Daming pirates

However, Sea Wolf's infantry did not launch an attack immediately. They lined up outside the city from a distance and watched the artillery bombarding Tong'an County.

Tong'an County was also in chaos at this time. Cannonballs crossed the city wall from time to time and fell into the city. Houses were hit by cannonballs through the roofs amidst the roar, and some even collapsed.

Tong'an County was in a panic, and the people hid in their homes and did not dare to go out. A group of young and strong civilians were driven under the city wall and transported rolling wood and stones towards the city wall.

Occasionally, a cannon shot would be heard on the city wall. It was the limited number of cannons deployed in Tong'an County that were firing back at the Sea Wolf artillery position outside the city.

It's a pity that their range is limited, and the shells basically hit the open space, posing no threat to the Sea Wolf's artillery position at all. They just wasted gunpowder and shells in vain, and exposed their location.

Two of the cannons were accurately knocked out by Sea Wolf's cannon before noon, and the remaining one no longer dared to fire and became mute.

Li Dazui was ordered to besiege Tong'an County, but he knew very well that his troops were not sufficient. If he wanted to capture Tong'an County, it would be difficult to do so without sufficient artillery support. In addition, the first battalion's Langya

The rifle company was also handed over to Meng Fei and brought to Luotian Village, which made his firepower less powerful.

Therefore, Li Dazui was not in a hurry to attack the city, but only shelled Tong'an County. Even so, Hailang's shelling still severely damaged the morale of the defenders in the city.

The magistrate of Tong'an County had received news from Cai Shanji many days earlier, saying that an army of 4,000 people was rushing towards Tong'an County, and asked them to defend the county seat and wait for reinforcements.

This undoubtedly gave the defenders in Tong'an County a shot in the arm. If four thousand officers and soldiers came at this time, then they wouldn't have to worry. Even if they couldn't defeat Hailang's tiger and wolf division, they would at least be able to defend the city.

There shouldn't be much of a problem, so they all worked hard and waited for reinforcements to arrive.

However, after waiting and waiting, no reinforcements came. Instead, Sea Wolf's men and horses came over. Sea Wolf's army swept across Tong'an County, and after successively knocking out several famous local villagers, they finally

Arriving at the foot of Tong'an County.

After Hailang's infantry arrived in Tong'an County, they quickly blocked the three city walls in the southeast, north and south. Anyone who came out of these three walls were killed. Only the west side was opened, which allowed a small number of people from Tong'an County to enter and exit, but still

Large numbers of people are not allowed to flee the county.

As soon as Hailang's soldiers and horses arrived, chaos suddenly broke out in Tong'an County. For a while, the city was in a state of chaos, and everyone was in chaos.

So the county magistrate sent people out of the city like crazy and rushed to Quanzhou City to ask for help. He also sent people out of the city to ask for help on the way to the reinforcements, hoping to ask the officers and soldiers from Yanping Prefecture to speed up and rush to Tong'an County.

However, most of the people sent out were quickly shot to death at the bottom of the city. Only those who went out from Ximen seemed to be fine. At dawn, those who were shot were all carried to the bottom of the city by sea wolves. Only those who went out at Ximen at night were not carried back.

Seeing that things were not going well, some wealthy people in the city no longer dared to stay in the city. When they heard that the west gate could be left, they rushed to the west gate and clamored to open the city gate to let them out.

At this time, Tong'an County Magistrate did not dare to open the city gate easily, so the entire west gate was crowded. Many people wanted to leave, but they were blocked by the defenders inside the city gate. Shouts for opening the door kept coming and going. It was chaotic.

tidy.

Li Dazui, on the other hand, led his troops outside the city and began to fire artillery into the city, which intensified the chaos in the city.

As for the officers and soldiers who were defending the city, as well as the civilians and soldiers who were assisting in the battle, they were so frightened that they were at a loss. Many people ran down the city wall to avoid the artillery fire. Even those who barely stayed on the city wall lay down behind the crenellations in fear.

I don't even dare to show my head.

There were a few small officers running back and forth on the city wall. They looked a little arrogant, but these few people were soon and inexplicably thrown to the city wall by the muskets fired from the city. Either they were shot in the chest or their heads were damaged.

, but there were no figures of the Sea Wolf tribe under the city wall. I could only see a cloud of gunpowder smoke rising far away from the city wall from time to time.

This small cloud of gunpowder smoke did not arouse the thoughts of the people in the city, because no one believed that any blunderbuss could kill people from such a distance.

Several snipers were sent by Li Dazui outside various city walls to ambush at locations of their own choosing, specifically to keep an eye on those who dared to show up on the city walls and snipe them.

Of course, these snipers use high-precision Wolf Fang rifles. After rigorous training, they can basically guarantee an effective hit within 200 meters. Some people can even kill the target up to about 300 meters.

Therefore, their presence aggravated the panic of the people in the city, and scared the defenders so much that they did not dare to show their heads on the city wall easily. The huge wall of Tong'an County was destroyed not long after the Sea Wolf Soldiers arrived in Tong'an County.

It became deserted, and everyone lay down under the parapet of the city wall in fear, not even daring to breathe.

The chaos in Tong'an County is nothing to Quanzhou now, because Quanzhou City is now more chaotic than Tong'an County.

