The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 96

Children are afraid of being beaten, women are afraid of getting old, and old people are afraid of their children being unfilial.

Speaking of what men are most afraid of, they are not afraid of ghosts or death, but they are most afraid of poverty.

A poor word, how many bitter tears of men poured out.

Because he was poor, he couldn't afford to marry a daughter-in-law.

Because of poverty, I can't afford to raise children.

Because of poverty, seeing his parents sick in bed but unable to treat them.

No matter how heroic you are, a penny can make your hair gray.

The fishermen are really poor, otherwise they wouldn't risk going out to sea to fish, or even become pirates, at the risk of being buried in the belly of the fish.

After Li Yunze offered a huge reward, the sailors on the shore all fell into madness.

Although one would risk one's life to engage pirates' ships, compared to being poor, fate is nothing.

"Dong Hai."

Calling over the envious Dong Hai, Li Yunze softly said, "I'll give you three days to teach them how to use fire boats. After three days, pick a time and let them go into the sea and burn those boats."

Three days later, the officers and soldiers gathered a large number of fishing boats by the sea, making a gesture of strengthening the bay.

The pirates on the opposite side reacted quickly, concentrating dozens of ships cruising in the bay, ready to fight.

When the attention of the pirates was drawn to this side, several small boats came along the current on the Lujiang River.

Filled with all kinds of hay, gunpowder and sulfur, and splashed with kerosene, the fire attack ship, driven by brave sailors, rushed straight towards the pirate's ship like crazy.

The strength of this band of pirates is average, and there are only a dozen small cannons on dozens of ships.

After launching with all its strength, it was only a wave that overturned a few fire boats.

The brave sailors rushed to the closest distance abruptly for the sake of money, and jumped into the sea one after another after lighting fire to attack the ship.

The pirates fled desperately, but seven or eight of the largest ships were still set on fire.

The rest of the boats were in a state of distress, either washed up on the beach and ran aground, or fled far away and dared not come back.

The officers and soldiers took the opportunity to forcefully cross the strait on a fishing boat, and after landing on Xiamen Island, they successfully recovered the Zhongzuo Institute in just one afternoon.

After all, the pirates had good combat effectiveness when they were at sea, but when they faced the regular army on land, they were nothing but food.

"The captives were screened one by one, and those with blood on their hands were dealt with on the spot. The coerced inquiries were clear. Those who were willing to join the army were included in the army, and those who were unwilling were given travel expenses to go home."

Li Yunze, who landed on Xiamen Island in a small boat, called the sailors participating in the fire attack to gather on the beach.

"This general keeps his word." Reaching out his hand, he motioned to the large scale beside him, "Burn those big ships and come over to weigh them, and we will give out money now."

If the army of this era dares to risk their lives, the most important thing besides strict training is to feed them first.

Li Yunze, who has no shortage of money, has never been stingy in this regard.

In the next few days, the entire battalion was concentrated on the island for training, and they were also waiting for Li Yunze's iron boat.

Iron boats alone are not enough, all the large western ships in this world are equipped with cannons, and with one shot, even fishing boats that are only made of iron have to be punched out of holes.

Find the famous Laiyang Steel Pipe in the modern world, and order a batch of large-caliber thickened seamless steel pipes in the name of exporting to Africa.

Then order various accessories from many small processing factories, and transport them to Xiamen Island for the craftsmen to install and debug.

Don't even think about anything beyond shooting, the artillery of this era is all aimed directly.

Li Yunze used a big weapon, and equipped each artillery with an optical direct sight system.

It is said to be a system, but it is actually an optical sight similar to a sniper rifle.

Set the target into the crosshair with your eyes, and then light the fire.

Laiyang steel pipes are of high quality, and after four riflings are drawn, they can be hit farther and more accurately.

Artillery is nothing. The Zhou Dynasty was similar to the Ming Dynasty, and it had already been popularized on a large scale.

But the arrival of the iron boat made everyone tremble, especially those sailors who were originally fishermen, and some people even bowed down.

In my impression, when the iron is thrown into the water, it will sink directly.

But it is a miracle that such a huge and heavy iron ship can actually float on the sea.

Li Yunze's explanation is very simple, he spent a lot of money to buy it from an overseas country thousands of miles away.

As for the rest, there is no explanation.

Don't ask anyone, just jump into the sea to train your water skills.

It is said that it is a [-]-ton fishing boat, but it is actually a simplified version.

Except for the only one that retains the sea detection radar, all other equipment, including fishing equipment, have been dismantled.

The deck was reinforced at the time of order, and several solid emplacements for the artillery were welded in.

Other than that, this is the Tin Troop Carrier.

As for post-maintenance, cleaning the bottom of the boat, refurbishing the engine and so on, Li Yunze never thought about doing these things when he bought it.

All are disposable consumables, just throw them away when they don’t work.

Anyway, there is no diesel, and it is useless if it falls into anyone's hands.

Li Yunze personally trained the captain and chief engineer.

Fortunately, the captain said that he just knows how to steer and understand how to use the walkie-talkie, and he can use simple semaphore.

The chief engineer is a bit difficult, the main thing is to teach them to understand the many dashboards, where the pointers on the dashboards are, what to do, and so on.

The training of gunners is also very important, but it is relatively simple, just shoot all day long.

It’s also a skill that practice makes perfect.

