Chapter 205 Strong confidence brought by technology

Author: tx Cheng Zhi

Chapter 205 Strong confidence brought by technology

Chapter 204

Although the enemy was outnumbered, Ning's navy soldiers were not worried because the new ship was fast and they would be invincible.

Even if you can't fight, you can still run away. If they delay, the merchant ship being chased by the pirates of the Little Days can escape.

In fact, this could be regarded as an accident. Cheng Shijie was investigating the disappearance of five ships at sea. This time they encountered him. The chance was actually not high, but it was far greater than the first hit.

If these seventeen pirate ships want to sink these four merchant ships, it is actually very easy. In fact, they have already done it. However, sinking a merchant ship is a loss-making business for the pirates. They also need to spend a lot of money to purchase cannonballs.

, and they got nothing.

What the pirates wanted in the early days was the cargo on the four ships. They had already found out clearly that some of the goods on the four ships were tung oil and some were Jiangnan rice destined for Liaodong.

Especially this rice, it is really precious to these little pirates.

With the eighth year of Kan'ei in the Koni Kingdom (1632), the second generation Tokugawa Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada passed away. In the previous era, although Tokugawa Iemitsu was canonized by the imperial court in the fourth year of Genwa (1618)

In Edo Chunagon, in the Tokugawa shogunate, Tokugawa Hidetada and his son Tokugawa Iemitsu co-ruled, which was also known as the dual rule of the shogunate.

After Tokugawa Iemitsu came to power, he quickly took drastic measures to clean up the forces in the shogunate. Tokugawa Tadanagi, who had competed with Tokugawa Iemitsu for the throne, was the first to be dealt with.

Tadagawa was known for his cruelty. Some informants said that Tokugawa Tadagabu hunted apes, beheaded young men and servants several times for trivial matters, and also dissected pregnant women to examine their fetuses.

As a result, Tokugawa Iemitsu confiscated Tokugawa Tadānaga's territory, Suruga Kingdom and Kai Kingdom, and then exiled Tokugawa Tadānaga to Ueno Takasaki. After ten years with Kanei, Tokugawa Tadānaga went crazy, and Tokugawa Iemitsu

He was ordered to commit seppuku and commit suicide. Another theory is that Tokugawa Tadanagi committed suicide himself, rather than Tokugawa Iemitsu's order.

This is actually not important. In short, Tokugawa Tadanagi finally died in Takasaki Castle at the age of twenty-eight. With the death of Tokugawa Tadanagi, Tokugawa Iemitsu began to concentrate the power of the shogunate, coupled with the influence of Tokugawa Hidetada's era

The ministers were gradually eliminated, and the current Xiaoni Kingdom had a large number of samurai who lost power due to the death of Tokugawa Hidetada.

After all, I was influenced by Chinese culture when I was young, and I deeply understood the essence of it. Once the emperor and his courtiers, some ministers who were originally loyal to his father, Tokugawa Hidetada, lost power one after another, and then Matsudaira, Tokugawa Iemitsu's confidant, took over.

Nobutsuna, Hota Masamori, Miura Masaji, Abe Tadaki, Ota Shige and Abe Shigege were the "six people". Afterwards, the senior middlemen of the shogunate, such as nenoshi, envoy, daifu, kufu and other positions were successively established, with responsibilities

Permissions are also standardized.

But the samurai who lost their feudal lord became ronin. However, ronin had no salary, and they had no land. If they wanted to survive, they had to find their own jobs. In this case, most of the samurai who lost power took refuge in Zheng Zhilong.

There were six or seven thousand people in the group.

All of them are warriors with strong skills and rich combat experience. As Tokugawa Iemitsu's reforms deepen, some people rise to power and some lose power. Since then, more and more people have lost power. They want to continue to join Zheng Zhilong.

, As a result, Zheng Zhilong gave up. At this time, Zheng Zhilong only occupied the central area of ​​Dayuan and organized hundreds of thousands of people to farm in Dayuan.

