Chapter 103
Li Fang was only a small chief executive in the original Dengzhou Navy. It was easy to enter Dengzhou City, but if he wanted to go to sea, he needed the approval of his superior officer. Since becoming the Ning Navy Navy, Li Fang has become more free, especially when the Navy needs to transport supplies and personnel to southern Liaoning.
The squadron led by Li Fang includes a total of twelve warships and three flat-bottomed transport ships. It goes to Jinzhou Guard every five days. This work has become a daily routine. Peng will drive a small fishing boat and stop on the route that Li Fang passes. When the Ning Navy transport fleet led by Li Fang passes by, Peng will shout at the fleet led by Li Fang: "Military!" Master, do you want the abalone you just caught?"
Whenever this happens, Li Fang will smile and say: "It's okay if I don't mention abalone. When I mention abalone, I always get a little greedy and want to eat abalone!"
"The abalone has just been put into the pot, sir, please wait!"
When Li Fang asked the big boat to tow the fishing boat, Li Fang got on the fishing boat to have a private meeting with Peng.
On the one hand, Li Fang is experiencing a long drought and good rains, while Peng's house is on fire and it is out of control.
Li Fang basically met Peng once and made an appointment to meet next time.
Peng: "Master Jun, do you want the abalone we just brought?"
Li Fang: "Yes."
A certain soldier also said: "I want to eat abalone too!"
Li Fang raised his eyebrows: "I think you want to eat shit!"
However, this time, Peng did not show up at the agreed time. Li Fang felt a little uneasy, so he drove a wheeled boat to the island where Peng lived.
This is an uninhabited island. It covers a small area, only five or six hundred acres. There are four hundred and five such islands along the coast of Dengzhou. When Li Fang came to this island , and found that Peng was not here, and the small house she lived in looked like it had not been inhabited for a long time.
Li Fang felt vaguely strange.
At this time, one of Li Fang's confidants who followed Li Fang to the island was also Li Fang's family name Li Hu. Li Hu was different from Li Fang. When Nurhachi massacred the Liao people, Li Fang immediately ran to the Dongjiang Army. , and Li Hu took his blind mother and fled into the deep mountains and forests, relying on hunting to make a living.
He actually lived in the mountains of Daheishan for six years. It was not until Li Hu's mother died of illness that Li Hu went to Liaonan and returned to the island with the Dongjiang Army.
According to the traces left at the scene, Li Hu found that there had been other outsiders on the island, numbering between a dozen or twenty, and there had been fights. He found some messy footprints on the ground outside the house, and some Traces of purple sauce frozen in ice.
Li Fang's face became very ugly. This purple stain was just a piece of dried blood.
Obviously, something happened to Peng.
Li Fang saw a bead flower that was smashed into the mud on the ground. It was a gift from Li Fang to Peng. Even though the bead flower was worthless, it cost Li Fang a full month and a half of his military salary.
Li Fang was confused when he picked up this pearl flower. Fortunately, he was not too stupid. The Peng family lived here. Li Fang felt that Meng Xianhan must know it. If he didn't even know this, he would support it. With more than two thousand pirates under his command, his head might be separated from his body one day.
Just as Li Fang guessed, Meng Xianhan knew that Peng was living here from the beginning. Although Meng Xianhan doted on his concubines and destroyed his wife, he did not eradicate the root cause, because Meng Xianhan's original intention was to force Peng to bow to him. As long as Peng surrendered, Meng Xianhan was not short of Peng's food.
But the problem is that Peng's temper is like a donkey's. She will accept the soft rather than the hard. The harder she gets, the more she resists. Meng Xianhan did not make Peng give in, but made Peng want to kill Meng Xianhan even more.
Until he met Li Fang, Meng Xianhan did not send anyone to monitor Peng until someone saw Peng getting off Li Fang's boat and dating Li Fang every now and then.
Now Meng Xianhan couldn't bear it any longer. Although he had abandoned Peng first, even if he didn't want Peng, she was still his stepmother in name, and Peng couldn't cuckold him.
Therefore, Meng Xianhan sent people to arrest Peng and locked him up in the South Island dungeon. Then he sent people to monitor the small island. As long as Li Fang arrived, he would be arrested together.
Just when Li Fang was thinking about it, killing cries broke out, and more than 20 pirates rushed toward Li Fang with strange screams...
