socalfunplaces Chapter 373
Chapter 373
The weather was sunny and cloudless.
The sea breeze is warm, and the boats come and go.
Higashieikai!
Edo Bay Mouth!
Ships come and go, bustling and lively, merchants and ronin samurai are mixed, and a new day of life begins.
The fishermen who get up early, in order to make a living for the day, are ready to go out to sea to catch fish and shrimp.
Suddenly, the waves were blowing.
On the surface of the sea, the sound of whirring sails and breaking waves was heard.
"What's that?"
"Boat?"
"Is it a pirate?"
"Huh, no kidding, how can there be pirates here?"
Ding Ding Ding...
When people are wondering.
The tower was sentry, sounding the alarm.
At this time, people with better eyesight can also see clearly.
The other party's flag is different from Dongying.
"The pirates are coming? It can't be, isn't it? What pirates dare to come and fight us?"
Many Dongying people were stunned.
Didn't you say that there were many pirates in Dongying?
If you want to be rich, just go to the coast of Daming and plunder.
Why now, being beaten to the door?
What about the ships they patrol the open seas?
All gone?
All kinds of doubts could not stop the spread of panic, and the fishermen, merchants, etc. in the port were all in a mess.
Everyone is on the run, for fear that they will be slower and robbed by pirates.
The official in charge of the port, when he heard the alarm bell, trembled with fright, and hurriedly got up from the geisha, and ran out disheveled.
Fortunately, his adjutant organized the manpower for him.
They took the samurai and ashigaru and rushed to the port.
"Go and inform the sailor!"
The officials knew that relying on them to defend against pirates was unreliable, and they had to let the sailors come forward.
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a "boom" from afar, accompanied by a sharp whistling sound.
"What sound?"
He was stunned for a moment.
The adjutant was also stunned, and when he looked up, a black thing flew through the sky and flew towards them.
"It's a cannonball!"
A samurai with a little insight let out a frightened shout.
"I've met pirates in the Qing Dynasty, they are not very good at martial arts, but they have this kind of artillery that can breathe fire and explode!"
Artillery?
The officials naturally knew that the guys in the sailors were asking the general to allocate funds to buy and develop artillery for them.
They believe that this is a sharp weapon to change ordinary people and be weak to martial arts masters.
With firearms.
Even ordinary people, under a sneak attack, can kill an innate master.
Is there more ordinary people in the world, or is there more congenital?
Imagine again, if you are a congenital master, equipped with more advanced and powerful firearms, will it be stronger?
Sailors, those madmen!
But the artillery of the sailors, not so far, right?
Can the opponent attack here from the sea?
When the official was puzzled, he only heard a "flash away" from his subordinates, and he was thrown to the ground by a figure.
Immediately!
Rumble!
A violent explosion rang out next to them, and a fierce flame, accompanied by a wave of air, set the wooden house on fire.
The official's whole body was swept away, fell a foot away, and the samurai who threw him down, was directly shocked by the air wave and vomited blood to death.
And the explosion, more than one place.
Boom Boom!
On the Black Pearl.
The heroic Mei Chaofeng overlooked the [Nether Eye] from afar, and under a volley of artillery fire, the port was filled with gunsmoke.
The Black Pearl, equipped with 36 16-pounder cannons, is the absolute king on the sea of Kyushu.
Of the 1,000 shells on the ship, there are still 700 rounds left under Mei Chaofeng's frugality.
Moreover, the 300 rounds used up were still used in the early days of going to sea, when the power was not large, and more were used.
By the time she gained a foothold on the sea and got more ships, the Black Pearl's guns didn't sound much.
Because it doesn't need to.
The characteristic of the Black Pearl is that it is always downwind, bringing super high speed.
At this high speed, no ship can threaten it, but it can use this speed to eat all enemies.
Now, in order to deal with Dongying.
She used up 18 shells in this round of shelling.
Some shells landed in the harbor, some in the sea, some blew up fishing boats, and flames and black smoke rose.
This brought even greater panic to those Dongying people.
People are fleeing in panic.
Others knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.
Not everyone, known about artillery, many only heard the thunder of ".boom", and then there was an explosion.
It's like God is angry.
"Sharp weapons, sharp weapons of war!"
On the ship, Lei Juan, Shen Bian'er, and Lei Chun witnessed the loading and firing of the [Black Pearl] gun.
Lei Juan was wrapped under his coat, his thin body was trembling, and his mood was difficult to calm down.
"Wrong, wrong!"
"Although our Lei family studies gunpowder and firearms, we only use it to cooperate with various martial arts, and we have never thought about how to amplify the power of gunpowder and make better use of it. "
"This kind of power is not inferior to a congenital blow, if there is a bigger and better artillery, wouldn't it be a cannon down, and the city walls will be gone?"
The people of the Lei family were very excited.
Gunpowder, but what they do best.
Some people's minds suddenly opened up and saw a more wonderful world.
Many times, invention is like this, what is missing is a kind of thinking, a direction.
As long as you find the direction, the experience accumulated in the past will be turned into motivation and push people forward.
The Lei family has been playing with gunpowder for hundreds of years, and has been circling in the rivers and lakes.
But he never found the real way.
"The prince and the Lei family cooperate in the right direction of researching firearms, as long as it is successful, the mode of war will usher in a change!" (read the violent novel, go to the Feilu novel network!)
On the deck, Zhao Shirong observed, and the suppression of the [Black Pearl]'s artillery fire shocked her heart.
