Chapter 178: Demolition
After listening to Waite's words, Peter said with a strong spirit: "The Fujian officials of the Ming Dynasty have been waiting for you and the company's fleet to arrive, they have completed the preparations a month ago, and after you come over, they will start to launch an attack on the sea wolf.
Now that you have finally arrived, the official people of the Ming Dynasty have told me that as long as you come, please go to Quanzhou first, escort their fleet and army to Nanri Island, and launch an attack on the sea wolves! ”
Waite was very satisfied when he heard the news, and nodded: "This is the best, we can't stay here for too long, the sooner we solve it, the better, the fleet I brought this time is the maximum force we can use in the East, after I bring these ships, there are no more ships on the Batavian side, so I have to take the fleet back to Batavia as much as possible!"
In this way, you arrange for the people here to supply the fleet as much as possible, and after I take the fleet to rest here for three days, I will immediately set off to lead the fleet to Quanzhou to assist the Ming officials in the conquest of the sea wolves! ”
Peter immediately nodded in agreement, but still reminded Waite: "This group of sea wolves is very powerful, I have already checked, those Spaniards did have a fierce conflict with the sea wolves in a place called Chicken Coop Bay north of Formosa, but they were beaten by the sea wolves and defeated.
Judging from the news brought by Xu Xinsu, these sea wolves can not only build their own ships, but also cast their own artillery, and more importantly, the quality of the artillery they cast is not worse than the artillery we cast, the quality is very good, and the power is also very large, and their number of warships is also very large, so if Your Excellency the commander wants to bring the fleet over, you must be careful. ”
Waite showed a look of disdain and laughed: "I will be careful, although there are such rumors, but I don't believe these rumors, because these Chinese like to exaggerate, their words are never credible, even if the sea wolf can cast its own cannon, but how can it be better than the cannon we cast?"
As for those West Bankers, they are all stupid pigs, and they will be beaten so badly by such Chinese pirates, even if they are ambushed, they should not be beaten so badly, so their commander is a standard incompetent, such a person should only be hanged!
The ships I brought this time are equipped with a lot of cannons, and they should be given a taste of our power before they become respectful to us! Don't worry about that! I'll be careful! ”
Looking at the confident Waite, Peter opened his mouth, but did not continue to speak, but somehow a sense of foreboding arose in his heart.
"Enlighten the master! There's news from the big man that the red-haired man's fleet has finally arrived! As soon as Liu Wang entered the door, he immediately said to Xiaotian.
Yu Xiaotian immediately put down what he was doing, raised his head and asked, "Oh?" They're slow! So what does the message say about being sent back? ”
Liu Wang looked at the note in his hand, looked up and replied: "The red-haired man came to a total of seven boats this time, of different sizes, the largest boat is about 2,000 materials, two boats should be 1,500 boats, and the remaining ones are probably thousands of large ships, this time the red-haired people have made a lot of money!" With so many big ships coming, can we handle it? ”
When Yu Xiaotian heard this, he immediately took the note in Liu Wang's hand.
The note is very small, and it should have been sent back in a bamboo tube on the feet of the carrier pigeon, so the words on it are also very small, and you have to look carefully to distinguish them.
After Yu Xiaotian looked at it, his expression became somewhat solemn, and he nodded and said, "It seems that this is indeed the case, this time the red-haired man has really made a lot of money!" There are so many big ships here, this is to make all efforts to help the government deal with us! ”
A large ship of 2,000 materials, which is about 800 tons, is not the largest gunboat in Europe, but in Asia, this ship is already a huge ship.
The displacement of the rest of the ships is basically between 400 tons and 600 tons, and the strength of such a fleet, looking at the Asian side, is really not covered! It can be said that the Dutch have indeed invested a lot of money this time, and they actually sent more big ships than during the Battle of Penghu!
In this way, if this Dutch fleet joins the official army and naval division, it will indeed be a trouble, but Yu Xiaotian has already made a complete set of meals for the Dutch before this, and now he is waiting for them to come.
"The order goes down, tomorrow the council chamber will be discussed, and all the ministers will be there! It's time for us to do it! Hehe! Although Yu Xiaotian was a little stressed, he didn't feel nervous.
Liu Wang nodded excitedly and immediately agreed, turned around and went out to start arranging and notifying the heads of various places to discuss the meeting hall tomorrow.
When everyone gathered in the wolf's den chamber, Yu Xiaotian also strode out from the back and sat on the big chair in the center.
"See the big boss!" Everyone in the council hall immediately stood up and bowed to Xiaotian and said.
"Okay, don't be polite, let's talk less nonsense and get down to business! The red-haired man's fleet has arrived, and as expected, they will go to Quanzhou in the next few days to join the official army, and this time the official army's attack on us should begin! ”
When everyone heard the news, they were immediately in good spirits, and their faces showed excitement.
