Qiu Wuhen said: "I learned about it before I came here, and I marked it on the chart."

"Yeah?"

Qiu Wuhen took out the chart, pointed to the marked places on it, and said, "I marked them before I came here, so I know there are rocks in this area."

The two people leaned over to take a look, and it was indeed the case. They couldn't help but admired and said: "Your Excellency is so careful, you have thought of all this."

Qiu Wuhen said: "It's not wrong to be careful, especially this time when we go to sea, the two previous teams have been wiped out. This is our third time. Nothing can happen again, so we have to make more detailed preparations. So I

Since I received this task, I have been thinking about how to complete the task and make corresponding preparations. It seems that I am always well prepared, so I put it to use."

Tie Anchor said: "Yes, Master Qiu can actually make it so detailed. It's really admirable. Now we can sit back and relax."

General Hong waved his hand and said: "You can't say that, and you can't take it lightly. After all, there are many Japanese pirates. They have two ships. Even if one ship only has 200 people, there are still four to five thousand people. Our three ships plus

There are less than 1,000 people in total, so beware of them using small boats to bypass the reef at night and launch a sneak attack on us. Or they may send frogmen to dive into the water and tamper with our boat. This is all something we need to be careful about."

Qiu Wuhen said: "I'm afraid I can only leave these to you, I don't know how to deal with them."

General Hong laughed loudly and said, "If you need to teach us all this, then why do you call me a general?"

"But I don't know what the general can do?"

"It's very simple. Our ship is very high. If they want to climb up, they have to use a zipline or a ladder. Their big ship can't get in. If a small ship wants to climb onto our ship, as long as we have bows and arrows, then we can follow the guards.

Just like a city, we just have to deal with them how we defend the city. We are on top and they are on the bottom, and they are on the boat and cannot move as fast as the front, so they become our living targets."

"As long as he dares to get close, our bows and arrows are not very good. They shoot from bottom to top, which is very difficult. We shoot from top to bottom, which is very easy. For their frogmen, it is also

It's very simple. With such a long distance, it's impossible for their frogmen to swim all the way from there. They must have a small boat close to us, and then send the frogmen into the water. As long as their boat is close, we can find us.

We will take pictures of more frogmen and disband them. They have many ships, but they cannot send too many frogmen each time, otherwise they will become our targets. We will shoot them one by one and kill them all."

"What if a few slip through the net and destroy us all?"

"It's easy. Our ships have all been modified. As long as they don't hit the rocks at high speed, if they just cut through a hole with ordinary swords, our people can immediately patch it up from the inside. It won't be a problem at all, and the water will

There won't be much leakage. And our cabins are all separated. If one cabin gets water, it won't sink because the other cabins are separated from it."

Qiu Wuhen nodded and said: "If this is the case, that would be great, then we can really sit back and relax."

After drinking, it got dark next. Qiu Wuhen returned to his ship with the butterfly cow water tank. He wanted to command his ship to be on guard. Here, General Di Shen had already begun to make arrangements to prevent enemy sneak attacks. It seemed that

They are all veterans of water warfare, and we have our own way of dealing with these.

Returning to the cabin, Butterfly did not come forward for the first time. Sometimes she made excuses to find hot water, and sometimes she asked for soap locust. Anyway, she would not stop immediately, but today she went directly back to her cabin and never came out again.

"Water tank, you don't like Butterfly Girl?" Qiu Wuhen saw the cow water tank giving him foot-washing water, and casually picked up a book and flipped through it, as if he asked casually.

Niu Shuitan nodded and said: "No, I don't like women like her who don't walk well. My father said that such women are not good women and would be a disaster at home."

Qiu Wuhen raised his eyes and said oh, the cow water tank brought the footbath to Qiu Wuhen, squatted down and took off the socks from his feet, and then carefully placed a pair of feet in the basin, his movements were very skillful.

"Actually, you don't need to soak your feet every day. There isn't much water on the boat, so don't waste it." Qiu Wuhen told the truth.

The cow water tank said: "When I left, my wife told me that I must insist that Master wash his feet every day. He said that Master's feet are sweaty and if he doesn't wash them, he won't be able to sleep well at night."

Qiu Wuhen's heart warmed up, and he thought about Butterfly again. He thought about what Niu Shui Tank said just now, which hurt Butterfly's heart. After all, those words were indeed very unpleasant. Everyone had to get along with each other along the way, always with hatred and hostility.

Life was actually not easy, and I still had to persuade this stubborn disciple.

"It's not like you want to marry Miss Butterfly as your wife, so you don't need to be so hostile to her. You said that to her today, and you see that she is sad."

But Niu Shuitan didn't take it seriously and said, "Master, don't you have a wife too? Master is a good woman, and you shouldn't speak for other women."

