"Captain, forget it, it's blinded anyway, don't reward or punish." The squadron leader next to him hurried and sludge.

"I'm not blind, I'm aiming to fight!" Who knew that Chu Liuxiang didn't appreciate it.

"Yo ho, if you give you a needle eye, you will dare to admit it, and if you give you a hole, you kid is bold enough." Wang Rulong slapped him on the head again.

"I'm really aiming to fight." Chu Liuxiang seemed to be greatly insulted, and blushed and said, "Isn't the cannon just to hit?" Why did you punish me if I was hit, and said that I was blinded? ”

"Stop......" Wang Rulong saw that this kid was a little spindle, so he quickly stopped talking and said: "Simple, you can shoot again, if you hit, Lao Tzu will not only punish you, but also reward you!" ”

"Good!" Chu Liuxiang was not stage frightened, and agreed.

At this time, the security guards had already packed up the deck, and when they saw the excitement, they hurriedly opened a box of cannonballs and cleared a snake cannon on the main deck.

Wang Rulong glanced at the sea, stretched out his right arm and squinted his left eye, and pointed his thumb at a reef next to the mouth of the East Sea, which was the ranging method passed on to them by the marshal, and he also passed it to his security guards without reservation.

"Let's hit the reef 1.1 kilometers away." Wang Rulong gave an order to Chu Liuxiang.

"Okay!" Chu Liuxiang nodded, thought for a while, subtracted one percent of the fixed propellant, stuffed it into the barrel, compacted it with a pressure rod and pestle, and then filled it with a cannonball wrapped in cotton cloth. The thin cotton cloth stained with grease developed by the research center can prevent air leakage and increase the range, so Chu Liuxiang has to reduce the amount of propellant.

The deputy gunner used a long drill to clean the fire door, and at the same time inserted the paper bag of the propellant, and then inserted a five-inch lead into the fire door, lit the fire rope, and handed it to Chu Liuxiang's hand.

Chu Liuxiang was not in a hurry to fire the cannon, but with the shaking of the hull, he constantly changed the pitch angle of the snake cannon slightly. In this way, no matter how the hull rolls, the aiming line of the gun barrel is always horizontal.

The deck was extremely quiet, and everyone looked at Chu Liuxiang without a moment's notice. But he has entered a situation where people and cannons are one, and things and self are forgotten.

Wang Rulong observed carefully and found that this kid's breathing was actually synchronized with the shaking of the hull.

In the interval between the gentle waves just after the front wave and the back wave just rising, Chu Liuxiang aimed at the part below the reef waterline, and quickly ignited the lead that was shortened by him.

With a bang, the cannonballs burst out, whistling and hitting the reef in the distance, and the debris flew up!

There were also earth-shattering cheers on the boat, and the security guards rushed up and threw Chu Liuxiang high and almost threw him into the sea.

"This kid has two hits!" Wang Rulong touched his head with satisfaction. In the Coast Guard, there is finally a sharpshooter.

"Chu Liu...... Hibiki, in our squadron, it's usually the first place in shooting. The squadron leader smiled with relief.

"Why didn't you say it earlier?" Wang Rulong glanced at him.

"If you don't hit it, you can say it, if you don't hit it, you can still say it." The squadron leader smiled slyly.

"Cunning." Wang Rulong scolded with a smile and said: "Give him a credit and a reward of ten taels of silver." When I go back, remember to remind me and apply for a special promotion for him. ”

"Okay." The squadron leader was brittle.

Jiangnan Security does not implement the group's five-level and thirty-six-level rank system, but another set of higher gold title system. Of course, correspondingly, the difficulty of promotion is higher. I didn't expect Chu Liuxiang to get a special promotion because of the good artillery, which is really enviable.

~~

This small episode did not affect the happy mood of the eldest princess's trip. The Coast Guard practiced shooting every day, and she was used to the rumbling sound of cannons. If she didn't shoot one day, she would feel like she was missing something.

What she was more concerned about was whether the fleet could reach Tianjin Wei in ten days.

Three days later, Dagu arrived. From the first day of the first month of March, from Chongming Sansha to the ocean, to today it is exactly ten days!

When the eldest princess saw the Tianjin guards lining up at Dagukou to welcome her, she couldn't close her mouth happily, and praised her godson for his strong sensibility and ability, and solved her godmother's big heart disease!

"Why is my mother happy like this?" Li Chengen felt sour, his mother was much closer to Zhao Hao than to himself.

"The grain can finally be transported north, is it strange that Your Highness is happy for your uncle?" Xiwa said with a look of an idiot.

"Really?" Li Chengen muttered, and said in his heart, Why didn't I see that Her Royal Highness the eldest princess was so noble.

~~

Dagukou is the first coastal defense fortress in the Ming Dynasty, known as the gateway to Beijing and Tianjin, and the throat of sea and land. After Emperor Chengzu established the capital in Beijing, he continuously strengthened the defense here. Not only has a complete acropolis and majestic forts, but also tens of thousands of elite soldiers are stationed here to guard this main road into Beijing.

The civilian and military generals who commanded the place were Cao Ke of Tianjin Bingbei Dao and Hu Shouren, deputy chief soldier of Jizhen East Road. The two have already received the Pegasus Transmission from Denglai Bingbeidao, and learned the news that Her Royal Highness the eldest princess has returned to Beijing by sea.

At this time, the 800-mile expedited by the Southern Military Department was also sent to Dagukou. The two corroborated each other, and the two of them did not doubt it, and hurriedly put on the most solemn guard of honor, so that the soldiers lined up on both sides of the Dagu Haikou Sea, and they also took the battleship and went to sea to greet each other.

The reason why we went to sea to greet each other was to show respect, and secondly, to find out the situation in advance, so that such a large fleet could not enter Dagukou in a daze.

