"go ahead!"
A squadron leader holds a copper whistle in his mouth.
More than a hundred recruits holding long spears advanced step by step.
Beep!
The squadron leader blew the copper whistle in his mouth hard, and the advancing team stopped when they heard the whistle.
"Yes, after training for so long, you are starting to look good." The squadron leader walked to the front of the team, with a somewhat satisfied smile on his face.
At this time, someone in the team suddenly asked: "Squadron Captain, now that we have trained, when can we be paid?"
During the recruit period, they only get three meals a day and no pay. The recruits will not be officially paid until they pass the training and join the barracks or supply camp at each station.
Moreover, all the wages given out by Tiger Character Flag are real wages, and there is no phenomenon of deduction.
The squadron leader's face suddenly darkened, his smile disappeared, and he shouted coldly and sternly: "Who is his corps commander? Get out of the queue!"
"Report, it's me!"
As the words fell, a soldier quickly walked out of the queue and came to the squadron leader.
The squadron leader said with a cold face: "Your team will check the military regulations tonight. As their team leader, you will copy the military regulations a hundred times."
"Yes." The soldier responded with a dark face.
"Return to the team!"
The soldier turned around and returned to his position in the queue.
The squadron leader at the front of the team looked at the new recruits again and said loudly: "I won't talk about the military regulations here. If anyone doesn't know, ask your corps commander. Now let me talk about the salary issue. .”
As he spoke, his voice paused.
The breathing of the recruits in the queue became rapid, and their eyes were fixed on the squadron leader.
The squadron leader did not keep them waiting for too long, and said directly: "If you want to get paid, when you pass the training and officially join the army, your pay will naturally not be missing. And you can rest assured, Tiger Character Banner will never default on pay." Things happen, and every month you get enough money. If you want to get money, then train hard and become a real soldier as soon as possible. Now, the captains of each team lead their teams to continue training."
The squadron of more than a hundred people was quickly divided into three teams, each with thirty or forty people.
The squadron leader walked to a temporary high platform not far away and stood on a high place to look at the new recruits in his squadron who were training.
He was not the only one on the high platform at this time.
"fireworks!"
I don’t know who suddenly said this.
The squadron leader looked towards the sea.
At this moment, several more fireworks appeared on the sea.
Among the soldiers guarding the dock, some were riding horses and galloping towards the island.
"Something happened at sea." The squadron leader reacted immediately, hurriedly picked up the copper whistle hanging on his chest, put it in his mouth and blew it hard.
Not only him, but the other two recruit squadron leaders did the same thing as him, which was to gather the recruits who were training.
At this time, the soldiers who went to the island to deliver messages from the dock had arrived at Mao Wenlong's mansion, which is now where Li Zhao and other island officers handle official business.
"General, we just received a signal from the sea and an enemy situation was discovered at sea."
The fireworks that appear on the sea are signals sent by the Tiger Flag ships patrolling the sea near Phi Island to notify the island when they spot another enemy ship.
"It's later than expected." Li Zhao came to a high place, looked at the sea, and said at the same time, "Order all the soldiers and recruits to assemble and get ready for battle."
If enemy ships want to attack Pi Island, they need to block the waters around Pi Island through Tiger Flag ships. However, since the enemy is coming, the preparations must still be made.
The order was quickly passed on.
All the soldiers on the island have entered into pre-war preparations, but only one squadron of recruits has been transferred to join the army. The remaining two squadrons of recruits are responsible for the safety of the people on the island.
Similarly, they are also monitoring the people on the island to guard against collusion between the people on the island and the invading enemies.
Several ships docked near the dock began to head out to sea.
Zheng Tie, who was on Galen's ship, raised a monocular in his hand and looked at the densely packed ships approaching in the distance. There were at least nearly a hundred large and small ships.
"Notify other ships to set up their positions. After the enemy ships enter the shooting range, they are allowed to attack freely." Zheng Tie asked the messenger to convey his order.
Naval battles are different from land battles. The ships and cannons used are more powerful.
Although there are many enemy ships, most of them are small ships. There are only a few truly big ships, and even the big ships cannot compare with the ships on the Tiger Flag, not to mention the various ship cannons equipped on the ships.
Moreover, with so many enemy boats, they can only come all the way along the coastline. Most of the ships are not qualified to go to the ocean.
The flagman on the main ship stood on a high place, waving the flag in his hand, and notified the surrounding ships through semaphores.
The warships with the tiger flag assumed an attacking posture on the sea, quietly waiting for the enemy ships to approach.
Not long after, the leading enemy ship entered the battlefield.
boom! boom! boom!
The Tiger Flag warship closest to the enemy ship fired the ship's cannon, and the cannonballs were shot out from the side of the ship, and finally fell into the sea.
Even if the warship is parked on the sea, it is not stationary. The sea water will push the ship back and forth, and the cannons fired by the ship's cannon are even more inaccurate.
The gunner operating the ship's cannon can only fire in the direction of the enemy ship. Whether he can hit it or not depends on God's reward or not.
A series of more than 20 cannons finally hit one of the enemy ships, causing the side of the hit enemy ship to begin to tilt. The naval officers and soldiers on the ship jumped into the water and fled to other ships.
At this time, more and more enemy ships are entering the range, and there are more and more targets.
All Tiger Flag warships, including the main ship, began to fire at the Ming Navy ships, and Ming Navy ships were continuously hit.
Relying on the large number of cannons and the advancement of ship cannons, they started firing from a distance. On the other hand, the Ming Navy could only passively withstand the bombardment and was unable to fight back.
Half an hour had passed since the naval battle. Three ships of the Ming Navy had been sunk, and many other ships had been damaged. They were barely able to survive.
"What my lord said is really reasonable. If you fall behind, you will be beaten. How can such a navy compete with the foreigners for interests at sea." Zheng Chao, who had been paying attention to the Ming navy through a monocular, sighed and shook his head.
The naval battle lasted for so long, and the Ming Navy also fired cannons, but it was never able to threaten their warships. Instead, it lost many ships and naval officers and soldiers.
In his opinion, such a Ming navy couldn't even defeat a pirate like Li Dan, let alone go to the ocean to compete with the Fan people for maritime interests.
"Retreat, retreat, the navy of the Ming Army retreated."
The naval commander of the Ming Army saw that his own ships were still unable to threaten the warships of the Tiger Flag, and that his own ships were seriously damaged, so he had to retreat.
