Chapter 177: Against the Alliance
Yu Xiaotian was furious when he heard this, and immediately took a sentry to Raoping County, personally rushed to Raoping County, broke into the county seat directly, and went to the county office.
The magistrate was furious and came out to reprimand Yu Xiaotian, and Yu Xiaotian asked Xiong Wencan's edict, saying that he was acting on orders and had the power to act cheaply, but the magistrate refused to give up and still scolded.
Yu Xiaotian was angry, slapped over, this fifty-year-old guy immediately flew out, half of his teeth were knocked out, Yu Xiaotian immediately ordered someone to tie up this guy, and sent someone to directly hand it over to Xiong Wencan in the name of a thief, and sent all the relevant evidence of the subject this time to accuse this county of harboring thieves.
This matter is also quite big in Guangdong, when does a Qiu Ba dare to treat a civil official like this, even if he is just a small magistrate, this Yu Xiaotian said to beat, said to tie up, is there any royal law?
So immediately, many people wrote to impeach Yu Xiaotian, and some people directly complained to Xiong Wencan, but the court still did not give them an explanation for this matter, because although Yu Xiaotian was arrogant in this matter, the guy who was arrested at that time was indeed conclusive, and there was no wrong.
Afterwards, Yu Xiaotian handed over the subject and a few pirates to Xiong Wencan for interrogation, and after Xiong Wencan's interrogation, he really did not find that Yu Xiaotian had wronged this guy, so he put this county in prison, and asked the court to play, and the court issued an order to dismiss this county and hand it over to the prosecutor's office.
This incident invisibly boosted Yu Xiaotian's arrogance, making Yu Xiaotian even more arrogant to the extreme during the next period of the Liangguang coastal crusade against thieves, and he greatly amassed a large amount of wealth, and also got a lot of land in coastal prefectures and counties.
Soon in April, Yan Siqi and Chu Cailao both announced that they accepted the appeasement, which was considered to be destroyed by Yu Xiaotian, Yan Siqi was appointed by Xiong Wencan as the president of Qian, and he served under Yu Xiaotian, and Chu Cailao was older because of his identity, and he took the initiative to no longer dare to do this, and his subordinates were incorporated by Xiaotian, and he was allowed to return to his hometown to retire without blame, and returned to his hometown in Fujian to become a rich man.
The pirates in the Guangdong area realized that this time Yu Xiaotian wanted to play really, and he had to rob them of all their territory and force them to death, so these people stopped doing it, they had been active in the Liangguang area for so long, and they had already regarded this side of the sea as their own backyard, how could they allow Yu Xiaotian, an outsider, to drive them all out?
So during May, Liu Xiang, Zheng Yiguan, Qiu Ming and other large groups of pirates met at the mouth of the Pearl River and agreed to unite to deal with Yu Xiaotian's invasion of Guangdong this time.
Each of these people had at least a few thousand men and horses, a few dozen ships, and a large one with hundreds of ships, which were really not a small force in a short period of time, and in a short period of time, more than 30,000 pirates were gathered, and more than 700 warships were assembled.
Of course, their warships are to be put in quotation marks, because their warships are incomparable with the warships of the sailors of Yu Jiajun's navy, on the surface, the number of their warships is definitely quite a lot, but in fact, among the more than 700 warships, only more than 200 are considered large ships, and the weapons and equipment are also uneven, only a small number of ships are equipped with relatively good Western-style cannons, and the rest of the ships are mostly equipped with some earthen cannons.
These people finally elected the strongest Liu Xiang as their alliance leader, bloodthirsty for the alliance, and wanted to have a big fight with Yu Xiaotian, either Yu Xiaotian was driven back to Fujian by them, or they were broken and sunk in the sand.
After Yu Xiaotian went south, step by step, he was not in a hurry to attack forward, but fought while walking along the way, and uprooted all the coastal pirates who could gain a foothold, during which he also found that there were officers and soldiers who participated in the Jieshi Wei Jiesheng in Huizhou, Yu Xiaotian wanted to capture several generals, and there was a head-on conflict with the local Guangdong garrison.
The military general who was detected by Yu Xiaotian was the general of the water village of an official army stationed in the area of Jiesheng, with hundreds of subordinates on hand, and his public identity was the general of the naval division, but in fact, he had been acting as a pirate in secret, specializing in hijacking ships at sea, and this person was ruthless.
In order to keep his identity from being known, he often does things very desperately, and the boatmen on the merchant ships he robbed are often killed by him, and the ships will be dragged by him to an unattractive place and sold secretly, and a garrison of Jiesheng is also involved with him, secretly acting as his nest owner, these guys are actually wearing the human skin of the Ming official army, but they are pirates.
This time, Yu Xiaotian led his troops south, and he had already inquired about what they had done in advance, and the evidence was conclusive, so as soon as the fleet arrived at Jiesheng, he ordered to surround Jieshengsuo, and blocked the water village, and sent someone to notify the guard commander of Jieshiwei, so that he could send someone over and order the capture of these culprits.
