So Tong'an Zhixian panicked, and while ordering people to hurry outside the city to convene the township brave regiments of various townships and villages to practice into the city to assist in defense, he ordered the garrison in the city to quickly strengthen the defense, and at the same time sent people to Quanzhou Mansion to ask for help at night.

Although Tong'an County is a county seat, the number of garrisons is not as large as Gaopu City, and there are only more than 300 officers and soldiers stationed in the entire Tong'an County, even if you add the errand soldiers of Tong'an County, there are only dozens of people who can be put together, and there are only dozens of archers in total, and it is almost impossible to hold Tong'an County.

Even if they recruit the regimental training and township warriors from the surrounding townships into the city to assist in defense, they will not be able to muster many manpower, because the regimental training and township warriors of these townships are usually raised by wealthy and large households, and they are mainly responsible for protecting the village forts of each township and carrying out joint defense between the townships and villages.

Now that the sea wolves are attacking on a large scale, these squires are too busy to take care of themselves, they have a little manpower, and they have to keep their own walled forts, where are they willing to send the regimental training villagers in their hands to the county town to help defend it!

Therefore, even if Tong'an Zhi County sends someone to convene, these squires will only disobey the yang and the yin, and the strong ones will simply ignore it, even if it is for the sake of face and send some villagers to the county to assist in the defense, they will only send some old and weak, and they will only belong to the soy sauce and white rice in the city.

Therefore, after learning the news of the fall of Gaopu City, the officials and gentry in the entire Tong'an County immediately panicked, and some rich gentry simply took their families and relatives as soon as it was dawn, flocked out of Tong'an County, and fled to Quanzhou Mansion for a while.

Even if they didn't escape, they were at a loss for what to do, and they ran to find the magistrate and asked the magistrate to get an idea of what to do.

And this magistrate is already scared of the six souls at this time, where else can he come up with any ideas! So everyone got together to discuss, and finally came up with an idea, that is, let the rich people in the city pay for it, recruit the young and strong people in the city to defend the city, and the house slaves of the gentry families were also taken out and sent to the city to assist in the defense, and first solve the problem of manpower.

In addition, the rich families and merchants had to contribute some money to use as bounties and salaries, first to give some silver to the three hundred defenders and servants in the city to mobilize their morale, and then offer another reward, kill a thief of a sea wolf, reward five taels of silver, so as to stimulate the officers and soldiers in the city and the villagers to boost their morale and defend the county.

In this way, he scraped together a thousand people, which was considered to be the first to guard the city wall for the time being, and the county magistrate assigned it, he personally guarded the east gate, and the inspection in the city sat at the west gate, and the south gate was responsible for the county Cheng, and the north gate invited a famous gentry in the city to sit down.

In this way, the situation in the county town was stabilized first, and there were some more patrols on the city wall, which made people feel a little more relieved.

But even so, they still have no bottom in their hearts, because they all know that Gaopu City is garrisoned by two thousand defenders, but under the attack of the sea wolf, they have not been able to hold out for even two days, so they have been defeated, and the rabble of more than a thousand people they have cobbled together with the county town of An, can they do better than Gaopu City?

Therefore, the only thing they hope for is that the Quanzhou government can quickly send a large number of reinforcements to Tong'an County to assist in the defense, so that they can probably hold the county seat.

Sure enough, on the third day after the sea wolf conquered Gaopu City, it began to appear around Tong'an County, and there are two rivers outside Tong'an County, Dongxi and Xixi, and Tong'an County is at the angle of the confluence of the two rivers.

If the sea wolf comes from the sea, no matter which direction, it must cross the river in order to force into the city of Tong'an County, if the number of officers and soldiers is relatively sufficient, the combat effectiveness is relatively strong, you can set up a defense along the river outside the city, and block the soldiers and horses of the sea wolf on the other side of the river, so that the people and horses of the sea wolf can not threaten the county seat of Tong'an.

Even if the sea wolf wants to sail the fleet into Xixi, it can't be, because the water depth of Xixi is limited, and only small boats can go, and large ships can't sail into Xixi, so the sea wolf can only attack Tong'an County from land.

In terms of this terrain, it is very advantageous to the defense of Tong'an County, but it is a pity that Tong'an County does not have enough troops to send the city to block the sea wolf's men and horses.

And the sea wolf did not seem to be in a hurry to attack Tong'an County, and after they took Gaopu City, they first transported the main infantry to the Xixi River estuary to land, and launched a sweep around Tong'an County.

Yu Xiaotian made up his mind to eat Weitou Bay and use Weitou Bay as his distribution center for maritime trade in the future, but if he wants to gain a foothold in this area, the local forces in this area will likely cause him a lot of trouble in the future, so in this case, it is better to take advantage of the current situation to clean up these local forces, so after the sea wolf's army landed at the mouth of the Xixi River, he began to sweep this area.

