Chapter 230 Quanzhou Bay

However, the sea wolf infantry did not immediately launch an attack. They lined up outside the city from afar and watched the cannon bombard Tong'an County.

In Tong'an County, there was also a mess at this time. From time to time, shells crossed the wall and fell into the city. Houses were knocked through the roof by shells in the roar, and some houses even collapsed.

In Tong'an County, there were chickens and dogs jumping, and the people hid at home and dared not go out. A group of young and strong people were driven to the bottom of the city wall to transport rolling wood and stones to the wall.

Occasionally, there will be a cannon on the city wall, which is a limited number of cannons arranged on Tong'an County, counterattacking the sea wolf artillery positions outside the city.

Unfortunately, their range is limited, and the shells basically hit the open ground, which poses no threat to the sea wolf's artillery positions at all. It's just a futile waste of gunpowder shells and exposes their location.

Two of the cannons were accurately knocked off by the sea wolf cannon before noon, and the remaining cannons no longer dared to fire, so they went dumb.

Li Dazui was ordered to besiege Tong'an County, but he knew that his troops were not enough. It was difficult to capture Tong'an County with the support of not enough artillery. In addition, the Wolf Tooth Rifle Company of the First Battalion was also handed over to Meng Fei and brought to Luotian Village, which made his firepower not strong enough. .

So Li Dazui was not in a hurry to attack the city, but only bombarded Tong'an County. Even so, the sea wolf's shelling still hit the morale of the defenders in the city.

The magistrate of Tong'an County received news from Cai Shanji many days ago that a 4,000 officers and troops were rushing towards Tong'an County to defend the county for help.

This undoubtedly gave a boost to the defenders in Tong'an County. If such 4,000 officers and soldiers come at this time, they don't have to worry. Even if they can't beat the tiger and wolf division of sea wolves, at least there should be no big problem defending the city, so they are all working hard and waiting for the reinforcements to come.

However, they waited left and right, and did not see the reinforcements coming. Instead, they waited for the sea wolf's army. The sea wolf's army swept around Tong'an County, pulled out several famous local villages in succession, and finally reached the city of Tong'an County.

After the sea wolf's infantry arrived in Tong'an County, they quickly blocked the three walls in the east, north and south, but all the people who came out of the three walls were killed. Only the west net was opened to allow a small number of people to enter and exit Tong'an County, but a large number of people were still not allowed to escape from the county.

As soon as the sea wolf's soldiers and horses arrived, the city suddenly became chaotic. For a while, there were chickens and dogs jumping in the city, and everyone was confused.

So Zhixian sent people out of the city crazily and rushed to Quanzhou City to ask for help. In addition, he also sent people out of the city to ask the reinforcements on the way to ask for help, and asked the officers and soldiers from Yanping Prefecture to speed up to Tong'an County.

However, most of the people sent out were quickly killed under the city. Only Ximen seemed to be fine. At dawn, the people who were killed were carried to the city by sea wolves. Only the people who went out at night were not carried back.

Some rich people in the city saw that things were not good and no longer dared to stay in the city. They heard that the west gate could go, so they rushed to the west gate and quarreled to open the gate to let them out.

At this time, Tong'anzhi County did not dare to open the gate easily, so the whole west gate was crowded. Many people wanted to leave, but they were blocked by the garrison, and the shouts for opening the door came one after another, which was uncontrollable.

Li Dazui led his troops outside the city and began to fire inside the city, exacerbating the chaos in the city.

As for the officers and soldiers defending the city and helping the villagers, they were even more overwhelmed. Many people rushed down the city wall to avoid cannons. Even if they barely stayed on the wall, they lay trembling behind the mouth, and they didn't even dare to show their heads.

There were very few little officers running back and forth on the wall, looking a little arrogant, but these people were soon inexplicably knocked up by the city and knocked over on the wall. They were either shot in the chest or their heads were blooming, but they could not see the shadows of sea wolves under the wall. Only the distance Far away from the city wall, a mass of gunpowder smoke rises from time to time.

This small group of gunpowder smoke did not arouse the idea of the people in the city, because no one believes that there is any bird that can kill people from so far away.

Several snipers were sent outside the wall by Li Dazui to choose their own location to ambush, especially staring at some guys on the wall who dared to rise up and snipered them.

Of course, these snipers use wolf-tooth rifles with better accuracy. After strict training, they can basically ensure effective hits within 200 meters, and others can even kill targets within 300 meters.

So their existence aggravated the panic of the people in the city, which scared the defenders to dare to rise on the wall easily. On the wall of the huge Tong'an County, after the sea wolf soldiers arrived in Tong'an County, they soon became empty. Everyone lay under the female wall of the city wall in fear. Don't dare to come out.

The chaos of Tong'an County is nothing for Quanzhou at this time, because Quanzhou City is more chaotic than Tong'an County.

