Chapter 1 Nanri Water Village

The current Nanrishui Village is located in the southern prok of Puxi, Zhongmen Peninsula, which is only a few miles away from Meizhou Island across the sea.

This is also the gateway to Xinghuafu. To the north is Pinghai Bay, which belongs to Xinghuafu. Puxi Qianhu and Pinghaiwei just guard Pinghai Bay, close to the Nanri Waterway, across the sea from Nanri Island, and only more than 30 miles away.

Recently, because the governor of Fujian wanted to use troops on Nanri Island, he sealed ships along the coast of Fujian and banned merchant ships from entering the sea, which made the Nanri Waterway, which is usually busy with shipping, much deserted.

And because the officers and soldiers began to station in Pinghaiwei and Puxi, warships also began to gather in Pinghai Bay and Xinghua Bay, which made the situation around Xinghuafu much more tense. Even some fishermen were banned from going to sea. The government's statement was to prevent fishermen from thieves.

In many places along the coast, officers and soldiers began to send sent posts to monitor the situation of ships on the sea and strictly prevent the sea wolf fleet from attacking the coast of Xinghuafu at this time.

However, such actions have brought great harm to the people along the local coast. At this time, the military discipline of the officers and soldiers has been quite corrupted. In addition, the officers and soldiers have the habit of feeding on the spot. After a large number of officers and soldiers arrived in this area, they began to apportion the local villages in various names, making the areas The villages provide them with wine and food, which is regarded as a labor force.

Although this kind of thing is done by the patriarch or chief of the village and the well-faced gentry, in fact, the burden is basically passed on to those farmers and the poor, which has become the custom of the Ming Dynasty. The richer they are, the less they pay.

In addition, there are also officers and soldiers who require villages to send people to help with work and soldiers while sending food. Naturally, large families will not go, and they are sent to the poorest farmers, so that many farmers are completely bankrupt or even destroyed.

However, the government will not take care of these matters. The local government and county officials in Xinghua Prefecture are also very nervous now, because Nanri Island is under their jurisdiction. Naturally, the Fujian government has to use troops on Nanri Island, which naturally has the heaviest burden on them. The officials of Xinghua Prefecture are quite slanderous about this.

After all, after occupying Nanri Island, the sea wolf attacked and damaged the coast of Xinghua Prefecture much less than the previous shark gang. In the past two years, the ground of Xinghua Mansion was quite calm, but because of this Zhu Qinxiang came, it broke the calm here.

First, the sea wolf attacked the shore in the past few months, which had just stopped, and then the governor had to dispatch troops to attack Nanri Island.

As a result, the territory of Xinghua Mansion is jumping, and it also has to bear a considerable part of the grain and military salaries for the officers and soldiers, which makes the burden of Xinghua Mansion suddenly increase a lot. Where does this money come from? Officials certainly can't pay their own pockets to meet the needs of the army, and they must pass them on to the common people.

However, some officials are cheering about this, but every time they raise money, it is a carnival for the government. Many officials can take the opportunity to salvage another sum of it and fill their private pockets. This kind of opportunity is not many, and they can never be let go of it.

So the people along the coast of Xinghua Prefecture suddenly fell into a disaster and were made poor by these officers and soldiers.

And the person sitting in Nanrishuizhai is the Liu Yinglong Liu guerrilla who was recruited to Fuzhou Prefecture by Zhu Qin. As a coastal defense guerrilla of Xinghuafu, he naturally has to sit in Nanrishuizhai and be responsible for mobilizing the command of the sailors gathered here.

Since Nanrishuizhai moved here, although it was built well at the beginning, it has not been significantly expanded and repaired here for decades. Nowadays, Nanrishuizhai has long been dilapidated. On the beach outside the Shuizhai, you can see the remains of many abandoned and rotten warships. Some ships have been dismantled and the useful plates have been removed to repair other warships.

By this year, there were only less than ten warships left in Nanrishuizhai that could be used. Even the dock trestle, now there are only two that can still be used. The other two trestrestress have also collapsed in the water because they have been in disrepair all year round.

Fortunately, after learning about the situation of Nanri Shuizhai, Zhu Qinxiang tried to transfer some money and repair the barracks of Nanri Shuizhai. In addition, he also tried to add several newly built warships to Nanri Shuizhai, but he could not replenish the artillery for them for a while.

So although Nanrishuizhai has obtained some warships, it can only load the old guns removed from the previous warships on these new ships. In fact, the combat effectiveness has not improved much.

However, this time, Zhu Qinxiang did not force Liu Yinglong to lead such a little warship to go to sea to find the trouble of seawolves. Instead, he mobilized some sailor warships from Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Zhangzhou and other places and gathered them into Nanri Water Village and Heping Bay, which enhanced the number and strength of naval warships here, which made the battle here. The situation is much better.

During this period, Nanri Shuizhai became unprecedentedly lively, and sailors from other places continued to sail to Nanri Shuizhai, causing the wharf of Nanri Shuizhai to be full recently.

After these new warships arrive here, they need to replenish ammunition, food, fresh water, and repair the cables, sails and rudders on the ship. The officers and soldiers on the ship also need to get off the ship to rest. Naturally, Liu Yinglong will also be in charge of these things.

