Chapter 4 Hit the Wall

But Jiannu does not mean that the road has always been smooth. Some Jiannu soldiers and horses who have been assigned to attack and plunder have hit a wall in some places.

Some Jiannu encountered fierce resistance in front of some seemingly inconspicuous Zhuangbao. Some Zhuangbao, which they originally thought could be broken with just one charge, suddenly hit rows of bullets in the face, and even the sound of cannons sounded.

These slave soldiers were unprepared. Even if the beaten people turned over and suffered heavy casualties, they quickly gathered more slaves to besiege these castles, but after the fight, they found that these castles were very different from other castles.

There are many township bravery training in these Zhuangbao, and they are quite good at fighting. What's more, they are equipped with a lot of sharp firearms that Jiannu has never encountered before.

There are some birds in these castles, and they can even take people's lives 200 steps away. Many soldiers who build slaves stay at a distance that they think are very safe. Suddenly, they are inexplicably knocked to the ground by the bullets from Zhuangzi, and a big hole is made in their chest or head, even The armor on the body can't stop these bullets.

Under the fierce attack, they encountered more fierce resistance. Rows of bullets came out of the wall. No matter how thick the soldiers were, they often had no chance of survived as long as they were shot.

Even in these castles, when Jiannu attacked at the foot of the Zhuang wall, some black iron melons will be thrown under the village wall. These iron melons will suddenly explode, and Jiannu within a few meters will be blown to death by these iron melons, causing heavy casualties.

So Jiannu began to be afraid. They didn't know where these sharp firearms came from. Although they were extremely angry, it was difficult to break through these castles except at a heavy price.

And Jiannu did not enter the customs this time. Their purpose is obviously to plunder, so their favorite thing is to pick soft persimmons. Once they encounter such a fierce fortress, they would rather give up than waste time or waste their precious soldiers here. Force.

Therefore, although Jiannu attacked and plundered many places along the way, he would encounter one or two such castles from time to time. After touching a nose of ashes, Jiannu often retreated in difficulty. This is not fighting a city, but just a fortress in a district. Even if they fight to the end, they will not necessarily break through such a village in the end. How much oil and water can be retrieved, on the contrary, it is really not cost-effective to lose a lot of troops.

And they will have many opportunities in the future to break their big teeth in front of these hard castles, so the castles they encountered along the way became the iron plates kicked during the Jiannu's southern sweep, and these castles have also become some safe places in the land through which the slaves passed through. Without exception, some Zhuangbao took in a large number of people chased by the slaves and saved many lives.

Jiannu did not know the identity of the people in these castles, but the locals regarded these big families in the castles as their lifesavers. After the slaves retreated, the rescued people all respected the people in charge of these castles as gods and regarded them as benefactors, which also made these people become The most respected person in the area.

But a few people know that these so-called big houses in Zhuangbao are actually not big houses at all. On the surface, they are mostly foreign upstarts. With some rich people, they have purchased real estate locally and do some business, but in fact they are sea wolves. The intelligence personnel were assigned to these places by the sea wolf early, and until they went deep into various places in Shandong and lurked as merchants or landlords.

Once these intelligence personnel gain a foothold in the local area, they will immediately be supplemented by a group of personnel and weapons. In the castle where they are located, they will form a group training with their personnel to guard these castles.

A few months ago, they received more weapons, ammunition and food supplements, which made them stronger armed, and also allowed them to become a rock standing in the tide of slaves when they went south this time.

However, there was still a Zhuangbao, which was finally broken by the red-eyed Jiannu at any cost. When Jiannu broke through the Zhuangbao, he paid an extremely heavy price. Hundreds of people were killed and injured by the villagers in the Zhuangbao. After breaking through the Zhuangbao, the Xiangyong in Zhuangbao still fought with Jiannu to the end. In the end All were killed.

While Jiannu invaded the large compound surnamed Li in this Zhuangzi, the large household surnamed Li finally ignited the gunpowder hidden in the compound. After a loud noise, he died with Zhuang Tong and took more than 200 slave soldiers who invaded Zhuangzi, and were directly blown into scum nearby, even if it was a little farther away. You will also be shaken to death.

Later, when Jiannu cleaned up the village, he found that a large amount of grain was stored in the village, but when the village was broken, Xiang Yong, who guarded the granary, sprinkled fire and oil into the granary and ignited it, making Jiannu not get any cheap.

When the whole Zhuangzi compound exploded at the end, it was almost razed to the ground, and a big pit was blown up. It can be seen that there was a lot of gunpowder hidden here, and many strange-shaped bullets were found around the explosion.

