Daming pirates

In this battle, Ma Xiao led his troops to fight at Nanyue Water Village until it was dark, and then ordered the troops to withdraw and return. However, when he saw Nanyue Water Village, it turned into a sea of ​​fire. Not only the ships at the dock were ignited,

Even some wooden fences in the water village on the shore were burned by the fire.

Seeing that the situation was not good, many officers and soldiers who had not yet boarded the ship immediately dispersed and fled everywhere. However, of the more than fifty warships assembled in Nanyue Water Village, when it got dark, only four were left.

Five boats were not killed by sea wolves and escaped into Meizhou Bay. The rest were either severely injured and stranded on the shore, or were simply burned to a ball, or were beaten to pieces and sank into the sea.

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In the sea water with a radius of more than ten miles outside Nanyue Water Village, there were broken ship fragments floating everywhere, as well as the bodies of some officers and soldiers, and some officers and soldiers who had jumped into the water to escape, struggling to swim to the beach in the cold sea water.

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Some officers and soldiers knelt on the shore and covered their faces and cried loudly. For a while, there was a cry of sadness on the shore. After Liu Yinglong was rescued ashore by his men, he was escorted to the water stronghold. He gathered a group of defeated soldiers and prepared to defend the water stronghold.

People rushed to Puxi City to ask for help from Zhang Jiace, fearing that the Sea Wolf tribe would forcefully land at Nanyue Water Village and occupy the water village after destroying the official fleet.

But Zhang Jiace was in Puxi City at the moment, but he was also beaten to disgrace by several sea wolf warships on the sea outside the city. These sea wolf ships seemed to have endless shells, and they took turns taking turns in the battle all afternoon.

The artillery fire on Puxisuo City was stopped, the intensity was slow and sometimes rapid, but the bombardment never stopped.

Artillery shells kept falling in the city. Although the damage to the city of Puxi was not great, it had a serious impact on the morale of the officers and soldiers.

The two red barbarian cannons in Puxi City also carried out constant counterattacks under the guidance of the official army. However, the soldiers of the cannons were limited in their ability and could not hit the pirate ship. Instead, they became a joke to the Sea Wolf tribe.

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After firing more than a dozen shots from two cannons, the barrels of the cannons will become extremely hot, and they must be stopped to wait for the barrels to cool down. Otherwise, once the gunpowder is loaded, the barrels may explode or be accidentally ignited, causing an accident.

As for the old cannons in the city, Sea Wolf's warships always lingered hundreds of meters away from the sea outside the city, giving them no chance to fight back. This was no different from being beaten by a horse.

What a soldier fears most is being beaten without being able to fight back. It's okay for a while, but once the time goes by, the soldier's morale will plummet. When Liu Yinglong came to ask for help, Puxi City's

The morale of the officers and soldiers has already dropped to the bottom of their pants. How can they still provide reinforcements to Nanyue Water Village?

At the beginning, Zhang Jiace was still holding on to the city wall and insisting on commanding, but then Sea Wolf's cannonballs almost hit him several times and sent him to the West to learn from the scriptures. Only then did the soldiers and subordinate generals drag him to death.

Dragging him off the city wall, Zhang Jiace pretended to persist for a while, but pretended to be helpless before being pulled off the city wall and evacuated to a safe place in the city. The officers and soldiers on the city informed him of the situation of the Seawolf fleet outside the city. He

Take command within the city.

However, the cannons outside the city continued to sound, and the cannonballs continued to fall into the city. However, these pirate ships never approached the coast, nor did they make any gesture of forcibly landing. Zhang Jiace gradually understood what Sea Wolf was thinking.

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The Sea Wolf did not come to Puxi City this time, nor did they plan to attack Puxi City. Their main target was concentrated on Nanyue Water Village. These pirate ships that bombarded Puxi City were basically there.

Containing his side made him unable to rescue Nanyue Water Village.

After thinking about this, Zhang Jiace was not too nervous, but he felt worried about Nanyue Water Village, so he quickly went up to the city and looked towards Nanyue Water Village.

At this time, Nanyue Water Village was already on fire, and fighting was fierce. From a distance, he could see a large fire rising in Nanyue Water Village, and many ships were also emitting thick smoke on the sea. He then understood that Nanyue Water Village was on fire.

The water village is finally finished.

This group of sea wolves is really very cunning. They unexpectedly attacked Puxi City and Nanyue Water Village, giving the officers and soldiers a pre-emptive strike. As long as they destroyed the naval warships assembled in Nanyue Water Village, then the next step would be to

The attack that the governor had finally organized was half lost. In a short period of time, it would be difficult for Prime Minister Zhu Qin to gather so many warships to launch an offensive against Nanyue Island.

And today they have all seen the power of the pirates on Nanyue Island. This group of pirates indeed has a batch of Hongyi cannons that they could not have imagined, as the rumors said, and the number is so large that it exceeds

All of them expected, and today there are only more than 30 ships from Sea Wolf, which are loaded with more than a hundred Western cannons. He dare not imagine how many such cannons Sea Wolf still has. If Sea Wolf still has

If there are more Western artillery pieces like this, the current strength of the army will not be able to cope with them.

Therefore, the next attack on the sea wolves will probably be aborted because of this. No matter how angry Zhu Qinxiang is, I am afraid he will not dare to attack the sea wolves easily again.

Moreover, today's government and military suffered such a heavy setback, I am afraid that many officials will immediately launch an impeachment campaign against Prime Minister Zhu Qin. This newly appointed governor may not even be able to keep his position as governor...

Thinking of this, Zhang Jiace turned around and got off the city wall. He knew that the Sea Wolf's goal had been achieved, and the Sea Wolf would probably not land and raid again. For such a result, he himself didn't know whether he should be grateful or feel...

Sad.

