Daming pirates

After Waite left with the fleet of red-haired men, Yu Zigao secretly guessed that if he guessed correctly, Waite would definitely take his fleet to attack Tamsui City, even if he could not defeat Tamsui City.

, they must at least force Sea Wolf to reach an agreement with them, allowing Sea Wolf to give up the blockade on their senior members.

The reason why Yu Zigao knew about the senior officials in the Sea Wolf blockade was because he got the news from Xu Xinsu. Xu Xinsu had always had a close relationship with the red-haired people, so he would naturally know a lot about the situation on the senior officials' side. Although Xu Xinsu herself had

He was bribed to accept the recruitment and became a hundred households, but he would not give up the maritime business. He was just buying an official position to make it more convenient for him to continue to operate the sea in the future.

Now if Waite is looking for trouble with the sea wolf, he will naturally be happy to see what happens. In his opinion, the sea wolf is not a good thing, and then the red-haired man is not a good thing. After all, the sea wolf is known to be benevolent and righteous in the coastal area.

The reputation of these red-haired people as Fanyi has long been notorious along the coast.

Waite led his team to attack Tamsui, which happened to make the sea wolf and the red-haired man bite the dog. No matter who killed the other, it was a good thing for the government. This was why he flatly refused Waite and went to attack Tamsui together.

reason.

Just when Waite led the fleet to leave Nanri Island, on the mountain at the northeast corner of Nanri Island, a pair of eyes, through the telescope, had been observing the movements of the red-haired man's fleet.

Gradually sail away from Nanri Island and begin to turn towards Taiyuan Island.

and gradually disappeared from his sight, he put down the telescope, turned around and said to the people following him: "Send the homing pigeon! Inform the boss that the red-haired man has left Nanri Island alone, heading southeast, possibly heading for Tamsui or...

Return to the chief!"

After a short while, two homing pigeons took off from the mountain. After circling at low altitude, they chose a direction and flapped their wings to fly towards the south of Nanri Island.

Tamsui City has been on alert since the official army began to take action. The forts on both sides of the river mouth began to increase naval manpower and replenish ammunition. Tamsui City's own garrison company also began to enter an alert state and began to strengthen Tamsui City's

defensive.

Militiamen from various villages and towns under the jurisdiction of Tamsui City were also recruited, and weapons were distributed to them, of course, mainly cold weapons, plus a small number of miscellaneous muskets.

These rural militiamen were also concentrated in the Tamsui City area to strengthen the defense along the coast. However, Fang An did not block the Tamsui River mouth and continued to maintain the smooth flow of the Tamsui River mouth.

However, he still added several temporary forts and deployed more than a dozen twenty-four-pound guns on both sides of the river mouth to block the river.

Generally speaking, the terrain around Tamsui River is not as easy to defend as Jilong Bay, but Fang An is not too worried about this, because even if the army or the red-haired people come, they want to break into Tamsui River and attack Tamsui City.

, is not an easy task. If they choose to land outside the river mouth, then the Sea Wolf will have enough time to stop them from approaching Tamsui City. With the current strength of the Sea Wolf, they are not afraid of the army landing in Tamsui and storming Tamsui City.

Although the terrain here is not very complicated, the official army does not know much about it. Sea Wolf's land division and navy have enough strength to prevent them from attacking Tamsui City. If the official army does not come, then this is the place.

It will become their nightmare.

As for the Red-haired People, if they attack alone, according to their understanding of the Red-haired People, the Red-haired People will never be able to send enough infantry for landing operations. At most, they can only use the artillery of their large plywood boats to attack the mouth of the river.

Conduct artillery bombardment in the area.

It would be better if they dared to risk sailing into the Tamsui River. Sea Wolf's cannons are not indifferent. Although the mouth of the Tamsui River is wide, it is within the range of the artillery. No matter what they do, as long as they dare

If you enter the Tamsui River, you will become a living target.

Therefore, although Tamsui City is on alert, it does not feel nervous. Even the number of fleets here has not been strengthened. There are still only a few patrol boats patrolling the sea regularly. They only use the training boats of the Marine Training Camp.

, joined the patrol ranks, and made some reinforcements.

However, on November 18th, the security of the entire Tamsui City was greatly strengthened. All the personnel of each fort entered the position, the number of patrol boats also doubled, and the patrol waters were expanded by three times.

At noon, a fleet of large Western-style plywood boats appeared on the sea thirty miles outside the mouth of the Tamsui River. The ships patrolling the sea discovered their appearance very early and immediately released rockets.

After discovering the rockets ahead, the patrol boats immediately began to release rockets one after another. Even in the daytime, the red rockets could be seen very far away. What's more, they also had braziers on the boats to light up the smoke, so when

As soon as the Dutch fleet approached the mouth of Tamsui River, Tamsui City quickly received the news.

Sharp whistles immediately sounded on the forts of various positions. The relaxed sailors and land soldiers immediately became nervous and quickly rushed into their preset positions. They began to remove the gun jackets and move the dark cannons.

