Even so, the officials and soldiers still regarded it as a magic weapon, and did not hesitate to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to transport these cannons to the Puxi Institute and Pinghaiwei, ready to be used to attack the sea wolf village.

The reason is that Zhu Qinxiang also heard that the sea wolf has Western Hongyi cannons, although he does not believe that the sea wolf can forge these cannons by himself, but he does not dare to ensure that the sea wolf does not have Hongyi cannons, even if the sea wolf has some Hongyi cannons, in order to defeat the enemy, so he pulled these Hongyi cannons to the Puxi Institute and Pinghaiwei, ready to put them into the attack on the sea wolf.

However, although these cannons were loaded and transported to this side, they could not be fired on the ship, because these guns were too heavy, and most of the warships of the officers and soldiers were relatively old, and the structural strength was insufficient, and these guns could only be loaded on the deck, which made the center of gravity of the ship too high.

Think about it, the warships of the official army have not been improved since Zheng He went to the West, but they are getting smaller and smaller, so that after the end of the Ming Dynasty, except for the sealed boats built by the imperial court, the warships are basically within four hundred materials, in the era of the Qi family's army, the official army and the sailors have a big hair, but the funny thing is that the big hairs of more than a thousand catties can only be fired when they are used, and they can only be fired after being put on a large raft first, and the hull can not withstand the recoil of the big hair, as for the current Hongyi cannon, Naturally, they didn't dare to use it on a warship easily.

In fact, even the sea wolves themselves are very careful when solving this problem, but when equipping a ship with a twelve-pounder gun, the hull must be reinforced, the load-bearing structure must be increased, and the ballast stone must be added to reduce the ship's center of gravity, so that their twelve-pounder guns can be loaded on larger ships, but they are limited to ordinary twelve-pounder howitzers, and even twelve-pounder cannons cannot be loaded.

It wasn't until they built their own sloops that they were able to mount twelve-pounder cannons on warships, and now they have trial-produced twelve-pounder cannons so that smaller ships could be loaded with larger guns.

And after these cannons of the official army were pulled to the Puxi Institute, Zhang Jiace had just put two of the cannons on the wall of the Acropolis with great effort in the past few days, but the reason was that he was also reminded by Liu Yinglong, and he was a little worried that the sea wolf would strike preemptively at this time, kill them, and catch them off guard.

Today, Zhang Jiace was idle and had nothing to do, and was getting together with a few of his generals and drinking at his residence, when suddenly he heard a few horns and cannons from the direction of Haikou not far from their Puxi place, so Zhang Jiace frowned and asked the soldiers outside the tent: "What's going on outside?" Why is there the sound of trumpets and cannons on the sea? ”

The soldiers were also a little confused, and said that they would check it out immediately, but after a while, the soldiers on duty in Puxi City shouted: "Thief ship! It's a thief ship coming! Enemy attack! ”

As soon as the voice spread, the Puxi Institute immediately became chaotic, Zhang Jiace threw away the wine glass in his hand when he heard the sound, and waved his hand: "Go and gather your subordinates quickly!" Get ready for battle! ”

And he immediately went out of his residence and ran up the city wall with his own soldiers, and raised his eyes to look at the sea to the east, when he saw the situation on the sea clearly, Zhang Jiace was also startled, because at this time on the sea in the area of the mouth of Pinghai Bay, there was a fleet of ships that had crossed the head and tail of Meizhou Island and came towards them.

Just when he was still busy observing the situation at sea, he saw that the fleet at sea suddenly heard a burst of cannons, and in the distance, he could see that several thief ships on the sea spewed out a ball of fire, raising a cloud of gunsmoke, and then saw a sentry ship that should be an official and military sailor, and began to rush to the Niutouwei shoal, and soon fell crooked in the shallows and ran aground there.

Zhang Jiace, as a deputy general, has been mainly responsible for defending against pirates and leading troops to resist the invasion of the coast by the red-haired people over the years, so he has seen a lot of big scenes, although he was shocked, but he did not lose his temper, and immediately sent an order, ordering the officers and soldiers stationed here to immediately form a team, not to be chaotic, transfer a group of officers and soldiers, and immediately go to the city to prepare for the defense.

At this time, the seven big ships led by the one-eyed dragon on the sea had already sailed to Puxi City, and they came over according to their acropolis.

Zhang Jiace looked at the several thief ships that were coming, and his heart moved, but he didn't feel nervous, because there were seven enemy ships coming towards Puxi City, although they were also big ships, but even if each of these seven ships was loaded with a hundred or ten pirates, at best there were only a few hundred people.

