This is quite a clumsy recruitment, Fu Qian is worthy of being a famous master of miscellaneous craftsman at the end of the Wei Dynasty, Xu Zixian has deliberately cultivated in the past two years, and his side is surrounded by master craftsmen who have been invited from all over the world, and there are also some famous masters of miscellaneous learning, as for the various craftsman books of the Great Wei and the previous dynasty, the Eastern Domain is all complete, so its level of miscellaneous craftsmen has far exceeded that of two years ago, although there is no peak and stagnation of academic period, but only from Fu Qian's current level, it is about second to none in the Great Wei.

However, the flaw of this kind of technical talent is that it is like this at the moment, speaking and doing things are quite blunt, for example, if you want to recruit these two pirates who have the opportunity to serve as a Jiedu envoy and the imperial court to give the three-rank general medal, the current wording is too blunt, and even too casual to do, and there is a feeling of carelessness.

Fortunately, Deng Wenjun and Lu Sihai both knew who Fu Qian was, and the two glanced at each other, both of them could see the meaning in each other's eyes.

King Qin? Quite outstanding and admirable.

The shogunate and the sailors also had a great future, in fact, Wang Zhi called two of his most powerful subordinates to the Eastern Domain, one was to seek support and help, because the strength of the Eastern Domain's sailors had skyrocketed, and it was enough to rely on. The second is to find a way out for his subordinates, the maritime trade in the north is not developed enough, and it cannot support Wang Zhi's current 20,000 subordinates, and the islands and territories allocated by the imperial court cannot afford to support so many pirates attached to the annex.

Lu Sihai grinned and said, "When the Eastern Domain also builds the kind of warship with dozens of cannons on one ship, we will discuss it at that time." ”

Fu Qian snorted coldly, knowing that these two people refused to tell the truth to him, and deliberately played haha.

"There's something I want to remind you both." Fu Qian said solemnly: "If we beat Pu Xingfeng, all things are done, then it is to uncover the cards, the earlier you bet, the more profits, do not dare to bet only to play a hand, just like a gambling money, although there is no risk, the profit is limited." ”

"Brother Fu deserves to be a miscellaneous scholar." Deng Wenjun said quite calmly: "I am also proficient in gambling money." ”

"No need to gossip." Fu Qian said solemnly: "I ordered the artillery team to fire the cannon and test fire the freshly cast twenty-pound cannon." ”

The two pirate generals were silent and waited for a test firing from a cannon crew not far away.

The whole firearms bureau was in a hollow valley, and the shooting range was a small valley opposite, with huge targets dug out. About two dozen people pushed out the heavy artillery with a wooden gun carriage and began to aim their tools at the bullseye on the opposite side.

"This is a twenty-pound cannon, which belongs to heavy artillery." Fu Qian said: "It weighs more than 4,000 catties, nearly 5,000 catties, which is quite light." For our ships, such heavy guns cannot be placed on both sides, but can only be used as bow guns and stern guns, and the other ten pound guns can be placed four or six to two sides, and each battleship can have ten, eight, and six heavy and medium, light guns respectively. In addition, our ships can still be equipped with light bed crossbows...... The heavy eight-bull crossbow is not only not suitable for field warfare, but also not suitable for naval warfare, so it can only be gradually eliminated, and it is only suitable for strengthening the momentum when defending the city. ”

Fu Qian smiled and said, "Fortunately, the Eight Bull Crossbow is difficult to build and too expensive, and we don't have a few on Fujian Road." ”

Deng Wenjun nodded and said: "When we followed the general to compete for power at sea, what we valued most was actually the near-shore engagement, bows and arrows, throwing spears, throwing axes, bones, throwing a fierce throw, and then jumping with knives, so as to capture the ship." It doesn't matter if there is a crossbow or a trebuchet......"

At this time, the artillery crew had adjusted the height and elevation angle of the gun carriage and stuffed it into the medicine bag, and another gunner released the heavy iron round shell out of the gun chamber, and then someone stepped forward to squeeze the plug, and then the crew members stepped back together, and someone stretched out a long ignition rod to ignite the primer......

"That's pretty much it." Lu Sihai kept staring, and then smiled: "The Tianfang people and the Taixi people also fire cannons like this......

"Boom ......"

The sudden loud noise startled everyone, and Deng and Lu and their companions jumped even more.

Fu Qian didn't care, he had already covered his ears beforehand.

