Chapter 1 Nanri Water Village

The current Nanri Water Village is located in the southern corner of the Puxi Institute on the Zhongmen Peninsula, which is only a few miles away from Meizhou Island across the sea.

This is also the gateway of Xinghua Mansion, the north is Pinghai Bay, which belongs to Pinghaiwei of Xinghua Mansion, Puxi Thousand Households and Pinghaiwei just hold Pinghai Bay, close to Nanri Waterway, and Nanri Island across the sea, and the distance is only more than 30 miles.

Recently, because the governor of Fujian wanted to use troops against Nanri Island, he sealed ships in the coastal areas of Fujian and banned merchant ships from entering the sea, so the Nanri waterway, which was busy with shipping on weekdays, became much deserted.

Moreover, because the official army began to be stationed in Pinghaiwei and Puxisuo, warships also began to assemble towards Pinghai Bay and Xinghua Bay, which made the situation in the Xinghua Province much more tense, and even some fishermen were forbidden to go to sea, and the government's statement was to prevent fishermen from colluding with thieves.

In many places along the coast, officials and soldiers began to send sentry posts to monitor the situation of ships on the sea and strictly prevent the sea wolf fleet from attacking the coast of Xinghua Province at this time.

At this time, however, the military discipline of the officers and soldiers was already quite corrupt, and in addition the officers and men were not paid enough food, and they had the habit of serving food on the spot.

Although this kind of thing is done by the patriarch or chief of the village and the gentry with heads and faces, but in fact, the burden is basically passed on to those peasant households and the poor, which has become a common practice in the Ming Dynasty, the richer the person, the less money to pay.

In addition, the officials and soldiers demanded that the villages and villages should also send people to help the officials and soldiers with their work, and naturally the large families would not go, and they were also sent to the poorest peasant households, so that many peasant households were completely bankrupt or even ruined because of this.

But the government will not care about these things, and the local officials in Xinghua Prefecture are also very nervous now, because Nanri Island is in their jurisdiction, and the Fujian government wants to use troops against Nanri Island, so naturally they have the heaviest burden, and the officials of Xinghua Prefecture are quite slanderous about this.

After all, after the sea wolf occupied Nanri Island, it was much less disturbing and damaging than the previous shark gang on the coast of Xinghua Mansion, and in the past two years, the ground of Xinghua Mansion was quite calm, but because of this Zhu Qinxiang, it broke the peace here.

First, the sea wolves had been attacking the shore in a big way a few months ago, and then the governor was going to send troops to attack Nanri Island.

As a result, the territory of Xinghua Mansion is full of chickens and dogs, and it also has to bear a considerable part of the food and military salaries for the official army, which makes the burden of Xinghua Mansion suddenly increase a lot, where does the money come from? It is certainly impossible for officials to pay out of their own pockets to meet the needs of the army, and they must still pass it on to the common people.

However, there are also some officials who are happy about this, but every time the salary is raised, it is a carnival for the government, and many officials can take the opportunity to salvage another sum of money from it and fill their private pockets.

Therefore, the common people along the coast of Xinghua Province suddenly fell into a disaster, and they were made miserable by these officials and soldiers.

As a coastal defense guerrilla in Xinghua Prefecture, he naturally had to sit in Nanri Water Village, responsible for mobilizing and commanding the naval warships gathered here.

Since the Nanri Water Village moved here, although it was built well, but after several decades, it has not been greatly expanded and repaired here, and now the Nanri Water Village has long been dilapidated, on the beach outside the water village, you can see the wreckage of many warships that have been discarded and rotted, some ships have been dismantled, and the useful ship boards are dismantled for repairing other warships.

And the dozens of warships that Nanri Shuizhai used to have, by the time of this year, there were only less than ten left, and even the wharf trestle is now only two that can still be used, and the other two trestle bridges have also collapsed in the water because of perennial disrepair.

Fortunately, after learning about the situation of Nanri Water Village, Zhu Qinxiang recently managed to transfer some silver, rebuilt the barracks and houses of Nanri Water Village, and found a way to add a few newly built warships to Nanri Water Village, but he could not replenish them with good artillery for a while.

Therefore, although Nanri Shuizhai obtained some warships, it could only install the old guns dismantled from the previous warships on these new ships, and in fact, the combat effectiveness was not improved very much.

However, this time, Zhu Qinxiang did not force Liu Yinglong to lead such a small number of warships to go to sea to find trouble with the sea wolves, but mobilized some naval warships from Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Zhangzhou and other places, and assembled them in Nanri Shuizhai and Heping Bay, which increased the number and strength of the naval warships here, which made the combat readiness here much better.

During this time, Nanri Water Village was unprecedentedly lively, and there were constantly sailors and warships from other places sailing to Nanri Water Village, making the dock of Nanri Water Village full recently.

After these newly arrived warships arrived here, they had to replenish ammunition, food, and fresh water, and overhaul the cables, sails, and rudders on the ship, and the officers and men on board also had to get off the ship to rest.

