Before he arrived in Xiyu, Li Yanzhi faced Penghu as if he was facing a great enemy. When he got here, he realized that the situation was not what he thought, so his mentality became much more relaxed.

After the Western Island was settled, Li Yanzhi sent Lu Fuli and Yang Zhou to survey the terrain, searched for a good harbor, pulled the fleet over to moor, and set up camp on the landside of the harbor. Then he sent Wang Hermitage and Wu Ping to take turns to patrol, taking the fishermen in Xiyu as the guide. If they meet fishermen, they will recruit them to surrender. If they meet Japanese pirates, they will attack them.

There are nine villages of all sizes in the Penghu Islands, basically all of which are farming and fishing as their main business, and occasionally go out to rob, but that is only a side job. Under the intimidation of Wuping and Wang Hermitage, eight of the Jiuzhai expressed their surrender, and only Cai Dalu in Longmen Port refused to come to join. The village where Cai Dalu is located is the leader of Penghu villages, with the greatest power, controlling more than hundreds of households on the Penghu island. Seeing that Cai Dalu was dissatisfied, four families recurred and closed the village doors to resist Li Yanzhi.

Li Yanzhi was about to try to comfort them so that they could search for the Japanese pirates, but before his instructions were given, Wang Mumin had already broken into Longmen Port and fired! Li Yanzhi originally wanted to use a softer method, but the cannons were fired and could not be taken back, so he ordered Wu Ping to go for reinforcements.

The Penghu Islands are poor, and Longmen Port Water Village only concentrated the materials on Penghu Island. Although some walls were built, how could the equipment be compared with the fleet of the aircraft corps? Wang Mumin and Wu Ping drove six large sailboats forward and backward. When the sailors of Longmen Port Water Village saw it, how could they dare to drive a boat?

Cai Dalu shouted and directed the village to guard the gate. Wang Mumin saw that the wall of the water village was rammed with earth and was about two feet thick, or could block the artillery fire, so he did not waste ammunition. He ordered his subordinates to raise the gun mouth and directly bombard the shells into the village to kill people. The thieves in the village heard the cannon and were bombarded by the cannon. They were shocked and fled. The Longmen Port Water Village immediately became a clump of ants.

Wu Ping led 120 soldiers to approach the village in ten small boats. At this time, the water camp was in chaos, and Cai Dalu could not restrain his subordinates. Only some of them were still guarding the gate with artillery fire. There was no one on the wall of the northern section. Twenty aircraft soldiers rushed to the edge of the village wall and threw up hooked ropes. The wall was only nine feet long. There were continuous sounds of Kara. Twenty hooks had been hung on the wall. Twenty melee soldiers tried to hook and climbed up. After they got on the wall, they held rattan cards in their left hand and pressed their right hand to squat on the wall. When the thieves in the village saw this, this section of the village wall had been occupied.

After twenty melee soldiers, twenty archers climbed up. The melee soldiers protected the position on the village wall. After the twenty archers came up, they fired arrows in all directions and shot the thieves who were about to rush up. They only shot two or three arrows, and the third group of people, twenty bird gunners, had climbed up. After they came up, the wall seemed to be crowded, and twenty melee soldiers gradually forced to open up new positions on both sides.

The thieves in Longmen Port Village were gradually accustomed to the bombing of Wang Mumin's cannons, and slowly restrained their panic. Cai Dalu also organized a team of about 40 people to fight back against the wall, but he heard the bang bang bird guns. If Wang Mumin's cannons were just counting on the bombing of many people, then the bird guns were aimed one-on-one! The guns and bullets were accompanied by the rain of arrows, and only one round was fired, and the situation in the village had just stabilized was in chaos again!

At this time, the forty soldiers led by Wu Ping had already stepped on the wall, but they did not like the three groups of people in front of them, guarded or attacked on the wall after they climbed up, but jumped into the village directly! The forty soldiers were fifteen two-handed swordsmen, fifteen spearmen, and ten melee soldiers. While they jumped into the inside of the village wall, the twenty melee soldiers who had previously stepped on the wall also jumped off to meet up. The bird gunner continued to attack, and the archers fired arrows to cover their comrades. Wu Ping used this gap to slightly adjust the queue of sixty people in the wall, and then rushed in three rows. The spear opened the way, and the blades shone in the air, the arrows flew down from the sky, and the swords came from close range. In front of these people, how could the thieves in Longmen Port resist head-on? They resisted slightly and retreated step by step!

The last twenty boatmen led by Wu Ping also climbed up the wall and jumped into the wall. He grabbed the small boat in the village and opened the water gate. Wang Mumin's subordinates had been waiting for a long time! When he saw the door open, hundreds of people rushed in. Cai Dalu saw that he had lost completely. He saw that his brothers who had been with him for many years were trembling and waiting to die under the big sword and spear. He sighed, threw down the big sword in his hand, rushed out and shouted, "Stop fighting, stop fighting! We surrender."

