With the help of tens of thousands of people near Shihe, the speed of relocation has been significantly accelerated. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The first is the arsenal located outside the south of the city, which was built under the auspices of Sun Yuanhua, and has now begun to take shape, not only with supporting cannon casting workshops, fire hammer workshops, carpentry workshops, but also independent cold weapon foundries, responsible for the manufacture of knives, guns and armor. In addition, there is a small ironworks and a hydraulic stamping workshop not far from the arsenal. There are thousands of craftsmen of all kinds, and there are even more instruments!

It's too much work to relocate so many things and people to the city in just a few hours! The only good thing is that the arsenals of the Ming Dynasty did not have large machinery as later generations. The largest is just some molds for casting cannons and the like, tens of thousands of men, women and children went into battle together, this seemingly impossible task was completed in just a few hours. Except for a few iron ingots that could not be taken away, all the other things such as blast furnaces were transferred to the city.

In addition to the arsenal, there is only the salt works. The transfer of salt works is more difficult than that of the arsenal, and how to take away the stock of salt with tens of thousands of stones is a big problem. Sun Yuanhua thought about it for a long time and still had no choice, and in desperation, Sun Yuanhua had to send someone to transfer all the salt workers and the responsible personnel of the salt farm. All the salt in the stock was poured with fire oil, and the warehouse was set on fire!

At the same time, in order to ensure that the new salt drying method was not taken by pirates, Sun Yuanhua thought twice about it, and still reluctantly ordered to blow up the seaside embankment, divert the seawater to pour in, and the turbulent sea water washed into the salt field and flooded everything.

Although the relocation work was successfully completed, the losses were unprecedentedly heavy, and the three core interests that Liu Fan painstakingly built were almost completely destroyed under the threat of pirates, except for the arsenal. The losses are almost immeasurable! Fortunately, no personnel were lost, and everything could be rebuilt. But Liu Fan's scientific and technological development speed has been seriously delayed! Sun Yuanhua smiled helplessly, and secretly said in his heart, I don't know what Liu Fan will feel distressed when he knows! Alas! It's a pity!

Wang Daniu, who had returned from the vicinity of Xujiazhuang, took people back to Shihe at this time, appeared at the prefect's yamen, and told Sun Yuanhua, "Lord Sun is not good!" The pirates have boarded the ship from Xujiazhuang and are expected to arrive in the saltworks area in an hour. ”

"What!? Got on board? Sun Yuanhua was a little shocked when he heard this, he really couldn't understand what these pirates were selling, and if they didn't need to put a good fleet, they had to go by land, was they sick? But no matter what nerves the pirates have, Sun Yuanhua knows what he should do! Given that the pirates are coming! Sun Yuanhua immediately issued a new order, asking the people around Shihe to urgently evacuate to Shihe City! At the same time, he ordered to abandon some unimportant things, speed up the evacuation of personnel, and strengthen the city defenses to prevent the arrival of the enemy!

Two hours later, the pirates finally appeared under Shihe City, and at this time, the personnel and important materials had been evacuated to the city, leaving the pirates with some useless empty houses except for a few conspicuous blast furnaces in the south of the city!

Wang Zhi, who was full of anticipation, was angry when he heard the report of his subordinates, but he didn't expect them to hurry up or be a step late, not only the new salt drying method, this "golden mountain" was flooded by the sea, and not even a single hair was caught outside the city. How can Wang Zhiqing, who has the idea of making a fortune, embarrassed? Wang Zhi was furious, so he simply didn't do anything, and ordered people to put all these things on fire!

Looking at the raging gas fire outside the city, Sun Yuanhua knew that war was coming! After the pirates set the fire, they took a short break and began to prepare for the siege!

This time, Wang Zhi came prepared, not only carrying a large number of siege equipment, but also unloading some cannons on the ship for siege. It is true that pirates are much richer than rogues. Compared to the rogues, there are only a few earthen cannons that fill the façade. Pirates are very advanced. This time, Wang Zhi carried more than 30 Frankie fast guns alone, and there were no less than hundreds of other Western fast guns of various types.

The sound of so many cannons being spread out outside the city was extremely terrifying. Even Sun Yuanhua in the city had a solemn face when he saw this, let alone the others. The name of the Franc cannon in the Ming Dynasty is the Hongyi Cannon, and the name of the Houjin Tartar is the Red Cannon. No matter how it is called, it can't be changed, and the Franc cannon is one of the most powerful cannons in existence in the Ming Dynasty. Shi He, a Franc machine gun weighing several thousand catties, was also equipped, but there were only ten of them. Mainly because the furlong cannon was too expensive to build and weighed, it was not suitable for land field warfare. In terms of cost performance, it is completely inconvenient to compare with the three-pound and six-pound regimental field guns. So Liu Fan just asked Sun Yuanhua to cast ten gates for defending the city, and he didn't cast them again!

Unexpectedly, the first artillery battle faced by Shihe City tended to be inferior in terms of equipment. The pirates under the city set up a position and began to test the shells, and the broken army at the head of the city was not to be outdone, and walked into the gun emplacements one after another, loaded ammunition, and adjusted the shooting of Zhu Yuan. Both sides started operating their artillery almost at the same time, aiming at each other! Now the competition is speed, whoever can adjust the direction first, who is fast, who hits accurately, who can gain an advantage in this artillery battle!

In the end, the pirates are more proficient in perennial combat, and I saw that the pirates were skillful, and in just a quarter of an hour, the first test shell had accurately landed on the head of Shihe City. Then hundreds of artillery guns roared, and in an instant, the city was full of gunsmoke, and the cannons emitted dazzling firelight, with the call of death, towards the city.

The movement of the Broken Gunners was only a few minutes slower than that of the pirates, and it was these few minutes that caused heavy casualties to the Broken Artillery artillery. Before the head of the city could fire the cannons, the artillery fire under the city was already close at hand. The black rain of bullets streaked across the sky, accurately landed next to the artillery of the Broken Army, and then exploded! The pirates used flowering bombs!

Scattered shrapnel, with a powerful impact and scorching shrapnel, instantly covered the city. The artillery in the city could not avoid it, and before they could even scream, they were drowned out by the flames. The rain of bullets brought up a large number of stumps and severed arms, flying in the sky. The city is like a purgatory in the midst of fire.

Just one round of shelling took away the lives of nearly 100 gunners of the Broken Army. Sun Yuanhua, who was watching the battle from a distance, felt a lot of pain in his heart, these were all gunners he had personally trained! For a whole year, he and Tang Ruowang and others worked hard and spent countless shells to cultivate these hundreds of people! I didn't expect that now it is only an instant to reimburse nearly one-fifth. This huge loss made Sun Yuanhua almost faint! (To be continued.) )