Chapter 15: Fighting pirates along the way

In the end, Hu Zhen was annoyed and said viciously: "Okay, I accepted these women, but now I give them to you, if you don't accept them, I won't give you those weapons!" ”

Di Gabu was stunned for a moment, he couldn't imagine that Hu Zhen would use such a method to forcibly return the beauties belonging to his own tribe to him.

Hu Zhen was stunned on the spot when he saw Di Gabu, knowing that he had captured his lifeline, so he said while the iron was hot: "Okay, don't shirk it, I'll give you the beauty, and I'll give you the weapon, please accept it immediately!" ”

The pirate's antique weapons were worthless in Hu Zhen's eyes, but they were very advanced weapons among the tribes of Digabu, and holding these three to five hundred single-shot rifles from Europe was enough to run rampant with several nearby tribes. Where did Di Gabu dare to excuse himself at this time, so he had to respectfully say that he would accept even the weapon and the beautiful woman.

Only then did Hu Zhen take out a single-shot rifle with satisfaction and personally teach Digabu the use skills and precautions for maintenance.

The Digab tribe originally obtained a small number of single-shot rifles through purchase, but they did not get the right way to use them, and the maintenance was very poor, and most of them were damaged in a few months. Hu Zhen taught these weapons the correct use and maintenance methods, which was a great benefit to the Digabu tribe.

Di Gabu is an extremely smart person, respectfully followed Hu Zhen to learn the technique of using a rifle, he already had experience in using a single-shot rifle, and in a short time he mastered the basic essentials of using and maintaining a single-shot rifle, and figured out how to avoid damage in a short period of time to his tribe's weapons. In the end, Hu Zhen also instructed Digabu to test fire a few bullets and successfully hit the bull's-eye target.

At this point, Hu Zhen did not waste time, he ordered Ouyang Yu, Liang Kunri, Su Wenzhen and temporary translator Jiang Yunfeng to teach the soldiers of the Digabu tribe the techniques of using and maintaining rifles, and at the same time arranged to shoot the few people who killed the Chinese in the Longsuo tribe quickly, but the leader of Longsuo wanted to hand over to Hu Zhen to shoot himself.

Di Gabu arranged for the tribal soldiers to escort Long Suo to set up his position, Hu Zhen fired a shot at Long Suo, only to see Long Suo scream and fall to the ground, Hu Zhen gave Di Gab an imitation Mauser K98 rifle in his hand, and said: "Big Leader Di Gab, I want to go back, and I will have the opportunity to meet again in the future!" ”

Digabu received the imitation Mauser K98 rifle from Hu Zhen, and he looked at it over and over again. He had nothing in return, so he just waited to give Hu Zhen a string of pearl necklaces he was wearing, and grabbed Hu Zhen's hand and knelt down again and said, "Honorable benefactor Hu Zhen, where will we contact you in the future?" ”

Hu Zhen had already prepared for this, took out an address business card written in English and Chinese, handed it to Di Gabu, and said: "The above addresses, if you have something, you can contact me, well, let's leave it alone!" ”

Looking at the back of Hu Zhen leading the crowd to board the ship, Di Gabu led all the tribal soldiers to kneel down and see them off.

But while picking up Ronso's body, Digab discovers that Lonso is not dead. It turned out that Hu Zhen had practiced his marksmanship to the pinnacle of more than a year, and when he shot Longso, he deliberately missed the bullet a little, although Longso would definitely die within a few days because of a gunshot wound, but after all, he kept a living Longso who could fiddle with Digabu for several days, which was regarded as a favor to Digabu.

Knowing that Hu Zhen had given him a favor, Digabu was overjoyed and ordered the tribal soldiers to hurry back to the tribe with the still panting Longsuo to carry out a memorial ceremony for a few days and nights to avenge his father.

After Hu Zhen ordered everyone to return to the ship with the booty, he ordered to drive towards the east at full speed.

Not long after entering the Indian Ocean, Hu Zhen's communicator received a signal from a nuclear submarine. It turned out that after the nuclear submarine started the automatic navigation mode, it went all the way south from the Atlantic Ocean along the African continent, around the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean, and because its speed was much faster than that of the ships of this era, it had been waiting in the sea for some time.

After Hu Zhen received the signal, he did not add any new tasks to the nuclear submarines, except for ordering the nuclear submarines to follow the actions of the Huyang and Shiyang.

During his voyage in the Indian Ocean, Hu Zhen trained with the cadets from morning to night, and taught them cultural and scientific knowledge.

