Chapter 213: Attack on Humao City

Because the city was built by the sea, there was no moat dug outside the city wall, so the sea wolf tribe did not even need to cross the river, and could directly carry a long ladder to attack under the city wall.

Just when the sea wolf troops carried the ladder to attack the acropolis, a white flag was finally raised on the city wall, and several officers and soldiers did not know where to find a dirty hundred steps, picked up the spear, hid behind the battlements, and began to shake wildly.

"Stop fighting! We surrendered! Surrendered! The official is dead, let's stop fighting! Please spare your life! ……”

It turned out that just now when the sea wolf was firing a volley of guns, the inspector who commanded the city, because of an accident, was shot on the spot, this shot happened to pass through his neck, and immediately killed him on the city wall, and the rest of the defenders, as soon as they saw that the official was dead, they had no intention of resisting, so several soldiers pounced on it, and tied up one who was still trying to resist, and then raised the white flag.

The entire attack on Kinmen Island, the sea wolf only took one day, and it was declared over, which also included the attack on the island of Kinmen City and the four inspection divisions, after the Kinmen City was broken, the remaining four inspection divisions, did not make any senseless resistance, as soon as the sea wolf troops arrived, they opened the city and surrendered.

The sea wolves also kept their promise, and when they entered the city, they did not kill anyone, but only arrested and beheaded some of the rebels who had taken advantage of the chaos in the city to loot and rape women.

As for the patrol who led the troops to resist, although he had been killed, because he had violated the will of the sea wolf, all his family property was confiscated, and the two resisting generals were also arrested and cut off their heads, and their property was confiscated.

In addition, the sea wolf only entered the city to control the important places such as the thousands of government offices and the treasury in the city, and confiscated the property in it to the public, and for the ordinary soldiers and people in the city, the sea wolf did not infringe on their property, but ordered them to stay at home, and did not go out without an order, waiting for the next arrangement.

Yu Xiaotian ordered three platoons of marines to be left on the island, and after resting on Kinmen Island for one night, he led the team to the center and left again.

The left is Xiamen Island, after the Ming Dynasty, the government set up a thousand households on the island, under the jurisdiction of Yongningwei, it is also the gateway of Zhangquan, it was quite valued by the government in the past, and hundreds of troops were stationed here.

However, like other places, the strength of the Zhongzuo Institute is now not as good as it was back then, and there are only less than 300 guards left in the entire Zhongzuo Station, and there are only two warships left in the boats.

In the face of the Sea Wolf's attack, such strength is simply like a fictitious, and it is still a day, and the center left has also fallen.

And the Gaopu Qianhu Office and Tong'an County on the shore, after learning the news of the sea wolf's large-scale attack, immediately closed the city gates, closed the door, and was so frightened that they could only pray secretly that the sea wolf would stop and stop attacking them.

After Yu Xiaotian led his troops to take down the Kinmen Institute and the Zhongzuo Office, he controlled all the islands in the entire Weitou Bay area, including the mouth of the Jiulong River, in two days, and completely blocked the mouth of the Jiulong River.

After they took control of the mouth of the Jiulong River, Yu Xiaotian finally gave the order and began to attack Haicheng, which was the famous Yuegang at this time.

At this time, because the government used troops against the Sea Wolf Nanri Island in the early stage, a large number of merchant ships were sealed and any merchant ships were forbidden to go to sea.

At this time, the merchants had already learned the news of the defeat of the official army on Nanri Island, and even learned the news of the sea wolf's large-scale attack, and they were already frightened to the point of urine.

When the sea wolves attacked Kinmen and Zhongzuo, many merchant ships no longer obeyed the orders of the government, and began to lift anchor and hoist their sails without authorization, sailing out of the estuary, trying to escape from this area and take refuge in other places for a while.

Soon after they sailed out of the mouth of the Kowloon River, they were blocked by the sea wolves' warships, and the sea wolves ordered these merchant ships not to leave this area, and all of them temporarily sailed to the docks of Kinmen Island to anchor, drop anchor and collect their sails to wait for the sea wolves to fall.

Any ship that attempts to escape will be attacked by the sea wolf and the ship and all its belongings confiscated.

So these blocked merchant ships had to be honestly escorted to the dock of Kinmen Island, where they were temporarily detained, waiting for the next disposition of the sea wolf.

Yu Xiaotian personally led the fleet in the past few days, and launched an operation in the area of Weitou Bay non-stop, completely blocking the Moon Harbor, but this time the sea wolf attacked the Moon Harbor, but no one in the colleagues dared to express dissatisfaction, including Chu Cailao, who had always regarded Haicheng as a forbidden man, did not make any statement, as if he didn't know about it at all.

And Yan Siqi actually sent ten boats to the side of Weitou Bay after the sea wolf soldiers arrived at Weitou Bay to help the sea wolf block the sea.

After Yu Xiaotian completely controlled the entire Weitou Bay, he began to take action against the Moon Port, which is actually not superior in geographical conditions, because it is located in the mouth of the Jiulong River, the channel is narrow, and the water depth is not very large, which is not a good condition for the sea port.

However, the reason why the Ming Dynasty chose Yuegang as the only foreign maritime trade port was because of their careful consideration, and it was precisely because of the poor sea conditions of Yuegang that it was easier to be controlled by the government than any open coastal port, so the government chose this place as the place to open the port.

And there is another advantage, that is, it is deep in the Jiulong River, located on land, in addition to being easy to control, it is also relatively easy to protect.

