Chapter 154: The power of one shot!

Zheng Wenxian has been with his father to dominate the sea since he was a child. After all, he is a veteran of war formations. Although he was startled by the giant warships made by Westerners at first sight, he quickly adjusted his mentality.

"Hahaha, seven Western-Japanese warships, it seems that the Liang family has made a lot of money. Unfortunately, let alone seven, what can even seven warships be? Could it be that their naval guns can still hit here?" Zheng Wenxian pointed to the Liang Mansion warships that were slowly approaching the dock and smiled disdainfully.

"What the young master said is, brothers, all cheer up and guard their posts strictly. Can the Liang family just have a few warships, can they still defeat us?" Zheng Wenxian's words were immediately echoed by his subordinates. Thinking about it, the Zheng family can stand for more than a hundred years, and I don't know how many storms it has gone through, but it still has survived. Besides, even if the other party has strong ships and powerful guns, they may be able to dominate the sea, but at present, the Zheng family only needs to guard the castle, and they are not going to rush out to fight. No matter how far the guns are, they can't hit here.

On this castle, there are 18-pound cannons from Yishui, and there are even six twenty-four-pound cannons purchased from British smugglers several months ago. With these heavy cannons, relying on the geographical advantage to shoot from a condescending way, even if the pirates of the Liang family were armed to the teeth, they would have to die.

"Come on, it's better to go ashore to attack, so that I can try the power of the Zheng family's artillery fire." Zheng Wen looked at the Liang family warships that were docking with a disdainful smile.

At this time, Liang Pengfei had a small boat left and stepped onto the shrimp whisker pier. In front, behind and on the left, countless Liang family pirates were rushing towards him, biting a knife in his mouth and throwing out a hook rope, like agile spider, climbing onto the Zheng family clutch still anchored at the pier, searching for any hidden enemies.

"This is where the Zheng family's nest is. Damn..." After seeing the towering city towers and walls that were lying on the ground, and the black muzzles behind the female wall, Liang Pengfei couldn't help but be shocked. Although he had already been mentally prepared, at this moment, he still had to be shocked. The city towers that were at least four meters high, and the city walls that had to be more than three meters low at the lowest point.

If it was a cold weapon war, even the warriors armed to the teeth would have to pay a heavy price to break through. But now, Liang Pengfei grinned, turned around, and shouted at the Bai Shusheng who was standing beside him: "Let them move these clutches away, let the soldiers get off the ship and line up first, establish a beachhead position, and prepare to unload the heavy artillery."

Soon, the Zheng family's fast ships moved and left the berth for the two warships carrying thirty-two-pound guns and eighteen-pound guns. After the other warships were berthed, the Liang family pirates wearing painted black uniforms, holding muskets, and tied swords with their waists rushed from the decks of the warships to the dock in an orderly manner, and quickly formed rows of scattered lines near the dock.

Their clothes are no longer worn like the World Expo. The black linen clothing, collar and epaulettes of Yishui were all embroidered by Liang Pengfei based on the style of military ranks in later generations. At present, except for weapons, military uniforms, and military ranks, there is no time to do other work. However, at least from Liang Pengfei's perspective, this Liang pirate unit, which originally belonged to the scattered warriors, has gradually begun to have the prototype of a modern army.

Today, it was precisely for the purpose of training that Liang Pengfei asked his father to pull the team here and check how strong the combat effectiveness of this army, which had been reorganized and regulated for nearly three months, has been improved.

As for the troops of the Xin'an Navy, Liang Pengfei handed over to Liang Liansheng, Liang Shuisheng's brothers and Wu Liang, the Qianzheng of the Battalion, to harass the Zheng family's other important anchorage on Lantau Island. However, he himself escaped and made a special trip to clean up the Zheng family's nest. At this time, Liang Yuanxia and Liang had already led hundreds of personal soldiers to board the unknown island opposite the shrimp whisker row.

In addition to a low rocky mountain on this small island with an area of ​​less than two miles, there are many caves eroded by sea water on the edge of the island. "Search me, even if I search every cave, I have to find the treasures of the Zheng family for me." Liang Daren held a musket in one hand and waved a sword in the other, and there was no point in the humility and conscience of the merchant. He was completely like an old thief with countless criminal records and still actively committing crimes. His eyes were like a beast that wanted to swallow alive, and his expression was like Sun Dianying, who had just commanded his engineers to bombard the divine magnificent with explosives, which was excited and distorted.

One hundred and fifty years ago, when Zheng Lianchang's ancestor Zheng Jian was already a general under Zheng Zhilong, the world's number one pirate Zheng Zhilong, the Liang family was still a poor and lower-middle peasant who faced the earth and was facing the sky. After the Liang family changed their jobs to pirates, they all had capital that was as rich as the country through a hundred years of accumulation. The original capital of the Zheng family was much thicker than that of the old Liang family. The accumulation over the past 150 years was definitely a huge amount, oh no, huge, or huge wealth.

