The power of the spirit is extremely important for human beings. Those who were still fighting bravely one moment ago, when they lost their spiritual support, they would flee in the next second, and they no longer had the slightest courage to resist.

This is the situation in Zhangzhou Bay right now.

A large number of pirate ships fled for their lives in a hurry, and a certain fleet had now divided into two teams, each led by a destroyer, scurrying among the schools of fish like catfish, and all those who surrendered without raising the white flag were waiting for them.

On the two blockade lines notified by the telegram, a large number of officers and soldiers who had already practiced their skills in fighting water dogs to the grandmaster level were also screaming and rushing to the battlefield - no need to go into battle to fight for their lives, as long as 998, wrong, as long as they bet a surrendered pirate ship back to Kinmen, the people on the side will count the hair and silver on the spot, so the officers and soldiers are now red-eyed.

This kind of good life will continue for some time to come. Because there are many pirates who are confused, these people will jump around like rats in the closed Zhangzhou Bay until they are all caught by the officers and soldiers.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when a large number of officers and men arrived at the battlefield, the main fleet was finally able to get out and turned around and rushed to the center and left.

At this moment, the center and left office have long been dilapidated.

The ships that were sunk a few days ago are still half-lying in the shallow water near the dock, and the big tent of the Chinese army, which was very imposing in the past, has also been in a semi-collapsed state, and all kinds of clumsy belongings have been sprinkled from the tent to the dock, a tragic scene of escaping from the famine in the last days.

Li Kuiqi's lineage, who was guarding the grain platform, had already fled at this moment, and the only living people nearby were some abandoned sick people in the city of Zhongzuo.

Seeing this situation, the fleet immediately divided into two groups. One group stayed in the center and left to wait for reinforcements to occupy it, while the other group continued to pursue the upper reaches of the Kowloon River.

Why go to the upper reaches of the Kowloon River? Because Moon Harbor is just 10 kilometers ahead. Why go to Moon Harbor? Because Li Kuiqi has been intercepted in Yuegang.

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From the moment his ship was hit by three iron balls at the same time, Li Kuiqi's ambition was finally completely shattered.

The ideals were shattered so quickly that even after he changed boats, his whole mental outlook was still in a state of disillusionment. You must know that not long ago, he replaced the junior who was bent on recruiting peace, and he had just stepped on the peak of his life, becoming the number one leader with 30,000 soldiers, 1,000 warships, and dominating the southern sky.

However, fate played a huge joke on him here - the killing god in the dark destroyed all his capital.

The sudden opponent is too ferocious. They are secretive and act like gods, and Li Kuiqi can't keep up with his opponent's rhythm even with all his might...... This is the most fundamental reason for his defeat today: his inability to adapt to the new rhythm of war.

Theoretically speaking, after the night of the burning of the company camp, Li Kuiqi should have abandoned all his ambitions as soon as possible, and then disbanded the big gang, broken it into pieces, and switched to guerrilla warfare.

However, this is only a theory after all. Li Kuiqi has no God's perspective, he is just an old pirate in the tradition of the 17th century. So he hesitated, he procrastinated, and he was reluctant to bankrupt and liquidate the belongings that he had finally "usurped".

So it wasn't until the moment when the officers and soldiers attacked on a large scale that he passively faced the battle, and in the critical few days in between, he was actually at a loss and sat still-he was not Zheng Zhilong, even if he was replaced by Zheng Zhilong, there was still no second way except surrender.

Li Kuiqi's remaining dreams were completely shattered as the ship slowly sank. After being escorted to another ship by a few henchmen, he could only take a deep look at the streamlined strange ships, and finally said fiercely: "Let's go"...... That's all.

Taking advantage of the chaos on the sea, Li Kuiqi and Comrade Zhong Bin, the only bare-bones commander who was with him, drove the boat to turn around with a group of henchmen, and when everyone tried to rush out of the open sea, they took the unusual path and returned to the Zhongzuo Institute.

Naturally, there is a backhand here.

Seven or eight ships of fortune loaded with all the goods, grain, and weapons of the grain station were already ready to go on the wharf. As soon as Li Kuiqi and the others arrived at the dock, they boarded two of the most inconspicuous lucky ships without saying a word, and then the team shouted to Li Kuiqi: "The army is defeated, and the brothers will go to Tongshan for temporary refuge, and meet again in the future." In the loud cheers, they scattered in all directions.

After five ships loaded with clumsy goods were fooled into going to the open sea to rush through the customs, Li Kuiqi slightly redeployed the remaining henchmen, and two inconspicuous ships loaded with a large amount of silver hurriedly sailed to the upper reaches of the Jiulong River.

Keeping a back hand is a skill that any qualified leader must have, and Li Kuiqi is no exception. Prior to this, because his intelligence ability was far beyond that of ordinary minions, he had planned an escape route after defeat.

And the path he chose now was the most difficult path in the plan, because he knew that the direction of the open sea was a dead end, and no one could break through the blockade of those strange ships that could see in the dark.

The base of this escape route is Zhangzhou Mansion in the upper reaches of the Kowloon River. After arriving at the capital of Zhangzhou, he would first contact the local nest owner, and then abandon the boat and go ashore, take the silver to the south by land, and after bypassing the blockade of the government, he would buy a ship again in the Chaoshan area to go to sea in order to plan for the future.

