On the shore, the muskets in the hands of the Dutch roared incessantly, white smoke rose in the air, and the Japanese ashigaru pikemen who rushed ahead fell one by one like peeled onions. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Behind the pikemen, the Japanese gunners were scrambling to reload their arquebuses.

"They're going to reload! Let's get on the big axe! A Dutch officer sneered.

More than 1,000 Dutch pikemen, tall and armoured, armed with long axes, advanced in formation, and the Japanese pikemen, whose formation had collapsed, were cut down piece by piece when they encountered the Dutch. The pikemen in front began to rout, and the iron gunners behind were also attacked, and the retreating pikemen charged the iron gunners, making it impossible for them to reload their arquebuses.

The samurai of those days were not afraid of death, they were loyal to the feudal lord, and they also had to owe allegiance to an emperor who was in fact a puppet of the Tokugawa shogunate, but was the spiritual leader of Japan. But the largest number of Ashigaru were ordinary peasants, and they needed to farm to feed the shoguns and samurai, so these Japanese peasants did not have much of a national concept. When the war is unfavorable, these peasants will be defeated, and they will not be like the samurai who are not afraid of death and go forward.

In fact, ordinary Japanese people were able to charge like madmen without fear of death, that was after the Meiji Restoration, after the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the status of the samurai declined, and the peasants could become official soldiers, with the opportunity to be promoted to the rank of meritorious service, and all this was brought to them by the emperor's restoration, so the Japanese peasants after the Meiji Restoration had spiritual strength and could treat death as if they were at home like the samurai.

The Japanese peasants in these years, don't think about their real hard work.

Ota's face was very ugly, although these ashigaru pikemen and musketeers were the lowest peasants, they were not real Japanese samurai, but the peasants not only had to feed the samurai and shoguns, but the iron gunners and archers were all peasants, and the ashigaru was an important long-range firepower.

"Let the cavalry get on!" Ota Shimune turned his head and ordered Tadao Aoyama.

Behind the Japanese samurai, a group of cavalry rushed out, and the Japanese samurai on horseback, wielding relatively short one-handed swords, slashed at the Dutch phalanx.

Seeing those Japanese samurai like dwarfs in fairy tales, and the Japanese cavalry who rode bantams about the size of donkeys, the Dutch laughed: Where is this cavalry? It's like a dwarf riding a donkey!

"Children, let's fight with spears! Let these lowly donkey cavalry see how powerful we are in the Netherlands! A Dutch officer shouted loudly.

Several Dutch petty officers waved small flags in their hands and commanded the formation.

The Dutch spearmen were in front, mixed with large axemen, and behind were musketeers, forming a formation, one by one, more than four meters long, and the tips of the spears shining with cold light were aimed at the Japanese cavalry rushing forward.

Only when the Japanese cavalry was less than twenty paces from the Dutch formation did the Dutch officer give the order to open fire.

"Bang bang bang" one after another muskets spewed fire, and the Japanese cavalry who were about to rush to the spear array fell off their horses like dumplings.

In fact, the Japanese cavalry also had bows and arrows in their hands, but the Japanese bows and arrows were not of good quality and had a short range, and with the addition of riding bows fighting on horseback, the range was even closer.

Although the Japanese pony is small, it is also a spiritual animal, and when it sees the spear array of the Dutch, it does not dare to attack. The Japanese, who had suffered a loss, were really reluctant to let their precious cavalry die in vain, so Ota Shimune ordered the troops to be withdrawn and all their forces retreated to Hamamatsu Castle.

After all, the Dutch only came to plunder, and when they saw that the Japanese army was defeated and retreated, they did not send people to chase them, but advanced forward in formation without delay, preparing to loot and leave.

Just as the Dutch rushed into the unburned neighborhood and plundered, a burst of artillery was heard on the sea.

"What's going on? Who is firing at sea? Don't they know that we are in the city? A Dutch officer frowned and cursed.

There were indeed people firing guns on the sea, but it was not the Dutch battleships that fired the guns, but two Ming warships flying the Sun and Moon flags! The four hexagonal guns on the two warships opened fire one after another, and the shells whistled down in the sea around the Dutch cruisers, raising columns of water that frightened the Dutch cruisers into full sail and ran.

After all, de Knight was a famous Dutch admiral, and when he saw the Ming army with only two warships, he also knew that if the Ming warships did not dare to get too close, they could only fire their guns from a distance, taking advantage of the long range of the guns to make a small profit. As for the loss of a few ships by the Dutch, it was still affordable for a large fleet.

