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On 14 August 1878, after a two-day stop in the Natuna Islands, the convoy of shipwrights and weavers set sail for the waters off Malacca, while two fleets departing from the Java Sea and off the coast of Sri Lanka bound for the Andaman Sea on the route of the convoy.

After receiving Mei Dongxing's report on the piracy situation, Hu Yaji and Li Han discussed a little and quickly reached a consensus, first leaving three gunboats and ten supply ships to cooperate with the local garrison to defend the Kismayo stronghold, and then dispatched four ironclad ships, seventeen steam warships, three 760-ton gunboats, and eight 200-ton gunboats to form an attack fleet, sail to the route through which the transport fleet passed in advance, and finally cooperate with the camouflaged transport fleet. Wipe out all the pirate fleets that come to attack.

The number of main warships of the attack fleet accounted for about half of the Han navy, and with the strength of half the Wehrmacht navy, Li neither Li Han nor Cai Jiu, who served as a guide, were worried about the final outcome of the battle.

"General Li, how about I discuss with you?"

On the smoothly moving warship, Cai Jiu stood on the deck and said to Li Han.

"Battalion Commander Cai, please speak."

Li Han stared at the situation in the surrounding sea and replied lightly.

"My subordinate takes the liberty of asking, after the naval battle, what does General Li plan to do with those captured pirates?"

"According to the practice of the Wehrmacht, pirates who commit the most heinous crimes are to be put to death directly, and pirates who do not commit crimes unto death and who commit less serious crimes are assigned to be sent to the Nanyang Legion for disposal."

After Li Han finished speaking, he paused for a while, and then said, "Battalion Commander Cai has taken a fancy to this group of pirates and wants to replenish them to the Kismayo stronghold?" ”

"Most of the pirates in the South Seas are Chinese, and they have been dealing with foreigners and indigenous pirates at sea for so many years, and some of them themselves are too wasteful to be directly assigned as labor, so I want to select some usable pirates from the captives to supplement the garrison, so as to improve the defense capability of the Kismayo stronghold."

"The deployment of domestic troops is tight, and if Battalion Commander Cai wants to strengthen the strength of the Kismayo stronghold, he really has to spend a lot of energy to raise it in many ways."

Li Han understood the other party's difficulty, and after thinking about it for a while, he agreed, "In this way, when the battle is over, I will discuss with Master Mei and General Wang, and let them allocate more of the captured pirates to Kismayo." ”

"There's General Lao Li bothered."

Seeing Li Han's readily agreed, Cai Jiu sincerely thanked him.

"It's okay, it's just a matter of opening your mouth once, I think Master Mei and General Wang will agree."

The main force of the naval battle at sea is the naval forces of the Wehrmacht, and Cai Jiude's request is also reasonable, and Li Han does not think that Mei Dongxing and Wang Dashan will have any opinions on the plan for distributing prisoners. ……

In the early morning of 16 August, two large fleets appeared on the sea before the fog had cleared.

The mist was misty, and through the fog, the sentry sitting on the high lookout soon spotted the oncoming ship.

"Bang bang." The sentry on the lookout pulled out his short gun and fired three consecutive shots into the air to alert the moving fleet.

"Report, an unknown fleet has been spotted five nautical miles to the southwest, and they are rapidly approaching us!"

"What about the number of ships? Is it equipped with heavy artillery? ”

"The sea is very foggy, and it is impossible to see the equipment of the opposing ships, but the number of opposing ships is very large, and it is roughly estimated that there are more than fifty ships."

"Don't be sure, it's them."

Wang Dashan held the deck railing tightly, and said calmly, "Order all ships to remove the cover-up device, all personnel immediately take position, prepare for battle, and inform the naval forces of the location of our fleet, and ask them to rush to the battlefield quickly and cooperate with our fleet to encircle and annihilate the incoming pirates!" ”

"Yes!"

As the communications officer left the deck to convey the battle order to the fleet, the steam warships, disguised as transport ships, quickly regained their original appearance, and a 105 mm or 150 mm gun was pulled into the gun position, and the black guns were maneuvered by the gunners, and the muzzles were aimed at the pirate fleet a few nautical miles away.

"Mr. Kirby, something isn't quite right."

On the pirate ship moving at full speed, Jakarta Kapitan Huang Fuyuan said with a suspicious expression, "Sir, look, after the Han country's transport fleet found us, they didn't panic at all, did they have prepared for resale and waited for us to take the bait?" ”

"Huang, the Han escort fleet is a regular navy, not a pirate fleet, don't judge them by your standards."

Kirby made no secret of his contempt for pirates, disdainful.

"Hehe, what Mr. Kirby said makes sense, it's me who is too careful."

