Chapter 184: Straight into the Pearl River Estuary

In this battle of Daya Bay, Yu Xiaotian pulled out a lot of useful information from the pirates, and confirmed the charges of many big gentry and thieves.

So after he took control of the Pearl River Estuary, he confiscated a large number of long dragon fast boats and various small boats in the Pearl River Estuary, and Yu Xiaotian ordered the sailors to send out a group of sailors to operate these small boats, each similar to the long dragon fast boat, each loaded with a squad of infantry or sailors.

On some of the sturdy ships, Yu Xiaotian had some light deck guns, such as small-caliber Franc cannons or three-pounder guns, removed and mounted on the bow of small ships, or simply put some infantry tiger squat guns on the bow of the ship.

A total of two battalions were divided into eight detachments, one detachment happened to be an infantry company or a naval company, plus hundreds of sailors temporarily transferred from the fleet, and went up the Pearl River estuary to enter the Lion Ocean, accompanied by a fleet of 20 warships, which provided material support and supplies for these detachments at any time in the main channel of the Pearl River, and also served as a deterrent force to provide them with armed deterrence.

Yu Xiaotian's action did not ask the Guangzhou Mansion, nor did he greet the local officials and soldiers stationed here, which was equivalent to directly intruding into the hinterland of the Guangzhou Prefecture without authorization, such an action undoubtedly immediately aroused the resistance of the local government of the Guangzhou Prefecture, so the Guangzhou Governor immediately sent someone to go to sea by boat, looking for Yu Xiaotian, and ordered Yu Xiaotian to immediately stop such an action, withdraw the ships of his soldiers from the Shiziyang, and only allow them to operate outside the Lingding Ocean.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian was very dissatisfied with the attitude of the prefect of Guangzhou, and immediately rejected his request, and informed the comer, asking him to go back and send a message to the prefect of Guangzhou, saying that he did this because he was ordered by the governor of Liangguang to come to suppress the pirates of Liangguang.

In addition, in the battle of Daya Bay, he detected that there were dozens of local thieves secretly collaborating with thieves, and there were many pirates hidden in their homes, so they must be taken down.

Therefore, his actions do not need to be influenced by the prefect of Guangzhou, and he invites the prefect to go back and sue the prefect of Guangzhou, this matter is within the scope of his power, so that the Guangzhou side must not interfere, unless there are people in Guangzhou who want to defend these thieves, then if this is the case, he Yu Xiaotian will initiate the court and impeach him.

The prefect of Guangzhou and the officials of Guangzhou listened to Yu Xiaotian's reply, and their noses were crooked, they were the parents and officials of Guangzhou, when did it take the turn of a Qiu Ba to take care of the affairs in Guangzhou? Even if Yu Xiaotian found out that someone was a thief or a pirate sneaked into the area of Guangzhou to hide, it was up to them to take care of it.

So the Guangzhou prefect immediately sent someone to find Yu Xiaotian, and asked Yu Xiaotian to hand over the list of thieves and pirates he had detected to the Guangzhou government, and the Guangzhou government would send troops and messengers to investigate and arrest him.

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian scoffed at their request, and excused himself that this was a secret, and once it was handed over to Guangzhou, it would cause a leak, and the pirates would be transferred in advance, and the thieves might also flee when they heard the news, or hide the stolen goods, so he would not work with the Guangzhou government, and he would deal with it himself.

After hearing Yu Xiaotian's reply, the Guangzhou government was furious, and immediately wrote a bullet to impeach Yu Xiaotian for meddling in local affairs without authorization and harming the local gentry and people.

In addition, they also went to Xiong Wencan to complain, accusing Yu Xiaotian of being arrogant and domineering, not taking them as the local government of Guangdong in his eyes at all, and meddling in their local affairs without authorization.

But Yu Xiaotian doesn't care about these things, and now he has a gun in his hand, whether they are happy or not? After the eight detachments were dispatched, they immediately dispersed into the dense waterways like spider webs, and there were local leading party leaders to lead the way for them, and they did not worry about getting lost in this water web.

In just a few days, Yu Xiaotian's subordinates have more than 20 Zhuang Forts of large families, to say that these gentry in Guangzhou are also quite powerful, because there are many pirates and river robbers in the Pearl River Estuary, and the place is not peaceful, so each county will let the squires come forward, and the townships and towns will form their own regiments to practice and protect themselves from the townships, so the local villages and Zhuangbao usually have some villagers stationed to defend against the Kou.

Now Yu Xiaotian's subordinates rushed into their territory as guest troops, and in the name of suppressing bandits and arresting thieves, they ordered some well-known local gentry to open the door and arrest people.

How dare these people open the door and be restrained when they are afraid? So they hurriedly sent people to Guangzhou to complain and complain, and at the same time, they closed the village gate to try to prevent the soldiers of Yu's army from attacking their Zhuangzi.

