Chapter 185: Spy War 1
The whole training, which had lasted for two months, finally came to an end with Yu Xiaotian's order, and with an order, these sea wolf tribes boarded the ship one after another, and under the leadership of their respective captains, sailed away from their temporary dock, and then dispersed on the sea east of Nanri Island, and scattered to the south or north in twos and threes.
A day or two later, the ships began to return to the seawolf pier on Nanri Island, bustling into the harbor.
It seems that after these two months of training, everyone is a little tired, and after landing, they seem to be a little relaxed, and the sailors leave the ship and go ashore, get a certain amount of rest, and get together in twos and threes, and begin to pour into the business area.
The sailors who had come back to assemble made the business district suddenly lively again, and the liquor shops, casinos, and brothels that had been a little cold in business were suddenly full of business.
This can make the business on the island very happy, including the small traders and vendors who are rushing to sell, and the business is quite good.
However, this situation did not last long, and soon word spread through the sailors on Nanri Island, and the sea wolves called them back this time, and let them rest for a day or two in rotation, and then they were going to sea again.
Recently, Chu Cai sent people to Fuzhou to sneak attack the passing merchant ships, which made the people in the sea around Fuzhou panic, and no one on Nanri Island knew about it, so that even the business of some businesses on the island was affected, and everyone was concerned about how the sea wolf coped.
Now they learned from the mouths of these sea wolves who had returned to the island that they had made a ruthless decision to scatter them all out of the water and waterways along the coast of Fuzhou to hunt down these subordinates sent by Chu Cai, intending to completely wipe them out.
This time, these sea wolf tribes came back just for a little rest, and they were about to go to sea to do this, so the merchants in the business area were very happy about this, and one by one they took the sea wolf tribes, asking them to quickly clean up these scourges, and they continued to toss around like this, and continue to affect the business here.
Sure enough, in less than a few days after the excitement, these sea wolf tribes boarded the ship here one after another, and sailed away from Nanri Island, and the originally crowded sea wolf exclusive pier and bay immediately became empty, leaving only some small boats, and four or five large ships continued to stay on Nanri Island.
And these small boats and the big boats that stayed behind also took turns to go to sea every day to patrol around Nanri Island, and the entire wolf den village of the sea wolf became quiet again.
The shop that secretly contacted Chu Cailao soon sent out a boat and sailed away from Nanri Island, and from this shop, two pigeons were also released, and after circling around the business area for a few times, the two pigeons chose the right direction and began to fly towards the south of Nanri Island.
But no one noticed that at this time, on the arrow tower in the corner of the business inn area, someone was holding a copper pipe, leaning in front of his eyes, looking towards the sky to observe the movements of these pigeons.
When he saw that the pigeon was beginning to fly towards the south of the island, the man with the telescope lowered his hand, carefully wiped the lenses at both ends with a cotton cloth, and put the telescope into a cowhide tube.
This man raised his head and showed a large black spot on his face, which made his face look very ugly and hideous, but with his crisp officer uniform of a sea wolf soldier, and the single knife and double-barreled short sword hanging from his waist, and the turban wrapped in black cloth, it invisibly made him feel more majestic.
This person is not an outsider, it is Meng Fei, the current general of the war barracks, now Meng Fei and Li Dazui have been stabilized in the soldiers after a year or two, and have become the main and deputy generals of the war barracks, Li Dazui is the positive, Meng Fei is the deputy, at first these two guys were a little dissatisfied with this arrangement, thinking that they were pirates, and they couldn't take the boat to gallop on the sea, but they could only take a group of people to lie on the island every day, staring at nothing to do.
In addition to eating and sleeping every day, they are left with endless exercises, most of them are training queues and offensive and defensive tactics, occasionally sending them to board ships, training them to cooperate with ships, and mostly training some tactics of beach grabbing and landing.
Yu Xiaotian also perverted and made them often divide into two groups, wear cowhide or whale skin protective gear, use wooden knives, wooden guns and wooden shields, and wrap the head of the gun with cotton cloth, either to catch and fight, or to fight collectively.
At first, they were very unpopular with the sailors, and always laughed at them, saying that they were specially for the fleet, and to put it bluntly, they were raised by their stepmothers.
The angry Li Dazui and Meng Fei jumped to their feet, and asked Yu Xiaotian many times to get on the boat, even if they were just the most ordinary boatmen, even if they let them do it, as long as they didn't stay in the soldiers to take care of these stepmothers.
However, Yu Xiaotian repeatedly disapproved, and also enlightened them, telling them the role of soldiers, and the treatment of soldiers is no worse than that of sailors, but the equipment is even more than that of sailors, most of the southern Japanese-style flintlock pistols and spears are equipped with war battalions, and soldiers began to popularize the equipment of leather armor during this time, and officers above the squad leader were issued with new officer uniforms, and they were also equipped with iron armor.
