Daming pirates

But what made Chu Cai Lao even more angry was that just when he was gathering the defeated soldiers and killing all his subordinates to rectify them, the door of Sea Wolf Dazhai quietly opened at some point.

A group of Sea Wolf tribesmen swarmed out of the stronghold and rushed to the battlefield. They did not catch the injured old Chu Cai men. They were like a group of rag pickers, quickly picking up various trophies on the battlefield. It was better.

They immediately picked up all the weapons and weapons, quickly tied them up with ropes, then carried them back to Dazhai.

Moreover, the miscellaneous artillery pieces that had been abandoned on the battlefield by Chu Cai's old men were also picked up by them at extremely fast speeds and moved back to the stronghold.

Some people came out of the village carrying some jars, picked some long ladders and other objects that had been abandoned by Chu Cai's old men, and poured the contents in the jars. Then some people followed them and started lighting fires everywhere with torches. It turned out that they were carrying everything.

Some hot oil was specially used to burn the long ladder belonging to Chu Cai's subordinates.

From time to time, several screams could be heard throughout the battlefield, as the idle Sea Wolf tribe members were sending some seriously injured veterans of Chu Cai on their way.

After some of the Sea Wolf tribe came out, they didn't find much that they liked, so they chopped off the heads of a few of Chu Cai's old men and carried them back to the village. Soon, long poles were erected on the wall of the village.

Bloody human heads were carried on long poles.

This is not the most irritating thing. What is even more irritating is that after these Sea Wolf tribesmen cleaned the battlefield, they actually stood on the wall of the village and shouted in unison: "Thank you so much, Shopkeeper Chu, for the gift!"

When the voice reached Chu Cai Lao's ears, Chu Cai Lao's nose was so angry that it turned to one side. This was simply Chi Guoguo's provocation. You would not bully others like this!

So Mr. Chu Cai didn't wait any longer. He drew his sword and pointed it at the Sea Wolf stronghold and shouted: "Brothers, kill them all for me. Every member of the Sea Wolf tribe will be rewarded with ten taels of silver for each one they kill!..."

Hearing Chu Cailao's roar, the minions who were already a little downcast suddenly became excited again, and shouted loudly again. Under the greeting of their shopkeeper, they swarmed forward again.

Rush away.

All the movements on Mr. Chu Cai's side fell in the eyes of Yu Xiaotian and others. When he saw the two Hongyi cannons slowly pushing towards their stronghold, Yu Xiaotian's face changed.

He got serious.

This is the second time he has seen the Hongyi cannon in this world, and from the telescope, he observed that these two cannons are indeed not small, at least larger than the twelve-pound cannon in his hand, but not as big as the cannon.

It was as big as a twenty-four-pounder, and he eventually determined it to be an eighteen-pounder.

In this era, if Yu Xiaotian remembers correctly, the eighteen-pounder gun should be one of the main naval guns of the British. It is considered a heavy gun, between the twenty-four-pounder gun and the twelve-pounder gun.

The power is quite impressive.

Another point Yu Xiaotian also vaguely remembers is that some information said that the British had actually come to the coastal areas of China during this era, and they also saw the benefits of trading with the Ming Dynasty. Like the Dutch, they also wanted to be near China.

It found a foothold similar to Macau or Manila, but it has never been successful. It only established commercial offices in India and Batavia, and traded with Chinese maritime merchants through the commercial offices to get a share of the pie.

He couldn't guess where Mr. Chu Cai got these two red barbarian cannons. These two cannons were obviously not cast by the Ming Dynasty government or the imperial court, so Mr. Chu Cai probably got them from the Portuguese or Spanish.

This kind of gun I got.

Originally, Yu Xiaotian wanted to see more carefully, but now the monocular telescope he had on hand could only see roughly, but not more clearly, due to the quality of the lens and the small magnification.

It is impossible to determine whether these two guns are long guns or short guns, and the specific effective range cannot be judged.

In addition, he also saw a lot of boxes brought ashore by Mr. Chu Cai. After careful inspection, he found that these boxes should be swarms of rockets, which made his heart skip a beat.

He is not too worried about these swarm rockets. Although the range of this thing is not close and the power is quite powerful when fired in salvo, its lethality against exposed cluster targets is quite good.

The threat to people behind the wall is not great.

But Chu Cailao's two Hongyi cannons undoubtedly posed a great threat to his Dazhai. The projectiles of this 18-pound Hongyi cannon alone weighed more than ten kilograms, and a single charge in the barrel could

It weighs five to six kilograms, and its power is already quite terrifying in this era.

Even if the city wall is continuously bombarded by such cannons, it will still be unable to withstand the bombardment of such cannons, let alone his current wall with a mixed structure of brick and wood. His wall is far from as strong as the city wall of rammed earth.

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Things are obviously a bit troublesome now, and Chu Cai's subordinates must have gained some wisdom after suffering a setback just now. They will definitely find a way to break through the obstacles he set up outside the village and get under the wall.

The next battle in the afternoon will probably be much more tense than in the morning.

Yu Xiaotian turned around and walked down the arrow tower, called Li Dazui, Liu Laoliu and others over, and gave them some instructions in a low voice. After hearing this, everyone tensed up and immediately started to act separately.

The village warriors who had been idle in the village were now mobilized. The council allocated a lot of cloth bags and straw bags from the warehouse and distributed them to these village warriors. Soon someone brought these bags with them.

