Chapter 403: Search
Looking at the island where there was a jubilant sound, Liu Dan had a dark face and said hatefully: "Tomorrow the boat will be scuttled away." β
After waiting for two days, it can be regarded as fulfilling the obligations of an ally, and Liu Dan doesn't want to stay longer in this ghost place for a moment.
His 2,000 subordinates spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to prepare armor, cast troops in fine iron, eat and drink, and train, but they were not the enemy of the Nan'an Fu army.
At that time, in the chaotic army, Liu Dan saw with his own eyes that the government army was killing like a rainbow, and there was no enemy in front of him, those government troops moved wide open, killing the enemy like chopping melons and vegetables, but they cooperated with each other seamlessly, one person fell, and someone immediately filled the position behind him, without the slightest hesitation and hesitation.
In the whole battle, until Liu Dan took advantage of the chaos to escape, the total number of fallen and seriously injured government troops was only a few hundred, and several times the enemy was crushed, until the pirates could not form a column and were completely defeated.
What followed was a one-sided encirclement and massacre, and the price to be paid by the government army was even smaller.
Liu Dan withdrew all the ships and soldiers that surrounded Penghu, and in the past two days, 1,506 people have swam across the sea and returned, plus the thousands of people in Penghu, as well as the people who stayed on the boat, plus the sailors who have not gone ashore, together with more than 6,000 people.
More than 30,000 people came majestically, all the merchant ships along the way were all looking to avoid the wind, the coastal areas of the Great Wei Dynasty, the Wa Kingdom, there were no sailors sent by the imperial courts of various countries on these waters, and there was no opponent in the waters.
Even when it came to the sea outside the country, Kang Tianqi also sent someone to pay respects, and there was a great name of the Japanese country, who sent a messenger to come over to offer condolences and bring sake, and the dwarf was respectful, and it made people feel funny when they looked at it.
When they arrived at the border of the Great Wei, there was no sailor, the sea was empty, Liu Dan and Yan Qi felt that there was no difference between them and in the Siam area of Luzon, they were kings, they were well-deserved kings of the sea, the so-called imperial court was just a tiger on land, and when they arrived at sea, even if it was the emperor of Great Wei, they could only watch them do whatever they wanted.
But when the sea was more proud, the group of thieves went to land, and the whole situation was reversed.
Those lapsed pirates were slaughtered like chickens and dogs, and they had no power to fight back, Liu Dan's 2,000 subordinates, and Yan Qi's Zha Jia army were not the enemy of the Nan'an Fu army.
The other party is like this, carrying the flag, holding the gun, quite quickly, but also calmly killing. There was one person in front of them, and there were more and more people behind them, the distribution of the long and shield players was quite reasonable, the archers used it quite properly, and the arrows fired by the divine arm bow and the strong bow made the pirates bleed like a river, and there was no power to fight back.
They rushed and killed very resolutely, and when one person was killed or seriously wounded, someone immediately made up for it, and the array was like a grinding plate, constantly grinding away the flesh and all the courage of the pirates.
Never before had pirates fought against such an opponent!
At this time today, when Liu Dan recalled the situation on the battlefield that day, he couldn't help but tremble all over.
What is a serious soldier, what is a division of the economic system, what is a division of tigers and wolves, and what is a serious soldier will only be understood if you have experienced it on the battlefield of the Eastern Domain.
Words are powerless, only Liu Dan understands, don't say that it is several times the government army, even if he is asked to take 100,000 pirates, as long as the essence has not changed, he is not willing to return to the battlefield against the Nan'an army again.
His feeling is completely crushed, that feeling of powerlessness, being pressed to the ground and humiliating, having no power to fight back, and the majesty and casualness at sea are gone, which is a lingering nightmare for Liu Dan, who was once invincible, has no opponents, and is only afraid of Pu Xingfeng alone.
It is estimated that within many years, he will not want to or dare to set foot on the land of Great Wei again.
After waiting for two days, all the subordinates were gathered, but there were only more than 6,000 people left, if more than 300 ships were to be brought back, each ship only had about 20 people, for a ship of about 100 tons, about 20 people was enough, and even the limit, about 10 people.
However, from the Eastern Domain to the Luzon area, those 300-ton to 500-ton warships, sailors need to rest in shifts, and twenty people per ship is definitely not enough, and there are many pirates who are purely plundering, and they are not qualified sailors at all.