The output of hundreds of thousands of people from farming is limited, and Zheng Zhilong cannot expand his army without limit. These small-time warriors who were rejected by Zheng Zhilong can only fend for themselves.

In this case, the feudal lord Kato Tadahiro from Kumamoto was implicated by Tokugawa Iemitsu for the Tokugawa Tadaga incident. He ordered Kato Tadahiro to abdicate and replaced him with the new lord Hosokawa clan (formerly Toyomae Ogura 39 Manseki Daimyo), this pattern lasted until the Meiji Restoration era.

Although the Kato family held the position of lord of the Kumamoto clan, there were only three generations: the first generation lord Kato Gaixiang, the second generation lord Kato Kiyomasa, the third generation lord the last lord Kato Tadahiro. Tokugawa Iemitsu the last lord Kato Tadada. Hiroshi was transferred to the Sakai family of the Dewa-souchi domain to receive control.

As one of the Seven Samurai in the Tokugawa Ieyasu era, the seven Kato Kiyomasa made great military exploits and were known as the "Seven Guns of the Haughty Mountain". The direct descendants of the Kato family were brought under control, but there were still four Kato families in the Kato family. Jie, Iida Naokage (Iida Kakubei), Morimoto Kazuhisa (Morimoto Gitaro), Shobayashi Isshin (Shoubayashi Hayato), Morimoto Kazufous (Morimoto Ukon Taifu).

In particular, Morimoto Kazuhisa and Morimoto Kazuhiro, along with the sixteen generals and other members of the Kato family who could not survive, had no way to survive. Morimoto Kazuhisa couldn't help but think of the beauty of his ancestors who plundered the coast of the Ming Dynasty and brought back large amounts of food and gold, silver and jewelry. Time...

Morimoto Kazuhisa and Morimoto Kazuhiro couldn't care about that much anymore. He took out the last bit of money and gathered a group of samurai who also couldn't survive, and set sail to sea to rob the Ming Dynasty!

As the saying goes, a hundred responses were answered. These two idiots took the lead, and a large number of Kumamoto Kyushu samurai, bankrupt businessmen, and farmers followed. After a lot of hard work, they actually gathered more than a hundred ships and nearly 6,000 people, and rushed in excitedly. The sea became a pirate.

However, the sea now has an owner. The south belongs to Sea King Zheng Zhilong, and the north belongs to Cheng Shijie. Morimoto Kazuhisa initially robbed the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. This was an area where Japanese pirates often visited in the past. Before Morimoto Kazuhisa and others could reach the shore, Jiangsu and Zhejiang The fishermen discovered the Japanese pirates, and they were all frightened.

You must know that Jiangsu and Zhejiang were the areas hardest hit by the Japanese pirate rebellion in the past. They were robbed of experience. They quickly escaped with the gold and silver shrimps. Although the big fish ran away all at once, the problem was that the shrimps were enough for Morimoto Kazuhisa and others. , after all, these fishermen, people, and merchants fled in a hurry, and the property and food left behind were enough to make their mouths full of food.

You must know that Kyushu Island in the early days was a place full of disasters. It is said that the small days have been like this for thousands of years. Food production is low, steel production is low, cultural level is low, military technology is backward, but there are typhoons, earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis. The probability of plague and other disasters is frighteningly high. If there is no earthquake for a day, everyone will feel as if something is missing and feel uneasy.

How miserable are their lives? As for Kazuhisa Morimoto and Kazuki Morimoto, their landowners are below one person in the Kumamoto clan, and above tens of thousands of people. Their status is almost equivalent to that of Zhou Yandong, Chen Guodong, Shen Mingyu, and others around Cheng Shijie. The status of Zhang Yu and others.

But the problem is that Kazuhisa Morimoto, who has such a high and powerful position and is one of the four generals of the Kumamoto Corps, only has one soup and one dish for his meals. The dish is fish and the soup is rice soup.

