Chapter 202: Blossoming in the Womb
Today's incident happened suddenly, and the officers and soldiers of the army division stationed on the island did not have time to prepare at all, so the four cannons were not dragged to the shore, but were only placed in the official barracks.
The first battalion of the Seawolf Army rushed out of the mountains and went straight to the official camp, although they were blocked by a force of about 1,000 officers and soldiers on the way, but just a face, they scattered this group of officers and soldiers, and did not hesitate to pounce on the official camp.
In the past few days of reconnaissance, Li Dazui has already seen the layout of the official army on the island thoroughly, and now that the sea wolf's navy has defeated the official army and naval division, then the next step is to deal with the official army and land division on the island.
When Yu Xiaotian led the people to evacuate Nanri Island, he left Li Dazui to retreat into the mountains with the first battalion to hide, just waiting for the day to come.
Yu Xiaotian's purpose this time is very clear, that is, to fundamentally weaken the military power of the Fujian government, so that it can no longer pose any threat to the sea wolf in the next few years.
Killing the sailors of the official army is only part of it, and now that they have basically achieved this goal, the next thing is the thousands of officers and soldiers trapped on the island.
This time in order to deal with the sea wolf, it can be said that the elite of the Fujian official army was mobilized, so as to gather the strength this time, since it is going to do, then this time these officers and soldiers can not be allowed to go back, the sea wolf is now needing a lot of manpower, these thousands of officers and soldiers, each of them are young and strong, is the best labor force, so they must not be allowed to run.
Now that the sea wolf has killed the official army and the naval division, in fact, the defeat of these land divisions has been declared, even if they do not need to be attacked by force, they only need to block the waters around Nanri Island, then this official army will not be able to escape.
However, Yu Xiaotian did not intend to trap this official army like this, he still had more things to do, and a simple siege would definitely consume a lot of time, which would delay his next plan.
Therefore, Yu Xiaotian's order to the army is very clear, that is, after the navy starts, the army will use the shortest time to deal with these thousands of officers and troops on the island.
Li Dazui naturally did not dare to delay this order, as soon as the navy on this side moved, he led a battalion to start out of the mountain, and these soldiers who had been holding back for many days were all gearing up for this battle.
So after they rushed out of the mountain pass, they were as sharp as tigers descending from the mountain, and it happened that an official army blocked their way, and the officers and soldiers were already frightened, but they didn't expect that such a sea wolf would suddenly kill such a sea wolf from behind on the island, so just a face, they were scattered by Li Dazui's troops.
Li Dazui was not in a hurry to pursue the routed troops, and after breaking up this group of officers and soldiers, he immediately led his troops to pounce on the army and land division battalion, and at this time Chen Wencan sent people to the camp to carry these Hongyi cannons, preparing to drag them into the island and build fortifications to resist.
Li Dazui naturally knew that these four Hongyi cannons would cause them a lot of trouble, so he didn't dare to delay, and led his troops to attack the camp directly, not giving the officers and soldiers a chance.
At this time, they only led about 500 officers and soldiers to guard the camp, and their camp was very lax because they did not find the sea wolf troops after landing on the island, and they just hastily built a large camp, not even any fortifications, only a thin camp fence.
Li Dazui led the crowd to rush straight to the camp with lightning speed, and this guerrilla was immediately frightened to the point of weakness, and the troops only resisted slightly, and then they were beaten under the guns of the sea wolves, and the defeated army abandoned the camp and fled to the island.
As for the hundreds of officers and soldiers sent out by Chen Wencan to collect artillery, they did not even enter the camp, so they broke up together, and as a result, the sky and sea did not get dark, and the entire official army camp changed hands and was captured by Li Dazui and his troops.
The materials in the camp were piled up, and a large amount of food, ammunition, armor and camp tents were piled up in it, and all of them were seized by Li Dazui.
Li Dazui saw that it was getting dark, and for the sake of safety, he did not continue to launch a night battle, but quickly ordered his battalion of marines to firmly control the battalion, and quickly built various fortifications to strengthen the defense capability of the battalion.
Before Yu Xiaotian got dark, he also docked by boat, went up to the island, and stationed in the camp, looking at the mountains of materials in the camp, Yu Xiaotian smiled happily, and couldn't help but praise Li Dazui, which made Li Dazui very happy.
But then everyone knows that although the official army and naval division have ended, there are still thousands of officers and soldiers on the island after all, and that Chen Wencan will definitely counterattack the big camp after the big camp is lost, and he should know very well the importance of these materials in the big camp to them.
Now that the officers and navy divisions have been defeated, their retreat from the island has been cut off, if they lose these materials again, they may not be able to support them for even three days, and the lack of food is an extremely terrible thing for thousands of troops, so Li Dazui judged that if it was him, he would definitely counterattack the camp at any cost tomorrow, and strive to recapture the camp and seize these materials.
