Now they don't care who provides them with shelter, as long as they can live, the ghost doesn't care who they follow in the future!

And these nine-headed Jiao people talk and count, when they get here, they can get shelter, and they can be fed, although the food is not good, mostly some miscellaneous grains mixed with a lot of wheat bran, and some unknown potatoes (potatoes), but these things have not eaten a mouthful of serious food for a long time, but it is already very rare, the fragrance of the long-lost grain, almost made them almost swallow their tongues together.

In their lives, they feel that they have never eaten such a fragrant thing, when they receive the first meal, one by one does not care about anything, three bites and two bites swallowed into the stomach, when there is only a little food left in their hands, they begin to chew slowly, to taste the fragrance of the long-lost food, some people are even reluctant to eat the first time to get the cake, quietly left a little, hidden in their arms, for fear that after eating this meal, the next meal does not know when to eat.

It wasn't until they received the food on time for the second time that they realized that this was not a dream, the nine-headed pirates really didn't lie to them, they really served them two meals a day, although only one meal had multigrain cakes, and the other meal was just a big bowl of multigrain porridge, but this multigrain porridge was also made of grain, and it was very thick, and it was by no means the kind of gruel that was used to help the victims and fool the victims.

As a result, these Liaodong soldiers and civilians who were contained were completely relieved, became much quieter, and became much more obedient, and became much more respectful to the pirates who sheltered them, and began to become obedient.

Later, Fort Arthur came to a lot of big ships, loaded them on the ship, said that they were going to send them to a safer place, these people don't know where to send them, but for leaving this Dongjiang Town, they don't have much nostalgia, now their homeland, except for Fort Arthur, has been occupied by Jiannu, it is not safe to stay here, no matter where they go, it is better than staying here!

Therefore, these Liaodong soldiers and civilians who were contained did not have any resistance, and were quietly loaded onto the ship, and then embarked on an unknown journey.

After a few days of sailing, they were sent to Jeju Island, and it was only at this time that they knew who had really saved them, and it was only at this time that they learned the name of Yu Hyotian and the name of the sea wolf.

Although Jeju Island is also geographically located in the north, due to the influence of warm and humid air currents, the winter on Jeju Island is much warmer than that of Liaodong, and the water and grass on the island are abundant, which is simply a paradise compared to Liaodong.

And here, a large number of tube houses have already been built for them to live in, and a large amount of food has been prepared for them to eat, although after a few days of rest and cleaning, they have changed into clean clothes, and have been shaved their hair, and they have to be sent to work, but this feeling of being able to eat enough every day, and not having to worry about being killed by the Jiannu army all day long, has made them feel very happy, so these Liaodong outcasts soon returned to their families. It didn't take long for many people to join the newly formed army and become members of the Yu family army.

In addition to this large-scale military operation in the Liaodong area, in October of the tenth year of Chongzhen, the sea wolf also experienced another fierce battle.

But the fierce battle did not take place in the control zone of the sea wolf, but in the sea of Japan.

In the past few years, under the instruction of Yu Xiaotian, the sea wolf sent a large number of privateers and personnel to the sea around the Japanese islands, and went to the coastal areas of Japan to raid and plunder.

Because of Yu Xiaotian's instructions and personal likes and dislikes, the crew of this group of smuggling ships sent to Japan's coastal activities treated the Japanese very cruelly, almost the same as the Japanese treated the Chinese in the past, and also to the Japanese.

The smuggling ships to which these sea wolves belonged were sturdy, resistant to wind and waves, fast sailing, well-equipped, and well-trained, and soon made their mark on the coast of Japan's southern islands.

Moreover, they also recruited many idle Japanese samurai to serve as their pawns, and carried out bloody robbery and massacres all over the coast of Japan.

In particular, Japanese ships operating on the seas, whether they were official ships, merchant ships, or even fishing boats, were immediately robbed as soon as they came across, and murder and stealing goods were commonplace.

In addition, the sea wolf smuggling fleet also pursued a strategy of leniency towards Catholics according to the instructions of Yu Xiaotian, and this era was the most severe era of suppression of Catholics in Japan, and the number of Catholics in Japan was quite large, but under the strong suppression of the Tokugawa shogunate, these Japanese Catholics were greatly persecuted.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian ordered the smuggling fleet to effectively take advantage of the contradictions between the Japanese Catholics and the Tokugawa shogunate, and try to absorb these Catholics for their use.

