Valley Emperor

Zhang Linong landed with his own troops, but it actually took a long time, because the landing is still very primitive these days. If there is no ready-made wharf to use, then the beach landing needs to be carried out.

Don’t expect large boats to land on the beach, and there are no special landing boats. Generally, small boats carried by large boats are used for landing. These small boats are generally multi-purpose. Ships, if they are going to supply supplies at sea, those are the ships that transport supplies back and forth, and transporting people is also their main task.

And these small boats, a big boat can't actually carry too much, so in the absence of a wharf, it is more troublesome to carry out personnel transportation or material transportation, and it requires many round trips.

Therefore, the first batch of marines who landed was less than 200 people. After these people landed, the small boats would return, and then the second batch of marines would be transported over.

The weapons they carry are limited to personal equipment. The heavy weapons are two-pound shotguns that weigh hundreds of pounds. As for those field guns, don't expect to be able to bring them.

Because the number of people who landed for the first time was relatively small, Zhang Linong did not act rashly, nor did he directly lead the troops forward from the depths. Instead, he organized troops on the beach to list the defensive formation, and then waited for the arrival of the second batch of landing troops. .

At this time, in an open space hundreds of meters away on the island, hundreds of people in messy clothes gathered one after another. Their weapons were not uniform, and it was even vaguely seen that they were divided into two groups.

The number of them is relatively small, about two hundred people are relatively uniform in terms of clothing, basically all dressed as Fuso warriors, and a few of them still hold arquebuses and wear plate armor.

The other group has a larger number of people. There are about 300 people with clothes and weapons in a mess, and many of them are wearing Hanfu with their hair tied. Needless to say, these people are basically pirates, um , More precisely, the Datang Pirates!

Many of them came from the coast of Datang when the Datang Navy fought against pirates a few years ago!

The transfer of these pirates can basically be regarded as the history of the expansion of the Datang Empire. When the Datang Empire occupied Guangdong and Guangxi, they ran out from the waters of Guangdong and Guangxi. When Datang occupied the coast of Fujian, Zhejiang and Zhili, they were again Running away from this sea area, some of them ran to Ryukyu, and some continued to go north or simply ran to the coast of Goryeo.

The pirates who went to Ryukyu did not live in peace for a few days. The Datang Navy just killed the Ryukyu Kingdom. As a result, the Ryukyu Kingdom was over, and the Ryukyu Kingdom became the Datang Ryukyu House, so they continued to run again. The tone ran to the coast of Fusang, and then completely colluded with the people of Fusang.

The Osumi Islands have become a gathering place for several large-scale pirates!

But although the pirates settled in this place, the pirates were pirates after all. They did not shake the Ganfu clan's rule in the Dasumi Islands. On the contrary, they cooperated quite happily with the Ganfu clan. The Ganfu clan provided them with ports, supplies, and even sold stolen goods. channel, and earn huge profits from it.

This kind of thing, the Datang Empire is naturally intolerable!

This also led to the armed forces on Yakushima. In addition to the armed forces of the Ganfu clan, there were also the forces of pirates!

Moreover, after Zhang Linong took out the binoculars and looked at it, he found that the pirates had more troops than Gan Fu's, and the pirates were even more equipped with as much equipment as possible.

Although the pirates appeared to be dressed in a mess and their weapons were not uniform, Zhang Linong saw that they had quite a few arquebuses, shotguns, and some people wore plate armor.

The warriors of the Ganfu clan had very few guns and plate armor, and did not see any artillery.

No wonder these pirates were able to swagger to survive on Yakushima, the strength of emotion is stronger than the strength of Ganfu on the island.

But, so what, whether it is these pirates or the warriors of the Ganfu clan, it is destined to be impossible to resist the attack of the Tang Navy today!

Zhang Linong has already made up his mind. When his troops arrive, he will first set up a temporary pier, and then unload the field guns. After the field guns land, he will do his mother's job.

In addition to a marine battalion under his own control, the marines led by him also had marines on each ship of the Ryukyu Squadron, adding up to more than 300 people, a total of 800 troops, more than the pirates and the Ganfu clan on the opposite side. The troops add up to more.

However, before launching the attack, Zhang Linong honestly listed the defensive formation, and asked the soldiers to use the shovels they carried with them to dig fortifications, mainly to build the parapet.

The parapet is quite useful in defensive operations, and it can effectively lower the opponent's long-range firepower. Of course, the defense against artillery is not very good, but there is no powerful artillery on the opposite side!

