There was silence on the battlefield, Wu Ping poked his head out from behind the sandbags, and looked at the two boats on each side, the decks were red with blood, and the ground was in a mess, with dead bodies everywhere, and there was not even a scream. No one moved. The power of the close-range dense shotguns is so terrifying.

The gunners also had no one to speak for a while, and the pirates did not have much muskets and cannons. Generally, a warship with five or six small cannons is considered a powerful warship, even if Zheng Zhilong was the most powerful in the later period, a main battleship could not fit ten cannons. The counter-fire mode is not suitable for pirates, who shoot with bows and arrows at a distance, with a small number of muskets, and even very backward firearms such as three-eyed guns. When you get close, throw out ropes and hooks, and jump to the side to fight.

As long as the barbed wire fence is enclosed on the side of the ship, the gang jumping will become a dream, and the shooting will not win at all, and if you burn it with a fireboat, then you will fight whose mobility is good, otherwise you will not be able to get close to people at all, and you will burn a hair.

After entering the test of actual combat, Li Jing clarified his thinking, and how to deal with the sailors and pirates in the Ming Dynasty has a bottom in his heart. When the shipyard was built, the new ships were built with more flexible hulls and full-sail powered ropes, and they could survive by maneuverability.

Li Jing ordered the flag-bearers on the lookout to wave the flag to the Feilai Mountain, board the ship with guns, and arrest all the pirates hidden on the four enemy ships and put them in the bottom warehouse.

Wu Ping ordered, thirty sailors opened the sliding door on one side, walked onto the other side's deck, went deep into the bottom warehouse, and quickly cuffed the nearly 200 surviving pirates who were frightened and trembling with iron chains, these chains were all on the pirate ship, used to capture the population, and now it came in handy.

The men, who had been frightened and trembling, obeyed their orders, and under the threat of muskets, pushed the dead bodies off the ship and brought in the sea to wash the deck. Then the captives were locked up in the bottom compartment. The captives quickly confessed that their lair was on a small island near Zhoushan. There were more than a thousand people in this group and twenty boats. Twelve came out this time, and eight more were repaired on the island. The first and largest ship to be set on fire was the chief's boat.

Li Jing quickly found the latitude and longitude of the island on the chart, and then used a sextant to determine his position, and then turned around and headed towards the island. Li Jing judged the position of the remaining seven boats according to the flag language, and made a detour to the right to go around to the back of the seven boats. Wu Ping was ordered to use a cable to refine the four captured ships into a string, and use the Feilai Mountain to drag them towards the pirate lair of the Zhoushan Islands. Get out of the battlefield first, and let the Phoenix take care of the rest of the ship.

At this moment the seven boats behind arrived, and they saw that the leader's ship was burning, and many of their own accomplices were struggling in the sea. In the distance, a ship with strange sails dragged four boats that were clearly their own and sailed away in the direction of Zhoushan.

The seven boats hurriedly surrounded the big boat that was on fire, lowered the dinghy, rescued the accomplices who had fallen into the water, and searched for the leader. Soon the Phoenix appeared behind the seven ships, and apparently the other party also spotted the Phoenix. Seeing that there was only one ship in the shape of a Franco, the boats quickly turned their bows and tried to rush over.

Li Jing and Zhang Boss stood behind the sandbags of the command platform, visually inspected about 200 yards with binoculars, and ordered the starboard side to come sideways and open fire on a pirate ship in front, twelve six-pounder guns, in turn.

"Okay, hit eight shots," Li Jing clenched his fist, and the opponent's bow was opened with many holes, and the six-pound lead ball was pierced from the bow to the middle compartment of the ship, and the wood used for these ships was really bad. The cabin and foredeck were swept from head to tail by six-pound shells, and the ship was beaten like a big fish with its mouth open.

The two sides approached rapidly, Li Jing ordered, turned around, and opened fire with the naval guns on the other side, at this time the two ships passed by at a thirty-degree angle, and the Phoenix immediately opened fire. A series of large holes quickly opened near the boat's waterline. Although Daming's ships already had watertight compartment technology at this time, it was useless to continuously open holes on the waterline from beginning to end.

Li Jing is not optimistic about the damage management ability of these pirates, since he has already broken through the waterline, he can sit back and wait for it to sink, there is no need to ignore it anymore, and continue to look for new targets.

"Rush over and go around in circles with them." The Phoenix quickly full sailed, rushed along the outer line of the corsair, the starboard side did not fire at a distance of less than 100 yards, and soon another mast broke, the waterline was heavily damaged, and the sea water rushed in, after the Phoenix rushed over, it turned around and used the port side, and again fired a close-range salvo of fifty yards, basically hit, this time the gunners aimed at the waterline. Soon the ship began to sink.

The Phoenix stuck and left, quickly opened the distance, the remaining five ships rushed over, the Phoenix took advantage of the U-turn and flexible, the sail against the wind prevailing, and constantly circled with them, these ships could not catch up with the Phoenix, once the fighter appeared, the Phoenix quickly turned around and hung the sail and rushed downwind, aimed at the waterline at an ultra-close distance and fired continuously, and left after the fight, not giving the opportunity to pick up the side at all.

There were a few Tiger squat cannons and a dozen muskets on these boats. But these are really tickles for the Phoenix. Because of the ratchet boost, there are very few people on deck who raise and control the sails, and they all hide behind the sandbags and use the ratchet power assist system to control the sails. The shotguns of the Tiger Squat Cannon could not penetrate the deck, bulwark, and sandbags of the Phoenix.

In the constant maneuver, every time a fighter appeared, the Phoenix would quickly pounce, retreat after a fierce attack, and three more ships in succession, the waterline was broken through, and began to sink continuously. Soon there were three boats left on the sea, and these boats fled directly to the lair. The Phoenix was in hot pursuit. On the way, another ship was sunk that had already begun to enter the water, and by the time they reached the island, only two boats remained.

The frightened pirates abandoned their ships and fled directly to the cottage on the hill of the island. Now they feel that only land can give them a sense of security. The Phoenix stopped at the seashore and waited for the Flying Mountain to meet. Soon the Flying Mountain also arrived. Two ships of nearly 100 people, each with three long and short guns, pushing two six-pounder cannons unloaded from the Phoenix, carrying three Franc cannons flying to the mountain, attacked the cottage, the pirates of the cottage panicked with bows and arrows and muskets to return fire, Li Jing was not in a hurry, outside the range of muskets and crossbows, it was a good time to let Zhang Boss command the artillery bombardment of the cottage, the cottages of these pirates were very simple, they were all fenced with wood, and now the ships were all captured. They are trapped on an isolated island, and they cannot escape. Li Jing is not in a hurry, there is no need to cause casualties, just bombard with artillery from a distance.

The range of bows and arrows is no more than 150 meters, the muskets are closer, and the firearms in the hands of these pirates are all eliminated by officers and soldiers, and the standard equipment used by officers and soldiers is inferior, and they are all old explosives, not to mention these defective products. It was very easy for the six-pounder cannon to hit 500 meters, and every shell pierced through the wall, jumping on the ground and pulling out a bloody alley, and there were more than a dozen pirate casualties.

After dark, the pirate dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, gathered men and horses to try to escape from the night raid and seize the ship, and when he rushed to the sea, he was discovered by the lookout post on the ship, and the pirate ran to the beach to find that the ship had gone away, more than 100 meters offshore, and could not get close at all. At this time, muskets suddenly attacked both sides, and the ship's naval guns began to fire shotguns. After struggling for a quarter of an hour, he threw down more than a hundred corpses and fled back to the cottage.