Under the cover of night, small boats were pushed into the water from the shore.
One by one, the Eight Banners soldiers and Han troops boarded the boat.
There must be at least five people on each boat. When the boat is full, the boatman starts to slide the oar and row the boat to the opposite island.
"Commander, do you really want Azig to attack Pi Island?"
Seeing that the boat Azig was riding in was rowing farther and farther, and soon became blurry under the night, Yue Tuo looked worried.
Amin, who was standing on the shore, said: "It was Azig himself who volunteered for the sneak attack on Pidao. As the commander of the army, it is not easy for me to dampen Azig's confidence. Besides, he has brought so many golden warriors with him. There will be nothing." dangerous."
"I'm afraid that the people on the boat will be discovered by the people on the island before they get to the island. No matter how capable Azig and his friends are, they will not be able to use it." Yue Tuo said worriedly.
Amin withdrew his gaze, looked at Yue Tuo beside him and said, "Don't worry, with the prisoners of the Ming Army guiding them, they will naturally find a remote location to land on the island, and they will not be easily discovered by the people on the island."
In order to conceal their whereabouts, no torches were prepared on the shore, and even the noise of ships going into the sea was kept as low as possible. Even if there was some noise, it was covered by the sound of the waves at night.
"I'm still worried. Nothing will happen to Azige, otherwise the two white flags will definitely cause trouble." Yue Tuo said.
Amin frowned and said with dissatisfaction: "That's enough. The Azigh people have already left by boat. Even if they want to find it, it's impossible to find them back. If you have time to complain, why not stay with me peacefully?" Good news for them is waiting here.”
As one boat after another goes into the sea, the shore becomes quiet again.
"Are the cannons ready?" Amin asked Jilharang, who was also following him.
Ji'erhalang nodded and said: "We are ready. As long as we find a ship on the island, we can directly attack it with cannons. However, our cannons are not as good as the red cannons of the Ming Dynasty on Ningyuan City. They cannot hit as hard." Far."
"As long as everything goes well in Azig, the cannons prepared on the shore may not be used." Amin replied to him.
On the shore of Iron Mountain, in addition to Azige and others who left, there were also many Eight Banners soldiers and Mongolian soldiers guarding here. On the contrary, there were relatively few Han soldiers.
There were many night-blind men in the Han army who could not see anything when it got dark, so Amin only selected some of the Han soldiers with normal eyes and brought them over.
In addition to the boats Azig took away, there were also many boats and rafts parked on the shore.
As soon as Azig and his men burned down the big ship on the island, Amin, who was waiting on the shore, asked the Eight Banners soldiers and Han troops on the shore to take the remaining ships to the island.
The fine sand of time passes little by little.
For the people on the island, the army of slave thieves has arrived at Iron Mountain and tried to land on Phi Island by boat. Although it was repelled by the warships on the island, as long as the army of slave thieves does not leave for one day, the people on the island will be safe. Never dare to let down your guard.
At the end of Pi Island, across the sea from Tieshan, there are at least two soldiers guarding towering watchtowers, equipped with monocular telescopes to ensure that people on the watchtowers can observe the sea at all times. Case.
If it is daytime, people on the watchtower can even see the situation on the opposite shore through a monocular telescope.
"Are my eyes blurred? Why do I see something moving in the sea? Can you help me take a look?"
On one of the watchtowers near the seaside, the soldier on guard bumped the person next to him with his arm and handed the monocular in his hand to the person.
"Maybe you saw it wrong. It's so dark and you can't see anything on the sea." The man next to him muttered, took the monocular telescope in his hand, and looked towards the sea with his eyes.
The sound of waves crashed against the rocks on the shore, and the air was filled with the slightest smell of sea.
"There's nothing. You must have seen it wrong." As he said that, he returned the monocular telescope in his hand to the other party and said at the same time, "The slaves don't even have a decent big ship, and they just suffered a loss during the day. It takes two days no matter what."
He didn't think the slave thieves would attack Pi Island overnight.
Pi Island is easy to defend and difficult to attack for slave thieves without navy. Mao Wenlong has been on Pi Island for so many years, but he has never seen slave thieves capture Pi Island.
Whoosh... bang!
A firework bloomed in mid-air, and even many shadowed areas around it were illuminated by the light of the firework.
"It's an enemy attack. The slave thieves are here for a sneak attack." The soldier who had just received the monocular saw the small boats appearing on the sea through the light of the fireworks.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
He held a copper whistle in his mouth and blew it hard.
The island quickly started to move, and one team after another began to rush towards the shore of the island.
Several warships docked at the dock also moved.
"What's going on outside?" Zheng Tie sat up from the bed, reached out to grab the clothes on the bed, and began to put them on himself one by one.
At this time, the door of the room was pushed open, and Li Zhao walked in from the outside. He said with a heavy face: "It's a signal from the watchtower. It should be that the slave thief has been found."
Zheng Tie, who quickly got dressed, stood up, picked up the gun on the table and put it on his waist. At the same time, he said in his mouth: "I'll go take a look, you stay and sit here."
After speaking, without waiting for Li Zhao to object, he strode out of the room, took the guards waiting outside the door, and hurried towards the watchtower.
boom! boom! boom!
As soon as he reached the halfway point, more than a dozen doors around the watchtower that he had placed in advance were opened.
Hearing the sound of cannons, his steps became faster and faster.
"What's going on now?" Zheng Tie asked the captain of the artillery team stationed here when he came to the place where the artillery team was.
The captain of the artillery team raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the water in front of him and said: "The slave thieves wanted to sneak attack on Phi Island. My subordinates ordered the artillery team to bombard the ship on which the slave thieves were riding. However, it was too dark to see the ships in the sea clearly. It depends on luck, unless the enemy ship is close to the shore and the location is confirmed by the fire on the shore."
"No, once they dock, no one can predict where they will land on the island." Zheng Tie rejected the other party's proposal and picked up the single-channel telescope in his hand to look at the sea.
Through the monocular, he could only see something vaguely, because it was too dark to see clearly, and there were only a dozen cannons deployed on the shore. In addition, it was dark, so the threat to ships at sea was limited.
"It would be great if we could use rockets. If we shoot rockets on the sea, even if we can't hit the enemy's ship, we can still find the enemy's position through the light emitted by the rockets." said the artillery team leader.
Zheng Tie hesitated for a moment and said: "We don't have rockets, but we have fireworks, which can still find the location of enemy ships. I will have people set off fireworks on the sea in a while to find the target for your artillery team."
"As long as there is light to direct the direction, we can determine the position of the enemy ships, and my subordinates will be sure to annihilate them all on the sea." The artillery team leader said with assurance, patting his chest.
Zheng Tie replied: "I only look at the results."
On the other side, he ordered people to prepare a large number of fireworks and set them off towards the sea.