"Watch out for shrink formations! The outer ships move quickly, try not to let the Ming ships hit us! They didn't dare to come near either! Send another signal to inform the shore, tell them to hurry up, grab some food and we'll go! De Knight gave the order.

Two fast warships of the Ming army arrived, and these two ships had high-powered naval guns with extremely high accuracy and long range, which was indeed a little trouble for the Dutch. However, de Knight did not think that with the cooperation of these two ships of the Ming army, the Japanese would be able to do what they would do with their fleet, and eventually the Dutch would be able to use their strong strength to force the Japanese to submit, so that the Japanese would hand over the food that the Dutch urgently needed, and they could also extort a large amount of gold and silver treasure.

The Dutch fleet was numerous and powerful, and the two fast cruisers of the Nanyang Navy did not dare to get too close, so they could only bombard it with hexagonal rifled guns at a distance on the periphery. Although it was rifled artillery, the target was moving, the distance was long, and the hit rate was not so high, and Albert, Zhang Yukun, Zhang Jian and others were reluctant to waste expensive high-explosive shells, so the effect of the bombardment of the Dutch fleet was not very good.

The two battleships fired from time to time, and the loading rate of the front-mounted hexagonal guns was about two rounds per minute, and Albert and the others shelled from a distance for ten minutes, firing a total of forty shells, and the hit rate was less than one-tenth, and only three shells hit the target. The Dutch ship, which was shot, was wounded.

Just because the loaded shell is not a high-explosive shell filled with new gunpowder, if it is a high-explosive shell, a single shell can sink a cruiser!

Of course, the price of high-explosive bombs is too expensive, and there are not many of them, and if you use 40 high-explosive bombs to sink three Dutch cruisers, you will definitely be scolded half to death by Wang Xinyu.

Finding that the shelling had little effect, the two ships circled around the perimeter again, waiting for an opportunity to take a bite. Sure enough, Albert waited for the opportunity: a Dutch cruiser may have run too fast and the position was too prominent, but as a result, two Ming fast cruisers pounced at once, concentrating the fire of eight guns at a distance of 500 meters, and a round of shelling, because of the close distance, the hit rate of this round of shelling was extremely high, and five of the eight shells hit.

The slab of the Dutch cruiser that was hit by the bullet was drilled five large holes by a solid shell, and one shell penetrated from the upper deck all the way to the bilge, penetrating and digging a large hole in the bottom of the ship; Four more shells, one of which detonated a powder keg, causing a fire inside the ship; One shot pierced the ship through the middle, and the shells pierced diagonally down below the waterline; A shell was also drilled into the ship directly from the waterline; The last shell smashed the stern to pieces.

The Dutch cruiser, which had been hit by five shells, began to enter the water and slowly sank on the surface of the sea.

After the success, Albert did not rush into the attack, but quickly withdrew, and continued to circle around the perimeter, waiting for an opportunity.

The two ships of the Nanyang Navy had been harassing in circles around the perimeter for about three hours, when they suddenly found that the Dutch fleet had all been slaughtered and rushed towards him, which frightened Albert a lot, and hurriedly gave the order, turned around, filled the sails, and all the oarsmen gave all their strength, and the two ships withdrew from the battlefield at full speed.

The Dutch had just finished plundering, and de Knight ordered the boats to take back the landed Dutch, and ordered all sorties to frighten off the two warships of the Nanyang Navy.

But these two ships against the Dutch, like light cavalry against infantry, the Dutch could not catch up with them, the initiative was completely in the hands of Albert, Albert could fight if he wanted to, and if he didn't want to fight, he would leave, and the Dutch could not do anything with them. So the Dutch simply scared the two ships away and continued south to plunder other coastal cities in Japan.

Albert and Zhang Yukun also left no longer care about the Dutch, and ordered two ships to approach the shore, preparing to sail close to the coastline and go straight to their destination, Edo Bay.

In Hamamatsu Castle, someone reported to Ota Shimune, who was already frightened and frightened: "Report to the lord of the domain! The red-haired man's fleet has retreated! The people they landed are gone! ”

"The red-haired ghost ran away?" Ota Shimune was overjoyed.

