Daming pirates

These leading parties brought Sea Wolf to act as spies and guides for Sea Wolf. When Sea Wolf attacked Zhuang Castle, they also acted as porters. There were even some bold young men who simply chose to surrender to Sea Wolf and follow them without even giving up their lives.

The sea wolves attack the fort together.

In this way, although Sea Wolf's large-scale raids on the shore offended many wealthy people, it won the support of a large number of poor people and earned Sea Wolf a good reputation as a righteous thief.

After more than two months of operations, Sea Wolf actually recruited nearly 10,000 immigrants from various prefectures along the coast of Fujian, and also recruited more than a thousand strong young people to join Sea Wolf's army.

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What they did caused the Fujian government to have a huge headache. Almost every day, officials in various governments and the three departments received bad news. Before they could press the gourd, something happened again, making the Fujian government in a panic.

, almost don’t know what to do.

Officials from the three divisions united and asked Zhang Jiace, the only official in Fujian to maintain a certain level of surface combat effectiveness, to lead a fleet attack to prevent the sea wolves from raiding the coast.

The boat, wandering on the sea, never confronts the sea wolf head-on.

They often rush to the scene of the accident after being ordered, and they always arrive at the scene of the accident when the sea wolf has already evacuated. At this time, the place where the sea wolf passed has already been burned into ruins by fire. Zhang Jiace led his troops to arrive.

After that, they just killed some local unscrupulous people who were still taking advantage of the situation and didn't have time to run away, so as to report their merits and rewards to the superiors. In fact, it did not stop the Sea Wolf's actions at all.

Although Fujian officials have criticized Zhang Jiace for this, they can't do anything to Zhang Jiace now that Zhang Jiace controls the only combat force that can operate on the sea.

As for Yu Zigao, after the defeat on Nanri Island, he didn't have many troops at hand, so he could only run back to Quanzhou Mansion in despair, and no one paid attention to him.

While the navy was launching operations, the army, led by Li Dazui and Meng Fei, assembled two battalions of troops in the Weitou Bay area. Although these troops were not very large, with only more than 2,000 troops,

But looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, Sea Wolf's land soldiers are definitely among the elite.

The quality of their equipment even exceeds that of any of the three major battalions in the capital. Muskets have completely become the main battle weapon of the Sea Wolves, and cold weapons have been completely reduced to auxiliary combat weapons. Only in close combat, cold weapons

can play a certain role.

After three days of rest, in accordance with Li Dazui's order, most of the two battalions of Sea Wolf infantry were transported to the shore and directly surrounded Gaopu Qianhusuo City.

Gaopusuo City is also an acropolis facing the sea. The construction of the city is similar to that of Kinmen City, Zhongzuo City, and even Humao City. The city walls are made of stone, and some rammed earth structures are used in some places.

The city wall is about one foot and seven feet high, one span wide, and has four gates. However, Gaopu City has urns at all four gates, so its defensive capabilities are relatively stronger.

It is difficult to break through the gates of this kind of urn city by shelling alone. In addition, the number of troops stationed in Gaopusuo city is relatively large. There are about 800 officers and soldiers stationed in the city, and this time Yu Zigao deployed

When the soldiers and horses went to Nanri Island, the soldiers and horses of Takaurasho Castle were not deployed, so that they could have a relatively complete structure and strong combat effectiveness.

In addition, because Gaopu Station lived on the shore, they did not bear the brunt of the sea wolf's attack. Therefore, when they learned that Kinmen and Zhongzuo Station had been lost, they immediately recruited young and strong rural warriors from around the city and regiments of nearby gentry to enter the city to assist in the defense.

As a result, in Gaopu City, when the Sea Wolf began to attack it, in addition to its own troops, plus the 500 officers and soldiers who assisted the rural warriors in training and the reinforcements sent from Quanzhou, there were already two people concentrated in the city.

Thousands of officers and soldiers are brave, and their strength is indeed not weak.

The one currently in charge of Gaopu Institute is a guerrilla surnamed He sent by Quanzhou. This guerrilla is under the command of Yu Zigao. When Yu Zigao led his army to attack Nanri Island, he was left to stay in Quanzhou. Now the sea wolf has launched a large-scale attack on Nanri Island.

After attacking Haicheng and capturing Kinmen Zhongzuo and other places, the Quanzhou side sent this He guerrilla to Gaopu Suo in order to prevent the sea wolves from continuing to attack and plunder.

At this time, the Gaopu Institute gathered a group of guerrillas, four thousand generals, and more than ten generals, who were busy for days strengthening the defenses in Gaopu City and repairing the damaged city walls.

Although He Youyi appeared calm and composed on the surface, in fact he was already panicking to death in his heart. He had already learned about the power of Sea Wolf from the soldiers Yu Zigao led back to Quanzhou, and also learned a lot.

News about the Sea Wolf's attack on Kinmen, Zhongzuo and Humao City.

Overall, He Guerrilla already has a good understanding of Sea Wolf's land combat capabilities. Although he seems to have a lot of troops at the moment, with more than 2,000 troops concentrated in the small Gaopu City, he still has no idea whether he can defend this place.

