Daming pirates

At the end of the 10th year and the beginning of the 11th year of Chongzhen, Tokugawa Iemitsu had to admit that his military operation had failed. He withdrew the remaining warships to their respective vassal states in panic. He further strengthened the policy of seclusion and issued another

The national lockdown order strictly ordered all vassal states to strengthen coastal defenses and prohibited anyone from colluding with the Han invaders. If found, they would be severely punished. Read the latest and most complete novels

However, such an approach would not have much effect at all. Sea Wolf's smuggling fleet came and went without a trace, appearing like ghosts on the coasts of various vassal states, constantly attacking the coastal areas of Japan, in addition to robbing all the wealth they could.

In addition to the goods, they also robbed a large number of young women and sent them back to Taiwan.

Over the past few years, these smuggling ships alone have brought back 20,000 to 30,000 young Japanese women for Yu Xiaotian. Although these women are really ugly and not in Yu Xiaotian's eyes, they

After all, she is still a woman.

As the saying goes, after three years in the army, a sow will compete with Diao Chan. As for the generals of the Yu family, the problem of being in the army for a long time but unable to find a wife, let alone a young woman, is that as long as the woman is able to give birth,

Even if they were a bit more rude, they were still robbing happily.

It's just that Yu Xiaotian has not yet freed up his hands to actually command Japan and massacre this extremely despicable nation. When one day he frees up his hands, it will really be the end of this bullshit Yamato nation.

Also in the Nanyang area, after Sea Wolf's troops captured the Halong Bay area, they fought several tough battles with the Vietnamese army of Le Dynasty for more than a year.

The Le Dynasty suddenly suffered such an invasion, and the Halong Bay area was actually taken over by a group of unknown people. The Le Dynasty was now in the period of confrontation between the north and south Zheng clan and the Nguyen family. Halong Bay was controlled by the Zheng family. Zheng family heard that

The area around Halong Bay was seized, and they were immediately furious. They immediately assembled more than 20,000 northern Le Dynasty troops and launched a counterattack against the Sea Wolf army that had occupied Halong Bay.

The first counterattack by Zheng's army of the Le Dynasty in the north caused a lot of trouble to the Sea Wolf Army, which had just arrived here and had not yet established a stable foothold. Not to mention, the combat effectiveness of the Li Dynasty army was not very weak.

In the conflict with the Ruan family in the south, more Westerners were absorbed

The idea of ​​military combat, coupled with the Portuguese and Dutch missionaries in Vietnam over the years, introduced some advanced firearms and military ideas to Vietnam. Therefore, the Zheng Group in the north of Le Dynasty had a larger number of firearms and equipment, even far exceeding that of the Ming Dynasty.

The degree of westernization of the military.

Therefore, the combat effectiveness is quite good. The Sea Wolf Army only sent two battalions of troops. The artillery was not unloaded on the shore in time after it arrived. In addition, the Sea Wolf soldiers who landed will be eager to expand their territory, resulting in the dispersion of troops.

As a result, after the first battle, the Le Dynasty army actually pushed the two battalions of Sea Wolf back to the seaside, and almost rushed back into the sea. Fortunately, there were many Seawolf naval warships stationed at the seaside. After discovering that the army forces were scattered,

After being gradually driven back to the seaside, the sailors on the ship were mobilized to reinforce the land, and lined up on the seaside, using the heavy artillery on the ship to bombard the Le Chao army, and then dispersed the Le Chao army.

For this reason, the army chief responsible for the capture of Ha Long Bay was dismissed by Yu Xiaotian for investigation, and was directly promoted from major battalion commander to lieutenant platoon commander.

The army officers who then captured Ha Long Bay learned the lesson of their first near-failure and began to attack steadily. They unloaded all the artillery from the ship to the shore, cooperated with the infantry, and captured many local Le Chao civilians and built on the spot.

Fortresses one after another began to steadily expand their territory by gradually encroaching.

The Le army was unwilling to fail for the first time, and a few months later, it once again gathered 20,000 to 30,000 troops to counterattack Halong Bay again.

This time, Sea Wolf's army has established a firm foothold, and all its artillery is in place. They first relied on the fortress offensive to block the Li Chao army's counterattack with superior firepower. When the Li Chao army suffered losses and their morale plummeted, they

Begin to concentrate troops and take the initiative to attack.

After more than a month of hard fighting, the Le Chao army was defeated by two infantry battalions of the army and lost their armor and armor. Thousands of them lay dead and fled the battlefield.

At this point, the Sea Wolf has officially established a foothold in the Halong Bay area. It has successively attacked dozens of surrounding manors of the powerful people of the Le Dynasty, captured a large number of slaves, killed many people, and seized nearly 200,000 stones of rice and a large amount of property.

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According to Yu Xiaotian's instructions, the Sea Wolf officers and soldiers treated these slaves of the Li Dynasty kindly. After capturing them, they improved their quality of life, provided them with better treatment, increased their food rations, and made full use of the local traitors to carry out massacres.

Promote the benefits of the Yu family army among these captured slaves.

In the face of the propaganda offensive and the improvement of the actual quality of life, these serfs of the Le Dynasty in Vietnam actually had little loyalty to the Le Dynasty government and court.

The common people think very simply. They are willing to follow whoever treats them well and gives them enough food. The young and strong among these serfs, after some brainwashing, were organized and trained into a new army.