And Puxi City has more than 2,000 officers and soldiers concentrated in the city at the moment, plus the defenders of the original guard here, there are nearly 3,000 troops in the city at the moment, unless the pirates have their heads clamped by the door panel, otherwise they should not land on the shore to attack Puxi City, even if their heads are indeed caught by the door panel, landing on the shore to attack the city, it is a good thing for him, he can take the opportunity to lead the army to repel them, as long as he kills dozens of pirates, this is considered a meritorious achievement.

So Zhang Jiace immediately issued an order, ordering his guerrilla Zheng Jiamo to immediately order a thousand soldiers and horses, assemble outside the acropolis, and be ready to meet the pirates who landed on the shore at any time, as long as the pirates dared to dock, they would immediately block it, squeeze the pirates on the beach, and annihilate them!

Just when Zhang Jiace was busy deploying troops, the one-eyed dragon led several large ships under his command and had already approached the coast.

The Acropolis was originally used to prevent the Japanese from being prepared, mainly to prevent pirates or Japanese from attacking and disturbing the land, so the Acropolis was built very close to the coast, at best, it was only about 100 steps away from the sea, so that some of the artillery on the Acropolis was just enough to reach the seaside, and they could directly use cannons to bombard the pirates who landed on the shore.

But today they have encountered a hard stubble, the sea wolf is not an ordinary pirate, even if the average pirate has a cannon on hand, it can't go far, but these warships of the sea wolf are equipped with six-pound and twelve-pound Western-style new cannons, and the quality is even better than the current cannons cast in Western countries, and the firing range is no worse than the same kind of Hongyi cannons.

Therefore, when the one-eyed dragon led the fleet to approach the coast, it did not rush directly to the coast, but when it was a few hundred steps away from the coast, it suddenly turned and lined up the fleet in a vertical formation, level with the coast, and aimed the right side of the ship at Puxi City on the coast.

At this time, Zhang Jiace led the officers and soldiers to prepare to defend against the enemy, all kinds of artillery in the city began to be loaded, the musketeers also boarded the city wall, and a thousand officers and soldiers also left the acropolis and began to line up outside the city.

At this time, the flags on the sea wolf ships have already indicated their identities, after Zhang Jiace saw the golden wolf flags fluttering on these ships, he couldn't help but curse in his heart, scolding these sea wolf thieves for being really arrogant and bold, and actually didn't wait for their officers and soldiers to go to Nanri Island to attack them, but killed them first, preparing to strike first, isn't this looking for death?

And at this time, someone reminded Zhang Jiace: "My lord! The pirates didn't seem to want to land and attack our acropolis, their fleet only divided into a few ships, and the rest of the fleet went to the south of Nanri Water Village! ”

Zhang Jiace looked towards the sea, and sure enough, only a small part of the sea wolf's fleet was divided into a small number of ships and headed towards Puxi City, where he was, while most of the ships began to turn to the south and went straight to Nanri Water Village.

Zhang Jiace chuckled in his heart, remembering the concerns raised by Liu Yinglong who came to see him a few days ago, and Nanri Water Village is not as good as Puxi City, the water village facilities over there are dilapidated, although the warships are concentrated there, but today these pirates came suddenly, before that, they didn't get any warning from the beacon tower on Meizhou Island, and suddenly the pirates appeared in Pinghai Bay, and Liu Yinglong on the other side of Nanri Water Village is afraid that he is in trouble.

So he immediately ordered his subordinates to have a thousand generals, point out five hundred soldiers, and immediately rush to Nanri Water Village to see if he could help Liu Yinglong.

When arranging these things, Zhang Jiace was also paying attention to the few thief ships coming on the sea, silently calculating the distance between the enemy ships and the Acropolis.

This time, Zhang Jiace sighed again in his heart, because he had fought with the red-haired people before, and he was relatively familiar with the tactics of the red-haired people.

Often, after these red-haired men sailed to the seashore, once there was a walled city wall on the shore to protect it, and there were soldiers stationed on the shore, they would not rush to the shore, but would turn the boat sideways, aim the side of the boat at the shore, and then start to bombard the city on the shore with cannons.

And the artillery of the Ming army, because it was short and thick, and there was nothing to aim, had no way to deal with the red-haired ships that were parked far away at sea, so they could only stand up and be beaten, and often the defenders couldn't even stand the side of the red-haired people, so they were scattered by the red-haired people with the cannons on the ship.

And today, I didn't expect these pirates to actually use this trick, which looks very much like the tactics adopted by the red-haired ship, so the next ......

Zhang Jiace's heart shrank suddenly, and he felt a strong uneasiness.

At this time, the fleet of the sea wolf has been lined up in a horizontal formation on the sea near the shore of Puxi, and the cannons on the side of the ship have already uncovered the cannon clothing, revealing the muzzle of the black hole, the gunners shouted loudly, pushed the cannon to the gun door on the side of the ship, and slowly raised the muzzle, someone has already raised the torch, and all the guns have been loaded when they begin to turn, and they can fire the cannon when they start to turn