On the north bank of the Yuqiao River, in the homesteaders, the green seedlings that are beginning to flourish have already grown in the fields, and according to the output of one crop in one season, they should also produce abundant ears of grain in two months. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But now, the farmers who were supposed to be taking care of the fresh water in the Yuqiao River along the ditches and carefully maintaining the farms have long since disappeared, and only the seemingly simple thatched huts and simple windmills seem to be erected in the empty place.

The peasants had been warned, and in the shortest possible time they were back in Cape Town, and with the help of the walls they were now safe.

Even the upper reaches of the Yuqiao River, the lumber yards and quarries, and the capture of those crocodiles in the Everglades continued, except that the ancient three bronze falcon cannons were re-activated on the hill batteries at the mouth of the Yuqiao River.

In the current war situation, even the bronze falcon cannon can also be put to use, not to mention that this is a 12-pounder caliber artillery, and it is quite easy to blockade the Yuqiao River and prohibit the enemy's boats from entering the upper reaches of the Yuqiao River on this hill battery.

After all, the width of the Yuqiao River is only ten meters, and the depth is only five or six meters, although ordinary dhow warships can be driven into it if they are careful, but such a big target is like a live target.

This is also the reason why Levi is so relieved about the Yuqiao River, the mouth of the sea is blocked by a fort, the edge of the Swamp is blocked by the garrison of the silver pit, and there is also a fortress in the middle of the lake in the Swamp, and it is even more difficult for ordinary enemy troops to rely on this line of defense to attack Cape Town!

However, that group of pirate fleets could not be so stupid to get into the Yuqiao River, after being familiar with the wide sea, the narrow river is inevitably a little too narrow.

More than a dozen pirate warships have already gone to chase and expel the navy of Cape Town, and the remaining dozen or so pirate warships are scattered, gradually forming a large ladder-like net, encircling Cape Town on land, and not directly launching landing operations, it seems that they are still observing the deployment of Cape Town.

The pirates, though they belong to the same group of looters as the Kertuf River pirates, are clearly more of a team than rushing up in a mess with a single passion.

The most important point is that most of the pirates in Crash Bay are from the regular navy of the South Trumming Sea, and have received traditional military training, although the first generation of pirates has long been old, but the second generation of pirates from the current tactical style, also obviously with the military style of the South Trumchi Sea!

Just like now, their warships formed a large net, first of all the wooden piers in the southern district and the mouth of the Yuqiao River in the northern district.

These two areas that can enter and exit the warship are taken care of by them, but they also seem to know that there are a lot of artillery in the fortifications of Cape Town, and they have not yet chosen to attack directly.

Of course, they are also looking for opportunities and breakthroughs, after all, for this group of pirates, Cape Town, of course, they must choose to capture it and loot it on a large scale, but it is also a point to pay attention to reducing their own casualties and making sure that their own personnel will not suffer too much loss.

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Compared with the composure of the group of pirates, the Barbary pirates, who had been hiding in the homestead farm, were a little impatient, and even looked at the pirate warships in the distance and began to move.

If it weren't for the captains of their respective teams forcibly suppressing their emotions, it is estimated that these rebellious pirates would have rushed to the edge of the beach with scimitars and scolded those pirate warships frantically, wanting to have a head-to-head confrontation or a tragic hand-to-hand combat.

Of course, they have a deep understanding of their own swordsmanship and fighting skills, and even have some contempt for the backward fighting skills in this world.

But a real battle is not a simple fighting skills can make up for it, they need to continue to ambush here, choose to wait for orders, wait for the enemy to land ashore, and when they are caught off guard, they suddenly appear to carry out a surprise attack, so as to kill and injure a large number of enemies who come to the north bank of the Yuqiao River.

As the captains of the Barbary pirates, the three of them had gathered in the same thatched hut, and in the four or five thatched huts and mills around them, as well as the grain warehouse, all of them were their men.

The three hundred and sixty Barbary pirates are waiting, waiting for their captain to give an order, because the order from Cape Town has already let everyone know that if the battle situation is urgent, or there is an emergency, their three captains can discuss and act on their own!

This aroused the hearts of many Barbary pirates who wanted to fight, and even many young people who asked for war appeared.

In the past, they were basically hand-to-hand combat, behind the town militia armed with flintlock pistols, although the enemy encountered a lot, but most of the time, it was the town militia who solved those enemies, and they would carry a scimitar to clean up the battlefield.

Although there are sometimes a small number of defeated soldiers waiting for their disposal, more often than not, they only play the role of cleaners in the face of corpses all over the ground.

This is like a humiliation for the Barbary Pirate Gate, which was once famous in the Mediterranean and frightened many countries in the Mediterranean, and they can't imagine that the scimitar in their hands is not to cut off the enemy's head, but to wear it as a pendant around the waist!

They are not afraid of death, but they are eager to fight!

But the three captains did not promise their soldiers that they wanted to take the initiative to go out and provoke, because this was not an oath before the battle, but a foolish act of exposing their goals.

The binoculars in their hands had been opened, and the three captains looked at the dozen or so warships that seemed to be docked in the distance, and their brows couldn't help frowning slightly, because they also found that the pirates on those battleships didn't seem to be calm!

A few small boats for escape or search were laid down on the ocean-going warship, and more than thirty pirates rowed a slender boat on the ocean-going warship and swam towards the north bank of the Yuqiao River.

In fact, it was not this small ship, because on the dozen or so ocean-going warships, each sent a small boat, each full of more than thirty pirates was slowly approaching, and even looking at the equipment they carried, they were all ordinary light weapons.

This was the appearance of taking the initiative to come to investigate, but it made the eyes of the three Barbary pirate captains widen slightly, because they found that this was a good opportunity.