Marry Changle in Datang

Chapter 726 Talk!true!
After Qin Dapeng left the barracks, Qin Wenyuan transferred several cannons and carried them to the big ship.

Not long after Zu Yi saw Qin Wenyuan, someone carried an object he had never seen before onto the big ship. Hearing what Qin Wenyuan said, it was a moment of cannon fire. The light and slender barrel gave him the feeling that this thing was too childish, and it was not as powerful as the catapult, but he didn't know how powerful this weapon was.

Seeing Zu Yi's demeanor, Qin Wenyuan didn't say anything, but first asked Zu Yi to place the cannons around the ship where they could fight. After waiting half a day for the cannons to be properly placed, Qin Wenyuan ordered Zu Yi to move the ship further away. He commanded the soldiers who carried the cannons onto the ship and fired a cannon at a reef on the coast after doing so.

But there was a loud "boom" sound, and in the dust and smoke, only the bombed reef was blown up and debris was blown up everywhere. Several soldiers were so frightened that they were sitting on the boat panting for breath.

When the cannon was fired, Qin Wenyuan roughly felt the shaking of the lower hull, and he was already aware of the shaking of the big ship caused by the recoil of the cannon. It seemed that a cannon of this caliber installed on the ship had little effect on the big ship. Zu Yi said eagerly.

"Master Zu can hurry up and clean up the other ships and install them with this kind of artillery. After the installation is complete, the general will take these ships to meet the bandits on the surrounding islands to see if they can all be wiped out."

Zu Yi, who was still in a daze under the power of the artillery fire, just came to his senses when he heard Qin Wenyuan's words. Holding a golden cannonball in his arms, he knelt down and said to Qin Wenyuan respectfully as if facing a god's mansion.

"The villain will follow the general's order, and will try his best to strengthen and repair these warships to help the general wipe out the pirates as soon as possible!"

Qin Wenyuan helped Zu Yi up with warm words of encouragement, and asked him to move all his family members from the seaside to live in the city. The Qin family would provide his family with land and daily necessities, and all the children in his family who were good at building ships and knew how to live as craftsmen Can be used in the military.

Zu Yi was very excited by Qin Wenyuan's words of caring for his family. It was his Zu Yi's blessing to meet such an official family, unlike the army of the Sui Dynasty who only knew how to employ people but didn't care about the life and death of their subordinates and their relatives at home.

Since then, Zu Yi has completely regarded the building of warships by Qin's army as his own repayment for Qin Wenyuan's kindness. He brought a few boys in his family and a group of craftsmen to work on the construction site of the seaside port all day long, building warships one by one. The wood of the ship was neatly packed by them, and the blueprints of the warships were passed to Xu Tian from time to time. Once they got Qin Wenyuan's approval, they wanted to start building new warships.

Qin Wenyuan has his own plans for building a new type of warship. He needs a warship that can fight at sea for a long time and can transport troops. Yi, Li Kuang, and Mo Yazi put forward their own views and suggestions during the discussion in the military camp.

Although Qin Wenyuan didn't know how to build warships, Zu Yi, Li Kuang, Mo Yazi and others were amazed by the idea he proposed. Li Kuang knew that Qin Wenyuan had some fantastic ideas and didn't find it surprising. When "Qin Family Village" saw this kid for the first time, he was familiar with it, but Mo Yazi and Zu Yi were shocked by this kid's idea of ​​surpassing this era, so they wanted to see what was in this kid's brain.

According to Qin Wenyuan's idea, several people changed the drawings and looked a little excited, but seeing that the conical shape of the bow is more in line with the appearance of cutting through the waves in the water, Qin Wenyuan asked the left and right groups for the power part at the bottom of the cabin At least 100 oars can be accommodated, and Qin Wenyuan made innovations in the design of the oars, which made it easier for the soldiers to sway the oars.

Looking at the small movable connecting rod on the scull structure drawn by Qin Wenyuan, Li Kuang and Mo Yazi sighed for a while. It's just that this small thing will save the soldiers so much energy. A small connecting rod can make the enemy's ship no longer an opponent of the Qin army's warship in terms of speed.

Zu Yi was completely shocked by Qin Wenyuan's erudition, and he no longer dared to be proud of his knowledge of ships. He finally had a more humble attitude in front of this little general, and kept mumbling in his mouth.

"It's true that there is a sky beyond the sky, and there are people beyond people!"

After finalizing the matter of the warship and handing it over to Zu Yi, Qin Wenyuan told Li Kuang and Mo Yazi to speed up the construction of the port and the barracks. To end everything here, Qin Wenyuan wants to lead an army from the sea via Youzhou to raid the Yinshan line to block the escape of the Eastern Turks. According to his previous life memory, the battle will start in October of the third year of Zhenguan. It is only a few short months from now.

