Goryeo, Jeolla Province, Jeju Strait.
First there was a volley of gun fire, and then there was a cannon shot attack! Chiyang's two hard slaps quickly silenced the pirates and sailors on the deck of the lucky ship! Then, adhering to Chiyang's combat principle of taking advantage of his illness to kill him, the four semi-snake guns filled with grape bullets opened fire one after another with the full cooperation of the gunners! In an instant, with the power of collapsing mountains and cracking rocks, dozens of spherical cannonballs the size of grapes, driven by high-quality black gunpowder, flew across the distance between the two sides at a speed that was difficult to see with the naked eye, and then landed on Fu. On the boat deck! The next moment, as the pirates and sailors kept making pitiful screams, these grape bullets instantly waded through the crowd into an alley of flesh and blood. Everyone and everything they met along the way were ruthlessly destroyed and overturned! You must know that grape bullets are not shotgun shells. Although the range of the artillery shells wrapped in net bags is not as good as that of solid bullets, at close range, the power exerted is no less than the latter! A single shot can easily knock down dozens of enemies, and its power is enough to make an infantry or navy centurion collapse in an instant! On the deck of the lucky ship, a scene of a victory escape was being staged at this moment. Everyone fell into a huge panic after seeing that their companions had their hands and feet broken by cannonballs, and even their vital organs were hit to death. ! These people still lived in the Middle Ages and were used to fighting in gangs to solve problems. They had never seen such powerful artillery, so collapse was inevitable! Kang Lin looked at the "pirate" sailors who were running away and even jumping into the sea. For the first time, he doubted the true identity of these people. Doesn't it mean that pirates are very fierce and awesome? How can they be beaten with several rounds of cannons? After coming down, they suffered a shameful rout. Could it be that their true identities were not pirates, but some fleeing civilians? To be honest, the performance of these people is not comparable to that of the ferocious sharks, even the natives are better than them. You must know that the warriors among the Mamat people were still going on until the eight-legged boat they were riding in was hit and sunk by the Chiyang ship. Tenacious resistance! Although those random arrows could not damage the hull made of pine or fir, it showed that they were at least still fighting back! Unlike the Fukufune pirates, they gave in decisively as soon as the guns were fired, without any sense of responsibility as a man on the sea! Perhaps, they are really just a group of armed civilians taking a boat out to sea...
"Stop the bombardment, Luo Da, Luo Er, hurry up and give me the order to stop the bombardment! In addition, send a few more boats over to see what tricks the enemies are playing! Remember to ask the boys to bring guns and flying weapons. Zhenpao, if he finds anything wrong, he will hit his grandma..."
Upon thinking of this, Kang Lin immediately ordered the two-ship formation to stop shelling the enemy ships, and sent a small group of troops to take a sampan and a small boat to get closer to check to confirm whether his previous idea was correct! If the other party is really a refugee, he will order armed sailors to land on the lucky ship, control them all, and then bring them back to the Tamna Garrison Division to enrich the Han population under his rule! Anyway, during this period, Shadow found a lot of evidence of the old Goryeo forces colluding with Li Zhenqing, and confiscated a lot of land. As soon as the people arrived in Hong Kong, they could allocate the land and start a new life, and they were not afraid of what trouble they could cause; if the other party If they are not refugees, it would be easier to arrest them all and send them to the Nanshan mines to do hard labor and work to atone for their sins. You must know that the current mining camps are short of manpower for work. What kind of petty thefts and bandits are there? Robbers and hostile elements, they all want it, they get in there anyway, you have no choice but to decide your life or death, you are really a stubborn person, the guards can beat you into fine steel! There, people are no longer human beings, but big talking animals. They work hard and fulfill their quotas in order to have food to eat. They steal from women and try to fight, but there is only one way to die. When the time comes, they will be beheaded or shot, but Take your pick...
"Master Guard, the men are back! They brought you more than forty prisoners and a complete lucky ship! You guessed it right, those prisoners are not pirates, but a group of Xia civilians who took refuge at sea! According to the preliminary interrogation, just when our Chiyang expedition to Goryeo and fought against the Jurchen rebels, unprecedented large-scale Xia massacres broke out in Liaodong, Shandong, Nanzhi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Peking Remaining Division! Forced by exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the common people of the Xia people, led by their elders and old nobles, rose up in arms to resist the tyranny of the Ming Dynasty! From the Daling River to the Yangtze River, from Changbai Mountain to Wuyi Mountain, everything became a fierce battlefield. The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, regiments from various places and the Xia people's mobs fought repeatedly in cities and rural areas. The war has spread to all parts of the country! And these Xia people we captured
The refugees went out to sea near Chengshan Guard in Shandong. They took advantage of the chaos and robbed the warship of the guard army, and then encountered a storm on the way to the area controlled by the Jurchens in Liaodong. After several twists and turns, they arrived after losing half of the ship. Along the coast of Goryeo, who would have expected that the Goryeo court would not dare to offend their overlord, the Ming Dynasty, for them! Therefore, they chose to continue southward after being expelled, hoping to seek refuge with Ji Chongxian, the leader of the rebel army who was prospering in Zhejiang and Nanzhi, the Prince of Canxia. Unexpectedly, they encountered a small storm again on the way! So, then they ran into us! Guard, these Xia mobs still have three Fu Ships at large. Should we send a war ship to chase them back? "
"What, a large-scale civil unrest broke out in the six provinces and one left-behind department, and the army and the remaining people went into full-scale war. The war is still spreading? Is this information reliable? Have you asked a few more people? But don't let a few The cunning woman deceived us, causing Chiyang to make the wrong response at the critical moment..."