It was revealed, and began to take out the ammunition from the ammunition depot, and sent it to the temporary storage next to the gun emplacement.

"The boss has given an order to keep the artillery positions on alert. No artillery fire is allowed without an order! If it is bombarded by an enemy ship, only 30% of the artillery is allowed to fire!" Suddenly a messenger appeared at the fort outside the river mouth, commanding the fort.

The officer shouted loudly.

"Why?" The commander of the fort was a young second lieutenant. He was already gearing up and just waiting for a good fight when the enemy came, but suddenly he received such an order, which made him a little confused.

The messenger rolled his eyes at the second lieutenant and replied coldly: "This is an order. How do I know why? Just execute it! It's wordy!"

The second lieutenant of the navy was choked, but he still saluted quickly and replied: "Yes! Pass the order, no one is allowed to fire without permission, obey my order!"

Not long after, the rumbling sound of cannons was heard on the sea, and clouds of gunpowder smoke rose up on the sea surface southeast of the Tamsui River mouth, which quickly dissipated under the blow of the sea breeze.

After a while, the two Sea Wolf patrol boats sailed into the mouth of the Tamsui River and headed towards the Tamsui City Pier. Behind them, a rather large fleet appeared. Although the number was not large, it was impressive.

People feel a sense of coercion because all these boats are large Western-style plywood boats.

Waite was actually prepared to challenge the sea wolves when he arrived, but what surprised him was that before he arrived at the mouth of the Tamsui River, he was intercepted by only a few sea wolf ships.

The other party ordered them to explain their intention, so Waite ordered the firing without hesitation, directly using cannons to indicate their intention. As a result, one of Sea Wolf's patrol boats was sunk on the spot, and several other small Sea Wolf patrol boats were also sunk.

Not wanting to fight, after firing a few cannons, he immediately fled back to the mouth of the Tamsui River by boat and sailed directly into the mouth of the river.

Waite led the fleet to the mouth of the Tamsui River, and then discovered that the sea wolves had not assembled a large fleet to meet them. The sea outside the entire river mouth seemed deserted. At this time, not even a ship could be seen, only

Several forts on the shore became a line of defense to prevent them from attacking Tamsui City.

Tamsui City was not built on the seaside, but more than ten miles away from the mouth of the Tamsui River. Therefore, if you want to use the cannons of this era to directly bombard Tamsui City on the sea, it is impossible, unless the rifles of later generations appear.

Cannon, otherwise it can only sail into Tamsui River to pose a threat to Tamsui City.

This point can be regarded as Yu Xiaotian's foresight. When he originally chose Tamsui City to build the city, he took this into consideration and took the fort as a place to build the city.

After Waite led the fleet to arrive at the mouth of the Tamsui River, he also realized this problem. He used telescopes to carefully observe the situation on the sea and the shore, and ordered the fleet to block the mouth of the Tamsui River.

And because the government troops are going to suppress the sea wolves and seal off the coastal ships, many merchant ships are unable to go to sea recently. Therefore, Tamsui City has become deserted for the time being. There are almost no merchant ships entering or exiting the Tamsui River every day.

, so Waite's blockade of the mouth of the Tamsui River had little impact on them.

After observing for a while, Waite felt that something was not quite right. There was no doubt that the Sea Wolf should have many warships, but at this moment, there was no Sea Wolf in sight in the entire Tamsui River Estuary area.

The main fleet, so where has their fleet gone now?

He had just come from Nanri Island. It was obvious that Sea Wolf's fleet was not on Nanri Island, but now that he had arrived at Tamsui River, he did not find Sea Wolf's main fleet. At this time, Waite felt that something was a little strange.

Where is Sea Wolf's fleet at this time?

This thing makes no sense! Since they abandoned Nanri Island, the main fleet should now shrink back to the current Tamsui City, but why is their fleet not here either?

Waites thought about it and couldn't figure out the problem, so he had to order the fleet to send two smaller ships to the nearby sea to guard the sea. The remaining ships began to attack Sea Wolf's forts outside the Tamsui River mouth and the

The towering lighthouse was bombarded.

At the end of the afternoon, a series of rapid cannon fire was heard outside the mouth of the Tamsui River. Several Dutch warships lined up in a row, blocked the outside of the mouth of the Tamsui River, and began to attack the fort positions and lighthouse outside the mouth of the Sea Wolf River.

An artillery bombardment was launched.

Every Dutch warship is filled with cannons. Their largest main ship, Waite's flagship, is equipped with more than forty cannons of various types. Even the smallest ship is loaded with cannons.

There are more than twenty cannons. After the fleet is arranged, more than ten cannons are arranged on each side of the ship. After five ships are lined up, there are almost a hundred cannons on one side of the ship that can fire at the same time.

(Today, I would like to express my special thanks to Brother Huluhulu, I believe, and the brothers Moxuerouqing for their rewards! Thank you very much!)