Section 413 Shelling of Xufu
The moment the fleet arrived, the county seat of Shanghai was crowded.
In fact, after the fleet bypassed Lujiazui, there were already people watching on the county city wall, and there were also people shouting on the street, and the whole city knew that there were strange ships on the river.
After that, from the city to the city, the river was crowded with people. The Ming people excitedly looked at the rare scenery on the river in a hundred years, and the tide-like heads kept surging along the river with the noise.
The first person to feel that something was wrong was Chen Changyun, the magistrate of Shanghai. Chen Zhixian is a native of Ningde, Fujian, and a new jinshi who was last year.
When Chen Zhixian heard the news and caught up with the city tower, the billowing black smoke from the giant ship on the river made him think of wolf smoke first.
Secondly, although a messenger from Chongming Island came to report the situation yesterday, the messenger did not say that the general army of King Qin would lead the crowd into the Huangpu River? What's more, it is to run to such an inland part of Shanghai County.
Therefore, Chen Zhixian immediately ordered: close the city gate.
However, the people who eat melons do not have the sense of crisis in Chen Zhixian.
At this moment, on the river surface, with the blue sky as the bottom and the white clouds as the belt, a string of slender boats full of white sails, accompanied by the surrounding ant-like civilian boats, are slowly heading towards the county seat. The blue-gold ship was the most ornate, and the billowing black smoke added a touch of mystery that dazzled the viewer.
Soon, as the fleet gradually approached the river on this side of the city, there was a good eye, and immediately read out the official title text embroidered on the three bottles of the main mast of the Zhenman.
Shanghai County in the Ming Dynasty was a super-wealthy area, so the literacy rate must have exceeded 60 percent. So soon, the people who ate melons figured out that the owner of the boat turned out to be the general soldier of the countryside in Fujian and Guangdong?
Although most Shanghainese people don't know where the specific jurisdiction of the "Zhangchao Deputy General Army" is, it is the countrymen who have come to this point.
At this moment when the melon eaters were talking, several people in the crowd who knew the matter were scared. After figuring out the identities of the people who came from the river, they immediately rushed to the Xu family's mansion not far away.
After a group of people rushed into the house, they grabbed the door by the collar and asked, "Where are the old men?" ”
Men Zheng was frightened stupidly, and replied honestly: "It's a matter of discussion in the big study!" ”
Then a few people who reported the news shouted all the way to the big study: "Master, it's not good, the surnamed Cao is here with the soldiers!" ”
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At this time, the old men of the Title Deed Alliance were making noise in the study. Something so big happened, except for the old man Huang who didn't come because of a foot disease, the rest of the people arrived.
Yesterday, the Qin Wang's army arrived in Hong Kong with the surname Cao, causing Wang Gu to flee from the wilderness, and the alliance received it soon after.
It was like being smashed on the head, and at that moment, the old man was so frightened that he couldn't speak.
The problem now is that when the surnamed Cao goes to Beijing, the matter of the alliance's private transfer of troops will definitely be stabbed. Even if the backstage of the group resisted the past in the court and did not turn the case into a major crime of rebellion, the guerrilla who led the troops lost their official positions and could not escape.
In fact, the bullet surnamed Cao is likely to have been in Beijing just yesterday.
In this way, when everything is made public, people will be vigilant, and no one will do such things in the future. And it is impossible for the backstage of the alliance to consume political resources again to wipe the ass of everyone. Rebellion! Whose body bones can be carried twice?
However, the disgusting thing is that Xiong Dao can still continue to set fires in the future!?
How to break? Wait online, hurry!
The old man has been arguing since yesterday and today until now, and there has been no result until now.
Then everyone heard a terrible howl from outside.
"What's the noise? Hmph, it's not a system! ”
As the master, Master Xu Jin walked out of the big study for the first time, stood under the eaves and drank angrily.
"Master Xu, it's a disaster, it's a disaster, the one surnamed Cao...... Get the boat to the door! ”
Xu Jin blinked, but didn't react for a moment.
After staring at these anxious Qingke stewards for a few seconds, Xu Jin slapped his thigh, turned around and rushed into the house: "Everyone, go out with the students, something happened outside!" ”
So a group of old men, accompanied by a large number of entourage Qingke stewards, rushed out of the Xu family's mansion.
The next moment, everyone stood in front of the door of Xu's house, opened their mouths wide, and saw the sightseeing fleet that was anchoring.
At this moment, the fleet is only about 250 meters away from the river bank. The Xu family's mansion is only separated by a bluestone road from the riverbank, so both sides can clearly see each other.
The old men standing on the stone steps in front of the door can even see the group of people pointing at the roof of the ship building opposite, among which Cao Zongbing, who is wearing a second-grade red official robe, is particularly conspicuous.
Enemies meet each other...... Extraordinarily pleasant.
"I said, which of these people is Master Xu? It all looks pretty much the same. ”
It was Xue Haiyuan who spoke happily. This gentleman was holding a telescope, one by one to distinguish the masters opposite. Xue Haiyuan originally opened a trading house in Fuzhou City, and while engaging in business, he also took care of some underground work.
As the stalls that cross the crowd get bigger and bigger, the previous layout method of "one light and one dark" in the city of Ming can no longer be carried out.
