These strangely shaped ships come and go fast on the sea, and as long as they are targeted, there is almost no chance of escape, unless they happen to encounter hurricanes and waves, or they can only catch up and bite to death.

After Liu Xiang did it a few times, without exception, he quickly incurred this kind of cruel revenge, a batch of such flying clippers, broke into his territory, attacked his ships day and night, and even attacked some of his islands at night, slaughtered his men, stripped them into pigs one by one and hung upside down, the means were so cruel that even Liu Xiang, who rushed to the accident site afterwards, felt his scalp tingle.

Liu Xiang and some sea lords have the intention of revenge, but these unidentified ships come and go like the wind, they can't catch up, they can't find it, after doing it a few times, these people understand that this is Yu Xiaotian's revenge, they can't get involved in Fujian, but in Guangdong and Guangxi, it is not necessarily their world, Yu Xiaotian's hand has reached the Liangguang area, and they can't help but be arrogant.

As long as they see the merchant ships of the sea wolves, most of them will walk around and not provoke them, only some small pirates who have just started to do this business without opening their eyes dare to touch the merchant ships of the sea wolf group, but they often hit a bloody head when they go up, and some small pirates are even killed directly by other merchant ships.

Therefore, over the years, the merchant ships of the sea wolf have been active in the Liangguang area, on the one hand, they have their own family protection, on the other hand, there are also the forces of Chu Cailao and Yan Siqi and others to escort them, plus they themselves also have a strong ability to resist, coupled with Yu Xiaotian's cold retaliation, so that the merchant ships of the sea wolf sailed along the coast of Liangguang, and not many people dared to provoke lightly.

Now Yu Xiaotian is waving his army to the south, for these pirates, it is undoubtedly a death knell for them, Yu Xiaotian is leading the entire army of the Third Fleet this time, and a group of warships from the Second Fleet are transferred to the southbound fleet.

A total of more than 70 warships of various kinds have been gathered, don't look at this number is not much, but these more than 70 warships, all of them are more than 300 warships, which are definitely big ships in Chinese sailing ships, and more than half of them are 400 to 700 warships, such big ships, among Chinese sailing ships, in this era, are already the largest ships, and the vast majority of merchant ships cannot be built so big.

What's more, these ships are specially built warships, the hull structure is very strong, the bow is covered with a thick iron sheet for collision, the bottom has a layer of copper skin, the sail area is large, the speed of the ship is fast, and the use of the steering wheel mechanism makes the ship easy to operate, flexible operation, and it can be said that there are few opponents at sea.

Not to mention the formidable firepower of these ships, each ship was equipped with at least ten or so cannons, mainly twelve-pounder to twenty-four-pounder guns, and some large ships even loaded with thirty-six-pounder carons, and often six-pounder light guns on the deck, and there were hardly any pirates that could compete with them.

In addition to these more than 70 medium and large warships, Yu Xiaotian also dispatched a group of light Feizi clippers to participate in the war as auxiliary combat forces.

These light Feizi clippers are a miniature version of the original Feizi clippers, with only four twelve-pounder guns on board and a twelve-pounder cannon that can rotate in all directions at the bow, with a displacement of only a few dozen tons, but the speed is very fast and the operation is extremely flexible.

Although these small flying clippers cannot be used as the main warships, they can protect these large warships from the siege of enemy boats or fireships, and can play a very important role in the battle.

At this time, Yu Xiaotian had already sent someone to draw a very detailed chart of the coastal areas of Liangguang, and marked all the islands and reefs on the chart.

In this southward operation, he led these warships to line up along the coast of Guangdong, pushed them south, searched the islands, and ordered all the ships encountered along the way to stop and inspect them.

This time he led his troops south, but he was ordered by the imperial court, so he did these things without fear at all, no matter how powerful the owner behind your ship is, and no matter how big your hands and eyes are, as long as you are touched, you will immediately order the ship to stop and inspect, and if anyone tries to escape or resist, immediately fire a shell.

This practice made the pirates along the coast miserable, and some of them hid their ships in some bays along the coast and went ashore to take refuge, but their ships were soon discovered by the ships of the sea wolves searching along the coastline, and they were charged and inspected and asked who the owner of the ship was, and if no one claimed it, they were confiscated as pirate ships.

As for the pirates who fled to shore, they were nothing without a ship, which was tantamount to cutting off their feet and leaving them with no possibility of re-entering the sea for a short time.

Some pirates then fled to the open sea, but staying away from the coast at sea was a very dangerous thing in this era, and there were strong winds and waves at sea from time to time, so you can't always drift on the sea! In the event of wind and waves, they must stay on the shore to take shelter, and often the Yujia military sailors are waiting for them on the beach, coming back and catching one by one.

