Fuzhou City is on fire.
The flames soaring into the sky seemed to burn the entire city of Fuzhou to ashes.
Seen from a distance, the huge Fuzhou City looks like a furnace, with flames soaring into the sky and thick smoke billowing.
A thick black smoke snaked upward from the sky above Fuzhou City and could not dissipate for a long time.
Even hundreds of miles away from Fuzhou City, you can see the thick black smoke. You can imagine how violent the fire in Fuzhou City was.
Xu Da waited in the waters of Fuzhou for a long time, and finally saw a fire burning in Fuzhou City, and quickly 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 port.
Without saying a word, Xu Da directly asked the fleet to fire cannons and send all these pirate ships to sink to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish.
"Boom boom boom!"
A violent explosion sounded at the port, startling a large number of seagulls, and even waking up all the pirates who were still on guard at the port.
Chen Zuxiao originally wanted to go to check the situation in Fuzhou City, but after hearing the explosion, he hurriedly stopped.
His subordinates soon came to report that dozens of warships had forced their way into the port and that they were coming with bad intentions.
Chen Zuxiao did not dare to be careless, so he directly ordered people to beat the war drums, gathered his men, and planned to stop 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 was already at the end of its strength, and no matter how hard it tried, it could not turn out to be a waste.
All Chen Zuxiao could do was follow Chen Zuyi's order and honestly stop the people at the port so that they would not disturb the rear attack on Fuzhou City.
Chen Zuxiao quickly gathered a large number of pirates, all of whom were the Chen brothers' own troops.
After all, what Chen Zuxiao did here cannot be known to others.
If other pirates knew that the Pinghu camp had been abandoned, their morale would be weakened.
These people brought by Chen Zuxiao can be regarded as the elite of the Chen family. They are all extremely fierce and fearless in fighting, and they have laid a huge foundation for the Chen family.
As more and more people gathered around him, Chen Zuxiao finally felt confident.
He estimated that the fleet in front of him was the force that defeated Pinghu Camp.
Although he didn't know where these people came from, Chen Zuxiao was confident that relying on the ten thousand troops around him, he could stop the fleet in front of him at the port and prevent them from advancing even half a step.
The group of people under Chen Zuxiao are all big and round, with strong bodies and fierce faces. At first glance, they look like desperadoes who often lick blood at the tip of a knife.
These people have at least five lives in their hands, and they are bloodthirsty and fight for their lives. Only then are they qualified to join the direct lineage of the Chen family.
After all, as long as you join the direct lineage of the Chen family, your status and treatment will be improved.
These people are extremely ferocious and are not at the same level as the rabble in Pinghu Camp.
More and more pirates gathered around Chen Zuxiao, and everyone looked fiercely, waiting for the fleet to be quietly moored at the port.
It seems that as long as the people on the ship dare to get off, they will tear them all into pieces, but so far, the people on the ship have not made any movement, as if they are afraid of these pirates on the shore.
It is true that Xu Da has not yet ordered an attack. The purpose is actually very simple, to lure the snakes out of their holes, gather them together and annihilate them.
Xu Da could tell at a glance that these pirates on the shore were all desperadoes with blood on their hands.
These people are either long-standing bandits, or they are cruel and inhumane. Xu Da's attitude towards these people is very simple, that is, direct humane destruction.
Let these people disappear from this world in a physical way.
The reason why he hasn't ordered an attack yet is so that the pirate leader can gather all the pirates around him and defeat them once and for all.
By the time Xu Da felt it was about the same, the crowd was no longer growing, and Xu Da conveyed his wishes calmly:
"Fire, don't leave any of these gangsters on the shore alive!"
"Boom boom boom!"
"Boom boom boom!"
There was thunder on the ground, as if the divine thunder from the nine heavens came to the world, and the sound of cannons that resounded through the sky rang out in the small port of Fuzhou City.
Forty warships lined up in a row, all facing the shore.
With an average of one hundred guns per ship, four thousand guns roared towards the shore at the same time.
The fired cannonballs formed fiery snakes in mid-air, intertwining with each other, like a dense fire net, covering more than 10,000 pirates on the shore, looking beautiful and coquettish.
But alluring beauty is poisonous after all, and the more beautiful something is, the more lethal it is.
In just a moment, the sound of exploding artillery shells began to explode over there.
Exploding fireworks bloomed on the shore like fireworks.
Blooming in the midst of killing, like flowers 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, shocking everyone who has experienced this battle.
At the moment when the cannon sounded, the 10,000 pirates neither evaded nor lay down on the ground, but looked coldly at the flames in the air.
Then, explosions, impacts, debris, and air waves hit us instantly.
The lethality caused by the four thousand shells in the dense crowd was only revealed in an instant.
The pirates who were still standing there unruly, after being baptized by artillery, could no longer find anyone who could still stand.
