On the morning of February 10 in the tenth year of Chongzhen, at about 9:10 a.m., the sail shadow of Jianyu appeared on the east side of Phi Island.

Phi Island is located in the southeast of the mouth of the Yalu River, south of Xianguo Iron Mountain, southwest of Xuanzhou, to the east is Sumeru Island, to the south is Yuncong Island, and there are Zhangzi Island and Deer Island in the west. If you talk about the straight-line distance, it is the closest from Tieshan Longshapu to Phi Dao, and its sea surface width is almost the width of a river, less than 2,000 meters!

It is precisely for this reason that the garrison of Phi Island is the most heavily fortified to the north, and on the cliff facing north, nearly half of the artillery of the whole island is erected.

"Therefore, bypassing Yuncong Island from the south to attack the enemy will have the effect of being unprepared!"

Shang Kexi looked at the familiar Phi Dao from afar and muttered to himself. Beside him, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming glanced at each other, and they smiled again.

"King Zhishun deserves to have a wise word." Geng Zhongming couldn't help but say.

When they fled from Denglai to Jianyu, they also fought with Shang Kexi, but they were all old brothers, and if it weren't for the urging of Huang Long, who was the chief soldier at the time, they all wanted to turn a blind eye. Now they have even gotten together, and they have become the Sanshun King of the Manchu Dynasty, and they can make some jokes with each other.

Shang Kexi glanced at the two of them: "What is Shen Shikui, you still don't know!" Relying on his daughter's belly to sell the pig, he guards the Phi Island, which is actually a credit to us! I really don't understand why you're still on the road! ”

"King Zhishun, how do you compare to the first emperor and Jinshang, the first emperor and Jinshang have conquered Phi Dao several times, but they have not yet competed for all the success, you want to break through Phi Dao, do you think that you are more powerful than the first emperor and Jinshang?" Geng Zhongming couldn't help but say: "We are in an embarrassing situation, you have to be cautious, and you will become a country!" ”

Kong Youde still glanced at Geng Zhongming, he said it too bluntly.

The situation of the Sanshun kings in the Manchu Qing Dynasty was indeed embarrassing, they had been loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and many Manchu nobles had blood feuds, they themselves may be able to let go of the blood feud, but it is difficult to say whether those Manchu nobles will let go. Moreover, as a Han person, even if he is identified as a Han army bannerman, he is incompatible with the Manchu people, no matter how stupid he wants to get it, the Manchus will be suspicious and suspicious, and any meritorious deeds they have made will mean greater doubts in exchange for rewards.

Huang Taiji, or the Manchu rulers of the past dynasties, was by no means a magnanimous figure. In the Han population, the Han people are still very generous, and welcome all tribes who are willing to integrate into the Han nationality and absorb the more practical and distinctive parts of their traditions. But in Jianlu's heart, it is not spoken, but it is actually implemented: even if the Mongolian people have married Jianyu for generations, in exchange for nothing more than a reduction.

"I can't control that much, I have to do something to get revenge." Shang Kexi glanced at the two of them.

How did he not know the minds of Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, but he was different from Kong and Geng, these two swept away the Daming craftsmen in Denglai, which were the most outstanding firearms craftsmen of this era pulled out by Sun Yuanhua, a genius of Daming firearms! They brought these craftsmen to Houjin, which was to make a splashing contribution to Jianlu, at least now, whether it is to invade the Ming Dynasty or cut down the Xian, the Manchu Qing Dynasty no longer avoids the fortified city and does not attack, but sets up cannons to bombard his mother, so the credit of Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming is enough.

And Shang Kexi, it's just the horse bones of the Qianjin City Horse, and when the real Maxima comes, he will not know where to be thrown.

Therefore, it is just right for him to solve Phi Dao, which will not be too high-minded, but also allow him to seize a certain opportunity, if there are other generals in the Ming Kingdom, he will not be marginalized.

"Anyway, let's see the North Koreans attack the island first." Kong Youde finally spoke, lest the two of them quarrel, make an unpleasant quarrel, and say something that was omitted to be passed on to the Manchu nobles, it would be quite bad.

"North Koreans? They are good at beating their mother-in-law at home, but they have to beat Phi Dao...... Even if Shen Shikui is a pig, he can arch them back into the sea. Shang Kexi said lightly.

The North Koreans, whom he called pigs, were indeed at a loss at this time.

"To attack or not to attack?" Li Jun looked at Li Chongyuan and said with a sad face.

"If you don't attack, do you and I still want to have heads?" Li Chongyuan sighed: "In short, you have to make an appearance." ”

Both of them were helpless, they passed on the general order, and the Xian State army suddenly unfolded, and then about two hundred steps from the shore, the artillery on the Xian State warship began to bombard.

Of course, there is no way for these artillery pieces to compare the firepower with the "Huaqing", but dozens of guns fired at the same time are also quite shocking. In an instant, there was a pillar of smoke on the beachhead, a large piece of the simple shack erected in Dongjiang Town was smashed down, and the dilapidated wharf was also smashed into a mess.

"Damn, Jianyu has so many artillery!" Huo Yan cursed, and looked back at the gray-faced Sun Lin: "Mr. Sun, are you okay?" ”

At this time, the artillery mostly uses solid bullets, so the significance of whether to lie on the ground to avoid is not very large, Xinxiang's training has the content that you must lie down when you hear the sound of the cannon, but if the front-loading smoothbore gun lies down, there will be problems with shooting, and it will become very difficult to load and clear the chamber, so in the real implementation, many people are like Huo Yan, and they will not really lie down.