Jiannu found some damaged bird tongs in the village. When these bird tongs were broken in the village, most of them were destroyed by the villagers or bent the tong pipe. However, Jiannu still collected these bird tongs, found a lot of dismantled and discarded parts, and finally let the craftsman assemble two bird tongs.

Jiannu found that these birds are very well made, and the materials are also very good. What surprised them most is that these birds can be fired without using a fire rope. The birds are equipped with a set of shooting mechanism. After pulling the faucet, there is a flint on it. When it is fired, the flint falls and hits Hitting the fire door will hit Mars, and Mars will fall into the medicine pool, ignite the medicine pool to attract medicine, and finally complete the launch.

What they don't understand most is that in the barrels of these birds, many of them are not smooth, but they don't know how to carve several grooves, which can still be launched. It's really strange.

Such a delicate institution amazed Jiannu and collected it as a treasure. It is ready to be brought back to the customs this time for the craftsmen to see if it can be imitated.

This is also the first time that Jiannu has obtained such a firearm in recent years. Unfortunately, even if they take these repaired birds out of the customs, they can't imitate them in large quantities, because no one knows how the rod lines in the tubes are carved, so At best, it can only simply imitate the flimping mechanism, but the reed in the flimping mechanism requires very high craftsmanship and quite good steel to build. It is completely impossible to effectively imitate without repeated tests.

This is also the reason why after so many years of fighting around and the number of guns left behind is not less than three digits, there is still no one who has succeeded in imitating the wolf tooth rifle of the sea wolf. Even the Dutch, Spaniards and the Portuguese, have tried their best to get one at the expense of money. Wolf-tooth rifle, but in the end, their craftsmen can only imitate the musket structure, but not the rifling of the barrel.

This time, the Jiannu army gained a huge harvest, and its self-confidence also soared to the commanding heights. All the way, they began to travel to Hejianfu, their scheduled meeting place. Although there were also many Ming officers and soldiers along the way, these officers and soldiers have long been scared by the fierceness of the Jiannu army, whether they are civil servants or civil servants. It was the generals who were scared enough. When they heard that the Jiannu army was coming, they were so scared that they fled into the city early, poking their buttocks and making a posture of strict defense.

And Jiannu is now full of plundering enough. Of course, they will still take the opportunity along the way, but for Jiancheng, they no longer attack fiercely.

So when they went to some states and counties, they saw that the officers and soldiers were closed and did not dare to go out of the city to fight against them, and no one took the initiative to stop them, so they swaggered past these cities.

Those Ming officers and soldiers looked at the Jiannu army and the refugee team they had taken away with fear. Not to mention letting them go out of the city to stop them. Seeing that Jiannu did not attack their city, they all felt that they had burned incense.

Therefore, on the way to retreat, Jiannu basically did not encounter the effective interception of the Ming army. After this **, he once again drove thousands of miles to the Hejian Mansion.

According to their plan, they will no longer return on the old road this time. They can continue to loot along the way, go directly to the northeast, from Hejianfu and then through Tianjin Wei, and choose to go out of the customs along the Great Wall.

But they didn't know that at this time, there were a large number of ships in Bohai Bay, heading towards Tianjin Wei.

From the beginning of September of the 11th year of Chongzhen, some fishermen along the coast of Shandong, Nanzhili and Zhejiang began to find batches of large ships on the sea, formed formations, all the way north along the coastline, and sometimes even some defenders on the shore, as well as sporadic officers and sailors in these places, all found this A kind of abnormality.

These ships to the north are basically fully loaded, with deep water. It can be seen that the ship is full of various materials, and there are small fast ships around these fleets.

And the flags hung by these ships are all sea wolf flags. Nowadays, as long as the sea wolf flags are beggars on the coast of China, no one knows it. Pirates can be said that they hate this sea wolf flag to the bone, but at the same time, they are also frightened by the wind. How many pirates did not understand the power of sea wolves before. The rushing boat rushed over and tried to make a lot of money, but the result was that the head was bleeding, and many pirates were killed on the spot.

And some large pirates wanted to fight against this group of sea wolves at first, but the result was that they were beaten by the sea wolf's warships and the sailors of the Yu family on the ship.

Nowadays, almost all of China's coastal waters have been controlled by sea wolves. Although it cannot be said that the control is very strict and has completely flattened the giant pirates on the sea, as for the remaining small scattered pirates, none of them are clear. The ship with the sea wolf flag can't touch anything.

So when the sea wolf ships are moving along the coast of China, not to mention a fleet, even if there are only one or two ships, ordinary pirates will immediately roll up their flags and retreat.

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