Daming pirates

Not long after, the servants he sent hurriedly came back, knelt down and reported: "Sir, I just went to Dejimen to have a look. This time, there were more than 20 large pirate ships.

, they have already arrived on the river outside Deji Gate. They are all... all... big ships! There are probably two to three thousand pirates or more!"

As if to strengthen the servant's tone, before the servant could finish speaking, Cai Shanji heard a rumble of cannons coming from outside the city. The sound of the cannons was like rolling thunder and lasted for a long time. As he spoke, a cannonball fell.

To the south of the Quanzhou government office, I heard a crashing and rumbling sound, like a house collapsing.

Cai Shanji stood up in shock and quickly walked out of the lobby of the government office and looked in the direction of Deji Gate. Standing in the government office, he could not see the situation outside, but he could see the sky beyond Deji Gate.

At this time, thick smoke was already rising in the direction of Deji Gate, and it was obvious that somewhere had been set alight. At this time, there was a sound of gongs banging on the street, and someone shouted that Deji Gate was leaking!

It can be seen that the rebels have been bombarded over there, houses have started to catch fire, and things have begun to get serious.

Two to three thousand bandit soldiers is by no means a small number for Quanzhou Prefecture. At present, Quanzhou Prefecture has less than 2,000 people including defenders, officers, and strong men. Sea Wolf's bandit soldiers are well-trained. This is now

Fujian officials now have a unified understanding. Whether it is Sea Wolf's sailors or infantry, all of them are extremely capable and very good at fighting. Although they dare not say that they are all enemies of ten thousand people, it should not be a big problem if one is equal to ten.

Two to three thousand thieves, this pressure is really too much for Quanzhou Prefecture. There are more than 20 big ships. This is a real big ship. How many Hongyi cannons must be mounted on it!

Although the Fujian officials had heard in the past that Sea Wolf could make its own Red Yi cannon, they all thought it was a joke at first. Think about how their government, under Zhu Yifeng's various efforts over the past year, purchased Canadian cannons from Guangdong.

Several iron yards in Shangzhangquan have managed to get a total of only a few red barbarian cannons. The Sea Wolf is just a group of pirates, so how many red barbarian cannons can they make?

However, after the Battle of Nanri Island, Yu Zigao and the officers and soldiers who escaped back confirmed that Sea Wolf's warships were generally equipped with red cannons, and some warships were even equipped with more than ten or twenty red cannons.

The cannons and firepower are so powerful that the government and military warships are no match for them.

Although there was a certain degree of exaggeration in Yu Zigao's speech to the officers and soldiers who had returned from defeat, and he was suspected of excusing himself from responsibility for the defeat, but think about the nearly 200 warships of the army and navy, and they were all destroyed in just one day.

Sea Wolf's fleet was completely wiped out. If Sea Wolf's war ship had fewer Hongyi cannons, it might not be possible to achieve such results.

If the army, the navy, and the navy can no longer fight, how can they not fight with all their might when pressed? There are more than a hundred warships, and even if it is a fly, it would take a long time for the sea wolf to swat it!

Therefore, even if what Yu Zigao and others said is untrue, the gap will not be too big. At least it shows that Sea Wolf's warship is very powerful, and the artillery on the warship is also very powerful. There is no doubt about this.

At this time, another person rushed into the prefect's Yamen and reported to Cai Shanji: "Report to Master Fantai! The pirate ships have just begun to fire and bombard Quanzhou City. At the moment, Chen Shoubei is sitting at Deji Gate to command the resistance against the enemy! Master Chen said that the enemy ship's cannons were fired

It is extremely sharp, and our cannons on the city are unable to fight back. Please recruit reinforcements quickly!"

Cai Shanji is so dizzy! He also wants to fall ill quickly and be brought down like Zhu Yifeng by being unable to see things clearly. How dare this damn Yu Xiaotian be so arrogant and bold? He actually dares to send a ship to attack Quanzhou City. ?

While he was still angry about this, someone came to report: "Report! Sir! The pirates set fire to many ships on the river, and sent bandits ashore in the south of the Yangtze River, but they disappeared without a trace!"

On the south bank of the Yangtze River? Cai Shanji was a little confused. Quanzhou City was on the north bank of the Jinjiang River. Why did the Sea Wolf tribe land on the south bank? But he immediately figured out the reason. When the Sea Wolf came this time, it was probably not necessary to capture Quanzhou City, but As long as the surrounding areas of Quanzhou Prefecture are completely disrupted, it will actually be enough for him to drink a pot.

Now that Sea Wolf is bombarding Quanzhou City and sending people ashore on the south bank, it is actually leaving him a buffer to let him consider what to do next. If he still refuses to agree to Yu Xiaotian's conditions, then Sea Wolf will Maybe he might actually send troops to attack Quanzhou City, and then he would have absolutely no room for maneuver.

Thinking of this, Cai Shanji became even more furious. He thought that Yu was too arrogant. He actually used this method to force me to surrender and give him control of Weitou Bay. This would never work.

"Come here! Send your horses out of the city immediately to intercept the officers and soldiers led by Liu Wutang, and pass on my order to quickly change their route and come to Quanzhou City to assist in the defense! Send a thousand officers and soldiers to Tong'an County. The rest of the troops are rushing to Quanzhou City! He is ordered to lead his troops to Quanzhou City within two days, otherwise, don’t blame me for being rude! Go quickly!"