Even finding a complete human form is very difficult.
These people were either hit by artillery fire and died on the spot.
Either the iron pieces ejected by the explosion cut their bodies, and only a few lucky ones were blown up by the air waves, breaking their arms or necks.
But no matter what, the effect of the first salvo of four thousand artillery pieces was shocking.
Neither the pirates, nor the navy, nor even Xu Da himself thought that the power of the artillery that Li Jin had created could be so terrifying.
Xu Da looked a little distracted as he looked at the pirate positions cleared by artillery.
Originally, he thought that he would need another volley to wipe out all the pirates.
But I didn't expect that just one time, the effect would be so immediate.
Xu Da turned his head and looked at Li Jin, only to find a slight smile on Li Jin's lips, as if he had known this outcome for a long time.
Xu Da couldn't help but feel the hair on his head standing on end, and asked Li Jin:
"Master Li, how did you come up with the idea of creating such a thing?"
"Do you know what it means to create something like this?"
"Did Duke Wei mean artillery?"
Li Jin was stunned when he heard this, but then he thought of the famous saying of a doctor from later generations.
"I saw soldiers fighting each other with swords. The casualties were too heavy. I couldn't bear it. After all, I often feel compassion for others."
"That's why I want to create a weapon that can help soldiers reduce casualties."
"Obviously, this weapon is the ideal weapon. It can greatly reduce the casualties of soldiers."
"The so-called Gatling rescues the dying and revives the wounded Maxim, and artillery comes into being."
Xu Da looked at Li Jin with wide eyes, pitiful?
Thinking of the pirates who were torn apart by the shells in the artillery fire, if this could be considered kindness, then there would probably be no bad guys in the world.
Li Jin did not dwell on this issue and suggested:
"Wei Guogong, let's land quickly."
"Although Fuzhou City has been burned, we don't know how many remaining pirates have escaped."
"Let's rush to Fuzhou City as soon as possible to prevent Duke Deng from being killed by pirates."
Xu Da didn't hesitate anymore and directly asked the people on the fleet to follow him off the ship.
There were less than 2,000 people left on the ship, and Xu Da personally commanded 15,000 people and marched towards Fuzhou City.
As long as Chen Zuyi is annihilated this time, the trip south will be completely complete.
The southeastern coastal areas will also be eliminated by themselves, even though there are still some Japanese pirate remnants along the coast of Zhejiang.
However, those small fish and shrimps were no longer taken seriously by Xu Da.
As long as Chen Zuyi dies, the southern pirates and Japanese pirates will be leaderless, and I am afraid that these Japanese pirates and pirates will fight again.
The coastal areas of Ming Dynasty will return to calm again, and we can even use this time to open the sea.
After all, the original maritime ban was due to Chen Zuyi and the increasingly rampant Japanese pirates along the coast.
Now Xu Da led the navy to kill nearly 20,000 Japanese pirates first, and then killed an army of 100,000 pirates. In the waters of the Ming Dynasty, no one could be his opponent.
Next, after killing Chen Zuyi, the next step is Japan Island.
The source of the Japanese pirates was that after the Ming Dynasty was invaded by Japanese pirates for the first time, Zhu Yuanzhang sent people to the Japanese islands to reprimand them, and asked the emperor of the Japanese islands to exercise jurisdiction over the Japanese pirates.
Don't let these people, especially the wanderers on the Japanese island, come to invade the Ming Dynasty again.
But the emperor at that time was already an empty shell and was no longer able to control the situation of the court, let alone the wandering ronin.
The Japanese pirates incident could only be left alone in the end.
Now that the Ming Dynasty has basically solved the problem of Japanese pirates, the Ming Dynasty must not let go of the Japanese pirates on the Japanese islands.
Especially on the Japanese island, there is so much gold and silver that the Ming Dynasty cannot miss it.
The Japanese guarded the treasure mountain without knowing that so many mountains of gold and silver were gifts from God to the Ming Dynasty.
There is a saying that if God cannot take it, you will suffer the consequences; if you fail to do it at the right time, you will suffer the consequences.
For this kind of fat meat brought to his mouth, Xu Da believed that Daming had no reason to refuse.
Besides, he has already taken a stake in the East India Chamber of Commerce. As long as he seizes the gold and silver in the Japanese island, he will have his own share.
For the sake of himself and his descendants, Xu Da felt that the Japanese island could not be left. This kind of place had belonged to China since ancient times.
The Ming Dynasty is the orthodoxy of China, and the Japanese islands should return to the embrace of the motherland.
Xu Da believed that it was his duty to regain his homeland. This kind of thing should not be left to the next generation, and he would take back the Japanese pirates.
While Xu Da was still thinking about his next goal, Fuzhou City was already in sight.
