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"I have been in the Ming Dynasty for several hundred and seventy years since the Taizu was established, and I am deeply benevolent and generous. During the Wanli and Apocalypse years, they were allowed to exchange markets and allow them to preach in the Celestial Empire; The Celestial Empire persuaded people to be kind, and reluctantly accepted the request, and at the beginning it was within my scope and obeyed my constraints.

The Celestial Empire is soft to obey people from afar, and it is all over. However, they did not know gratitude, but wantonly coerced. On June 18 of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Eryi rebelled against Shang Weidel and bombarded Humen for no reason. On the second day of the first month of August, he took advantage of the weakness to attack our town and plundered 30 pigs. On the fourth day of the first month of August, we destroyed our forts and burned one of our galleons. The Celestial Dynasty is benevolent and virtuous, and refuses to provoke, because it is afraid of hurting the ears of our people. However, it is rude and rampant to rebel against me, and the tyrannical military supervisors take advantage of the false attack on me, and they make a break with themselves?

You are not benevolent and righteous, and you are obsessed with force. I will respond by force! Ling'er knows whether the sharpness of my sword is not! “

On the boat going down the river to the east, Lord Zhang Jingxin read the letter written by Li Shouhan to tell the rebels, although the words seemed a little rough to him, but the pride in the words seemed to jump out between the lines.

The fleet soon reached the surface of the Shiziyang River, crossed the Tamsui River, Yongtaiwei, and both sides of the Pearl River, and began to appear in large groups of men and horses sandwiching the river.

Judging from the banners, armor, weapons, and marching troops, these teams should be the military horses of Guangdong Province that received the military order of the Governor of Liangguang and went to Humen to fight against the rebels.

Sure enough, it was the local soldiers in Guangdong who sent the Governor to liaison, and when they learned that the Governor had personally gone to Humen to fight against the Chinese army of Li Shouhannan, who was known for being able to fight, the morale of the soldiers and horses in all parts of the battalion was high. They came one after another.

In order to fight for the road, several soldiers also had a fight, and several people were beaten to the point that their noses were blue and their faces were swollen.

However, after the Wing Tai Wai, the pace of the flotilla and the march on the land route slowed down.

"My lord! Not far ahead is the Humen water! Do you want to send an official to contact Master Li so that there is no misunderstanding?! ”

Hearing the faint sound of artillery in the distance, the general of the military staff in the supervision battalion was a little worried and spoke to Lord Zhang Jingxin.

"You might as well invite your adults to the water surface of Jinsha Temple to land, then stay in Jinsha Temple, supervise all kinds of military horses, and order Li Shouhan to come to visit. At the same time, coordinate and mobilize all military horses to attack together! ”

The master in charge of the manuscript in the shogunate twisted a few beards, and he was also Zhuge Liang's posture of a lupine scarf.

Let's be honest. Zhang Jingxin does not have the courage and courage to risk arrows and stones, and from the bottom of his heart, he thinks that kind of behavior is all done by a puppet, and it is definitely not what an official like him should do.

But. Such an approach. It's easy to give people a handle. Accusations of fearing the enemy like a tiger and avoiding a fight will fall like raindrops. Now is the time when the imperial court relies on Li Shouhan, and I am afraid that his inscription book will be corrected immediately.

While weighing the pros and cons of the river and the sea in his mind, a sand boat went up the river and headed straight for the governor's fleet.

"Who is so bold! Don't look at the banner of the governor on the ship! ”

The person who came was an officer from the Dapeng battalion in Guangdong.

"Li Dashuai has a military order to this end! Now the conquest and suppression of the rebellion have been launched. And the armies stayed where they were! Don't act on your own! lest it be taken advantage of by the rebellion! ”

The officer who came was just a thousand generals, but he was arrogant and full of morality.

"Bastard! This governor came to fight against the rebels, but you came to obstruct it, what kind of thing is it?! ”

The anger in Mr. Zhang's stomach is about to be sent to this Qianzong.

The general of the army in the superintendent even drew the sword at his waist, ready to behead the thousand generals at the bow of the ship.

"This official is here on the orders of Li Dashuai, if you have any questions, ask Li Dashuai after the war is over! However, please rest for a while so that you will not be injured by the fire. ”

Although Mr. Qian's face turned pale with fright from this situation, he calmly said something, and he thought he was prepared.

As if to annotate his words, a loud cannon sound came from the ocean to the east, and the teacup on the governor's desk trembled slightly.

