Over the mountain, and then to the foot of the mountain, more than ten miles of distance is mostly the mountain road and climbing the mountain, Rao is a strong man is strong, good at climbing, to the flat land, it is also the light of day, there are already some peasants on the flat land to turn over the land, these people are all thin, look wooden, both eyes are a piece of dead ashes, there are traces of whipping sticks.

The strong man knew that these were the people from Zhangzhou or Fuzhou, and that the women were divided among the pirates, while the men helped the pirates farm the land...... Of course, it is cost-effective to grab food, but you can't grab it every day, you have to have some reserves.

Qizhou Port is on the south side of the Qizhou Mountain Range, and if the land is completely reclaimed, there will be 30,000 or 40,000 mu, but now only a few thousand acres have been developed, and some rice has been planted along the mountain stream, and most of the rest is vegetable fields.

There were some chickens and pigs moving in the light of dawn, mostly emaciated and not well cared for.

Strong men walk in such places at will, and it is commonplace here.

Looking back, the green hills looked quite steep, and the shrubs and woodlands went all the way up, and no one thought that they would go up and down from such a place.

The strong man grinned, looking extremely proud.

After the farmland, hundreds of houses were built on large open lots, and what was once a few small fishing villages is no longer visible.

There are some pirates in the port area who are repairing and taking care of a ship, which is a serious Great Wei Navy standard warship captured by Chen Yutai after the battle with the Great Wei Naval Division.

This ship is 32 meters long, 7 meters wide, 3 meters deep, about 225 displacement, 100 tons of load, three masts and four sails, the front sail is small, skewed forward, the middle mast is long, it is a large rigid sail hanging on the back, and behind it is a triangular sail hanging diagonally, which is used to adjust the course, and it is very important to adjust the route in wartime, which is also a relatively rare design in Chinese ships. At the stern of the ship is a tall shipyard with wall-like battlements and perforations, a smaller tail sail on the ship, and two eight-ox crossbows.

The Eight Bull Crossbow is just a description, it takes a lot of strength to pull the winding, this kind of strong crossbow is the Great Wei bow and crossbow technology, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the pinnacle of the entire world's bow and crossbow technology.

In Xu Zixian's opinion, this is on the wrong path, more than 200 years, the Great Wei Taizu has prepared the road of firearms in advance, if he has been insisting on going down, presumably the power of firearms and artillery is not small now.

But the emperor of Great Wei after Taizu still returned to the old path of heavy bows and crossbows...... Can't blame them all, the pressure of the northern captives is great, the Great Wei forbidden army has to continue to fight with the four enemies, the establishment of the Great Wei seems to be Taizu changed his life against the sky, a bloody road from the heavy pressure, at the beginning of the founding of the country, it faced strong enemies on all sides, although it has repeatedly attacked, but it has not been able to completely solve the enemy on all sides.

The Wei forbidden army has been fighting bloody battles with the enemy since its establishment, and there is no record of more than ten years of peace.

When Donghu rose, the forbidden army was even more exhausted, the loss was great, the firearms were still quite crude at this time, not as far as the bow, not as strong as the crossbow, the loading was troublesome, and the maintenance was more troublesome than the bow and arrow, the key was that the casting was difficult, the cost was high, and the painstaking efforts of Taizu heavy firearms were still defeated by reality.

The strong crossbow is different, this is the biggest reliance of the Wei army's forbidden army, the divine arm bow, the longest range is 200 steps away, and the effective killing is also 100 steps away, no matter how strong the foot bow and archer are, it can't compare to the divine arm bow.

And the Eight Bull Crossbow is even more magical, there are many Beilu or Xiqiang Heavy will be shot to death and injured by the Eight Bull Crossbow, which may be pierced and chiseled, but it may also be true.

Three large giant bows more than one person long are stacked in one place, and the three strings are fired in unison, and the sound is like thunder when fired, and the power of the bow can shoot inside and out, which is also a complete fact.

The arrow is as thick as a child's arm, and after being shot, under the huge power, it can completely wear many heavily armored soldiers outside Li Xu into meat skewers.

This crossbow is large and heavy, it is inconvenient to load and move, it is difficult to use in field battles, naval battles and defending the city is an excellent weapon, the strength of the three-fold bow is so strong, if it is purely deadlifted, it really needs the power of eight bulls, some people have tried, if the eight-bull crossbow is pulled by pure manpower, it takes at least thirty people to pull it open.

Even if it is to defend the city, it is too time-consuming and laborious to pull the winding like this, so there is a precision winch behind the crossbow, and the two can barely pull it apart, and if you want to be efficient, a group of four can pull the bowstring quite quickly, load the arrow, and shoot the arrow at the target.

The brawny man saw someone trying to turn the winch behind the crossbow, pulled the bowstring apart, and put the javelin-like arrows into the slot...... The arrows of this crossbow are also equal to the length of the spear, the arrow feathers are made of three-tailed iron feathers, and the arrows are made of stainless steel, so the arrows of the eight-bull crossbow are also called "one gun and three sword arrows", such javelin-style bows and arrows, the threat to the enemy ships at sea is also great, it can be said that it is a militaristic heavy weapon, imitation is impossible, Pu Xingfeng and other pirates like to use thrown stone cannons, and they will not play with the strong crossbow, and they will not build, so the captured two eight-bull crossbows are cheap Chen Yutai.