The bombardment of more than 20 pounds of heavy artillery was quite amazing, the fire was sprayed, its sound was like thunder, and the bullseye on the opposite hill was hit on the side.

Large pieces of rocks burst out, followed by dust.

Lu Sihai and Deng Wenjun were dumbfounded, and after half a sound, Deng Wenjun said: "If this is the case, I am afraid that it will be ...... to bombard the deck of the enemy ship."

Deng Wenjun was afraid that he didn't say it for a long time, at this time the Tianfang people still mainly used trebuchets, and the Taixi people all used cannons, but their artillery was only small artillery, and now it is still based on early small copper cannons and Franco machine guns.

Fu Qian couldn't help but grin, but he was certainly proud to be able to forge such a powerful cannon in about half a year. The previous guns of the Great Wei were all small artillery, and the barrels of the guns were forged with pieces of iron tile-type wrought iron, the rifling was not smooth, the pressure on the barrel was small, and the kinetic energy was of course very poor, and the effective killing was less than 100 steps. Such artillery, although Emperor Taizu of the Great Wei Dynasty strongly advocated the use of firearms, for more than 200 years, the artillery of the Great Wei Dynasty was indeed unpopular.

The artillery in front of you is different, because the iron quality is good, the gun body is not too heavy to load about 20 catties of shells, after the barrel is thick, it can carry more gunpowder to propulsion, the kinetic energy increases, and now the effective range has exceeded 800 steps, although it is not as far and accurate as the eight bull crossbow, but the control of the artillery is much easier than the eight bull crossbow, in comparison, of course, the artillery can play a better long-range strike force of the warship, until the close angle of attack and jump gang battle.

Deng Wenjun and Lu Sihai both had dark faces...... The Qin Wangfu army of the Eastern Domain's ability to jump into gangs, they had no doubt at all. It is not even an exaggeration to say that the two pirate leaders from the north believed that the Qin Wangfu army was the strongest of many maritime forces in the gang jumping war. Whether it is armor or weapons, as well as daily training, organization, command, as well as the loyalty and courage of the soldiers, the degree of obedience, and the desire for victory, the pirates who only know how to loot floating wealth and want to save some pension money for themselves cannot be compared with the government army.

The gap between a heap of rabble and regular soldiers is huge, and it cannot be made up for by a few years of experience at sea.

If the wind is suitable, it can be fought at sea into an angle battle or a gang jump, then the government army can almost be beaten against Wang Zhisuo's department, or against Kang Tianqi and Pu Xingfeng...... Deng Wenjun and Lu Sihai knew Pu Xingfeng, there were thousands of Tianfang people among his subordinates, probably a considerable number of them had experienced military training, and they also had considerable experience in naval and land warfare, and the scimitars and spears they used were quite good, the steel used was excellent, the weapons were tough, and they were extremely sharp, and these Tianfang people were also extremely brutal. But they are undoubtedly the warriors of the Tianfang tribe, and it is impossible for them to receive long-term systematic military training, not that the military training completely crushes the individual martial arts, for example, ten Tianfang warriors against ten government troops, it is very likely that a strong Tianfang person will kill all the government troops without death.

But a hundred government troops against a hundred heavenly people, maybe the government army killed the other party after paying nearly half of the casualties.

If it was a thousand people against a thousand people, Deng Wenjun didn't think that the Heavenly People had any chance, the government army would have at most one percent of casualties, and the Heavenly People would have already fled in defeat.

This is the difference between a professional soldier and a civilian samurai, military training includes obeying orders, golden drums, flags, arrays, trust and cooperation between generals and soldiers, and command on the battlefield, etc.

After Deng Wenjun and Lu Sihai got on the island, they have watched a lot of things worth seeing. The production of equipment for the government army, including scarfs, iron masks, iron scale armor, piercing armor, hydraulic forging cuirass, etc., in addition to the configuration of iron cavalry and heavy armored cavalry, it is even more luxurious for the two pirate leaders. The government army is enough to sweep any pirate on land, including Pu Xingfeng, who has more than 100,000 people, maybe this heavenly pirate still thinks very highly of himself, thinking that his strength is far above Yan Qi and Liu Dan, but in Deng Wenjun's opinion, it is nothing more than a lot more in number, in essence, Pu Xingfeng's subordinates are no different from Yan Qi and Liu Dan, including Wang Zhi.

The army of the Qin Wangfu is more than the existence of the Great Wei Forbidden Army, and if the two sides are facing each other, the victory or defeat can be imagined.

