The building boat that Zhao Dagui and others were on did not run fast because of the large number of people and goods.

The three boats chasing after him surrounded from behind in the darkness of the night, and two more boats clamped the boat from the left and right.

Just as the people in the two ships stood up and wanted to make a move, a tall black figure suddenly stood up and shouted with a laugh.

"I don't know which hero is in front of you, Fuwei Dart Bureau is polite.

My Fuwei Dart Bureau has always been good friends with a few heroes on the waterway, and I have never been short of etiquette during the New Year's holidays.

After that, we will have a generous gift from the Fuwei Dart Bureau. ”

Zhang Meng shouted in his voice, and the people on the three ships who were going to do it all paused, as if they didn't expect that the Fuwei Dart Bureau had already prepared.

However, it didn't take long for bows, arrows, darts and the like to pour in, and there were even wooden ladders for water pick-up battles to this side, firmly holding the side of the ship, and then dozens of bandits tried to attack from the ladder.

Zhang Meng hid behind the side of the ship, dodged bows and arrows and darts, and then decisively ordered: "Brothers, hit me." ”

The dart board belonged to the Qing Dynasty official only allowed to use and wear weapons of the private institutions, the Fuwei dart board of the dart masters are well-trained, the weapons are much stronger than the average bandits, at this time there are darts, bows and spears and other long-range weapons thrown over, knocking down a large number of people at once.

Zhao Dagui didn't dare to light the lamp, he looked at the battle situation through the crack in the window, but secretly shook his head, Zhang Meng's voice was really redundant, and he kept hiding it, and he would shoot when the enemy boarded the ship without knowing it, and the effect of the first wave of attacks would definitely be much better than now.

Everyone has come over with three boats and 100 centaurs, do you still want to rely on the false name of a dart game to make people go back?

"He's still quite hard to chew (in order not to be sealed, you have to pay attention to civilized words), put on the fire pot. On the boat of the bandits, a big man shouted, and immediately dozens of fist-sized objects were thrown at the side of the ship, and as soon as they landed on the deck of the ship, they burst into flames.

"Put out the fire. "The boat was also well prepared, and immediately someone put out the fire with sand and water prepared in advance, but there were still some places where the fire was burned.

This ignition did not cause any major damage to the ship, but as soon as the fire was lit, the scene on the building ship was exposed to the firelight, and there was no longer the coolness of attacking the enemy in the darkness before.

The so-called fire pot can be understood as an ancient Chinese grenade, which is said to have been invented in the late Ming Dynasty during the Zheng Chenggong period, to put it bluntly, a small clay pot is filled with oil, and then blocked with hay or linen, and then thrown out after being ignited with fire, and burned wherever it goes, which is one of the commonly used weapons in naval warfare in this era.

Of course, during the Opium War, the Qing army also used this kind of fire pot to attack British armed merchant ships and warships, and everyone knows what the specific effect was.

At this time, taking advantage of the bright light of the fire on the boat, people fell into a brief panic, and the water bills rushed over one by one with a scream, and several of them came to this side of the boat to start hand-to-hand combat with the dart masters.

Zhao Dagui was in an inconspicuous room on the second floor of the building ship at this time, tremblingly opened the wooden box that the guys had moved from his room, and took out a pistol.

When he came to Huzhou this time, Zhao Dagui still carried a pistol like last time, and he made a lot of money and could squander it on the previous time, and he took two large boxes of fifty revolvers with extremely vicious ones.

The factory price of a Colt revolver in the United States is only 35 to 40 yuan (more expensive than a smoothbore gun), and the price will be doubled as soon as it arrives in China, and the 50 pistols are nearly 4,000 yuan.

As for bullets, the bullets of this era were unusually cheap, and 10,000 rounds of ammunition were only 10 yuan, which was still the price they were sold in China; by the time of the American Civil War, 1,000 rounds of ammunition would cost 10 to 15 yuan; and in the 70s and 80s, when Li Hongzhang and foreigners bought copper bullets, they had to buy a bullet for 8 cents to a dime of silver.

Considering that today's bullets are only lead bullets and black powder, and the subsequent bullets are copper-shelled copper bullets plus smokeless gunpowder, this price is barely acceptable, but Li Zhongtang was slaughtered for sure.

Zhao Dagui was worried about accidents, so he loaded all the bullets of the gun before getting on the ship, and then put on insurance, so that he could use it directly when something happened.

This is also a must, pistols in this era are very troublesome to load, a gun with six rounds of ammunition, it may take a minute, and it will be troublesome if you don't prepare in advance.

The shopkeeper, the guys, and the dart masters didn't know what was in the two wooden boxes that Zhao Dagui was carrying, and they only thought that they were valuable, but at this time they knew that there were so many contraband inside, and there was a feeling of horror and inexplicability.

Zhao Dagui had never experienced a real fight before, and he was also scared in his heart, so he trembled and aimed at the water bandits outside the building with his pistol, and had the intention of attacking the water bandits who ran to the boat, and was worried that he had only practiced pistol kung fu with the British gun master for three or four days, and that it would not be good to hurt the water bandits and hurt his own people, so he turned the muzzle of the gun and aimed at the water bandits on the two ships that were being attacked.

Zhao Dagui followed the method taught by the British, holding the gun in his right hand and swinging the wheel in his left hand, aiming at the boat next to him, firing six bullets in an instant, and immediately hid behind the wooden plank under the window, threw the useless pistol aside, and then took out another one from the wooden box.

The sudden firing of muskets from the ship did not cause any actual damage, but it also startled the bandits.

"If he has a fire gun in his dart game, isn't he afraid of being banned by the government?"

"Quick, hide quickly, don't let the fire hit. ”

The water billers were in a brief panic.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhao Dagui crawled to another window, and then went to the side of the boat with another shuttle of six bullets, and then hid as usual.

The Qing court has always strictly forbidden firearms, and because the Qing Dynasty's firearms were manufactured at a low level and were easy to explode, even the special firearms soldiers in the official army also regarded the use of firearms as a chore and never touched unless they had to.

On the one hand, the shooting level of the officers and soldiers is very low, and it also makes it rare for the people to see firearms, and even if there are, some two-person guns are raised, which is very rare in small-scale battles.

This is also the reason why the bandits and darts have been fighting for a long time, but there are only primitive weapons such as bows and arrows, darts and throwing spears, but no one uses firearms.

It is also for this reason that the people's fear and fear of firearms, and even the impact of the loud sound of firearms on morale, is far greater than their poor lethal ability.

In the thirties and forties, people in Britain and other countries tried to train Chinese and establish musket teams, but the selected Chinese were very afraid of firearms, and were unwilling to touch firearms no matter how much money or beating, and finally had to go to Manila to recruit local sailors for training, and ridiculed that the Chinese were not suitable for handling firearms.

Although this record is quite biased, it also shows that the Chinese of this era were very reverent of firearms.