Chapter 176 Accidental Attack
The plan never seemed to be able to catch up with the changes, and the whole sea wolf group was mobilized. When a group of fierce soldiers and horses were ready to welcome the attack of Boss Chu Cai, Mr. Chu Cai did not follow their plan.
Half a month after Master Zhou went back, he should have seen Mr. Chu Cai and told him the result of the negotiations on Nanri Island. Mr. Chu Cai said that he would definitely be angry. He should gather the masses and go to Nanri Island to seek revenge. When the time comes, he should come!
But it is strange that the sentries scattered into the Meizhou Bay area and the Taiwan Personnel Waterway (Taiwan Strait) have never found any sign of any large fleets.
Yu Xiaotian was a little dumbfounded this time. He couldn't guess why Chu Cailao didn't do as he expected. What on earth is Chu Cailao busy with now?
Although they didn't wait for Chu Cai's boss to attack as scheduled, Yu Xiaotian and his men can conclude that Chu Cai is not the kind of person who can stand this tone. Now the matter is equivalent to opening the lid of the pot. If he can't do this, it will cause great losses to his reputation. Chu Cai will never Dare to do this.
But after all, this guy is thinking about a bad idea at this moment, but no one can guess. They can only wait eagerly. After many days, they still haven't found the action of Boss Chu Cai's move.
Of course, it can't be said that Chu Cai didn't take any action at all. Judging from the news that the patrol ship in Meizhou Bay returned to the wolf's den, more and more unidentified ships did begin to appear in the sea area outside Meizhou Bay during this period, and some ships broke through the outer defense line set up by the sea wolf patrol boat and went straight to the magpies. Near Nanri Island, he wandered around sneakily.
And there are more and more such ships, which makes the sea wolf's limited sentry ships a little overstretched and busy during this period.
In addition, after mid-February, in the sea area of Fuzhou controlled by the sea wolf, there suddenly began to be incidents of unknown ships passing through this area, and the merchant ships that were robbed were basically merchant ships that paid for the sea wolf to buy roads.
And the attacker is very cruel. Often, after the successful robbery of the ship, the boatman on the ship is slaughtered, but only one captain or shopkeeper is left, and then the goods are transferred back to their ship, and then the whole ship is simply set on fire. Sometimes people are separated to drive away the robbed ship directly. There is no room.
This method can be said to be against the unspoken rules of pirates. Pirates do not want to make money. Once they succeed in robbing the ship, unless the other party's resistance is too fierce and causes them excessive losses, they will take such a fierce means to retaliate against the personnel on the merchant ship, but in general, they only kill some people, no As for killing all the people on the ship.
What's more strange is that these pirates who appeared inexplicably in this area had to leave an important person on the ship when they killed, and told the survivors that they were sea wolves and did it!
In this way, the survivors found Nanri Island and cried for an explanation. They asked the sea wolf to tell them why they had paid for the road, and why the sea wolf tribe had bad rules and had to do this to them!
When this kind of thing happened one after another, Yu Xiaotian and his men began to realize that things were not good! If this kind of thing is only one or two, then they can still think that this is the work of some small pirates who have newly arrived here, but after mid-February, this kind of thing began to happen one after another, which is not what ordinary people do, because ordinary small pirates have no such strength at all, and all the spearheads can point. Chu Cai is old.
Yu Xiaotian immediately ordered some ships to be pulled out from the gathered fleet. Two groups were sent to the route around Fuzhou to start the inspection of passing ships, and sent messages to fishermen along the coast of Fuzhou, asking them to help pay attention to some suspicious ships. It is best to find them. At the landing point of the time, report to the sea wolf, the sea wolf will definitely thank you.
At the end of February after Xiaotian took action, the sea wolf's ships began to harvest. They successively intercepted and captured several such suspicious ships on the sea around Fuzhou, and repeatedly had friction with some unidentified ships. Whenever they encountered such suspicious ships, the sea wolf encountered extremely strong resistance. Some people on the ship even did not hesitate to break the net, which made the sea wolf pay a certain price when chasing and suppressing it.
Among them, fishermen along the coast of Fuzhou have played a considerable role. Although there are many sea wolf boats, they are still very thin on the huge sea, and it is difficult to compile a tight net to catch these suspicious ships.
But fishermen are different. In the past two years, the number of fishermen and fishing boats in Fuzhou has increased rapidly. They are scattered in a wide area of waters for fishing, covering almost almost all waters.
And the reputation of the sea wolf has been excellent in Fuzhou in the past two years. After having the sea wolf, the fishermen's life is much better, and a small number of pirates have been almost swept away. Fishermen basically don't have to worry as before. When they go to sea, they can fish at ease. The fishermen are also deterred by the sea wolf's deterrence and dare not to exploit the fishermen too much. It has made the fishermen feel much better in the past two years.
So after the fishermen learned that the sea wolf had sent them the news, most of them began to fish at sea and noticed the suspicious boats nearby.
So soon the fishermen found some suspicious boats in some places and immediately went to the sea wolf to report the news, allowing the sea wolf to catch several such suspicious boats in a short time.
After capturing several suspicious ships, the sea wolf can be sure that the people on these ships are indeed all the shopkeepers belonging to Mr. Chu Cai, and after severe torture, a small leader on a captured ship told that they received an order from the shopkeeper to let them go. This side explores the strength of the sea wolf and tries to create trouble in the name of the sea wolf.
Their shopkeeper ordered them to act alone or two boats together, go deep into the sea and waterway controlled by the sea wolf to find more passing merchant ships, and find ways to get close to Nanri Island and explore the situation of some sea wolf ships.
