Chapter 230: Quanzhou Bay
However, the infantry of the sea wolves did not immediately attack, and lined up outside the city from afar, watching the artillery bombard Tong'an County.
In Tong'an County, there was also a mess at this time, with cannonballs crossing the city walls from time to time and falling into the city, and houses were pierced through the roofs by cannonballs in the roar, and even some houses collapsed.
In Tong'an County, chickens and dogs jumped, and the people hid in their homes and did not dare to go out, and a group of young and strong people were driven to the city wall to transport rolling wood and stones to the city wall.
Occasionally, a cannon would sound on the city wall, which was a limited number of cannons arranged in Tong'an County, returning fire at the Sea Wolf artillery positions outside the city.
Unfortunately, their range was limited, and the shells were basically smashed into the open space, which did not pose any threat to the artillery positions of the sea wolves, but only wasted gunpowder shells in vain, and exposed their location.
Two of the cannons were accurately knocked out by the sea wolf's cannon before noon, and the remaining one did not dare to fire again, so it was dumbfounded.
Li Dazui was ordered to besiege Tong'an County, but he knew very well that his troops were not sufficient, and if he wanted to capture Tong'an County, it would be difficult to do it without enough artillery support.
Therefore, Li Dazui was not in a hurry to attack the city, but only shelled Tong'an County, even so, the shelling of the sea wolf still hit the morale of the defenders in the city hard.
The magistrate of Tong'an County received news from Cai Shanji many days earlier, saying that an army of 4,000 officers and troops was rushing towards Tong'an County, asking them to hold on to the county seat and wait for help.
This undoubtedly gave the defenders in Tong'an County a shot in the arm, if such a 4,000 officers and soldiers came at this time, then they didn't have to worry, even if they couldn't beat the tiger and wolf division of the sea wolf, but at least there should be no big problem in defending the city, so they all worked hard and waited for reinforcements to arrive.
But left and right, did not see the reinforcements coming, but the sea wolf's men and horses waited, the sea wolf's army swept around the territory of Tong'an County, and after pulling out several famous local villages in a row, it finally arrived under the city of Tong'an County.
After the infantry of the sea wolf arrived in Tong'an County, they quickly blocked the three city walls in the southeast and north, but all the people who came out of these three city walls were all killed, and only the west side of the net was opened, which allowed a small number of people in Tong'an County to enter and exit, but still did not allow a large number of people to flee from the county seat.
As soon as the sea wolf's soldiers and horses arrived, there was a sudden chaos in Tong'an County, and for a while, there were chickens and dogs jumping in the city, and everyone was confused.
So the magistrate sent people out of the city and rushed to Quanzhou City to ask for help, and also sent people out of the city to ask for help on the way to the reinforcements, and wanted to ask the officers and soldiers from Yanping Mansion to speed up the rush to Tong'an County.
However, most of the people who were sent out were soon killed under the city, only Simon seemed to be fine when he went out, and those who were killed were carried under the city by the sea wolves at dawn, and only those who went out at night by Simon were not carried back.
Some of the rich people in the city saw that things were not good, and they no longer dared to stay in the city, and when they heard that the west gate could be gone, they rushed to the west gate and clamored to open the city gate and let them out.
At this time, Tong'an Zhi County did not dare to open the city gate lightly, so the entire west gate was crowded inside, and many people wanted to leave, but they were blocked by the defenders in the city gate, and the shouts asking to open the door came and went, and the chaos was out of control.
And Li Dazui led his troops outside the city and began to fire artillery into the city, which further aggravated the chaos in the city.
As for the officers and soldiers who defended the city and helped the people to fight the people, they were even more frightened and at a loss, and many people ran down the city wall to avoid the artillery, even if they barely stayed on the city wall, they were all trembling and lying behind the battlements, and they didn't even dare to show their heads.
There were a very few small officers running back and forth on the city wall, looking a little arrogant, but these few people were soon inexplicably beaten up by the city, and they were overturned on the city wall, either shot in the chest, or their heads bloomed, but they couldn't see the figures of the sea wolf tribe under the city wall, and only saw a far away place from the city wall, and from time to time there would be a cloud of gunsmoke.
This small cloud of gunpowder did not arouse the minds of the people in the city, because no one believed that any bird could kill people so far away.
Several snipers were sent by Li Dazui to the outside of each city wall, and they chose their own locations to ambush, specifically staring at some guys who dared to take the lead on the city wall, and sniping them.
Of course, these snipers use wolf's tooth rifles with good accuracy, and after rigorous training, they can basically ensure effective hits within 200 meters, and some people can even reach about 300 meters and kill targets.
Therefore, their existence aggravated the panic of the people in the city, and scared those defenders even more afraid to rise on the city wall, the huge city wall of Tong'an County, after the sea wolf soldiers arrived in Tong'an County, it didn't take long for it to become empty, and everyone was afraid to lie under the female wall of the city wall, and they didn't even dare to come out.
