When Yu Xiaotian delivered the artillery and ammunition, he did not give Chen Xun a fixed charge package, but only provided them with a batch of bulk granular gunpowder, in this regard, the sea wolf did not pit them again, the gunpowder gave them a refined granular gunpowder of quite good quality, and told Chen Xun that the rated charge of various artillery, Chen Xun was better than the gourd, and when he came back to load the ammunition, he simply found a rod scale, and every time he loaded the ammunition, he weighed it with the scale first, so he would not be filled with too much or too little gunpowder.

However, this method is really a bit clumsy, once you fight with others, you will definitely not have the time to weigh the gunpowder again and again, and it will be up to the gunner to estimate it at that time.

But now they are testing guns, and it doesn't hurt to do so, so take your time, it's safer, and it can also make the charge a little more stable, so that you can ensure the accuracy of the fire to a certain extent.

After another cannon sounded, the cannonball that flew out of the muzzle of the cannon smashed heavily on the upper left of the target that was stacked with five layers of wooden planks, only to hear a loud click, and the huge impact force even knocked the wooden frame they had erected to the ground, and everyone hurriedly ran over to watch the power of the cannonball.

The target that collapsed on the ground between them had fallen apart at this time, and the place where the cannonball hit, although the hole was not too big, but the five thick planks were still pierced on the spot, opening a transparent hole, but after the cannonball also penetrated the five planks, it consumed most of the kinetic energy and fell not far from the target, still smoking, hot and hot.

After everyone saw it, they smacked their tongues again and again, and exclaimed that this cannon was indeed powerful, sometimes they did it with people at sea, if the enemy's ships were built relatively strong, the ship plates were thicker, and their shells could not hit, not to mention, but even if they hit the enemy ship, when the shells fell on the enemy's hull, they often could not penetrate the planks of the enemy ships, and the shells were often dropped into the seawater, which was very discouraging.

But today, when they saw that the small red cannon cast by the sea wolf was actually a hundred steps away, and it could penetrate such a thick plank, then it would be easy to deal with ordinary ships, not to mention that the sea wolf's cannon was also "very accurate", if they could install more of these cannons on their ships, then they would not be able to walk sideways on the sea in the future!

So everyone felt that their mood was lifted, and they began to clamor to get these cannons back and load them on their ships, so that they would not have to worry about Zheng Yiguan in the future.

Yan Siqi raised his hand to stop the clamor of these cronies, and said to everyone: "It seems that the sea wolf's cannon is indeed very good, and the price they opened is also fair, at least the goods are good, and I Yan Mou has accepted this love!"

Now we are waiting for them to deliver the cannon to us, but just handing over the cannon to us is probably not enough, none of us are good at using this kind of thing, even if they give us the goods, we won't use it, and it will be in vain at that time!

So Chen Xun, you work hard, go to the sea wolf's Nanri Island again, first, send them the silver, and ask Yu Dangjia to hand over these goods to us as soon as possible!

And if you bring me with Yu Dangjia, you will say that I, Yan, have inexhaustible feelings for him, but I have to trouble them again, please be sure to teach us to use these cannons, as long as they are willing to teach our brothers, I will definitely pay it back another day! ”

Chen Xun immediately nodded in agreement, but there was a look of worry on his face, and he said to Yan Siqi: "Big brother, it's nothing to go again, this is what I should do, I don't need to say anything about hard work!"

But this time I will have to transport tens of thousands of taels of silver, and if I only bring one boat with me, I am afraid that there will be some trouble on the way! In addition, if you want to transport the cannon back and learn how to operate it here after you say it, I'm afraid it will be difficult to cover people's eyes and ears, and if you don't get it, the guy will get the news soon!

Therefore, according to the following opinion, it is better for us to go over this time and choose some brothers to go with me, so that we can not only protect this silver, but also learn how to operate a cannon at the sea wolf on the spot! In this way, you will not be afraid to show the rumors! I don't know what the big brother thinks? ”

After thinking about it with his hands behind his back, Yan Siqi lowered his head and briefly discussed it with the other brothers, then turned around and said, "This is reasonable!" After all, this is the hard-earned money we have saved for so long, and it was originally intended to be kept to recruit homeless people, but now we have to use it to buy these things, and if something happens, I'm afraid we won't be able to take out so much silver! So it's still right to be careful!

