The East China Sea pirates who entered the Taihu Lake Basin in late July continued to burn, kill, and loot the coastal counties until mid-August. By this time, most of the pirate ships were filled with looted gold, silver, jewelry, and women, and they gradually withdrew from the Taihu Lake Basin.
out.
In the reeds on the southwest beach of Xisha Island, Lin Fu stood with a knife, staring at the river at the southern end of the island. Two more loach boats came from a distance. Farther away, the blue water stretched across the sky, and a few faint shadows appeared like
It was a ship, but it was far away from the two loach boats.
"Send the bait boat out!" Lin Fu waved his hand and ordered.
The guard behind him pulled the reins and got on his horse, galloping north along a newly dug dirt road to convey Lin Fu's order.
After a while, a large awning boat sailed out from the river fork on the west side of Southwest Beach and headed for the south bank.
No pirate would let a big fish swim in front of him if he robs too much. The black-topped boat has a very deep draft. Whether it is a cargo ship or a ferry, it is worth grabbing. After two loach boats discovered the black-topped boat,
Immediately in the middle of the river, he adjusted his sails and changed his course, heading straight towards the awning boat.
When the big black-topped boat saw the loach boat coming with bad intentions, it naturally turned around and fled back. How could the loach boat easily let the fat sheep slip away under its nose? It followed closely and saw the mouth of the river branch.
Without stopping, he rushed straight in.
Generally speaking, the draft of a loach boat is shallower than that of a large awning boat. If a large awning boat loaded with cargo can pass through the river, the loach boat will naturally rush forward without hesitation, but it will chase into the river alley.
Four or five miles away, when the oars were rowing forward with extra difficulty, they realized that the bottom of the boat touched the shallow part of the river bed. The pirates wanted to turn the bow of the boat and leave, only to find that five or six high-altitude boats appeared in the direction of the mouth of the river branch they had just entered.
Come on, even if the Donghai pirates on the sea loach boat are fools, they dare to fall into the trap.
The rivers on Xisha Island are all naturally formed and their channels are shallow. The Dongyang, an empty boat, moved very slowly in the shallow water channel. There were more than a hundred brave men on both sides of the bank pulling strings to tow the big boat forward.
Lin Fu was not anxious when he moved to the boat. He stood on the deck with his sword in hand, watching the loach boat in front of him getting closer and closer. Fu Qinghe stood beside Lin Fu with a pale face, wearing a light armored shirt, with his left arm
The long sleeves were empty from the elbows down.
Fu Qinghe had a broken arm, multiple injuries on his body, and was in critical condition due to excessive blood loss. When Wu Yanqing thought there was nothing he could do to save his life, Lin Fu could only take the risk and give him a blood transfusion.
It's not that blood transfusion didn't exist in this world, it was just extremely primitive and crude, and even had a lot of legend in it.
Donghu has records of cutting open the flesh of a horse's belly and wrapping it up to revive an injured general who had suffered severe blood loss. Lin Fu speculated that this was the result of blood transfusion treatment by pressing the horse's blood from the wound into the human body, which can be regarded as the most primitive blood transfusion technique.
Of course, the fact that people can be saved in this way is also a miracle of the smoke coming out of the ancestral graves.
Lin Fu performed a blood transfusion operation on Fu Qinghe to be closer to future generations. It was not difficult. The simplest blood transfusion operation could be done by connecting the blood donor's artery to the injured vein with a clean goose quill.
The most important thing is that the blood type cannot be identified. Under the current conditions, it is difficult to accurately observe whether the two blood types can be integrated. In this case, blood transfusion is carried out, especially when Fu Qinghe's injury is so serious. Once rejection occurs, it will only
Accelerating death is no different from gambling on life. But Lin Fu had no other choice. It was better than cutting open the horse's belly and wrapping the person in it. Fu Qinghe was also a lucky person and managed to survive.
Lin Fu was afraid that if the blood type could not be accurately identified, the blood transfusion technique would be abused and misused by current doctors, so he only let Wu Yanqing see the process of his treatment of Fu Qinghe.
The current medical science did not have a thorough study of human anatomy, and its understanding of blood was even more rudimentary. Wu Yanqing was naturally amazed by Lin Fu's display of this skill.
Based on Wu Yanqing's lifelong medical experience, it is hard to imagine that a seriously injured and dying person could be treated in this way.
