Chapter 264: Unidentified Ships
The news of the sea wolf's defeat of Chu Cailao quickly spread throughout Fujian and even further along the coast, and people who were familiar with Chu Cailao were all sideways and surprised.
Because almost no one living in the coastal area does not know the notoriety of Chu Cailao, many fishermen along the coast even often use Chu Cailao's name to scare disobedient children, saying that if they are disobedient again, Chu Cailao will come to arrest them, which shows how big Chu Cailao's notoriety is.
But I didn't expect that this old Chu Cai would still have a time when he was deflated, and even the government had no way to take this guy, but today he was planted in the hands of a not very well-known peer.
As a result, this incident suddenly set off an uproar in Fujian, and it was rumored everywhere.
And Yu Xiaotian was really busy after the end of the Nanri Island War, Nanri Island had to carry out various aftermath after the war, and because of Chu Cailao's affairs, all kinds of businesses that had been suspended had to be restarted, and there were all kinds of immortals who couldn't cope with it to come to congratulate, and they had to arrange for their subordinates to receive the results of this battle.
Although this battle of the sea wolf is to defend as an attack, not to take the initiative to attack Chu Cailao's lair, on the surface, the results of the battle are only the capture of a number of ships, the capture of a group of Chu Cailao's men, the seizure of some property and weapons, but in essence, these killings are just the tip of the iceberg of all the results.
In fact, there are more hidden interests underneath, after the end of the war, through the torture and torture of the captives, the Sea Wolf Torture Hall learned all the treasurers and troops brought by Chu Cailao this time.
In the battle on the island and on the sea, more than a dozen of his subordinates, large and small, brought by Chu Cailao, were killed and captured alive in this battle, and nearly half of them were lost.
These shopkeepers who worked under Chu Cailao were actually independent pirates, but they were nominally under the jurisdiction of Chu Cailao, in fact, they usually did their own work, and each had their own nest.
But after this battle, these various treasurers lost more than half, and their minions were also killed by sea wolves, caught, and those with big lives took advantage of the chaos to escape, which also caused many pirate groups to disperse, how could Yu Xiaotian let go of such a good opportunity, of course, as soon as he learned the news, he sent his subordinates to take the fleet to these captured or killed pirates' lairs to pick the fruits of victory.
These Chu Cai's old subordinates are usually scattered in Chaozhou, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other coastal islands or some places on the shore, and now their shopkeepers are gone, and this is the time when the sea wolves take the opportunity to seize these territories.
So Yu Xiaotian sent a fleet headed by Hu Cheng, and soon after the end of the war, immediately went south to the big falling island in Quanzhou Bay, where he stopped there, swept the sea around Quanzhou Chu Cailao Xingsan's subordinates, officially took over the sea surface of Quanzhou, and according to the situation, let him continue to explore the south, as much as possible to expand the sea actually controlled by the sea wolf to the south, and encroach on Chu Cailao's power range.
If possible, he was ready to strike while the iron was hot, and after dealing with the aftermath of the war on Nanri Island, he made a slight adjustment, and personally led the main ships and subordinates of the sea wolf to the south, straight to Dongshan Island, to find Chu Cailao's bad luck, and it was best to simply uproot Chu Cailao's nest on Dongshan Island in one fell swoop, so that the entire coastal sea surface of Fuzhou basically fell under the control of his sea wolf.
But for the plan he proposed, Lin Yiyang and the people in the council hall did not support it, the main reason is that although Chu Cailao fled in defeat this time, the loss was huge, and he would definitely not be able to come to them again in a short period of time to trouble them, but it did not mean that Chu Cailao was completely broken in this battle, became a dead snake, and was at the mercy of Xiaotian.
After all, Chu Cailao is an old thief who has been on the sea for a long time, and his potential strength has not been consumed much because of this battle, and this guy is very cunning, if Yu Xiaotian immediately leads his troops south to attack his Dongshan Island, he will definitely be able to take Dongshan Island, and Chu Cailao will never fight to the death with Yu Xiaotian on Dongshan Island.
With Chu Cailao's style of acting, he would definitely abandon Dongshan Island immediately, break it into pieces and run to other places to hide temporarily, but with the connections he has accumulated over the years, this guy will definitely make a comeback in a short time and deal with the sea wolf.
And the most critical reason for these subordinates is not whether they can solve the problem of Chu Cailao, but after this battle, the sea wolf must digest the fruits of this war, and now the sea wolf has controlled the entire sea from the north of Quanzhou Bay to the south of Dayu Bay in southern Zhejiang.
However, the number of sea wolves is only two or three thousand, and some of them are scattered in Tamsui Village, Jicoop Village, Shuangfeng Island and other places, and there is not enough manpower at all.
