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Chapter 362 Destroying the Goryeo Shipyard

The three hundred Qing army Eight Banners cavalry rushed into the yard. The semi-finished ships parked on the shore suddenly spewed out flames, and the sound of bean-like guns sounded, and the smoke filled the guns. With less than fifty steps away from both sides, a row of guns sounded, and more than 60 Qing army cavalry fell from the horses.

"Youming Dog is in ambush!" Jia La'e Zhen shouted.

Before he could finish his words, a long arrow drilled into the open mouth of Jiala Ejin, and an arrow with dirty blood and brain soil drilled out from the back of his head. Jiala Ejin fell off his horse's back and had an arrow in his mouth. He lay on his back in the mud, and was in awe on the spot.

More than ten arrows were shot out, and each of the people who shot the archers were masters. Each arrow either hit the Qing soldiers without protection or shot in a weak neck. Then more than ten Qing cavalrymen turned over and fell off the horse.

In a blink of an eye, Li Guodong shot six arrows, each of which took away a life.

The Qing cavalry, who were ambushed, took out the cavalry bow and shot light arrows at the Ming army hiding on the semi-finished ship. However, the Ming army was wearing thick armor, and the Qing army's light arrows were extremely poor in killing. The Ming army was hiding on the ship, but the Qing cavalry could not use the power of war horses to cut and kill the Ming army hiding on high places. Using the cavalry bow to shoot at the same time, it was a big loss.

The two hundred Ming army musketeers hiding on the ship had loaded up and stretched out their gun barrels again. Another round of bean-like sounds of gunfire. The smoke of guns rose from the ship, and blood splashed from the Qing cavalry crowd, and the Qing soldiers fell down from the horse's back one after another.

After suffering a great loss, the Qing soldiers dismounted one after another, and let the war horses squat in front as sandbags. The Qing soldiers took out their insurgent bows and hid behind the war horses and shot arrows at the Ming army lying on the boat.

The Qing army's infantry bows and heavy arrows caused the Ming army to suffer casualties. These Qing soldiers' archery skills were extremely accurate and could shoot arrows from the shooting holes on the side of the warship. A Ming army's bird gunman stretched out his bird gun to shoot, but the Qing soldiers shot an arrow, hit the door, and fell down screaming.

Arrows kept drilling through the shooting holes. Seeing the brothers falling down one after another, Wang Quan cursed: "What awesome Tartars! Each of them shot so accurately!"

The heavy arrows shot by the Qing army's infantry bow were accurate and ruthless, and they had the advantage of the territory. The Ming army's bird gunners, who had obstacles, shot against the Qing army, did not gain the upper hand, and the losses were quite good. However, soon, the Ming army's nine-headed bird heavy muskets and tiger squat cannons taught the Qing army's archers how to be human.

The projectiles shot by the Jiutou Bird Musket with a range of more than the archer's bow hit the thick armor of the Qing soldiers. The double and three layers of thick armor became like paper and were penetrated one after another. The projectile drilled into the front of it and was a blood hole as big as a goose egg. The blood hole drilled out from the back as big as a bowl, and the internal organs were all broken. Some Qing soldiers were even beaten into pieces of blood and flesh. The projectile hit the war horse squatting on the ground, and the dying horse jumped up, pointing its front hooves to the sky, and then fell to the ground and died. The heavy projectile that penetrated the war horse continued to penetrate the Qing soldiers behind it.

The tiger squat cannon has not a long range, but it can fire shotguns. A row of bullets sprayed into the Qing army crowd. The Qing army immediately screamed and fell down.

"Kill slave! Kill slave!" Li Guodong stood up and pointed the heavy sword in his hand forward.

The Ming army hiding on the semi-finished warship jumped up one after another, holding various heavy weapons, and shouted at the Qing soldiers.

Han Dashan was the first to rush into the Qing army. During the charge, he was hit by two arrows, but the thick three layers of armor on his body blocked the heavy arrows. Han Dashan's body had two layers of iron armor and one layer of cotton armor. The inner part was a chain mail, the middle part was a layer of cotton armor, and the outer part was a bright light armor, and the face was also wearing an iron mask. The whole person was protected like an iron armored vehicle. Most of the arrows shot by the Qing army were bounced away, and only two arrows pierced from the weak point of the outer layer of bright light armor, but were blocked by the cotton armor and chain mail inside.