After all, there are only a few Miao people who are engaged in intelligence, and the rest of the old men are all enthusiastic when they watch spy war movies, but if they really want to let them go to the "enemy-occupied area" where the environment is dirty and they often have to kowtow to people, they shake their heads like rattles one by one.
So this time, General Cao went north, and the intelligence bureau began to implement the pilot of "one person, one city": Xue Haiyuan, as the newly appointed person in charge of the Beijing station, not only has to manage the local intelligence department, but also manages the business affairs on the surface.
After hearing Xue Haiyuan's question, Zhang Dongdong, a member of the second rank, waved his hand indifferently, and habitually started to make a leadership speech: "Why do you care so much, we are here today to smash the authority of the landlord class in Jiangnan, and it is not aimed at a certain person." ”
Wearing a white admiral's uniform on the side, his appearance was top-notch in the traversal, the old handsome guy, Mu Longcheng, the captain of the Zhenman, answered with a smile: "Yes, yes, it's not aimed at anyone, the other side is garbage." ”
"That's right." Zhang Dongdong nodded and continued: "At the moment, we can't rebel, so we can only step on the bottom line of the rules, fight without breaking, and tear down the house." When they turn their faces with Daming in the future, can these old men still run away to Mexico? ”
"Maybe he was exiled by us." When Mu Longcheng said this, he suddenly patted his belly: "Don't say it, I'm going to want to eat a taco now." Hurry up, why don't you fire a shot to drive people away, and then let's start working? ”
"Don't panic, I guess the old man will be withdrawn soon." After all, Xue Haiyuan on the side had come into contact with many Ming masters in Fuzhou City, so he made a faint prediction.
Sure enough, not long after Xue Haiyuan finished speaking, a large number of servants and maids poured out of the Xu family's mansion, and the old men had already run in the direction of the county seat in a panic.
Just now, when a few people were talking, the alliance masters also figured out the situation.
As the owner of Xu's house, when Xu Jin saw the big ship at hand, the first thing he felt was anger: "Crazy, crazy, how dare the surname Cao be like this, how dare you do this!?" ”
Then he felt fear, and among the crowds of onlookers inside and outside the county, he was the only one who knew best why these strange ships were parked in front of his house.
However, the Ming people who lived in the hinterland of Jiangnan had never seen a real Western-style double-decker gunboat. Even if there was, it was the Fran machine ship that someone had seen in Zhoushan before the Jiajing year.
So from Xu Jin's point of view, he didn't have the concept of shooting from the side portholes, and he thought that the Zhenman with the gun door hidden was not dangerous, and then the surnamed Cao would definitely send troops to go ashore in a small boat and rush into Xu's mansion to burn and kill...... Like all the pirates Akito was familiar with.
His legs trembled, his face was pale, Xu Jin was already terrified to the extreme at this moment, and his frightened voice was full of color: "The surname Cao is going to risk the world's disapproval, do you want to go back to your old job, and go ashore to rob him?!" ”
"Definitely!"
At the moment when the gentry were all panicking, a middle-aged gentleman in his forties with a white and clean face, a Chinese character face, broke through the intention of crossing the crowd in one sentence: "The blue plywood ship hides artillery, and the Cao thief is trying to bombard the Xu family." Ladies and gentlemen, this is already a dangerous place, everyone go to the county seat quickly. Master Xu, quickly order the people in the house to avoid! ”
Who is this middle-aged man who is in command? An old friend who crosses the crowd: Bu Daxing Bu master.
After going to Fuzhou City to sue Cao Chuan, Master Bu came to Shanghai County and lived in the house of his acquaintance, who was also his niece's wife.
And not long ago, after the news of the big trouble spread in Jiading County, Master Bu, who was idle and relaxed, knew that there were benevolent and righteous people everywhere!
So Master Bu found the organization: he joined the title deed alliance with tears in his eyes.
Who knew that as soon as the front foot joined the organization, the back foot was copied by the Cao thief, and the crisis was just around the corner!
However, after all, Master Bu had traveled to Dayuan, and he knew the inside story of Cao Thief, and he had seen broadside artillery shooting in Dayuan's open sea.
So Master Bu guessed Cao Thief's plan for the first time, and began to calmly command the alliance people to transfer to the county seat.
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When Mu Longcheng, the captain of the Zhenman, saw that the retreat began in the Xu Mansion on the opposite side, he picked up his hand microphone and began to inform the entire ship's gun crew to prepare to shoot with a loudspeaker.
So on the side of the Zhenman facing Xu's house, one porthole after another began to open, and a door with a black, thick and long gun barrel was exposed.
Then the melon-eating crowd blocked between the Zhenman and Xu's house immediately shocked: what the fxxk?
After a short period of stunned, everyone who recognized it as a cannon began to cry and run away, and the ghost cried wolf howl on the river bank for a while, and it was chaotic. Including the Ming ships around the fleet, the Great Escape also began...... The Zhenman not only has portholes on the side, but also porthole guns in the front and rear, and at this time, black pipes are all sticking out.
On the double-deck gun, there were four guns on each floor that were responsible for firing at the front and rear. In other words, after removing these eight guns that did not participate in the salvo, the Zhenman could fire a broadside salvo with a maximum of 32 guns at a time.
The next moment, after the Zhenman trembled slightly, it fired an earth-shattering salvo at Xu Zhai.