Looking at these warships crowded outside the water village, Liu Yinglong was quite helpless, and there was a trace of worry, although at the moment, the strength of the official army and naval division of the Nanri Water Village has increased greatly, but in fact, what is the combat power of these official and military warships, Liu Yinglong is very clear.

The last time Nan Juyi gathered the sailors from all over Fujian and the land official army to attack the Penghu red-haired people, Liu Yinglong participated in the battle with the army, at that time he also saw the power of the red-haired people's galleons, the red-haired people's galleons, the hull is tall, the firepower is sufficient, and each boat is also equipped with more than a dozen Hongyi cannons.

Speaking of which, at that time, Nan Juyi mobilized a large number of naval warships, but compared with the warships of the red-haired people, these warships of the Ming Dynasty were really shabby and pitiful.

The largest warship of the Ming Dynasty is the fortune ship of four hundred materials, this kind of warship usually looks not small, very majestic, but once it is put together with the red-haired man's galleon, it looks small and pitiful, and the red-haired man's cannon is full of power, the hull is abnormally strong, and the artillery on the Ming warship is some small cannons and old guns, and the firepower is not at all in front of the red-haired man.

The reason why the officers and troops of the Ming Dynasty still controlled the sea later, it can only be said that the Ming Dynasty adopted locust tactics and suppressed the fleet of the red-haired people with an absolute numerical advantage.

But now they have to deal with sea wolves, and recently Liu Yinglong sent people to investigate everywhere, and more or less learned about the strength of some sea wolves.

Now the sea wolves on Nanri Island have increased a lot of strength compared to when Chu Cai came to attack Nanri Island, and according to the detailed report, the sea wolves now have no less than 100 warships of all kinds, and these ships are equipped with a lot of cannons.

Although the warships of the Sea Wolf are not much different in nature from the warships of the Ming Dynasty, most of the warships of the Sea Wolf are very new, and they are relatively sturdy and sturdy, and the age of the ships is very short, and some of the ships have been reinforced in the Nanri Island Ship Liao, so that they can carry larger cannons.

And it is rumored that the sea wolf has a lot of Hongyi cannons like the red-haired people, Chu Cailao was in front of the sea wolf's fleet at the beginning, suffered a big loss, and now he wants the Ming sailors to deal with these sea wolf warships, Liu Yinglong is worried, and he doesn't know if he can take the Ming sailor warship, and he can trap them like the last time he dealt with the red-haired people.

Now, although Zhu Qinxiang, the governor, has managed to transfer what seems to be a lot of sailor warships, but if you look closely, among these sailor warships, there are very few that can be called new ships, most of them are old goods, and they don't necessarily have much advantage over the sea wolf in terms of quantity.

Although they reluctantly drove the red-haired people out of Penghu last year, the officers and soldiers who participated in the war actually knew in their hearts that they were able to barely control the sea by relying on the tactics of wolves and sticking to the stalk.

But now they are going to deal with the sea wolf, who is the sea wolf? The sea wolf is a group of guys who have just defeated Chu Cailao, a big guy, Chu Cailao has been crisscrossing the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong over the years, and the government has always had no way to take him, and now even Chu Cailao has been beaten all over the ground by this group of sea wolves to find teeth, they are such a little warship, can they be people's opponents?

But he couldn't say this to Zhu Qinxiang, the current governor of Fujian couldn't listen to the words of these generals at all, just based on some hearsay, he thought that the strength of the sea wolf was not very strong, and he felt that the transfer of these sailor warships was enough to deal with the sea wolf.

As soon as Liu Yinglong thought of this, he secretly shook his head, now Zhu Qinxiang has transferred a large number of officers and soldiers, and nailed many merchant ships, ready to attack Nanri Island, and now it can be said that he is ready to send an arrow.

As for what this battle can be, Liu Yinglong has no bottom in his heart, he can only be ordered to be ready to fight here, and then as for whether to win or lose, he can only secretly pray for God's blessing!

Looking at the crowded ships of these sailors at the Shuizhai dock, Liu Yinglong turned around and wanted to walk back to the Shuizhai to meet with the generals from all over the world who came here this time, and arrange the action for this battle, but when he turned around, he suddenly felt uneasy.

So he stopped again, looking at these warships crowded near the dock, he suddenly remembered one thing, now the land government and officers and soldiers are so lively, it stands to reason that it is impossible for the sea wolf to not know the way, it must have heard the wind a long time ago, and the boats on this side of Nanri Water Village come and go, and Meizhou Island across the water, as long as you are on Meizhou Island, you can see the situation on this side of Nanri Water Village.

If the sea wolf strikes first this time, they will kill the generals without waiting for their officers and soldiers to make the first move, and they are not prepared for anything at this time, once the sea wolf's fleet kills them, then why not kill them?

Thinking of this, Liu Yinglong shivered, and quickly looked at the sea in the distance unconsciously, but the sea was empty, and there was no shadow of the ship, so he turned around and strode back to the water village, and asked people to immediately prepare a fast boat for him.