Chapter 154 The power of one shot!
Zheng Wenxian has been hero on the sea with his father since he was a child. At least he is a man of war for a long time. Although at the beginning, he was shocked by those giant warships that could be seen at a glance that were definitely made by the Xiyi people, he quickly adjusted his mentality.
"Hehe, seven Xiyi warships, it seems that the Liang family has really made a lot of money. Unfortunately, not to mention seven, what about even seventy warships? Could it be that their naval guns can still hit here? Zheng Wenxian pointed to the Liangfu warships that were slowly approaching the dock and smiled disdainfully.
"What the young master said is that, brothers, cheer up and strictly guard their posts. There are only several warships in the Liang family. Can they still attack us here?" Zheng Wenxian's words were immediately echoed by his subordinates. Thinking about it, the Zheng family has been standing for more than a hundred years. I don't know how many ups and downs they have experienced, but they still survived. Besides, even if the other party has a strong ship and a sharp gun, it may be able to dominate the sea, but at present, Zheng only needs to guard the castle, not rush out to fight. No matter how far the gun is, it can't hit here.
And on top of this castle, there are 18-pound heavy cannons, and even six 24-pound heavy cannons purchased with heavy money from British smugglers just a few months ago. With these heavy cannons, even if the Liang family's pirates are armed to their teeth, they can only die.
"Come on, it's better to go ashore and attack, so that I can let you taste the strength of the Zheng family's artillery." Zheng Wenxian smiled disdainfully and looked coldly at the Liang family warships that were docking.
At this time, Liang Pengfei had already set foot on the shrimp whiskers pier with a small boat. Before and after him, countless Liang pirates were surging in, biting the knife in his mouth and throwing out the hook rope, like agile spiders. He climbed on the Zheng's fast boats that were still moored at the dock to search for hidden enemies. .
"Is this the nest of the Zheng family? Shit..." After seeing the tower and city wall lying on the ground, which still looked towering, and the cannons of the black holes behind the female wall, Liang Pengfei couldn't help but say that although he had been psychologically prepared for a long time, he still had to be shocked at this moment. The kind of tower with a height of at least four feet, and those at the lowest point must have more than three feet of walls.
If it is a cold weapon war, even if it is a soldier armed to the teeth, I'm afraid he will have to pay a heavy price to break through. But now, Liang Pengfei grinned, turned around and roared at Bai Shusheng, who was standing beside him, "Let them move these fast boats away, let the soldiers get off the ship first, set up the beach position, and prepare to unload the heavy artillery."
Soon, the Zheng family's fast ships moved out of the berth for the two warships carrying 32-pound heavy artillery and 18-pound heavy artillery. After the other warships were moored, the Liang pirates, who were dressed in two pieces of lacquer black, holding muskets and swords around their waists, rushed to the docks from the decks of those warships in an orderly manner, and quickly formed a row of scattered lines near the dock.
Their clothes are no longer like the World Expo. The black linen trousers, collars and epaulettes are all embroidered by Liang Pengfei with colored threads according to the style of later generations. At this stage, except for the institutionalization and unification of weapons, military uniforms and military ranks, there is no time for other work. Do it, but at least from Liang Pengfei's point of view, this Liang's pirate force, which originally belonged to the bravery, has gradually begun to have the prototype of a modern army.
Today, it is for the purpose of military training, so Liang Pengfei asked his father to pull the team here to test how the combat effectiveness of this unit, which has been reorganized and regulated for nearly three months, has been improved.
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As for the troops of the new camp navy, Liang Pengfei handed over Liang Liansheng, Liang Shuisheng brothers and Wu Liang, the general manager of the battalion, to attack another important anchorage of the Zheng family on Lantau Island, but he himself escaped and made a special trip to clean up the Zheng family's nest. At this time, Liang Yuanxia Liang Da The officials have led hundreds of soldiers to the nameless island opposite the shrimp beard row.
In addition to a low reef rocky mountain on this small island with an area of less than two miles, there are many caves eroded by seawater on the edge of the island. Search for me. Even if I search through every cave, I have to find the treasure of the Zheng family for me. The official Liang held a musket in one hand and a sword in the other. There was no modesty of a businessman. It was completely like an old thief with countless criminal backgrounds and still actively committed crimes. His eyes were like a beast to devour living people alive. His expression was like Sun Dianying, who had just commanded his engineers to bombard the Cixi Tomb with explosives, excited and distorted.
One hundred and fifty years ago, Zheng Jian, the ancestor of Zheng Lianchang, was already a general under Zheng Zhilong, the first pirate that day. The Liang family was only a poor middle-aged farmer facing the loess. After the Liang family changed his job as a pirate, through a hundred years of accumulation, they had the capital that could be as rich as the country. The original capital of the Zheng family is much thicker than that of the old Liang family. The accumulation of more than 150 years is definitely a huge amount, oh no, huge, or huge wealth.
