"Wen Chuyu, Tai Jinyan, and General General, Jinpan Commander and Haining Commander, have one sentry and flag officer, one Beiwa Commander, two subordinate sentry officers, and the Chinese Army Name and Color Commander. One person, several soldiers; one general sentry officer at Huanghua Pass, one leading sentry officer... What is this, there is no specific number of soldiers and horses, what's going on?"
Yin Feng didn't know much about the specific organization of the Ming Dynasty's army and the relationship between superiors and subordinates, and Luo Qing's education level was average, so it was still very difficult to interpret the information provided. Lin Xiao was originally a child of a military household, so he naturally understood it better. , seeing that Yin Feng was in a bad mood, he had to explain patiently: "What we are talking about here is that the Zhejiang General Army has appointed those officers to go to Fujian. According to the number of people under the jurisdiction of these officers on weekdays, I estimate that Zhejiang dispatched about 3,000 to 4,000 people. "
"According to Xu Xinsu's intelligence, the total number of officers and soldiers dispatched in this battle will not be less than 13,000. Moreover, all five major water forts of the Fujian Navy have been dispatched, and the main force has gathered in Penghu. In this way, the coast of Fujian will inevitably be empty. If we What do you think about using the Flying Leopard to directly attack Fuzhou or Quanzhou," the calm Madd said slowly.
This is Yin Feng's usual style in meetings. Everyone speaks freely regardless of class. This is the first time for Huang Qiang to attend a board meeting and he is very curious about this kind of meeting, but he is not used to speaking on such occasions.
Han Ping shook his head: "If we attack Fuzhou directly, the officers and soldiers will probably leave Penghu and go back for rescue. But, are we really going to fight the imperial court over this?"
Lu Shitou sneered: "The officers and soldiers are already at odds, what should we worry about?"
Yin Feng said distressedly: "This is the first time that our Zhonghua Company has had a head-on confrontation with the imperial officers and soldiers since its establishment. We cannot fail, otherwise we will greatly weaken our strength and damage the Taiwan base; we cannot really wipe out all the Fujian officers and soldiers. , That will provoke the imperial court to send out large numbers of troops to encircle and suppress us, and we will fight to the death. We cannot attack Fuzhou,"
Han Ping has never been interested in military affairs, but is very interested in peace talks with the court: "Shipowner, how are our peace talks with the government going?"
Yin Feng shook his head and said: "The governor's office has always refused to allow the Chinese company's headquarters to stay in Taiwan and asked us to give up the Taiwan base. We can never agree to such conditions. Therefore, in the past two months, the Zeng family has had very little contact with Fuzhou. "
Mai De had been looking at the map. At this moment, he suddenly stood up and pointed to the map of Fujian on the desk and said: "Shipowner, fellow owners, have you noticed that the officers and soldiers gathered so many people in Penghu just to besiege a small fort? It’s not very unreasonable,”
Lu Shitou came to the map and asked curiously: "What is unreasonable? A bunch of idiots gathered there. It will be typhoon season soon. If the hurricane comes, I will see how they go out to sea to cruise and replenish supplies."
Yin Feng patted Mai De on the shoulder and nodded: "Maide, you now have a strategic vision."
Mai De doesn't know what strategic vision is, but he is an introvert and careful person. Now after more than three years of military career, he has quite the external temperament of a soldier. Coupled with the introverted personality that he always maintains, everyone here is attracted by it. He did not dare to look down upon him. Originally, there was no class distinction between the merchants and sailors who were wandering around all year round and the people. He saluted Yin Feng and then continued: "The officers and soldiers have so many troops. It is completely possible to use a small number of troops to Trapping our Penghu garrison, large forces directly attacked our Taiwan base. Our fleet in Penghu has been solved by officers and soldiers, and will not threaten the officers and soldiers at all,"
Yin Feng had a flash of inspiration and laughed: "We have a solution. Everyone, to solve the current crisis, we must target the root cause of this matter; this war must be a good thing jointly done by Governor Xu and Eunuch Gao. How can we make it happen?" They retreated despite the difficulties,"
Han Ping and Huang Qiang jumped up almost at the same time, looked at each other, and laughed. Huang Qiang cupped his hands and said with a smile: "It's up to shopkeeper Han to say it. I don't care about the next point."
