Chapter 266: The Tragic Loser
Chu Cai Lao was terrified and took the remnants of his defeated soldiers and a group of ships, and fled all the way south from Nanri Island in despair, and even in order to escape for his life, he even threw his beloved boat as bait to the fleet of sea wolves chasing him, so that he was able to escape back to his lair on Dongshan Island in a bird boat.
After returning to the nest of Dongshan Island, Chu Cai Lao counted the losses this time, and almost vomited three liters of old blood on the spot, and when he set off, he took more than 200 boats from Dongshan Island, and the large and small shopkeepers gathered more than 20 shares, and the number of people gathered was as high as more than 5,000 people.
But now, when he came back, he had long since lost the pomp and circumstance of the time when he left, and of the more than 200 ships that had gone out, only a few dozen of them had followed him back, although the rest were not necessarily killed or captured by the sea wolves, but at least they were also dispersed, and some people probably would not bring the boats back to follow him.
When I went, there were more than 20 subordinate shopkeepers, large and small, and when I came back, only half of them were left, and the rest of the shopkeepers were either killed by the sea wolf or captured by the sea wolf.
Of the more than 5,000 troops, only more than 1,000 people returned, including nearly 2,000 of his own direct subordinates, only more than 800 people returned, and the rest either died in the battle of attacking the village, or were blocked by others in Houshan Bay and could not escape.
All in all, this time he went to fight Nanri Island, completely stealing chickens and rice, and almost eroded the old book, which was something he didn't expect at all.
After he fled back to Dongshan Island, he was angry at first, but he still couldn't figure out how the main fleet of the sea wolves suddenly appeared on Nanri Island without lighting the lights, passing through the cordon formed by the sentry ships he sprinkled outside at night.
This is seriously unscientific! You must know that if Lu Dao sails on the sea at night, even if it is one or two boats, if they don't light the lanterns, they may run away at sea, and if they don't get it right, there will be a collision, but the sea wolf has nearly a hundred ships, and they can quietly keep the fleet in the black light, and they will not disperse until they are very close to Nanri Island, so that he has no time to react.
He was very angry about this matter, but he still couldn't figure it out, unless the sea wolf tribe was all night owls and could see far away at night, otherwise there was no reason for them to do this!
I can't figure it out, but in fact, the sea wolf does have extraordinary abilities and does things they can't think of, so that under the premise that they have a complete numerical advantage, he Chu Cailao was beaten by the sea wolf, and even lost his own boat.
Now Chu Cai Lao knows that the news must be spreading very quickly, and soon people from near and far can know the news, he is completely planted this time, and it is planted very badly, so that for a long time, he may not be able to ease up.
The territory in this Fujian area is almost impossible to keep for him, and he still has to take his subordinates to wander on the sea like a lonely ghost like a lonely ghost when he first went to the sea to regain strength.
What he is most worried about at the moment is that the person surnamed Yu may not give up and take advantage of his illness to kill him, lead the fleet to kill his Dongshan Island, give him another slam blow, and completely solve him.
In this regard, after Chu Cailao returned to Dongshan Island, it can almost be said that he was in a panic all day, and he had the heart to simply abandon Dongshan Island and set up the old camp in another place, so as not to be killed by the sea wolf and rid his old nest.
On the other hand, Chu Cailao was still unwilling, he felt that he had worked at sea for so many years, and there was no reason to lose to an offspring boy like this, so he was chased by others and hid in Tibet with his tail between his legs.
So in this contradictory mood, he began to prepare for the battle, this time he could not take the initiative to find trouble with the sea wolf, so he could only sit and wait for the sea wolf to come to the door to deal with the sea wolf's revenge.
But his loss this time is too great, with only his current strength, he feels that he can't stop the sea wolf's fleet at all, and the sea wolf's fleet is strong and artillery, equipped with a large number of Hongyi cannons, fighting far and ruthlessly, with his current fleet equipment level, it is not anyone's opponent at all.
In the battle of Nanri Island, the sea wolf only divided a small number of ships to prevent him from returning to Houshan Bay, and he could not get rid of them when the number of ships was obviously superior, and they were dragged less than a few miles away from Houshan Bay, and lost a few boats.
What's more, the sea wolf has several ghost ships that run fast, strong, and armed to the teeth, and they are not easy for him to deal with.
