Daming pirates

When Yu Xiaotian delivered the artillery and ammunition, he did not order powder packages for Chen Xun, but only provided them with a batch of bulk granular gunpowder. In this regard, Sea Wolf did not cheat them again, and the gunpowder given to them was of comparable quality.

Good refined granules were packed with gunpowder, and he told Chen Xun about the rated charges of various artillery pieces. Chen Xun couldn't compare with gourds and gourds. When he came back to load ammunition, he simply found a steelyard. Every time he loaded ammunition, he used the scale first.

Weigh it, so you won't load too much or too little gunpowder.

However, this method is a bit clumsy. Once you fight with others, you will definitely not have time to weigh the gunpowder again and again. It will all depend on the gunner's estimation.

But now they are testing the cannon, so there is no harm in doing so, so it is safer to take their time, and it can also make the charge more stable, which can ensure the firing accuracy to a certain extent.

After another cannon shot, the cannonballs flying out of the muzzle hit the target with five layers of wooden boards on the upper left side. There was only a loud click, and the huge impact force even caused them to lift up the target.

The wooden frames were knocked to the ground, and everyone rushed over to watch the power of the shells.

The target that collapsed on the ground had fallen apart at this time. Although the hole was not too big where the cannonball hit, five thick wooden boards were still penetrated on the spot, leaving a transparent hole, but the cannonball was also there.

After penetrating these five wooden boards, most of the kinetic energy was consumed, and it fell to a place not far from the target, still smoking and boiling hot.

After seeing this, everyone clucked their tongues and exclaimed that this cannon was really powerful. Sometimes they would fight with others on the sea. If the enemy's ships were built stronger and had thicker plates, their cannonballs would not be able to hit them.

, but even if it hits an enemy ship, when the shell falls on the enemy's hull, it is often unable to penetrate the hull of the enemy ship. The shell is often dropped and falls into the sea water. This situation is very disappointing.

discouraged.

But today, when they saw that the small red barbarian cannon made by Sea Wolf could actually penetrate such a thick wooden board from a hundred steps away, it could easily make a hole in it against ordinary ships.

, not to mention that the Sea Wolf's cannons are "very accurate". If they can install more such cannons on their ships, then they will be able to walk sideways on the sea in the future!

As a result, everyone felt excited and began to clamor to quickly get these cannons back and install them on their ships. In that case, they would no longer have to worry about Zheng Yiguan.

Yan Siqi raised his hand to stop the clamoring of this group of cronies, and said to everyone: "It seems that Seawolf's cannons are indeed very well made, and the price they offered is fair. At least the goods are good. I love this."

I accepted it!

Now we are waiting for them to deliver the cannon to us, but just handing the cannon to us is probably not enough. None of us are good at using this kind of thing. Even if they deliver the goods to us, we will not know how.

Use it, but it will still be useless!

So Chen Xun, you have worked so hard and made another trip to Hailang's Nanyue Island. First, send them the money, and please ask Master Yu to hand over these goods to us as soon as possible!

What's more, if you and Mr. Yu bring me here, say that I, Yan, am deeply indebted to him, but you have to trouble them again and ask them to teach us how to use these cannons. As long as they are willing to teach our brothers,

I will definitely repay this love another day!"

Chen Xun immediately nodded in agreement, but with a worried look on his face, he said to Yan Siqi: "Brother, it's okay to go there again. This is what I should do. There's no need to say whether it's hard or not!

But this time I go there, but I have to transport tens of thousands of taels of silver. If I only bring one boat, I'm worried there will be some trouble on the way! In addition, after I finish it, I will transport the cannon back and learn how to fuck cannon here.

If so, I'm afraid it will be difficult to cover up people's eyes and ears, and maybe the guy will get the news soon!

So in my opinion, it’s better for us to go there this time and choose some brothers to go with me. Not only can we protect the money, but we can also learn how to fuck right there from Hailang! In this way, we won’t be afraid of being exposed.

Yes! I wonder what your opinion is, brother?"

After Yan Siqi thought for a moment with his hands behind his back, he lowered his head and briefly discussed it with the other brothers, then turned around and said, "That makes sense! After all, this is the hard-earned money we have saved for so long, and it was originally meant to be used to recruit refugees.

Yes, but now we have to use it to buy these things. If something happens, I'm afraid we won't be able to get so much money anymore! So it's right to be more careful!