But for this, not only Yu Xiaotian is not worried, but the sea wolf does not have a sense of worry, although the number of their land division is not large, but there are still two or three thousand sailors behind them, after such a long time of preparation and training, coupled with such a good armament, if even these thousands of officers and soldiers have no way to solve it, then they will be in vain all these years.
Chen Wencan saw the loss of the battalion, and his heart sank to the bottom completely, and the destruction of the sailor division was already a fatal blow to them, the land division, which meant that they had no way to retreat, and it was impossible to retreat to the land, so they could only hold on to the island and wait for reinforcements, so there was still a glimmer of hope.
I hope that the governor of Fujian can send a fleet to rescue them, but this hope is basically slim, because the fleet of the sea wolf shows them strong strength today, and Yu Zhigao's fleet has already made the elite of the Fujian sailors exhausted, and it has been beaten into this virtue, even if Zhu Yifeng knows that they are trapped here, I am afraid that they will not be able to organize a sailor force to rescue them, but even if this hope is slim, there is finally a little hope, Somewhat able to keep them going for a few days.
But now, if the camp is lost, and the supplies, especially food, are their last hope for holding on to the island for a while, and if they don't even have this, then they won't even have the last bit of hope.
Therefore, Chen Wencan did not dare to slack off, and that night he summoned all the generals above 1,000 generals in the temporarily built camp and informed them of the current situation.
After hearing this, all the generals turned pale, and they already knew that they were probably going to be finished when the sailors were destroyed during the day, but they didn't expect that what was worse was that their battalion was lost to the sea wolf in the blink of an eye.
They have also seen the combat power of these sea wolf tribes, not only their sailors are powerful, but their land tribes are also so fierce.
The same number of officers and soldiers did not even have a chance to struggle against them, but in an instant, they were beaten by the fire of their platoon guns, although their number was not large, but it made everyone feel extremely frightened.
Firearms are not unfamiliar to the officers of the Ming army, they have participated in the battle of Penghu, and the red-haired people's platoon guns have made them all experience the power.
But this group of sea wolves is actually equipped with so many muskets, and they are not weaker than the red-haired people in terms of firepower, although the Ming Dynasty is also equipped with a lot of birds, but at the moment the most equipped is the Guanning army in Liaodong, and the south side is less equipped.
In addition, when the ordnance supervisor made the bird gun, many eunuchs and officials in the middle had to deduct from it, not only deducting the craftsman's wages, but also starting with the raw materials to create a bird gun, which must use good wrought iron, and it must be hammered repeatedly, and the raw material consumption is very large.
The result is that the raw materials in the hands of the craftsman are not enough at all, and they can only cut corners to build the bird gun, so that the quality of the bird gun can be imagined, when firing, the chamber is often exploded, so that the musketeer does not dare to use it lightly, even if it has to be used, it can only be used less, but the power of less gunpowder will be greatly reduced, so that now in the Ming army, many officers and soldiers would rather use knives and guns than use bird guns.
In the last battle of Penghu, when Yu Zhigao personally led the army to attack Hongmao City, the officers and soldiers only collected more than 1,000 musketeers from Fujian, but they still could not break through Hongmao City.
Now that they saw that the Sea Wolf tribe also had so many sharp bird guns, it was very troublesome for each of them.
"The big camp is our key, although the sea wolf tribe is indeed fierce, but there will be brave men under the heavy reward, early tomorrow morning, you all choose a group of dead soldiers from your subordinates, but whoever fights, you will be rewarded with five taels of silver, and those who die in battle will be rewarded with five taels, whoever is the first to rush into the camp will be rewarded with thirty taels of silver! If you can recapture the camp, you will be rewarded with another twenty taels per person! Chen Wencan gritted his teeth and said.
When the generals heard this, now that the matter had come to this, if they were unwilling to fight hard, then I was afraid that the whole army would be wiped out here, and after thinking about this, they had nothing to say.
So as soon as it was dawn, Chen Wencan took out all the 6,000 officers and soldiers, walked towards the camp they had lost, and began to line up outside the camp.
And the first battalion of the sea wolf did not hide in the big camp and wait for the official army to attack, as soon as the official army arrived, they also began to line up out of the camp under the leadership of Li Dazui.
After the two sides finished arranging, Chen Wencan looked at the sea wolf's queue intently, and suddenly gasped again.
(Today, I would like to thank Jiu Ai Ting'er and Feng is my soul for the reward of the two brothers, thank you so much, let the reward be more violent!) This way I am more motivated, how about two more per day for the next month? Hehe! )