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Chapter 132 Ningbo Tribulation ([-])
Let us turn our attention back to the Jiangxia Wharf outside the city of Ningbo. Some people may ask: Dongbao Chamber of Commerce is obviously so strong, why does it allow "Japanese pirates" to run rampant around Ningbo at this time?
Yes, the sea power of the Dongbao Chamber of Commerce is indeed strong, but it will never be so strong that it is equipped with a few cannons and dozens of muskets for every lucky boat that pulls goods.Moreover, under normal circumstances, the number of sailors on a cargo ship is only 1/8, or even 1/10 of that of a warship. Even if it is a Daifuku ship with new sails, the number of sailors on board will never exceed 40.

而这不到40人当中，通常也只有一队由6-8名水手组成战斗队。在东宝的船队当中，海上的战斗任务通常都是由负责护航的战舰来完成的。就比如这支由5条船组成的香料船队，来去都由一艘配备8门火炮和70多名水手的高帮鸟船进行护航。

However, the bird boat in charge of escorting today has long been as usual. After escorting the fleet to Yongjiangkou, it left on its own and returned to Dongbao's temporary safe haven on Zhoushan Island.After all, Ningbo Port at this time was just a river port, just like Tianjin Wei at this time, and it was far from reaching the scale of building a port near the sea in later generations.Moreover, once a warship at sea enters the river, it will be quite passive in case of a temporary situation.Therefore, Dongbao's warship would never venture into the river unless it was absolutely necessary.

Unless, like the tribute ship of the general's family, it looks like the merchant ship is actually a warship, and is secretly responsible for protecting Lin Baoer's special ship, but where is the tribute ship at this time?
The tribute boat has been driven away by the damn governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang!Even though the sailors on the tribute ship were reluctant and even wanted to shoot the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to death at one point, the Dongbao fleet still dared not tear themselves apart from the court at this time.So I can only follow the requirements of the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and go wherever I like, anyway, I can't stop in Ningbo within two months.

That's why the unreliable Ningbo defenders have caused the entire Jiangxia Wharf to be so passive in the face of Japanese pirates.

As mentioned earlier, even Dongbao's merchant ships have 6-8 combatants who can use muskets, so where are they now?Wouldn't it be like the defenders in Ningbo when they saw the Japanese pirates and ran away?

Uh……

They didn't escape, but...

Most of the people in this group were in Ningbo city at this time, and they either gambled so much that their eyes shined, or they were so simple that their eyes shined.Even when Jiangxia Port was already lit up, this group of people was still having fun with their eyes darkened. Why don't they all say that hedonism kills people?They are not far from death!

The only ones who stayed at the pier were the sailors on Ryujinmaru who obeyed the orders of the ship's boss!
"puff!"

A real Japanese slashed across the general's neck with a long knife in his hand. At this moment, the great head of the general left his body and flew high into the air...

"General!"

General Beiwosi in Ningbo finally got his wish and died on the battlefield. His soldiers were also heartbroken and were about to rush forward to fight the Japanese pirates.

"I will never have a chance to be promoted again in this life..."

Seeing that the general situation was over, Lu Jianxing had no choice but to smile wryly and tell his brothers to continue shrinking the defensive circle, preparing to meet his final fate.

"Master Baihu, did we not embarrass Jin Yiwei?" a wounded general banner asked Lu Jianxing.

"Who are you throwing away? The earthen pot will never leave the well, and the general will inevitably die before the battle! We are loyal to Dameng until the last moment." Speaking of this, Lu Jianxing also shouted: "Brothers, the one who sealed his wife and son The time has come! Even if we die, we must behead a few Japanese pirates!"

However, at this moment, a loud bean popping sound suddenly exploded behind Lu Jianxing and other Jin Yiwei and sergeants who were still struggling to resist.

"Brothers, lie down!"

Lu Jianxing and the surviving people heard Chinese speaking behind them, so they fell to the ground without thinking.Then there was another sound of popping beans and the fleeting sound of piercing the air across their heads, and when they looked up, they saw the eye-catching blood flowers bursting out from the Japanese pirates who were about to attack them !
Moments later, the sound of popping beans sounded again, and seven or eight Japanese pirates fell to their deaths in an instant.Lu Jianxing was stunned, because he had already guessed that the source of the bean popping sound should be the sound from a firearm similar to the three-eyed blunderbuss, but he didn't know that Dameng had such a powerful firearm.

Don't look at the appearance of the three-eyed gun as a bluff, but that thing can only exert its maximum power when it is about 8 feet away from the enemy.But at this time, the continuous sound of popping beans came from behind them, at least 20 feet away from them, so it seemed that the range of the firecrackers in the hands of this group of people had reached the range of a crossbow.

The sound of the firecracker's popping beans disappeared, but the "Japanese pirates" were frightened by the power of the firearms in the hands of dozens of people in the distance, and did not dare to act rashly for a while.Seeing this opportunity, Lu Jianxing didn't care about killing the enemy and serving the country. He took the surviving soldiers and dragged a few wounded who were still breathing on the ground and ran back.