"It's good! Just listen to you,! If there is a mistake in the war, and the military plane is delayed, the governor must ask the Son of Heaven Sword King to behead your head and the three armies of the police! ”

"I'm afraid I won't be able to cut off the heads of the people below. My Dapeng battalion has been absorbed by Li Dashuai, and it is part of the naval division of the Nanzhong Army, and now we belong to the jurisdiction of Lord Liao Dongzhi Liao! ”

"I can't tell you the truth, my lord, you see that most of the soldiers and horses on both sides of the Pearl River have been under the control of Li Dashuai, and the food and military affairs are all at the disposal of the dispatch. Therefore, please go to Jinsha Temple to rest and rest first, and when Li Dashuai finishes fighting the red-haired rebellion, it is not too late for you to go and see him. ”

Zhang Jingxin was trembling with anger when he heard Mr. Qian's "big rebellion" words, but he couldn't deal with it, and he just muttered to himself, "Bastard!" Darn! ”

The guerrillas who supervised the Chinese army came up and blasted the thousand generals aside and ordered the fleet to anchor at Jinsha Temple.

The cannon sound of Humen gradually stopped.

"It's useless! I thought that people who could come across the sea could fight very well and practice well, but I didn't want to be such a wretch! ”

Li Huamei was very bored playing with the monoculars in her hand on her gunboat Nanami.

Just now, when Shouhan led the naval division of the South China Army from the mouth of the Pearl River and the city of Guangzhou to the waters of Humen, Weddell's East India Company fleet found that the momentum was not good.

The largest of his five ships is only five or six hundred tons, and the ships also carry all kinds of goods snatched and bought from the nearby towns, and the entire fleet has less than 30 guns of various types.

"Sir! You see! The Roaring Dutchman intends to break through to the south bank! Did we also escape from the mouth of the Pearl River along the south bank? ”

An armed merchant ship of the East India Company tried to rush from the waters of Humen to the south bank of the Pearl River before the naval division of the South China Army could complete the encirclement, taking advantage of its small displacement and shallow draft to escape from the mesh of the South China Army as a yellow croaker that slipped on the side. Rush out of the Pearl River Estuary, as for what is outside the Pearl River Estuary, then we will talk about it then!

"That's it! Let's open this English ship! Standing on her beloved gunboat, Li Huamei looked at this powerful English merchant ship with a deep draft and obvious sinking of the ship's side, a group of sailors on board nervously manipulated the sail rope, and more than a dozen gunners were nervously preparing to fire ammunition from the guns on the side of the ship.

"Okay! Miss! Just take a look! ”

Li Huamei's ship is her birthday gift, and Li Peiting allocated money from the dividends he received from his return from Liaodong to customize it to the shipyard, and originally planned to build a large ship that is no less than Shouhan's current flagship, and he didn't want Shouhan to find the order for this ship in the shipyard's contract documents.

"Little kids' home. How can you come up and play such a big ship? Let's get good at my boat first! So Li Huamei had to accept the old ship that her father eliminated for her unwillingly. But. It's not a completely old ship, at least the artillery, sail anchors, etc. are new. And the hull itself has been repaired and repainted.

Shi Lang, who could see the ship's eye-opening, almost had fire in his eyes.

"I don't know when I'll be able to command such a gunboat!"

Today is the first battle between Li Huamei and Shi Lang and others on the Pearl River estuary.

However, there was no waiting for Li Huamei's Nanami to adjust the muzzle. In the oblique spur, a brig schooner leaned on its small hull. The advantage of fast speed and equally shallow draft rushes out.

It was a gunboat armed with two Kelon guns as its main firepower. Although there were only two main guns, they were strong in the weight of the shells. Sixty-eight-pound shells require four or five gunners to reload. Because of the laborious reloading, the gunners either didn't reload, or after loading, they had to shoot the shells out of the chamber!

Because it would be a chore to get the huge cannonballs out again.

"Avalokiteshvara of great compassion! Revealing the truth, revealing the truth, paramita revealing the truth. ”

The commander of the Crane cannon squinted his eyes and used the sextant in his hand and the observer hand next to him to check the distance and bearing of the "Roaring Dutchman" from the ship, and shot Zhu Yuan, while silently reciting the Buddha in his mouth.

