Chapter Seventy-Nine: Coveting Each Other

After Chen Jiu's fiasco, he led the remnants to retreat to his old village on Shuangfeng Island on the sea of Funing, and this defeat hit him very hard.

The ships he brought to Fuzhou were twenty-three large ships, and only six followed him back, and all the rest were either destroyed by the sea wolf or captured by the sea wolf, and even the artillery on the six ships he brought back was forcibly left behind by the sea wolf and became the sea wolf's trophy.

And what made him feel most humiliated was that Yu Xiaotian actually forced him to sign a so-called peace treaty, listing a series of conditions to force him to accept.

So after returning to Shuangfeng Island, Chen Jiu was seriously ill and gradually recovered after more than a month.

As soon as Chen Jiu recovered, he gritted his teeth and swore that he would take revenge! He couldn't wait to grab Yu Xiaotian immediately, sleep on his skin, drink his blood, gnaw on his flesh, and gnaw on his bones!

But he also knew that after this defeat, the strength of the sea wolf increased greatly, and his own strength was greatly reduced, and in a short period of time, he did not have the strength to compete with the sea wolf again, let alone defeat the sea wolf, and seize Yu Xiaotian to take revenge.

So after he recovered, he began to fight Twin Peaks, on the one hand, he asked his subordinates not to provoke the sea wolves, and the sea wolves in the province found an excuse to take advantage of the situation and come to them for trouble.

On the other hand, he took his subordinates and began to frequently haunt the coastal area of Funing, raiding the villages along the coast everywhere, forcibly capturing a large number of fishermen back to Shuangfeng Island, and frequently robbing ships.

In the past six months, through these means, his strength has recovered quickly, and the lost ships and manpower have been made up again in a few months, and even more so.

But if someone has a ship, it is not necessary that the strength will be restored, they have lost a lot of artillery, and they cannot be replenished immediately in a short time, and the veterans who have lost them cannot be made up for in a short time, and experience is not something that can be accumulated in a while.

For this reason, Chen Jiu used a lot of money to buy all kinds of artillery, and at the same time sent people north to the area of Dayu Bay, contacted several groups of peers, united with them, and prepared to attack the sea wolf together.

During this period, Chen Jiu also restrained his subordinates not to provoke the ships holding the sea wolf order flag in the Funing area, and to show weakness to the sea wolf first, and planned to give the sea wolf a ruthless blow when the time was ripe.

In this way, most of the past half a year has passed, Chen Jiu and the sea wolf are also peaceful, and there is no more conflict, on the surface, Chen Jiu is scared by the sea wolf, and he does not dare to be the enemy of the sea wolf anymore, but in essence, it is an undercurrent, Chen Jiu has always been sharpening his knife Huo Huo is ready to take revenge on Yu Xiaotian.

And after Yu Xiaotian let Chen Jiu go, he actually expected that this snake fight did not kill him, and sooner or later Chen Jiu would make a comeback and seek revenge on him.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian began to mix sand with Chen Jiu's subordinates a long time ago, and sent a few reliable subordinates, disguised as fishermen, to blend in with Chen Jiu's subordinates, and was responsible for monitoring the movements of the mixed river dragon, and regularly trying to find ways to send the news back to the sea wolf.

Therefore, although I dare not say that every move of the mixed river dragon is under the monitoring of Xiaotian, at least what the mixed river dragon is doing in general, Yu Xiaotian still knows it well.

When he heard that Mingjianglong was recruiting troops and horses everywhere, robbing ships, buying guns, building weapons, collecting fire oil everywhere, and wooing fox friends and dog friends everywhere, Yu Xiaotian understood that this guy would not be in peace for a long time.

So he began to gradually transfer the strength of Nanri Island to Nangantang in batches, and transferred a detachment of soldiers to Nangantang to garrison, in case the mixed river dragon suddenly attacked Nanri Island again.

But this kind of defense is not a good way for Xiaotian, Yu Xiaotian always feels that a certain military scientist in history said a very right sentence, that is, "The best defense is to attack!" ”

The places he now controls are getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more places that need to be defended, if he rests on his laurels and only thinks about holding these territories in front of him, he will need a lot of manpower and material resources to fortify everywhere, and the result will be that he has insufficient manpower and material resources and will be scattered to many places.

Moreover, such a defensive position will make him lose the initiative, be pinned down by the enemy everywhere, and it is easy to have loopholes, and once the enemy seizes the opportunity, he will suffer great losses. Complete defense, this is equivalent to completely opening his hands, not forming a fist, and naturally unable to play to his advantages.

So for Chen Jiu, an old opponent, Yu Xiaotian never thought that after the first battle, he would be able to completely stop him, so for most of the past half a year, he has been staring at Chen Jiu, an old fox, and while being wary of him, he is also secretly fighting hard, preparing to give this old opponent another fatal blow.

