Chapter 256: Pirates
"Big boss, no! The brothers who went out are all finished! ”
On an unknown island in the East Indies, a Chinese pirate hurried into the cabin and said in an eager voice.
"What do you look like in a panic, I didn't see me discussing important matters with a few masters!" Wang Luoba habitually opened his mouth to reprimand his reckless subordinates, and reacted before he finished speaking, and said in disbelief, "What the hell are you talking about?" Two or three hundred brothers are all in the hands of the Han people? ”
"It's impossible!" The expression on Wang Luoba's face changed for a while.
Putting down the wine glass that was brought to his lips, he was shocked, "Taiping Island is just a palm-sized place, and the Han people have at most fifty or sixty standing soldiers on the island. And there are two or three hundred brothers we sent out, even if we can't defeat Taiping Island, it is impossible to wipe out the whole army! ”
The more Wang Luoba thought about it, the more he couldn't believe his subordinates' reports, and said viciously, "The second boss has only been out for two days, maybe it was because he didn't have time to come back because of the storm, if you dare to spread rumors, Lao Tzu will kill you immediately!" ”
"The big boss, the small one is wronged, even if you borrow ten guts, the small one doesn't dare to deceive the big boss!"
"Don't fucking grind and chirp,
Tell me what the hell is going on! ”
Wang Luoba's face was full of murderous intent, and he said anxiously.
"Yesterday morning, according to the instructions of the big boss, the little one took more than 20 brothers to inquire about the news near Taiping Island disguised as fishermen, and when the small one approached Taiping Island, he found that the Han people were trying more than 10 captured brothers, and on Taiping Island, the little one also saw more than 100 corpses of his brothers who had been killed......
The pirate minion nervously recounted the news he had heard, and raised his head from time to time to observe Wang Luoba's expression vigilantly, for fear that he would be unhappy and withdraw himself to be slaughtered.
"How's the situation in the second master? Have you seen any of the second masters on the island? ”
Wang Luoba impatiently interrupted the pirate's minions and asked.
"The little one carefully explored the island, but he didn't find the figure of the second master."
"Didn't find the figure of the second master?" Wang Luoba slowly believed the news of the annihilation of the pirate army sent out, and at the same time, after having to accept the reality that his forces had suffered key losses, his mood gradually stabilized, and he began to consider the aftermath of the failure of the attack on Taiping Island.
Dozens of ordinary minions were captured by the Han troops, which would not have a great impact on Wang Luoba's forces, but the second master was second only to Wang Luoba in strength in a group of pirates, if he was not killed in battle, but was captured by the Han troops, it would be a major blow to Wang Luoba's pirate forces.
The deeper Wang Luoba's thoughts, the more uneasy his heart became, and then he looked at the messenger who was standing cautiously below, and quickly made up his mind, "Chen San, I will give you three days to take your brothers to the sea immediately,
Whether the second master is dead or alive, he must be found! ”
"The little one understands."
The pirate wiped out the cold sweat from his head and cautiously exited the cabin.
After the pirates left, there was silence in the wooden house for a while, and then after a while, a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes broke the silence and said, "Wang Da is in charge, your people have suffered a lot of losses, do you think you will do or not to attack the Han fleet and rob the shipwrights of the Jiangnan Shipyard?" ”
"A mouthful of foam and a nail, I, Wang Luoba, have never regretted what I promised."
Wang Luoba stood up and sneered, "Although the loss of two or three hundred brothers is not small, but there are more than 1,000 brothers under my Wang Luoba, and this loss can be beared, and it is not only my Wang Luoba family who participated in the ambush of the Han fleet.
More than a dozen Chinese Kapitan chiefs, including Perak Kapitan Zheng Jinggui, Kuala Lumpur Kapitan Yalai, Negeri Sembilan, and Negeri Sembilan Kapitan Dunn, have all agreed to work together.