The chaos in Tong'an County, for Quanzhou, is nothing at all, because Quanzhou City is more chaotic than Tong'an County at this time.
Quanzhou City is located on the north bank of the Jinjiang River, is an ancient city near the river and the sea, since ancient times are the place of going to the sea to do business, although now the Ming Dynasty forbids the sea, only the opening of the moon port as a commercial port through the sea, but the area of Quanzhou City is still a forest of wharves, all kinds of sea ships gather place, the government is also blind to this, because many officials also want to profit from it.
Therefore, throughout the Ming Dynasty, Quanzhou was nominally forbidden to pass through the sea, but in fact it has never stopped the business of sea trade.
Recently, the coastal areas of Fujian have been unstable, because the government has provoked Yu Xiaotian, a big man, and caused the sea wolves to use troops along the coast of Fujian, and the government has also sealed ships in various places, so that many merchant ships can only avoid entering the port wharf at this time, waiting for the opportunity to continue to go to sea to trade.
The banks of the Jinjiang River outside Quanzhou City were also full of all kinds of sea vessels, and the maritime merchants waited for the situation to calm down, so that they could go to sea and continue to do their business.
But waiting and waiting, they did not wait for the situation to calm down, but waited for a fleet of sea wolves, just when Cai Shan was waiting for the officials and troops of Yanping Mansion to arrive in Tong'an County, a fleet of sea wolves sailed into Quanzhou Bay.
When some of the limited official ships in Quanzhou City saw the fleet of sea wolves on the sea, they were immediately frightened and turned around and fled into the Jinjiang River, and some of the ships even fled directly into the inland sea of the Luoyang River.
The whole city of Quanzhou was immediately shaken, and the defenders hurriedly boarded the city to defend it, especially the partridge mouth of the mouth of the Jinjiang River, which is the alarm signal in unison, in this place, there is a partridge mouth platform, that is, a fort, guarding the mouth of the Jinjiang River.
Speaking of which, this partridge mouth platform has not yet been built, just a temporary battery, when the sea wolf's fleet arrived, this is still a construction site, there are hundreds of people and officers and soldiers, busy construction here, the prototype of the entire battery has not yet appeared.
And this fort was also recently decided to start construction by Cai Shanji, because he saw the growing power of the sea wolves along the coast of Fujian, and Quanzhou City is within the Jinjiang estuary, very close to the Jinjiang River, and the south gate, that is, Deji Gate, is only less than 300 steps away from the river, which is easy to be invaded by pirates.
In the past, when there was no Hongyi cannon, it was better to say something, even if it was a heavy artillery like Dafaxi, it might not be able to bombard the city, but with the emergence of the Hongyi cannon now, Cai Shanji and many Quanzhou officials found that the Hongyi cannon had a long range, as long as the enemy ship sailed into the Jinjiang River and reached the river outside the Deji Gate, the cannonballs could easily be fired into the city of Quanzhou.
Therefore, Cai Shanji hurriedly presided over the construction of a strong fort at the Partridge Mouth at the mouth of the Jinjiang River to shield the mouth of the Jinjiang River and prevent the enemy ships from sailing into the Jinjiang River, so as to easily shell Quanzhou City.
But now they had just begun to build the Partridge Mouth Fort, and the foundation of the entire fort had not yet been laid, and the fleet of the sea wolves sailed into Quanzhou Bay.
Although most of the Fujian sailors have now been defeated by the sea wolves, there are still more than a dozen slightly larger warships in Quanzhou Bay, but these warships did not dare to go out of Quanzhou Bay lightly after the sea wolves took control of the sea, and even when the sea wolf's fleet was shelling 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 at the wharf of Chongwusu on the north shore of Quanzhou Bay.
The first stop of the sea wolf's fleet was led by Liu Yidao, and he arrived at Chongwusu, originally he planned to teach a lesson to the only few remaining officers and soldiers here, but when he arrived at Chongwusu with the fleet, he did not see the official warships go to sea to fight.
So he had to lead the fleet to Chongwusho, and when he arrived at the place, he saw that the warships of these officers and soldiers, one by one, were honestly moored in the area of the pier, and even from the telescope, no one on board could be seen.
However, the city gate of Chongwu City was closed at this time, and it was enough to hold its head and wait to be beaten.
Liu Yidao laughed on the New Sea Wolf at that time, pointed to Chongwu City and scolded with a smile, laughing at the officers and soldiers were really cowardly, and even the courage to go to sea to fight was completely gone, so he ordered the fleet to go straight to the shore, and personally led two Western-style gunboats, plus a deeply transformed Dafu ship gunboat, and hit Chongwu City is a fierce shelling.
Half a month ago, they were shelled by a fleet of sea wolves in the city, killing and wounding more than 100 defenders in the city, and also destroyed the city gatehouse, and the female wall of the battlement on the city wall collapsed a lot.
These days, the defenders of the city are still busy repairing the damaged city walls, and the ruins of the collapsed gate tower have not yet been cleared, and the sea wolf fleet has actually come to visit again.
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