Chapter 426: Iwo Jima (2)

"Mark this place on the map as Iwo Jima!"

In ancient times, most of the islands did not have names, and only those islands that had set up official yamen on the islands had the right to name them, and Zhen Qian did not want to give up this opportunity to leave his name forever.

"Zhen Lang, what about the captured wounded soldiers and the people captured by pirates here?" Wang Tianxing suddenly became a headache, when he first entered the cave, he caught some women who had been captured by pirates, and found some imprisoned people in the dungeon, and when he was counted, he found that there were a lot of these people, adding up to more than two hundred and fifty or sixty people, most of whom had been killed, and the main ones left behind were women and children.

Zhen Qian didn't expect to find so many people on the island at once, but after hearing that they were all women and children, he smiled and said: "Let Toyotomi Hideyoshi ask them, if they are willing to leave, we will give them a pirate ship to leave, if they are homeless, follow us to the Wufeng Islands, what we lack now is the population?" ”

Toyotomi Hideyoshi said yes and left.

It was getting dark, and it was very unwise for Zhen Qian not to stay on Iwo Jima. This is the pirate's lair, he is a foreign battle, he is not familiar with the place, there are so many caves on the island, God knows how many pirates are hiding in it now, and if the pirates react and launch a sneak attack at night, even if they are prepared, there will be losses.

There is no more poison than starvation!

The island is sometimes a huge cage where you can sit back and wait if you lose contact with the outside world.

Iwo Jima is not large, except for the caves everywhere and there are not many trees, such a terrain is not conducive to your own attacks, but it is the most suitable for desperate food to trap pirates on the island.

"One last search, take all the food you can eat on the island, and don't leave a grain of food?"

"Do you want to blow up the entrance to the cave with gunpowder, so that all the pirates inside can be blocked?" Wang Tianxing put forward his own plan.

Zhen Qian shook his head and said: "What we thought at first was a little simple, there are too many holes here, as long as one hole can't be blocked, the plan to block the pirates won't work, and it will waste the precious gunpowder in our hands, forget it!" Burn all the trees and planks on the island that can build ships, and as long as the pirates can't get out of this pirate, their death is doomed? ”

When attacking the Nine Ghosts Jialong, he studied several sets of plans, including blowing up the entrance of the cave and blocking all the pirates inside in the cave, and when he arrived on the island, he found that things were too complicated as originally imagined, and the entrance to the cave on the island was not ordinary, and it was not an exaggeration to describe it as a hornet's nest, and there were not many ways to use such a terrain, Zhen Qian even thought of a smoked way, but unfortunately found that what he thought was still a little simple.

He is not a battle-hardened general, nor is he a clever strategist, Zhen Qianduo only has a thousand years of experience, if there is no this, his intelligence should not be outstanding, that is, an ordinary Tang man.

Zhen Qian clearly understands his strengths and weaknesses, so he will brainstorm before making any decisions, which is actually plagiarizing other people's wisdom, of course, it can also be said to be nonsense such as humbly accepting advice, and it will be regarded as a beautiful talk by countless people.

"That's right, there are hundreds of holes we have found, and the terrain makes people's scalps tingle just thinking about it!"

In fact, these are not the best plans, only by capturing the Nine Ghosts Jialong and letting him lead the way will it be possible to exterminate the pirates on the entire island, and now it's a pity that the Nine Ghosts Jialong was not captured, and even his son and daughter didn't find out, so he had to adopt the next strategy.

When Zhen Qian returned to the ship again, he found that there was a big problem again, after Zhen Qian got off the ship, Zhen Jiu began to clean up the pirate ships around the pirates, and after those pirate ships found themselves attacked, some of them fled directly by boat, because there were many of them and they couldn't chase and kill at all, so that several pirate ships ran away.

There is also a big problem on the intercepted pirate ship, the sea ships of this era are powered by sails and oars, and the sailors who operate the sails are actually pirates, but most of the sailors who paddle are civilians who have been captured by pirates, and there are less than a dozen people on each pirate ship, and dozens of people at most, and the pirates caught by Zhen Jiu all sank to the bottom of the sea except for a few small leaders, but those civilians who were captured by pirates could not be easily disposed of, and the number of people together exceeded more than four hundred.

Also as a pirate, Zhen Qian strictly ordered Zhen Jiu to cut the butcher knife at the civilians from the beginning, there is still a fundamental difference between robbing merchant ships and treating yourself as a pirate, if you kill everyone, you can't do it if you don't want to be a pirate, so Zhen Jiu only robbed merchant ships in the Bohai Sea, and did not massacre on a large scale, and even sometimes helped some trapped merchant ships, which gave Zhen Jiu's skeleton flag a reputation as a thief.

"Send Yamamoto Fifty-six to go over and ask, like the captives found in the cave, ask their own opinions, send them a pirate ship to leave if they are willing to leave, and follow us back to the Five Peaks Islands if they are not willing to go?"

The news of the return from Toyotomi Hideyoshi is very good, except for a small number of captives who are willing to leave, most of the women have no face to return home, as for those children who have no choice at all, Zhen Qian has never given up on the extremely malleable children to leave.

Zhen Jiu has captured a lot of pirate ships, pirate ships usually pay attention to speed, and if the volume is too large, they can't catch up with those robbed merchant ships, so there are not many pirate ships that Zhen Jiu can look at.

Zhen Jiu didn't understand why Zhen Qian let go of those pirate captives, those pirate captives were all good laborers, but now the Wufeng Islands are population and labor, it's a pity to let them go home.

"Leave them behind and we'll be real pirates!" Zhen Qian patted Zhen Jiu's shoulder and said, "Remember! What we want is not hatred, it is not meaningless to put them back, knowing that it will spread our reputation for benevolence and righteousness, we don't need to be pirates ourselves in the Wa Kingdom, and soon the war will be ignited in the Wa Kingdom Saikaido, and then there will be a large number of Wa people begging us to take them in, do you think this will be more beneficial to us? ”

Unlike the women captured by the pirates, the paddlers who came back from the pirate captivity heard that they could go home, so they immediately chose to sail away, and less than one-tenth of the widows remained, and this was all the credit of Yamamoto Fifty-roku's persuasion, otherwise it is estimated that they would all run away.