Jinghong Building

Chapter 439: The enemy

The soldiers of the Fujian Navy boarded the ship in panic and just hung up the sail when a torpedo hit him.

Torpedoes are not uncommon, and there are also Mind Navy, but they soon discovered that these torpedoes not only have a high hit rate, but also have greater power, and can also be fired continuously!

The water battle did not last long. Two hours later, the mysterious army quietly left.

In this battle, the Fujian Navy lost 18 warships!

Warships are different from ordinary ships, and this battle between Fujian Division suffered huge losses.

The Mind Navy was originally founded by the Du family among the four major families and was founded fifty years ago.

The Du family's business was mainly from the sea and suffered from pirates, so they invested in the creation of a navy.

When the Navy was first built, there were only a dozen ships and more than 500 people, but it was more than enough to deal with those small-scale pirates, and the Du family's business was getting more and more smooth.

The other three families were also ready to move, but it took time and effort to build a navy from the beginning like the Du family. So after discussing, the three families found the Du family together.

The four major families in Fujian are inseparable from each other and are inseparable. Moreover, if the navy wants to continue to develop, it must constantly invest manpower and material resources. To put it bluntly, this is a bottomless pit, and you must keep investing money in it.

Although the Du family has a great career, it has been difficult for only a few years.

Now, these three families are willing to invest in, and the Du family cannot ask for it.

Therefore, the four families hit it off. It has been decades since then, and the navy has increased from ten ships to more than eighty, which is a veritable majestic maritime army.

When it comes to the Min Navy, it is not the court army, but this naval army built by four major families.

In addition to being the division of the four major families, the Fujian Master is also used by local yamen and other families. Of course, it is impossible to use it for free, and there are invisible interests involved in this.

The reason for this situation is that the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the second is that the court is incompetent and the corruption of officials from all over the country.

Therefore, this navy, which belongs to the civilian forces, has always existed in a grand manner. Even the local imperial chiefs should respectfully see the commander of the Fujian Division.

The four major families abide by the agreement that year. For decades, the head coach of the Fujian Division has been the Du family. Although many children of the other three major families also hold positions in the army, there is only one chief coach, and he can only have the surname Du.

The commander of this Fujian division is named Du Qiucheng, who is thirty-eight years old, and he is the best age for men.

Du Shuai has recently won two new confidants, like a bond, and wishes he could be linked together all the time.

Tonight was another happy night to eat skewers. There was a fleet attack at night. I don’t know if I didn’t bother to report to him or not to disturb Du Shuai’s elegant mood. In short, when Du Shuai learned about this, those things were like ghosts. The ship that appeared had long disappeared without a trace.

Fortunately, it is only one of the several camps of the Fujian Division here, otherwise it would have to be served.

Du Shuai’s mansion was far away from the sea. When he rode over, people from the other three major families had already arrived ahead of him.

Deputy Manager Chen's face was as dark as the bottom of the pot. He just got the exact news that his nephew was among the dead and injured.

He also has only one younger brother, and he only has this one male at his family.

He doesn't know how to face his younger brother or his father and mother now.

Seeing the two drunken dark circles on Du Shuai's face, Deputy Secretary Chen went up and punched him without saying a word.

Du Shuai was beaten so hard that he rushed over to help him, but he was still a step slower. Du Shuai fell to the ground on the beach with his back on the sky.

Others hurried over, some persuaded Deputy Supervisor Chen and some supported Du Shuai, which was in chaos.

Du Shuai was beaten to the point of bleeding from his nose and was in a mess. It has been a long time since he and Deputy Shuai Chen were not in love with each other. It was just because the four major families were in a common sense, so he endured it.

Unexpectedly, the surname Chen now doesn't even want face and beat him in public. He can't swallow this tone.

Du Shuai knew that Deputy Scheme Chen had been practicing martial arts since childhood. If he was fighting alone, he was not the opponent of Deputy Scheme Chen.

However, the Du family has been in charge of the Fujian Division for many years and is more loyal to the Du family than the other three.

So Du Shuai raised his arms and shouted, and the Du family's children rushed forward with the Du family's fans. Deputy Supervisor Chen was not showing weakness. There were people in the Du family, so would the Chen family have no one?

When the clan elders of the four major families arrived after hearing the news, the Du Chen family had already killed and injured dozens of people.

