Zheng Zhilong set the date for the expedition to the Ming Dynasty on February 18th. Huang Chen breathed a sigh of relief. Eight days was much longer than the three to five days he had previously expected. This way, he would have more time to train newcomers.
Huang Chen's age makes him incompatible with other heroes. Only Zheng Zhihu, who is similar in age, is willing to talk to him. Everyone else looks dismissive. In addition to age, Mr. Zhou is also an important factor. No one wants to risk it.
The risk of offending Zhou Lao came into contact with Huang Chen. Huang Chen also felt uncomfortable. After drinking for three rounds, he said goodbye to Zheng Zhilong, then refused to stay and strode away.
Seeing Huang Chen come out, Zhao Hongyi and others couldn't help but look surprised. Huang Chen did not explain, but told them about Zheng Zhilong's overall plan.
After hearing this, Ruan Jin couldn't help complaining: "Why do you have to wait so long? I really want to scare people to death."
Zhao Hongyi shook his head and said: "This is beneficial to us. What novices on board lack most is time."
Ruan Jin said with a smile: "How could I not know this truth? I am just waiting anxiously and complaining."
Zhao Hongyi, Zhang Xing and Huang Chen were not good drinkers. Zhuang Mo and Ruan Jin did have the capacity to drink, but because they had serious business to do later, they did not dare to open their bellies and drink as much as they wanted. When they left, they had a banquet.
After returning to the port, Huang Chen immediately gathered the old and new crew members to run and train along the white sand beach on the side of the pier.
The most gratifying thing for Huang Chen among the crew members is undoubtedly the people he has trained with his own hands. Ichimoku Lao Yuan Cong is the second best, Wang Feng Wu Yuan Cong is the second best, and the performance of the newcomers is appalling. There is no way, they have only joined for five days, we cannot treat them.
The requirements are too high.
The next day, a piece of news caught his attention. Many fishermen claimed that they were attacked by large groups of barbarians in the northeastern area of Beigang Inland Sea. Huang Chen asked someone to inquire carefully and learned the details. It turned out that with the large-scale attack of Beigang by the Han people,
Development has inevitably invaded the traditional fishing and hunting areas of Taiwanese barbarians. The conflict between Han and barbarians has become increasingly acute. The barbarians often attack Han people who enter the country. Of course, the barbarians also have comparative friends.
Well, for example, the barbarians in the southeast of Beigang were relatively civilized. They often brought large quantities of sika deer skins, elk skins, ray skins, sheepskins and other furs, as well as gold, sulfur and other items to Beigang to trade with Han merchants in exchange for ironware, porcelain, etc.
Cloth and other daily necessities. Unfortunately, there are very few such tribes. Most of the barbarians are completely unable to communicate. Once the two sides meet, it will most likely lead to bloody conflicts.
At this time, Huang Chen was dissatisfied that the newcomers were making too slow progress. When he fell asleep, he encountered pillows. The natives came to his door automatically. How could he not accept them? Huang Chen immediately hired two locals as guides and led 200 newcomers and more than a hundred elites.
Soldiers with guns and cannons entered the inner sea of Beigang on three bird boats. Ruan Jin, Zhuang Mo, Zhang Xing, Yang Dong, etc.
Zhao Hongyi was left to watch the ship. In fact, after the alliance, unless Zhou Lao planned to make everyone including Zheng Zhilong an enemy, he would never dare to touch him. However, if you are not afraid of ten thousand, you are afraid of ten thousand.
First, who knows whether the old guy will suddenly go crazy on Wednesday, Huang Chen doesn't dare to take it lightly.
The rivers in Beigang's inland sea are endless, the water is wide and deep, and the fishery products are rich. Hundreds of fishing boats are scattered on the sea, casting nets to catch fish, and working hard. Huang Chen's three bird boats went straight to the Northeast Bay, but unfortunately no trace of the barbarians was found. Soil
I don’t know how to make a big ship, I just
Although they can build canoes and small boats, they do not threaten the safety of Beigang, but they come and go like the wind and are elusive. Regardless of whether they succeed or fail in attacking Han fishing boats, they will quickly abandon their boats and go ashore and hide in the mountains and forests, which often scares away the Han people.
Tried and true.
Huang Chen was different from the previous Han people. The purpose of his coming this time was to fight with the barbarians, so he ordered his men to land in small boats. Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the boats were empty. Huang Chen took Hikojiro, Hikoshiro and other Japanese guards to arrive.
Two guides were the last to land.
After taking a short rest, Huang Chen led his men to advance inland. Within an hour, the sentry in front ran into a group of barbarians, numbering about one to two hundred. What worried him slightly was Zhang Xingwei.
When he retreated, he engaged in a fierce exchange of fire with the barbarians. You must know that there were more than thirty people around him, maybe only twenty. With such a huge disparity in the number of enemies and ourselves, he still dared to fight. He was too courageous...
