Chapter 1162

Jiang Hao's fleet headed towards Ryukyu in a mighty manner. At this time, his fleet already had 13 warships, including 4 five-masted warships, 7 three-masted warships, and the 2 Dutch large ships he had just snatched. Sail battleship.

Jiang Hao ordered a group of old sailors to board the ship to get familiar with the Dutch warship as soon as possible so that they could go into battle as soon as possible. Although the sailing ship is different from the Daming ship, these old sailors have rich experience, and with Jiang Hao's guidance, it is not difficult to get familiar with it.

The sea is vast and boundless, and the fleet cuts through the waves. Although there are 13 ships in the fleet, it is still only a small handful in the sea. Jiang Hao stood on the deck, and seabirds flew down and landed on his hands from time to time.

The journey to Ryukyu cannot be done in vain. It happened that along the way we continued to investigate the gathering places of Japanese pirates. The Japanese pirates who invaded the southeast coast in the Ming Dynasty did not have a formal base camp. They were all spontaneously formed strongholds and concentrated places.

The places with more strongholds are Shuangyu Island in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Zhoushan Islands, Songjiang, Hangzhou and other places, and Hengyu, Niutian, Xinghua, Pinghai and other places in Fujian.

The Putuo Guardhouse is located in the Zhoushan Islands, and Jiang Hao has already attacked more than a dozen strongholds by Japanese pirates there. Of course, they are only strongholds by the sea, taking full advantage of the cannon.

While investigating Jiang Hao, he was thinking about the Japanese pirates. The Japanese pirates are mainly samurai who failed in the Japanese Civil War, which is the remnant forces of the anti-government in modern times, and more people are actually Ming people. To put it bluntly, they are pirates. It's more of an excuse. If the court arrests him, he will implicate his family and family in the province.

There were several big pirates in the Ming Dynasty, including Lin Daogan, Wang Zhi, Li Dan, Zheng Zhilong and others. Lin Daogan had dozens of boats and thousands of pirates under his command. In the Chenghai area, the scope of looting extended to Leizhou and Hainan Island. He was the main opponent of Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou back then.

Lin Daoqian's base was in Beigang, Ryukyu, and Ryukyu was officially changed to Taiwan in the Qing Dynasty.

Afterwards, Li Dan rose up. This Li Dan was not the son of Wu Zetian, nor the little eye of the talk show, but a generation of big pirates. He was famous at that time. Even the Japanese, Dutch, and Portuguese called him "Captain of China" '.

If Li Dan is not familiar with him, he also has a great godson, Zheng Zhilong. After Li Dan died, Zheng Zhilong took over part of the family fortune and started to grow. Finally, he developed into the largest pirate group in China, plundering the southeast coast for a long time.

Now the southeast sea area is filled with a large number of Chinese pirates, Japanese pirates, Dutch pirates, Spanish pirates, and Portuguese pirates, just like hungry wolves, constantly biting the body of Ming Dynasty, while the leaders of the Ming Dynasty's nerve reflex arc It is very insensitive, and I can't feel the pain on the skin, and a sentence of scabies floats gently.

People with scabies and mild skin diseases. The adults in the court think that pirates don't matter, they can't make a big trend, they don't matter and they don't hinder the overall situation, but they never think about the suffering of the coastal people and the negative impact on the economy of the Ming Dynasty.

More importantly, let others see your weakness, causing the western powers to think that Ming is a soft persimmon, and even give birth to the idea of ​​​​annexing Daming. In the past, the Wa Kingdom, which respected the Chinese kingdom, became arrogant and arrogant, and gradually gave birth to the desire to covet it. Heart.

This was even more so at the end of the Qing Dynasty. The wolves looked around, and the Qing Dynasty closed the country but still thought it was right. It was hit by the lowering of the latitude, and the land of China paid a heavy price.

If you want to live well, you have to become stronger yourself, otherwise, when you are eaten by others, you will have no strength to resist at all, and it will be useless if you call for justice at that time, even if people have justice in their hearts, who has the ability to help? you.

History is always strikingly similar, and it has not changed even in modern times. Iraq, Kosovo, Libya, Syria, etc., I believe there will be newcomers!

This world has always been like this, where the weak prey on the strong.

As for the history, Jiang Hao doesn't want to study too much. His idea is very simple now, killing Japanese pirates, robbing and making money, that's all.

After sailing for three days, they came to the waters of the strait. Jiang Hao’s fleet was always accompanied by the two Dutch galleons. He watched them sail into a small bay on Ryukyu Island and stop at the pier. Chinese servants brought boxes of gold and silver. Move off the ship and move into a small town by the sea.

Jiang Hao looked at the small town and couldn't help but nodded, "It's a really nice place, these Dutch people are very good at choosing places."

The bay is a natural harbor, and it is no problem to park thousands of ships. The dock is a deep-water port, and ships of any size can stop. The castle is seven or eight miles away from the shore, beyond the range of cannons, which is safer. From the perspective of this city , can accommodate two thousand people easily, and can also store a large amount of supplies.

The vegetation in the surrounding miles has been cleared, and there are several villages where many Chinese live, serving as servants for the Dutch.

If you win here, it will definitely be very good as your stronghold.

