Daming pirates

These strange-looking ships come and go very fast on the sea. As long as they are targeted, there is almost no possibility of escaping, unless they happen to encounter hurricane waves, otherwise they will catch up and bite them to death. (Ding Dian Novel.

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After Liu Xiang did it several times, without exception, he soon incurred this kind of cruel revenge. A group of these fast boats broke into his territory and attacked his ships day and night, and even

Yu attacked some of his islands at night, slaughtered all his men, skinned them naked and hung them upside down. The method was so cruel that even Liu Xiang, who rushed to the scene of the incident afterwards, felt his scalp numb.

Liu Xiang and some sea owners wanted to take revenge, but these unidentified ships came and went like the wind. They could not catch up or find them. After doing it a few times, the gang understood that this was Yu Xiao.

Heaven's revenge is imminent, and they can't get involved in Fujian, but in Guangdong and Guangxi, the world may not all be theirs. Yu Xiaotian's hand has extended to the Guangdong and Guangxi areas, and they cannot be arrogant.

As a result, these people gradually no longer dared to easily provoke the merchant ships of the Sea Wolf. As long as they saw the merchant ships of the Sea Wolf, most of them would walk around and not provoke them. There were only some small pirates who had just started to do this business.

, they dared to touch the merchant ships of the Sea Wolf Group, but they often got into trouble. Some small groups of pirates were even killed directly by other merchant ships.

Therefore, over the years, Sea Wolf's merchant ships have been operating in the Guangdong and Guangxi areas. On the one hand, they are protected by their own family members, and on the other hand, they are escorted by Chu Cailao, Yan Siqi and others. In addition, they themselves also have strong resistance capabilities. In addition,

Xiaotian's ruthless acts of revenge made it difficult for many people to easily provoke Sea Wolf's merchant ships when they sailed along the coasts of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Now that Yu Xiaotian is marching south, it is undoubtedly a death knell for these pirates. Yu Xiaotian is leading the entire Third Fleet this time, and he has also transferred a number of warships from the Second Fleet to supplement them.

To the fleet heading south.

A total of more than 70 warships of various types have been assembled. Although this number is small, all of these more than 70 warships are warships with more than 300 materials. They are definitely big ships among Chinese sailing ships.

And more than half of them are warships with a cost of 400 to 700. Such a large ship is already the largest ship among Chinese sailing ships in this era. Most merchant ships cannot be built so big.

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What's more, these ships are all specially built warships. The hull structure is very strong. The bow is covered with thick iron sheets for collision, and the bottom of the ship has a layer of copper sheet. The sail area is large, the ship speed is fast, and the steering wheel mechanism is used to make the ship maneuverable.

Simple and flexible in operation, it can be said that it has few rivals at sea.

Not to mention the powerful firepower on these ships, each ship is equipped with at least about ten cannons, mainly 12-pounders to 24-pounders. Some large ships even carry 36-pound Caron.

There are often six-pound cannons on the deck, and almost no pirates can compete with them.

In addition to these more than 70 medium and large warships, Yu Xiaotian also deployed a group of light Feihao clippers to participate in the battle as auxiliary combat forces.

These light Feihao clippers are a smaller version of the original Feihao clippers. They only carry four 12-pound short guns and a 12-pound long gun that can rotate in all directions on the bow. The displacement is only a few dozen tons, but

The boat speed is very fast and the operation is extremely flexible.

Although these small Feihao clippers cannot be used as main warships, they can extremely well protect these large warships from the siege of enemy small boats or fire ships. They can play a very important role in combat.

At this time, Yu Xiaotian had already sent someone to draw a very detailed chart of the coastal areas of Guangdong and Guangxi, marking all the islands and reefs on the chart.

During this move southward, he led these warships and lined them up along the coast of Guangdong, pushing them towards the south. They searched the islands and ordered all ships he encountered along the way to stop for inspection.

This time he led his troops to the south, but he was under the imperial decree of the imperial court, so he did these things without any scruples. No matter how powerful the owner of your ship is, or whether you have great hands and eyes, as long as you are encountered, you will immediately give orders.

Stop the ship for inspection, and if anyone tries to escape or resist, immediately launch a cannon attack.

This practice makes the pirates along the coast miserable. Some of them hide their ships in some bays along the coast and go ashore to escape. However, their ships will soon be discovered by Sea Wolf ships searching along the coastline, and they will be taken away.

Control the inspection and ask who the owner of the ship is. If no one claims it, it will be confiscated as a pirate ship.

As for the pirates who escaped to the shore, they were nothing without the ship. It was equivalent to cutting off their legs, leaving them with no possibility of entering the sea again for a short time.

Some pirates then took their boats and fled to the distant sea to escape. However, being far away from the coast at sea was a very dangerous thing in this era. There would be big storms and waves on the sea from time to time, and they couldn't just drift on the sea all the time! They had to rely on them when encountering storms and waves.

