Li An doesn't care about the final outcome of the pirate bosses such as Black Wolf and Wolf I, as long as they are temporarily used to stabilize the newly surrendered pirates, in this process, the greater the role they play, the more they can offset the crimes they have committed, so if they want to clear their guilt and have a good future, they must work hard to help Li An in order to wipe out all the pirate forces in the Malacca Sea as soon as possible.

As soon as the wolf returned, he expressed Li An's meaning, and the black wolf and the others knew Li An's thoughts, and they all expressed their understanding, and decided to behave well and be a new person in the future.

Except for the 10th Battalion on Rising Island, the remaining nine battalions were all performing the task of searching for pirates near Malacca, and these ten battalions cooperated with the main force of the Tang Army to carry out the task of clearing and suppressing pirates.

The scope of the suppression is very large, the northwesternmost reaches of the Luo Yue country, the southeasternmost reaches of the Sri Buddha death, almost covering the entire Malacca waterway, as for the farther Heling country, there are also pirates from time to time, but it is not very serious, only need to leave some soldiers and horses to deter, and then clean them up when they return.

Within the scope of Ang Lee's purge, there are nearly 100 large and small pirate forces, but they are basically all attached to the black wolf, most of them are pirates of the black wolf's branch, and some are pirates who listen to the tune and do not listen to the announcement.

It is relatively simple to deal with the branch pirates under the command of the black wolf, you only need to let the black wolf and other high-level leaders come forward to persuade you to surrender, and you can do it in eighty percent cases, and for those who refuse to surrender, you can resolutely eliminate it.

For those black wolf affiliated pirates, they can also be persuaded to surrender and let them walk on the right path, but the effect of persuasion is slightly worse, and the success rate is often only about half.

However, since some pirates have long understood the strong strength of the Tang Army, they have long been hiding in the mountains and uninhabited islands, as long as they abandon their nests and flee away, even the black wolves will not be able to figure out where they will hide, let alone exterminate them.

This is the reason why the pirates refused to surrender, they felt that as long as they hid it tightly, they would not be caught, and it didn't matter if the lair was taken away, it would be rebuilt later.

And they think that the Tang army will definitely not be able to hold on for a long time, and sooner or later they will have to leave the waters of Malacca, and at that time, they can make a comeback and start their pirate business again, and with the surrender of the black wolf, maybe they can develop a greater force than the black wolf in the future.

This is the thinking of these stubborn pirates, who have seriously underestimated the determination of the Tang Dynasty to maintain the Maritime Silk Road for a long time, and will inevitably perish.

At the same time, these stubborn pirates are also the focus of Ang Lee's attack, and the attack on them will never stop, as long as the pirates exist for a day, the Tang Navy will take them as the target of attack.

The last category is the bad-hearted merchants and fishermen, they are usually honest, the merchants do business honestly, and the fishermen honestly fish and sell, but when they are at sea, once they encounter a single merchant ship, especially a small merchant ship with no armed protection, they will not be polite, and immediately tear off the camouflage skin and rob the small merchant ship.

And because these guys look like good people, it's easy for people to let their guard down, and they will be cheated unconsciously.

This type of random pirate is the most hateful and the best camouflaged pirate, and it takes a lot of thought to deal with them.

At present, all the main troops under Li An's command are on the front line of Malacca, and there are enough troops to deal with pirates, even if they divide their troops, they are strong.

Under Ang Lee's personal arrangement, the 10th Battalion of the newly formed 10 Forward Battalions was responsible for guarding the island, and the 1st and 2nd Battalions continued to clean up the participating pirates in the depths of Malacca, and the remaining seven battalions were all assigned to fight pirates elsewhere.

And in order to increase the enthusiasm of the soldiers of the forward battalion to exterminate the pirates, it is stipulated that forgiveness and meritorious service go hand in hand, that is, as long as they exterminate the pirates, they will definitely be rewarded, but the reward will be reduced by half, and the other half will be used to forgive their sins, who let them be pirates once too?