Yin Feng interrupted the two people's polite words: "Okay, two shopkeepers, time is urgent now, if you have anything to say, just say it."
Han Ping was used to Yin Feng's informality, so he handed over his hand and said: "To make the government take the initiative to retreat, I think one way is to use the company's fleet to take advantage of the emptiness inside the Fujian government and hit the gate of Fuzhou, forcing them to retreat on their own; Another way is to give the officers and soldiers a thorough beating in Penghu, so that they will retreat in the face of difficulties, and they will have to think twice before they want to deal with us in the future."
Everyone did not expect that Han Ping, who was usually timid, could be so bold in dealing with the government, but they looked at him with admiration.
This was also the impact of China Company's victory in Luzon Island, which caused some shareholders and shopkeepers of China Company to unintentionally increase their self-confidence and gain a new understanding of the company's own armed forces.
Yin Feng walked back and forth in the room several times, slapped his hand on the table, and said loudly: "In this case, we will work on both sides to meet with the officers and soldiers in Penghu."
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With hundreds of Fujian's best shipwrights working day and night, the repair work on the Feibao was finally completed. One day later, Mai Dahai led the warship Xinxing from Jilong Port in Taipei to Jingang. .
Yin Feng wanted to personally lead the Xinxing to attack the coast of Fujian, while Mai Dahai fully supported the Penghu Fenggui defenders and resolutely detained the officers and soldiers on the Penghu Islands.
Feibao and Xinxing led ten three-masted warships and 30 two-masted warships out of Singang, bypassed Penghu and headed for the coast of Fujian. After arriving in the Jinxia area, they completely burned Wuyu and Dacheng Water Villages. When the main force marched out to Penghu, the officers and soldiers near Quanzhou Bay, which had no defense, were immediately beaten to a pulp, discarding their helmets and armor and being wiped out.
The Zhejiang Zhenxiamen Navy still has more than 30 warships left in Quanzhou, but in the eyes of the sailors of the Chinese company's warship fleet, these ships are almost garbage. The Zhejiang Navy has always pursued rapid deployment at sea, and the warships are mainly It is used for maritime patrols, not for combat, so what is required is speed, so the ships used are small horn boats or sand boats, mostly flat-bottomed boats, which are just in line with the depth of the ocean near Zhejiang, and the coast is relatively long. Due to the sandy shore conditions, the Zhejiang warships were defeated by only a few three-masted warships, and all were sunk and burned outside Quanzhou Port.
It took a total of three days for the Chinese navy to clear the outskirts of Quanzhou Bay. That night, the brigade anchored at Kinmen Island, and the flagship Xinxing anchored at Kinmen Inspection Sicheng (the city's former name was Wushan, later known as Chengzai top) shore.
"Report to the ship owner that we rescued more than 200 officers and soldiers at sea. They are now being held on Kinmen Island. Commander Mai is asking for instructions on how to deal with them."
Yin Feng stood on the bow of the Xinxing, looking towards the dark mainland, and sighed lightly.
In any case, it is one thing to aim a knife at the government. When we really face the reality of war, those officers and soldiers who were killed or injured under the shelling and fire of their own troops are ordinary people. Yin Feng cannot ignore it in any case. After all, he is a time traveler, not a true sea hero, although he has begun to change unknowingly.
