After Waite led the red-haired fleet to leave, Yu Zhigao secretly guessed that if he didn't guess wrong, this Werther would definitely take his fleet to attack Tamsui City, even if he couldn't defeat Tamsui City, at least he would force the sea wolf to reach an agreement with them so that the sea wolf would give up the blockade of their officers.

And the reason why Yu Zhigao knew about the big man of the sea wolf blockade was the news from Xu Xinsu's mouth, Xu Xinsu has always had a deep relationship with the red-haired people, so he will naturally know a lot about the situation on the big side, although Xu Xinsu himself has bought him to accept the appeasement and become a hundred households, but he will not give up this business on the sea, just to buy an official body, which is more convenient for him to continue to pass the sea in the future.

Now if Waite goes to find trouble with the sea wolf, he is naturally happy to see it, in his opinion, the sea wolf is not a good thing, then the red-haired people are not a good thing, but the sea wolf still has a reputation for benevolence and righteousness in the coastal area, and these red-haired people are already notorious in the coastal area as Fanyi.

Waite led the team to attack Tamsui, just so that the sea wolf and the red-haired man dog bit the dog's hair, no matter who killed whom, it was a good thing for the government, which is why he categorically refused Waite and went to attack Tamsui together.

Just when Waite led the fleet to leave Nanri Island, on the mountain in the northeast corner of Nanri Island, a pair of eyes, through the telescope, had been observing the movement of the red-haired man's fleet, and after the red-haired man's fleet gradually sailed away from Nanri Island and began to turn in the direction of Taiyuan Island, and gradually disappeared from his sight, he put down the binoculars, turned to the people who followed him and said, "Release the carrier pigeons!" Inform the big boss that the red-haired man has left Nanri Island alone, in the southeast direction, and may sail to Tamsui or return to Dayuan! ”

In a short time, two carrier pigeons took off from the mountain, circled low at a low altitude, chose a direction, and flapped their wings towards the south of Nanri Island.

Since the official army began to operate, Tamsui City has been put on alert, and the batteries on both sides of the estuary have begun to increase the number of naval personnel and replenish ammunition, and Tamsui City's own garrison company has also begun to move into a state of alert, and has begun to strengthen the defense of Tamsui City.

The militia of the townships and villages under the jurisdiction of Tamsui City were also conscripted and given weapons, mainly cold weapons, of course, plus a small number of miscellaneous muskets.

These militiamen were also concentrated in the area of Tamsui City, strengthening the defense along the coast, but Fang An did not block the Tamsui estuary because of this, and continued to keep the Tamsui estuary unblocked.

But on both sides of the estuary, he added a few makeshift batteries and arranged a dozen twenty-four-pounder guns to block the river.

On the whole, the area around the Tamsui River is by no means as easy as the terrain defense of Chicken Coop Bay, but Fang An is not too worried about this, because even if the official army or the red-haired people come, it is not easy to break into the Tamsui River and attack Tamsui City, if they choose to land outside the estuary, then the sea wolf has enough time to block them from approaching Tamsui City, with the current strength of the sea wolf, they are not afraid of the official army landing in Tamsui and attacking Tamsui City.

Although the terrain here is not very complicated, the officers and soldiers do not know much about this place, and the land division and navy of the sea wolf have enough strength to block them from attacking Tamsui City.

As for the red-haired people if they attack alone, according to their understanding of the red-haired people, the red-haired people will definitely not be able to send enough infantry to carry out landing operations, at most they can use the guns of their large plywood boats to shell the area around the estuary.

If they dare to venture into the Tamsui River, then it will be even better, the sea wolf's cannons are not vegetarian, although the Tamsui estuary is wide, but they are all within the range of the artillery, no matter what they do, as long as they dare to enter the Tamsui River, they will become a live target.

Therefore, although Tamsui City entered a state of alert, it did not feel nervous, and even the number of ships here was not strengthened, and there were still only a few patrol ships that patrolled the sea regularly, but the training ships of the naval training camp were put into the patrol ranks and strengthened slightly.

However, on November 18, the whole of Tamsui City was much more guarded, all the personnel of the various batteries entered the positions, the number of patrol ships was suddenly doubled, and the patrol area was tripled.

At noon, a flotilla of all Western-style splint boats appeared in the sea thirty miles outside the mouth of the Tamsui River, and the ships patrolling the sea spotted their appearance early and immediately released their rockets.

After discovering the rockets in front of them, the patrol ships immediately began to release rockets in turn, and the red rockets could be seen far away even in the daytime, not to mention that they also had braziers on board and lit wolf smoke, so when the Dutch fleet approached the mouth of the Tamsui River, Tamsui City quickly received the news.

