Zheng Wenxian has been dominating the sea with his father since he was a child, and he can be regarded as a battle-hardened man, although at first he was startled by the giant warships that could be seen at a glance that they were definitely made by the hands of the Xiyi people, but he quickly adjusted his mentality.

"Hehehe, seven Xiyi warships, it seems that the Liang family has really made a lot of money, but unfortunately, let alone seven, even if it is seventy warships, what can it be? Could it be that their naval guns can still hit here? Zheng Wenxian pointed to the Liang Fu warships that were slowly approaching the dock, and smiled disdainfully.

"What the young master said is, brothers, cheer up and strictly guard their posts, the Liang family is just a few warships, can they still attack us here?" Zheng Wenxian's words were immediately echoed by his subordinates, thinking about it, the Zheng family has been able to stand for more than a hundred years, I don't know how many ups and downs it has gone through, but still hasn't it survived? Besides, even if the other party has strong ships and sharp guns, they may be able to dominate the sea, but at the moment, the Zheng clan only needs to guard the castle, and they don't want to rush out to fight, no matter how far the naval guns are, they can't hit here.

And above this castle, there are eighteen-pound cannons in Yishui, and even six twenty-four-pounder cannons that were purchased with a lot of money from British smugglers a few months ago.

"Come on, it's better to go ashore to attack, Lao Tzu can let you taste the power of the Zheng family's artillery fire." Zheng Wenxian smiled disdainfully, and looked coldly at the Liang family warships that were docking.

At this time, Liang Pengfei had already left the boat to step on the shrimp whisker pier, and in front and behind, countless Liang family pirates were swarming in, biting knives in their mouths and throwing hook ropes, like agile spiders, climbing onto the Zheng family clippers that were still moored at the dock, searching for hidden enemies.

"This is where the Zheng family's lair is? I leaned on the ...... After seeing the towers and walls lying on the ground, which still looked towering, as well as the black holes behind the female wall, Liang Pengfei couldn't help but say that although he had already been mentally prepared, but at this moment, he still had to be shocked. The kind of castle towers that are at least four zhang high, and those that have a wall of more than three zhang at the lowest point.

If it is a cold weapon war, even if it is a warrior armed to the teeth, I am afraid that it will have to pay a heavy price to break through. But now, Liang Pengfei grinned, turned around, and yelled at the white scholar standing beside him: "Let them move these clippers out of position, let the soldiers get off the ship and line up first, establish a beachhead, and prepare to unload the heavy artillery." ”

Soon, the Zheng family's clippers moved, clearing the berth for the two battleships carrying 32-pounder guns and 18-pounder guns. After the other warships were moored, those Liang pirates dressed in pitch-black two-cut suits, armed with muskets and swords at their waists, rushed from the decks of those warships to the dock in an orderly manner, and quickly formed a row of skirmishers near the dock.

Their costumes are no longer dressed like the World Exposition, a water of black linen clothes and trousers, collar badges, epaulettes are all embroidered by Liang Pengfei according to the style of the military rank of later generations, let people embroider with colored threads, at this stage, in addition to weapons, uniforms, and military ranks have been institutionalized and unified, other work has not had time to do, but, at least from Liang Pengfei's point of view, this originally only belonged to the Liang pirate army that was scattered by the guerrillas, and it has gradually begun to have the prototype of a modern army.

And today, it is for the purpose of military training, so Liang Pengfei asked his father to pull the team here to test how much the combat effectiveness of this unit, which has been reorganized and reorganized for nearly three months, has improved.

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As for the troops of the newly installed naval division, Liang Pengfei handed over the three brothers Liang Liansheng, Liang Shuisheng and Wu Liang, the commander of the battalion, to attack another important anchorage of the Zheng family on Lantau Island, but he himself got out and made a special trip to clean up the Zheng family's lair, and at this time, Liang Yuanxia Liang Daguan had already led hundreds of soldiers to land on the nameless island opposite the shrimp beard row.

This small island, which is less than two miles in size, has a number of caves along the edge of the island that have been eroded by the sea, except for a low rocky mountain. "Search for Lao Tzu, even if you go through every cave, you have to find out the treasure of the Zheng family for Lao Tzu." Liang Daguan was holding a musket in one hand and wielding a war knife in the other, where was there still half a point of businessman's modesty and courtesy, completely like an old thief with countless criminal records and still actively committing crimes. His gaze was like a beast about to devour a living man, and his expression was like that of Sun Dianying, who had just commanded his sappers to blast open the Cixi Mausoleum with explosives, excited and distorted.

One hundred and fifty years ago, when Zheng Lianchang's ancestor Zheng Jian was already a general under Zheng Zhilong, the world's first pirate, the Liang family was only a poor middle peasant facing the loess with his back to the sky. The Zheng family's original capital was much thicker than the old Liang family, and the accumulation of more than one hundred and fifty years was definitely a huge, oh no, huge, or huge wealth.

