My Pen Pal Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 357: Pirates Are Annihilated
"Everyone, stop moving forward. The pirates must be trying to fight to the death. Find cover and fire freely. Don't let them move forward even a single step!"

Following Wang Jian's order, the Ming army soldiers immediately stopped moving forward, found a good shooting point, and then calmly shot at the pirates.

As one of the earliest musket battalions, they have done this kind of training countless times.

The Musket Battalion was established on the basis of the Beijing Battalion. Now all the Beijing Battalions have been converted into Musket Battalions, and they are all equipped with Type 56 semi-automatic rifles.

The biggest difference between the Beijing Garrison and the garrisons in various places is that the Beijing Garrison belongs to the professional armed forces of the Ming Dynasty.

They don't need to farm or feed themselves. All they have to do is train, train, and train again.

Their food, clothing, housing and transportation were all borne by the court, so they didn't have to worry about anything. They ate better than the soldiers in the garrisons, and their clothes made the soldiers jealous. The colorful clothes, called "camouflage uniforms", made them look energetic when they wore them.

Moreover, when cloth shoes and cotton shoes were not yet widely used by the soldiers in the garrisons, they were already wearing boots.

Not only that, the court also paid the soldiers a full salary every month, and new and better weapons were also replaced first for the Musket Battalion.

The imperial court was willing to spend a huge amount of money to train them, so their loyalty to the imperial court and His Majesty was naturally the highest. Moreover, the Beijing Army was definitely the most supportive force for industrialization in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Because everything they gained was the result of Ming Dynasty's industrialization.

After the Ming Dynasty started the industrialization process, the court's income increased every month, which also provided sufficient military funds to allow the soldiers in the Beijing camp to maintain high-quality training.

What they were doing at this time was similar to their usual training. Just now they were moving forward and taking turns to cover each other in shooting and attacking, but now they were doing intercepting shooting.

Shooting, reloading, and shooting again, how to maintain the continuity of firepower has been deeply rooted in their bones and blood.

Since they were equipped with needle-fired guns, one of the purposes of training has been to constantly instill in them a concept, which is also the most important concept after the Ming army entered the era of hot weapons - continuous fire suppression!
What they didn’t know was that this concept was hundreds of years ahead of its time. They only knew that sustained firepower was extremely useful and powerful.

Zhang Zuoqian on the other side also discovered the pirates' intentions and immediately ordered: "Move quickly from both sides. Don't let these pirates break through Wang Jian's interception line!"

At this time, the pirates rushed forward shouting loudly, but they sadly discovered that in the face of the powerful firepower of the Ming army, they could not move forward even a single step.

The pirates at the front were knocked to the ground one after another, while the pirates behind them continued to charge forward with gritted teeth, but it was all in vain. In the face of bullets, all beings are equal!

This situation of being unable to advance or retreat really made these inhumane pirates feel very frustrated.

At this time, they finally tasted the pain of the people in the city being bullied and slaughtered by them.

Songpa, however, took advantage of the chaos when all the pirates were rushing forward frantically and hid in a house that had not been burned down, hoping to escape when the Ming army closed the encirclement.

There are still more than two thousand pirates in the city. He just needs to meet up with the rest of the pirates and then organize his troops to fight back!

He just couldn't believe that even if he had twice as many troops, he couldn't defeat the Ming army of just a hundred people!
However, what he didn't expect was that the other pirates were also in dire straits at this time.

Inside the city, the remaining two Ming army teams found that the two thousand pirates were almost all gathered together, looting the city's treasures. The centurions leading the two Ming army teams quickly made a joint operation decision through the radio, that is, the two teams launched an attack at the same time, using the mobility and strong offensive capabilities of the three-three system, and adopting the tactics of splitting and interweaving to break up the formation of the pirates.

At the same time, set up sniper lines at several key intersections to continue to separate the pirates, and finally wipe them all out in one fell swoop!
Shortly after Zhang Zuoqian ordered the attack, their battle began. When the firing began, the pirates had not yet reacted until they saw the people around them falling one by one, and then they came to their senses and realized that they were attacked.

At the beginning, the pirates tried to use their numerical advantage to defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop, but they soon discovered that the Ming army's firearms seemed to have endless bullets, and no matter how they attacked, it was of no avail.

Seeing more and more people dying at the gunpoint, the pirates began to panic, and the Ming army further pressed the pirates according to the plan.

The pirates finally began to panic and fled in all directions, but they were intercepted by the Ming army who had been waiting at the intersection for a long time.

Soon, the pirates were successfully divided into several groups by the Ming army. The Ming army further tightened the encirclement and slowly harvested the lives of the pirates.

At the same time, Songpa, who was hiding in the house, saw a group of Ming soldiers passing by the house. He waited patiently for a while, then sneaked out and ran all the way.

After running for several miles in one breath, he finally saw his accomplice, so he ran even harder, but as he ran, he found something was wrong.

He saw his accomplices fleeing in panic, and also heard deadly gunshots!

Oh no! Are there Ming troops here as well? We’ve just escaped from the dragon’s den and entered the tiger’s den again!
Just as he was about to run in another direction, he heard an angry shout from behind him:

"Good boy, where are you running to?"

When he turned around, he saw that several Ming army soldiers had blocked his retreat. He made up his mind, drew his knife and was ready to fight to the death, but he saw a black thing coming towards him.

Then he fell unconscious.

The Ming army soldier put away the butt of the gun that knocked Songpa unconscious, and then ordered the people beside him: "This guy seems to be the leader of the pirates, his name is Songpa, tie him up quickly and send him to Captain Zhang later."

"Yes, Sun Xiaoqi!"

The others tied Songpa up with a smile. One of the Ming soldiers said, "Sun Xiaoqi, can Captain Zhang give us the first merit this time?"

"Liu Laosan, you are the only one who talks too much. Tie him up quickly. If he runs away, I will take you away in exchange for the first merit!"

"Sun Xiaoqi, don't worry. The brothers will definitely tie him up tightly. No matter how powerful he is, he won't be able to escape!"

From the moment Zhang Zuoqian fired the first shot, the entire battle lasted no more than half a day, and the 3,000 pirates in the city were basically wiped out.

As for the two groups of Ming troops outside the city, one group had already taken down the pirate ship early on. Faced with the Ming army's magical semi-automatic rifles, the pirates quickly collapsed and did not even have the thought of resisting.

The Ming army stationed at the city gates also wiped out all the pirates who escaped. In their own words, not even a fly could get through!
(End of this chapter)