Phi Island.

An island attack and defense battle is taking place.

Compared with history, due to the sudden rise of Nikan in the north, Huang Taiji's first conquest of Pi Island came a year later. Even so, its scale was no less than that of the original history.

Compared with Huang Long, Shen Shikui, and Zhang Tao who relatively easily repelled the Qing attack in history, Huang Taiji's dispatch of troops this time was more carefully considered and the troops were stronger. Under his pressure, North Korea also dispatched

Hundreds of ships launched a fierce attack on the Ming army of Dongjiang Town on Pi Island and Shenmi Island.

After a few days, Shenmi Island fell, the deputy general Zhang Tao who guarded Shenmi Island was captured, and the Ming army and their families on the island were swept away by the slaves.

One day later, with the help of the North Korean Navy, nearly 10,000 Jiannu infantry troops attacked Pi Island!

However, there are still nearly 15,000 Ming troops on Pi Island at this time. The general of Dongjiang Town, Huang Long, and the deputy general, Shen Shikui, are all there. More than 10,000 Ming troops rely on the large and small forts on the island to resist tenaciously, because there are a large number of firearms on the island.

, Jiannu seemed to be coming with great force, but after three days of attack, it had little effect.

They only captured a few small villages around the island, but the Dongjiang Town General Military Mansion guarded by Huanglong on the north side of the southwest bay of the island, and the Dabao Village guarded by Shen Shikui on the hill in the middle of the island are still as stable as Mount Tai.

But the situation was still unfavorable to the Ming army.

Originally, there was no fresh water near the two places, and the only stream was also occupied by the Jiannu. In addition to a well in each place, water was usually carried from that stream by horses.

One well still had "bitter water" that was salty and astringent. Now the Ming troops in the two villages could no longer hold on.

At this time, they couldn't get reinforcements even if they wanted - Kong Youde's rebels were plundering the Denglai area, and the imperial army was being overwhelmed by the rebels, and they couldn't control the Phi Island thousands of miles away.

At this moment, dozens of large ships suddenly appeared on the sea south of Pi Island!

It was midsummer at this time, the southeast wind was blowing strongly, and the big ship headed straight for the bay southwest of Phi Island, where nearly a hundred turtle ships and wooden house ships of the Korean navy were docked!

On the ships heading north quickly, there was a young man standing on the middle ship, holding a telescope to watch what was going on in the bay.

"..., ninety-six, ninety-seven, ninety-eight, damn, there are more than 20 turtle boats and more than 70 wooden house boats!"

The man couldn't help but gasped when he saw the North Korean navy ship docked in the bay.

Both turtle boats and cabin boats were 20 to 30% larger in length and width than the "big boat" he was sitting on, not to mention that these turtle boats and cabin boats had gun ports and oars on both sides!

The so-called turtle ship is a wooden boat with a thick hull made of hardwood. It looks like a turtle shell. It played a great role in dealing with the Japanese who were good at joining gangs and fighting during the Imjin Japanese Rebellion.

The commander of this naval force was the 40-year-old Li Qing, the nephew of Yi Sun-shin, who was praised by later generations of North Korea and South Korea as the most outstanding general in the world by using turtle ships to defeat the Japanese.

There was another person standing next to the young man, about thirty years old, but he looked nonchalant.

"Khan, those turtle boats look powerful, but they were made in the past to deal with the Japanese who were good at fighting in gangs. I heard that the turtle shells in the past were made of oak wood, but now that North Korea is poor and weak, they are mostly made of fir wood. Let's wait for you.

The ships are almost the same”

"Their artillery is mostly small-caliber earth cannon, with at most a few Franchise machines. The dragon head on the bow of the ship looks scary, but in fact it is mostly used to fire blank shells and a large amount of smoke to deter and confuse the enemy. These weapons

Decades ago, those Japanese took advantage of the Tao without knowing what they were doing, but now they are of no use to us!"

It turned out that the young man was Nikan, and the man was Sun Jiaji, a naval guerrilla under his command.

This year is July of the fifth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1632). Nikan already has twenty three-deck ships, twenty-five two-deck ships, and ten small ships under his command. Now almost all of them have arrived at Pi Island.

Sea area!

After listening to Sun Jiaji's words, Nikan's heart calmed down a little.

"Okay, then it's up to you."

"Woo..."

As five two-foot-long horns blew, Sun Jiaji, in addition to placing five two-deck ships and ten small boats in the open sea, took the remaining twenty three-deck ships and twenty two-deck ships.

The big ship with one deck sailed straight towards those turtle ships!

On a turtle boat opposite, there was also a person holding a monocular and looking at the incoming ships through the smoke-emitting faucet. Those ships were under the banner of the Ming Dynasty and had strange sail shapes. Each of them was much smaller than the turtle ship or the wooden house ship, but it was

Like moths to a flame, they flew towards his nearly one hundred "giant boats".

"Do you want to attack with fire?"

The man couldn't help but have some doubts on his face, but he was relieved in an instant.

The front deck of the house ship is also made of hardwood to protect against enemy fire attacks. Although the outer shell of the turtle ship is made of fir, it is coated with a layer of fire-resistant earth paint and fir planks.