The man said: "Domain lord, just now two warships of the Ming people came over and fired at the red-haired ghost. The warship guns of the Ming people hit very far, and the red-haired ghosts couldn't hit them, but they were able to hit the red-haired ghosts from a distance, and they also sank a giant ship of the red-haired ghosts! As a result, the red-haired ghosts all ran away! ”

"The people of the Ming Kingdom really sent us rescuers!" Ota Shimune was moved to tears. Originally, he didn't have a lot of hope that the Tokugawa shogunate would send people to Toban to find the people of the Ming Kingdom to save Japan, after all, the Ming Kingdom itself was at war. Unexpectedly, Ming Guo really sent a battleship, and as a result, he made a great contribution and drove away the Dutch!

"Are we going to send someone to bring in the Ming people right away? Give them the best flower girls again? Tadamaru Aoyama asked.

"Yes!" Ota nodded, "We should welcome them over!" Now that the Tokugawa Shogunate is the most powerful, the Satsuma Domain is slightly secondary, so what is a small feudal like ours? And we're so close to the Tokugawa that it's easy for them to destroy us! If we have the support of the Ming people, the Tokugawa shogunate will also value us! ”

The Dutch fleet was long gone, and the two fast cruisers of the Ming army were close to the coastline. Behind them, two more white clippers appeared, also heading towards the shoreline.

"General, the Japanese people on the shore have sent us a signal!" A pro-soldier reported to Zhang Yukun.

"What signal are they sending?" Zhang Yukun asked.

"As if thankful for helping them get rid of the red-haired ghosts, they want us to go ashore and sit down, and they want to entertain us." The soldier replied.

Zhang Yukun didn't know the situation in Japan very well, so he asked a soldier who was originally from Zheng Zheng's naval division: "Whose territory is this?" Is it also from the Tokugawa shogunate? ”

The soldier replied, "Shogun, this is not the territory of the Tokugawa shogunate, this is the territory of a small feudal lord, the territory of the lord of Hamamatsu. However, they were very close to the Tokugawa Shogunate and had a good relationship with the Tokugawa Shogunate. ”

Tang Wei on the side said: "A small shogunate, we dock our ship to them, in case the Dutch kill another horse pistol, can we escape?" The Tokugawa family is the most powerful in the Wa Kingdom, and we still sail directly to Tokugawa Edo. ”

"But let's show them how powerful our heavenly soldiers are!" Zhang Yukun said with a smile.

On the Star Island, a spindle-shaped object gradually grew larger, turning into a behemoth, slowly rising and rising into the air. The propeller behind the spindle-shaped object rotated, propelled the object, and flew towards Hamamatsu Castle.

Suddenly, he saw a huge object flying into the sky, and his eyes widened in shock. On the castle, outside the castle, many Japanese people were already kneeling on the ground and bowing to this huge flying object.

"Oh my God! The people of the Ming Kingdom really got help from heaven! They have spells that can fly into the sky! Ota exclaimed.

In fact, this huge object is a hot air airship, with Xu Zhengming's propeller, coupled with the improved airship scheme, the original spherical hot air balloon was changed into a spindle-shaped airship, supported by a bamboo skeleton in the middle, and then glued with a large amount of eucommia glue, and to prevent air leakage, which created the first pedal hot air ship.

Although this kind of hot air airship can fly for a short time, only two hours, and the speed is also very slow, only five to six kilometers per hour in the absence of wind, which is about the same as a human walk, but it is already a complete shock to the Japanese.

It's a pity that the Ming people who "got the help of the gods" didn't give Ota Zizong too much face, and the Ming soldiers on the airship sent a flag signal to the ground, saying that they were going to Edo, only the Tokugawa family was a big family, and the Ming country could only join forces with the Tokugawa family to completely drive away the red-haired ghosts, otherwise the red-haired ghosts had been harassing on the seaside, and Japan couldn't stand it.

Ota Zizong sighed: "We are still too weak!" The people of Ming are not willing to cooperate with us at all! They went to Tokugawa anyway! ”

"Lord, we have to tie up with the Tokugawa family even more! With the help of the Ming Kingdom, their strength will be even stronger! Tadamaru Aoyama said.

The Ming army took back the hot airship, and the two cruisers with two clippers followed the coastline and went straight to Edo Bay. After another six hours of sailing, the small fleet moved into Edo Bay in the evening.

The Edo Tokugawa shogunate, the head of the Eagle Division, Kyohei, walked into the hall covered with tatami mats on the ground and bowed: "Report to the Tokugawa general!" The lowly little girl did not fail in her mission and brought back the fleet of the Ming Kingdom! (To be continued.) )