In addition, what Chen Xun said about sending people to follow him to the sea wolf and learn to operate the cannon also makes sense, after all, there are too many eyes and ears here, and it will be more appropriate to put it on the sea wolf's side!

But I'm still a little worried, so let's do it, Chen Xun, you bring a boat over first, and discuss this matter with the Yu family, if we send too many boats over at once, I'm afraid that some people will be suspicious, and there will be an accident on the road, so you take someone to go first!

Six days after you have been in charge, please send some of his ships and his brothers to meet our ship carrying silver, and do not come too close to us, and watch our ship smoke after noon, catch our ship directly at sea, and escort our ship to their Nanri Island! It's a little safer that way!

As for the fact that our people used to learn how to operate artillery with them, I will send a group of trustworthy brothers to go with the ship in the next two days, and after completing the study, they will come back directly with the guns. ”

After hearing this, Chen Xun nodded and agreed, everyone cleaned up, and took out two arquebuses to try their hands, feeling that this kind of arquebus made in Nanri Island is not bad compared to the iron cannon of the Japanese country and the bird gun of the Ming Dynasty that they got before, and even the arquebus made by the Taixi people, whether it is range, accuracy, and power, it is remarkable, and it is considered to be the best of the same kind of firecracker.

What makes them feel more fond is that the arquebus made in Nanri Island has the same thickness of the inner chamber, even the guns they gave, they are also very good, there are no big and small problems, once some guns are big, there will be a situation that cannot be loaded into the chamber, sometimes even if it is barely stuffed in, it will take a lot of effort to smash the gun into the bottom of the chamber, and it will explode if it is not good.

However, if the gun is too small, if it is loaded into the barrel, once the muzzle is facing down, the gun will roll out of the chamber on its own, and in addition, such a gun will not be able to hit far (the gap is too large and deflated), and the power is very small.

However, these guns made by the sea wolf, no matter which arquebus they put in, have just the right gap, not tight or loose, and fit quite well with the inner wall of the gun, which shows that the craftsmen of the sea wolf do things very carefully, and these small things are also done quite well.

So Yan Siqi and the others have a new understanding of the sea wolf, from the previous fear, to the current respect, now they dare not regard the sea wolf as their imaginary enemy, yesterday when they heard what Chen Xun said, they all realized the horror of the sea wolf.

The sea wolf not only has these sharp guns, the most important thing is that their subordinates are well trained, each of them is quite powerful, if they are opponents with the sea wolf, they believe that their fate may be quite miserable, Chu Cai Lao is a lesson from the past, and once they turn their faces with the sea wolf, I am afraid that the result will be much worse than Chu Cai Lao.

Therefore, at this time, everyone has already dispelled the idea of wanting to be an enemy of the sea wolf, and all that remains is the awe of the sea wolf in their hearts, including Yan Siqi, everyone secretly made up their minds that they would rather offend anyone than offend this Yu Xiaotian in the future, they can only be friends with the sea wolf in the future, and they don't want to be enemies with the sea wolf anymore.

Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Praying Mantis Catches the Cicada

The warships of the eight sea wolves slowly advanced on the sea, forming a horizontal formation, keeping a certain distance from each other, bumping and undulating on the rolling sea, heading in the direction of Bengang, Taiyuan Island.

In the center is a brig, but the sail of this brig is more strange, the main sail is a Chinese-style hard sail, but the avant-garde schooner sail on the foremast is a Western-style triangular soft sail, which not only has the advantages of Chinese sailing ship convenient operation, but also has some advantages of Western-style sailing ship, and the hull is closer to the shape of Western-style sailing ship, which seems to be very maverick.

However, in this way, although the Chinese sail has the advantage of high wind efficiency, but because of the large weight, it can not be built too large, although the Western soft sail is slightly less efficient by the wind, but the area can be very large, offsetting its weakness, so that the ship can obtain greater wind power, so that it will more or less affect the speed of some of the brigs.

But even so, the speed of this nondescript brig was much higher than that of the other Chinese sailing ships, so that today when they were moving slowly, the sails of this ship were not all raised, but only the foremast mainsail and spinnaker were raised, so that it could easily keep up with the fleet and sail forward with the fleet.