It has a certain degree of fire resistance. Unless it encounters a plywood ship from the West in this East Asian ocean, the turtle ship is simply a monster-like existence!

On the sea, due to strong winds and waves, the distance between the ships was very far apart. The distance between Li Qing's big ships was almost ten feet.

The ships on the opposite side rushed straight towards their big ships as if they were fearless!

A trace of ridicule appeared on Li Qing's face, "Do you still want to use the method of collision with the ship?"

His nearly 100 large ships were arranged in ten rows, with each row containing about ten large ships. The twenty-eight turtle ships with the strongest combat power rushed forward. Whether the enemy wanted to join forces, they could handle it with fire attacks or artillery bombardments.

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"Cast smoke!"

Following Li Qing's order, the two ferocious dragon heads on the bows of the seven turtle ships in front began to spit out large clouds of light yellow smoke!

However, the ships on the opposite side seemed to be ignoring them, and they even formed four rows, with ten ships in each row heading straight towards the gap between the turtle ships.

"Hahaha, you still want to use the old-fashioned tactic of jumping into a gang? Send the order and open all the gun ports!"

There are twenty-eight turtle ships, and on one side of each ship are Li Qing's proud two-door three-hundred-jin Fran machine, five-door blunderbuss, and two rockets with thousands of horses running at the same time. Want to join the gang?

Let's break it to pieces first!

What Li Qing didn't expect was that the incoming ship did not launch an attack immediately after passing through the gap in his side, but continued to sail forward. Li Qing saw with his own eyes that those ships were also equipped with a large number of oars. Now in the south wind,

Under the dual power of the oars, it moved northward at a much faster speed than the turtle ship.

"Are you going to make such a fuss now? Do you want to attack the island to rescue the Ming army on the island?"

An idea suddenly popped into Li Qing's mind.

"That's okay, let them go ashore to fight with the Tartar slaves."

"boom!!!"

Just when Li Qing hesitated, the last row of ships in Sun Jiaji's fleet was almost flush with the front row of Li Qing's fleet. At this time, the gun windows on both sides of Sun Jiaji's fleet were all opened, revealing

Five hundred catties, eight hundred catties of artillery!

There are five cannons on each side of the big ship that Nikan is on. Including the ones at the bow and stern of the ship, there are a total of twelve cannons. They are all new 800-pound cannons from the workshop!

With the addition of high-quality steel and gunpowder, Nikan's eight-hundred-pound artillery can fire iron bullets weighing ten kilograms, with an effective range of up to two hundred meters. However, in this stormy sea, shooting is carried out two hundred meters away.

It's almost a fool's errand, what really works is shooting at close range!

I saw a thick smoke coming out of the muzzle of an 800-pound heavy artillery piece, and then it quickly slid backwards. However, it was finally stopped by a thick birch bark rope tied to its body, and then it was stopped by the action of inertia.

Slowly sliding forward, a gunner next to it picked up a stick wrapped in wet cloth and quickly stirred it in the barrel, and then another gunner used another stick wrapped in dry cloth to stir it again.

Finally, the gunner put a cloth bag with ammunition into the barrel of the gun, and tamped the ammunition with a skewer that was almost flush with the barrel.

"Put", one gunner used an awl to break the ammunition bandage through the blast hole, and the other gunner quickly inserted a fuse.

Next, the three of them worked together to use the guide rail to put the artillery back into its original position. After taking a brief aim, they lit a fuse made of crushed birch bark and black powder.

Under Nikan's watchful eye, the whole process took almost three minutes.

"boom!"

The artillery fired again, and at the same time, a large number of lead bullets were fired from Franconian machines and bowl-mouth blunderbuss from the ships on the opposite side!

Sun Jiaji's fleet quickly sailed past the phalanx of turtle ships and entered the rear formation composed of a large number of wooden house boats.

"Let's fire off the bombs!"

Nikan couldn't help shouting when he saw all the cannons on those cabin ships and almost all the combatants crowded on the first deck.

"Great Khan, the general has already given the order."

Sun Jiaji smiled.

Nikan couldn't help but wonder, "How did you know you were going to use shotguns at this time?"

"Great Khan, the last general was in the Dongjiang Navy Navy and had many contacts with the Korean Navy. How could he not know their killing moves?"

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When Sun Jiaji's fleet got out of Li Qing's fleet, Nikan returned to the deck and raised the monocular telescope he got from Van der Sar. He saw a mess on the sea behind him!

Under the bombardment of live ammunition and shotguns, most of the turtle ships' turtle shells were shattered by ten-pound iron bullets, and some hit the gunpowder barrels placed in the turtle shells, causing violent explosions. The wooden house boats behind them,

A large number of sailors, gunners, and combat soldiers were hit by shotguns. Most of the only two sails were in tatters, and some masts were broken!

Even so, because both the turtle boat and the wooden house boat are both oars and sails, they still maintain a complete formation and sail to the open sea despite the hard paddling of the oarsmen!

Nikan looked at Sun Jiaji, somewhat curious about what he would do next.

"Blow the horn, send out the flag, and turn all ships to the east, then turn to the south, and then pierce the belly of the enemy ship again!"
Chapter completed!