Chapter 603: The Raid of the "Wako".

Wu Ping took a fleet of seven three-masted sea ships, set off on about the same feet as Fu Chun, and left Shengyue Island.

Fu Chun's task was to go to Liaodong to buy wood, but Wu Ping did not have a specific task, but simply to train, by the way, to explore the waterway to Shandong. More than 20 seagoing ships and more than 2,000 people were idle in Nagasaki to no avail, so Chen Yue ordered Wu Ping to lead the fleet to set off for training, and also agreed that there was no need to return to Nagasaki, and that it would be enough to wait for the northwest monsoon to go down to Zhoushan from Shandong, and record the route from Shandong to Zhoushan all the way. Chen Yue believes that after experiencing this independent leadership, Wu Ping's ability will be greatly improved.

Fu Chun took the route along the Korean Peninsula to the north, while Wu Ping led the fleet straight to the west, and the ships brought enough supplies, and it took half a month to see the winding coast.

However, although the Ming Dynasty can be determined, the specific location is that the fire captains on the sea ship cannot judge. Because they took the route from Zhejiang to Waguo in previous years, no one came to Shandong.

When the fleet approached the shore, it saw what appeared in front of them as if it were a bay, with mountains jutting into the sea from the north to the south of the coastline, and the mountains were about several miles wide between them, and there was a vast sea area inside, like a trumpet, wide inside and narrow outside. Any experienced crew member can tell that this is a natural haven.

The ship sailed at sea for half a month, and naturally needed to be repaired, Wu Ping sent a small boat into the port to investigate, and found that there was no naval defense except for civilian ships, so he ordered the fleet to enter the port.

If Chen Yue is here, he can recognize this bay as Jiaozhou Bay in later generations, which is a famous deep-water port in the north.

Who knew that the fleet had just sailed into Jiaozhou Bay, and faintly heard the sound of fighting on the shore, which made Wu Ping frightened, and hurriedly sent a sentry to the shore to investigate, and soon came back to report that a few miles away from the coast, there was a battle taking place, and the flag was full of Tartar flags on one side, and the other side was chaotic like ordinary people. The number of people on both sides is not too large, and there are hundreds of people on each side.

After thinking about it carefully, Wu Ping decided that he couldn't help but ask, although he didn't know who was besieged and killed by the Mantars, there was no doubt that the Mantars were the enemies of the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the fleet had to stay on the coast of Shandong for a month or two before waiting for the northwest monsoon to return to Zhoushan, and for such a long time, both supplies and repairs required the help of locals. And the opposition to the Qing army is naturally a natural ally.

After the decision, Wu Ping immediately ordered most of the soldiers on board to go ashore with weapons. Seven sea ships carried more than 600 soldiers, including 100 Japanese warriors. Wu Ping left about 100 people to watch the ship, and he took 500 soldiers ashore to the battlefield.

Li Yanzhi was leading his servants and people to fight hard with the Qing soldiers, and when he saw his men fall one by one, he fell into despair in his heart. The people gathered in a hurry cannot be compared to the army! Even if the number of people was several times that of the Qing soldiers, they were still killed and retreated, if it weren't for Li Yanzhi himself carrying a long sword to fight on the front line, his men would have dispersed in a hurry.

"Master Li, an army is coming from the sea!" Just when Li Yanzhi couldn't resist and was about to retreat, a servant suddenly exclaimed. Li Yan looked sideways and saw hundreds of people coming towards the battlefield with great momentum.

The sudden appearance of Wu Ping with the army shocked the two sides who were fighting, and they invariably stopped fighting and slowly retreated, because no one knew whether they were friends or foes.

Ma Guang, the garrison of Jiaonan of the Qing army, looked at the sea in disbelief, seeing that he was about to defeat this mob, and an army came across the sea. Looking at the banner of this army, the word "Qiyun" is written on it, but it is an army that has never heard of the name, but it is definitely not the Qing Dynasty's own people who came across the sea, because as far as Ma Guang knows, the Qing army has no sailors in Shandong at all.

Is it friend or foe? Ma Guang and Li Yanzhi were both nervously judging, and soon they didn't need to speculate anymore, because this army had just approached the battlefield and rushed towards the Qing army.

The team of 500 people, although the number is not very large, but the queue is strict and violent, the most terrifying is the 100 Japanese people who rushed to the front with bald hair and strange clothes, armed with long Japanese knives, and killed them with a few screams.

Wakako! Looking at the rushing enemy, Ma Guang's eyes bulged out, he didn't expect that there would be a Japanese robber landing on the shore at this time, but why did they ignore these mobs and rush towards him instead, could it be that these Japanese robbers came in collusion with the mob?

"Archer Block!" Ma Guang shouted loudly, and he didn't have time to think about it at this time.

There were a hundred archers under his command, and when they heard the order, they immediately rushed to the front of the formation, and drew their bows, but before they could open their bows, a burst of fire rang out one after another, and countless projectiles flew out of the gap between the Japanese warriors and shot at the array of archers.

Screams rang out one after another, and the archers who had not had time to release their arrows were shot to the ground one after another. In order to enhance the land combat strength of Wu Ping's fleet, Chen Yue supplemented him with a hundred muskets captured from the Dutch.

Taking advantage of the panic of the Qing army's archery team, a hundred Japanese warriors rushed into their ranks, and their long Japanese swords slashed down with cold light, and the bow broke and the archers screamed bitterly.

Following the fleeing archers, the Japanese warriors rushed into the Qing army's array and slashed violently.

The Japanese samurai were all professional samurai who practiced martial arts from an early age, and their individual combat power was far superior to that of ordinary armies. Therefore, during the rebellion of the Japanese invaders 100 years ago, 100 Japanese invaders often penetrated deep into the interior of the mainland and defeated tens of thousands of Ming troops one after another. At that time, it was a fact that the combat effectiveness of the coastal Ming army was weak, and the combat effectiveness of the Japanese people should not be underestimated.

And now this Qing army green battalion was changed after the surrender of the former Ming army, and its combat effectiveness was not very good. As soon as Ma Guang saw that something was wrong, he immediately took the lead and fled the battlefield.

The battle was fierce and short, and in less than a stick of incense, the Qing army of six or seven hundred people was defeated, leaving nearly 100 corpses and fleeing in disarray.

Although rescued, Li Yanzhi and his subordinates did not dare to relax, but held weapons on guard, because they did not know what these "would-be robbers" would do to them.

However, to Li Yanzhi's surprise, the leader of the "Japanese Kou" was a Ming man, and a young man with a beautiful face and a warm smile, and his northern Chinese dialect made him extremely familiar.