The geographical location of Tong'an County is very suitable for sea trade, and it is adjacent to the Moon Port, which has benefited a lot over the years, and the local rich people do more sea trade, and many people have made a fortune, don't look at Tong'an County is not big, but there are quite a lot of rich people here.

After some large families have money, they buy a large amount of land outside the city, and then build their forts to protect themselves, so the population in the area of Tong'an County is quite dense, and the forts are next to each other.

Among these walled forts, there are many walled forts have regimental training and township brave protection, the local armed forces are very strong, and pirates have repeatedly violated Yuegang, but they generally can't get much bargain here, because these villages in the Tong'an area are jointly protected and defended, and if there is something in one village, the adjacent villages will send people to support, so that it is difficult for small groups of pirates to achieve much success in this area.

But this time the sea wolves are not a small group of pirates, their strength is absolutely unattainable by ordinary pirates, especially the ability to attack fortifications, let alone ordinary pirates.

Moreover, the Seawolf Army's activities in the area of Tong'an County this time, although the ammunition and materials need to be transported by the Navy from Tamsui City, the food supply still has to be solved on the spot.

Before attacking Tong'an County, Li Dazui and Meng Fei both believed that it was necessary to first uproot some large villages around Tong'an County, carry out food supply on the spot, and by the way, also destroy some large local households, and in the future, these large households in the province would gang up to fight against the sea wolves.

So according to the confession of the local leading party, they chose seven large villages from the local area as their targets, and these seven large villages were the residences of some wealthy local gentry.

Moreover, these seven squires are also known as notorious in the local area, relying on their wealth and power, they usually do a lot of evil in the local area, even the government has no way to take them.

As long as they are defeated, it is equivalent to basically sweeping away the local forces around Tong'an County, and as for the other smaller villages, they are simply unable to unite and fight against the sea wolves.

When the local villages saw the sea wolf's army appear majestically outside their village fort, they were all frightened and silent, and they couldn't have the slightest idea of making enemies with them.

As soon as many village forts saw the sea wolf's soldiers and horses, they hurriedly organized pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks in the village, and also prepared drinks and dozens of hundreds of taels of silver, and hurriedly sent them out of the village fort and placed them outside the village to give to the sea wolf.

In this regard, Li Dazui and they were not polite, and they all took it into their pockets, but for this kind of harvest, they did not dare to collect it lightly, and all of them were registered in the register by the council members who accompanied the army, and they could be directly used and allocated to the army on the spot, such as silver taels and wine, or extra pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, etc., were sent back to the Zhongzuo Institute by small boat, and they were put into storage for unified processing.

In addition, the sea wolf sent personnel to the outside of the villages to shout, ordering them to provide a certain amount of silver to the sea wolf every year in the future, in fact, it is to collect protection money and pay it on time, and the sea wolf will not attack them in the future and protect their vested interests, in fact, the local area will be included in the management of the sea wolf in the future, forming the sea wolf's sphere of influence.

These villages naturally did not dare not agree, and said again and again that there was no problem, after all, the requirements put forward by the sea wolf were not too harsh, and each village generally paid one hundred and eighty taels of silver per year, and the most was to pay a few hundred taels of silver.

In addition, the people in these villages also secretly have their own little abacus, they think that although the sea wolf makes such a request, they may not have to pay it every year, because now the sea wolf is arrogant, but once the official army comes, the sea wolf can still be entrenched in this area for a lifetime?

As long as the official army arrives, these sea wolves will have to leave sooner or later, as soon as they leave, the money will naturally not have to be handed over, and now they will promise to come down first, and there will be no loss, if the sea wolves do not leave, then it will be handed over at that time.

In addition, after the sea wolf went ashore, he asked some village forts to send some people for them to call for them to help the sea wolf transport supplies, and the villages did not dare not agree to this request, so they took out some of the young people in the village and sent them to help the sea wolf.

Such a request is also not excessive, after the pirates landed, not to burn and rob, it is already good, now the sea wolf just asks them to do some labor, it is really not a big deal, anyway, in each village, there are some foreign households, these foreign households have no foundation in the village, and there are no relatives, naturally they can be abandoned, so whether they want to or not, they can only be sent out by the villages to the sea wolf as labor.

But after these people were sent to the sea wolf, they found that things were not as bad as they thought, although the sea wolf was nominally a pirate, but he did things very well, and it was not bad for them, they were given enough food, they didn't want to bring their own food, and they were given dozens of big money every day as a reward for them.

(Wow!) Thank you for the reward of the sharp-edged brother, and by the way, I also want to thank the old brother Hu Lulu for the reward! I take your support to heart, and I won't say anything, and I will continue to update two chapters a day next month! Never break your word! ）