Jiang Yunfeng saw the awesomeness of the German ** students under Hu Zhen's leadership, and took more than 30 of his subordinates to ask Hu Zhen many times to agree to them to join the training together.

And Hu Zhen's plan was to go back to control Borneo, and Jiang Yunfeng's background in the Lanfang Republic was exactly what he needed, so Jiang Yunfeng's joining was logical.

Among the more than 300 Chinese rescued from the pirates, they were originally unable to survive under the rule of the Qing Dynasty and died overseas.

Recruiting troops among the Chinese is Hu Zhen's established policy, and if someone wants to join at this moment, it is a hit, so he ordered Ouyang Yu, Liang Kunri, and Su Wenzhen to immediately arrange for the selection of those who asked to join, and selected more than 100 people according to their physical condition and reaction ability, and mixed them with Jiang Yunfeng's people into the ranks of military cadets to train together.

There are many other people who have not been selected, and it is not very suitable to charge into battle, but to be able to reach Africa, they are all skilled sailors and crews, Hu Zhen did not have the slightest idea of wasting, but incorporated them all into the crew.

When sailing on the edge of the Indian Ocean, from time to time he encountered some pirates who did not have long eyes approaching, Hu Zhen was too lazy to talk about any sympathy, in order to exercise everyone's actual combat ability, he ordered the pirate sailing ship to be sunk directly.

However, after entering the hinterland of the Indian Ocean, from the boat, the sea and sky are the same, except for the sea and the sea, which is very depressing.

Sailing at sea was very boring, starting from the Red Sea across the Indian Ocean, the fleet traveled for nearly thirty days at an economic speed of less than ten knots, and Hu Zhen felt that it was slower than a snail. He was accustomed to the thinking of later generations of traveling around the world by plane for more than ten hours, but everyone thought that this ship was faster than a galleon. Fortunately, the high-intensity training every day makes people so tired that they want to sleep as soon as they stick to the pillow, which makes Hu Zhen not so depressed.

After the fleet entered the Andaman Islands, it finally encountered a few sporadic pirate sailing ships.

Hu Zhen also let the unmanned aerial vehicles on the nuclear submarine take off for intelligence reconnaissance, but later found that it was completely redundant, the speed of these pirates' wooden sailing ships is simply scum, the power mainly depends on manpower and wind power, the speed is slow and the firepower is weak, and the steam engine steamer generally does not dare to be too extravagant, as long as it is discovered, the merchant ships Huyang and Shiyang can easily catch up without even using the maximum speed.

In order to train his subordinates' actual combat ability, Hu Zhen simply ordered the Huyang and Shiyang to reduce to the same speed as a sailboat to lure the pirates to come.

Those pirates who were suffering for their lives, how did they know that Hu Zhen was deliberately finding fault, and thought that the two steam engine steamers had a mechanical failure, and they rushed to get a handful.

But under the powerful firepower of the Tiger Ocean and the Shiyang, groups of pirates were like moths to a fire, and they all came and went.

Although the pirates at this time were ferocious, most of them were old men who had seen the sharp firepower of mortars and recoilless guns, and most of them were just a photo and were beaten to pieces.

Hu Zhen ordered the pirate's ship to be sunk, captured some pirates and led the way, and went straight to the pirate's lair.

Under the command of Hu Zhen, he used heavy artillery fire to capture the pirate's lair, and then came to a plough court to sweep the cave, looted the wealth looted by the pirates, and then set a fire to it and then slapped his ass and left.

From the Andaman Islands to the Strait of Malacca, there were not many gold, silver and jewelry looted by pirates along the way, but after destroying seven groups of pirates and thousands of people, under the command of Hu Zhen, the Chinese did not suffer many casualties, but their combat effectiveness became stronger and stronger. Hundreds of Chinese were rescued in the pirate's den, and after selection, more than 100 more people joined the armed forces commanded by Hu Zhen.

Later, everyone felt that it was too wasteful to sink the pirate ship, and strongly recommended that Hu Zhen take the pirate ship with him, so he dragged nineteen sailing ships slowly behind the butts of the two steam engine steamers.

All the way, all the way to the battle, the fleet slowly crossed the Strait of Malacca, and soon entered the waters of Singapore.

This would be the last stop before entering Borneo, and Hu Zhen ordered the fleet to stop, and he was to rush to Singapore himself to see what was going on with the garrison he had already arranged.