Chapter Ninety-Six: Attacking the Pirates (6)
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Nanri Island, whose real name is Nanhi Mountain, is named because the mountain is hidden in the sea. It is located in Pu, Fujian Province. It is in the southeast of Tian City and adjacent to Fu in the north. Qingshi's Wild Horse Island, northeast is flat. Tangyu in Tan County, east of Xinghua Bay, is at the intersection of Pinghai Bay and Xinghua Bay. In addition, Nanri Island has excellent mountains and seas, rich resources, and the coastline is more than 100 miles long, and there are twenty or thirty natural shelters. The island's granite reserves are abundant, more than 200 million cubic meters, so the houses on the island are mostly made of stone, which is extremely strong.
Nanri Island is very large, the third largest island off the coast of Fujian, about half the area of Kinmen Island, with an area of several dozen square kilometers. Originally, Nanri Island was under the jurisdiction of Xinghua Prefecture in Fujian, and it was also the largest island off the coast of Xinghua Prefecture, and it was an important place to control the north-south sea passage of Fujian. However, years of maritime ban policies have failed to take such an important island seriously, so that it has become a nest of pirates and finally controlled by sea sharks.
According to the record of "Nanri Island Chronicles", in the early years of Hongwu in the former Ming Dynasty, the pirates "took the ** Fan Kou to leave the place", the pirates and pirates colluded with the pirates, and the danger was very fierce, in order to defend against the pirates and the Japanese invaders, the Ming court originally set up a Nanyin Mountain Village here, and Ping Haiwei also sent thousands of troops here. However, later, on the grounds that it was not easy to support on the lonely sea, he removed the Nanyin Mountain Water Village, moved back to the mainland, and entered the stone city, which was only separated by a water from Nanri Island, and at the same time, the Shuizhai garrison was also merged into the Qingshan Inspection Division. Since then, Nanri Island has become a place of inactivity, and has been controlled by pirates and pirates for hundreds of years.
During the period of Emperor Jiajing, Qi Jiguang led the army to resist the Japanese, and the Japanese invaded and retreated, so many islands along the coast were vacated again. In the early years of Chongzhen, the sea shark occupied this place and became the overlord of the land in this area. The sphere of influence of sea sharks is very wide, a large area of sea in the north up to Wenling, Zhejiang Province is their activity territory, and the south is a little less, because the more pirate gangs go to the sea, the range of activities will end in Quanzhou. He didn't dare to go to the area of Zhangzhou Yuegang, which has always been the Zheng family's sphere of influence, and pirates from all walks of life have deliberately let this place out, which is also an important reason why Yuegang can still develop until now.
The power of pirates is so great, and the government has not been inactive. In the former Ming Dynasty, the government also sent troops to try to suppress it, but the naval division guard with weak armament was not the opponent of these outlaw pirates, but it was defeated by the sea shark, and the government did not dare to report the defeat, so the matter was settled. As long as the sea sharks don't come ashore often to make trouble, the government will turn a blind eye to them and don't care about him anymore. Later, the Qing soldiers entered the customs, received the sailors of the former Ming Dynasty, and joined forces with the Dutch to fight a few fights with Zheng Jing, and they didn't have time to take care of these pirates. The sailors in various places were integrated by the Qing court, and although the number increased, they were still scrap wood, and they were finally defeated by Zheng Jing. After the defeat of the Qing army, the remaining sailors were basically transferred to the Yangtze River, and no one cared about the sea.
The experience of defeating the sailors in the early years of the sea sharks suddenly made them the bosses of the surrounding pirate gangs, and many small groups of pirates came to vote, so they slowly developed and grew, faintly claiming to be the overlord of this area. In recent years, sea sharks have no longer cared about the sailors of the Qing court, and have repeatedly gone ashore to harass coastal villages, and often hijacked ships, causing huge losses to the coastal people.
However, the leader of the sea shark did a good job, and that was to implement the saying "rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest" very well. In addition to the pirates and some relatives of the pirates, most of the others on Nanri Island are the original inhabitants of the island. At present, the total population of the whole island is 6,000 or 7,000, of which more than 4,000 are farmers and fishermen on the island. The sea sharks did not make a fortune on the island, and the harvest of farming and fishing was to be given to the pirates for the pirates to eat. The islanders have clothes and meat to eat, and their lives are better than those on the mainland!
The fishermen who specialize in fishing on the island have gathered into three small fishing villages, and the fishermen of these two fishing villages, according to the information found, usually fish near Nanri Island, and while fishing, they will act as sentry boats for the pirates on the island, and the boats are always equipped with some rags, and when a large number of officers and soldiers or the enemy attack, they will quickly set fire to these and call the police on the island. If they can warn them in time, even if the fishing boat burns down, the returning pirates will send them a new fishing boat, along with a large bounty of silver.
