A small pirate leader with a knife in his mouth climbed up with both hands along the rope, and when he reached the side of the ship, he put his hands on it and stepped one leg onto the deck. At this time, he found that there were hundreds of Tang Army soldiers standing on the deck, with helmets and armor and snow bright blades, looking at him mockingly and laughing.

These people are none other than the officers and men of the Marine Corps.

When the pirate leader saw so many Tang troops on the ship, it was the pirates on all the pirate ships around the supply ship combined, that is, a fraction of the people.

The little pirate leader was also quick-witted, he immediately took his leg off, and slipped down the rope, and before he could go down, he suddenly found that the rope was being lifted upwards, and he looked up to see that two big men were pulling the rope upwards.

The little pirate leader was anxious, so he simply let go and jumped directly into the sea.

Then, the officers and men of the Marine Corps picked up their crossbows and shot at the surrounding pirate ships.

The pirates on the pirate ship suffered heavy casualties, and when they saw that there were so many Tang troops on the supply ship of the Tang army, they knew that they would give it for nothing if they went up, so they scattered in all directions.

At this time, the third sail battleship that was guarding the supply ship behind had already approached and quickly sent the two pirate ships to the bottom of the sea.

The battle lasted about 40 minutes, and the Corsair had already lost more than 30 ships, while the sail battleships of the Don Army were not damaged.

The young pirate, who was watching the battle from a distance, said to the Tiger Head General, "Things are not good, so let's withdraw." ”

General Tiger Head had long seen that something was wrong, but without this young man's order, he did not dare to order a retreat. He immediately ordered to hang the signal for retreat on the mast.

Liu Renliang found that the pirates were about to run, and immediately ordered the fourth and fifth sail battleships to outflank them from both wings.

At this time, on the seashore, the pirates were boarding the ship, and the pirate ship that was responsible for picking them up saw that the group had run away, and they didn't care that half of the pirates were not on board, so they directly pulled up the sails and slipped away.

A fifth-class sail battleship picks up the Marines as they approach the shore and lowers their sampans to pursue the pirates on the shore who are too late to get on board. This is the scene where the pirates fled back to Qingshui Town.

Liu Renliang commanded the fleet to chase for a while, and destroyed several pirate ships, and the rest of the pirates scattered and fled. Liu Renliang was not familiar with the sea conditions of this generation, and was worried that the sail battleship would hit the rocks, so he ordered the pursuit to be stopped.

This naval battle, although it was an encounter, was basically without suspense, and it was a one-sided victory. In this battle, the Tang army destroyed 43 large and small pirate ships, captured 4 pirate ships, captured 27 pirates alive, and the rest of the pirates killed cannot be counted.

Soon after, Liu Renliang led the lead fleet to the port of Dengzhou Naval Division.

Chang'an City, the palace of the king of Qi.

Li You was about to set off, and received a good news from Liu Renliang, behind the good news, Liu Renliang provided a message: The pirates who have invaded the coast this year should not be ordinary pirates, but political forces with a huge background of power. Liu Renliang interrogated the pirates, but they didn't know who was behind them, and only a few people in the upper echelons of the pirate gang knew the inside story.

This year's pirates are different from the past, they are not as indiscriminate as they used to, but they are robbing young men and women everywhere they go, especially those with skills. There were pirates who confessed, and most of these people were sent to Jiuzhou Island, and it is not clear what they went to do on the island, or whether they were transferred from there.

Li You felt very bad when he saw this, and he immediately sent Tian Min to Shangshu Province to find the eldest grandson Wuji to get the notes on pirates in the past few months, as well as the reports of missing persons.

At this glance, he found a serious problem inside: in the past six months, many craftsmen, doctors, teachers and other skilled people have disappeared from all over the country.

Among them is a report from Dongxiao County:

Zhou Ming is the second son of the county commander of Dongyu County (now Dalian), a famous talent in Liaodong, who is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and the number of things, and is 2o years old this year. Because the next day to marry the little lady of the big family in this county, on the same day with two good friends to drink and celebrate, the three of them drank to the lamp, half drunk out of the tavern, each other supported each other to walk on the street, at this time, it was already dark, there were no pedestrians on the street.

???? Suddenly, seven or eight people dressed as ruffians rushed out of the alley on the side of the street, and when they came up, they knocked the three men unconscious with wooden sticks, put them in cloth bags and carried them away. When they came to a river fork, they were lifted into a small boat, rowed to the seashore, and after bargaining, sold the three to a man on a sea boat.

???? The next day, the county commander saw that his son was gone, and he usually didn't return at night, but today was the day of his wedding, and it was a little abnormal to be at home at this time. At this time, the parents of the other two families also came to ask if their son was here at his house.

???? The county order remembered that in the past few days, people have reported that people have gone missing, and they can't help but be shocked!

Dongyu County has recently received several reports of missing people, because most of the missing people are men, not the usual cases of missing women and children. He thought that maybe they were fighting with their families, or for other reasons, they left for a while, and they didn't pay attention.

?? Today, it was his son's turn that he really paid attention to it. On the one hand, he reported to the Assassin's Office, and on the other hand, he organized the forces of his own county to carry out an investigation. After investigating, he discovered that someone was engaged in human trafficking.

Recently, the Assassin Prefecture received reports from several counties under its jurisdiction that a similar phenomenon had been observed.

Similar reports were reported in Xinzhou, Chuzhou and Haizhou.

Li You paid special attention to the term human trafficking, and the problem is very serious.

Combined with Liu Renliang's report, he found that there was an international human trafficking organization. This is where piracy comes from.

Yao Ming, the male god of basketball, said so right in his public service announcement for the protection of wild animals: no buying, no killing.

The international human trafficking organization from the Japanese slave island of Kyushu has a huge market.

???? Driven by huge profits, a large number of pirates appeared in the coastal areas of the mainland, from slave owners and nobles, the army to the common people, as well as the original pirates, as long as they were able to join the human trafficking, these people are the main body of the new pirates.

Among them, there are also armies who, in the name of pirates, are directly involved in the actions of pirates.

???? After all, the pirates were not familiar with the affairs of the mainland, so they bought off the local ruffians and gangsters. Taking advantage of their familiarity with the local situation, he bought "goods" from them and became second-hand dealers.

???? Gangs and ruffians have been active in seeing the huge profits of human trafficking. There are also those who usually have personal grudges, and they also seize this opportunity to take revenge. Anyway, if something happened, they pushed it on the pirates, and even some of the Tang Dynasty officials and military personnel joined the ranks of the kidnappers. They went around kidnapping scholars and craftsmen with a skill, and it didn't matter if they were wrong, they were sold at the price of ordinary slaves.

???? All of a sudden, traitors appeared in large numbers, and the social atmosphere deteriorated sharply.

???? This is not only the case in eastern Liaodong, but also in almost all coastal areas.

Because the reports came from different times and places, and were very scattered, Shangshu Province did not pay attention to the hidden problem.

Li You saw clearly the conspiracy behind these incidents and immediately asked to see Li Shimin. 8)