But there is one thing that Meng Xianhan failed to calculate, that is, Li Fang is not an ordinary pretty boy. Although Li Fang also looks like a pretty boy, this pretty boy is a bit like Gao Jie, who cuckolded Li Zicheng.
Gao Jie was originally a fellow villager of Li Zicheng, and he followed Li Zicheng in the uprising. During the uprising, Li Zicheng looted prefectures and counties and captured a beautiful woman named Xing. Li Zicheng married her and became his concubine. This Xing family was smart and brave. After becoming Li Zicheng's concubine, she continued to fight with the army and helped Li Zicheng manage the distribution of military supplies.
However, Li Zicheng was busy with big things, but ignored the Xing family. Xing family developed a liking for Li Zicheng's subordinate Gao Jie over and over again. The two fell in love with each other for a long time, and soon did something that was sorry for Li Zicheng. Gao Jie and Xing, who had an affair, were always afraid of being discovered by Li Zicheng, so they simply chose to elope.
By the way, Li Zicheng was not cheated once, he was cheated twice in his life. Li Zicheng was born in Shuangquanbao, Mizhi County, Yan'an Prefecture, Shaanxi Province. His father's name was Li Shouzhong. Although he was a farmer, he was relatively wealthy, at least he was considered a rich farmer. Li Shouzhong gave birth to two sons, the eldest son Li Hongming, and the second son Li Hongji, who was Li Zicheng.
When Li Zicheng turned eighteen, Li Shouzhong made great efforts to find a wife for his son and grandson. His grandson Li Guo married Deng, but Li Zicheng was half a year late because he "wanted to choose a beautiful woman." In layman's terms, he wanted to marry a beautiful wife.
Half a year later, he actually found a beautiful wife named Han Jin'er. However, this Han Jin'er is not a fuel-efficient lamp. She is a beauty, but she is lustful by nature. Moreover, she was married before marrying Li Zicheng. First, she married an old squire from Xi'an as a concubine, and then she was divorced and married again. She was given as a concubine to a prison student in Yan'an and was abandoned before marrying Li Zicheng.
Han Jin'er had an affair with a gangster named Gai Hu'er in the village. Li Zicheng caught Han Jin'er and Gai Hu'er in bed. Li Zicheng, who was furious, raised his knife and wanted to kill Gai Hu'er, but Gai Hu'er escaped. So, Li Zicheng was furious and killed the adulteress Han Jin'er.
Gao Jie is also a fierce man who can fight one against a hundred, and Li Fang, a pretty boy, is also very skilled. With the blessing of the magic weapon sent by Cheng Shijie, he and Li Hu, each with a dog-leg knife, actually turned defeat into victory.
In fact, the pirates' fighting will was not strong. When Li Fang chopped down the sixth man with a dog-leg knife, the pirates surrendered.
Only then did Li Fang learn the truth of the matter from the mouths of these pirates. He also knew that Peng was not dead, but had suffered a lot. He was beaten dozens of times by Meng Xianhan, and his skin and flesh were bruised. Now Peng's life is not in danger for the time being, but as time goes by, it will be uncertain.
In this case, Li Fang took the risk to find Cheng Shijie...
Of course, the risk for Li Fang was very high. If this matter was leaked out, it would be difficult for him to die if he tried to trick the commander into rescuing his mistress.
However, Cheng Shijie really wanted to take action against Meng Xianhan. First of all, Cheng Shijie was short of money again. A man can't be rich without a windfall, and a horse can't be rich without a windfall.
Secondly, the navy also needs some credit. After all, it is impossible to use the navy as a coolie. Over time, there will be complaints. Cheng Shijie did not guess that Li Fang persuaded him to send troops for Peng's sake. Cheng Shijie only thought that Li Fang was ambitious and wanted to use this opportunity to make meritorious deeds.
Although Li Fang and Li Zhixiang are brothers, Li Fang, the brother, is not convinced by Li Zhixiang. He can promote Li Fang, check and balance Li Zhixiang, and prevent Li Zhixiang from becoming a dominant family in the navy.
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In Jinzhou Acropolis, everything is difficult at the beginning.
Cheng Shijie still had some work experience in smelting, but he was a complete layman when it came to road construction. In fact, there was no private sector in road construction in the Ming Dynasty. Almost all road construction work was organized by the government. Officials who were good at general affairs could build roads. But Cheng Shijie won't.
He thought too simply. Considering that roads are the arteries of industrial development, even if this road cannot be built in the near future, the process is always an opportunity to accumulate experience and talents, so that it will be less traveled when building hard roads in the future. Many detours.
