Daming pirates

On the Nanyue Water Village, except for these warships, although the water village has been briefly repaired recently, no cannons have been added. Once the Sea Wolf strikes preemptively and launches a large-scale attack, then these warships may be destroyed in a short time.

Inside, it's hard to react.

Therefore, Liu Yinglong wanted to ask Zhang Jiace to send a group of officers and soldiers, carrying several thousand-jin cannons brought by Zhang Jiace from Quanzhou, to garrison Nanyue Water Village to strengthen the defense of Nanyue Water Village.

But when Liu Yinglong met Zhang Jiace, the deputy commander in chief, and told Zhang Jiace his concerns, Zhang Jiace disagreed. There were dozens of warships and hundreds of cannons in the water village. How could he be unable to protect himself? And now

The official army was about to raise troops, and they were about to set off to Nanyue Island to attack the pirate stronghold. The heavy artillery in the army was inconvenient to move, and it was difficult to move to Nanyue Water Stronghold to deploy defenses. Liu Yinglong was ordered to strengthen the defense of the water stronghold on his own, but his request was not allowed.

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Liu Yinglong had no choice but to rush back to Nanyue Water Village, summoned the officers from various water camps who had gathered in Nanyue Water Village for discussion, and informed these officers who were temporarily following his orders of his concerns.

After listening to Liu Yinglong's concerns, the naval officers who led the troops felt uncertain. Their naval officers had always been more concerned about the situation at sea than those of the land army.

Therefore, their understanding of the Sea Wolf is much better than that of other land division generals. Most of them are relatively clear about the power of the Sea Wolf.

This time, Prime Minister Zhu Qin ordered them to be mobilized to Nanyue Water Village to prepare for the attack on Nanyue Island. Originally, these officers were reluctant because they had just fought a big battle with the red-haired people last year. Although they nominally conquered Penghu, they were not willing to attack Nanyue Island.

The brutality of the battle is still fresh in their memories.

During the Battle of Penghu, the officers and soldiers of the Red-haired Army were often killed or injured when the Red-haired People's cannon fired. However, the Ming Army's artillery had a short range and low power, but could not cause much damage to the Red-haired People, if they did not have a numerical advantage at that time.

, it was probably difficult to say the final outcome of the Battle of Penghu at that time.

Don't look at the civil officials who talked about the Battle of Penghu in a garish way after this battle and called it a great victory. However, this great victory contained a lot of water. After defeating the Wanming Army and besieging Hongmao City in Penghu, the Hongmao people finally retreated.

At that time, there were only less than ten large and small ships, and the number of troops was no more than 800, and it is said that there were many young people at that time, and there were many sick people among them.

In this way, more than ten thousand Ming troops were still unable to capture the small Hongmao City. Instead, they lost their troops outside Hongmao City and were killed and wounded many Ming troops by the sharp cannons of the Hongmao people.

Now that they have been transferred here, they are quite aware of the power of the Sea Wolf. To be honest, these navy generals are not very sure about the attack on Nanyue Island this time, so they just bite the bullet and come here.

After hearing Liu Yinglong's concerns, these officers were also very nervous, but they did not dare to be careless. In the end, they agreed to Liu Yinglong's arrangement and took turns taking the ship out to sea every day and patrolling the sea to prevent the sea wolf from preemptively sending a fleet.

A sneak attack on Nanyue Water Village.

The other people were also in Nanyue Water Village, ready to deal with emergencies at any time. Liu Yinglong finally felt a little more relieved and busily began to arrange the mobilization of ammunition and supplies to replenish the fleet.

Ma Xiao succeeded Wang Hong and became the number one figure in the navy among Sea Wolves. Although Yu Xiaotian is still in charge of the navy in name, Yu Xiaotian has too many affairs on his shoulders and is often unable to accompany the ship.

The fleet conducts activities, so Ma Xiao is usually responsible for commanding the three sub-fleets.

To put it bluntly, Ma Xiao is now the nominal deputy commander-in-chief of the Sea Wolf fleet, making Ma Xiao now one of the few key commanders of the Sea Wolf fleet.

On November 23, a fleet of about thirty ships appeared on the sea more than thirty miles south of Nanyue Island in the Taiwan Strait. Taking advantage of the northwest wind on the sea, they sailed

The formation sailed towards the west, and the sails of all ships were adjusted to the side sail position, so that the ships could take advantage of the wind and maintain power for the ships.

Ma Xiao stood on a 400-material fortune ship in the middle of the fleet, constantly observing the surrounding sea conditions with telescopes. In front of the fleet, there were three sloops scattered in the shape of a Chinese character.

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If you look at this fleet from a high altitude, you will find that this fleet is more like a sharp arrow. The three sloops are the arrow clusters of Zheng Zhi’s arrow. Under the guidance of their three ships, this fleet

Like a sharp arrow, it headed towards Meizhou Island.

Although Meizhou Island is located within the sea wolf control area, because Meizhou Island is very close to Nanyue Water Village and is also a place controlled by Pinghaiwei and Puxi, in the past two years, although sea wolves have occasionally

Go to the island for some activities, but in order to avoid conflict with the government, Sea Wolf never actually occupied the island.