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In the mid-March of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, Qin Wenyuan began to suppress the pirates on the nearby islands in Dengzhou. The notice in the government office advised those bandits on the islands that as long as they were not committing crimes, they could go to the Dengzhou Yamen to surrender. The evil deeds they committed were not investigated and these people were resettled in Dengzhou to make a living under the arrangement of the government. This made many gangsters who were not well-off and oppressed by the pirates of Salmon Island tried to come to Dengzhou from the small island where they lived. The yamen surrendered, and in a short period of time, thousands of pirates surrendered.

On this day, Qin Wenyuan put on his whole body and immediately stood on the general's platform in the newly built school field of the military camp. Thousands of soldiers of the Qin family army lined up in the school field with solemn faces and neat swords and guns. Thousands of surrendered pirates were surrounded by the school field. What does this general intend to do to them.

Several battle drums resounded through the sky, and thousands of soldiers shouted loudly.

"I'll see the general!"

Qin Wenyuan waved his hand to signal the soldiers to be quiet, and said loudly to the pirates who were already a little dumbfounded by the situation.

"Now that you are in good faith, those who are willing to join the Xu Family Army Navy can stay and receive military uniforms and other equipment for training. Those who do not want to join the army can go to the Yamen to report to the Yamen and wait for the distribution of housing and work, whether they are soldiers or civilians. You will all be thankful for your choice today. From now on, Dengzhou will no longer allow pirates to make trouble. I am here to advise those pirates who are still doing evil on the island to wash their hands and surrender as soon as possible, leaving a way out for themselves and their families. Otherwise, don’t blame this general for being ruthless!”

After Qin Wenyuan said something, most of the pirates were single men who were willing to join the army, but among the dark crowd, there was a tall man with a beard, and the muscles on his arms were still exposed on a cold March day. , squeezed out of the bandits and said loudly while walking.

"A certain Zhoucang is willing to follow the general to make contributions, but also hopes that the general will help the villain."

Seeing this burly man Xu Tian was already overjoyed, he must have some skills to dare to shout here, Qin Wenyuan said loudly again to prove what he thought.

"Wu Na man, what ability do you have to follow this general? If you can accept the three moves of this general, how about you?"

"The general, please return the villain's weapon, and the villain will take three moves from the general!"

The man named Zhou Cang didn't show weakness when he heard what Qin Wenyuan said, and replied loudly.

"Give him the weapon!"

As Qin Wenyuan said, he jumped off the horse a few times and came to the side of the big man.

After the big man got his weapon, Qin Wenyuan saw that the big man used a zhang-long iron rod, holding it in his hand, it stood upright like an iron tower, just like the god general he saw in the temple in his previous life, The side is that it looks good, but I don't know what's going on with the job in the hands of this big man.

Qin Wenyuan made a gesture with his bare hands, Zhou Cang saw that Qin Wenyuan dared to fight against him without a weapon because of his arrogance, this man also had a bold temper, so he threw the iron rod in his hand aside, and clenched his fists as big as copper bowls with both hands. Shengfeng slammed towards Qin Wenyuan, but his strength should not be underestimated. If he hit him, it would really hurt his muscles and bones.

Zhou Cang's seemingly simple moves this week benefited from his strength and strength so that people dare not easily meet his fists. Qin Wenyuan used Tai Chi to overcome rigidity with softness four times a thousand catties. He insisted on using four to five moves to bring this reckless man down, but Seeing that Zhou Cang got up from the ground and refused to accept it, and was thrown down several times by Xu Tian with the same move, he knelt down and yelled loudly.

"The general is mighty, Zhou Cang is convinced, I beg the general to take him in!"

Qin Wenyuan helped Zhou Cang up and laughed loudly.

"What a heroic man, follow this general from now on!"

Zhou Cang was delighted to pay homage to Qin Wenyuan again, and since then he has been following Xu Tian in the South and North Wars until he accumulated military merits until he became the third-rank General Jinwu in the imperial court.

While Qin Wenyuan was in a hurry to recruit pirates from all walks of life, the pirates on Salmon Island were already preparing for a battle with Xu Tian, ​​and the pirate leader Zhang Dabao yelled loudly at the several leaders under his command, leaning on the high position of the village master.

"Ma San, Kong Lao Er, since your mother's Lu Maoer was beheaded by Qin Wenyuan, there has been no news from Dengzhou. Don't you two know how to send some people to Dengzhou to find out more news?"

