Chapter 192: Saving the Dead and Helping the Wounded General Cannon
Fuzhou City, the fire is raging.
The flames soared into the sky, as if they were about to burn the entire city of Fuzhou to ashes.
From a distance, the huge city of Fuzhou is like a furnace, with flames and thick smoke.
A thick black smoke, from the sky above Fuzhou City, winds up towards the sky, and cannot be dissipated for a long time.
Even hundreds of miles away from Fuzhou City, you can see the thick black smoke, you can imagine how fierce the fire in Fuzhou City should be.
Xu Da waited in the waters of Fuzhou for a long time, and finally saw the fire in Fuzhou City, and hurriedly ordered the fleet to sail to the port of Fuzhou City at full speed.
Before arriving at the port, several pirate ships were seen patrolling the harbor.
Without saying a word, Xu Da directly asked the fleet to open fire and send all these pirate ships to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish.
"Boom, boom!"
The violent explosion sounded in the harbor, startling a large number of seagulls, and even more so waking up all the pirates who were still on guard at the harbor.
Chen Zuxiao was going to check on the situation in Fuzhou City, but after hearing the explosion, he hurriedly stopped.
His subordinates soon came to report that there were dozens of warships that had forcibly broken into the port, and that the comers were not good.
Chen Zuxiao didn't dare to be careless, and directly made people beat the drums of war, gathered his subordinates, and planned to block the future people at the port.
No matter what happened in Fuzhou City, Chen Zuyi had an army of 100,000 in his hands.
The Ming army is already at the end of its strong crossbow, and even if it is tossed again, it will not be able to turn over the waves.
What Chen Zuxiao could do was to follow Chen Zuyi's order and honestly stop the people in the port in the future, so as not to let these people disturb the war in the rear to attack Fuzhou City.
Chen Zuxiao soon gathered a large number of pirates, and these pirates were the headquarters of the Chen brothers.
After all, what Chen Zuxiao came here to do, he can't let others know.
If you let other pirates know that the Pinghu camp has been lost, I am afraid that the morale of the army will fluctuate.
These people brought by Chen Zuxiao can also be regarded as the elite of the Chen family, all of them are fierce and abnormal, and they are not afraid of death in battle, and they have laid a huge foundation for the Chen family.
The more and more people around him gathered, Chen Zuxiao finally had some confidence in his heart.
He estimated that the fleet in front of him was the force that broke through the Pinghu camp.
Although he didn't know where these people came from, Chen Zuxiao was confident that he would rely on the 10,000 men and horses around him to stop the fleet in front of him in the port and prevent them from moving forward half a step.
The group of people under Chen Zuxiao are all big shoulders and round waists, with strong figures, and their faces are full of fierce energy, and they look like outlaws who often lick blood at the tip of the knife.
These people have at least five or more human lives in their hands, and they are bloodthirsty and bloodthirsty, so they are qualified to enter the Chen family's descendant troops.
After all, as long as you enter the Chen family's army, it will be because of the improvement of status and treatment.
These people are fierce and abnormal, and they are not at the same level as those rabble in the Pinghu camp.
The pirates around Chen Zuxiao gathered more and more, and all of them were fierce-eyed, waiting for the fleet to be quietly moored at the port.
It seems that if the people on the ship dare to come down, they will tear all these people to pieces, but so far, the people on the ship have not moved, as if they are afraid of these pirates on the shore.
Xu Da has indeed not given the order to launch an attack, the purpose is actually very simple, to lure the snake out of the hole, gather and annihilate it.
These pirates on the shore, Xu Da could see at a glance that these people were all outlaws with blood on their hands.
These people are either years of bandits, or they are cruel and inhumane, Xu Da's attitude towards these people is very simple, that is, direct humane destruction.
In a physical way, make these people disappear from this world.
The reason why he hasn't ordered an attack yet is so that the pirate leader can gather all the pirates around him and kill them once and for all.
By the time Xu Da felt that it was about the same, the crowd on the other side was no longer increasing, and Xu Da lightly conveyed his wishes:
"Open fire, none of these bandits on the shore will be left!"
"Boom, boom!"
"Boom, boom!"
There was thunder on the ground, as if a divine thunder above the nine heavens had descended into the world, and a cannon sound resounded through the sky in the small port of Fuzhou City.
Forty battleships were lined up, all with their sides facing the shore.
With an average of a hundred guns per ship, four thousand guns, at the same time roared towards the shore.
The cannonballs fired formed fire snakes in mid-air, intertwined with each other, like a dense fire net, enveloping more than 10,000 pirates on the shore, looking beautiful and bewitching.
But bewitching beauty is poisonous after all, and the more beautiful something is, the more lethal it is.
In just a moment, the sound of shells exploding began to explode over there.
Exploding fireworks burst on the shore like fireworks.
Blooming in the midst of slaughter, like a flower in the dawn.
This is the first time that the God of War has been used on such a large scale on the battlefield, and the effect is extremely shocking, so that all those who have experienced this battle are shocked.