This Chinese artillery commander who enlisted in Siam was also a half-hung Buddhist disciple under the influence of the prosperity of local Theravada Buddhism. Although he believes in Buddhism, it does not prevent him from having a lot of fish and meat at every meal, drinking a few sips when he is fine, and there are three women in the family who have raised six or seven children for him.

For the sake of military merit, in order to feed these women and children, it is necessary to kill the enemy well!

"It is as compassionate as my Buddha, and when encountering evil demons, I must also use supreme mana, supreme supernatural powers, and the power of Vajra to subdue demons and defend the way."

He did a good job of theorizing his killing.

"The red-haired rebel ship is about a thousand steps away from our ship!"

The rangefinder prudently reported the distance of the Roaring Dutchman from the brig.

"The elevation angle of the main gun in the bow is five degrees!"

"Reload!"

"Send it to the medicine bag!"

Several naked ammunition players shouted in unison, quickly picked up the ammunition cart according to the amount of ammunition, wrapped it in oiled paper according to the amount of ammunition, and quickly opened it and stuffed the silk medicine bag into the gun chamber.

"The medicine bag is good!"

After he flashed out, the bombardier nimbly copied the boom in his hand, and with a single blow, he sent the medicine bag deep into the bottom of the barrel.

Laugh at!

The sharp iron cone pierced through the door of the fire, instantly piercing the silk medicine bag inside. A medicine primer stepped forward and quickly inserted the goose feather letter tube in his hand deep into the fire door. Twist your finger to make sure it's inserted into the packet.

While these men were in full swing at the tail of the gun, several ammunition men lifted a huge and heavy solid iron ball from the ammunition box next to the gun position and stuffed it into the gun chamber.

The gunners have clear positions, clear duties, and graceful movements, and if it were not for this killing battlefield, just by their appearance, it feels like they are not preparing to kill and destroy artillery, but engaging in an elegant art.

It's just that this art is a little cruel.

"Hurry up! Don't be like a! Hurry, hurry! ”

The gunner was still urging the gunners to complete the reloading process quickly.

Unlike other units, the artillery units of the Marine Division and the Army Battalion could not measure their exploits by the number of beheadings, and the assessment was all based on the preparation and firing of artillery. Which artillery hits fast, accurately, and well is not only related to the honor of the gunners. There are also real economic benefits in it, and the artillery manual of the South Chinese Army stipulates that those who hit the enemy ship for the first time will be rewarded with 50 silver dollars for the whole gun, another 10 yuan for the commander of the gun, and 4 yuan for the observer.

"Closer to home! The red-haired people plan to escape along the river bank along the current of the Pearl River, let's stick it up and aim at its waterline! Give it a big disembowelment! ”

The captain of the gunboat guessed the intentions of the "roaring Dutchman" through the binoculars, and a sinister smile appeared on his face. If a single cannon can sink a rebellious ship, that's a big credit!

Although people at this time did not know the knowledge of artillery ballistics. But it is also known that at a certain distance, the cannon is ejected in a straight line.

"Good! I got closer! Stick to within 500 steps! Get it done with one shot! ”

The Pearl River is surging. A very peculiar scene appeared on the river: four British merchant ships were assembled near Humen, and they were a little at a loss in the face of the seven or eight ships of the Nanzhong Army Naval Division led by the Nanhai that had surrounded them, while the roaring Dutchman, who was close to the south bank of the Pearl River, was desperately moving towards the waterway near the river bank. Behind his side. The front main gun of the brig was already aimed at him with the muzzle of the black hole. In the ups and downs of the waves, the distance with him is constantly narrowed.

However, just as the two boats were engaged in a chase race, a puff of white smoke rose. A loud bang was heard.

Just behind the side of the brig, along the main channel of the Pearl River center of the patrol and guard of the same double-guard sailboat, the bow of the huge mortar gun muzzle spewed out thick white smoke, the muzzle of the cannon faintly flickered, the 200-pound cannonball, pushed out of the chamber by the huge impetus of gunpowder, whistling out of the huge projectile, in the air at high speed spinning and constantly tearing the surrounding air, emitting bursts of sharp and piercing strange sounds.

"Tom!"

A huge cannonball entered the water near the bow of the armed merchant ship "Roaring Dutchman", splashing a column of water as thick as a tank, and the column of water dispersed, and the captain who was standing on the bow of the ship and commanding the escape came to the orient with great enthusiasm.

"Damn it! Such a large cannonball! This group of infidels is simply insane! ”

The captain wiped the river water from his face, trying to recover his observation of the situation in front of him.

