To transport more than 3,000 soldiers back, at least more than 20 Flying Bird merchant ships are needed, and several warships are needed to escort them, and there are 30 ready-made merchant ships in Anping Port, but Xu Guanzhong's fleet has not yet arrived, and it is estimated that it will have to wait for a few days.

Chao Xiong proposed: "Eliminate the evil, the Dongying pirates have only lost a part, it is likely that there are still on other islands, and it happens that the army is here, so why don't we send troops to encircle and suppress it." ”

Chao Gai is also weak in naval warfare, and he wants to take this opportunity to practice. Immediately said: "This is very good, the main warships of the navy are three flying eagle ships, ten centipede ships, another ten merchant ships, and fifty large fishing boats. ”

Li Kui shouted: "The pirates must be brought with us in the camp, and the axes in our camp are rusty." ”

Pang Wanchun also asked: "The combat power of archers also needs to be tested in actual combat. ”

Chao Gai looked at the generals and said, "Most of the pirates are small forces, with a scale of three or five hundred people, and if there are too many people, they will also fight mosquitoes with cannons." In addition to the naval army, Li Kui's department dispatched 500 soldiers, and Pang Wanchun's department dispatched 500 soldiers. The rest of the personnel are all trained in the barracks and must not slack off. ”

The generals agreed, and on the second day, they set up their troops and horses. Chao Gai, Jiao Ting, Luo Yun and other cadres of 100 soldiers, 200 sailors, Li Kui and Pang Wanchun 1,000 people, a total of more than 1,300 people, took warships, merchant ships, and fishing boats to search the island in the southeast.

There are many islands in this area, and at this time, neither Black Dragon Island nor Hokkaido in Toei has claimed ownership of these islands, and it seems that they have to occupy these islands in time. This way, the speed was relatively slow, and the observer on the mast shouted: "Report, there is a small island ahead." ”

Chao Gai said: "Show the way, let the fleet come over." ”

Chao Xiong said: "I know this island, it is not far ahead, it is the size of a palm, it is only 500 meters long, and it is only 200 meters wide, which is very small. ”

Chao Gai said: "It doesn't matter how big or small he is, let's talk about it after he occupies it, prepare stone monuments and flags, and let the soldiers land on the island." ”

"Yes." Although Chao Xiong didn't understand why Chao Gai wanted to occupy the big island, he still let the sailors pass, and twenty heavily armed soldiers drove a flying eagle boat to the island, put the stone tablet engraved with Jeju regimental training in a conspicuous position on the island, and at the same time planted several flags, and it didn't take long for the soldiers to return and complete the occupation of a small island.

Pang Wanchun said: "Stone tablets can be destroyed, and flags are easily damaged by wind and rain. ”

"This is just a formality, if we are strong and strong, we will naturally be able to defend this pirate, if the power is weakened so much, it will be in vain to make many stone monuments." Chao Gai said.

After sailing for a day, I didn't even see a pirate hair, but the stone tablets were sent to more than 30 people, and Chao Gai ordered people to mark the islands one by one, and at the same time draw a sea chart.

Due to the delay on the way, the next day after leaving Anping Port, I arrived at the island where the pirates were located a few days ago, and before I arrived, I saw that there was a frying pot on the island, and it turned out that there were nearly 200 pirates at the dock who were sawing wood and building ships.

Since they came here in the morning, the pirates discovered the sailors of the Jeju regiment training from a long distance, and the chicken feathers shouted and fried the nests, and they didn't need to be arranged one by one, and they ran into the mountains.

Chao Xiong explained: "Last time, they ran into the mountains, and we had few sailors and were not familiar with mountain and forest warfare, so we didn't clear them. ”

Chao Gai said: "Okay, this time it must be cleared." Three centipede ships were immediately dispatched to patrol around the island to prevent the pirates from escaping in small boats, and the navy sailed into the harbor and the infantry landed.

Li Kui's 500 soldiers, including 100 artillerymen, had 30 tiger squat cannons and 400 plate axe soldiers. The 500 men of Pang Wanchun's department were all archers.

1,000 people went to the island to stop a station, Pang Wanchun led the archers to ambush on the east side of the mountain, Li Kui's troops attacked from the west, and Chao Gai led his own troops to watch the battle in the port. The mountains on this island are not high, but they are only small hills, and the mountains are densely covered with all kinds of trees.

Set up the tiger cannon and shoot into the woods, the iron sand scattered bullets broke many branches and leaves, and the occasional scream of a pirate after being shot could be heard.

Li Kui shook the axe and shouted: "It seems that the effect of changing the cannon is still not good, it is just a little more powerful than the Lying Niu Cannon." ”

After two more rounds of cannons, the pirates still did not come out to surrender, Li Kui was annoyed and shouted: "The pirates don't know how to lift, so they rush in and kill Lao Tzu." ”

With a loud shout, the team entered, and the pirates really set up a lot of traps in the woods, but they were all amateur-level, which easily allowed Li Kui's team to see through the traps. When the pirates saw that the trap had no effect, they immediately screamed, and more than 200 people came out of the bushes with katanas.

