206 Aid and Suppress the Pirates!
Xu Long is over fifty years old and has a irritable and fierce personality. He has been rampant in the sea of Chaozhou for decades. He has hundreds of warships, strong ships and powerful cannons. His more than 3,000 pirates under his command are all deadly people who kill without blinking an eye, and his combat power is extremely strong.
It is precisely with this capital that Xu Long was able to rush along the coast of Guangdong and his power lasted for a long time. According to his subordinates' investigation, the navy sent by the court to encircle him had just been in a few months, and half of them were recruits. Even the commander Gao Lixun was also an unknown person in his eyes. He did not care about the encircled and suppressed imperial soldiers at all, and he was confident that they were absolutely vulnerable.
"Hehe, as expected, how capable is a navy that has just been in the army for several months?" Xu Long stood on the high ship tower, put down the single-eyed telescope in his hand, and said arrogantly to the pirate leader surrounding him: "Look at the formation of the official army, it is disorderly, and the commander ship is actually sailing in the front. It's really a matter of death. When the two armies meet later, you will give me all your strength to attack the commander ship of the official army. No matter how much the price you pay, you will sink the commander ship of the unknown junior Gao Lixun!"
The pirates agreed. Xu Long laughed and said wildly: "Yongli's child is not aware of the high and strong world. He dares to make ground on Tai Sui's head. When I was seeking life on the sea, I still didn't know which girl was waiting for someone to plant her. This time I will ask his navy to go to the bottom of the sea to see the Dragon King!"
Gao Lixun had already learned about Xu Long's background from Jiao Lian and Huang Hairu. He knew it was difficult to deal with it, so he did not dare to be arrogant. He decided to use the "tug-up tiger away from the mountain" strategy to lure Xu Long and his main fleet out of his nest. Then Jiao Lian's land army waited for an opportunity to attack the island, cut off the firewood from the cauldron, and worked together to encircle and annihilate his nest, and wiped out the pirates who had been dominating the sea for decades.
In order to achieve the goal of "capturing the thief and capturing the king", Gao Lixun "pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger", deliberately pretending to be a fledgling look. Despite the opposition of the generals, he sailed in the front of the team on a commanding boat, taking huge risks as bait to lure Xu Long into the bait.
At this time, Xu Long's fleet had changed from fan to wedge, aiming at the coaching ship that Gao Lixun was riding as his commanding ship. Gao Lixun knew whether the "tired tiger away from the mountain" could succeed depends on his performance, so he ordered the firing of the cannon when the enemy ship was far from within the range of the artillery. It seemed that he had been frightened by the aggressive enemy fleet.
The whistling shells fell into the sea from a distance from the enemy ship, and the water column soared into the sky. Although the momentum was great, it did not damage Xu Long's hair.
"A fool, a standard incompetent person!"
Xu Long was indeed trapped and cursed contemptuously, ordering the fleet to attack at full speed. The enemy fleet pulled up the sails according to the order, crossed the water columns of the sky without fear of death, gradually approaching Gao Lixun's commanding ship and launching cannons to attack.
"Switch the rudder and back!"
Gao Lixun deliberately shouted at the top of his voice. The soldiers on the ship were prepared and immediately adjusted the angle of the sails and turned the rudder. The commander ship avoided the enemy's cannon and turned back. The other ships also dispersed according to the plan and followed the commander ship to "escape".
"Feither without fighting? Don't think about it!"
Xu Long was so fierce that he roared and ordered the ship to chase at full speed. Under Xu Long's repeated urging, the pirates on his ship rowed with all their might to help sail. The ship was like a wild horse that had broken away, speeding past the pirate fleet and chasing Gao Lixun's handsome ship.
The sailors on both sea boats lived on the sea for many years, and sailed like herders on the grassland to ride wild horses. One in front and one behind, the distance was always outside the range of the cannon, which made Xu Long grit his teeth and kept cursing Gao Lixun's ancestors for the eighteen generations, but it was useless.
Before he knew it, Xu Long's fleet had been led away from his old nest by Gao Lixun, and was dispersed and there were about a mile away from his front and back. Gao Lixun estimated that the ambushing navy had enough time to copy the retreat of Xu Long's fleet, so he ordered the flag of turning around and attacking.
The generals under Gao Lixun's subordinates could not stand Xu Long's rampant arrogance. If Gao Lixun's legal army had not been very strict and the orders were enforced, Huang Ting and other generals would have launched an attack long ago. When they saw the attacking flags, they turned the bow of the ship and surrounded Xu Long's ship. Xu Long, who was alone in the deep army, was immediately trapped in the encirclement of the official army.
Only then did Xu Long realize that Gao Lixun was not an incompetent person as he thought. He left the team too far because of underestimating the enemy. He hurriedly ordered to turn around and retreat, but it was too late.
According to the combat plan that had been set long ago, the official army hung hundreds of mesh shuttles from large warships, and under the cover of the main gunship, they quickly approached Xu Long's ship. Each mesh shuttle was equipped with two or three bird guns, and hundreds of bird guns were aimed at the pirates on the Xu Long's ship, with amazing lethality.
The left vanguard Huang Ting and the right vanguard Li Cheng led the Cangshan fleet to surround the enemy ships from both sides. The Cangshan ship: small, 5 feet of water draft, equipped with 1 small-caliber Folang machine cannon, 4 tiger squat cannons, 4 Lumi guns, 4 spray drums, 60 chimneys, 30 fire bricks, 100 rockets, 4 medicine crossbows, and 100 crossbow arrows. The entire ship was 37 people, 4 sailors, 33 soldiers, and 33 soldiers. The first armored Folang machine and tiger squat cannon, the second armored cold weapon, and the third armored bird gun.
After the Cangshan ship approached the enemy ship, it threw bricks, chimneys, and fired guns and arrows. Xu Long's ship suddenly ignited a fire. The pirates who had not died fled the ship and jumped into the cold sea. Xu Long spent half his life and killed countless people. At this time, he deserved the crime. He was shot into his left chest with an arrow and fell into the fire, leaving no bones.
The pirate fleet that rushed to rescue saw that the thief leader was dead. Except for a few pirates on the sea boats who wanted to avenge Xu Long, they rushed to Huang Ting and Li Cheng's fleet regardless of everything and fought with the official army. The other ships turned around and turned around and tried to escape back to their nests. However, they were intercepted and surrounded by the ambushed naval fleet led by deputy general Liang Li.
In order to completely annihilate Xu Long, the pirate fleet, Gao Lixun dispatched all the navy and warships, and was determined to win. At this time, hundreds of warships of all sizes advanced and retreated in an orderly manner under the unified command of Gao Lixun, and fought less. The balance of victory quickly tilted towards the official army. More than an hour later, the pirate fleet either surrendered or sunk, and the entire army was wiped out.
Since he had already found out the exact location of Xu Long's nest in advance, after Xu Long's main force was released, Jiao Lian's army also took a troop transport ship and cooperated to climb the pirate nest from the relatively hidden Bowan.
Chapter completed!