"Oh my God!"

"Lose Thunder, old mother!"

The officers and soldiers of Guangdong, who were running in a mess on the south bank of the Pearl River, were frightened by the power of this huge cannonball.

It seems that we are extremely correct in following General Lee's decision to be in moderation. Not to mention dealing with a few red-haired rebels, such artillery is also handy to deal with thieves and clans with deep ditches and towers!

"Lei Lao Si! You're fucking fighting with me, aren't you! ”

The captain of the brig, who was struggling to catch up, jumped on the bow and cursed at the mortar gunboat.

"How far are we from that damn rebel?!"

"My lord! About 500 steps up and down! ”

"Would you like to come closer?!"

"Close?! Close to his mother! If the fuck gets closer, Lei Laosi will snatch all the credit! Fire! ”

"Boom!"

As the small red flag in the captain's hand fell, a sixty-eight-pound Cron cannon shell flew out of the chamber. Under the joy of white smoke and flames, a scorching bullet mark quickly crossed the air, and with a speed that seemed to be observable to the naked eye, it sped towards the waterline of the "Roaring Dutchman" five hundred paces away.

Seeing the huge cannonballs in mid-air coming fiercely against the river, the captain of the "Roaring Dutchman" felt a sense of panic and fear in his heart, which was the same as when facing the huge waves in the Atlantic, the Ottoman pirates, and the Dutch, he had never had before, and for a while he didn't know whether to operate the ship forward or backward, and how to avoid this fierce artillery fire.

The cannonballs whistled, and with a scream from the sailors on board, they landed not far from the hull, and after the burst into the water, it stirred up a huge column of water.

Immediately afterwards, a huge vibration came from under the side of the ship, and although the shells of the Crane cannon entered the water, they did not stop, and they broke through the hull of the "Roaring Dutchman" under the waterline, and the water of the Pearl River swept the mud and sand gushed in, expanding the breach.

"Let's give you a ride, too!"

Lei Laosi, the captain of the mortar gunboat who had been cursed for a long time, saw the panicked scene of the sailors on the ship "Roaring Dutchman" from the telescope, and came to the rescue, trying to plug the breach and clean the waterlogged cabin.

"Are the shells loaded?!"

"Right away!"

The commander of the mortar panted in answer to the captain's urging.

The four gunners of the mortar carried the shell hanging rod and hung the shell with a hook in the middle of the rod, and the four men, with the assistance of the gun commander, worked together to stuff the shell into the barrel. After that, the mortar cannon was forcefully adjusted to the elevation angle measured by the gun commander, and then the iron pad was quickly padded to the bottom of the mortar with an iron lever to fix the elevation angle of the mortar.

"Fire!"

"If this shot misses again, I don't have the strength to reload a third shot." A gunner muttered to himself.

"It's okay! If you can't hit it, Lao Tzu will help you reload! The whole ship is a loader! Lei Laosi stood viciously at the bow of the ship, staring at the cannonball that drew a graceful arc in mid-air.

"Boom!"

The shell fell on the bow of the "Roaring Dutchman".

The captain, who was standing at the bow of the ship and directing the sailors to carry out the damage, was gone, leaving only a pool of blood on the plank.

The 200-pound cannonball struck the bow of the ship with extremely savage force and smashed through several layers of planks in succession, falling directly into the bottom cabin, and from the black holes, the sound of the wooden planks collapsing and breaking, and the screams of the crew in the cabin were constantly heard.

On the deck, the crew, who were still nervously adjusting the sails and rigging, were hit by the many pieces of wood that were fired indiscriminately in all directions after the cannonball smashed through the plank. As the sound of muscles piercing through the wood chips suddenly sounded on the deck, screams and flesh intertwined on the "Roaring Dutchman".

Blood spurted out of the crew in the form of bloody arrows!

The kinetic energy brought by the 200-pound mortar shell was very powerful, and the wooden planks of the hull itself were smashed into countless pieces of wood when they were smashed by the huge shell.

Their irregular shapes, like sharp blades, flew everywhere, not to mention that these crew members only had a cotton shirt on their bodies, and they were heavily armored soldiers, and there was nothing they could do about such dense and irregular killers.

For a time, the roaring Dutchman was riddled with casualties.

"Pull in!"

The chamber of the Cron cannon was reloaded with shells, ready to go up and make up for it. (To be continued......)