Chapter 1384 Souvenirs
"Cleaning the chamber, loading the bullet~~"
After the shell was fired, the gunner's roars rang out in the artillery room, and the gun barrel stretched out from the porthole quickly retreated and loaded for a second launch.
This place is already at the intersection of rivers and seas, and the water flow is gradually flat, but the fishing boats are actually not slow because they come with the flow. Although the two large ships are long enough, they still cannot completely block the two-mile-wide estuary, and only block the most turbulent river center in the middle.
More than 20 messy river boats fled in a mess at this time. Some rowed to the shore, some rowed upstream, and some lay directly in the cabin in fear and did not dare to look up. There were even several empty boats left. The river was mixed with wooden slags and corpses and floating downstream and soon arrived at the position of the big ship. Some crashed into the big ship and broke into the big ship. Some people overturned and screamed and fell into the water without knowing where to end. There were seven or eight left, leaving through the gap and crossing the two big ships to enter the blue sea.
When the artillery loaded the bullets and pushed the porthole again, the targets on the river surface were completely dispersed. Chen Xu ordered the four artillery to pursue the target and fire the gun. At the same time, the officials on the ship and the chief of the Yue tribe commanded dozens of small boats that followed and nearby fishermen's fishing boats attacked and killed the escaped bandits and salvaged the fallen water.
Anyone who catches a bandit who attacks the logging farm will be rewarded with 500 yuan, beheads of first-level rewards of 300 yuan, and those who catch the leader Ping'azai will be rewarded with 2,000 yuan.
Under such a huge bounty, dozens of fishing boats that had been waiting for three days near the estuary were blown up in a blast, scrambling to row straight for the escaped Yue people. After a while, there were fighting and killing shouts everywhere on the sea at the estuary. The Yue people who were lucky enough to grab the fishing boat from the logging farm finally collapsed completely under the deterrence of the two super giant ships. Less than half of the hundreds were left in a flash. Under the pursuit of the fishing boats and the continued attack of the artillery on the big ship, the battle ended quickly, and the tranquility was restored from the first gun to the river surface, which was less than half an hour in total.
An hour later, there was a temporary dock near Nanhai Port, and two large sea boats sailed to the dock. After the gangway was lowered, Chen Xu and the officials who followed to observe the bandit suppression and the Yue tribe chiefs all got off the ship lively.
For the Daqin officials who were responsible for building the harbor, it was destined to be an asymmetrical battle with Qinghe Hou in charge, but such a refreshing victory was like a dream for them, because the leader of the rebel army, Ping Azai, had confirmed the capture, and was chased by three fishing boats for several miles and overturned the fishing boat. Two people on the boat were missing and three were captured, including Ping Azai, who was injured in the abdomen, but he was already exhausted when he was dragged back to the shore.
Not only did all the officials have no favors for this Yue tribe leader who repeatedly plagued the construction of the harbor, but even the Yue tribes who surrendered to the Qin Dynasty did not have much favors, because when Ping Azai and others attacked the harbor construction personnel, they never distinguished between the Qin people and the Yue tribes. In their eyes, all the Yue tribes who defected to the Qin people were traitors and scums.
Therefore, Ping Azai's death also made everyone feel relieved.
This is the Daqin version of the ethnic separatist, the creator of chaos and trouble.
It is a stumbling block to national integration and civilized development.
The huge territory of China was not something that could be paid for by phone bills, but was opened up by the ancestors of China through all obstacles and great courage in the wilderness.
Now, the Lingnan areas are another pioneering process of overcoming obstacles.
In this process, there will inevitably be tearing and pain, the fusion of blood and fire, and hatred and hatred, but this is the general trend and no one can stop it.
The hundreds of thousands of tribes in Baiyue were unable to do so, but now Ping Azai, who only has a few hundred people, cannot stop him.
Chen Xu did not have any fluctuations in his heart about the death of Ping Azai and these Yue people. Lingnan must be pacified. In his opinion, Ping Azai's actions are like a mantis armed chariot. Killing him this time can act as a killer and scare the monkey, and shock the Vietnamese rebel forces in Guangxi and Yunnan.
The most terrifying and soul-touching in this battle was a group of Yue tribe chiefs invited to follow and observe. The leaders of the Yue tribes of all sizes, at the moment when the artillery sounded, at the moment when the giant ship was shocked and the first fishing boat was blown to pieces, the little bit of rebelliousness and dissatisfaction that remained in their hearts were completely shattered in the deafening smoke and firelight.
Looking at the young men in brocade robe who were chatting and laughing with a group of officials in front of him, they looked back at the two towering huge sea boats, especially the portholes of the gun room that were still open, like several hideous and terrifying monsters that were eaten by others. All the chiefs of Yue clan followed the group carefully and did not dare to speak loudly.
The warship of Daqin showed its fierce fangs and sharp claws for the first time. Everything that made the Yue people proud of was a bravery and vehement struggle in front of ships and cannons.