After his subordinates loudly agreed, they quickly spread out on this nameless island like an ant, and began to search for all suspicious areas, hoping to find the wealth accumulated by the Zheng family over the past hundred years in the shortest time.

You should know that in addition to fighting on the sea, they often do such things as pirates, including pirates’ lairs and family backgrounds. It can be said that every pirate is a treasure hiding expert, and at the same time, a treasure hunting expert. Only by understanding the pirate’s thinking patterns and methods of hiding treasures.

And when he stood on the castle and through the monoculars, he saw a Liang family warship landing on the unknown island. Zheng Wen, who was already full of confidence and fighting spirit, looked like the high-quality putty cream. The whiter it is, the whiter it is.

"Young master, what should we do? Should we send someone to rush forward, taking advantage of their just landing and not firmly gaining a foothold. Beat them hard and attract their attention." Next to it, Zheng Wenxian's distant nephew, Zheng Jiaju, who is a senior commander of the Hongqi Help Zheng family's direct line, came to Zheng Wenxian's ear and whispered. Only those who are like them can know the importance of that small island.

"No!" Zheng Wen obviously hesitated for a moment, but still gritted his teeth and shook his head with difficulty: "We can't take this risk. If we keep the castle firmly, the Liang family's strong ships and cannons will have no choice but to do anything about us. But if we rushed out, it would be equivalent to giving up our own advantage and killing me. This matter cannot be done. I just hope that my father and others will know that something happened here earlier and can come back in time and kill these despicable robbers." The tone was as if they were blocked by bandits in their homes, the most innocent good people in the world.

"Yes!" Zheng Jiaju could only nod helplessly. Looking at the Liang family pirates who were still busy on the dock, he was really so angry that his teeth hurt. These guys really knew how to seize the opportunity.

Zheng Wenxian stood on the city gate. Although he looked quite casual and leisurely, he also started to play a small drum in his heart. He had already seen a lot of artillery and personnel shipped off the dock, but Liang Pengfei had no intention of attacking at all, and seemed to be waiting for something.

However, Zheng Wenxian soon knew the answer, because he saw that the Liang family unloaded a giant cannon from those warships that he had never seen before, and seemed to be as huge as a giant cannon.

After looking at the two giant cannons with six rollers and slowly dragged forward by more than ten horses, Zheng Wenxian couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. Just based on his vision, Zheng Wenxian was 100% sure that the caliber of that kind of cannon was far from comparable to the 24-pound cannon.

At this time, the Zheng pirates on the city tower had already seen clearly the strangeness of the dock in the distance, and their faces were different.

"Such a huge cannon, my mother, how many pounds of cannon is this?" A Zheng pirate couldn't help but whisper to his companion beside him. The other party's face turned pale: "I don't know, but looking at its cannon body, it's at least one round larger than our 24-pound cannon. It's a weird thing to have thirty pounds."

Hearing this, the faces of the Zheng family pirates were twitching violently as if they were firecrackers, and the neat sound of sucking air seemed to drain the air in this area.

"What are you afraid of? Isn't it just two broken things? Don't forget that our city wall is equipped with more than fifty eighteen-pound cannons and six twenty-four-pound cannons purchased from the Western Yi. We are condescending. Can't we beat them?" Zheng Wenxian cleared his throat and shouted loudly. It immediately attracted the union of many people. Some of the Zheng family pirates were also a little embarrassed, as if they felt that their actions just now were really embarrassing.

"Hurry me, now is not the time to procrastinate. Take out all your energy and pile it with me!" Liang Pengfei, who picked up his sleeves on the dock and joined the push-pull artillery industry, was also uneasy. Time, what he lacked the most was time.

After learning from my father that the Green Flag Gang and my father's fleet were intersecting, Liang Pengfei's heart almost reached his throat. He knew from Shixianggu that the relationship between Xu Sanyan and Zheng Lianchang of the Green Flag Gang was definitely not simple. When the Zheng family fought with the navy in the court, his fleet hurried to the west. Apart from the court navy in Dahengqin Island, Liang Pengfei could not think of any other reason that Xu Sanyan would have at this time to put aside his firm ally Zheng Lianchang and lead the fleet to the west.

Before this, Liang Pengfei had thought about taking away the results of the battle alone, but just thinking about it was impossible. But now, Liang Pengfei found that the opportunity was already in front of him. Unfortunately, Zheng Lianchang would definitely not leave his lair for too long. So Liang Pengfei could only race against time.

