The Empire's Oriental trade with Fuso had become an important foreign trade of the Empire.

This is not only because Fuso is close to the mainland of the empire, but it only takes one Tsushima Strait to reach Fuso from the Goryeo Peninsula, but also because the population of Fuso is not small, and it also produces gold and silver.

At the same time, many daimyo fought each other, and there was no strong unified regime, which also gave the merchants of the empire many opportunities to fish in troubled waters.

For example, in order to monopolize the arms business in the Fuso region, they even used various means to weaken and destroy the arms production capacity of the daimyos in Fuso.

In the process of the empire's arms trade in Fuso, the military sold a large number of retired arquebuses at a high price, and returned a large amount of funds to renew, the weapons company earned several times the profit, and the weapon merchants also earned several times the profit.

Even the daimyo in Fusang who bought the weapons of the Tang Dynasty thought it was very good, although they paid a lot of gold and silver, but in exchange for advanced arquebuses and even a small number of small and medium-sized artillery, to fight against other daimyos, it was much better than holding a katana to fight like before!

The success of arms sales in the Fusang region also made the merchants of the Tang Empire particularly like to use weapons as the main commodities to be marketed, and to promote them to Fusang and Nanyang.

The only exception is the Tatars and the Warats in the north, the Tibetan people, the Tang Empire officially forbade trading with them in addition to the specified inter-market ports, and at the same time, in the inter-market trade, the official dominance, the Tatars want arquebuses, you can also, take war horses in exchange!

If you trade with the Tatars without permission, if you are caught, you will be guilty of treason!

The Tang Empire is not a former Ming Dynasty, and the blockade of the direction of the Great Wall in the north is very severe, plus the military has always been preparing for war, so it is even more serious about this kind of thing.

However, the system is good, no matter how strict the implementation is, but after the thing is sold, it will end up somewhere, even if it is as strong as Datang, it is difficult to supervise.

In the early years, even the puppet Ming army was able to obtain the arquebuses produced by the Tang Empire through various channels.

The natives of Nanyang and even those pirates can actually obtain some of the arquebuses produced by the Tang Empire through various messy channels, which is something that the Tang Empire can't do.

But the total amount of these arquebuses that have fallen out is still limited, and it is impossible to say it everywhere, as for artillery, it is even less, because the Tang Empire prohibits the export of cannons in principle, and even if it is bought, it is only to buy some light small cannons, such as shotguns or something, but field guns that exceed five catties are generally not bought.

The only exception is armed merchant ships!

If they are not sold to these armed merchant ships, they will be swallowed by pirates when they go to sea, and there will be no scum left, so the armed merchant ships in the country will still be sold, but they will be strictly registered, and how many doors will be required when they go to sea, and how many doors will be required when they come back, otherwise there will be various investigations, and the light ones will be fined, and the qualifications for maritime trade will be revoked, and the heavy ones will be arrested and imprisoned.

It is estimated that only a very small part of the guns and artillery of these natives and pirates outside Banten City are produced by the Tang Empire, and many of the two or three arquebuses are estimated to be produced by the empire.

This is also to make many soldiers in the city curse in a low voice, those damned merchants, sell guns and cannons indiscriminately, now it is okay, they are all in the hands of the enemy, and they are beaten in turn.

However, there is no way to curse, on the contrary, they have to rejoice that the Empire strictly prohibits the export of flintlock pistols and medium and large caliber artillery, especially flintlock guns.

Only the armed forces of the country are equipped, and even civilian armed merchant ships cannot be purchased.

Colonel Yang Hong put down the binoculars, just now through the binoculars, he has basically determined the basic tactics of the natives and pirates outside the city, they want to bypass the west wall of their own large-caliber artillery under the cover of artillery, and run to the east city wall to attack.

Moreover, he also saw that the local fleet was gradually approaching, and it was estimated that they would venture into the Sunda Strait and carry out naval bombardment of Banten City after approaching!

Banten City is a typical fortress, in addition to self-protection, but also shouldered the heavy task of blocking the Sunda Strait, otherwise there would not be a large number of heavy artillery deployed on the west battery, but among those heavy artillery, including four eighteen pound guns, eight fourteen pound guns, and two forty-eight pound mortars.

In addition, a total of 18 9-pound guns and 16 5-pound guns were deployed in the entire fortress.

There are only two catties and three catties of shotguns, which are simply ignored!

Although none of these guns are new artillery, the artillery in these years has not changed much, and the nine-pound naval guns used by the empire in the early years are not much different from the current nine-pound naval guns.

If it can be equipped with the latest howitzer shells, it can still cause heavy damage to these natives and pirates!

Unfortunately, as an overseas territory, Banten Castle was also important, but it was not important enough for the empire to prioritize the relatively expensive howitzer shells produced here.

At present, the howitzer shells of the empire are only equipped with the domestic guards and part of the main field forces, while the navy is equipped with only warships with these howitzer shells.