In this fleet, there was also a ship that did not belong to the sea wolf, accompanying the brig to the left of the brig, following the sea wolf's fleet in the direction of Ben Harbor.

And it was not someone else who led the team today, it was Yu Xiaotian, who did not personally lead the fleet to sea during this time.

This time, after Chen Xun arrived at the wolf's den village on Nanri Island, he informed Yu Xiaotian of their concerns, and Yu Xiaotian immediately agreed to his various requests and decided to send a fleet to the direction of Bengang to catch the ships sent by Yan Siqi to transport silver.

This silver will be his Yu Xiaotian in the future, and it is not a small amount, once something happens at sea and is robbed, it will be cheaper for others, so he took some trouble to escort this silver to Nanri Island, also for his own good.

Originally, he handed over this matter to his subordinates, but Yu Xiaotian thought that he had been busy during this time, and several big operations of the sea wolf were made by Ma Xiao and their subordinates to do it, as the boss of the sea wolf, he always nested on Nanri Island or ran around in freshwater and chicken coops, and let his subordinates do dangerous things, and there may be no problem in a short time, but for a long time, it will inevitably make some subordinates feel dirty.

It just so happened that the Chinese New Year was approaching these days, and the various affairs of the sea wolf were also included in the track, so he had a lot of leisure, and these days he took time to accompany Lan'er and Xiu'er, who were about to give birth, to make up for his debt to his family.

Although women like Lan'er and Xiu'er inherit the fine traditions of ancient women, they will not mess around because Yu Xiaotian has no time to pay attention to them, they stand quietly and silently behind Yu Xiaotian, doing what they can, and never dare to disobey their husbands, Yu Xiaotian is very satisfied with this, but he still hopes that he can accompany them more when he has time, after all, now they are about to give birth, and bring him two little babies.

This time, considering that there was more time for the time being, he simply decided to make a trip himself, first, to go to sea to relax, and secondly, to test the training level of the sailors of his fleet during this time.

So Yu Xiaotian ordered a few ships, and temporarily used this brig as his flagship, and before the appointed time, he led the fleet to sail in the direction of Bengang.

Because Yan Siqi had to beware of the rumors of the show, for fear of being known by Zheng Yiguan, it was inconvenient for Yu Xiaotian to directly lead the fleet to Yan Siqi's Bengang to pick up the goods, so after they arrived at the sea more than 30 miles northwest of Bengang, they all lowered their speed, slowly circled around the sea, and waited for Yan Siqi's silver-carrying ships to come out.

And before Xiaotian led the team to the sea in the north of Bengang, on the sea outside Bengang, there were also more than a dozen ships of all kinds, wandering around the edge of the sea level, maintaining a distance from Bengang Port, so that people in the port could not find their whereabouts, but their Shangdou could observe the situation of ships entering and leaving the port from a distance.

About in the morning, three boats slowly sailed out of the wharf of Bengang Yan Siqi, after leaving the wharf, they went to the sea, and after a little entrenchment on the sea for a while, they did not find anything abnormal, so the three boats immediately turned the rudder and adjusted the sails, and took a zigzag route on the sea in a crosswind state, and slowly sailed towards the northwest direction of Fuzhou.

"Second master! They're out! Start turning to the northwest! One of the upper buckets on the top of the mast, after taking a careful look at the sea with his hands on the pergola, leaned over and shouted to the people on board.

On the stern of the deck of the ship, there were some people, led by a big man with a cross-faced face, who was called the second master by Shangdou, and was the leader of this fleet.

And this person's identity is very special, he is also surnamed Zheng, nicknamed Python Er, is Zheng Yiguan's eldest brother, since he was a child, he followed Zheng Yiguan to Macau to make a living, and later followed Zheng Yiguan to run around, after Zheng Yiguan was accepted by Li Dan as a righteous son, Zheng Python followed Zheng Yiguan to work under Li Dan.

This time Li Dan died suddenly, Zheng Yiguan rushed to Pinghu to mourn, and this Zheng python made a great contribution to Zheng Yiguan's final control of Li Dan's plate.

