Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 374

[Chapter 374 Calm down]

“You mean the fleet is at the junction of the Haihe River?” Chang Wei asked.

After the young pirate spoke, he immediately clenched his fists.

The pirates did come.

“General, the Navigator is counting on you.” Chen Shou was also beside him, and at this moment he bowed his hands to Chang Wei with a sincere expression on his face.

Chang Wei rolled his eyes, he ordered the remaining two pirates to be executed, and the one who confessed was put in prison.

Praise the law system, and the people who engage in pirates will be decisive.

Although his life could be spared, the crime of living cannot escape.

Then he left 5,000 people to guard the naval department to prevent accidents.

Leading the remaining 15,000 people to march towards the Haihe River, they took away 36 field artillery pieces at the same time.

On the Haihe warship, Montenegro nervously waited for the news.

An hour passed and no one came back, so he sent several people to the river bank to investigate.

There are still a few ships and it will be their turn.

If the Navigator is not prepared, he can still take risks.

If there is, he can only withdraw and wait for the next opportunity.

It’s just that the crew members dispatched for the second time returned in panic after less than a quarter of an hour left.

“My lord, it’s not good, there are a large number of soldiers coming this way.”

A layer of cold sweat suddenly broke out on Heishan’s forehead, and he immediately said: “Quick retreat!” The

order was passed, the oars stretched out from under the boat, and the entire fleet started turn around.

At this moment, Chang Wei led the troops to arrive.

Looking at the fleet fleeing eastward, he immediately ordered his soldiers to shoot along the river bank.

“Bang bang bang…” The flintlock spewed out flames.

The bullets hit the pirate’s warship and stirred up clouds of sawdust.

The artillerymen hurriedly unloaded the cannons from the horses, aiming at the warships of the pirates was a bombardment.

“Boom boom boom…”

The roar of flintlock guns and cannons rose and fell, and the merchants on other merchant ships were terrified, and everyone was terrified.

They didn’t know why the royal army would attack a fleet.

“Boom, puff…” The

shell hit the warship, first with a loud noise, and then pierced through the hull.

A pirate warship immediately leaked water, and Chang Wei even saw someone blocking it with something.

“Hit the easternmost boat.” Chang Wei shouted.

The flintlock can’t cause serious damage to the hull, only relying on artillery, Chang Wei repeatedly ordered.

Seeing the warships turning around one after another, the artillery general immediately ordered the soldiers to fix the artillery to the horse and move eastward for 500 meters.

At this moment, Montenegro in the warship was extremely anxious.

Forty-two warships stretched for more than a mile.

His orders simply could not be passed quickly to the easternmost warships.

Now only the front warship has turned around, but the warship to the east has not moved yet and cannot move at all.

“Leave the rowers, and let the others get on the boat and kill me!” Heishan shouted.

After receiving his order, the pirates with matchlock guns boarded the deck and opened fire on the soldiers of the palace on the river bank.

It’s just that they obviously can’t compare with the soldiers of the palace in terms of numbers.

Moreover, the rate of fire of the matchlock gun was extremely slow, and the smoke was so large that it blocked the line of sight.

Immediately suffered a loss in the confrontation, the pirates fell on the deck one by one.

“Since you’re here, don’t leave.” Chang Wei snorted coldly.

At about a quarter of an hour he heard cannon fire from the east.

At the end of the line of sight, sawdust was flying from a warship.

At such a short distance, the artillery can exert its greatest power.

The first warship in the east quickly became a beehive, and the river water poured into the warship, and the warship sank slowly, blocking the river.

At the same time, Chang Wei recruited merchant ships to block the estuary leading to the canal in the west, completely dumping the pirates.

After fighting for two hours, more than forty warships were all sunk by artillery bombardment.

The corpses of pirates floated on the river, and the whole river was dyed red.

All the pirates who swam to the river alive were arrested and put in jail.

Seeing that it was getting late, Chang Wei gazed at the red river, and sent a team of cavalry to Jinghai County to inform King Yan of the news.

It’s just that the cavalry met King Yan who was rushing to Pingcheng on the way, and then returned to Pingcheng together.

“Bai Shang is alright, he fought a good battle, and the pirates have been wiped out again.”

Zhao Xu told Chang Wei about Jinghai’s situation in the Pingcheng government office, and Chang Wei nodded slightly.

“It’s not considered a total annihilation, there are still more than 30 ships at sea, but Yanzhou has no navy, so we can only stare blankly.” Zhao Xu said.

Two pirate attacks made him even more desperate to own a fleet.

Otherwise, pirates will continue to attack Yanzhou by taking advantage of the flexibility of warships at sea.

From Yamada Kachino, he learned that there are more than 30,000 pirates and more than 200 warships on Wufeng Island.

This time the pirates suffered such a heavy loss in Yanzhou, Wufeng Island will definitely not let it go.

Chen Shou pursed his lips, “Your Highness, I promise to deliver twelve warships to the navy before the year.”

Zhao Xu’s mood improved a bit, “This is the best. In this way, there will be warships patrolling the coast of Yanzhou. Naturally, the bandits can’t be rampant.”

Thinking of something, he asked Chang Wei again, “It is said that the leader this time is a deputy island owner nicknamed Heishan, have you caught it yet?”

Chang Wei showed an embarrassed look, “Your Highness, a sword has no eyes, let alone a musket. When this black mountain was found, it was already a corpse.

” ask.

A preliminary understanding of the situation outside Da Song is enough.

At the moment, he has to focus on the north.

After all, this is the deepest crisis.

“Allocate another 10,000 people to Bai Shang to patrol the coast and not give pirates any chance to make trouble.” Zhao Xu said again.

Once the pirates landed on land, they would still cause a lot of damage.

They will burn, kill and loot all the way, seriously affecting the lives of the people.

“Yes, Your Highness.” Chang Wei replied.

Finally, he looked at Chen Shou, “Boss Chen, since this batch of warships is basically completed, the construction of the next batch of warships will start. The next batch of warships should be able to build twenty-four warships. After all, we have experience in construction. It’s just a matter of money and the number of craftsmen.”

The construction period of the battleship was quite long, and he had to invest a huge amount of resources in a short period of time to build it.

Otherwise, with twelve ships a year, he may not have the number of warships at the peak of the contemporary Spanish fleet in thirty years.

Furthermore, the sentence that Kazuno Yamada asked obviously meant that he knew the flintlock.

The flintlock equipment has a history of more than two hundred years.

In contemporary times from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century.

From the perspective of the Orientals during this period, their equipment actually changed little.

But he couldn’t judge that, they were just stuck in the seventeenth century.

Shaking his head, he shook off these chaotic thoughts.

Zhao Xu’s gaze became firm.

Since the world is a game of chess, let them play well on the world chessboard.

After resting in Pingcheng for a day, Zhao Xu returned to Yancheng the next day.

Jinling, Liang Mansion.

Liang Kai was reading in the yard when a flock of birds passed by and a lump of bird droppings fell on the pages of the book.

“Unlucky!” Liang Kai threw the book on the ground in disgust.

Then a bad premonition suddenly rose in my heart.

(end of this chapter)