In ancient times, there were two ways to board a ship, either to hook the ship together with a hook and sickle and jump directly from the side of the ship into the enemy ship, or to hang it on the enemy ship with a hook lock and then climb directly to the enemy ship through the rope on the hook lock.

The Dutch merchant ship was more than a meter higher than the lucky ship of the pirates, and they couldn't climb up even if they were on the side, so the pirates directly chose the hook lock, and the hook lock flew over like raindrops after the pirate ship approached the Dutch merchant ship, and after a while, the pirates poured onto the Dutch merchant ship like ants.

As Prad ordered not to shoot, a group of Dutch sailors hid under the side of the ship, shivering, not knowing what to do.

The pirates were not polite, but swarmed him, snatched his muskets, kicked them over on the deck, and then pulled out ropes and tied them tightly. For a while, the deck was like a boiling pot, and all kinds of scolding were endless, such as "Bage Haku Eat", "Talking about Hook and Pulling Mu", "Ni Totolu", "Fu Kejiu West Mu", ......

The Dutch are desperate in their hearts, which language is this Nima, why can't they understand it? In fact, these are not the dialects of any country, but the words of many countries are combined, who called these pirates all the country!

At last, a pirate leader-like man climbed up panting, and as soon as he climbed onto the deck, he grabbed a bundle of sailors who looked like dumplings next to him, snapped a big ear, and yelled in Dutch: "Where are your leaders?" ”

The sailor burst into tears, and when he heard this, he quickly pouted at Prad, who was already bound, and the pirate leader threw the sailor on the deck, and then ran to Prader, grabbed him by the collar with one hand, snapped another big ear, and then shouted in Dutch: "Hurry up and tell your men to surrender, or kill you?" ”

Prader's slap was wronged, and he replied aggrievedly: "We didn't resist!" ”

The pirate leader took a closer look around, and found that the Dutch really did not resist, but his men were chirping and screaming non-stop, he frowned, and shouted directly in Chinese: "Quiet." ”

Something strange happened, and all the pirates actually understood, and they all closed their mouths and looked at him.

The pirate leader raised his hand and pointed to the stern of the ship, and ordered in Chinese: "Dutch, throw it all over there." ”

The pirates immediately dragged the bound Dutchman to the stern of the ship and threw it into a pile.

The pirate leader pointed to a Dongying ronin and said, "You, guard." ”

The Dongying ronin immediately bowed down and replied, "Haiyi." Then he beckoned all the people to surround the captives at the stern of the ship.

The pirate leader then ordered, "Others, go down there and see what's going on." ”

When the other pirates heard this, they immediately cheered and rushed to the cabin.

After all, this ship was the flagship of the merchant captain, and there were still a lot of good things in it, in addition to rice, sugar, cloth and porcelain, there were also some fine tea, fine wine, silk and deerskin antler velvet.

After ......about a quarter of an hour, these people came out of the cabin one after another, and one of the little bosses, who spoke Chinese well, ran to the pirate leader and reported: "There is a lot of rice, sugar, cloth, and porcelain, but there is very little tea, wine, silk, and animal skins." ”

The pirate leader nodded, and directly ordered: "Take your people to stay and drive the ship, and the others will go back to their respective ships and prepare to meet at the boss's place." ”

At this time, more than 30 Dafu ships and more than 100 small boats had been gathered next to the largest coral reef in this sea area, and Hong Xu and Gan Hui both boarded Shi Daxuan's flagship, and the three of them stood side by side on the bow, talking and laughing, while waiting for their subordinates to come and gather.

The seven Dutch merchant ships were surrounded by their men, and they would definitely not be able to escape, and the rest was only a matter of time.

A group of sailing boats shuttled back and forth on the sea, passing the news, the good news kept coming, these Dutch were businessmen after all, they did not choose to resist desperately in the case of absolute disadvantage, basically as long as they surrounded it, put a few cannons and they surrendered, about half an hour later, the farthest wave of pirates came back with news, and the last Dutch merchant ship also surrendered, Shi Daxuan laughed and said: "Lao Jiu, I said that they will not play with us, a group of businessmen, you really think they are the Dutch Navy." ”

Hong Xu shook his head and said embarrassedly: "It's still starling, I thought they would always be a little bloody, but I didn't expect them to be a bunch of soft eggs!" ”

Shi Daxuan said proudly: "If you want to lose the bet, this time you will take someone to escort the prisoners and goods back." ”

Hong Xu hung his head and said: "Okay, you have to leave me some good things, I heard that the Batavian merchant ship that passed by here brought a lot of delicate things from the Netherlands, don't swallow them all." ”

Gan Hui quipped: "Brother Jiu, don't worry, that thing can't be eaten, we can't swallow it." ”