Qiu Wuhen was so choked that he couldn't speak. He looked at the cow water tank for a long time and finally gave up.

Sure enough, taking advantage of the darkness, the Japanese pirates sent small boats to get close to attack. However, once these boats got close, they became the targets of the artillery on the three ships. After a few shots, the boats were blown to pieces. The Japanese pirates fell into the water and drowned one after another. Some of them barely got close.

It became a live target for the Ming army's archers from above. After all, there were not many enemies in a small boat. Most of the boats were bombarded, so there were fewer boats that could get close. Instead, the Ming army formed a partial attack.

The advantage was taken from above, taking advantage of the right time, place and people, so the Japanese pirates could not get any advantage. Instead, they left dozens of corpses and sank into the water, and several broken ship fragments were scattered on the sea.

Immediately afterwards, there was another frogman attack, and the frogmen who were also sent down were eliminated. Again, the Ming army had the upper hand by relying on large numbers to defeat the small number. After all the frogmen were eliminated, the sea water was stained with blood.

After a night of fierce fighting, the Japanese pirates stopped attacking the next day. If they could not gain any advantage by attacking during the night, they would not gain any advantage during the day. Because their big ships did not dare to come in and the water was too deep. Once they hit the rocks, they would follow the front.

It's the same as those four ships. As long as the big ship can't get in and the target is far beyond the range of the artillery, the only thing they can do is to send a small ship.

As a result, after a night of fierce fighting, the small boat attack tactics were also ineffective. Instead, they suffered heavy casualties. The Japanese pirates stopped attacking. At noon the next day, they sent envoys to negotiate and asked the Ming army to surrender. As long as they surrendered and handed over all their belongings, the Japanese pirates did not need to kill them.

The Ming army, after the Ming army disarmed them, they were allowed to leave.

General Hong laughed angrily and cut off one of the enemy's ears, telling him to take a message back with him. If you have the ability, come and kill him. If you don't, just cool off there and watch them drink.

When the Japanese pirates got the news, they were furious and launched another attack at night. This time they sent more wooden boats, trying to use the wolf pack tactic, but it turned out that the boats were rowed by people after all, and could not be much faster than a person walking, so they became a three-ship warship.

The cannons on the ship were equipped with live targets. After rows of cannons were fired, the Japanese pirate ship was blown to pieces.

Fortunately, the weather was beautiful these two nights. Not only was the sky clear, but the moon was shining brightly, illuminating the sea. It was like a natural signal flare. The small boat sent by the Japanese pirates was intercepted by the soldiers on duty on the watchtower all the way.

They were discovered, an alarm was issued, and artillery was on hand at any time. The battle continued until dawn the next day. Two to three hundred Japanese pirates died, more than ten small boats were scrapped, and the Ming army suffered only a handful of casualties, which made the Japanese pirates extremely depressed.

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Another envoy was sent, and this time the conditions were somewhat loosened. He asked the Ming army to allocate half of their finances to pay for the road, and then let them go. As a result, the envoy sent was the same as last time, and his other

General Hong also had his ear cut off, so he asked him to bring back a message, telling the Japanese pirates that they only wanted good things if they dreamed of marrying a wife.

The Japanese pirates screamed angrily again and decided to launch a general attack to kill the Ming army at all costs. They tentatively sent out small boats to first identify the reefs. After marking the reefs clearly, the big ships gradually moved closer and moved closer to the Ming army step by step. This move

It really worked. Except for one ship that ran aground on the rocks, the others steadily advanced to close to the firing range of the Ming army. Seeing that if they advance a few hundred feet further, they can use artillery to attack the Ming army ships, the Japanese pirates cheered, and the Ming army

Jun Ze began to cry.

Qiu Wuhen was also very anxious and said to the medicine gourd: "What should we do now? They are coming."

Yao Gulu said: "The storm will arrive after dark. Now we can escape to the island a hundred nautical miles away."

Qiu Wuhen said: "Are you really sure that the storm will come after dark?"

"That's what is recorded in historical materials, so it should be."

"I hope your historical records will not lie to us this time and make us take advantage of us."

Qiu Wuhen immediately went to the side of the boat and loudly called General Hong and Tie Anchor on the opposite boat, telling them to follow his boat forward.

This time Qiu Wuhen chose the way he had come. The Japanese pirates were far away when they went, so they didn't know their route, but Qiu Wuhen knew how to get in and how to get out. Therefore, their ship was the vanguard, and the two ships behind them

The boat followed, breaking out of the encirclement the way it came, then turning around and running towards the island.

Because the Japanese pirates didn't know from which direction the Ming army would break out, they gradually narrowed the encirclement from all directions, so that there was only one pirate ship directly in front of them. So when Qiu Wuhen and the others quickly broke out, they fired cannons as they walked. Of course, they couldn't hit accurately.
Chapter completed!