It didn't take long for the family member he sent to run back in a hurry, kneeling on the ground and reporting: "My lord, the little one has just gone to the Deji Gate to see, this time the pirates have come to a total of more than 20 big ships, and they have already arrived on the river outside the Deji Gate, all of them are ...... All...... It's all big ships! It is estimated that there will be more than two or three thousand pirates! ”

It seemed to be in order to strengthen the tone of the family, and without waiting for the family to finish speaking, Cai Shanji heard a rumbling cannon sound from outside the city, which lasted for a long time like rolling thunder, and a cannonball fell on the south side of the Quanzhou Mansion while speaking, and a rumbling sound was heard, like the sound of a house collapsing.

Cai Shanji suddenly stood up in shock, hurriedly walked out of the lobby of the mansion, looked in the direction of Deji Gate, standing in the mansion, he couldn't see the situation outside, but he could see the sky on the other side of Deji Gate.

At this time, there was already smoke rising in the direction of Dejimen, obviously there was already a place to be ignited, and there was a sound of gongs on the street at this time, and someone shouted that Dejimen was gone!

It can be seen that the area has indeed been shelled by the thieves, and some houses have begun to catch fire, and the matter has begun to get bigger.

Two or three thousand thieves, for Quanzhou Mansion, by no means a small number, at present, Quanzhou Mansion including the defenders, errand soldiers, strong men, less than two thousand people, the sea wolf's thieves are well-trained, this is now Fujian officials have a unified understanding, whether it is the sea wolf's water pawn, or the foot soldier, each is incomparable, very good at fighting, although I dare not say that each is ten thousand enemies, but one should not be a big problem.

Two or three thousand thieves, for Quanzhou Mansion, this pressure is too great, more than 20 big ships, this is a real big ship, how many Hongyi cannons should be installed on it!

In the past, although the Fujian officials had heard that the sea wolf could forge its own Hongyi cannon, but at the beginning it was all a joke, thinking about their government for more than a year, under Zhu Yifeng's every possible way, they purchased several iron yards from Guangdong and added Zhangquan, and they got a total of only how many Hongyi cannons, and the sea wolf was just a group of pirates, how many Hongyi cannons could be made.

However, after the battle of Nanri Island, Yu Zhigao and those officers and soldiers who had escaped confirmed that the sea wolf's warships were generally equipped with Hongyi cannons, and some warships were even equipped with more than a dozen or twenty Hongyi cannons, and the firepower was so strong that the official warships were not their opponents at all.

Although Yu Zhigao was talking to these officers and soldiers who had fled from defeat, he was suspected of exaggerating and excusing himself for his defeat, but considering that the nearly 200 warships of the officers and navy divisions were wiped out by the sea wolf's fleet in just one day, if the sea wolf's warships had few Hongyi cannons, I am afraid that such a result might not have been achieved.

The official army and the navy can no longer fight, can they not fight desperately when they are in a hurry? More than a hundred warships, even if they are flies, let the sea wolves shoot for a long time!

Therefore, even if what Yu Shigao and others said is untrue, it will not be too far behind, at least it shows that the sea wolf's warship is very powerful, and the artillery on the warship is also very fierce, there is no doubt about this.

At this time, someone rushed into the prefect's yamen and reported to Cai Shanjiyu: "Lord Yu Fantai! The thief ship has just begun to fire and shell Quanzhou City, and now Chen Garrison is commanding the enemy in Dejimen! Lord Chen said that the enemy's artillery guns are extremely sharp, and our artillery in the city is powerless to fight back, please recruit reinforcements quickly! ”

Cai Shanji is dizzy! He also wants to fall ill quickly at this time, like Zhu Yifeng, he can't see things and pull him down, how dare this damn Yu Xiaotian be so arrogant and bold? How dare you send a ship to attack Quanzhou City?

Just when he was still angry about this, someone came to report: "Report! Your Excellency! The pirates set fire to many ships on the river, and sent thieves to go ashore in the south of the river, but they don't know where to go! ”

Jiangnan Bank? Cai Shanji was a little confused, Quanzhou City was on the north bank of the Jinjiang River, what did the sea wolf troops do when they landed on the south bank? But he immediately figured out the reason, the sea wolf came over this time, I'm afraid it didn't have to capture Quanzhou Mansion, but as long as the surrounding Quanzhou Mansion was completely disrupted, it was actually enough for him to drink a pot.

Now the sea wolf is shelling Quanzhou City and sending people to go ashore on the south bank, in fact, it is also leaving a buffer for him, so that he can think about what to do next, if he still refuses to agree to Yu Xiaotian's conditions, then the sea wolf may really send troops to attack Quanzhou City, and then he will have no room for maneuver at all.

Thinking of this, Cai Shanji was even more furious, his heart was too arrogant, and he actually used this means to force the official to bow his head and surrender, and give him control of Waitouwan, which is absolutely not good.