Liu Dan knew that he could only chisel through some ships, the old small boats were the first batch, and then some medium-sized ships, it was estimated that about 100 ships would be sink, and 6,000 people would return with about 200 ships, it was still quite empty, and there were a lot of winds and waves in the vast sea, and no one, including pirates who had been at sea all year round, dared not say that they could control the raging sea, accidents could happen at any time, and more ships could not be taken away.
And Liu Dan also knew that this time the fiasco had lost more than 20,000 people, Yan Qi estimated that it was over, and there was no news so far, his hundreds of elite subordinates were all finished, Liu Dan's losses were also extremely heavy, and his heart and abdomen were almost dead.
Now the remaining problem is that Liu Dan has to control his subordinates well, not to make his subordinates internal strife, and then suppress the careerists around him to prevent the rest from being eaten up and annexed.
Even so, even if he gets the support of Pu Xingfeng, Liu Dan also understands that after going back, he is afraid that he will have to give up a considerable amount of territory, his current prestige has fallen to the bottom, and the strength in his hands is gone, at least in three or five years, he will not be able to recover his vitality, it is estimated that the best result is that Pu Xingfeng remembers his merits and forcibly supports his reputation and status as a pirate king, and after a few years, he can recover to more than 10,000 people, and there are some henchmen to follow, this is the best result.
"Let's start with the old boats." It was almost evening, and it seemed that people on the shore could still be seen running around on the boat, like swarms of ants.
Yesterday, some pirates saw the Jingguan high on the south shore, 20,000 heads were placed together, it was really magnificent, if this was done by the pirates themselves, of course they would boast and be happy, and at this moment, it was the head of their partner around them, thinking that they were also escaping death, many pirates vomited after seeing the Jingshi, and even trembled and cried.
Liu Dan had to order no more boats to be sent to the south to search for and rescue his subordinates who were hiding, and he was ready to leave tomorrow.
The tide of the sea beat the hull of the boat, Liu Dan lay on the side of the boat and watched the situation on the shore for a while, and then looked at the endless sea, and his heart was a little settled.
In any case, there was no sailor in Dawei, and the sailor of Nan'anhou Mansion shrank in Penghu and did not dare to come out, and he was no longer taken by Liu Dan to heart.
What he wants more now is to hope that more people will escape back tomorrow, but Liu Dan also knows that there is little hope. It's been two days, fasting and water, hunger and people's physical strength and will, they are hiding like rats, just because they will die after being caught, if Nan'an Hou Mansion is willing to capture these people alive and not kill them, it is estimated that the hidden pirates will have come to surrender a long time ago.
Everything is almost over, thinking that his old partner Yan Qi's head may also be on the Jingguan pile, Liu Dan somehow suddenly wanted to laugh.
That guy is bloodthirsty and murderous, cruel and tyrannical, what kind of expression did he have when he was beheaded?
Liu Dan really wants to see it.
It's a pity that there is no chance.
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In the evening, firefighters everywhere lit pots and stoves and began to cook food.
The food in the wounded barracks is the finest, but it is certainly not to the appetite of those fighting men, most of them are boiled fine porridge, which is easy to digest, and the wounded soldiers cannot eat meat food.
Those hundred soldiers, how to endure it, and today each person is given a glass of wine, Qin Dongyang for the prince and the marquis, the pirates have not gone, the celebration still has to be delayed, and when the people at the evacuation point come back, the Hou Mansion gave each family a pot of wine and a pound of meat, and jointly celebrated the repulsion of the strong enemy.
The government soldiers, garrisons, officials, and ordinary people are all united, especially the people, who also build long bases, carry bows and arrows to prepare for war, although they did not participate in the war, and later shot the pirates who formed groups on the battlefield, and when they searched for the fleeing and scattered pirates, the people contributed a lot of money.
At this time, hundreds of firefighters were scattered in various places, not only cooking for the soldiers of the government army, but also cooking for the people, and the aroma wafted for more than ten miles, making everyone smile.
There was not much wine, there was a lot of meat, and even many of the lightly wounded were holding on to their arms that were hung and tied, or holding on to crutches, and moved out step by step, finding their comrades in the army, and everyone laughed and waited for the meal to begin.
