On the side of Nanri Water Village, in addition to these warships, although the Water Village has been briefly repaired recently, it has not added any cannons, once the sea wolves strike preemptively and attack in a big way, then their warships, I am afraid, it will be difficult to react in a short time.

Therefore, Liu Yinglong wanted to ask Zhang Jiace to send a team of officers and soldiers to carry a few thousand-pound cannons brought by Zhang Jiace from Quanzhou to garrison the Nanri Water Village to strengthen the defense of the Nanri Water Village.

But after Liu Yinglong saw Zhang Jiace, the deputy commander-in-chief, and told Zhang Jiace his worries, this Zhang Jiace did not think so, thinking that the water village already had dozens of warships and hundreds of cannons, how could he be powerless to protect himself, and now that the official army was about to raise troops, he was about to set off to Nanri Island to attack the pirate village, and the heavy artillery in the army was inconvenient to move, and it was not easy to move to Nanri Water Village to deploy defense, so Liu Yinglong strengthened the defense of the water village by himself, and his request was not allowed.

Liu Yinglong had no choice but to hurry back to Nanri Water Village, convened the officers of the various water battalions who had gathered in Nanri Water Village, and informed these officers who were temporarily under his orders of his worries.

After hearing Liu Yinglong's worries, these officers of the naval division who led the troops also felt that they had no bottom in their hearts, and the generals of their naval division had always been more concerned about the situation at sea than the generals of the land division.

Therefore, they know a lot more about the sea wolf than the generals of other land divisions, and most of them are still relatively clear about the power of the sea wolf.

This time, Zhu Qinxiang ordered them to be mobilized to Nanri Water Village, preparing to attack Nanri Island, these officers were not very willing, because they had just fought with the red-haired people last year, although they nominally recovered Penghu, but the original battle was so tragic that they still remember it vividly.

At the beginning of the Penghu War, often the red-haired people cannon sounded, the officers and soldiers were killed and wounded, and the Ming army's artillery had a short range and little power, but it could not cause much damage to the red-haired people.

Don't look at the civil officials after this battle, the battle of Penghu is said to be a big victory, called it a great victory, but this great victory is a lot of water, over the Wan Ming army, besieged the red-haired city of Penghu, and when the red-haired people retreated, there were only less than ten large and small ships, and the strength was only 800 at best, and it was said that there were many teenagers at that time, and there were many sick people.

In this way, the Wan Ming army was never able to capture the small Hongmao City, but lost troops outside the Hongmao City, and was killed and injured by the sharp cannons of the red-haired people.

Now that they have been transferred here, they are relatively clear about the strength of the sea wolf, and this time to attack Nanri Island, to be honest, the generals of these sailors are not very sure, and they just listened to the transfer.

After listening to Liu Yinglong's worries, these officers were also very nervous, but they did not dare to be careless, and finally they agreed to Liu Yinglong's arrangement, taking turns to take the boat out to sea every day and patrol the sea, in case the sea wolf preemptively sent a fleet to attack Nanri Water Village.

The rest of the people were also in the Nanri Water Village, ready to deal with emergencies at any time, and Liu Yinglong was finally somewhat relieved, and was busy arranging the mobilization of ammunition and supplies for the fleet.

Ma Xiao succeeded Wang Hong, became the number one person in the sea wolf sailor, nominally although the sailor is still under the general jurisdiction of Yu Xiaotian, but Yu Xiaotian has too many affairs, and many times can not carry out activities with the fleet, so Ma Xiao is usually responsible for the overall leadership of the three sub-fleets.

To put it bluntly, Ma Xiao is now the nominal deputy commander-in-chief of the Seawolf fleet, making Ma Xiao now one of the few key commanders of the Sea Wolf.

On this day of 23 November, a fleet of about 30 or so ships appeared on the sea more than 30 miles south of Nanri Island in the Taiwan Strait, sailing in a longitudinal formation to the west by taking advantage of the northwest wind on the sea.

Standing in the middle of the flotilla, a four-hundred-gauge ship, he kept observing the surrounding sea with binoculars, and in front of the flotilla, there were three sloops scattered in the shape of a character.

If you look at this fleet from a high altitude, you will find that this fleet is more like a sharp arrow, and the three sloops are Zheng Zhi's arrow clusters, and under the guidance of their three boats, this fleet is like a sharp arrow, heading towards Meizhou Island.

Although Meizhou Island is located in the area controlled by the sea wolf, because Meizhou Island is very close to Nanri Water Village, and it is also the place where Pinghaiwei and Puxi are prevented and controlled, in the past two years, although the sea wolf occasionally goes to the island to move, but in order not to conflict with the government, the sea wolf has not actually occupied this island.

But last night, there were two boats carrying dozens of sea wolf soldiers, taking advantage of the night under the cover of night, quietly approached Meizhou Island, these soldiers on the ship were all replaced with short knives, and equipped with a few good crossbow soldiers to accompany them, as soon as the ship docked, they immediately jumped onto Meizhou Island, quickly divided into several teams, under the leadership of several leaders, quickly disappeared into the night.

