The Yangwei opened fire, and the two ships on either side of the Yangwei were each hit with fifteen bombs. The distance was so close that Fukufune felt like someone had been shot with a gun to his head, and not a single shell missed. The bomb used huge kinetic energy to break through the thin hull of the Fukubune and rushed into the hull of the Fufu. The bombs that broke through the hull could not be stopped, shattering the compartments and watertight compartments under the hull, and smashing the bodies of any pirates who blocked the progress of the shells.

The general fortune ship is very practical when it is built, and the hull is very thin. The ironclad ship was so close that the kinetic energy of the bomb was extremely large, and one bomb even directly pierced the hull on both sides of the Fu ship, and fell into the sea behind the Fu ship with a pop.

But most of the bombs stayed inside the Fukubune. When the fuse burned out, the bomb exploded inside the Fukubune. Twenty-nine bombs spewed shock waves one after the other, blowing the inside of the two ships into a pulp.

Even a single shell exploding inside a ship can cause huge casualties and damage, let alone 14 or 15 bombs exploding at once?

Yang Peng saw sparks erupting from the gun emplacement of the Fu ship on the left, and those cannons were shocked by the shock wave and rushed forward, and even completely stuck on the gun emplacement. One of the bombs that hit the middle of the hull seemed to be stopped by something hard, did not penetrate deep into the interior of the cabin, and exploded against the hull. Sawdust burst out like fireworks, blasting a two-meter-diameter hole in the outside of the hull.

The ship on the right was blown up even worse, sparks were flying from its hull, and the entire internal structure had been blown down. The powder keg on the second deck of the ship was also ignited by the bomb, and an even more violent explosion was released, knocking off the first deck and hull. The hull of the ship had been completely blown up by the explosion of the powder keg, and a cannon was moved by the impact, rushed out of the huge breach in the hull, flew a few meters away and fell into the sea, splashing huge waves.

The pirates on the two fortune ships don't know how many were killed. There are often one or two hundred pirates on this lucky ship, and if they are bombed like this, it is said that one-third of them will die. The ship in front of it, which had been broken open by the Yangwei, was slowly sinking, and the pirates on board were desperately jumping into the sea. Coupled with the sailors who jumped into the sea on the two lucky boats on the left and right, the sea was full of pirates and broken wooden planks that had lost their ships, and it was a mess.

The Yangwei stepped back for a moment, shook off the sinking fortune ship, and turned slightly to chase after the other fortune ships. Not far away, tongues of fire suddenly erupted from the side of a Fufune ship, and six shells were fired at the Yangwei. Two shells hit the target, hitting the armor of the ironclad with a clang. However, a single lucky ship poses no threat to the ironclad ship.

Originally, in order to facilitate the shooting with Yang Peng's fleet, the more than 100 Fu ships of the Liu family were discharged in a horizontal formation. Therefore, after Li Zhi's ironclad ships rushed into the queue of Fu ships, more than a hundred Fu ships were completely stopped by the Liu family's own ships. Except for one or two lucky ships near the ironclad ship, the other lucky ships couldn't see the ironclad ship, and they couldn't shoot at all.

Each time, the ironclad ship only had to face one or two lucky ships. Facing the ironclad ship with the combat power of one or two lucky ships is completely crushed. The Yangwei fired at full speed, and without hesitation, it rushed towards the ship that fired the gun, and hit the ship headfirst in the belly. The hull of the Fubune was hit hard by the ironclad ship, and it fell to the right. The hull was out of balance, the cannons and supplies inside the hull were rolling everywhere, and I don't know how many pirates had been crushed to death.

Are the planks on a ship's hull a match for steel? Under the high-speed collision of the Fukubune, the impact angle smashed the thin planks into a mess. Sawdust flew in the loud crash, and the hull on the port side of the ship was shattered. The sea water poured in, and the fortune boat sank little by little.

The Yangwei seemed to be a brute bull, rushing forward more than 50 meters against this lucky ship before reversing the propeller and retreating, letting go of the "dying" lucky boat. The Fuship, which had fallen to the right, straightened its hull after the Yangwei left, but leaned to the port side again under the gravity of the sea. Eventually, the ship overturned to the left, overturned on the surface of the sea, and gradually sank to the bottom of the sea.

The surviving pirates on board jumped off the ship and swam desperately into the distance, but many of them were swept into the depths of the sea by the whirlpool of the shipwreck and lost their lives. Ten ironclad ships were like ten beasts, rampage in the queue of more than a hundred lucky ships. In front of the war machine that far surpassed this era, the Liu family's fortune ship was as fragile as papier-mâché. It only took about ten minutes, and the Fu ships of the Liu family's fleet lost more than forty ships.

