In fact, Hong Tao still took a big advantage, and one or two sailors were killed and wounded on his side, but the entire Dengzhou port was set on fire by grenades. There are bed crossbows in the water village of the sailors to fight back, but there is no such thing on the dock, so you can only watch the battleship approach, and then fly out some black guys that can explode and catch fire, and fire will appear wherever they fall, and what is even more amazing is that there are also battleships that throw small cans of whale oil on the dock with grenade launchers. Now it is alive, there is no shortage of wind on the seaside, with mixed oil as a fire, whale oil as an accelerant, that flame, burning vigorously, soon became a small volcano, the fire head is higher than the mast of the battleship, even the battleship dare not approach. Seeing that the sky is getting darker, the big torch of Dengzhou Port is burning more and more, and there is no need to light a beacon fire now, and the flames and smoke can be seen from dozens of miles away.

"Holy! And trebuchets! Yaya, let them come back. Our task is complete, it will take another hour or two, and when it gets dark, we will sneak away, and we will not give them a chance to sneak attack! Hong Tao was holding a telescope to look at the big torch, suddenly swept the sea splashing a big splash, he put down the telescope, carefully observed by the firelight for a while, and immediately issued a new order to Weng Ya. Dengzhou reinforcements came, and several big splashes were splashed on the sea, and it was more than 500 meters away from the water village. Hong Tao couldn't see what it was, but he could guess what else could make such a big splash on the surface of the sea except for the big stone thrown by the trebuchet.

Seeing that several battleships were scared away by trebuchets, the talents of Dengzhou Port came out of all directions and began to extinguish the fire. Unfortunately, when the fire reached a certain scale, even the modern fire extinguishing equipment of later generations could not do anything. A few buckets of water, a few truckloads of sand, not to mention. The most important thing to do is to separate the area that is on fire from the area that is not on fire. It's a pity that the trebuchet came late. It's too late to get the quarantine area, the fire is sweeping away to the west by the east wind, and when will it be extinguished when everything that can be burned in this piece of land will be burned.

Hong Tao didn't want to set fire to the city, he just wanted to contain the defenders, such a big fire would not do him any good, the battleship was clearly divided, and it was impossible to evacuate now. I can only honestly float outside the harbor and try to buy time for the marines. In addition, it was necessary to let the two battleships keep circling in circles to prevent the boats of the Dengzhou Navy Division from coming out to sneak attack. Although Hong Tao has never seen what the fireships of this era are like and what kind of combat methods they are, after all, he has heard of the existence of such a thing, so be careful.

"Sir, the Hypo is back, it's five nautical miles to the east, all is going well, are we ready to set sail?" Not only is Hong Tao annoyed by this cautious confrontation situation, but Weng Ya is also not willing to play in circles in this narrow strait. As soon as the lookout spotted the signal lantern of the Haibo, he immediately came to ask Hong Tao for instructions.

"All the best! That's good. If they are frustrated again, your uncle and I will lose miserably, so let's go! Hong Tao looked at the lights hung up by the duty officer, it was already a child's time, counting from the sixth moment of Shen Shi to launch an attack, he had been tossing here for nearly seven hours, and his nerves were always tense and it was really uncomfortable.

"Lao Wen, see, destroying a city is not much trouble than destroying a port, if the kind of cannon I said was built by Qi Zu and them, it would be easier to do this thing again. When the time comes, whether it is a bed crossbow or a trebuchet, there will be no chance of a battleship. Two miles away, I could throw a grenade bigger than this into the city walls, and I would burn all the cities near the sea and the great rivers. You say, do the Mongols still have the strength to attack the south? Looking at the farther and farther fire, Hong Tao was in a good mood, one dead and three injured, in exchange for hundreds of Han people in the north, a quarter of whom were craftsmen, which was not a loss. But he was still not satisfied, the grenade launcher had been improved many times, and he had thought of all the ways he could come up with, but the projection distance was still no more than 200 meters. If there is no breakthrough in materials, I am afraid that it will never be able to exceed 200 meters, and unless the artillery is made, the future harassment war will definitely be accompanied by more and more casualties of our own personnel.

"My lord, my subordinates have fulfilled their mission and successfully brought back all four hundred and seven people in the craftsman camp, and there were no casualties in the marines. However, his subordinates made a good opinion, and also took in fifty-seven officers and soldiers of the sailors, they are all Han, no Mongols, please be kind...... "After the fleet arrived at the open sea, the captains of each ship rowed small boats to the flagship to report the situation, among which the captain of the Haibo, Kong Pei, was the person Hong Tao expected to see the most, and as soon as he got on the ship, he knelt down for Hong Tao first.

"Officers and soldiers of the Marine Division? Where did the officers and soldiers of the Sailor Division come from? "Hong Tao hates his subordinates to make their own decisions, but this kind of thing can't be completely eliminated, after all, there will be no restrictions on the orders of foreign monarchs, and it is unrealistic to completely rigidly implement their own orders, as long as it is not too out of line, Hong Tao can generally forgive.

