This is a very clumsy recruitment. Fu Qian is worthy of being a master of craftsmanship and miscellaneous studies who became famous in the late Wei Dynasty. In the past two years, Xu Zixian deliberately cultivated it. He was surrounded by master craftsmen invited from all over the country and some famous scholars. As for the various craftsmanship books of the Great Wei and the previous dynasties, the Dongfa was all complete, so his level of craftsmanship was far more than two years ago. Although his academic performance did not have a peak or a stagnant period, from Fu Qian's current level alone, it was probably the best in the Great Wei Dynasty.

However, the flaw of this kind of technical talent is that it is now, and it speaks and does things very rudely. For example, if you want to recruit these two pirates who have the opportunity to be awarded the title of the third-rank general by the military governor and the court, the pirates of the rank are too stiff and even too casual, and they feel a little careless.

Fortunately, Deng Wenjun and Lu Sihai both knew who Fu Qian was. They looked at each other and saw what the other person meant.

King of Qin? Very outstanding and respectable.

The shogunate and the navy also had great prospects. In fact, Wang Zhi called two of his most trusted subordinates to the East Bible. One was to seek support and help, because the strength of the East Bible Navy suddenly increased and was enough to rely on it. The other was to find a way out for his subordinates. The maritime trade in the north was not developed enough to support Wang Zhi's current subordinate size of 20,000 people. The islands and territory assigned by the court could not afford to support so many pirates who surrendered to the inner ranks.

Lu Sihai grinned and said, "When Dongfan also built the warship with dozens of cannons on a ship, we will discuss it later."

Fu Qian snorted coldly, knowing that the two of them were unwilling to tell the truth to him, so he deliberately fought.

"I want to remind you about some things." Fu Qian said solemnly: "If we defeat Pu Xingfeng and all the things are done, then the cards will be revealed. The earlier we bet, the more profits we make. If we dare not place bets, we will only make moves. It is like a gambler. Although there is no risk, the profits are very limited."

"Brother Fu is worthy of being a master of miscellaneous studies." Deng Wenjun said calmly: "I am also proficient in gambling."

"No need to say more about gossip." Fu Qian said solemnly: "I ordered the gun team to fire the gun and test the newly cast twenty-pound cannon."

The two pirate generals stopped making a sound and were waiting for the gun crew to test the fire not far away.

The entire firearm bureau was in a sunken valley, and the shooting range was the small valley opposite, with huge targets dug out. About twenty people pushed out the heavy artillery with wooden gun mounts, and then began to aim at the bull's eye with the equipment.

"This is a twenty-pound cannon, which is a heavy cannon." Fu Qian said: "It weighs more than 4,000 kilograms, nearly 5,000 kilograms, which is quite light. Our ships cannot be placed on both sides, but can only be used as bow and stern cannons. The other ten-pound cannons can be placed on four or six to two sides. Each warship can have ten, eight, six heavy and medium-sized, and light cannons respectively. In addition, our ship can still be equipped with light bed crossbows... The heavy eight-ox crossbow is not only not suitable for field battles, but also not very suitable for naval battles. It can only be gradually eliminated, and is only suitable for strengthening momentum when defending the city."

Fu Qian smiled and said, "Fortunately, the construction of the Baniu Crossbow is difficult and too expensive, and there are not many on our Fujian Road."

Deng Wenjun nodded and said, "When we were competing for power at sea with the general, we valued the most in the battle between the side, bows and arrows, spears, flying axes, bones, and jumped into the gang with a knife. Only by catching the ship is the only way to seize the ship. Whether there is a crossbow or a catapult is not important..."

At this time, the gun team had adjusted the elevation angle of the gun mount and stuffed it into the medicine bag. Another gunner released the heavy iron round shell out of the gun bore. Someone stepped forward to squeeze and stuffed it. Then the members of the gun team retreated together, and some stretched out a long ignition rod to ignite the inducing medicine...

"That's about that." Lu Sihai kept staring at it, and then smiled: "The people of Tianfang and the people of Taixi are also firing fires..."

"boom……"

The sudden loud noise shocked everyone, and Deng, Lu and their companions even jumped up.

Fu Qian didn't care. He had already covered his ears in advance.

The bombardment of more than 20 kilograms of heavy artillery was quite amazing. The fire was sprayed, and the sound was like thunder. The bull's eye on the opposite mountain was hit on the side.