After such a situation was reflected in Yu Xiaotian, Yu Xiaotian felt that things were a little tricky. This time, Chu Cailao should have wanted to treat him in his own way, and also sent a group of attack ships to enter the sea controlled by the sea wolf to wolf to retaliate against the sea wolf.
However, Chu Cai is very smart. He knows that he does not have a ship like the flying speedboat of the sea wolf, so he can't use the "ghost ship" tactic to find the sea wolf's ship to retaliate against their sea wolf.
So Chu Cailao and his men came up with this idea of damaging home, sent his men to sneak into the sea wolf's territory through various channels, and then began to plunder the coastal area of Fuzhou under the name of sea wolf.
For the time being, their main goal is still merchant ships. Their purpose is actually to destroy the reputation of sea wolves by intercepting these merchant ships that have paid for road money to sea wolves, and gradually destroy sea merchants' trust in sea wolves, so that sea merchants no longer pay road money to sea wolves, so as to cut off an important economic source of sea wolves. .
This move is really insidious. Mr. Chu Cai saw the difference between the sea wolf and his. The survival strategy of the sea wolf and Mr. Chu Cai's survival strategy can be said to be completely different. In addition to doing business, the most important way to survive is to plunder the sea and loot coastal land villages and towns. To obtain survival resources and make a fortune.
However, the sea wolf did not follow their path, but adopted another survival strategy, changing the way commonly used by pirates to basically rely on violence for a living. In the past two years, they have acted with great reputation and reputation in Fuzhou to buy people's hearts. At the same time, they collect money from passing merchant ships to support them. The operation and survival of their sea wolves.
In Chu Cailao's view, the income of collecting money from passing ships to buy roads is extremely important for Xiaotian and his sea wolf gang, which can be said to be the foundation of their survival.
So he came up with this way to draw firewood from the bottom of the kettle. In order to completely cut off the way of the sea wolf's money first, destroy the reputation of the sea wolf, and plunge it into a financial crisis.
Yu Xiaotian did not have a good way to deal with it. In addition to mobilising more forces, he inspected the waterways around Fuzhou and strengthened the inspection of passing ships to prevent such things from happening, and in a short period of time, he would have to achieve results. Otherwise, the safety of passing merchant ships would not be guaranteed. Next, I will no longer pay the sea wolf to buy a road like before.
However, although Yu Xiaotian has a little strength, the ships and subordinates in his hands still have no strength if they want to effectively control such a long waterway. In fact, Chu Cai doesn't need to pull out too much power. He just needs to let his shopkeepers pull out a limited number of boats and manpower to find a way to get to the sea in Fuzhou to serve. The opportunity to rob a few boats is enough to make the sea wolf tired. His method can be said to be very effective and very poisonous.
After Yu Xiaotian figured this out, he couldn't help but feel a headache and things began to develop in an uncontrollable direction.
At first, he just wanted to force Chu Cai's old dog to jump over the wall and lead his subordinates and the fleet to stir up the masses. He could just take advantage of his technical advantages to fight with Chu Cai Lao Ding against Ding Mao, because he had absolute advantages in firepower, as well as command and tactical advantages. In fact, he is quite sure that he can win this confrontation, so that he can completely become famous at sea and become a real hegemon through this battle.
But when things go to this point, Yu Xiaotian found that he underestimated the wisdom of the ancients. In fact, people in this era are not stupid than him. The only advantage he has is not wisdom, but the wisdom he brought from later generations. Some technologies have made him take a lot of advantage.
Although Yu Xiaotian sent more ships and manpower to the sea around Fuzhou at the end of February to increase patrol and try to strengthen the protection of passing ships, after a few days, he found that he was actually doing this as a drop in the bucket. The number of attack ships sent by Chu Cailao this time was far more than he thought. Many.
During the period after he strengthened the power of patrol boats, although he caught several of Chu Cailao's attack boats through some fishermen's secret tip-in, it was still impossible to stop Chu Cai's men from making waves in the Fuzhou area. There are still many merchant ships passing by every day, being looted in the area of Fuzhou, and doing these The people are still under the banner of sea wolves.
After the news spread, the passing merchant ships stopped. In the past, the reason why they paid to buy a road was that they could buy a peace charm when passing through the Fuzhou area and pass through this area smoothly without taking risks.
However, during this period, merchant ships in the Fuzhou area began to be repeatedly robbed. They paid money to buy a road and did not pay to buy a road. The result was basically almost the same. Moreover, it is said that some of the hijacked ships have paid for the road, but they were still robbed by the sea wolf's troops, and they were extremely cruel and often slaughtered ships.
Although the people of the sea wolf have repeatedly stated that these things were done by Mr. Chu Cai, not by their sea wolves, but the people on the merchant ship don't care about this. They don't judge the matter. They will be suspicious of the words of the sea wolf, but one thing is very real, that is, they don't pay the money to buy the road now. In fact, they have It doesn't matter. Anyway, when they passed along the coast of Fuzhou, their safety could no longer be guaranteed. So some boats no longer took the initiative to pay for the sea wolf as before, and more and more merchant ships began to join the ranks, directly bypassing the Cory Island, which is a toll station, and broke in. Along the coast of Fuzhou, they began to forcibly pass through the coast of Fuzhou in groups and refused to pay for the sea wolves to buy a road.
(This chapter is almost 4,000 words, isn't it affordable! Ha ha! Brothers, please help me!)