Daming pirates

Here Liu Tong led his troops to the east gate of Humao City without rest, while over there several sea wolf warships had already arrived in the river outside Humao City.

Without saying a word, Sea Wolf's ships immediately began bombarding Humao City. The shells roared and smashed into the walls and the city of Humao City.

Humao City is built on the shore of the middle road of the Jiulong River. Although these warships are not heavy gunboats, and the firepower of each ship is not too strong, the worst thing on the ship is the twelve-pound mountain howitzer. Some of them have not been replaced.

The ships were also equipped with some six-pound light cannons, and one of the ships was also equipped with a thirty-two-pound carronade cannon.

Although this carronade cannon has a short range, it is quite powerful. When shelling at close range, a 30-kilogram shell can hit it. Even a city wall made of masonry is a bit unable to withstand it.

For a time, there was a loud sound of cannons on the river, and smoke and flames filled the entire river. The hot shells roared and landed in the city of Humao one after another, causing bricks and stones to fly everywhere inside and outside the city.

What's even more frightening is that when Sea Wolf bombarded Humao City, the gunboat loaded with thirty-two-pound carronade guns actually used grenades that were not commonly used.

Nowadays, due to the casting of gunpowder and cannonballs, the power of grenades is not very great. Huge cannonballs can only be loaded with a small amount of gunpowder. After the cannonballs land, they usually explode a few pieces at a time, and the lethality is not very high.

, but because the shells can explode, it puts a lot of psychological pressure on the enemy.

When a grenade fell into Humao City and exploded with a bang, an unlucky soldier was blown up on the spot, and his internal organs were scattered in all directions. This frightened the officers and soldiers.

Everyone was so scared that they ran away with their heads in their hands.

While General Cao Qian was busy suppressing his soldiers everywhere, instructing them to fire back artillery, and prepare to resist the Sea Wolf infantry from attacking the city, Liu Tong also began to take action.

First, the two twelve-pound mountain howitzers they carried aimed at the city head and fired. This time they took the risk of approaching the city wall directly and used shotgun fire. Every time a shot passed, it was like a heavy rain falling on the city wall, which was slightly uncomfortable.

Shen will be beaten into pieces on the spot.

Some of the officers and soldiers who were the first to resist here were caught off guard and were beaten to pieces. The remaining officers and soldiers who were so frightened could only hide behind the parapet, shouting in panic, and even fired muskets and bows and arrows indiscriminately.

, the fight was unorganized and did not pose any threat to the Sea Wolf at all.

Liu Tong immediately ordered half a company of musketeers to shoot accurately on the city wall. As long as someone was found moving, he would shoot them. He even hid behind the female wall and fired muskets outward from the shooting holes.

Not letting go of people.

At first, the officers and soldiers dared to hide in the perforations of the crenellations of the female wall and look out. From time to time, they would also fire blunderbuss or shoot a few arrows. However, when Sea Wolf's blunderbuss opened fire, they found that it was still unsafe to do so.

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Several officers and soldiers were lying on the perforation looking out, and suddenly their heads were shot. Some officers and soldiers exposed themselves at the crenel, and they were immediately shot and fell down.

Only then did the officers and soldiers discover that Sea Wolf's bird cannons could actually hit very far away and were very accurate. They could even directly pass through the narrow perforations, shoot the cannons into the perforations, and shoot the people hiding behind.

kill.

At this time, the officers and soldiers completely collapsed. They were all squatting on the city wall, just lying on the wall, crawling around. Some people simply lost their bodies and fled into the city.

The remaining Sea Wolf tribe did not attack the city wall, but carried a few gunpowder barrels. Under the strong cover of the musketeers, they directly rushed into the east gate with their shields and piled them up.

At the city gate.

Not long after several soldiers rushed out of the city gate, a loud roar was suddenly heard from the city gate.

A large cloud of dust and smoke, mixed with a large amount of bricks and stones, rose into the sky. The city gate, which was not very strong in the first place, was immediately blown to pieces and flew towards the inside of the city gate hole. Even the small tower above the city gate hole.

It also collapsed suddenly at the same time.

Some officers and soldiers hiding in the city gate were blown to pieces on the spot. The body fragments flew far and wide, and some of the minced meat was even stuck on the wall.

"Brothers, fix your bayonets! Charge!" Liu Tong saw the city gate being blown open, raised his sharp waist knife high, swung it towards Humao City, and roared loudly.

A bayonet was stuck on the muzzle of the soldier's gun with a click, and the sound of killing like a mountain roaring and a tsunami sounded outside the east gate.

Hundreds of Sea Wolf infantrymen, holding bayonets and led by their respective company platoon and squad leaders, poured into Humao City like a tidal wave, screaming wildly.

Under the powerful attack of the Sea Wolf Tribe, the seemingly solid Humao City only lasted for an hour before being declared defeated. The Sea Wolf Tribe who invaded the city used their weapons from afar.

Fired with muskets and stabbed with bayonets from close range, it took less than an hour to control the entire city of Humao.

Mr. Cao Qian in the city was loyal to the emperor. Seeing that the city gate was broken, he still led more than 20 of his soldiers to launch a counterattack at the city gate. However, in front of the sharp muskets of the Sea Wolf tribe, their counterattack

It was just a flash in the pan, but it was quickly overwhelmed by the Sea Wolf tribe. General Cao Qian was shot several times and was killed on the spot. Most of his soldiers were also killed, and only a few were captured alive.

As soon as Mr. Cao Qian died, the city was left without a leader. Seeing that the situation was not good, the guards and soldiers immediately opened the west gate and ran out, fleeing to the shore. Some people who were good at swimming simply took off their clothes, jumped into the river, and swam toward the other side.