Several confidants exclaimed: "Master, no!"

A few swordsmen with both hands swung their swords forward, and the spearmen stopped the enemy outside. More than a dozen Cai Dalu saw that the village leader was about to fall into the enemy, and they tried to snatch him up and save him back, but Cai Dalu shouted: "Stop! Stop! Stop!"

The thieves finally calmed down, and Cai Dalu stretched out his hands and said, "Come on, tie me up and see your dog official! Don't make things difficult for my brother!"

Wu Ping raised his thumb and said, "Good man! Don't worry, as long as you don't do anything, I won't do anything to you!" He ordered people to watch him, and ordered the thieves to disarm. The thieves refused at first, but when they saw that the village gate was broken and the leader had surrendered, they all lost their fighting spirit. Wu Ping seized the thieves' equipment, Wang Mumin demolished the water gate, and then took Cai Dalu and more than a dozen leaders to Xiyu to see Li Yanzhi.

At this time, Li Yanzhi had moved his base camp to the Mazu Temple in the north of Penghu Island. During this battle, small boats continued to go back and forth between Longmen Port and Mazu Temple to report the battle situation to Li Yanzhi. Therefore, before Wu Ping and others returned, Li Yanzhi had already known the battle situation.

When Cai Dalu arrived, he was burning incense to Mazu. Cai Dalu thought to himself when he saw it: "This dog official still knows how to respect Mazu, it seems that it is not completely bad."

After Li Yanzhi got on the incense, he sat down next to the Mazu Temple, glanced at Cai Dalu, and asked, "I am the commander of the commander of the capital, recruiting troops to sea, patrolling the islands, attacking Japanese pirates, and coming to Penghu, why do you resist me?" In fact, he dared not say the so-called "the commander of the commander of the capital" when he was in the mainland, because Sun Taihe only gave him a verbal promise, so how could he give him any commander? But when he arrived at the sea, especially these grassroots thieves, who knew the details? Li Yan took it straight away.

When he said this as a juren, he seemed to have the majesty of the official! Although Cai Dalu was the leader of the thief on Penghu Island, he was also frightened by him. Seeing that he could mobilize such a fleet and possess such an elite soldier, he thought he was a high-ranking official and said angrily: "You officials have too many great principles, I don't understand. We started fleeing famines and fleeing here, and we just wanted to survive! Now you want to catch us back, I can't do anything!"

Li Yan said straight: "When did I say I want to catch you back?"

"Don't you catch us?" Cai Dalu thought for a while and said, "That's to ask us to serve. In short, I won't go! You can kill me at most!" The tax revenue in the Ming Dynasty was actually not high, and it was a fixed quota. Not to mention officials, even the emperor dared not increase it casually, but local labor is extremely heavy, and indulging is a middle-class family. If a bad official is disbanded into labor, it may go bankrupt and die at any time, so the lower-level people are afraid of labor.

Li Yan knew that he was scared by his past experience, so he smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying, "I will not catch you, nor will I kill you, nor will I catch you to serve. I just want you not to cause trouble. This is OK."

Cai Dalu glanced at him and refused to believe it. Li Yan waved his hand and said, "Let him go." He untied the rope that tied Cai Dalu. Cai Dalu shouted, "What the hell are you going to do! What tricks do you have!"

Li Yan said straight: "I have no tricks, but I want to survey the terrain in Penghu and count the household registration. During this period, you will restrain your subordinates to live a life honestly! There are only two things that should be done and fishing when they should be fishing. You are not allowed to do evil to my people, and you are not allowed to go out to rob. If you can't support yourself by farming and fishing, you will send someone to tell me that I will find another way to settle you." Then he waved his hand and said, "Go."

Cai Dalu looked Li Xiaolian from left to right, looking up and down, feeling that he was very different from the officials he had met before, and thought to himself: "Did I meet a blue sky? That is a rare thing that can be encountered in a hundred years! But if it weren't for this, what trick could he have? Our village and people have fallen into his hands. Even if he wants to kill us all, we can't do anything about it." He didn't dare to believe it for a moment, and could not find any other explanation.

Seeing that he was not leaving, Li Yanzhi asked, "What, is there anything else?"

Cai Dalu said: "You really don't have to serve labor? You don't have to pay taxes?"

Li Yan said straight: "My own subordinates are enough, so I can't use you. As for taxes, what can you give me?"

Cai Dalu said oh, thinking, "Let's go back first and see if what he said is true." Then he took his subordinates away.

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Chapter completed!