Li Derong came to report and found the pirate ship.

"How many?"

Hearing that it was a pirate, everyone's mood relaxed, most of the pirates in the Persian Gulf came from European countries, although they had a certain combat capability, due to their weak strength, they would avoid the Chinese fleet every time they encountered it.

Li Derong replied to Gao Junshan: "There are more than 30 ships, and the captain asked me to ask for instructions on whether to fire at them." ”

Gao Junshan said: "We are not in a hurry to go to Mumbai, since we have met, even if they are unlucky, I order them all to be destroyed!" ”

Captain Deng Shijie received Gao Junshan's order to change the direction of the voyage, and the battleship rushed towards the group of pirate ships.

The pirates who haunt the Persian Gulf are mostly active on the west coast of the Persian Gulf, and the east coast route is the trade route of the Chinese country.

The battleship opened fire first, and the bright light pierced the night sky, illuminating the dark sea, this time firing not incendiary bombs, but flares, and the pirate ship was completely exposed to the range of the battleship's gunfire.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ……”

Sixty-four right-string guns on the battleship fired at the pirate ship at the same time, and the area of the pirate ship suddenly set off columns of water, and the first round of shelling overturned the two pirate ships.

The pirate ship, which had suffered a sudden blow, hurriedly scattered in all directions, avoiding the fate of being buried in the belly of the fish.

However, how fast can they flee as fast as a cannonball? Their bow had not yet adjusted, and several more pirate ships were sunk by a second round of artillery fire......

Gao Junshan did not leave the rest cabin, and against these pirate ships, one battleship was enough. The three of them were quietly drinking tea, and the impact of the cannon caused the battleship to shake slightly, and Hong Pengju accidentally splashed the tea on his navy uniform.

Everyone put down their teacups and waited for the news of victory. Gao Junshan's rest compartment was on the left side of the battleship, so only flickering fires could be seen in the cabin, but no explosions could be seen.

After twenty minutes of sit-in, the cannonfire finally stopped, and not long after, Li Derong came to report that the shelling was over and the pirates had surrendered.

Deng Shijie sent five speedboats to clean up the battlefield, captured 19 pirate ships, and captured 573 pirates, including 15 ships of cotton and four ships of sugar.

After counting the cargo, it was already dawn, and the battleship waited in place for the battleship that came from the port of Bushehr, and then handed over the captured pirate ship and prisoners to the receiving battleship, and the "Zheng He No. 1" continued its voyage.

After breakfast, Gao Junshan returned to the rest cabin and slept for a while, because he didn't sleep well last night, and he didn't wake up until noon.

As soon as he got up, Li Derong sent him a telegram, this telegram was sent by Ma Jin from the Americas, and the call indicated that he was "waiting for a reply", and Gao Junshan, who was originally going to go to the bathroom to wash his face, first looked at the telegram.

The message reads as follows:

When the Chinese reclamation team went deep into the heart of America, they found the British manor, and the British in the manor saw our reclamation team and received our people very warmly, because they knew that Huaxia and Britain were friendly allies, and it was understood that these British came here a year before us.

The purpose of Makin's call was to ask for advice on what to do with the British.

Gao Junshan had already given an order to Ma Jin to shoot Westerners as soon as he saw them in the Americas, but why didn't he know what to do now?

Tian Qiliang and Hong Pengju, as Gao Junshan's senior staff officers, have already come to Gao Junshan's rest cabin.

Tian Qiliang said: "Mountain Chief, this can't be blamed on Commander Ma, our reclamation team discovered the British manor by accident, and the British came out very enthusiastically to receive our reclamation personnel, at this time, can we shoot at them?" ”

Hong Pengju also said: "It is indeed difficult to shoot in such a sudden situation, not to mention that there are not many soldiers in the reclamation team." ”

Gao Junshan thought about it carefully, and felt that Ma Jin could not be blamed, after all, the reclamation team was an expedition team, not a combat team.

"What now?" Gao Junshan set his eyes on the two high staff.

"Take advantage of their unpreparedness and launch a surprise attack on them." Hong Pengju suggested.

Tian Qiliang disagreed: "It is morally unjustifiable that others have warmly entertained us, but we want to use knives against others." ”

Hong Peng raised his words and said: "Regardless of whether he is moral or not, kill them all, no one will know our actions, in that deserted place, who cares how those people died?" ”

Tian Qiliang said: "You are right, kill them, Westerners may not know, their communications are not developed, and when they know, it may be many years later, but our people have seen it, not to mention that there are Indians and African blacks on the scene, they see us even killing friends, what will they say about us in the future?" ”

"So, these Englishmen can't be killed?" Gao Junshan fell into deep thought.

Tian Qiliang insisted: "Britain is our ally and cannot be killed. ”

Hong Peng said: "America is not Britain, did we go to his door to kill people, they seized our territory, shouldn't we kill them?" ”

Tian Qiliang said: "The Americas are not our territory, whoever discovers it first is who's whoever." ”

Hong Pengju argued: "Whoever is strong has who's territory!" ”

"You're robber logic." Tian Qiliang retorted.

Gao Junshan stood up and said, "You two don't fight, opening up the Americas is my established goal. When Westerners opened up the Americas, they did not kill indiscriminately, and how many Indians died at the mouth of their guns? How many African black slaves died at sea? Therefore, in the early stage of opening up the New World, the use of violent means was inevitable, and whoever talked about morality at this time could not stand firm. Kill! ”

Hong Pengju followed and said, "Kill!" ”

Gao Junshan issued a killing order, shot the British in the manor, and confiscated all the property of the entire manor, including the African black slaves in the manor.

Gao Junshan told Tian Qiliang that the British did not have a telegram, they could not keep abreast of the situation in the Americas, relying on sailboats, and it took half a year to go back and forth, and when the British knew that the manor was in our hands, we could be sure that it was snatched from the Dutch, anyway, there was no witness, what could he do?

Tian Qiliang still insisted that morality must come first in the use of soldiers.

Taking advantage of the time now, Gao Junshan began to teach Tian Qiliang a lesson. He used hypothetical sentences to tell Tian Qiliang how the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded China, burned down the Old Summer Palace, and used opium to harm the Chinese people, and how the island countries invaded China and killed tens of thousands of Chinese compatriots.

After hearing this, Tian Qiliang was shocked in his heart, he never imagined that a backward China would be so bullied by the Western powers, and now that China is a powerful country, it cannot let his ambition of aggression succeed.

Gao Junshan was very pleased with Tian Qiliang's awakening, and he told Tian Qiliang that the era when the Western powers wanted to run rampant in China is gone, but we must not relax our vigilance and work hard to build our homeland so that China will become a world giant and stand at the top of the world.