I saw that 10,000 pirates neither dodged nor fell to the ground at the moment when the cannon sounded, but just looked coldly at the tongue of fire in mid-air.
Then, explosions, impacts, debris, and air waves came in an instant.
Four thousand flowering shells, the lethality caused by the dense crowd, was revealed in only a moment.
The pirates who were still standing in place were unruly, but after the baptism of artillery, they could no longer find anyone who could still stand.
It's very difficult to even find a complete human form.
Either these people were hit by artillery fire and killed instantly.
Either the iron pieces that were ejected by the explosion cut their bodies, and only a few lucky ones were just blown up by the air waves and broke their arms or necks.
But in any case, the first salvo of four thousand guns, the effect was shocking.
Whether it was the pirates, the navy, or even Xu Da himself, they didn't expect that the power of this kind of artillery that Li Jin had concocted would be so terrifying.
Xu Da looked at the pirate position cleared by artillery, and was a little distracted.
Originally, he thought that he needed another salvo to be able to wipe out all the pirates.
But I didn't expect that just once, the effect was so immediate.
Xu Da turned his head and looked at Li Jin, only to find that a light smile hung on the corner of Li Jin's mouth, as if he had known this result for a long time.
Xu Da couldn't help but stand on end, and asked Li Jin:
"Master Li, how did you come up with the idea of creating this kind of thing?"
"Do you know what it means to make this kind of thing?"
"Did Wei Guogong mean artillery?"
Li Jin was stunned when he heard this, but then he thought of the famous sentence of a doctor in later generations.
"I saw soldiers fighting each other with swords, and the casualties were too heavy, and I couldn't bear it in my heart, after all, I often have compassion for others."
"That's why I wanted to create a weapon that would help soldiers reduce casualties."
"It was clear that this weapon was the ideal weapon, and it would greatly reduce the casualties of the soldiers."
"The so-called life-saving and wounded Gatling, the magic hand rejuvenated Maxim, and artillery came into being."
Xu Da looked at Li Jin with wide eyes, compassionate?
Thinking of the pirates who were torn apart by the shells in the cannonballs, if this is also considered mercy, then there are probably no bad people in the world.
Li Jin did not dwell on this issue, and opened his mouth to suggest:
"Wei Guogong, let's land quickly."
"Although Fuzhou City has burned down, we don't know how many pirate remnants have escaped."
"Let's rush to Fuzhou City as soon as possible, so as not to kill Deng Guogong by pirates."
Xu Da didn't bother anymore, and directly asked the people in the fleet to follow him off the ship.
Only less than 2,000 people were left on the ship, and Xu Da personally commanded 15,000 people to march towards Fuzhou City.
As long as Chen Zuyi is annihilated this time, then the trip south will be considered a complete success.
The southeast coastal areas will also be cleared by themselves, even if there are still some remnants of the Japanese along the coast of Zhejiang.
However, those small fish and shrimp are no longer in Xu Da's eyes.
As long as Chen Zuyi dies, the southern pirates and pirates will be leaderless, and I am afraid that these pirates and pirates will fight again.
The coastal areas of Daming will return to calm again, and they can even use this time to open the sea.
After all, the original ban on the sea was because of this Chen Zuyi, as well as these more and more rampant widows along the coast.
Now Xu Da led the navy, first beheaded nearly 20,000 pirates, and then killed 100,000 pirates, and it is impossible for anyone to be his opponent in the sea area of the Ming Dynasty.
Next, after killing Chen Zuyi, the next step is Wadao.
The source of the Japanese invaders, after the Ming Dynasty was invaded by the Japanese for the first time, Zhu Yuanzhang once sent people to the Japanese island to reprimand, so that the emperor of the Japanese island could govern the Japanese invaders.
Don't let these people, especially the ronins on Wa Island, come to harass Daming again.
But at that time, the emperor was already an empty shell, and he was no longer able to control the court, let alone the wandering ronin.
In the end, the matter of the Japanese can only be stopped.
Now that the Ming Dynasty has basically solved the problem of the Japanese Invaders, the Ming Dynasty must not let go of the Japanese people on the Japanese Island.
Especially on Wa Island, there are so many gold and silver, and Daming can't miss it.
The Japanese people guarded the treasure mountain without knowing that so many gold and silver mountains were a gift from God to the Ming Dynasty.
There is a way that if God gives Buddha, he will be blamed; When it doesn't work, it suffers.
Regarding this kind of fat meat sent to his mouth, Xu Da believes that Daming has no reason to refuse.
Besides, he has already invested in the East India Chamber of Commerce, as long as he grabs the gold and silver mountains of Wajima, he will also have his own share.
For the sake of himself and his future generations, Xu Da felt that Wadao could not be kept, and this kind of place has belonged to China since ancient times.
The Ming Dynasty is orthodox in China, and Wadao should also return to the embrace of the motherland.
Xu Da thinks that it is incumbent on him to recover his homeland, and this kind of thing should not be handed over to the next generation to do, and he will take back the widows.
Just when Xu Da was still thinking about his next goal, Fuzhou City was already close at hand.