In particular, Meizhou Island, which had not received much attention in the past, was also taken seriously as a barrier to Xinghua Province, and several beacon towers on the island, which had long been in disrepair, were stationed with some officers and soldiers to monitor the ships that appeared on the sea.

These officers and men who landed on Meizhou Island were instructed to immediately light beacons as soon as they discovered a large number of ships on the sea, and reported the news to Nanri Water Village, which was only a few miles away from them, so that the sailors of Nanri Water Village could make preparations in advance.

But these people did not expect that on this night, they were suddenly attacked, and some people who were dressed in black suddenly appeared in Niu Touwei and several other beacon towers, and under the cover of night, they almost silently sneaked in front of these officers and soldiers who stayed behind in the beacon tower.

Barely giving these officers and soldiers any time to resist, these men in black cleanly disarmed them, and several officers and soldiers who tried to resist and set fire to the beacon were mercilessly cut off their necks or cut off their heads, before dawn, these sea wolf soldiers completely controlled several beacons on the island, and blinded a few eyes of the officers and soldiers set up here.

At noon, under the leadership of Ma Xiao, the fleet of more than 30 ships of the sea wolf appeared in the northeast of Meizhou Island.

The whole fleet bypassed the east side of Nanri Island and drew a large arc from the Taiwan Strait, avoiding the surveillance of the Nanri waterway by the coastal officials and troops, and walked several times longer, but it unexpectedly entered the mouth of Pinghai Bay.

Originally, Yu Xiaotian could have mobilized more warships for this initiative to attack Nanri Water Village, but after careful consideration, he still decided not to rush out of the nest and send a large number of ships to participate in this attack, but only selected a dozen Fu boats with the strongest combat effectiveness and more than a dozen flexible catch and bird boats among the various fleets, and added the three flying sloops of the clipper detachment to the fleet to carry out this attack operation.

The reason for this is because Nanri Water Village is located in the southeast corner of the Zhongmen Peninsula, just across the water from Meizhou Island, the water surface here is very narrow, the widest point is only four or five miles away, and the coastal water is relatively shallow.

Such a sea terrain is not suitable for a large number of ships to move, once the chaos begins, it is difficult to effectively command the fleet, so everyone agreed that this time it is not easy to discharge too many ships to Nanri Water Village, thirty large and small warships are enough to complete this mission.

In the end, Ma Xiao was instructed to be the commander of this operation, directly commanding this combat operation.

After selecting the ships to participate in the battle, Ma Xiao spent three days conducting two drills on the east side of Nanri Island, so that all the ships of this fleet were familiar with and cooperated, and only then did they replenish all kinds of ammunition and materials and sail away from Nanri Island one day ahead of schedule.

In accordance with the detailed plan pre-planned, they did not hesitate to spend more time, made a big circle on the sea, and sailed to Pinghai Bay, in order not to alarm the officers and troops in advance, they suddenly appeared in Nanri Water Village, and took the official and military warships gathered in Nanri Water Village by surprise.

The key to the success of this mission is to first pull out the eyes of the officers and soldiers on Meizhou Island, and in this regard, the sea wolf already has considerable experience.

Don't forget that when Yu Xiaotian first went on land to save Lan'er, he used surprise attack tactics, and at that time he was still bringing the gang of descendants on Xiaohuang Island, almost all of them were a group of rabble, but in the end he successfully attacked Jiang Baihu's mansion, successfully killed Jiang Baihu, and copied his house to the bottom and rescued Lan'er.

Later, after the establishment of the sea wolf, Yu Xiaotian attached great importance to the surprise attack tactics, and later after the formation of the war barracks, he used this kind of surprise attack tactics as the subject of the daily drills of the war barracks, and in the past two years, this method has been used many times to kidnap some craftsmen they can use or clear some of their enemies on land, and the effect is quite good.

In the sea wolf's war barracks, dozens of soldiers who are flexible, bold and good at night action have been specially selected for this purpose, and they have been organized into a small detachment separately for this kind of operation.

This time, this detachment was also sent out by Yu Xiaotian, and before Ma Xiao's fleet arrived at Pinghai Bay, he first uprooted several beacon towers set up by the officers and troops on Meizhou Island.

In this way, the fleet of sea wolves sailed to Pinghai Bay and approached Niutouwei in the northern part of Meizhou Island.

At this time, the sea wolf's fleet was already less than six or seven miles away from Nanri Water Village and Puxi City, and even if the official army discovered their whereabouts at this time, it was too late to make better preparations.

At this time, a sentinel boat of officers and soldiers finally appeared at the mouth of Pinghai Bay, and the officers and soldiers on board could hardly believe their eyes, and when they suddenly went around the head and tail of Meizhou Island, they saw a black and oppressive fleet appear in front of them, and they were head-on, only rushing towards them.