Go, but because most people are not familiar with water, they finally kneel down and surrender under the pursuit of sea wolves.

When Humao City was broken, it was announced that Yuegang had lost its last barrier. The entire Yuegang was like a woman who had her clothes stripped off, and the sea wolf could do whatever he wanted.

Although there is still a fort on the eastern shore of Yuegang, with about one or two hundred officers and soldiers guarding it, and a few cannons are also deployed, but before the Sea Wolf fleet arrived, the officers and soldiers guarding the place had already heard the news.

He fled, and even the cannon was thrown directly on the fort.

What's ridiculous is that the officers and soldiers ran so fast that even the cannon's barrel and other accessories were simply left on the fort. If it were someone else, they could just turn the cannon's muzzle.

The shelling of Zhunyue Port began.

Fortunately, Sea Wolf doesn't like to use these cannons forged by the army, because the safety of these things is really questionable. But what makes Yu Xiaotian happy is that three of these cannons are actually made of 500 kilograms of copper.

He realized that this was a good thing, so after the infantry captured the fort, he ordered all the cannons here to be dismantled, shipped back to Tamsui City, and rebuilt.

At this time, the entire Yuegang area was full of merchant ships, hundreds of them in total. The owners of these merchant ships were all like mourning their wives. Although they were all jumping around in a hurry, they had no choice but to stare and watch.

The Sea Wolf fleet is slowly approaching.

At this time, the officers and soldiers guarding Yuegang, who had just seen the Sea Wolf fleet appearing in their sights, broke into a fuss on the spot, and ran away one by one, causing Yuegang to

The last protection was suddenly lost.

However, after Sea Wolf's fleet arrived here, they did not attack the merchant ships here. Yu Xiaotian immediately sent out a number of sampans, rowed by sailors, to the merchant ships docked at the riverside docks.

At this time, the merchant ship owners were all scared out of their wits. Seeing that the cargo was about to be destroyed, they had no choice but to resist. Because resisting at this time could only be said to be courting death, so they could only

I can watch helplessly as Sea Wolf takes control of Yuegang.

Among the merchant ships, there were several large shipowners, each of whom owned more than a dozen ships of various types. When he saw that the sea wolf did not attack them immediately, as a shrewd businessman, he immediately realized that there might be a chance for a turn in the matter.

So they quickly got together to discuss it, and sent out stewards or stewards one after another. Each family collected a few hundred taels of silver. Some shipowners had more ships, so they simply took out one to two thousand taels of silver, and together they collected a few hundred taels of silver.

I got about 10,000 taels of silver, and quickly bought dozens of pigs, dozens of sheep, hundreds of chickens and ducks, and more than a hundred jars of good wine.

These people who were sent out cautiously drove more than a dozen small boats, flying white flags, and cautiously sailed towards the Sea Wolf fleet.

On the way, they were blocked by Sea Wolf's long dragon boat. After asking them what they wanted to do, they were escorted to the fleet.

Yu Xiaotian asked them to board his temporary boat and met them on the boat. Naturally, he accepted all the things these people had scraped together without hesitation.

The people sent by the shipowners took advantage of the situation and expressed the hope that Sea Wolf would let their cargo go, to which Yu Xiaotian nodded and agreed.

However, Yu Xiaotian also made his request and ordered these ship owners to immediately sail their ships out of the Jiulong River and first stop at Zhongzuo Suo and Kinmen Island to wait for the next step. However, Yu Xiaotian also gave

They took a reassurance that Sea Wolf would not forcibly kill them.

Collect their ship and cargo, but the prerequisite is that they must follow his instructions first. If someone wants to take the opportunity to escape, then I'm sorry, the ship and cargo belong to Sea Wolf, but as long as they obey the arrangement, then

This ensures the safety of their cargo.

Yu Xiaotian's promise immediately made these shipowners breathe a sigh of relief. Now that Sea Wolf is the boss, of course they have the final say. Escape is definitely impossible now. They can outrun Sea Wolf's fast ones.

A boat? Since I can't run away, I have no choice but to listen to others' orders.

As long as they can keep their cargo, they still have a chance to turn around. If the cargo is gone, then they will be completely bankrupt. You must know that these maritime merchants do not just use their own money to engage in maritime trade.

, many of their cargoes are purchased through joint stock, and it takes a lot of people's money to make such a big deal.

Often when each ship goes to sea, it has to purchase a lot of goods. These goods require a lot of funds. It is difficult to do this with only the liquidity on hand, so these maritime merchants will use IPOs.

method to solve the problem of funding gap.

Many wealthy people have spare money on hand, but they dare not take the risk to engage in such maritime trade on their own. However, money cannot be made in the cellar, so they have to find ways to make money. It happens that some maritime merchants lack working capital.

, so they were happy to hand over the spare money to these businessmen.

Even many officials themselves secretly put money in the hands of maritime merchants to receive dividends or interest. Once the cargo on the sea is gone, they, the people who provide the money, will not care about these things.

They will definitely block the door and go to the maritime merchant to collect the debt.

Many maritime merchants encountered pirates hijacking their ships when they went to sea. After losing both their ships and cargo, they eventually ended up bankrupt. Many of them were even forced to death by their creditors, and even their family members were taken away to pay off the debt and used as slaves.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian promised them that he would not forcibly seize their cargo. This fact made these shipowners very grateful. Now they are asked to temporarily go to Zhongzuo Institute and Kinmen Island to wait for the next step. Naturally, they dare not

Don't listen.