Valley Emperor

This can be regarded as a rare courtesy of the Datang Navy on the issue of pirates. You must know that the Datang Navy caught pirates before, regardless of the country's pirates, they were all shot and then hung on the port to dry.

In a few years, in several major commercial ports such as Shanghai and Wusong, the sea merchants or pirates entering and leaving the port, um, no matter who they are, can see a very spectacular scene. Hundreds of wooden poles hung with dried pirate corpses!

The faint-hearted will have nightmares all night!

However, after the pirates on the coast of the Tang Dynasty were gradually swept away, this spectacular scene could not be seen. At most, it was a spectacular scene where a few pirates were hung up to dry occasionally, but hundreds of people were hung up to dry. But it is gone forever.

These pirates on Yakushima were lucky, except for a few dozen who were shot and hanged, everyone else got a chance to survive.

This made the surviving pirates feel grateful and worked very hard. In just a few days, a simple wooden pier was rebuilt in this small port, allowing the fleet to park more at the same time. ships.

Of course, those pirates had no chance to say: We didn't work so hard because of gratitude. It was the soldiers of the Datang Marine Corps who were supervising them with bayonets. As long as they worked a little slower, immediately It is just a whip, as long as you dare to resist, you will immediately go down with a bayonet without a word.

Before this new pier was built, more than a dozen pirates died before the bayonet because of their resistance!

These dead pirates told the remaining pirate captives with their lives: work hard!

Thank you, thank you for your numbness!

However, when these pirates looted ships and killed the crew members, they would not be so sad and angry, they would only think that they robbed another merchant ship today, the value of the goods on it is huge, and then how much can they get? money and the like.

The pirates of these days are different from the Somali pirates of later generations. The pirates of later generations are extortion and extortion, but the pirates of these years are killing people, robbing goods and robbing ships. Now there are so many pirates active in the East Asian waters, giving the sea The trade seamen are a great threat.

In order to maintain the prosperity of maritime trade in the East Asian waters and safeguard the maritime interests of the Datang Empire, combating piracy has always been the main responsibility of the Tang Empire's navy, and the navy is also very willing to combat pirates.

In addition to military exploits, it is also for military expenses, but also for the development of the Navy itself!

When there are many pirates and the interests of maritime trade are damaged, not only will tax revenue be lost, but more importantly, when there are not many interests in maritime trade, the upper echelons of the empire will definitely not care so much about maritime trade, since they all care about maritime trade. Now, I don't care about the Navy anymore.

If the navy wants to develop, it must make the maritime trade of the empire prosper and earn a lot of benefits for the empire. In this way, the navy has the value of existence, and can pay attention to it and pay enough military expenses.

For this reason, the navy will actively fight against pirates, and even try to establish colonies and supply ports overseas. They are not for those businessmen, but for their own development.

After Rear Admiral Feng Qirong took the officers of the Ryukyu Squadron for a symbolic visit ashore, they returned to the ship shortly after. They are the generals of the navy, and the fleet of more than 20 ships floating on the sea is still waiting. under their command.

With so many officers ashore, if there is an enemy attacking from the sea, the fleet without command will become a living target. It is impossible to command such a huge fleet by relying on sailors and junior officers alone.

After winning Yakushima, Feng Qirong and the others took the staff to study the sea chart again, and felt that they should take Tanegashima in the future, and they were going to make a temporary decision. The main supply port to operate.

Because the terrain of this island is relatively flat and suitable for farming, and there are more indigenous people on the island, the conditions of the port are also relatively good.

I decided to choose Yakushima before because I felt that there were more pirates in Yakushima at that time, and the pirates also operated the port, thinking that the facilities of the port would be better, and the terrain was more complicated, suitable for defensive operations.

However, after landing and observation, it was found that the construction strength of the pirates was too slag, and the port was of no use at all. There was only a simple wharf with a wooden trestle, and there was not much land available for cultivation, which was not suitable for long-term stationing and open use.

However, if you want to attack Tanegashima, you need to face a problem, that is, although there are not many pirates on the island, there are many indigenous people, and they have a sound administrative rule and a certain armed force. It takes a lot of work!

This place is currently under the jurisdiction of the Shimazu family's retainer, the Shima clan, and this Tanegashima Island has long been an important overseas trade location. Many merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty will pass through here when they go to Fusang for trade, or even directly choose to go there. Trade here.

Because of the foreign trade and trade, they know a lot about the outside world. The iron cannons, that is, arquebuses in their mouths, actually began to flow into Fusang from here. They were the first to use and manufacture arquebuses on a large scale.

