Chapter 171 fend off the enemy

Zhu Houzhao stood in Class A with his hands behind his back, staring at the growing black spot in front of him, full of confidence in his heart.

Qi Jingtong and several other ministers also sweated secretly, thinking of Zhu Houzhao’s safety, but no one dared to speak out.

Several ministers discussed in private, and decided to dispatch troops without the knowledge of Zhu Houzhao, and transfer the most elite soldiers of the navy to the front to defend against the enemy.

According to the news that the spies came back, these people are definitely Japanese pirates, and their firearms seem to be much more advanced than Daming’s.

Zhu Houzhao is full of self-confidence. He feels that he is already familiar with the military book, and he really can’t see the eyes of these little thieves.

As everyone knows, the theoretical knowledge he has learned from books is indeed quite different when the current enemy is attacking. Although he has soldiers and generals in his hands, he has never used them in actual combat.

“Qi Aiqing?”

Zhu Houzhao called out Qi Jingtong’s name, and seeing that he was not by his side, he said to Xiao Fangzi: “Go and pass on my word, let the two sentries of the battle team outflank from the flank, and when the enemy approaches, I will lead the army to fight head-on. , let them attack from the side, and two flanking attacks can take out these pirates!”

“According to the order!”

Xiao Fangzi quickly handed over and withdrew, and conveyed Zhu Houzhao’s meaning to Qi Jingtong.

In the end, several ministers had no choice but to follow His Majesty’s orders. If anyone beats Zhu Houzhao at this time, no matter if he is a royal relative or a prince and princess, there is only one result, beheading.

Therefore, according to Zhu Houzhao’s instructions, they divided the Daming Navy into three columns, with the left side of the navy, and the left side of the navy with Vice Admiral Qi Jingtong Deng Wenlong in charge.

The right-wing navy had Qi Jingtong’s son Qi Jiguang in charge, and came over from the east.

This Qi Jiguang, who was eighteen years old at the time, followed Qi Jingtong to train in the navy. Although he had the protection of his father, he had been able to serve as the deputy commander of the navy for nearly a year through his own efforts.

In the middle navy, Qi Jingtong personally commanded to meet the enemy. Although he was said to be in command, it was clear that Zhu Houzhao was in command on the Zheng He.

The two generals each set out with a thousand elite soldiers, and they had already prepared the equipment to fight against the enemy.

At this time, the Japanese pirates battlefield was only 20 miles away from the Zheng He Bao of the Daming Navy, and their ships could be reached with the newly developed artillery.

Zhu Houzhao was excited for a long time, and sent spies to constantly probe the enemy’s real situation. In fact, these spies had already grasped the actual situation of the enemy.

“All the generals listened to the order and prepared firearms. Only I gave an order to fire all according to the enemy.”

Xiaofangzi went to the market to convey Zhu Houzhao’s words. This was Zhu Houzhao’s first expedition, and he felt very fresh about everything.

However, the fast-moving ships suddenly stopped, and some ships had already started to turn their bows, as if they had found something.

Zhu Houzhao was a little nervous in his heart. He also thought of this. If the enemy turned the bow of the ship and escaped, wouldn’t his “battle plan” be all in vain?

If that’s the case, it doesn’t make much sense, it’s better…

While Zhu Houzhao was still pondering how to pursue the U-turned ships, he saw that several U-turn ships of the Japanese pirates were also separated several ways, and they slowed down and drove towards the Ming army.

For a while, there seemed to be many ships on the sea, and these ships seemed to be orderly. Although the intervals were not too wide, they were not easy to deal with.

At this time, spies came to report that all the navies heading east and west had arrived at the predetermined place, and as long as the time was right, they could completely outflank the enemy.

However, they did not expect that the enemy army would actually be divided into several roads and approached side by side, thus making the Daming Navy lose the advantage of focusing on attacking.

Zhu Houzhao stood in Class A and stared carefully ahead, thinking about how to deal with the enemy.

Suddenly, he thought of a good strategy, turned around and said to Cao Zhengchun beside him: “Cao Aiqing, send someone to stop the enemy ships, it is best to let them gather together again, then we will focus on firing. ”

Cao Zhengchun frowned at first, then cupped his hands and replied, “My minister follows the order!”

Although he said so, he was not stupid in his heart. Is it so easy for the enemy to listen to you?

You think of the enemy too easily, right?

However, he soon passed Zhu Houzhao’s words to Qi Jingtong, and Qi Jingtong immediately understood what Zhu Houzhao meant.

This is His Majesty’s meaning, who dares to disobey?

Even if His Majesty asks you to die, you are determined not to say half a word.

Qi Jingtong thought for a while, then immediately waved his hand to call for a deputy, muttered a few words in his ear, and the man backed off.

Not long after, there were five small boats with straw figurines, sailing along the wind and charging towards the enemy’s battleship.

Everyone looked nervously at these small boats. If the wind changed, everything would be over.

However, it was really beautiful. Several small boats had been following the wind, and soon they reached a distance of less than ten miles from the Japanese pirates.

Sure enough, Zhu Houzhao didn’t expect that, when they were still more than ten miles away, the other party launched a fierce fire attack on these straw boats.

Seeing this situation, Zhu Houzhao couldn’t help secretly relieved, but he was still full of confidence and believed that his strategy was right.

In the time of a cup of tea, several small boats were all sunk by the enemy, and countless weeds and sawdust suddenly floated on the sea.

Under the fierce firearm attack of the Japanese pirates, the Daming Navy also made full preparations, waiting for the Japanese pirates to get into the encirclement they designed.

However, after they sank several small ships, they found that they had been fooled, and immediately adjusted the warship into an inverted V shape, like a sharp knife, and accelerated towards the Daming Navy.

Zhu Houzhao was really surprised by this change of formation. His plan of flanking the two wings was completely useless at the moment, and most of the elite navy were separated, and they became the weakest place.

Zhu Houzhao felt that the enemy seemed to have guessed his strategy, but in this case, he could not change it.

And ~www.readmtl.com~ unimaginable is that the enemy is moving towards this side at the fastest speed, and the consequences are disastrous.

Zhu Houzhao thought for a second, he was familiar with military books, how could he not even solve such a simple problem, isn’t he an idiot?

Immediately, he asked the eunuchs to pass a decree, ordering the artillerymen from the east and the west to fire at the same time, as long as they aimed at the target.

His order was quickly conveyed, Deng Wenlong and Qi Jiguang did not dare to neglect after receiving the order, and immediately asked the artilleryman to fire the loaded shells towards the target.

Daming’s firearms are sharp, and in just a short round of firing, two Japanese pirates’ warships were sunk.

At the same time, the warships of the Japanese pirates also attacked violently in the direction of their fire, causing heavy casualties on both sides.

However, this is nothing, the most important thing is that the Japanese pirates braved the hail of bullets to attack, and the speed of the warship accelerated, quickly approaching the warship of the Daming Zheng Hebao.

Li Dongyang and other civil officials clenched their fists nervously. What they are most worried about now is Zhu Houzhao’s safety. Although they brought guards and soldiers on this trip, they were all stationed on the shore. For maritime operations, he brought Those soldiers could only stare blankly.