Chapter 183: Carnival Day at the Pearl River Estuary

The reason why Zheng Yiguan was able to escape was because he knew the sea wolf too well, and when he found that the fire fleet was not working, he was ready to flee at the first time, and when Liu Xiang led the pirates to swarm up and fight the sea wolf, he took his men and deliberately slowed down and fell behind.

When the pirates were crippled by the sea wolf fleet, he ordered to start a breakout and escape, and although he was later bitten by some of the sea wolf's ships and killed more than a dozen of his ships, his main force was able to escape.

In the Pirate Alliance, Zheng Yiguan's fleet is the best equipped quality, he has several large plywood ships on hand, although they are all old ships, but after all, they are equipped with a lot of artillery, and the firepower is still quite strong.

So this time the thieves who came to find Yu Xiaotian to fight, only Zheng Yiguan finally maintained a relatively complete combat strength, and Shun Lì got out of the battlefield, and the rest suffered heavy losses, as the leader of the alliance, Liu Xiang, simply ended up with a dead body in this battle, if it wasn't for the fact that he later picked up a minion and confessed Liu Xiang's death, Yu Xiaotian couldn't confirm it in the end, Liu Xiang had been killed by him.

Seeing that it was getting late, the remnants of the pirates had fled from the Daya Bay area, scattered as birds and beasts, and Yu Xiaotian no longer asked for pursuit, and sent an order to the one-eyed dragon to collect his troops and recuperate.

The sea wolf fleet rested in Daya Bay for more than ten days before it was completely bagged, and among the islands in Daya Bay, several important islands were controlled by the sea wolf, including several fishing villages along the coast, and were also controlled by the sea wolf.

Although the fishermen in these fishing villages had a hard time, most of them were colluded with pirates, so these fishermen were all arrested by Yu Xiaotian in the name of thieves and sent to Taiwan for resettlement.

As for the original fishing villages, they were all replaced by sea wolf personnel, and the entire Daya Bay area was controlled in their hands.

In addition, this time they captured a large number of pirates, and the screening and interrogation of these pirates also took up their manpower and time.

Among these pirates, there are many pirate leaders, and even the big bosses, they have a lot of information, which is especially important to Xiaotian, because it is absolutely impossible for these pirates to come to fight with the sea wolf with a large amount of goods.

Each of them has their own nest owner, and each has their own old camp or place to hide their goods, and if they don't dig up the news from their mouths, then these goods are likely to be transferred in the future, and then they will be cheaper for others.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian let the intelligence department directly participate in the interrogation, and these intelligence personnel can be said to be ruthless and unmerciful to start the execution of these guys, and soon squeezed them clean and sorted out a large amount of useful information.

Among some of these important pieces of information, many well-known gentry and officials on land were even involved, as well as many military generals in Guangdong.

Yu Xiaotian attaches great importance to this information, and separately asked the intelligence department to compile this information and keep it as a secret, sooner or later in the future, he will use this information, as for the nest owners of these pirates, Yu Xiaotian will be busy for a period of time in the future.

The great harvest this time was not in the number of prisoners and ships they captured, nor in the number of weapons and ammunition they had captured, but the most important gain was this information, as long as they took this information and searched according to the map, they could dig up a considerable amount of wealth.

As soon as Liu Xiang died, his subordinates naturally immediately dispersed, and Liu Xiang's troops in the Pearl River Estuary also quickly collapsed, Zheng Yiguan took the opportunity to take in a lot of Liu Xiang's old departments, and immediately made up for his losses in Daya Bay, and even took the opportunity to expand a lot of strength.

But Zheng Yiguan did not dare to take over the area around the mouth of the Pearl River, when he hurriedly collected a large number of scattered pirates and ships, he hurriedly took his subordinates, loaded them with what they had gained this year, and fled south, because Zheng Yiguan knew that Yu Xiaotian would immediately wave his army south.

Continuing to stay in the area of the Pearl River Estuary is simply waiting for death, Yu Xiaotian's fleet is really terrifying, even if he is now gathering the remnants of the pirates scattered in the stars, which makes him greatly increase his strength in a short period of time, but he is absolutely incapable of defeating Yu Xiaotian's fleet.

The difference in technology between the two sides is too big, this is no longer a gap that can be made up by the number of people and the number of ships, Zheng Yiguan this guy does have the courage of a strong man to break his wrist, even if he is determined to give up the territory that he has worked hard over the years, he directly took his men and the fleet, and went south to the coast of Guangxi.

Zheng Yiguan was really scared by Yu Xiaotian, this time when he saw Yu Xiaotian's sea wolf fleet again, he was surprised to find that over the years, although he has worked very hard, but the footsteps of others have not stopped, and they are developing faster than him.

Not to mention that he completely defeated this sea wolf fleet, even if this fleet only dispatched one-third of its strength, I'm afraid he won't have a chance of winning, if Yu Xiaotian continues to take these fleets south, then he will be the next Liu Xiang, and the only thing waiting for him is the annihilation.