Large pieces of rock fragments burst out, and then the dust spreading.

Lu Sihai and Deng Wenjun were dumbfounded. After a while, Deng Wenjun said: "If this is the case, it will hit the deck of the enemy ship, I'm afraid it will be..."

Deng Wenjun probably didn't say it for a long time. At this time, the people of Tianfang still used trenchers, while the Thais all used cannons, but their cannons were just small cannons, and now they are still mainly small copper cannons and Folang cannons. Such large heavy cannons in front of them are also hard to find at this time.

Fu Qian couldn't help but grin. He was certainly proud of being able to cast such powerful cannons in about half a year. The previous Wei Dynasty had small cannons, and the barrels of the cannons were forged with iron tiles. The rifle was not smooth, the pressure on the barrels were small, and the kinetic energy was of course very poor, and it was effective to kill less than a hundred steps. Although Emperor Taizu of the Great Wei advocated the use of firearms, over the past two hundred years, the artillery of the Great Wei Dynasty was indeed unpopular.

The artillery in front of you is different. Due to the good iron quality and the cannon body is not too heavy, it can load about twenty kilograms of shells. After the barrel is thick, it can carry more gunpowder to advance, and the kinetic energy is increased. Now the effective range has exceeded 800 steps. Although it is not as far and accurate as the Eight Niu Crossbow, the control of the artillery is much easier than the Eight Niu Crossbow. In comparison, of course, it is still possible to use artillery to exert the long-range strike power of the warship until the close-range angle battle and the jump gang battle.

Deng Wenjun and Lu Sihai both looked deep... They did not doubt the ability of the Qin Wangfu army in the Dongfan to jump gang fight. It is not even exaggeration to say that the two pirate leaders from the north believed that the Qin Wangfu army was the strongest maritime force in the jump gang fight. Whether it was armored equipment or weapons, daily training, organization, command, and the loyalty, obedience of the soldiers, and the desire for victory. They only knew how to loot the wealth and wanted to save some pension money for themselves, pirates who could not compare with the government army at all.

The gap between a bunch of rabble and regular soldiers is huge, and it cannot be made up for the experience of several years at sea.

If the wind is right, it can be fought in a corner or a jump gang war at sea, then the government army can almost be beaten by Wang Zhi's troops, Kang Tianqi, Pu Xingfeng, and the government army can almost be beaten... Deng Wenjun and Lu Sihai know Pu Xingfeng. Among his subordinates, there are thousands of Tianfang people, who may have experienced military training and have a lot of experience in naval and land warfare. The scimitars and spears they use are excellent, the steel is excellent, the weapons are tough, and extremely sharp. These Tianfang people are also extremely cruel. But they are undoubtedly soldiers of the Tianfang tribe. They cannot receive long-term systematic military training, which does not mean that the military training completely crushes individual martial arts. For example, ten Tianfang soldiers against ten Taifang soldiers, it is very likely that a powerful Tianfang people will kill all the palace soldiers.

But if one hundred prefecture troops fight against one hundred people in the Tianfang, the prefecture troops may have killed all the other party after nearly half of their casualties.

If there are 1,000 people against 1,000 people, Deng Wenjun doesn't think there is any chance for the Tianfang people. At most 10% of the palace troops are killed or injured, and the Tianfang people are already defeated and fled.

This is the difference between professional soldiers and civilian warriors. Military training includes following orders, golden drums, flags, arrays, trust and cooperation between generals and soldiers, as well as command on the battlefield, etc.

After Deng Wenjun and Lu Sihai went to the island, they had already watched a lot of things worth watching. The equipment production of the Duke Army, including horns, iron masks, iron scale armor, piercing armor, hydraulic forging breastplate, etc. In addition, the configuration of the iron cavalry and heavy armor cavalry is even more luxurious for the two pirate leaders. The Duke Army is enough to sweep any pirate on the land, including Pu Xingfeng, who has more than 100,000 people. Perhaps this Tianfang pirate still has a high opinion of himself and believes that his strength is far above Yan Qi and Liu Dan, but in Deng Wenjun's view, it is nothing more than a large number. In essence, Pu Xingfeng's subordinates, Yan Qi, Liu Dan, and Wang Zhi, are no different.