"Mr. Lin, tell everyone about the news you have collected recently!" Yu Xiaotian waved his hand to let everyone sit down, and then said to Lin Yiyang.
Lin Yiyang basically took over all the work of intelligence collation during this time, and collected the information collected from various places for analysis and sorting, which shared a lot of workload for Yu Xiaotian, and Yu Xiaotian did not have to bury himself in the huge information, and personally did all kinds of sorting and analysis, and he could basically grasp the specific situation by listening to Lin Yiyang's report directly.
After Lin Yiyang heard it, he didn't talk nonsense, took out a piece of paper, stood up and said to everyone in the council room: "Everyone, after these months of collection, I have sorted out the current situation of the official army!"
This time, Zhu Yifeng, the governor of Fujian, mobilized a total of about 20,000 soldiers and horses, known as 50,000 troops to the outside world, including the land division including Fubiao and Zhenbiao, a total of about 10,000 troops were used, of which about 3,000 were elite, and the rest were some town troops, which was not a cause for concern! However, the amount is still quite large, and I hope you can be careful about this.
This time, the Fujian government basically mobilized the sailors of the entire coastal area of Fujian, and assembled a total of more than 270 ships, of which there were about 140 brigs, and the rest were basically sloops or brigs of less than 200 materials.
As for the Fujian government, this time a total of more than 120 Hongyi cannons of various types were prepared, of which more than 100 were loaded on some large ships, and more than 100 new annihilating cannons were cast, and the land division was equipped with 20 Hongyi cannons, and there were no less than 100 exterminating cannons and tiger squat cannons, which can be described as elite.
At present, the warships of the official army are mainly assembled in Dinghai City in Fuzhou and Yongningwei in Quanzhou, while the land division is assembled in Xinghua Mansion and Fuzhou, and only wait for Zhu Yifeng to give an order, and then start to launch an attack on our Nanri Island.
As for the red-haired man's side, this time there were a total of seven large plywood boats, one of which was 2,000 materials, two 1,500 materials, and four large ships of 1,000 materials.
…… That's basically the case! ”
After listening to Lin Yiyang's report, everyone was nervous and excited, they had been waiting for this day for a long time, in the past three months, each of them did not dare to slack off, and almost every day they had to take their subordinates to carry out endless drills, in order to come to this day.
Now that the red-haired man's fleet has arrived, the attack of the officers and troops is about to begin, and according to their original plan, the navy will immediately leave the port and start an operation.
So everyone felt that adrenaline began to be secreted in large quantities, and they couldn't help but get excited.
"Alright! This is the general situation, if nothing else, within ten days, the officers and soldiers will definitely come, so let's start according to the original plan! Since they want this Nanri Island so much, then let's just give it to them!
I command! ”
Yu Xiaotian stood up and said when Lin Yiyang finished reporting on the situation of the officials and the Dutch.
When Yu Xiaotian said my order, everyone in the hall immediately stood up with a hula, and everyone showed eagerness, staring at Yu Xiaotian with wide eyes.
"From now on, all workshops on the island will be shut down, and all facilities that can be dismantled will be dismantled and loaded on ships and transported out of Nanri Island.
Among them, the gun, gun tooling and various materials are temporarily transferred to Donghai Village! After this battle, we will choose the site to rebuild!
Those who are willing to go to Tamsui will be transported to Tamsui, and those who are unwilling to go and want to stay on Nanri Island will be transported to Treasure Island for resettlement for the time being.
If you really don't want to leave the island, you must also go into the mountains to hide, as for the village, it is still the old way, the walls are clear, and there is no useful thing left for the officers and soldiers!
From now on, all the tools were temporarily transported into the mountains and hidden, or buried in a certain place, the dock door was removed, and all the unused timber was buried on the spot.
All the dependents in the village have been transferred to Tamsui City for resettlement, and they have already prepared a place to live there, so they will not suffer!
All transshipments were handled by the merchant fleet, with the Third Fleet escorting and assisting in the transfer of supplies.
The First and Second Fleets all went to anchor in the vicinity of Wuqiu Island.
The first battalion of the army was led by Li Dazui to stay on Nanri Island and go into the mountains to hide and stand by, the second battalion was led by Meng Fei and went to Wuqiuyu with the first and second fleets to stand by, the third battalion and one company went to Treasure Island to garrison, and the second and third companies went to Donghai Village to stand by!
The engineer company began to demolish the wolf's lair wall from now on, and all the artillery forts were blown up, and as for the houses and warehouses, except for a small number left, the rest that could be demolished were demolished on the spot, and those that were too late to be demolished were set on fire! ……”
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