Daming pirates

Listening to the sound of the waves on the shore, Master Zhou suddenly had an idea and said to Mr. Chu Cai: "Big shopkeeper, we have been on the island these days trying to think of ways to attack Sea Wolf Dazhai, but we forgot about our fleet.

There are also many cannons!

Although Sea Wolf's cannons are sharp, they are limited in number after all. Why don't we try to have a group of ships attack Dazhai from the north of Sea Wolf Dazhai tomorrow, and support the brothers on the island to attack from both sides!

Under attack from two sides, Hailang Dazhai will definitely lose sight of the other. Maybe we will have a chance to attack and restrain it! In addition, while watching the battle recently, I also saw that the gunpowder we used recently was very effective, and it collapsed.

There is a section of the wall of Hailang Dazhai. Tomorrow we can select some dead soldiers, ask them to prepare more gunpowder, transport them to the bottom of Hailang Dazhai, and fire cannons at several places together.

Coupled with the offensive of the fleet from the north, once we only need to blow up two or three stronghold walls, even if Yu has three heads and six arms, he may not be able to stop us from attacking the stronghold. In this way, this stronghold is a good choice!

Even if we can't capture their Dazhai tomorrow, we have no choice but to retreat. However, we don't need to return to Dongshan Island first. We can go to the coast of Fuzhou to raid first, so that at least the brothers will not run away this time.

Kong, it’s not too late for us to find another way to deal with Yu in the future!”

After being reminded by Master Zhou, Mr. Chu Cai felt a little enlightened. In the past three days, he had only led his men on the island to think of ways to attack Sea Wolf Dazhai, but he had forgotten that he still had two to three hundred ships.

There is no use floating on the sea!

If he followed what Master Zhou said and attacked Sea Wolf's stronghold from both the sea and the island, Sea Wolf's original manpower was insufficient. Although there were many cannons, the number was limited after all.

He found out the mistake and let him take Dazhai.

Moreover, after several days of his attack, the wall of the village was already riddled with holes by his cannons. Many places were already crumbling. Today, I used gunpowder to blow up a section of the wall. Tomorrow, this method can be used.

Give Sea Wolf Dazhai a hard blow, and taking this Dazhai might not be just a dream.

So Chu Cai Lao suddenly became energetic, clapped his hands and said: "Okay! Master Zhou is really smart! I actually forgot that there are so many ships! Come, call the shopkeepers, and tell them that I have something important to arrange with them!"

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After a while, the shopkeepers were summoned from all over the place to Mr. Chu Cai's big tent one by one with their heads down and yawning. After everyone was due, Mr. Chu Cai immediately told everyone Master Zhou's plan.

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"Everyone! We will fight for another day tomorrow. If we still can't take down Dazhai, I will take you out of here! It won't be too late to find another opportunity to deal with this Yu!

And I won’t let you go in vain this time! We don’t need to go back to Dongshan Island for now. I will take you to find some other places to start along the coast of Fuzhou Prefecture. I will make sure that you will not leave this trip empty-handed.

Return!

But for the last battle tomorrow, I hope you will do your best. As long as we take down this sea wolf stronghold, I can share most of the gains with you to make up for your losses on this trip! In the past, I got five

OK, as long as we capture this stronghold this time, I can only take 20% of it, and all the rest will be distributed to you!

Do you think this can be done?"

After listening to these shopkeepers, their spirits were lifted. The method Chu Cai said was more effective. They had always made a living on the sea and relied on boats to earn a living, but this time they were here.

They all lay down on the island and attacked Sea Wolf's stronghold by force, but they forgot that they still had so many ships and many cannons on board.

Although Sea Wolf has a lot of cannons, they are far less numerous than the cannons on their ship. If they attack from both sides, Sea Wolf will definitely not be able to mobilize all the cannons to deal with their ship, and then they will really have a chance to capture this stronghold.

Although they are a little desperate today, it does not mean that they are willing to retreat to Dongshan Island in such a dejected manner. This time they came to attack Sea Wolf Dazhai, but they really encountered a problem. No matter who it was, they suffered heavy losses.

Even as of today, four shopkeepers have even found themselves here and were beaten to death by sea wolves' cannons outside the village.

Although they really don't want to continue fighting, they are still unwilling to leave like this. Now the method proposed by Mr. Chu Cai sounds good, and Mr. Chu Cai has also promised them that they will fight another day tomorrow. If

Can't beat it anymore

If so, just take them away and let them grab as much as they can along the way back. In this way, even if they can't take the Sea Wolf Village tomorrow, at least they can make a lot of money along the coast on the way back.

At the very least, it won't be a waste of time.

So after seeing the hope, these people became a little excited. Although the feeling of decadence was not completely gone, at least they no longer had the strong sense of depression they had when they came here just now.

Seeing that it was not long before dawn, Chu Cai planned to start taking action on land and sea as soon as it dawned this time. While it was dark, he would first mobilize the ships and move them to the north of Hailang Dazhai.