Of course, it is not that Morimoto Kazuki had a tendency to self-abuse. In his childhood, the country was short of supplies and the economy was seriously backward. This is an indisputable fact. Even the superior samurai was in a state of poverty. Hungry was a normal part of life, so it is not surprising.

It is precisely because of this that the empire on the east side of the sea is particularly attractive. Its abundant products, fertile land, highly developed culture, majesty that makes all the barbarians surrender, and peerless elegance that makes all nations admire it, all make people in the small days jealous.

It's fatal.

However, the problem is that this empire is too powerful. As early as the Tang Dynasty, Xiaoli launched a war to invade Baekje. Baekje was the younger brother of the Tang Dynasty at that time. When he saw Xiaoli coming, he couldn't resist and hurriedly attacked Baekje.

Dad Tang asked for help.

The father of the Tang Dynasty took action, and in the battle of Baijiangkou, Xiaoli had a good life with more than 40,000 warships, but he was slapped to death by the Tang Dynasty. This incident was rarely recorded in the history of the Tang Dynasty, only a few sentences

In other words, because the military of the Tang Dynasty was too strong, it was enough for Wang Xuance to destroy a country by one person, and it was enough for other dynasties to make him a prince and a general.

However, after Wang Xuance returned to China, he sent the captured Arona Shun, his concubine, his wife, etc., 12,000 men and women, and more than 20,000 cattle and horses to Chang'an as prisoners. Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty felt that Wang Xuance's destruction of a small country in Tianzhu was not considered a big deal.

What a great contribution, so he only named Wang Xuance as a Chaosan doctor. At that time, the Sanchao doctor was just a civil servant from the fifth rank, ranking thirteenth in the entire civil service system. In other words, Wang Xuance was from the sixth rank.

From the top to the fifth level, it was only one level.

This slap hit Xiaori too hard, so Xiaori learned from the Tang Dynasty and sent a large number of envoys to the Tang Dynasty. But the problem was that they couldn't learn no matter how hard they learned, so they thought there was something wrong with their own race. If possible, they would

Send your wife or daughter to China to borrow seeds, and then brag to the people around you: "My wife and daughter have been slept with by the nobles of the Celestial Dynasty!"

Later, I finally felt that the Ming Dynasty was gone, and Xiaoli felt that he could do it again. During the Toyotomi Hideyoshi era, they invaded Korea, and Emperor Wanli sent tens of thousands of troops to defeat Xiaoli again.

These Japanese pirates today are different from the Japanese pirates before. They dare not be as unscrupulous as before, but the problem is that good times do not last long. You must know that although Zheng Zhilong is an admiral of the Fujian Navy, the problem is that he thinks that from the south of the Yangtze River,

It's all his territory.

This Izuku Morimoto robbed him in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which was a slap in the face, so Zheng Zhilong took action and directly pressed Morimoto Izuku and others to the ground and rubbed them.

Originally, Zheng Zhilong wanted to throw these young warriors into the sea to feed the fish, but the problem was that Zheng Zhilong received a secret letter from the minister of the DPRK, so these Morimoto Kazuhisa and others were released, and they were also strengthened.

Although they originally had more than a hundred boats, they were just fishing boats, or simply small sampans. Zheng Zhilong gave Morimoto a gift of twenty-five black-tailed boats.

The Wuwei Ship is a specialized combat ship used by Zheng Zhilong's troops, and it is also the master warship. It has a large hull and can accommodate three to four hundred people. In fact, the bottom of the Guangzhou ship and the surface of the Fu ship constitute the advantages of both the Guangzhou ship and the Fu ship. This kind of

Battleships not only have high speeds, but also have tall fenders.

In terms of scale, their black-tailed ships are similar to the Ning Navy's Four Great King Kongs, which are 2,000-material-level warships, and their firepower is about the same. They are both equipped with twenty-four cannons.

