Now the three groups that were obviously more elite were killed, and Li Haozi clenched his fists angrily, turned around in humiliation, jumped off the warship, and returned to his fishing boat along the cable.

"Withdraw!" Li Haozi slashed at the bow of the fishing boat with a knife, and ordered unwillingly.

The sound of retreat sounded.

Now that the wind is calm and the wind is headwind, the fishing boats, which have a greater advantage in speed, lift the cables, the oarsmen row hard, the archers suppress the bows, and the pirates slowly withdraw from the battlefield.

"Bang~"

Another wave of forty huge arrows was fired, and more than a dozen fishing boats capsized.

Li Haozi's heart was dripping with blood, and when he came, there were 3,000 people and hundreds of ships, but after a short battle, he lost 30% and was defeated.

I thought to myself, avoid the edge for the time being, return to the island and rely on the advantage of the large number of people, and then equip the island with a small number of long soldiers and battle armor, and refuse to defend the island.

It was difficult to supply at sea, and it would not be long before these officers and soldiers under the banner of "Cao" had to retreat.

"Let go of the speed and beat the drums of war! Pursuit! ”

Wu Peng immediately gave the order, and his reaction was not unpleasant.

Unfortunately, in the headwind, the sailing ships that relied on the power of the wind could not catch up with the hand-cranked pirate fishing boats, and only eight new dhows were faster, capturing more than a dozen ships with unsuccessful sailors.

"Prefectural Temple! Put the boat in pursuit! The boats designed by the lord are much faster than these fishing boats! Because of the warring state, the blood boiled for a while, and the seasickness was alleviated, Bian Xi stepped forward and proposed.

According to the regulations of the maritime division, each seagoing vessel has two types of boats and several different types of boats in Jianping, which are used as lifeboats and landing craft.

Seeing the remaining pirates withdraw, Wu Peng did not agree to Bian Xi's proposal, and slapped the bow railing hard.

"Our army has just been built, and it faced several times the number of pirates, and won the first battle! The county temple doesn't have to be too demanding! Han Ji, who was more thoughtful, reminded.

Zhang Bao, who was also cautious, also seconded.

"Capture the pirates who have fallen into the water, salvage fishing boats and supplies!"

Such a good warship, equipped to crush the pirates, because of the direction of the wind and the proximity to the island, the other party fled like a lamb to the slaughter.

Knowing that the naval division was newly built, there was a shortage of elite sailors, and if he lost the advantage of a large ship, he would let a small boat pursue the Haikou who had the advantage in numbers, and the consequences would be unimaginable, perhaps this was also what Li Haozi, one of the overlords of the sea, thought, Wu Peng could only do this if he was unwilling.

One by one, the pirates who soaked in the sea for a long time, like chickens in soup, were fished out of the sea by Cao Jun and became prisoners.

Broken pirate fishing boats were salvaged.

With more than 1,000 newly built naval divisions against 3,000 experienced Haikou pirates, with single-digit sacrifices, a complete victory.

More than 800 pirates were captured, 200 enemies were killed, 21 intact fishing boats and nearly 100 broken fishing boats were captured.

Wu Peng looked at these captives and quickly turned from unwillingness to gratification.

These are all men who have been fighting at sea all year round, and in the navy with high professional requirements, where is there a better source of soldiers than it!

The fleet dragged fishing boats around the small island of Li Haozi, and the painter who drew the terrain painted it, and Wu Peng even ran to the mast to observe it himself.

"Listen, people on the island! There is no way to escape, the courage of my Cao army is not something you can resist, it is better to surrender quickly, my lord Cao Long will be a great name you must have also heard, join my Cao army, and protect your future! ”

Wu Peng sent a high-pitched soldier to shout and surrender.

Li Haozi led two thousand sea robbers, equipped with a small number of long soldiers and battle armor, and even the old and weak women and children on the island were distributed with simple weapons, waiting to fight to the death.

A small island of more than ten miles is inhabited by more than 10,000 people, most of whom live on the island with their whole families, relying on the young and strong to dry the sea and the old and weak to fish for a living.

Accustomed to the days of isolation, at this time to fight for "protecting the family", there are few people who retreat, especially relatives who have family and friends who fought with the official army before and after and did not come back, and the heart of fighting with Cao Jun is even heavier.

Wu Peng saw that Haikou was indifferent to the surrender, gave up the blockade, and led the fleet to start returning.

"Dashuai!"

Watching Cao Jun leave, the leader of Li Haozi's subordinates was anxious.

"Under the sea order! Contact all the major leaders of the Canghai Alliance! Li Haozi said expressionlessly.

"No!"

Hearing the three words of Canghai Ling, Li Haozi's subordinates no longer complained, and they were busy one by one.

Cao Xing stood at Yangxin Wharf and greeted him personally with the civil and military forces.

Seeing thirty sea boats, one of which was quite a few, and dragging a large number of Haikou fishing boats back, Cao Xing's heart finally let go.

Yangxin this ring, for the plan to decide to go south, extremely important, Jiangnan at this time lofty mountains, lush forests and bamboo, sparsely populated, many areas are still in, only a few backward production of Shanyue people inhabited by the wild land.

The humid air, the boundless mountains and forests, pregnant with countless mosquitoes, and even more permeated with layers of miasma, the population is easy to be infected with all kinds of plagues and diseases.

The strong and frequent sea breezes create a relatively dry coast, which is a good place for immigration.

Yangxin's naval construction pinned too many expectations on Cao Xing.

A team of Haikou prisoners were escorted off the boat, watching Wu Peng come to report quickly, Cao Xing was like a close brother, and hammered Wu Peng in the chest: "Good boy! Not bad! Keep up the good work! ”

"No!" Wu Peng answered the order loudly, and then Han Ji stepped forward and began to report the battle situation in detail, and it was not strange to hear that only a few people had died.

This time he went to sea to suppress pirates, and Cao Xing was most worried about the weather, as well as the reliability and safety of the ship.

After all, it is only the design experience accumulated by liking ship models in the previous life, and it has never been practiced for entities, even if every new ship or newly renovated sea ship has been launched for sea trials, but for the performance of naval warfare, Cao Xing is still not sure.

Now, Cao Xing's heart has been put down, and in the future, he has raised confidence in the construction of the five-masted and even the seven-masted sea ship.

After holding a celebration banquet and summarizing the experience of naval warfare, Cao Xing led Wu Peng and Wang Xiu to the wounded barracks.

Li Fugui, who lost his left arm, miraculously survived and was recuperating in a hospital bed at this time.

Looking at the middle-aged women with small square white cloths tied to their faces, busy taking care of the wounded, and the spotlessly good bandages that have been boiled in boiling water, and the corners of the walls are sprinkled with lime, which should be filled with a disgusting smell of blood, but here it is too weak for people to notice.

In everything, Li Fugui was full of curiosity, and he didn't even notice Cao Xing's arrival.

Cao Xuan stopped Wu Peng, who wanted to be reminded, looked at Li Fugui, and said kindly: "You are Li Fugui?" ”

Li Fugui woke up and looked at Cao Xing in iron armor, his immature face, with a mature and sunny smile that did not match it, and couldn't help but be full of doubts.