"Musketeers prepare, guns down on the shoulders! Get ready to fire! Someone in the queue shouted.

The musketeers unloaded their flintlock pistols from their shoulders one after another, checked the fire door, and after confirming that they were properly loaded, there was a click and the flint hammer was pulled open, ready for the last firing of the flint.

The musketeers of the first row flattened their spears with a loud cry in the sound of the command, and the butt of the rifle was firmly pressed against the shoulder socket, and the biggest difference between the musket of the sea wolf and the Ming Dynasty made bird guns in this era was probably not the inconspicuous flintlock device, but their butt.

In this era, there was no butt on the shoulder, but at the back of the gun, there was a curved grip in the shape of a dog's leg, which could be held by the musket, and when the musket was holding the gun, it was not stable to aim, and the recoil when firing was all borne by the wrist.

How could Yu Xiaotian still use such a butt, since the first arquebus produced by the Sea Wolf, they used a shoulder butt close to later generations, the butt is made of hard oak or walnut or even lychee wood, which is very strong and durable, and when fired from the shoulder, the musketeer can obtain a stable support point, making aiming easier and shooting accuracy better.

After the musketeers flattened their spears, they began to search for their targets through the door and the crosshairs, and after finding a suitable target, they locked onto the target and waited for the order to fire.

After the archers of the official army sent arrows, they were very nervous, and saw that the first round of arrow rain did not cause much trouble to the sea wolf, so they quickly began to continue to release arrows, and the arrows kept swinging towards the sea wolf's battle array, but the threat to the sea wolf's soldiers was not very great.

"Fire ......"

"Bang bang bang ......bang" in front of the Seawolf Warrior Array, suddenly a flash of fire erupted, and then a cloud of gunpowder smoke rose.

Looking at the front of the officers and soldiers, there were more than a dozen archers who suddenly howled miserably, threw away their bows and arrows with blood spraying on their bodies, and fell headlong in front of the formation, twisting their bodies in pain, covering the wounds on their bodies and rolling on the ground.

The flintlock pistol of the sea wolf has a large caliber and greater power, although the range is somewhat affected, but the effective range still reaches about 70 steps, but the accurate shooting distance can only be guaranteed at about 40 steps, and the two sides are now about less than 60 steps apart, which is within the effective range, but it cannot guarantee accurate shooting.

But this has little impact, anyway, in the era of front-loading smoothbore guns, the play of firepower is to rely on a salvo of fire, firing many projectiles together to form a surface killing effect, so Li Dazui does not care about these, before removing the threat of the opponent's archers, he still decided to let his soldiers on his side stay outside the effective killing range of the opponent's bow and arrows to be safer.

The first row of musketeers had just gone off, and the musketeers who had already fired did not even bother to check the effectiveness of their shots, turned around and gave way to the front of the musketeers in the back row, quickly returned to the back of the line, and began to lower their muskets and reload quickly.

Without saying a word, the musketeers in the second row immediately lowered their guns and began to aim, and soon fired a second salvo from the Seawolves, and at this time another group of officers and soldiers on the opposite side immediately fell.

Li Dazui was still a little surprised, because after the two rows of guns were put over, they had already knocked over twenty or thirty officers and soldiers of the other party, but these officers and soldiers did not appear to be in a rout, and they were still crowded together, which made him feel a little incomprehensible, because he thought that this group of officers and soldiers should be a rabble at all, and if a row of guns was put over, they should be blinded, but after the two rows of guns were released, the other party was not in chaos.

So he ignored the musketeers, beckoned the twenty gunners carrying the tiger squat cannons to come forward, and ordered them to lay down the tiger squat cannons, and the twenty tiger squat gunners immediately began to reload the cannons.

At this time, the musketeers had already fired three salvos in succession, knocking over a group of officers and soldiers, and just before the sea wolf's tiger squat cannon fired, suddenly this group of officers and soldiers of the Chongwu Institute let out an exclamation, and suddenly it was like a nest exploded, and began to rout, rushing towards the acropolis.

The rout of the officers and soldiers came too quickly, and it actually startled Li Dazui and his subordinates, and it took them a while before they reacted, it turned out that it was not that these officers and soldiers were well-trained to resist the beating, but that their musket salvo just now was too shocking, and for a while the guards of this group of Chongwu were stunned, and they actually failed to react in a short time.

After three rows of shots, the rabble officially reacted, and one by one they were frightened, and they didn't care about anything else, they let out a wild scream, and they rumbled towards the acropolis.

