On May 18th, Tianjin is shining brightly, and shops are about to enter the busiest time, and it is also the most profitable time of the year.

Unlike last year's busy schedule and the previous year, there are now some people wearing wealthy clothes and leisurely followers on the streets of Tianjin. In recent years, many families may work hard to make money, and some are enjoyable. However, the younger generations of wealth have become more particular.

In the north of the little water, Tianjin Wei has a rare water system gathering, and it is bordered by the sea, and there are also unique scenery different from other places. It is also interesting to visit with great care.

What's more, although Tianjin Wei is emerging, it has convenient collection of sea routes and canals, including goods, food, and even romantic events. Haihe and canals are mostly rich merchants, and even shopkeepers and managers of various warehouses are quite rich. They pay merchants and receive banquets for business, welcome and send off, and have fun in private. The delicious food and fun in the whole world are slowly attracted.

Not to mention the local new rich people are having fun, even wealthy people in the capital, northern Zhili, Henan, Shandong and other places have bought houses in Tianjin Wei and come to have fun in their spare time. Tianjin Acropolis is not big, and the price of houses and yards in the city has tripled.

But Wang Tong knew that Sun Shoulian, Liao Town, had also bought a house here, and was said to ask someone to go to Yangzhou to buy a girl and place it here.

However, this leisure started in the morning and lasted less than an hour and was interrupted by the rapid galloping horses. Several cavalrymen whistled past the market, and pedestrians on the road dodged in panic.

If you want to leave it outside the country, someone would have cursed, and the rich young master would have to go over and cause trouble. But here, not only did no one dare to speak, but they all looked at the cavalry in surprise.

According to their understanding, Tianjin Weifei will never be like this. Before they could react from their doubts, they heard a sharp sound of copper whistle.

Everyone was shocked and subconsciously looked up at the high tower of observation. The six-story pagoda looked like a tower used for observation. It was built last year and has become a landmark in the Haihe area. Of course, it was just a decoration most of the time, but at this time, a sharp whistle was heard, and there were green flags dancing there.

When the green flag is shining, the copper whistle sounds, there is no sound of gongs, that means everyone goes back and cannot go out to the streets. If there is a sound of gongs, that means looking for a house to hide on the spot. The disrespectful army will be punished by law.

There was a commotion on the street, and the security guards began to walk on the street to maintain order. Everyone was a little panicked, but they could still remain calm and walk everywhere. There were rules. If they ran around and shouted, the security guards would have the best efforts to kill them.

Soon the street had already become a scene, and the brave men were lying on the crack of the door and window, and they were lying on their heads and minds, not knowing what happened.

Hearing the neat footsteps and the shouts of the officers, some people on the store could see the soldiers lined up. The shop went from the boss, the shopkeeper to the manager and the clerk below, all of whom were worried and believe in Buddhism kept talking. Finally, Weicai in Tianjin, don’t be so ruined.

The entrance to the Weihai River in Tianjin and the front line on the seaside is half an hour away from the Haihe Commercial District. Protecting here is the place where you are doing it in full swing, because the enemy is on the sea.

Near the entrance to the sea, there was also a wooden and stone-building tower. The soldiers above were already roaring loudly. The people below listened carefully and shouted to the outside world:

"Five Flang aircraft ships, two are similar in style to the Flying Deer, three are slightly smaller..."

"Baby, look at the sea and do something. Go and correct the artillery for me quickly!!"

The artillery leader Tan Huo, the artillery Baihu Muen, and the artillery chief flag Zhang Wu. These three people took turns to be on duty at the forts everywhere in the Haihe River, but Zhang Wu was on duty today on the beach.

He shouted there at the top of his lungs, while looking at the sea surface with some tension. Most of the wastelands and beaches by the sea and at the mouth of the sea, so there is no need to consider the people too much about the fortifications.

There are several turrets like small hill bags, with cannons facing the sea, and now they are loading and adjusting their directions.

Seeing that the cannons were loaded and aimed at the direction of the sea, Zhang Wu felt a little relieved and said:

"Give the ships on the sea signal that the artillery will need artillery and let the ships avoid it!!!"

There are also signals agreed upon by Tianjin Weigang Port. Someone here stands on the earth platform and sends out signals, with the flag dancing and cannons fired in the air.

At this time, there were not many ships on the sea. When I saw this signal, I set sail and started dodging. Instead, the Flangers ships were still getting closer.

"Mr. Zhang, the fireboat is ready!" "..... The three-jin cannon is loaded!!" "... the five-jin cannon is ready!!"

"The nine-jin cannon is ready!!"

