Chapter 153 What is justice? Justice from Heaven
Captain Alfonso didn’t understand why Su Ze gave this clipper this name.
Flying Dutchman?
As a Portuguese captain, Captain Alfonso didn't have a good impression of the Dutch at all.
The rising Dutch, these damn Protestants, are competing with the Portuguese for the rights to protect the church and trade in the East.
However, Captain Alfonso was much happier when he saw Su Ze ordering Chang Ningwei's craftsmen to clear the ship of sand and stuff the bundles of gunpowder into the cabin.
He probably thought of Su Ze's idea. It turns out that the so-called "Flying Dutchman" can fly like this?
Captain Alfonso wanted to see with his own eyes how the huge fireworks exploded and how the "Dutchman" flew into the sky.
Changningwei began the final preparation work, adjusting the sails, improving the hull, reinforcing the bottom, and placing explosives.
Su Ze was tinkering with delay fuses in the firearms workshop. In order to ensure the explosion, Su Ze designed multiple parallel fuses that were ignited at the same time, just to ensure that the gunpowder would be detonated.
In addition, Su Ze also distressed the two ships to make them look similar to the ships of the Crooked Hoofers.
Immediately afterwards, at the suggestion of Captain Alfonso, Su Ze installed two Fran cannons on the bow and stern of the Changning Guard's Fu ship. After several on-board experiments, the decks of the bow and stern could withstand the Due to the recoil of the cannon fire, Changning Guard can be regarded as having a gunboat.
However, the gunner still needed to be controlled by the Portuguese, so Lin Mojun had no choice but to let the Portuguese gunner on board.
As the war approached, Captain Alfonso also felt the atmosphere of battle. Changning Guards were practicing day and night and building gunpowder explosion ships, so they were definitely going to fight.
As a restless captain, Captain Alfonso found Suze.
"Su, are you going to fight the Japanese pirates?"
Su Ze nodded. Now the Changning Guard is preparing for the war by tightening the pressure on the outside and sending the troops inward. The Changning Guard can only get in but not get out. He is not worried that the news will leak out.
Moreover, preparations for such a large-scale war cannot be hidden from Alfonso, who is experienced at sea.
"Can I come with you?"
Su Ze was silent for a moment and said, "Naval battles will be very dangerous."
"I want to see a naval battle in the East."
Su Ze thought for a while and agreed.
Captain Alfonso has been exposed to so many secrets, and Su Ze has no idea of letting Alfonso go back.
As long as he is given adequate treatment, Su Ze believes that Captain Alfonso will definitely be willing to stay in Daming.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, many missionaries soon settled in Daming. Even after the Qing army entered the customs, they were still accepted by the Qing court.
Tang Ruowang was recommended as an official by Xu Guangqi, and the Qing government appointed him as the temple supervisor of the Qintian Prison.
On September 12th, the day came for the Crooked Hoofers to set out.
Su Ze furled the sails of the two gunpowder ships and connected them behind the Crooked Hoofers' fleet with iron chains.
Su Ze boarded the ship in person, and only waited until he reached the entrance of the lagoon on Dong'ao Island before unfurling the sails, lighting the fuse, and waiting for the gunpowder blasting ship to float to the port on its own.
Lin Mojun piloted Chang Ningwei's 200-material fortune ship and followed the Crooked Hoof Man's fleet from a distance.
Her mission is to pursue the ships that were not directly destroyed by the explosion, especially Lu Dawang's ship Centipede, to ensure that Lu Dawang cannot escape back to Japan this time.
At the dock of Changning Guard, it was Lin Cainiang who presided over the ceremony of praying for war.
Wearing the temple blessing robe, Lin Cainiang raised the altar in a decent manner, waved her wooden sword and opened the prayer flag to open the victory ceremony.
When the ceremony was over, Lin Cainiang sprinkled hot dog blood on the bow deck of the blessing boat, cut off a section of Lin Mojun's hair, wrapped it around an ancient copper coin, and enshrined it on the altar table. The prayer ceremony was complete. 's finished.
Ninth Auntie looked at Cainiang with relief. Going out to pray for blessings was a complicated ritual, but now Ninth Auntie's body was too weak to endure such a long ceremony.
Although Lin Cainiang has rehearsed several times, Aunt Jiu is still worried that she will make a mistake.
Now that she can successfully preside over it, it seems that she can safely hand over the family temple to her.
Aunt Ninth looked at Su Ze on the Flying Dutchman, Lin Mojun on the Fu boat, and the tall and straight figure of Ning Wei, the captain of the Fu boat.
Ninth Auntie prayed devoutly to the Third Master’s Empress, saying that she must come back safely!