"They are the sailors stationed at the checkpoint east of the artisan battalion, and if someone from the artisan battalion escapes, the whole battalion, old and young, will be punished, and the officers and soldiers guarding the camp will also sit together. The Mongols who led the team have been killed by the marines, and they are all the same as their subordinates, they are their own people, so spare their lives! "Kong Pei is quite protective of his hometown, and would rather help them as a guarantee himself than be killed by Hong Tao.

"Whether they are their own people or not, they are not ordinary people if they have been soldiers. I can arrange for the people in the craftsman battalion to work in Jinhewan, but these soldiers must first go to the mine to renovate, and only if they perform well can they come back, this is a dead rule, not that I will embarrass you temporarily. "Hong Tao has no addiction to killing, and a group of sailor soldiers are not a threat to Jinhewan, but the rules are the rules, and they can't be changed, and they try not to break the rules, let alone others.

"The subordinates understand, and the subordinates thank the Lord for not killing for them!" Kong Pei didn't intercede with Hong Tao on this issue, and he didn't go to Jinhewan on the first day, he knew what the rules were there, and Hong Tao really didn't lie to him.

"It's done, don't kneel, in the future, talking about things is talking about things, standing and kneeling are both an effect for me, I only look at the rules and don't look at kneeling. You go back first, transfer all the personnel on the Haibo to the flagship, and then turn to Haizhou, my ship can carry 600 people in addition to the crew, and I will never go back if it is not full. It's not that the Haizhou area is rich in salt and iron, I am not rare to dry salt, and the more blacksmiths, the better. Hong Tao felt that he had killed and injured several sailors, and he was still a little distressed, and he always felt a loss if he didn't make more money, so he started the idea of Haizhou again.

Where was Haizhou in the Song Dynasty? It is near Lianyungang in later generations, originally this was a relatively rich area, but unfortunately a few years ago, the Yellow River seized Si into Huai, and the flood made the people of Haizhou suffer, and it was a bit of a slump. However, this area has been developed in salt and iron since ancient times, and it is said that if you find a small village, you can draw out a few people who can make iron and make iron, so Hong Tao wants to go there and try his luck again.

Hong Tao's luck has always been good, when his fleet arrived off the coast of Haizhou, this small seaside city had just woken up from sleep, and before his eyes were neatly kneaded, there was a loud bang at the city gate, and the entire city gate and the adobe fortress gate hole collapsed, and the smoke and dust flew up dozens of meters high. Before the smoke cleared, more than a dozen black iron balls flew in, some rolled along the street, and some exploded directly on the city wall, and for a while there was a mess near the east gate of Haizhou City, and the adults shouted and the children cried, and no one knew what was going on.

What's wrong? Of course, it's Hong Papi who is here! His fleet arrived in the middle of the night, but did not dare to get too close, but sent a small boat carrying the landing crew and dozens of sailors to quietly land outside Haizhou City, and buried two jars of black powder outside the east gate. The soldiers defending the city were all killed by Langya and the Li people, and this earthen city wall, which did not even have a moat and was not three meters high, could not stop them at all.

As soon as the morning dawned, seeing the signal flag on the flagship, the Marines ignited the powder canisters and began firing grenades into the city. This is to cause chaos, although Haizhou is not big, but there are also soldiers and horses stationed, how to fish in troubled waters if you don't mess up?

"Captain Lang, why are you burying the gunpowder canister and the grenade together?" Taking advantage of the chaos inside the east gate and the people running away, Langya took a dozen marines and began to dig a pit outside the city gate, digging a pit and putting a jar of black powder in it, and then putting a grenade on the mouth of the jar, about ten meters apart, a total of five pits, and finally connected the cork of these grenades with a medicinal twist. There was a black guy in the team who couldn't understand what the captain was doing, so he couldn't help but ask. Don't really say it, this black man speaks Chinese very well, and he listens with his eyes closed and talks to Cixi.

"Sir said it's called a landmine, and since you asked, you can do the fire. You hide far away, wait for the enemy's army to come over, count the time, light the medicine twist, and then run quickly. I can tell you, those big cans are full of explosive gunpowder, a small handful can blow up a large piece, you figure out for yourself, how many people can be fried in one jar, don't blame me for not reminding you if you're late! But don't run early, this is a thing that Mr. values very much, he is watching from the big boat, if you let you mess up, you think, what method does Mr. have to use to deal with you, and your two younger brothers! Lang Ya was very unrighteous, he was wary of all firearms, mainly because they were too loud, and he was not used to them, so he was lazy and gave the task of lighting the fire to this stupid black boy. He was a slave to the Arabs, all three brothers, and the other two helped in the Wen shipyard. In order to allow himself and his younger brothers to become full-fledged residents of Golden River Bay as soon as possible, the older brother, who had been a sailor on a ship, planned to take the risk of becoming a marine. As long as you can survive two years, you can bring your family to naturalize together, and if you can make meritorious contributions, maybe you can become naturalized in a few months. (To be continued.) )