Daming pirates

Nowadays, they no longer care about who provides them with shelter. As long as they can survive, they don't care who they follow in the future!

And these people of the Nine-Headed Jiao keep their word. When they get here, they can get shelter and have enough food to eat. Although the food they eat is not good, it is mostly grains mixed with a lot of wheat bran, and some

Unknown yams (potatoes), but these things are already very rare for the Liaodong soldiers and civilians who have not had a bite of serious food for a long time. The long-lost aroma of the food almost made them lose their tongues.

Swallow them together.

They felt that they had never eaten anything so delicious in their lives. When they received the first meal, they all swallowed it in their stomachs without caring about anything. When there was only a little food left in their hands,

They just began to chew slowly, savoring the aroma of food that they had not seen for a long time. Some people were even reluctant to finish the pancakes they received for the first time. They quietly left some behind and hid them in their arms for fear of eating this.

After one meal, I don’t know when I will be able to eat the next one.

It was not until they received the food on time for the second time that they realized that this was not a dream. The nine-headed dragon pirates really did not lie to them. They actually provided them with two meals a day, although only one meal had multigrain pancakes and the other meal

It's just a big bowl of multi-grain porridge, but this multi-grain porridge is also made of real grains, and it's very thick. It's definitely not the kind of porridge that's clearly visible and used to provide relief and fool the victims.

Your body will feel warm immediately.

As a result, these Liaodong soldiers and civilians who were taken in were completely relieved, became much quieter and more obedient, and became much more respectful and obedient to the pirates who protected them.

Later, many large ships came from Lushun Fort and loaded them on the ship, saying that they were going to be sent to a safer place. These people didn't know where to send them, but they had no intention of leaving Dongjiang Town.

There is not much nostalgia. Nowadays, their hometown, except for the Port Arthur area, has been occupied by the slaves. It is not safe to stay here. No matter where they go, it is better than staying here!

Therefore, these Liaodong soldiers and civilians who were accommodated did not show any resistance, were quietly loaded onto the ship, and then embarked on an unknown journey.

After several days of sailing, they were sent to Jeju Island. Only then did they know who really saved them. Only then did they know Yu Xiaotian's name and the name of Sea Wolf.

Although Jeju Island is located very north, due to the influence of warm and humid air currents, the winter in Jeju Island is much warmer than that in Liaodong. Moreover, the island is rich in water and grass. Compared with Liaodong, it is simply a paradise.

And here, large tracts of tube houses have been built for them to live in, and a large amount of food has been prepared for them to eat. Although after a few days of rest and cleaning, they put on clean clothes and were shaved.

Even if you have no hair, you have to be sent to work, but this

The feeling of having enough to eat every day, and not having to worry about being killed by the slave-building army all day long, already made them feel very happy, so these abandoned people in Liaodong soon returned to their home army, and many of them

Not long after, he joined the newly formed army and became a member of the Yu Family Army.

In addition to this large-scale military operation in the Liaodong area, Sea Wolf also experienced another fierce battle in October of the 10th year of Chongzhen.

But this fierce battle did not occur within the Sea Wolf's control area, but took place on the Sea of ​​Japan.

In the past few years, under the instructions of Yu Xiaotian, Sea Wolf has sent a large number of privateers and personnel to the sea around the Japanese islands to raid the coastal areas of Japan and treat others with their own methods.

, set off a bloody storm along the coast of Japan.

Because of Yu Xiaotian's instructions and personal likes and dislikes, the crew members of the smuggling ships sent to Japan's coast treated the Japanese very cruelly, almost like the Japanese pirates treated the Chinese back then, and they also turned the tables on the Japanese.

The privateers belonging to these sea wolves were strong, resistant to wind and waves, fast, well-equipped, and had well-trained personnel. They soon became prominent along the coasts of the southern islands of Japan. They were elusive and kept appearing along the coasts of various vassal states.

, they went ashore almost every day to loot, burn, kill and loot. It can be said that they committed all kinds of evil.

Moreover, they also recruited many idle Japanese samurai to serve as their pawns, and carried out bloody robberies and massacres along the coast of Japan.

Especially for Japanese ships operating at sea, whether they are official ships, merchant ships, or even fishing boats, as soon as they encounter them, they will be robbed immediately. Murder and robbery are commonplace. Over the past few years, the daimyo of various vassal states along the coast of Japan have been thrown into confusion.

As big as a bucket.

In addition, the Sea Wolf smuggling fleet also followed the instructions of Yu Xiaotian and pursued a strategy of treating Catholics leniently. This era was the most severe period when Japan suppressed Catholics. There were a lot of Catholics in Japan, but under the Tokugawa shogunate

Under the strong suppression of Japan, these Japanese Catholics suffered great persecution.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian ordered the smuggling fleet to effectively exploit the contradiction between Japanese Catholics and the Tokugawa shogunate, and try to absorb these Catholics for their use.

