At the end of January, the camp was closed for more than 20 days, and those who passed through the camp only heard the shouts of killing inside, and they did not know what was going on inside.

Then, in the surprised eyes of everyone, the wharf began to be full of large and small fast rowing, gunboats, large-bottomed sand boats, and two foreign warships that swallowed clouds and spitted fog, but the bow of the ship was hoisted with the Dutch flag, and as soon as it docked, all kinds of goods were moved down, and the officers and men of the sailor division marched into the ship in a neat row.

Ye Mingchen was the first to get the news, he was going to immediately send someone to the sailor camp to inquire, but he didn't expect the order to be issued, and Lin Haijiang's message was also delivered.

Looking at the letter in hand that was clearly written by someone else, Ye Mingchen shook his head helplessly: "This Lin Haijiang, what kind of fame, exterminate the pirates without notifying in advance, those two Dutch armed iron ships except him Lin Haijiang I'm afraid that others can't borrow them?" Come and inform Admiral Lin to appease the Dutch well, so as not to lose the prestige and dignity of our Qing Dynasty if there is a dispute. ”

Since it was a bandit, Ye Mingchen didn't bother to care, in his opinion, Xianfeng's holy decree to let Lin Haijiang solve the purchase of the battleship was enough for this naval commander to have a headache. As for the pirates, even if the oil and water are not much, it is also white silver, besides, dozens of pirates of all sizes in this area have really been wiped out, and there is a lot of silver confiscated. It's just that...... Ye Mingchen lowered his head, tapped his index finger on the table, and pondered in his heart: "As soon as Lin Haijiang sent his family away, he began to train the sailor, and the sailor practiced for so many days, and finally made up his mind to suppress the bandits, but it is a pity that the big ships of the Guangdong Navy Division were all requisitioned and thrown in the Yangtze River by the Fujian Navy Division. ”

After serving as the governor of Liangguang for so many years, Ye Mingchen has long known what should and should not be touched. In fact, those bandits, the successive admirals of the navy, couldn't they all be wiped out? Everyone's hearts are mirrored.

Most of the pirates in this area have the trade of smuggling opium, and one end of this trade is even implicated in the intricate network of relationships in the capital, and he Ye Mingchen may not be able to afford to provoke it, Lin Haijiang's sailors do not sell opium, and they have already offended Jing Shou and others in the court.

Ye Mingchen felt very helpless, how could he meet such an emperor who didn't care about it? Now he can only hope that Lin Haijiang will be a little more measured and not offend everyone.

Outside the wharf, not only were there crowded people watching the excitement, but even more than 100 officials, big and small.

Including the small boats of the fast rowing boats, there were more than 100 boats, including two armed Dutch merchant ships transporting troops, this scale can be described as unprecedented, and no admiral has ever done such a big stroke!

"This is called banditry? Show off! When the time comes, catch a few small fish and shrimp, come back and blow it, that is a big credit, this Lord Lin, there is a trick! Tall! An official whispered to the person next to him in private.

"Seeing this formation, let alone the pirates, it's a normal merchant ship that has to be avoided when it sees it from a distance, and then you won't even be able to see a figure."

The person on the side smiled and said, "I don't understand!" What you want is not to see the figure, I bet with you, these boats must have slipped back quietly in the evening, this is a mouth boat for the suppression, not a sea boat, Lord Lin is just trying to be lively and fool the adults in the court! ”

There were different opinions on the shore, and there were all kinds of speculations, but no one dared to shout out what they wanted to shout out what they wanted, and look at these sturdy men with dark and bronze skin, and their fierce looks, if they weren't wearing a brave horn, they would have thought it was a pirate.

On the top floor of a restaurant in the city, in a private room, a stout middle-aged man with a huge scar on his face looked out the window at the dock in the distance, and a few miles away, he could see half of the ship.

"Bring a word to Xiao Wu and Xiao Liu, don't go to sea these days, this sailor seems to be playing really, let's just hide from him, I don't believe that he Lin Haijiang can borrow those two foreign warships for a few months." The middle-aged man sneered twice, and said to the person beside him: "Kuroko has probably also received the news, everyone should also work hard, and as soon as the sailor comes ashore, he will be transported in immediately." Come, let's have a few brothers. ”

The territory of the country, the barrier of the sea, Lin Haijiang took a long breath.

"Prepare to anchor, full sails!"

The whistle of the two armed merchant ships in the eyes of outsiders sounded for a long time, and they started slowly, and the thrusters were flooded with huge waves, and they set sail in the exclamation of everyone, and slowly all the ships faded out of sight, and the dock that was once crowded with people gradually returned to its usual appearance.