But he didn't have any confidence in his heart.

If ordinary pirates came, he thought that with his current strength, although he might not be able to defeat them out of the city, there would still be no problem in defending Gaopu City. As long as the soldiers in the city did not mess with him, then ordinary pirates would

Gaopucheng could only stare at him.

But what he faced today was the Sea Wolf. Whether it was a naval or land force, the Sea Wolf was said to be quite capable of fighting, and its firepower was ferocious, making it extremely difficult to resist.

On the other hand, the number of soldiers and horses he has on hand is more than 2,000, and more than 1,000 of them are local warriors who have been improvised from various villages and towns. Although these people are very fierce in defending their homes and territories, they are still very fierce.

Assisting in the battle and defense of Gaopucheng is not their job.

In addition, he knows better than anyone the level of equipment and training of the more than a thousand officers and soldiers left. If these guard soldiers are out of commission, they will be like beggars. Their combat effectiveness is extremely low. The only ones they can rely on are the five soldiers he brought from Quanzhou.

Hundreds of officers and soldiers can be regarded as Quanzhou's town troops. Relatively speaking, the quality of equipment and combat effectiveness are more reassuring.

But it also depends on who he is competing with. He already knows that the Sea Wolf Army Division is equipped with a large number of bird cannons. These bird cannons have a range of up to two hundred steps and are extremely accurate. In addition, the Sea Wolf also has a large number of red cannons of different sizes.

The Yi cannon is even more sharp.

When he looked at Gaopu City, there were only a dozen cannons in total. Among them, there was only one red barbarian cannon and three 500-jin copper hair cannons. The rest were some prisoner-killing cannons and bowl-mouth blunderbuss.

The old cannon has a short range and low power, and is simply not enough to counter the Sea Wolf's sharp cannon.

As for long-range weapons, the official army mainly uses crossbows, with a small number of fire blunderbuss and three-eyed blunderbuss. There are only a few dozen bird blunderbuss in total, and the quality is worrying. Not many people are willing to use these things.

Therefore, He Youyi had no idea whether he could block the Sea Wolf's attack, but he did not dare to show it, for fear that if he showed panic, the morale of his men would be completely destroyed.

So he has been in Gaopu City these days, personally checking the defense situation and the placement of artillery. In addition, he personally checked the equipment of the officers and soldiers, as well as the ammunition, food and other materials stored in the city. In order to strengthen the defense, he ordered the dismantling of

For many houses in the city, bricks, stones and wood were transported to the city walls and used as rolling logs and stones.

He also ordered to find many large pots and set them up on the city wall, ready to boil water at any time and pour water down the city wall to stop the sea wolf's attack.

If we go by the past, as an acropolis, pirates are generally not interested in it. Pirates are looking for money and prefer to attack some wealthy castles. They are not capable of attacking cities like acropolis and county towns.

, but there is not much oil and water and there is no profit, so even if pirates attack the shore, they generally will not attack the Acropolis.

Only many years ago when Japanese pirates were rampant, there were cases where Japanese pirates attacked the county town and the acropolis. However, since the Japanese troubles gradually reduced, such situations rarely happened. Even when Chu Cai Lao was at his strongest, it was only

They attacked Haicheng County, but never attacked the Acropolis.

But this time He Youyi no longer had any illusions, because he had already seen that this time the sea wolves came here, they would not just grab a handful and leave like before, because they had already captured Kinmen Island first, and then captured

He captured the Zhongzuo Suo, even defeated and destroyed Humao City, and then completely destroyed Yuegang.

Although He Youyi couldn't understand what Sea Wolf was doing this time, he still vaguely felt that Sea Wolf had bad intentions this time. I'm afraid it was not simply revenge on the government, but a grab of Yuegang.

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Gaopusuo and Zhongzuosuo are facing each other across the sea, and they are very close. From the top of Gaopusuo's city, you can see that the Sea Wolf has gathered a large number of troops on Zhongzuosuo Island in the past few days. This clearly shows that there is a plan.

Bigger action.

What will the sea wolf do next? He can't guess, but what he can guess is that the sea wolf will definitely attack Gao Uraso where he is.

Sure enough, within a few days, a large number of Sea Wolf soldiers and horses began to land and quickly surrounded Gaopu City. Of course, He Gueryi did not dare to lead his troops out of the city to fight with the Sea Wolf soldiers and horses, so he immediately gathered everyone there.

In the city, the four gates were closed tightly, making a posture of defending Gaopu City to the death.

All the officers and soldiers in the city and even the local warriors were driven by him to garrison on the city wall, with their arms rolled up and their sleeves rolled up, ready to fight to the death.

However, his efforts seemed so feeble in the face of the Sea Wolf's attack. In the face of the Sea Wolf's artillery fire, although He Guerrilla made great efforts, he failed to achieve many effective results.

Several large ships of the Sea Wolf approached the shore on the sea outside Gaopu City, and began to fire at Gaopu City with the heavy guns on the ships.

(Special thanks to Nannanzhiyu and gzg1972 for their rewards! Haha!)