Everything has a beginning, and only with a beginning can there be a future...
Cheng Shijie thought through this and decided to believe Zhang Huaize, who volunteered in front of him. Of course, Cheng Shijie had no choice now. Even though Song Xiance spoke clearly, he didn't do well when he was actually asked to do something. He was a man who was good at talking. people.
It's not that Song Xiance is useless, but it must be used in the right place. In fact, there are no useless people in this world, only leaders who are incompetent. Song Xiance is a bit smart, but he is far-sighted and can serve as a manager in charge of publicity, mainly responsible for unifying ideas.
Ma Shilin wanted to be the Marquis of Baili, the head of a county. Cheng Shijie asked him to be responsible for registering households for the people. This job was just a few words in Lao Cheng's writing, but in fact the amount of work required was very large. Each Liaodong refugee needed to register his name, ancestral home, and what he was good at, and then follow the mixed instructions. According to Shasha's method, they were organized into one hundred households.
For now, Cheng Shijie certainly does not have the energy to build one hundred-household settlements. He can only concentrate ten hundred-household settlements in one town and let the garrison army set up one town after another. .
This work involves the use of professional knowledge in sociology, overall planning, and macro-control. How many acres of reclaimable land is needed for each town? How big of a town is needed to accommodate ten hundred-household offices? The difference in the number of people between households is huge.
This requires Ma Shilin and his people to do this.
Since Zhang Huaize is good at building roads, let him be trained to be the future Minister of Traffic, Planning, Transport, and Vehicle Driving in southern Liaoning.
Cheng Shijie looked at Zhang Huaize and said, "When you build roads, list all the tools you need!"
Zhang Huaize thought for a while and said: "The vehicles do not need to be specially configured, but you need to prepare at least a thousand large vehicles and stone hammers. In fact, these things are easy to handle, and there are other ways to solve them. However, four thousand shovels, three Thousands of big hammers are absolutely indispensable..."
Zhang Huaihan continued: "The commander-in-chief needs to start reclamation in the spring next year, and the ditches will be indispensable. The current weather will be dry if it is dry, and it will be flooded if it is flooded. The ditches and roads can be built at the same time!"
Speaking of this, Zhang Huaibi said: "I wonder if the commander-in-chief can lend me a pen and ink?"
Cheng Shijie took out a soft pen from his pocket and handed it directly to Zhang Huaize.
Zhang Huaize took the pen and was slightly stunned. Although he had never seen this kind of pen, he knew how to write without ink?
However, Cheng Shijie unscrewed the pen cap and wrote directly on a piece of paper: "Cheng Shijie", Cheng Shijie's signature, which was quite good. After all, when he was a technician at Hansteel Group, he needed to sign every day. There are more than 300 inspection reports. Even if your handwriting is not good, you can practice it over time.
Zhang Huaize took the soft pen and after just a few tries, he mastered the writing skills of the soft pen. Then he took the soft pen and started drawing seriously on the paper. What he drew were construction drawings of ditches and hard-surface roads. Although they were Without any drawing tools, he could actually draw straight lines with a soft pen, just like using a square ruler.
Seeing this, Cheng Shijie understood that this Zhang Huaize was a person with real abilities. With this drawing ability, he could kill 90% of people in an instant.
In fact, Cheng Shijie can also draw this kind of figure, but the problem is that he does not know how to solve the real problems faced by practitioners in this era.
As early as later generations, the official explanation for the origin and name of the road was that a Scotsman in England designed a road that was high in the middle and low on both sides. The road is paved with gravel. Not only is it flat and solid, but its cost is very low. This Scotsman is called John Maccadan. The road he designed was called "Makadan Road". Later it was spread to China and was shortened to Ma Lu by the Chinese.
Is the road with a high center and low sides called a road? However, this design method in ancient China originated in the Qin Dynasty. The roads in the Qin Dynasty were comparable to the roads of ancient Rome. They did not use stones, but only compacted clay. They can still be used today, and no weeds grow. After the Han Dynasty, stone roads gradually appeared, and drainage and other related facilities were also considered when building roads.
As early as the Yuan Dynasty, the main roads in general cities should be as wide as ten horses running abreast, while the main roads in Dadu in the Yuan Dynasty should be as wide as twenty horses running abreast. Ten horses run in parallel, with a distance of one meter between each horse. Adding the width of the legs of the horse and the rider, one horse is about 1.5 to 2 meters, which means that the road of ten horses is equivalent to 20 meters. Meters, twenty horses, equivalent to forty meters.