At this time, Cai Shanji thought of the 4,000 Yanping Prefecture officers and soldiers led by Liu Wutang. By this time, they should have arrived at Tong'an County. The only force he had available at the moment was the 4,000 officers and soldiers led by Liu Wutang. An County cannot be lost, but compared to Quanzhou City, Tongan County is nothing!

Leave one thousand officers and soldiers in Tong'an County to assist in the defense, and the remaining three thousand officers and soldiers come to Quanzhou, then the safety of Quanzhou City can basically be guaranteed. No matter how powerful your subordinates named Yu are, as long as these three thousand officers and soldiers enter Quanzhou City, is it possible that you can still capture Quanzhou City?

As long as Quanzhou City is not lost, Tong'an County will be lost. Can you still control Tong'an County from retreating? As long as you give him time, he will mobilize all the troops from Fujian Province to Tong'an. No matter how powerful the sea wolf is, his military strength will not be the same. There may be too many. By then, as long as Tong'an County can be recovered and the sea wolf is driven to the sea, even if Kinmen and Zhongzuo cannot be recovered, this will be an explanation to the court.

Cai Shanji was busy here, sending people everywhere in the city to recruit strong men to help guard the city. In addition, he was once the prefect of Quanzhou and knew the rich people in Quanzhou City very well, so he sent people to these rich people's homes and went door to door. He urged them to donate some money to help pay for the defense of Quanzhou City.

Moreover, Cai Shanji asked the people sent to make it clear to these people that the pirates are fierce. If they don't take more money honestly, once the morale of the army is unstable, the pirates are very likely to break the city. Once the pirates break the city, , when the time comes, everyone will be a grasshopper on a rope, and no one can escape. Cai Shanji's home is not in Quanzhou Prefecture, and at worst he may die for his country.

But the property of these rich people is all in Quanzhou Prefecture, and they can't escape. Once the city is destroyed, they will all be destroyed. If they still regret their little money at this time, it will be too late to regret after the city is destroyed.

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So a group of government aides began to run all over Quanzhou City. Later, Cai Shanji personally went into battle and invited all the big merchants and gentry in the city to the government office to tell them their interests. In this way, in two days,

During the time, every household has

Some offered a few hundred taels, and some offered more than a thousand taels. In short, these rich people were frightened. They knew that if the city of Quanzhou was destroyed, their wealth would definitely not be preserved. It would be better to be more generous and take the money.

Give some money to help pay, and then think of ways to defend the city.

In this way, Cai Shanji raised tens of thousands of taels of silver in two days. These tens of thousands of taels of silver were enough for him to resist for a while.

Cai Shanji issued a recruitment order in the city, recruiting young men and women to guard the city, and paid two months' military pay to the guards and soldiers. He also offered a reward of ten taels of silver per head for killing a bandit and capturing one alive.

You can be rewarded with fifteen taels of silver, which is a heavy reward. This will greatly boost the morale of the defenders in the city.

However, the bounty is still a moon in the water for the defenders, because after the sea wolves came, they did not immediately launch an attack on the city. Instead, they moored the fleet in the river and took turns firing cannons at Quanzhou City every day.

Half an hour.

As a result, the defenders could only dream if they wanted to behead a few Sea Wolf tribesmen. Liu Yidao dispatched a company of land soldiers in the past two days, and hundreds of sailors from each ship were dispatched to the Quanzhou area.

An armed parade was launched in the villages outside Quanzhou.

Hundreds of Sea Wolf's land and sea soldiers lined up and moved on land. They dragged two mountain howitzers with them, and also brought a dozen mules to carry some Tiger Crouching Cannons and ammunition, and some were requisitioned on the spot.

The farmer, pushing the wheelbarrow, began to move on the shore.

Their main purpose is not to attack many fortresses, but to promote the power of the Sea Wolf. Although many people have heard about the power of the Sea Wolf, they have never actually seen the military appearance of the Sea Wolf, and there is no intuitive concept at all.

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Of course they don't know how strong the Sea Wolf Tribe is since they haven't seen it before, but this time they have seen the military appearance of the Sea Wolf Tribe.

This coalition force, composed of hundreds of sea wolves' land and sea soldiers, formed three infantry squadrons in company units, and the military appearance appeared on the ground of Quanzhou Prefecture in a neat and tidy appearance.

Wherever they passed, people from the village forts saw them from a distance. After seeing the military appearance of the Sea Wolf, everyone was so scared that they fell into silence. Some villages had originally planned to attack them if the Sea Wolf tried to force them too hard.

Just fight to the death with the sea wolf.

But after seeing the military appearance of Sea Wolf, many people immediately gave up this idea. No matter how much money and food the Sea Wolf tribe asked them to pay, they didn't dare to give a shit, so they hurriedly gave it to Sea Wolf.

No matter how many civilians they lost, they quickly selected people and sent them out of the castle. They could only be so respectful.

There are only a few big Zhuangzi, relying on their own strength, Zhuangzi is very big, and there are many people training in the village brave group in Zhuangzi. They feel that they have the ability to fight, at least guarding Zhuangzi is not a big problem, so they refuse to agree to Sea Wolf's request.

So the Sea Wolf officer who led the team was not polite to them, and immediately surrounded their Zhuangzi and began to set up artillery to attack their Zhuangzi.

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