The pirates professed to be brave and liked nothing more than to slash with knives, but they soon discovered that they were only being cut down, and were first slashed by a round of axes. Fortunately, it was in the woods, the charging distance was short, and it quickly rushed forward, although the katana had a good steel mouth and was made of fine work, but it was not enough to see compared to the heavy and large plate axe, and the pirates rolled all over the ground as soon as they made contact. Especially the black man at the head, the axe hand rose and fell, killing three pirates in an instant, clean and neat, it felt like cutting three watermelons.

The soldiers behind were like wolves, and the pirates were killed, that is, in more than a minute, the pirates lost hundreds of people, and they couldn't hold on anymore and ran east.

The pirates couldn't do so much, and ran to the east of the woods out of breath, and as soon as they got out of the woods, the feathered arrows swished to arrive, and the targets were very ruthless, and many pirates were in the face and in the throat.

Caught between the front and back, it was an island again, there was nowhere to go, and the pirate picked up his white panties and surrendered.

Pang Wanchun shouted: "Don't shoot, drop your weapons one by one, and come over with your head in your hands." ”

The pirates were accustomed to the law of the jungle, and there was no psychological barrier to surrender, so they dropped their weapons one by one and came with their heads in their hands, but there were only a few left, only fifty people. Just now, Li Kui wiped out more than 100 people with a flying axe and slashing, Pang Wanchun and others wiped out 50 people with a bow and arrow, and there were only 50 prisoners left.

Li Kui's wrestling department searched the hill and found no hidden pirates, so he led the team back to see Chao Gai. After asking in detail, I found out that the leader of the capital had already fled, and last night he moved a small boat hidden on the island to drive out, and returned to the nest Big Bird Island with a dozen henchmen.

After careful questioning, Chao Gai was surprised, this group of pirates is not simple, the leader is called Yanagawa Shoichi, that is, the one-eyed who was blinded by Hao Siwen.

Chao Gai asked, "Tell me how many people you have and how many troops you have." ”

The pirate said: "We have a large population, our strength was originally two thousand, this time we lost more than seven hundred, and now there are more than three hundred. More than 200 warships. ”

Chao Xiong pouted: "It's also called a war ship for you." ”

Chao Gai motioned for Chao Xiong not to interrupt, and then asked, "Then what is your population?" ”

"Controlling 20,000 people." The pirate said.

Chao Gai said angrily: "Nonsense, the nearby islands are so small, how can 20,000 people be fed." ”

The pirate was startled, for fear that Chao Gai would pull him out and cut him down, and said: "We Dongying people are all soldiers, and the more than 20,000 people under our control are divided into an archipelago more than 100 miles to the east, where there are several large islands, among which there is a bird island that is the largest, with a length of 400 li, and a width of dozens of li. ”

The generals didn't know what to do when they heard it, and Pang Wanchun also said: "It's more than 400 miles long, what a big island this should be, no wonder there are so many people, and our Jeju Mansion is a little bigger." ”

Chao Gai asked the captives to take them down, and took out the map that Chao Gai treasured, which was from the map of later generations, and it was definitely not allowed by the Great Song Dynasty. Chao Gai said: "Everyone, please see, the bird island he is talking about should be Li, we are used to call him the Kuril Islands, from here diagonally to the northeast, there are more than 50 large islands on the 3,000-mile sea route, and there are countless small islands. The Ainu people on the island of Zetori should be relatives of the Tunu people, originally a brother tribe, and later the war on Heilong Island, they went to sea, presumably to live on the Kuril Islands. It seems that it will be a long-term war, and we must be well prepared before attacking. ”

Li Kui scratched his head: "There are more than a thousand pirates, our ships are strong and our guns are sharp, and it is not as easy as eating dishes to fight over." ”

Chao Gai said: "The Ainu people were controlled and seized by the Dongying pirates, and we may not be popular in the past, so we need to transfer the Tunu people over and do ideological work for them." In this way, the islands can be fully occupied. The reason why there is no war now is because although there are only more than 1,000 pirates, it is difficult to ensure that they are not in the same group as the Toei people in Hokkaido. So let's go over and have a look for the time being, don't be in a hurry to take this Bird Island. ”

The generals felt that it made sense, the army brought by Chao Gai would not be long before they would go back, and the Chao Xiong Navy's army was only two hundred, and even if it expanded to a thousand, it would take time to train and train. Hao Siwen's ministry is also a thousand recruits, so it is not appropriate to expand the war for the time being.

Immediately, the fleet sailed dozens of miles to the east, and when they saw the outline of Bird Island in the distance, they returned.

It's time to fight, and the soldiers are very energetic in training, especially the sailors and musketeers, and the credit for this thing is not only to get the military merit field but also to appreciate it, and get a higher military salary, which is really everywhere.

Three days later, Xu Guanzhong led five steamers to the Flying Eagle Ship, Chao Gai had something important, so he and Li Kui took the steamboat back first, and the other departments followed the sailing ship back. Twenty merchant ships, five or six million catties of crabs and salmon were escorted together.

The whistle sounded, and the steamship sailed quickly.

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