Xiangyong began to collect soil from some places inside Dazhai, and began to put it into these cloth bags or straw bags. He carried the soil on his shoulders and carried it to the bottom of the village wall, and piled it in several places for easy access at any time.

Without waiting for the Sea Wolf tribe inside the village to finish their work, there was a huge roar outside the village, and then a cannonball roared over the wall of the village and flew straight into the village, hitting the village heavily.

It hit the roof of a house.

The roof of this house collapsed in just an instant, raising a large amount of dust. The screams and cries of a mother and her son came from inside the house. Someone immediately rushed towards the collapsed house and started

Remove bricks and tiles to save people.

Yu Xiaotian cursed secretly, turned around and ran back to the watchtower quickly, raising his eyes to look outside the village.

At this time, Chu Cailao's two Hongyi cannons had been dragged by them to a place about a mile and a half away from Hailang Dazhai, and they were set up with the muzzles raised and pointed at Hailang Dazhai.

There were more than twenty men surrounding each cannon, busy at work. One cannon was shrouded in gunpowder smoke. It was obvious that the shell just fired came from the muzzle of this cannon.

Seeing Mr. Chu Cai bring out such two powerful weapons, the people in the village suddenly became a little panicked. Especially after seeing the power of the cannon, everyone's nerves became tense, and even some

People had already started running around the village, trying to find a place to hide.

"My order is that no one in the village is allowed to move without permission. Anyone who moves without permission must stay where he is! Those who move without permission will be tied up first, and those who do not obey the instructions will be executed on the spot!" What Yu Xiaotian is most afraid of is the chaos in the village.

Come on, now there are a large number of islanders in the village. These people are not organized and disciplined. Once chaos breaks out, the village will become a pot of porridge. It will be difficult to stabilize it by then. If you are not careful, it may lead to chaos.

disaster.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian immediately issued the order, and the execution hall was specifically responsible for the security of the village. After Liu Laoliu received the order, he did not dare to entrust the leader and quickly sent someone to deliver the order.

A group of Xingtang inspectors immediately rushed along the streets of Dazhai to the gathering points of various islanders. Each of them carried a short stick with eyebrows in their hands. On the way, they encountered some people running around in Dazhai.

The people went up and gave them a stick, tied their hands and rushed back to where they originally gathered.

Some of them were disobedient and refused to go back even after being beaten with sticks. They then continued to rush into the village, but the inspectors drew their swords and chopped them to the ground. Their bodies were dragged back to where they gathered.

Immediately afterwards, these patrols rushed to various gathering points, and Yu Xiaotian's loud orders were passed to these islanders, asking them to cooperate with the control of the Sea Wolf tribe and not to make any unauthorized moves, otherwise they would not be lenient.

Seeing that someone had been killed because of this, the islanders immediately calmed down. Each of them showed a look of horror. They squatted in the gathering point and did not dare to move again. Some people were so frightened that they cried, and the whole family looked like a family.

They hugged each other and cried loudly, as if the sky was about to collapse.

The village was suddenly filled with all kinds of chaotic noises, but as long as these islanders didn't run around and bump into each other, the situation could be easily controlled, and order soon returned to the somewhat chaotic Dazhai.

At this time, there was another roar outside the village, and then another artillery shell hit the village. But this time, the shell fell on the street, making a big hole in the street, and it was agitated at any time.

Not to mention flying around, the cannonball bounced up again after landing, knocking down a wall on the roadside, making a muffled sound and raising a cloud of dust again.

Yu Xiaotian nervously observed the flight trajectory of the cannonball and immediately roughly judged the capabilities of the two cannons.

The effective range of these two 18-pound guns is about one kilometer, but it is obvious that Chu Cailao's men did not fully grasp the capabilities of this gun. The first round of firing raised the muzzle too high, so that it failed to fire.

All the walls that hit Dazhai flew directly into Dazhai.

Moreover, Mr. Chu Cai's men definitely did not use fixed-loading powder packages and loaded them entirely based on experience. In this case, although their cannons were quite powerful, their accuracy could not be guaranteed.

The reason why Chu Cailao's men placed their cannons at such a long distance and started firing them instead of approaching Dazhai for bombardment was because they were afraid of being fired back accurately by Sea Wolf's cannons. This also led to their firing at such a distance.

It is impossible to accurately hit the wall.

Yu Xiaotian despised Mr. Chu Cai in his heart, and immediately sent an order to Li Dazui to send someone to transport a 12-pound long cannon from the northern fort of Dazhai to the southeast fort of the village. At such a distance, a six-pound cannon

Although the artillery shells can be fired at a large angle and hit the position of Chu Cailao's cannon, the accuracy cannot be guaranteed at all. Even the twelve-pound short cannon cannot be accurate at this distance.

Fortunately, he had the foresight and had already asked the artillery manufacturer to produce a twelve-pound long cannon, also known as a cannon. This guy's range could easily reach Chu Cai's cannon, and it could also be relatively accurate.

, only this guy can suppress Chu Cai Lao's two red cannons.

Li Dazui also realized the seriousness of the problem at this time. As soon as Yu Xiaotian's order was issued, he sent his men to rush towards the northeast corner of Dazhai fort.

At this time, Chu Cailao's men had already begun to charge towards the Sea Wolf Stronghold with the assistance of the two Hongyi cannons.'