After his subordinates loudly agreed, they quickly dispersed on this nameless island like ants, and began to search all suspicious areas, hoping to find the wealth accumulated by the Zheng family for more than a hundred years in the shortest possible time.

You know, in the war between pirates, in addition to the battle on the sea, they often do this kind of thing, so to speak, every pirate is an expert in treasure hunting, and at the same time, he is also an expert in treasure hunting. Because they can understand the pirate's mindset and how to hide the treasure.

And when he stood on the castle and saw through the monocular that there was a Liang family warship landing on that nameless island, Zheng Wenxian, who was still full of confidence and high morale, suddenly looked like a high-quality putty paste.

"Young Master, what should I do? Shouldn't we send someone to rush and take advantage of the fact that they have just landed on the shore and are not yet firmly established. Punch them hard to get their attention. Next to him, Zheng Wenxian's distant nephew, Zheng Jiaju, who is a high-level commander of the Zheng family of the Red Flag Gang, leaned into Zheng Wenxian's ear and whispered. Only their descendants can know the important surname of that island.

"No way!" Zheng Wenxian obviously hesitated, but still gritted his teeth and shook his head with difficulty: "We can't take this risk, if we defend the castle steadily, then the Liang family's strong ships and cannons will have nothing to do with us, but if we rush out, it will be tantamount to giving up our own advantages and sending us to death, this matter must not be done, I just hope that my father and they can know that something happened here earlier, and they can come back in time." Take out these dastardly bandits. The tone was as if they were the most innocent citizens in the world who were blocked by bandits.

"Yes!" Zheng Jiaju could only nod helplessly, looking at the Liang family pirates who were still busy on the dock, he really hated the root of his teeth, these guys would really grasp the opportunity, Zheng Wenxian stood on the city gate, although he looked quite chic and leisurely, but he also played a small drum in his heart, he had already seen that a lot of artillery had been transported on the dock, and there were personnel, but Liang Pengfei had no intention of attacking, and seemed to be waiting for something.

However, Zheng Wenxian soon knew the answer, because he saw that the Liang family had unloaded a huge cannon from those warships that he had never seen before, and it seemed to be too huge to be a giant cannon that did not look like artillery.

After looking at the two giant cannons equipped with six rollers and slowly dragged forward by a dozen or so horses, Zheng Wenxian couldn't help but take a breath of cool air, just by visual inspection, Zheng Wenxian was 100% sure that the caliber of that kind of artillery was far from being comparable to that of a twenty-four-pound gun.

At this time, the Zheng pirates on the city tower had also seen the strangeness of the dock in the distance, and their faces were different.

"Such a huge cannon, my mother, how many pounds of artillery is this?" A Zheng pirate couldn't help but whisper to his companion. The other party's face turned a little pale: "I don't know, but looking at its cannon body, it is at least one circle larger than our twenty-four-pound cannon, I'm afraid it's strange that it can't be thirty pounds." ”

Hearing this, the faces of those Zheng family pirates twitched violently as if they had been hit by a firecracker, and the neat pumping sound seemed to drain the air in this area.

"What the hell are you afraid of, isn't it just two broken things, don't you forget, our city wall is equipped with more than 50 18-pounder guns, and 6 24-pounder cannons purchased from Xiyi, we are condescending, can't we win them?" Zheng Wenxian cleared his throat and shouted. Immediately, many people echoed in unison, and some Zheng family pirates were also a little impressive, as if they felt that their actions just now were really a little embarrassing.

"Say your grandma's, hurry up for Lao Tzu, now is not the time to procrastinate, take out all your milk strength for me, and pile it up with me!" Liang Pengfei, who rolled up his sleeves on the dock and joined the push-pull artillery industry, was also uncalm in his heart, time, what he lacked most was time.

After learning the news from his father that the Green Flag Gang and his father's fleet were staggered, Liang Pengfei's heart almost rose to his throat, but he knew from Shi Xianggu that the relationship between the Green Flag Gang Xu Sanyan and Zheng Lianchang was definitely not simple, and when the Zheng family was fighting with the sailors of the court, his fleet was in a hurry to the west, except for the court sailors of Dahengqin Island, Liang Pengfei really couldn't think of any reason for Xu Sanyan to abandon his staunch ally Zheng Lianchang at this time and lead the fleet to the west.

Before this, Liang Pengfei didn't think about swallowing the results of the battle alone, but just thinking about it was simply impossible, but now, Liang Pengfei found that the opportunity was already in front of him, but unfortunately, Zheng Lianchang would definitely not leave his lair for too long. So Liang Pengfei can only race against time.

"Time is tight, and the task is heavy." Liang Pengfei let out a long sigh and continued to puff out his cheeks and work with his men to push those heavy artillery pieces forward vigorously.