When the two of them boarded the Pingjiang in court clothes, and saw Her Royal Highness the eldest princess wearing a pearl green cloud crown and a xia veil, and her temperament was so noble that she couldn't force her to look at her, her hanging heart was half relieved.

When Hu Shouren saw Zhao Hao standing beside the eldest princess with a smile, the other half of his heart was also put back into his stomach, and he whispered to Cao Ke: "It's a good citizen." ”

"Uh......" Zhao Gongzi couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard Lao Hu's evaluation of himself. You are a good citizen, and your whole family is a good citizen.

Hu Shouren couldn't take care of Zhao Hao at the moment, and hurriedly followed Cao Ke to kowtow to the eldest princess.

"The two adults are all on the right foot, this palace has returned to Beijing by sea this time, and there is a lot of disturbance to the place, and I am deeply disturbed." As soon as she returned to the north, the eldest princess automatically regained her majesty and nobility, and how could she still have a little obsessive little femininity all over her body?

If it weren't for Gan'er still counting on Tianjin Wei, she wouldn't have bothered to perfunctory with these small characters.

"Your Highness." Cao Ke, who was defined as a small role by the eldest princess, and Hu Shouren, the deputy chief soldier of the third grade, hurriedly got up. The former hurriedly responded: "His Royal Highness was also ordered to return to Beijing, so he had to take this risk, which is really respectable and lamentable." Feng Jia can come to such a remote sea frontier as Dagu, and our ministers are very honored! ”

After the two sides finished politely, Cao Ke wanted to invite the eldest princess to the Acropolis to rest, but Ning An naturally had no interest, so he directly refused, saying that he was now like an arrow, and asked how to return to Beijing as soon as possible.

Cao Ke told the eldest princess that the Dagu River is very wide, the water flow is abundant, and it can be used for thousands of large boats. From the Dagu River to the west of a hundred miles, you can merge into the Grand Canal to the north to the capital, which is very convenient.

However, the amount of water in the Grand Canal is far from enough, and the waterway is also shallow, and it can carry up to 400 sand boats, so the eldest princess's Pingjiang can't enter the canal, so she has to change to other ships.

The eldest princess heard that she could enter the Grand Canal directly by boat, and she was in a very happy mood, so how could she care about changing boats once? Directly ordered to go upstream along the Dagu River.

Hu Shouren led the troops and escorted the eldest princess out of the defense area with Cao Bingxian. On the way, he finally seized the opportunity to talk to Zhao Hao.

"Brother Hu, it's been a long time." Zhao Gongzi smiled and arched his hand to this Qi Jiguang's right-hand man.

"Yes, Zhao Gongzi." Hu Shouren happily hugged his fists and saluted: "It's a surprise to see you, the day before yesterday, Dao Jizhen talked to Dashuai about you, but I didn't expect to see you today." ”

"yes, I didn't expect to meet you here!" Zhao Gongzi opened his eyes and said nonsense, Dagukou and Tianjin Wei were the end points of his shipping, and the information of all the civil and military officials here had already been placed on his table. "Brother Hu has been doing well lately, everything is okay with Dashuai?"

"It's all good." Hu Shouren said with a smile: "Now that there is a Zhang Xianggong cover, life is better." A while ago, General Guo was also transferred, and the commander served as the chief soldier of Jizhen with the right governor and the prime minister of military training. ”

"That's great." Zhao Hao knew that Zhang Juzheng was unable to keep Wang Rulong and the others to make up for Qi Jiguang. In addition, Tan Lun, who cooperated closely with Qi Jiguang in the southeast, became the governor of Jiliao. With these two bigwigs escorting, Qi Dashuai's life should not be too easy.

"By the way, this time Brother Wang is also here, on the first ship in front." He said to Hu Shouren again.

"Really?!" Hu Shouren was very pleasantly surprised, he and Wang Rulong were like brothers, and they missed each other for a year. As he spoke, he hugged his fists again and sincerely thanked Zhao Hao: "What the son did for the brothers in Jiangnan, I feel that Lao Hu Minggan is in the five, if there is any use to get Lao Hu, go to the soup and go to the fire, and do not hesitate!" ”

"It's too much for Brother Hu to say this." Zhao Hao's heart blossomed, but his face was high-spirited and said: "It is a great honor for the little brother to be able to do something for the heroes." After a pause, he smiled again: "Besides, they have also helped me a lot, if they didn't help me town, my Jiangnan Group would have been robbed by Taihu Lake bandits." ”

"Hahaha!" Hu Shouren laughed and said, "The brothers can't do anything else, fighting bandits is like playing." ”

"It's so good to meet Brother Hu, I'm still worried about how Brother Wang and the five hundred of them will settle down." Zhao Hao smiled bitterly: "Although it is a security team to escort the eldest princess, it is inevitable to be a little swaggering when it enters Beijing with such a big lama." ”

In fact, as soon as the security team took off the black skin and changed it into a sailor's blue short dress, they didn't have to worry about piercing their eyes at all.

But this is already Beijing and Tianjin, and there are also official and military escorts, so why worry about Wang Rulong. Zhao Gongzi also found an excuse to let them rest, and it was good to pull the relationship in advance on the ground of Tianjin Wei.

This is important. Wait until the start of the grain shipping to pull the relationship, not to mention the high cost, the effect will be very poor.

He has long been like thunder, and Tianjin Wei is famous for his face-saving rules. This is a place where you can't buy it just by throwing money, you have to cultivate your feelings first, and then talk about business much smoother.

"Don't worry, I'll settle down." Hu Shouren took a big package and said: "Brother is also a deputy chief soldier, and it is a piece of cake to settle hundreds of people." ”

ps. The second more asks for a monthly pass, and there is a more, which will be presented later.