Then there is the amazing power of the artillery in front of him, as well as the rapid development of the government army and the naval division, the two pirates from the north suddenly realized that what Fu Qian said was not to solicit and woo, but to release a kind of goodwill.

"Your Highness also

Do you have time to see me both? Deng Wenjun couldn't help but say to Fu Qian: "I really want to see His Highness." ”

Fu Qian said with a smile: "At this time, if His Royal Highness the King of Qin invites himself to lead the army to participate in the Northern Expedition, will the imperial court allow it?" Moreover, the Fujian Road and the Eastern Domain are also inextricably linked, at this time, he led the main force to the north, the supply of money and grain, the logistics and military supplies, and the soldiers just suppressed bandits everywhere, and then mobilized after dispersion, did Brother Deng think that the government army could still catch up? ”

Deng Wenjun has asked Xu Zixian many times, but without exception, he was politely rejected by Xu Zixian.

This pirate's loyalty is much stronger than that of many noble and high-ranking officials of the Great Wei, and he has already submitted a letter, asking Xu Zixian to lead his troops north to help Li Guorui and the Northern Expeditionary Army. These Qin Wangfu armies to the north will play a decisive role in the overall battle situation.

But as Fu Qian said, the government army is scattered and stationed and exterminated local bandits, and gradually moved to Jianzhou, the imperial court has issued many edicts, urging the King of Qin to enter the Jiangnan West Road as soon as possible and exterminate the remnants of Li Kaiming's department...... At this moment, how could the King of Qin invite himself to go north?

Moreover, no matter how fierce the fight in the south is, in the eyes of the generals of the northern forbidden army and the high-level of the imperial court, the southern bandits have low combat power, and they cannot be compared with the Donghu iron cavalry in the north. Under such a vigilant mentality, of course, the imperial court will never allow it, and Xu Zixian will never be bored.

Since I can't agree to the invitation, it doesn't really mean much to meet or not.

Deng Wenjun sighed, there was a melancholy look between his eyebrows, Lu Sihai grinned and said: "Our lives are lives, the lives of the soldiers of the Northern Expedition are lives, and His Royal Highness the King of Qin and the soldiers of the government army are not?" told them to rush north and take a risk, and under the suspicion of the Son of Heaven, he didn't know how many casualties they would have to die...... Old Deng, you want to deviate. ”

"On the snow-covered black soil at this moment, I don't know how many Great Wei Erlang are fighting to the death with the Donghu people...... Deng Wenjun shook his head and sighed: "We have tried our best, what is the luck of Great Wei and what the result is, it is no longer up to people like us to decide." ”

At this time, the artillery group fired again, and in the roar, there was a burst of cheers and exclamations, Lu Sihai squinted and looked not far away, and he also saw Zhang Siqi and others, Lu Sihai saw more of these people from afar in the Eastern Domain, and he didn't feel strange, his eyes stayed on the two obviously frightened Dutchmen for a long time, and the people who had been at sea for a long time were not surprised by these Tessians, judging from the tall man, the broad shoulders, and the two of them were full of blonde hair, judging from these details, it could not be a Spaniard or a Portuguese, It was clearly the Dutch, who came from behind.

Since Malacca was controlled by the Celestials, the Dutch had no chance to establish themselves in Batavia at this time, and they were competing with the Spaniards for Manila, while these Tessian countries were also grouping together to deal with the pirates.

"Don't they use artillery too?" Deng Wenjun also saw the Dutch, and he didn't care.

Not far away, Neil and Kearney barely managed to compose themselves, but they both saw the horror in each other's eyes, the impact of the artillery bombardment just now was so strong that the two big blonde men couldn't help but lose their temper like little girls.

The two Dutchmen understood very well why they were frightened, the artillery in front of them had far surpassed the European artillery in terms of quality, and in terms of power and actual control, the Wei people were also clearly superior to the Dutch.

They felt that the biggest hole cards had been exposed, as if their robes had been blown away by a strong wind in the downtown area, and they were forced to walk naked in the crowd, which was quite uncomfortable and made them frightened.

The Wei people also have firearms, but haven't these Orientals always been heavy on bows and crossbows, not heavy firearms?

"I have a hunch." A.T. Kearney smiled bitterly and whispered to his companion, "In the next few years, the Celestials will be driven out of the eastern sea, and if we try to colonize here, I am afraid that the end will not be very good." ”