Later, the Ming and Qing dynasties also followed this standard. Even the width is measured according to the number of horses. In fact, it is also called a road. It is forced to resemble the British John Maccadan. This is a manifestation of the extremely unconfident culture. John Macadan was born in 1756 and died in 1836. Does China still need to learn from Macadan in building roads?
The author's hometown has an official road from the Sui Dynasty. It was not covered until the highway was built around 2006. This is a road built with rammed earth. It is also high in the middle and has drainage ditches on both sides. It has been built for more than a thousand years. , not a blade of grass grows.
The hard-surface road construction drawings drawn by Zhang Huaize include drainage ditches, sand-fixing lawns, road protection woods, and temporary stopping places for pedestrians and carriages. Ancient carriage wheels and axles were wearing parts, and long-distance carriages They will prepare their own spare parts. When repairs are needed, the carriages will be parked on the roadside in a temporarily widened area to facilitate repairs.
Cheng Shijie looked at Zhang Huaize who was writing furiously and said, "A monthly salary of five taels of silver?"
"Monthly salary...five taels?"
According to the thinking of later generations, Cheng Shijie believes that for technical and management talents, five taels of silver is a bit too little. This is indeed the case. The purchasing power of silver is about 704 yuan. Counted as 700 yuan, five taels is 3,500 yuan. piece.
If in later generations, with his salary of 3,500 yuan, it would be very difficult to recruit a younger migrant worker. As for technicians who can write and draw, there is no need to even think about it.
Seeing Zhang Huaize's expression of embarrassment, Cheng Shijie then thought about it. Zhang Huaize was born in the Zhang family of Laiyang and came from a large family. This family was used to seeing the world, so this little money was indeed a bit shabby.
Cheng Shijie pondered for a moment and decided to add more money. After all, he was a rare engineering talent in this era. He thought for a while and said: "Zhang Huaize, as long as you can build this road to my satisfaction, I will give you a salary of ten taels of silver a month..."
Ten taels of silver is equivalent to the income of Ning Haijun's general-level officer. Of course, if he goes to war, his total legal income will be higher. If he is brave enough and lucky enough, earning one hundred taels of silver is not a problem.
Ten taels of silver, Cheng Shijie actually felt that it was a little bit less. He said a little embarrassedly: "You can also see that I am not a rich man. This is the highest. No matter how high the remuneration is, it is not impossible to get it. It's just that now Money is really tight. It costs money to buy horses, seeds, farm tools, cattle, as well as the clothes, armor and weapons worn by soldiers like me. To be honest with you..."
"Commander, are you sure it's five taels..."
"No, ten taels of silver!"
Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "In addition, I will reward you with a house. If you want to live in Jinzhou City, there is only one acre. If it is built in Jinzhou City, I can give you two acres of homestead. If it is outside the city, I will give you two acres of homestead." I can give you five acres..."
Cheng Shijie doesn't have too much money, and more than six million taels of silver can't actually cover too many places to spend money.
"The meaning of humble position is that the commander-in-chief must not make a mistake!"
"oh!"
Cheng Shijie misunderstood. It turned out that Zhang Huaize was not dissatisfied with the lack of money, but was worried about the large amount of money. The children from the side branches of the big family were actually no better off than the servants.
"The commander said, the monthly salary is ten taels of silver?"
"That's right, it's ten taels of silver!"
"Commander, Zhang Huaize's surname is Zhang. There is no way to change this. Every penny of Zhang's money in Laiyang is stained with blood. Huaize now earns all the money from Marshal!"
"That's right!"
Cheng Shijie said: "You can spend it with confidence, ten taels of silver can buy several concubines, as long as your waist is good enough!"
Zhang Huaize's eyes became eager. He didn't want to take concubines anymore, but he still wanted to get a wife. With a wife, his old mother wouldn't nag him all the time.
Cheng Shijie did not care about this trivial matter and directly called Zhou Yandong, Chen Guodong, including Yang Yunniang and Song Xiance, and asked them to be responsible for connecting with Zhang Huaize.
Although Cheng Shijie delegated power to Zhang Huaize, it was not completely without restrictions. Chen Guodong was responsible for supervising whether there were any violations during his execution, Yang Yunniang was responsible for auditing his accounts, Song Xiance was responsible for keeping an eye on the ideological problems of the labor reform team, and Zhou Yandong was responsible for other matters. support and help.