After running to the place, Lu Jianxing finally saw the appearance of these people. These people were really not their soldiers, but sailors from the Dongbao Chamber of Commerce.There are not many sailors, only about 40 people.Thirty of them were sailors on Ryujinmaru, and the remaining less than 30 were forcibly cobbled together from the remaining four large ships.Moreover, less than 10 of these dozens of people can use muskets proficiently, and 4 only know how to use them. The rest of the sailors do not know how to operate this weapon because of their seniority.

So the sailors who didn't understand muskets all wore the "ancestral" rattan armor on Ryujinmaru, and they all held long weapons in their hands in the first row. The remaining 30 people were divided into three rows. "As required in ", they carried out a four-stage combined attack, which made them shoot out 3 or so guns to the effect of a hundred or so people.

"Master Baihu also understands this musket?" A sailor asked kindly when Lu Jianxing stared at the musket in their hands in a daze.

However, Lu Jianxing had never seen such a strange-looking blunderbuss named "Musket", so he could only shake his head.

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand. The captains all say that this thing has the same principle as the three-eyed blunderbuss. You can understand it after you look at it!" Said, the boatswain threw the musket in his hand to Lu Jianxing indifferently, and then led everyone Withdrew in an orderly manner towards Jiangxia Wharf.

A group of sailors running at the front would suddenly stop to reload, and shoot at the enemy uniformly, not seeking hits, only seeking firepower to suppress the opponent. After shooting, they would rush towards the retreating team.Moreover, they would also encounter the original second row sailors on the way. These sailors still followed the same pattern, shooting and leaving in a hurry, and then the third row of soldiers did the same.After the sailors completed two rounds of rotation, they arrived at Jiangxia Wharf with Lu Jianxing's brocade guards and the few remaining defenders.

This is the only way to get in and out of the pier, and at this time the entrance and exit of the pier have already been neatly stacked with a wooden wall about 7 feet high.Seeing this situation, the old sailors on Longshenwan smiled knowingly.It's still a familiar formula, and it's still a familiar taste, but this time the person who looks like a god descending from the earth is missing, and their opponents have changed from biting zombies to slashing Japanese pirates.

"Damn it, who told you to block the door!" A sailor on Longshinmaru yelled at his colleague on the wooden wall.

"The boss of your ship gave way!"

"That's all right, just throw the rope down!"

After all the people withdrew into the port, a few burly men with money and rat tails, who knew they were very hygienic at a glance, asked the other sailors in a half-baked Chinese: "Those are the things you often talk about. Japanese pirates? Let’s see they’re just like that, they’re not that good. Or…”

Another Jurchen sailor saw his companion's eyes flickering, and immediately understood what he meant, and said, "Why don't we kill all the Japanese pirates outside together, and then kill their heads for reward money? I heard that the Japanese pirates' heads are thieves. It's worth the money!"

"The knives in the hands of those little bastards are also quite good, maybe they can sell for a few dollars!"

"I think they have separated a group of people. Don't go to the city in a daze. Let's quickly deal with the pirates outside. What if the pirates who entered the city are troubled by others?"

Seeing the hairstyles and looks of these people, Lu Jianxing asked the sailor next to him, "Jurchen?"

"Yes, they are all Jurchens."

"You still employ them?"

"It's fierce! Besides, if all the Jurchens are hired on our ship, won't there be no troubles in the Northeast!"

"It's all stupid!" The Jurchen sailor roared, "Kill the bastards outside, so we can enter Ningbo City!"

Lu Jianxing looked at the Jurchen sailors meaningfully, and couldn't help sighing: "If I'm all soldiers like this, why worry about the world being in trouble!"

But the Jurchen sailor's phrase "killing into Ningbo City" sounds more terrifying than Japanese pirates entering the city?

However, are the "Japanese pirates" who are rushing to Ningbo City really ordered to leave there alive?
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(Don’t talk to the author about Qin Ta’s crossbow being able to shoot 800 meters. How dare the ancient literati dare to brag about it? You let an ancient soldier carry a bed crossbow of two or three hundred kilograms to the front of the battle to break it alone? Some brickmakers don’t want a Bilian for the sake of national pride. The Qin crossbow is 75 cm long. Let’s say it is bigger, even if its bowstring to the crossbow’s bowstring position reaches about 45cm from the Song Dynasty’s god-arm crossbow, so Do you want to count on the crossbow to fly 800 meters with a short work distance? Why, Daqin’s technology is so advanced that the crossbow has its own power drive, and then there is adaptive cruise!
The God Arm Crossbow in the Song Dynasty can only fly up to about 300 meters with light arrows, and this is still the maximum range, not the effective range.The real NB of the god arm crossbow is that it can shoot and kill the enemy in armor with a short armor-piercing arrow about 130 meters away.In ancient times, being able to use a crossbow to pierce an armored target at a distance of more than [-] meters is already a very abnormal thing, okay?After all, the effective range of early muskets was at most [-] meters. )
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