Lu Wenluo beheaded Yan Qi this time, plus escorted Wang Xinyuan back to the island, and cured Nan'anhou's illness, one is a great merit of the public war, and the other is a private merit of Nan'anhou, in fact, it can be regarded as a public service, if Nan'anhou is not cured, the outcome of the war is very unpredictable.
With this feat, everyone knows that Lu Wenluo must be promoted, but with the government army system, there is no precedent for the team leader to be promoted to the head of the capital at once, or even the battalion officer, such a promotion is too fast, and the government army emphasizes the whole, and it is not good for the promoted people and the troops under their control.
Lu Wenluo was rewarded with a lot of money, and at the same time entered the martial arts academy to study, and after he came out, he was the head of the apprenticeship, which is almost the case.
After Zhang Zhongde returned to the team, he directly joined the team to fight, and did not report to the guard team, his team owner was Lu Wenluo, and no one paid attention to it for a while.
In this battle, Zhang Zhongde killed several people, beheaded the third level, and also made meritorious contributions, Lu Wenluo told him to feel at ease, and he would definitely declare his merits in the future, and strive to stay in the government army.
People were coaxing, Lin Fengshan and Zhou Huaiyong pressed Lu Wenluo to their bodies, and said with a smile: "Reward down, everyone in this team has a share, and each person has ten dollars, should you?" β
"Lao Tzu wants to buy a yard in the Eastern Domain, build furniture, and make gold and silver heads, prepare a bride price to say goodbye, calculate at least one or two hundred, who knows how much the top reward? Give you a hundred times, I'm afraid I'm going to be poor. β
"Fart." Zhou Huaiyong and Lin Fengshan were able to hold down Lu Wenluo's strength, but in fact, Lu Wenluo did not exert too much force, and the two laughed and scolded together: "Just cure the prince, please come Mr. Wang, you will be rewarded at least a thousand times, you are an ordinary person when you are a prince?" With this great achievement, there is no past that Qianguan said? β
Lu Wenluo smiled: "You bastards, the eight of us did this, can we get you less if we have a heavy reward?" β
"No matter what, it must be you who get the most, and if you behead Yan Qi, there will also be a heavy reward."
Everyone laughed and scolded, but Lu Wenluo promised to divide five times for one person, and everyone didn't take it seriously, so they let go of the team leader at the moment, and when the wine and food were delivered, everyone cheered and rushed over, but they didn't have time to eat meat, but they took a glass of wine from everyone, and everyone clinked glasses, and then drank the wine with a smile.
Everyone sat cross-legged on the ground, the battle had just ended, and there was blood everywhere in the docks and harbors, and in the past two days, Minzhuang began to shovel up the blood-soaked soil and cover it again to eliminate the traces.
There are also many people looking at the ships at sea, because the pirates have not gone, so the security level is still very high, everyone is given a glass of wine, many people drink it all with their necks tilted, they don't feel anything, Lu Wenluo just keeps licking his mouth.
After a while, Lu Wenluo saw that someone from the north rode horses to rush over, he and the entire flag team had received an order, in the past two days, craftsmen, technicians and officials have rushed over, the government army dispatched a number of troops, all rationed horses, craftsmen and officials to rush to the middle, there has been a long time to explore iron ore and coal mines, the next step is to determine the distance, prepare to build a simple port wharf, transport tools and personnel to go over, start to build roads and build base houses.
The whole team knew that they were going to be promoted, but everyone had no opinion, the government army was not the kind of arrogant soldiers who were proud and complacent after winning the battle, in fact, the military attachΓ©s were already starting to beat the soldiers.
The rest of the government army will train as usual, guarding the beaches and ports, garrisoning the barracks and pastures, and there will be a considerable number of government army officers and soldiers, cooperating with the cavalry battalion and the people, to continue to search the mountains and seas, and hunt down those pirates who have not yet been caught.
Today, more than 300 heads were sent to the Jingguan, and it is estimated that there are not many pirates who are still fleeing for their lives, in the hot weather, the water sources are guarded, no one can easily drink water, as long as it takes two days, these guys themselves will be dehydrated and die.
In fact, in the past two days, many pirates have risked their lives to go to the stream, and have been killed one by one by the soldiers of the government who had been prepared for a long time, they are exhausted, hungry and thirsty, and they have no ability to resist when they are killed.
