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Volume 1: The Arms Dealer¡¯s Feast Chapter 280: Small Naval Battle

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    Regardless of whether Yuan Chonghuan learned from Confucius, the sage and moral teacher, and killed Shaozhengmao after he came to power and was stupid enough to kill Mao Wenlong because of jealousy - or whether he was a spy bribed by the Tatars and killed Mao Wenlong, in short, Mao Wenlong is still fighting against the Jin Dynasty.  On the first line - and there was never any intention of negotiating peace with the Tatars - Tong Yangzhen, the future father-in-law of Shunzhi and Kangxi's grandfather, was captured alive by Mao Wenlong and sent to Beijing to beheaded.

    Since you think Mao Wenlong really deserves to be killed, it can¡¯t be because he just got Shang Fang¡¯s sword and was promoted to a murderer. Rather, even if you are just an ordinary person and try to kill Mao Wenlong, then you are called a gentleman. But this move is different from Confucius¡¯s execution.  Just like killing Shaozhengmao, he also killed political opponents as soon as he was promoted. From this point of view, Yuan Chonghuan did not read this sage's book in vain, and he really learned the essence of Confucian classics.

    At the same time, Yuan Chonghuan, who was fighting against the Jin Dynasty in Liaodong, spent tens of millions of dollars, but never caught a single living Tatar. In terms of beheadings, he only had a fraction of that of Mao Wenlong's tribe in Dongjiang Town, and the money and food he spent in Dongzhenjiang was only a fraction of Yuan Chonghuan's. In short, there were  With Mao Wenlong as a star, Yuan Chonghuan, a fellow anti-gold fellow, really has a reason to be jealous - again, there is naked hatred only between peers.

    In the 1950s when Jin Sanduo was still young, there was also a novelist who wrote a novel to rehabilitate Yuan Chonghuan. At first, he deceived a lot of people. But when everyone checked, well, the novelist turned out to be a Tatar Han at that time.  The descendants of the military flag - the emperor's enthronement must have been for the good of the Tatar emperor. From this, it can be inferred that Yuan Chonghuan must be a traitor - Yuan Chonghuan's descendants did serve as officials in the Qing Dynasty - if it is true that Yuan Chonghuan used the red cannon  After killing the enemy chief Nurhachi, how can the descendants of the Tatars give his descendants such treatment? Besides, I have never heard that someone who was injured by the Hongyi cannon could survive for nearly a year. The middleman even went to fight for it personally.  Mongolia.

    Whether Yuan Chonghuan should be killed or not has little to do with Jin Sanduo and Lushan.  What matters most is that Mao Wenlong of Pi Dao does have a need for arms - and Mao Wenlong is not short of money. According to historical records, this man in Pi Dao not only cultivated fields and opened a market, but also asked for food and wages from North Korea. The Ming Dynasty also provided aid here.  Some.  Dongjiang Town is not a big place, but it definitely has a large population. According to records, Mao Wenlong helped and comforted millions of people in Liaodong who were displaced due to the war in Dongjiang Town. The most important thing is that Yuan Chonghuan cut off Dongjiang Town¡¯s food and salary for eight months.  Before it even started, the eight-month-long food shortage left Pidao in Dongjiang Town so starved that the ground was covered with bones and bones.

    After getting the news, the Lushan recruited a large number of immigrants and left Tianjin Wei Port. Commander Yang also looked away from the recruitment of immigrants. Since this big iron ship wanted to recruit, it couldn't be stopped. Fortunately, in recent years, the North  Despite the natural disaster, there is no shortage of refugees in Tianjin to replenish the lost population - it's just that the censors and Jin Yiwei have to take care of it, otherwise Commander Yang will still be unable to eat and walk around after a memorial.

    The Lushan, a battleship-modified ship, is an unsolvable bug in this era. There is basically no need to think about naval battles. Even when it arrives at a certain port, it directly uses the electric horn to shout and trade with people on the shore. For the sake of safety, it is better to avoid the Lushan crossing in the local area.  Those who got off the ship, after all, there are still heroes who can't stand the trouble of others - as for the tax collection process during the transaction, there is no need to talk about it. It is very benevolent not to seize the Lushan ship.

    In other words, the so-called pioneers of the Age of Discovery were not much different from scum. They basically did all the bad things they could do - Francisco Pizarro laid down his gun and conquered a foreign place by force first. If the conquest by force failed, he would  To trade.

    This Pi Island is just a deserted island that is fifteen kilometers from east to west and ten kilometers from north to south. In front of the Lushan Ship, if you want to escape, there is no way to go to the sky or to the earth.  Not long after the big iron ship of the Lushan was lying across the nearby sea and started shouting, Mao Wenlong, the commander-in-chief of the Pingliao Army in Dongjiang Town, sent a small boat to send an envoy to negotiate with the Lushan.

