Out of the cage

Chapter 1215 Chapter 25.28 (Part 1) Supporting the Suppression

Around the world in the sixteenth century, armored hoplites were king. Even Hou Jin, who rose seventy or eighty years later, did not rely on the so-called cavalry and shooting, but relied on the heavy infantry phalanx to defeat the Ming army in field battles.

As for right now, the pirates who landed are facing the most heavily armored corps in East Asia, um, the world.

Outside the coastal dock filled with oyster shells, a regular battle is going on.

"One two one, one two one", the neat armored phalanx shouted the most unpretentious slogan. But the uniform footsteps and the unison of trampling the ground seemed to calm the rhythm of the distant waves, giving their hapless opponents a sense of terror and oppression.

Compared with Qi's army, which still needs a whole team of ten steps, the battalion of the reclamation team advances in a straight line.

"Crackling" the pirates fired all kinds of firecrackers at a distance of 100 meters.

But at this time, the armored phalanx was still a skirmish line, and it had not yet gathered into a group, and the hits of the muskets were touching. Even if a few projectiles hit the iron armor, they all bounced off with a snap.

Vice President Qi, who was watching the battle from a distance, held a binoculars and looked at this friendly army that he thought was "advancing" at first.

When I heard that the transferred guard troops were going to charge directly at the camp where the pirates were stationed. He was very worried, so he ordered the troops to speed up and rush towards the battlefield.

But after seeing such a "Guardian", he had to think deeply. But then, looking at the tactics of the friendly army, he was stunned, because the phalanx changed into lines (rows), like a sweater being taken apart. Immediately afterwards, these soldiers trotting in formation outflanked the two wings in a large area, and then, even a group surrounded the rear.

Zongbing Qi: Is this general not afraid of Japanese pirates?

That's right, the line array was scattered, and the group of pirates was directly surrounded to death. ——Because when the quality of weapons, tactics, and soldiers are all pulled out to replace the difference, you can encircle them ten times!

Behind the front line, Wuzhou deployed the artillery drawn by pack horses. The steel rods around the artillery cart were inserted into the soil by the artillery's sledgehammer, and the ropes on the artillery cart were connected to these ground steel rods. This ensures that the trajectory of the thruster is stable when the artillery, etc. will fire.

The commander of Wuzhou observed the battlefield with a telescope, and the staff at the side quickly drew a brief map of the battle between the enemy and the enemy according to the battlefield situation. The wind direction was completed in the center of the army formation, and the artillerymen who tested the angle began to point their muzzles at the front. , After hearing the semaphore to confirm the attack position, the artillery officers began to further determine the enemy groups in these positions, and after making final adjustments to the artillery crew, they shouted "fire~"

The small steel cannon with a hexagonal inner diameter emitted white smoke. The bullet point flew towards the crowd of pirates, and when it was about to hit the ground, it fired a cannonball. After the shrapnel bullet fell, it let out a miserable howl.

After the shelling was suppressed, the infantry skirmisher line advanced sixty steps, firing while advancing rapidly. The crisp shooting sound of the flintlock guns harvested circles like a death scythe. If there was no place to hide, this group of thousands of pirates would definitely collapse.

After advancing to 150 steps, as the whistle started, every platoon of Wuzhou "Guardians" began to gather to form a dense formation.

This ability to gather and disperse as usual made those who watched the battle know the soldiers couldn't help but gasp.

Wei Keng: This is an ability impossible for feudal troops in this era. Only in the era of Napoleon, there was the ability to control the troops that can only be achieved by perfecting the non-commissioned officer system. To improve the non-commissioned officer system, it is necessary to completely break the feudal system and free up promotion channels. Napoleon once said, "Any non-commissioned officer of mine can be a colonel in other countries." Because of this incentive and selection system in the military.

The infantry's hash array is used for firepower output, and the aggregation arrangement is for impact resistance.

When approaching the enemy a hundred paces, the "Guardian soldiers" fired the last round of gun salvo, and then began to charge with bayonets. Knowing that he couldn't escape, the sword pirate turned around and slashed, only to find that he was knocking on the iron shell, and his morale collapsed immediately.

The pirates went from besieged and stunned to begging for mercy on their knees, just like the scene in the movie "Jing Ke Assassins Qin" where Lao Ai's retainers rushed into the palace and were surrounded by the imperial guards and killed with strong bows.

This is the power of a modern army. The food is good enough, the training is sufficient, and they are wearing solid armor to crush the pirate team that came ashore to plunder.

