Daming pirates

Even so, the officers and soldiers still regarded them as magic weapons, and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to transport these cannons to Puxisuo Pinghaiwei, preparing to use them to attack Sea Wolf Dazhai.

The reason is that Prime Minister Zhu Qin also heard that Sea Wolf possesses Western red cannons. Although he does not believe that Sea Wolf can make these cannons by himself, he does not dare to guarantee that Sea Wolf does not have red cannons. Even if Sea Wolf has some red cannons,

In order to defeat the enemy, these red Yi cannons were brought to Puxi Institute of Peaceful Sea Guards, preparing to use them in the attack on the Sea Wolf.

However, although these cannons were shipped here, they cannot be fired on the ship because these cannons are too heavy. The warships of the government and army are mostly old and lack structural strength. In addition, these cannons can only be loaded

On the deck, the center of gravity of the ship is too high. Once it is placed on the ship and used as a naval gun, it is estimated that after one shot, the recoil will sink it.

Thinking about it, the warships of the government and army have not been improved since Zheng He's voyages to the West. On the contrary, they have become smaller and smaller. So that by the end of the Ming Dynasty, except for the Fengzhou built by the imperial court, the warships were basically

Within four hundred materials, in the era of Qi Jiajun, the navy and navy had a great success

, but what’s funny is that a large gun weighing more than 1,000 kilograms can only be fired after being placed on a large raft when in use. The hull cannot withstand the recoil of the large gun. As for the current Hongyi cannon,

Naturally, they would not dare to install it on a warship and use it easily.

In fact, even Sea Wolf himself is very careful when solving this problem. Whenever a ship is equipped with a twelve-pounder gun, the hull must be reinforced, a load-bearing structure must be added inside, ballast stones must be added, and the hull must be lowered.

This allowed them to mount their twelve-pounder guns on larger ships, but they were limited to ordinary twelve-pounder howitzers, and even twelve-pounder long guns could not be loaded.

It wasn't until they built their own sloop that they could actually install twelve-pounder long guns on warships. Now they are trial-producing twelve-pounder short guns just to make smaller ships more capable.

Load larger caliber artillery.

After the cannons of the army were brought to Puxi Station, Zhang Jiace had just managed to get two of the cannons to the wall of the Acropolis in the past few days. The reason was that he was reminded by Liu Yinglong and was a little worried about Hailang.

It's time to take a preemptive strike, kill them, and catch them off guard.

Zhang Jiace had nothing to do today. He was getting together with some of his generals and drinking at his residence. Suddenly, he heard the sound of several cannons coming from the direction of Haikou not far from their Puxi residence, so

Zhang Jiace frowned and shouted to the soldiers outside the tent: "What happened outside? Why is the sound of cannons heard from the sea?"

The soldiers were also a little confused and said they would go check it out right away. However, after a while, the soldiers on sentry duty in Puxisuo City shouted: "The thief ship! The thief ship is coming! The enemy is attacking!"

As soon as the sound spread, Puxi's office immediately became chaotic. Zhang Jiace threw the wine glass in his hand upon hearing the sound and waved: "Go and gather your men quickly! Get ready to fight!"

And he immediately left his residence and rushed up to the city wall with his soldiers. He raised his eyes and looked at the sea to the east. When he saw the situation on the sea clearly, Zhang Jiace was also shocked, because at this time, the sea was in Pinghai Bay.

At the mouth of the bay, a fleet of ships had already crossed the ox head and tail of Meizhou Island and was heading towards them.

Just when he was busy observing the situation at sea, he saw a burst of gunfire suddenly coming from the fleet on the sea. In the distance, he could see several pirate ships on the sea spraying out balls of fire.

There were clouds of gunpowder smoke, and then I saw a sentry ship that should be the navy's navy. It started to stagger towards the Niutouwei shoal, and soon fell over in the shoal and ran aground there.

As a deputy general, Zhang Jiace's main responsibility over the years has been to defend against pirates and lead troops to resist the red-haired people's invasion of the coast. Therefore, he has seen many big scenes. Although he was shocked, he did not lose his composure and immediately issued the order.

The officers and soldiers stationed here immediately formed their teams to prevent confusion. A group of officers and soldiers were mobilized and immediately climbed to the city to prepare for the defense.

At this time, the seven large ships led by the Cyclops on the sea had already sailed towards Puxi City, following their acropolis.

Zhang Jiace looked at the several pirate ships approaching, and his heart moved, but he did not feel nervous, because there were seven enemy ships coming towards Puxi City. Although they were considered big ships, each of these seven ships was loaded with

There are hundreds of pirates, which is only a few hundred people at best.

Puxi City currently has more than 2,000 officers and soldiers gathered in the city. In addition to the defenders of the original guard station, there are currently close to 3,000 troops in the city. Unless the pirate's head is caught by the door panel, he should not be able to board.

An attack on Pu

Jubilee City, even if their heads were indeed caught by the door panels, it would be a good thing for him to land ashore and attack the city. He could take the opportunity to lead his army to repel them, as long as he killed dozens of pirates.

