Chapter 129: Killing Chickens and Monkeys
In fact, this Linjia village is also familiar to the local immigrants, just east of Majiapu, about 20 miles upstream, their village is close to the bank of the Tamsui River, and it is also a village with a relatively large number of villagers, which has always been relatively strong, with their large number of people, and many conflicts with the villagers of some surrounding immigrant villages.
The patriarch of Linjia Village is also a pirate background, and Ma Ruyi's origin is quite similar, both of them are from strong people, but they are unlucky, they can't get famous, and they are bullied everywhere, so they took their subordinates and clansmen to come here to occupy a place and shrink up.
But with a little more of them, their strong nature does not change, and they are stronger here, Linjia Village is not as strong as Majiabao, they are deeper into the interior of the Tamsui River, so they have no chance to see the big battle of the sea wolves.
Moreover, it was Majiabao who brought the sea wolf's people over, and the two of them were already on the needle with each other, and no one obeyed each other, so when the people from Majiabao went to tell them, the big boss of the sea wolf invited them to come to Majiabao to discuss things, and told them that this place would be under the jurisdiction of the sea wolf in the future.
The people of Linjia Village didn't listen to it at all, on the contrary, they didn't say anything to each other, and they also fired arrows on the wall of the wall to shoot at Majiabao and the sea wolf tribes who went with them, and they didn't send anyone here afterwards.
Now Linjia Village has naturally become the object of Yu Xiaotian's knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger.
When the warning gong sounded rapidly, Linjia Village suddenly became lively, because they saw that the original calm river surface, suddenly from the downstream upstream, three two-masted boats came, slowly reached the outside of their Linjia Village, and approached the river, began to drop sail and anchor and stopped.
Then the three boats lowered their sampans, and from the boat down to the shore there were more than 50 sturdy men, judging from the clothing, it was the people who came here with Majiabao a few days ago and asked them to send people to Majiabao to discuss matters.
In other words, these people must be the group of sea wolves that the Ma family said, and this time Lin Fu, nicknamed Lin Lame in Lin Family Village, was a little panicked.
He knew that he had made a big deal this time, originally he thought that Ma Ruyi was just contacting a group of little pirates, and the dog was trying to force him to bow his head, so when Ma Ruyi sent people a few days ago, he didn't pay attention to them at all.
In the past few years, between his Lin family and the Ma family, there have been many conflicts because of the grabbing of land, and the strength of the two sides is similar, but Ma Ruyi is close to the estuary and controls the trade route, which makes the Lin family very red-eyed and tries to grab this business.
Leng Buding Ma Ruyi sent someone to let him go to Majiabao and said that there was a sea wolf coming, and this area would be the territory of other sea wolves in the future, Lin Cripple didn't believe it, but was not convinced.
He didn't know much about the news on the land side in the past few years, and Yu Xiaotian's sea wolf rose late, so he hadn't heard of the name of the sea wolf at all, so he didn't care too much about it.
But today, when he saw these boats sailing against the current and arrived at his Linjia Village, he realized that things were a little troublesome.
So he hurriedly beckoned the young and strong people from the village of Linjia to climb the wall together, picked up all kinds of weapons they could find, and made a posture to resist, after all, he saw that the number of the other party was not very large, although it seemed that this group of sea wolves was more powerful, but he still thought that as long as he stayed in the village, these people might not be able to do anything with them.
What's more, Lin Cripple felt that they had come here to be far away from the emperor of the sky, and they didn't want to be controlled by anyone anymore, and now who didn't come here to say that this land was under their control, and his surname Lin had to listen to others, where was there such a cheap thing in this world?
In short, let him surrender now, he will not do it, so he arrogantly thinks that there is no need to be too afraid today, these people can't beat his Lin Family Village, so he will retreat in the face of difficulties.
So he beckoned for bows and arrows to be prepared, and he went to carry out a few of the earthen cannons from their village, and even chiseled two wooden earthen cannons out of a hardwood produced in the area.
This thing doesn't have a lot of charge, it can't hit far, and it's easy to blow up, but it's pretty powerful in this area.
Linjia Village has its own small iron workshop, compared with other villages, they have a certain advantage, they can make some weapons and farm tools and other things by themselves, and the iron hoop on this earthen cannon is made by themselves.
Therefore, they are also used to the local area, except for Majiabao, they can't do anything, and other villages also have to look at their faces and act.
Yu Xiaotian was on a boat near the river at this time, using a monocular to observe the Linjia Village on the shore, when he saw the people of the Linjia Village, and found that they had arrived, he did not immediately succumb, and actually started a fight with them.
If this had been changed more than a year ago, it would have been really difficult for him to storm this village with this little manpower.
But now that he has changed his shotgun, the quality of the firearms at hand has been comprehensively updated, so that the level of weapons and skills he currently has caught up with or even surpassed the most advanced countries of this era, and in the next step, even in the near future, he may even develop a newer rifled rifle, with his current level of equipment, if he can't even take this small village, it will be a joke.
What's more, his subordinates are now all highly trained warriors, and they are not a rabble like before, if he touches a nose here today, then he can pack up his things now and take his brothers back to Nanri Island to wash and sleep.