And the two families have settled down, and when people from the four major families sit together to discuss the night attack last night, it is already night.

It has been a whole day since the night attack, and this day they have wasted on internal strife, and the place where those night attack ships are from is still unknown.

But they knew one thing that the other party's ship was better than theirs, and the hit rate and power of the thunder were higher and greater.

Huang Jian was the survivor of last night. Until now, when he recalled everything last night, he still couldn't believe that it was true.

“Those ships, like ghosts, came close to each other silently. When our people discovered it, the ship was already very close to the port.

Those torpedoes are certainly not torpedoes, I have never seen such a fierce torpedo. ”

The Du clan elder asked in a deep voice: "What about Wang Jinsheng?"

Wang Jinsheng is the largest pirate in the East China Sea. His ships are large and small, and it is said that there are more than 100 ships.

More importantly, Wang Jinsheng had a good relationship with the Japanese, and he even helped the Japanese civil war.

Jing Chongguang always wanted to get help from Japan, but until his death, he could not meet the Japanese general.

But Wang Jinsheng is different. It is said that he is a guest of honor for the Japanese general and even paid homage to the Japanese general.

However, these are all rumors. Over the years, Wang Jinsheng and the Fujian Division have maintained an attitude of not disturbing each other. Although there is no interaction between them, there is no hostility. Therefore, the Fujian Division’s understanding of Wang Jinsheng is limited to rumors.

When Huang Jian heard the Du clan mention Wang Jinsheng, he shook his head. Although the Fujian Division did not become an enemy of Wang Jinsheng, they had seen Wang Jinsheng robbed ships on the sea more than once.

Huang Jian said: "It's not comparable. I mean Wang Jinsheng's ship cannot be compared with those ships last night."

The old man of the Huang family glared at him, thinking that this young man must have been scared, otherwise how could he say such a mess of enhancing others' ambitions and destroying his own might in front of the elders of each family?

The old man of the Huang family was about to say a few words to cover up the stupid words of his juniors, but he heard the old man of Du family ask, "What does it mean? Why can't he compare?"

A flash of fear flashed in Huang Jian's eyes: "Although Wang Jinsheng has many ships, there are only twenty ships that can be called warships.

But last night's ship

I have never seen such a ship. It is big and larger than our building ship. There are cannons on the ship, not just one, but a total of ten cannons that can fire in different directions.

What's even more terrifying is that these cannons can be fired continuously, and the second cannon will come again immediately.

Moreover, just last night, I saw at least ten boats. Don't underestimate these ten ships. I dare say that all Wang Jinsheng's ships combined are not as powerful as these ten ships, and I guess this is definitely not theirs. They must have more ships, more The ship! ”

There was silence in the conference hall, and the needles could be heard.

Even the old man of the Huang family had his lips tightly at this time and he had no intention of blaming the younger generation.

They all believed that Huang Jian was not exaggerating.

The sound of cannons last night, even though the beach was still a distance away from the city, the people living in the city heard it.

Fortunately, the people in Fujian have not yet experienced the baptism of land artillery fire. Therefore, even if they hear the sound of artillery, they only think of firecrackers, and they may even secretly scold someone who sets off firecrackers at night.

If the people knew that the Fujian Army was severely injured by cannons, the city might have been in chaos now.

Suddenly, the Chen clan old man who had not spoken said, "Listen to your description, I remember the Thunder Cannon."

Although the Du and Chen families had reconciled at this time, everyone from the four major families knew that this was actually superficial. A legitimate male child died in the Chen family's legitimate house. Even if the Du family took out a thousand taels of gold, this one was the first to be found. Things won't be done, let alone the Du family has not paid any money.

It is difficult for the Du Chen family to restore it to the same way before.

At this time, the Chen clan elder's words surprised everyone here.

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

"You mean the thunder cannon? How is that possible? Isn't that from Ran Jun?"

The Chen clan old man said coldly: "Didn't you hear what Huang Jian said just now?

He said that the cannons on those ships can be fired continuously, and there are ten cannons on one ship!

We also have artillery on our ship, but what it is, don’t you know? ”

Everyone was silent. Twenty years ago, the Fujian division spent a huge amount of money to buy two cannons through the red-haired merchant. In the past ten years, the world has been in chaos. Although the Fujian region has not been affected, everyone in the four major families are in danger, so they spend more money. In the past, more gold and silver were purchased again through the red-haired merchants.

