Chapter 3 Puxi Qianhu Institute

"It's the fleet of sea wolves! Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Let go of the wolf smoke! Fire a warning!" A low-level officer on the ship, after being stunned for a while, suddenly realized the identity of the fleet and immediately shouted loudly.

It was not until this time that the officers and soldiers on the ship reacted and rushed to the side of the ship, where several braziers were placed and lit the wolf smoke in the brazier.

At the same time, their ship was also equipped with a gun. Someone immediately rushed to light the gun and heard the gun. Three strands of gunpowder smoke came out of their ship one after another, and three loud gunshots sounded.

After the three cannons sounded, the calm was suddenly broken, and the sound came from far away, and the wolf smoke from the officer's sentry ship also rolled into the sky.

Liu Yinglong, who was busy preparing for the battle in Nanri Water Village, when he heard the sound of cannons coming from the direction of the head and tail of Meizhou Island in the distance, he still didn't believe his ears and asked the soldiers who followed him, "Did you hear it? Why can I hear the sound of gunfire in the northeast?"

The soldier's face also changed at this time, and he nodded repeatedly and said, "I heard it! It's really a warning gun!"

Liu Yinglong was shocked and immediately went straight to a watchtower in the northeast corner of Shuizhai. After flying to the arrow tower, he put up a gazebo and looked far into the direction of the bull's head and tail.

At this time, the wolf smoke on the sentry ship had soared into the sky and rose in the sky. Liu Yinglong shouted, "Enemy attack! The gong warning is that I will order all the brothers to board the ship immediately to prepare for the battle! The sea wolf is coming! Damn it, let me guess after all. These sea wolves really have to do it first! Hurry up! Hurry up and board the boat!"

The sound of warning gongs immediately sounded in Nanri Shuizhai. These officers and soldiers who were still busy everywhere in Shuizhai suddenly panicked when they heard the urgent alarm gongs. The sound of the gongs meant that there was an enemy coming, and the sound of the gongs was so close, which also showed the urgency of the situation.

Originally, the orderly Nanri Water Village was almost like a bee that blew up a nest, and became completely chaotic. A large number of officers and soldiers immediately lost their busy things and ran away in the direction of the dock. The officers even shouted to command the soldiers, cursing and scolding. The officers and soldiers on the beacon on Meizhou Island are all talented. They scolded their men for not being able to find the north like headless flies at this time, and scolded the sea wolf for coming to attack at this time.

In a word, they scolded everything they could think of, and hurriedly greeted their soldiers to board the ship and anchor to prepare for the battle.

When the sea wolf's fleet bumped into the officer and army sentry ship that was about to sail out of Ping Bay, Ma Xiao put down the telescope and sighed slightly. It seemed that the officers and soldiers were still prepared. At least they knew that the sentry ship was put on the sea to prepare for a sneak attack, which shows that the officers and soldiers were not so careless that their sea wolves did not dare Come here to pre-empt.

In this way, their plan to launch a surprise attack on Nanri Shuizhai is over. Next, they will fight directly to Nanri Shuizhai and attack Nanri Shuizhai.

However, it was discovered by the officers and soldiers that Ma Xiao was also satisfied. It is not far from Nanri Shuizhai. Even if the officers and soldiers of Nanri Shuizhai are warned, it is estimated that they will not be able to respond quickly enough. You know, it takes a long time for sailboats in this era to anchor and sail away from the dock. If there are more boats at the dock, it will be more difficult and may even cause serious chaos.

But after all, the number of sangs is limited, and the number of people loaded is not very large. It will take a long time to send the officers and soldiers in the water village to their warships.

What's more, it's late winter now, and the weather in Fujian is already very cold. During the small glacier period, even the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong once snowed. It can be seen that the weather in this era is really cold enough.

The sea was cold, and no one dared to jump into the water and swim to their boat at this time, so all the officers and soldiers on the shore were squeezed on the dock or the shore, shouting and greeted the ssam board and rushed to send them to the boat.

But it always takes time to transport people with such a sampan. The sea wolf did not give them enough time. Many officers and soldiers could only jump their feet in a hurry, but they could not board the ship. They watched a fleet rush straight towards their Nanri water village, and it was clear that they were getting closer and closer to them. I saw the golden sea wolf flag floating at the top of the mast of those ships.

At this time, Nanri Shuizhai was in a mess, and the sound of shouting filled the whole water village. At this time, they heard a series of roars on the other side of the Qianhu city of Puxi.

The one-eyed dragon was sent to Shuangfeng Island last time and failed to catch up with the battle between Nanri Island and Chu Cailao. This time, this guy wanted to participate in this operation, so he was sent by Yu Xiaotian to Ma Xiao's command.

Before the one-eyed dragon set off, he was ordered by Xiaotian. Before arriving at Nanrishui Village, he led several large ships to the city of Puxi Qianhu, where he shelled Puxi City and contained a large number of officers gathered in Puxi Qianhu, which made them afraid to leave Puxi City and lead a fleet to attack Nanrishui Village for Ma Xiao. Take time.

This guy is majestic today. The ships he brought are all lucky boats, each of which is equipped with 12-pound guns and more six-pounder guns.

Although these naval guns are not far away from the range, it is only for attacking enemy ships when fighting at sea. Now they let them shell the cities on land, so they don't have to worry about the range.

After leading seven large ships and leaving Ma Xiao's fleet, the one-eyed dragon immediately rushed to the Qianhu city of Puxi, which was not far from them. When it was still one or two miles away from the city of Qianhu, the one-eyed dragon brazenly ordered to start firing.

At this time, Zhang Jiace, a deputy general of Fujian, was sitting in Puxi. He gathered nearly 2,000 officers and soldiers here and was ready to set out to attack Nanri Island at any time.

For this reason, Zhang Jiace was ordered to bring several heavy guns in Zhangzhou. These heavy guns are some of the Hongyi cannons just assembled by the Fujian government in Zhangzhou last year. Although the performance of this batch of Hongyi cannons is not as good as the performance of the cannons made by the Dutch, it is also far more than other types cast before the Ming Dynasty. Cannon.

In terms of range and power, including accuracy, these newly cast Hongyi cannons have improved a lot, but one problem is that when the Fujian government casts this batch of red-clothed cannons, the craftsman's skills were limited. When the original imitation of several Hongyi cannons were tested, there were many explosion accidents.

Later, the craftsmen had to increase the thickness of the gun wall to improve the safety of the cannon, which finally solved the problem of explosives, but it brought a negative impact, that is, although the Hongyi cannon they cast was only similar to the 12-pound gun or 18-pound gun, it was far heavier than Many similar cannons have been cast by skilled Western gunners.

The heaviest Hongyi cannon even weighed 5,000 catties, and the lightest one weighed more than 2,000 catties. Although the cannons of later generations are casually heavier than these cannons, the modern cannons of later generations include steel gun racks, pipe retreat structure and aiming structure, but the cannons of this era are basically just one It's just a gun barrel.

Therefore, although Fujian officers and soldiers acquired the ability to imitate Western cannons after the Battle of Penghu, the current imitation ability is not perfect, so that the quality of the cannons they cast is poor and the weight is very clumsy.

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