The land of the monk Zheng Zhilong is an anomaly among the 10,000 Ming army. The two are not officials or soldiers, but they are valued by the imperial envoy Feng Luoyun. Therefore, no one cares in the army, or some people care but cannot. Therefore, there is nothing to do except to occasionally drink tea and chat with the Dutch people in front of the city for a few days. But the two are locked up on this Penghu Island, so they wander around in the military camp every day, so they are very familiar with the soldiers in the army.

"One official! Have you ever heard of a group of naval troops from Shandong coming from the military port today? It is said that these naval troops were selected from the newly formed Pingliao Naval Division. They are the elites of our Ming Dynasty!" Shang Di pointed to several lucky ships parked in the military port ahead and said to Zheng Zhilong.

Zheng Zhilong also saw the lucky ships early, and smiled and whispered: "It's not just the elites of the Ming Dynasty, but I heard that what's more important this time was that advanced artillery was transported, which was even more powerful than these Dutch artillery! It took ten miles to destroy the city and the blockade, and it was very powerful!"

Shangdi was in the army for so long, and he was deeply impressed by the artillery that the Dutch defended the city. More than 10,000 Ming Legion surrounded more than 2,000 Dutch Red Hair for more than a month, but he couldn't kill and injured many soldiers. As soon as the Dutch guns opened fire, they saw the Ming soldiers falling down one after another. The broken hands and feet were flying all over the sky. Even if the half-baked pirates saw this scene for the first time, they had been retching for a long time and had nightmares for several days. Now that they heard that the cannons transported this time were even more powerful than the Dutch, they were a little disbelief and said suspiciously: "It's more powerful than the Dutch Red Hair artillery, no, look at the artillery of the Fujian Navy this time and you will know how big the gap is with others. If you say it's better than the red Hair, I won't believe it!"

When Zheng Zhilong heard this, he felt as if he was bragging, so he replied cowardly: "Brother Shang, I have heard of this too. I know whether it is true or not. At worst, I can go and have a look!"

Shangdi also felt it was reasonable after hearing this. Anyway, he was idle, so he might as well go over and take a look.

Monk Zheng Zhilong and the other two were leisurely strolling on the dock. They just watched a group of people in front of them unloading cannons from the lucky boat. They were immediately interested and surrounded them.

Liu Blacksmith was commanding a group of sailors on the ship to transport the cannons weighing nearly 3,000 kilograms to the shore. These cannons are more than a little advanced than those bought from Macau. The most special thing is that a pair of wheels were added under the cannon. With these two wheels, these cannons are much more convenient to move. Of course, these two wheels are not so easy to build. The wheels that can hold three thousand kilograms of iron cannons were made by the research institute.

Everyone had a clear division of labor. Half of them pulled the cannons hard on the boat with a thick hemp rope, but the people on the shore held them tightly with bamboo poles, but it was still a little difficult. At this time, when Blacksmith Liu saw that there was not enough manpower, he pointed at Shang Di and Zheng Zhilong from afar and shouted: "Come here to help me! Why are you standing there stupidly? Didn't you see that there was not enough manpower here?"

Monk Zheng Zhilong looked around and saw that the people nearby were busy with various affairs, and only they were standing on the dock without any trouble, then they realized that they were calling themselves. However, Zheng Zhilong had a hot temper. These days, he used the name of the imperial envoy in the army to pretend to be powerful. The officers in the army were all polite to him. Today, when he suddenly saw Liu Blacksmith shouting at him, he felt very unhappy.

Shang Di saw Zheng Zhilong's appearance and knew what Zheng Zhilong was thinking. He smiled and said, "One official, don't be angry about these things. He is a hundred households at least, and we are common people in common!"

After hearing this, Zheng Zhilong said angrily: "But the small hundred households are so arrogant, even if the imperial envoy sees me, he will be polite!"

Shang Di smiled faintly, reached out and patted Zheng Zhilong on the shoulder and said, "You kid, you were squatting in prison some time ago. At that time, you would be more cowardly if you were too cowardly. Now you know that you are tantrums. Okay, go and help. Isn't they too short of manpower?"

Zheng Zhilong felt a little embarrassed when he got this way, scratched his head and smiled foolishly, "Brother Shang, I'm just irritating, but those hundred households are too arrogant!" Then he began to follow Shang Di toward Liu Blacksmith.

"Arrogant, they are elite troops of the Ming Dynasty. There are those naval troops in Fujian who are idle and living. Just look at the cannon, you will know that they are as tall as those of the Dutch people. It seems that the rumors are true. This time they are a weapon to attack the city." Shang Di sighed at the huge cannon at this time.

With the efforts of everyone, the three thousand kilograms of artillery were finally transported to the dock safely. Seeing the three cannons transported ashore neatly placed on the dock, Zheng Zhilong, who was still complaining, was very excited at the moment and kept touching the cannons around them. He had been running on the sea for many years and was influenced by the cannons and knew a little bit, and he knew it when he saw these cannons.

"How is the range of these cannons? How about the Dutch ones?" Zheng Zhilong asked a sailor next to him.

