Chapter 176: An Unexpected Attack
It seems that the plan will never catch up with the changes, and the entire Seawolf Group has been mobilized, and when a group of powerful soldiers and horses are ready to meet the attack of Chu Cai's boss, Chu Cailao has not followed their plan.
After Master Zhou went back for half a month, no matter how he counted, he should see Chu Cailao and tell Chu Cailao the results of the negotiation on Nanri Island.
Strangely, however, the patrol ships that were scattered into the Meizhou Bay area and the Taiyuan Waterway (Taiwan Strait) never found any sign of a large fleet.
Yu Xiaotian was a little dumbfounded at this time, he couldn't guess why Chu Cailao didn't make a big deal as he expected, what was Chu Cailao busy with at this time?
Although they didn't wait for Chu Cai's big attack as scheduled, Yu Xiaotian and his subordinates could conclude that Chu Cailao was not the kind of person who could endure this breath, and now that the lid had been lifted, if he didn't do so, it would cause a great loss to his reputation, and Chu Cailao would never dare to do it.
But what bad idea this guy was thinking at this time, no one could guess at this time, they could only wait, and many days passed like this, and they still didn't find any movement from Boss Chu Cai.
Of course, it can't be said that Chu Cailao didn't act at all, judging from the news that the patrol ships in Meizhou Bay fed back to the wolf's den, during this time, more and more unidentified ships began to appear in the area off Meizhou Bay, and some ships broke through the outer defense line set by the sea wolf patrol boats, and went straight to Cormorant Island and even approached Nanri Island's sneaky wandering around.
Moreover, there are more and more such ships, which makes the limited patrol ships of the Sea Wolves a little stretched and too busy during this time.
In addition, after mid-February, in the waters around Fuzhou controlled by the sea wolf, there were suddenly a series of incidents of unknown ships robbing passing merchant ships in this area, and the merchant ships that were robbed were basically merchant ships that paid the sea wolf to buy the road.
And the perpetrators are very ruthless, often after the successful hijacking of the ship, the boatmen on the ship are slaughtered first, but only one shipowner or shopkeeper is left, and then the goods are transferred back to their ship, and then the entire ship is simply set on fire, and sometimes the people are divided and the robbed ship is directly sailed away, leaving no room at all.
Once the hijacking is successful, unless the other party resists too fiercely and causes them too much loss, they will take such drastic measures to retaliate against the personnel on the merchant ship, but under normal circumstances, they only kill some people, not to kill all the people on the ship.
What's even more strange is that these pirates who inexplicably appeared in this area, when they killed people, they just wanted to leave an important person on the ship, and also told these survivors that they were sea wolf people, and it was the sea wolf who did this!
In this way, the survivors found Nanri Island, and wept and asked for an explanation, so that the sea wolf could tell them why they had already paid the road money, and why the sea wolf tribe broke their own rules and did this to them!
When this kind of thing happened one after another, Yu Xiaotian and his subordinates began to realize that things were not good! If this kind of thing is just one or two things, then they can still think that it is the work of a small group of pirates who have just arrived here, but after mid-February, this kind of thing began to happen one after another, and it is not done by ordinary people, because the average small group of pirates does not have such strength at all, and all the spearheads can be pointed at Chu Cailao.
Yu Xiaotian immediately ordered some ships to be drawn from the assembled fleet, and sent them to the routes around Fuzhou in groups of two to start strengthening the inspection of passing ships, and sent news to the fishermen along the coast of Fuzhou, asking them to help keep an eye on some suspicious boats, and it is best to find their temporary foothold, and report to the sea wolf, and the sea wolf will be grateful.
At the end of February after Yu Xiaotian took action, the sea wolf's ships began to harvest, intercepting and capturing several such suspicious ships in the sea around Fuzhou in a row, and repeatedly rubbing with some unidentified ships.
The fishermen along the coast of Fuzhou played a considerable role, and although there were many sea wolf boats, they were still very thin on the huge sea, and it was difficult to weave a tight net to catch these suspicious boats.
However, the number of fishermen and fishing boats in Fuzhou has increased rapidly in the past two years, and they are scattered over a wide area of water to fish, covering almost all waters.
And the reputation of the sea wolf in the past two years in Fuzhou is excellent, after the sea wolf, the fishermen's life is much better, the small group of pirates has almost been swept away, the fishermen can basically not worry as before, when they go to sea, they can fish with peace of mind, the fisherman is also afraid of the deterrence of the sea wolf, and does not dare to exploit the fishermen too much, so that the fishermen have lived a lot better in the past two years.
So when the fishermen learned that the sea wolf had told them the news, most of them began to pay attention to suspicious boats in the vicinity when they began to fish at sea.
So soon the fishermen found some suspicious boats in some places, and immediately ran to the sea wolf to report it, so that the sea wolf was able to catch several such suspicious boats in a relatively short time.
After capturing a few such suspicious ships, the sea wolf can be sure that the people on these ships are indeed all subordinate to Chu Cailao's various shopkeepers, and after severe torture, according to a small leader on a captured ship, they received an order from the shopkeeper to let them go here to explore the strength of the sea wolf, and on the territory of the sea wolf, find a way to create trouble in the name of the sea wolf.
Their boss ordered them to act alone or in two boats, to go deep into the sea and the waterway controlled by the sea wolf to find a way to rob more passing merchant ships, and to find a way to get closer to Nanri Island to find out more about the sea wolf ships.
