Chapter Fifty-One: The Golden Cicada Escapes Her Shell
When Qi Ying led the militiamen to Songmen Guard, he saw that Song Gate Guard still had a barracks. He ordered the soldiers to hide the carts in the barracks and wait in the barracks.
He planned to row out to sea alone to find Tang Shimao to raise food.
Just as Qi Ying was preparing to go to sea, he discovered that ten sand ships with Japanese pirate skull flags were heading towards Songmenwei.
When Qi Ying saw a Japanese pirate ship appearing, he had no choice but to turn around and hide in the barracks with the militiamen.
From the gap in the wall of the military building, he saw that not long after the Japanese pirate fleet docked, another fleet came with a flag with the word "Tang", and then he saw the Tang army destroying the Japanese pirates.
When he was sure that the Tang army coming was Tang Shimao's team, he ran out of the barracks. The two reunited happily.
Qi Ying went to check out the Japanese pirates' sand ships. They were loaded with white rice, weighing at least a thousand kilograms. He was so happy that he couldn't express his joy.
Tang Shimao said happily: "I was worried about how to transport the grain to Taizhou City, but I didn't expect you to come here with a cart. It's great."
Qi Ying said happily: "It feels like there is divine help behind my back. I was ready to go to sea to find you to raise food, but unexpectedly the food fell from the sky."
While chatting, Tang Shimao smiled and said: "I have now named myself President Qian and not Leader Tang. From now on, the battalion commander will call me President Qian."
Qi Ying smiled and said: "I understand, I should have called you Mr. Tang Qian a long time ago, so that you can live up to your name."
Haha, the two of them laughed happily.
While the two were rejoicing, Ji Jin pointed to the sea and said, "Look, instructor, a fleet has appeared." Ji Jin was also among the militiamen pulling the cart.
Qi Ying and Tang Shimao were shocked after hearing this. They both looked at the sea and found a group of black spots.
Qi Ying asked: "Which team will this be?"
Tang Shimao picked up the long telescope and looked at it, and found that the opponent's flag had the character "Yu" in it. He was surprised and said: "It's the flag of Yu Jun in Fujian. Could it be Yu Dayou's fleet?"
Qi Ying was curious. Didn't the imperial court stop deploying troops to support Zhoushan Island? How could Yu Jun go deep here alone? This sea area is now the sphere of influence of the Japanese army.
Qi Ying used a telescope to look at the ships on the opposite side. They were all small and medium-sized warships with uneven formations. They did not look like Yu Jun's long-distance navy.
Qi Ying said curiously: "It's strange. The formation of this fleet is uneven. It doesn't look like Yu Jun's navy."
"Oh?" Tang Shimao also became confused.
Seeing the opponent's fleet getting closer, Qi Ying took a telescope and scanned left and right to search for the opponent's general, and was surprised to see Chen Dong's face.
Qi Ying has been to Daishan Island,
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He had met Chen Dong. He suddenly understood that this fleet was not the "Yu" army, but the island army in disguise.
He became alert and said: "Chief Tang, they are not the Yu Army but the Dao Army, pretending to be the Fujian Navy to rob food."
Tang Shimao was shocked and said: "Then let's unload the food quickly, otherwise it will be too late."
The militiamen of the Tang army all boarded the boats to carry the grain. With more people and strength, they quickly moved all the grains from the sand boats to the carts.
At the same time, Qi Ying ordered Ji Jin to lead the militiamen in Taizhou City to take out the spare sandbags on the cart and fill the sandbags with sand.
The island military fleet was getting closer and closer. Tang Shimao and Qi Ying said goodbye: "Captain Qi, take care!"
Qi Ying waved her hand and urged: "Hurry up and go, we will be in trouble if the island army gets entangled."
Tang Shimao led the fleet to escape quickly and took away ten sand ships. The sand ships were empty and were traveling very fast.
Chen Dong saw Tang Jun and saw that Tang Jun was trying to escape, so he ordered his fleet to pursue him closely.
At this time, Ji Jin also packed the sandbags and stacked them high into a pile of sand, forming a three-dimensional cone shape.
Qi Ying ordered a bag of grain to be placed on top of the sand pile, and then an oilcloth was placed on top of the bag of grain.