For pirates who are unwilling to surrender, the best and only way is to ruthlessly exterminate, and many pirates are hiding, and it is not easy to find, in response to this situation, pirates also have countermeasures, that is, disguise themselves as pirates, and look for them through various relationships.

After all, the soldiers of these forward battalions were originally pirates, and it was too easy for them to disguise themselves as pirates, and moreover, they would definitely not show any flaws.

The effect of this method is that it is leveraged, many pirate gangs were used by the forward battalion to get rid of this method, and more than 1,000 pirates were captured and annihilated in a few days, which made Li An very happy, and rewarded these meritorious vanguard battalion soldiers well.

In addition to exterminating pirates who refuse to surrender voluntarily, for those pirates who are difficult to distinguish between true and false, Li An naturally can't relax the intensity of the crackdown, but there are so many merchants and fishermen on the sea, who can figure out which one has pirate tendencies and which one has never been a pirate, which is simply too embarrassing.

Of course, the pirate's elm head couldn't think of a good way, but Ang Lee was smart enough to quickly think of a very good solution, and it was also a frightening trick.

This frightening trick is the famous fishing law enforcement.

The so-called fishing law enforcement is to throw the bait in advance, lure the criminal to take the bait, and arrest the criminal immediately after he starts to do it.

Ang Lee felt that there was no better way than to take fishing law enforcement now, after all, bad guys can't write on their faces, and if they don't use fishing methods, there is no way to catch these guys.

"Big brother, fishing law enforcement is really a good idea, I believe it will definitely catch a lot of illegal pirates."

Li Feiyu listened to Li An's method and said very happily.

Li An said with a smile: "Fishing law enforcement is a very good method, but you must fish where there are fish, if you fish in a place where there are no fish, then it will not have the slightest effect, so we must determine where there are fish according to the situation reported by various places, and then we can carry out this kind of law enforcement." ”

Obviously, Ang Lee is not only an old driver, but also a good angler, knowing that fishing must be able to catch fish where there are fish, if there are no fish in the water, no matter how clever the angler is, he will not be able to catch fish.

Especially in the environment of the ocean, the area is very vast, and there are not many fishermen and businessmen who want to start temporarily, if you cast a net like a needle in a haystack, the manpower and material resources required will be too great, and the gains will outweigh the losses, and the effect of killing will be very weak.

Fortunately, Li An had already sent his subordinates to the surrounding countries to understand the details, so that in the entire Malacca sea, as long as there were pirates infested, where they were, what bad things were done, and in what way they committed crimes, these situations would be summarized in Malacca and into the hands of Li An.

Therefore, Ang Lee has a very large database in his hands, and by analyzing this data, he can determine the approximate location of pirates of different natures and how to kill them.

The specific analysis and search work was handed over to his subordinates to complete, and he was only responsible for giving orders, so that the speed would be faster.

"Big brother, the map has been marked, these small dots are the locations where the pirates committed crimes, and these small circles are the records of fishermen and merchants, all of which are marked on this, only the last three days are not marked."

Li Feiyu said.

Li An smiled: "Enough, enough, these data are enough to prove the area of piracy's activities, this is the activity area of ordinary pirates, and a large army should be sent to encircle and suppress, these locations are the places where fishermen and merchants temporarily start to rob merchant ships, and they must take the method of fishing law enforcement to catch them." ”

Li An found that the places where the fishermen were robbing were generally not far from the fishing grounds, that is, they were originally fishing, but they suddenly found a lone small merchant ship, and they temporarily had bad intentions, so they ran over to rob it.

Because he hadn't been in battle in person for a long time, Li An felt that his hands were a little itchy, so this time, he decided to take action in person to feel the feeling of fishing law enforcement.

"How many soldiers can a small merchant ship hold at most?"

Ang Lee asked.

Li Feiyu replied: "Big brother, generally the merchant ships running on the sea are relatively large, and the smallest merchant ship, if the cargo hold is emptied and all the people are loaded, it can carry at least one or two hundred people, and dozens of people can stand on the deck. ”

Li An smiled: "The deck is not good, there can only be three or five people at most, and if there are more fishermen, they will not be baited, and the cabin can hold one or two hundred people, which is really good, one hundred people is enough, and only a hundred well-equipped soldiers are needed to deal with the improvised fishermen and pirates." ”

"Big brother, we now have ten small merchant ships in our hands, do you want to immediately convert them into fishing law enforcement boats and send a battalion of forward battalion officers to enforce the law."