Li Dazui cursed secretly, and then laughed loudly, but did not give the order to pursue the rout, let them flee into the acropolis like crazy, and closed the gate with a bang, and then the cannon began to sound on the city, and several cannons on the acropolis of Chongwu Station roared.

The dock is still a few hundred meters away from the Acropolis, and the place where the two sides fought just now is also a few hundred meters away from the Acropolis, this distance is not for Western-style artillery, it is difficult to reach the queue of the sea wolf soldiers, so the cannons of the Acropolis do not pose much threat to them at all, the cannonballs are far away from the sea wolf battle array, they fell to the ground, jumped a few times and stopped on the ground, at best, it was just a little psychological comfort to the soldiers and generals of the guard.

Li Dazui didn't care how the officers and soldiers in the acropolis tossed! Leaving a detachment to monitor the acropolis, the remaining more than a hundred soldiers immediately rushed to the dock, put the gun mounts, and aimed them at the merchant ships on the dock.

At this time, the people on the merchant ships were frightened, and there was a fleet of sea wolves blocking their way to escape, and even the officers and soldiers on the shore were routed by the sea wolves, and the docks were surrounded.

At this time, they were crying every day, screaming that the earth was not working, and they were so frightened that they lay on the boat and didn't know what to do.

At this time, a sea wolf warship sailed into the harbor and shouted at these merchant ships in the harbor with a copper horn: "Wait a minute, Lao Tzu will not provoke you, but you will help the government to deal with Lao Tzu, today none of you want to escape, immediately drive the boat with Lao Tzu, otherwise, a fire will burn you up, and kill you chickens and dogs!" Now you all follow Lao Tzu's instructions, pull out the anchor and sail, and follow Lao Tzu's ship honestly, otherwise Lao Tzu's cannons are not vegetarian! ”

A boatman on a merchant ship approaching shouted, "Good man, spare your life!" The little ones don't want to be enemies with you, it's the government that forced us to come here to help in the war, I wait for a grass people, how dare you not listen, and I hope that you are a lot of good men, let us go! ……”

"Phew! Don't talk nonsense, say one more thing to show your boat first, and then dare to talk so much, and now I'll open a few holes in your ship! I don't want to die and go with Lao Tzu honestly, I don't have time to delay work with you here! The man on the Seawolf ship took the bullhorn and immediately scolded back.

At this time, the boatmen on these merchant ships were frightened enough to dare to talk nonsense anymore, and Li Dazui on the shore also ordered people to shout loudly at these merchant ships in the port, forcibly seized a few sampans on the shore, arranged for the soldiers to start boarding those merchant ships in groups, and controlled the boatmen on the ship with knives and guns, and ordered them to raise their sails and anchors, and make them out of the port of Chongwusho.

More than 60 merchant ships on the dock, more than half of them were soon controlled by the sea wolf, and the rest did not leave and did not sing, in order to save their lives or save the ship, they had to honestly follow the sea wolf's fleet and sail away from Chongwu and sail towards Nanri Island.

On the periphery of the fleet, two flying clippers slowly cruised around the fleet, monitoring the movements of these merchant ships.

As it got dark, all the merchant ships were ordered to light lanterns to illuminate the location of their ships, and after the sea wolf sailors went out to sea, they boarded the ships that had not yet been controlled by the sea wolf tribe in batches, and completely controlled the merchant ships.

When it got dark, one of the shipwrights in the fleet, led by the steward of their ship, tried to resist and flee the fleet, but as soon as he made a move, the steward of the ship was slashed on the deck by the sea wolves who escorted the ship, and the resistance was quickly quelled.

Therefore, these merchant ships honestly followed Liu Yidao back and were escorted back to Nanri Island.

Chapter 13 on Accountability

Zhu Qinxiang, who was sitting in Xinghua Mansion and preparing to personally command the attack on Nanri Island, was the first to learn the news of the attack on Nanri Water Village and Puxi.

When he learned that the sea wolf actually destroyed the sailors gathered in Nanri Water Village in one fell swoop and set fire to Nanri Water Village, Zhu Qin was quite angry and thunderous, and asked why the official and military sailors were so unbearable.

So the messenger hurriedly told Zhu Qinxiang in detail about the sea wolf's sneak attack on Nanri Water Village and the shelling of Puxi City, which inevitably exaggerated, doubled the number of sea wolves' fleet, and said that they came with seventy or eighty warships at once.

More importantly, there are a lot of Hongyi cannons on the pirate ship, which are far and ruthless, although the official and military naval division warships do not retreat, but they are finally outnumbered and attacked by the waves, so they are finally defeated, and the main general Liu Yinglong is "seriously injured", and now Nanri Water Village is for treatment.