, to put it mildly, it is the Yue traitor unit. Yu Xiaotian personally named this Yue traitor unit and called it the Ba Dao Team.

As for equipment, of course they will not be equipped with advanced weapons. They are mainly armed with long guns, single swords and bows and arrows. The combat method also adopts the infantry phalanx training method. In a short period of time, they have a certain degree of strength.

Combat capabilities have become the auxiliary force of the local Sea Wolf garrison.

These Baidao teams are usually responsible for maintaining local security in the occupied areas and protecting some strongholds. They are also responsible for monitoring and suppressing the rebellion of local people in some occupied areas. At the same time, they are also in plainclothes situations, blending them into the local docile people and monitoring these docile people.

situation, and capture those spies sent by the Li Dynasty.

Because these traitors were suddenly promoted from serfs to soldiers of the Ba Dao Squadron, their quality of life improved greatly. They ate much better than before, lived in clean barracks, and were very motivated. They were really the local sea wolves.

The garrison helped a lot.

The Le Dynasty was still unwilling to abandon the Halong Bay area. Before the end of the 10th year of Chongzhen, it once again gathered more than 30,000 officers and soldiers to launch a counterattack against the Halong Bay area.

Sea Wolf received the news in advance about this battle. Before the war started, Yu Xiaotian sent an additional infantry battalion equipped with Wolf fang rifles to Halong Bay, and also added a standard field artillery battery.

Moreover, the local garrison also replaced a batch of newly produced Wolf Fang rifles, giving them stronger combat capabilities. They even took some care of the most loyal Ba Dao team and equipped them with 300 monkey versions.

South Japanese style musket.

The strength of the two sides was one to three, with the Sea Wolf one to the Le Chao army three, and more than half of the Sea Wolves side were locally trained Ba Dao teams, which were used as cannon fodder.

This battle was even more exciting. The Sea Wolf did not even hide in various strongholds to fight, but directly took the initiative to meet the Li Chao army. The Ba Dao team was the supplementary force and the Sea Wolf infantry was the main force. Once the two sides fought, the Li Chao army

A large area of ​​the army was cut down like rice, and it suddenly began to collapse.

Following the order, the Ba Dao team immediately began to charge and engage in close combat with the Li Chao army. The Li Chao army immediately collapsed completely and was chased dozens of miles away by the Sea Wolf Army.

If it weren't for the fact that the Le Dynasty army finally got dozens of war elephants from nowhere and frightened the Sea Wolf soldiers, and the weather also started to turn bad and it started to rain.

The Sea Wolf soldiers ended their pursuit and withdrew to the occupied area. After this battle, they captured thousands of Li Chao soldiers and seized countless supplies. The Li Chao army was completely crippled, and they had no choice but to surrender.

, sent people to Halong Bay to negotiate with Sea Wolf.

Sea Wolf currently does not have the strength to eat the entire Le Dynasty in one bite, so he accepted their conditions and extorted 50,000 taels of silver from them. In addition, Halong Bay, Hon Gai Port and other places were placed under Sea Wolf's control and divided into

The dividing line is equivalent to acquiescing to Sea Wolf's actual control over the local area.

After Hailang had just established a foothold in the Halong Bay area, it immediately sent people to start exploration work in the Hon Gai area.

The Hongji Coal Mine is buried very shallow underground and is fully qualified for manual open-pit mining. So Seawolf immediately began to dispatch prisoners and drove into the mining area to start excavation work.

Moreover, Sea Wolf now had a large reserve of gunpowder, and directly used gunpowder to blast open the surface soil layer, and ordered the prisoners of war to peel off the soil layer, exposing the coal seam below.

Even the slave miners with the weakest physical strength could dig out at least 500 kilograms of coal in one day. Soon at the end of the 10th year of Chongzhen, the Hongji Coal Mine began to produce large amounts of coal.

Yu Xiaotian sent a group of craftsmen to Hongji to cut down trees on the spot and use local wood resources to build a zigzag wooden track from the local coal mine to the dock, and a batch of them were produced in advance on Taiwan Island.

The small mine car site was shipped to Hongji.

These sites were put into use after the local carpenters made the carriages and installed them. Because of the use of bearings, these mine carts made it easier to run on the tracks. Although they needed to be pulled by manpower or animal power, they were still better than ordinary mine carts.

The oxcart transportation is much easier.

A small mine cart can transport almost half a ton of coal at a time. Fifty mine carts are put into the zigzag track every day. Each mine cart can transport charcoal back and forth three times a day, and more than 70 tons of coal can be transported every day.

This is just the beginning. The number of mine cars is insufficient. After continuing to invest in mine cars and manpower in the future, the daily coal output of Hongji Coal Mine can easily reach hundreds of tons, which is almost enough to meet Sea Wolf's current demand for high-quality coal.

If wooden tracks are added and more manpower is invested, it is not impossible that the coal mine here will produce 1,000 tons of coal per day in the near future.

The most important thing is that after defeating the Li Dynasty, the Li Dynasty reopened the food trade with the Sea Wolf in accordance with the provisions of the peace treaty. The Li Dynasty alone can provide hundreds of thousands of stones of food to the Sea Wolf every year, which is very important for the Sea Wolf to obtain

A stable food supply plays a big role.

(Special thanks to Brother Ying Zhiwu for the reward! Once again, we call for monthly ticket support! This month’s monthly ticket is not enough! Haha!)