Hu Zhen, who was observing from the bow of the boat, decisively ordered everyone: "Cut these ropes immediately!" ”

Dozens of crew members immediately rushed forward with large knives and sharp axes that had been prepared long ago, cut the ropes behind the grappling hooks, and a dense cry suddenly sounded on the sea, and a string of figures fell into the sea.

But the reaction of the pirate ship was very quick, gunfire rang out, and a dense stream of bullets and bows and arrows were fired, and several crew members could not dodge, and blood splattered the side of the ship on the spot.

Hu Zhen was furious and was about to order all of them to shoot, but when he saw that there were still figures desperately climbing over on a few ropes that had not been cut, he immediately had a plan and ordered: "Hide, don't cut the pirates' ropes, don't shoot first, wait until the pirates are almost there, and then follow my orders to fire!" ”

Seeing that there was silence on the Tiger Ocean, the pirates thought they had been paralyzed by their own firepower, so they threw more grappling hooks, and a large black shadow of the pirates climbed along the rope in the haze.

When the pirates were about to approach the side of the Huyang, Hu Zhen waved his pistol and opened fire, and ordered: "All of them, give me a hard beating!" ”

Suddenly there was a burst of gunfire on the Tiger Ocean, and the dense bullets fired at the pirates fiercely, and the pirates fell into the sea like dumplings.

Hu Zhen also ordered ten 75mm recoilless guns to be brought out and violently bombard the pirate ships.

The pirates were stunned for a moment, and when they reacted and counterattacked, they found that their firepower was no match for the Tiger Ocean, and the pirate ships could not withstand the bombardment of the recoilless guns, and two pirate ships were on fire, and the sea water poured in. The pirates had no choice but to throw away the rope grappling hook and get away from the vicious ship.

The crew was relieved to be so squatted by the pirate ship.

At this time, the fog gradually dissipated, Hu Zhen saw the situation on the sea clearly, in order to train his military team and quickly improve his combat effectiveness, he decided to seize this rare opportunity for actual combat training, so he ordered the pursuit, to hit the pirate's lair to thunder and sweep the hole.

At this time, the Shiyang heard the gunfire on the side of the Tiger Yang, and also rushed to support, and the two ships chased all the way and beat the pirates to the ground.

The pirate ships were all wooden ships powered by sails and manpower, small tonnage and slow sailing speed, where were the opponents of the two steam-powered ships, under the bombardment of recoilless guns, more than a dozen pirate ships exploded and caught fire, seven or eight of them entered the water and sank

The pirates originally planned to take advantage of the fog to grab a steam-powered ship, but who would have expected that these two "civilian ships" would have such strong firepower, and it was too late to escape at this time, and they immediately regretted that their bowels were blue.

"Surrender, surrender quickly!" There was a pirate's brain that quickly turned a corner.

These black pirates just wanted to make a handful of money, and they didn't have much tenacity, and when they couldn't resist it, they said surrender, and most of them shouted: "Surrender, we surrender!" ”

"We can't surrender, but we want a truce!" The pirate leader still has some brains, and he dreams of negotiating with the people who are being plundered in front of him.

However, none of the people on the Tiger Ocean and the Shiyang could understand the indigenous language of the pirates, and they were still pouring heavy fire on the pirate ships that were shouting for a truce.

Fortunately, there were still nimble minds among the pirates, and they immediately adopted the universal language - to quickly hoist the white flag indicating a truce.

But where the pirates were prepared for a white flag, they had to get a dozen dirty white clothes to hang out, and several of them were panties that still smelled of pee.

"The pirates are surrendering!" The movement on the pirate ship was immediately seen on the Tiger Ocean.

Hu Zhen ordered to stop shooting, but the Huyang did not stop pressing towards the pirate ship.

Only then did the pirates see that the people on the other side were yellow-skinned people, and the pirate leader remembered that there were also a few Chinese on his ship who had been robbed to work as rowing slaves, and they had already understood the language of pirates, and they might be able to communicate with each other and reach negotiations.