Therefore, it is a pity that most of the shells currently used in Banten City are still traditional solid shells and scattered shells, as well as heavy artillery chain shells, arson shells, grapeshot bullets, etc.

Otherwise, when these natives and pirates first landed, they would have been able to directly bombard them with dozens of artillery shells, and if these natives and pirates still had the courage to continue the siege, then they could only be said to be awesome!

It's a pity that the city is not equipped with these howitzer shells!

When Yang Hong sensed that the enemy was going to bypass the west side where his artillery was dense and ran to the east side, he also made corresponding adjustments, and immediately quickly transferred part of the nine-jin and five-jin artillery to the east city wall.

Anyway, the fortress is specially designed for war, and there are a large number of rapid transfer channels inside, not only soldiers, but also these guns can be quickly transferred.

Of course, those 14 or even 18 pound heavy guns are not easy to transfer, on the one hand, it is more difficult to maneuver, and on the other hand, it is also to be used to fight the enemy's fleet into the Sunda Strait.

Without these heavy artillery, these seven or eight armed merchant ships, mainly pirate ships, would have been able to directly approach the shore and fire their cannons at Banten City.

Banten Castle is a fortress built just on the coast, close to the shore, and although it can block the strait with heavy artillery and protect the harbor, the enemy can also bombard the castle with naval artillery after sticking close.

It's just that in normal times, the enemy's fleet doesn't look stupid and leans up to bombard the fortress's artillery, because then they can't take any advantage, on the contrary, they will suffer a lot.

As soon as Colonel Yang Hong arranged for the artillery to be transferred, the artillery originally deployed on the eastern city wall had already opened fire in advance!

The Banten Garrison Regiment of the Tang Army took the lead in launching an interceptive artillery bombardment, announcing the outbreak of this offensive and defensive war!

The natives and pirates, who went around the seashore, carried artillery and nearly 10,000 infantry to cooperate, but they naturally had to launch an artillery bombardment before they attacked.

Those natives may not know the importance of artillery bombardment for fire suppression, but the pirates inside are very clear, not to mention, this coalition of natives and pirates, pirates are the ones who have a lot of artillery and arquebuses, and the natives are just the ones who fight.

These pirates worked hard to remove the cannons from the ships, naturally not to make these cannons rust and mold, but to fight.

However, in order for artillery to be effective, it must first be in effective range!

Just when these pirates pushed the artillery and wanted to continue to advance to the firing range, the artillery of the Tang garrison at the head of the city was the first to fire, and they fired directly at the pirate artillery advancing outside the city according to the already measured shooting yuan!

In these years, in wars where both sides use guns, artillery suppression is very important!

The reason why the Tang army was able to crush the Ming army was because in almost every battle, the Tang army was able to gain artillery superiority, and after using the artillery superiority to suppress the enemy's artillery fire, it covered the infantry to attack, which was the old method of the Tang army.

And these pirates, although it is unlikely that they have fought any large-scale wars, they still know the basic common sense and know that they want to shell first, but in this kind of terrain, they are always on the passive side.

Because they're dealing with a fortress!

Several nine-pound guns deployed in the east were the first to fire, and the hit rate of the first round of shelling was not high, only one shell hit, but this shell that hit successfully destroyed an entire artillery crew of this group of pirates!

The solid shell directly destroyed the temporary wooden gun carriage of this pirate's five-pound gun, leaving only a lone barrel, and by the way, it also killed and injured several pirate gunners!

See that there is a temporary wooden artillery carriage in front of you that has been destroyed!

A ringleader-like pirate watching the battle from the rear shouted, "Damn it! ”

If anyone in the city heard this, they would definitely shout and curse, because this pirate spoke the Chinese language, and even the clothes he wore were traditional Hanfu.

And many of the pirates around him are also Chinese.

On the side of the thousands of natives were about 500 pirates dressed in a mess of clothes and even races, including the Chinese, the Fuso, the Nanyang natives, the Indians, the Arabs, the whites, and even the blacks.

In these years, the human race that can be found in the South Seas can basically be found in this pirate gang, a small pirate gang, like a United Nations.

And in front of this group of about 500 pirate gangs of all colors and colors!

A middle-aged man wearing traditional Hanfu, black hair and black eyes was holding a telescope and looking at the city, while there were three people standing respectfully behind him!

One of them was a dark-skinned, short, strangely dressed native, unknown place, a young Arab in a robe, a strip of cloth with an Arabic scimitar hanging from his waist, and an old white man in a tight suit, blonde hair, blue eyes, and a high nose, with a Western-style sword at his waist.

The middle-aged man in Hanfu put down his binoculars after a while, touched his goatee, and then said lightly: "These pseudo-Tang thieves, after so many years, this war is still the same, and they have not grown at all, so they know how to fight artillery!" ”

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