It is best if Zhang Huaize has no dissent. If he has dissent, that is the way to go.
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South Island is a natural cave with a small area and only one exit. Because of this, it was transformed into Meng Xianhan's dungeon.
In the dungeon, Peng was lying on the ground, covered with bruises.
Meng Xianhan looked at Mrs. Peng and said, "Madam, why are you doing this? We are husband and wife for a night and a hundred days for you. How can you be like this..."
Meng Xianhan had no choice but to be cruel to Peng, because when he was fleeing, he was injured by a crossbow arrow from the army. Although he didn't have to squat to urinate now, there were some things he couldn't do.
Meng Xianhan was a leader, and his son also died. If there were no descendants, it would be inevitable that the people below would have disapproval. His favorite concubine, the Song family, had a child in her belly. Very fortunately, the Song family's child has been born, the son that Meng Xianhan longed for day and night.
Therefore, his doted concubine, Mrs. Song, died in childbirth when giving birth to her son. At this time, Mrs. Peng, as his stepmother, could let things go as long as she was willing to help him raise his "son" Meng Changen.
It's just a pity that Mr. Peng no longer believes in him.
Peng didn't even have the mood to answer him. Peng's biggest regret was that she didn't meet Li Fang at the right time. If she was still unmarried and her father Peng Sanxi was still powerful, She believed that with Peng's financial resources, Li Fang could be promoted to the third level. She could also be a daughter-in-law, and maybe Li Fang could earn her a royal wife.
Only when she was with Li Fang did Peng feel that a woman could be so happy.
Now in the hands of Meng Xianhan, Peng wanted to die.
Seeing Peng's silence, Meng Xianhan decided to wait. Only by catching Peng's lover could he be forced to submit. Even if he caught Li Fang, Meng Xianhan had already thought of how to deal with it. As long as he caught Li Fang, Fang wanted to keep Peng and Li Fang together. If Peng becomes pregnant in the future, another "one corpse and two lives" can not only preserve his reputation, but also better conceal the origin of his son Meng Changen.
Meng Xianhan was very confident that Mr. Peng would definitely change his mind.
Meng Xianhan didn't read much, so he doesn't know that his thoughts are now distorted...
"Somebody come!"
"Master, please give me your orders!"
"Prepare the dishes for Madam, and send two maids with quick hands and feet to take care of Madam!"
"yes……"
Just then, the sound of messy footsteps came. A muscular man with big shoulders and round waist rushed in with disheveled clothes. He rolled and knelt down in front of Meng Xianhan and screamed repeatedly: "Master... it's not good... that... that shit... Dengzhou... Navy..."
A stench emanated from his body, and everyone's eyes couldn't help but focus on his lower lapel. Meng Xianhan immediately covered his nose and scolded: "You are such a killer, what's wrong with you..."
This strong man's name was Chen Chuanzhi. He was a personal follower of Meng Xianhan. He was quite brave and had rescued Meng Xianhan from the siege of the army many times.
Peng, who had been silent all the time, suddenly raised her head, her eyes sharp: "My man is here, my man is coming with the Dongjiang Army to kill you, old dog, you wish yourself well!"
"Before I die, I will kill you first..."
Meng Xianhan turned around and led everyone away.
Ning Haijun's navy is very familiar with the hydrological information at the doorstep of Dengzhou. As long as it is not windy and rainy, a large number of fishing boats will go out to sea to catch fish and shrimps. They will depart in the morning and return to the port in the evening or the next day to bring a large amount of seafood ashore. Sold to the vegetable market.
Most of the fishing boats near the South Island were actually Meng Xianhan's spies. When he saw the navy arriving, Meng Xianhan received the news.
When he learned that the Dengzhou Navy was coming to kill him, Meng Xianhan did not panic or run away. In his eyes, the Dengzhou Navy was the fat in his mouth. As long as the cannons were fired, the Dengzhou Navy would collapse. He could still do it. Capture a few more warships.
But what Meng Xianhan didn't expect was that oranges are oranges when they are born in Huainan, and oranges when they are born in north Huaibei. After Dengzhou Navy joined the Ning Navy, it completely changed.
When Li Zhixiang saw the fishing boats evacuating quickly, he felt something bad: "These are the looks of bandits, fire!"
"Boom boom..."