The Liu family's fleet was completely defeated. The lucky ships have lost the courage to fight each other, how can this ironclad ship be matched by manpower? More than 20,000 pirates were loaded on more than 100 lucky ships, which were originally prepared for hand-to-hand combat, but at this time, they were completely useless. As soon as the ship is hit by the ironclad ship, it will be sunk, how to fight this broadside battle? If the fight continues, I am afraid that all the more than 20,000 water thieves will be buried in the belly of the fish.

The ships abandoned the queue and fled west, south, and north, scattering in all directions. The Liu family's fleet has given up all resistance and can no longer be called a fleet. Even the Dafu ship, the flagship of the Liu family's fleet, did not dare to stay on the battlefield at all, and fled to the west without hesitation, hoping to escape back to the old nest in Jinjiang.

The other nine ironclad ships were like nine ferocious beasts, chasing and killing the fleeing Liu fleet on the undulating sea. With a wave of his hand, Yang Wei ignored the nearby fortune ship and rushed directly towards the largest fortune ship. That ship had more than thirty heavy guns and was clearly Liu's flagship.

When the sailors on the Daifuku ship saw the ironclad ship chasing after them, they used their sails and oars together and fled westward with all their might. The Yangwei chased after it, and after chasing for a quarter of an hour, it finally forced it to three hundred meters away from the Daifuku ship.

The Yangwei made a rudder motion and aimed its port side at Daifuku a few hundred meters away. The cannon was pulled violently, and fifteen shells shot straight out of the muzzle and flew towards the Daifuku ship not far away.

The stern of the Daifuku ship was shot, and four shells were fired into the interior of the Fukuku, and they exploded with a bang. Only one shelling made the Daifuku ship lose its fighting spirit. The pirates of the Liu family lowered the hard sail and the big flag of Liu, and hung up the white flag. Yang Peng was stunned when he saw that the Dafu ship surrendered so quickly, and secretly said Could it be that Liu Xianglong was not on this ship?

Soon, the soldiers who boarded the ship to search tied up all the pirates on the Daifuku ship and returned to the Yangwei. "Lord Wang, Liu Xianglong and his brother are not on this boat, they know that this big fortune ship is too dazzling, so they fled to other small blessing ships and escaped."

Yang Peng snorted coldly. "If you can escape, the monk can't escape the temple, let's go to Fujian to copy the Liu family's lair!" On April 28, in Anping Town, Jinjiang, Fujian, 10,000 soldiers of the Tiger Division surrounded Liu Xianglong's private city.

This is a small city with bricks on the city wall, the city wall is four zhang high, 300 steps long and more than 200 steps wide, there are two city gates in the north and south. The pirates who were captured alive by Yang Peng said that this city was called Dinghai City. There are Liu Xianglong's luxurious private mansions built in the city wall, and there are some mansions of the Liu family's military generals, in short, it is the base camp of the Liu family.

After Liu Xianglong escaped from the sea, he took refuge in the city, hoping to hold on to the strong walls for some time. The Liu family's sailors have been defeated by Yang Peng, but the Liu family is strong in the southeast and still has 20,000 foot soldiers. The news of the Liu family was more spiritual, and he informed the Tiger Master that he was powerful, and he did not go out of the city to fight with the Tiger Master. 20,000 people were stubbornly guarding the thick city wall, only hoping to rely on the city wall to keep the prosperity and wealth of the Liu family.

It should be said that Liu Xianglong's strategy has a certain truth. There were more than sixty cannons on the walls of the Liu family, many of which were more than a dozen pounds of heavy artillery. If the opponent was not a tiger division, there was basically no soldier or horse who could capture this private city with sixty cannons. But when it comes to Yang Peng's Tiger Master, such a defensive force is not enough.

Yang Peng unloaded three hundred heavy cannons from the ship and dragged the cannons to the bottom of the city wall of Dinghai City. In order to tow these cannons, Yang Peng requisitioned the people's mules and horses everywhere after getting off the boat. Of course, although Yang Peng was requisitioned, he still gave silver to the people.

After five busy days, it was not until the 28th that Yang Peng arranged the cannon outside the southern wall of Dinghai City. Little by little, the gunners pushed the gun carriage forward, marched to within five miles of the city wall, and began to bombard the batteries on the city wall.

The cannon was not fired at a distance of five miles. But it doesn't matter, even if the cannonball doesn't hit the fort and shoots into the city wall, it will be the Liu family who is injured. Yang Peng was not in a hurry at all, let the cannon bomb slowly, stop and cool down slowly when the barrel was hot, and fight a few more rounds when the barrel was cooled.

