Wang Xiao has been to Fuzhou Prefecture before and has also found the famous evil-proof sword recipe here.

But that's all in another world.

Wang Xiao, who came to Fuzhou City, also went to Xiangyang Lane where the Lin family’s old house was, but there was no Fuwei Escort Agency here, and there was no Lin family’s old house. He had to return regretfully.

According to reports from the local garrison, the red barbarians occupied Nanri Island. They built city piers on the island, which seemed to be trying to occupy it for a long time.

The local navy tried to send troops to expel them, but unfortunately, although their ships were of a large number, their quality was not as good as others. After a great battle, they lost their troops and had to retreat.

The emperor gave Lin Ruhai the power to control military affairs in various places around Fuzhou Prefecture, and at the same time he could ask for food, grass and supplies from all over the surrounding area and manpower support.

Simply put, Lin Ruhai is currently the highest level of military and political control in Fuzhou Prefecture and other places.

In the commanding tent, Lin Ruhai turned his attention to Wang Xiao.

"General Li." Wang Xiao saluted to the Fujian General. "Do you dare to ask how strong these red and barbarians are? How many ships are they? What kind of ships are they? And which country's barbarians are they from?"

The rank of the general officer is much higher than that of Wang Xiao, but he knows Wang Xiao's identity and also knows that this is Lin Ruhai's confidant. So he returns the gift very seriously.

"I have sent people to the island to investigate. There are more than a thousand people on the island. As for the ships, there are as many as twelve ships in the four major and eight small ships. Although there are not many ships, each of them is as big as a mountain and as white as a cloud. There are dozens of cannons on the ships, which are powerful. As for which country the red barbarians are, it is not clear. However, the red barbarians on the island are all wearing red clothes and looking like cooked lobsters."

After he said this, Wang Xiao felt a little clear.

"Didn't anyone send me to Haojing to find out the Franchise guys?"

The reason why Wang Xiao asked this is that when the Great Zhou Dynasty expelled the Tartars, the Portuguese in Macau took the initiative to send troops to help.

Afterwards, the founding emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty allowed them to continue living in Macau and continue to trade.

As the only Western countries who are qualified to do business directly with the Great Zhou, the Portuguese in Macau have always been very obedient. They also try every means to pull back the foreign Westerners.

"I sent someone to ask. Those Franchise men were talking in a mess, sometimes they said they were some toasts from the east of India, and sometimes they said they were some kind of gay people. They didn't know what they mean."

The Great Zhou Dynasty also enforced the ban on the sea. Although the people have repeatedly banned it, the yamen know very little about the overseas world.

After he said this, Wang Xiao understood.

This is the fleet of the East India Company of the English.

After defeating the Spanish and Dutch one after another, the English became stronger and stronger at sea. They had coveted the Far East route with gold and silver for a long time.

"I wonder how the adults are going to fight?"

After introducing the situation, everyone's eyes fell on Lin Ruhai.

Lin Ruhai looked at Wang Xiao and coughed and said, "I have studied the map before and decided to use the tactic of induced snakes out of the cave to attract the red and barbarian fleets to Beipingpu Bay. The artillery team of Shenji Camp set up a fort at Yangjiao Mountain, and the building down the mountain, and the Hongshan area. This is an indented harbor with a narrow entrance and complex waters. Once the red and barbarian fleet comes in, the artillery team blocks the entrance of the bay, and the arson ships hidden everywhere rush up to burn their ships. As long as their fleet is destroyed, the red and barbarians on Nanri Island will be in a turtle in the jar."

The generals showed admiration on their faces and gave sweet flatteries without hesitation.

The most important thing in naval battles is to fight ships.

Ships are worse than people, and there are not as many cannons as others, so you have to use the terrain.

Beipingpu is a spoon-shaped bay. As long as the English ship comes in, it will be difficult to get out. At that time, the forts set up on the top of the mountain on the shore will open fire and bombard it, and the arson ships hiding behind the reefs around the fjords rushed forward, and the probability of winning was extremely high.

This is the best choice in the era of sailing and wooden boats.

If it is the era of Iron Caravan, then it’s better to take a shower and go to bed.

This combat plan was actually proposed and improved by Wang Xiao, but it was just left to Lin Ruhai to speak out.

It seems that it has taken over Wang Xiao’s credit, but in fact, Lin Ruhai can only continue to stand out after winning Wang Xiao.

After Lin Ruhai finished speaking, Wang Xiao began to play the role of a bad guy. "The navy serves as bait to lure the Red Barbarians into the trap. He then recruits the fishermen, the Xu family, and the boats to buy them together. Put them on gunpowder, sulfur, turmeric, and hay to prepare."

The navy generals all looked pale.

They had fought before, but they knew they could not beat others. This time they went to be bait, but if they failed, they would probably not be able to wait for the day of punishment. It was definitely a thankless errand.

"Don't worry, if you win this battle, the navy will be the first to be successful!"

Lin Ruhai plays the role of a good person and draws a big cake to inspire fighting spirit.

After Wang Xiao and Lin Ruhai sang together, things were settled.

The generals left the commander's tent to prepare, and Lin Ruhai asked Wang Xiao, "Can you win?"

He changed from civil to military, and this was his first time to command a war. If he failed, all kinds of adverse reactions would inevitably follow.

Wang Xiao shrugged, "The winner will only be known after the fight."