Huang Fuyuan laughed awkwardly, and was about to say something to relax, when he was suddenly knocked down by a burst of cannonballs.

"Mr. Kirby, the transport fleet of the Han Kingdom has fired, it's not safe here, let's slow down and watch the battle from behind!"

Huang Fuyuan picked up his Western hat in a panic and said anxiously.

"Yellow, watch your image! See clearly, it's Wang Luoba's pirates firing cannons! ”

Although Kirby is a businessman, his courage is much higher than that of Huang Fuyuan, who is a Jiapitan.

"Useless things, I haven't even touched the side of the transport fleet, so I'm busy firing cannons, how are these yellow-skinned monkeys pirates!"

Kirby watched the pirate ship that had rushed to the front firing at the convoy without accuracy, and complained.

"Mr. Kirby, don't be angry, these pirates are all guys who can't get on the table, they usually fight in a series of battles, and suddenly there are more than a dozen powerful guns on the ship, they may not have adapted yet, and when they rush to the middle of the other party's fleet, the combat effect will be much better."

Huang Fuyuan pulled a bridge between Kirby and the pirates, and it was not good to watch Kirby overly belittle the strength of the pirates, so the exit explained.

"After all, they are uncivilized barbarians, and no matter how advanced the artillery is, they can't handle it well."

As soon as the battle broke out, Kirby, who was about to achieve his goal, no longer concealed his contempt for the Chinese, and ordered Huang Fuyuan with a high attitude: "Remind those pirates, I don't care how they distribute the women on the ship, but more than 200 shipwrights must be brought over completely, those shipwrights are valuable treasures, and they can't be killed casually by pirates." ”

"Mr. Kirby, rest assured, I have already explained it beforehand, and there will be no mistakes."

"Well, the matter of fighting is still left to those pirates, and we will watch the battle from the back first, so as not to be accidentally injured by the shell."

"Mr. Kirby will go back to the cabin and rest, and then arrange for the ship to evacuate the warring sea."

After Kirby showed some brave and decisive courage in front of Huang Fuyuan, he quickly followed the ship and slowly retreated, staying in the sea behind the pirate fleet to watch the battle, and the pirates who rampaged into the range of the guns of the transport fleet immediately suffered the first blow in the battle.

The cannon roared incessantly, and after each round of artillery fire, the white-haired cannonballs flashed white light towards the opposite pirate fleet.

"Click, click," the wooden masts snapped under the cannonballs, and the bows of the pirate ships slowed down due to the flooding of the hulls, and several unlucky pirate ships were hit by five or six shells at a time, and the pirates on them were either killed or drowned in the vast sea as the ships sank.

At the beginning of the battle, it developed on the unfavorable side of the pirate fleet, and when the pirate fleet under Wang Luoba paid the price of more than a dozen ships and broke into the center of the transport fleet, a fleet of dozens of warships suddenly appeared in the rear.

Dozens of warships first outflanked from the northeast and northwest, and Kirby and Huang Fuyuan, who stayed in the rear to watch the battle, were surrounded by warships before they could resist, and then surrendered honestly under the threat of the guns of the black hole.

Wang Luoba's situation was not much better than Kirby and others, and in addition to the more than 20 ships composed of more than 70 forces that were sunk, the remaining ships saw that the situation was not good, and all of them scattered and fled, and when they were finally surrounded by two ironclad ships and three steam warships of the Wehrmacht, there were only five pirate ships left around Wang Luoba.

"The big boss has descended, the brothers can't hold it!"

On a pirate ship with a relatively light hull injury, the small pirate leader who had investigated the situation on Taiping Island was eagerly persuaded.

"Can't surrender, who wants to surrender Lao Tzu slaughtered him!"

Wang Luoba's face was fierce, and he said angrily, "The Han people hate pirates the most, if they fall into their hands, the brothers will all die, and only by fighting in the end, the brothers may have a way to live!" ”

"It is you who took the lead in attacking the transport fleet, the brothers and the Han people have no indissoluble grievances, you don't want to surrender, you can't drag the brothers to die together!"

Seeing that Wang Luoba was unwilling to surrender, the little pirate leader was heartbroken, and encouraged the others, "Brothers, try your best to do things for the big boss, and the big boss doesn't think about us when he eats, drinks and enjoys happiness, and now the big disaster is coming, and the boss doesn't give us a way to live, brothers, since the big boss is not kind, we don't have to worry about the past feelings, and we tied up the big boss together, and changed the way of life to the Han people!" ”

"Sun Yunpeng, you bastard, dare to betray Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu slaughtered you!"

At this time, seven or eight pirates who were instigated by the small leader of the pirates, driven by a strong desire to survive, made a concerted effort to capture the angry Wang Luoba, and then surrendered to the Han fleet with Wang Luoba, who was tied together.

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