But last night, two boats carrying dozens of Sea Wolf soldiers quietly docked at Meizhou Island under the cover of night. The soldiers on board all changed into short swords, and

They were accompanied by several soldiers who were good at using bows and crossbows. As soon as the ship docked, they immediately jumped onto Meizhou Island and quickly divided into several small teams. Under the leadership of several leaders, they quickly disappeared into the night.

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The recent massive mobilization of government troops has also strengthened coastal defenses. In particular, Meizhou Island, which was not taken seriously before, has also received attention as a barrier to Xinghua Prefecture. Several beacon towers on the island that had long been in disrepair were destroyed.

Some officers and soldiers were stationed to monitor ships appearing on the sea.

The officers and soldiers who boarded Meizhou Island were ordered to light beacons as soon as they found a large number of ships on the sea, and report the news to Nanyue Water Village, which was only a few miles away from them, so that the navy of Nanyue Water Village could make preparations in advance.

Be prepared to deal with it.

But these people did not expect that on this night, they were suddenly attacked. Some people dressed in black suddenly appeared at Niutouwei and several other beacon towers. Under the cover of night,

Almost without making a sound, he sneaked up to the officers and soldiers who were staying at the beacon tower.

Without giving these officers and soldiers any time to resist, these men in black neatly disarmed them. Several officers and soldiers who tried to resist and lit the beacon tower had their necks cut or their heads chopped off without mercy.

Before dawn, these Sea Wolf soldiers completely took control of several beacon towers on the island, blinding several eyes of the government troops stationed here.

At noon, under the leadership of Ma Xiao, Sea Wolf's fleet of more than thirty ships appeared northeast of Meizhou Island.

The entire fleet bypassed the east side of Nanyue Island and drew a large arc from the Taiwan Strait. It avoided the surveillance of the Nanyue Waterway by coastal officers and soldiers and traveled several times longer, but unexpectedly entered the

The mouth of the flat bay.

Originally, Yu Xiaotian could mobilize more warships to take the initiative to attack Nanyue Water Village this time. However, after careful consideration, he decided not to go all out and send a large number of ships to participate in this attack.

Instead, only a dozen blessing ships with the strongest combat effectiveness and a dozen flexible sailing and bird ships were selected from each fleet, and the three flying sloops of the clipper detachment were added.

Assigned to the fleet to carry out this attack.

The reason for this is that Nanyue Water Village is located in the southeast corner of Zhongmen Peninsula, just across the water from Meizhou Island. The water here is very narrow, with the widest point only four or five miles away, and the sea water along the coast is relatively shallow.

, once a fight breaks out, too many ships can easily crowd together and turn into a melee.

Such sea surface terrain is not suitable for the movement of large numbers of ships. Once it becomes chaotic, it will be difficult to effectively command the fleet. Therefore, everyone agrees that it will not be easy to send too many ships to Nanyue Water Village this time. Thirty large and small warships have already

It's enough to complete this mission.

In the end, Ma Xiao was ordered to serve as the commander of this operation and directly command this combat operation.

After Ma Xiao selected the ships to participate in the battle, he spent three days conducting two drills on the east side of Nanyue Island, so that all the ships in the fleet were familiar with the cooperation, and then he supplemented all kinds of equipment.

The ammunition and supplies left Nanyue Island one day in advance.

They followed the previously planned detailed plan and spent more time on the sea, making a large circle and sailing to Pinghai Bay, in order to suddenly appear in Nanyue Water Village without alerting the officers and soldiers in advance.

The government and military warships gathered at Dananyue Water Village were caught off guard.

The key to the success of this mission is to first unplug the eyes set by the army on Meizhou Island. At this point, Sea Wolf already has considerable experience.

Don't forget that when Yu Xiaotian first landed on land to rescue Lan'er, he used a surprise attack tactic, and at that time he also led a group of young people from Xiaohuang Island, almost all of them were a ragtag group, but in the end he still

Successfully broke into Jiang Baihu's mansion, successfully killed Jiang Baihu, ransacked his house, and rescued Lan'er.

Later, after the establishment of Sea Wolf, Yu Xiaotian attached great importance to surprise attack tactics. Later, after the formation of the war barracks, he even made this surprise attack tactic a subject of daily drills in the war barracks. In the past two years, many

This method was used for the first time to kidnap some craftsmen they needed or to eliminate some of their enemies on land, and the effect was quite good.

In Sea Wolf's combat barracks, dozens of combat soldiers who are agile, courageous and good at night operations were specially selected for this purpose and formed into a separate team for such operations. To put it bluntly, this group of people should

It can be regarded as a special warfare unit of the Sea Wolf, and sometimes it can be used as a scout for the soldiers.

This time, this small team was also sent out by Yu Xiaotian. Before Ma Xiao's fleet arrived at Pinghai Bay, they first uprooted several beacon towers set up by the army on Meizhou Island.

In this way, Sea Wolf's fleet arrived at Pinghai Bay and approached Niutouwei in the north of Meizhou Island without anyone noticing.

At this time, Sea Wolf's fleet was less than six or seven miles away from Nanyue Water Village and Puxi City. Even if the army discovered their whereabouts at this time, it would be too late to make better preparations.

At this time, a military sentry ship finally appeared at the mouth of Pinghai Bay. The officers and soldiers on the ship could hardly believe their eyes. Suddenly, when they rounded Niu Touwei on Meizhou Island, they saw what appeared in front of them.

There was a dark fleet, heading towards them, rushing towards them.