Sun Zhou stood at the bow of the sailboat and watched a gang of water thieves push out more than a dozen cannons. He sneered and said, "Paralyzed, if you want to attack us with these broken copper and iron, you really don't know how thick the sky is." Attention to the ships, concentrate their artillery fire to blow up the enemy's artillery. ”

When the Far Eastern Army heard Sun Zhou's order, they lifted the gun jackets of the guns on the ship, quickly adjusted the gun positions, loaded the shells, and waved down the red flags in the hands of the non-commissioned officers of the gun squads at each gun position.

Several naval elongated 70-millimeter naval guns roared, and shells whistled out and smashed into the gun emplacements of the water thieves. A gang of water thieves on the island was still cleaning the gun chambers, but they didn't expect that the artillery of the Far Eastern Army had already fired.

"Boom...... Boom ......"

There were several loud bangs in succession, and several of the water thieves' gun positions were blown to pieces. The gunpowder of one of the water thieves' gun emplacements was also detonated, and a mushroom cloud burst into the sky in an instant, and even the thousand-pound Franc machine on the gun emplacement was lifted into the air.

At this time, the airship in the air also joined in, because the water thieves on the island had dispersed, so the airship did not take bombing, but used the twin water-cooled heavy machine guns at the back of the pod to condescendingly strafe the water thieves' gun positions on the island, and the water thieves on the gun positions were killed and injured heavily.

After several rounds of attacks by the Far Eastern Army, the island was completely chaotic. Several ships of the Far Eastern Army circled the island, and the twin water-cooled heavy machine guns equipped with the ships kept strafing, and the water thieves on the island were unable to raise their heads.

"Machine gun cover, ready to land ......"

With Sun Zhou's order, several ships of the Far Eastern Army slowly leaned around the island, and a large number of Far Eastern Army troops rushed to the island with rifles loaded with bayonets.

Now that the island is littered with corpses, the remaining water thieves have long lost their fighting spirit and have knelt on the ground and raised their hands in surrender. The Far Eastern Army quickly took control of the situation on the island, and several leaders, including Xiao Laohei, were screened out, and Sun Zhou arranged for several soldiers to execute them on the spot.

According to the information provided by Liu Dong, the water thieves in Heshuipu are all innocent. In addition to intercepting ships and killing people and stealing goods on weekdays, they often sailed boats to land and loot villages and towns in various parts of Huguang, killing people and plundering all kinds of evil, and it can be said that they have a lot of blood debts.

Therefore, Sun Zhou was extremely ruthless to the water thieves on the island, and even the injured water thieves were killed by the soldiers with bayonets. Only dozens of water thieves were tied up and thrown on the shore, and these beasts were escorted back to Wuchang Mansion with a peanut per person.

Liu Tong stood at the bow of the boat and watched all this blankly, He Shuipu is definitely a pest in Wuchang Mansion, and even in the entire Huguang is a well-known den of water thieves.

With the complex geographical environment of Heshuipu, these guys have been rampant for decades, and have committed countless bloody crimes in Wuchang Mansion and its Huguang places, and the slaughter of villages and towns can be said to be commonplace.

Wuchang Mansion has organized the official army to encircle and suppress the water thieves in Heshuipu several times, and even used thousands of water troops on several occasions, but they still returned in vain.

However, this group of fierce water thieves encountered the Far Eastern Army and was slaughtered in less than two hours. Until this time, Liu Tong still felt like a dream.

The den of water thieves in Heshuipu is really as Liu Tong said, don't look at it in tatters, but the oil and water are absolutely abundant. More than 100,000 taels of gold and silver were seized on the island alone, and even more gold and silver jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings, precious stones, jadeite, and brocade silk.

After all, He Shuipu has been at large in Wuchang Mansion for decades, and all kinds of stolen goods obtained from unearned transactions are piled up. In addition to the precious luxury goods, the amount of cloth, cotton, raw silk, salt tea and other materials is also very considerable, but the things are very complicated, and it is impossible to count them for a while.

The Far Eastern Army still has more than 200,000 stone of rice on the island, most of which are old grains accumulated for many years, and I don't know how many years it has been stored on the island. Because of the extensive way it is stored, a lot of the rice has rotted. In addition, thousands of catties of dried fish and jerky, hundreds of catties of preserved fruits and candied fruits, thousands of jars of white wine and rice wine, hundreds of catties of spices and spices, and a large number of ham and bacon and other staple and sideline foods were also seized.

Sun Zhou looked at so many trophies, and he was also speechless. Who would have thought that such a large island would be seized with so many supplies. The captured supplies are almost equal to the total amount of the loot from the docks of the dozen towns and towns they conquered along the way.

Looking at such a rich trophy, Sun Zhou called Liu Tong over again.

"Lao Liu, is there only this den of water thieves in Wuchang Mansion? Is there any other place where oil and water are abundant? ”

Liu Tong smiled bitterly: "Master General, this den is one of the best even in the entire Huguang, it is next to the Wuchang Mansion Wharf, even if all the heroes of Dongting Lake do business, they are here to sell stolen goods." It's not so easy to find another place like this. ”

When he said this, he thought for a while and said, "General, don't say it, there are really a few places where the oil and water are not bad." There are such places in several prefectures in Huguang, and I know more than a dozen, but I have never been to these places, and I have only occasionally heard people talk about them, all of which are private warehouses of some large households. And it's not close to Wuchangfu Road.

There are all big households in Huguang and the government officials colluding, every year with the old grain in exchange for the new rice in the official warehouses in Huguang all over the country, there are a lot of cats in it, because it is not good, so the new rice from the various official warehouses are put there for a few months, and then sent to the rice shops in various provinces. ”

Sun Zhou was happy when he heard it, and laughed: "Okay, Lao Liu, you know these places, it is worthy of being the head snake of Wuchang Mansion." I will definitely tell the commander when I go back this time, and let him reward you well. ”

Liu Tong hurriedly knelt down in fear and thanked him: "Forget about the reward or something, the general just needs to let me go like a fart, the little one still has an old lady's wife and children in Wuchang Mansion, and they all point to me to live, if I have three long and two short, my family will be defeated." Ask the general to be gracious, let the little one go home when it's over, and the little one will do his best to help the general. ”

When Sun Zhou heard the news, he hurriedly contacted his superiors by radio. Because the Intelligence Department of the Far Eastern Army also has no information in this regard, the grain stored in the Changping Warehouses in various places, even in the county seat, has to have more than 10,000 stones, and every year it is colluded with the gentry and local officials in the Ming Dynasty to make a mess.

These new rice of that year should have been stored in the regular closing positions of various prefectures, which were the preparatory granaries for the stability of the people's livelihood in the Ming Dynasty, and their functions were somewhat similar to the strategic reserve warehouses of modern society. (To be continued.) )