a swaggering manner on the sea.
But the group of people who came up to replace them raised their firecrackers high and aimed straight at them.
At this time, even a fool knows that those terrifying gunshots are about to ring out again.
"Run!!"
I don't know who suddenly shouted in the crowd, and all the Japanese pirates turned around and ran away, leaving only a dozen real Japanese who couldn't understand Chinese.
And when these Shinwa were at a loss, the whisper of death sounded again.
"Bang bang bang!"
The gunfire came as expected, and some Japanese pirates who could not escape were knocked to the ground, while those who were standing on the same spot were directly beaten into a sieve, and their death was extremely miserable.
Seeing more than a thousand Japanese pirates, they ran away like frightened ducks.
Lan Yu directly ordered the entire army to attack, and he himself directly led his personal guards to kill the largest number of Japanese pirates.
After hearing Lan Yu's order, the first team fired freely, then stuffed the white bayonets on their waists directly into the buckle at the muzzle.
This was specifically requested by Li Jin when he was building the fire gun, so that the fire gun soldiers would not be helpless when encountering close combat.
Hand-to-hand combat is one of the subjects that every fire gunner must train.
The team that climbed first was the best among them. With a bayonet in hand, it was difficult for three or five people to get close to the team that climbed first.
Before Lan Yu took the lead in joining the team, he used a blunderbuss and bayonet to overthrow a dozen of the first team members. Lan Yu's ferocity was evident.
But after Li Jin handed over the formation of the Sancai Formation to the first team, it became obviously difficult for Lan Yu to deal with more than a dozen first team members.
The Sancai Formation is also one of the formations recorded in military training records. The Yuanyang Formation studied by Marshal Qi evolved from the Sancai Formation.
Therefore, the Yuanyang Formation can quickly integrate and change with the Sancai Formation. This is one of the reasons why the Qi Family Army under Marshal Qi is invincible in small-scale combat.
Not only are the soldiers under his command highly skilled, but they are also able to cooperate with each other. The three of them form a three-talent formation, taking care of each other, and can even be as good as a dozen people.
Once the mandarin duck formation is set up, it will be a piece of cake for seven or eight people to deal with more than thirty Japanese pirates.
Of course, Li Jin is not training the Yuanyang Formation now.
On the one hand, the Yuanyang Formation is more complicated and requires a lot of time to train. Li Jin's time to go to sea is relatively tight. If he trains the Yuanyang Formation, he may have to go into battle before he is familiar with the battle formation. This is not in line with Li Jin's ideas.
On the other hand, in Li Jin's conception, the navy still focused on firearms.
Although the British tactic of queuing up and shooting in the future looks very funny.
But this seemingly funny battle helped Britain defeat France, Portugal, and Spain, and successfully ascended to the throne of maritime hegemony.
It was in the land of China in later generations that this tactic was used to defeat the Qing government and start a century-old history of humiliation for China.
Therefore, there are no stupid tactics. The tactics of each era match the weapons.
Before automatic rifles and machine guns appeared, the tactics of using linear arrays and smoothbore guns could maximize firepower.
In that era, it was the top tactic.
Now that Li Jin has introduced muskets into the navy in advance, he naturally wants to carry forward this linear array.
At least, this kind of firearm and this kind of array are more than enough to defeat all the natives of the earth today.
As the navy's bayonets were loaded, a bloody pursuit began in the port.
Lan Yu and Zhu Di led their subordinates to chase the defeated troops in all directions. It seemed that the Japanese pirates were vulnerable. Everyone was competing for heads and credit. A great victory was just around the corner.
But Li Jin, who had not yet disembarked from the ship at sea, was livid.
Before Lan Yu disembarked, Li Jin had given repeated orders not to pursue the enemy after defeating them at the port.
It is necessary to stick to the original position and ensure that the follow-up troops can have a good landing beach. This is crucial.
As a result, Lan Yu turned a deaf ear to his explanation just after defeating the enemy, which made Li Jin very angry.
"Sir, shall we disembark now?"
The deputy general next to him saw that Li Jin had been silent and couldn't help but remind him.
Li Jin took a monocular and looked into the depths of the island. There seemed to be no movement.
However, Li Jin still did not dare to be careless and ordered:
"Let the fleet disperse and blockade all ports on the island."
"Any ship that wants to leave the port without my order will be sunk."
There is not only one northern port on Shengsi Island, but also two other ports in the southern and western regions.
Li Jin was planning to catch turtles in a jar this time, and he didn't want to let anyone go, so he directly asked the deputy general to lead people to block the port.
He took the remaining two thousand people, slowly got off the battleship, boarded the landing craft, and began to assemble towards the other side.
By the time Li Jin landed on the port shore, Lan Yu and the first team members had long disappeared, and they didn't know where to pursue the enemy.
Li Jin was not in a hurry at all and had people begin to unload the military supplies on the ship and set up defensive positions.
Li Jin now knows nothing about the situation inside the island. Even where the enemy is and how many Japanese pirates there are, Li Jin has a dark eye.
In this case, Li Jin decided to be cautious.
Time passed by minute by minute, and half an hour passed in the blink of an eye.
Li Jin has been concentrating on building a defensive position for half an hour. Although he is also worried about Lan Yu's safety, he believes in Lan Yu's ability more.
For someone who could shine on the Mobei battlefield in the future and survive the turbulent battlefield at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Li Jin felt that nothing would happen to Lan Yu.
Not long after the defensive position was set up, Li Jin received a messenger from Lan Yu.
However, the first words of the messenger made Li Jin almost spit out a mouthful of blood.
"Report, the Marquis is besieged by the enemy in the valley to the north. Please send troops to rescue him quickly!"
Just now, Li Jin was thinking that although Lan Yu was reckless, nothing unexpected would happen, but Lan Yu's request for help arrived, which really made Li Jin speechless towards Lan Yu.
Li Jin looked at the navy, which had less than 2,000 men, and frowned slightly.
The navy is where Li Jin's confidence lies, and the gunfire is where the navy's confidence lies.
Fireguns can only exert their greatest effect when the number of people is dense. Just like the British linear tactics in history, they are always detrimental.
If there are not enough people to form a suppressive firepower effect and let the opponent rush in front of him, although the navy also has certain melee capabilities, Li Jin does not want to do this kind of thing of using one's own shortcomings to attack the other's strengths.
While hesitating in his heart, the blue jade soldier in front of him spoke again:
"My Lord Marquis is in danger, please send troops."
Li Jin was shocked. As the Yongchang Marquis of the Ming Dynasty, Lan Yu could not die in the hands of the Japanese pirates. Otherwise, even if he made great achievements and wiped out the Japanese pirates, he would probably be impeached in the future.
Thinking of this, Li Jin no longer hesitated and immediately ordered to lead 1,500 people to the north.
Five hundred people were left to guard the military supplies, and they would meet again after Li Jin rescued Lan Yu.