In addition, what Chen Xun said about sending people to follow Hailang to learn how to fuck is also reasonable. After all, there are too many eyes and ears here, so it would be more appropriate to put them at Hailang!

But I'm still a little worried. Let's do this. Chen Xun, please take a boat over first and discuss this matter with the leader. If we send too many boats over at once, I'm afraid some people will be suspicious and we won't be safe on the road.

Something is bound to happen, so take the others and leave first!

Please send some of his ships and brothers to greet our ship carrying silver after six days. Please don't come too close to us. After noon, watch our ship's smoke as a signal and catch it directly at sea.

Our ship, escort our ship to their Nanyue Island! This will be safer!

As for our people learning how to use artillery from them in the past, I will select a group of trustworthy brothers to go with the ship in the next two days. After they have completed their studies, they will come back directly with artillery and muskets. By then, we will have these big killers.

, what else do we have to worry about?”

After hearing this, Chen Xun nodded and agreed. Everyone cleaned up and took out two matchlock guns to try their hands. They felt that the matchlock guns made on Nanyue Island were better than the Japanese iron cannons they had obtained before.

There are also the Ming Dynasty's bird guns, and even the matchlock guns made by the Taishi people. They are not bad. No matter in terms of range, accuracy, or power, they are all remarkable. They can be regarded as the best among similar fire guns.

What they liked even more was that the matchlock guns made in Nanyue Island had the same inner thickness. Even the muskets they gave them were made very well. There were no major or minor problems.

If the blunderbuss is large, it may not fit into the chamber. Sometimes, even if it is forced into the blunderbuss, it will take a lot of effort to pound the blunderbuss into the bottom of the blunderbuss, otherwise the chamber may explode.

But if the gun is too small, put it into the barrel, and once the muzzle is pointed downward, the gun will roll out of the barrel on its own. In addition, such a gun cannot shoot far (the gap is too large and the gun will be deflated), and its power is very small.

However, no matter which matchlock gun is put into these muskets made by Sea Wolf, the gap is just right, neither tight nor loose, and they fit well with the inner wall of the musket chamber. This shows that Sea Wolf's craftsmen are very careful in their work.

These trivial things are also done quite well.

Therefore, Yan Siqi and others have a new understanding of Sea Wolf. From the fear in the past, they have become respectful now. Now they no longer dare to regard Sea Wolf as their imaginary enemy. After listening to what Chen Xun said yesterday

After the incident, they all realized how terrifying the sea wolf was.

The Sea Wolves not only have these sharp cannons, but the most important thing is that their troops are well-trained and each one is quite powerful. If they compete with the Sea Wolves, they believe that their end will be quite tragic. Chu

Cai Lao is a lesson learned from the past, and if they fall out with Sea Wolf, the result will probably be much worse than Chu Cai Lao's.

Therefore, by this time, everyone has given up the idea of ​​being an enemy of Sea Wolf. What is left is the awe of Sea Wolf in their hearts. Everyone, including Yan Siqi, has secretly made up his mind that he would rather offend anyone in the future.

They can't offend Yu Xiaotian. They can only be friends with Hailang from now on, and don't want to be enemies with Hailang anymore.

Chapter 27 The mantis stalks the cicada

The eight sea wolf warships advanced slowly on the sea, forming a horizontal formation, keeping a certain distance from each other, bumping and undulating on the rolling sea, heading towards Bengang, Taiyuan Island.

In the center is a ketch, but the sails of this ketch are rather weird. The main sail is a Chinese-style hard sail, but the forward stay sail on the foremast is a Western-style triangular shape.

Soft sails not only have the advantages of Chinese sailboats being easy to operate, but also have some advantages of Western sailboats. The hull is closer to the shape of Western sailboats, making it very unique.

However, in this way, although Chinese-style sails have the advantage of high wind-receiving efficiency, they cannot be made too large because of their heavy weight. Although Western-style soft sails have slightly lower wind-receiving efficiency, their area can be made very large, which offsets the

Its weakness allows the ship to obtain greater wind power, which will affect the speed of the ketch to some extent.

But even so, the speed of this nondescript two-masted schooner is still much higher than that of other Chinese sailing ships. Therefore, when they were moving forward slowly today, the sails of this ship were not all raised.