The current medical theory attaches great importance to essence and blood. Lin Fu explained to Wu Yanqing the importance of blood. Many serious diseases can be relieved or even cured through blood transfusion. It is not difficult for Wu Yanqing to understand this, but the blood circulation system in the human body
, but it was inconsistent with the current medical theory, so Lin Fu secretly showed Wu Yanqing the autopsy of a newly deceased pirate, which was regarded as a forced anatomy lesson for contemporary medical science.
Dissecting corpses was unethical in this world, and even dissecting an enemy's corpse was a punishment more severe than execution. If word spread, Lin Fu would not be able to escape the accusation of cruelty.
Afterwards, Lin Fu still asked people to dispose of the body secretly; changing customs should be considered in the long run.
It had been more than ten days since Fu Qinghe woke up. After regaining some strength, he could no longer rest in the tent to recuperate. Although he was still unable to walk very far, Lin Fu lured the pirates, so he came out to get some air. At this time, he stood with Lin Fu.
On the roof deck of the stern cabin of the Dongyang, I calmly watched the loach boat getting closer and closer.
Ao Canghai shouted loudly, instructing the military guards on the deck to prepare for battle.
Qin Zitan led the lake to attack the island, causing the Jiyun Guards who were left behind on Xisha Island to lose more than fifty people at once. Afterwards, Lin Fu selected fifty brave men from the victims of Xisha Island and incorporated them into the Jiyun Guards.
Quite a few of the military guards are new recruits who have not experienced many battles. Although they are brave enough, they will inevitably be a little panicked when facing battle. Ao Canghai naturally has to spend more effort to train them.
Zhao Hu led the military soldiers, and Ning Zechen led the soldiers from the countryside to form a formation on both sides of the strait to block the escape route of the pirates abandoning the ship. They waited for the Dongyang to approach and launched an attack together.
This group of pirates has been roaming around the Taihu Lake Basin for more than half a month. Under their strong attack, the scattered local defense forces were completely defeated or completely destroyed, and they encountered few resolute resistance. At this time, they were trapped in
The encirclement was not very panic. They first used bamboo poles to push out of the shallow water. In their opinion, they could only break through the blockade of the two ships Dongyang and "Jiyun 1", and the pirates would hold on more.
However, there were a few people holding hooks, guns, shields, bows and arrows, standing menacingly on the deck, waiting to join the fight. However, they were met with arrows and feathers fired from three sides intensively, and crossbows were fired at close range.
A disaster.
Lin Fu waited until all the hundreds of pirates on the decks of the two loach boats were covered with crossbows and disabled, and then he took over the side and ordered the armed guards to board the ship to fight and completely eliminate this group of pirates.
Ao Canghai also wanted to board the ship. Lin Fu reached out to stop him and said, "You can take command on the ship for me..."
When the war was difficult, Lin Fu even had to take the lead to boost morale and fight for a new situation, but in daily battles, Ao Canghai and others could not be allowed to continue to fight on the front line.
Lin Fu was afraid that Fu Qinghe's body would not be able to bear it, so he went back to the cabin with him to rest. This battle would not end, so there was no need to watch closely.
After about half an hour, the fighting outside completely stopped. Ao Canghai walked in and said: "We have captured more than 20 people alive and are interrogating them. In addition to the property, there are also more than 20 young women on the two ships."
, how to deal with it?”
"After being interrogated alive, they were sent to the Chongzhou County Government. Don't mention the matter of inducement or annihilation. They only mentioned that passing pirates attacked the island. Those young women still settled down in the old way. After asking for their addresses, they quietly sent someone to bring them to their families.
Trust me..." Lin Fu said.
Ao Canghai nodded and went out to deal with these matters.
These young women cannot keep their innocence after being captured by pirates. This matter is still very important in the world. Once it is publicized, it will simply drive these women to death.
However, even if people are sent to deliver letters to their families, most of them do not recognize them. In the past six or seven days, Xisha Island has lured and annihilated eight passing pirate ships, and almost every ship has captured young women. The earliest one
There were a total of twelve young women who were picked up, but only four were picked up, and the rest of their families did not recognize them.
Lin Fu selected some smart women and sent them to Wu Yanqing as assistants to help take care of the seriously injured soldiers. The other young women also stayed in the camp to do light chores.
Fu Qinghe shook his head and smiled bitterly. He also sympathized with the fate of these young girls and said: "When people are poor, they don't have enough to eat. How can a pauper who can't find a wife care about this? Most of the people in Wuwei are bachelors. Why don't you make some rules?