These artillery, as early as Liang Pengfei in the battle to defend the island, has been modified, all loaded with wheels, although because of the heavy cannon body, as well as the road conditions, the forward is extremely difficult, but, under the collective efforts of the horse towing people, can finally keep up with the progress of the team.

Just when there were still about four miles away from the city tower, the Liang family army finally stopped moving forward and began to line up, the two thirty-two-pounder guns were pushed to the front of the team, and those gunners who were originally protected in the rear finally appeared around the two giant cannons, and began to check the artillery and adjust the shooting angle.

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On the left, there are all the top gunners in the pirates of the Liang family, led by Brother Li Pao, who is working on this heavy cannon there, and Brother Li Pao, with his natural keen sense, asked those gunners to adjust the direction and angle of the artillery.

On the right, three brown-haired, brown-eyed Spanish officers, in their native language, were directing a group of young Chinese artillery cadets working on the thirty-two-pounder gun on the right.

And one of the Spanish officers, holding a paper in one hand and a pen in the other, also held a tool and gestured towards the Zheng family's castle for a long time, recording the numbers one by one.

"Young master, the little one is ready, and he can test the gun at any time." While the Spaniards and their artillery cadets were still busy there, Brother Li Pao appeared in front of Liang Pengfei with a cigarette and a hippie smile. Liang Pengfei, who had finally recovered his breath, stood up and looked at the artillery cadets who were already busy approaching the end.

These cadets who have just come into contact with artillery are not the same as those old gunners, who rely on talent and experience gained by thousands of trials, while these cadets rely on tools and precise calculations, under the education of those Spanish officers, they are learning and growing, although there is still no experience to accumulate, but through systematic learning, they can make up for the gap between them.

Seeing them, Liang Pengfei suddenly felt that the fatigue on his body seemed to dissipate a lot at this moment, these little guys were all capable young men who were carefully selected by Liang Pengfei from those pirates and Liang's children who could endure hardships and have brains, in addition to these more than 30 artillery cadets, there were also a considerable number of cadets who stayed on King Crab Island and continued to learn all kinds of knowledge from those Spanish officers.

These people are the grassroots officers trained by Liang Pengfei, and as long as they work hard, maybe there will be marshals or generals among them. Liang Pengfei thought to himself.

"Okay, let's start testing the gun, Brother Pao, you come first, it's best to get a lottery." Liang Pengfei patted Brother Li Pao's shoulder and ordered.

"Young master, don't worry, the little one has really not been empty since he started playing with the cannon." Brother Li Pao was overjoyed, and quickly stood up straight and assured Liang Pengfei.

"They've started to line up, and it looks like they're going to get ready to shoot." Zheng Jiaju's face was a little pale, and the sweat on his forehead was bubbling out, he never thought that the pirates of the Liang family would actually set up their positions outside the range of the eighteen-pound and twenty-four-pound guns on the city wall.

"Could it be that their cannons have been able to hit so far?" Zheng Wenxian's face is not much better than that of Zheng Jiaju. As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a loud sound that made his heart tremble, like a thunderbolt crushing through the sky, a dull and heavy roar, like the roar of the most terrible demon in the abyss of hell.

All the Zheng family pirates standing on the city tower were slightly sluggish at this moment, and the next moment, they felt as if they were no longer standing on the solid city gate tower, but standing on a ball of soft cotton, and the violent vibration made Zheng Wenxian unable to maintain his standing posture, and hurriedly rushed forward and leaned his body against the female wall.

Zheng Wenxian was shocked, and he had already heard the neat cheers coming from the distance, and this sound was naturally from the Liang family pirates on the opposite side. When Zheng Wenxian got up, lay on the female wall, and looked down at the city tower, his face instantly turned dead gray, and he clearly saw that just under his feet, the solid wall made of thick blue bricks had actually been blasted out of a deep pit with a diameter of at least three feet and a depth of five feet by the projectiles of the terrifying giant cannon, and what made him even more frightened was the terrible cracks that appeared on the wall.

"Fight back, fight back to Lao Tzu!" Zheng Wenxian couldn't care about the demeanor of a young master anymore, and roared loudly, staring at the eyes whose pupils had dilated to the extreme, and shouting to those subordinates who had not yet woken up from the bombardment of the heavy artillery.

Hearing the heart-rending roar of Zheng Wenxian's father and mother, the pirates of the Zheng family finally woke up from the power of the heavy cannon, and rushed to their respective posts to get busy, and soon, dozens of white smoke erupted from the cannon hole on the Zheng family castle, accompanied by the earth-shattering sound of cannonballs, countless pitch-black projectiles screamed and tore apart the air, and rushed towards the Liang family pirates in front of them.

The majesty of these dozens of artillery guns firing in unison definitely made the Zheng family's subordinates doubly brave at this moment, and they all widened their eyes eagerly, expecting the iron-black projectile to hit the target, even if it was dozens of cannons that could only kill one enemy, for them, it was definitely the most morale-boosting scene.

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(To be continued)