In this battle plan against pirates, the safest thing is still to go directly to the island and attack.

The entire detachment is in charge of commanding Zhang Zhonghe, even if it is Sun Ji, he must obey Zhang Zhonghe's command.

Naval warfare and land warfare, these are completely different things, in naval warfare, Sun Ji's role is more just to act as a fixed battery, he holds the treated moon bow, can play a more powerful role than the general bed crossbow, the bed crossbow can aim at a relatively small angle, maybe in the future, with a variety of crossbow arrows to feed, it can be fed, but now, there is no time to train.

In its current state, the shooter is just a simple training, and then with the help of 36 covering attacks, attacking the enemy, like the longbow, is the probability of an area attack, not a targeted kill.

Sun Ji uses a moon bow of about 15 stones, which looks much worse than a ballista, almost ten times the difference, but the arrows used are also different, Sun Ji is like a sniper in the artillery era, and can attack accurately.

In naval battles, especially in group naval battles, when tens of thousands of people against tens of thousands of people, Sun Ji's role is not great, just like in the Northwest War, in the defense of the city, Sun Ji killed more than 160 enemy soldiers in a record day, injuring countless people, but in the face of tens of thousands of people, or even tens of thousands of people, his role was almost reduced to the minimum.

But this time, it is not easy to be angry, I don't know, how many people are on this pirate island,

If it was only the 12 ships that were shown before, and more than 100 people, then Sun Ji alone would be able to get rid of most of them.

Even if there is still a part of the strength left, it will not be too much, and the bed crossbow and Sun Ji are double insurance.

Give full play to the strength of longbowmen and hoplites, or land on the island. Once on the island, the military formation played a far greater role than the pirates.

The reason why pirates are difficult to exterminate is not because they are very combative.

Pirates are synonymous with ferocity and blood, but this ferocity is more aimed at merchant ships and ordinary people, facing the encirclement and suppression of warships, and in the entire history of the world, pirates have almost no record of fighting the regular army head-on.

The pirates of the 11th century were even more so, the Northern Song Dynasty strictly controlled weapons, etc., and the pirates were able to have a weapon that was already good, and it was almost impossible to have such a thing as a battle armor.

The army, especially the army in the Northern Song Dynasty, almost brought the military array and weapons and equipment to the extreme, even if it was a newly established military state like Ding Haijun, under the strict training of Sun Ji, the power of the military array was also greater.

As long as he landed on the island and had the opportunity to launch a military formation, then the victory must belong to the Ding Navy.

The difficulty of pirates is not because of their strong combat effectiveness, but because they are difficult to find, and in the middle of the sea, similar secret islands are dotted, and generally speaking, where there are more pirates, it is a complex island.

For example, Pirates of the Caribbean, at the peak of the Age of Discovery, Pirates of the Caribbean were almost famous, countless pirates, here, and countless hidden treasures, in the 21st century, not many people have found them,

It is because of the star-studded islands and unpredictable environment that make this a paradise for pirates.

However, these pirates were already in the dark by the time surveying and nautical charts were developed. Pirates need a perfect base camp, otherwise, there is no way to cultivate and come out to attack.

And with the passage of time, the pirates lost this opportunity.

In the modern 21st century, all kinds of piracy have become less and less common, and almost all of them have disappeared, and this is why, as for the outbreak of Somali pirates after the 21st century, it is purely the result of the turbulent situation in Somalia.

In order to survive, they are ordinary people on the shore, they take up arms, drive ships, and become pirates.

In short, the strength of pirates lies in concealment, in the absence of a trace, once exposed in front of the military array, they are naturally at a disadvantage.

Ding Haijun did just that, the emergence of measuring tools similar to the sextant may not be able to mark the entire sea, all the islands, the sea is vast, and some of the islands with many islands are even hidden and disappearing, such as looming under the tide, and it is almost impossible to find them all.

If all the islands in the sea that may be included by pirates are controlled, it will undoubtedly be much safer for the Dinghai Navy.

The farthest distance of the pirates is one or two hundred nautical miles, and in this era, even the distance of a large merchant ship sailing at one time is only such a number, and the pirates are even worse.

On the premise that there is no forward base and supply base, the navy is safe.

Led by Sun Ji, Zhao Xin is not worried at all, this time it will fail, the reason is very simple, if the number of pirates will not increase significantly, it is only the original number of pirates, not to mention sending a large ship, even if Sun Ji is alone, it can be done.

Among the high-level people present, not all of them were as confident as Zhao Xin, war was an unknown thing, not to mention the Ding Navy, which was not very strong for the army.

In the morning light, facing the sea breeze, the fleet began to set out, and under the blowing of the morning breeze, all the ships began to set sail out to sea, and when they went to sea, it was obvious that there was a difference in the middle, and the Chinese sailing ships, even with the help of skilled sailors, were slower to start.

The sail battleship that Zhao Xin had high hopes for, even if it was only 4 sails, and at the same time it had not been fully raised, it was dexterous through the angle of the sail and ate enough wind, even under the premise of the same wind, the speed of the sail warship was much higher than that of the Chinese sailing ship, let alone eat more wind.

The sail warship was like a dexterous elf, silently breaking through the waves, and immediately left the harbor.

If there is no comparison, there is no harm, Zhao Xin sighed with emotion, I am afraid that in the next step today, this sail battleship must reduce its speed.

This sail battleship, when the wind is 7, full sail downwind, can run a speed of 13 knots, this speed does not sound very high, but when converted into kilometers, the speed is as high as 23.4 per hour, which is really amazing.

