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Chapter 775 Wufeng Island

"Island Master, the British steamship is coming to us."

In the southeast corner of Wufeng Island, the owner of the island, Taro Aida, was practicing sword skills in the yard, and his samurai sword struck the wooden pile fiercely again and again.

Yasuo Matsushima, the deputy owner of Wufeng Island, walked in at this time.

Hearing this, he frowned, "British Fleet? What are they doing here?"

In the Battle of Qingcheng in Qizhou, all the Wufeng Island warships were destroyed by King Yan's fleet.

After that, he followed Sato Mahihisa and his clan southward, fled to Lincheng, and then returned to Wufeng Island.

During the Battle of Goryeo, Wufeng Island had no warships available, but it still dispatched more than a hundred merchant ships to participate in transporting Japanese soldiers.

The war was defeated and more than half of these merchant ships were lost. Only about 40 ships escaped.

For this reason, he was angry for a while, imagining the wooden pile as the Yanzhou fleet every day to vent his anger.

"Maybe they are sending us a sail warship." Matsushima Yasuo said with hope in his eyes.

They were originally affiliated with the Japanese Navy, but they were ordered to take charge of the Wufeng Island pirates when they were in danger.

At present, Japan's sail warships have been launched, and it should not be a problem to give them three or five Wufeng Island ships.

Taro Aida's movement of swinging the sword froze, and the corners of his mouth slowly raised.

He had waited for this day for too long.

Ever since he accepted Wufeng Island, he had been beaten by King Yan's fleet and was unable to fight back.

Now, Japan also has sail warships, and he wants to take revenge on King Yan's fleet.

"Let's go meet them." Aida Taro strode out.

His house was built against a mountain, with a vast plain beneath it.

Wufeng Island is mountainous, and this is the largest piece of plain on the island.

Several streams flow down from the mountains, across the plains, and into the sea.

On both sides of the creek are green wheat fields.

These Dasong slaves plundered from Dasong and merchant ships are working in the wheat fields.

Since it was no longer possible to sail across the sea, Wufeng Island could no longer intercept and kill merchant ships, and blackmailed the Liang family to obtain silver and grain.

The remaining 10,000 pirates on the island could only rely on more than 30,000 slaves to grow rice and wheat.

Arriving at Wufeng Island Pier, Taro Aida looked at the distant sea.

Sure enough, twenty-four warships came towards them with plumes of smoke.

Each steamer towed a sailing warship.

Behind them were thirty ordinary sail warships, and behind them seemed to be troop transports.

However, as the battleship got closer and closer, Taro Aida gradually realized that something was wrong.

He was a little doubtful about the number, but thinking that the British reinforcements fleet might have arrived, he felt happy again.

However, as the battleships continued to approach, through the telescope awarded to him by the shogunate, he discovered that the style of these steamships was very different from the British battleships he had seen.

When he was close enough, he saw the words on the flag clearly, and his expression suddenly changed, "This...this is King Yan's fleet!"

"How could this happen? How could King Yan's fleet have steam ships?" The deputy island owner Matsushima Anxiong trembled in his heart and turned pale instantly.

"Quickly, let the artillerymen enter the fort, and the others will get their flintlock guns and prepare to fight." Taro Aida gave Yasuo Matsushima a shove.

During this period, the confrontation between Japan and King Yan became more and more intense.

Their matchlocks were replaced with flintlock muskets, thirty-six forts were set up on the docks, and there were twenty-three field guns on the island.

The purpose is to guard against the attack of King Yan's fleet.

Matsushima Yasuo swallowed and hurriedly ran towards the island.

at the same time.

Zhou Yi stood on the battleship Laoting, comparing the map in his hand and observing Wufeng Island.

Wufeng Island is five hundred miles east of Treasure Island. It is almost as long as Treasure Island, a hundred miles long, but it is very narrow. The widest point from east to west is only thirty miles.

The entire Wufeng Island is actually composed of five islands. Each island has a towering peak, so it is called Wufeng Island.

Among them, the Wufeng pirates are mainly distributed on the largest island in the south.

"They discovered it." Zhou Yi noticed the two people on the dock. "Seal the entire island and catch them all."

Their order was issued, and the warships separated to both sides like water meeting a stubborn rock, preparing to control the waters around the South Island.

At the same time, Zhou Yi left nine sail warships in front of the dock and issued combat orders.

In the space of a cup of tea, the sail warships turned around and aimed their guns at the dock.

Through the telescope, the captain of each sailing battleship discovered the fort on the shore.

They need to clear these forts to create conditions for the Marines to land.

"Boom boom boom..."

The distance between the two sides was five hundred meters, and the sail warship launched the artillery attack first.

The battleship's artillery controlled the rifled cannon to aim at the fort and fired out cone-shaped explosive shells one after another.

Unlike smoothbore cannons, rifled cannons are more accurate.

In one round of shooting, six shells from the seventy-two rifled guns on the nine battleships directly hit the fort.

Suddenly, there was an explosion at the fort.

"Boom, boom, boom..." While they were shooting, the opponent's artillery also began to fire back.

But the fort hit by the explosive shells suddenly went silent.

pier.

Taro Aida, who was hiding behind a fort and directing the counterattack, was dripping with cold sweat.

Just now, the cannonball on his left exploded violently.

The artillerymen in the fort were blown away directly, and he and the soldiers in the fort were almost deafened.

"What on earth happened!" Taro Aida stared at the battleship in the sea.

Overnight, King Yan's fleet had steamships, so the bombardment became unusual.

As the solid bullets passed by one by one, why did violent explosions occur from time to time on the battlefield?

"Boom, boom, boom..." The cruel battlefield would not give him an answer.

The Yanzhou battleship is still firing explosive shells.

The forts on the coast were shrouded in gunpowder and thick smoke from time to time, and at the same time the screams and injured groans of the artillerymen were heard.

In just a quarter of an hour, only six of the thirty forts were still fighting back, and all the other forts were dead.

Taro Aida was anxious and angry. He was urging the artillery to continue firing back.

At this time, a shell suddenly exploded in front of the fort where he was.

"Boom!" The loud noise was accompanied by a tremor of the ground. Taro Aida felt a strong wind lift him up, and then lost consciousness.

I don't know how long it took, but he woke up leisurely and found that densely packed soldiers of King Yan were landing.

Some Yan kings were shooting at his back.

Next to him lay three artillerymen, all of whom were killed.

Seeing this scene, he looked behind him. The deputy island owner Matsushima Yasuo was leading the pirates to fight against the soldiers of King Yan.

However, the pirates were shot dead by King Yan's soldiers from a long distance and were unable to fight back.

Looking ahead and then behind, he lay on the ground again, ready to be killed.

But at this moment, three soldiers of King Yan suddenly rushed to the fort. One soldier raised the butt of his gun and hit him in the back of the head, causing him to faint again.

At the last word, he felt frightened. It was obvious that he had been caught pretending to be dead.

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