On February 10, the second year of the Apocalypse, after going through a lot of hardships, Lu Yan finally came to Dayuan Bay in Taiwan with three warships and four merchant ships.

Among the four merchant ships, there was a Western-armed merchant ship and a Japanese merchant ship, and Lu Yan unceremoniously snatched all of these merchant ships.

As for the other two pirate ships, Lu Yan encountered these two pirate ships robbing a Ming ship.

Lu Yan immediately ate black and snatched all the two pirate ships.

As for the pirates, all those who resisted were put to death, and those who did not resist were arrested.

However, Lu Yan was much more tolerant of these pirates, at least he did not castrate them, but just tied them up.

When you arrive in Taiwan, it is a good choice to work as a coolie or to surrender.

In addition, Lu Yan also robbed more than a dozen merchant ships of various types, and some merchant ships saw the opportunity early and were escaped by them.

Some were too late to escape and were robbed by Lu Yan a little.

Of course, Lu Yan would never admit that this was a robbery, he thought that this was helping the Ming Dynasty collect taxes, but all the money from the tax went to his pocket.

In contrast, his ships were filled with a large number of various cargoes, and even his food reserves were greatly increased.

"Is this Dayuan Bay?"

A sandbar appeared in front of Lu Yan, with blue water, pure sky, and beautiful seabirds, it looked refreshing, as if he had come to a paradise.

Dayuan Bay is an excellent harbor in Taiwan, and a few years later, the Dutch invaded it and then captured a large number of Chinese to establish the famous city of Geranza.

However, after 300 years of continuous erosion of water and soil, Dayuan Bay has completely ceased to exist and has become a piece of land.

The fleet approached from one of the two waterways in Dayuan Bay, and soon they spotted several fishing boats by a pier in Dayuan Bay.

The boats looked a little worn-down, with patches on their sails.

The fishermen on the fishing boats were shocked when they saw several Western giant ships sailing over, and then hurriedly fled to the land.

Deng Zilong carefully watched those fishing boats through the clairvoyant mirror, and then Lu Yan said, "My lord, there is something wrong with those fishing boats. ”

"What's wrong?"

Lu Yan asked.

"There were a lot of buckshot wounds on the top of the fishing boats, and some of them looked like burns."

Grenwell also put down the clairvoyant and said.

"Buckshot scars?"

Hearing this, Lu Yan frowned tightly, "Could it be that they ran into pirates?" ”

"It's also possible that they were pirates who met the resistance of merchant ships during the robbery."

Deng Zilong said.

Lu Yan nodded, "That makes sense." ”

He remembered that before Zheng Chenggong developed Taiwan, Taiwan was a stronghold of pirates except for headhunters, and there were basically no good people.

Because those headhunters will often attack outsiders, they will not be able to gain a foothold in Taiwan without a certain amount of force.

"Notify the boats to come to shore, send someone to check the fishing boats, and then send someone to go ashore and search the nearby terrain to see if there are any villages. If you find a village, come back immediately. ”

Lu Yan said.

"Yes, my lord."

Soon, the ships were looking for a place to dock.

The dock was too small to meet their needs, and it seemed that he needed to build a new one.

Lu Yan thought secretly, at this time he glanced at his battle exploits.

found that his combat exploits had risen to more than 33,000 again, and it seemed that Xiang Yu and Xue Rengui were still doing a good job and lived up to his expectations.

Maybe it was time to summon some cavalry to search the neighborhood, and due to the inconvenience of transportation, all his horses had been sold in Liaodong and then exchanged for grain.

Soon 200 Xuanjia elite cavalry, 100 cowardly Xue, and 100 Qi family arms were summoned, and at Lu Yan's order, they began to search the vicinity.

"My lord, we found these things on those fishing boats."

Soon, several soldiers pulled out several machetes with curled blades or notches, which also had dark red marks, apparently stained with blood.

"So they're probably pirates."

Lu Yan gently touched those openings and curly blades and said.

He had seen a lot of machetes in the army, and many of his men had curled their knives when they were chasing and killing the enemy.

"Yes, it's very likely."

Deng Zilong said.

An inexplicable smile appeared on Lu Yan's face, he didn't expect to run into his peers so soon.

At this time, his ship also docked, so Lu Yan immediately ordered someone to help Lu Hong's sleeves get off the boat.

After such a long sea boat, if she hadn't stopped at the islands along the way for a few days, maybe her body would have been unable to hold on.

"Big brother, are we going to live here in the future?"

Lu Hongsleeve looked at the nearby scenery and asked.

I saw a large area of wild pineapple trees growing on the shore, full of southern scenery.

Lu Hongsleeve, who had never seen a pineapple tree, was full of curiosity about all this.

"That's right, you see it's pretty good."

Lu Yan said with a smile.

It's really beautiful here, at least you don't have to worry about eating pineapples, look at these pineapple bushes to eat as much as you want.

But I'm afraid that other aspects are a little worse, there are no living facilities at all, and everything has to start from scratch.

Lu Hongsleeve glanced at him, and walked towards the island with Zeng Xiaoshuang and a few servant women selected for her.

Lu Yan hurriedly ordered ten Iron Eagle Warriors to follow, so as not to encounter any danger to her.

Not long after coming ashore, a Xuanjia spirit rode over on horseback.

"Report to your lordship, I found a village about a mile ahead, and the people there are evacuating in a hurry, and the young man of Qingji has ordered someone to surround the village, and now the prince of Qingji is negotiating with them."

"I see, let's go take a look."

Lu Yan said.

After speaking, Lu Yan and Deng Zilong, Yang Youji and others rode the war horse left by the Xuanjia Elite Cavalry, and followed the cavalry to rush inside.

It wasn't long before a village surrounded by trees appeared before them, with fishing nets drying outside it, and a large number of cavalry surrounding it.

More than 200 sturdy men were confronting these Xuanjia Elite Riders with swords, and in some of the wooden houses behind them, some women and children were looking out nervously through the cracks in the doors.

After seeing a large number of cavalry coming, there was another commotion among the men.

The cavalry here is no longer an opponent, not to mention that the enemy has come to reinforcements.

But to their despair, soon after the cavalry arrived, a large group of infantry appeared behind.

These are the sailors of the Qi family army and the warship, who are not only holding firearms, but also firearms.

Combined, these people are estimated to be close to a thousand.

Lu Yan glanced at these big men, and then asked Qingji Gongzi, "What's the situation here?" ”

"These people are going to leave here with their families. But look at them, all of them are armed with weapons, and they have a murderous aura on them, where are the common people, so I have people surround them, and then wait for your orders. ”

Qingji Gongzi said with a smile.

Lu Yan nodded, and then found a soldier.

"You go and call out to those people and ask them to find someone who can take care of things and talk to them."

When the soldier received the order, he rushed forward and conveyed Lu Yan's meaning to the pirates.

When the pirates heard what he said, they all became agitated, and they all began to speak.