In this way, they colluded with Catholics in Japan, recruited a large number of pawns, and also linked up an intelligence network with these Japanese leading parties.

The activities of the sea wolf smuggling fleet greatly infringed on the rule and interests of the Tokugawa shogunate, which was in the ascending stage and its rule over Japan was relatively stable.

When he felt that this group of Chinese pirates who inexplicably appeared off the coast of Japan had greatly affected the rule of the Tokugawa family over Japan, Tokugawa Iemitsu finally couldn't help it and decided to eliminate these pirates from China.

This kind of thing made Tokugawa Iemitsu feel very depressed, a long time ago, a large number of Japanese samurai to the coast of China, known as the Japanese Kou, the Ming coast is a mess, but I didn't expect it to be reversed now, their Japanese samurai do not go to the coast of China, but the Chinese pirates drove the pirate ship to their Japanese side, burning and looting everywhere.

Moreover, these Chinese pirates are very ferocious, and they can be called extremely murderous, every time they attack the shore, they always adopt the three-light policy of killing and burning all the villages that are attacked, and the place they pass can be described as a red land, and in the past few years, the Japanese merchant ships that have gone to sea to trade have gone out more, but they have come back less and less.

Later, a ship occasionally rescued two boatmen who had fallen overboard at sea, only to learn that their merchant ship was attacked by the Han Kou (the Japanese honorific name for the sea wolf) after going to sea, and even the ship and cargo were robbed by those Han Kou.

The two boatmen were lucky, it happened in the evening, they found that things were not good, so they jumped into the sea to escape, first hid under the boat, did not be found by the robbed Han Kou, after dark they held a plank, swam away from the robbed ship, floated on the sea for three days, only to be rescued by a passing Japanese ship, reported the incident to the Tokugawa shogun.

Tokugawa Iemitsu realized that these pirates from the Ming Dynasty had seriously threatened the interests of Japan, no wonder for such a long time, many merchant ships that went to the Ryukyu Kingdom to trade have disappeared inexplicably, and it turned out that they were robbed by these Han pirates.

In the past few years, Japan's foreign trade quota has been declining year after year, and it turned out that it was caused by these Han invaders plundering their Japanese merchant ships at sea.

The Tokugawa shogunate had now issued a decree to close the country, strictly prohibiting any ships from going to sea to trade, cutting off trade with the Spaniards, and prohibiting the Dutch from trading in Hirado.

This is bearable, but this gang of Han Kou actually loots along the coast of Japan every day, but he really can't tolerate it.

So when Tokugawa Iemitsu arrived in the tenth year of Chongzhen, that is, the fourteenth year of Kanei in Japan, he decided to wipe out these Han Kou who infested the coastal areas of the Japanese islands.

The Tokugawa Iemitsu managed to find a way to explore the places where these sea wolf smuggling ships were most active, and then gathered more than a dozen feudal states, gathered hundreds of warships, and the samurai numbered as many as 20,000 people, looking for the sea wolf smuggling fleet in the waters south of Hirado Island.

The sea wolf's smuggling fleet was not afraid of these Japanese warships at this time, although the strength of the two sides was very different, but they still took the initiative to attack, with less to more, and adopted the tactics of sea guerrilla warfare, concentrated their forces, and broke them separately.

From October to December of the 10th year of Chongzhen, the two sides fought against the warships of the Japanese feudal domains in the waters south of Hirado, Hizen Province, and the Satsuma Domain.

Of course, the result is needless to say, although the strength of the sea wolf smuggling fleet is limited, but it occupies an absolute technological advantage, the sea wolf's smuggling ships are built exceptionally strong, the shipbuilding technology far exceeds the Japanese shipbuilding technology, and the ship's artillery also occupies an absolute advantage.

Although the Japanese learned to make guns earlier than China, and in Japan guns are called iron cannons, and the equipment is very popular, but Japan's cannon casting technology has never been developed, and most of the guns cast are short-barreled and small-caliber guns.

In addition, the Japanese warships had a small displacement and were not strong enough, so in the naval battle, don't look at those Japanese samurai who were very brave, but they only stared at them and waited to be beaten.

The Sea Wolves' smuggling fleet took full advantage of their advantages, and in a few months, they defeated the Japanese fleet several times, annihilated hundreds of Japanese warships, and slaughtered nearly 10,000 samurai on Japanese ships, completely defeating Tokugawa Iemitsu's attempts.