Chapter 775 Wufeng Island

"Island owner, the British steamship is coming to us."

In the southeast corner of Wufeng Island, the island owner Aida Taro was practicing swordsmanship in the yard, and the samurai sword chopped fiercely on the wooden stake again and again.

At this time, the deputy island owner of Wufeng Island, Matsushima Yasuo, walked in.

Hearing this, he frowned, "British fleet? What are they doing here."

In the Battle of Qingcheng in Qizhou, all the warships of Wufeng Island were destroyed by the Yanwang fleet.

After that, he followed Sato Masahisa and the other clans to the south, fled to Lincheng, and then returned to Wufeng Island.

In the Battle of Goryeo, Wufeng Island had no warships available, but still sent more than a hundred merchant ships to participate in the transportation of Japanese soldiers.

The war failed, and more than half of these merchant ships were lost, and only more than 40 escaped back.

For this reason, he was annoyed for a while, imagining the wooden stakes as the Yanzhou fleet every day to vent his anger.

"Maybe they are sending us sailing warships. "There was hope in Matsushima Yasuo's eyes.

They were originally affiliated with the Japanese navy, but they were ordered to take over the Wufeng Island pirates in times of crisis.

At present, the Japanese sailing warships have been launched, and it should not be a problem to give them three or five ships for Wufeng Island.

Aida Taro's sword-swinging action froze, and the corners of his mouth slowly rose.

He has waited too long for this day.

Since he accepted Wufeng Island, he has been beaten by the Yanwang fleet and unable to fight back.

Now, they in Japan also have sailing warships, and he wants to take revenge on the Yanwang fleet.

"Let's go and greet them. "Taro Aida strode out.

His house was built on the hillside, and below the hill was a vast plain.

Wufeng Island was mountainous, and this was the largest plain on the island.

Several streams flowed down from the mountains, through the plains, and into the sea.

On both sides of the streams were green wheat fields.

These slaves from Dasong, who were looted from Dasong and merchant ships, were working in the wheat fields.

Since they could no longer roam the sea, Wufeng Island could no longer intercept merchant ships and extort money and food from the Liang family.

The remaining 10,000 pirates on the island could only rely on more than 30,000 slaves to grow rice and wheat to survive.

When he arrived at the Wufeng Island dock, Taro Aida looked at the distant sea.

Sure enough, 24 warships The steamships were coming towards them with columns of smoke.

Each steamship was towing a sailing warship.

Behind them were thirty ordinary sailing warships, and behind them seemed to be troop transports.

However, as the warships got closer and closer, Taro Aida gradually realized that something was wrong.

He was a little suspicious about the number, but when he thought that it might be the British reinforcement fleet, he was delighted again.

However, as the warships kept approaching, through the telescope awarded to him by the shogunate, he found that the style of these steamships was very different from the British warships he had seen.

Until the distance was close enough, he could see the words on the flag clearly, and his face changed suddenly, "This... This is the fleet of King Yan!"

"How could this be, how could King Yan's fleet have steamships." Deputy Island Master Matsushima Yasuo trembled in his heart and turned pale in an instant.

"Quick, let the artillery enter the battery, and the others take up their flintlocks and prepare for battle. "Taro Aida pushed Matsushima Yasuo hard.

During this period, as the confrontation between Japan and King Yan became more and more intense.

Their matchlock guns were replaced with flintlock guns, and thirty-six artillery positions were set up on the dock, and there were twenty-three field guns on the island.

This was to prevent the attack of King Yan's fleet.

Matsushima Yasuo swallowed his saliva and hurriedly ran to the island.

At the same time.

Zhou Yi stood on the battleship Leting, comparing the map in his hand, and was observing Wufeng Island.

Wufeng Island is five hundred miles east of Treasure Island. It is about the same length as Treasure Island, a hundred miles, but very narrow, and the widest part from east to west is only thirty miles.

The entire Wufeng Island is actually composed of five islands, each of which has a towering mountain, so it is called Wufeng Island.

Among them, the Wufeng pirates are mainly distributed on the largest island in the south.

"They found it." Zhou Yi noticed the two people on the dock, "block the entire island and catch them all in one fell swoop. "

Their orders were issued, and the warships separated to both sides like water encountering a rock, preparing to control the waters around South Island.

At the same time, Zhou Yi left nine sailing warships in front of the dock and issued combat orders.

Within a cup of tea, the sailing warships turned around and aimed their guns at the dock.

Through the telescope, the captains of each sailing warship discovered the artillery positions on the shore.

They needed to clear these artillery positions to create conditions for the landing of the Marines.

"Boom boom boom..."

The two sides were 500 meters apart, and the sailing warships launched the first artillery attack.

The artillery of the warships operated the rifled guns to aim at the artillery positions, firing one conical shrapnel after another. Go out.

Unlike smoothbore guns, rifled guns have higher accuracy.

In one round of shooting, six shells from the seventy-two rifled guns on the nine warships directly hit the turrets.

Suddenly, an explosion occurred at the turrets.

"Boom boom boom..." As they fired, the enemy's artillery also began to fire back.

But the turrets hit by the shrapnel suddenly went silent.

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Hiding behind a turret, commanding the counterattack, Taro Aida was sweating profusely.

Just now, the shells on his left exploded violently.

The artillerymen in the turret were blown away directly, and he and the soldiers in his turret were almost deafened.

"What happened!" Taro Aida stared at the warships in the sea.

Overnight, the Yanwang Fleet had steamships, so why did the shelling become unusual?

While solid bullets were passing by one after another, why did violent explosions occur from time to time on the battlefield?

"Boom boom boom..." The cruel battlefield would not give him an answer.

The Yanzhou warships were still firing explosive shells.

The coastal artillery was covered by gunpowder and thick smoke from time to time, and the screams and groans of the injured were heard.

In just a quarter of an hour, only six of the thirty artillery were still firing back, and the other artillery were all dead.

Taro Aida was anxious and angry, and he was urging the artillery to continue firing back.

At this time, a shell suddenly exploded in front of the artillery he was in.

"Boom!" The loud noise was accompanied by a tremor of the earth, and Taro Aida only felt a strong wind blowing himself up, and then lost consciousness.

After an unknown period of time, he woke up slowly and found that the densely packed Yan Wang soldiers were landing.

Some Yan Wang were shooting at his back.

There were three artillerymen lying beside him, all of whom were killed by the explosion.

Seeing this scene, he looked behind him, where the deputy island owner Matsushima Yasuo was leading the pirates to fight against the soldiers of King Yan.

However, the pirates were shot by the soldiers of King Yan from a long distance and could not fight back at all.

Looking forward and backward, he lay on the ground again, ready to die.

But at this moment, suddenly three soldiers of King Yan rushed to the turret, and one soldier raised the butt of his gun and hit him in the back of his head, and he fainted again.

In the last thought, he was terrified, and it was obvious that his pretending to be dead was discovered.