It is a pity that the navy of this era has technical problems with artillery and the range is very short. Even the first brother of Europa's navy and the current Spanish Armada, when they are in naval battles, they can only reach within 300 yards. Fire the cannon.
Because in this era, no country has invented a stabilizer system for artillery. Only by inventing a stabilizer system for artillery can the artillery have the ability to fire while traveling. This equipment needed to be invented after World War II.
Although maritime naval guns, especially the Europa 42-pound and 48-pound naval guns, have the ability to shoot more than 3,000 meters, the problem is that the sea is not flat. Once the warship rises and falls, where will the shells hit? Only God knows.
Today's naval gunfire can only rely on luck. If you are lucky, you will hit the target. If you are not lucky, you will not be able to hit the target even if you fire for several days.
Just like the unprecedented battle between the Spanish Armada and the British Navy, from July 16 to August 2, 1588, a total of seventeen days, the Armada arrived at its destination in the Sea of Calais. Now let’s talk about the losses on both sides. The Armada went through 4 naval battles, with a total of 167 killed and 251 wounded, plus a total of 1,000 personnel from the 2 captured battleships (the above-mentioned wounded were those with broken arms and legs and blindness). England's losses were about half those of the Armada, but overall the losses on both sides were not much.
There were more than 300 warships in the Ning Navy, their artillery roared, and water columns rose into the sky. As a result, these small fishing boats were still sailing quickly on the sea.
Looking at the Dengzhou Navy warships on the sea, Meng Xianhan and more than two thousand pirates under his command were so excited that they shouted: "I'm getting rich, I'm getting rich, there are so many warships, I'm getting rich!"
Ning Haijun soldiers also shouted: "Get rich!"
The warships of both sides charged at each other like two giant bulls, and a naval battle without massive technology officially began.
The Dengzhou Navy's method of victory was actually the same as that of the pirates under Meng Xianhan's command. Both sides used artillery to intimidate, and then arrived to join the gang to fight.
At this moment, the 42-pound heavy naval gun located on the flagship of the Ninghai Navy fired a shell from a distance of more than 3,000 meters and directly hit a pirate ship.
The shell accidentally hit the pirate ship below the waterline, and a large amount of seawater poured into the cabin. Even if it turned into a submarine, it dived and never emerged again.
Before the robbery was successful, and they were being fucked by others, the pirates were furious and set up cannons to attack the warships of the Dengzhou Navy.
It is enough that these pirates are very brave, but the guys in their hands are all leftovers from others. Those obsolete matchlocks and smoothbore cannons were basically sold to the pirates by the former navy officers.
What's more, these cannons can be regarded as antiques. The longest casting time was more than two hundred years, and they were cast as early as the Hongwu period.
In this way, the pirates still regarded these garbage as treasures. Their various messy artillery fired at the same time, and the sound of the cannons was rumbling and powerful.
Ning Haijun's navy was frightened by the bombardment of soldiers and pirates. They loaded and fired as hard as they could...
As for running away, they never thought about it.
Since the Dengzhou Navy was reorganized by Cheng Shijie, they have enjoyed all the benefits of Ning Haijun's officers. For example, as military dependents, Cheng Shijie distributes food and money during festivals, which is twice as high as that of military households or craftsmen in the field. , others are given ten catties, they are given twenty catties. Others will be given one tael of silver, and military dependents will be given two taels of silver.
What's more, they can work or farm in the factories and farming villages established by Ning Haijun, and their children can study for free in Ning Haijun Academy. Although Cheng Shijie's Ning Haijun General Military Mansion is so simple, Ning Haijun's military headquarters in Liaonan The school is the tallest and most spectacular building in Jinzhou.
As long as they kill the enemy, they will be rewarded with fields and houses. Once they escape, not only will they be punished by military law, but their families will also be driven away. These days, except for Ning Haijun, it is not easy for them to find a stable source of food.
What's more, as long as they die in battle, their families will receive the right to cultivate one hundred acres of land, with tax exemption for five years and half tax for ten years.
The price Cheng Shijie offered them could buy a whole house even if they were buying Huanghua's eldest daughter. Selling this life to Cheng Shijie was a great deal.
Navy officer Ning was not scared away by the pirates' artillery, which made Meng Xianhan feel very strange: "Why did these stupid officers and soldiers change their gender?"
"Perhaps there are some important figures sitting in the battle!"
Chen Chuanzhi, who had changed into a pair of trousers, laughed and said: "The Dengzhou Navy is very poor. Their ammunition must be good. It won't be long before their artillery will misfire!"