Li Dazui and Meng Fei reluctantly stayed in the barracks to continue to manage these soldiers, but in the first battle of Nangantang, the soldiers finally raised their eyebrows and made a splash, winning more with less, and beating Chen Jiu and his men.
This time, the Sea Wolf tribe finally understood why Yu Xiaotian wanted to set up such a war battalion that seemed to be eating leisurely, it turned out that when attacking and defending the island or landing, this was the time for the soldiers to play, and since then the soldiers have finally raised their eyebrows.
Later, some of the soldiers fought more with less on Nangantang, and under the leadership of Ma Xiao, they defended Nangantang for many days, so that Chen Jiu was in front of Nangantang Dazhai, and his head was broken and bleeding, and there was no way to stare at Nangantang Dazhai, and he was killed and injured a lot of his subordinates.
Then the war battalion followed the fleet to attack Chen Jiu's Shuangfeng Island, and once again attacked Chen Jiu's Dazhai as the main force, and at a price that was not too big, Chen Jiu's Shuangfeng Island Dazhai was taken.
At this point, no one laughed at the people in the war barracks, saying that they were raised by their stepmothers to eat idle food, and the war barracks have since established their prestige, although they dare not say that they can compete with the guys in the fleet, but at least under the leadership of the two of them, the war barracks has a firm position in the sea wolves.
These days, Meng Fei was ordered to personally bring some clever soldiers to cooperate with a group of patrols from the torture hall into the merchant inn area, some people disguised themselves as immigrants on the island and wandered around the merchant area, while he himself stayed on the arrow tower to observe the situation in the entire merchant area.
As early as a month or two ago, Yu Xiaotian inadvertently found pigeons falling in the sky above the Shangzhan area, and found two other Shanginns with pigeons.
For this reason, Yu Xiaotian specially inquired about it, and some people have begun to raise pigeons to play in this era, but the situation of raising pigeons is not common, because it takes a lot of idle time to play this, not only to serve well, but also to constantly release and exercise the ability of pigeons to return to the nest. Ordinary people can't afford to play at all, and they don't have the time.
So he secretly began to pay attention to these two shops, and sent people to keep an eye on them, these days the sea wolf tribe came back to gather for a temporary rest, and even sent people to keep an eye on these two businesses with pigeons in secret.
And Meng Fei was appointed to be in charge of this operation, without startling the snake, to catch Chu Cailao or other people's meticulous work hidden on Nanri Island.
And after days of control, they have found that a bartender in a restaurant on the island behaves very abnormally, often in a little leisure, he sneaks out of the restaurant and walks around in the shopping area, and finally gets into a shop, neither buys anything, nor stays in front, often is quickly taken into the back of the shop, stays for a period of time, and then quietly leaves, and after coming out, he will go around the shopping area again before returning to the restaurant to continue to do things.
The shop that this strange bartender entered was the same shop that secretly kept pigeons, and often soon after the bartender arrived, pigeons were released in the shop, and the direction of the pigeon was the southern part of Nanri Island.
Recently, after several days of control, the people who inspected the goods of the people entering and leaving the island at the wharf of the sea wolf also found that this shop often brought some pigeons from the island from the land with the ship, and asked the reason, their people said that their shopkeeper liked to eat pigeons, saying that eating more of this has the effect of strengthening the kidneys and replenishing blood.
And today Meng Fei took people to focus on taking care of the shop here, when he saw the two pigeons being released, he could basically be sure that there was a problem with this shop, this shop would release pigeons every day these days, and most of them were after the bartender came to their shop, which was even more illustrative.
Pigeons in this era, has been widely used for communication, some of the larger forces will cost a lot of money, at the expense of private pigeons, to train them, to make it a fast and convenient means of communication.
This incident also reminded Yu Xiaotian, he hadn't remembered to use carrier pigeons as a means of contact with their sea wolves for so long, but when he was looking for a fine work, he saw it from others, which made Yu Xiaotian even scold himself for being stupid for several days, and he didn't think of such a good method.
In the past, when he was just making a small fuss, the demand for communication was not very large, but now he controls so much territory on the sea, and has also established two bases on Taiyuan Island, Jicoop Village and Tamsui Village, which used to rely on ships to transmit news, but ships are greatly affected by the weather when they travel on the sea, and when they encounter strong winds and waves, ships cannot go to sea, and they cannot guarantee safety.
(Whew, I'm tired!) I came back at noon to catch up with some manuscripts, and I'll send them here! It's not easy for a man! Went to bed early tonight! Update a little later tomorrow! )