"It's okay, it's okay, ahem...... Jianyu gave me a dismount, haha...... Xiao Huo, should we also return one of them? ”

The Denglai soldiers also had artillery, and under the influence of the importance that the new Xianghuwei attached to firearms, Huo Yan paid special attention to the use of artillery when training the Denglai soldiers. He nodded, looked left and right, and then shouted, "Meng Wei, Meng Wei!" ”

Meng Wei still didn't enter the Tiger Guard after all, but relying on their Meng family's reputation in artillery, he was promoted to another level and became the garrison in charge of the Denglai artillery battalion. Hearing Huo Yan's call, he ran over: "Huo Yingzheng, what are your instructions!" ”

"Come and don't be rude, what about our cannon?"

"Ready!"

"I'm afraid that the cannon in Dongjiang Town is unreliable, so let's use our own." Huo Yan said lightly.

Xinxiang's self-made artillery is used by ships on the "Huaqing", and there are also marching field artillery suitable for the army. One of the four ships that arrived at Denglai after the Huaqing was carrying eight of these field guns. In order to facilitate the march, this kind of artillery weighing nearly eight catties is a short-barreled artillery, and its effective range is about 800 meters, but its weight is only 180 catties, which can be pulled by a mule, and even four infantry can be carried away (the above data is also from the "Dongning Chronicle"). The reason why it can be so light is inseparable from the progress of Xinxiang's steelmaking technology, especially the introduction of lime desulfurization and other technologies, so that Xinxiang's steel is not even inferior to similar products made in Europe two hundred years later!

Xinxiang's investment in steelmaking is very great, and the steelmaking technology research institute headed by Ji Xun is the first research institute established by Yu Guozhen, which was already born in Xiang'an, and Yu Guozhen's financial investment in this research institute was 10,000 taels of silver in the sixth year of Chongzhen, and it soared to 50,000 taels of silver in the seventh year of Chongzhen, and 110,000 taels and 170,000 taels respectively in the eighth and ninth years of Chongzhen -- this money can completely arm 1,000 tiger guards.

Of course, the Fuchuan did not have the speed of the Huaqing, so it was already early January when they arrived at Denglai, a month later than the Huaqing, and then the Denglai soldiers were ordered to prepare to come to the aid of North Korea, so the artillery battalion did not have much time to practice this new type of artillery. But they had practiced with the old cannon before, so they were slower, and after a while, the eight field guns began to spew out rage, and in the rumbling cannon, a close warship was hit by a projectile, disintegrating in exclamation and crying, and in the blink of an eye, it became a whirlpool and floating object on the sea.

"Well done!" Huo Yan gave Meng Wei a thumbs up.

Meng Wei is no stranger to this gesture, when he was in Gyeonggi, he saw that those tiger guards were using the same gesture to praise and encourage each other. He smiled and gave his gunner a thumbs up: "Go on, go on!" ”

The reset system of the Xinxiang field artillery adopts a retraction and reentry machine, and although the reset after the first bombardment is still a little troublesome, it is still better than not having a reset system at all. In addition, Yu Guozhen imitated the heat sink of the central processing unit of later generations, and added copper hoops to the muzzle of the artillery, which greatly increased the continuous firing of the artillery, which was of great help to continuous combat.

"Huh?"

Shen Shikui did not leave the Denglai army camp, and he also knew that Sun Lin would not let him go easily, so he just passed on his subordinates to guard various places according to Sun Lin's wishes, and he took the telescope given to him by Sun Lin to watch on the mountain. He was greatly surprised when he found that the first round of artillery had hit the target, and Shen Zhixiang beside him said disdainfully: "It's just a blind cat touching a dead mouse!" ”

Shen Shikui glanced back at him, his gaze a little cold.

This nephew of his own is not small in ambition, he knows it, but his ability is insufficient, and now he still says this kind of thing, he can't see the situation clearly, if he offends Sun Lin again, I'm afraid that he won't be able to return to his military camp alive.

Shen Zhixiang finally realized this and lowered his head and remained silent. Shen Shikui raised the telescope again, this thing is a good thing, and it can see people clearly from a distance. He lifted his binoculars and looked farther away, and saw a familiar face on a ship about three miles from the shore.

His expression suddenly became solemn, and he gritted his teeth in his mouth, and spit out three words: "Shang Kexi!" ”

The sea was flat, and although there were no telescopes, Shang Kexi could see that the first round of artillery of the Ming army sank a ship. He snorted and shook his head: "Fresh people want to compete with Phi Dao artillery? ”

"There are many guns on North Korean ships, dozens of ships add up to dozens of guns, and they shoot accurately." A deputy general next to him said: "If it continues to be consumed like this, Phi Dao is still not good." ”

"Without using foot soldiers, just relying on such a bombardment, Phi Dao can't suffer a big loss. However, the location of these cannons is somewhat interesting, could it be that Shen Shikui's pig moved the fort, I remember that there is an open space over there, how could the cannons come from there? ”

Just as he was asking himself in confusion, the second round of artillery on Phi Island began again.

(To be continued)