He was not afraid of the East India Company, and the technical gap between the two sides did not reach the level of generation difference.

The Beijing camp also has cannons and muskets, and its power is not necessarily much worse than that of the English.

Moreover, they are fighting locally, and various support can be said to be endless. The Englishmen come across thousands of miles, and the long supply line can kill them.

China is not Afrika. It does not exist here that a few cannons can occupy a large area of ​​land.

Wang Xiao also had a thought, which was to want Lin Ruhai to see the power of the firearm with his own eyes.

It is necessary for people of his identity to take the initiative to promote it so that the Great Zhou Dynasty can gradually get rid of cold weapons and transition to the era of hot weapons.

Westerners will not give up their temptations to the Eastern world because of this failure. Preparing for the future is more important than winning this battle.

Fortunately, China is not a foreign race who is now ruling with outsiders than with family slaves.

Compared with the late Ming Dynasty in the past, the living standards of the Great Zhou Dynasty at this time were much higher.

However, in Wang Xiao's eyes, he is still poor and backward.

The seaside is not as rich as the modern world, and you can become a rich man even if you collect rent. On the contrary, because life on the sea forbidden area can only barely survive.

After the high reward was issued, the local fisherman Xu's family enthusiastically signed up to participate in the fire attack fleet. Hundreds of small boats gathered in two or three days.

As for how to lure the English to take the bait, it doesn’t mean that the navy fired and ran away after firing two shots, and people would chase after him.

This kind of thing will only appear in novels and biography like Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

When they come to a strange place, they are blinded and they don’t know anything about the bad geographical environment, climate, humanities, and water flow. They are not fools and will catch up with them in a daze.

The method Wang Xiao used was actually very simple, that was, let the navy wander around Nanri Island and found that all the ships that dared to deliver food to the island were sunk.

Not counting the sailors in the fleet, there are more than a thousand people on the island alone. Nanri Island is not an island with abundant resources, and the supply of so many people cannot be transported from far away India. They can only be purchased from local people who want money and live.

The Englishman could not do without fighting if they cut off this supply channel.

The people in the camp of Wei were not idle either, and went to the countryside to hunt down the locals who sold food and supplies to the red barbarians. As long as they were caught, the whole family would be dealt with asserted as the charge of tying bandits.

The most important thing is to eliminate food.

The Englishmen who had their supply sources cut off were indeed unable to sit still. They believed that if the Great Zhou navy allowed to continue to hide from the surrounding sea, they would all starve to death.

A few days later, the English fleet seized the opportunity to launch a large attack. The naval battle severely damaged the navy and pursued it with all its might to try to completely annihilate the threat.

This time the navy was not defeated by fraud, but was really defeated and fled.

"Sure enough, fighting a good fight will make people careless."

Wang Xiao, standing on the top of the mountain downstairs, watched the English fleet divide into two rows from both sides of Xiaowen Guam to rush into the depths of Beipingpu Bay. He was awakening himself and be careful when fighting a battle with the wind.

The entrance to Beipingpu Bay is very narrow. After the artillery of Shenji Camp was transported to the top of the mountain, the coverage range of the crossing of both sides was enough to block the entire entrance.

As long as the English fleet enters, the result is already destined.

The English fleet commander was also capable. After chasing for a while, I realized something was wrong. The bay here was simply a natural ambush place. I immediately ordered the bow of the ship to turn and go out first.

Wang Xiao on the top of the mountain was half-squatting on the grass, and he was biting a dog-tail grass in his mouth. "It's too late to leave now."

In the sail era, ships were very troublesome in steering or traveling. The bigger the ship, the more troublesome it was. Because it had to rely on ocean currents and wind directions.

Seeing that the fleet in the bay below the mountain gradually fell into chaos, Wang Xiao stood up and came to Lin Ruhai to salute, "Sir, it's time."

Lin Ruhai nodded slowly, he had absolute trust in Wang Xiao.

And even if it was his first time leading the troops, he could see that the fleet below had already entered his pocket.

A magical monkey that penetrated the sky soared from the top of the mountain, and a gorgeous firework bloomed in the air.

Then, amid the countless sounds of gongs and drums, hundreds of fireboats rushed out of hidden places everywhere and rushed to the English fleet.

The English fleet was fully fired, and dense rain of bullets ejected from the muzzles on both sides of the ship, sinking numerous ships one after another.

Lin Ruhai on the top of the mountain saw his beard trembling, and the powerful power of the firearm brought him great shock.

But there were too many arson ships. The English guns were front-mounted smoothbore guns, not missiles, and not pepper-like close-defense guns. Even though they sank many ships, there were still a large number of arson ships leaning on them.

One ship after another was ignited, and in the end only two large ships fled to Xiaowen Guam at the entrance of the bay.

At this time, the cannons arranged on the downhill and on the top of Yangjiao Mountain opened fire.

After learning from the Ming Dynasty, the weapons of the Great Zhou Dynasty were strictly regulated. They also received technical support from the Portuguese, and their artillery was not bad.

More than a hundred condescending artillery crossed the narrow entrance to the bay. One of the two large English ships trying to escape was directly destroyed, and the masts were interrupted and spinning in place. The other one was stranded directly on Xiaowen Guam in a panic.

This naval battle lasted for about an hour, and it ended with the British being wiped out and the Great Zhou Dynasty won a complete victory.
Chapter completed!