However, the Qin King's Mansion Army surpassed the Great Wei imperial guards. If the two sides faced each other, the outcome could be imagined.

With the amazing artillery in front of you and the development of the navy in the palace, the two pirates from the north suddenly realized that what Fu Qian said was not to attract and win over, but to release a kind of kindness.

"Your Highness is still

Do you have time to see me and the other two?" Deng Wenjun couldn't help but say to Fu Qian: "I really want to see Your Highness."

Fu Qian smiled and said, "At this time, if His Highness of Qin requested to lead his army to participate in the Northern Expedition, will the court allow it? Moreover, Fujian Road and the East Vanguard are also inseparable. At this time, we will lead the main force to go north, supply money and grain, logistics and military supplies, and soldiers have just suppressed bandits everywhere and mobilized them after they are dispersed. Brother Deng thought the government army could still catch up?"

Deng Wenjun has invited Xu Zixian many times, but Xu Zixian has politely declined.

The pirate's loyalty and righteousness was much stronger than many noble and high-ranking officials of the Great Wei Dynasty. He had already submitted a letter to ask Xu Zixian to lead his troops north to help Li Guorui and the Northern Expedition Army. As Deng Wenjun saw, the strength of tens of thousands of prefecture troops was not under the imperial guards of the same number. These Qin prince's prefecture troops would have a decisive role in the overall battle situation.

But as Fu Qian said, the government army is scattered and suppressing local bandits, and gradually moving to Jianzhou. The court has issued several edicts urging the King of Qin to enter Jiangnan West Road as soon as possible and wipe out the remnants of Li Kaiming's troops... At this moment, how could the King of Qin ask himself to go north?

Moreover, no matter how fierce the south is, in the eyes of the northern imperial guard generals and the senior officials of the imperial court, the fighting power of the thieves in the south is low and cannot be compared with the eastern cavalry of the north. There is still doubt on how effective the Qin prince's mansion can go north to the north. However, the Qin king can take the opportunity to intervene in the northern war situation and enter the northern imperial guards. For a prince of Kaifu, it is not difficult to do something as long as he has the opportunity to do something. Under such a guardian mentality, the court will certainly not allow it, and Xu Zixian will never make any trouble.

Since I cannot agree to the request, meeting you for no reason is actually meaningless.

Deng Wenjun sighed, with a look of melancholy between his eyebrows. Lu Sihai grinned and said, "Our life is life, the life of the Northern Expedition soldiers is life, what about His Highness the King of Qin and the soldiers of the government? Ask them to hurry north and take a risk. The emperor was suspicious, I don't know how many casualties and injuries... Old Deng, you have misunderstood."

"At this moment, there are many Great Wei Erlangs fighting with the Donghu people for a desperate battle..." Deng Wenjun shook his head and sighed: "We have tried our best. What is the fortune of the Great Wei and the result? It is no longer something that people like us can decide."

At this time, the gun crew fired again, and a burst of cheers and screams came from the roar. Lu Sihai squinted his eyes and looked not far away, and he also saw Zhang Siqi and others. Lu Sihai saw many people from afar in the East Fan, and it was not strange that his eyes stayed on the two obviously frightened Dutch people for a long time. The people who were on the sea for a long time were not surprised by these Thais. Judging from their tall figure, they were both blonde hair. Judging from these details, it was impossible that they were Spanish or Portuguese, but obviously Dutch people who came from behind.

Since Malacca is controlled by the Tianfang people, the Dutch have no chance to make a foothold in Batavia at this time. They are competing with the Spaniards for Manila. At the same time, these Thai countries are also joining together to fight against pirates.

"Didn't they use artillery too?" Deng Wenjun also saw the Dutch and didn't care.

Not far away, Neil and Kearney barely calmed down, but they both saw the shock in each other's eyes. The impact of the artillery bombardment just now was too strong, and the two big blondes couldn't help but lose their composure like little girls.

The two Dutchmen understood why they were shocked. The artillery in front of them had far surpassed the European artillery in terms of quality. In terms of power and actual control, the Wei people were obviously above the Dutch.

They felt that their biggest trump card had been exposed, just like a strong wind blowing away their clothes in the downtown city and forced to walk naked in the crowd. This feeling was quite uncomfortable and shocked them.

The people of Wei also had firearms, but haven’t these Orientals always heavy bows, crossbows, and no firearms?
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