After the soldiers who went into the cave to investigate found that Jiro Aoki and the others had escaped from another exit, they immediately went out of the cave and reported to the commander in command.

The commander immediately made a decision and ordered a part of the soldiers to enter the cave along the cave to continue the search, and sent a team of people to guard the entrance of the cave to prevent Aoki Jiro from killing a horse pistol in the suspicious formation.

The rest of the men quickly cleared the other remnants of the Japanese on the top of the mountain.

On a cliff on the south side of the island, a large mass of weeds and dead branches was pushed out of it and fell under the cliff, revealing the mouth of a black hole.

After a while, a head quietly emerged from the entrance of the cave, and after observing left and right for a long time, he waved his hand behind him, and then jumped down, this hole was not high from the cliff, that is, more than one person high, so it was easy to jump.

Then, one after another, more than a dozen figures jumped out of the hole.

This group of people is Jiro Aoki and the others who escaped from the cave.

This cave was a secret passage he had discovered before, and it was a secret passage that could lead from the top of the mountain to the back of the cliff.

Usually, only he and his cronies know that it was originally used for emergency purposes, but I didn't expect it to come in handy today.

Jiro Aoki led the people along the barren weeds and thorns, and cautiously came to a treacherous and desolate beach full of rocks.

After carefully observing the surrounding sea and finding nothing unusual, one of the widows waved his hand and dragged a small boat out of between two huge reefs with a few people.

The boat was originally tied behind the reef with iron chains and covered with waterproof materials such as coats and tarpaulins.

Someone cut the chains with a Japanese sword, dragged the boat out, and threw aside the tarpaulins and other objects on the boat, and then the Japanese pushed the boat into the water.

Jiro Aoki hurriedly boarded the boat, and soon the boat raised a sail.

The sails gradually puffed up, driving the boat slowly towards the distant sea.

Looking at the island that was gradually moving away, Aoki Jiro let out a long breath, clenched the Japanese knife in his hand, and scolded something in Japanese with a cold look in his eyes, probably nothing more than that I would come back, or I want to take revenge or something like that, and the other Japanese also cursed one after another.

What makes Jiro Aoki most depressed is that although he was beaten like a lost dog and fled in a hurry, he still doesn't know who the enemy is.

I asked a few cronies who were also embarrassed around them, and they all shook their heads blankly, and they couldn't tell who their opponents were.

They only knew that the other party's firepower was extremely sharp, and that the musket in the opponent's hand was more accurate and could shoot farther than the musket they had bought from the English merchants, and nothing else.

Although the soldiers of the Qin army had persuaded them to surrender at the gate of the cave where they were hiding just now, although these Japanese robbers knew a few words of Chinese, they were also confused, and they didn't know exactly who the other party was.

Entering the cave, the soldiers of the Qin army, who continued to search along the cave, soon found another exit, and from the exit, they followed the traces of Jiro Aoki and others, and also traced all the way to the seashore, and found abandoned tarpaulins and other objects, as well as severed iron chains.

The centurion who led the team made a slight judgment and knew that Jiro Aoki and the others had escaped in a small boat that had been hidden in advance, so he had no choice but to go back and report to the commander.

At this time, the entire island of Japanese robbers had basically been cleared, and Di Qing also landed on the island with his personal guards.

The two commanders who were commanding on the front line knew that Di Qing was coming, and hurriedly came over to report the situation.

"Tell the general that the island's pirates have basically been wiped out. After a preliminary count, our troops killed more than 500 Japanese and captured more than 1,300 prisoners. ”

Di Qing nodded after hearing this, and asked again: "Can the leader of the Japanese Bandits, Aoki Jiro, be captured?" ”

The commander who was questioned looked a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said: "Tell the general, that Aoki Jiro was escaped by him, and now he should have left the island by boat." ”

Di Qing's brows furrowed slightly, and he asked, "Didn't the sailor already control all the ships of the Wako, where did he get the ships to escape?" ”

The commander hurriedly replied: "General Huiyu, judging from the traces, that small boat was used by Jiro Aoki to escape and save his life, and it was hidden in a hidden place, so the sailor failed to find it. ”

Di Qing didn't ask any more questions, and ordered: "Send someone to inform the sailor, so that they must capture Aoki Jiro." ”

The commander hurriedly received the order and sent someone to inform the sailor.

Another commander came up at this time and said, "General, our army has rescued nearly 1,500 civilians from the island, most of whom are women. And there are ......"

Speaking of this, the commander's expression was a little hesitant and stopped.

Seeing this, Di Qing said in a deep voice: "If you have something to say, why hide it. ”

Only then did the commander say, "We also found more than 300 corpses of civilians who were tortured to death by the Japanese invaders, and most of them were teenage girls. They were left naked behind cliffs. At the same time, there are many white bones under the mountain, and the situation is really miserable, and the last general really can't bear to say it directly. ”

Di Qing was silent for a moment when he heard this, and ordered in a low voice: "Collect these people who are in distress." All the bones were buried on the spot. The rest of the people who were still able to identify their faces were to be identified by those who survived, and if they had relatives in the family, they were brought back to their hometowns for burial. If there is no one to identify the body, bury it on the spot. ”

The commander nodded, and then took the order and left.

In fact, for this situation, Di Qing and the others were already mentally prepared before going to the island.

These would-be pirates have been on the island for at least a year or two, so there must have been a lot of harm to the people.

Now that these widows are all wiped out, and when the time comes, they will all be brought back and killed in front of the graves of those people who were killed, and it can be regarded as worthy of the souls of these people in the sky.

After arranging these things, Di Qing took people to visit the wounded soldiers in the temporary field hospital.

After inquiry, only seven of the Qin soldiers were killed, 13 were slightly injured, 2 were seriously injured, and the rest were not casualties.

The soldiers who died were mainly shot by the muskets of the Japanese as they approached the top of the mountain.

The same is true for minor and serious injuries, because with the sophisticated new muskets and artillery, there is basically no melee fighting, so these wounds and deaths are caused by muskets.

Di Qing nodded, and instructed the military doctor to continue to treat the wounded, so that the seriously wounded can survive, and the lightly wounded can recover their combat effectiveness as soon as possible and return to the army.

Because of the use of anesthetics and penicillin, the mortality rate of the wounded in the Qin army has been greatly reduced, and basically as long as they are not hit at that time, they can survive after being treated by military doctors.