After his men made a loud promise, they quickly dispersed on the unknown island like ants and began to search for all suspicious areas, hoping to find the wealth accumulated by the Zheng family for more than 100 years in the shortest time.
You should know that in the war between pirates, in addition to fighting on the sea, they often copy each other's nests and family backgrounds. It can be said that every pirate is a treasure expert, and at the same time, it is also a treasure search expert. Because they can understand the thinking mode of pirates and the way to hide treasures.
And when he stood on the castle and saw a Liang family warship landing on the nameless island through monoculars, Zheng Wenxian, who was originally full of confidence, suddenly looked like a high-quality putty paste. As white as it was, it was as white as it was.
"Young master, what should I do? Should we send someone to rush and take advantage of them who have just landed and are not on their feet. He beat them hard and attract their attention. Next to him, Zheng Wenxian's distant nephew, Zheng Jiaju, as a senior commander in the direct line of the Zheng family, came to Zheng Wenxian's ear and whispered a suggestion. Only a direct line like them can know the important surname of the island.
"No way!" Zheng Wenxian obviously hesitated for a moment, or gritted his teeth and shook his head with difficulty: "We can't take this risk. If we guard the castle, the Liang family's strong ships and cannons can't do anything about us. But if we rush out, it's equivalent to giving up our advantage and dying. This can't be done. I just hope my father. They could have known that something had happened here earlier and could come back in time. Kill these despicable robbers. The tone was as if they were blocked by bandits at home, the most innocent people in the world.
"Yes!" Zheng Jiaju could only nod his head helplessly. Looking at the Liang pirates who were still busy on the dock, he really hated it. These guys really knew how to seize the opportunity. Zheng Wenxian stood on the gate. Although he looked quite chic and leisurely, he also played a small drum in his heart. He had already seen the dock. After carrying a lot of artillery and personnel, Liang Pengfei had no intention of attacking at all and seemed to be waiting for something.
However, Zheng Wenxian soon knew the answer, because he saw that the Liang family had unloaded a huge cannon from those warships that he had never seen before, which seemed to be so huge that it was not like a cannon.
After looking at the two giant cannons with six rollers that were slowly dragged forward by about a dozen horses, Zheng Wenxian couldn't help taking a breath. By visual inspection alone, Zheng Wenxian was 100% sure that the caliber of that kind of gun was far from comparable to that of a 24-pound heavy cannon.
At this time, the Zheng pirates on the tower have also seen the strangeness of the dock in the distance, and their faces are different.
"Such a huge gun, my mother, how many pounds of gun is this?" A Zheng pirate couldn't help whispering to his companions around him. The other party's face turned a little pale: "I don't know, but looking at its gun body, it's at least one lap larger than our 24-pound heavy cannon. I'm afraid it's 30 pounds."
Hearing this, the faces of the Zheng pirates seemed to be twitched fiercely by a firecracker, and the neat gasp seemed to drain the air in this area.
"What the hell are you afraid of? Isn't it just two broken things? Don't forget that on our wall, there are more than 50 18-pound cannons, and six 24-pound cannons bought from Xiyi. We are condescending. Can't we beat them?" Zheng Wenxian cleared his throat and shouted loudly. Suddenly, it attracted a lot of people to agree in unison, and some of the pirates of the Zheng family were also a little embarrassed, as if they felt that their actions just now were really a little humiliating.
"Say your grandma's, hurry up. Now is not the time to procrastinate. Take out all your milk and pile it up with me!" Liang Pengfei, who picked up his sleeves on the dock and joined the push-pull gun industry, was also not calm. Time, what he lacked most was time.
After learning from his father that the Green Flag Gang and his father's fleet were staggered, Liang Pengfei's heart almost raised his throat. However, he knew from Shi Xianggu that the relationship between the Green Flag Gang Xu Sanyan and Zheng Lianchang was absolutely not simple. When the Zheng family was fighting with the court of the sailors, his fleet was in a hurry. Going to the west, except for the court sailors of Dahengqin Island, Liang Pengfei really couldn't think of any reason for Xu Sanyan to put aside his firm ally Zheng Lianchang and lead the fleet to the west at this time.
Before that, it was not that Liang Pengfei had never thought of swallowing the results alone, but he was just thinking about it. It was impossible at all. Now, Liang Pengfei found that the opportunity was already in front of him. Unfortunately, Zheng Lianchang would not leave his nest for too long. Therefore, Liang Pengfei can only race against time.
"Time is tight and the task is heavy." Liang Pengfei sighed and continued to push the heavy artillery forward with his men.
