Chapter 339: Surrender and Avoid Death

Huang Sheng doesn't care a lot, the Si people are not guilty, that is, their crimes, no, they are wrong, the Si people are not guilty of warships and their crimes. Pen~Fun~Ge www.biquge.info It's right to do this, in the dynasty, you didn't commit a crime, but you were guilty of hiding an air gun to fight birds at home.

Pirates with strong ships and cannons are of course heinous, and killing them will reduce a lot of killing, get a lot of wealth, and win-win, so why not?

The combined fleet rushed to the Penghu Islands with great momentum, and still used Huangjia sentry boats, grass skimming boats, and new-style warships to capture all the ships that appeared in the field of vision with high-powered binoculars all the way, and even the fishing boats were not spared.

On behalf of the government, the Huang family does not kill people indiscriminately, and when they find a ship escaping, they will first carry out warning shots, try not to sink the opponent's ship so as not to cause too many casualties, and will only kill the stubborn.

The captured ships were screened by Huang Dongshan with the musketeer soldiers and dozens of Toucheng pirates led by Lin Hong, and these people selected by Lin Hong were all veteran sailors who had been in the wind and waves of the sea for more than ten years, and they were also senior old pirates.

As long as the ship and the arrested person are shown and asked a few words, if it is a pirate, they will immediately confess, where will the pirate who kills people and overhaul the goods be the same as the fisherman, and the expert can distinguish it with half the effort.

The use of telescopes has been exerted to the extreme at sea, making the Huang family's fleet like a tiger with wings, and the Huang family's warships can see far away and catch up, and it is relatively easy to approach the pirate's lair silently.

When Guo Huaiyi, the pirate leader entrenched in Xiaomenyu, knew nothing, his home port was surrounded by nearly 200 warships, because the seven sentinel ships under his command had been captured by the Huang family, and the pirates on board were confessing to leniency.

The geographical conditions here are quite good, Guo Huaiyi has the strength, and actually built three forts built with huge stones, and the largest artillery is 5,000 catties, firing 12-pound shells.

Seven guns were deployed in each battery, the smallest being a six-pounder copper-core iron cannon, and each battery had more than seventy men on permanent shifts.

Due to the appearance of rifled guns, these arrangements were like decorations, just like the fate of the Manchu Dagukou Fort, and the rifled guns of the Huang family fleet began to bombard the three pirates' batteries from a distance, and the results were self-evident.

As soon as Guo Huai found out that the Ming army was coming, he wanted to use the defense system he had painstakingly operated for many years to wait for reinforcements, but who knew that things backfired, and in half an hour, the three batteries were beaten and lost their resistance without even firing a single shell.

Fortunately, his judgment was accurate, and when he observed the Ming army's formation at the first battery, he found that the Ming warships began to shell from a distance, and he felt bad and immediately rushed out, not being killed on the spot by a burst of artillery fire.

Next, when the Ming army attacked the other two batteries, the gunners above scattered in a hurry and did not dare to garrison at all, how could the pirates have the courage to see death as home, they watched after being attacked by the Ming army, the accomplices on the battery were blown to pieces by the Ming army's shells, where did they dare to wait in the battery to be beaten.

Just when Guo Huaiyi watched the Ming warships helpless to bombard the batteries that he was no longer able to fire effectively in an unhurried manner.

A familiar boat came out of the Ming army array, and the crew on the ship was also vaguely familiar, and when they got closer, it turned out to be their own sentinel ship, and the one on board was also their own command.

These pirates are Guo Huaiyi's sentry agents who were rounded up by the Huang family, and now they are on a mission to persuade their boss to surrender.

The pirates told Guo Huaiyi with sad faces that the officers and soldiers had made a condition that they were not allowed to bargain, and there was no reply for half an hour, and the Ming army attacked and burned the jade.

The Ming army promised that as long as they surrendered immediately, everyone would be spared death, give the big leader Guo Huai 1,500 taels of silver to settle in, and allow him to drag his family to live on Huangjiawan Island, and the other big leaders would give 1,000 taels of silver to Daishan Island in Zhejiang for the people.