Originally, he wanted to give this Linjia Village a salute before the soldiers, but when he saw the arrogant appearance of the other party, he raised his cannon and opened his bow and arrows, and put on a posture of fighting to the end, Yu Xiaotian dispelled this idea.
"Tell my brothers who have landed that you will not be polite to them today! Let's bombard this village for them first, give them an hour, take this village for me, kill the rebels, and take the rest back to Majiapu! Yu Xiaotian put away the telescope in his hand, this thing is not very easy to use, because it is not sealed, and there is often moisture on the lens inside, which affects observation, so he plans to find a way to solve this problem after he goes back, at least to keep the copper tube dry.
The soldiers immediately conveyed his order, and the thirty soldiers and more than twenty sailors who went ashore immediately moved to the left side of Linjia Village, making room for the three boats on the shore to shell, and the province was accidentally injured.
Linjia Village is actually close to the bank of the Tamsui River, only one or two hundred meters away from the riverbank, which can make it convenient for them to go to the river for fishing or boating, so such a distance happens to become the target of those artillery on the sea wolf ship, and it can accurately hit this village without much effort.
As soon as the ships received the order to bombard, the sailors on the three ships immediately went into action, began to remove the guns from each ship, quickly carried the ammunition from the bilge to the deck, loaded the guns, and prepared for the shelling.
All three of these boats were bird boats or rushing boats with a small displacement, and each ship did not have much firepower, and could only be armed with three six-pounder guns at most.
If they fired together, the three boats could only operate six six-pounder guns at the same time, but even so, such firepower would be enough to deal with such a village with a wooden fence.
With Yu Xiaotian's order, the cannons on the three boats began to fire in turn, starting from the first boat, firing in turn.
I only heard the boom...... Several cannons rang out, and the three boats shook violently, and the few stewards of the immigrant villages who were forcibly invited to watch the battle on the boat followed Yu Xiaotian turned pale with fright when they saw the sea wolf firing the cannon at this time.
When have they ever seen such a battle? As soon as the cannon sounded, the two timid guys fell directly on the deck, and the bolder ones were left to tremble at this time, so they hurriedly looked for something to support, for fear that they would also be ugly on the spot.
However, the sea wolf tribe and Yu Xiaotian on the ship, but they all looked like the old gods were there, and there was no sense of nervousness, only the roars of the gunners on the ship, and they struggled to clear their chambers to reload, and then shouted the horn to push the cannon back to the side of the gun door again, and began to aim and fire again at the Lin Jiacun on the shore.
Originally, Lin Cripple was still screaming in the village, lame with his injured leg and holding a knife, cheering up the villagers in the village, beckoning them for a while, if the thief dared to attack the village, he would be beaten to death.
But suddenly they heard a strange whistling sound in the air, and then they felt the wall suddenly shake, and then they heard a burst of cannon sound coming from the river.
Looking at the wall again, a piece of debris suddenly flew up, a villager who was lying on the wall and looking out, the wall in front of his chest turned into a piece of fragments, and a cannonball hit his position impartially, instantly tearing the upper body of the villager into pieces, and the internal organs flew out of the river in all directions.
The villagers on the wall of the wall blew up the camp at once, and they were so frightened that they began to cry and shout for their mothers.
When Lin Cripple saw such a scene, he was also scared stupid on the spot, he didn't expect this group of sea wolves to be so ruthless, they came over and let go of the fight without saying a word, and they didn't give them a chance at all, and the other party's cannon was so powerful, and it actually hit from such a distance.
How could a pirate have such a good cannon? He actually hit it so accurately, and when he looked at his village again, a cannonball fell directly in the village, and a house was smashed down by a cannonball with a bang, raising a cloud of dust and smoke.
Without waiting for Lin Cripple to reflect, after a while, the second round of shells came again, this time the shells landed more accurately, basically concentrated on their wooden wall, and instantly blasted out a few holes in the wall, the wall composed of logs, could not stand the bombardment of the shells of the six-pounder cannon at this distance, and the thick log at the mouth of the bowl was directly broken when it touched the shells, and even the reinforced cross arm in the middle of the logs could not withstand such a bombardment, and a few sections were broken with a click.
After only two rounds of shelling, the wall, which looked very strong, began to look crooked, and one section had become crumbling, so that the villagers who climbed on it were frightened and screamed, and some of them turned around and jumped into the village crying, and fled for their lives into the village.
Lin Cripple was really stupid now, standing on the wall with a knife in a daze, and didn't come back to his senses for a long time, but the cannonball came from the thief boat by the river again.
This time, the shells chose to face the walled gate on the riverbank, and the two shells accurately hit the walled gate, which could not withstand the bombardment of the shells at all.
After Yu Xiaotian saw that the walled gate was broken, he waved his hand and ordered to stop the shelling, and the soldiers and sailors who were waiting on the shore got the order to attack at this time, and more than fifty strong men, led by their leader, let out a loud roar, roared together and raised their weapons, and rushed towards the walled gate of Linjia Village......
(The second shift is coming, and there will be another one in the afternoon, so stay tuned!) Thanks a lot! )