The people of Changningwei were filled with excitement. Along with hundreds of families, their sons, husbands, and brothers died in the battle.
The blood feud with the Japanese pirates cannot be resolved. This is not just the hatred of Lin Mojun's family, but the hatred of the entire Changning Guard.
No matter how many maritime merchants and even guards in Fujian colluded with the Japanese pirates, and how many Han people were coerced into causing chaos among the Japanese pirates, at this time, the Changning Guardsmen had only one thought in their minds - kill the Japanese!
Su Ze stood on the Flying Dutchman and looked at the neat figures on the boat, feeling filled with emotion.
The so-called justice is a slogan that can be raised upright and shouted openly.
No matter how many times they say they have no choice but to do things in life, no matter how many hardships they have, and how many sophistry excuses they have, the only thing is that they can never be upright. He couldn't tell what he had done, and he could only live in the shadows.
And the righteous thing is to be able to tell the world openly and openly that what I did was right!
Nowadays in Fujian, killing Japanese is the most just thing!
No reason is needed, no excuse is needed, just the slogan "Kill the Japanese" will make even the most cowardly man take up arms.
Changning Guard had countless reasons not to go to war. Su Zeda could build gun towers for defense, and King Lu might not attack such a poor small guard post.
The Changning Guards were able to protect themselves, so Lin Mojun could completely ignore the court's military orders to go to war. This was what most guards did anyway.
But after Su Ze proposed the plan to explode the ship with gunpowder, Lin Mojun was the first to express his support.
The soldiers of Changning Guard were full of fighting spirit, and Su Ze finally understood what it means to "make a name for yourself".
Su Ze thought of the era when China was sinking hundreds of years later, when countless people with lofty ideals came forward and shouted the slogan of "saving the country", and how righteous they were.
Many of them are from well-off families, and are even members of vested interest groups. They can become the leader of others without doing anything.
But these lofty ideals and benevolent people gave up everything and threw themselves into that torrent, wasn't it just because of justice?
At this time, Su Ze had only one thought in his mind, and that was "kill the Japanese"!
This voyage was longer than the last one. Su Ze was always worried that the two ships filled with gunpowder would fall apart while sailing at sea, or that the gunpowder would accidentally explode. But the lucky balance was on Changningwei's side. On September 14th, the moon had turned into a circle, and the cold moon hung high in the sky. According to Su Ze's calculations, it was not far from Dong'ao Island.
Sure enough, by daybreak, Su Ze could already see the coral reefs off Dong'ao Island.
Surrounding the crescent-shaped Dongao Island, there is a ring of coral reefs. These coral reefs isolate the wind and waves of the outer sea and form the lagoon of Crescent Bay.
In the distance of the Crooked Hoof fleet, Lin Mojun also used a telescope to see the mountains in the center of Dong'ao Island.
This is not the first time that the Crooked Hoofers have come. When the Japanese pirate patrol boat saw them, they immediately felt relieved and did not even board the boat for inspection.
Su Ze began to calculate the wind direction and seawater flow speed, and adjusted the direction of the sail.
God was once again on Changning Wei's side. The wind was blowing exactly towards Crescent Bay. Su Ze didn't even need to adjust the direction of the sail too much.
Lin Mojun watched the Crooked Hoof people's fleet sail into the lagoon, her hands tightly holding the telescope, and then she waited.
After unloading the food, the Crooked Hoofers were ready to return. After adjusting the sails, Su Ze untied the iron rope, lit the fuse, and jumped on the Crooked Hoofers' ship.
The patrolling Japanese pirates did not notice that the two ships had left the Crooked Hoofman's fleet and followed the wind to the pier of Crescent Bay.
At this time, King Lu was still in the castle tower on the cliff, sleeping with his concubine in his arms.
The Japanese pirates who had been hungover all night in the tavern came out in twos and threes and stood on the pier blowing the cool breeze to sober up.
Only a few Japanese pirates can still stay at their posts, but they can't be said to be strictly disciplined.
Japanese pirates are bandits after all. They may be ferocious and cruel, but they have nothing to do with strict military discipline.
What's more, no one from King Lu to the ordinary Japanese pirates on the dock would have thought that the Ming army would be bold enough to attack Dong'ao Island.
The Crooked Hoof Man's fleet sailed out of the lagoon. Su Ze looked back at Crescent Bay. The Flying Dutchman was already leading the way and was about to rush to the dock.
At this time, the Japanese pirates on the watchtower finally discovered the abnormality, but the Japanese pirates on the dock did not board the ship immediately. Instead, they gathered happily on the dock and watched the strange-looking boat rush over.
Where did this little boat come from?
This was the question that the Japanese pirates on the pier were thinking about. When the Flying Dutchman rushed into the side of the boat on the pier, some bold Japanese pirates jumped on the boat.
