readx;?“ Who are you? Tang Xunliang walked out of the command room, looking at the man in the long shirt who had just climbed onto the deck, Yang Junbo also hurriedly followed out of the command room. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"The envoy of General Xia Zheng has come to Dongfang Port to express my condolences to you this time." Xu Wei smiled and clasped his hands in front of his chest, and said loudly.

"General Zheng?" Yang Junbo on the side hurriedly asked, "But Zheng Zhilong and General Zheng?" ”

"Yes!" Xu Wei immediately became excited, this can be regarded as finding an acquaintance as soon as he came up. Although these people in front of him did not know each other, it seemed that these people were very similar to the styles of clothes they wore when they used to negotiate business with American maritime merchants in Mingzhou City, and they must have been all the way. "This gentleman is an acquaintance of the shopkeeper Du?"

Tang Xunliang couldn't help but be a little inexplicable, who is the shopkeeper Du? Why is this person obviously an indigenous, and he must have come from the mainland, how can he know the patriarch?

Unlike Tang Xunliang, Yang Junbo has been crossing together since the base, he knows that Zheng Zhilong's subordinates and the crossing group have had a misunderstanding in Master Huang's village, and he also knows the name Xu Wei, but he has never seen it.

"May I ask the messenger's name." Yang Junbo pinched his nose and asked in a crepe tone.

"Under Xu Wei, Xu Qijia." Xu Wei hurriedly reported all his names.

"Oh, it turned out to be Mr. Xu Wei." Yang Junbo nodded in greeting, and then asked, "Mr. Xu is here, I don't know what these fifteen or sixteen ships are doing?" ”

Xu Wei smiled, "It is said that there is an artifact in Dongfang Port, which can know the shape of a ship from a hundred miles away, it seems that you have long known that I have been waiting here." ”

Tang Xunliang didn't say anything, although Yang Junbo was the captain of the Chunxiao at all, and when he had nowhere to go during the Chinese New Year, he came to visit him, and went to sea by the way. But after all, Yang Junbo is a veteran who crossed at the beginning, he doesn't know anything, he can't say anything there, but is passive, not to mention that in addition to Yang Junbo, there are either locally recruited sailors, or the crew who was inexplicably crossed with him, so it is more suitable for him to remain silent now.

"Xu brought the fleet to Dongfang Port this time to open a new route, I heard that the nobles sold a large number of various seafood in Zhancheng Port, Xu also wants to get a piece of the pie here!" Xu Wei laughed as he spoke.

Yang Junbo naturally laughed too, how could he not know Xu Wei's intention, he came to monopolize the trade route at all, but there is no need to say anything at this time. After all, this matter is the business of the Ministry of Commerce, and he is only a navy, and the Ministry of Commerce is not good at war, but he is a layman in business.

After greeting for a while, Tang Xunliang gradually became acquainted, and also exchanged a few words with Xu Wei, which was nothing more than the size of this fleet and the situation of weapons. In fact, he didn't care, what he saw on the radar was clear at a glance, and now he was just looking for something to say. If there is a fight, this fleet is full of sailboats, and it must sail with the wind, and when it turns upwind, it will hit whoever it wants.

Wu Di is now sitting in the observation room, holding a naval telescope in his hand, scanning the lucky ships in the distance on the sea. These ships were of all sizes, and lanterns hung on them, and the sailors on them could not see this side at all, but only craned their necks to peep in this direction, or exchanged their heads and ears. The sailors held a variety of weapons in their hands, from sticks to daggers and bamboo guns. He couldn't help but feel funny, Zheng Zhilong's power was one of the best in the entire South China, although the Senate didn't know how strong Zheng Zhilong was in this time and space, but judging from the information collected from all sides, even if it was a sea overlord like the Maidno people, he had to leave some room when he encountered Zheng Zhilong. But what if it's just a fleet like this? The destroyers they were on were confident enough to take them down.

He put down the binoculars, leaned back in his chair and shook his head, recalling that Yang Junbo had discussed with Tang Xunliang in the duty room before's battleship modification plan, what ten spring guns, twenty ship-based machine guns, 400 people, and paddlewheel drive. This kind of firepower is equivalent to a fierce beast on the sea, let alone dealing with such a small fleet in front of you, even if it is against three Medeno Edge-class battleships alone. Not to mention much, just a steam engine drive is enough to throw off these dirt buns for eight streets. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look back at Xu Wei, who was still at home with Tang Xunliang and Yang Junbora below, chuckled, and continued to raise his binoculars to stare at the fleet in the distance. Strategically despise them, but tactically they must be meticulous, and at this time, not only the lookout posts, but also the sailors of the three machine-gun positions and spring gun positions did not leave their positions at all, staring at the fleet in the distance with cold faces.