Quanzhou City is located on the north bank of Jinjiang River. It is an ancient city facing the river and sea. Since ancient times, it has been a place for sea commerce. Although Daming is now banned and only Yuegang is limited to open as a sea commercial port, the area of Quanzhou City is still full of docks and various sea ships gather. The government has also turned a blind eye to it, because Many officials also want to make profits from it.

So Quanzhou was nominally not allowed to communicate with the sea throughout the Ming Dynasty, but in fact, it has never stopped the business of maritime trade.

Recently, the coast of Fujian has been unstable, because the government has provoked Yu Xiaotian, a boss, which has attracted sea wolves to use troops along the coast of Fujian. In addition, the government has also sealed ships in various places, so that many merchant ships can only avoid the port docks at this time and wait for the opportunity to continue to continue to do business.

And both sides of the Jinjiang River Road outside Quanzhou are also full of various sea boats. The sea merchants are eagerly waiting for the situation to calm down so that they can go to sea and continue their business.

But they waited, but they did not wait for the situation to calm down. Instead, they waited for a fleet of sea wolves. Just as Cai Shanji was waiting for the Yanping government officers to arrive in Tong'an County, a sea wolf fleet sailed into Quanzhou Bay.

When some limited official ships in Quanzhou City saw the sea wolf fleet on the sea, they were immediately scared and fled into the Jinjiang River, and some boats fled directly into the inland sea of the Luoyang River.

The whole city of Quanzhou was immediately shaken, and the defenders hurriedly climbed to defend the city, especially the partridge entrance to the mouth of the Jinjiang River, and the alarm was rang. In this place, there was a partridge mouth platform, that is, a fort, guarding the mouth of the Jinjiang River.

Speaking of this partridge, it has not been built yet. It is just a temporary fort. When the sea wolf fleet arrived, it was still a construction site. Hundreds of civilian husbands and officers and soldiers were busy with construction here, and the prototype of the whole fort had not yet appeared.

And this fort is also recently decided by Cai Shanji to start construction, because he saw the growing power of sea wolves along the coast of Fujian, and Quanzhou City is within the mouth of the Jinjiang River, very close to the Jinjiang River, and the south gate, that is, Dejimen, is only less than 300 steps away from the river, which is easy to be invaded by pirates. .

It's easy to say when there was no Hongyi cannon before. Even if it is used to use such a heavy artillery, it may not be able to bomb into the city. However, with the emergence of Hongyi cannons, Cai Shanji and many Quanzhou officials found that the Hongyi cannon has a long range, as long as the enemy ship sails into the Jinjiang River and goes straight to the river outside Dejimen. On the way, you can easily hit the shell into Quanzhou City.

So Cai Shanji hurriedly presided over and built a strong fort at the mouth of the partridge at the mouth of the Jinjiang River to shield the mouth of the Jinjiang River, prevent enemy ships from sailing into the Jinjiang River, and easily shelling Quanzhou City.

But they have just begun to build a partridge. Before the foundation of the whole fort is ready, the sea wolf's fleet sailed into Quanzhou Bay.

Although most of the Fujian sailors have now been defeated by sea wolves, there are still more than a dozen slightly larger warships in Quanzhou Bay. However, these warships did not dare to leave Quanzhou Bay easily after the sea wolves controlled the sea. Even when the sea wolf fleet bombarded the Yongning Acropolis, these ships did not dare to Go to sea to support Yongningwei.

When the sea wolf fleet sailed directly into Quanzhou Bay this time, these warships were still docked on the dock of Chongwu Institute on the north coast of Quanzhou Bay. Hearing that the sea wolf fleet invaded, the officers and soldiers on the ship not only did not rush to the ship, raise their anchor and sail to fight, but on the contrary, they fled to the shore one after another, leaving these warships. On the dock.

At the first stop of the sea wolf's fleet, under the leadership of Liu Yidao, he went straight to Chongwu Institute. Originally, he planned to teach a lesson to the only few remaining officers and sailors here, but when he arrived at Chongwu Institute with the fleet, he did not see the officers and warships go to sea to fight.

So he had to lead the fleet to the Chongwu Institute. When he arrived at the place, he saw that the warships of these officers and soldiers were one by side, and they were honestly moored in the dock area. Even from the telescope, no one on the boat could be seen moving.

At this time, the gate of Chongwu is closed, holding its head and waiting to be beaten.

Liu Yidao laughed on the New Sea Wolf at that time, pointed to Chongwu's city and laughed and scolded. The officers and soldiers were really as timid as rats, and even had the courage to go to sea to fight at this time. So he ordered the fleet to go straight to the shore and personally led two Western-style gunboats and a deep transformation of the Dafu gunboat. Chongwu's city is a fierce shelling.

Chongwu was unlucky. Half a month ago, they were shelled by a group of sea wolves' fleet, killing and injuring more than 100 defenders in the city. They also destroyed the gate tower of the South Gate, and the women's wall collapsed a lot.

The defenders in these heavenly cities are still busy repairing the damaged walls. The ruins of the collapse of the city gate have not been cleaned up, and the sea wolf fleet has come to visit again.

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