"Boss Zhang, it's not that we didn't send people to Dengzhou. It's because the fishermen on the nearby small islands all defected to the army, and the people we sent were all recognized and beheaded by the army. Now there is no such brother. Dare to go to Dengzhou to inquire about news.”

"Because of your cowardice, Qin Wenyuan is just a boy with no hair. I don't know what you are afraid of. If the water village runs out of food like this, you can't let the brothers just work and not eat."

"Report!"

When Zhang Dabao was discussing the matter of Dengzhou and Zhaizi with his subordinates, some pirates shouted loudly.

"Say what's going on!"

"Boss Zhang, the young ones were sailing on the sea and found several merchant ships approaching the waters near our stockade. They thought they were going to pass through here to the Laizhou Xinluo ship. From a distance, the villains saw that there seemed to be some women on board the ship. It’s hot-eyed, the boss quickly ordered everyone to rob this merchant ship, but the brothers have not fainted for a long time.”

"Xiao Qi, go and see if the situation is true, and pay attention to whether there is any sign of the Dengzhou Navy on the water, and we will bring people to follow you and wait for it to be as usual, then take down a few merchant ships and let the brothers beat their teeth!"

The merchant ships sailing on the sea were the envoys of the Silla Dynasty and the merchants from Silla who were going to land in Laizhou and then to Chang'an. The ship carried the beauties and some jewelry and gold presented by King Jin Jinde of Silla to the Tang Dynasty. The goods traded between Chang'an and Qizhou, several ships full of people and supplies, after several days of drifting, finally entered the waters of Dengzhou, thinking that they would pass through Dengzhou and enter Laizhou in less than a day. The envoys of the King of Silla and the merchants looked at the not-too-distant coast happily, but they didn't know that the danger had come quietly.

Qin Wenyuan had to send scouts disguised as fishermen to report that there was a caravan traveling to the waters of Dengzhou, and there seemed to be malicious boats around the merchant ship following the news for a long time. Thinking about it, these small boats must be the pirate's eyeliner to spy on the merchant ship. Soldiers were summoned to camouflage the two warships equipped with cannons, and then they drove quickly to hide behind an island and reef where merchant ships must pass through the sea.

At this time, Qin Wenyuan was standing on the deck and holding a telescope to observe the situation of the Silla merchant ship. After a while, he saw a dozen medium-sized fast boats rushing out from the islands and reefs close to the coast to surround the merchant ship, and one of them was slightly The big warships were waving various semaphores as if they were directing the charging fast boats.

The people on the merchant ship had already discovered that the pirates were trying to stop them to save their lives. From a distance, they could see that there were many soldiers on the ship carrying rackets and bows and crossbows ready to deal with the pirates. Qin Wenyuan, who has been observing the situation, believes that these soldiers must not be the opponents of the pirates.

Look at how arrogant those pirates are with their hooks, spears, knives, bows and arrows. One by one, they set up bows and arrows on the boards to ignite the arrows and threaten the merchant ships to stop, otherwise they will shoot the arrows with flames. The sky is dry and the sea is howling with strong winds. If these rockets shoot over and ignite the items piled up on the ship, what a surprise.

At this time, Qin Wenyuan ordered the warship to attack, and saw that his ship raised a flag and ordered another warship to attack the opponent's command ship. After the two warships sailed out of the hidden island, Qin Wenyuan's ship fired first. The pirate ship that threatened merchant ships with rockets.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

After several thunderous noises, the pirate ship that was showing off its power just now was flying around, its hull was blown to pieces, crooked and began to sink.

The cries for help, the screams, the crackling of the fire burning the ship, the cheers from the merchant ships, and the wind at sea resounded across the sea.

Qin Wenyuan commanded the warships to continue attacking the pirate fast boats. After dozens of cannons fired, the dozens of pirate ships on the sea were already filled with smoke, and many pirates jumped into the cold water and frantically walked towards the coast. The medium-sized warship commanding the pirates quickly retreated to an island and reef, rushed left and right after eating the second cannon. Unfortunately, the warships under Xu Tian were not familiar with this sea route, so they just watched helplessly. The unsinkable warship fled the battlefield.

Qin Wenyuan led the army to victory in the first battle, and escorted the Silla merchant ships to Dengzhou for a rest. King Jin Zhende of Silla sent envoys to Datang to lead the merchants to disembark to pay homage to Xu Tian. He saw a busy construction site by the sea, and there were many soldiers at the barracks not far away. Thinking of the powerful gunfire of the warships seen on the sea just now, the envoy of the King of Silla was shocked besides being shocked.

(End of this chapter)