In this era, the speed of Chinese-style sailing ships is mostly about 4 knots, that is, it is three times worse than this speed, and for ocean navigation, the difference is 3 times, but it is huge.

Half of the lowered sail, the speed is still much faster than the Chinese sailboat, but unfortunately it can't be lowered again, and if it is lowered, once it encounters an emergency, the speed cannot be increased, which is a big problem for the ship.

As long as the ship can move, it will not be easy to deal with, and if the speed is reduced and it is approached by a surprise attack, that one is in big trouble.

This port is a port that has not yet been built, so the port is shallow, even if it is a Chinese sailing ship, at most it is half an hour, you can leave, after the 13 ships leave in turn, they also leave, and the next thing is to wait.

The conquest of pirates was very important, but there were many ordinary things in the Ding navy, and when there was no means of long-distance communication, they could only wait for them to be victorious.

However, Zhao Xin thought of another thing, with Ding Haijun entering the ocean, then an advanced communication method must be started, otherwise, when the sea frontier of thousands of miles, it may take 1 year to communicate, and that trouble will be big.

Of all the boats, only the clipper is the fastest, crossing the ocean, with an average speed of 12-14 nautical miles, which is not the highest, but average, much faster than ordinary ships.

It's just that Zhao Xin only knows some of the characteristics of the clipper ship through the Internet, and he doesn't know how to do it specifically, and it may take time to develop it.

Zhao Xin soon put this idea behind him, he didn't even have a sail warship, what kind of flying clippers, the technical difficulty of flying clippers, even in the 18th and 19th centuries, it was very difficult, let alone this era.

The distance of 90 miles, at the speed of a Chinese sailing ship, would take about a day, in between, anchored on a sheltered island, and the next day was the time for the actual attack.

Two days later, when the war report came back, it also confirmed Zhao Xin's opinion, this was a very simple battle, and the scene of the war was not very intense.

The pirates, unaware of it, were in reprisals, and they were defenseless.

This can't be said that they were careless, because when there is no sextant, no accurate way to measure the ocean, an island in the sea, it really won't be much easier than looking for a needle in a haystack.

Even if they know that this is a pirate lair, it is not easy to find it, they are actually very vigilant, but for several days in a row, there are no other patrol ships around the pirate island, because the two sides only broke out once, and there were no casualties, thinking about it, the other party will not care, this mentality, paralyzed these pirates, and after a few days of tension, they returned to their original state.

After a break in the middle, the Ding Navy raided Pirate Island in the early morning.

On the one hand, this is relatively close to the land, after all, pirates, as long as they do not prove their true identity, they are still the children of the Great Song Dynasty, some high-level people, or in their hometowns, they have purchased some land and established farms.

In the same way, the huge organization of pirates is not full of combatants, some families, some old battalions, some are wounded or disabled, and they have to find a place to live.

In the South China Sea, there are a lot of pirates active, and the relationship between them is not harmonious, and they also compete with each other.

This time it was very smooth, Zhang Zhonghe led the fleet, approached the island in the early morning, with the help of the telescope, saw the lookout post of the pirates on the island, and then avoided the lookout post and landed at a key place.

The pirate island, not yet well-defended, their lair, for secret relations, is distributed among the dense forests of the central mountain range of this island, through a unique arrangement, it is difficult to see from the sea.

This arrangement was stealthy enough, but it was not easy to withdraw, and when the sail warships attacked their secret harbor at a very high speed, sinking at least 20 ships one by one, they had no ability to fight back.

By the time 1200 soldiers landed on the island, in fact, the war was over.

Even the same 2,000 heavy cavalry could not stop 1,200 soldiers, let alone the old, weak, sick and disabled pirates, the total number of these pirates was not as large as the soldiers sent by the Ding Navy.

After the pirate spotted the soldier, the soldier had already surrounded the pirate's camp, and finally chose to surrender in the face of the heavily armed soldiers.

The military discipline of the navy is quite strict,

Even for pirates, the Ding Navy did not create killing, let alone a group of old, weak, sick and disabled, of course, they would not attack them, but captured them.

It took several days to prepare, and even for the sake of strictness, it took advantage of the night and early morning to sail, but when the real battle began, it was a little anticlimactic, because the whole war was carried out very quickly, except for the raid on the port was an attack, after the infantry went up, they did not even attack, and in the face of heavy troops, they directly chose to surrender.

In the middle, the attack power shown by this sailboat made Sun Ji look sideways, from Zhao Xin put the target on the sea, Sun Ji was still a little unimpressed, as an army general, especially after the appearance of the longbow, the longbow for the improvement of the infantry is very obvious.

But after looking at the sailboat, I realized that the sailboat was so terrible, 36 terrible ballistas, when using explosive arrows, formed a sea of fire in the harbor, and the ships docked in the harbor were sunk by him almost in a short time, this is only one, if it is more, when ten thousand arrows are fired, what will happen?

On the pirate island, the harvest is not small, more than 400 pirates have been captured, and some property has been seized, almost more than 4,000 or so, which cannot be said to be a very high harvest, but it can be regarded as unsatisfactory.

After going ashore, the command was handed over to Sun Ji, who cleaned up the seizures, and usually divided the gold, silver and copper coins in the seizures, for the entire fleet, there were not many people, and he did not return directly, but began a series of interrogations on the island, and a considerable proportion of the pirates were extracted and interrogated separately.