The sharp whistle immediately sounded on the batteries of each position, and the sailors and marines who were in a relaxed state immediately became nervous, and quickly rushed into their preset positions, began to uncover the gun jackets, exposed the swarthy cannons, and began to take out the ammunition from the ammunition depot and send it to the temporary storage place next to the gun emplacement.

"The big boss has an order, the gun position is on alert, and the cannon must not be fired without an order! If it is shelled by enemy ships, only 30% of the guns are allowed to fire! Suddenly, a herald appeared at the battery outside the mouth of the river and shouted to the commander of the battery.

"Why?" The commander of the battery was a young ensign, who had been preparing for the enemy to come and fight happily, but suddenly he received such an order, which could not help but make him a little confused.

The herald gave the second lieutenant of the navy a blank look and replied coldly: "This is an order, how do I know why?" That's it! Wordy! ”

The second lieutenant choked on himself, but he quickly saluted and replied, "Yes!" The order goes down, no one is allowed to fire without authorization, listen to my orders! ”

It didn't take long for the rumbling sound of cannon on the sea, and on the sea southeast of the mouth of the Tamsui River, a cloud of gunpowder smoke rose up, and under the blowing of the sea breeze, it quickly dispersed.

After a while, the two sea wolf patrol ships sailed into the mouth of the Tamsui River and headed towards the pier of Tamsui City, and behind them appeared a rather large fleet of ships, although there were not many of them, but they gave people a sense of coercion, because these ships were all large Western-style plywood boats.

Waite was actually ready to fight the sea wolves when he arrived, but to his surprise, before he reached the mouth of the Tamsui River, he was only intercepted by a few sea wolf ships.

The other party ordered them to explain their intentions, so Waite did not hesitate to order the cannons, directly using cannons to show their intentions, as a result, sinking one of the sea wolves' patrol boats on the spot, and the rest of the small sea wolf patrol boats, there was no fight, after firing a few shots, they immediately fled back to the mouth of the Tamsui River and sailed directly into the estuary.

Waite led the fleet to the mouth of the Tamsui River, only to find that the sea wolves had not gathered a large fleet here to meet them, and the sea outside the entire estuary seemed very deserted, and there was not even a single boat in sight at this time, only a few batteries on the shore remained, which became the line of defense to prevent them from attacking Tamsui City.

Tamsui City was not built by the sea, but was built more than ten miles inside the mouth of the Tamsui River, so if you want to use the cannons of the current era, it is impossible to shell Tamsui City directly on the sea, unless there are rifled cannons of later generations, otherwise you can only sail into the Tamsui River to pose a threat to Tamsui City.

This point can be regarded as Yu Xiaotian's foresight, when he chose Tamsui City to build a city, he took this into account and took the fort as a place to build the city.

When Waite led the fleet to the mouth of the Tamsui River, he realized the problem and carefully observed the sea and shore with a telescope, causing the fleet to block the mouth of the Tamsui River.

And because the official army is going to attack the sea wolves in the near future, nail the coastal ships, and guide many merchant ships to be unable to go to sea recently, so the Tamsui City side has become deserted for the time being, and there are almost no merchant ships entering and leaving the Tamsui River every day, so Waite blockade of the Tamsui estuary has little impact on them.

After observing for a while, Waite felt that something seemed to be a little wrong, the sea wolf should have a lot of warships, there is no doubt about this, but at this time, the entire Tamsui estuary area, but there is no main fleet of sea wolves, so where is their fleet going now?

He had just come from Nanri Island, and it was obvious that the sea wolf's fleet was not on Nanri Island, but now that he had arrived at the Tamsui River, he had not found the main fleet of the sea wolf, and at this time Waite felt that things were a little weird, where was the sea wolf's fleet at this time?

It doesn't make sense! Now that they have abandoned Nanri Island, they should now shrink their main fleet back to the current side of Tamsui City, but why is their fleet not here?

Waiters couldn't figure it out, so he ordered the fleet to send two smaller ships to the nearby sea to keep watch, while the remaining ships began to bombard the Seawolf's battery outside the mouth of the Tamsui River and the towering lighthouse.

In the early afternoon, a series of rapid artillery sounds sounded outside the mouth of the Tamsui River, and several Dutch warships, lined up outside the mouth of the Tamsui River, began to launch artillery bombardment operations on the battery positions and lighthouses outside the mouth of the Seawolf River.

Every Dutch ship was full of cannons, and their largest main ship, that is, Waite's flagship, was equipped with more than forty guns of various types, and even the smallest ship was loaded with more than twenty guns.

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