Chapter 143 Attack of Rebel Marines

Due to the limited water depth of the temporary wharf on Yangma Island, some large ships, especially the deep-watered lucky boats, cannot directly dock at the trestle on the shore and can only anchor in the deeper waters, so it has caused a lot of trouble for the ship's loading and unloading activities.

However, some sand boats can be as close as possible to the shore because of their shallow water. In order to transfer these refugees as soon as possible, Wu Shengtian and Liu temporarily convened personnel to quickly build several simple temporary trestles by the sea for ships to load and unload goods.

When the ship docked, a bag of food was first unloaded from the ship, which completely alleviated the shortage of food in Xishan Village and was enough for Xishan Village to use for a long time.

Then Liu did not arrange for the refugees hoarded on Yangma Island to board the ship and transport them away from here in batches. These refugees were deeply afraid of getting on such a big ship and sailing to unknown places. Many people were unwilling to board the ship and cried in a mess.

However, Liu did not threaten them. If they refused to board the boat, they would cut off their food supply, drive them out of Yangma Island, and let them die.

Such a threat is really effective. There are rebels everywhere outside. Now Xishan Village and Yangma Island have become the only places in this area where they can live safely. If they are driven away, what fate they will face next? These hungry people themselves know very well.

In addition, after they came, they also signed a deed of sale. Now their identity is no longer free people. In name, they are now the slaves of Master Liu. What does the master want them to do? They really have no right to say or not.

So these people began to board these big ships at the urging of the soldiers of the family army, set foot on their unknown future, and were transported away from Yangma Island one by one, making the already overcrowded land encirclement of Yangma Island suddenly become empty.

Naturally, the movement on Yangma Island was naturally detected by the rebels who had been staring at them. Li Jiucheng soon learned that there were a large number of huge boats on Yangma Island, which were loading a large number of refugees hoarded on Yangma Island and transporting them away from Yangma Island. He didn't know where to go.

Now Li Jiucheng is actually not interested in these refugees. At present, he is most interested in the food hoarded in Xishan Village and Yangma Island. After this period of continuous expansion, the rebels have become more and more, and the consumption of food is also increasing. They must not think about self-reliance. , food and military earns can only be obtained by robbing.

Nowadays, in the whole Denglai area, except for the southern part of the Jiaodong Peninsula, they have not robbed it. In the northern part, as long as there are villages and towns that can be seen by them, they have been attacked by them, killing all the gentry families in these villages and towns clean and taking away everything that can be robbed.

So now the whole area of Denlai has been completely destroyed by them, but the food problem has not been completely solved, and their grain storage is still not enough to meet their long-term use in the future.

So Li Jiucheng is most concerned about the food issue. In addition, I heard that there are many large ships coming to Yangma Island this time. These ships also have great ** for him. Although he has controlled a lot of warships at hand now, most of these ships are relatively dilapidated, or relatively simple, and some boats are simply It is built directly with wet materials, which is of extremely poor quality and often deformed and leaks water.

This time, Li Jiucheng wanted to seize the big ship of Yangma Island and capture the earth encirclement of Yangma Island, so he thought of Mao Chenglu and asked Mao Chenglu to lead troops to war.

After hearing this, Mao Chenglu also felt that after coming to Dengzhou, he was not embarrassed except for eating, drinking and playing with women, so he immediately agreed, ordered all the soldiers and horses, and boarded the warship in the water city. At the beginning of June, he finally set out to lead the fleet to Yangma Island.

At this time, most of the refugees on Yangma Island have been transferred and left here by ships, but a large number of refugees will be received every day. After receiving simple quarantine, they will continue to be shipped away. Therefore, since mid-April, several large ships on Yangma Island have entered and out every day.

This made the rebels jealous. On the ninth day of June, the rebel fleet, led by Mao Chenglu, finally appeared in the west sea of Yangma Island.

However, at this time, Kuntong Island in the west sea of Yangma Island has been seized by the personnel of the family army and controlled by Xishan Village, and a hidden observation post was set up here to monitor the situation on the surrounding sea. In addition, it is also responsible for the movements of the rebels in the strange mountains on the shore.

So the rebel fleet had just appeared in the waters of Kuntong Island, and just bypassed the Cape of Zhifu Island, it was observed by the outpost on Gangtong Island. Then the alarm rocket was released. A red rocket, pulling black smoke, rose to the sky and swaying straight into the air more than 100 meters high and burst out. A dazzling red highlight.

The rocket can see its black smoke and red light from far away. A sled fast ship patrolling the west of Yangma Island in the east of Kongtong Island immediately found the alarm rocket. Without saying a word, it immediately launched a rocket and transmitted the news back to Yangma Island in the form of a relay. Go over there.

Soon, Xishan Village, including the Tuweizi of Yangma Island, learned about the attack of the rebel fleet. The specific situation is unknown, but it is certain that the rebel fleet has come.

So several large ships that were loading and unloading personnel and cargo on the shore immediately stopped their operations. The crew of the ship quickly raised their sails and anchored, moved to deep water under the towing of the small boat, and began to turn around and sail to the sea north of Yangma Island.

Around Yangma Island, there are already seven warships at this time. Three of these warships are sloops unique to the sea wolf, that is, flying fast ships.

This kind of ship looks very small when dealing with Western galleys, but now it is definitely a heavy gunboat in front of Chinese warships.

There are also four other Fu ships, which are modified and enhanced versions of Fu ships. In the cabin under the deck, a gun compartment is set up and six 12-pound guns are installed. The bow position on the deck is also a 24-pound short gun. On both sides of the deck, four three-pound cannons are also reinforced and installed.

Although this kind of firepower is not too strong, it also depends on what opponent you are facing. At least on the side of Bohai Bay, it is definitely a super warship.

Several warships patrolling here immediately began to rush to the west sea of Yangma Island and began to gather into a fleet in the west sea of Yangma Island.

Three flying-size fastships were in front, and four No. 2 enhanced lucky boats were behind. There was a rapid whistle on the ship. The sailors and soldiers on the ship rushed to their respective positions one after another in armor, and operated the sails nervously. According to the instructions of the helmsman, they constantly adjusted the direction of the sails to the wind.

The gunners opened the port gun door one after another and removed the gun clothes. The artillery exposed their ferocious posture, and the black muzzle pointed out of the starboard.

The preparation for loading all kinds of ammunition was almost completed in an instant. The soldiers lined up on both sides of the ship's side and placed their short-version tachilla guns in the designated positions and were ready to be loaded.

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