Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 758

[Chapter 758 Five Peaks Island]

“Island owner, the British steamship is coming to us.”

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

Yasuo Matsushima, the deputy owner of Wufeng Island, walked in at this moment.

Hearing this, he frowned, “British Fleet? What are they doing here?”

In the Battle of Qingcheng in Qizhou, all warships on Wufeng Island were destroyed by King Yan’s fleet.

After that, he went south with Sato Mahisa and the same clan, fled to Lincheng, and then returned to Wufeng Island.

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

In the defeat of the war, more than half of these merchant ships were lost, and only more than forty ships escaped back.

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

“Maybe they sent us sailing warships.” Yasuo Matsushima had hope in his eyes.

They originally belonged to the Dongying Navy, but they were ordered to take over the Wufeng Island pirates when they were in danger.

At present, Dongpu’s sailing warships have been launched, and it should not be a problem to give them three or five ships from Wufeng Island.

Aida Taro’s movement of swinging the knife froze, and the corners of his mouth slowly rose.

He had waited too long for this day.

Ever since he took over Wufeng Island, he has been beaten by King Yan’s fleet and cannot fight back.

Now, Dongpu also has a sailing warship, and he wants to avenge the King Yan fleet.

“Go, go meet them.” Aida Taro strode out.

His house was built on the mountain, and there is a vast plain below the mountain.

Wufeng Island is mountainous, which is the largest piece of plain on the island.

Several streams flow down from the mountains, across the plains, and into the sea.

On both sides of the creek are green wheat fields.

These Dasong slaves plundered from Dasong and merchant ships are farming in the wheat fields.

Since it was unable to sail across the sea, Wufeng Island could no longer intercept merchant ships and blackmail the Liang family for money and grain.

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

Arriving at the pier of Gomine Island, Taro Aida looked at the distant sea.

Sure enough, twenty-four warships came towards them with plumes of smoke.

Each steamer towed a galleon.

Thirty ordinary sailing warships followed, and what appeared to be troop carriers behind them.

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

He was a little skeptical about the number, but thinking that it might be the arrival of the British reinforcement fleet, he was delighted again.

However, as the warships approached, through the binoculars given to him by the shogunate, he found that the style of these steamships was quite different from the British warships he had seen.

Until the distance was close enough, he saw the words on the flag clearly, and his expression changed, “This… this is King Yan’s fleet!”

“How could this be? How could King Yan’s fleet have steamboats?” Deputy Island Master Yasushi Matsushima His heart trembled, and his face turned pale instantly.

“Hurry up, let the artillerymen enter the fort, and the others get their flintlock guns and prepare to fight.” Aida Taro gave Yasuo Matsushima a hard push.

During this period of time, as the confrontation between Dongying and King Yan became more intense.

Their arquebuses were replaced by flintlocks, thirty-six forts were set up on the pier, and there were twenty-three field guns on the island.

The purpose is to guard against the attack of King Yan’s fleet.

Yasuo Matsushima swallowed, and hurriedly ran to the island.

at the same time.

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

Wufeng Island is 500 miles east of Treasure Island. It is almost as long as Treasure Island. It is a hundred miles long, but it is very narrow. The widest point from east to west is only 30 miles.

The entire Wufeng Island is actually composed of five islands, and each island has a towering mountain peak, 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 pier, “Block the entire island and catch them all.”

Their order was issued, and the battleship separated to both sides like a stream of water encountering a rock, preparing to control the surrounding area of South Island sea area.

At the same time, Zhou Yi left nine sailing warships in front of the pier and issued a combat order.

After a cup of tea, the sailing warships turned around one after another, aiming their guns at the pier.

Through the binoculars, the captains of each sailing warship discovered the forts on the shore.

They need to clear these forts to create conditions for the marines to land.

“Boom boom boom…” The

distance between the two sides was 500 meters, and the sailing warship launched the shelling first.

The artillerymen of the battleship directed the rifled guns to aim at the turret, and fired out cone-shaped shells one after another.

Rifled guns are more accurate than smoothbore guns.

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

Suddenly, there was an explosion at the fort.

“Boom boom boom…” While they were shooting, the opponent’s artillery also began to fight back.

But the fort that was hit by the flowering bullet suddenly misfired.

pier.

Hiding behind a fort, Aida Taro, who directed the counterattack, was drenched in cold sweat.

Just now, the shell on his left exploded violently.

The artillery in the fort was directly blown away, and he and the soldiers on the fort were almost deaf.

“What the hell happened!” Aida Taro stared at the battleship in the sea.

Overnight, the King Yan fleet had a steamship, so why did the bombardment become unusual.

Why do violent explosions appear on the battlefield from time to time while the solid bullets pass by one by one.

“Boom boom boom…” The cruel battlefield would not give him an answer.

The Yanzhou battleship is still firing explosive shells.

From time to time, gunpowder and thick smoke enveloped the forts on the coast, and at the same time there were screams of artillery and moans of wounded.

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

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

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

“Boom!” There was a loud noise and the ground shook. Aida Taro only felt a strong wind blowing him up, and then he lost consciousness.

After an unknown amount of time, he woke up leisurely and found that soldiers of the King of Yan were landing densely.

Some King Yan is shooting him in the back.

Beside him lay three artillerymen, all of whom were killed.

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

However, the pirates were shot and killed by King Yan’s soldiers at a very long distance, and they were unable to fight back at all.

Looking forward and looking back, he lay on the ground again, ready to crash to death.

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

In the last meaning, he was frightened for a while, obviously he was found out by pretending to be dead.

(end of this chapter)