Not everyone is wise. There are always some stupid idiots who are so stupid that they are unbelievable and sigh for them.

Not far from Snake Island, there is a bear island. This island is larger than Snake Island, and there are really bears in the mountains on the island. However, the most famous bear on this island is a man named Bear.

A man who is as thick and tough as a bear, is a neighbor of the Red Viper Snake and has always wanted to marry the Red Viper Snake as his wife.

The bear is a real pirate. Unlike the Red Viper who became a monk halfway, he has been traversing this sea for twenty or thirty years. In the past, he was unstable, but only in recent years began to settle on Bear Island. Occupying Bear Island, robbing merchant ships, smuggling, and even kidnapping murder and extortion, there seems to be nothing he doesn't do.

Although the people on Snake Island were a little suspicious of Li Chao's generous conditions, they finally followed Du Hongying's persuasion and accepted the surrender. Li Chao sent someone to say hello to the Dengzhou government, and they cooperated to send a few officials over there. After some procedures, these people could be transported to Haidong by Li Ji.

"Be careful of the black bear. These people are real pirates and do everything they want." Du Hongying reminded Li Chao.

"You are very familiar with this black bear and the Wuhu Islands. Why don't you act as my guide first?" Li Chao asked Du Hongying for invitation.

"I'll make a statement first." Du Hongying did not refuse immediately, but hesitated and said, "I have only married one man in my life, that is, my husband Ximen Junyi. After he dies, I don't plan to marry again."

This is a bit embarrassing. Cheng Yaojin's old gangster was right. Du Hongying really misunderstood that Li Chao had fallen in love with her. However, this does not seem to be surprising. The Li family moved the Jianghuai Army and the others to their territory, with more than a thousand people. The offer of such preferential conditions must be to make these people a member of the Li family.

The simplest method is also a common method for those powerful people, which is tantamount to directly accepting Du Hongying. In this way, more than a thousand people from the entire Jianghuai Army will truly become their own people.

The powerful people like to do this, and Du Hongying mistakenly thought that Li Chao thought so too.

Li Chao thought for a while and said, "You are indeed a woman worthy of praise. If you have the chance, I really want to pursue you. But I never force you." This is to give her face, otherwise it would be embarrassing to tell the truth. Such compliments are not harmful.

Du Hongying was still a little skeptical.

"Thank you, Duke Zhao."

"You can call me Saburo or Wen Yuan, you don't have to be so polite. If you want, I hope to ask you to act as my guide. Even if there are any one on your island who are willing to come to me for help for the time being, I can find you a seat on my boat. The salary is very good. You know, it is very difficult to find someone with rich experience on the boat now."

Du Hongying knew that Dengzhou Port was full of rich people wielding treasure money and gold coupons to recruit people, but they didn't think about it before. But now, she thought she could think about it.

"I think you can consider it. If you divide the fields at the treasure island, it will not affect your work on my boat."

More than a thousand people have to leave here, and they cannot rely on collecting tolls or smuggling and fraud in the future. The income will definitely have an impact. Another thing, doing things for Li Chao is to strengthen the relationship between the two parties. After all, they will have to live in Li Chao's territory in the future.

"I can pick out about a hundred people to get on the boat to help."

"Thank you, you've already helped me a lot."

After becoming Li Chao's guide, Du Hongying's first suggestion was not to try to surrender this guy. "Don't give this guy a little chance and directly raid the bear island. Otherwise, he will run away and it will be difficult to catch it. Once he is asked to run away, it will be very troublesome in the future. Although this guy is nicknamed Black Bear, he is extremely selfish and revenge."

In the past, the black bear had been entangled in Du Hongying. For the sake of Snake Island, she kept silly and delayed, but she really didn't have any good feelings for this man.

Li Chao clapped his hands, "You are not only my guide, but also my adviser. Very good. Since this is your first suggestion, we will follow what you said."

The red venomous snake is very familiar with the neighbors on Bear Island and also with Bear Island.

Bear Island is larger, not only has water villages but also mountain villages, but the number of people is smaller than that of Snake Island. There are only about 300 people on the island, but they are all a group of vicious pirates.

They had five or six boats, soft sailing and hard sailing ships, but not big. The biggest one was a small three-masted soft sailing ship, a ship with about five hundred materials, and could carry about one hundred and two pirates.

"These pirates robbed merchant ships, and they hid in advance in some islands or shore bays. They chose target ships in ports. Generally, they chose old-style merchant ships. These ships were slow. Then they stared at them with speedboats, notified the pirates after they left the port, and then found a secluded place to raid and chase them."

"They used the speed of the speed of the clutch to catch up with the merchant ship, and boarded the ship by jumping the sidelines, forcing the merchant ship to surrender or kill the guards and seize the ship."

Du Hongying proposed a plan.

"We have a good relationship with Bear Island and have some contacts. If I take the people from Snake Island to Bear Island, they won't be too careful. We take the opportunity to take their water village and can solve them in one fell swoop."

The plan for this raid is good, especially Li Chao's letter of vote.

"There is no need to take risks. We have many ships and many powers, just attack them directly."

"Duke Zhao should not underestimate the enemy. Heixiong's water camp has several catapult cars and eight ox crossbows. If we attack for a strong force and they will fight back, they may cause casualties to ships and people."

