Chapter 4 Vice General

Even so, the officers and soldiers still regard it as a magic weapon, and spared a lot of manpower and material resources to transport these cannons to Puxi's house and the peace guard, ready to attack the sea wolf village.

The reason is that Zhu Qinxiang also heard that the sea wolf has Western red cannons. Although he does not believe that the sea wolf can cast these cannons, he does not dare to ensure that the sea wolf does not have red cannons. Even if the sea wolf has some red yi cannons, in order to defeat the enemy, he pulled these red cannons to Puxi for peace. The sea guard is ready to throw it into the attack on the sea wolf.

However, although these cannons are shipped here, they cannot fire on the ship, because these cannons are too heavy, and most of the warships of the officers and soldiers are relatively old and have insufficient structural strength. In addition, these cannons can only be loaded on the deck, which makes the ship's center of gravity too high. Once they are placed on the ship as naval guns, it is estimated that After one shot, the recoil sank itself.

Thinking about it, the warships of the officers and soldiers have not been improved since Zheng He went to the West. On the contrary, they are getting smaller and smaller, so that after the end of the Ming Dynasty, except for the sealed boats built by the imperial court, the warships are basically within 400 materials. In the era of Qi Jiajun, the officers and sailors had a lot of fire, but the funny thing is that The big fire can only be fired after being put on a large raft when it is used. The hull cannot withstand the recoil of the big fire. As for the current Hongyi cannon, they naturally dare not easily install it on warships.

In fact, even the sea wolf itself is also very careful when solving this problem. However, whenever the ship is equipped with a 12-pound gun, it is necessary to strengthen the hull, increase the internal load-bearing structure, increase the ballast stone, and reduce the weight of the ship, so that their 12-pound cannon can be installed on a larger ship, but also It is limited to ordinary 12-pound howitzers, and even 12-pound long guns cannot be loaded.

It was not until they built their own sloop that they could really install 12-pound long guns on warships. Now they have tried to produce 12-pound short guns in order to make smaller ships load larger guns.

After the officers and soldiers pulled these cannons to Puxi's house, Zhang Jiace had just struggled to get two of them on the wall of the Acropolis in the past few days. The reason was that he was also reminded by Liu Yinglong. He was a little worried that the sea wolves would preempt and kill them at this time and catch them off guard.

Today, Zhang Jiace was idle and was gathering with several generals to drink at his residence. Suddenly, he heard a few gunshots from the direction of Haikou, not far from their Puxi, so Zhang Jiace frowned and asked, "What's going on outside? Why is there a gunfire on the sea?

The own soldiers were also a little confused and said that they would check it immediately, but after a while, the sentry on the city of Puxi shouted, "Thief ship!" The thief ship is coming! Enemy attack!"

As soon as the voice spread, Puxi immediately became confused. Zhang Jiace lost the wine glass in his hand and waved his hand: "Go quickly to your subordinates! Get ready to fight!"

And he immediately took his own soldiers out of the city wall and looked far into the east sea. When he saw the situation of the sea, Zhang Jiace was also shocked, because at this time, a fleet of ships on the sea had crossed the ox head tail of Meizhou Island and came towards them. .

While he was still busy observing the situation at sea, the fleet at sea suddenly heard a burst of gunfire. From afar, it could be seen that several thieves on the sea spewed out fire and raised groups of smoke. Then he saw that one should be officers and soldiers. The sailor's sentry boat began to rush to the bull's head and tail shoal, and soon fell into the shoal and ran aground there.

As a deputy general, Zhang Jiace's main responsibility has also been to defend against pirates and lead troops against the invasion of the red-haired people on the coast. Therefore, he has seen a lot of big field. Although he was shocked, he did not lose his temper. He immediately ordered the officers and soldiers stationed here to immediately complete the team, not be confused, and transferred a group of officers. Soldiers, immediately go to the city and prepare to defend.

At this time, the seven large ships led by the one-eyed dragon on the sea had sailed to Puxi City and came over according to their Acropolis.

Zhang Jiace looked at the several thief boats that came, and his heart moved, but he did not feel nervous, because there were only seven enemy ships coming towards Puxi City. Although they were also large ships, even if each ship loaded 100 pirates, it was only a few hundred people.

At present, there are more than 2,000 officers and soldiers in Puxi City. In addition, there are nearly 3,000 troops in the city. Unless their heads are clamped by the door panels, they should not go ashore to attack Puxi City, even if their heads are indeed caught by the door panels and land to attack the city, that pair It's even better for him. He can take the opportunity to lead the army to repel them. As long as he kills dozens of pirates, this is a first achievement.