, just by raising the main sail and jib of the foremast, it can easily keep up with the fleet and sail forward with the fleet.

Among this fleet, there is another ship that does not belong to Sea Wolf, accompanying the left side of this ketch, sailing in the direction of Bengang with Sea Wolf's fleet.

The person leading the fleet today is no one else, but Yu Xiaotian, who has rarely personally led the fleet to sea during this period.

This time, after Chen Xun arrived at Langxue Dazhai on Nanyue Island, he informed Yu Xiaotian of their concerns. Yu Xiaotian immediately agreed to his various requests and decided to send a fleet to the direction of Bengang to pick them up.

A ship sent by Yan Siqi to transport silver.

This money will belong to Yu Xiaotian from now on, and it is not a small amount. If something happens at sea and someone robs it, it will be an advantage to others, so he went to some trouble to escort the money to

Nanyue Island is also for his own good.

Originally, he could just leave this matter to his subordinates, but Yu Xiaotian thought that he had been quite busy during this period. Several big operations of the Sea Wolf were carried out by Ma Xiao and his troops. As the leader of the Sea Wolf, he

The boss is always nesting in Nanyue Island or running around in places such as Tamsui and chicken coops, letting his subordinates do dangerous things. There may be no problem in a short period of time, but in the long run, it will inevitably make some subordinates feel worried.

Something nasty.

It just so happened that the New Year was approaching these days, and Sea Wolf's various affairs were also included in the track, so he had a lot of leisure. These days, he took time to spend time with Lan'er and Xiu'er, who were about to give birth.

, to make up for his debt to his family.

Although women like Lan'er and Xiu'er, adhering to the fine traditions of ancient women, will not act recklessly just because Yu Xiaotian has no time to pay attention to them. They will quietly stand behind Yu Xiaotian and do what they can.

He never dared to disobey his husband, and Yu Xiaotian was very satisfied with this, but he still hoped that he could spend more time with them when he had time. After all, they were both about to give birth to two babies for him.

Considering that he had plenty of time this time, he simply decided to make a trip himself, firstly to go to sea to relax, and secondly to test the training level of the sailors in his fleet during this period.

So Yu Xiaotian immediately ordered a few ships and temporarily used the ketch as his flagship. Before the appointed time, he led the fleet to sea and sailed towards Bengang.

Because Yan Siqi had to be wary of leaks and was afraid of being known by Zheng Yiguan, it was inconvenient for Yu Xiaotian to take the fleet directly to Yan Siqi's Ben Port to pick up the goods. Therefore, after they arrived at the sea more than thirty miles northwest of Ben Port,

They all reduced their speed and slowly circled on the sea, waiting for Yan Siqi's ship carrying silver to come out.

And just before Yu Xiaotian led his team to reach the northern sea of ​​Ben Port, there were also more than a dozen ships of various types on the sea outside Ben Port, wandering far away on the edge of the sea level, maintaining peace.

The distance of Bengang Port makes it impossible for people at the port to detect their whereabouts, but their upper gear can observe the ships entering and leaving the port from a distance.

About morning, three boats slowly sailed out of Yan Siqi's dock in Bengang. After leaving the dock, they walked to the sea. After lingering on the sea for a while, nothing unusual was found, so the three boats immediately

Turn the rudder and adjust the sails, take a zigzag route on the sea with crosswind, and slowly sail towards the northwest direction of Fuzhou.

"Second Master! They are out! Start turning to the northwest!" A man on the top of the mast held a pergola and carefully looked at the sea, then leaned down and shouted to the people on the boat.

On the poop of the ship's deck, there were some people standing, led by a big man with a rough face. This man was called Erye by Shangdou, and he was the leader of this fleet.

This person's identity is very special. His surname is Zheng and his nickname is Mang Er. He is the eldest brother of Zheng Yiguan. He followed Zheng Yiguan to Macau to make a living since he was a child. Later, he followed Zheng Yiguan everywhere. Zheng Yiguan was captured by Li

After Dan adopted him as his adopted son, Zheng Mang followed Zheng Yiguan and worked under Li Dan.

This time, Li Dan suddenly died suddenly, and Zheng Yiguan rushed to Hirado to attend the funeral. Zheng Mang made great contributions to Zheng Yiguan's final control of Li Dan's plate.

