"Stop!"

With Gao Huai's roar, the marching Ming army quickly stopped, and then lined up neatly under the command of their respective sentry commanders, three small phalanxes lined up, and there was an same phalanx behind them on the right, and on the right side of this phalanx were artillery neatly arranged next to the four cannons.

Yang Feng, who was covered in blood, rode on his war horse and stood solemnly in front of him, in front of him was the canal, and the ancient Yangzhou city on the other side of the canal stood majestically.

The prosperity is still the same, but the Han family is no longer clothed.

Yang Feng beckoned.

Some of the temporarily recruited people hurriedly carried the offering table, the emergency production of the god seat, as well as other kinds of incense and candles, is facing the east gate of Yangzhou on the canal bank of the place, the god seat is in the middle of Shi Kefa, as well as with him to guard Yangzhou The officials and generals who died in the war, behind these shrines is the largest shrine in Yangzhou is all the people who died in Yangzhou, under the auspices of an old relict on crutches, Yang Feng personally read out the sacrifice, and then led all the officers and soldiers of the Ming army to worship in batches in order.

After completing the worship, he waved his hand, and dozens of wounded and captured Qing officers were escorted up.

These are all sacrifices, how could there be no sacrifices on such an occasion, drag these Qing army officers to the offering table, and a Ming army officer with the best sword skills will be responsible for the execution, simply cut off the heads neatly, all the heads are piled up in a pyramid shape in front of the offering table, and it is very ironic to fasten a general's hat to the top head, and then a soldier holding a can of banana water taken from the battleship poured on it, and then threw a torch directly over.

At the moment when the flames rose, Gao Huai raised his sword and shouted, "Shoot!" ”

All the Ming soldiers behind him pulled the trigger with their guns pointed to the sky, and the gunshots rang out in the light of the black powder spray.

"Reload!"

Then Gao Huai shouted.

All Ming troops quickly completed reloading.

"Shoot!"

At the sound of his command, the gunfire rang out again.

After five rounds of gunfire representing fifty years, the four cannons behind roared at the same time, but this time it was a live bullet, and the cannon raised to the maximum angle instantly hit the cannonball under the opposite Yangzhou city, and the west bank of the canal was in chaos, and the Qing troops who were waiting for the Ming army to kill the canal began to prepare for the battle in horror, of course, there were also those who were so frightened that they fled directly, they were all frightened.

However, the Ming army did not attack.

"Tell Kang Mazi, let him wash his neck and wait, wait for grandpa and I will go to Beijing, and wait for grandpa I will cut off his head!"

Yang Fengyao rode the east bank of the canal and shouted at the Qing army on the west bank.

The Qing army on the west bank was as silent as a cicada.

"And tell the people of the world that the land of China will not tolerate bloody, how can the clothes of the Han family be defiled, the ancestors and ancestors are in the sky, don't forget the deep hatred of the sea of blood, and the time has come to restore my Ming Dynasty! Han Yu is not separated! ”

Yang Feng continued to ride his horse and roar.

"Han and Yu are not separated!"

"Han and Yu are not separated!"

……

The Ming troops lined up behind him shouted in unison.

In this roar, Yang Feng turned his horse's head, and those Ming soldiers also turned in the sound of their respective commanders' orders, followed their marshal back to the battleship with the rhythm of war drums, and no one dared to chase the Qing army behind, but nearly a thousand local young people took the initiative to follow behind, anyway, Yang Feng's fleet also had enough space, and after boarding the waiting battleship, it went down the river to Sanjiangying, and then turned back to those large warships.

At this time, Lan Li on the opposite side was still sitting and watching.

Admiral Lan already knew the result of the battle in Yangzhou, and after wiping a cold sweat, he was glad that he had made the right choice, and he watched the Ming fleet turn around and go down the Yangtze River, until they were far away, and did not dare to send troops to regain the Sanjiang battalion.

Yang Feng's return journey was unimpeded, and even deliberately stopped to go ashore when he was in Jiangyin, and paid homage to Yan Dianshi and the people who died in Jiangyin, and the Qing army in Jiangyin City closed the city gate and no one dared to go out, and when he left, he took a group of followers from Jiangyin, and then continued to go down the Yangtze River estuary to the south to return to Zhoushan, and when he arrived in Zhoushan, Wallace, who had been away for a long time, and a senior executive of the British East India Company named Howard were already waiting for him.

"Two, I'm very busy right now, I don't have time to talk to you much, now I invite you to appreciate a few things."

After meeting, Yang Feng didn't even bother to greet him, so he said very directly.

Immediately after that, he waved his hand, and a soldier next to him immediately waved his flag.

The eleven battleships of the Ming battlefleet that had just returned from the sea were lined up, and the starboard side suddenly erupted with dense flames, and in the smoke of black powder, more than 100 shells instantly hit a small island opposite, and the flames of the explosion flooded the island at once.

"Grenade!"

Howard said with a solemn face.