Fortunately, there is plenty of time. Li Yunze has enough time to search for various ships while training troops on the island.

There are ten [-]-ton fishing boats. It's not that they can't afford it, but it's too troublesome to train manpower, and it's unnecessary to have too many.

There are more than ten thousand people on the island at this time, and more ships are needed for transportation, so Li Yunze has been buying large wooden ships.

During this period, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang sent messengers several times, either to ask Li Yunze to report, or to send troops to a certain place as soon as possible, etc.

Regarding these, Li Yunze's response was to ignore them.

He knew very well that his coming to fight ghosts was the cake of countless big merchants and sea owners all over the southeast.

The imperial court denounced the fan ghosts for raging, because basically no money was received.

The private maritime trade activities are actually extremely developed.

A large amount of exported goods, and a large amount of gold and silver exchanged for it all went into the pockets of merchants and sea owners. The court could only watch but could not reach out.

Because behind these people, there is a sky.

What Li Yunze had to do was to beat and cry those ghosts who were doing business, and let them go to the designated place to do business with the designated people.

The place was chosen, and it was on Xiamen Island.

As for the candidate, Li Yunze made a special trip to Xue's mansion when he passed by Yingtian mansion.

It is most suitable for the Xue family, who is Ziwei Sheren, to make white gloves.

For Li Yunze, who was born in the Beijing camp and had nothing to do with the southeast merchant sea owners, and made it clear that he didn't want any negotiation, the big merchants and sea owners responded quickly.

After some coordination, they gathered multiple groups of pirates from all over the southeast coast, and formed a coalition force that rushed straight to the center and left.

Within a few months, a fleet of hundreds of ships of all sizes and at least 3 to [-] horses can be assembled.With the communication level of this era, the response is indeed very fast.

Standing on the observation deck of the pier, Li Yunze, holding a telescope, saw several large sailing ships with obvious European styles.

"These guys are quite powerful, even the ghosts have been transferred here."

This is actually very simple, as long as the threat of cutting off the supply of goods is used, the ghosts will come naturally.

Putting away the binoculars, Li Yunze turned around and went down from the observation deck, "Ironclad Fleet's hot planes are going to battle!"

When ten fishing boats rushed out of the waterway, the huge fleet on the opposite side were all dumbfounded.

They all live at sea and have seen all kinds of ships.

Even if there is no sail, some people have seen a turtle boat that relies entirely on oars.

But there is no sail or oar, but it can run fast by itself. What's more exaggerated is actually an iron boat, which is really never thought about.

In terms of numbers, they are tens to hundreds, but in terms of combat effectiveness, they are completely opposite.

The fixed cannons on the fishing boats are thickened seamless steel pipes with rifling, and the use of new granular gunpowder not only has a long range but also has great power.

What's more terrible is that each artillery is equipped with an optical sight.

I dare not say that it is far away, but it is extremely accurate within a distance of one kilometer.

"Arrange the battle line, and attack the four big ghost ships first." Li Yunze, holding a walkie-talkie, told the captains to pull out the battle line, as if he was not commanding the fishing fleet, but the local fleet or the high seas fleet.

Fangui's ships are all big guys with a sail cover as high as a cloud, double-layer bombardment decks on both sides, and dozens of cannons.

In terms of size and displacement, there is no doubt that he is a big guy.

The only radar was used to measure the distance. When the distance reached 1000 meters, Li Yunze gave the order to fire through the walkie-talkie.

On the specially reinforced deck, there are only four cannons on each side. Even if ten ships fire at the same time, one round of projection will only be forty shells.

This amount of projection is just better than a fan ghost sailing boat.

Seeing the iron fleet on the opposite side open fire at such a long distance, the golden and red furs on the sailing boat burst into laughter.

At such a long distance, the range is barely enough.

But the accuracy is so low that they can barely guarantee the shooting accuracy at a distance of 300 meters.

Then, the howling shells directly covered the first galleon.

At least a dozen shells fell on the ship, and the huge kinetic energy destroyed everything along the way.

The wooden hull was smashed, and the unlucky sailors were directly smashed open.Everything, even the extremely strong mast, can be broken with one blow.

In an instant, this galleon with double-layer bombardment decks became a tattered sieve, not to mention holes everywhere, and there were heavy casualties on the ship, and blood was flowing on the deck.

What's more terrible is that the gunpowder barrels placed on the deck in the state of battle were ignited, and a raging fire broke out.

Seeing such brilliant results achieved in the first round of shelling, the sailors cheered and wept with joy.

But Li Yunze shook his head regretfully here, "If I have a real warship, even if it's just a patrol boat, I will beat these pirates until the spring breeze blows and the peach blossoms bloom!"

Decommissioned patrol boats can naturally be bought, but there is no supporting armament system, and there are no personnel who can operate them.

"Stabilize the speed and hit another round, get a little closer, and make sure to destroy this ship."

The sailors with high morale quickly cleared and reloaded, and another round of shooting passed, ravaging the hapless sailing ship again.

After pulling in the distance, the shooting accuracy became more accurate. Two of the three masts of the sailing ship were broken, and a raging fire ignited on the ship. It was faintly visible that many people had started to jump off the ship.Definitely scrapped.

"Come closer." Seeing the counterattacks from the opposite side flying everywhere, Li Yunze pulled the distance between the fleet again, "Hit the second ship!"

(End of this chapter)