    There have been constant wars in Dongjiang Town in the past two years. Although Mao Wenlong won the battle of Dingmao in 1627 and drove the slave Jurchen out of Korea, the losses in Dongjiang Town itself were not small. Mao Youjian, the general of Dusi Mao Youjun,  Waiting to die for the country.  Then there was the great victory of Sarhu that they had just won. This time, they successfully attacked Sarhu City and killed 3,000 heads and captured 69 Tatars alive.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Nothing earth-shattering or magical happened next, except that the Australian seafarers on the big iron ship wanted to sell goods.  This finally made the soldiers and civilians of Pi Island breathe a sigh of relief. If someone with such strength comes to Pi Island to rob, they can't stop them. Selling goods is nothing.

    Of course, Mao Wenlong himself couldn't go up first stupidly. Mao Wenlong still understood the principle of capturing the thief first. Mao Wenlong raised this Dongjiang Town single-handedly. Without him, Dongjiang Town would have no backbone - if people's hearts are broken,  It¡¯s hard to lead a team.  Mao Wenlong first sent Chen Jisheng, the lucky general, to board the big iron ship to have a look.

    By name, Jin Sanduo called out: "??General.  "

    I have learned about the personnel of Dongjiang Town in Lushan through historical data. This Chen Jisheng is not a shaky leader like Geng Zhongming, but a Dongjiang Town general who inherited Mao Wenlong¡¯s legacy and continued to fight against the Jin Dynasty in history. It¡¯s just that Yuan Chonghuan pretended to kill him.  Mao Wenlong made a bad start, and Chen Jisheng was killed by the traitor Liu Xingzhi again. Liu Xingzhi's troops, together with three hundred Jurchen soldiers who were slaves, and Yuan Chonghuan's pro-army troops left on Pidao joined forces to kill Chen Jisheng and then they all went to the Tatars - but  This master did not end well in the end and was killed by Mao Wenlong's father-in-law Shen Shikui.

    Chen Jisheng clasped his fists and said: "Only the commander-in-chief on the island can be called a general. Chen doesn't dare to call him a general."

    "Hahaha, let's be honest, we are seafarers. We are here to do business. I heard that there are often wars with the Tatars here, and there is a huge demand for arms. Our Australian steel cannons and fast guns are out of stock.  Famous, we have people in the Imperial Palace and Shenji Camp We are all Han people Otherwise, the Japanese country can sell as much as they have Price is not an issue, we will accept everything"

    After chatting for a while, a dazed Chen Jisheng disembarked from the ship with samples of Australian sea passenger steel cannons and muskets to meet Marshal Pi Dao.

    After Mao Wenlong saw Australia's 110mm Hongyi steel cannon, he reacted to Xu Guangqi and Tang Ruowang from Beijing: "The cutting of corners and materials in this cannon is simply nonsense. It's not like I have never seen a Hongyi cannon with such a thin barrel wall.  body, the barrel would be blown up even with one shot. Besides, the price is too expensive. A Hongyi cannon costs one thousand taels of silver and the Big Tiger Cannon only costs two hundred taels. The Hongyi cannon costs from Hongmao cannon.  It¡¯s not much cheaper to buy it there, but how much is a musket worth? It actually costs fifty taels, and this money is enough to make a dozen muskets.¡±

    Chen Jisheng said: "Commander, I'm afraid it won't work if I don't buy it. The big iron ship was bombarded by cannons and was destroyed for miles. How can this small island and a small island stop it? The speed of that big iron ship  We have all seen it, and even if we take a boat to North Korea, we will probably be overtaken. No matter what, they said, let us try the guns and then talk."

    Thinking of the big iron ship like a hill outside, Mao Wenlong had no choice but to say: "Anyway, let the people who experiment with the artillery be careful."

    The people working on the experimental artillery in Beijing had a similar idea to that on Pidao. The important personnel were far away, and the people who dared to die were sent up here to light the fire - the nearest one was the most dangerous even if they had time to escape.

    There was a flash of fire, and the expected explosion did not occur. After the shell weighing more than ten kilograms flew out of the muzzle quickly, it landed on the ground far away and bounced several times before slowly stopping.

    After watching the performance of Australian artillery and fast guns, Mao Wenlong felt that the expensive Australian products were valuable.  As a pioneer in guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, Mao Wenlong certainly knew how to use this Hongyi steel cannon, which weighed only a few hundred kilograms - that is, push it to attack the city. Anyway, its weight is not as good as a small Folang machine cannon.  The two-wheel gun mount is definitely affordable.  That fast gun only takes a few breaths to fire a shot. The rate of fire is much faster than that of fire blunderbuss, shotguns, three-eyed blunderbuss, etc., and the range is also much longer - the Tatars like to take more than 100 or 200 steps.  The Ming army used empty guns to lure the enemy, so that the Ming army could not hurt anyone with its first shot. Equipped with these muskets that could break armor from more than 200 steps away, the Tatars' tactics of luring the enemy with empty guns was purely seeking death.

