Chapter 232 Rebellion Quanzhou Prefecture
It didn't take long for the family he sent to run back and knelt down and reported: "Your Excellency, the little one just went to Dejimen to see it. This time, more than 20 big ships of pirates have arrived and have reached the river outside Dejimen. They are all... big ships! It is estimated that there will be more than two or three thousand pirates!"
It seemed that in order to strengthen the tone of the family, before the family finished speaking, Cai Shanji heard a rumbling sound of gunfire outside the city. The gunfire was like thunder and lasted for a long time. While talking, a shell fell on the south side of the Quanzhou government office, and heard a loud sound, as if a house had collapsed. The sound.
Cai Shanji suddenly 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 on the other side of Deji Gate.
At this time, there was already thick smoke in the direction of Dejimen. Obviously, there was already a place where it was lit. At this time, there was a sound of knocking gongs on the street, and some people shouted that Dejimen was walking!
It can be seen that it has been shelled by the thieves over there, and houses have begun to catch fire, and the matter has begun to make a big deal.
Two or three thousand thief soldiers are by no means a small number for Quanzhou Prefecture. At present, Quanzhou Prefecture, including garrison, servants and strong men, is less than 2,000. The sea wolf's thief soldiers are well trained. Now Fujian officials have a unified understanding of this. Whether it is a sea wolf pawn or a pawn, they are all elite. Unparalleled and very wary. Although I dare not say that each of them is a ten-man enemy, it should not be a big problem.
Two or three thousand thief soldiers, for Quanzhou Prefecture, this pressure is really too great. More than 20 large ships, this is a real big ship, how many Hongyi cannons will be installed on it!
Although Fujian officials have also heard that sea wolves can cast their own red cannons, they all heard it as jokes at the beginning. Thinking about the past year, under Zhu Yifeng's various solutions, they have purchased several iron fields from Guangdong and Zhangquan, and only got a few Hongyi cannons. Seawolves are just a group of people. Pirates, how many Hongyi cannons can make?
However, after the Battle of Nanri Island, Yu Zhigao and those officers and soldiers who escaped confirmed in person that the sea wolf's warships were generally equipped with Hongyi cannons, and some warships were even equipped with more than 20 Hongyi cannons. The firepower was so strong that the officer warships were not their opponents at all.
Although Yu Zhigao talked with these escaped officers and soldiers, there was a certain exaggeration and the suspicion of exoneration for his defeat, but considering that nearly 200 warships of the officers and sailors were killed by the sea wolf's fleet in just one day. If there were few Hongyi cannons on the sea wolf's warship, I'm afraid it may not be possible to achieve such a result.
The officers and navy can no longer fight, can they not fight desperately when they are in a hurry? More than 100 warships, even if they are flies, it will take a long time for sea wolves to shoot!
So even if what Yu Zhigao and others say is not true, there will be no big difference. At least it shows that the sea wolf's warship is very powerful and the artillery on the warship is also very fierce, which is beyond doubt.
At this time, someone rushed into the magistrate's office and reported to Cai Shanji: "Lord Fantai! The thief ship has just begun to open fire and shelled Quanzhou City. At present, Chen's guard is sitting in Dejimen to command the fight against the enemy! Lord Chen said that the enemy ship's guns were extremely sharp, and our cannons in the city were unable to fight back. Please recruit reinforcements quickly!"
Cai Shanji's head is dizzy! At this time, he also wants to fall ill quickly. He can't see things like Zhu Yifeng. How dare the damn Yu Xiaotian be so arrogant and bold? How dare you send a ship to attack Quanzhou City?
When he was still angry about it, someone came to report: "Report! My lord! Pirates set fire to many ships on the river and sent thieves to land in the south of the Yangtze River. They don't know where they are!"
The south of the Yangtze River? Cai Shanji was a little confused. Quanzhou City is on the north bank of Jinjiang, and the sea wolf troops landed on the south bank. But immediately he figured out the reason. I'm afraid that the sea wolf did not have to occupy Quanzhou Prefecture this time, but as long as the surroundings of Quanzhou Prefecture were completely disturbed, it was actually enough for him to drink a pot.
Now the sea wolf shelled Quanzhou City and sent people to land on the south bank. In fact, it is also leaving him a buffer for him to consider what to do next. If he still refuses to agree to Yu Xiaotian's conditions, then the sea wolf may really send troops to attack Quanzhou City. At that time, he will completely There is room for manoeuvre.
Thinking of this, Cai Shanji was even more furious. He said that the surname Yu was too arrogant. He actually wanted to use this method to force me to bow his head and give up the Weitou Bay to his control, which was absolutely not good.
"Come on! Immediately send a fast horse out of the city, go to intercept the officers and soldiers led by Liu Wutang, pass on the order of the officials, and make them quickly change their way and come to Quanzhou City to defend! A thousand officers and soldiers were sent to Tong'an County, and the rest of the soldiers and horses came to Quanzhou City! He must lead his troops to Quanzhou City within two days, otherwise you can't blame me for being rude! Go!"