This kind of black-tailed boat can crush all warships of the Ming Navy, and has been tested in actual combat. In 1633, the Ming Dynasty Navy and the Dutch launched a fierce battle at Liaoluo Bay on the southeast coast of Kinmen, Fujian. The Ming government, which was about to collapse, used its absolute superior force to

Defeating the Netherlands, which was growing in national strength, this battle was known as the Battle of Liao Luo Bay. After the naval battle, in order to maintain the East India Company's maritime trade, the Dutch government paid 10 million francs to China every year.

Of course, this naval battle was fought by Zheng Zhilong, whose main force was the black-tailed boat. However, Zheng Zhilong used more to defeat the smaller. Zheng Zhilong successively invested 150 warships, including 50 black-tailed boats and 100 small fire ships.

The remaining ships, from the Dutch side, were fifty Liu Xiangbu pirate ships and seven-type large galenic ships.

However, seven Galenic ships, Brouckersheaven, were burned, Weiringen was sunk, and Slotendijck was captured (about 100 people on board were captured). The remaining ships all fled after being seriously injured in the face of the strong strength of the Ming army. The Liu Xiang warship that participated in the battle

Fifty ships, the whole army was annihilated in Liaoluo Bay.

"Report to Lord Weimon that the Ming Dynasty's official ship is here!"

In fact, there is no need to report it. Now Morimoto Kazuhisa also saw this lonely warship. The Ning Navy only had a single large one rushing over. They had seventeen ships. Although the new type of ship was larger, Morimoto Kazuhisa was not worried and directly ordered

Said: "Qing Bingwei!"

"exist!"

"You go with ten ships. Ten against one. It's best if you can capture this ship. This is a new ship!"

"Hai!"

Kiyohei is Kato Kiyohei. This surname was given by Kato Kiyomasa, and he was one of the three people among the sixteen generals who were given the surname.

Qinghei also knew Morimoto Kazuhisa's true thoughts. Zheng Zhilong refused to take them in. If they wanted to rely on themselves for development, they would need to constantly rob ships. Merchant ships were of little significance to them, and the battleships of the Ming Navy were too important to them.

It's important.

After this period of robbery, they also knew the combat effectiveness of the Ming Navy. If it were not for Zheng Zhilong's troops, other naval forces would have basically no combat effectiveness.

Let alone ten ships, even if it were three ships against one, Kato Kiyohei was confident enough to sink this Ming warship.

The ideal is very full, but the reality is too skinny.

If in this maritime encounter, Morimoto had been indiscriminate for a long time and immediately launched a siege, using more than 400 cannons from 17 black-tailed ships to bombard the new Ning Navy ship, I am afraid that this new ship has not had time to be installed.

will be sunk.

However, the problem is that what Morimoto wanted to capture was the ship. There were three to four hundred young warriors on the black tail ship, and there were three to four thousand people on the ten ships. There were also more than three hundred people on the new warships of the Ning Navy.

There was no way they could fight one against ten.

Kato Kiyohei formed a three-four-three formation and rushed towards Ning Haijun's warship. He planned to surround and launch a boarding battle. This was also one of the advantages of the black tail ship.

The Wuwei boat has five masts, one of which is movable at the front and rear. When approaching an enemy ship, it can be lowered, thus forming a ladder more than ten feet away and two or three feet wide, through which the soldiers on the ship can quickly pass.

The sails of ships that rush onto enemy ships, especially those of black-tailed ships, are traditional hard sails.

Li Zhixiang frowned as he looked at the black-tailed boat getting closer and closer.

Shen Shikui smiled bitterly and said: "This is troublesome. They might be Zheng Zhilong's people!"

It’s no wonder that Shen Shikui has such a judgment. Zheng Zhilong behaves very arrogantly. Everyone knows that he has some young warriors under his command and even many Kunlun slaves. During the landing battle of the pirate gang Liu Xiang, Zheng Zhilong’s Kunlun army

As soon as the slaves landed, the pirates under Liu Xiang were frightened. These Kunlun slaves were like devils.
To be continued...