Han Dashan, who was like a human tank, rushed into the crowd of Qing soldiers, and cut down the head of a Qing soldier with a big axe in his hand. The Qing soldier was chopped into two pieces from the middle.

The Ming army, holding heavy weapons such as long-handled iron hammers, nail hammers, page hammers, big axes, maces, iron bones, heavy swords, etc., rushed into the Qing soldiers. No matter how thick the armor they were on, they would be beaten to pieces when they encountered heavy weapons, and their skulls were broken, their ribs were broken, their brains splashed, and their internal organs were shattered.

A Qing army hurriedly rode on the horse, trying to distance himself and then turn around and attack. However, on the muddy beach, the war horses were caught up by the Ming army before they could raise their speed and were pulled down from the horse's back. A series of heavy weapons were smashed into meat mud.

Several lucky Qing soldiers were not caught by the Ming army by chance and rode on horseback to get a distance. However, when they saw the black muzzle on the semi-finished warship, they did not dare to turn back and charge, but ran away.

Three hundred Qing cavalrymen were killed, and only thirty-three escaped.

"The Jiannu team will come soon. Tap the fire quickly and burn everything!" Li Guodong gave the order.

The warships that were almost completed were dragged into the water by the Zheng family army and taken away. Most of the wood, canvas, cables and other shipbuilding materials in the yard were also taken away by the Zheng family army. The remaining wood, canvas, cables, and shipbuilding tools and equipment that were not enough to be taken away were burned.

Li Guodong took his brothers on a small boat and boarded the Zheng family's large ship.

"I remember walking a hundred miles south, there is a boat yard. We went there and destroyed the boat yard. I kept the account of the boat yard that had just been destroyed, five thousand taels of silver." Zheng Zhilong saw Li Guodong getting on the boat and laughed and greeted him.

"Brother Zheng, this costs 5,000 taels of silver? You took away the ship that was about to be completed, the wood and shipbuilding materials. In the end, we did it ourselves to burn the yard. Just take me 5,000 taels, isn't it too dark?"

"Hahaha, without our ship, how do you destroy the Goryeo boat yard? Don't bargain, one boat yard is 5,000 taels, and you should set off now; if you don't do it, then this boat yard will be your brother to help you for free."

"Of course I have to do it! Why do you need to leave a boat yard for the Goryeo people? Destroy all their boat yards!" Li Guodong still decided to pay the money.

Zheng Zhilong laughed: "The boat yard a hundred miles south of the Han River may not have been hit there. We went to destroy the Korean boat yard, and all the shipbuilders were kidnapped, and they would not leave and cut it off with one knife."

The Zheng family's fleet sailed south for four hours and arrived at the Pyeongze waters at the southern end of Gyeonggi Province. It was already early in the morning.

"Look, there is a boat yard there. Before Jiannu has arrived here, we can go ashore and grab some things." Zheng Zhilong pointed to a boat yard not far away and said.

After the Ming army landed, the Zheng family sailors took the shipyard and began to destroy the shipyard. They took away all the things they could take away, and burned the fire that they could not take away. After Li Guodong's men got ashore, they quickly surrounded a small town and a village near the shipyard.

Li Guodong did not be polite to the Gaoli people and ordered everyone to be taken out of the house.

More than 8,000 Koreans, both men, women, young and old, were taken to an open land by the sea.

"Shipyard! They are destroying ours!" Some Koreans screamed when they saw the yard with thick smoke rising.

"It's over! Our boat yard!" Many Koreans hugged their heads and cried.

"Who are you the ones who can speak here?" Li Guodong asked.

"I'm!" A man wearing silk clothes and looking like a gentry stood up, "Why did your Ming army come here? Why did you burn our boat yard?"

"Jiannu is here soon, don't you know?" Li Guodong asked.

The man replied, "Of course we know that the Tartars invaded North Korea, but they have not come here yet, why do we run away? On the contrary, you, although they are Ming troops, are no different from pirates and Japanese pirates! Why do you burn our boat yard?"
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