Daming pirates

The news of Sea Wolf's defeat of Chu Cai Lao spread quickly throughout Fujian and even further along the coast. People who were familiar with Chu Cai Lao were all surprised when they heard about it.

Because almost no one living in the coastal areas does not know Chu Cai's bad reputation. Many fishermen along the coast often use Chu Cai's name to scare disobedient children, saying that if they continue to disobey, Chu Cai will die.

They will come and take them away, which shows how bad Mr. Chu Cai's reputation is.

But I didn't expect that Mr. Chu Cai would be so weak that even the government couldn't do anything about him. Today, he fell into the hands of a not-so-well-known colleague.

So this incident immediately caused an uproar in Fujian, and it was spread everywhere.

After the war on Nanyue Island, Yu Xiaotian was really busy. Nanyue Island had to carry out various aftermaths after the war, and various businesses that had been suspended due to Chu Cai's incident had to be restarted.

, there are countless gods from all walks of life who have come to congratulate, and they have to arrange for their men to receive the results of this battle.

Although this battle of Sea Wolf was based on defense rather than attack, it was not an active attack on Mr. Chu Cai's lair. On the surface, the results of the battle were just to capture a number of ships, capture a group of Mr. Chu Cai's men, and seize some

property and weapons, but in fact these gains are just the tip of the iceberg of all the results.

In fact, there are more hidden interests. After the war, through the torture and interrogation of the prisoners, the Sea Wolf Punishment Hall learned about all the shopkeepers and troops brought by Mr. Chu Cai this time.

In the battle on the island and on the sea, the shopkeepers of more than a dozen groups, large and small, brought by Mr. Chu Cai were beaten to death and captured alive, and nearly 100 of them were damaged.

More than half.

In fact, each of these shopkeepers working under Mr. Chu Cai is a group of pirates in reading power. They are only nominally under the jurisdiction of Mr. Chu Cai. In fact, they usually do their own thing and each has his own lair.

Cai Lao called them together, and they all had their own fun.

However, after this battle, more than half of these shopkeepers lost their money, and their minions were also killed and captured by the sea wolves, while the lucky ones took advantage of the chaos to escape. This also caused many pirate groups to disperse.

How could Yu Xiaotian let go of such a good opportunity? Of course, as soon as he learned the news, he sent his men and fleet to the lairs of these captured or killed pirates to pick up the fruits of victory.

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These Chu Cai's old subordinates are usually scattered in Chaozhou, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other coastal islands or some places on the shore. Now that their shopkeeper is gone, this is the time for Sea Wolf to take the opportunity to seize these territories.

So Yu Xiaotian sent a fleet headed by Hu Cheng. Shortly after the end of the war, they immediately went south to Dachui Island in Quanzhou Bay. They stopped there and swept away Chu Cai Laoxing's scattered men on the sea in the Quanzhou area.

Quanzhou Haiming officially took over, and according to the situation, he was asked to continue exploring southward, expanding the sea actually controlled by Sea Wolf as far south as possible, and encroaching on Chu Cailao's sphere of influence.

If possible, he was prepared to strike while the iron was hot. After dealing with the aftermath of the Nanyue Island war, he made some adjustments and personally led the Sea Wolf's main ships and troops southward to Dongshan Island to find Chu Cai Lao's bad luck.

It would be best to simply remove Chu Cai's old lair on Dongshan Island in one fell swoop. In this way, the entire sea along the coast of Fuzhou will basically fall under the control of his sea wolf.

However, Lin Yiyang and the people in the council did not support the plan he proposed. The main reason was that although Mr. Chu Cai fled in defeat and suffered huge losses, he would definitely not be able to cause trouble to their Sea Wolf in the short term.

But it does not mean that Chu Cailao's backbone was completely broken in this battle and he became a dead snake, at the mercy of Xiaotian.

After all, Mr. Chu Cai is an old thief who has been traveling on the sea for a long time. His potential strength has not been consumed much because of this battle, and this guy is very cunning. If Yu Xiaotian immediately leads his troops south to attack his Dongshan Island, he will definitely

If Dongshan Island can be captured, Mr. Chu Cai will never fight to the death with Yu Xiaotian on Dongshan Island.

With Chu Cai Lao's behavior, he would definitely abandon Dongshan Island immediately and break into pieces and go to other places to hide temporarily. However, with the contacts he has accumulated over the years, this guy will definitely make a comeback in a short time and follow him.

Sea wolves circling around.

The most critical reason for these subordinates is not whether they can solve the problem of Chu Cai Lao, but after this battle, Sea Wolf must digest the results of this war. At present, Sea Wolf has controlled the entire Quanzhou Bay.

From the north to the south of Dayu Bay in southern Zhejiang, there is such a large sea surface.

However, the number of Sea Wolf's followers is only two to three thousand, and some of them are scattered in Tamsui Village, Jilong Village, Shuangfeng Island and other places, so there is simply not enough manpower.