This also means that they are equipped with a large number of arquebuses, which is a threat to the landing troops of the Ryukyu Squadron!

But as long as you take this place, you can basically declare that the entire Dayu Archipelago is under the control of the Datang Empire, and Tanegashima is very close to the Dayu Peninsula on Kyushu Island. can be reached.

It can become an important springboard for the Datang Empire to attack and penetrate into Kyushu Island!

In addition, if they take and control this island, then they don't have to waste their energy on Yakushima. At that time, they can stay on Yakushima with a small number of people to garrison, and the main troops can be prevented from coming to Tanegashima.

After all, their troops are small, and most of them will be brought to the Osumi Peninsula to continue to destroy the pirates. The troops left on the Osumi Islands are at most about 200 people. If there are more, it will affect the follow-up operations.

Therefore, the next day, Feng Qirong led the fleet to set off to Tanegashima, which is not far away. There are not many pirates on this island, but there are many indigenous people. The land battle is a little troublesome, but the battle on the sea is absolutely no. questionable.

At present, let alone this little Zidao clan, even the Shimadzu clan, and even the entire Fusang family, have no maritime power at all!

They were still in the ancient war period, and there were basically no modernized naval forces. Although there were many famous ships, these traditional ships were vulnerable to the naval guns of modern warships.

Therefore, Feng Qirong's plan to attack Tanegashima was also very simple. They blocked their port for a while, and killed their traditional warships before landing. After landing, they would fight according to the situation.

If there are too many enemies, then stick to the port with the support of naval guns. If there are not many enemies, then sorry, they will sweep the entire Tanegashima.

For this reason, they chose to land near a port in the southern part of Tanegashima!

The speed of the fleet is not fast, but it is not slow. They actually reached the sea off the southern port of Tanegashima in less than a day. After all, the sea distance between Yakushima and Tanegashima is only more than 20 kilometers.

However, after reaching the sea outside the port, Feng Qirong found that the natives in the port were already prepared. A large number of messy boats poured out of the port. Obviously, they were not willing to be blocked in the port and then passively beaten. They wanted to Resist!

Seeing more than a dozen indigenous ships rushing out of the port, Feng Qirong showed a smile, and then said: "The transport ship was ordered to turn to avoid it in advance, and the frigates closely followed the ship, carried out line tactics, and used broadside artillery to show these indigenous people. How should a naval battle be fought!"

Hearing that Feng Qirong said he was going to turn around and then used line tactics, the adjutants on the side were a little surprised. His commander was obviously making a big fuss. This is only a mere dozen small boats. Hit, you can also clean up them one by one.

But now, it is using line tactics!

You must know that this kind of tactic is usually only used when the fleet is in a decisive battle, in order to exert the most powerful firepower in the fleet!

In this year's warships, most of the artillery is mounted on the broadside. Although the bow and stern will also deploy artillery, but generally not many, usually the broadside is against the enemy when fighting.

When you use your bow against the broadside of an enemy warship, you're going to be smashed!

However, Feng Qirong is now willing to put on a main battle formation to face the battle. He has nothing to say. Anyway, the result is the same!

So ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The huge fleet of the Ryukyu Squadron began to separate, the transport ships began to turn to avoid ahead, and a cruiser and four frigates stepped forward, and then listed a straight vertical formation.

However, this straight vertical line didn't take long to turn around. When the small and medium-sized battleships of the Fuso people rushed out of the port, they were about 300 meters away.

Feng Qirong retracted the telescope, and then ordered: "Turn left sixty degrees, and each frigate must follow this ship closely!"

Immediately, he turned to the adjutant and said, "Don't you think this is a good opportunity for live ammunition training?"

Hearing Feng Qirong say this, the adjutant was also a little speechless. He took the Fusang natives as training objects, and let those Fusang people know, I am afraid they will be angry.

After Feng Qirong's order was passed on, his ship began to turn, and the four frigates behind followed one after another, and turned at the position where Feng Qirong's ship began to turn!

At this time, they formed an angle of about fifty degrees with the more than ten ships of the Fusang people who rushed over, but this was not enough!

It didn't take long for Feng Qirong to turn around again!

This time the steering is only 20 degrees, this is to seize the upper hand, but also to obtain a better attack angle!

The five battleships of the Ryukyu Squadron, which had completed the second turn, would soon begin to formally engage with the ships of the Fuso.

Feng Qirong's ship is a cruiser, and it is the flagship. It was the first to contact the Fusang people, and it was the first round of salvos!

After the sound of the rumble of cannons, it also announced that this naval battle with serious unequal strengths, and also the first naval battle between the Tang Empire and the Fusang people broke out!

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