The battle has since ended, and only a hundred of the more than 2,000 pirates took advantage of the fact that the platoons hadn't closed yet. After all, the space-time traveler bought only a thousand households from Wuzhou Wei. There were only eight hundred, and there were still omissions during the containment.

However, the Qi family army on the outskirts blocked the escape of these scattered pirates with long knives and poles.

In this battle, 534 people were killed and injured, and 2270 people were captured. ——It belongs to exhaustion.

For the Ming Dynasty, it was just the end of a small maritime crisis, but for the entire East Asia, a maritime power began to rise, and for the world, the security environment of the first industrial revolution was guaranteed.

The "Pacific Company", which Kentuo will establish in the next year, will explode into a force far more terrifying than the "Umbrella Company" in the era of biochemical technology a few hundred years later...

Returning to the present moment, Qi Jiguang's Zhebing Group fell into shock compared to Qi Jiguang on land.

At this time, Yu Dayou, who was on the sea, watched the windless automatic paddle-wheeled warship, which moved forward and backward freely on the river mouth, and could not take his eyes off it.

There were as many as forty pirates escaping, and the Wuzhou ship could surround them all.

Because the speed of 12 knots ignored the wind and ocean currents, it went directly to the front and fired a cannonball, even the Tiaobang Zhan Centipede ship could not catch up.

Yu Dayou only knew that this was not a Western-style sailing warship. He thought of the report his spies had given him.

"Wu has the mechanism of the Mohist school, which can make ships move by burning coal, and iron oxen and wooden horses can move by burning wood."

Wei Keng: When dealing with the Ming court, we must take care of their self-esteem, because once the Emperor Ming and the officials are provoked, they have to launch the "cutting off the grain" force action. It is the face of the court officials and Jiajing, but it is the common people of the Ming Dynasty. The common people, corvee together, but how many people broke their families. ——We are not Xiyi. We can do things in East Asia regardless of the consequences. The expansion of the great voyage must pay attention to the cohesion of "nationalism".

Daming may not be benevolent now, but as a visitor from "Danzhou", he cannot be unrighteous. Who told him that the old Zhu's family is the current emperor?

So, under the watchful eyes of the officials at all levels in Fujian, this strong soldier immediately stood by on the shore after defeating the Japanese pirates, and began to circle the barracks and bury the pot for cooking.

Did not enter the city to harass the people. Forbidden. ——More obedient than normal Ming officers and soldiers.

As a member of the space-time exploration team, Su Qianheng met the two idols "Yu and Qi", so he naturally wanted to meet them.

Well, star chasing. See if there is a chance to ask for a calligraphy.

However, two days later, Su Qianheng learned the news from Jin Yiwei that the adults above (Fujian and Zhejiang officials) had some difficulties with the Qianhu Office on Wudao Island. But now that Ming Dynasty is rich in culture and military, it is impossible for the two military officers, Qi and Yu, to communicate with the Sheji Society without considering the official situation at this moment.

So, under the order of the Reclamation Association, on July 14th, the whole army returned to Wudao, expressing their own rules, and at the same time, the other side began to take advantage of the situation to lead the line of Jinyiwei, and handed money to the eunuchs in the palace!

...Wei Keng's air pressure station on the southeast coast shows that there will be low pressure approaching in the next few days, and there may be a typhoon. …

This dispelled the official circles in Fujian’s concern that “it’s easier to ask the gods than it is to send them away”.

Information about the size of this battle quickly spread to the center of the Ming court. After the cabinet breathed a sigh of relief at the situation in Fujian and Zhejiang, it was a little jealous of the "guard soldiers" who came out in anger.

The Ming Dynasty has always been rich in culture and low in martial arts. It is not yet the end of Chongzhen. Local officials in various places are very strict with the armed forces in their jurisdiction. Today, it is found that a group of bandits in the jurisdiction has to be wiped out, so it is a letter to borrow a soldier from a neighboring area. Tomorrow, there is a civil uprising in another place, and the army can also be used to suppress it.

Today, the soldiers of the guard became domineering after fighting a battle to suppress pirates, and went back to the station without listening to the orders of the local officials.

In the past, according to the nature of the Ming court, it went directly to the guard to take people, but now it is the court that has gone through the "Wang Zhi Rebellion".

...In the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, although the beginning of autumn has already begun, the remaining summer heat is still repeated...

Xu Jiege, who is now in charge of the family, is always deeply worried: "The chaos in Fujian and Zhejiang needs to be settled as soon as possible, otherwise the court will suffer losses again this year."