Xu Wei has been constantly looking at the situation on the ship since he got on the boat, and the situation on the ship made him slightly surprised, compared with their ship, the Chinese's ship is larger, but it is more neat, there are no littered dun cloths, no buckets placed indiscriminately, and there is no cable that can be strangled to the neck at any time, and at intervals, there is a thick ring hanging on the bulwark, painted white and red, it is beautiful, I don't know what it is for. The windows of these ships are not made of paper paste, but glass, and he has come into contact with glass products and knows that this thing is not cheap, but now the Chinese even have this on the windows, which is really a luxury.

As a half-maritime merchant and half-pirate, he knew the importance of weapons in naval warfare, and on the aft deck he was standing a thin cannon, with a long opening in the barrel of the cannon, in which he could clearly see an iron rod curled up like a vine of a plant. He didn't know how far such a cannon could shoot the shell, and in his impression, if the cannon body was so slender, the shell would be far, but the round shell would lose its accuracy. And there is such a long opening in the cannon body, and when the cannon is fired, it doesn't leak all the gas? It's a small matter if the shell can't fly, but it's troublesome to blow up the bore.

He took advantage of his head to secretly look at another weapon on the roof of the command room, this is an iron lump with a long thin tube, next to a sailor half-kneeling beside him holding a long iron box that is obviously made of steel, another iron box that looks very similar is being mounted on the side of the big iron bump, it seems that this thing should be used to fire the projectile in this iron box, but this projectile is loaded from here, how to install gunpowder and ignite? Under such lighting conditions, he couldn't see the condition of this weapon clearly, and he couldn't help but secretly make up his mind that when he arrived at Dongfang Port, he must find an opportunity to get on the ship to see these weapons.

In comparison, the navy-type Senate rifles and revolvers used by the sailors did not attract his attention, because these things were too small, and they were not seen to use these weapons, so they were automatically ignored by Xu Wei.

Yang Junbo and Tang Xunliang talked quietly, and said to Xu Wei with a smile on their faces, "Since we are here to talk about business in Dongfang Port, of course we are warmly welcomed, then please Mr. Xu return to the ship first, and we will go back to the port to prepare for the reception of the Zheng family's fleet." ”

Xu Wei was a little disappointed, he originally expected to be able to go directly to Dongfang Port on this big iron boat, but the lieutenant ** master of the coast guard obviously did not express hostility, and his words were quite friendly, he didn't say much, so he returned to the dinghy.

When the dinghy rowed to his fleet, the big iron boat behind him suddenly heard a rhythmic sound similar to steel percussion, Xu Wei turned around in shock, only to see the big iron boat turn around and sail towards the southwest with a beautiful turn. The hull of the boat rowed across the sea, and the waves caused his dinghy to jolt up and down a few times before calming down a little.

"Mr. Xu, this ......" The rowing sailors were stunned, they didn't see how this big iron ship came from, but its brisk departure made them unable to understand, what kind of force could make such a large iron ship run so fast without sails and rocking oars? Far exceeded the maximum speed of his own ship, and if he were to be an enemy, the fleet would be able to even try to hit the ship as a luxury.

Xu Wei couldn't help but shake his head and let out a long sigh, "Don't worry about it, just know that these people are friends and not enemies, and in the future, when our ship encounters a ship under their flag, we must not attack, not even the slightest hostile intention." ”

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"Sixth brother, it looks pretty good in this Dongfang Port!" A bandit in tattered clothes nodded and said beside the smoke all the way. Expressionless all the way, he deeply remembered how the more than 1,000 pirates who besieged Huangjiazhai were beaten in a moment, the Dongfang Port in front of him was brightly lit, and there were not many people near a few sentry posts outside the city, but those short-haired soldiers in green uniforms were all in groups of two at this time, one by one with weapons in their hands, patrolling along the outer circle of the city.

Some time ago, they tried to rob Tan Lian and Tian Yani, who knew that not only did they fail to catch the meat ticket, but they killed and injured more than 20 people, which dealt a heavy blow to the strength of his bandit gang. After that, they did not have enough strength to rob outside the city of Oriental Harbor anymore, and fled south into Annam, where they defected to a local bandit. Because of his reputation all the way, and his experience in commanding a large group of bandits to attack the city, he also ranked sixth in this bandit gang. He has planned it, find the right opportunity to kill the leaders in front of him, and he can directly take over this bandit gang, and then take this bandit gang north to Wuguo, and strive to return to Mingzhou City.

But what he didn't want to see happened the most, the boss of this bandit gang didn't know where to find a man who was quite resourceful, boasting that the port of the East was full of gold and silver, and there were groups of beautiful women, as long as he launched a surprise attack, he could be a rich man for a lifetime, and he would be able to eat and drink for a lifetime. So the whole gang was instigated by him, and they came to the port of the East in a noisy. At this time, this wise man was wearing a tattered robe, still holding a feather fan that had lost a lot of hair, and staring at Dongfang Harbor from a distance with his beard twisted, not knowing what he was thinking. If Yang Muqin or Beiwei were present, I am afraid that they would be able to recognize at a glance that this so-called wise man is the number one target of the Senate's wanted warrant - Wen Xinyi.