Gao Jinku knew that Huizhou City had been lost, so he did not dare to go back to the city and took his servants straight to the riverside. There were two centipede ships moored on the pier. These two ships were prepared in advance and ready to escape at any time. Unexpectedly, they would come in handy so early.

Gao Jinku arrived at the riverside and jumped off the boat with his personal soldiers.

"Drive the ship quickly!" Gao Jinku shouted.

The sailors on the boat responded, pulled up the anchor chain, unzipped the cable, and sailors carried the boat with bamboo poles and left the dock. The sailors raised the sails and rowed the oars, and the two boats quickly moved away from the shore.

At this moment, Gao Jinku suddenly realized that the two boats he and his personal soldiers were riding were getting farther and farther away, and the boat he was riding was not sailing eastward, but heading upstream to the northwest. He shouted, "What are you doing? Why are you going upstream?"

With the help of the faint light, Gao Jinku discovered that the sailors on the ship were all innocent! He had never seen any of these people. He had just boarded the ship in a hurry. In the dark, he did not find that the sailors on the ship had changed a group of people. Only then did he discover.

"Not good!" Gao Jinku shouted, "It's Li Zhe's man! Kill!"

The nine servants were on another boat, and three servants were also riding on the same boat by Gao Jinku. Gao Jinku believed that with his martial arts and the three servants, it was definitely not a problem to subdue more than ten sailors on the centipede ship.

But before Gao Jinku and his friends could start to take action, the sailors picked up their oars and jumped into the water. Another sailor cut off the sail rope and jumped into the water before Gao Jinku's knife came over.

The centipede fast ship suddenly turned into a slow ship, slowly descending downstream at an extremely slow speed on the river surface. Because the river surface in this section is flat and the water flows very slowly, the ship speed is as slow as a snail crawling.

A shout came from the upper river: "Don't leave the thief!"

Then I saw countless lights appearing on the upstream river, and the ship that was approaching the high-rise warehouse was approaching.

"It's broken, Li Zhe is here! Row quickly!" Gao Jinku shouted.

A strong servant rushed to the back of the boat and rode the oars desperately, but the oars were so easy to control? Those who had never learned to drive the boat did not know how to use oars. The servant also used oars like oars, and used all their brute force to sway the oars desperately. As a result, the boat was shaking around the river like a drunken drunk man, and could not move forward at all.

Seeing the fleet of the Huai Army Navy getting closer and closer to him, Gao Jinku shouted anxiously: "Jump the ship!"

After saying that, Gao Jinku and his three servants jumped into the cold and bone-breathing river.

Gao Jinku's water quality is pretty good, and it is not a problem to swim from the north bank of the river to the south bank. However, after he jumped into the water, he felt that his legs were being grabbed. Then his powerful hands pressed his head and pressed him to the bottom of the water.

No matter how hard Gao Jinku struggled, he could not break free. Although his strength was better than ordinary sailors, he could not exert it in the water at all. He was not as good as humans, and no matter how much strength was, it was useless. The two sailors pulled their feet and pressed their heads one by one, pressing him into the water. I don’t know how much water he drank, Gao Jinku gradually lost consciousness.

All three servants in Gao Jinku were subdued in the water. I don’t know how long it took, Gao Jinku slowly woke up and found that he had been tied up and was thrown in the cabin of a boat. His three servants were tied up and threw them in the cabin.

Another centipede ship has been subdued by the Huai Army sailors, and all nine servants have been captured.

Gao Jinku was taken to Li Guodong's central army tent, and two water ghosts shouted: "I won't kneel down when I see our lord!"

Seeing that Gao Jinku refused to kneel down, two water ghosts raised their feet and kicked Gao Jinku's leg behind his knees, kicking him to his knees.

"General Gao, don't be fine! In the battle of Ganzhou, you were asked to run away. This time, my country's Duke prepared for Huizhou. When I saw two boats on the river outside the city, I knew that you were still preparing to escape! So my country's Duke replaced the sailors on your two boats with my people. Sure enough, after you were defeated in the trap, you fled to the ship, which was a trap." Li Guodong laughed.

"Riege!" Gao Jinku was still a stubborn man and cursed, "You won by chance by chance by chance. What kind of hero is you? You won't be a martial artist!"

"It's not a good thing to win?" Li Guodong laughed, "You rely on your strong city to defend and have the support of a powerful navy. If I hadn't used a little trick, would I let my brothers die in vain? Do you not know?"

"Bah! Dog thief! If you want to kill and cut, you will listen to the emperor! I will be another hero in twenty years!" Gao Jinku cursed.

"Come on! Pull it out and behead it!" Li Guodong shouted.

Li Guodong did not want to leave his life for Gao Jinku. After Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren last year, if Gao Jinku was still alive, Li Guodong would naturally not make things difficult for this person's real historical crimes. However, this person not only did not, he also joined the rebels and became enemies with the court, so he could not bear it. Therefore, Li Guodong ordered him to behead him and let this person pay the price for the crimes committed by time and space against the Ming Dynasty.

The Huai Army captured Huizhou City, and the large and small steel workshops in Huizhou City fell into Li Guodong's hands almost intact.

"Huizhou's iron crafting industry is comparable to Foshan, and we have obtained Huizhou. We should develop and support the steel industry, unite all small workshops and transform them into United Steel Company." Li Guodong decided to invite all the owners of large and small iron crafting workshops in Huizhou to discuss the establishment of United Steel Company.

The iron smelting industry is the most developed in Guangdong. Even the steel smelted by technology brought by Li Guodong through time may not be as good as the steel smelted by handicraft workshops in Guangdong.

Take the rifled rifle as an example. Why did Li Guodong only build one rifle himself for so many years? Because rifled rifle is related to problems such as lead hanging, rifle wear, etc., without the support of high-quality steel, this kind of weapon cannot be mass-produced. The rifle built by Li Guodong himself has a lifespan of only fifty shots. After fifty shots, the rifle was basically smoothed.

Therefore, the rifled rifles used by the Huai Army's scattered soldiers are all imported from Europe.

Why can European rifled rifles mature? First of all, because the quality of European iron ore is higher than that of the Ming Dynasty. Only Qiongzhou iron ore is a high-quality iron ore, and the quality of iron ore in other places is far inferior to that of Europe; the second point is that by this era, in fact, the technology of the East has been surpassed by the West, and the Ming Dynasty has been chasing, but steel technology is still not as good as Europe. So let alone rifles, even the spring steel strips required for flintlock rifles cannot be mass-produced, so Li Guodong had to import flintlock rifles and a small number of rifled rifles.

Compared with bird guns, that is, the flintlock gun, the flintlock gun is obviously a great improvement. There is no need for flint to get in the way. The formations of queuing and shooting can be more dense. There is no need to worry about the flint igniting the gunpowder on teammates, and the reloading speed has also been increased by one level.

In the near future, bird guns will be eliminated, but the turtle dove-foot gun, or the heavy contrailer, will still be retained. In fact, the Ming Dynasty's turtle dove-foot gun is an imitation of the Spanish heavy contrailer, but it only increases the caliber and increases the weight of the projectiles. Originally, the Spanish heavy contrailer fired one or two-half-weight projectiles, while the Ming Dynasty's turtle dove-foot gun can fire three or two-dimensional projectiles and can also fire shotguns. This is simply a small cannon.

If the Huai Army wants to explode troops in the future, it will definitely not work by relying solely on imports. It must produce flintlock rifles themselves, which requires Guangdong's steel industry.
Chapter completed!