He did not look back, and ordered Lin Yue behind him in a heavy tone: "Let them all go, and give them a few of the officers and men's warships captured today. Each soldier will be given two taels of silver, and each officer above the sentry officer will be given three taels of silver." Two pieces of silver and let them go,"
"Wait a minute," Yin Feng stopped Lin Yue, thought for a while and said, "Tell Mai Dahai that I will take the Xinxing to Fuzhou tonight and let him lurk on the coast near Kinmen, waiting for news from Penghu. Once the officers and soldiers The navy left Penghu Bay and immediately set out to intercept,"
Yin Feng took the Xinxing and five three-masted warships and ten two-masted warships from Xiamen into the Great Quanzhou Bay, first heading south and then north, clearing out all the remaining naval vessels from Haicheng to Quanzhou. , which also made the fishing ban imposed by the officers and soldiers a dead letter. The fishermen can go to sea, which means that the intelligence source of the China Company has been restored.
Yin Feng learned that there were only ten patrol ships of the Fenghuomen Navy along the coast near Fuzhou, and there were only a thousand officers and soldiers around Fuzhou. Yin Feng went north along the coast from Quanzhou Port and sent all the ships of the Fenghuomen Navy into the seabed in one fell swoop. Resisting the temptation to go ashore and occupy Fuzhou City in one fell swoop, they drove further north and fought all the way to the sea area where Zhejiang and Fujian meet. Within fifteen days, war smoke broke out along the coast of Fujian, and warnings were sent repeatedly.
Governor Xu Xueju, deputy maritime envoy Zhang Ju, tax eunuch Gao Cai and others were anxiously jumping up and down in Fujian City, calling Penghu one after another. They were originally worried that the ship reporting the message would not be able to get out of the Fujian coast because of the interception by the Chinese navy. However, several The reporting ships successfully arrived in Penghu and asked Commander-in-Chief Zhu Wenda to quickly send people back to aid Fujian.
In the past ten days, Lin Xiao sent dozens of fast warships to continuously attack Penghu Bay and engage in melee battles with the navy. The warships of the Chinese Company have been equipped with naval guns equipped with gun carriages. The gun carriages can be used in the cannons. It slows down part of the recoil when shooting and reduces the damage caused by the cannon's recoil to the hull. Therefore, the Chinese company's navy company's general sloops and brigs are equipped with cannons. The officers and soldiers of the navy are very capable of long-range attack. The navy's tactics are very inappropriate.
The most important shipboard long-range weapon for officers and soldiers is the Folang machine gun. The most important feature of this breech-loading gun is its fast rate of fire, which is much faster than the ship-borne artillery of the Chinese Navy, which can only fire one round every two minutes. However, , due to the poor air-holding properties of its breech-loaded musket, the thrust loss of the propellant was too great, and the range of the Folan gun's shells was far inferior to other artillery. The officers and soldiers of the navy tried their best to get close to the warships of the Chinese Navy. However, the range of the artillery is not as good as that of humans. It cannot hit the enemy, but it is always pointed at the nose and hit. The Chinese navy warships always circle and keep a distance, and constantly hit the navy ships with artillery shells, but the poor officers and soldiers are always being beaten. The position of not being able to fight back is unspeakably miserable.
Taking advantage of the entanglement between the officers and soldiers of the Navy and the Chinese Navy, the Sea Spirit once again sent more than 100 soldiers of the Second Maid Regiment to the Fengguiwei coast, and also brought a 6-pound bronze cannon to Zhao Xuanming. Countless gunpowder and some grain, bruises and other medicines.
The infantry of the officers and soldiers have only launched one large-scale siege these days, sending all the way to the narrow northern beach by boat, another attacking from the passage connecting the Fengkueiwei peninsula to the main island, and the third route by boat to the southern beach of Fengkueiwei. Login.
However, the Ming army's three-way siege did not coordinate with each other in time. As a result, they were defeated one by one by the defenders of Fenggui Weibao. The Zhonghua Company's fort, which strengthened its firepower and manpower, erupted with life-threatening fireworks everywhere. Internal officers and soldiers suffered more than a thousand casualties due to firearms attacks.