Chapter 176 All the Way Robbery

These strange ships come and go quickly on the sea. As long as they target them, there is almost no possibility of escaping. Unless they happen to encounter hurricane waves, they can only catch up with them and bite them to death.

After doing several times, Liu Xiang quickly attracted this cruel revenge without exception. A batch of flying fast boats broke into his territory, constantly attacked his ships during the day and night, and even attacked some of his small islands at night, slaughtered all his men, and hung them upside down one by one. It was so cruel that even Liu Xiang, who rushed to the scene of the accident, felt numb.

Liu Xiang and some sea lords have the intention to revenge, but these unidentified ships come and go like the wind. They can't catch up with them and can't find them. After doing it several times, these people understand that this is Yu Xiaotian's revenge. They can't touch Fujian, but in Guangdong and Guangxi, they may not be all them. In the world, Yu Xiaotian's hand has reached out to the two broads, and they can't help but be arrogant.

So these people gradually dare not easily provoke the merchant ships of the sea wolf. As long as they see the merchant ships of the sea wolf, most of them will go around and do not provoke them. Only some small pirates who are not open their eyes to do this industry and dare to touch the merchant ships of the sea wolf group, but they often hit a head of blood and some small sea. The thief was even killed directly by the merchant ship.

Therefore, over the years, the sea wolf's merchant ships have been active in the Guangdong and Guangxi. On the one hand, they have the protection of their own families, and on the other hand, they are also escorted by the forces of Chu Cailao and Yan Siqi. In addition, they themselves also have a strong resistance, coupled with the awe-insperous revenge behavior of Xiaotian, making the sea wolf's merchant ships in the coastal areas of Guangdong and Guangzhou. Not many people dare to provoke easily when driving.

Now Yu Xiaotian is marching south. For these pirates, it is undoubtedly ringing the death knell for them. This time, Yu Xiaotian led the whole army of the Third Fleet, and also transferred a batch of warships from the Second Fleet to the southward Fleet.

A total of more than 70 warships have been gathered. Although this number is not large, these 70 warships are all more than 300 warships, which are definitely large ships among Chinese sailing ships, and more than half of them are 400 to 700 warships. Such large ships are in Chinese sailing ships. Among them, this era is already the largest ship, and most merchant ships cannot be built so big.

What's more, these ships are all specially built warships. The hull structure is very strong. The bow is wrapped with thick iron sheet for impact, and the bottom of the ship is covered with a layer of copper. The sail area is large and the speed of the ship is fast. In addition, the use of steering wheel mechanism makes the ship easy to operate and flexible. It can be said that there are few rivals at sea.

Not to mention the powerful firepower on these ships. Each ship is equipped with at least ten cannons, mainly twelve-pound cannons to twenty-pound guns. Some large ships are even loaded with 36-pound Caron cannons, and there are often six-pound light guns on the deck. There are almost no pirates who can compete with them.

In addition to these 70 large and medium-sized warships, Yu Xiaotian also transferred a number of light flying fastships to participate in the battle this time.

These light flying-sized fastships are a reduced version of the original flying-sized fast ships. The ship is only loaded with four 12-pound short guns, and the bow is equipped with a 12-pound long cannon that can rotate in all directions. The displacement is only dozens of tons, but the speed of the ship is very fast and the operation is extremely flexible.

Although these small flying fast ships cannot be used as main warships, they can excellently protect these large warships from the siege of enemy ships or fire ships, and can play a very important role in combat.

At this time, Yu Xiaotian had already sent someone to draw a very detailed sea map of the Liangguang coast, marking all the islands and reefs on the charts.

In this southward operation, he led these warships along the coast of Guangdong, pushed them to the south, searched the islands, and ordered all the ships encountered along the way to be suspended for inspection.

This time, he led his troops south, but he obeyed the imperial edict, so he was completely unscrupulous to do these things. No matter how powerful the shipowner behind your ship is, and your hands and eyes are open, as long as you are met, you will immediately order the ship to stop the ship for inspection. Once anyone tries to escape or resist, he will immediately bombard him.

This practice makes the pirates along the coast miserable. Some of them hide the ship in some bays along the coast and go ashore to avoid it, but their ships will soon be found by the ships of sea wolves searching along the coastline, control and check it and ask who the owner of the ship is. If no one claimed it, it will be directly The pirate ship was confiscated.

As for the pirates who fled to the shore, without the ship, they are nothing, which is equivalent to cutting off their feet, so that they have no possibility of entering the sea for a short time.