As for the unknown power of Fujian that is entrenched along the coast of Daming under the guise of the guard, with so many armors and firearms, Mr. Xu Ge now tries his best to make big things happen and small things go away.

However, Gao Gong, who has already "done two hopes and one" in the cabinet, made a speech of deep abhorrence against the "Southeast Weisuo selling officials and nobles" as usual.

After the black face sang, Zhang Juzheng said: "Overseas wealthy businessmen gather outside the country for nothing more than profit. The imperial court can control the goods by pinching the profits of the coastal prefectures."——The southeast of the court is a place of heavy taxation. I can't afford to go to war.

Ever since, after discussions at the highest levels of power in the Ming Dynasty, the permission to "specialize in maritime trade" was thrown out.

Basically, it is to dump the conditions that Hu Zongxian gave Wang Zhi back then to the group of visitors who call themselves "Danzhou".

The conditions of the Ming cabinet can be said to have caused a huge earthquake in coastal state capitals, because the interests of maritime trade are limited, and the imperial court has approved a new family, and other families have to eat less.

What the Huishang Group had tossed and failed to accomplish, suddenly became a matter of course.

From a geographical point of view, Wang Zhi is a Huizhou merchant group, and Hu Zongxian is also a Huizhou merchant group.

There are two routes for Huizhou merchant families, one is farming and studying the imperial examination, and the other is going out to do business. In the beginning, Wang Zhi established a maritime force. From the perspective of "business", he competed with the southeast coastal business groups, but in the end it got out of control. As the Ming officials ended up helping each other, they turned into "border bandits".

After the death of Wang Zhi in history, Hu Zongxian was impeached and fell, and Huizhou merchants completely turned from radical to conservative. The entire maritime hegemony at the end of the Ming Dynasty was changed to the control of commercial groups in Guangzhou and Fujian. The Ming Empire lost its "balancer" weight in Southeast Sea Trade.

After the Ming Dynasty squeezed Huizhou merchants out of the coastal trade, neither Fujian nor Guangzhou had much meaning.

In the words of later generations: not enough imperialism, no coastal pioneering spirit, just thinking about government-run monopoly business.

At this time, the smartest person in Ming Court is not thinking about East Asian maritime dominance. Nor is it a map of the Nanyang layout.

...on top of the cabinet, the Emperor's Residence...

In Xiyuan Jingshe, an old Taoist priest with gray hair was sitting in front of the altar, divination.

The hexagram image shows that the south is the Qian hexagram. (Coincidentally, Master Wei is gagging, chatting about Hai Rui Hai Qing Tian, ​​and when will the number one girl in the world be on stage.)

The old Taoist leader's mind was turning now, and the eunuch Huang at the side obviously understood the master's mind.

The sky is big and the earth is big, and the cultivation of immortals is the biggest.

At this time, an army composed of "hercules" appeared in Minhai, which seemed to be a miraculous phenomenon. On Wudao, there was also a word "Qianzhou".

In "Historical Records: The Benji of Qin Shihuang", "Thousands of boys and girls were sent to Xu City to seek immortals in the sea."

In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Shoujie wrote 30 volumes of "Historical Records of Justice", and when explaining ancient place names, he basically followed the book "Kuo Di Zhi": "Dianzhou is in the East China Sea. There are tens of thousands of families living in this continent, and up to now, some of the people on the continent have traded in Kuaiji City."

Where is the place recorded in this ancient book? Just as it is difficult to find fairy trails in famous mountains and great rivers, now these people appearing overseas, even if they are not immortals, are there any immortal things left by cyclists?

After Yan Song's downfall, Emperor Jiajing's physical strength became increasingly exhausted, and the Taoist priest who helped him refine the longevity medicine also belched. The emperor already faintly felt that there was no hope of immortality, but how could he lose this last dream.

Of course, the Taoist emperor’s palace is quite deep. After the foreigner expelled the Japanese pirates, he ignored the local government. Accident?

...the straight hook is not only good for fishing, it can also catch the 'real dragon'...

After a stick of incense, eunuch Huang came to the Taoist temple with an oral order to meet the blue god.

Jiajing, who continues to practice the Dharma: To prove whether the visitors from the East China Sea have Taoism, then let the Taoist priests of Longhu Mountain have a try.

In the midsummer of July, a decree was issued from the court, and Jinghai, a thousand households of Wudao military guards, made contributions and was promoted to be a general of Quanzhou.