When Shi Daxuan heard this, he laughed out loud for a while, and then advised: "Be careful when delivering goods, you can send someone to keep an eye on the Dutch escorted to Manila, and it will be troublesome if they run away." ”

Hong Xu asked with some curiosity: "Why do you want to take a few people to Manila?" It's not enough to throw it all on a small island, there is sea on all sides, and they can't run away if they want to. ”

Shi Daxuan shook his head and said: "You don't understand this, if you want to lure the Dutch over to fight with the Spaniards, you have to rely on these people, remember, before escorting them off the ship, you must cover everyone's eyes with a black cloth, and don't let them know that we are guarded separately." ”

Hong Xu was still confused, and he asked, "Why rely on these people?" We have arrested all the people, and the goods are all smuggled to Manila to sell, won't the Dutch go to the Spaniards and fight hard? ”

Shi Daxuan saw that he had a posture of breaking the casserole and asking to the end, so he had to explain in detail: "Anyone can pull the goods over and sell them, this is clear to the Dutch, they will only suspect that the Spaniards are doing it, just for this suspicion, they will not necessarily run to fight with the Spaniards, only if they think that all the captives are locked up in Manila, they will run to fight with people." ”

Hong Xu is still a little confused, are people more important than goods? He was puzzled and said: "Aren't there only a few thousand people, as for fighting with people?" ”

Shi Daxuan rolled his eyes angrily, and he said impatiently: "The Dutch are expensive, do you think they are all the same as those under us, they are cheap, their entire country is only a million people, and there are not many thousand?" Okay, okay, let's not talk about that, you'll understand by then, just be careful not to be discovered by the Spaniards. ”

When Hong Xu saw Shi Daxuan like this, he had to shut up and shut up, he couldn't stand this starling if he launched a surge.

The pirates besieging the Dutch merchant ships from all over the place came one after another, and finally all seven Dutch merchant ships were escorted to the meeting place.

After returning to the Sulu Sea, Hongxu directly ordered all the Dutch to be blindfolded, put them on small boats, and most of them were sent to a desert island, only the captains of a few merchant ships were secretly sent by him to Manila, where they had their stronghold. He sent a hundred trusted Luzon men to take these seven men to his stronghold in Manila, and instructed them to take turns guarding them for twelve hours, and never let them escape.

As for the goods, he ordered them to be unloaded from the merchant ships of the Dutch, leaving half of the rice and some of the sugar, and sending all the rest to Manila in small boats to be sold.

Before Hong Xu was done, Shi Daxuan and Gan Hui ushered in a group of Dutch merchant ships, this batch of merchant ships had only five in total, which sailed from Batavia to Dongfan, and the ships were full of Batavia's spices, pepper, amber and other specialties, as well as precious metals, medicinal herbs, telescopes, clocks and other delicate things transported from the Netherlands.

These were to be sold to Daming, Dongying, and Korea, and although the quantity was not very large, the value was very high, so the Dutch East India Company sent additional men, and the five ships were also equipped with about 1,000 men, and the number of musketeers also reached about 500.

This point of people is naturally not worth a spill for Shi Daxuan and Gan Hui, and they easily brought people and ships to a pot, so far they have completed the task in July, and it will be next month to do business again, Shi Daxuan and Gan Hui also took their own people to escort the Dutch merchant ship back to the Sulu Sea to deal with prisoners and stolen goods.

It is seven or eight thousand miles from Batavia to the east, and even if the sails are hoisted, it will take at least 40 days to sail day and night, so the Dutch have not yet noticed the robbery of the Dutch for the time being, and there are more than a few merchant ships in the Dutch East Indies, and in August, they sent six merchant ships from Dongfan and Batavia respectively to transfer the goods of the month.

Needless to say, the ending of these twelve merchant ships was the same as the ending of the previous twelve, they were all robbed by Shi Daxuan, Hong Xu and Gan Hui with the ship, and by mid-August, the Dutch East India Company finally sensed that something was wrong, because the merchant ships last month did not arrive on time, and there was not even any news at all, could it be that they encountered a storm at sea?

At this time, the Dutch did not realize that they were intercepted by pirates, because now Zheng Zhilong, the largest pirate leader in Southeast Asian seas, had gone to Daming to become the prince, and Liu Xiang, the second largest pirate leader, was their partner, and it was almost impossible for other pirate forces to eat their five or six armed merchant ships, so the Dutch did not take too drastic measures, but just sent a team of search and rescue ships from Batavia to search in the direction of the east along the route they had planned, hoping to find these two fleets.

After so many years of hard work, the Dutch East India Company has gradually dominated the Southeast Asian market, and the sales of the bases in various countries every month are quotas, and the customers have paid the deposits, and if you don't send the goods over, the customers will definitely not finish with you, if you do this a few times, the market may be lost, so in September they not only sent out the goods of the month but also made up for the share in July, that is, This time they sent more than a dozen merchant ships in both directions!