The navy of the Yu Jiajun would often wait for them on the beach and catch them one by one when they came back.

In addition to the navy, Yu Xiaotian also deployed three infantry battalions and one naval battalion to go out with the army this time. They were responsible for controlling various islands along the way and bringing them under the jurisdiction of the Sea Wolf to prevent future attacks.

After a while, they moved on the front foot, and the pirates on the back foot came again and used these islands as their foothold.

On the surface, Yu Xiaotian was working step by step to eliminate pirates, but in fact, Yu Xiaotian directly took all these islands into his pocket.

Of course, not all the islands he chose were stationed with troops. Some of them had no fresh water sources at all, so there was no need to keep people there. Pirates on islands like this would not regard them as their lairs. At best, they could only take temporary shelter from the wind.

That's all, so the islands he chose were all places with relatively sufficient fresh water sources. Only such islands would be garrisoned by soldiers.

In addition to the islands, Yu Xiaotian also ordered his men to take over some places along the coast of Guangdong, such as Wanzi, which were often used as hiding places by pirates. He also selected some local squires who had colluded with pirates and directly captured and killed them.

In one batch, all their property was confiscated.

This time, in order to let Yu Xiaotian do things for him, Xiong Wencan gave Yu Xiaotian great authority, giving Yu Xiaotian a lot of power to act expediently in dealing with the traitors.

So when Yu Xiaotian does these things, it can be said that he has no scruples. As long as he likes some wealthy gentry, it doesn't matter whether you are related to pirates or not. Many of the pirates he has on hand are pirates. He will directly ask these pirates to give a confession. It's simple.

Very well, with the confessions of these pirates, he can go to the local government on the shore and ask for help in arresting them.

Of course, the government had Xiong Wencan's order, so they didn't dare to say no. They could only ask Yu Xiaotian's men to arrest these squires who were complicit in thieves. Under severe torture, even the innocent ones could tell some things.

It is simply impossible for the squires who are near the coast to have nothing to do with pirates. Many of the big businessmen who are near the coast are actually pirates who came ashore with a clear conscience. They are either the pirates' nest owners, or at the worst, they have to follow the pirates.

There was a connection with pirates, so within a short period of time, Yu Xiaotian captured dozens of big-name thieves just along the coast of Chaozhou Prefecture.

Some large households were dissatisfied and refused to open the village gates. They tried to resist with their villagers, but their approach was directly seeking death. What kind of equipment is the Yu family army? Beating them is just like playing. As long as someone dares to resist,

Then the Yu family soldiers will be ordered to

After storming in, they immediately killed all of them. The women were captured and sent to Taiwan Island. The young men were also tied up and sent to the hard labor camp. The victim was beheaded on the spot without leaving any survivors. Afterwards, he tried to resist as a criminal and was killed.

He was executed on the spot and handed over to the local government.

So along the way, in Chaozhou Prefecture alone, Yu Xiaotian made a lot of money. He seized more than 100,000 taels of silver from dozens of wealthy families. The largest family was his family alone.

, more than 40,000 taels of silver were recovered from their cellar.

In addition to silver, stolen goods worth at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were also seized. Most of these stolen goods were real stolen goods. They were pirates who temporarily stored the goods they usually robbed in their lairs.

The stolen goods in the master's house really did not go unjust to them.

So this time Yu Xiaotian led his troops to the south, and used this thunderous method. It was simply a carnival trip to make a fortune. As long as he had useful things, he would directly ship them away, and only some worthless things, or his

Useless items were left to the local government for disposal.

The local officials along the coast of Guangdong were quite dissatisfied with this and tried to pick out some fat from Yu Xiaotian's mouth. However, it was impossible to even try to pick out some of the wealth once it was in Yu Jiajun's pocket.

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Yu Xiaotian's men even put the land deeds copied out by many wealthy families into their pockets, secretly gave some money to local officials, and transferred these land deeds directly to Yu Xiaotian's hands.

Yu Xiaotian's land.

In this regard, the local officials did not dare to say no to Yu Xiaotian, so they could only hold their noses and admit it. Only the magistrate of Raoping County, because a large household that Yu Jiajun raided was related to him.

Because of his relative relationship, he once tried to prevent the Yu Jiajun from attacking Zhuangzi, but the officer he sent was directly tied up by the Yu Jiajun, beaten and rushed back to the county seat. He also ordered the magistrate of Raoping to arrest the man who hid in the county seat.

Hand it over to the big ones.

The Raoping magistrate resolutely refused to do anything and complained for this big family, but Yu Jiajun produced a lot of evidence to prove that this guy was the owner of a group of pirates. Even so, the Raoping magistrate still believed that he, as a local

How could an official be inferior to a group of top soldiers? So he was determined not to hand over the victim.