, No matter how many years you have served as a soldier, or how many meritorious services you have made, you may withdraw from the Jiyun Military Guard, and we will help them settle down, buy land, and get married, so that the military guards can have more to look forward to."
Brothers sharing wives, and even arranging wives, often happen among the poor people in this world. Poor people really don't care about this, and besides, these young women are indeed pitiful.
"That should be the case," Lin Fu nodded and said, "We can't find a place to take root at the mouth of Jiangning River, but we can on Xisha Island. In the future, I will select more people from Xisha Island for the Jiyun Military Guard, and even try to
It is possible to replace Yuan Linjiayong, and the replaced people should stay on Xisha Island as much as possible. Only in this way can the roots be rooted deeper and deeper on Xisha Island. If the conditions are suitable, they will naturally be allowed to get married and start a business here...
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Fu Qinghe nodded. He knew that Lin Fu had a clear idea. The area of ​​Xisha Island was twenty or thirty times larger than that of Changshan Island. To cultivate his own power, Xisha Island was more suitable than Changshan Island.
Xisha Island is full of refugees with newly registered households. Even the originally large-scale power groups have been completely dispersed in several disasters. The more they are excluded by Chongzhou, the more closely they will gather in Lin.
tied around.
In times of governance, the powerful treat common people as lowly as dogs; in times of trouble, is there any more solid support than this?
What Lin Fu needs to do now is to deeply connect his roots to Xisha Island and closely connect his bloodline with Xisha Island.
Who knows how many more fierce battles like Guanyintan will be experienced in the future? Lin Fu wants to build the Jiyun Military Guard into a truly elite force, and the casualty rate will be difficult to reduce for a long time.
In the Battle of Guanyintan, twenty-seven people from the Jiyun Military Guard were killed, and more than fifty people were seriously injured.
For those who died in the war, Lin Fu could only compensate their families.
Due to the limited medical treatment conditions in this world, it is difficult for severely disabled people to survive. People like Fu Qinghe who survived a broken arm are extremely lucky. The injured who survive can almost return to Jiyun Military Guard to pick up weapons after recovering from their injuries.
Combat.
However, Lin Fu did not hesitate to temporarily reduce the combat effectiveness of Jiyun's military force. He also decided to keep all the seriously injured military guards on Xisha Island after arriving in Chongzhou. When they recovered from their injuries, they were all incorporated into the Xisha Island rural camp. In addition, he recruited strong men from Xisha Island.
Yong was incorporated into the Jiyun Military Guard to supplement the deficiencies.
Doing this can not only quickly improve the training level and combat effectiveness of the Xisha Island rural camp, but is also an important way to quickly penetrate the roots into Xisha Island. Just relying on the Hu family would be too weak.
At this time, Ao Canghai, Zhao Hu, and Ning Zechen were dealing with the piracy matter and boarded the ship to see Lin Fu.
"This group of people are all from Mingzhou Prefecture. They saw that the Donghai bandits were raging in Taihu Lake and the officers and soldiers were unable to clear them out, so they sneaked in to fish in troubled waters," Ao Canghai said, "These dogs/sons are worse than real pirates.
It must be hateful, and there must be many of these people..."
Lin Fu frowned, tapped his fingers on the table to consider the problem, turned his head and said to Fu Qinghe: "The Donghai bandits that initially attacked Anji County had more than a thousand people and twelve ships. They should be the Donghai bandits directly controlled by the She family.
The forces have just not set up a banner, I wonder if the Prince of Jin'an is among them?"
"In the ten years of war in East Fujian, Shefei Xiong always takes the lead in any battle. He is both wise and brave," said Fu Qinghe. "If they want to make such a big noise in Taihu Lake, Shefei Xiong will probably not huddle on any island to remotely control the war.
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"It is now clear that there are thirteen East China Sea pirate forces in the Shengsi Islands Alliance," Lin Fu said thoughtfully. "The leader of the thirteen alliances, Donghai Harrier Yuan Tingdong, is naturally a subordinate of the She family. Even if Yuan Tingdong is
She Fei Xiong himself will not surprise anyone..."
Zhao Hu smiled slightly, who among outsiders would know that Donghai Fox Tan Zong is Lin Fu sitting here?
"In addition to the Donghai Harrier, there are probably other Donghai bandits who are directly controlled by the She family," Fu Qinghe said, "but not too many. Abandoning the land and heading to the sea is a new strategy adopted by the She family.
