227 Next Target
Indonesian waters are not calm on the surface, but secretly there is a dark tide surging, which makes all parties worry about it, and they have shrunk their own forces and sea vessels, trying to sort out the problems in Indonesian waters at this time.
However, the pirate gangs that have not been caught are everyone's henchmen, and as they move more and more, there have even been incidents of direct attacks on remote islands and ports.
Ambon, a relatively remote port in the Indonesian archipelago, is in ruins at this time, and the thousands of local aborigines and hundreds of black slaves and white farmers who originally lived in the port have disappeared without a trace.
The one who came to deal with the attacked harbor was Major Dwayne under the command of the Viceroyalty of the Spanish Timor Colony, as the radiation area of the Timorese colony, although Ambon was controlled by Spain, but there were few distractions to take care of it, but there were some white people who could not live in Spain mainland, and came here to make a fortune and open a farm life.
"It's been at least a week since the initial attack, and judging by the traces of fighting in this area, the indigenous people in Ambon Harbour have barely put up effective resistance and have been controlled by this group of pirates!"
"But this group of pirates is also strange, why do they need to capture natives who should be considered a burden?"
Major Dwayne led the men to scout the local traces of battle, and gave a relatively definite judgment.
However, this inspection also brought them a lot of questions, a scene where there were almost no chickens and dogs, it seemed that this group of pirates was very short of supplies, but they were coerced by the local population, which had a big contradiction with the previous judgment, which made Major Dwayne very entangled.
"If we don't find a survivor, then we won't be able to get the exact intelligence clues at that time, and we can't get the real inside story based on speculation alone."
"Withdraw!"
Although there are also a few legal Spanish citizens among the missing people, but a few Spaniards who operate here do not have a strong background of power and do not have enough wealth, so it is impossible for the Spanish colonial government to spend too much time for the existence of several citizens for them.
After all, incidents like the one that occurred in Ambon Port today are not isolated cases, and more than a dozen of these remote ports have been attacked by pirates and all of them have disappeared in the past month or so.
But until now, apart from the truncated content that the survivors could not confirm the authenticity, and the information released by the Dutch about Jack and other leaders, no real member of the gang of pirates has been caught.
However, many local pirate teams have become fish in the pond that have been affected, and under the pursuit of various local forces, they have lost a lot of gang forces. In the end, in order to survive, many pirate gangs fled one after another, going north to Luzon or west to the Indian Ocean, at least for a short time, they did not dare to wreak havoc in Indonesian waters.
However, the absence of a large number of unstable pirate teams has not brought stability to Indonesian waters, and the pirate gangs that have become a thorn in the side of all parties will not be eliminated for a day, and everyone will not be able to feel at ease.
Even, in order to make up for the losses and take revenge on the suspects of the various forces, many Western merchant ships secretly began to attack other sea fleets at night, and returned to their old ways.
The Western merchants of this era were such shameless existences, on the surface they were legitimate merchants, but if they encountered a good opportunity on the vast sea, it was not uncommon for them to turn into a group of murderous pirates.
At this moment, on an isolated island just over a hundred miles south of Ambon Harbor, a fleet of five seagoing ships was resting at this natural wharf.
"Three masters, which goal are we going to do next?"
Jack, a white pirate who had passed by in Kupang Harbour, was licking his face and asking a strong Oriental man in his forties with a stubble on his face.
Jack's own background did not lie to the Spaniard Lieutenant Colonel Fei Jue, as a Briton such as Genzheng Miaohong, he ventured to the East that was said to be full of gold, and after countless failures and natural disasters, he finally encountered a huge storm and waves when he followed the ship for a long distance through the Indonesian archipelago to trade, and was rescued by the ship of the Shark Gang Li Tiansheng, and then stayed in the Shark Gang.
The three leaders of the Shark Gang, but also a Han man born in Indonesian waters, surnamed Lu, in the Shark Gang, from the leader of a group of pirate gangs that were annexed, climbed step by step to the current position, and his ability is deeply recognized by all pirate members.
However, it seems that under the influence of Li Tianyang's eldest brother, the development of the Shark Gang after gaining a foothold in Australia did not expand indiscriminately, although it annexed many pirate gangs, but the requirements for the gang in terms of team discipline are extremely high, which also makes the combat style of the Shark Gang now closer to a regular sailor fleet, unlike a rabble of pirates.
This is also an important reason why the Shark Gang fleet, which is reckless at sea this time, has not caught the tail for the local local forces until now, and has been at large.
"This time we're going to play a big game, get a regular sailor!"
In terms of layout, the plan that Lu Yi and the others were executing at this time was temporarily formulated by Shi Peicai, a senior captain from the Hongtang fleet, who had been traveling with the team.
Because the Hongtang army has more troops and energy deployed in the Liaodong Theater, plus the defense of Dayuan Island, Luzon and other territories, so this cooperation Hongmen is more to provide intellectual and material support, and the rest of the force relies on the cooperation of the two major gangs, the Shark Gang and the Flying Dragon Gang.
"According to reliable sources from our side, within the next three days, a Dutch Far East Fleet will pass by, including two third-class battleships and three armed warships, and the number of Dutch sailors should be about seven hundred and fifty, and there are more than 1,000 black slaves and indigenous sailors left."
"So this time, our target is this regular army fleet."
Shi Peicai's information was very detailed, but when he revealed the next target of the operation, Lu Yi, Jack and others around him all began to frown.
"With our strength, is it a bit difficult to eat this fleet?"
Lu Yi first raised his concerns.
"This plan has been decided a long time ago, and at this time, there are seven warships of the Wyvern Gang rushing towards our location, I hope you can cooperate in the next battle and finish this fleet with one blow."
Shi Peicai dispelled Lu Yi's doubts with confidence, with the support of the fleet of the Flying Dragon Gang, then they would have an absolute advantage in strength, and he would have enough confidence to carry out this plan.
(End of chapter)