Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 369

[Chapter 369 Memories of the Pirates]

“Boom boom boom…”

Twelve cannons spit out flames and thick white smoke three hundred meters away.

The shells drew afterimages and hit the city wall of Jinghai County, throwing up a cloud of smoke and dust.

However, in the first round of shooting, the shells fell around the city gate and did not hit the city gate.

The moment the artillery rang, the soldiers of the palace on the city wall immediately squatted down to avoid it.

This scene was seen by pirates outside the city, and they pointed at the city wall and laughed wantonly.

It seems to be proud of the intimidating effect of one’s own artillery on the enemy.

Kazuno Yamada held the handle of the saber.

He is Dongying Ronin, his father is, and so is his grandfather.

This is how the knife was passed down to him from generation to generation.

Once, his grandfather worked for a Dongying feudal lord.

But since Watanabe, the lord of Dongying, defeated other lords in the national war thirty years ago and established the rule of the shogunate.

These ronin who specialize in working for the feudal lord are no longer needed and have lost their source of life.

Since then, the Ronin has been looking for a way out.

Some acted as guards for sea trade merchants, while others entered the mountains and forests and became bandits.

But more people chose to become pirates.

Ten years ago, he met Montenegro when he was drinking at Yokosu Harbor in Japan.

At that time, Montenegro and the owner of the island, Lu Zheng, were appreciated by the shogun Matsuura Nobu and invited to settle in Dongying.

He even gave him Wufeng Island not far from the southwest coast of Dongying as a base for sea trade.

Knowing that Lu Zheng was engaged in maritime trade, he was also a giant bandit at sea.

And has been recruiting desperadoes to join his fleet in Korea, Dongying, and Dasong.

Without a secure life, he chose to join his subordinates and became Montenegro’s deputy.

After all, for Dongying ronin, their life is killing.

It is no different to be the lord of the feudal clan before and now the lord of Wufeng Island.

What’s more, what he longed for in his heart was this kind of unfettered, plundering and killing barbaric life.

Going home and farming honestly is more uncomfortable than killing him.

“Brothers, pull out your knives and kill to your heart’s content later!” Yamada Kazuno drew out his long knives and waved his face twisted.

They didn’t even bother to use matchlock guns and artillery when they plundered the southeast coast of Dasong.

Of the pirates on Wufeng Island, Dasong people and Dongying people each accounted for 40%, and 20% were Koreans.

Contaminated with the habits of Japanese ronin, the pirates of Wufeng Island are not afraid of death and are very fierce.

When dealing with Da Song’s encircling and suppressing army, they dared to rush to fight while naked.

Every time the Dasong army fights, it flees.

The southeast coast has thus become their paradise, and no one dares to provoke them.

Otherwise, it will be the next more vicious robbery.

It’s just that they didn’t expect that Wufeng Island would suffer such humiliation in a barren land like Yanzhou that they had no interest in looting.

Yan Wang not only killed their people, but also hung their bodies on the coast to humiliate them.

How can they bear this, they can only retaliate wildly.

“Fire the cannon on time, a bunch of trash.” Kazuno Yamada looked back angrily again.

As long as the city gate was smashed, he led people into the fight.

This is the time to show the glory of Wufeng Island.

city wall.

Bai Shang watched every move of the pirates, the corners of his mouth raised.

Last time he fought against pirates, he found that these pirates were indeed a bit tough.

But what he likes most is fighting tough battles.

“It seems that they want to defeat us with swords. They are really a group of arrogant people. They think we are the imperial army or the army of the clan?” Bai Shang sneered.

After his words fell, there was another burst of cannon fire.

Then he heard several cracks of wood splintering.

The east gate was hit by pirates.

“Don’t fight back, wait for them to rush over.” Bai Shang remained calm.

Participated in the Battle of Autumn Hunting and defeated Yuan Jiabing with King Yan.

He also fought Xiliang in Jinzhou, although he can’t say he has experienced many battles.

But the current Haikou’s offensive is just child’s play to him.

He had heard the notoriety of the pirates and knew their ferocity.

But these outlaws also have a fatal flaw.

It is that they are very good at fighting alone, but because of their domineering and aggressive personalities, their discipline has always been lax.

Continuing to observe the pirates silently, besides the artillery, he also saw muskets on the pirates.

However, this musket is somewhat different from their flintlock.

If he remembered correctly, it looked the same as the arquebus that King Yan had taught in the Military Academy.

“Cannon, gun, it seems that King Yan didn’t lie to us, times have changed.” Bai Shang murmured.

Times have changed. This is what King Yan said when he mocked Lu Chang in the military school.

The implication is not to stay on the old habit of relying only on swords to fight, but to seriously study how to use firearms to kill the enemy.

“Boom boom boom…” Haikou’s artillery kept roaring.

An hour later, the battered east gate finally couldn’t stand the shelling and collapsed.

“Kill!”

The pirates shouted wildly at the moment the city gate fell.

Some pirates even tore off their shirts, bare their upper body, raised their long sabers, and rushed towards the city gate.

When the pirates were shelling, Bai Shang had already led the soldiers to move the cannons on the other walls to the east gate.

Since he didn’t pay much attention to pirates, the artillery assigned to him by Chang Wei was not a heavy defensive artillery, but a field artillery with a shell weighing twelve catties.

These cannons were easily moved around the spacious ramparts.

“Grape bombs!” Bai Shang ordered at this time.

The pirates didn’t rush over in a swarm.

It’s just that the first row of more than 300 people scattered and rushed to the city gate.

At the same time, the pirates holding matchlock guns also dispersed and approached the city wall, intending to use muskets to suppress the defenders at the top of the city.

“These pirates are interesting.” Bai Shang murmured.

Obviously, they knew how to avoid heavy losses under artillery fire.

“Boom boom boom…” The

cannon sounded, this time it was the artillery of the royal family’s army.

Thirty-six cannons loaded with grape bullets spewed marbles like raindrops at the pirates.

The pirates who were hit suddenly let out screams.

However, due to the scattered formation of the pirates, there were only dozens of pirate casualties in a round of shelling.

The rest of the pirates were still rushing towards the city wall.

He immediately ordered the captain who was guarding the gate of the city to get ready.

Soldiers with flintlock guns lined up there.

The heavy infantry crouched before the fusiliers.

As long as the pirates pass the gate, they will pour fire on them.

“Hmph! Let me see what skills you have.” Bai Shang narrowed his eyes.

This was his first encounter with an army that also had arquebuses and artillery.

For him, this is a great opportunity to gain experience.

After all, Dasong is currently popularizing firearms, and even Beidi is developing artillery.

In the future, they will face more such opponents.

The war has begun.

At the same time, the cavalry sent by Bai Shang was galloping towards Yancheng.

Xingye hurried on his way, and the next day he arrived in Yancheng, and delivered the news of the pirates’ attack to Zhao Xu.

“Hail Bandit!”

Zhao Xu and Chang Wei were observing the effect of the cannon after cutting in Yancheng North Artillery Field.

He frowned when he got the news.

PS: The data has dropped a bit in the past few days. It seems that the snail didn’t write any poisonous points, right? The plot is still procrastinating, I hope everyone can give you some advice, and the snail can make adjustments.

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