In addition, the sea wolf also tried to attack the Puxi Office, under the leadership of Zhang Jiace, the deputy general who sat in the Puxi Thousand Households, the official army repelled it, killing more than 100 thieves, and the head had been solved to the Xinghua Mansion, waiting for Zhu Qinxiang to send someone to check it.

After Zhu Qinxiang heard this, he was terrified, he didn't understand water warfare, and of course he didn't know that the warships of the Ming Dynasty couldn't be equipped with Hongyi heavy artillery, so he could only listen to what the person who reported the news said, as for Zhang Jiace's repelling the pirates' attack on Puxi, although he didn't know much about military affairs, he was not a fool.

Puxi has gathered more than 2,000 officers and troops, even if the sea wolf is fierce, it should not risk attacking the city of Puxi, Zhu Qinxiang is actually not stupid, you can guess if you think about it, the sea wolf must have sent a ship to bombard Puxi City, contain Zhang Jiace's department, so that they can't go to Nanri Water Village to help, as for killing more than 100 pirates, it is estimated that it is simply blown.

However, the person who came to report the news said that the captured thief heads had been transported to Xinghua Mansion, and he probably guessed that it was likely that Zhang Jiace and his subordinates killed some coastal homeless people or thieves, and then used their heads to invite merit, so as to reduce their culpability.

As a member of the imperial court, Zhu Qinxiang still knows very well about the behavior of local officials and soldiers, but although he suspects this kind of thing, he has no real evidence, and there is no way to punish Zhang Jiace, these martial artists, and now that the sailor is newly defeated, what will the sea wolf do next, he does not know, it is when he uses people, and it is inconvenient for him to expose Zhang Jiace's tricks.

Just when he was very angry about the defeat of Nanri Water Village, on the third day, another news came from Quanzhou, saying that Chongwu was attacked by pirates, and all the merchant ships gathered at Chongwu's dock were captured by sea wolves, and several sailor warships were sunk by pirate fleets.

But like Puxi Suo, Bai Qianzong over there also said that they repelled the pirates' attack on Chongwusu, killed dozens of pirates, and injured several thief ships, but because they were outnumbered, they failed to keep those merchant ships in the end.

Fortunately, this Bai Qian is not shameless to the extreme, but he just said that he killed dozens of thieves, but he did not solve some heads, and there is no real basis for this claim.

All in all, this time the sea wolf must have found out the news that he wanted to invade Nanri Island in a big way, so he simply came to strike first, and gave him Zhu Qinxiang another attack before the government made a move.

In this way, his plan to mobilize troops on Nanri Island this time has basically come to naught, and the naval warships assembled in Nanri Water Village are the main force of this operation, while the Fujian naval warships assembled in Xinghua Bay are only forty insufficient, and the merchant ships that he finally sealed have also been robbed by the sea wolf, making the number of ships available to him is simply not enough to use troops on Nanri Island.

After calming down, Zhu Qinxiang had a terrifying feeling, he still greatly underestimated the strength of the sea wolf this time, the sea wolf really had a lot of Hongyi cannons as rumored, and had a considerable number of ships, and the strength was not worse than the strength of the sailors mastered by the government.

From this battle between Nanri Water Village and Chongwu Institute, he can roughly guess that the strength of the sea wolf at sea is quite strong, if it is not the case, even if the sea wolf sneaks up on the Nanri Water Village, the Nanri Water Village has gathered more than 60 sailor warships, and it will not be killed by the sea wolf.

And from the battle report, he didn't see anyone say how many sea wolves' warships were destroyed, so although he didn't see this battle, he could guess that it should be a one-sided battle, the sea wolf completely suppressed the official army and the sailors, so that the sailors almost had no power to fight back, and they were wiped out by the sea wolf's fleet.

Although he was very annoyed by this result, when he calmed down and thought about it deeply, coupled with the opinions of the two of his subordinates who were his master's praises, Zhu Qinxiang was still shocked into a cold sweat.

Because if the sea wolf didn't take a preemptive approach this time, he would first come to Nanri Water Village to destroy these naval warships he had mobilized, and put an end to the nailed merchant fleet on the side of Chongwusho, once he sent troops to attack Nanri Island under unknown circumstances.

And the sea wolf has enough strength to wipe out the fleet he sent on Nanri Island, and then the loss of the Fujian side may not be such a loss in front of him.