"Someone! Immediately send fast horses out of the city, go to intercept the official army led by Liu Wutang, pass on the order of the official, and make them quickly change the route to come to Quanzhou City to assist in the defense! Send a thousand officers and soldiers to Tong'an County, and the rest of the soldiers and horses rushed to Quanzhou City! He must lead his troops to Quanzhou City within two days, otherwise he will blame the official for being polite! Just go! ”

Cai Shanji remembered the four thousand Yanping Mansion officers and troops led by Liu Wutang at this time, at this time they should have arrived at Tong'an County, and at the moment his available troops were only the four thousand officers and troops led by Liu Wutang, although Tong'an County could not be lost, but compared to Quanzhou City, Tong'an County was nothing!

Leave 1,000 officers and soldiers in Tong'an County, go to Tong'an to defend it, and the remaining 3,000 officers and soldiers come to Quanzhou, then you can basically ensure the safety of Quanzhou City, no matter how powerful your subordinates are surnamed Yu, as long as these 3,000 officers and soldiers enter Quanzhou City, can you still capture Quanzhou City?

As long as Quanzhou City is not lost, Tong'an County will be lost, can you still control Tong'an County and not retreat? As long as he is given time, he will mobilize the troops of Fujian Province to Tong'an, no matter how powerful the sea wolf is, the number of troops cannot be too much, as long as the time can recover the county seat of Tong'an and drive the sea wolf to the sea, even if Kinmen and Zhongzuo cannot take it back, this can also give the imperial court an explanation.

In addition, he used to be the prefect of Quanzhou, and he knew the rich people in Quanzhou City very well, so he sent people to these rich people's homes and persuaded them to donate door-to-door, so that they all had to take out some silver to help defend Quanzhou City.

And Cai Shanji asked the people sent to make it clear to these people that the pirates are fierce, if they don't honestly take out more silver, once the army is unstable, the pirates are very likely to break the city, once the pirates break the city, then the big guys will be grasshoppers on a rope, no one can escape, his Cai Shanji's home is not in Quanzhou Mansion, the big deal can be martyred.

But these rich people's property is in Quanzhou Mansion, and they can't run away, once the city is broken, it is when their jade is burned, and if they still pity their little silver, it will be too late to regret it after the city is broken!

So a group of government officials began to run all over Quanzhou City, and then Cai Shanji personally went into battle, and invited the number of big businessmen and gentry in the city to the government, and showed their interests to them, so that in two days, each family had a few hundred taels, and there were more than a thousand taels, in short, these rich people were also frightened, knowing that if Quanzhou City was broken, their family wealth would definitely not be able to be kept, but it was better to be generous, take out some silver to help pay, and find a way to defend the city.

In this way, in two days, Cai Shanji raised tens of thousands of taels of silver, which was enough for him to resist for a while.

Cai Shanji issued a recruitment order in the city, recruited the young and strong people in the city to defend the city, and gave the officers and soldiers of the garrison two months' salaries, and offered a reward, as long as a thief is killed, a head can be rewarded with ten taels of silver, and a capturing one alive can be rewarded with fifteen taels of silver, which is a heavy reward, so it greatly boosted the morale of the defenders in the city.

However, the reward is still the moon in the water for the defenders, because after the sea wolf came, he did not immediately launch an attack on the city, but moored the fleet in the river, and took turns to bombard Quanzhou City for an hour and a half every day.

In this way, the defenders wanted to cut off the heads of a few sea wolf troops, but they could only dream, Liu Yidao sent a company of land soldiers in the past two days, and hundreds of sailors from each boat were dispatched to go ashore in Quanzhou and began to launch an armed parade to the villages outside Quanzhou.

Hundreds of sea wolves' army and sea soldiers lined up and moved on land, dragging two mountain howitzers with them, and a dozen mules were also brought to carry some tiger squat guns and ammunition.

Their main purpose is not to attack how many walled forts, but to promote the strength of the sea wolf, although many people have heard of the sea wolf's power, but have not actually seen the sea wolf's military appearance, there is no intuitive concept at all.

Of course, they don't know how strong the Sea Wolf Tribes are, but this time they have seen the military appearance of the Sea Wolf Tribes.

The coalition of land and sea soldiers with hundreds of sea wolves, with companies as units, formed three infantry formations, and appeared on the ground of Quanzhou Mansion in a neat and tidy manner.

Wherever they passed, the people of the village fort saw them from afar, and after seeing the appearance of the sea wolf, they were all frightened and silent, and some villages had planned to fight to the death with the sea wolf if the sea wolf tried to strangle them too much.

But when they really saw the appearance of the sea wolf, many people immediately dispelled this idea, how much silver and food did the sea wolf people ask them to pay, they didn't dare to let a fart, so they quickly sent it to the sea wolf, how many people they wanted to lose, they quickly elected people, sent out of Zhuangbao, respectful can only be so respectful.

There are only a few big Zhuangzi, with their own strength is very strong, Zhuangzi is very large, and the number of people in Zhuangzi who practice the village brave group is large, and they feel that they have the strength to fight, at least there is no problem in holding Zhuangzi, and they refuse to agree to the request of the sea wolf.

So the sea wolf officer who led the team was not polite to them, and immediately surrounded their Zhuangzi and began to attack their Zhuangzi with artillery.

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