So Zhang Jiace immediately issued an order, ordering his guerrilla Zheng Jiamo to immediately order a thousand soldiers and gather outside the Acropolis, ready to attack the pirates landing at any time. As long as the pirates dare to dock, they will immediately block them, squeeze the pirates on the beach, and annihilate them!

Just as Zhang Jiace was busy dispatching troops, several large ships led by the one-eyed dragon had approached the coast.

The Acropolis of Puxi was originally used to prevent Japan from preparing for Japan, mainly to prevent pirates or pirates to disturb the land, so the Acropolis was built very close to the coast, at best only about 100 steps away from the sea. In this way, some artillery on the Acropolis can reach the seaside and can directly use cannons directly. Bombard the pirates who landed.

But today they have encountered a hard stubble. The sea wolf is not an ordinary pirate. Even if the pirates have cannons on hand, they can't fight far, but the sea wolf's warships are equipped with six pounds and 12 pounds of new Western-style cannons, and the quality is higher than the current cannons cast in Western countries. The range is not at all. It is worse than the similar Hongyi cannon.

So when the one-eyed dragon led the fleet to approach the coast, it did not rush directly to the coast, but a few hundred steps away from the coast, it suddenly turned to line up the fleet, leveling the coast, and pointed the right side of the ship at Puxi City on the coast.

At this time, Zhang Jiace's officers and soldiers were also ready to defend against the enemy. All kinds of artillery in the city began to be loaded. The firearms also climbed the wall, and a thousand officers and soldiers also came out of the Acropolis and began to line up outside the city. When the sea wolf landed, they were ready to attack the sea wolf head-on.

At this time, the flag on the sea wolf ship has indicated their identity. After seeing the golden wolf flag flying on these ships, Zhang Jiace couldn't help scolding in his heart. If these werewolves were really arrogant and bold, they didn't wait for their officers and soldiers to go to Nanri Island to suppress them, but first Kill it and prepare to take the lead. Isn't this going to die?

At this time, someone reminded Zhang Jiace: "Your excellency! The pirates didn't seem to want to land and attack our Acropolis. Their fleet only divided up a few boats, and the rest of the fleet went to Nanrishui Village in the south!"

Zhang Jiace looked at the sea, and the sea wolf's fleet only divided a small number of ships to come towards Puxi City, where he was, while most of the ships began to turn south and went straight to Nanrishui Village.

Zhang Jiace's heart thumped and remembered the worries raised by Liu Yinglong coming to see him a few days ago, and the Nanri Water Village was not comparable to Puxi City. The water village facilities there were dilapidated. Although the warships were concentrated there, today these pirates came suddenly. Before that, they did not get any beacon fire from Meizhou Island. Taiwan's warning suddenly appeared in Pinghai Bay, and Liu Yinglong, who was on the other side of Nanrishui Village, was afraid of trouble.

So he immediately ordered to order the next president, order 500 soldiers, and immediately rushed to Nanri Shuizhai to see if he could help Liu Yinglong.

When arranging these things, Zhang Jiace was also paying attention to the thief ships sailing on the sea and silently calculating the distance between the enemy ships and the Acropolis. When he saw these thief ships, they did not directly dock, but suddenly turned on the sea outside the city and aimed at Puxi City with the side of the ship.

Zhang Jiace's heart skipped again, because he had fought with the Red-haired people before and relatively understood the tactics of the Red-haired people. The cannons on these red-haired ships were far away, accurate and powerful. Over the years, they have repeatedly violated the situation, often harassed the coastal state capitals and counties, and went ashore to plunder.

Often, after these red-haired people drive their boats to the seaside, once there is a fortress wall on the shore and soldiers are stationed, they are not in a hurry to dock, but cross the boat, aim the boat side at the shore, and then begin to bombard the city on the shore.

The cannon of the Ming army, because it is short and thick and has no aim, has nothing to do with the red-haired boat parked far away on the sea. It can only be beaten with its neck. Often the defenders can't even touch the edge of the red-haired man at all, so they are bombarded by the red-haired man with cannons on the ship.

And today, I didn't expect that these pirates would also use this trick, which looks like the tactics used by the red-haired ship, so the next...

Zhang Jiace's heart suddenly shrank and felt a strong uneasiness.

At this time, the sea wolf's fleet had been arranged in a horizontal array on the sea near Puxi. The cannon at the side of the ship had already uncovered the gun coat, revealing the black hole muzzle. The gunners shouted loudly and pushed the cannon to the port of the port, slowly raised the muzzle. Someone had already raised the torch, so When they began to turn, the artillery had been loaded, and only a single order could be fired