Qi Ying saw that the two naval divisions were very close to each other and that the Tang army had been entangled by the island army and was difficult to escape, so he planned to create a false target to attract the island army to buy time for the Tang army to escape.
Qi Ying ordered the oilcloth to be lit. The oilcloth burned and thick black smoke floated in the air.
After the oilcloth burned, Qi Ying led the militiamen and quickly escaped from Songmen Guards pulling a cart.
The black smoke was blown by the wind over the island military fleet. When Chen Dong looked back, he found a pile of sandbags at Songmen Guards, with smoke still coming from the top.
He thought that with so many sandbags piled together, they must be food. He suddenly remembered that the purpose of this trip was to rob food, not to pursue the enemy.
He ordered: "No, they are going to burn the food. Everyone, hurry up and rescue the food."
So the island army gave up pursuing the Tang army and docked on the shore. The island soldiers jumped off the warship to rescue food.
The burning oilcloth burned the sack containing grain on the top of the sand pile, and the white rice flowed out.
Chen Dong saw the burnt top of the sack and the white rice flowed out. He never imagined that the sack below was filled with sand.
The island soldiers put out the fire and carried the sandbags to the warship. Since there was no sandship, they had to carry all the sandbags to the warship.
After the island army finished moving the sandbags, Tang Jun had already fled far away.
Tang Shimao sweated a lot, almost
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It was impossible to escape from being entangled by the island army. Fortunately, Qi Ying had an idea and came up with a golden cicada escape plan, creating a false target to attract the enemy's attention and help Tang Jun escape from danger.
The island army returned happily with sandbags loaded, preparing to go back for a celebration banquet. What they didn't expect was that not long after they left Songmon Guard, they were overtaken by the Japanese fleet.
The Japanese navy led by Bai Xiang rushed to Songmon Guards and found officers and soldiers on the sea. He ordered the fleet to speed up to catch up with the officers and soldiers.
The speed of the Japanese army fleet was originally very fast, but after loading sandbags, the speed slowed down a lot, and it was not long before the Japanese army caught up with them.
Chen Dong saw the Japanese troops chasing him and urged the fleet to speed up and escape, but there was no way. The warships were loaded with sandbags and the fleet just couldn't pick up the speed.
The idea of transporting grain to Songmenwei was first proposed by Bai Xiang. He never thought that the grain would be hijacked, which made him very embarrassed.
After finally returning to the camp, he came up with a bad idea and felt that he didn't look good in front of his lord.
He had suppressed his anger, and when he saw the "Yu" military flag that was robbing the grain, he still had the mood to distinguish between true and false, so he immediately ordered medium-sized warships to bombard the island army, and the small eagle ship accelerated to intercept the island army.
the way to go.
The Japanese army's French artillery shells exploded wildly, damaging many of the island army's ships.
When Chen Dong saw the Japanese army coming with artillery fire, he ordered the soldiers to take down the flag with the word "Yu". He waved his hand and shouted to the Japanese army: "We are all our own people, don't misunderstand."
Bai Xiang has never seen Chen Dong and does not understand what the other party means by taking down the flag. If he wants to surrender, why not hang the white flag?
If the white flag is not hoisted, the artillery fire will continue. The white elephant ordered another artillery bombardment.
The island army was hit by another burst of artillery fire. Chen Dong was almost blown off the ship. He was furious. It was bearable, but what was unbearable? He ordered the island army to fight back.
The Japanese army fired rocket launchers, muskets, tiger crouching and French cannons. Locust-like arrows and shells arced in the air and landed on the Japanese ships. Many of the Japanese ships were on fire.
Attacking each other, the rockets and shells from both sides were as dense as a swarm of bees flying, it was so spectacular.
Chen Dong was relatively weak. After fighting for a while, he could no longer hold on. Half of the ships in the fleet had been blown up. He had no choice but to hang up the white flag and surrender.
White Elephant captured the island army fleet and tied up the island soldiers prisoners.
Chen Dong was tied up all over. He wanted to explain something, but the Japanese soldiers tied his mouth with cloth.
Baixiang escorted these prisoners of war from the island soldiers back to the Haimen Guards, and also moved the sandbags to the shore, thinking they were food.
He handed over the task to Xin Wulang and waited for Xin Wulang to come out to deal with these prisoners of war.
Chapter completed!