Even if you have accomplished something first.

So Zhang Jiace immediately sent an order to his guerrilla Zheng Jiamo to immediately order a thousand soldiers and horses to assemble outside the Acropolis, ready to attack the pirates who landed ashore at any time. As long as the pirates dared to come ashore, they would immediately block them and kill them.

Crowd on the beach and kill them!

While Zhang Jiace was busy mobilizing his troops, Cyclops and his several large ships had already approached the coast.

The acropolis built by Puxi was originally built to prevent Japanese pirates and pirates from invading the land. Therefore, the acropolis was built very close to the coast. At most, it was only about a hundred steps away from the sea. In this way

If so, some of the artillery on the Acropolis can just reach the seaside, and can directly use the cannon to bombard the pirates who landed ashore.

But today they encountered a tough situation. Sea Wolf is not an ordinary pirate. Even if ordinary pirates have cannons, they can't shoot far, but Sea Wolf's warships are all equipped with six-guns.

New Western-style 12-pound and 12-pound cannons, their quality is even higher than that of cannons currently cast in Western countries, and their range is no worse than similar Hongyi cannons.

Therefore, when the Cyclops led the fleet to approach the coast, he did not rush directly to the coast. Instead, when he was a few hundred steps away from the coast, he suddenly turned and lined up the fleet in a column formation, flush with the coast.

Aiming the right side of the ship at Puxi City on the coast.

At this time, Zhang Jiace and his officers and soldiers were already well prepared to defend against the enemy. Various artillery pieces on the city had begun to be loaded, and gunmen also mounted the city wall. Thousands of officers and soldiers also left the acropolis and began to line up outside the city.

When the sea wolf landed, they were ready to give the sea wolf a head-on attack.

At this time, the flags on the Sea Wolf ships had already indicated their identities. After Zhang Jiace saw the golden wolf flags flying on these ships, he couldn't help but cursed in his heart. He scolded these Sea Wolf thieves for being so arrogant and bold, not waiting for their officers and soldiers to go to Nanyue Island.

To attack them, but to kill them first and prepare for a preemptive strike, isn't this just asking for death?

At this time, someone reminded Zhang Jiace: "Sir! The pirates don't seem to want to land and attack our acropolis. Their fleet only sent a few ships over, and the rest of the fleet rushed over.

We passed by Nanyue Water Village in the south!"

Zhang Jiace looked towards the sea, and sure enough, Sea Wolf's fleet only separated a small number of ships towards Puxi City where he was located, while most of the ships began to turn south and headed straight for Nanyue Water Village.

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Zhang Jiace's heart skipped a beat, remembering Liu Yinglong's concerns raised when he came to see him a few days ago. The Nanyue Water Village was no better than Puxi City. The water village facilities there were dilapidated. Although the warships were concentrated there, these pirates today

It came suddenly. Before that, they had not received any warning from the beacon tower on Meizhou Island. Suddenly the pirates appeared in Pinghai Bay. Now Liu Yinglong on the other side of Nanyue Water Village might be in trouble.

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So he immediately ordered one of his subordinates, General Qian, to call out five hundred soldiers and rush to Nanyue Water Village to see if he could help Liu Yinglong.

While arranging these things, Zhang Jiace was also paying attention to the pirate ships approaching on the sea, silently calculating the distance between the enemy ships and the Acropolis. When he saw these pirate ships lined up in formation, and

Instead of docking directly, they suddenly turned around on the sea outside the city and aimed their sides at Puxi City.

Zhang Jiace's heart skipped a beat this time, because he had fought against the red-haired men before and was relatively familiar with the red-haired men's tactics. The cannons on these red-haired men's ships could shoot far, accurately, and with great power. Over the years,

They repeatedly invaded the border, often harassing coastal prefectures and counties, and went ashore to plunder.

Often after these red-haired people arrive at the beach in a boat, once the shore is protected by a city wall and soldiers are stationed, they are not in a hurry to dock. Instead, they turn the boat sideways, aim the side of the boat towards the shore, and then start to attack.

Cannons pounded the city on the shore.

As for the Ming army's cannons, because they were short and thick and had nothing to aim at, they had no choice but to hold their necks straight and get beaten against the red-haired ships parked far away on the sea. Often the defenders didn't even get close to the red-haired ships.

When they failed to catch it, they were blown away by the red-haired men with the ship's cannon.

But today, I didn't expect that these pirates would actually use this trick. It looked very much like the tactics used by the red-haired ships. So next...

Zhang Jiace's heart suddenly shrank and he felt a strong uneasiness.

At this time, the Sea Wolf fleet had already formed a horizontal formation on the sea near Puxi. The cannons on the side of the ship had already taken off their gun jackets, revealing the black holes of the muzzles. The gunners shouted loudly.

Then, they pushed the cannon to the side of the ship and slowly raised the muzzle. Someone had already raised the torch. When they started to turn, all the cannons had been loaded. They only needed to give an order to fire.

Fired