Two days later, Zhen Qian left the Wufeng Islands with two thousand-stone flyships and a five-hundred-stone flyship, and the purpose of this trip was not entirely for Shaoer Dongshang.

Last time in Iwo Jima after defeating the island leader of the Osumi Islands, Jiugui Jialong, he has not been able to catch Jiugui Jialong, Jiugui Jialong has been entrenched on Iwo Jilong in the Osumi Islands, Zhen Qian suspects that there may be a connection between him and Osumi Province, this time Shaoer Dongshang is still preparing to attack Osumi Province, Zhen Qian is also worried that Jiugui Jialong will resurrect, and decided to carry out a thorough cleanup of pirates around the Osumi Islands before this.

After three days of sea voyage, the three flyships came to the beach of Iwo Jima, and it has been almost a month since the last time the Nine Ghosts Jialong was cleared, and it has been a long time since I heard the news of the Nine Ghosts Jialong, and I don't know if the Nine Ghosts Jialong is dead.

"The whole crew disembarks and disembarks!"

This time, Zhen Qian brought more than 1,000 people, ready to thoroughly search the caves on Iwo Jim Island, and must find out whether the Nine Ghosts Jialong is alive or dead.

Iwo Jiu Island is desolate, the original dock has been burned to ashes, there is no trace of human life on the shore, the whole island is lifeless, the wind blows from the sea, blows into the cave and makes a "whine" crying sound, which makes people shudder.

"It seems that there is really no one, so they won't all run away!"

There are not many trees on Iwo Jim Island, and I burned all the trees I could see before leaving, and it was difficult to find some wood on the island to make rafts, and I didn't know how many of the pirates who had hid in the cave could escape.

More than 1,000 people divided into ten teams and drilled into each cave entrance, as if ants had entered their nests and disappeared into the cave mouth.

Wang Tianxing took people to camp on the seaside, some caves on the island are thousands of meters long, and it is impossible to search inch by inch without two or three days, anyway, Zhen Qian is not in a hurry this time, this time he went to Iwo Huang Island, and he was also ready to mine some sulfur and bring it back, plus the raw materials mined from the saltpeter mine in Saga Town, the gunpowder workshop on the Wufeng Islands has a sufficient source of raw materials for processing.

The manufacture of black powder requires a large amount of sulfur and saltpeter, but sulfur and saltpeter are raw materials in addition to the manufacture of gunpowder, other uses are really not much, if you buy directly from the market, the quantity can not meet your own needs at all, it is not as convenient as your own mining and collection, the key is that the cost of gunpowder will be greatly reduced.

About an hour later, the sunset had sunk below the sea level, and Zhen Jiu and Zhen Seventy-two both walked out of the cave one after another with people and returned to the sea.

"What did you find today?" Zhen Qian didn't have much hope, after all, almost a month had passed, and even if there were still pirates who hadn't left the island at the beginning, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to support it now.

Zhen Jiu and Zhen Seventy-two both sat cross-legged on the bamboo mat on the ground, staring at the dishes on the bamboo mat, and each poured themselves a bowl of spirits, the cave was much colder than the outside, and the cat felt that the cold air had penetrated into the bones in the cave for more than an hour, and he urgently needed a bowl of spirits to drive away the cold in his body.

After taking a sip of strong wine, I felt that my whole body was hot, and I stuffed a few more pieces of fish meat into my mouth, and I wanted to hum comfortably.

"I searched four caves today, and I didn't find any living people, but I found traces of people staying in some places where people couldn't live in, and the traces were very new, and they should have been left ...... not long ago," Zhen Seventy-two recounted his situation.

Zhen Jiu on the side sneered twice and sneered: "It's very bad luck!" ”

"Then what did you find?" Zhen Seventy-two was not angry, after all, a long time had passed, and even Zhen Qian didn't expect to find any living people.

"My luck is much better than yours", Zhen Jiuyi is not happy to look at Zhen Seventy-two now, originally this voyage to the Americas should be his own, but Zhen Qian said that he is responsible for the safety of the entire Wufeng Islands, and he also has to contact Silla and Bohai Kingdom, and now he can't leave, but this voyage to the Americas is a greater feat than Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, thinking about it can make people's blood boil, unwilling!

"Then you should tell us about it!"

"Today I led people to search five passages, four of which found nothing, but in the last passage found the corpses of many pirates, judging from some traces left on the ground, they must have fought each other to death, probably because of the ...... of the remaining food in the cave."

Zhen Jiu bought a pass and continued: "We continued to search along the traces, and found a lot of pirate corpses in a place that may have hidden grain, there are four before and after, and there are more than 200 corpses of pirates on the ground, I guess there is not much food in the cave, only for this reason will pirates fight!" ”

Zhen Qian learned from the mouths of the captured pirates that the number of pirates on the island, plus the pirates who came to celebrate his birthday, reached more than 2,000 people, and the pirates he killed would not exceed 600 people, that is to say, there were 1,400 pirates who fled into the cave to hide, so many pirates consumed a very large amount of food every day, and the island's food stock can usually be eaten for two months, but unfortunately Zhen Qian's last time he came was very good, the last time the island bought grain from outside just passed more than a month, and it was when the grain was a little green and yellow. In addition, there were many pirates who suddenly came to celebrate their birthdays, and the remaining food on the island probably didn't even last for ten days, and now that a month has passed, if the pirates on the island hadn't fled, the food should have been eaten, and it is not surprising to find that there is a fire fight in the cave because of the scramble for food.

"Good analysis!" Zhen Qian was very happy, but he was a little worried: "It's not strange that pirates are fighting in a difficult situation, but we have to plan for the worst, if the pirates in the cave die more than fifty percent, the food in their hands should be able to last for a month, if another pirate escapes in advance, the number of pirates left should not be much, and the holding time should be longer, so we must be prepared for the last death struggle of pirates tonight!" ”

"What? How dare these pirates come and attack us? Zhen Jiu couldn't believe that the pirates who were about to starve to death still had the strength to sneak up on him.

"I mean, it's possible, since you're all going to starve to death, why don't you make a final desperate fight, think about it from another angle, if you're those pirates who are dying of starvation, will you attack us tonight?"

"It should be, it's the last chance!" Wang Tianxing affirmed.

"Don't be surprised if people lose their minds under madness!" Zhen Qian is very sensitive to the feeling of danger, and after going to the island, he always feels that there are many pairs of eyes staring at him secretly, which should not be wrong.