In yesterday's battle, there were about 200 pirates who escaped from Yaluo Bay, but these pirates were not all Zhu Jiu's subordinates, there were many other local pirates who came to help, and Zhu Jiu's own subordinates were less than a hundred, plus the people who were originally left behind on the island, there were 1890 people, which was about the same. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Li Xian looked at the defense facilities on Zhu Jiu's side again, and saw that the stone wall really looked very strong, there were two cannons faintly placed on the wall, and there were fifty or sixty people holding muskets in their hands, and he couldn't help frowning a little, although he didn't take this firepower to heart, but in this battle, casualties were probably inevitable.

The reaction of the pirates was not organized, and they were not as swift as they should be, and when the fleet on Li Xian's side was about to seal the port, only two small sampans ran out of the bay occupied by Zhu Jiu, I don't know if they wanted to attack Li Xian's fleet or just wanted to escape.

As for the twenty or thirty pirates on the two ships, Li Xian really didn't pay attention to it, and he didn't need to use whaling cannons and grenades and other weapons of mass destruction, but at the sound of an order, the guards who were close to the ship approached and shot with rifles, and immediately beat people to cry and cry for their mother.

At this time, something happened that everyone did not expect, and the Chaoyuanguan side still wanted to suppress the enemy first and then slowly clean up, but the fishermen and hunters who came by small boats bravely stepped forward, leaned over and threw harpoons or shot bows and arrows, forcing the pirates on the ship to jump into the sea and escape.

Many of the fishermen of Alor Bay have inherited their whaling skills, and are very good at throwing harpoons, fast and steady, and the hunters who came to help this time have excellent archery ability, and they did not need to use the full strength of the escort team, so they leaned over and destroyed the two ships of pirates.

Seeing the great success of their first battle, the fishermen and hunters couldn't help but cheer, and hundreds of people shouted together, and the momentum was extremely grand.

Li Xian originally brought these people over, not expecting to rely on them to fight, but hoping to give the escort team a strong momentum, and at the same time avoid Zhu Jiu desperately trying to fight or escape, at this time, seeing that these people could actually eliminate the pirates by themselves, he couldn't help but be shocked, and had a new understanding of the force of these civilians.

When Li Xian's fleet approached, the artillery on the stone wall began to fire, but unfortunately the artillery strength under Zhu Jiu was extremely poor, and none of the trenches that were still fired yesterday could have a practical effect, and in the face of ships that were only moving at sea, there was no effect.

Zhu Jiu's artillery fired six shells in the first ten minutes, and none of them effectively hit the target, and when the ships of the escort team got close enough distance, the rifled gunners of the escort team took their guns and aimed at the pirates who were operating the guns.

The rifled guns of this era had a good hit rate at a distance of two hundred to four hundred meters, at least much stronger than this old artillery, and dozens of rifled gunners took turns and immediately knocked down seven or eight pirates around the two guns, and in the end, all the pirates went to hide behind, and none of them dared to go around the artillery.

Seeing that the two cannons were easily suppressed, Li Xian breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Although I know that these cannons should not be harmful to my side, after all, they are also artillery, and that kind of heavy psychological pressure is still indispensable.

At this time, the distance to the shore was close enough, so Li Xian asked people to lower the dinghy, sit on it with a part of the escort, and paddle to the shore.

Li Xian was most worried that Zhu Jiu would take the musketeers to the coast to resist stubbornly, knowing that he would be defeated and cause enough losses to his side, but he didn't expect that the pirates were just panicking, but no one came out to fight or stop them.

In the Opium War, the most common trick of the British army was to swing the fleet back and forth on the sea to attract the attention of the defenders, and then a small group of troops would go ashore on a boat to attack the flank of the Qing defenders.

is such a simple tactic, it has been successful many times in the Qing Kingdom, and no one has been able to crack it after using it dozens of times.

The landing site chosen by Li Xian is also quite tricky, on the side of Zhu Jiuzhaizi, there is a distance of more than 200 meters from the stone wall of Zhu Jiu's pirate den, except for artillery, no firearms can reach it, and he can slowly gather the team.

After Li Xian brought people ashore, he was not in a hurry to attack, but some people were on guard, and the other part of the people began to dig trenches on the spot, preparing to prevent Zhu Jiu from leading people out desperately.

According to the infantry regulations, Li Xian meticulously built a position in place, dug out a trench of nearly one meter and a half, and took out the sack prepared in advance, filled it with sand and soil and placed it in front of the trench to make sandbags, and everyone also stared vigilantly at Zhu Jiu's stockade, for fear that the pirates would come out to attack while they were not firmly established.

It's a pity that these practices are destined to be flattering to the blind, and the pirates are not interested in the small army of forty or fifty people led by Li Xian, and they just look at this side from a distance, as if they don't understand that Li Xian's side finally landed on the shore, but instead of taking the opportunity to attack, they start to play with the sand and soil.

When the position on this side was almost constructed, those so-called civilian armed forces also got off the boat and came over to Li Xian's side.

The discipline and organization of these people are much worse than that of the convoy, where they are messy, and they also talk about whether the trenches dug by the convoy are useful, whether they look good or not, etc.

A few of them had the audacity to wait for the escort to attack, so they wanted to rush directly to the side of the stone wall with their weapons, so that Li Xian stopped them in a stern tone, and also let the famous leaders of the fishermen and hunters control their men.

These civilians should be the help of the escort team, but Li Xian took great pains to let them gather behind the trench according to his own requirements, and did not move freely, and he actually had a feeling of exhaustion.

In the end, the remaining guards handed over the boats to the fishermen and workshop workers to operate, leaving some people to suppress and monitor Zhu Jiu's team, and most of them got off the boat and gathered at the side of the arranged position.

It was only at this time that Li Xian's heart was put down, feeling that he had lost his life span by three years in this short period of time, and he was glad that Zhu Jiu did not take advantage of this time to come out and fight hard, otherwise the casualties on his side would probably be very difficult to control.

Li Xian's side felt that there were too many civilians participating in the landing battle on his side, and the speed, discipline and organization of the landing on the beach were far below the level they should have, but in the eyes of Zhu Jiu and the others on the other side of the stockade, it was far from the case.

What Zhu Jiu saw was that Li Xian's fleet quickly rushed into the beach, effortlessly defeated the two ships he had sent to block the opponent, and then used muskets to abolish the artillery unit that had been established with great difficulty, and then quickly sent troops to land and occupy favorable terrain.

Then, before his side could decide whether to go out and destroy this small force or strengthen the defense in the old nest, the other side had already prepared for defense with bags filled with sand and soil, and summoned hundreds of troops to go over and wait for the battle.

Li Xian felt that his side was slow in the early stage, giving the enemy countless opportunities to take advantage of, but Zhu Jiu's side looked at Li Xian but the whole routine was extremely smooth, and the way the entire troop arrangement was fast, fast and impeccable, which was only seen in his life.

Zhu Jiu was still thinking about whether he would have to pay a huge price to attack the enemy's position, but he hadn't thought about it yet, the people here had already arranged a perfect defensive position.

Zhu Jiu suffered a big loss in the trench formation yesterday, and he was deeply impressed, knowing that if he had to attack easily, it would inevitably end in the annihilation of the whole army.