Although since the opening of the Moon Port, many pirates have wanted to fight the idea of the Moon Port, but there are not many pirates who can really break into the Moon Port and rob it, Chu Cai Lao is one, Zheng Yiguan can only be regarded as half, and now that the sea wolf is here, it will naturally not be much of a problem.

When Yu Xiaotian decided to attack Haicheng this time, in fact, the sea wolf had already come to Yuegang once, and the last time Zheng Yiguan planned to attack Yuegang, Yu Xiaotian united with Chu Cailao and Yan Siqi, blocked it in Weitou Bay, and beat it up, and the sea wolf and Chu Cailao and Yan Siqi also took the sheep and made a big profit in Yuegang.

Therefore, the sea wolf is very familiar with the situation here, and after coming over this time, he first sealed the mouth of the Jiulong River, and then began to take action against Haicheng.

Because the water depth and channel width of the Yuexi River in the Jiulong River are limited, such as the Dafu boat and the Western-style large splint ship cannot directly enter the Moon Harbor, and even if they can enter, they will have to take a great risk, so Yu Xiaotian did not let these heavy firepower ships participate, but left them outside, and only ordered other ships with smaller hulls to sail into the Moon River.

In order to protect the ships sailing into the Jiulong River, Yu Xiaotian ordered Meng Fei and Liu Tong to lead a land army, and Meng Fei led a land army to land from the west of the mouth of the Nanxi River, and then follow the fleet on the river along the river bank to Haicheng.

The other road was led by Liu Tong, escorted by the fleet, and landed on Humao Island in the estuary, because there is a Humao City on Humao Island, which was built during the Jiajing period, in order to prevent the Japanese from being prepared.

This Humao City, with some cannons, can directly threaten the safety of ships sailing on the river, the reason why the general pirates dare not enter the Moon Harbor to loot, is because of the reason of Humao City, afraid of being shelled by the defenders of Humao City.

When Chu Cailao attacked Haicheng before, he also suffered the loss of Humao City, but the last time the sea wolf entered the Moon Port, because of the great situation, the defenders of Hu Mao City did not dare to act rashly, but this time considering that the sea wolf was attacking on a large scale this time, the defenders of Hu Mao City should not dare to sit idly by, so they will definitely take some actions to prevent the sea wolf fleet from entering the Moon Port.

Therefore, this Humao City was handed over to Liu Tong to be responsible for solving it.

After making all the preparations, Liu Tong landed on Humao Island first, and this time he led two infantry companies, including an elite company fully equipped with wolf-tooth rifles, and an artillery platoon carrying two twelve-pounder mountain howitzers.

Meng Fei led his troops to land on the west bank of the Nanxi estuary, led a battalion of troops, and rushed straight to Haicheng, while the rest of the fleet was on the river, following the landers on both sides, and under the cover of the landers, they sailed towards Yuegang.

Because they were swimming against the current and the wind direction was not conducive to sailing, after they entered the Jiulong River, the speed of the voyage was very slow, which happened to cooperate with the actions of the marines on both sides of the strait.

At this time, Haicheng County had already received the news, and learned that a large number of sea wolves were attacking in a big way, and those officials and officials who were originally showing off their might in Yuegang suddenly wilted, and they all fled into Haicheng County one by one, and there were only about 500 officers and soldiers defending the town, responsible for guarding Yuegang.

This point of the defenders and the firearms in their hands did not pose any threat to the sea wolf at all, so the sea wolf basically did not have much resistance to attack the moon port.

The key depends on whether Liu Tong's actions in Humao City are smooth, and at this time, there are about 400 officers and soldiers stationed in Humao City, and the one in charge is a Qian Zong surnamed Cao, who knows that this time they are in big trouble.

The sea wolf invaded the Moon Port in a big way, he as the main general of Humao City, he has the duty of defending the territory, if he is like last time, let the sea wolf attack the Moon Port, he is afraid that he will not want to do it anymore, no one has settled the account for him last time, if he turns a blind eye this time, then his head will probably have to change places.

So after learning the news that the sea wolf fleet was going to sail into the mouth of the Jiulong River, Cao Qian hurriedly pulled the garrisons in Humao City to the city wall, and began to operate the cannons on the city wall, preparing ammunition to bombard the sea wolf fleet entering the Jiulong River at any time.

Whether he can fight this battle or not, he must fight, even if it is just for show, he must fight a few shots, of course, Cao Qian is not self-righteous, thinking that he can prevent the sea wolf from entering the Moon Harbor by doing this, but doing so is something that must be pretended.

Before he could get ready, he heard a report from his subordinates that a group of hundreds of sea wolf troops had actually landed on Humao Island and headed towards Humao City.

Cao Qian panicked when he heard this, and hurriedly ran to the east gate to look outside, this time his scalp was numb, and he saw hundreds of sea wolf troops who had been neatly cleaned up and had landed in the east of Humao Island in a neat queue and drove towards Humao City.

Humao City is said to be a city, in fact, it is not big, the circumference of the city wall is only more than 1,000 meters, the length of each city wall is only more than 400 meters, the height of the city wall is only more than three meters less than four meters, although it is a brick and stone block, but under the disrepair, the city wall in many places has been cracked, and even a few years ago because of the flood, a section of the city wall was also collapsed by the flood, and now it is just a simple patch with a sandbag.

Such a small broken city is almost the same as scaring and scaring the little pirates, but if you want to withstand the attack of the sea wolf, it is a joke.