At that time, it is very likely that more than 10,000 soldiers and generals he sent to Nanri Island will be destroyed by the sea wolf, if that is the case, he is afraid that it is not just as simple as losing his official position and resigning, he is good at provoking the border, and as a result, the official army is defeated and lost, the whole army is destroyed, and more than 10,000 officers and soldiers are killed in battle, which is enough to cut off the heads of others many times.

Thinking of this, Zhu Qinxiang didn't know what he felt in his heart, since he arrived in Fujian to take up his post, he planned to follow the example of his predecessor Nan Juyi, and make achievements in the matter of suppressing thieves at sea, and fill in the heavy color of his official reputation.

But he chose the wrong target, and targeted this group of sea wolves, just after he arrived, he just mentioned that he wanted to attack the sea wolves on Nanri Island, and then caused the pirates surnamed Yu to launch a large-scale attack on the coast of Fujian for more than a month.

It's only been less than half a year since he finally calmed down, and he finally mobilized some strength, ready to shame and punish this group of pirates, but he didn't think that his fist didn't stretch out, and they slapped him first, and gave him a big slap again, and he estimated that he was in a big trouble.

But the sea wolf's action is only the beginning, after they successively killed the Nanri Island naval fleet, and robbed the Chongwusuo merchant fleet back to Nanri Island, the sea wolf once again began to attack the coastal area of Fujian, or like the last time, picked some large coastal families to attack.

Moreover, most of these big families have some evil deeds, and the sea wolf sailors and soldiers cooperate with each other, and in the following period of time, they acted wantonly along the coast of Fujian, and successively broke through dozens of Zhuangbao villages, and tied up the people in these villages from the land, and did not know where to go.

Although Zhu Qinxiang also expected that the sea wolf might launch such an attack and plunder, and strictly ordered the coastal state capital and county to strengthen their defense, the sea wolf now has a lot of eyeliner on land, and basically they have inquired about the coastal regimental training, the township bravery, and the arrangement of the official army, and they can always choose a place where the government can't take care of it to launch a surprise attack.

Moreover, they never love to fight, they leave with one blow, and by the time the officers and soldiers sent by the government arrive at the place where the accident occurred, the sea wolves have often retreated.

Of course, there are also cases where the sea wolves are running errands, and they have no time to retreat and are blocked by the officers and soldiers, but if the officers and soldiers do not come, it is okay, once the sea wolf troops who have landed on the shore are blocked, the officers and men find that the sea wolves are really not easy to deal with, they are equipped with a large number of "bird guns" and a lot of artillery, not to mention the extremely strong firepower, the sea wolf troops are also quite well-trained, never retreat from the battle, and fight very hard.

Often, even if the officers and soldiers barely blocked the sea wolf troops who had not yet withdrawn, even if they had superior forces, they were often defeated by the sea wolf soldiers who lost their armor and abandoned their armor.

In this way, after more than a month, the coastal areas of Fujian were like boiling pots, and the lively situation was a mess, and the local governments were pressing the gourd to float the scoop, either there was an accident here, or there was an accident, which made the coastal governments anxious about this, and they could not help but complain about Zhu Qinxiang, who provoked this incident.

No matter when, there is never a shortage of people in the Ming Dynasty who want to take the throne, after Zhu Qinxiang arrived as the governor of Fujian, he almost did not make many political achievements, but made the coastal area of Fujian into a miasma, which provoked the sea wolf who was quite gentle before, and the sea wolf began to become fierce.

In addition, the defeat of Nanri Shuizhai caused heavy losses to the Fujian officials, army, and naval divisions, so naturally some people began to talk about this matter to Zhu Qinxiang, and for a time many people presented bullet stamps to the Beijing Division, including officials in the Beijing Division, who learned the news and participated in the impeachment of Zhu Qinxiang, on the charge that Zhu Qinxiang had provoked a border provocation in Fujian, causing a great defeat, making the bandits along the coast of Fujian increasingly serious, disturbing the people and hurting money.

Originally, Zhu Qinxiang also thought of this, and sent people to Beijing to try to suppress this matter, but the result was very unsatisfactory, this matter was too big, and it was no longer his ability to suppress it.

Zhu Qinxiang also thought about finding someone to carry the blame for this matter, and the best candidate was undoubtedly Zhang Jiace, the deputy general who was in charge of Puxi at the time, but Zhang Jiace, don't underestimate that he is just a general, this guy's activity ability is quite powerful, and he immediately found the current Fujian general Yu Zhigao afterwards and entrusted this matter to Yu Zhigao.

(Today's Lantern Festival, I took my family out to play during the day, and the update was a little late, so I just presented two chapters at a time, which can be regarded as wishing everyone a happy Lantern Festival!) ）