Looking at the back of Kan Shu turning to leave, Zhao Qingyu, who had been promoted to the rank of captain, rubbed his head vigorously, this sea shark level is too fast, and he has never been seasick, but this time he actually had dizziness and vomiting. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info "It is still necessary to strengthen training." ”

Shaking his head, Zhao Qingyu shouted loudly.

"The 1st Company is all assembled, ready to land."

Although Zhao Qingyu's military rank has been promoted, because of the shortage of horses in the cavalry unit, he cannot be expanded, and he can only serve as the commander of the 1st Company of the Ranger.

As a perennial deep behind enemy lines for surprise operations, the 1st Company of the Ranger has been familiar with all the processes, and does not need to carry a bag of daily necessities during the battle, and can ensure that the logistics materials plus armor and weapons for 10 days of continuous combat are all ready within 5 minutes.

Then, when the ship was lowered and the dinghy was dispatched to survey the water depth, the soldiers led their beloved horses to the rear of the middle deck and waited in line, during which the officers constantly checked the soldiers' equipment and horses, and calmed some of the horses that showed signs of panic.

After 10 minutes, the bottom of the human propeller began to rotate slowly, under the leadership of the pilot boat, step by step towards the direction of the coast, and finally stopped at a distance of 15 meters from the land, and then went inside, the water depth did not exceed 6 meters, the sea shark is easy to run aground, can not go again.

The soldiers of the 1st Ranger Company were not in a hurry, and quietly comforted their combat partners such as war horses, falcons, and military dogs.

After a while, several sailors ran over, unscrewed a few screws on the rear hull of the middle deck, and then slowly moved the winch, loosening the rope that was fastened to the ship's plank, and the plank slowly fell outward as the rope continued to loosen.

This is specially improved for the landing of war horses, after all, the height of the upper deck of the ship is too high, and the sensitive animal such as war horses is not suitable for walking so high, and horses are easy to fall into the water because of fear of heights.

However, the 1st Company was still waiting, after the planks were lowered, there was still some distance from the shore, in such unfamiliar seas, the cavalry units would not risk going into the water, who knew what dangers would be under the sea, whether it would cause non-combat attrition.

After a while, the four small boats hanging on the sea shark were rowed between the sea ship and the land, and the 1st Company immediately took action at this time, took out several long planks from several corners of the ship, connected these planks with metal parts, and finally everyone worked together to send the connected planks out of the cabin, and directly connected the other end to the land with the four dinghys as a connecting link.

At this time, in order not to fall into the water and have an accident while leading the horse, most of the warriors did not wear armor.

Only the 1st platoon and 1st squad, which was the sharp knife squad, were the first to walk out of the cabin wearing body armor and carrying rifles, pistols, and sabers.

The fourth improved model of the two-year Type B armor, the full name of the two-year Type B armor, was referred to by the soldiers as body armor. The tanned two canvases and a whale skin are sewn together with the most basic stupid black and thick sewing secrets, leaving a plug-in slot that can be inserted into a bulletproof steel plate, which is a piece of composite armor, and the two pieces of composite armor plus the cape and guard file are a two-year B4 type armor with excellent performance.

This armor is inserted with a 4mm thick bulletproof steel plate, which can protect the shooting of large-caliber arquebuses at 30 meters, effectively protecting the lives of soldiers, and the special plates used by officers can protect the round lead bullets of large-caliber arquebuses within 10 meters.

The weapons of the 1st Company of the Ranger have also been replaced with a 4-year armor rifle, that is, a breech-loading smoothbore rifle of 18.5mm caliber, with an effective firing distance of 400 meters, a total of 60 rounds of ammunition with three ammunition boxes around the waist, and a bulk ammunition waist pack that can reload copper shell shells by itself, which is the main combat equipment of the Ranger when dismounting and foot fighting.

They were not able to shoot accurately with a 4-year-old Type A rifle on the horse, so they were also equipped with a 4-year-old revolver that could be held with one hand and shoot accurately at 30 meters, and a 3-year-style non-commissioned officer knife with a total length of 93 cm, a blade length of 78 cm, a blade width of 3.2 cm, a blade thickness of 0.5 cm, a knife weight of 2 catties, and a sheath weight of 1 catty and 1 tael.

The Sharp Knife squad went out in full gear, occupied a slightly higher slope on the shore, and set up a cordon to cover their landing.

The others in the back, taking the squad as a unit, carefully led the war horse through the temporary pontoon bridge, until it was confirmed that the war horse would not stumble, and then returned to the boat to lead their second war horse.

One class, one class, the order is natural and smooth, there is no trace of jerkiness at all, Zhao Qingyu was satisfied, but his face was silent, he untied the rope holding the military dog, and patted the head of the small military dog, "Little guy, before dawn, it's all up to you." ”

After all the 1st Company of the Rangers disembarked and the whole team reported the number, the logistics non-commissioned officer counted the supplies.

"Report to the company commander, the marching rations, fresh water, ammunition, and medicine are all ready, please sign for it."