    It¡¯s just that the price is still a little expensive. Before the town was opened, Pidao was a desert island.  Although Mao Wenlong has been operating a farm to resettle refugees and open a market for several years, it is still impossible to equip him with thousands of fast guns.  However, it is still possible to replace the hundreds of fire blunderbuss, shotguns and three-eyed blunderbuss equipped by the servants with quick guns.

    "Go and ask them what they want, and give them twice the purchase price."

    "Yes, Marshal."

    The little grain produced in Dongzhenjiang is not enough for its own use. If the Lushan boat wants to catch as many fish as it wants, there is nothing it can¡¯t catch. Besides, the only way to preserve seafood in this era is to dry the fish. Everyone is tired of eating raw seafood.  After all, who cares about dried fish?  Finally, Lushan analyzed the list that Pi Dao could come up with, and finally decided to ask for copper products, Korean ginseng and tortoise shell crafts - which are also specialties exported by the Korean Peninsula.

    Lushan also lamented the bad luck of the Joseon Dynasty, otherwise these goods should have been sold at Busan Port.  Mao Wenlong is cheaper now.  Korean ginseng is also a valuable Chinese medicine. Whether it is for personal use or resale, it is very profitable. Bronze is entirely based on the value of its non-ferrous metals. Tortoiseshell is actually more available in Australia, but you can resell it in Macau.  There are doubled profits, so why not do it? Besides, if you don't want tortoiseshells, there really aren't many goods in Dongjiang Town that can be used to offset the arms payment.

    What was finally sold to Mao Wenlong were 280 fast guns with fixed ammunition technology and three barrels of granular gunpowder, three Hongyi steel cannons, and eighteen Big Tiger cannons.  Because the cold winter is approaching, Phi Island has little food, so he sold some surplus Vietnamese rice to Phi Island.  In the end, Mao Wenlong, the commander-in-chief of Pi Island, still took out part of the money to settle the bill. There was nothing he could do about it. The new militaryAs for the price, naturally it cannot be sold too cheaply.

    This man who made guns and cannons consumed a lot of the pig iron purchased by the Lushan - and some of the pig iron was left at the base in southern Australia to make tools and nails.  After doing business in Pi Dao, he went south to Macau and continued to buy pig iron and immigrants from Foshan, Guangdong. At the same time, various Chinese patent medicines, Chinese herbal medicines and other drugs and some industrial products had to be imported.  Speaking of which, there are still too few products that the Lushan can produce. If the Lushan is not nuclear-powered and has the ability to run unlimited merchants, then the only outcome for the Lushan's traversal is to find a piece of land in Asia to slowly develop.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know how many times more difficult it would be to develop a mechanical civilization in that situation. Although everyone knows a lot of knowledge, they don¡¯t realize that there are also ready-made paper materials in computers or school libraries.  But it is one thing to know, but it is another thing for a group of two knives to actually make it - after all, there is no real technical guidance here.

    After arriving in Macau, everyone relaxed a little. The last time we came to Macau, we didn¡¯t see these foreigners doing anything to the big iron ships. We expected the same thing this time. The Lushan insisted on fair trade - this is the basis for doing business.  Modern people all understand that robbery cannot increase social wealth. At most, it will cause a transfer of wealth relations. According to the words of the Lushan Cruiser, robbery with the Lushan Cruiser has no technical content at all.

    After sending batches of immigrants from Guangdong in the Ming Dynasty and goods from Macau and Guangzhou from small boats to large ships, the passengers on the Lushan were calculating the time to go to Vietnam - part of the grain was sold to Mao Wenlong, of course, just for the purpose of immigrating to Australia on this ship.  If you have rice to eat, you have to buy it.  Before the Lushan left Australia, it left about 2,000 tons of rice as a staple food for 10,000 people at the base in southern Australia.

    I just don¡¯t know if the port in Vietnam and North Korea has been expanded. Otherwise, the Lushan would not mind selling arms on both sides. This is also the most criticized point of arms dealers, but the Lushan considers itself to be doing business with an open door.  Yes, it will be sold to whoever gives the money. For the Lushan, this is correct - in fact, if everyone has the power of checks and balances, it will not be able to fight. After all, the arms business is really for the world.  Peace.

    On this sunny day, the Lushan was loading and unloading in Macau in a seemingly calm manner. Suddenly, the engine maintenance officer shouted on the communicator: "There are people below who are sinking the ship. Pay attention, there are people below who are sinking the ship."

    Captain Roger became anxious when he heard this: "Start. Get the ship going."

    Although there are diving equipment on the Lushan, this is not the time to go into the water. Who knows what else is waiting.

