Chapter 33: The fire dragon comes out of the water to deter water thieves
"Withdrawn?"
Dong Chengping hurriedly turned his head, and sure enough, he saw a lot of commotion in the army of water bandits outside the city, and some of the water bandits left the north gate with broken flags.
Not long after, Mr. Qian, who was in charge of guarding the south gate, ran back with an uncontrollable surprise on his face.
"Great joy, my lord, the water thieves entrenched outside the south gate have all retreated, and they have retreated cleanly!"
Hearing this, Dong Chengping suddenly reacted, he didn't lose his dignity in front of these vulgar martial artists, and coughed twice at the moment, tidied up his official uniform, and pretended to be unintentional.
"If you retreat, you will retreat, what else do these water thieves have to worry about, don't lose your sense of proportion, there are officials guarding the state city, and no matter how many water thieves come, they are also solid."
The Qian Zong pandered like a flattering man, hugged his fists and smiled: "It is expected that Lord Zhizhou must be standing in the city tower, so that the white strip and the river dragon king in the waves are afraid, and then they will flee in a hurry." ”
Dong Chengping, who shot this horse, was happy, and this time the thief himself could not keep it even, but he could still take the credit of a well-planned and sworn defense of the city, and he was in a very good mood.
"Oops~, your efforts to defend the city are not small, and this official will truthfully show Lord Futai..."
Hearing the dialogue of these people singing and harmonizing, Wu Weizhong and Han Dahu, the garrison of Ninghai Prefecture, glanced at each other, and they both saw helplessness in each other's eyes.
The situation is not clear, and they have already begun to compete for credit!
Dong Chengping, the governor of Zhizhou, ascended to the city in high spirits, and when he saw those water thieves fleeing with his gaze, he laughed happily, as if he had forgotten how he was scared by the water bandits.
At this moment, a family member came to Wu Weizhong's ear.
After hearing this, Wu Weizhong showed a surprised expression on his face and asked, "What you just said is true?" ”
Hearing this, the family half-knelt on the ground, clenched his fists and said: "I dare not have half a lie, every sentence is true!" ”
"Hahaha!"
Wu Weizhong suddenly laughed and slapped the female wall fiercely, "It's really fucking relieving!" Wang Zheng did a good job, hahaha. ”
Gao Shan heard Wang Zheng's name and asked, "Xietai, what's wrong with Wang Zheng.. Could it be!? ”
Looking at the sudden flash of surprise in Gao Shan's eyes, Wu Weizhong nodded and looked at Dong Chengping.
"Lord Zhizhou, do you know why these water thieves retreated?"
Hearing this, Dong Chengping frowned and asked with some displeasure.
"Why? Who is Wang Zheng? ”
"He is a sentry under the command of the last general, this time the water thief retreated for no reason, and the last general was still thinking about why, but the family came to report and solved the doubts of the last general, it was Wang Zheng! He led a single outpost to attack the River Dragon King Water Village, and he had already taken down the Water Village Path half a month ago, he was really a talent! ”
The sentry officer surnamed Liu had an incredulous look on his face and shouted, "This is impossible! That Wang Zheng only brought new recruits who had just been recruited for a few months, and they were all a group of Diao people, how could they capture the Wuwen River!? ”
After he finished speaking, a thousand generals from Ninghai Prefecture said sourly: "Yes, it is not uncommon to report merits in vain, and this Wang Zheng should also be a false report." ”
Wu Weizhong looked at the people around him, snorted coldly but didn't say more, he naturally believed Wang Zheng.
The most important thing now is not to argue with these people, but to build the internal and external fortifications as soon as possible while the water thieves have retreated.
It is expected that now that half a month has passed, Wang Zheng should be almost there.
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More than ten days later, about 3,000 men came to the shore, these men wore all kinds of clothes, most of them were ragged clothes, and the ones they held in their hands or hung on their waists were not the same, most of them were mainly wooden sticks and water forks, and a very small number of people carried waist knives, and these people were the Wuwen River bandits who hurried back.
Wuwen River is their old nest, I heard that the officers and soldiers actually took advantage of the water village to seize the water village, everyone was full of righteous indignation, and they couldn't care about any siege of the city, and finally returned here after rushing for almost half a month.
"My lord, the brethren are a little tired, otherwise..."
