Although the Longwu Naval Division captured nearly 50 warships of various types and armed merchant ships, it had no intention of using these outdated ships to participate in the battle in order to reduce casualties.

Huang Yong, Shen Xianyi, Huang Chunsheng and other generals mixed the original sailors on the captured armed merchant ships with the sailors of the "Sun and Moon Shipping" merchant ships, and the vast majority of the sailors who could be trusted on the captured armed merchant ships were maintained.

Seventy merchant ships sailed behind the battleship formation with captured ships, with an average speed of only four or five knots.

Huang Yong, who was cautious, gave an order when he grabbed the first armed merchant ship, and the captured gunners and arquebusiers were scattered to various battleships to do miscellaneous work, and they received brainwashing education from the pacification officers and propaganda team members every day.

With the gradual increase in the number of prisoners, there were now thirty or forty on each battleship, less than one-tenth of the crew of the "Red Banner Army".

These people personally experienced the strength of the ships and guns of the Longwu Naval Division, and after learning the treatment that they could get to become sailors of the "Red Banner Army", most of them worked hard and studied to be selected by the pacification officer.

Sailors and gunners are difficult to train, so the conditions for selecting soldiers from among captives with seafaring experience can be relaxed.

As long as they are not traitors, they are older, have a lot of bad habits, and have serious free and casual habits are all acceptable.

It doesn't matter if the sailors are old, as long as the magistrates and instructors strengthen their education, assimilate for a period of time, and gradually get rid of their bad habits and have an attitude, the sailors will be eager to improve.

Because the "Red Banner Army" implements a military rank system, sailors who are illiterate and even stumble in Chinese can gain a sixth-level upward space through skill competition.

After becoming a non-commissioned officer, the salary will be doubled, and becoming a warrior can be doubled again.

Therefore, more than seventy percent of the sailors and gunners captured in recent years have become sailors of the "Red Banner Army", and many have become non-commissioned officers.

The sailors with poor physical conditions basically got jobs in the "Sun and Moon Shipping" merchant fleet, and their salaries were not low, but they were not soldiers, so they lost the opportunity to obtain military merit promotions.

Many veteran sailors who have been sailing for more than ten years have become first mates of passenger ships, and some have even become captains with outstanding performance.

More than 200 warships and merchant ships approached 30 nautical miles away from the destination, and 30 battleships of the Longwu Naval Division plus 45 sentinel ships broke away from the merchant fleet and cooperated with Liu Xiang's fleet to besiege Fugaga Island.

It is impossible for the huge merchant fleet to be attacked, because the merchant ships of the "Sun and Moon Sea" are not equipped with artillery in order to save costs, and there is no combat effectiveness, but every armed merchant ship captured has force.

When the pirates saw the formation of more than 100 merchant ships from a distance, and then saw the black muzzles of many merchant ships, how could they tell that there were no professional gunners there?

No one would have the audacity to attack such a large merchant fleet.

After besieging the main port of Fugaga Island, the frightened pirates no longer had ships out of the harbor to meet them, and they retreated into the harbor in a vain attempt to hold on to the help of the battery.

Huang Yong was not in a hurry to attack, anyway, the enemy could not escape, and they could not transfer the gold and silver treasures, Huang Yong and all the sailor generals took battleships and circled around the island with Liu Xiang's pirates.

While sinking and capturing all ships they could find, they used their clairvoyance to observe the pirate's fortifications in all directions.

In addition to the hundreds of pirates who have been captured and killed, there are no less than three thousand pirates entrenched on this island, and the number of their families and slaves is probably more than fifteen thousand, and the number of arquebuses must be one or two thousand.

The island is not small, with a circumference of more than 100 li, and the focus of the pirate defense is in the port, where there are seven forts and no less than 30 12-pounder Hongyi cannons.

After three days of careful observation, while Huang Yong used sharp artillery to cover Liu Xiang's pirates to storm the southern port head-on, An Xiaole led a marine corps in thirty small boats to launch a surprise attack from the north of the reef.

As the production of Minnie guns continued to increase, half of the trained Marines were already equipped with Minnie guns, and non-commissioned officers and officers above the rank of captain were equipped with their own short guns.

When the dinghy slowly circled the reef and approached the island, it didn't take long for the pirate patrol to find out, and in a few moments, one or two hundred pirates ran to the beach and went directly to the sea to get as close as possible to An Xiaole's fleet.

Most of the pirates were shirtless and barefoot, and they knew they were ready to fire a volley when they stepped on the water and reached the thighs.

It is a pity that the Ming army on the sentinel ship has hundreds of mini guns, and the pirates are destined to be fired unilaterally.

In order to increase the effect of the strike, the marines deliberately approached 150 paces before killing the pirates who had been aiming for a long time.

I didn't fight the invading enemy, but I saw the brothers around me fall non-stop, and the surviving pirates ran back with a strange scream.

Unfortunately, the sea water overflowed his thighs, and he couldn't run fast, and in the constant gunfire, the pirates' backs bloomed, and in the end, only a dozen pirates were able to get ashore.

An Xiaole easily waited on the north shore of Fugaga Island with 900 young marines, how could the pirates have the strength to fight? It wasn't long before many of the pirates who had been subdued surrendered on their knees with their arquebuses in their hands.

Most of the pirates were natives of the surrounding islands, and the language was chaotic, and the Ming army couldn't understand what they were saying at all, but everyone could understand the body language of kneeling down and raising their hands.

The Ming army had no enmity with these pirates, who looked like monkeys, and found that most of the kneeling pirates were shirtless and had no weapons in their hands, and did not carry out massacres.

It was only fifteen miles from the north coast of Fugaga Island to the south coast of the forts, and when the Marines attacked from behind the forts, it was like a devastation, because these batteries had no plan to be attacked from behind, and the gunners were completely exposed to the Minnie guns.

After the seven forts were drummed down, Liu Xiang's warships all poured into the port, and then the battle of jumping to the state was started.

Veteran pirate Liu Xiang and several righteous sons are not covered, they actually took the lead in jumping off the state to seize the ship, Liu Xiang has many pirates under his hands Some kung fu, moving freely on the shaking warship, the snow bright blade is waving, and the bright red blood is soaring.

Face-to-face slashing was bloodier than ship-to-ship shelling, and pirates who knew that the battery had been captured by the enemy were even more overwhelmed, and too many pirates knelt on the deck and surrendered.

The leaders of several pirate ships that had not yet been attacked found that the situation was gone, and the port was blocked again, and they all raised white flags on the ships and demanded surrender.

Huang Yong found that Liu Xiang's combat effectiveness was much stronger than that of the pirates entrenched on Fugaga Island, and he currently had the advantage, so he ordered that the Marine Corps of the Naval Division did not need to participate in the battle of jumping to the side, and that they could fire Minnie guns on the battleship to provide fire cover for Liu Xiang's troops.

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