However, just like when Prime Minister Cao Cheng ran away to Huarong Road, Comrade Li Kuiqi also encountered the same situation: After the ship went out for 20 miles, at the gate of Yuegang, Prime Minister Li Cheng was stopped.

There were two groups of people blocking the way.

Li Kuiqi is very familiar with these two groups: the leader of one group is called Hu Ba, and the other group is Xu Xinsu's subordinates.

Before today, there was no doubt that these two were good friends and brothers of Li Kuiqi. Xu Xinsu has been working hard to restore the popularity of Yuegang during this time, and is always ready to help Li Da's shopkeeper sell the stolen goods.

And Hu Ba is not to mention, the good brother was still chivalrous and courageous yesterday shouting that he wants to live and die with Prime Minister Li Cheng......

So when Li Kuiqi saw in the cabin that his two ships were surrounded by seventeen or eighteen boats that washed out of the moon harbor, he was not very desperate - he still had the certainty of leaving half of the silver behind.

Then Prime Minister Cao Cheng was stunned: after the brothers of Dangyi Bo Yuntian saw him walk out of the cabin, the situation that was still in a state of confrontation was suddenly broken.

A few people wrapped in turbans around Xu Xinsu immediately released a round of guns and killed a few of Li Kuiqi's men on the bow of the boat; And Hu Ba's side was even more direct, and the good brother of Yi Bo Yuntian jumped over with a knife in his hand, and went straight to the prime minister, and there was no chance for the prime minister to cut his beard and run away.

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The commanding Li Kuiqi was caught by his good brother in this way. And when the detachment that crossed the crowd arrived at Yuegang, they found that the plastic brothers were fighting again: Hu Ba and Xu Xinsu's soldiers and horses did not give in to each other, and they pulled out their swords for Li Kuiqi's first merit......

The fleet soon took Li Kuiqi and Zhong Bin on the ship, turned around and returned to Kinmen. And Hu Ba and Xu Xinsu, the two heroes, can only take the silver boat to Kinmen early tomorrow morning...... Yuegang is 50 kilometers from Kinmen, and their fortune ships do not have the ability to travel at night.

Li Kuiqi had no idea that he would board the thief's strange ship so quickly—as a prisoner.

Standing on the lightning-fast deck of the Ariko, Li Kuiqi looked at the strange objects on the ship, the shining cannons, the neatly dressed sailors, and he could only sigh at the moment when his hands were tied, and then he was escorted into the cabin.

In the cabin, as he expected, were several bearded men in blue and white cardigans.

After seeing Li Kuiqi and Zhong Bin being pushed into the door, one of the chubby bearded men opened his mouth with a smile and asked, "Li Da Shopkeeper, I have admired my name for a long time, don't come to harm?" ”

Of course, Li Kuiqi could hear the ridicule in the other party's words, so he opened his mouth and replied: "If you want to kill or chop, listen to me, you don't need to insult me." ”

"Yo, my mouth is quite hard." Wang Xiaohui and their meeting with Li Kuiqi and Zhong Bin were completely to satisfy their own little fun in meeting historical figures, and they did not have the idea of communicating with each other - what is there to say to the two mortal people?

So when Li Kuiqi finished speaking, Wang Xiaohui just shook his head, and then waved his hand to signal the soldiers to take the prisoner down.

Li Kuiqi in history has a sinister and vicious personality, and after turning his face with Zheng Zhilong, many people who have been close to Zheng Zhilong were killed by him. However, viciousness and fierceness are two concepts: he does not have Liu Xiang's courage to run out of ammunition and food and commit suicide by throwing himself into the sea. In history, he was finally captured by Zheng Zhilong and Zhong Bin, and the Dutch in 1630, and got a head to show the public.

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At 9 o'clock in the evening, the Ariko returned to the bay on the south side of the Golden Gate.

At this moment, Kinmen has become an island that never sleeps. Although the pier and pirate ship in the west of the island were burned by gasoline guns that night, the guard city and the pier in the south of the island, which had long been abandoned by the government, were there, so it became the base camp and temporary transit center of the coalition forces.

A large number of captive pirate ships were haphazardly parked in the harbor, while their owners were all herded into the cabins, and the officers and men on the decks were waiting to be "unloaded" with excited faces.

On the only pier of the guardhouse, a Dutch ship was moored at the moment. The temporary wires and searchlights from the destroyer ensured the light for operations in the dock area.

The next moment, a fortune boat was pulled to the side of the dock. Soon, under the illumination of the dazzling pillar of light, the pirates in the cabin were released one after another. These pirates were all depressed and hungry; When they came out of the cabin, they were speechless by the searchlights.

As soon as they got out of the cabin, they stumbled aboard the Dutch ship and were once again stuffed into the cabin, pushed by the human wall formed by the guards. In this process, all injured ones will be singled out and treated with simple disinfection. And those who intend to resist and escape will be killed on the spot, unceremoniously.

Whenever a docked ship was emptied, the account office that kept track of the number of people would give a sum of money to the officers and men who captured the ship: 3 taels for the healthy and 1 tael for the wounded.