She had concerns about Zhao Wuxian's reuse of the Lei family and the introduction of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce.
Looking at it now, Zhao Wuxian's vision is ahead of his time.
"However, let the Lei family control these..."
Zhao Shirong glanced at Lei Roll them.
Thunder Roll seemed to notice something, looking at her.
It's just that Zhao Shirong has already looked to the other side, the sound of horns and war drums is far away, and a fleet of ships sails out.
"The sailor is out!"
"Turn the rudder!"
Mei Chaofeng ordered.
The Black Pearl began to evacuate, seemingly scared of the sailors.
"Catch up and kill them!"
The general who commanded this sailor was furious, and a ship dared to attack the port, which was a proper slap in the face!
If you don't kill the other party, it's a shame.
He stood at the bow of the ship, drew his sword and shouted.
The nine warships he brought out were in hot pursuit of the Black Pearl.
"Shoot me!"
His flagship, which had a bow gun, was purchased by the sailors at great expense from the pirates of the Qing Dynasty.
"My lord, if you can't hit this distance, it's a waste of shells!" his subordinates persuaded.
"Damn!"
The general slashed at the side of the ship, looked back at the port, calmed down, and said, "Don't chase it, the opponent's artillery is more fierce." "
"We'll be teased if we chase it out!"
Mei Chaofeng saw Dongying's fleet slowing down, and sneered: "Turn the rudder, face the enemy on the right side, and prepare to fire!"
In fact, she deliberately gave the other party a chance to close the distance, waiting for the fleet to "stop" when it slowed down and turned.
Boom Boom!
The guns on the port side spit out fire and smoke, and smashed shells into the Dongying fleet.
Under the sound of the explosion, the general was cold, looking at the ships around him, some of the masts were broken, and some of the hulls were broken.
Only one attack, nine ships, five were heavily damaged, one began to sink, and the other three were in shock.
The general's eyes were red, this kind of loss was too heavy, and he only had to apologize when he went back to apologize.
He looked at the black, charred three-masted galleon, and was furious.
"'Forward, rush to it for me, engage in broadside combat!'"
The general is a congenital warrior, and the people on the ship are also well-trained warriors, and their individual strength is not bad.
In the past, they fought all by engaging the side and won the victory.
Therefore, the shouts of the generals aroused the common hatred of all the crews, and they drew their swords one after another, and the sails were full.
"Want to engage in broadboard?"
Mei Chaofeng disdainfully, [Black Pearl], is not afraid of broadside battles, and now there are many masters on the ship.
Zhao Shirong, the first realm of the grandmaster.
Thunder Scroll, the innate third realm.
Shen Bian'er, Lei Chun, Mei Chaofeng, the second realm of congenital nature.
The rest of the Lei family, as well as a few masters on the ship, put together seven innate first realms.
The other crew members, with the assistance of Zhao Wuxian's elixir, were also very strong.
With such a lineup, how can you lose in a pick-and-shoot battle?
Zhao Shirong, Mei Chaofeng, and Lei Juan have not yet made a move, and the warriors on the three Dongying warships have been slaughtered.
At the port, the officials who had been bombed to black saw that the fleet was completely wiped out, as if they were in an ice cellar, and they were cold.
What scared him even more was the end of the sea.
One warship after another, leaping out of the sea.
The warships lined up in the shape of "people", there are more than 30 of them, riding the wind and waves, and there is a great sense of oppression.
......
Quiet woods.
Occasionally, there are birds returning at night, and there are bursts of chirping.
The breeze blew, and in front of the lush mountain peaks, Zhao Wuxian looked out at the mines, where a large number of slaves were panning for gold in the river.
This is a gold mine controlled by the Yanagi family.
Gold, when it was discovered.
Since ancient times, it has been a symbol of wealth.
People are more obsessed with it than beauty.
Now, all this wealth belongs to Zhao Wuxian.
"Plundering is the fastest way to develop. "
Zhao Wuxian squinted slightly.
The accumulation of capital has always been bloody, and all benevolence and morality have to give way in front of these.
If the Great Song Dynasty does not change, does not develop, and continues to lag behind, it will perish, and the butcher's knives of Liao, Jin, and Mengyuan will not be merciful.
History only writes the words of Jingkang's shame and the slaughter of the city and the destruction of the country, but behind that, how many Song people were displaced?
Zhao Wuxian exhaled, glanced at the masked woman in white beside him, and said, "What do you think, how is your sister doing?"
"She has her choice!"
The woman in white wiped her forehead with red silk, a wooden hairpin in her bun, a white dress with small sleeves, a jade belt around her waist, and a cold temperament on her body.
She's the third heart demon slave, Yukizakura!
Yanagi Piao's sister, Yanagi Yukihime Hook!
Under Zhu Yuyan's tutelage, she practiced the "Heavenly Demon Sutra", and she entered the realm quickly, and now it is the second realm of congenital nature.
Zhao Wuxian smiled lightly and said, "What about you?"
Yanagi Yukihime said: "I'm the master's." "
Zhao Wuxian smiled slightly.
"The war will be under control, and the shogun will soon send someone to negotiate peace. "
"But Dongying Martial Arts, after this purge, will inevitably be torn apart, and people with lofty ideals will take us as enemies, I need eyes and ears. "
Yanagi Xue Ji understood, half-knelt down, and said, "I am the eyes and ears of the master!"