Now there are all kinds of signs that Chen Jiu has begun to gradually recover his strength, and gradually recover his sharp teeth, although in Yu Xiaotian's opinion, his newly erupted sharp teeth are not sharp enough, but this also made Chen Jiu regain confidence again.

And he has already begun to become restless, so with Chen Jiu's character of retribution, it won't be long before he will come again and find him again for a duel with Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian naturally couldn't wait for Chen Jiu to come to the door again, so he urgently needed a reason now to tear up the so-called peace agreement signed with Chen Jiu at the beginning, take the initiative to take the initiative, and completely clean up Chen Jiu.

As for the reason! It depends on whether Yu Xiaotian can find it or not, if he wants to find a reason, it will be too simple for him.

As soon as everyone heard that Yu Xiaotian was going to clean up Chen Jiu again, they all came to the spirit, and they were all gearing up for fear that they would not be able to spread their heads this time, and at the same time they expressed their opinions, thought of a way, found a reason, and if there were no conditions, they had to create conditions to clean up Chen Jiu.

Now up and down the sea wolf, who doesn't know the truth that Lu Dao has no money to earn, and who of them doesn't know the benefits of Lu Dao's military exploits? The reward and punishment system set by Yu Xiaotian blocked the retreat of many people who were greedy for life and feared death, and at the same time gave his subordinates a huge temptation, making them become more and more belligerent recently.

Even some time ago, when the captain of a ship was leading the ship out to sea for patrol, he encountered five merchant ships that formed a fleet, and in the case of a huge disparity in strength, this captain did not choose to retreat and let them go, but instead encouraged his men on the ship, and single-handedly ran over like a hunting dog.

The final result was that although the five merchant ships resisted, they were still frightened by these desperate guys, and the five ships actually occupied an absolute advantage, and finally scattered as birds and beasts, and each fled for his life, and finally one ship was caught up by the captain with the ship, captured on the spot, and dragged back to Nanri Island with its cargo.

Although Yu Xiaotian felt that this guy was a bit too reckless in doing this, this spirit was very commendable, what he wanted was for his subordinates to have this kind of courage to fight in the face of the enemy, so he did not criticize this guy's adventurism afterwards, on the contrary, according to the regulations, the reward was distributed to him and the sailors on his ship in full, and at the same time gave his ship a credit, and replaced his ship with a new imitation six-pounder gun, which was placed at the front, and the first batch of new six-pounder guns were first allocated to his ship.

In this way, the sea wolf tribe felt that they had an example and were more motivated, because not long after Xiaotian returned to Nanri Island from Jilong Bay, another boat was patrolling the sea outside Meizhou Bay in the south of Nanri Island, and encountered two unknown peers who were active here.

After identifying themselves, the captain of the sea wolf's ship approached and demanded that they leave the area immediately and not to move on the sea wolf's territory again, and these two unidentified ships actually relied on them to be two boats, and the opponent only had one boat, so they ignored them, and even said that they wanted to let the sea wolf's ship avoid it.

So the captain of the sea wolf's ship, without saying a word, rushed over with his men, and fought with the two unidentified ships.

After a fight, the two enemy ships saw that their counterparts on the sea wolf ship were not afraid of death, and they fought desperately and did not retreat in the case of disadvantage, and finally the two enemy ships were driven away from the outer waters of Meizhou Bay, and one of the enemy ships was also damaged, even if they fled back to their lair, they may not be able to repair and reuse.

Unfortunately, the captain of the sea wolf was seriously wounded in this fierce battle, and on the way back with the scarred ship, he died on the ship, and was sent back to Nanri Island by his men crying.

After learning the details of this battle, Yu Xiaotian roughly guessed the identity of the opponent they encountered, which should have been done by some pirates who had recently helped the Dutch, and he couldn't guess who it was.

But for the captain's bravery, he gave a very high evaluation, held a grand funeral for him and the six sailors who died together on Nanri Island, in addition to giving their families the heaviest pension, Yu Xiaotian also accepted the captain's two sons and daughters as righteous sons and daughters, and promised in public that they would be raised as adults and would never treat them badly!

Yu Xiaotian's various measures and behaviors have encouraged the belligerent behavior of the sea wolf tribes under him, and they still want to find trouble, but now that they heard that they were going to find trouble with Chen Jiu, these people were even more cheering, and they all sharpened their knives and waited to set off.

The result of their discussion this time was quickly determined, the rivers and lakes have the rules of the rivers and lakes, although bullying is a common thing, but always doing this, it will still be despised by their peers in the rivers and lakes, so even if they want to repair Chen Jiu, they must have a suitable reason, they can't just say nothing, and they will kill Chen Jiu on Shuangfeng Island.

(Today, I would like to thank Xiaohe Bounce and Wandering Jiangnan for their tips!) Please brothers, you can continue to support genuine reading! )