"Let's do this, Uncle Chen. Go back and bring the heads of each family over, quietly, and let everyone see our current strength, so that everyone can feel at ease."

In order to stabilize the Chinese people and increase their confidence, Liu Yiming prepared to hold a small military parade, or to show his strength. At present, there is still a patriarchal system. As long as the heads of each family are not in chaos, then the Chinese will not be in chaos.

"I'm going to make preparations. Tomorrow, let all the family heads come together. I'll have the troops do a confrontation drill and show it to everyone to reassure everyone and let everyone know that I can defend you."

"Okay, I'll go back and make arrangements right away." Chen Jiangtao went back to prepare.

Liu Yiming also started to prepare. Now Liu Yiming has 60,000 rounds of original Martini Henry bullets. He uses reloaded bullets for training. If there is a fire parade tomorrow, he will use reloaded bullets.

There are also artillery, and the shells are precious, so Liu Yiming is not prepared to shoot more, but the explosion is enough to shock people, so he is prepared to let the Napoleon bronze cannon use its residual heat.

In addition, in order to shock enough, Liu Yiming planned to fire a few heartless cannons. Liu Yiming improved the launching device and used wrought iron as the barrel. The length was lengthened a bit, the barrel was thickened, and with the improvement of the shells, the attack range was increased to four

Hundreds of meters, but it won't work at a distance. Cast iron shells must be replaced to have sufficient strength.

Liu Yiming made a plan in a moment, and called Wang Yang, Xie Tao, and Jiang Ye to give them the plan and let them prepare.

By the way, Wang Yang and Xie Tao have both been promoted. They are now battalion commanders, and Jiang Ye is the artillery battalion commander. The artillery battalion now has more than 600 people, while the three infantry battalions that are not fully staffed only have more than 300 people. Now

Battalions generally have a large number of people, and the establishment of the battalion will gradually decrease until more and more automatic firepower is provided.

After doing this, Liu Yiming had time to think about the pirate siege. Liu Yiming felt that there was an opportunity to deal with the Surabaya Dutch.

Liu Yiming began to think about the map.

On the other side, Henry is asking the political officer.

"Why give the fort to those pirates? What if they fire at us? And why is it the northern fort? The new artillery is in the north. Once they turn the muzzle, we will be finished!"

"Don't be excited Henry. Last year, the northern fort replaced all the artillery with new artillery. It took our artillery more than a month to learn how to operate these artillery. Do you think that group of pirates who don't even know the alphabet know how to use it?

?”

"On the contrary, the southern forts are all old-fashioned large-caliber muzzle-loading cannons. Those pirates know how to operate these old-fashioned cannons. The threat is if pirates get them!"

After listening to the political officer's words, Henry calmed down.

Last year, the Dutch strengthened their coastal defenses. Perhaps out of conscience, they also shipped many new coastal defense guns to the colonies. Before that, the artillery in the colonies were basically front-loaded guns. The oldest one can be traced back to 1840.

half a century.

After these cannons were delivered to Batavia, Batavia shipped a batch to Surabaya, and then replaced the cannons that were twenty years older than Henry's.

The northern fort now has two 203mm coastal defense guns, six 150mm coastal defense guns, and six 120mm coastal defense guns, of which the 150 and 120 are imported British rapid-fire guns.

"Yes, those pirates may not even know how to fire a cannon." Henry chuckled.

On the other side, the pirates quickly began to gather after receiving the exact news. Java Island is only a few hundred nautical miles away from Malacca. In addition, there are many islands here, and the Dutch did not pay much attention to them, so it became the base camp of many pirates.

By September 10th, hundreds of ships, large and small, had gathered here. The big ones could weigh hundreds of tons, and the small ones were as big as fishing boats. The scattered pirates totaled more than 3,000 people. Now various pirates

Integrating.

The composition of pirates in Southeast Asia is complex. There are various indigenous people, including Chinese, Japanese, and even Europeans. Pirates like to eat, drink, whore, and gamble, and the camp also has some simple facilities. The entire pirate camp shows abnormal prosperity, and everyone is there.

Looking forward to September 15th.

………………Dividing line………………

While Henry was training the militia, Liu Yiming was preparing for the next day's exercise. He had 20,000 rounds of reloaded bullets, and an unlimited supply of bullets for the flintlock guns. The shells were relatively tough, with one gun firing three rounds. The Napoleon cannon

No limit.

In addition, Liu Wanhua gave him a surprise. A cave was discovered in the Liu family plantation, and a saltpeter mine was discovered. Now Xu Hui is working on equipment to prepare for mass production of gunpowder and explosives. Three acids and two alkalis have been ordered out, and the logistics can

The production of explosive packets is guaranteed.

The next day, early in the morning, Chen Jiangtao took the heads of each household to the camp. Liu Yiming thought that a sheep was being driven and a group of sheep was being herded, so he took the production base and the heads of each household.

The second and third generations walked together, and in the end there were hundreds of people in the audience.