Cai Shanji remembered the 4,000 Yanping officials led by Liu Wutang at this time. At this time, they should have arrived in Tong'an County. At present, the only available troops are the 4,000 officers led by Liu Wutang. Although Tong'an County cannot be lost, compared with Quanzhou City, Tong'an County is nothing. !
Leave 1,000 officers and soldiers in Tong'an County to defend Tong'an, and the remaining 3,000 officers and soldiers come to Quanzhou, so you can basically ensure the safety of Quanzhou City. No matter how powerful your men surnamed Yu are, as long as these 3,000 officers and soldiers enter Quanzhou City, can you 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 City not to retreat? As long as he is given time, he will mobilize the troops of Fujian Province to Tong'an. No matter how powerful the sea wolf is, there can't be too many troops. At that time, as long as he can recover Tong'an County and drive the sea wolf to the sea, even if Jinmen and Zhongzuo can't take it back, this can give the court an explanation.
Cai Shanji was busy with four feet facing the sky and sent people everywhere in the city to attract strong men to defend the city. In addition, he used to be the governor of Quanzhou and knew the rich people in Quanzhou City, so he sent people to these rich families to persuade them to donate from door to door, so that they had to take out some money to help pay for the defense of Quanzhou City.
And Cai Shanji asked the people sent to make it clear to these people that the pirates are fierce. If they don't honestly take out more money, once the military is unstable, the pirates are likely to break the city. Once the pirates break the city, everyone will be grasshoppers on a rope, and no one can escape. His Cai Shanji's home If you are not in Quanzhou, you can die in the country.
But these rich people's family property is in Quanzhou Prefecture, and they can't run away. Once the city is broken, it will be when their jade and stone are burned. If it is a pity for their money at this time, it will be too late to regret after the city is broken!
So a group of government staff began to run all over Quanzhou City. Later, Cai Shanji personally went into battle and invited those big businessmen and gentry in the city to the government office to express their interests. In this way, in two days, each family had hundreds of taels and more than 1,000 taels. In short, These rich people were also scared. They knew that in case Quanzhou City was broken, their wealth would definitely not be saved. It would be better to be generous and take out some money to pay money to find a way to defend the city.
In the past two days, Cai Shanji collected tens of thousands of taels of silver, which was enough for him to resist for a while.
Cai Shanji issued a recruitment order in the city, recruited the young men in the city to go to defend the city, and gave two months of military pay, and offered rewards to the officers and soldiers. As long as a thief is killed, one head can be rewarded with ten taels of silver, and if one is captured alive can be rewarded with fifteen taels of silver. This is a heavy reward, which is a great boost. The morale of the defenders in the city.
However, the reward is still the moon in the water for the defenders, because after the sea wolf came, they did not immediately launch a siege, but anchored the fleet in the river and bombarded Quanzhou City for half an hour every day.
In this way, the defenders had to dream of cutting off the heads of several sea wolves. Liu Yidao sent a company of land soldiers in the past two days, and hundreds of sailors were drawn from each ship. They landed in Quanzhou and began to launch an armed parade to the villages outside Quanzhou.
Hundreds of sea wolves' land soldiers lined up and moved on land, dragging two mountain howitzers. In addition, they also got more than a dozen mules, loaded some tiger squat guns and ammunition, and sent some civilians on the spot, pushed a wheelbicle, and began to move on the shore.
Their main purpose is not to attack many fortresses, but to promote the force of sea wolves. Although many people have heard of the power of sea wolves, they have not actually seen the military appearance of sea wolves, and there is no intuitive concept at all.
Of course, they haven't seen how strong the sea wolf is, but this time they have seen the military appearance of the sea wolf.
The coalition composed of hundreds of sea wolves' land and sea soldiers formed three infantry units, and the army appeared solemnly on the ground of Quanzhou Prefecture.
Wherever they passed, the people of the village castle saw them from afar. After looking at the military appearance of the sea wolf, they were all scared to death. Some villages originally planned to fight with the sea wolf in case the sea wolf wanted to strangle them too much.
But when they really saw the military appearance of the sea wolf, many people immediately gave up this idea. How much money and food the sea wolf department asked them to give, and they didn't dare to fart. They quickly sent it out to the sea wolf. How many people they wanted them to lose, they quickly chose people and sent out Zhuangbao. They could only be so respectfully. Respectful.
There are only a few big Zhuangzi. With their strong strength, Zhuangzi is very large. There are many people practicing in Zhuangzi. They feel that they have the strength to work hard. At least it is not a big problem to defend Zhuangzi and refuse to accept the request of the sea wolf.
So the sea wolf officers who led the team were not polite to them and immediately surrounded their Zhuangzi and began to attack their Zhuangzi with cannons.
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