The ideal is very full, but the reality is too skinny.
Another pirate ship was hit by heavy artillery. This time it did not sink directly, but because the pirate ship was too low, its mast was broken and it lost power.
Li Fang was riding a small wheeled boat and was covered in heavy iron armor. If he unfortunately fell into the water, the iron would sink to the bottom like a weight.
But he didn't care about that much now. He fought tooth and nail for Peng's sake.
The wheel ship was very powerful and rushed directly to a pirate ship. Li Fang shouted to his soldiers: "Let go of the trestle!"
This kind of trestle with a hook is no more than three feet wide. Once it falls, the iron hook will hook the enemy's warship and cannot break free. Once you set up this kind of trestle, unless one party surrenders or dies, there will be no end.
Li Fang rushed to the pirate ship along the trestle, and two pirates took bows and arrows and prepared to shoot Li Fang.
Li Fang quickly pulled out the small ax on his waist. This kind of ax was his hidden weapon. It weighed about one and a half kilograms, and within thirty steps, anyone with a heavy weapon would be killed instantly.
Seeing the ax flying towards them, the two pirates hurriedly bent down, and in just a blink of an eye, they jumped onto the pirate ship. The three-foot-long Qi Jiajun swung the sword, and one after another pirates were hacked to death by Li Fang on the ship.
The two surviving pirates were so frightened that they jumped into the sea.
You must know that this is the sea water in the twelfth lunar month, and the temperature is almost close to zero. If you jump into the sea water and cannot hold it for fifteen minutes, you will die of hypothermia. The water quality is not of much use at all.
As the first Dengzhou naval warship to engage the enemy, Li Fang and his wheel ship naturally attracted the attention of countless people.
Shen Shikui, the former vice-admiral of the Dongjiang Army and now the vice-admiral of the Ning Navy and former battalion commander, asked in surprise: "Whose general is this so brave?"
Although Li Fang was born in the Navy of the Dongjiang Army, the problem was that there was a huge difference in status between Shen Shikui and him, and he was not a general who loved his soldiers as much as his son, so it was impossible for him to know a little President Bai.
In the original time, although Li Fang was Commander-in-Chief, he was only the captain of a 600-gun ship. There were at least a hundred officers of this level in the Dongjiang Army.
At this time, Meng Xianhan was also shocked. His pirate ship had a total of nineteen pirates, but one man chopped down seventeen of them with a knife, and two of them were so frightened that they jumped into the sea.
However, Li Fang's bravery also successfully aroused the ferocity of the pirates. These pirates rushed to the Ning Navy warship at any cost. When they reached the shooting range, they heard a muffled sound of "dong dong dong".
This is Sun Yuanhua's targeted improvement to the Dengzhou Navy. Each gun ship was equipped with two bowl-mouth guns. In fact, we can understand the bowl-mouth guns as flying thunder cannons.
The working principle and appearance of this kind of fire gun are very similar to the thunder cannon. The length of this bowl-mouth gun is 330 mm, the caliber is also 330 mm, and it weighs about 48 kilograms.
A soldier can carry it and walk. Of course, if it is a long-distance march, it will not last long. But the problem is that this kind of artillery fires shotguns. A blunderbuss can produce a fan-shaped coverage of hundreds of meters. When it is condescending, The effect is surprisingly good.
The pirates who originally thought about defeating the official army in close combat were like encountering super hail, with countless projectiles being shot down all over their heads and faces.
Then, there is actually no more.
Once this melee weapon is fired, a pirate ship will have few survivors, and its armor will be of little use.
The Ning navy soldiers were overjoyed. They were like farmers during the harvest period, waving their sickles and harvesting the crops.
Of course, there is a difference. Farmers only harvest crops, while they harvest heads.
After losing more than a dozen ships and hundreds of pirates, Meng Xianhan began to be afraid. He thought of escaping, but if he wanted to escape now, would there still be a chance?
The answer is yes. In the eyes of Ning Haijun, Meng Xianhan is the fat on their lips. If they let him run away, they will feel sorry for the food Cheng Shijie gave them.
"Who else?"
Li Fang had been reduced to a bloody flesh, waving the Qi family knife full of gaps, and roared at the bloody pirates on the ship.
"Hero, spare your life!"
PS: Just one update today. Lao Cheng will continue to write. It will probably be updated tomorrow morning.
(End of chapter)