Three hundred cannons bombarded the Liu family's "Dinghai City" for two days, firing more than 10,000 bombs on and inside the city wall. The private soldiers of the Liu family were blown up, and their morale gradually collapsed.

The soldiers on the city walls also returned fire with artillery. But the light artillery could not reach it, and the heavy artillery had no lethality if it was fired five miles away. After the solid bullet is thrown high, the downward kinetic energy is too large, and it will not roll forward at high speed like when it is fired directly, and it will no longer move when it is smashed into the dirt. Unless it just happens to hit someone, it's a shot for nothing.

Yang Peng's bomb is different, it will explode when it is thrown five miles away. The forts on the city walls are relatively strong, and it is difficult to knock through the forts when a bomb is fired, and it takes three or four bombs to knock them apart. Yang Peng bombed for two days, and only demolished more than 20 forts.

But the rest of the walls were not so well defended, and the pheasants were smashed by bombs, and the bombs exploded in pieces. Even more vulnerable are the buildings and people in Dinghai City. The bomb flew over the city wall and bombarded indiscriminately, blowing up Dinghai City, which had been run by the Zheng family for more than ten years, into a mess.

Yang Peng is not in a hurry, the cost of a bomb is only seven dollars of silver. Even if the 30,000 bombs on more than 50 ships were used up, it would only be more than 10,000 taels of silver. When the bombs ran out, they sent a ship to Hsinchu to bring new ones. Compared to the huge gains from taking down Liu Xianglong's lair, the consumption of these bombs is nothing.

Bombs exploded one after another on and within the walls, and the projectiles fired were like deaths harvesting nearby lives. The entire Dinghai City was blown up by Yang Peng into a Shura hell.

Although the people in Dinghai City quickly understood that hiding on the ground could reduce the casualties caused by the bombs. But even so, more than 10,000 bombs killed thousands of people in the city.

And Yang Peng's casualties are basically negligible. It was a one-sided massacre. Obviously, if the fight continues like this, sooner or later, all the people in Dinghai City will be blown up by Yang Peng. Yang Peng didn't need to attack the city, he only needed to scatter shells five miles away. It's a completely asymmetrical war.

In the early morning of the third day, Yang Peng's cannon began to tilt the cannonballs towards Dinghai City again, and the private soldiers of the Liu family on the city wall collapsed. Yang Peng wanted Liu Xianglong's life, why did they stupidly lie on the city wall and be blown to death?

Seeing the robes being killed one by one, and seeing the corpses of the soldiers being carried down the city wall one by one, these soldiers could no longer stand this kind of massacre. Several private soldiers of the Liu family rushed down the city wall despite the intimidation of the Liu family officers, and fled into the city regardless of it. The first soldiers to flee led the others, and the thousands of soldiers on the southern wall were finally all routed.

The routs rushed into the city with a clamor and hid in the buildings inside the city. The collapse of the southern wall soon brought with it the soldiers of several other walls. When Yang Peng's cannon hit the third round, the soldiers of the entire Dinghai City had all collapsed. The soldiers of the Liu family threw away their armor and crowded and shoved and hid in the city, no longer having the courage to resist Yang Peng.

Yang Peng blasted open the south gate with cannons, erected a pontoon bridge over the moat, and sent a thousand soldiers into the city to capture Liu Xianglong. After being identified by the surrendered pirates, Liu Xianglong was soon captured in his mansion in the city. The soldiers tied up this Fujian general and put him in Yang Peng's military tent.

At this time, Liu Xianglong's face was pale and trembling, where was the style that threatened Yang Peng at the beginning? His eyes were bloodshot, and he had apparently not slept well since escaping from the Battle of North Harbor.

When Liu Xianglong saw Yang Peng, he closed his eyes helplessly. However, this pirate leader, who is accustomed to dominating the sea, is still a little arrogant, and when he saw Yang Peng, he actually stood up and did not kneel. Yang Peng saw that Liu Xianglong was stubborn, smiled and said, "General Liu is really not afraid of death?" Liu Xianglong's body trembled, but his neck stiffened, and he said loudly: "Liu Xianglong has been on the sea for 20 years, and this life has long been out of his mind. Yang Peng, don't be arrogant, if you don't have that ironclad ship, where is my Liu Xianglong's opponent? ”

Yang Peng smiled and said, "Okay, tough enough, it's really a tough pirate!" I, Yang Peng, will give you a happy one, and I will kill you in this Dinghai City! Liu Xianglong's body shook violently when he heard this, and he closed his eyes and said nothing. Yang Peng smiled, his eyes lit up and asked, "Liu Xianglong, how much silver is there in this Dinghai City?" If you tell me honestly, I will give your wives and concubines a way to live, and give them 100 taels each to do a small business to make ends meet! ”