But there was one thing he knew very well. This time Nanyue Water Village was attacked, Puxi City was bombarded, and the naval fleet gathered here was completely destroyed. Except for Zhu Qinxiang who should bear the responsibility, he, who was in charge,

The general here is probably not exempt from the blame. Next, what he needs to care about is not how to save Nanyue Water Village, but to think about how to shirk the responsibility for this matter and let others

Take responsibility, lest he suffer the same fate and be dismissed from office.

At the same time that Ma Xiao led his fleet to attack Nanyue Water Village, another fleet had already left Nanyue Island and headed straight down the wind towards Quanzhou Prefecture.

This fleet was led by Liu Yidao. The size of the fleet was similar to that of the fleet led by Ma Xiao, but the condition of the ships was weaker than that of the fleet led by Ma Xiao.

This fleet is mainly composed of medium-sized and light warships among the Sea Wolf fleets, and the number is about thirty. Although it is slightly weaker than the fleet led by Ma Xiao, from a broad perspective

For the pirate groups in Fujian, the strength of a fleet like theirs cannot be underestimated.

This time, Sea Wolf took a series of preemptive measures, and it was not just as simple as attacking a place in Nanyue Water Village.

In addition to attacking Nanyue Water Village and destroying the warships of the Fujian Navy gathered there, Yu Xiaotian also sent two other fleets, one of which was led by Liu Yidao, to attack Quanzhou Prefecture Chongqing.

Wusuo is the ancient city of Chongwu left by later generations.

According to the arrangements of Prime Minister Zhu Qin, a large number of merchant ships have been sealed in Zhangquan and other places recently, and the merchant ships have been concentrated in the port outside Chongwu Qianhusuo City. They are preparing to send ships to Pinghaiwei and Puxi Suo in the near future, and the shipments will be gathered there.

The officers and soldiers on the border followed the naval fleet to attack Nanyue Island.

Prime Minister Zhu Qin knew very well that with the current number of warships of the Fujian Navy, it was difficult to ensure that a large number of officers and soldiers could be transported to Nanyue Island at one time. Therefore, according to the historical custom of the government, temporarily recruiting merchant ships to participate in the war became a realistic option. Therefore, he ordered Zhang

Quan and other places sealed the merchant ships, forcibly recruited them, and assembled them to help the government troops attack Nanyue Island.

Before Hailang took action, according to detailed reports, more than 60 merchant ships of various types had gathered at the port of Quanzhou Chongwusuo, most of which were large-scale cargo ships with more than 300 tons of cargo. If each ship was only considered to transport troops,

They can carry up to more than 200 officers and soldiers, so these ships can transport all the officers and soldiers gathered at Pinghaiwei and Puxi Station to Nanyue Island for landing at one time.

Of course, this kind of transportation capacity also needs to ensure the transportation of a lot of supplies, such as the newly cast Hongyi cannons, grain, ammunition, arrows, and siege equipment that they mobilized. Therefore, the government has recruited so many merchant ships to participate in the war.

Merchants are definitely not willing to work for the government, because they make a living by going to sea to do business. After a ship is commandeered, there will be a long delay. Once a fight breaks out, there is no guarantee that there will be no losses.

The government has always only recruited people, but once losses are caused, they will never be responsible for compensating their losses. Therefore, under normal circumstances, maritime merchants are not willing to do this kind of thing, not to mention they all know how powerful Sea Wolf is now.

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Once the sea wolves know that they are helping the government to invade Nanyue Island, it will be okay if the government can kill the sea wolves. But if the government cannot win, then if the sea wolves know about it, it will be difficult to turn back.

Will seek revenge on them.

But no matter how unwilling they were, the government sent officers and soldiers to the port to seize their ship. They had no choice but to be escorted to the gathering place to wait for the government's orders.

The government chose Chongwu Station as the gathering place for merchant ships instead of letting them go directly to Pinghai Bay to assemble because there are not many ports there and the water fortress facilities are dilapidated, which is not enough to support so many ships to dock at once and replenish food.

and Tamsui, so Chongwu was used as a gathering point for merchant ships.

Chongwu Institute is not too far from Puxi City and Heping Haiwei. If necessary, merchant ships here can arrive at Pinghai Bay in one day and start loading officers and soldiers. In three days at most, they can set off for Nanyue Island.

Join the war.

However, these actions without exception fell into the eyes and ears of the sea wolf. Since Yu Xiaotian wanted to beat Zhu Qinxiang, he would not let go of the assembled merchant ships. Therefore, the Chongwu merchant ship assembly point also became

The target of their attack.

Just when Ma Xiao led his team to Nanyue Water Village, Liu Yidao led another fleet and sailed away from Nanyue Island and headed straight for Chongwu Station.

However, Liu Yidao's fleet did not travel as carefully as Ma Xiao's fleet. Instead, after setting off from Nanyue Island, they bypassed the waters east of Nanyue Island and avoided the surveillance of the officers and soldiers of the Nanyue Waterway.

, and drove directly to Chongwu Suo.

At this time, the north wind was blowing at sea, and the fleet was basically following the wind as it headed south, so the fleet sailed relatively fast. Although it encountered some merchant ships or military sentry ships along the way, the sea wolf's ship was seen

After the fleet, these ships quickly ran away.

Liu Yidao, on the other hand, led the fleet towards Quanzhou in a swaggering manner, strutting through the city like an armed parade. They didn't bother to pay attention to some of the ships they encountered along the way, and just sailed smoothly all the way. After about a day and night of sailing,

Afterwards, at noon the next day, we arrived at the sea surface of Chongwu Suo.

(Yesterday, there was a problem with the author's background update system, which caused the order of Chapters 7 and 8 to be reversed. This time it was not my fault. What an injustice! It was snowing in June! What an injustice!)