Relying on the strength of his large number of people, Huang Chen ordered Ruan Jin to lead fifty elite spearmen and gunmen to go around the enemy's rear, cut off their retreat, and quickly rush towards the battle site with most of his troops.
Zhang Xing is not a brainless person. He knows that confronting his opponent head-on is the same as facing death. He led more than 20 of his men to rely on the mountains and forests, and took advantage of the terrain to wait for help. He killed and wounded more than a dozen people with firecrackers.
But he was unscathed.
The arrival of Huang Chen's main force caused turmoil among the Tubarbarians. In their memory, there had never been so many fully armed Han people on their territory.
Huang Chen carefully looked at the enemies on the opposite side, his eyes full of curiosity. They wore hats with feathers on their heads, were naked, shorts, and barefooted. Their skin was dark and their bodies were thick. Because of their tattoos, they looked particularly ferocious and terrifying, as if they were evil.
They are like ghosts. The weapons are mainly bows and arrows, wooden sticks, long and short spears, and almost everyone has them. There are fewer swords, and the equipment rate is less than half.
As far as Huang Chen knew, Tuman was good at shooting, and his arrowheads were also poisoned. Even if he survived an arrow, he would lose half his life. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, he immediately organized dozens of bird gunners to
Ten people formed a line, shooting alternately. Facts have proved that the Tubarbarians are far worse than Huang Chen imagined.
He was so brave and skilled in fighting that he didn't even need to use a long gun, just a few rounds of volleys of guns were enough to knock them into pieces and flee. If Ruan Jin hadn't arrived in time at the critical moment and intercepted one of them, he wouldn't have been able to catch a single enemy. The final result was to kill thirty
There were more than thirty prisoners and no casualties on our side.
Huang Chen looked at the barbarians kneeling in front of him, shook his head secretly, and said that it was boring. A battle of this level could not even warm up.
Zhuang Mo picked up a barbarian wooden bow from the ground, turned it around and looked at it. As an expert in using bows, he recognized at a glance that this bow was similar to the form of the Bian tribe in Yunguang area of the Ming Dynasty. This bow was more than four feet long, with a body
It is made of wooden poles and is very elastic. The strings are made of hemp. There are two buckles on one end of the strings. They are worn when the bow is drawn.
Enter the inner buckle and insert the outer buckle when bowing. The weaving of the buckle is extremely delicate. Zhuang Mo then leaned down and picked up an arrow. There are roughly two types of arrowheads, one is the ordinary type, the other is the sharp-leaf type. Some arrowheads
It has double barbs, no feathers at the tail, and the arrow shaft is long and thick, like a small javelin, which is very rare.
Zhuang Mo immediately pulled the string of his bow and guided the arrow to the arrowhead. He heard a "boom" sound and the arrow penetrated into the trunk of a tree more than ten feet away like a meteor.
Huang Chen asked curiously: "Is it easy to use?"
Zhuang Mo slowly shook his head and said: "The bow-making skills of the native barbarians are too poor. They are only suitable for hunting, not fighting." Then he asked: "Big leader, what do you plan to do with these people?"
Huang Chen raised his eyebrows, signaling Zhuang Mo to speak directly.
Zhuang Mo said in a deep voice: "Can the big leader transfer them to me? The big leader is good at using fire blunderbuss. However, although the fire blunderbuss is sharp, it is controlled by the weather. When it is windy or rainy, its power will be completely gone, and the archer will not be affected by the weather.
It’s just not easy to train. These people have always been
I have been hunting with bows and arrows since I was young, and everyone is an expert with bows. If equipped with a powerful bow made by the Ming Dynasty, the strength of the big leader will be greatly improved." Perhaps it has something to do with his own use of bows. Zhuang Mo is extremely repulsive to bird guns and is paranoid about it.
Bows and arrows are more practical than muskets.
On the contrary to Zhuang Mo, Huang Chen believed in firearms and rejected cold weapons. However, what he said made sense and he nodded in agreement.
Later, Huang Chen asked the prisoners to lead the way and went straight to their lair. The social structure of Taiwanese barbarians is a commune, which is equivalent to a Han village. Most of the households have a household registration of between one hundred and three hundred. A few overlord-level large communities have a household registration of more than one thousand.
According to each household, one to two warriors will be produced, and the number
It was quite impressive. When Huang Chen arrived, he found that his opponent was just a small community with more than a hundred households. The people he encountered before were probably all their soldiers. They burned the door of the community with fire barrels, fire bricks and other objects. Everyone held guns and blunderbuss and swarmed in.
Entering, the enemy village was easily captured.
In the following days, Huang Chen led hundreds of Han barbarians to rush hundreds of miles, fought in dozens of large and small formations, and captured five barbarian societies. He suffered dozens of casualties each, but he gathered more than 200 native barbarians. These people were all
They were warriors carefully selected from thousands of barbarians. On February 17, the day before departure, Huang Chen returned with a full load.