If someone is not familiar with this Zheng Python, then if you talk about Zheng Zhihu, I am afraid that many people will know the Tao, this Zheng Python is the Zheng Zhihu who changed his name with Zheng Yiguan after the establishment of Eighteen Zhi and the change of name to Zheng Zhilong in history.

After Zheng Yiguan took Li Dan's plate this time, he took people back to Taiyuan Island, but he did not bring all his subordinates back to Bengang, because there was no room for so many of his subordinates here, so most of his subordinates were still the same as before, doing their own thing, and only brought some people back here, but these people and ships did not obey Yan Siqi's dispatch, but directly obeyed Zheng Yiguan's dispatch.

This time, Zheng Yiguan brought back more than 2,000 men and more than 80 ships to Fujian, and these subordinates recently began to operate in the Zhangquan area under his orders, constantly attacking the coastal areas of Zhangquan, and grabbing territory with Chu Cailao, and there have been many conflicts with Chu Cailao's subordinates on the sea of Zhangzhou.

Both sides are now injured, and Chu Cailao has not fallen behind for the time being, but it has also made Chu Cailao feel a lot of pressure, and suddenly Zheng Yiguan has the potential to squeeze Yan Siqi out of this area, which also makes many brothers of Yan Siqi extremely dissatisfied with Zheng Yiguan.

And Zheng Python, as Zheng Yiguan's brother, of course, wants to do things for Zheng Yiguan, just a few days before yesterday, Zheng Yiguan received a secret report from his subordinates, saying that Yan Siqi has made some moves during this time, and seems to be recruiting people everywhere, and a group of his cronies are mysteriously gathering in Dazhai, I don't know what to do.

So Zheng Yiguan immediately ordered someone to investigate the news in private, and unexpectedly found out that Yan Siqi and Yu Xiaotian hooked up again, and wanted to buy a batch of cannons from Yu Xiaotian, and now he has got a few, and then he has to transport a large amount of silver to Nanri Island to buy more cannons, and even found out that Yan Siqi has received a few cannons, and also tried the cannon in a remote place, and even spent money to find out the exact time when Yan Siqi sent a ship to send the silver to leave Bengang and go to Nanri Island.

Zheng Yiguan immediately became nervous after hearing this, because his relationship with Yan Siqi has become very tense these days, although the two sides are still maintaining harmony on the surface, but in private, the people on both sides are already full of gunpowder, and there is a tense posture.

Zheng Yiguan actually fell in love with Bengang, when he used to do things with Yan Siqi, it was because his wings were not yet full, and Yan Siqi was very popular, he was young and weak, so he naturally couldn't compete with him for the status of the boss, so he followed Yan Siqi with peace of mind.

But when he took the plate from his stepfather Li Dan, his strength suddenly increased, and almost instantly overwhelmed Yan Siqi's strength, so Zheng Yiguan's heart immediately became alive.

He is a person, it is impossible to live under the fence forever, since he was a child, Zheng Yiguan has felt that he is different, to do something big, with his cleverness, he has gone from a penniless gangster on the street, and now he has become one of the few bigwigs on the sea, and his strength is so strong that he can't believe it.

In the past, his strength was not good, but now he has more than 10,000 people and hundreds of ships, and he attributes all these ships to Yan Siqi, and continues to follow Yan Siqi, not to mention that he is unwilling, even his brothers under him will not agree.

This kind of thing is actually very simple, in the sea, where the emperor is far away and the official whip is out of reach, whoever is strong is the boss.

His current strength greatly surpasses Yan Siqi a lot, and he still follows Yan Siqi as a junior brother, which will definitely not work, so his subordinates encouraged him to simply overturn Yan Siqi, grab the territory of Bengang, and replace it with their old camp.

This idea is very tempting for Zheng Yiguan, he is now determined to return to the coastal area of Daming with his subordinates, so no matter which peer, he is his potential opponent, what he wants is to become the number one boss along the coast of Daming, and can control the entire China Sea in his hands.

But he doesn't have a suitable foothold at the moment, because he came a little late, and Chu Cailao and other bigwigs are entrenched in the south, and Yu Xiaotian, a sea wolf in the north, is occupied, and he can only intervene in the coastal areas of Quanzhou, but there is no place where he can be an old camp.

(Sorry, but there was something today, but the two chapters were updated together!) ）