"Yang, such shells are dangerous to use on battleships."

Wallace said.

Yang Feng smiled and waved his hand again, and the soldiers next to him waved the flag again.

In the fleet, in the distance, the cannons roared again.

For the next five minutes, eleven warships continued to bombard the island with flowering shells, and as time went on, Howard and Wallace's faces became more and more solemn.

They also have flowering shells, but they are not used in naval guns, firstly, the cannon chamber pressure is too high, and the hollow pig iron shells are easy to be blown up before they are discharged, and secondly, the fuse does not dare to guarantee the burning time, because the moment of firing will ignite in the cannon chamber, and they don't know when to blow up, and the shell of the third pig iron shell is too thick, it is impossible to hold too much gunpowder, and the explosion power is very small, so it can only be used on super-large caliber mortars.

But Yang Feng's shells did not have these three problems at all.

First, after fighting for so long, there was no explosion after the shell was broken, secondly, most of his shells exploded after hitting the target, although there were also early explosions, but the number was very small, it was obvious that the explosion time was controlled, and it was very effective control, and thirdly, the power of his shells was not weak, and the effect of the twelve-pound shells could be seen that there was not a lot of charge inside.

"It's very simple, firstly, you cast the shells from pig iron, and I cast them from steel, secondly, I have new fuses, and thirdly, I have special parts for the shells."

Looking at them, Yang Feng said.

"Your Excellency, you should still have the latest steelmaking technology, right?"

Howard said.

At this time, steelmaking is still the Pulinde method of stirring in a cauldron, in fact, it is mainly used to smelt wrought iron, and the quality of steel is not much stronger than iron, and if you want to improve performance, you have to rely on forging, it is obvious that you can't make cannonballs with this method, unless Yang Feng has better steelmaking technology.

"Absolutely, and it's state-of-the-art steelmaking technology."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

"Mr. Howard, let's be more straightforward, I want thirty battleships, real battleships instead of armed merchant ships, and at least four three-pound battleships, and the remaining ones should have at least thirty-six twenty-two-pound guns each, and those four battleships should have thirty-two pounders on them, and the number should be no less than seventy."

Then he said.

"Your Excellency, your asking price is too high."

Howard gasped and said.

"Mr. Howard, I have given you a lot, not only do I need to give you shell technology and artillery technology, but I also need to give you a new steelmaking technology, and a new monolithic casting technology, as far as I know, you can't even cast cannonballs as a whole now, do you? So many new technologies are priceless no matter which one of them, do I only need twenty warships, which is a lot? ”

Yang Feng said.

The steelmaking technology he gave the British is, of course, crucible steel, although this thing cannot be used for large-scale steelmaking, and the British still can't solve the cost problem in the end, but this is not a big deal, and they can continue to buy steel from Daming in the future! Or just buy shells, otherwise how will he suck blood from Europe in the future?

"In addition, these warships must be delivered within half a year."

Then he added.

"It can't be!"

Howard said.

To say that this deal is very cost-effective, he knows very well the significance of these technologies, not to mention four three-ji battleships and twenty-six cruisers, even second-class battleships are worth it, but this time is very exaggerated, at this time the Suez Canal has not yet been dug, and it is estimated that it will take half a year to take a ship from Zhoushan to London, how can it be delivered in such a short time.

Even if it is built in Mumbai, it will not be built in half a year.

"I don't care about this, but we can take a compromise, as far as I know, the East India Company's own fleet is very strong, you can draw fifteen warships from your fleet to me first, but there must be one battleship for the three ships. I don't care where you get it, even if it is from the British Navy, you must give me at least one within six months, and then I will give you the shell technology first, and give you a batch of shells, and as for the steelmaking and casting technology, the deal will be completed by this day next year. If you can't do that, then I'll go to the Dutch and the French to Spain, and I'm sure they'll be more than happy to accommodate my request, especially Louis, who I think might give me more. ”

Yang Feng said.

"Your Excellency, as far as I know, you have just had a military conflict with the Dutch East India Company, right? You also know that we have a common king. ”

Howard said.

"Mr. Howard, you should have seen that almost all of my ships are Dutch, and if they want to be friends with me, of course I will welcome them, and if they want to be enemies with me, then I don't mind capturing a few more Dutch ships, and if anyone else wants to play their role, I don't think the result will be any different from them, Mr. Wallace should have seen my weapons, he should know that I am qualified to say such things."

Of course, Yang Feng understood what he meant, and immediately said unceremoniously.

"Your Excellency, we just want to mediate your relationship with the Dutch."

Howard said with a smile.

He also knew that the threat was useless, unless the British Navy entered the war, it would be difficult for the East India Company to defeat this guy with its own strength, but if the British Navy participated in the war, it would be better to give him a few ships in exchange, not to mention that Yang Feng not only had one choice for the British, but the British only had one choice for him.

"Thank you very much for your friendship, then."

Yang Feng said.