Chapter 218 Arrive at Gaopu

These * took the sea wolf as an eyeliner and guide for the sea wolf. When the sea wolf attacked Zhuangbao, they also acted as a porter, and even some bold and strong. They were simply willing to fight, so they directly chose to throw the sea wolf and follow the sea wolf to attack the fortress together.

In this way, although the sea wolf's large-scale attack on the shore has offended many rich people, it has won the support of a large number of poor people and earned a good reputation for the sea wolf as a righteous thief.

After more than two months of action, the sea wolf actually recruited nearly 10,000 immigrants in various prefectures along the coast of Fujian, and also recruited more than 1,000 strong young people to join the sea wolf's army.

Their practice has made the Fujian government a headache. Almost every day, all government and the officials of the three divisions receive bad news. Before they press the gourd, there is a ladle here, which makes Fujian officials feel embarrassed and hardly know what to do.

The alliance of the officials of the three divisions required Zhang Jiace, the only Fujian official who maintained a certain surface combat effectiveness, to lead a fleet to prevent the sea wolf from attacking and plundering the coast. However, Zhang Jiace was disobedient and took dozens of warships on the sea and always did not fight head-on with the sea wolves.

After they were ordered, they often rushed to the scene of the accident and always arrived at the scene of the accident when the sea wolf had evacuated. At this time, the place where the sea wolf passed had already been burned into ruins by fire. After Zhang Jiace led the troops, he only killed some local areas that were still taking advantage of the fire and did not have time to run away. The unruly people used this to reward the above, but in fact, it did not play a role in preventing the sea wolf operation at all.

Although Fujian officials have complained about Zhang Jiace, they now control the only combat power that can operate on the sea. They can't do anything about Zhang Jiace.

As for Yu Zhigao, after the defeat of Nanri Island, there were not many soldiers on hand, so he could only run back to Quanzhou Prefecture behind closed doors, and no one paid attention to him.

While the navy was carrying out the operation, the army, led by Li Dazui and Meng Fei, gathered two battalions of troops in the Weitou Bay area. Although these troops are not many, only more than 2,000 troops, the sea wolf's land soldiers now look at the whole Ming Dynasty and are definitely the elite division.

The quality of their equipment is even beyond the quality of any of the three battalions of the Beijing Division. * has completely become the main weapon of the sea wolf. Cold weapons have been completely reduced to auxiliary weapons for combat. Only in close combat can cold weapons play a certain role.

After three days of rest, according to Li Dazui's order, most of the sea wolf infantry of the two battalions were transported to the shore and directly surrounded Gaopu Qianhu City.

Gaosu City is also a sea-facing Acropolis. The construction situation of the city is similar to that of Jinmen City, Zhongzuo City, and even Humao City. The city wall is made of stone. Some places adopt some rammed earth structures. The wall is about one foot and seven feet wide and has four gates, but this Gaopu City is in four The gates are built with urn cities, so the defense ability is relatively stronger.

It is difficult to break through the gate of this kind of urn city by using shelling alone. In addition, the number of troops stationed in Gaopu City is also relatively large. There are about 800 officers and soldiers stationed in the city. Moreover, when Yu Zhigao transferred soldiers and horses to Nanri Island this time, he did not transfer the soldiers and horses of Gaopu City to make it more complete. It has strong combat effectiveness.

In addition, Gaopu was not the first to be attacked by sea wolves because he lived on the shore, so when they learned that Jinmen and Zhongzuo had fallen, they immediately recruited Qingzhuang villagers and nearby gentry from around the city to practice for defense.

In this way, in Gaopu City, when the sea wolf began to attack it, in addition to its own troops, plus the 500 officers and soldiers sent from Quanzhou, have gathered 2,000 officers and soldiers in the city, which is not weak.

Gaopu is now in charge of a guerrilla surnamed He sent by Quanzhou. This He guerrilla is under Yu Zhigao's command. At the beginning, Yu Zhigao led his army to attack Nanri Island and left him to occupy Quanzhou. Now the sea wolf has invaded Haicheng and captured the middle left of Jinmen and other places. In order to prevent the sea wolf from continuing to attack and plunder, Then he sent this guerrilla to Gaopu.

At this time, Gaopu concentrated a guerrilla, four thousand presidents, and more than ten generals, who lived in Gaopu City for days to strengthen fortifications and repair the damaged city walls.

Although this guerrilla was calm on the surface, in fact, he had already died of panic in his heart. He had learned about the power of the sea wolf from the soldiers who fled back to Quanzhou with Yu Zhigao. In addition, he also learned a lot about the sea wolf's attack on Jinmen and Zhongzuo and Hu Maocheng.

On the whole, He guerrilla has a considerable understanding of the land combat ability of sea wolves. Although it seems that he has a lot of troops at hand and more than 2,000 troops are concentrated in the small Gaopu City, he has no idea whether he can hold this place.

