DAY 71 DISINFECTION OF SAND
As of the moment of rushing to the beach, travelers standing at the bow generally believed that today was going well.
The wind direction cooperated with the fleet and arrived at the sea outside the main sea before noon. The Dutch cooperated with the dispatch of small boats. The boats were sunk in the narrow channel, and they captured all the Dutch Chinese-style Japanese-style fishing boats that stayed in the inland sea of Taijiang, blocking them all. After that, the tide rose and the subsequent battles, the large army could take two steps away.
Everything went so smoothly that I thought I would encounter many unexpected time travelers, but at this time I felt like I was hitting the sky with one punch.
The Ming crew members were also in high morale at this moment. In just half a minute, the "Singling Quick Cannon" emitted a fire and a loud "Zhengzhu Quick Cannon" tore apart a small boat and people above. In the first actual combat of the new big killer, he gained a group of Ming fans cheering and screaming.
Of course, after cheering, there were work. The two boats then divided 40 sailors to go ashore. After that, Liu Zhe, the commander-in-chief of the landing, took a few naval members off the boat. Then a loud shout of holding electric horns sounded on the beach: "Everyone is optimistic, everyone is one step away from the front and back, and people are one step away..."
"One step" is the distance that takes one step forward with one step. In the Ming Dynasty, where people are generally not tall, one step was about 110 cm. Five or six time travelers took ten minutes to kick and push, and finally arranged 80 seafarers into an eight-door unlocked array - just like sesame seeds on glutinous rice balls, a bunch of sesame seeds like loose sand, trying to keep a distance of about 1 meter between each other.
The next moment, the formation is activated.
The fleet rushed to the beach from the outside sea from west to east, and was located in the upper left corner of the Tadpole. At this time, the Damasaki Island was less than 2.5 square kilometers, and the Dutch buildings were distributed in the upper right corner of the Tadpole. This means that the sesame formation, or the Brownian movement formation, set up by the crosser, needs to travel more than a mile from west to east before it can get close to the artillery range of the mall.
The sesame group slowly moved forward, crossing some low shrubs and weeds along the way. Every time you walk about 100 meters, the sound of horns behind you will sound, directing the team to pause, adjusting the distance between each other, and then continuing to move forward.
After the large army began to operate, the beach where it landed was still very lively. Springboards were added to both sand boats, forming a gentle slope of two meters wide. The 10 best-in-class workers were formed into a group and some boxes were transported from the ship.
These boxes include military green ammunition boxes for m2 machine guns, and also have mysterious aluminum alloy air box with shiny black edges. After that, Wei Yuan and Han Xiaobo personally lifted the m2 machine gun from the dog eye number, and then called the labor team to carry the box to open the way. When they arrived, Han Xiaobo turned around and smiled at Xia Xianze and his group of people standing at the bow of the ship watching the fun, and then waved the Motorola intercom in his hand: "Block the waterway, call me if there is any situation."
"Kill less people and catch more prisoners!"
“Understand, understand…”
Just as the time travelers and their mobs made a clamp attack, the Ming people sent by the chief officer had already returned to report the enemy situation.
Van der Hagen now knows that the pirates invaded were two leaders: "Xia" and "Liu". After a few more words with the spy named Xu, the fat translator made an addition: According to the flag hanging rules of the pirates in Ming Dynasty, the other party's big leader was named "Xia", and the leader of the Liu surname may be a "shopkeeper".
Although the Dutch had clear information about the various people on the Fujian and Guangdong oceans, it refers to large forces. Small pirates with only two ships were as numerous as bulls along the coast of the Ming Dynasty. They were fishermen today, pirates tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow they became small shareholders in a large gang the day after tomorrow...
"So, as usual, this is a scattered scattered pirates, not a representative of a certain force?" Van der Hagen asked at last.
"Even if there is a big gang behind them, they should come to the north of the Ming Dynasty, lord." The translator spent a long time communicating with the spy this time. The thin black man spoke quickly, and kept pointing in a certain direction with his fingers.
“I need an explanation.”
"The two ships are from the sand in the north of the Ming Dynasty... Well, they are 'flat-bottomed Jung Ship'. This type of ship is only available north of Fujian." After a pause, a new word was created.
"Well, I think I understand." Van der Hagen organized all the information at this moment - the wandering pirates from the north of Ming Dynasty, a group of pirates who had no idea that there were great East India Company employees and property on the island of Daren, stupid and reckless.
The Brownian formation, which was slowly approaching from a distance, seemed to confirm Van der Hagen's idea.
There were about seventy or eighty Ming people wearing traditional blue rustic blouses. Perhaps in order to look a little more people, these pirates were so funny that they scattered in line like a group of sheep scattered and ate grass.
Even though it was still far away, so far that even the 8-pound cannons in the Corner Castle could not be shot, the people in the store could hear the noisy shouts from these pirates. "God, these idiots have such loud voices..." More than one person was thinking this way.
William Janes carefully observed the slowly approaching enemy with a monocular telescope. At this distance, he could clearly see the spear and short sword in the pirate's hand, and several Ming Guotu guns, called "bird guns", are occasionally raising courage to fire in the sky. He did not see even a copper cannon, nor did he see the mezzanine.
After repeated observation, William Janes put away his previous caution and made the following professional judgment on Van der Hagen: "Your Excellency, the enemy is scattered and lacks training. I think 50 soldiers should be enough. In addition, there is no need for dense artillery fire, so that as many prisoners can be captured as much as possible, we will soon know what secrets there are on the two Junk ships."
"Very good, finally we can do something. Go and execute your plan, Lieutenant."
The authorized lieutenant quickly summoned 50 musketeers. The soldiers lined up in a column, covered with fuses, and each of them had a fuse. After walking out of the heavy wooden gate of the mall, the soldiers skillfully converted into a small square array with four rows of horizontal lines. At this time, the pirates who looked messy had already walked to a place only 200 meters away from the mall.
After two "bang, bang", white smoke rose, and two corner forts located in the northwest and southwest of the mall sounded cannons at the same time. One shell hit directly into the sand, and the other one was lucky and broke into the pile of pirates.
At this time, the benefits of the Sesame Formation were reflected: the eight-pound cannon shell did not open a blood alley from the crowd, and after killing two unlucky people, they crawled into the sand.
Chapter completed!