When Liu Xianglong heard Yang Peng say that he would not kill his children, his righteous and awe-inspiring face was relieved. Yang Peng said again: "General, if you don't tell the location of the silver and my soldiers find out the silver, I will send someone to hunt down and kill your children." ”

Hearing this, Liu Xianglong sighed and said slowly: "I have been hoarding silver in Dinghai City for more than ten years, and I have saved seven million taels of silver, all of which are in the three cellars in the mansion. The prince blew up the rockery in my house, and naturally he saw the passage to the cellar. ”

Yang Peng searched the city in Dinghai City for five days, dug three feet into the ground, and finally counted all the property of the Liu family. After robbing Liu Xianglong's property, Yang Peng didn't do anything to Liu Xianglong. Yang Peng led the fleet back to Hsinchu and rested in Hsinchu City for two days.

At this time, it is the beginning of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, it is already the height of summer, and the day in Taiwan is very hot. Yang Peng hid in the "Yanwang Mansion" built by Zheng Hui during the day to rest, and read a few ancient books at random. In the evening, Yang Peng took his guards out for a walk.

The sea breeze in Hsinchu is strong at night, blowing away the heat on land. Zheng Hui knew that Yang Peng was going out, so he hurriedly rushed over from the general's mansion to accompany Yang Peng to inspect.

Yang Peng inspected the pig and sheep factories in Hsinchu, and proposed to visit the countryside. Zheng Hui is a skilled manager, and the water conservancy facilities in Hsinchu are very well built. In addition to the irrigation of dragon tail carts, dams are also built in the countryside. After the dam raised the water level, Zheng Hui built a canal from the reservoir formed behind the dam to irrigate the land away from the riverbank.

Yang Peng rode a horse in the countryside, and as far as the eye could see, there were patches of rice fields everywhere, green in the moonlight. At this time, the weather is hot, and the farmers hide from the scorching sun during the day and do not come out to work. At night, many farmers are hoeing in the fields, and there is a busy scene everywhere.

Yang Peng believed in the reins of the horse, and walked all the way east with his personal guards, and walked in front of a large crop with low stems and leaves. The plant sprouted leaves from the ridges, each half the size of a palm. That area, a radius of several miles, was planted with this kind of crop.

Yang Peng looked at it carefully and asked curiously, "Zheng Hui, is this a sweet potato?" Zheng Hui replied: "The prince is right, this is a sweet potato." The people of Hsinchu are relatively wealthy and want to eat meat. Pig farms consume a lot of pig food every day, and we encourage farmers to grow sweet potatoes in places that are not suitable for growing rice, and we have also planted hundreds of thousands of acres of sweet potatoes. ”

Yang Peng nodded. Sweet potatoes are a crop that came from the New World. Different from corn and potato, sweet potato immediately adapted to the soil of China after being introduced to China, and obtained a higher yield per mu. In Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, where there are many people, sweet potatoes even became the main food crop in the late Ming Dynasty, feeding many local people.

Taiwan's soil is similar to Fujian's, mostly red soil, which is also suitable for sweet potato production. But when it came to the rich Jiangnan area, sweet potatoes were given a cold reception. After using a large amount of sweet potatoes, it will cause a series of discomforts such as bloating, which is not suitable as a staple food, and the price of sweet potatoes is very low. The people in Jiangnan planted rice and harvested well, but they were reluctant to plant sweet potatoes.

Further north, sweet potato production declined, and it was not as popular as it was in Fujian. However, sweet potatoes are inferior compared to rice and flour, and if they are in a famine, sweet potatoes can save lives. Yang Peng introduced sweet potatoes in Fujian a few years ago as a rotational plant for planting after the winter wheat harvest. Most of the harvested sweet potatoes are purchased by pig farms, which also increases farmers' incomes to a certain extent. Therefore, Yang Peng is very familiar with this crop.

Yang Peng looked at those sweet potatoes, thoughtfully, and asked, "Zheng Hui, how many catties of sweet potatoes are produced in Taiwan a year?" Zheng Hui replied: "Lord Wang, Taiwan has plenty of sunshine and abundant rain, if it is properly managed, this mu of spring potatoes can produce 2,500 catties, and summer potatoes can produce 1,500 catties, a total of more than 4,000 catties a year per mu." ”

"If sweet potatoes are used as a staple food, this acre of sweet potato field can feed four adults, which is very impressive. It's just that eating too many sweet potatoes will make your stomach uncomfortable, and as long as there is rice to eat these years, no one wants to eat potatoes. ”

"Good stuff! Let the kitchen make sweet potato porridge for me to drink tomorrow morning! Yang Peng sighed, said no more, turned the horse's head and rode elsewhere. In the fifth month of the lunar calendar, it was already typhoon season, and fifty-three steamers were in a hurry to return to Tianjing New Town to sell goods to Japan and return to Tianjing New Town. Yang Peng was loaded with the silver he had stolen from the Liu family and followed the fleet back to Tianjing New Town.