This time, in addition to the naval division, Yu Xiaotian also dispatched three infantry battalions, and a naval battalion went out with the army, and was specifically responsible for controlling the various islands along the way, and bringing them into the jurisdiction of the sea wolf, so as to prevent them from going on the front foot for a period of time in the future, and the back foot pirates came to use these islands as their foothold.

On the surface, Yu Xiaotian is taking every step of the way to clean up the pirates, but in fact, it is equivalent to Yu Xiaotian, and he directly took all these islands into his pocket.

Of course, not all of the islands he chose were garrisoned, some of them had no fresh water sources at all, so there was no need to keep people, like this island, pirates would not treat them as nests, at best, they could only temporarily shelter from the wind, so the islands he chose were all places with relatively sufficient fresh water sources, and such islands would be garrisoned by his soldiers.

In addition to the islands, Yu Xiaotian also ordered his subordinates to take over some places such as Wanzi along the coast of Guangdong, which were often used as hiding places by pirates, and selected some local squires who colluded with pirates, and directly arrested and killed a group of them, and confiscated all their family property.

Xiong Wencan gave Yu Xiaotian great authority to let Yu Xiaotian do things for him this time, so that Yu Xiaotian had a lot of power to act cheaply in dealing with the thief.

So when Yu Xiaotian does these things, it can be said that he has no scruples, as long as he likes some big gentry, whether you have anything to do with pirates or not, he has pirates on hand, and he directly asks these pirates to make a confession, very simple, with the confession of these pirates, he can go to the shore to find the local government and ask for assistance in arresting people.

Of course, the government has Xiong Wencan's order, and he doesn't dare to say no, so he can only let Yu Xiaotian's subordinates arrest these thieves and squires, and under torture, they can vomit out some things if they are fine.

The squires on the shore, if they want them to have nothing to do with pirates, it is simply impossible, many big families by the sea are actually pirates who have been whitewashed ashore, or they are the pirates' nest owners, or the most unfortunate ones are also related to pirates, so in a short period of time, Yu Xiaotian caught dozens of thieves just in the coastal area of Chaozhou Mansion.

Some big households are not satisfied, refuse to open the village door to be bound, with Zhuang Ding to try to resist, but they do this, but they are directly looking for death, what kind of equipment is the Yu family army, beating them is like playing, as long as someone dares to resist, then the Yu family soldiers will be ordered to attack it, directly destroy them all over the door, the female is captured and sent back to the island of Taiwan, the male is also tied up, sent to the hard labor camp, the owner is killed on the spot, leaving no living mouth, afterwards the criminal tried to resist stubbornly, was killed on the spot and handed over to the local government for processing.

So along the way, just in Chaozhou Mansion, Yu Xiaotian made a lot of money, from dozens of thieves' homes, up to more than 100,000 taels of silver, the largest family, his family, from their cellar, more than 40,000 taels of silver, in addition to the silver, but also seized at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, most of these stolen goods are real stolen goods, but the pirates usually robbed the goods, temporarily stored in their nest owner's house, but they really did not wronged them.

So this time Yu Xiaotian led his troops south, and the thunderous means he adopted were simply a carnival trip to make a fortune, but all the things he used were directly loaded and shipped away, and only some worthless things, or things that he didn't use, were left to the local government to dispose of.

The local government along the coast of Guangdong was quite dissatisfied with this, and tried to pull out some fat from Yu Xiaotian's mouth, but this wealth was in Yu Jiajun's pocket, and it was impossible to hope that he would still want to pull out some of it.

Even Yu Xiaotian's subordinates directly put the land deeds copied out by many large families into their pockets, and privately stuffed some silver for the local officials, and directly transferred these land deeds to Yu Xiaotian's hands, which became Yu Xiaotian's land.

In this regard, the officials of the local government did not dare to say a word to Yu Xiaotian, so they could only pinch their noses and admit it, only the magistrate of Raoping County, because the big family copied by Yu Jiajun was related to him, he once tried to prevent Yu Jiajun from attacking Zhuangzi, but the errand sent was directly tied up by Yu Jiajun, beaten and rushed back to the county seat, and ordered Raoping Zhixian to hand over the big family hiding in the county seat.

Rao Pingzhi County resolutely refused to do it, and shouted grievances for this big family, but Yu Jiajun came up with a lot of evidence to prove that this guy was the owner of a group of pirates. Therefore, he resolutely refused to hand over the matter.