This Wei commander was shocked when he heard the news, he was not ignorant of what those guys under him were doing, but because he usually did not eat the benefits of these people, this time Yu Xiaotian came to the coastal area of Guangdong as a guest army to beg for thieves, he himself felt unhappy, which was undoubtedly equivalent to stepping on his turf, making their Guangdong garrison face gloomy.
So he took this as his business as an excuse, and asked Yu Xiaotian not to worry about this matter, Yu Xiaotian didn't care whether he liked it or not, and ordered to surround Jiesheng, and immediately ordered someone to shout to open the door, otherwise he would send artillery to attack the city.
Jiesheng City is a guard city, itself has a relatively complete garrison facilities, used to be mainly used to prevent the Japanese and prepare for the Japanese, the garrison stationed here heard the news, frightened fart, how dare to open the city gate to let Yu Xiaotian's people come in and arrest him.
Therefore, he ordered his subordinates to close the city of Jieshengsuo, resolutely not to open the city gates, and shouted in the city, saying that Yu Xiaotian had framed him, and ordered Yu Xiaotian's men and horses to evacuate immediately.
Yu Xiaotian gave him a day to think about it, and after the day was up, the garrison still refused to open the city and surrender, so Yu Xiaotian immediately ordered the siege of the city.
It took less than an hour for the city wall to collapse, and the infantry who landed on the shore immediately attacked the city, disarmed all the hundreds of officers and soldiers in the city, watched them separately, and began to torture them.
When the garrison ordered the siege of the city, he had been killed by a cannon on the head of the city, so naturally he didn't have to suffer this crime anymore, but the Qianzong of the water village was caught, and after being tortured, he poured beans into a bamboo tube, and poured out all the things he had done in collusion with the garrison over the years.
Corresponding to the confessions of other officers and soldiers, this case was completely confirmed, and Yu Xiaotian immediately sent someone to send these people to Xiong Wencan, and took over Jiesheng.
This incident instantly set off an uproar in Guangdong, Yu Xiaotian's attack on Zhixian has not subsided at this time, and at this time he shelled the city of Guangdong Guard, bombarded the garrison, and arrested Qianzong, so the generals on the Guangdong side did not do it, and they quarreled that Yu Xiaotian acted too unscrupulously, and even their Guangdong generals dared to kill and arrest when they said they were caught, and this is worth it?
So these people went to Xiong Wencan's place to complain again, and wrote to impeach Yu Xiaotian, but Yu Xiaotian did this very really, all kinds of evidence were collected in place, human and material evidence plus confessions, all were available, and even according to their confessions, two merchant ships that had not yet been sold were seized.
So of course Xiong Wencan can't defend these guys, so he can only deal with them impartially, behead this Qianzong to show the public, and report the matter to the court, Chongzhen saw that this is good, Yu Xiaotian is really arrogant enough, and even Weisuo City said that he dared to fight, so big a garrison, and he said that he would be killed.
But after reading Xiong Wencan's recital, he had nothing to say, now he didn't expect that even the generals would secretly do the pirate business, no wonder these generals have repeatedly failed to destroy the pirates, it turns out that they themselves are pirates, soldiers are thieves, thieves are soldiers, how can this pirate be wiped out?
Although Yu Xiaotian did do something very excessive, it stands to reason that he should report to Xiong Wencan first and let Xiong Wencan deal with it, instead of personally carrying a knife into battle, directly bombarding the city of Jiesheng, and directly bombing the garrison into slag, to personally arrest these criminals.
But Yu Xiaotian still did this, he didn't care about the face of his colleagues at all, and he didn't care about what others thought, he did whatever he wanted, but on the other hand, he had to admit that his thunderous means did have a good effect.
If Yu Xiaotian reports this kind of thing to Xiong Wencan according to the regular channels, once the news is revealed, these guys who committed the crime will immediately slip away, and in the end, it will be over.
So Chongzhen could only reluctantly acquiesce in this matter and suppress this matter, but let people secretly remind Xiong Wencan that it is best to restrain Yu Xiaotian, and don't let Yu Xiaotian make things too big during the period of the two Guangxi bandits, so that it will be difficult to clean up in the future.
Xiong Wencan also felt that Yu Xiaotian's two things were a bit too much, and privately sent someone to remind Yu Xiaotian that in the future, if he encounters a similar situation in the future, he doesn't have to do this, he might as well save some face for others and leave the matter to him to deal with.
Yu Xiaotian said that the reason why he did this was for Xiong Wencan's sake, if he showed the news, these people would definitely not be caught, and they would cause trouble to the people in the future, if Xiong Wencan couldn't get used to his approach, he was willing to immediately turn around and go back to Fujian, who cares about this bandit.
When Xiong Wencan heard Yu Xiaotian's reply, he felt that his head was big, and he said in his heart that Yu Xiaotian was really not a good guy to meet, and he really had no sense of proportion.