Seeing the two eight-bull crossbows, the strong man also grinned.

The existing Fuzhou Naval Division is mainly stationed in Penghu, and there are only a dozen or so battered Fu ships and water ships as capital ships, with dozens of small boats, and the number of officers and men is only more than 3,000, which is not much more than that of pirates.

If it weren't for the coastal defense and the forbidden army, the five pirates at sea would be able to sweep away the poor weak sailors left in the imperial court at will.

This is also the reason why the Great Wei Dynasty is reluctant to rebuild the naval division, the ships and equipment are constantly consumed, the personnel are constantly consumed, the establishment requires tens of millions, and the various expenses for maintaining the ships are enough to support the forbidden army of dozens of armies every year.

In countries where trade flourished, it was certainly most cost-effective to invest in the navy without the heavy pressure of the nomads, as the British did and the Spaniards did.

The Chinese people are regarded as an agrarian people, ignoring the sea, which is not the case.

From the perspective of the official history of China, from the Central Plains to the southeast, while developing the land, the sea has gradually been valued. By the end of the Tang Dynasty, there were tens of thousands of foreign maritime merchants in Guangzhou, Quanzhou and other places, and the Chinese went to the sea, went overseas to trade and settle down, and it was at that time that they began.

In the Song Dynasty in history, the development of overseas, foreign trade is also extremely successful, the sea is also extremely important, if not always the northwest and north, northeast and other places of fishing and hunting and nomadic pressure brought by the pressure, I believe that China's maritime expansion will not be inferior to the European continent countries.

In contrast, Europe is truly blessed with several large-scale invasions by nomads, such as the famous Whip of God, and the invasion of the Mongols, but from northern China all the way to Europe, its aggressiveness has been greatly weakened, and it has never brought a fatal threat or blow to European civilization.

China is different, from the Xiongnu in the Qin and Han dynasties to the Turks, Goguryeo, Khitan and Dangxiang in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jurchens and Mongols in the Southern Song Dynasty, including the Mongols in the Ming Dynasty, the Jurchens, the strong nomads are too far from Europe and too close to China.

This is undoubtedly unfair, the Chinese civilization has had brilliant times, and there have been opportunities for development, but without exception, they have been consumed in the process of long-term confrontation with strong neighbors in the north, and even suffered devastating blows.

A civilization cannot always be strong, such as the destroyed Greece and Rome, China has a strong period of power, there will also be an inevitable period of decline, if it is not for the blow of civilization destruction, the achievements will be far more than later generations, and it will not be called European civilization alone.

Chen Yutai's courtyard is located in the middle of many houses, connected by several roads, and a large fence of miles long has been built on the seaside of the houses to protect against surprise attacks from the sea.

On the side of Qishan, a number of guard towers and arrow towers have been built, which are not as strict as those on the sea.

Along the way, many pirates were still sleeping in their respective houses, and some pirates were wandering in groups, looking at the strong men with eyes that were vigilant, gloomy, or violent and cruel.

In the past six months, there are few Qishan pirates, and the money they loot consumes a lot, and pirates will also save money, no one will want to be a pirate for a lifetime, save a large amount of money, and then go ashore under a pseudonym, this is the ultimate dream of many pirates, although there are few successful people, but if there is no hope at all, it is a challenge to many people's patience.

The strong man ignored those provocative gazes, if in normal times, he didn't mind putting down a few, Chen Yutai did not prohibit pirates from fighting each other, as long as they didn't use knives, it didn't matter if they killed people under their fists.

It's just that the strong man is burdened with a heavy responsibility today and doesn't dare to delay, so he hurried through in all kinds of provocative eyes, and went to the courtyard where Chen Yutai lived, and after being interrogated by his guards, he waited all the way to the room where Chen Yutai was resting.

After a while, a woman with a blank look came out of the room, and the strong man grinned when he saw it, with undisguised burning and desire in his eyes.

Of course, all the women on the island were plundered, and whoever wanted to use them could use them, and whoever had the biggest fist could use all the women on the island.

The woman in front of her was snatched from Zhangzhou, the most beautiful, and the most humiliated, the most disobedient, and her body was full of traces of whipping.

At this time, Chen Yutai said inside: "Luo Si is back?" ”

"It's me, the boss."

The strong man's name is Luo Si, and he is one of the commanders among the Qishan pirates, and the pirates also have an organizational system, although they are sloppy, they still have to maintain the pattern and order in peacetime and wartime.

"I've seen the big bosses." After Luo Si entered the house, he hugged his fists and saluted, Chen Yutai was half-lying on the bed, squinted at the strong man in front of him, and said, "See Xu Zixian?" ”

"See." Luo Sidao: "In his early twenties, judging from his gestures, he does have kung fu on his body, and he is afraid that he is not his opponent." ”

"Oh?" Chen Yutai lifted a little spirit, thought about it, and sighed: "The second child died in his hands, it seems that it is not for nothing. ”

"It doesn't have to be a master." Luo Sidao: "I have been to Nan'an, Qin Dongyang and Liu Yi are the real masters, I don't think Xu Zixian is necessarily better than them." ”

"Being able to hold a group of masters around and use them easily is also a skill."