Nearly 100 large and small ships of the naval division have gathered 8,000 officers and men of the naval division, and after Lin Haijiang's training from top to bottom, they have begun to take on the quality and appearance of real soldiers, but soldiers who have not experienced real artillery battles cannot be regarded as soldiers in the real sense. Since they are sailors, their battlefield is this boundless sea.

Lin Haijiang stood on the deck, looking at the ships next to him, thinking that if he replaced these backward ships with ironclad ships, then even the British Far East Fleet could only flee from the wind, but now this is just a delusion, the Far East Fleet is painstakingly run by a British Empire, and today's Britain has the most colonies in the world.

However, Lin Haijiang firmly believed that once the old port developed according to his expectations, Britain would not have the strength to deal with it even if it had the time to deal with it.

A white-faced soldier stood quietly behind Lin Haijiang, but Jiang Rong'er had a lot of thoughts in her heart at the moment.

As the saintess of the White Lotus Sect, she naturally knows all kinds of things in this bandit's opium smuggling, and the successive sailors and admirals of the imperial court have all turned a blind eye to make money together, and there are still people who dare to risk the world to go into the crackdown?

Not only did she use nearly half of the navy division's troops, but even Yang Maozi's ships were lent out, she had been observing this strange man these days, as a personal guard, she naturally found that this dignified Admiral of the Qing Dynasty from the second rank of the Navy Division even had fake braids?

And when Lin Haijiang instructed the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division to be one, some of his words could be called a great rebellion, even so, all the people still had great respect for him, is this still the battalion courage of the Qing Dynasty? At least Jiang Rong'er had never heard of it before.

During the three days of cruising the coastal waters, the fleet encountered more than a dozen groups of pirates, large and small, killing hundreds of enemies and capturing hundreds of them. On the side of the sailor, twenty or thirty people were wounded, and none of them died.

Thanks to a fleet of this size, almost all the pirates encountered lost their courage, and with the speed of the ironclad ship, they couldn't escape if they wanted to, and when they got on the ship, most of them surrendered first. Occasionally, when they encountered stubborn resistance to death, dozens of people rushed up and slashed down with a burst of knives.

As for the property on the pirate ship, it should be confiscated, and after returning to the camp, the rewards will be distributed among the departments, Lin Haijiang really doesn't look down on this bit of silver and two goods, not to mention that the bandits always have to hand over some loot, and he has already made arrangements for the real boss.

On the afternoon of the third day, the fleet arrived at a Dajiao Island, and sent three teams of soldiers to the island to take out the fresh water supplies and hundreds of large boxes that had been hidden before.

"Let's start changing." Lin Haijiang ordered.

More than 8,000 people worked together to remove the big ship's Qing Dragon Flag, and the mast was also painted a layer of earthy yellow, and the hull was equipped with some messy equipment, which is said to be only used for decoration, and also painted with strange skulls, according to Admiral Lin, this is what he did according to the standards of Western pirate ships, if it weren't for the lack of time, he also planned to replace the interior together.

In addition, the selected soldiers all changed into black short pants, and the rest of the soldiers began to return with a fast row.

More than a dozen sea ships and two ironclad ships have all turned into unscrupulous pirate ships, and Lin Haijiang's goal is very clear, big and small fairy islands.

Lin Haijiang held the monocular and looked into the distance, he had been in this posture for more than half an hour, until a small black dot appeared in the narrow field of vision, and he handed the telescope to Wang Dongxu next to him.

Wang Dongxu also glanced at it twice, and said happily: "The big and small fairy islands in front of you are right?" ”

Lin Haijiang set his eyes on the sea dog Li Maniac who was standing beside him with a smile on his face and a mouthful of big yellow teeth, and Li Maniac hurriedly said: "My lord, this big and small fairy island is two islands, one large and one small, plus a large reef, the rising tide can not be seen in the normal day, only the low tide can be seen, and it is difficult for the larger boat to enter without a familiar road." ”

Lin Haijiang smiled and said: "Don't worry, this admiral is not a person who unloads the mill and kills the donkey, you do a good job, just for your filial piety, this official rewards you with a wealth and gives you an official body, understand?" ”

When Madman Li heard this, he immediately knelt down on the ground and said, "This little dog is going to be an adult from now on!" ”

Lin Haijiang nodded and said, "Wang Dongxu, give him five hundred taels, and let him serve me with his life!" ”

Lin Haijiang turned to look at Jiang Rong'er, who was expressionless not far away, if it weren't for the intelligence of this White Lotus Holy Maiden, he really didn't know that there was a nest of pirates hidden in these islands, and all the smuggled opium had to be transported here first, and then smuggled inland in batches and pieces through various channels.