Returning to the port of Tianjing New Town, the first thing Yang Peng did was to give bonuses to the sailors, gunners and soldiers who participated in the battle. The fleet consisted of more than 2,000 sailors, nearly 6,000 gunners and 10,000 soldiers of the Tiger Division, each of whom was given a reward of fifteen taels of silver. Yang Peng rewarded nearly 300,000 taels of silver at once, which made the participants who returned triumphantly happy.

The casualties in this battle were minimal, with only a few dozen soldiers wounded. For the nearly 20,000 combatants, such a casualty ratio is very small and can be said to be risk-free. The artillerymen, soldiers and sailors took the silver and poured into the cities of Cangzhou and Tianjing to spend, filling the restaurants and brothels of Cangzhou.

After this war, Yang Peng became the hegemon of the East Asian seas. The soldiers have made great achievements and are worthy of the reward of fifteen taels of silver. After returning to the palace, Yang Peng rested for a day and went to visit the soldiers who were wounded in this battle. Huan Lide, one of the most casualties in the battle, was incapacitated by two broken right legs from a shell from Liu's boat. Although Huan Lide's life was saved after the amputation by the medical team, Huan Lide was unable to work.

According to Yang Peng's rules, a wounded person like Huan Lide can get a disability allowance of 25 yuan per month, and he can also get a second-class warrior medal, and he has been treated preferentially everywhere in Cangzhou since then. It can be said that although Huan Lide has been disabled since then, his good life will not be lost because of his disability, and he can still live a decent life with subsidies and medals.

Yang Peng took Han Jinxin and Mi Weiwei to Sanheng Street in Tianjing New Town and walked towards Huan Lide's house. Seeing that the prince came to visit the wounded, the people of Sanheng Street were very excited, and they all crowded onto the road to see Yang Peng. A few years ago, when Yang Peng lived in Tianjing New Town, citizens could often see Yang Peng, the "big boss". However, after Yang Peng entered Yanjing City in recent years, the people couldn't see Yang Peng anymore. At this time, there was an opportunity, and the citizens gathered around to watch the excitement.

Yang Peng saw that the citizens missed him, and nodded to the citizens on the horse. Unexpectedly, this point ignited the atmosphere of a street, and the happy people applauded loudly! Yang Peng smiled, jumped off the horse and walked into Huan Lide's villa. Huan Lide rents an entire villa. The daughter-in-law of the Huan family dragged a little daughter to wait at the door, and as soon as she saw Yang Peng, she knelt down and kowtowed, and was quickly helped up by Yang Peng. Yang Peng walked into the room, walked to Huan Lide's bed, and said with a smile: "Huan Lide, is the wound still painful?" ”

Huan Lide nodded and said: "Back to the prince, it still hurts, but it's fortunate that my life is saved." Yang Peng nodded, took a silver second-class warrior medal from the guard behind him, put it on Huan Lide's chest, and said with a smile: "Okay, Huan Lide, although you will have no legs in the future, you will also be the hero of my Tianjing New City." Whether it's a court proceeding or a daily routine, the whole Tianjing New Town will take care of you. ”

Huan Lide nodded excitedly and said loudly, "Thank you, Lord Wang." Yang Peng nodded, looked at the furnishings of the Huan family, and wanted to see what the Huan family still lacked. He suddenly smelled a strong odor and couldn't help asking, "Why is the room so stinky?" Huan Lide's daughter-in-law blushed and said, "The door of the toilet may have been blown open by the wind, I'll close it!" ”

Yang Peng was stunned, and secretly said that he had designed this toilet in a small villa, which also had advantages and disadvantages. Convenience is convenient, but the smell is also difficult to control. Yang Peng's original latrine led directly to the septic tank underground, and the smell was inevitable.

The originally serious scene of the award was disturbed by the smell of the latrine, which made people a little embarrassed. Yang Peng nodded and said: "The living standards of the people in Tianjing New City can't be defeated by the smell of this toilet!" Yang Peng patted Huan Lide's shoulder with a smile, and said with a smile: "Huan Lide, this prince will go back to make a flush toilet, and make the first equipment for your home, so as to ensure that your home will never smell in the future." ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.