is the so-called wealth is moving, not to mention those maritime businessmen who originally relied on smuggling to make money and were cut off by Guo Zhiyuan, they can't wait to eat Guo Zhiyuan's flesh and suck Guo Zhiyuan's blood, but those maritime merchants who have invested in Guo Zhiyuan's East China India Maritime Trade Company and made money with Guo Zhiyuan are also unbalanced, because they know that Guo Zhiyuan earns much more than them, people's hearts are like this, they will never be satisfied, why do you Guo Zhiyuan want to make a lot of money?

Therefore, under the spread of well-intentioned people, the news that Guo Zhiyuan made a lot of money through sea trade spread, which made those maritime merchants who were cut off by Guo Zhiyuan hate him even more. Of course, no matter how much they hate Guo Zhiyuan, they don't dare to do it directly against Guo Zhiyuan, after all, Guo Zhiyuan is an official of the imperial court, and the opening of the sea ban and sea trade in Dongfan Mansion are also authorized by Emperor Wanli, no matter how red they are, they can only stare dryly.

So they came up with a plan to borrow a knife to kill people, and the knife they borrowed was --- Wokou! It is almost a semi-open secret in Fujian that the Fujian maritime merchants and the Japanese invaders secretly communicate with each other, and it is also a common trick for the maritime merchants to use the Japanese to cut off the opponents who are not on the right track.

And the Japanese pirates are also very angry with Guo Zhiyuan, because Guo Zhiyuan's integration of the maritime trade fleet and the crackdown on smuggling have greatly hindered their looting activities, and they have not opened their doors for several months.

So these two groups hit it off and decided to give Guo Zhiyuan a little color, and those Fujian maritime merchants would provide information, so that the would-be robbers could find an opportunity to carry out a surprise attack and retaliation against Dongfan!

Of course, the Japanese still have some scruples, after all, Guo Zhiyuan's strength should not be underestimated, and more than 20,000 rebels of Zhao Bingjian were all wiped out by him, which also included a genuine Japanese army led by Taro Tanaka, not to mention that Guo Zhiyuan and the famous Shen Yourong helped.

Therefore, the Japanese chose the opportunity for Shen Yourong to go out to cruise with his subordinates, and raided the relatively weak guards, because Guo Zhiyuan is now focusing on the development of Beigang and Keelung, so he neglected the captains a little, and only let Sun Zhiyong take a thousand Zixin Army to be responsible for the garrison of the officers.

Although Sun Zhiyong is very valued by Guo Zhiyuan and has great potential, he is very young after all, and it is the first time to take on the burden of being alone, and this time the Japanese are also prepared, uniting more than a dozen pirate forces around them, dispatching hundreds of pirate ships, and nearly 10,000 pirates are coming with great momentum, so they were caught off guard at first.

Fortunately, there is also Chen Di, a veteran, Chen Di followed Qi Jiguang to fight in the south and the north, and he has seen a big scene, although the Japanese are menacing, and the strength is also in absolute advantage, he did not panic, but calmly responded, and immediately made a deployment, let Sun Zhiyong lead the new army to the top first, and he went to mobilize the new immigrants to fight against the invading enemy!

Sun Zhiyong also quickly calmed down under Chen Di's infection, and played an excellent on-the-spot command ability, in the face of the enemy who occupied an absolute advantage in troops, he did not recklessly lead the new army directly to rush up to the hard, but first shrank the defensive line, put the enemy in first, and used the construction site that was still under construction as a cover, giving full play to the advantages of the new army being good at formation operations, and finally led a thousand new troops to withstand the fierce offensive of 10,000 vicious pirates!

It was the first time for the newcomers to experience such a thing, and the fear was certain, but during this time they had developed a strong sense of identity with Dongfan and regarded this place as their new home, especially after seeing the soldiers of the New Army fall one after another in a bloody battle to protect them, anger overcame the fear in their hearts, picked up all the tools they could defend themselves and rushed up to fight to the death with the pirates!

The pirates and pirates did not expect to encounter such stubborn resistance, in their previous experience of plundering, under normal circumstances, the opponent would quickly collapse, especially the pirates, who often sent a few hundred men to fight thousands of officers and soldiers in the desert, and now even those ordinary people who usually seemed to them as weak as sheep dared to rush up and fight them with simple tools such as flat poles and shovels, which made them very uncomfortable for those who were used to fighting with the wind.

In the end, under the stubborn resistance of the heroic self-new army and the new immigrants, the pirates were repulsed, but they also paid a heavy price, a thousand self-new troops were almost disabled, the attrition exceeded 50 percent, and the rest of the people were basically wounded, and the new immigrants also suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and at the same time, more than a dozen ships and goods moored at the dock were also robbed by the pirates, and the pirates also set a fire to the unfinished city construction site when they left, so that the fruits of the hard work of the soldiers and civilians for several months were burned!

When the news reached Beigang, it immediately aroused great indignation among the soldiers and civilians of Dongfan, since the soldiers of the New Army and the regimental training army have asked for battle, to let the Japanese and pirates pay for their blood debts, Guo Zhiyuan is naturally very angry, although he already knew that it would not be easy for him to gain a firm foothold in Dongfan, and it would inevitably attract the covetousness of foreign forces, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly!

But anger is anger, Guo Zhiyuan knows very well that he has no ability to launch a sea pursuit war at present, if it is a land battle, Guo Zhiyuan is confident that with the strength of the new army and the regimental training army, he will be able to inflict heavy losses on the Japanese invaders, but if it is a sea battle, his shortcomings will be revealed.

Because Guo Zhiyuan does not have enough warships at all, in order to form a maritime trade fleet, Guo Zhiyuan has already scraped together dozens of seagoing ships by purchasing second-hand seagoing ships for modification and leasing, but the combat power of this kind of armed merchant ships equipped with artillery cannot be compared with real warships, and the speed cannot keep up at all.

And it is not for nothing that the Wakos are able to run amok on the seas, they are far more familiar with the sea than they are, and their ships are specially modified, and they are fast and fleeting, and it is difficult to find their lair.

According to the news from the minister's side, there are many Japanese pirates and pirates who came this time, with hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of people, indicating that the Japanese pirates and pirates in the nearby waters have united, which is very bad news, because even if Shen Yourong's sailors are counted, with Guo Zhiyuan's current strength, he is not sure that he can annihilate such a huge alliance of pirates and pirates at sea in one fell swoop!

What's more, the cunning Japanese Bandits will never fight with Guo Zhiyuan head-on at sea, they prefer to engage in surprise attacks and sneak attacks, so that Guo Zhiyuan will be passive, as the so-called only a thousand days to be a thief and no thousand days to prevent thieves, Guo Zhiyuan has to take into account Beigang, Keelung, and Dayuan, so he has to disperse his forces, so it will be difficult to prevent the raid of the Japanese Invaders!