Although they have a lot of ships now, plus Chu Cailao's ships captured in this battle, they have 200 large and small ships. However, there are many ships, but the manpower is not enough, especially when they have just been captured.

There is simply no way to provide sailors and boatmen for such ships. Although there are many such ships, they actually do not have much combat effectiveness.

Therefore, in Lin Yiyang's view, the most urgent task for Xiaotian at the moment is not to rush to Dongshan Island to find trouble with Mr. Chu Cai, but to digest the results of this battle as soon as possible, step up the recruitment of troops, expand their strength, and fight steadily

Control the acquired territories first to avoid making the territory too large and unable to effectively control it.

After listening to Lin Yiyang's words, Yu Xiaotian calmed down and thought about it carefully. He felt that what Lin Yiyang said was indeed reasonable. Now he is constantly investing financial resources in Tamsui Village, Jilong Village, Nanyue Island Workshop and

In terms of immigration, efforts were made to make various self-made weapons and ships, but there was never enough support for personnel expansion.

Now that he controls such a large sea area, the number of ships belonging to the battle sequence was only about 70 before this battle. When these ships are gathered together, they seem to be a lot, but once they are spread out and dispersed into the sea area under his control,

However, he looked very weak.

Moreover, the number of sailors is not very sufficient, and the manpower reserve is even more limited. So far, he has captured dozens of Chu Cailao's ships, but due to the lack of manpower, he cannot immediately transform them into his own power, and can only temporarily

Park it in the bay and wait for additional manpower.

Now he wants to expand further south, and even extend his hand to Guangdong. Although it is not said that he will return in vain, but even if he can seize Dongshan Island, he may not be able to kill that old fox Chu Cai.

, and because his troops are severely dispersed, with the current communication methods, he is simply unable to control such a large area before his homing pigeons are officially put into use.

The current model he adopts requires him to have strong enough control over the territory he already occupies. Otherwise, once Mr. Chu Cai or others take advantage of the situation, they will gain control over the territory he controls.

If trouble occurs and he does not have enough strength to deal with it, his credibility will be greatly damaged.

Therefore, if he seeks stability at the moment, it may be better to digest the results gained so far instead of rushing south rashly. This is the main reason why Lin Yiyang and some of his subordinates consider this.

Just when Yu Xiaotian was wondering whether he should take some risks, he directly sent troops to Dongshan Island, and then continued to give Mr. Chu Cai a hard beating, but a piece of news made Yu Xiaotian decide to postpone going south.

He decided to change his strategy and decided to recruit a large number of people to enhance his strength.

This news came from Jilongzhai Heitou. Just when Yu Xiaotian was concentrating all his efforts to fight Chu Cailao on Nanyue Island, something happened in Jilong Bay.

In fact, this incident was not a big deal. Around mid-March, two Western-style sailing boats suddenly appeared near Jilong Bay in the north of Taiyuan Island.

As soon as these two Western-style sailboats appeared in the area outside Jilong Bay, they were immediately discovered by the Sea Wolf tribe guarding Jilong Village and reported to Heitou who was stationed in Jilong Bay.

After hearing the news, Hei Tou immediately led his ship out of Jilong Bay and found the two Western-style sailing ships on the sea, slowly sailing along the coastline of Taiyuan Island. So Hei Tou ordered his men to raise the Sea Wolf flag.

We sailed towards these two Western-style sailing boats and observed their whereabouts closely.

They didn't recognize the flags and flags hanging on these two Western-style sailing ships, so they tried to ask the crew of the two Western-style sailing ships what they were doing here.

However, these two Western-style sailboats appeared to be very wary and arrogant. They ignored Heitou's questions and never came into contact with Heitou and the others. They even made a hostile gesture and opened the gun doors on the side of the ship, revealing a stream of water from the side of the ship.

The dark muzzle of the gun door.

Heitou saw that the other party seemed to have bad intentions, and found that these two Western-style sailing ships were relatively large and had many artillery guns on board, so he did not dare to conflict with them easily. He could only keep vigilance against them from a distance, and at the same time sent orders to Jilongwan.

Each fort is prepared to respond in case of unexpected events.

Heitou is no longer the reckless young man he was a few years ago. Now he has grown into a very important leader among the sea wolves. He is sitting in Jilong Bay, the stronghold of the sea wolves, and his vision is much better than what he used to do in Xiaohuangdao.

At that time, it was too open.

He found that these two Taixi sailing ships were not comparable to his current ship in terms of the size of the hull or the number of cannons on board. Even with the addition of several ships sent by Yu Xiaotian to him to control,

When the boat comes together, it may not be a match for these two boats.

These two Western-style sailing ships are both three-masted ships. They use standard Western-style soft sails. The bows can also be hung with sails. The hulls are tall and there are gun ports on both sides of the ship. A rough count, these two

Each ship is equipped with at least a dozen cannons. The specific size of the cannons is unknown, but they can still feel the pressure brought by such ships.

Therefore, blackheads have to be careful and do not dare to fall out with them easily. They can only be careful and guard against them and keep a distance from them to avoid conflicts.