"General, the people on the island want to enter the fort."
The sentry guarding the fortress gate came to Sun Youming to report.
"Do you think this general is blind?" Sun Youming glanced coldly at the sentry in front of him and said in an indifferent tone, "If they still think they are the people of the Ming Dynasty, they should go to the shore to kill the tiger bandits and defend the island. It’s not about escaping here and letting me protect them.”
The sentry officer who heard this looked at Sun Youming hesitantly.
At this time, the soldier standing aside whispered to him: "Just guard the fort gate. No one can enter or leave the fort gate without the general's order. Remember, it's no one."
"I understand." The sentry officer responded, bowed and left.
Sun Youming, who was standing on the fort wall, frowned as he looked at the people outside begging for permission to enter the fort.
When the pier was built, it was built in the style of a military fortress and could not accommodate too many people.
Not only that, more and more people are gathering outside the Dunbao, and more people are coming from afar.
There are already ships of tiger thieves docking on the shore of the island, and the soldiers and horses of tiger thieves have landed on the island.
Once the gate of the fort is opened to let the people outside into the fort, it is very likely that the soldiers and horses of the tiger thieves have already arrived before all the people have entered the fort.
Thinking of this, he became cruel and said, "Shoot arrows down to drive away the people outside the fort."
"General, do you really want to fire arrows to drive them away?" A soldier said unbearably.
Most of the soldiers around the generals in Dongjiang Town were from Liaodong. To the soldiers, the people outside the fort were all fellow villagers who had suffered hardships.
I couldn't bear to bully the already unfortunate people of Liaodong with the weapons in my hands.
"What? Are my words useless?" Sun Youming glared at the soldier who spoke, and then said, "Immediately let someone release the arrow."
The soldiers did not dare to delay this time.
The reason for the persuasion was for the sake of the villagers, but he would not lose his identity as a soldier for the sake of the villagers.
"The general ordered to fire arrows to drive away the people outside. Don't let the people get close to the fort gate, and try not to hurt the people." The soldier said to the archers on the fort wall, and finally couldn't bear to give more instructions.
A dozen archers on the fort wall loaded their arrows and drew their long bows. Although they couldn't bear it, they would not disobey the general's order for these people.
Soon, arrows were shot out one after another.
Even though the archers on the fort wall tried not to shoot at people, there were so many people outside that nearly half of their arrows still missed and hit the people.
One of the civilians was shot dead on the spot.
The people also understood the principle of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages. As soon as they shot arrows in the fort, there were casualties and casualties around them. They were afraid that they would be the next targets to be shot, so they retreated away from the fort.
However, the safest place on the island is the Dunbao, so although the people left the fort gate, they did not retreat too far. Instead, they gathered not far away and continued to beg the guards in the Dunbao.
Sun Youming, who was on the fort wall, saw that the people were far away from the fort gate, so he stopped caring about it, as long as the soldiers in the fort were not delayed in guarding the fort.
After such a delay, the Tiger Flag soldiers who were the first to land had already appeared a mile or two away from the island's pier.
Because Shicheng Island was larger and there were more officers and soldiers stationed on the island, Zhao Wu directly dispatched two thousand-man teams, and he personally led the troops.
Standing more than a mile away from the pier, Zhao Wu observed the situation on the pier through the monocular telescope in his hand.
Because the follow-up soldiers had not arrived yet, he was in no hurry to attack.
More importantly, the fortress on Shicheng Island needs cannons to break open. If it relies on crowds, the two thousand-man teams he brought are simply not enough.
And the soldiers of the Tiger Flag should not be wasted like this.
Therefore, he was not in a hurry to attack. It would not be too late to wait for the subsequent soldiers to bring the cannon over, and then attack the fort in front of him.
Sun Youming, who was on the wall of the Dunpu Fort, saw the soldiers and horses with the Tiger Character Flag approaching the Dunpu and stopped moving forward. He said in an unhappy tone: "Why haven't these damn tiger thieves come to attack the Dunpu."
The defender of the city had a favorable geographical location, and he wished that the people of the Tiger Flag would attack immediately, so that he could rely on the Dunbao to defeat the invading tiger thieves.
If Mao Wenlong, the chief military officer of Pingliao in Dongjiang Town, was unable to defeat the tiger thief, if he was defeated, he believed that the imperial court would take him seriously, and he would not have to stay on Shicheng Island as a guard.
"The tiger thief may not have expected that there would be a military fortress on the island. He may be thinking of countermeasures!" the soldier on the side speculated.
Sun Youming walked a few steps back and forth on the fort wall and said: "We cannot give the tiger thieves time, we must force them to attack. Come here, tell the gunners to fire at the place where the tiger thieves gather."
"Fire now?" said the soldier on the side. "The Tiger Cannon can't hit that far, and the cannon can't hurt those tiger thieves."
Sun Youming glanced at him and said, "I know that the Crouching Tiger Cannon is out of reach, but I can scare the tiger thieves in the distance and make them cause chaos on their own."
"My subordinates will send people to fire the cannon." The soldier ran to deliver the order.
Sun Youming walked to the crenellations of the fort wall, looked at the enemy troops in the distance, slapped his palms on the wall, and said bitterly: "If I had a few decent cannons, how could I allow you traitors to be so arrogant?"
Islands far away from the mainland like the one he was stationed on had never been taken seriously. Naturally, if there were good things, they would not be able to do it to the generals guarding the island.
In the past, it was okay to deal with slave thieves. After all, slave thieves could not fly across the sea and appear on the island, so there was no need for cannons. Now that tiger thieves have powerful warships and can send soldiers and horses to the island, the usefulness of cannons has become more prominent. .
After a while, Sun Youming's face turned gloomy when there was no sound of gunfire.
His first reaction was that the people below were disobeying his orders.
Just when he was about to go over and question him, the soldiers he sent ran back.
"What's going on? Why didn't you fire the artillery for so long!" Sun Youming lost his temper towards his own soldiers and started asking questions.
The soldier hurriedly explained with a grimace: "General, please calm down. It's not that you don't want to fire cannons. The barrels of gunpowder we have stored in the fort have all become damp because they have been stored for too long, and they cannot be used at all for a while."
"What? It's damp!" Sun Youming's eyes widened and he said with a dark face, "How did they preserve the gunpowder and let it get damp? If the Tiger Cannon cannot be fired today, I will sacrifice their heads to the flag. "
Without the threat of slaves and soldiers on the island, Shicheng Island was relatively stable. Firearms were rarely used. He had never cared about gunpowder.
He only remembered that the gunpowder on the island was delivered together with the Tiger Crouching Cannon by the Navy a year ago. He did not expect that it had only been more than a year since it had all been dampened.
"Yes, my subordinates will tell them to go." The soldier turned and left.
On the other side of the fort wall, several gunners and their sentry were looking at the barrels in front of them with worried expressions.
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