Be prepared for the attack, so he ordered the shopkeepers to make arrangements now. According to their different strengths, each person drew a different number of ships from the fleet in their hands, adjusted the manpower to board the ship, and now began to pull the anchor.

set sail.

So Chu Cai's camp suddenly became lively again. The shopkeepers from all over the place started to dispatch their men with shouts. Some people stayed and others returned to the ship. Both the island and the ship began to prepare. They would start as soon as dawn.

Let's see if it works today and take down this damn stronghold.

After a lot of work, some ships gathered on the shore raised strings of lanterns, and lanterns were also hung on the sides of the ships, bows and sterns. Amid the shouts of the men on the ships, anchors and rocks were raised one by one.

They began to pull the anchor from the bottom of the sea to the surface of the ship.

One after another, the boats began to slowly raise their sails, and under the guidance of the people on the boats, they slowly left the coast and moved to a wider sea. Then, under the leadership of a large boat, they moved westward and headed towards

Outside the bay north of Hailang Dazhai.

Naturally, the movements on Chu Cailao's side could not escape the surveillance of Sea Wolf. When they saw a few ships moving to the mouth of the bay outside Dazhai with their lanterns on, someone immediately notified Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian jumped up and quickly rushed to the wall on the north side of the stockade with his guards, looking towards the sea with the help of a telescope.

At this time, probably dozens of boats had sailed to the outside of the bay under the cover of night, and were sailing into the bay, approaching Dazhai.

Although the visibility was not good at night, in order to avoid ships colliding on the sea, Chu Cailao's men all lit lanterns to mark the position of their ships, which also exposed their whereabouts.

Yu Xiaotian immediately realized what Mr. Chu Cai wanted to do, and secretly cursed the old fox in his heart. He wanted to launch an offensive against the Sea Wolf stronghold from two sides at the same time, forcing his guards to be unable to care about each other. It was clear that he was still a thief.

Immortal!

Without saying a word, Yu Xiaotian immediately ordered the forts in the north to start preparing for battle. Regardless of Tian Liang or not, as soon as the enemy ship entered the effective shooting range, they would immediately start firing and hit these bastards first.

The Sea Wolf tribesmen on the fort here immediately took action. The six-pounder cannon and the twelve-pounder cannon were loaded one after another. With the cooperation of the artillery team, they were quickly pushed to the gun door and began to fire the gun.

Aim and adjust the gun under the command of the commander.

Not long after, streaks of flames erupted from the walls of Hailang Dazhai, and then the roaring sound of cannons was heard.

Chu Cai Lao's men did not follow Chu Cai Lao's instructions honestly. They waited until dawn and cooperated with the people on the island to launch an attack. They experienced the power of Sea Wolf's cannon on the first day, so the leader

Some people tried to use the cover of night to approach Dazhai first, hoping to use the miscellaneous artillery on their ships to fight back against the waves at Dazhai at dawn.

So before dawn, some ships had already begun to sail into the bay and approached Dazhai. However, the light of the angry wind lanterns on their ships exposed their whereabouts and became the target of the Sea Wolf gunners. As soon as they approached the sea

In Langdazhai, the cannons from each fort began to roar unceremoniously.

The cannonballs roared into the bay and began to fall into the fleet one after another. Some of the cannonballs fell into the sea water, stirring up waves, and some of the cannonballs hit the hull accurately, sometimes making a big hole.

, heavy blows will cause debris to fly around on the ship.

Old Chu Cai's men on the boat suddenly screamed again and again. At this time, they realized that their lanterns had exposed their position, so they quickly extinguished the lanterns on the boat, but by now it was too late, the shadow of their ship had already

It can be seen with the help of background light that it is not enough to prevent the Seawolf gunners from firing at them. It only affects the accuracy of some shelling.

Listening to the rolling sound of cannons, Mr. Chu Cai couldn't help but cursed secretly, but there was nothing he could do about it. Just fight early to attract the sea wolf's attention. It would not be a bad thing for the island anyway.

At dawn, the tribesmen on the island will also start to attack Dazhai. The success or failure will depend on today.

Chu Cailao walked slowly to the side of the ship, his body swaying slightly with the rocking of the ship. He had had enough on the island in the past two days. Master Zhou came up with this plan today, and he took the opportunity to return to his ship.

, leaving a few close subordinates to supervise the battle on the island, while he was preparing to go to the sea to supervise the battle in person, and attack the Sea Wolf Dazhai from both sides.

Chu Cailao's ship is a large fortune ship with solid workmanship and luxurious decoration. The hull of this ship is about 600 materials, which is much more than the 400 materials warships of the main force of the navy. The displacement is about

More than 400 tons

, Looking at the coast of the Ming Dynasty in this era, such large ships are already rare. After Zheng He's voyages to the West, the Ming Dynasty's sea-going ship construction technology began to shrink. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were very few sea-going ships with more than 400 materials.

of ships.

(Special thanks to Brother Ying Zhiwu for the reward today!)