When the land war was tense before, the She family's financial resources were also in jeopardy. I think there are only two or three East China Sea bandit forces under the direct control of the She family. To identify these groups, only by attacking these forces first can the She family's influence on the East China Sea bandits be weakened.
The influence can at least delay the She family's integration of the East China Sea bandits to the greatest extent."
"To achieve this, relying on Xisha Island is not enough at this stage," Lin Fu said helplessly. "Even if enough combat power is mobilized, it will be difficult to capture the East China Sea bandits when they withdraw from the sea like an ebb.
fighter jets..."
In the later stage of the East China Sea bandits' invasion of Taihu Lake, no less than 20,000 East China Sea bandits and hundreds of ships poured into the counties and counties. If these East China Sea bandits were directly controlled by the She family, the She family would have been in confrontation with Li Zhuo long ago.
A second front has opened.
In fact, Lin Fu set up bait and fishing on Xisha Island to lure out a small group of passing pirates, and also further understood the internal situation of some East China Sea pirates. The number of the thirteen East China Sea pirate forces who came to the Shengsi Islands to form an alliance this time was also limited.
In total, there are only more than 4,000 people.
However, those who can lure and annihilate Xisha Island are the peripheral East China Sea bandit forces who do not know the situation of Xisha Island, or simply this group of fishermen in troubled waters, and what can be extracted from their mouths is limited; Lin Fu can only initially judge that the real victims of luxury in the early stage are
Those controlled by the family were probably the first batch of more than a thousand elites who attacked Anji County.
Even if there were more than a thousand people, Lin Fu would not be able to fight with them.
What's more, the East China Sea bandits have turned upside down in the Taihu bandits. In this process, the thirteen East China Sea bandits in the alliance have become more closely connected. The She family's control over the East China Sea bandits has been further strengthened. If there is no effective
Containment, even the peripheral Donghai bandit forces have been controlled by the She family, and the situation will only become more and more unfavorable to Jiangdong County.
"In the past two days, I will go back to Jiangning to meet with Gu Wuchen and see how he will deal with it," Lin Fu said, "Since the matter is over here, let's go back to Guanyin Beach first."
In addition to more than 20 survivors and more than 20 young women who were rescued, more than 20 survivors will be handed over to Chongzhou County for disposal. However, the two loach boats and the pirates on board have looted the property from the counties along the Taihu Lake.
Lin Fu naturally intercepted the goods and used them for the construction of Xisha Island.
In the past few days, Lin Fu used this bait-fishing method to intercept eight fully loaded pirate ships.
The thirteen East China Sea pirates in the alliance fought against the Ninghai Navy Division, with the main purpose of attacking the coastal garrisons. The degree of looting and damage they caused to local areas was not as good as the peripheral East China Sea bandit forces and other fishermen in troubled waters.
The eight pirate ships intercepted by Lin Fu and others were all loaded with plundered goods, mostly gold, silver and bronze wares, and even a bottle of bronze Buddha weighing more than 20,000 kilograms. I don’t know how these bandits packed the bronze Buddha.
On board the ship, the bronze Buddha bottle was melted down to make copper coins worth more than 4,000 taels.
The eight pirate ships carried almost eighty or ninety thousand taels of goods in exchange for silver, which clearly shows the wealth of the four prefectures around Taihu Lake.
The prefectures and counties around Taihu Lake suffered such a catastrophe, not counting casualties, and the loss of property amounted to at least millions of taels.
In addition to the strength of the East China Sea pirates directly controlled by the She family, the She family provides various supports to other pirates behind the scenes. The goods plundered by these pirates will naturally be used for ventive consumption to purchase ships, weapons, and combat equipment.
Or selling the stolen goods and other ways to get it into the hands of the luxury family.
As one rises and the other wanes, the She family secretly accumulates strength, but the southeastern counties are severely weakened. The She family's plan to abandon the land and go to the sea is indeed vicious, but it is easy for the She family to be the leader of one place, but it is difficult to conquer the world.
If given a choice, how many local forces in Jiangdong and Zhejiang would be willing to join the She family?
Lin Fu returned to Guanyin Beach, and Jiang Ning sent a message saying that Gu Wuchen would go directly to Chongzhou to inspect in the next two days, and he might also cross the river to Pingjiang Prefecture to inspect the bandits.
Chapter completed!