This time, he led his team to evacuate the battlefield and fled back to Dongshan Island, if it weren't for the fact that these ghost ships were always like maggots on tarsal bones, blocking his fleet in front of and back, the other ships behind his ass would not be able to easily bite them, so that they would never be able to shake off the bite of this group of sea wolves.
These ghost ships of the sea wolves left him with terrifying memories, and after he met and fought with these ghost ships, in the fierce battle, he tried to concentrate his efforts on killing these ghost ships several times, but the final result ended in his defeat.
These ghost ships were fast and very flexible, and often when he concentrated his ships to surround them, they would immediately turn the rudder and slip away, run out of reach of his guns, and fire at his ships.
In addition, the sturdiness of these ghost ships was also beyond his expectations, in the fierce battle, he found that one of his own boats rushed to the front of a ghost boat, trying to stop the ghost boat, and the ghost boat actually hit it straight upright, only to hear a loud click, the ghost boat rushed over without any fart, and the stern of the boat that intercepted them was smashed by the ghost boat, and then hit the sea, losing the ability to continue sailing.
It can be seen that these ghost ships are made of very strong materials and have a very strong structure, much stronger than the warships that were converted from merchant ships used by his men.
What's even more terrifying is that they are equipped with a lot of cannons on their ships, these cannons are distributed on both sides of the ghost ship, and the number of cannons even exceeds that of his Dafu ship, often these ghost ships will aim the side of the ship at his fleet together, take advantage of their speed advantage, quickly rush past the side of his fleet, and then collectively suddenly fire cannons, and the result is often a salvo, destroying one or two of his ships.
These ghost ships were like hammers, constantly beating his fleet, and he had nothing to do about it, but he could only watch these ghost ships wander around his fleet, wreaking havoc on his fleet.
If it weren't for the fact that when it was dark, he decisively ran to an inconspicuous bird boat and lost his proud Dafu boat, these ghost ships and the ships of the sea wolves that fell behind him would definitely not let him go, and he didn't even have a chance to escape back to Dongshan Island, and was captured alive or killed by the sea wolves on the way.
Thinking about the situation that day, Chu Cailao felt shuddered, and the courage to continue to fight against the sea wolf in his heart was weakened.
After Chu Cailao returned to Dongshan Island, he immediately sent people to go around to gather his men and ships who had come back scattered, and a few days later, he gathered a group of ships and his men, and restored them to the scale of nearly 100 ships and more than 2,000 men.
But then there was a problem, this time he brought his subordinates to the shopkeepers suffered a lot of losses, nearly half of the shopkeepers failed to come back, either killed by the sea wolf, or captured by the sea wolf, although he collected all the people and ships that escaped back, but these people and ships, many of them lost their masters, and became stragglers.
In view of this situation, some of the shopkeepers who were lucky enough to flee back to Dongshan Island naturally would not sit idly by, and they all suffered heavy losses when they went to Nanri Island this time, so they all wanted to take the opportunity to take these scattered people and their ships under their own command.
For this reason, without waiting for the sea wolf to attack, Chu Cailao's subordinates first pinched themselves because of the competition for these ownerless human ships, and even two groups of Chu Cailao's subordinates simply drew their knives on Dongshan Island and slashed face to face.
Fortunately, it was Chu Cai Lao who learned the news earlier, and hurriedly rushed to stop the fire of the two groups of his subordinates, which did not cause a big mess, but even so, he felt that he was gradually losing control over these subordinates.
He suffered such a big defeat, so that his subordinates who followed him saw his incompetence and weakness, and also saw the strength of the sea wolf, and followed him without profits, but he almost eroded the old book, so that he continued to give him Chu Cailao's life, it seems that there is not much meaning, so after he drank the fight, one of the shopkeepers did not say a word that night, and did not even say hello to Chu Cailao, and left Dongshan Island directly with his subordinates, it is obvious that he has made his attitude clear, I won't follow Chu Cai anymore in the future.
At this time, Chu Cai Lao was even more angry and anxious, and wanted to use thunderous means to deter these subordinate shopkeepers, but at this time he found that he couldn't use this trick, these shopkeepers were already a little out of line with him, if he was like before, he commanded them and suppressed these subordinates with force, it is estimated that these guys would abandon him without any nostalgia.
So he didn't dare to use this method easily, but in order to prevent the people below from quarreling again, and in order to make up for the loss of his current manpower, Chu Cailao simply included those ships and minions without masters into his account, so that his own strength was enhanced to a certain extent, and he continued to form a situation where he was the dominant family here.