Cheng Yaojin laughed beside him, "The pirates of three hundred people, several catapults and three crossbows may be very powerful among the pirates, but I tell you that it is not worth mentioning in front of our Duke of Zhao's armed merchant ship. Our merchant ship is equipped with cannons licensed by the court. Even the navy of the court may not have the strong firepower on the Wenyuan merchant ship."

"It's better to attack, there's no need to let you take risks." Li Chao said to Du Hongying with a smile.

It is also very necessary to use black bears to practice the firepower of armed merchant ships. If you do not practice live ammunition, how can you fight against the real enemy in the future?

Ten merchant ships set off, and about one hundred new people from Snake Island were added on the ship.

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When Dagashi approached Bear Island, the island had already sounded the alarm. These people were worthy of being special pirates. They were very alert and reacted very quickly. But no matter how fast they were, they were not as fast as Li Chao and the others.

Da Gaishi quickly blocked Bear Island Pier.

"Turn the ship's side."

"Open the porthole!"

The commands were passed down one by one, and the sailors and marines on the ship were busy. For them, the battle was also very novel.

The Garen ship was already facing Bear Island, very close.

A small window suddenly opened on the side of the ship, and a cannon was pushed out.

As a popular official of the Tang Dynasty, although the artillery production is small now, Li Chao can still give priority to installing these new weapons on his merchant ships.

Although these artillery, known as general guns, are actually small in diameter and not long in range, they are still cannons no matter what. When a Li Ji armed merchant ship with more than 30 gatekeepers opens the cannon window, it still makes people full of fear.

No matter how small a cannon is, it is stronger than a crossbow.

"Come and try our general cannon."

The cannons equipped on Li Chao's ship were the general cannons, but they were actually long-barrel cannons. Because the Tang Dynasty was short of copper and iron smelting technology was now relatively advanced, Li Chao used cast iron cannons.

Du Hongying looked at the gunners busy, pointed at the black and long guys in surprise and asked, "Are these artillery?"

"This is General Shenwei, and he is still in the test type. The cast iron cannon has a diameter of two and a half inches and a length of fifty-five inches. It uses four and a half kilograms of iron bullets, and the cannon weighs 1,200 kilograms."

Li Chao made a batch of gunfire for himself in the name of experiments.

This batch of cannons is equivalent to the three-pound long naval cannons on the sailing warships of the Age of Discovery.

In the Age of Discovery, sail battleships moved hundreds of artillery pieces, and the bottom deck was even heavy artillery of thirty-two pounds. Three-pound cannons were at most arranged on the upper deck, which was considered light artillery.

The bronze cannon was actually lighter and more durable, but the Tang Dynasty was a country that lacked copper. If copper cannons were used, it would cost more than six times the cost of iron cannons. Therefore, the Imperial Firearms and Iron Cannon Bureau adopted Li Chao's suggestion and used cast iron cannons.

"How far can I shoot?"

"The effective range is 200 steps and the maximum range is 300 steps, but the optimal range should be about 100 steps." Although these experimental cast iron cannons have a high starting skills from the beginning, they are starting from scratch, with a diameter of two and a half inches and a half kilograms of iron bombs, and the range is not long.

However, it should be placed on the ship and used to bombard enemy ships, it is still very powerful. After all, the long-range strike power on the ship in this era is too small and too weak.

Originally, Li Chao had considered installing a Folang machine from behind, but later he felt that the Folang machine was a deviant cannon, and this cannon was too powerful, so he simply skipped it.

Du Hongying was amazed when she watched the gunner on the ship stuff an iron ball weighing four and a half pounds into the barrel of the more than one thousand pounds.

It's iron.

This is all iron.

Although iron is cheaper than copper, copper is money, and iron is also very valuable. On Li Chao's ship, there are thirty-two iron cannons on the decks of the gun decks on both sides of the ship. These are tens of thousands of kilograms of iron, and boxes of shells are all iron.

What a luxury, rich.

It's really like throwing money at someone.

The cannon on one side has been loaded.

Two-layer cannons are on standby.

Cheng Yaojin was ready to rub his hands.

"Wen Yuan, let me order the artillery. Damn, in the past, when the opponent was fighting, he first shot a round of arrows. Ten thousand arrows were fired at once. At that time, I felt that the fighting style was extremely luxurious, but even ten thousand arrows were fired at once. There was less than one or two arrows, and your shell was only more than four pounds, but it was a full seventy-two pounds."

"Lao Cheng, I like such a luxurious style of playing."

Li Chao nodded with a smile. The Tang Dynasty only produced one million kilograms of iron a year, and such a little iron material really cannot support the current shell attack. But now the iron production has increased sharply. Li Ji alone can contribute millions of kilograms of iron to the Tang Dynasty in one year, and this amount is still growing rapidly.

"Okay, order."

Cheng Yaojin put down the telescope in his hand. In fact, this distance can be seen clearly without the telescope.

"Start a fire, shoot his bitch--raising me!"

Cheng Yaojin waved and shouted loudly.

In the ten great worlds, only Li Chao's two ships were equipped with cannons.

There are a total of more than 60 cannons, with full firepower at one time and more than 30 cannons.

Fireworks lit up on the cannon windows on the side of the ship in turn, and an iron cannon blasted towards the Pirates in Xiongdao, with the sound of cannons being thunderous.
Chapter completed!