If some people are not familiar with Zheng Mang, then many people may know Zheng Zhihu. In history, Zheng Mang was the one who changed his name with Zheng Yiguan after he founded Shibazhi and changed his name to Zheng Zhilong.

Zheng Zhihu.

After Zheng Yiguan took Li Dan's plate this time, he took his people back to Taiyuan Island, but he did not bring all his men back to Bengang, because there was simply no room for so many of his men here, so his men

Most of the people were still doing their own thing as before, except that they brought some people back here. However, these people and ships did not obey Yan Siqi's orders, but directly obeyed Zheng Yiguan's orders.

This time, Zheng Yiguan brought more than 2,000 men and more than 80 ships to Fujian. Recently, under his order, these men began to be active in the Zhangquan area, constantly harassing people in the Zhangquan area.

along the coast, and competed with Chu Cai Lao for territory, and had many conflicts with Chu Cai Lao's men on the sea in Zhangzhou.

Both sides now have their own injuries. Chu Cai Lao is not at a disadvantage for the time being, but it also makes Chu Cai Lao feel a lot of pressure. Suddenly Zheng Yiguan has already begun to push Yan Siqi out of this area. This

It also made many brothers of Yan Siqi extremely dissatisfied with Zheng Yiguan.

As Zheng Yiguan's brother, of course Zheng Mang had to work for Zheng Yiguan. Just a few days ago, Zheng Yiguan received a secret report from his subordinates saying that Yan Siqi had made some moves during this period and seemed to be everywhere.

He recruited men and horses, and secretly gathered in Dazhai with a group of his cronies, working on something unknown.

So Zheng Yiguan immediately ordered someone to investigate the news privately. As a result, he unexpectedly found out that Yan Siqi and Yu Xiaotian were hooking up again and wanted to buy a batch of cannons from Yu Xiaotian. Now they have obtained several cannons.

We need to transport a large amount of money to Nanyue Island to buy

He even found out that Yan Siqi had received several cannons and tried the cannons in a remote place. What's more, he even spent money to find out that Yan Siqi had sent a ship to send money.

The exact time to leave Bengang and go to Nanyue Island.

Zheng Yiguan became nervous immediately after hearing this, because his relationship with Yan Siqi has become very tense these days. Although the two sides are still maintaining harmony on the surface, privately they are already full of conflicts.

The smell of gunpowder and a tense posture.

In fact, Zheng Yiguan also took a fancy to Bengang. When he worked with Yan Siqi in the past, it was because his wings were not full yet, and Yan Siqi was very popular. He was young and weak, so he was naturally unable to compete with him for the boss position.

So I followed Yan Siqi to work with peace of mind.

But when he took the plate from his adoptive father Li Dan, his strength suddenly increased, almost instantly surpassing Yan Siqi's strength, and Zheng Yiguan's heart immediately became alive.

It is impossible for him to live a life dependent on others forever. Since he was a child, Zheng Yiguan felt that he was different and wanted to do something big. With his intelligence, he went from being a penniless gangster on the street to now

Now he has become one of the few big bosses in the sea, and his strength is so strong that he himself cannot believe it.

In the past, it was just a matter of lack of strength. Now he has tens of thousands of people and hundreds of ships. He attributes all these people and ships to Yan Siqi and continues to follow Yan Siqi. Not to mention that he is unwilling, even his brothers do not agree.

This kind of thing is actually very simple. On the sea, where the sky is high, the emperor is far away, and the government is beyond the reach of the government, whoever is stronger will be the boss.

He was now much stronger than Yan Siqi, and he was definitely not going to be able to continue to be Yan Siqi's younger brother. So his men encouraged him to overthrow Yan Siqi, seize Bengang's territory, and use it as their old camp instead.

This idea is very tempting for Zheng Yiguan. He is now determined to lead his men back to the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty for activities. So no matter who is in the same group, they are his potential opponents. What he wants is to become the coastal area of ​​the Ming Dynasty.

The number one boss can control the entire China Sea in his hands.

But he doesn't have a suitable foothold right now, because he arrived a little late. The south is occupied by Chu Cai Lao and other big guys, and the north is occupied by the sea wolf Yu Xiaotian. The only place he can get involved is Quanzhou.

There is a coastal area, but there is no place that can be used as an old camp.

(Sorry, I’m busy today, so I updated both chapters together!)