Because the explosive packs made too much noise, Liu Yiming took this group of people to the hometown of the Hassan tribe.

This place is far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, the environment is beautiful, and the wind is light, which has little impact on the accuracy of the explosive packages. This time Liu Yiming planned to throw three explosive packages, but among them was a twenty-kilogram explosive package.

The powerful vitality of the rainforest is perfectly reflected here. It was once a human settlement, but now it is a low forest.

"Let's start!" Liu Yiming stood in front of everyone.

The first thing that started was the martini formation. A hundred people dispersed and attacked, shooting alternately. They were faced with a hundred targets. After half an hour of shooting, many targets were already filled with bullet holes. Then the artillery began to talk, two rounds of 76.2, two rounds of 37

They fell one after another, and dozens of targets were torn to pieces.

After changing the target again, the flintlock muskets began to be dispatched. The flintlock muskets advanced in a queue to shoot. In fact, they had not practiced attacking with flintlock muskets. Liu Yiming only used the flintlock muskets for defense.

The caliber of the flintlock gun is large and the distance is very close. For half an hour, without any artillery attack, most of the targets have been torn to pieces, but it has to be stopped. Continuous shooting, the barrel of the gun will overheat, and the gunpowder may spontaneously ignite if it is poured in.

.

After changing the target, Liu Yiming regarded this as military training. The three Napoleon bronze cannons began to roar. Liu Yiming only had two kinds of shells, one was a spherical solid bullet, and the other was a warhead-shaped shell, which was filled with explosives, but there was no fuse.

, relies on the flame when propelled by gunpowder to ignite the fuse, so the reliability is low, but it is better than nothing.

Seeing the excitement of the audience beside him, Liu Yiming struck while the iron was hot and asked the Heartless Cannon to step forward. This was an improved Heartless Cannon. The barrel was specially rolled with wrought iron sheets and then reinforced. It could throw the shells four hundred times.

meters, 20 kilograms are thrown 300 meters.

Everything was ready, the first ten-kilo gun was fired, and with a bang, all the targets that had been gathered flew into the sky. The air wave stirred up a cloud of dust. The dust settled, leaving a hole dozens of centimeters deep on the ground.

There was a large pit with a radius of several meters, and picric acid was slowly burning nearby.

Everyone around him was frightened by this power, and the audience fell silent for a moment.

Chen Jiangtao was the first to react. He was so excited that he could not speak and just shed tears!

Then the elderly people were either dancing or mumbling to themselves. Liu Yiming was afraid that these people were crazy, so he hurried forward.

"Everyone, stop, everyone, stop!" He held a big loudspeaker and kept shouting, but no one paid attention to him...

Liu Yiming had no choice but to return to the launch site.

"Second shot, ready, ignite!"

Boom~ There was another sound. It was this sound that brought people in the audience back to their senses. Liu Yiming immediately said: "Everyone, don't be excited, don't be excited. What we brought out today are all mass-produced. Just these shells.

We can give birth to dozens every day, so don’t be afraid, let alone get excited, we can protect you!”

"Now, it's the most powerful weapon test today, and it's also the first test."

Liu Yiming placed 200 targets. This time he did not visit intensively, but placed them in the current standard British and French army skirmish line. However, from a modern perspective, they were too dense. This was the case in the era before machine guns.

"Prepare, light the fire!"

"boom!"

First there was a muffled sound, and the explosive package was thrown out, slowly drawing an arc in the sky and falling to the ground.

Seeing that it didn't explode when it landed, people in the audience didn't know what was going on and started talking about it.

Boom~~

There was a violent sound. The air flow rose and formed a small mushroom-shaped dust.

The land is shaking, and people's hearts are shaking even more.

After the dust settled, dozens of targets near the impact point had disappeared, and targets further away were torn into pieces, leaving a large crater with a radius of more than ten meters on the ground. The picric acid ignited the land dozens of meters away, and this

The soil layer on the side is very thin, only a few dozen centimeters, and the ten kilograms of explosives just landed directly on the rocks.

Even though they were mentally prepared, a group of spectators still couldn't hold it back, with tears and runny noses flowing all over them.

Liu Yiming looked at it, and felt a little panicked. A group of people, the youngest was in their thirties, the oldest was in their fifties and sixties, all of whom had experienced or even experienced two indigenous riots. No one was willing to help them, and no one gave them a hand.

, and even do not allow them to have the ability to protect themselves. This has always been the case. The current colonists, future colonists, and puppets are oppressing them and massacring them.

"Everyone, soon, we will take over Surabaya and establish a country that belongs to us. In our country, no one can bully us, no one can oppress us, and no one can rush into your home and steal your belongings."

Money, insulting your daughter, killing your parents, these things have become history."

Liu Yiming paused.

"This is the settlement of the Hassan tribe. More than a month ago, more than 12,000 people gathered here, preparing to attack Surabaya, rob and massacre!"
Chapter completed!