"The Eastern Domain will be better." Looking at the sunset, Lu Wenluo licked his lips again, and said sincerely: "It will be better for us to wait for the soldiers of the government army, as well as everyone's families." β
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In the middle of the night, Li Guozhu and the Huang family's father-in-law and other people were still searching on the beach.
They marched from the port of Nan'anxi to Huaxi, and the distance assigned to them was about ten miles, and they had to follow the beach to the shore two miles deep, carefully searching for shrubs and sparse forests, and some small buildings.
There are also a few small streams along the way, here in the southern part of the Eastern Domain, there are more than 20 large and small streams with names, some of which converge in the big streams to go to the sea, and some have separate outlets to the sea, and now each stream is guarded by the people, the government army and the guards, and those escaped pirates dare not go to the stream to drink water even if they die of thirst.
Yesterday at noon, the weather was unusually hot, and even sitting under a big tree and blowing the sea breeze made people sweat.
This is the case in the southern part of the Eastern Domain, which is unusually hot, and the central part is much better, so it doesn't feel too hot in the summer, and it is very warm in the winter.
Li Guozhu has heard about this, and he has also been to the central part with the officials, but compared to the desolate central part of the development process, he still likes the south, there are large areas of flat land that have been cleared, there are always fish to catch in the streams that can be seen everywhere, the stream water is clear and sweet, no matter how hot the day, wash your face and drink bitterly, it will not be so hot.
Li Guozhu didn't sympathize with the pirates who couldn't even drink saliva, his sympathy was not so overflowing, and even he only had pleasure.
These guys, dying of thirst is good, and the final result must be captured, they are not shot to death while drinking water by the stream, and then they are beheaded and thrown on the Jingguan, or they are stabbed to death by the long sword and beheaded to death. There are even pirates who will die at the hands of the natives, and hearing that the natives have also mobilized, the Nan'an Hou Mansion sent a number of officials to meet with the heads of the various communities, asking them to send strong men to search in the mountains and hilly areas, without entering the buffer zone, that is, the outer guard line of the official road, as long as there are pirates entering and being successfully searched by the natives, each aboriginal community capital will get a stone of food.
It was a naked temptation that no indigenous tribal leader would refuse.
Li Guozhu and Huang Laozhang, as well as the more than 200 households under the leadership of He Baihu, plus a sentry of the government army, a sentry guard, more than 300 people opened a long line, almost everyone had torches in their hands to illuminate, everyone did not look at the sea, nor did they look at the reefs or coastlines in those steep places, if the pirates sneaked there, they would jump into the sea regardless of life and death, and even if they succeeded in swimming to the boat, they would drown if they could not swim.
In the past few days, there are many pirate corpses on the surface of the sea, now they can only be ignored, there are small boats on the island, but there are not many of them, and they can't go to the sea to take risks, now the group of pirates on the sea must be holding their stomachs, seeing the boat is like a shark seeing fresh meat, I am afraid that it will attack in groups.
Li Guozhu was in a good mood, the people who participated in the search team had firefighters to provide food, he was given a duck leg, with a pound of steamed rice, and he generally didn't have to eat so much for dinner, even when he was not a homeless person, Li Guozhu farmed in Zhangzhou, and there was no work to do at night, people would move out the small table to eat at dusk, and they would finish eating before dark, and they would not eat much, because they would go to bed directly soon after dark.
When men do heavy work, they generally become the best and fullest people in the family when they are busy with farming, even the elderly and children have to be given to the men in charge of the house to eat first, this is not machismo or not caring for the young, disrespecting the elderly, but the pressure of survival, if the men do not eat, who will do those heavy farm work? Women and children?
In this day and age, those modern standards are not suitable.
Li Guozhu rarely eats so much at night, and he feels a little uncomfortable with a heavy belly when he just finishes eating, but when he travels until midnight, he understands why he eats so much for everyone.
For more than two hours in a row, the members of the search party patrolled back and forth between the sea and the shore like a grate, during which time two pirates were dragged out of the bush with torches, their lips already chapped, they were delirious, and they were in a semi-conscious state.
Several government soldiers came over and asked their names briefly, and after knowing that it was not Liu Dan, they directly beheaded the two people.
A team of people came over, they were specially responsible for throwing the head of the capital division, and the body was buried deeply, and soon everything at the scene seemed to have never happened except for two pools of blood.