Chapter 187: Quotation Marks

The original planned five-day voyage, in the end, they walked for three more days, from Yongningwei to Nanri Island, and it took eight days to reach Nanri Island.

However, when they arrived at Nanri Island, they found that it was already empty, and there was no one in sight, and there were only some empty villages left on the island, and there was not a single fishing boat on the south coast of Nanri Island, and it was completely silent.

To Yu Zhigao's surprise, the sea wolves did not launch another attack on them until they arrived on Nanri Island, let alone put up any resistance to them at sea when they arrived on Nanri Island, so they were allowed to reach Nanri Island.

Yu Zhigao immediately sent someone to cross Nanri Island from the land, rushed to the sea wolf village on Nanri Island, and let a few clippers bypass Nanri Island through the guò Nanri Waterway, and go to the sea wolf village on Nanri Island, although he has arrived on Nanri Island, but who won Nanri Island Dazhai, who is the head of this work, he knows very well that he has delayed a lot of work on land in the past few days, and Zhang Jiace on the other side is from Dinghai City, south to Nanri Island, the road can be said to be smooth sailing.

It's just that Zhang Jiace was ordered to go to Xinghua Bay first to ship the officers and soldiers of the land division over there, so it may delay some work, and now it seems that the sea wolf has given up on defending Nanri Island, so this time although he was deflated on land, it is estimated that the sea wolf gave them a warning, and he did not plan to continue to defend Nanri Island.

However, before taking the sea wolf village of Nanri Island, this matter could not be finalized, because before that, he had a careful understanding of the process of Chu Cai's invasion of Nanri Island.

At that time, the sea wolf was using Nanri Island Dazhai as a bait, and it did not block Chu Cailao's boat group, so that Chu Cailao could land easily, but it hit Chu Cailao land.

So although he didn't see anyone on Nanri Island, but when he came up from the south, he couldn't see the situation in Dazhai, so whether the sea wolf completely gave up Nanri Island, or did he want to learn from last time and stick to Dazhai, he is not sure at present, he must send someone to Dazhai to see the situation.

However, when Yu Zhigao's people rushed to the Seawolf Dazhai, they found that a large group of officers and soldiers had appeared here, and a large number of official and military warships were also berthed in the bay in front of the Dazhai.

And look at the Nanri Island Seawolf Village, they found that there is no Seawolf Village at this time, the original Seawolf Village has become a ruin, including the wall, almost all of them have been demolished, burned down, and the embers in some places have not been completely extinguished, and they feel the heat wave when they approach Dazhai.

There is still a strong smell of smoke in the air, it can be seen that this big village has just been burned down, after Yu Zhigao learned the news, he couldn't help but curse in his heart, if he hadn't encountered a night attack by a sea wolf on the road, how could it be Zhang Jiace's turn to land on the island first, and this first merit seemed to be taken by Zhang Jiace.

But in exchange for making him feel relieved, since the sea wolves burned down their big village, it also means that they have completely abandoned this Nanri Island, originally thought that when they arrived here, there would definitely be a bitter battle, but now it seems that this worry is superfluous.

Judging from the news brought back by the fine work, the sea wolf has been entrenched in Nanri Island for a few years, and Nanri Island has been painstakingly managed, and the island is open up and farmed, and there are also commercial inns, docks, and shipyards There are many workshops, and now since they have even burned Dazhai, it can be seen that they are indeed strong men who have broken their wrists this time, and they do not plan to continue to entrench in Nanri Island.

So this time, their Fujian official attack on the sea wolf has at least achieved reasonable results, and the main purpose has been achieved.

In fact, as the main generals, Yu Zhigao and Zhang Jiace and others have seen Zhu Yifeng's thoughts very thoroughly this time, although Zhu Yifeng has been fighting hard after taking office, and it seems that he is going to carry out a large-scale attack on the sea wolf, but in essence, Zhu Yifeng's purpose is not necessarily to destroy the sea wolf, because they all know that the current sea wolf is not an ordinary pirate.

In addition to the nest of Nanri Island, the sea wolf has now occupied several places on Taiyuan Island, vigorously operated, and if it wants to completely exterminate it, with the power of Fujian Province alone, it is obvious that their Fujian officials are not a little sure, if they want to completely exterminate the sea wolf, I am afraid that now at least Guangdong and Zhejiang will be united to suppress multiple provincial capitals, and it is estimated that there is still hope.

Therefore, their initial combat goal was only set to recover Nanri Island, and whether they could exterminate the sea wolves was no longer a matter of concern to them.