In other words, the Fujian Division now has four artillery guns.

Four cannons were on four large ships.

The red-haired cannons are worth about a thousand yuan. In order to withstand the universal artillery, the Fujian Division invested heavily in building four tower ships, which took three years to successfully build.

These four warships carrying red-haired artillery are the soul of the Fujian Division and the confidence of the Fujian Division.

But now, these four proud warships have been compared to the slags by the warships described by Huang Jian.

There are ten artillery on each boat, and only one on his own. Moreover, ten such warships were dispatched last night alone!

How to compare this?

Not only is Wang Jincheng incomparable, but also the Fujian Division incomparable!

But the thunder cannon.

The old Du clan nodded slowly: "Yes, I heard that the thunder cannon is very small and can be pushed by a car, and the thunder cannon can be fired continuously. If the thunder cannon is not too powerful, Jing Chongguang and Xiao How could the emperor run to Fuzhou? Alas!”

During the Battle of Jiangnan, the thunderbolt cannon was famous all over the world. It is said that the one who created the thunderbolt cannon was still a young Jiangnan woman.

At this time, the Huang clan elder also fully understood why his younger generation was so scared.

"Are those ships from Ranjun? The Ranjun has fought?"

The old man of Jiang kept shook his head: "Impossible, absolutely impossible! Ran's army came from Jin, and there were all landslides from top to bottom. That is, when he was in Jiangnan, he recruited some southerners, but so what? Those people are at most They just can swim in the water and will not be seasick after boarding the boat. When we Fujianese fight pirates, they still sing fisherman songs on the Yangtze River."

The old Jiang clan had a humorous tone, but no one here could laugh.

The Ran army is here. Regardless of whether these people can only sing fisherman songs on the Yangtze River, they also have at least ten warships with thunder cannons.

Although the number of warships in the Fujian Army is several times that of theirs, there are only four warships with artillery, which is not as good as Wang Jinsheng.

So, for such a Ranjun, can you still say that they can only sing fisherman songs on the Yangtze River?

Everyone looked at the Chen clan elder together. Among the four major families, the Chen family had the most people, so the Chen family also had the most sources of information.

"You Chen family really didn't get any news? Do you have a queen in your family?"

This is a bit disgusting, but now the head of the Chen family is not in a mood to fight.

His face was as deep as water and said, "Jing Chongguang had asked me for help and wanted to borrow Master Fujian, but I refused."

In fact, he did not refuse at all. He kept holding Jing Chongguang until Jing Chongguang died.

Jing Chongguang is determined to win the Fujian Army. This is not a secret, and the other three major families have known it for a long time.

On this point, the four major families have the same view, that is, they can lend the Fujian Master to Jing Chongguang, but Jing Chongguang also has to pay a high price for this.

What Jing Chongguang lacks the most is silver. Emperor Yonghe's harem is filled with the daughters of the four major families, and Jing Chongguang has nothing to give to the four major families.

Therefore, Jing Chongguang wanted to build his own navy.

Unfortunately, he sold Yonghe Emperor Gui dozens of times, and his navy was still just a prototype and could not be compared with the Fujian division.

The Chen clan elder thought for a while and said, "Jing Chongguang asked about something. Now he was asking about this fleet. He said that there was a group of new pirates near the unknown island, and the war was very powerful, and he also It was very secretive. He borrowed a boat from me just to deal with this group of people."

Although Jing Chongguang did not have a powerful navy, compared with people from the four major families, it was the difference between regular troops and militias.

Jing Chongguang has excellent scouts, and even at sea, he can find first-hand information.

Just like Jing Chongguang himself, he grew up in the family of military generals since he was a child, and he began to listen to his father reading military books in his mother's belly.

And his scouts were all trained since childhood.

The four major families are just the opposite. Although they have held the navy for decades, when it comes to placing troops, they are not as good as Jing Chongguang together.

The Fujian Division was able to stand in the East China Sea for fifty years, and it can be said that it was piled up with silver.

Before this mysterious army appeared, they had the most sophisticated warships and the largest number of soldiers on the East China Sea, so neither the Japanese nor the pirates dared to provoke them.

And now, when a fleet of ships with obvious military training and more sophisticated warships and more professional soldiers appeared, everyone knew that the real strong enemy of the Fujian Division appeared!