A big deal was made, and the price of the two warships doubled dozens of times. The Dutch were very happy, and they started to revel after they landed. The soldiers were also allowed to drink, and their two warships were parked in the port. There were only thirty or fifty guards on a boat, and even these guards relaxed and started drinking.

Almost all the people sailing on the sea are alcoholics, and many of them drink too much.

As night fell, people fell asleep, dreaming sweet dreams with the waves, but they didn't know that several boats were quietly approaching the pier in the dark night.

"After boarding the boat, no one will stay." Baihu gave the order.

whoosh whoosh,

Flying claws were thrown one by one, and the sailors rushed to the Dutch warship with a knife in their mouths. A Dutch soldier on duty saw someone boarding the ship and shouted to give an alarm, but he was stabbed to death as soon as he shouted.

"Kill~!"

Following a few loud shouts, the guards started to attack, rushing into the cabin and slashing and killing the Dutchman. What kind of red-haired ghost would still turn into a dead ghost under the steel knife.

It didn't take long for the Dutchmen on the two ships to be slaughtered, their bodies thrown into the sea, and the two large ships were hijacked and dragged into the sea.

There was very little movement on the beach, and the people in the castle didn't notice it at all. Jiang Hao led people to the castle, and the whole castle was still quiet.

"Whoosh!"

Jiang Hao raised his body and flew more than ten meters high. Then he touched the wall and reached the head of the city. He turned over and jumped down. There were several guards at the gate, and they all lay crookedly there to sleep. , Jiang Hao dealt with it directly with one sword, and moved the thick iron door bolt, and there was a creaking sound when the door was pushed open.

Several hundred households rushed into the city immediately with their people, but no one made a sound. With a wave of Jiang Hao, all the people dispersed and rushed towards the barracks residence. After a few hours, there were bursts of screams in the barracks. The entire Dutch castle just came alive.

"Someone attacked!"

"Take our swords and fight back."

"Puff!"

"Shoot, shoot."

"Bang bang bang bang!"

There was chaos in the castle, and there were fighting everywhere. The Dutch also had four to five hundred people. After discovering the enemy attack, they started to fight back, but it was too late. Jiang Hao’s order was not to capture the prisoners, but to kill them all. For the invaders and pirates , he had no sympathy.

There was chaos in the castle for a while, and finally all the Dutchmen were killed. Jiang Hao didn’t see a single leader, captain, or first mate. They were all slaughtered. When everything was clean, the guard soldiers began to go out. To move the corpse, throw the corpse down in a mountain col, but before throwing it down, they all made up with a knife, even if they wanted to pretend to be dead.

Walking into the best room in this castle, there are exquisite furniture from the Ming Dynasty. In the next room, Jiang Hao saw boxes of gold, which is indeed gold. Before Jiang Hao thought that Dongfang Invincible It was silver, but now I know that it was gold.

No wonder the Dutch were willing to sell the warship to Dongfang Bubai, because Dongfang Bubai gave a price that was enough to impress the other party. Jiang Hao lifted one of the boxes to test the weight. This box was about 2,000 taels, and there were 50 boxes here. Damn, this is 100,000 taels of gold.

The harvest this time can be described as huge, one hundred thousand taels of gold, two Dutch galleons, and more importantly, a base.

Jiang Hao called a few hundred families over, "I decided to use this place as a secret base for us. If something happens in the future, I can bring my family here and settle down here."

What they did was a serious crime of beheading and exterminating the whole family. Several hundred households knew that Jiang Hao was looking for a way out for everyone, so they agreed immediately. Jiang Hao left the most stable Yan Hui in charge and left him a big sailboat Three three-masted ships are enough to protect themselves.

The fleet returned to sail. This time, in addition to grabbing 4 warships, there were more than 600 muskets. On the way back, Jiang Hao asked the soldiers to start training how to use muskets. With the muskets, the combat power increased by several percent at once.

The ship returned to Putuo Port, and a large amount of looted materials were transported to the warehouse. Jiang Hao called Yuan De and told him: "Yuan De, I am going to go on a long trip. Keep an eye on the family affairs. I can tell you that I have been If you have found a way out, follow me sincerely, and I will absolutely protect you from all worries in the future."

"Follow your lord's orders." Yuan De immediately expressed his opinion.

Jiang Hao took out a porcelain bottle and handed it to Yuan De, "Here is the antidote, one pill can be used for one month, a total of twelve pills, enough for a year, when I come back, if you do well, I will completely detoxify you .”

Yuan De was overjoyed to take the antidote, "Don't worry, my lord, the family affairs must be taken care of."

He also called a few hundred households and told him: "I'm going to go on a long journey. The shortest time is half a year, and the longest time is a year. Keep an eye on the family affairs. Now I have a few things to tell you. The first is to recruit a large number of people. Now that we have money and food, the more people we have, the better, and if we have more, we will transport them to the Ryukyu Island base."

"About the Japanese pirates, I have a chart for you. Be careful when you go out, don't rush in, grab it and leave, and don't reveal your identity."

"My eagle will follow me and come back every 10 days. If there is something that cannot be resolved, you can report to me at any time."

Several hundred households responded immediately, at this moment Shen Yi asked: "My lord, where are you going and it will take so long?"

"It's very boring, let's go around the rivers and lakes."

Jiang Hao did not forget his mission.