So, the pirates brought out nine men with big pigtails on the back of their heads, stood in a column on the side of the ship, and shouted in Chinese: "Stop fighting, stop fighting, we have to negotiate!" ”

"There are Chinese on the pirate ship!"

"That's right, it's really Chinese, you see they all have a long braid behind their heads!"

Hu Zhen himself never wanted to keep a pig's tail braid, so all the people who followed him did not have pigtails, but most of the current Chinese were under the rule of the Manchu court, and not many people dared to cut off the pigtail pigtail pigtails at the back of their heads.

Hu Zhen picked up a telescope, only to see six ragged Chinese being pushed out of the side of the ship by pirates, trembling and shouting, he immediately understood what was going on in his heart, and sneered: "Hmph, dare to rob and abuse the Chinese!" Originally, I planned to defeat these pirates in front of me, but now it seems that we must go straight to the pirate lair and avenge the Chinese suffering from the pirates! ”

Liang Kunri, who stopped shooting, asked anxiously beside him: "Are we going to kill the pirates on the opposite side now and save those Chinese?" ”

"Bring out all the light machine guns on the ship, wait and listen to my command, and destroy all the pirates on the other side!"

After Hu Zhen gently gave an order to the people around him, he shouted loudly in the direction of the pirate ship: "We are all your Chinese brothers, if you don't want to die with the pirates, please jump into the sea quickly." ”

The pirates couldn't understand what Hu Zhen was shouting, so they asked the nine Chinese, "What are the people over there shouting?" ”

Fortunately, the leader of the Chinese was very flexible, and he immediately thought of a reason to fool the pirates, and deliberately stammered in the native language of the pirates: "The person on the other side said that the big leader would give a ransom of 100 catties of gold, and stop the attack immediately!" ”

The pirate leader believed it, and he thought that since the other party had made an offer, he could bargain, and maybe he could continue to negotiate. So he said to the Chinese: "Tell the other party quickly, the price of a hundred catties of gold is too high, if it is ten catties of gold, it is about the same!" ”

The Chinese replied casually in the indigenous language, glanced at a few Chinese compatriots around him, and moved two steps closer to the side of the ship, and immediately changed to Mandarin and shouted: "Jump, a few of us jump immediately, as soon as we jump into the sea, you immediately open fire and destroy these bitch pirates!" ”

So he jumped into the sea with a bang.

Several of the surrounding Chinese heard it clearly, and immediately rushed to the side of the boat and jumped in.

Hu Zhen saw it clearly, and saw that several Chinese had jumped into the sea, and he had no scruples, so he waved his gun and pulled the trigger of the pistol in the direction of the pirate ship, and at the same time ordered all the personnel: "Fire!" Beat him up as a bitch! ”

Suddenly, a rain of bullets swept through the pirate ships.

The pirates had no time to stop them, so they could only watch as nine Chinese jumped into the sea, and some of the reactive pirates immediately lay down, but the planks on the ship could not stop the dense rain of bullets, and most of the pirates on the deck were killed.

After the Chinese who jumped into the sea were rescued, Hu Zhen met with them and learned that the person who took the lead in wittily jumping into the sea was named Jiang Yunfeng, and also learned that in addition to the nine Chinese who went to sea with the pirates, there were more than 300 Chinese who had become pirate slaves in the pirates' lair.

Hu Zhen said to Jiang Yunfeng and the others, who were very grateful: "We want to save all the Chinese compatriots in the pirate's lair, are you willing to lead the way!" ”

Jiang Yunfeng said very happily: "I just want to ask my benefactor to save people!" How could we not be willing to lead the way? ”

"Okay, the soldiers are fast, let's set off now to sweep the cave with thunder, completely wipe out the pirate lair, and rescue the Chinese compatriots!"