If it is an ordinary sea bandit, he thinks that with his current strength, although he may not be able to defeat him out of the city, there is still no problem to defend Gaopu City. As long as the soldiers in the city do not mess themselves, then ordinary sea pirates can only stare at Gaopu City.

But today he is facing the sea wolf. It is said that the sea wolf, whether it is a marine or a land division, is quite able to fight, and its firepower is so fierce that it is extremely difficult to resist.

On the contrary, there are more than 2,000 soldiers and horses at hand, more than 1,000 of whom are temporarily assembled from various townships and villages. Although these people are still very fierce to guard their homes and territories, it is not their duty for them to help defend Gaopu City.

In addition, he knows the level of equipment and training of more than 1,000 officers and soldiers better than anyone else. If these guards get rid of the hurdle, they are called begazis, and their combat effectiveness is extremely low. The only thing they can rely on is the 500 officers and soldiers he brought from Quanzhou, which are Quanzhou's soldiers. Relatively speaking, the quality of equipment and combat effectiveness are relatively good. It's reassuring.

But this also depends on who to compare with. He already knows that the sea wolf land division is equipped with a large number of birds, which have a range of up to 200 steps and are extremely accurate. In addition, the sea wolf also has a large number of Hongyi cannons of different sizes, which are even more sharp.

And he looked at Gaopu City, there were only a dozen cannons, of which were only one Hongyi cannon and three 500 catties of copper cannons, and the rest were some old guns such as extermination guns and bowl mouth guns, with short range and small power, which was not enough to fight against the sharp cannons of sea wolves.

As for long-range weapons, the officers and soldiers are mainly bows and crossbows, mixed with a small amount of firearms and three-eyed weapons. The birdarms have only a few dozen rods in total, and the quality is worrying. Few people are willing to use this thing.

So there is no bottom in He's heart whether he can block the sea wolf's attack, but he dares not show it, for fear that if he shows panic, the morale of his subordinates will be completely ruined.

So in Gaopu City in recent days, he personally checked the garrison and the placement of artillery. In addition, he personally checked the equipment of the officers and soldiers, as well as ammunition, grain and other materials stored in the city. In order to enhance his defense, he ordered the demolition of many houses in the city and transported masonry and wood to the wall as Rolling wood stone is used.

also ordered to find a lot of big pots, set them up on the wall, ready to boil water at any time, and then pour down the wall to stop the sea wolf's attack.

If according to the past, as an Acropolis, it is generally not interested in pirates. Pirates are looking for money and prefer to attack some rich castles. For attacking cities such as the Acropolis and counties, they are not capable, but they are not very good at making a head, so even if pirates attack the shore, they are generally Won't attack the Acropolis.

Only many years ago, when the Japanese pirates were rampant, there were Japanese pirates attacking the county and the Acropolis, but since the Japanese disaster gradually eased, such a situation has rarely happened. Even when Chu Cai was the strongest, he only attacked Haicheng County, but he has never attacked the Acropolis.

But this time He Guerrilla no longer has any illusions, because he has seen that this time the sea wolves will never come here like before, because they have captured Kinmen Island first, then captured the left center, and even knocked down Humao City, destroyed Humao City, and then completely destroyed it. Destroyed the Moon Harbor.

Although He guerrilla couldn't understand what the sea wolf was going to do this this time, he still vaguely felt that the sea wolf had bad intentions this time. I'm afraid it was not a simple revenge on the government and grabbing Yuegang is to the end.

Gaopu and Zhongzuo look across the sea and are close at each other. From the head of Gaopu City, it can be seen that sea wolves have gathered a large number of soldiers and horses on Zhongzuo Island in the past few days, which is clear that there is a greater action.

What will the sea wolf do next? He can't guess, but what he can guess is that the sea wolf will definitely hit Gaopu where he is.

Sure enough, in a few days, a large number of sea wolves' soldiers and horses began to land and quickly besieged Gaopu City. Of course, He guerrilla did not dare to lead troops out of the city to fight with sea wolves's soldiers and horses in the field. They immediately put everyone into the city and closed the four doors to make a posture of defending Gaopu City.

All the officers and soldiers in the city and even the villagers were driven to the city wall to garrison, making a posture of rolling their arms and sleeves to prepare for the death.

However, his efforts seemed so pale and powerless in front of the sea wolf's attack. In the face of the sea wolf's artillery, although the guerrilla made great efforts, it did not achieve much effective results.

Several big ships of sea wolves approached the shore on the sea outside Gaopu City and began to fire at Gaopu City with the heavy artillery on the ship.

(Special thanks to the words of Nannan and the rewards of the two brothers GZG1972! Ha ha!)