Zhao Qingyu checked it carefully, "The number is right, let's return to the team." ”

Kan Shu saw that the 1st Company of the Ranger had completed the landing, and came over to say goodbye, "You have two retreat routes, the alternate line on the other side does not need me to talk much, this side is still up to me, I need to send another infantry squadron to the second target point now, three days later, I will return to this sea area to cruise and wait, and then use your company's falcons to search and contact this sea area, I wish you all the best." ”

Zhao Qingyu said with a smile, "I have all these in my mind, and I wish you a smooth journey." ”

"See you in three days, then."

"See you in three days."

The two saluted each other together.

Fifteen minutes later, the Sea Shark-101 quietly moved away from the coastline with 20 sailors, 30 gunners, and an infantry squadron, hoisted its sails and sailed eastward.

The 1st Company of the Rangers, who had provided warning for the departure of the sea sharks, saw that the ship had left safely, turned around and put the package on the horse, cleaned up the traces of the large group of people going ashore, and then disappeared to the shore before it was dark.

After entering a hidden valley not far away, Zhao Qingyu ordered a temporary stop and waited for dawn, after all, it is too dangerous to walk on the mountain road at night, not to mention that he is still a cavalry unit, and he needs to be more careful when crossing mountains and mountains.

This is the middle of Iwami country, mountain*** Iwami country, mountainous, few plains, the nearest town from here is called Daejeon, and the goal of Zhao Qingyu's mission this time is Iwami Silver Mountain, which has been mined here for hundreds of years.

Iwami Ginzan was the largest silver mine in the Wado Kingdom from the late Warring States period to the early Edo shogunate, producing more than 30% of the world's silver production at its peak in the last century.

It was here that Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded the Korean Kingdom a few decades ago, and it is still one of the important sources of revenue for the Edo shogunate.

Zhao Qingyu is here to solve this silver mountain.

Why do you want to attack a mountain of silver?

In fact, thanks to the efforts of the Xuan army, the situation in the Wa Kingdom is now very delicate.

More than half a year ago, the shogunate organized several advance troops of 1,000 men to cross the sea to reconnoiter the situation of the Xuan army, but they were all wiped out by the navy at sea.

After that, the Tokugawa family organized another large-scale assembly, and finally formed an army of 50,000, but the Xuan army sent marines to raid the territory of these participating daimyos from the sea, wreaked havoc and slaughtered, and forced them to return to the division to rescue, so that the assembly ended without a problem.

Later, the Xuan army continued to raid the "direct leader" and "pro-domain" and "genealogy" of the Tokugawa family, but the Tokugawa family had no effective way to stop the attack, which made those who had never been attacked and had a grudge against the Tokugawa family "Appearance" have a little different thoughts.

The daimyo who were loyal to the Tokugawa family and wanted to make a contribution would definitely be attacked from the sea, and the daimyo who kept their duty and watched the progress of things would never be attacked, and this situation lasted for several months, and the Tokugawa family could not bear it anymore and carried out two more calls, and some daimyo actually ignored the shogunate's call.

The Edo shogunate decided to make an example of the monkeys, and conscripted a few daimyo who did not obey the order, and the strength of those daimyo was quite good, and the Tokugawa family did not dare to underestimate the enemy, so they mobilized most of the army, but as soon as the army stepped out of Edo, they got the bad news that the base camp was attacked, and they had to return to help, and the conquest ended in vain.

Under the continuous surprise attacks of the small forces of the Xuan Army, just after the end of the Warring States period, the Edo Shogunate, which was known as the 80,000 banners of the banner, actually withdrew its troops to recruit the ministers. In this way, a few daimyo with decent strength were relieved, and they were ready to reorganize their arms at home and prepare to restart the pattern of the Warring States period again, and more daimyo with slightly weaker strength also felt that the storm was coming and began to tandem.

The Xuan army took advantage of the fact that the Japanese state had just been unified for more than ten years, and many daimyo were still nostalgic for the favorable opportunity of occupying the village as the king, and constantly provoked and separated the political situation of the Japanese state.

The Edo shogunate was still relatively strong, so although the daimyo had a thief's heart, they did not have the courage to rebel directly.

In order to make these daimyo determined to rebel, the General Staff, supported by a large amount of intelligence, developed a plan to weaken the power of the Tokugawa family, and the first step of this plan was to destroy the economy of the Edo shogunate.

With the loss of the foreign trade windows of Nagasaki and Hirado and the blockade of the sea routes, the Tokugawa family, in addition to a few fertile plains that occupy one-third of the country's grain production, has only Iwami Ginzan and Sado Kanezan, two major sources of wealth.

Sado Gold Mine is an island on the sea, known as the fifth largest island in the Wa Kingdom, which is far away from the Wa Kingdom mainland, and has an absolute sea superiority, as long as it is defeated, it can definitely be defended.

However, Iwami Ginzan was in the core ruling area of the Edo Shogunate, and although the Xuan army was strong, it really did not dare to face the Japanese kingdom, which claimed to have 400,000 samurai.

Zhao Qingyu knew that his company had a heavy responsibility, and whether he could inspire the daimyo from all over the country to rise up against the Edo shogunate depends on this time, so when everyone was resting, he was still carefully checking the original plan in his mind to see if there were any mistakes.

"Fortunately, Iwami Silver Mountain uses pit excavation, otherwise, I really don't know how to start."

It wasn't until the sun rose and breakfast had been eaten that the people who had fed the horses continued to cross the mountains and mountains in a straggler formation towards the first destination.