Immediately after the two large ships, dozens of fishing boats began to dock. The dark fishermen on the boat lifted the bodies from the cabin and placed them neatly on the beach. More than a dozen prisoners were tied with hemp ropes and threw them into the mud and sand like rice dumplings. In addition, more than a dozen blood-blooded heads were piled together.
Just when Chen Xu and others returned to Hong Kong, Chen Yong and others who had already ended the logging field battle and the soldiers who assisted also returned. At the same time, they brought back more than 200 corpses, most of which were separated and their heads were chopped off. Some of them were bloody and bloody, and some were bandits who fell off the cliff in panic.
Faced with the biggest victory in several years, the entire harbor was shocked. Tens of thousands of prisoners and civilians who participated in the construction of the harbor were surrounded on the beach. Looking at the Yue bandits who had plagued them for months, many local Yue civilians had a sad expression on their faces, but when they saw these bloody corpses and heads, they all retreated into the crowd with trembling trembling.
Of course, Zhao Tuo, the future of guarding the harbor, should be dealt with by Zhao Tuo, the future leader of the port. Chen Xu did not care, but asked the harbor management to take out more than 30,000 yuan from the construction funds to reward the fishermen who participated in the encirclement and suppression of Ping Azai.
The first step to cashing out the reward is to improve the status of local officials in the minds of the Yue people, and it is also a means to differentiate the Yue people. After they participated in the encirclement and received the reward, they could only hold on to the Qin Dynasty's thighs and follow the Qin Dynasty to the dark, tie their own interests with the Qin Dynasty, and be loyal to the people of the Qin Dynasty.
Just when the harbor was bustling, Zhao Tuo also gathered the soldiers who were ambushing the mountains around the logging farm and returned to the camp. Faced with this rare victory, Zhao Tuo was so excited that he couldn't even close his mouth and his little tongue in his throat could not stop.
"Mr. Marquis, you have helped me wait a lot this time and finally killed Ping'azai and other monkeys!"
Zhao Tuo was very excited and set up a banquet in a bamboo and wood stilt building in the camp to thank Chen Xu. The harbor officials and several local Yue tribe chiefs were invited.
Chen Xu was also very happy. According to everyone's words, if the nearby Yue tribe's resistance forces would be severely hit by killing Ping Azai, and this time he beat the rabbit, he actually killed most of the five people from the five resistance tribes in one breath. In the end, less than twenty people might escape. Among the people captured or killed, four tribe leaders were basically caught in one fell swoop.
In order to celebrate this hard-won victory, Chen Xu asked someone to move all the red wine left on the ship, and arranged for the chefs and chefs who came with the ship to make a few seafood to share the pleasure.
A banquet lasted from sunset to Hai hour, and more than ten pieces of mulberry wine were drunk. At the banquet, Chen Xu gave Zhao Tuo and all the officials a reassurance, telling them that after the Great Qin Haishi formed this autumn and winter conquered the Three Hans, at most, they would lead a fleet equipped with firearms and artillery to the south to help conquer Luo Yue in the spring. At the same time, Chen Xu said that after returning this time, he would write a letter to the emperor to send a batch of new weapons and equipment to the southern garrison, which also made Zhao Tuo even more excited.
On the second day of the banquet, Chen Xu set off for a return flight.
Before leaving, not only Zhao Tuo gave Chen Xu dozens of sea beads to express his gratitude, but the local Yue lord also gave Chen Xu many local specialties, including ivory, rhinoceros horn, tortoiseshell, giant clams, tiger skin, leopard skin, bear skin, brocade feathers, etc. It is said that they are all worthless things in the local area.
Faced with these local specialties, Chen Xu was very worried about the harvest, but these Yue people and local officials also repeatedly asked Qinghe Hou to send a fleet to help strangle these wild beasts as soon as possible. Because there were too many, you could hear the roar of these wild beasts in broad daylight. Even around the harbor, you could often see a large number of wild elephant rhinos wandering nearby in groups that harmed the villagers' crops.
Chen Xu could only say that he could not help with these unreasonable requests from the Yue tribe and local officials, but before leaving, he still gave Zhao Tuo two rifles and two pistols, hundreds of bullets, ten muskets, supporting ammunition, and twenty grenades.
Now in Xianyang, muskets and cannons are no longer unusual. You can hear crackling sounds of shooting all day long, but Zhao Tuo has been seriously derailed from Xianyang. He has only heard of them before. Zhao Tuo did not see this time designing the process of killing the Yue tribes such as Ping'azai. However, after Chen Xu demonstrated it to him, Zhao Tuo was completely shocked by the power of muskets and cannons, and completely fell into a fanatic fanatic and follower of immortal magic weapons. He held Chen Xu's thigh and asked him to take him into the Taiyi Gate Wall and granted him the Taiyi Divine Thunder and other immortal magic weapons to shock Baiyue.
Chen Xu refused Zhao Tuo's even more unreasonable request, and then set sail after eight cannons fired at the harbor.
Chapter completed!