Only the ships are quite a few at the moment, plus the ships captured by Chu Cailao in this battle, there are 200 large and small, but there are a lot of ships, but there are not enough manpower, especially the ships that have just been captured, they cannot be equipped with sailors and boatmen at all, although the number of such ships is quite a lot, but in fact there is not much combat effectiveness.
Therefore, in Lin Yiyang's view, the immediate priority is not to rush to Dongshan Island to find trouble with Chu Cailao, but to digest the results of this battle as soon as possible, step up the recruitment of subordinates, expand their strength, and control the territory in hand first, so as not to cause the territory to be too large, but unable to effectively control it.
After listening to Lin Yiyang's words, Yu Xiaotian calmed down, thought about it carefully, and felt that what Lin Yiyang said was indeed reasonable, and now he has been investing his financial resources in Tamsui Village and Jilong Village, as well as Nanri Island Workshop and immigration, focusing on making all kinds of weapons and ships, but he has never given enough support for personnel expansion.
At present, he controls such a large sea area, but before this battle, the number of ships belonging to the battle sequence was only more than seventy, and these ships seemed to be a lot when they were gathered together, but once they were scattered into the sea area under their control, they looked very weak.
Moreover, the number of sailors is not very sufficient, and the reserve manpower is even more limited, so that at present, he has captured dozens of Chu Cailao's ships, but because of the lack of manpower, he cannot immediately convert them into his own strength, so he can only temporarily park them in the bay and wait for replenishment.
Now he wants to expand to the south in a big way, and even stretch out his hand to the Guangdong side, although it is not enough to say that he will return with a feather, but even if he can capture Dongshan Island, he may not be able to kill the old fox of Chu Cailao, and because his troops are seriously scattered, with the current means of communication, he is not able to control such a large area before his carrier pigeon is officially put into use.
And with the model he is currently adopting, he must have strong enough control over the territory he already occupies, otherwise, once Chu Cailao or others take advantage of the situation and make trouble on the territory he controls, and he does not have enough strength to deal with it, then his credibility will suffer a great loss.
Therefore, if he seeks stability now, he will digest the results obtained so far for the time being, and it may be better than him rashly going south, which is also the main reason why Lin Yiyang and some of his subordinates think so.
In order to take some risks in the end, Xiaotian directly sent troops to Dongshan Island, and then continued to knock Chu Cailao hard, and gave Chu Cailao a beating of the water dog, but a piece of news made Yu Xiaotian make up his mind to postpone his southward journey, and instead changed his strategy and decided to recruit a large number of troops to improve his strength.
This news came from the black head of Jilongzhai, because Xiaotian concentrated all his strength and fought with Chu Cailao on Nanri Island, something happened on the side of Jilong Bay.
Actually, this incident is not a big deal, around mid-March, two Western-style sailing boats suddenly appeared near Jilong Bay in the northern part of Taiyuan Island.
As soon as these two Western-style sailing boats appeared in the sea off Jilong Bay, they were immediately discovered by the sea wolf tribes guarding Jilong Village and reported to the black head sitting in Jilong Bay.
When the black head heard the news, he immediately led the boat out of Jilong Bay, and found the two Western-style galleons on the sea, which were slowly sailing along the coastline of Taiyuan Island, so the black head ordered his subordinates to raise the sea wolf flag and sailed to these two Western-style sailing boats to observe their whereabouts nearby.
They did not know the blackheads of the flags flying on the two Western-style sailing boats, so they tried to go over and ask the crew of the two Tessians what they were doing here.
However, these two Western-style sailing ships were very vigilant and arrogant, and they did not pay attention to the blackheads' inquiries at all, never made contact with the blackheads, and even made a hostile gesture, opening the gun door on the side of the ship, revealing the muzzle of a black hole in the side of the ship.
The black head saw that the other party seemed to have bad intentions, and found that these two Western-style sailing ships were relatively large and had a lot of artillery on board, so he did not dare to clash with them easily, so he could only keep a guard against them from a distance, and at the same time ordered the batteries in Jilong Bay to prepare for countermeasures in case of unexpectedness.
The black head is no longer the reckless young offspring a few years ago, and now he has grown into a very important leader among the sea wolves, sitting in the key place of the sea wolves in Jilong Bay, and his horizons are much broader than when he was in Xiaohuangdao before.
He found that these two Tessie sailing ships were not comparable to his current ships in terms of the size of their hulls or the number of guns on board, and even if they were combined with the several ships sent by Yu Xiaotian to be handed over to him here, they were not necessarily the opponents of these two ships.
These two Western-style sailing ships, both three-masted ships, use standard Western-style soft sails, including the bow can also hang sails, the hull is tall, and there are gun doors on both sides of the ship's side.
Therefore, the blackhead had to act carefully, and did not dare to easily turn his face with them, so he could only be careful to guard against them and keep a distance from them to avoid conflicts.