Before the leader of the water bandits could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the angry Langlijiao, "What else? Sitting here to rest for a few days, watching the officers and soldiers spoil Lao Tzu's water village? ”
The River Dragon King's face was full of ruthlessness, and he nodded: "My brother is right, most of the officers and soldiers are in Ninghaizhou City, and the number of people here is definitely not much, so it can be taken in one fell swoop." ”
The Dragon King of the Big Pole River ordered, no matter how tired the water bandit gate was, he had to go into the water, but after walking by land for half a month, he finally saw the familiar river, and these water bandits were very excited.
The "hissing" sound of tearing clothes kept coming, and most of the bandits shouted trumpets, and they stripped their shirts naked and plunged into the river with a "poof" of only pants and breeches.
That night, the wharf was still calm, and more than a dozen small boats were scattered around the wharf, and there was no clue to be seen.
There are water streaks everywhere in the river, and gradually, these water streaks come together from all over the place.
"Bang", dense water bandits suddenly appeared, but after these water thieves came out, their eyes were full of doubts, it stands to reason that the officers and soldiers of this dock should be guarded against with heavy troops, why can't they see a single one?
A big boss glanced at it, and there was not a single officer or soldier on the left and right, and said with a smile: "It seems that these officers and soldiers knew that our brothers were coming back to urge their lives, and they had already run away without a trace." ”
"Haha, the fork is right, aren't the officers and soldiers this kind of urine."
The water thieves looked left and right, and there were more and more water thieves gathered at the dock, and the big and small leaders jumped on the boats one after another, and the water bandits also gathered together to discuss.
The big boss called the fork untied the hemp rope and said with a smile: "Brothers, in my opinion, we can recapture the water village tonight!" ”
The bandits laughed, and at first they didn't notice the viscous liquid at the bottom of the boat, under the cover of the moonlight.
The fork squatted on the board of the boat, sniffed it, and wondered: "Strange, why is there a strange smell, do you smell it?" ”
As soon as he spoke, a "whoosh" sound suddenly sounded from the north, and bursts of light pierced the quiet night sky, and a light flew straight to the boat where the fork was.
It's not good, it's the fire dragon out of the water!
As early as the middle of the sixteenth century, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, people at that time invented one of the earliest rockets, which was an amphibious rocket and the ancestor of the second-stage rocket.
Quoting scriptures, "Wu Bei Zhi" contains: use five feet of thatched bamboo, go to the knot, and scrape thin with an iron knife. The front and rear are respectively equipped with a wooden dragon head and dragon tail, the mouth of the dragon head is upward, and the dragon belly is equipped with several magic machine rockets, and the medicine line of the rocket is always connected together, and it is drawn out of a hole in the lower part of the dragon head.
Under the dragon's body and tilted in front and rear, two large bazooka were installed, and their medicine lines were always connected together, and the main medicine line of the dragon's belly containing the god machine fire creeping was connected to the bottom of the two rocket Janes in front.
Wang Zheng is one of the unexpected gains from the Wendeng camp armory, this kind of firearm is not like the bird gun and the three-eyed gun and other firearms have strict requirements in all aspects, as long as the raw materials are qualified, the craftsmen can basically use the method to make it, there is no explosion and other sayings.
This kind of firearm "water warfare" can be three or four feet away from the water to ignite the fire, that is, fly away from the water surface two or three miles away, such as the fire dragon out of the river, so it is named "fire dragon out of the water".
Under the dragon's head and on both sides of the dragon's tail, a half-kilogram powder keg is installed on each side, which gathers the four rocket fuses together and connects them with the rocket fuzes in the belly of the fire dragon.
In water warfare, in the face of enemy ships, ignite four powder cartridges installed on the dragon's body at three or four feet above the water, which is the first stage of the rocket, which can propel the fire dragon to fly two or three miles away, and when the first stage rocket is burned, it will automatically ignite the second stage rocket in the dragon's belly.
The cartridge was about to run out, the rockets flew out of the abdomen, and the people and ships were burned.
Although the current Ming army is not often used, the fork has also suffered the loss of the fire dragon out of the water, and the reaction is not slow, and a fierce man plunged into the water.
The rest of the thieves were not so lucky, and every ray of fire shone on the boat, and in an instant the boat became a crematorium, and in the blink of an eye, the raging fire covered the dock.
"Ahh
"It's so uncomfortable, I don't want to die!"
The water thieves and the boat under their feet were ignited in an instant, and the screams and wails became the main theme of the night, and the water thieves suffered heavy damage, but they did not even see the shadows of the officers and soldiers.