The rest of the pirates can be considered for the people to join the army, and the Ming army ensures that they have no worries about food and clothing.

Guo Huaiyi's more than 30 warships have not yet attacked, but he has clearly seen the range of the Ming army's artillery with a clairvoyant scope, and also knows that there are hundreds of warships surrounding him, and after weighing the pros and cons, he chose to surrender conditionally.

After digging out this pirate den, he obtained seven No. 2 Fuship-class warships, fourteen grass-skimming ships, and more than ten other No. 4 and No. 5 Fuship-class warships, and the dirty silver and property seized were worth more than 1.2 million taels.

The population is nearly four thousand, the people are diverse, half of them are pirates and their families are small, and they also get a lot of food, this pirate security first, the food reserve can meet their food for three years with nearly 30,000 stones.

Guo Huaiyi, who surrendered honestly, was not embarrassed or tied up, he was taken to the 'Liaodong' to meet his old acquaintances Li Guozhu and Xu Xinsu, who was still trembling, and he was relieved after talking to the two.

He came to the meeting room and kowtowed like garlic, and asked Lord Huang Sheng to take him in as an official soldier.

Huang Sheng is reluctant to take in too many pirate leaders as his subordinates, these people are used to being powerful, and they all once had a lot of wealth, what can he give them?

At this time, they are only forced by the situation, and it is impossible for them to be loyal to themselves.

Including Xu Xinsu and Li Guozhu, it is just a cooperative relationship, Huang Sheng has never expected their loyal ministers, it is enough to support these two people, and there will be no extraneous branches.

Huang Sheng replied to Guo Huai with a calm face: "You can go to Huangjiawan Island to be a rich man, and you will never live a life of licking blood with a knife from now on." Rest assured, it is the private territory of this official, and there are heavy troops stationed there, and no enemy dares to seek revenge. ”

Li Guozhu saw that Lord Huang had no intention of taking Guo Huaiyi in, and comforted him: "Brother Guotai, you don't need to be nervous, Lord Huang is kind-hearted, since he promised to let you live on Huangjiawan Island, he will consider your safety." ”

Xu Xinsu knew that Guo Huaiyi had surrendered, and there was no use value at all, if it was him, he would not have left this person at all, seeing that he had won his life and was still thinking about the opportunity to lead the troops, he smiled and said:

"Leader Guo, take it when you see it, the South China Sea is treacherous now, your bowl of rice is not delicious, be content with the protection of Lord Huang!"

Guo Huaiyi: "Adult, the small one obeys your arrangement, if you think of letting the small one serve in front of the army, the little one must be loyal." ”

Huang Sheng comforted him and said: "Since the official promised to let you spend the rest of your life in peace, you don't have to worry, Huangjiawan Island may be the most beautiful ideal home in the Ming Dynasty, and the official's home is also there." ”

Xu Xinsu lost no time in warning Guo Huaiyi: "Leader Guo, you'd better think clearly, Lord Huang's subordinates are too powerful, they will interrogate your subordinates separately, and many things will come to light, whether you are hiding something and not explaining it will be troublesome." ”

Guo Huaiyi has lost his arms, he is a reluctant person at this time, he knows that he must be a man with his tail between his legs, and hurriedly said: "Lord Xu, Guo is also doing big things with his head, if he loses, what will he hide, and where can he go back here in the future?" ”

Huang Sheng didn't consider the truth of Guo Huai's words, because the musketeer boy knew everything by his own rules. He said, "Since you don't have anything to hide, you don't need to worry about going down!" ”

Guo Huaiyi resignedly thanked the lord for his grace and retreated, and from now on, there will be no such person in the South China Sea.

The combined fleet rested in Xiaomenyu for three days, and the Huang soldiers interrogated the prisoners, confiscated their belongings, and fought for the return of the grains to the warehouse.

Beauty Hexiang happily counts the gold and silver treasures reported every day, and she knows that the Huang family will have a lot of money and many more fierce soldiers.