Su Ze saw that the Flying Dutchman had rushed into the dock, and his heart was half relieved. He looked at the few hourglasses in his hands, and the next step was to wait.
The Japanese pirates who had just jumped on board were still searching on the deck. These wandering warriors with Japanese hair were the confidants brought by the Deer King from Kagoshima.
Is this the Crooked Hoofman's ship? The rope accidentally broke and was blown over by the wind?
This group of Japanese pirates started to have some fun. They were tired of playing with the women who came to the island. They thought that the crooked hoof people were hiding under the deck and were ready to "play" with them.
The deck leading to the cabin has been nailed, and now the Japanese pirates are even more excited. It must be the Crooked Man hiding under the deck.
The hangover alcohol mixed with animal lust, a Japanese warrior used a Japanese knife to pry open the nailed deck. The Japanese pirates jumped out of the cabin and smelled the strong smell of sulfur.
Isn't this the smell of gunpowder?
boom!
There was a loud noise, and the last thing the pirates saw when boarding the Flying Dutchman was red flames that instantly filled their eyeballs.
In addition to gunpowder, the ship also contained four full cylinders of tung oil.
The violent explosion swept away all the Japanese ships near the Flying Dutchman, and the tung oil that exploded into the sky fell to the ground like fire rain.
The group of Japanese pirates watching the show on the deck were either blown away by the violent shock wave of the explosion, or were directly smashed into sieves by the gravel in the warehouse. The Japanese pirates who escaped these two disasters did not escape the rain of fire in the sky. The lit tung oil fell on them, and the dock turned into a sea of fire.
When King Lu heard the explosion, he suddenly woke up, put on his clothes and walked out of the room, and saw the tragic scene at Crescent Bay Pier!
What the hell is going on!
The Deer King was still in great shock when the second big firework was lit.
This was not Changning Guard's boat, but the rain of tung oil fire ignited the gunpowder warehouse at the dock. All the gunpowder stored in the warehouse was ignited. The power of the explosion this time was no less than that of the Flying Dutchman. All the houses on the pier were flattened!
In the end what happened!
The Deer King was angry at first, followed by great fear.
His fleet is all on Crescent Bay. If all his fleet is gone, how can he return to Japan?
Seeing that the Centipede was still anchored at sea, Lu Dawang relaxed a little. Fortunately, the Centipede had a deep draft, so it did not dock at the port near the shore, but parked near the lagoon exit.
But the deer king's joy could last long, as the third big firework was also lit.
The boat sailed to the side of the Centipede, and there was another violent explosion. A big hole was blown out of the bow of the Centipede, the mast was blown down, the flames spread on the deck, and the whole ship began to tilt.
"Baga! My boat!"
King Deer screamed. He quickly put on his clothes and rushed to the castle tower and towards the dock.
Lin Mojun's warship has approached the entrance of the lagoon. Captain Alfonso stood on the bow of the ship, looking at the terrifying scene in front of the dock.
Looking at Crescent Bay completely engulfed in flames, Captain Alfonso was completely shocked by the power of the gunpowder explosion ship.
He thought of the hell scene described in Dante's Divine Comedy, and it took him a long time to highlight the word "hell".
It is not that Alfonso has never seen fire attacks. When he was young, he joined the Portuguese Navy and competed with the Ottomans for ports in the Persian Gulf.
But compared with the Changning Guard's fire ships, the Ottomans' fire attack ships are garbage!
Visible to the naked eye, flames were blazing into the sky in the port, and the small-tonnage ships moored in the port had either caught fire or capsized and sunk.
Even big ships like the Centipede caught fire on the deck, and a big hole was blown in the stern, and seawater poured into it. The entire ship ran aground, with only half of it exposed at sea.
Only a few ships far away from the port were not damaged, but faced with such a terrifying scene, these ships had no way to rescue them and could only watch the docks fall into a sea of fire.
The deer king rushed from the castle tower to the edge of the beach. He looked at the pier like a sea of fire ferociously. He followed the deer king with his armored men and boarded the escape boat, heading towards a Japanese ship that was not affected by the explosion. Cross out.
"Your Majesty, go back to Japan!"
At this time, King Lu still didn't know what happened at the port. Even if the gunpowder magazine on the shore exploded, it would not be so powerful.
Moreover, during my period, the Centipede was so far away from the dock, so how did it get sunk?
King Lu boarded the escaping Japanese boat with all kinds of doubts. At this moment, he heard another cannon sound, and a lucky boat flying the flag of the Ming Dynasty got stuck at the exit of the lagoon.
King Lu understood everything, it was the Ming army!
(End of chapter)