After this situation was reflected in Yu Xiaotian, Yu Xiaotian felt that things were a little tricky, Chu Cailao should have wanted to treat him in the same way this time, and also sent a group of attack ships to enter the sea area controlled by the sea wolf to retaliate against the sea wolf.
However, Chu Cailao is very smart, he knows that he does not have a ship similar to the flying clipper of the sea wolf, so he can't use the tactics of "ghost ship" to find the ship of the sea wolf and take targeted revenge on their sea wolf.
So Chu Cailao and his subordinates came up with this idea of damaging the family, and sent his subordinates to sneak into the territory of the sea wolf through various channels, and then began to plunder the coastal area of Fuzhou in the name of the sea wolf.
For the time being, their main target is still merchant ships, and their purpose is actually to destroy the reputation of the sea wolves by intercepting and killing these merchant ships that have paid the sea wolf to buy the road, and gradually destroy the trust of the sea wolf in the sea wolf, so that the sea merchants no longer pay the sea wolf to buy the road, so as to cut off an important economic source for the sea wolf.
This trick can really be described as insidious to the home, Chu Cai Lao is to see the difference between the sea wolf and him, the survival strategy of the sea wolf and Chu Cai Lao's survival strategy can be said to be completely different, Chu Cai Lao basically in addition to doing business, the most important way to survive is to rely on plundering the sea and looting coastal land villages and towns to obtain survival resources and make a fortune.
However, the sea wolf did not follow their path, but adopted another survival strategy, changing the way that pirates often used to live by violence, and in the past two years, they have been acting in the Fuzhou area with great importance of reputation and credibility, in order to buy people's hearts, and at the same time collect money from passing merchant ships to buy roads, so as to support the operation and survival of their sea wolves.
In Chu Cailao's view, the income from collecting money from passing ships to buy roads is extremely important to Xiaotian and his Sea Wolf Gang, and it can be said that it is the foundation of their survival.
So he came up with this method of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, and wanted to completely cut off the way for the sea wolf to get money first, destroy the reputation of the sea wolf, and make it fall into a financial crisis.
And Yu Xiaotian did not have a good way to deal with it, in addition to dispatching more force, patrolling the waterways around Fuzhou, and strengthening the inventory of passing ships, to prevent such a thing from happening, and in a short period of time, it is necessary to achieve results, otherwise, if the safety of the passing merchant ships is not guaranteed, they will no longer pay money to the sea wolf to buy the road as before.
But although Yu Xiaotian has a bit of strength, but the ships and subordinates he has at hand want to effectively control such a long waterway, but they are still not enough, Chu Cailao actually does not need to draw too much strength, he only needs to let his subordinate shopkeepers allocate a limited number of ships and manpower, find a way to mix into the sea around Fuzhou, wait for the opportunity, and rob a few boats with a cold look, it is enough to make the sea wolf exhausted, his method can be said to be very effective, and very vicious.
After Yu Xiaotian figured this out, he couldn't help but feel that he was starting to have a headache, and things began to develop in a direction that he couldn't control.
At first, he just wanted to force Chu Cai's old dog to jump off the wall in a hurry, and lead his subordinates and the fleet to move the army to attack, he could just use his technical advantages to fight against Ding Mao against Chu Cailao, because he has an absolute advantage in firepower, and at the same time there are command and tactical advantages, this frontal conflict, he is actually quite sure that he can win the battle, so that he can use this battle, completely make a name for himself at sea, and become a real overlord of one side.
But when things have developed to such a point now, Yu Xiaotian found that he underestimated the wisdom of the ancients too much, the people of this era, in fact, are not stupid compared to him, the only advantage he has is not in wisdom, but some of the skills he brought from later generations made him take a big advantage.
Although Yu Xiaotian sent additional ships and men to the sea around Fuzhou at the end of February to intensify patrols in an attempt to strengthen the protection of passing ships, after a few days, he found that he was actually doing this a drop in the bucket, and the number of attack ships sent by Chu Cailao this time was far more than he imagined.
During the period after he increased the strength of the patrol boats, although a few Chu Cailao's attack boats were caught through some fishermen's secret ventilation messages, they still couldn't stop Chu Cailao's subordinates from making waves in the Fuzhou area, and there were still passing merchant ships every day, which were plundered in the Fuzhou area, and the people who did these things were still under the banner of sea wolves.
After the news spread, the merchant ships in the past stopped doing it, and the reason why they paid money to buy a road in the past was to buy a peace charm when passing through the Fuzhou area, so that they could pass through this area smoothly and no longer take risks.
However, during this period of time, the merchant ships in the Fuzhou area began to be robbed repeatedly, and the result was basically the same when they paid to buy the road and did not pay for the road, and it is said that some of the hijacked ships had already paid the money to buy the road, but they were still robbed by the sea wolf's troops, and they were extremely ruthless, and they often slaughtered the ship.
Although the people of the sea wolf have repeatedly stated that these things are all done by Chu Cailao, not by their sea wolf tribes, but the people on the merchant ship do not care about these, the merits of the matter are not judged by them, they will be suspicious of the sea wolf's words, but there is a very real thing, that is, whether to pay the road money now, in fact, it is no longer important, anyway, when they pass through the coast of Fuzhou, the safety can no longer be guaranteed, so some ships are no longer like before, take the initiative to pay the sea wolf to buy the road, and more and more merchant ships, began to join the ranks, directly bypassed Cormorant Island, which was a toll station, broke into the coast of Fuzhou, and began to force their way through the coast of Fuzhou in groups, refusing to pay the sea wolf to buy a road.
(This chapter is almost 4,000 words, so it's affordable!) Hehe! Brothers, help me do it! )