As soon as the soldiers of the Yu family appeared outside their village and fort, they immediately fired cannons and guns, and kept sending arrows to try to block the search and arrest of the Yu family army.

This immediately annoyed the generals of the Yu family's army, they were ordered to act according to the map to catch the thieves, and to sweep away the pirates hiding in this area, these villagers actually dared to shoot arrows and cannons at them, this is simply looking for death.

So the leading company commander gave an order, and even if the soldiers began to fight back or attack, under the fire of guns and cannons, in front of the sharp spears of the family army, where were the township soldiers of these villages and forts their opponents, one or two of them looked down, and the township warriors on the village wall were thrown down, and the rest of the people did not dare to show their heads again.

The result was that under the onslaught of the soldiers of the Yu family, one village fort after another was broken by the Yu family army, and the tiger and wolf seemed to be the soldiers of the Yu family, and when they attacked the village fort, they immediately arrested people and carried out some local gentry who no one dared to provoke lightly, like a dead dog, and then they were copied and confiscated, and all the valuable things in these guys' homes were loaded onto the boat, transported back to the big ship in the main waterway, and then transferred out of the Pearl River estuary.

And Yu Xiaotian was not idle outside the Pearl River Estuary, he sighed in the Lingding Ocean, Wen Tianxiang had been here back then, the mood of the Southern Song Dynasty at that time, Yu Xiaotian could understand, and also felt embarrassed for the more than 100,000 Southern Song Dynasty soldiers and civilians, after the defeat of the Battle of Yashan, with the tragedy of the little emperor who committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea.

Now the Ming Dynasty is also swaying, but unlike the original historical trajectory, the Ming Dynasty will not die in the Manchu Eight Banners, but sooner or later in the hands of his filial piety, he is not a Mongolian barbarian, the reason why he wants to fall the Ming Dynasty is to bring the Chinese nation to a new height, and since then stand on the top of the world, so he is here, but there is no sense of guilt.

After sighing, Yu Xiaotian immediately ordered his subordinates to move to the area of Hong Kong Island, directly using Victoria Bay in later generations as his military port anchorage, and sent troops to land in the encirclement to occupy most of the area of Hong Kong in later generations, including Hong Kong Island and Lantau Island and other islands, which were also controlled by him.

As long as he controls this place, then whenever he wants to rebel in the future, this Guangzhou city will become his meat, and when he wants to take it, he can take it when he wants.

After arriving at Victoria Bay in later generations, in this era, it was only called Tsim Sha Tsui or Zhongmen, and there was only a small fishing village in the bay, and some time ago, it was just a place where a small group of pirates temporarily used it as a hiding place, and there was no shadow of the prosperity of later generations.

However, I have to say that the British are still very discerning, this is indeed a pretty good natural harbor, the water surface in the bay is wide, and the water quality is very good, the water depth is more than ten meters, not to mention that there is no problem with the current ship mooring, even the 100,000-ton giant ship in the future is no problem at all.

Therefore, the British have managed this place as the largest port in Asia in the future, which is indeed quite a far-sighted approach, but unfortunately now with him, the British are estimated to never have the opportunity to come here again, and it is time to change the surname here in the future.

So after he took control of this area, he sent someone to inform the Guangzhou government, and at the same time sent someone to say hello to Xiong Wencan, saying that he had already reached the mouth of the Pearl River when he went south this time, but he needed to find a temporary anchorage here as his temporary anchorage and port for logistics supply, so as to support his strategy to continue to go south.

The Guangzhou government is now gritting its teeth against Xiaotian, and is willing to let him occupy this place, so the reply is not accurate, and Yu Xiaotian is ordered to withdraw from this area and not disturb the people in the local area.

So Yu Xiaotian didn't turn his face with them, and directly proposed that since this was the case, then he could move directly into the mouth of the Pearl River and stop at the dock in Guangzhou City to rest, hoping that Guangzhou would provide him with corresponding supplies, if not, he was afraid that he would not be able to control the soldiers under Zhan Yu, and he could not be blamed for causing chaos when the time came.

When the Guangzhou government heard this, those officials were so frightened that they almost urinated, although they were furious, but where did they dare to let Yu Xiaotian lead tens of thousands of soldiers and generals to drive directly to the Pearl River outside Guangzhou City to stop.

If the Guangzhou Mansion is to bear the burden, I am afraid that in a few days, the Guangzhou Mansion will be completely destroyed, plus so many warships and soldiers will rush into the Pearl River Estuary, will his Guangzhou Mansion be able to live in peace at that time? Therefore, as soon as Yu Xiaotian's request was raised, the Guangzhou government immediately softened.

The prefect of Guangzhou immediately changed his tune and allowed Yu Xiaotian to temporarily stop in the vicinity of Tsim Sha Tsui, and temporarily garrison troops in that area as his supply base for a period of time to come.

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