Now it is obvious that the sea wolves are very interesting, knowing that it will not do them much good to defend Nanri Island, rather than fighting with the government here, it is better to temporarily abandon Nanri Island and retreat to their lair on Taiyuan Island.

So now that the sea wolves have run away, then their battle is over, although they haven't even seen the shadow of the sea wolf, but it still doesn't prevent them from reporting to the Beijing Division.

For so many years, the coastal areas of Fujian have been unstable at sea, and although many islands along the coast are still nominally controlled by the Ming government, they are in fact basically in an enclave state, and the government is simply unable to control them, making them a nest for pirates or a temporary haven for merchant ships.

Although they failed to catch the sea wolf this time, they still forced the sea wolf away and took back Nanri Island, so this kind of thing of recovering the lost land is still a great achievement.

At present, Liaodong Jiannu Tartar has repeatedly committed southward crimes, the official army of the Ming Dynasty is more than 100 victories, and the entire Liaodong has almost been lost by the official army, if it is not for Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang army, I am afraid that Liaodong has already completely fallen into the hands of Jiannu at this time, only this time Jiannu went south, encountered a nose of ash in Ningyuan, and was defeated in the hands of Yuan Chonghuan, which boosted the morale of Liaodong to some extent.

The rebellion in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan has lasted for many years, and the official army and the rebels of the Ming An Bangyan army are also more than 100 victories, and even the commanders of the general army governor level were defeated and killed.

So on the whole, the Ming Dynasty is now getting worse, there are basically few good news, bad news is piled up every day, and now their Fujian official army can recover Nanri Island, although the record is not too good, but it is also good news, for the imperial court must be indispensable to reward them, and Yu Zhigao itself is very close to Wei Zhongxian's party, he and Wei Zhongxian's party, an important member of Wu Chunfu, are sons and daughters, if the news reaches Beijing, even if the court does not reward Zhu Yifeng, At least Wei Zhongxian's party will take care of him, so the current situation is that everyone is happy.

Of course, although they have now gone to Nanri Island, it does not mean that this war is over, they must also carry out a so-called clean-up of Nanri Island, which is actually a scraping of the ground on Nanri Island.

In the original plan, once they take Nanri Island this time, with the activities of the sea wolves in Fujian over the years, they will definitely hoard a large amount of goods in their lair, as long as they defeat them and take their Dazhai, then the officers and soldiers participating in the war can at least salvage a sum, and the big head will definitely be shared by these generals.

But when they came, they saw a devastated and ruined land, and the sea wolves had already carried everything they could carry here, and there was not even a good piece of wood left, let alone a large amount of goods.

So on the one hand, they felt a long sigh of relief when they saw the sea wolf fleeing without a fight, but on the other hand, they were disappointed, feeling that they were a little unwilling to get a bargain on this trip.

Whether it is the sailor or the land division that was transported this time, they all feel that they must not go like this, so they must carry out a thorough search and suppression of Nanri Island, at least a few heads, otherwise, after the battle report is reported, not even a single pirate has been killed, and this battle report is too ugly.

Killing good people and risking merit is now a public thing, not to mention killing a few islanders on Nanri Island, it is not too much, who let them be thieves? So even if you kill some islanders, at least you can make the battle reports presented in the future look better.

Therefore, after Yu Zhigao landed on the island, he immediately ordered all the generals in the army to start searching all over Nanri Island, especially those villages, in order to carry out a thorough search and arrest more "thieves".

said that it was to catch more thieves, and the generals who were ordered naturally knew very well in their hearts that as long as it was a human being, cutting off the head was the key, and as for whether it was a pirate or not, it was not an important matter.

So the generals responded with a bang, and immediately took their officers and soldiers to scatter them on Nanri Island, and began to search everywhere.

However, at this time, the villages on Nanri Island had already been basically empty, and the islanders of course knew that the officials and soldiers would definitely not be polite to them when they came this time, so those who could leave packed up their things at home in advance and got on the boat and left, and some people really couldn't bear to be here, so they hid in the eastern mountains.

It turned out that a lot of cattle and sheep were grazing on Nanri Island, and they were all loaded and transported away, and the villages on the island were basically ten rooms and nine empty, except for empty houses, there were basically not many people left.

Of course, there are still some stubborn old people, who refuse to leave anything, thinking that this is their home, here is their field, even if they die, they have to guard their field and their home, Yu Xiaotian is stubborn to such an old stubbornness, but he is not dead and dragged hard, let them go, people have their own right to choose life and death, since they don't want to live anymore, then this can't blame him Yu Xiaotian for abandoning it.