Li Feiyu said.

Li An waved his hand and said: "Nine hundred people from the forward battalion are enough, I want to personally lead a hundred guards to experience the feeling of fishing law enforcement." ”

"Big brother, no, there may be wind and waves at any time at sea, the reliability of the small merchant ship is too poor, in case it is swept into the sea, the consequences are unimaginable, please think twice, big brother!"

Li Feiyu admonished.

Li An smiled: "You don't have to worry, the small merchant ship that can accommodate more than a hundred people is safe enough, the eldest brother will not be so unlucky, as soon as you get to the sea, you will encounter strong winds and waves, you can rest assured!" This time, you're going to stay with me, and we're going together. ”

"Big brother, you are the leader of an army, I still think your decision was too hasty."

Li Feiyu continued to persuade.

Li An thought for a while and said: "Don't worry, it's going to be fine, life is in the world, it is inevitable to be willful, you just let the eldest brother be willful!" ”

Obviously, Ang Lee really wants to show it in person, he hasn't caught the thief himself for so many years, and he feels a little rusty, and if he doesn't show his hand well, it will be even more difficult to have a chance in the future.

"Since the eldest brother is so insistent, then the brother will accompany the eldest brother for a willful time, but you must choose a safe location, right here!"

Li Feiyu chose a place.

This area is relatively close to Malacca and not far from the coastline, so in case of bad weather, it can be withdrawn to the port of Malacca in time to avoid danger.

Li An nodded and said, "Okay, let's go here, let's get ready to go!" ”

After bringing enough elite soldiers and various items, Ang Lee left the port on a small merchant ship and sailed to the sea area where the incident occurred, ready to carry out fishing law enforcement.

In order to confuse these pirates, only three or five people were always kept on the deck of the merchant ship, and in addition, the deck had to be filled with a large number of empty boxes, disguised as cargo, plus more than a hundred elite soldiers in the cabin, the draft of the ship would naturally be deeper, and the pirates would be eye-catching.

After the small merchant ship left the port, Li An strictly ordered all the soldiers not to leave the cabin, and he himself stayed on the top floor of the cabin, through the small opening of the cabin, and from time to time used a telescope to observe the sea situation.

At first, there were no boats on the sea, but when the small merchant ships reached the vicinity of the fishing grounds, they found many fishing boats, twenty or thirty, some larger and some smaller.

Li An secretly observed these small fishing boats, wanting to check whether they were really fishing from the fishermen, but after observing for a long time, Li An found that they were all fishing seriously, and there was no evil among them.

"Big brother, I can't see anything abnormal about them at all! They all seem to be simple fishermen. ”

Li Feiyu put down the binoculars and said helplessly.

Li An said softly: "Regardless of whether they are really pure fishermen or not, we just need to move forward according to the plan and see if they will follow." ”

"Okay, move on."

Li Feiyu ordered.

The operation of the small merchant ship relied entirely on sails, and the crew operating on the deck was only five at most, so as to show that the merchant ship was undermanpowered, which was also Ang Lee's plan to lure the enemy.

Small merchant ships move very slowly, much slower than nimble fishing boats, and it is because they are slow enough that they can be raided by pirates.

When he just left the fishing ground, Li Ang didn't feel anything abnormal, and all the fishing boats seemed to be fishing seriously, but it didn't take long for Li An to find that a fishing boat was quietly following.

Li An was quite excited, and carefully observed with a telescope that there were at least thirty fishermen on this fishing boat, all of whom were strong types.

However, the fishermen on the fishing boat appeared to be very friendly, and did not show a fierce look, knowing that at this time, they still did not see that they were trying to plunder the merchant ship.

"Big brother, this fishing boat is coming, will it be a robbery?"

Li Feiyu said.