After hearing the report from his subordinate Shadow, the old guard Kanglin Kangda, who was sitting there drinking tea, opened his eyes in an instant, as if the breaking news of a large-scale civil uprising in the Six Provinces and One Left-behind Division had affected him. To put it simply, it was nothing more than a thunderous explosion in the plains. While he was shocked, he was also very dissatisfied with the incompetence of his own intelligence personnel! However, this is not the time to hold them accountable. Those who want to get more benefits from the chaotic situation urgently need to verify the accuracy of the news! So he immediately ordered Yan Si, who joined the army, to interrogate the Xia refugees on his behalf to see if he could pry out more useful information from their mouths! Once the news is confirmed to be accurate, Chiyang will be busy next, and he must deploy at many important nodes in advance so that he will not be in a hurry when the storm comes!
At the same time, the former Xue Family Medical House on Donghai Weicao City Street is now the Chiyang contact point.
"Master Qi, in return for the ideas we have spread outside, the news of large-scale civil unrest in Liaodong Xingdu Division, Shandong, Nanzhi (Note), Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi Provincial Envoy Division, and Peking Remaining Division is true. We are Don’t you want to send someone back to report to the leader quickly so that he can make arrangements in advance?”
If the "enemy of the king of hell", Divine Doctor Xue, appeared here right now, he would definitely be stunned by the scene in front of him! His original dilapidated and desolate courtyard has now been replaced by an imposing brick and tile house with three entrances. Especially at the main entrance where you first enter the house, in addition to the copper-nailed gate and stone lions on the left and right, there are also several strong men with big shoulders and round waists acting as gatekeepers. Free doorkeeper, even the door plaque has the word "Yang Mansion" written in arrogant regular script! That's right, this is the Liangtai office where Lord Kanglin Kang Yuanjing, a guerrilla householder of the East China Sea, stayed in the East China Sea Guard City to smuggle goods, purchase supplies, and collect intelligence for Chiyang! The people talking in the secret room of the third courtyard at the moment were Yang Qi, Chiyang's foreign affairs commissioner, and Yang Qi's right-hand assistant, Cen Wenyi. They had obviously received news of the Xia people's rebellion through various channels! However, the two had great differences on whether they should immediately send a special person to Tuanji to inform their leader of this important information! Cen Wenyi believes that the matter is serious and must be reported immediately, otherwise it will easily change if it is delayed; but Yang Qi feels that before the news is confirmed, one should not make too much fuss, lest the news be wrong and affect the leader's judgment! Therefore, after a while of low-spirited discussion, Yang Qi persuaded Cen Wenyi not to send the news back for the time being! However, in order to find out enough accurate information as soon as possible, the two of them quickly cast more shadows and went out to collect intelligence! Because they instinctively feel that this is a good opportunity. If they use it well, their power will not only expand their influence, but also directly extend their hands to the Shandong Chengxuan Administrative Envoy! You know, a few days ago, the general manager Liu Shu sent someone to deliver a batch of prepared Japanese pirate heads to them. He wanted to seek a higher official position from the commander Gu Wentong through Lord Tongzhi! However, this reasonable request was vetoed by Hu Lian, the commanding officer, who made an unauthorized provocation and acted recklessly! Afterwards, Weng Yuli, a fellow commander, asked to see Shangguan Gu Wentong several times, but the latter trusted the commander Hu Lian more. At the same time, this guy also had the idea of suppressing Kang Lin! Therefore, at the end of the day, the hundred heads that Chiyang offered with both hands only brought Kang Lin five hundred taels of silver and a few words of neither light nor heavy praise! And this obviously cannot satisfy Yang Qi, Cen Wenyi, or even Chiyang Chief Kang Lin! But what if you are not satisfied? In Donghaiwei, the commander Gu Wentong covers the sky with one hand, and he also has the commander Hu Liangan as a hawk and dog under his command. Even if there is a commander in the middle
Tongzhi Weng Yuli tried his best to mediate, but in the face of the powerful alliance of the former, his arms could not twist his thighs! Therefore, for their own safety, Chiyang's senior management, who did not want to get involved in a power struggle prematurely, had no choice but to give up!
Note: Nanzhi, and Nanzhili, is the general name for the area in the south of the Ming Dynasty that was directly under the control of the six central government ministries and Zhili Prefecture. It was one of the two administrative divisions of the Ming Dynasty. It is equivalent to the two provinces and one city of Jiangsu Province, Anhui Province and Shanghai today, and borders Shandong, Henan, Huguang, Jiangxi and Zhejiang.