Looking at these warships squeezed outside the water village, Liu Yinglong was quite helpless and worried. Although it seems that the strength of the officers and sailors of Nanrishui Village has greatly increased, in fact, Liu Yinglong is very clear about the combat effectiveness of these officers and military warships.

The last time Nanjuyi gathered sailors and land officers from all over Fujian to attack the red-haired people in Penghu, Liu Yinglong joined the army. At that time, he also saw the power of the big sailboats of the red-haired people. The big sailboats of the red-haired people were tall and sufficient firepower, and there were more than a dozen Hongyi cannons in each ship. Once the fire is fired, the smoke will cover the clouds and cover the sun, and it can be used to cross the sea.

Speaking of which, Nanjuyi mobilized a large number of marine warships at that time, but compared with the warships of the Red-haired people in the Ming Dynasty, these warships were really shabby and pitiful.

Daming's largest warship is a 400-material lucky ship. This kind of warship usually looks not small and very majestic, but once it is put together with the big sailboat of the Red-haired Man, it looks small and pitiful. Moreover, the cannons of the Red-haired Man are full of power, the hull is unusually strong, and the cannons on the warship of Daming are all Some small cannons and old cannons can't be fired in front of the red-haired people at all.

The reason why Daming's officers and soldiers still controlled the sea later can only be said that Daming adopted locust tactics and suppressed the red-haired fleet with an absolute numerical advantage. It was the lives of the officers and soldiers that blocked the red-haired warships.

But now they have to deal with sea wolves. Recently, Liu Yinglong sent people everywhere to explore and learn more or less about the strength of sea wolves.

Now the sea wolves of Nanri Island have greatly increased their strength than when Chu Cai came to attack Nanri Island. According to the detailed return, the sea wolves currently have more than 100 warships, and these ships are loaded with a lot of cannons.

Although there is not much difference between the warships of the sea wolf and the warships of the Daming officers, most of the warships of the sea wolf are very new, relatively strong and strong, with a short age. Some ships have also been reinforced in the Nanri Island chuan liao, so that they can carry larger cannons.

And it is said that the sea wolf has a lot of Hongyi cannons like the red-haired man. Chu Cai suffered a great loss in front of the sea wolf's fleet. Now he wants the sailors of the Ming Dynasty to deal with these sea wolves' warships. Liu Yinglong is worried and doesn't know if he can take the Daming's sailors' warship at all, and he can still be like the last time. Fu Hongmao people can trap them like that.

Although Zhu Qinxiang, the governor, has found a way to transfer many sailor warships, but if you take a closer look, there are very few of these marine warships that can be called new ships. Most of them are old goods, and they may not have much advantage over sea wolves in quantity.

Although they barely expelled the red-haired man out of Penghu last year, the officers and soldiers who participated in the war actually knew in their hearts that they were more victorious and less. Relying on the wolf-like tactics, they reluctantly controlled the sea. The Red-haired Man had only a few big sailboats at the beginning, and most of the remaining ships were small boats. I can't stand the large number of them.

But what they are going to deal with now is the sea wolf. Who is the sea wolf? Sea Wolf is a group of guys who have just defeated Chu Cai, the boss. Over the years, Chu Cai has been across the coast of Guangdong, Fujian, and the government has always been able to deal with him. Now even Chu Cai has been beaten all over the ground by this group of sea wolves. Can they be their opponents?

But he can't say this to Zhu Qinxiang. The current Fujian governor can't listen to their generals at all. Based on some hearsay news, he thinks that the sea wolf is not very strong, and feels that these sailors and warships are enough to deal with sea wolves.

As soon as Liu Yinglong thought of this, he shook his head secretly. Now Zhu Qinxiang has transferred a large number of officers and soldiers, sealed many merchant ships, and is ready to attack Nanri Island. Now it can be said that it is an arrow on the string and has to be sent.

As for what this battle can be, Liu Yinglong has no bottom in his heart. He can only be ordered to dress up here. Next, as for winning or losing, he can only secretly pray for God's blessing!

Looking at these sailor warships crowded at Shuizhai wharf, Liu Yinglong turned around and wanted to walk back to Shuizhai. He met the military generals who came here this time and arranged this battle, but when he turned around, he suddenly felt a kind of uneasiness.

So he stopped and looked at the warships crowded near the dock. He suddenly remembered something. Now that the land officials and officers and soldiers are tossed around so lively, it is impossible for the sea wolf to know. He must have heard the news long ago, and the southern day Ships come and go on this side of Shuizhai and look across Meizhou Island. As long as you are on Meizhou Island, you can see the situation on Nanri Shuizhai.

If the sea wolf is a preemptive attack this time, they will kill them without waiting for their officers and soldiers to take action first, and now they are not prepared for anything. Once the sea wolf's fleet kills, won't they take them all?

Thinking of this, Liu Yinglong had a cold war and looked at the distant sea unconsciously, but the sea was empty and there was no boat shadow, so he turned around and strode back to the water village, which immediately prepared a fast boat for him. He wanted to go to the Qianhu Institute in Puxi and meet him now sitting in Puxi. Zhang Jiace, the deputy general on the other side, gave him a reminder.