Although Li Yanzhi hid his whereabouts and quietly led troops to rescue Bon Gang, his whereabouts could not be concealed from anyone who cared about it.

Li Yanzhi left with the veterans of the Praetorian Guard, Zheng Zhilong also left by boat with thousands of subordinates, plus Yu Zhigao, who went to Penghu to attack Li Kuiqi, the army near Fuzhou was almost gone, and it was very empty.

Normally, nothing at all. Because the coastal pirates have long been extinct, no matter how bold the pirates are, they dare not harass the capital of a province.

However, this is not the normal situation now. In the early morning of this day, when the sky was bright, a pirate fleet quietly docked on the coast of Fuzhou, and thousands of pirates rushed to the shore and began to loot.

As the capital of a province, Fuzhou is naturally more prosperous than other places, and there are many villages and towns on both sides of the Min River outside the city.

Now, the pirates rushed into these villages and towns and began to rob them on a large scale, especially the rich families, who were all robbed of their wealth, and their wives and concubines were insulted......

"Didn't Yu Zhigao go to encircle and suppress Li Kuiqi? Where did the pirates come from? What about Li Yanzhi, why don't you send troops to resist? "Governor Yamen, Xiong Wencan was shocked when he heard the report.

As the governor of Fujian, he was killed by pirates outside the city of Fuzhou, even if he was able to drive away or exterminate the pirates in the end, it was a great dereliction of duty......

Thinking of this, Xiong Wencan was full of resentment towards Yu Zhigao and Li Yanzhi.

"Futai, the pirates are flying the skeleton flag, and it seems to be Li Kuiqi's men." The soldier who reported the news said.

"Yu Zhigao!" Xiong Wencan slapped the table angrily, hating to swallow Yu Zhigao in one gulp.

"By the way, Li Yanzhi, let him quickly send troops to exterminate the pirates!"

"It's been notified, but Li Yanzhi hasn't made any movement for a few days, I'm afraid he won't ......be in Fuzhou," Jiang Shanfu, a staff member, said with a wry smile.

"Li Yanzhi is not here?" Xiong Wencan sat on the chair with a pale face, "How is it possible?" Li Yanzhi: Where did he go? ”

Jiang Shanfu said: "Most of them went to Taiwan with Zheng Zhilong, and I heard that the red-haired ghost is attacking Bon Port. ”

Li Yanzhi is not there, Zheng Zhilong is not there, Yu Zhigao is not there, Li Kuiqi was supposed to be in Penghu, but he appeared in Fuzhou, and things are really weird.

Li Kuiqi is just a pirate, how can he calculate that Fuzhou has an empty army, there must be someone behind this! As for who was manipulating, Jiang Shanfu had some vague thoughts in his heart, but he couldn't say it.

"Send the order down, close the city gates, and gather the young men in the city to defend the city!" Since Zheng Zhilong and Li Yanzhi are not there, there are no more superfluous people in Fuzhou City, and Xiong Wencan has no hope of driving Li Kuiqi away, so he can only keep Fuzhou City first.

"My lord, there is still an army outside the city, you forgot, General Li has been recruiting new soldiers all these days, and I heard that four or five thousand people have been recruited." Jiang Shanfu reminded.

"yes, I almost forgot!" Xiong Wencan slapped his thigh, "Come on, go to the recruit camp to give an order, and order them to enter Fuzhou immediately to defend!" ”

This group of recruits has not been recruited for ten days, and Xiong Wencan has no hope for their combat effectiveness, and he does not expect them to take the initiative to repel the pirates, but it is still possible to defend the city.

The herald quickly departed, and soon returned to the governor's yamen, and reported to Xiong Wencan that the new army was not in the camp and had gone to fight the pirates.

"Who is Li Yanzhi who left behind to lead the troops? I don't know how thick the sky is! Xiong Wencan said angrily.

Who gave him the courage to recruit recruits who didn't have much time to recruit and bring them to war?

Even Xiong Wencan didn't think that these newly recruited soldiers had any combat effectiveness, and the others naturally did the same.

In the attack on Fuzhou, Li Kuiqi did not know what the reason, and there was not even any information about this new army. Maybe the person who gave him the information forgot about this recruit, or maybe he deliberately concealed it, Li Kuiqi was completely unaware of the existence of this recruit of more than 4,000 people.

Li Kuiqi turned out to be Yan Siqi's elder brother, because he was dissatisfied with Zheng Zhilong's use of means to obtain the identity of the leader, so he left Bengang with his subordinates, and chose to open a mountain in Penghu, rob passing merchant ships, and also do trade.

Just recently, Li Kuiqi suddenly received a report from Xu Xinsu, saying that Yu Zhigao, the deputy general soldier of Fujian, led troops to Penghu to kill. Li Kuiqi didn't believe it at first, because what he did on weekdays was not too excessive, and there was no need for Fujian sailors to come to Penghu and not be able to get along with him? So he sent a sentinel ship to investigate, and then found that the official fleet had really killed it.

Li Kuiqi's men had three or four thousand pirates, and they did not want to fight to the death with the official army, so they evacuated Penghu. Originally, he wanted to wait for the official army to withdraw before returning, but who knew that Yu Zhigao actually ordered the stockade in Penghu to be burned down, and Penghu, which had been operating hard for several years, became a ruin, and Li Kuiqi was furious.

At this time, Xu Xinsu sent someone to come again, telling Li Kuiqi that Fuzhou was empty, and suggested that Li Kuiqi go to Fuzhou to grab a handful, so as to repay the hatred of Penghu Water Village being burned!

Li Kuiqi was angry, so he listened to Xu Xinsu's words and led the fleet to Fuzhou. In order to prevent Yu Zhigao from returning to help in time, Li Kuiqi also sent a fleet to attack and harass Yu Zhigao and delay his return to Fuzhou.

After the killing in Fuzhou, until the landing and invasion of the villages on both sides of the Minjiang River, no officers and soldiers appeared, which made Li Kuiqi feel relieved, it seems that Xu Xinsu did not lie to himself, and the officers and troops in Fuzhou really left. Yu Zhigao is not there, Zheng Zhilong has returned to Taiwan, even the new Fujian general soldier is not there, so what are you afraid of?

Li Kuiqi then ordered a large-scale plunder. He didn't have the idea of attacking Fuzhou City, he just thought about robbing outside Fuzhou City, and then went out to sea, the sea is so big, just find a place, the officials and soldiers can't find him.

However, as an old pirate, Li Kuiqi still had an instinctive vigilance, and did not send all the pirates out to loot, but left more than a thousand pirates on guard.

His vigilance worked, and it didn't take long for an officer army to come from the direction of Fuzhou, and it was none other than the recruits recruited by Li Yanzhi.

"What? Four or five thousand officers and soldiers? Li Kuiqi was shocked when he heard the report, "Where did so many officers and soldiers come from, didn't Xu Xinsu say that there were no soldiers in Fuzhou?" Hurry up, don't grab it, and return to the ship! ”

Li Kuiqi led a thousand pirates to meet the official army, and ordered the pirates who had been scattered to retreat. As an old pirate who has killed countless people, Li Kuiqi is not afraid of the combat power of the official army.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and when he sees the lineup of the official army, Li Kuiqi can't help but feel bitter in his mouth. The officers and soldiers on the opposite side were not only several times larger than their own, but also well-equipped, dressed neatly in military uniforms, holding standard knives, guns and weapons, and the queue was also very neat, and they were elite at a glance.

How can this be stopped? Li Kuiqi wailed in his heart.

However, to his surprise, when the two sides were half a mile apart, the officers and troops actually stopped and did not take the initiative to attack.