The sailor was Ergouzi. After hearing Zheng Zhilong's words, he said proudly: "I have never seen those Dutch red-haired ones, but our cannon is the latest cast by the Institute. Does the Institute know? I dare say that this cannon is the best in the world. It is natural to shoot a longer range than those Dutch cannons. I have seen our 100-households use this cannon to sank a small boat seven or eight miles away. How powerful do you think it is!"

"Really? Are you all the households the same?" Zheng Zhilong was a little unbelievable. He hit it in one shot from seven or eight miles away, that's not bad.

Ergouzi saw Zheng Zhilong pointing at Liu Blacksmith and replied proudly: "Yes, this is our Liu Baihu. If we say that our Baihu is amazing, our Baihu is the hero of the last victory in Liaodong! Last time in Shenyang, our Baihu Gong probably killed at least a few hundred Tartars. After the war, the Tartars who died in front of us were so high! The hands, feet, heads, and intestines of the blown flying were everywhere. It was so miserable. It was said that the battlefield was full of blood red when it rained. When it was dug a pit, it could accumulate blood. It was very terrifying. I happened to follow our Baihu Gong at that time. After that battle, I didn't dare to eat meat for a month!" Ergouzi talked about this glorious history, and he was dancing with his hands.

Zheng Zhilong looked at Liu's blacksmith and said, these days in the military camp, he had heard that during the Liaodong War, a blacksmith killed thousands of Tartars. In this way, it was probably the hundred-household in front of him. Thinking about it, he thought he was very arrogant just now. Now, no matter how he looked, he thought Liu's blacksmith was very kind. Just kidding, hundreds or thousands of people, even if he stood in a team and let him chop, he would be exhausted! In this way, it was probably true that he was shot at a small and medium-sized boat seven or eight miles away. Zheng Zhilong looked at Liu's blacksmith with admiration at this time.

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Naris Reelsheng lay quietly on the soft chair, thinking carefully about the situation he was facing now. The Dutch army entered and left various parts of the world, seizing business opportunities in various parts of the world. In order to open up the trade rights of the Ming Dynasty in the Far East, he occupied this island of the Ming Dynasty from thousands of miles away. Of course, at the beginning, no one realized how powerful the Ming Dynasty he was in contact with was a powerful empire. What they saw was the mediocre Ming people at the sea, so they thought that the Ming Dynasty was also a mediocre country, so they actually allowed their subordinates to burn, kill and loot along the coast of the Ming Dynasty. In the end, they tasted the evil consequences. They had been besieged by the Ming Dynasty for more than a month. If they hadn't prepared the ammunition and food early, they would have been out of ammunition and food, but what's the use? When would his reinforcements come?

The messenger walked into the house and saluted Naris Reelsheng, who was thinking hard in front of him, and said, "Report to General! The Ming army seemed to have new reinforcements arrived yesterday, with unknown numbers, but they brought a lot of artillery. According to visual observation, the performance of the cannons we defended the city is similar! The number is at least five gates, and now simple fortifications have been built outside the range of our army!"

Naris Reel was stunned. It would be fine if the reinforcements were not enough. He could defend tens of thousands of people in the Ming Dynasty, and the same was true for some soldiers. However, this time the Ming Dynasty also brought artillery. The important thing about defending the city was that the range of artillery was much farther than that of the Ming army. If the artillery could catch up with the artillery they defended the city, it would be troublesome. What's more, the opponent dared to build fortifications outside his range. Is the other party's range even further than our cannons?

"Report to the general, the Ming army shouted in front of the city, saying that their Shenwu cannons were coming, so we should open the door and surrender immediately! If we don't surrender before noon tomorrow, we will attack the city!" Another messenger came in and said.

Naris Reelsheng was stunned again. Just as he was about to speak, the roar of cannons began outside the house. The cup on the table was filled with water. Then the dust on the roof floated down. Then the sound of house collapsed outside the door, mixed with the sound of people shouting and running. Naris Reelsheng was shocked and quickly got up and walked out the door.

From Qianli's eyes, Liu Blacksmith saw the shells passing through the gate of the Dutch castle. He put down Qianli's eyes in his hand, then compared his hand a few times in the air, picked up a chart beside him, searched carefully on it, and then shouted: "Download the runway twice, and charge the standard medicine."

"The cannon angle has been adjusted!"

"The standard dosage is filled!"

"The fire twist is filled up!"

"Solid siege bombs are loaded!"

The artillery operator reported in turn, and then Ergouzi shouted loudly: "Report, all units have loaded, you can fire the gun!"

Liu Blacksmith picked up Qianliyan with one hand and raised it with the other and shouted: "Light up!"

The fire twists on the cannon were ignited, and blue smoke blew quickly, and then they entered the cannon. Then there was a loud bang, and a yellow smoke gushed out of the muzzle, and the entire cannon body rushed back. The gate of the Dutch castle opposite was suddenly blown by the solid siege bombs. When the dust fell, then a big hole appeared on the gate of the castle, and there was a slight white smoke coming out of it. Through the big hole, you could even see the busy Dutch behind the city gate preparing to repair the city gate.