The last shout made Zhang Wu swing his fist suddenly. The nine-jin cannon was the most powerful cannon cast by the craftsman. It had a range of nearly 8,000 steps, but the cannon body was nearly 3,000 kilograms. Even if it was an iron wheel of a cannon truck, it had to be dragged with more than a dozen cattle and horses. It was quite inconvenient. The turret placed here was transported by water. It took thousands of civilians to get it done.

There are three such artillery pieces in total, all of which are placed on the turret by the sea. The loading of this kind of artillery is similar to that of ordinary people, but it is difficult to adjust the direction of the cannon body. For this purpose, I specially raised a few cows near the turret to move the cannons. However, in a state of no hurry, it can be done with manpower, but it is much slower.

Zhang Wu had already taken out two wooden rulers in his hand, crossed his directions in the direction of the Flang aircraft ships, squinted his eyes and estimated for a while, and shouted:

"Nine-jin cannon aims at the right side of the target fleet and fire a shot!!"

The artillery gathered near the artillery, moved the artillery, and after a little adjustment, they ignited the artillery. When the fire was ignited, the people around them covered their ears and some people stuffed them with cloth strips early.

With a loud "boom", the entire earth platform shook, dust flew, and shells roared out.

Zhang Wu took a few steps forward and stared at the landing point of the shell. Because he left enough margin, he fell into the water more than a hundred steps away from the ship, causing a lot of splashes of water.

When the dust on the fort dissipated, the five Flang ships had already lowered the sails. The nine-jin cannon just now was a little off. If you adjust it, there will be no problem in hitting the ship. However, Zhang Wu stared at the sea surface, but told his men not to act rashly, and said coldly:

"Call Lao Li who reported the news up!!"

The soldiers next to him agreed and hurriedly ran off the ground platform. Soon after, he brought a man who looked like a boss in the boat. Zhang Wu pointed to the sea and said:

"These are gunships, have you seen them?"

"It's true that the small ones did see the cannon windows under the side of the ship. In recent years, we have seen a lot of such foreign ships. The big ships have thirty cannons, and each of the three small ships also needs fifteen cannons."

Zhang Wu nodded. There were only a hundred guns. Such gunships approached. Tianjin Guards must be careful. If someone took advantage of the loopholes and drove into the Haihe River, it would be a disaster.

The reason he asked this was because after the warning shot, the five foreign ships on the sea immediately lowered their sails and stopped. If there was any malicious intention, they would probably have to move forward in a roundabout way or avoid it, instead of stopping within range, which was also a good intention at sea, similar to throwing down weapons on the battlefield.

There was no overwhelming advantage on the sea and on the road in this era. Warships had no way to deal with the shore defense turrets that also had cannons. After the turrets were prepared, Zhang Wu treated them calmly.

The other party does not seem to be malicious, which does not mean that Zhang Wu will not treat him carefully. A strong man with a sharp blade walks on the street. Even if he can't do anything, the people around him will be wary and treat him carefully.

No matter what their purpose is, they have such powerful firepower, and they will not take it lightly on the shore, but seeing the other party's appearance, they finally relaxed a little.

"The boats on the sea are put down!!"

Someone shouted at the lookout on the fort, and everyone hurriedly looked over. The weather was clear, there was no cover on the sea, and the field of view was wide and it could be seen clearly.

Seeing a few large ships put down their boats and rowing towards them, Zhang Wu turned around and shouted:

"Officer Hu Ying, you are on guard, the enemy is coming!!"

A infantry battalion officer from behind agreed loudly. The Haihe inspector Tang Shan ran up quickly and cursed as soon as he came up:

"We must learn how to ride a horse well in the future, and I almost fell down a few times on the way."

While talking, he walked to the front and looked back and said:

"Zhang Zhengqi, I'm afraid this small boat is coming to know, but be careful. When they want to dock later, they will hang up the big boat with a fireboat and burn it as soon as they move!"

"Inspector Tang thought it was safe!!"

Zhang Wu said, Tang Shan turned around and ran down the earth platform, shouting while running, that in the bay near the fort, several sailboats filled with firewood had begun to untickle the cables and operated nervously.

The infantry soldiers had already begun to prepare, and could see smoke and dust rising from the Haihe Commercial District from afar, and troops came over there. According to the rules, at least 80% of the horse team had been mobilized.

Tianjin Wei was facing a great enemy, but the small boats laid on the five ships on the sea were paddling after all, and they would not reach the shore for a while.

"We are a merchant ship from Macau. I am the ship owner Abagong. We have obtained the permission of the noble General Wang to come to Tianjin to trade and open a shop. Why do you fire? Why do you treat guests from afar!!"

As soon as the boat landed, before the soldiers of the Huwei Army stepped forward to capture him, the round merchant Abagong jumped out of the boat and shouted in anger.

The soldiers of the Huwei Army looked at each other, and everyone was stunned for a moment, and they couldn't help laughing. Abagong's face turned red from there.
Chapter completed!