While Zhang Linong was waiting, the pirates and the warriors of the Ganfu clan on the opposite side obviously knew that they couldn't continue to wait like this. Even a blind man could see that the Marine Corps soldiers on more than 20 ships on the sea were definitely There are more than 200 people, and there will definitely be more Tang Navy soldiers who will land one after another.

So after a discussion between the two groups of people, they decided to strike first!

As a result, they began to rush up in a messy formation!

When he saw them rushing up, a smile appeared on Zhang Linong's mouth. It was fantastic that these pirates wanted to take the initiative to attack.

Didn't anyone tell them that such a swarm would be beaten into a hornet's nest!

Didn't anyone tell them that before launching the charge, they should push the artillery up and start shelling first, but now, a few of their artillery are lagging behind.

Those half-barrel water artillerymen desperately want to push the artillery to the front line, but they can't catch up with the speed of the infantrymen who are already rushing up!

Seeing this scene, Zhang Linong immediately ordered: "Send a flag to the fleet and ask for artillery support!"

"The whole army obeys orders, checks the guns, loads the bullets, and prepares to fight!"

The semaphore soldiers began to wave the small flags in their hands and signaled to the fleet on the sea to request the support of naval artillery fire. At the same time, the soldiers also put down the excavation and began to check the guns in their hands, and then load them.

At the same time, Rear Admiral Feng Qirong on the fleet also saw the semaphore of the landing troops with a telescope, and immediately ordered: "All ships prepare for artillery support!"

Although it is said to be various ships, in fact, at present, the only ones that can really approach and provide artillery support are two frigates, and the other main ships need to continue to block the port.

Of course, other transport ships are also capable of artillery support!

The transport ships of this year are all armed transport ships!

Not to mention the navy's transport ship, even if it is a civilian merchant ship, if you don't bring a few artillery pieces when you go out to sea these days, you can't expect to come back alive if you encounter pirates.

The two frigates approaching at the risk of being stranded, they are close to the land, so they can fire earlier!

When the messy pirates and samurai rushed up and entered the 500-meter range of the naval guns, the two frigates that anchored directly in order to ensure the stability of the shooting also opened fire!

There are more than 20 broadside artillery pieces that they can use for shelling, and these more than 20 pieces of artillery pieces are nothing for the decisive battle between the fleets.

In the naval battle, there are dozens and hundreds of artillery pieces at every turn, so the results are not very good, otherwise the navy will not want howitzers wholeheartedly.

It is a pity that although the grenade has already completed the preliminary research and development and started the preliminary trial production, it is still in the process of improvement, and most of the grenades produced have been taken away by the Guards. A small number of grenades were used for testing.

In actual combat, don't count on grenades for the time being.

However, for fleet engagements, more than 20 artillery pieces are nothing, but for land artillery attacks and support for ground troops, this is enough, and it appears to be very powerful.

You must know that the Tang Army has a lot of artillery, but there are only 56 field guns in an infantry division of more than 15,000 people. On average, in actual combat, hundreds of people are fighting. , at most it will be supported by a few artillery pieces.

However, today, there are less than 200 marines on the shore~www.wuxiaspot.com~ They are supported by more than 20 naval guns, and the caliber is not small.

There are nine catties of naval guns, five catties of naval guns, and 48 catties and 24 catties of mortars.

When the artillery opened fire on the more than 500 pirates and the samurai of the Ganfu clan who rushed towards the opposite side!

That scene is magnificent!

When Zhang Linong heard the rumbling sound of cannons coming from the sea, he saw clouds of white smoke from the two frigates on the sea, and small black dots flew out of the white smoke.

These little black dots flew over his head and fell into the enemy hundreds of meters away!

He saw with his own eyes that after a solid shell fell, the kinetic energy was quickly absorbed by the soft sand, but before that, five or six pirates were still knocked into the air!

The shelling of solid bullets is only average in lethality, then those grenades are much bigger!

When a 48-pound grenade exploded on top of the pirates, Zhang Linong himself was shocked!

He could clearly see that a flash of fire flashed, and when the white smoke rose, the pirates under the cannonball directly fell at least twenty people!

The naval artillery support firepower of the navy only hit the first round of shelling, and the pirates who rushed up have been killed and injured nearly 100, and then the rest of the people involuntarily stopped the pace of charging, they stood blankly in place!

In the next instant, they all turned around and ran, escaping faster than when they rushed over!

Seeing this scene, Zhang Linong held back his excitement and wanted to laugh, and after a long time he said, "A bunch of idiots!"

He has been in the army for many years, and he has never seen a charge against naval artillery. Back then, the puppet thieves would not be stupid enough to do this! "

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