So whether he is willing or not, willing or unwilling, he can only admit it, the next thing he should consider is to take these subordinates and flee to somewhere, Guangxi will not be safe anyway, Yu Xiaotian was ordered by Xiong Wencan this time to completely eliminate the pirate forces along the coast of Liangguang, Yu Xiaotian will never stop going south just when he arrives at the mouth of the Pearl River.

So Zheng Yiguan sadly found that this Ming coast, it seems that there is no place for him to stand, once Yu Xiaotian Bingfeng pointed directly at the coastal area of Leizhou, Guangxi, he only had one way left, that is, to go to the South Seas, to find a place to stay there, and continue to do his business.

Although he didn't catch Zheng Yiguan this time, it is a pity for Xiaotian, but now Zheng Yiguan is in Xiaotian's mind, and he is no longer the status of the year, although Zheng Yiguan is a capable person, but he Yu Xiaotian itself is the biggest bug in this era, with him, there is no Zheng Yiguan's market,

Although I have to admit that Zheng Yiguan is indeed a talent, but this person has always been an enemy of him, can not be used by him, and there are great flaws in this person's character, from his history of defection and surrender to the Manchu Qing, it can be seen that he is speculative in his character, the Ming Dynasty gave him everything that could be given to him, but in the end he still chose to surrender to the Manchu Qing, even his wife was forced to die by the Qing army, he turned a blind eye, and was bent on hugging the thigh of the new master.

So even if this kind of person is willing to be used by him, he will never use it, because Zheng Yiguan's character is destined to betray Xiaotian even if he surrenders to Xiaotian, sooner or later, he will betray Xiaotian because of interests.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian treated Zheng Yiguan with only one result, that is, to kill him completely, and he must not leave any troubles.

Daya Bay was a great victory, and the news soon spread to all parts of Liangguang, and Xiong Wencan, as the governor of Liangguang, of course, learned the news as soon as possible.

So Xiong Wencan sent someone to Yu Xiaotian to wish Jie, and at the same time hurriedly reported to the imperial court, and passed the news of the great victory to the imperial court, this is a big event, and now the Ming Dynasty is smoking everywhere, such a great victory is undoubtedly an excellent morale-boosting news for the Ming Dynasty, so Xiong Wencan did not dare to delay, and immediately sent the news to the Beijing Division.

And Yu Xiaotian himself, now these so-called rewards and rewards, has long been not much cared about, this time his purpose is very simple, is to completely grasp the two coastal areas of Guangzhou, completely control the Ming Dynasty's foreign trade routes, as long as the south is not chaotic, this sea trade will bring him a steady stream of huge benefits every year, then he has the ability to arm more soldiers and horses, reserve more grain.

More than ten days after the end of the battle of Daya Bay, the fleet of the sea wolf began to move south again, in the Pearl River estuary, these days have been completely chaotic, when Liu Xiang was here before, there was still a bit of order here, but as soon as Liu Xiang died, his men immediately scattered, and the Pearl River Estuary suddenly became a borderless land.

As a result, many blind pirates immediately flocked here, wanting to grab territory here or take advantage of the opportunity to make a profit, so these days the merchant ships entering and leaving the Pearl River estuary have fallen into bad luck and become the target of these small groups of pirate carnival.

These days, many merchant ships have been robbed by pirates here, and the pirates have killed a lot of people and robbed a lot of ships, but Yu Xiaotian did not give them too long to carnival, so he led his troops to arrive at the Pearl River Estuary, and in just a few days, he swept the entire Pearl River Estuary, like sprinkling a big net, combing the entire Pearl River Estuary.

This operation to clean up the Pearl River Estuary has almost wiped out the pirates who are active in this area, and the guys who are clever and fast can still run away, and the stupid guys who still want to hide here and take the opportunity to make a fortune are considered to have fallen into blood mold, and they were slapped to death by the sea wolf fleet one by one like swatting flies in the Pearl River Estuary.

Some pirates were chased with no way to escape, and even plunged headlong into the mouth of the Pearl River, swimming against the current and escaping into the dense web of water.

Yu Xiaotian had already arranged manpower here, inquired a lot about the situation here, drew a detailed water network map, and marked some important towns and towns.

In the area of Guangzhou, because of the dense water network, many gentry built their own manor walled forts here, and organized regiments to train the villagers to protect themselves, and the local power was extremely strong, and it could almost be said that it was self-contained, and basically the decrees of the government and yamen did not work here.

At the same time, many of them colluded with pirates, or they were simply behind the scenes of some pirates, and some were willing to act as pirates' nest owners for profit, shipping goods for pirates and buying pirates' stolen goods.

(In the morning, I forgot to thank Hell Angel No. 1, Desert Laughing Spring Breeze, Nannan Words, and several brothers in the sky under the war for rewarding, now hurry up and make up for it!) Hehe! )