For Huang Kaiguang's threat, in fact, Chen Laosan was very unimpressed, there are two places in the Qing Dynasty that are very special, one is the Phoenix City in Xiangxi, which is famous all over the world, and during the Jiadao period, it made great achievements in suppressing the uprising of the White Lotus Sect.

The other is Shunde Chen Village, generations to shipbuilding as a business, long years in Luzon, Siam and other Southeast Asian regions, the strength of the naval army to the top of Fujian and Guangdong coast, these two places have a commonality, that is, the army is self-contained, although obeying the orders of the Qing court, but not completely dependent, the relationship is quite delicate.

Due to various considerations, whether it was against the Ganjun or Chenjiacun, the Qing court did not dare to persecute Taikan, and generally used Huairou means to pay for hiring people, or promised to be an official to drive them to serve their lives.

According to common sense, it is indeed a capital crime to abandon the lord and flee, but Chen Laosan does not believe that Ye Mingchen, the governor of Liangguang, and Bai Gui, the governor of Guangdong, dare to go to their own villages to get people, not to mention that Huang Kaiguang is not a dignitary, although he is relatively close to Ye Bai and the two, but he is only a maritime merchant who eats and opens and mixes in the thirteen lines.

Of course, you can't say that, and facing the encirclement of the Taiping Army, Chen Laosan was also furious, so he held Huang Kaiguang and said: "Please rest assured, Lord Huang, swear to protect your adult to break through!" As he spoke, he turned his head and shouted: "The bandits have been surrounded, if you want to survive, you can only fight to the death, prepare the artillery position, and see who dares to stop me!" ”

Chen Laosan put on a broken posture, and Huang Kaiguang also realized the gaffe and hurriedly put his hand down.

"Phew! Phew! The fuses lit one after another, puffs of smoke came out, and more and more fishing boats were around.

Standing on the boat, you can faintly see the smoke coming out of the target ship, Chen Alin reminded: "The Qing army may be about to open fire." ”

Ding Daquan looked left and right, and the boats that had been on the side were all 100 zhang away, and immediately waved his hand indifferently: "His cannon can't hit far, let him fight!" ”

The so-called sub-cannon is a kind of rear-loading smoothbore gun, and its shells are also called sub-cannons, which are hollow cylinders, which are pre-loaded with shotguns and gunpowder, and have the rudiments of fixed ammunition in the modern sense.

Each cannon weighs eight pounds, contains two taels of gunpowder, and five taels of iron.

"Bang Bang Bang~~" As soon as Ding Daquan's voice fell, Huang Kaiguang's handsome ship had already opened fire in full swing, and he saw that in the smoke of gunpowder, the tongues of fire were swallowed from the muzzles, and the momentum was amazing, especially the Taiping soldiers facing the muzzles, all of them raised their hearts.

But this worry is obviously superfluous, on the water surface fifty or sixty feet ahead, as if sprinkling fish food out of thin air, rippling layer upon layer, which fully shows that the range of the sub-mother cannon cannot hit the fishing boat!

"Hahahaha~~" Ding Daquan laughed heartily and said: "Brothers, the artillery of the Qing army is like this, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, don't get too close, stand far away and shoot with a gun, don't let him run away, see how long he can last!" ”

"Bang bang bang ~~" The soldiers put their minds at ease, a burst of gunfire rang out, although standing three hundred meters away, the river was a little bumpy, and the hit rate of the gun was amazingly low, but it couldn't stand up to the gun, as one after another fishing boats joined the battle, guns were fired in all directions, and in the dense rain of bullets, there was always a time to hit.

"Ahhh~~" There were several screams on the boat, the flag bearer was killed, the helmsman also died two, Huang Kaiguang and Chen Laosan squatted under the boat gang early, and they didn't even dare to probe their heads.

Huang Kaiguang was covered with sweat and shouted: "Hurry up and go over, you, you, don't squat, hurry up and go to the helm, as long as you rush out, the bandits will be helpless against us!" ”

The so-called sea navigation depends on the helmsman, a boat has no one to steer, not only can not control the direction, but there will be a danger of capsizing and sinking at any time, but the oarsman can hide in the cabin, the sub-mother gunner has a cover, not afraid of being hit by bullets, but the helmsman must stand on the surface of the ship to steer, the current situation is that the head will be killed, the helmsmen are cowering, no one dares to take the helm.

"Damn, you don't even listen to your own orders?" Huang Kaiguang saw that no one paid attention to him, and he couldn't help but distort his face and scold!

Chen Laosan sighed secretly, stretched out his hand to press Huang Kaiguang's arm, and said helplessly: "I'm afraid we won't be able to escape, Lord Huang, why don't you surrender?" Only by surrendering can you have a chance to live! ”

Huang Kaiguang followed: "Nonsense! If you fall into the hands of the bandits, you will definitely die, and you will die horizontally and vertically, so it is better to fight! ”

Chen Laosan quickly shook his head: "Lord Huang, that's not what you said, the bandits really want our lives, they just need to keep casting wooden boxes, and there is no one on the ship, how to hide?" But the bandits no longer cast wooden boxes, which is obviously a desire to capture alive. ”

As if in order to cooperate with Chen Laosan, a rough voice on the river came from afar: "You are surrounded, the only way to survive is to drop anchor immediately, all the personnel board the ship and surrender, our patience is limited, don't force us to cast mines to blow you up and sink to the bottom of the river to feed Wang Ba!" ”

Chen Laosan then persuaded: "My lord, don't hesitate, as for what will happen after being captured, I don't need to worry, we all have names and surnames in Guangzhou, if he is ruthless, aren't you afraid of offending the merchants of Guangzhou?" Take a step back and say, what good is it for him to kill us? He just wants to blackmail himself, let's just break some money and food to redeem ourselves. ”

The matter has come to this point, if you don't surrender, you can only be blown up, Chen Laosan analyzed the head again, Huang Kaiguang gritted his teeth fiercely, and shouted: "Raise the flag and surrender, the anchorman will drop anchor, and everyone will go up to the surface of the ship!" ”

A white flag waved, followed by "Plop!" With a bang, a large iron anchor was thrown into the river, and the oarsmen and gunners came out of the cabin with their bare hands.

Ding Daquan looked at it for a while and made sure that the Qing army had really surrendered, but he still reminded: "Brothers, be careful, board the ship in turn, stay vigilant, and fall for the trick of surrendering in a hurry!" ”

"Yes!" The standard-bearer turned around, pulled his neck and shouted, the boats cautiously approached, the soldiers pressed their fingers tightly on the trigger, covering their companions to board the ship, and when Ding Daquan and Chen Alin also got on the boat, the whole ship had completely fallen into the control of the Taiping army.

The total length of the big boat is more than ten zhang, the width is one and a half zhang, and the height is about one zhang, which is the same as the fast crab boat in that the child and mother cannons are resting on the surface of the boat, and there is a boat gang as cover, the difference is that its oars are installed below deck, and the oarsmen need to operate in the cabin.

Ding Daquan glanced slightly, and nodded with satisfaction: "The supervisor and the division commander will definitely like this ship very much, let's return to the ship immediately!" ”

"Yes!" The warriors pointed their guns at the oarsmen and rowed into the warehouse, and it was not long before the boat slowly turned around and headed upstream.

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