These fishermen are also good sailors, and sometimes they are also used as temporary minions on pirate ships when something happens. After defeating the enemy, you can also get a little reward. Therefore, the fishermen in the three fishing villages on the island live a life of both people and thieves, and they usually do not have to go to sea to plunder, there is no danger to their lives, and their lives are quite nourishing.
No, when it was about five kilometers away from Nanri Island, it was discovered by a fishing boat, and when this fishing boat saw such a large fleet, it immediately sailed to Nanri Island, and at the same time immediately set fire to the things on board to warn.
"Lao Wang, it's obviously a fishing boat, it seems that it was still casting a net just now, and when he saw us, he immediately turned around and ran, and there was a wolf smoke warning! It seems that it should be a pirate sentinel ship! Now that he is very close to Nanri Island, Geng Jingzhong picked up the telescope from time to time to look into the distance, and asked Wang Zhenbang after seeing the fishing boat in the distance turn around and run.
"Yes, Shizi. We also need to speed up and not let the pirates be guarded. After saying this, he shouted to the upper bucket on the mast: "Order all ships to move forward at full speed, and at the same time the artillery is ready." Shangdou immediately passed the order to the guò flag. In fact, when the order was given just now, the soldiers were almost ready, but they did not open the gun door on the side of the ship.
Nanri Island is already in sight, you can see the village on the island in the telescope, but the scale of this village in the sight is not large, look at that way, the area is estimated to be 100 acres, there are more than 100 families living in it, and most of them are low houses. The big village of sea sharks is located next to the Jiangzui Kou Bay in the northwest corner, with its back against a high ground and facing a bay.
The scale of the sea shark village is not small, and the outer wall alone is 100 meters long, and the area inside will definitely not be small. The walled wall here is also well built, and the height of the walled wall is basically the same as that of the general county seat, reaching five meters high. I remember that when Fujian cracked down on bandits at the beginning of last year, many bandit cottages also built walled walls, but those walled walls were all wooden walls, although they were strong, they were not fire-resistant. The wall seen in the telescope is actually made of stone, and the defense capacity is considerable. If there were no firearms, it would be difficult to capture them with only broadswords and spears. This is also the reason why when the government came to attack, not only was it not able to defeat his stockade, but it was defeated by his men.
In addition to Dazhai, there are some small villages scattered in other places, some of which are gathering areas for pirate tribes, and they basically surround the vicinity of Dazhai. There are many more small villages built by the island's residents, and there are basically no walls.
"Wolf smoke is burning in the stockade opposite!" Wang Zhenbang and other commanders all saw this scene through binoculars. The opposite village was probably inhabited by the people of the island, but at this time, wolf smoke was lit to warn the pirate village.
"Speed up, the 'Yuan' and 'Fu' detachments are approaching the pirate village with me!" The Xi's detachment went east, went around to the back of Nanri Island, and attacked on both sides, while preventing the bandits from escaping in a small boat! Wang Zhenbang judged the form and immediately gave an order.
And at this moment, on Nanri Island, a hurried bell rang:
"Dangdang!"
"Dangdang!"
"Dangdang!"
Such a rapid bell has not been sounded for ten years, which means that a great enemy is coming. The first time such a bell rang was thirty years ago, when the officials and soldiers of the former Ming Dynasty came to suppress it, and only a few remaining old people on the island still remembered. The second time was when the pirate group of the "White Dragon King", which was active in the waters of Fujian ten years ago, came in to attack, but was later swallowed by them.
This time, the bell rang again, and the whole island went into action. Now the pirates on the island knew that it was the official army that had come to kill them, but they were not afraid. In their impression, the sailors of the official army are synonymous with waste materials, and they don't dare to fight hard at all. Since the information sent back by the fishermen was very limited, they only knew that it was a big ship, a very big ship, but they could not say why, and besides, the warships of the officers and sailors were originally larger than their ships. The pirates don't have a few binoculars in their hands, and the only few monoculars are still in the hands of a few leaders, otherwise the pirates on the guard towers on the shore can report the details of the officers and soldiers in time. By the time the pirates saw the details of the intruding officers and soldiers, it was already too late!
The sea shark's Dazhai is close to the wharf to the west, the open area in the middle is very narrow, the distance from the wharf to Dazhai is only about 150 meters, along Dazhai and the coast, in Niujiaoyu Mountain and Neiyu Tsai and relying on the wall of Dazhai have been built several forts, these forts are arranged in the 12-pounder short cannon and 12-pounder long cannon, each fort has less than three cannon doors, and more than 5 guns. The cannon can be fired from the guò cannon door, and the three-sided forts directly cover the entire bay of more than a kilometer between Niujiaoyu and Neiyuzai, building a fairly good firepower network.
By this time, the pirates had entered the various batteries, the cannons had been loaded, and the muzzles were pointed at the bay. The walls of Dazhai are also full of people, wielding knives and guns, preparing equipment to defend the city. Most of the pirates had boarded the ship, and the sails had begun to leave the docks.
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