In this way, they recruited a large number of pawns in Japan by connecting with Catholics. In addition, they also established an intelligence network through these Japanese leading parties.

The activities of the Sea Wolf smuggling fleet greatly harmed the rule and interests of the Tokugawa shogunate. This was during the period when the third shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, Iemitsu, was in power. The Tokugawa shogunate was in the ascendant stage. The rule of Japan was relatively

stable.

When he felt that this group of Chinese pirates had appeared inexplicably on the coast of Japan and had greatly affected the Tokugawa family's rule over Japan, Tokugawa Iemitsu finally couldn't help but decided to eliminate these pirates from China.

This kind of thing makes Tokugawa Iemitsu feel very depressed. A long time ago, Japanese samurai migrated to the coast of China in large numbers and were called Japanese pirates. They made the coast of the Ming Dynasty a mess. But unexpectedly, now it is reversed. They

The Japanese samurai did not go to the coast of China and wandered around, but the Chinese pirates sailed the pirate ships to their side of Japan, burning, killing and looting everywhere.

Moreover, these Chinese pirates are very ferocious, and can be said to be extremely ferocious. Every time they attack the shore, they always adopt a three-way policy of killing all, burning, and robbing all the villages being attacked. The land they pass through can be said to be a bare land, and in recent years,

, Japan's merchant ships going out to sea for trade are more and more going out, but fewer and fewer are coming back.

They often went out many times, but in the end many of them never returned and there was no news. Later, a ship accidentally rescued two boatmen who fell into the water at sea. Only then did they know that their merchant ship encountered Han invaders (Japanese pirates) after going out to sea.

(the honorific title of "Sea Wolf"), even the ship and its cargo were robbed by the Han invaders.

The two boatmen were relatively lucky. It happened in the evening. They realized that something was wrong, so they jumped into the sea to escape. They hid under the boat first and were not discovered by the Han invaders who were not robbed. After dark, they hugged a wooden board.

, swam away from the hijacked ship and floated at sea for three days before being rescued by a passing Japanese ship and reported the incident to General Tokugawa.

Only then did Tokugawa Iemitsu realize that these pirates from the Ming Dynasty had seriously threatened Japan's interests. No wonder that for such a long time, many merchant ships going to the Ryukyu Kingdom for trade had disappeared inexplicably. It turned out that they were invaded by these Han invaders.

It was snatched away.

In recent years, Japan's foreign trade volume has been declining year after year. It turned out to be caused by these Han invaders robbing Japanese merchant ships at sea.

The Tokugawa shogunate has now issued a lock-down order, strictly prohibiting any ships from trading at sea, cutting off trade with the Spanish, and prohibiting the Dutch from trading in Hirado. Foreign trade is not too much now, but he doesn't want to watch.

Japanese merchant ships were robbed when they went out.

This was bearable, but he really couldn't tolerate the fact that these Han bandits were looting along the coast of Japan every day.

Therefore, in the 10th year of Chongzhen, which was the 14th year of Kanei in Japan, Tokugawa Iemitsu decided to eliminate these Han bandits that appeared along the coasts of the Japanese islands.

Tokugawa Iemitsu tried his best to explore the places where these sea wolves pirated ships were most active, and then gathered more than a dozen vassal states, hundreds of warships, and about 20,000 warriors.

, in the waters south of Hirado Island, looking for the sea wolf's smuggling fleet.

The Sea Wolf's smuggling fleet was not afraid of these Japanese warships at this time. Although the strength of the two sides was very different, they still took the initiative to attack, using the few against the many, adopting the tactics of maritime guerrilla warfare, concentrating their forces, and defeating them separately.

From October to December of the 10th year of Chongzhen, the two sides fought for more than three months with Japanese warships in the waters south of Hirado, the waters of Hizen Province, and the waters of Satsuma Domain.

Needless to say, the result is that although the strength of the Sea Wolf privateer fleet is limited, it occupies an absolute technological advantage. Sea Wolf's privateer ships are extremely solidly built, and the shipbuilding technology far exceeds Japan's shipbuilding technology. The cannons on board are also superior.

Occupy an absolute advantage.

Although the Japanese learned to make firecrackers earlier than the Chinese, and firecrackers are called iron cannons in Japan, and their equipment is very popular, Japan's cannon-casting technology has never been developed, and most of the cannons cast are small and short-barreled.

caliber artillery.

In addition, the displacement of Japanese warships was small and not strong enough. In naval battles, even though the Japanese samurai were very brave, they could only stare and wait to be beaten.

The Sea Wolf's smuggling fleet gave full play to their advantages. Within a few months, they defeated the Japanese fleet several times, annihilated hundreds of Japanese warships, massacred nearly 10,000 Japanese samurai on board, and completely defeated the Germans.

Kawa Iemitsu’s intention.