Some pirates then fled to the distant sea to escape, but it is very dangerous to stay away from the coast at sea in this era. There will be storms and waves on the sea from time to time, and you can't float on the sea all the time! When encountering wind and waves, they have to stay on the shore to avoid. Often, Yu's military sailors are waiting for them at the seaside and come back to catch one by one.

This time, in addition to the navy, Yu Xiaotian also transferred three infantry battalions, and a naval battalion went out with the army. Along the way, he was specially responsible for controlling the islands and incorporating them into the jurisdiction of the sea wolves, so as to prevent them from leaving for a period of time in the future, and the pirates came to treat these islands as them. The landing point.

On the surface, Yu Xiaotian is stepping forward to suppress the pirates, but in fact, it is equivalent to Yu Xiaotian, who directly put all these islands into his pocket.

Of course, not all the islands he chose are stationed. Some of the islands have no fresh water sources, so there is no need to keep people. On islands like this, pirates will not regard them as old nests, and at best, they can only temporarily avoid the wind, so the islands he chose are relatively sufficient. In the land of fresh water, such an island will be garrisoned by him.

In addition to the islands, Yu Xiaotian also ordered his men to take over some places along the coast of Guangdong, such as Wanzi, which are often used as hiding places by pirates, and chose some local squires who colluded with pirates, and directly captured a group of them and ruined their family property.

This time, Xiong Wencan gave Yu Xiaotian great authority to deal with him, giving Yu Xiaotian a lot of power to deal with the affairs of thieves.

So when Yu Xiaotian does these things, it can be said that he has no scruples. As long as he looks at some large gentry, no matter whether you have anything to do with pirates, he catches pirates and directly asks these pirates to make a confession. It's very simple. With these pirates' confessions, he can go to the shore to find local officials. The government asked for assistance in arresting people.

Of course, the government has Xiong Wencan's order, and he dares not say no. He can only let Yu Xiaotian's men arrest these squires of thieves. Under severe torture, they can spit out something if they have nothing to do.

It is impossible for the gentry to have nothing to do with pirates. Many big sea-by-sea pirates are actually pirates, either the owners of pirates, or the worst to have something to do with pirates. Therefore, in a short time, Yu Xiaotian is only on the coast of Chaozhou Prefecture. In the area, dozens of big thieves were arrested.

Some big people are not convinced, refuse to open the door to be bound, and take Zhuang Ding to try to resist, but their behavior is even more directly looking for death. What equipment is Yu Jiajun? They beat them like playing. As long as someone dares to resist, then the Yu family soldiers will be ordered to attack and directly destroy their whole door. The woman will be captured and sent to On Taiwan Island, the male Qingzhuang was also kidnapped and sent to the hard labor camp. The owner killed him on the spot without leaving a living mouth. After that, the criminal tried to resist and was killed on the spot and handed over to the local government for disposal.

So along the way, in Chaozhou Prefecture alone, Yu Xiaotian fished a lot of pots and got more than 100,000 taels of silver from dozens of large thieves. The largest family, his family alone, got more than 40,000 taels of silver from their cellar. In addition to the silver pattern, they also got the minimum price. Hundreds of thousands of silver worth of stolen goods, most of which are real stolen goods. They are the stolen goods that pirates temporarily store in their nest owners' homes, but they really did not wrong them.

So this time Yu Xiaotian led his troops to go south, and the thunderous method used was simply a carnival journey to make a fortune. However, all the things he used were directly shipped away, leaving only some worthless things or his useless things to be disposed of by the local government.

The local government along the coast of Guangdong was quite dissatisfied with this and tried to take out some fat meat from Yu Xiaotian's mouth, but this wealth came into Yu Jiajun's pocket, hoping to take out some, which was simply impossible.

Even Yu Xiaotian's men directly put the land deeds copied by many large families into their pockets, privately stuffed some silver for the local officials, and directly transferred these land deeds to Yu Xiaotian's hands, which became Yu Xiaotian's land property.

In this regard, the officials of the local government did not dare to say no to Yu Xiaotian and could only pinch their noses to recognize him. Only the magistrate of Raoping County, because a large family copied by Yu Jiajun was related to him. He once tried to prevent the Yu family army from attacking Zhuangzi, but the servants sent were directly kidnapped by the Yu family army. Come on, he beat him back to the county and ordered Rao Pingzhi County to hand over the big family hiding in the county.

Rao Pingzhi County resolutely refused to do it and shouted injustice for this big family, but Yu Jiajun came up with a lot of evidence to prove that this guy was the owner of a group of pirates. Even so, Rao Pingzhi County still thought that as a local official, how could he be inferior to a group of big soldiers? Therefore, he resolutely refused to hand over this owner.