Zheng Zhilong looked at the scene in front of him and was shocked and dazed.

In fact, there were still talks at the beginning of the negotiation that Feng Luoyun was counting on. Unfortunately, the two sides had too different opinions, so they naturally parted. However, the more they became more advantageous in the Ming army, they did not discuss in detail with the Dutch. They simply had a condition and surrender unconditionally. Therefore, the negotiation became simple. They sent people to the city to shout words of persuasion to surrender. Of course, such simple and dangerous things would not allow those high-powered capitals to do the work, so they fell on Zheng Zhilong. Today, Zheng Zhilong performed his official duties as usual. After shouting, he ran to Liu Blacksmith to see the means of killing the Ming Dynasty.

Liu Blacksmith put away the clairvoyance in his hand with satisfaction and said happily: "Today the task assigned by the imperial envoy has been completed. Everyone has wiped the cannons and prepared the ammunition and covered it with an oil cloth. This ghost weather in Fujian will be over if it rains!"

"As for orders, Lord Hundred Houses!" The soldiers immediately responded neatly, and then each of them packed up their things.

At this time, the blacksmith Liu continued to say to Zheng Zhilong who was in a daze: "How is it? Brother Zheng, my reputation is not something I can do! The target I want to hit has never failed three shots, and it is usually solved by two shots!"

Zheng Zhilong is a cheerful person. Since he saw Liu Blacksmith on the dock yesterday, he has been flattering and calling him brothers. In less than a day, he thought that the Ming army ahead had more than 40 days, and there was no way to see the Dutch castle. When he saw Liu Blacksmith showing his might, he smashed the Dutch gate with just two cannons. He said diligently: "Brother Liu is a god-wurstful man. It is naturally easy to deal with these Dutch red-haired men. However, just now, Brother Liu was gestured and looked at the chart again. What were he doing?"

Liu Blacksmith said mysteriously: "These are secrets and are not easily told to others. In fact, these are all tricks. Gestures are used to visually measure distances. When looking at the charts, we are looking at ballistic data. These are just common sense of our navy gunners. If you are interested, it is better to come to our Pingliao Navy!"

Zheng Zhilong was moved for a while. Since he had been in the army for more than a month, he had become very interested in the army. Liu Blacksmith's proposal naturally made Zheng Zhilong very moved. So he replied: "Really, but I have a brother, so I can't make a decision at will!"

Liu Blacksmith then whispered: "Brother Zheng, I will give you a trick today to ensure that you have a bright future. You know, I just came from the capital. Do you know that the emperor is planning to set up a naval school now, which is dedicated to training personnel related to naval school. I will go there to study after this war. I heard you said yesterday that the imperial envoy is very familiar with you, why don't you ask the imperial envoy for a love affair and ask him to recommend you two to that naval school!"

When Zheng Zhilong heard about the Naval Academy, he became interested and said, "Brother Liu just said that he wanted me to go to the Pingliao Naval Master, why did he let me go to this Naval Academy again?"

"Brother Zheng, you don't understand this. Speaking of the navy, it is naturally the most elite of our Pingliao Navy. And now the Pingliao Navy still bears the responsibility of regaining Liaodong. After your Navy School is successful in your studies, wouldn't you still have to be assigned to our Navy?" Liu Blacksmith replied.

Zheng Zhilong was even more moved and then asked, "Brother Liu, let me ask again, what do you learn in this navy school? What should I learn?"

In fact, Liu Blacksmith is a half-barrel of water. He is just a blacksmith and doesn't know a lot of big words. He is very difficult to deal with these more professional places. When he saw Zheng Zhilong ask about this, he couldn't say anything and said vaguely: "Anyway, you just ask the imperial envoy to recommend you. Brother, will I lie to you? Besides, you are just a commoner now. It is said that after entering this naval school, you will have at least a hundred households after graduation, which is the position of my elder brother. What else do you have to be dissatisfied with!"

When Zheng Zhilong heard that he could get into a hundred households after graduation, his eyes immediately lit up. Although the hundred households are not considered high-ranking officials, he has also joined the ranks of officers. Moreover, once he graduates, he will be a hundred households. In a few years, he will not be a thousand households. What are the generals and generals waiting for him to do it!

When Liu Blacksmith saw Zheng Zhilong, he smiled and said, "This is the opportunity. You must seize it. Go and tell the imperial envoy quickly. This battle will be over tomorrow. The imperial envoy will probably be back to Beijing in a few days. If the imperial envoy leaves, you will be fetching water in a bamboo basket - it will be empty!"

"Thank you, Brother Liu. I'll go to the imperial envoy tonight! But can this battle be really finished tomorrow?" Zheng Zhilong said with a little disbelief and asked with questions.

When Liu Blacksmith saw Zheng Zhilong not believing, he replied seriously: "It's okay if you believe it or not, it will definitely be over tomorrow. If you are interested, you can go into the city to kill a few red hairs. As for me, I killed too many Tartars last time, so I won't take action this time, so as not to complain about me robbing their credit again!"
Chapter completed!