These guns have been modified as early as Liang Pengfei's battle to defend the island, and all of them are equipped with wheels. Although it is extremely difficult to move forward because of the heavy gun body and road conditions, with the collective efforts of the horse dragging people, they can finally follow You have to move forward with the team.
Just about four miles away from the tower, Liang Jiajun finally stopped to move forward and began to line up. The two 32-pound guns were pushed to the front of the team. The gunners who had been protected in the rear finally appeared around the two giant cannons and began to proofread the guns and adjust the shooting angle, almost Young Master Liang, who was exhausted, could only sit next to him and gasp for breath at this moment.
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On the left, there are all the top gunners in the Liang family's pirates. Headed by Brother Li Pao, he quickly made this heavy cannon there. With his natural keen sense, Brother Li Pao let those gunners adjust the direction and angle of the cannon.
On the right, there are three brown-haired Spanish officers, who are commanding a group of young Chinese artillery cadets in their mother tongue to make the 32-pound artillery on the right.
And one of the Spanish officers, holding a paper in one hand, a pen in the other, and a tool in the Zheng family's castle for a long time, recording the next number. Next to him, there were also many Chinese artillery cadets who listened and recorded it quickly.
"Young master, the little one is ready and can test the gun at any time." While the Spanish and their artillery cadets were still busy, Brother Li Pao appeared in front of Liang Pengfei with a hippie smile of a cigarette. Liang Pengfei, who had finally recovered, stood up and looked at the artillery cadets who were already busy to the end.
These students who have just come into contact with artillery are different from those old gunners. Those old gunners rely on talent and experience, while these students rely on tools and sophisticated calculations. Under the education of those Spanish officers, they are learning and growing, although there is still nothing. No experience can be accumulated, but through systematic learning, the gap between them can be filled.
Seeing them, Liang Pengfei suddenly felt that his fatigue seemed to have dissipated a lot at this moment. These little guys were all Liang Pengfei's efforts to carefully selected from those pirates and Liang's children who could not only endure hardships, but also had a mind, except for these more than 30 artillery students. In addition, a considerable number of students stayed on Crab King Island and continued to learn all kinds of knowledge from those Spanish officers.
These people are the grass-roots officers trained by Liang Pengfei. As long as they work hard, maybe there will be marshals or generals among them. Liang Pengfei thought happily.
"Okay, let's start the test, Brother Pao, you come first. It's better to get a lottery." Liang Pengfei patted Brother Li Pao on the shoulder and ordered.
"Don't worry, young master, I really haven't let it go since I started to play with cannons." Brother Li Pao was overjoyed and quickly stood straight to Liang Pengfei.
"They have begun to line up, as if they are ready to shoot." Zheng Jiaju's face was a little pale, and the sweat on his forehead kept coming out. He never thought that the pirates of the Liang family had set their positions outside the range of 18 pounds and 24 pounds of heavy artillery on the city wall.
"Can their cannons have hit so far?" Zheng Wenxian's face is not much better than that of Zheng Jiaju. As soon as his words fell, he heard a loud sound that made people tremble, like thunder running over the sky, a dull and heavy roar, like the roar of the most terrible demon in the abyss of hell.
All the Zheng pirates standing on the tower were slightly stagnant at this moment, and the next moment, they felt as if they were no longer standing on the strong gate, but on a ball of soft cotton. The violent vibration made Zheng Wenxian unable to maintain a standing posture. He quickly rushed forward and leaned on the female wall. Up.
Zheng Wenxian was still in shock and heard the neat cheers from the distance. Naturally, the sound came from the pirates of the Liang family opposite. When Zheng Wenxian got up, lay on the female wall and looked down at the tower, his face turned dead gray in an instant. He clearly saw that the solid wall piled up by thick green bricks had been bombarded by the projectile of the terrible cannon at least three feet in diameter. The deep pit, which shocked him more, was the terrible turtle crack road on the wall.
"Return, fight back to me!" Zheng Wenxian could no longer care about the young master's demeanor. He roared loudly, stared at the eyes whose pupils had expanded to the extreme, and shouted at those men who had not yet woken up from the bombardment of the heavy artillery.
Hearing the heartbreaking roar of Zheng Wenxian's father and mother's marriage, the pirates of the Zheng family finally woke up from the power of the heavy artillery and rushed to their respective posts one after another. Soon, dozens of white smokes of white smoke spewed out from the cannon eyes of the Zheng's castle, accompanied by the earth-shaking With the sound of gunfire, countless dark bullets roared and tore open the air and rushed fiercely at the Liang pirates in front of them.
The power of dozens of artillery fireing together absolutely doubled the courage of the Zheng family's men at this moment. They all widened their eyes eagerly, hoping that the iron black projectiles could hit the target. Even if dozens of cannons could only kill one enemy, for them, it was definitely the most morale.
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(to be continued)