Quanzhou City is located on the north bank of Jinjiang River. It is an ancient city that borders the river and the sea. It has been a place for sea trading since ancient times. Although the Ming Dynasty has banned the sea and only opened Yuegang as a commercial port to the sea, the area around Quanzhou City is still full of docks and various

The government turned a blind eye to this place where sea ships gathered, because many officials also wanted to make profits from it.

Therefore, throughout the Ming Dynasty, Quanzhou was nominally not allowed to open to the sea, but in fact it never stopped sea trade.

Recently, there has been unrest along the coast of Fujian, because the government has offended the big boss Yu Xiaotian, which has led to the Sea Wolf deploying troops on the coast of Fujian. In addition, the government has also blocked ships in various places, so many merchant ships can only avoid the ports and docks at this time.

Waiting for the opportunity to continue doing business overseas.

Both sides of the Jinjiang River outside Quanzhou City were also lined with various sea-going ships. Maritime merchants were eagerly waiting for the situation to subside so that they could go to sea and continue their business.

But after waiting and waiting, they did not wait until the situation calmed down. Instead, they waited for a sea wolf fleet to arrive. Just as Cai Shanji was eagerly waiting for the Yanping government troops to arrive in Tong'an County, a sea wolf fleet arrived.

But it sailed into Quanzhou Bay.

When some of the limited official ships in Quanzhou City saw the Sea Wolf fleet on the sea, they were immediately frightened and turned around and fled into the Jinjiang River. Some ships even fled directly into the inland sea of ​​the Luoyang River.

The whole city of Quanzhou was immediately shaken, and the defenders hurriedly boarded the city to guard the city. Especially at the Partridge Pass at the mouth of the Jinjiang River, warning signals were blared. At this place, there was a Partridge Pass Gun Tower, which was a fort, guarding the city.

At the mouth of Jinjiang River.

Speaking of which, this Partridge Mouth Cannon Tower has not yet been built. It is just a temporary fort. When the Sea Wolf fleet arrived, it was still a construction site. Hundreds of civilians, officers and soldiers were busy here.

During construction, the prototype of the entire fort has not yet appeared.

Cai Shanji recently decided to start building this fort because he saw the growing power of sea wolves along the coast of Fujian, and Quanzhou City is within the mouth of Jinjiang, very close to the Jinjiang River, and the south gate is Deji Gate.

It is only less than 300 steps away from the riverside, so it is easy to be invaded by pirates.

In the past, when there were no Hongyi cannons, it was easier to say that even heavy artillery like Dafaji might not be able to blast into the city. But with the emergence of Hongyi cannons, Cai Shanji and many Quanzhou officials discovered that Hongyi cannons

The cannon has a long range. As long as the enemy ship sails into the Jinjiang River and reaches the river outside Deji Gate, the cannonball can be easily fired into Quanzhou City.

Therefore, Cai Shanji hurriedly took charge and built a strong fort at the Partridge Pass of the Jinjiang Estuary to shield the Jinjiang Estuary, prevent enemy ships from entering the Jinjiang River, and easily bombard Quanzhou City.

However, they have just started to build the Partridge Mouth gun emplacement. The foundation of the entire fort has not yet been laid, and Sea Wolf's fleet sailed into Quanzhou Bay.

Although most of the Fujian navy has been defeated by Sea Wolf, there are still a dozen larger warships in Quanzhou Bay. However, after Sea Wolf took control of the sea, these warships did not dare to attack easily again.

Out of Quanzhou Bay, even when the Sea Wolf fleet was shelling Yongning Acropolis, these ships did not dare to go to sea to support Yongning Acropolis.

When the Sea Wolf fleet sailed directly into Quanzhou Bay this time, these warships were still docked at the dock of Chongwusuo on the north shore of Quanzhou Bay. When they heard that the Sea Wolf fleet was invading, the officers and soldiers on board not only did not run away

They boarded the ship, raised anchor and sail and set out to sea to fight, but instead they all fled to the shore, leaving these warships on the dock.

The first stop of Sea Wolf's fleet, led by Liu Yidao, was to Chongwu Station. Originally, he planned to teach the few remaining naval forces here a lesson, but when he and his fleet almost arrived at Chongwu Station,

I didn’t see any warships from the army going out to sea to fight.

So he had no choice but to lead the fleet to Chongwu Station. When he got there, he saw that these official and military warships were actually moored side by side at the dock. Even through the telescope,

No one could be seen moving on the boat.

On the contrary, the gates of Chongwu City were closed tightly at the moment, and they were holding their heads in their hands, waiting to be beaten.

Liu Yidao burst out laughing on the Xinhailang, pointing at Chongwu City and laughing and scolding him. He laughed that the officers and soldiers were really as timid as rats, and they had completely lost the courage to go to sea to challenge the battle. So

He ordered the fleet to go straight to the shore. He personally led two Western-style gunboats, plus a deeply modified Dafu gunboat, and launched a fierce bombardment at Chongwu City.

Chongwu Institute was really unlucky. Half a month ago, they were attacked by a fleet of sea wolves and bombarded the city, killing and injuring more than a hundred defenders in the city. They also destroyed

The gate tower of the south gate and the crenellations on the city wall collapsed a lot.

These days, the city's defenders are still busy repairing the damaged city walls, and the ruins of the collapsed city gate tower have not been cleared yet. The Sea Wolf Fleet actually came to visit again.

(The first update is here today! Try to finish the second update in the afternoon and rush to the hospital! Thank you brothers for your monthly support! Is there any more? Don’t waste it!)