"Time is tight, the task is heavy." Liang Pengfei sighed, and continued to pluck his cheeks and work hard to push the heavy artillery forward with his subordinates.

These artillery were modified as early as when Liang Pengfei was in the battle to defend the island, and all were equipped with wheels. Although it was extremely difficult to move forward due to the heavy gun body and road conditions, the collective efforts of the horse dragging the people on the top were finally able to keep up with the team.

Just when the city tower was about four miles away, the Liang family army finally stopped moving forward and began to line up. The two thirty-two-pound cannons were pushed to the front of the team. The gunners who were originally protected in the rear finally appeared around the two giant cannons, began to inspect the cannons, adjust the shooting angle, and the young master Liang, who was almost exhausted, could only sit down and watch desperately.

On the left, there are all the top gunners among the Liang family pirates. Leader Li Pao, operating this heavy cannon quickly. With his natural keen feeling, Li Pao made the gunners adjust the direction and angle of the cannon.

On the right are three brown-haired and brown-eyed Spanish officers, who are commanding a group of young Chinese artillery cadets in their native language to operate the thirty-two-pound cannon on the right.

One of the Spanish officers even held paper and pen in one hand, and pinched a tool to gesture towards the Zheng family castle for a long time, recording the numbers one by one. Next to him, there were also many Chinese artillery practitioners listening and recording quickly.

"Young master, the young man is ready, you can test the artillery at any time." Just when the Spanish and their artillery cadets were still busy, Brother Li Pao appeared in front of Liang Pengfei with a cigarette and smiled. Liang Pengfei, who had finally recovered, stood up and looked at the artillery cadets who were already busy and approaching the end.

These students who have just come into contact with artillery are different from those old gunners. The old god gunners rely on talent and the experience gained from thousands of exercises, while these students rely on tools and precise calculations. Under the education of those Spanish officers, they are learning and growing. Although they still have no experience to accumulate, they can make up for the gap between them through systematic learning.

Seeing them, Liang Pengfei suddenly felt that the fatigue on his body seemed to have dissipated a lot in this moment. These little guys were all skillful young men who were carefully selected from the pirates and the Liang family's children who could endure hardships and have a lot of minds. In addition to these more than 30 artillery cadets, a considerable number of students stayed on Crab Island and continued to learn various knowledge from the Spanish officers.

These people will be grassroots officers trained by Liang Pengfei in the future. As long as they work hard, maybe there will be a marshal or general among them. Liang Pengfei thought happily.

"Okay, start testing the cannon. Brother Pao, you come first, it's better to get a lottery." Liang Pengfei patted Brother Li Pao's shoulder and ordered.

"Don't worry, young master, I really haven't let go of the empty game since I started playing cannons." Brother Li Pao was overjoyed and quickly stood up straight to Liang Pengfei and assured him.

"They have already started to line up, as if they are about to prepare for shooting." Zheng Jiaju's face turned pale, and sweat from his forehead kept surging out. He never expected that the Liang family pirates had set their positions outside the range of the eighteen-pound and twenty-four-pound cannons on the city wall.

"Can their cannons hit so far?" Zheng Wenxian's face was not much better than Zheng Jiaju. As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a loud noise that made people's heart tremble, like thunder crushing through the sky, a dull and heavy roar, just like the roar of the most terrifying demon in the abyss of hell.

All the Zheng family pirates standing on the city tower were slightly stagnant at this moment, and the next moment, they felt as if they were no longer standing on the solid city gate tower, but on a ball of soft cotton. The violent vibration made Zheng Wenxian unable to maintain his standing posture, and quickly rushed forward and leaned on the female wall.

Zheng Wenxian was still in a state of shock and heard the neat cheers from afar. This sound was naturally from the Liang family pirates opposite. When Zheng Wenxian got up, lay on the female wall, and looked down at the city tower, his face instantly turned gray. He clearly saw that the solid wall, which was piled up with thick blue bricks, had been bombarded by the terrifying giant cannon projectiles, with a diameter of at least three feet and a depth of five. What shocked him even more was the terrifying cracks on the wall.

"Breaking back, fight back!" Zheng Wenxian no longer cared about the style of a young master and famous scholar, roared loudly, staring at his eyes whose pupils had expanded to the extreme, and shouting at his subordinates who had not yet woken up from the bombardment of the heavy artillery.

Hearing Zheng Wenxian's heart-breaking roar like a dead mother getting married, the pirates of the Zheng family finally woke up from the power of the heavy artillery and rushed to their respective posts to work hard. Soon, dozens of white smoke were sprayed out from the gun holes on the Zheng family castle. With the earth-shaking sound of cannons, countless painted black projectiles roared and tore open the air, and rushed towards the Liang family pirates in front of them.
Chapter completed!