    "The ship is unloading cargo, and there are small boats nearby. If we start the Lushan, they will be knocked over."

    Captain Roger shouted: "Don't worry about them, they are probably in the same group."

    As soon as the ship moved, as expected, the ships on the nearby boats that were preparing to unload the Lushan also revealed their true colors.

    Some ships launched their artillery to prepare for shelling the Lushan, and some jumped from the masts and other heights on the ship to the Lushan to prepare for hand-to-hand combat to seize the ship.

    "Get ready to fight. No enemy is allowed to come up." At this time, Jin Sanduo also realized that something was wrong and blew the whistle.  Groups of samurai responsible for the safety of the Lushan assembled and loaded fixed ammunition on the 1628-style rifles, and opened fire on the pirates who jumped ship.  In addition to these more than a hundred Japanese samurai on the ship, there is also a military security team that is also gathering.  The remaining people also carried medium-sized formal rifles and opened their safety guards one after another to prepare for battle.

    A group of more than a hundred small boats filled with oil and filled with straw and sulfur came out from nowhere. These small boats moved closer to the Lushan under the desperate actions of the oarsmen.

    The dozens of pirates who were lucky enough to jump onto the deck of the Lushan were beaten into pieces by the intensive firepower of the Japanese samurai's volleys and the regular rifles of the security personnel.  The worst things were the water ghosts that pierced the bottom of the ship and the pirate ships unloading beside the Lushan. Those water ghosts were swept up by the water flow when the Lushan was launched and sank to the bottom of the sea. As for the small cargo ships responsible for containing the Lushan,  , were crushed one after another in the Lushan's turn as a divine dragon swung its tail. Dozens of the sailors inside jumped onto the Lushan and were shot dead. The rest bubbled a few times and sank with the broken hull¡ª¡ª  Although the main weapons system has been dismantled, the draft of the Lushan is still nine meters.  This depth plus the whirlpool when the wooden boat sank would make it impossible to float. No matter how good the water quality is, it will still feed the Dragon King.

    The military security teams deployed the Lushan's eighteen twenty-millimeter machine guns to launch ruthless death strafes at the nearby ships that were firing and preparing for arson and hand-to-hand combat.  Fourteen gunboats prepared to participate in the battle. In the end, only a dozen cannonballs hit the water near the Lushan - the hit rate of naval battles in the seventeenth century was just that. Even the Spanish Armada was not defeated by pure naval guns.

    The battleships piloted by blond Westerners or black-haired Chinese were firing with machine guns.Under the fire attack, water flooded in or gunpowder barrels were directly concentrated. Huge explosions and fires occurred on the wooden ships. The personnel and artillery on the deck were the focus of attention. Soon the fleet that ambushed the Lushan sank several ships.  ¡ª¡ªAt this time, the surviving crew members were very smart. They held the barrels and jumped into the water before the ship sank. This was also the only means of escape before the ship sank.  As for those fireships, the security personnel of the Lushan were too lazy to waste twenty-millimeter machine gun bullets. These things now also have one less shot.  No matter whether you use the Lushan to hit it directly or use speed to avoid it, there is no need to worry.

    Jin Sanduo remembered something and took the intercom and asked: "Security personnel on the second floor, please note that most of the immigrants on the second floor are recruited from Macau. There may be internal agents from them, so be careful."

    Just when the Lushan started to turn and gunfire sounded outside, some of the immigrants on the second floor below the deck also took action.  They had already found weapons such as hammers, hammers or knives and daggers from their luggage, pushed open the door, and prepared to capture the large iron ship from the inside.  This group of people were all dead soldiers who had received a bounty, but the security personnel on the second floor quickly killed them with bursts of formal rifle fire.

    After a while, the communicator rang again: "It has been solved. There are eighty people in total. If there are five hundred or eight hundred, we may have to be busy for a while. His grandmother's, if we know who did it, we can't let him go."  ."

    "What we know now is that it at least has something to do with the Portuguese. Who else would dare to do something here except the Portuguese."

    "Guangdong waters are probably the territory of Liu Xiang, the great pirate in the late Ming Dynasty. Next time, give him some color and let him know the consequences of giving eye drops to a tiger."

    Before the words were spoken, several shells flew from a hidden fort on the shore, one of which landed on the left side of the Lushan.  There was a loud "ding" sound, and a piece of paint fell off the armor on the flank, and the iron ball bullet, which weighed more than ten kilograms, bounced away.

    "Those who are not at the gun position should return to the bridge and the lower deck. To avoid being injured."

    It must be said that the Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese pirate Liu Xiang who organized the attack on the Lushan were well prepared. They jumped ship for hand-to-hand combat, killed soldiers inside, loaded fireships, penetrated with water ghosts, shelled naval guns, and shore defense artillery.  Collaboration.  Even if the enemy sails a large iron ship without sails the size of a small city, there is still a chance to capture it.  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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