With the cooperation of more than a dozen Chinese Kapitan and all the big bosses, can't they deal with a transport fleet in the Han Kingdom? ”
As soon as he finished speaking, a pirate leader stood up and retorted, "The Wehrmacht has eight gunboats and twenty-four steam-armed merchant ships in the South Seas, and its strength is much higher than that of us and more than a dozen Kapitan.
Moreover, the current situation is not as good as in previous years, without steam ships and cannons, even if our ships are several times more than the Wehrmacht, they will not be able to defeat them.
So in my opinion, let's honestly guard our own territory, and don't mix with the grievances of foreign devils and the Wehrmacht. ”
"What Brother Liu said is not right, our several maritime forces are one with each other, and without mutual cooperation, they would have been swallowed by the Dutch and the British long ago."
Another black and chubby pirate leader said with a shrewd smile on his face, "Since the Wehrmacht came to Nanyang, we have been able to rob fewer and fewer cargo ships every year, and the protection money we received is not as much as in previous years, and the brothers tied their heads to the waistband of their trousers and followed us to lick blood on the tip of the knife, not to make some money, but the Wehrmacht is good, after arriving in Nanyang, they have set up many rules, their transport fleet cannot be robbed, ordinary Chinese cannot be robbed, and Chinese businessmen protected by them cannot be robbed, a large circle of rules and regulations, The brothers have cut off more than half of their livelihood by them, and if we continue to live like this, we don't need foreigners and the Wehrmacht to deal with us, and in a few years, the brothers will have to drink the northwest wind. ”
The black fat pirate slowed down his speech and quietly observed the reaction of the crowd before continuing, "So, it's not that we take the initiative to be enemies of the Wehrmacht, but that the Wehrmacht doesn't let the brothers live.
The ancestors have said that cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents, since the Wehrmacht does not let us have a good time, and the big bosses don't need to be polite to them, gather all kinds of brothers, according to the arrangement of the foreign devil Kirby, rob the shipwrights on the Han transport fleet, and live a comfortable life happily for a while, which is much better than hiding on a desert island and drilling woods every day. ”
"Everyone has heard what Master Xie said, and I would like to remind you a few more words here."
Wang Luoba continued the words of the black fat pirate leader, "First, according to the news I have received, the daughter of the lord of Songkhla is about to marry the king of Han, and the sea power of the Wehrmacht in Nanyang will be dispatched to escort the daughter of the lord of Songkhla to South America, so after two weeks, the escort force of the Han fleet of the shipwrights will be greatly weakened, and the probability of success of the operation is very high.
Second, the news came from Kirby, a foreign devil, that two weeks later, 800 Jiangnan Textile Women's Trade Unions and 227 Jiangnan Shipyard shipwrights set off together.
Thirdly, the personal representative of the Dutch governor Van Lansberg promised that as soon as we completed the task of attacking the Han convoy, they would demarcate a few unclaimed lands in Borneo as their future private domains.
Ladies and gentlemen, the conditions offered by the Dutch and the foreign devil Kirby are not low, and I hope you will think carefully and not waste this great opportunity. ”
Under Wang Luoba's persuasion, more than a dozen pirate leaders quickly expressed their stance and decided to participate in the attack on the Wehrmacht's transport fleet, while the remaining four or five medium-sized pirate forces still did not express their position.
"The attack on the Wehrmacht convoy was backed by the Dutch, and after the operation was successful, all the convoys were captured by us, and the Wehrmacht would not know which forces were involved in the attack, so you don't have to worry about the Wehrmacht's retaliation."
Wang Luoba continued to persuade.
"Wang Da is in charge of finding a good way for everyone to make a fortune, we can't miss it in vain, no, Sun Jiu is willing to take Wang Da as the leader and participate in the action!"
At the instigation of Wang Luoba, the last few pirate leaders quickly expressed their stance to join, and Liu Wu, the pirate leader who was the first to raise objections, also agreed after seeing that everyone agreed.