Jiang Rong'er only provided general information, she didn't know where this so-called big and small fairy island was, Lin Haijiang asked Wang Faren to screen the pirates captured in the previous section in the cell of the sailor camp, and as a result, he was screened out of such a guy as Crazy Li.

Crazy Li is originally from Guangzhou, and has been in the gang under the owner of the island Luo Sanping for more than ten years, mixed up with a small leader, and has been more and more excluded recently, and was almost lost his surname by someone who plotted against him, Luo Sanping did not speak fairly, but took advantage of his injury to take his money and women, and Li Madman ran away and left his life.

A few days after returning to his hometown, he was exposed and arrested in the camp of the water master, and he was thinking about the blind old lady at home who had no one to support, just in time for Wang Faren to go to screening, so he picked up a life.

According to the intelligence of Madman Li, there are about 300 people and five big ships in the Great Fairy Island, and it is difficult to calculate the other fast boats or something.

The main warehouse is on the island of the Great Fairy, and it is said that there are four large warehouses, which are also the closest to Guangzhou, and the first floor of the opium in Guangdong is provided by it. As for Little Fairy Island, because the terrain on the island is complex, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the people who defend the island are all the henchmen of the island owner Luo Sanping, and the secret ones are the wealth that Luo Sanping has accumulated over the years.

Except for the foreigners' foreign ships, which were able to transport opium in a grand manner, the business of the rest of the bandits, large and small, came to a standstill, and it happened that at the end of the year, they hoarded a large amount of goods, and they were extremely annoyed to see that the full treasury of opium could not be turned into silver.

At this moment, Luo Sanping is pressing a beautiful woman on his whale bone chair to vent fiercely, these days Luo Sanping is very panicked in his heart, his goods have been seized by the sailor one after another, and the person who sent out to say the clear is also imprisoned, and the silver bill he brought is said to be confiscated.

Luo Sanping has been crisscrossing the South China Sea for more than 20 years, and he has seen shameless officials, but he has never seen such a shameless official as Lin Haijiang, and even the gift-giver is deducted!

And the people from Yanjing told him to be patient for a while, originally thought that what Belle Lord could settle quickly, but he didn't expect that the new Admiral of Guangdong Navy was not an ordinary face, it is estimated that if it weren't for the pressure of the imperial court, that kid would be able to even check the foreigners.

Standing on the Dingyuan ship, Lin Haijiang slowly put down the telescope, he was quite satisfied with the geographical environment and location of the large and small fairy islands, and captured this place, which can also be used as a transit station from the old port to Guangzhou in the future.

The main reason why Dingyuan and Zhenyuan have always been regarded as armed merchant ships is that the objects they plunder are very cooperative in keeping this secret.

Dingyuan and Zhenyuan were used as artillery ships, and the rest of the ships were preparing to attack the beachhead of the Great Fairy Island.

At this moment, the Great Fairy Island has already been noisy, and the island is full of panicked pirates running around, and they have seen more black and black in the same group, and they are also playing black and black, but it is the first time that they have seen the black and black at the door of the old nest.

After a few copper cannons on the island fired a few indiscriminately, they were blown into the sky by the artillery fire of Zhenyuan and Dingyuan, and on dozens of rows on the sea, the soldiers shouted neatly and rowed oars, and the occasional stray bullet flew by and turned a blind eye.

Lin Haijiang learned from Madman Li that there are two wharves on the Great Fairy Island, in addition to the current one, there are also on the other side of the island, but the draft is deeper, and it is specially for the big ships to dock and unload.

In addition, there are three entry and exit gates on the island, which are also the entrances and exits of the old nest, and the island itself is two hills, covered with rocks and trees, and there is a valley in the center, which is where the base is located. To enter the valley, you either have to climb up the cliffs around it, which is difficult for a sailor with only rudimentary tools, or through these three entrances and exits, you can enter by rowing a small boat along the current.

If it weren't for the pier built outside and the ships docked, I'm afraid no one would have imagined that there was a hole in this small island.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Lin Haijiang arranged five fast rowing ships at each entrance, each carrying a fast gun team of ten people, and sent a person with an excellent water surname, holding a Colt M1852 revolver, to enter with a fast row in the water, and then enter in turn, with the sound of artillery as a unified attack, to ensure that one place can take the pass.

The gun corps of one hundred and fifty men, plus those who swam in, made a total of four hundred men at first, and then entered by boat in turn, ensuring that a thousand men entered within a quarter of an hour. And the 1,000 people who have an absolute advantage in firepower against 300 already have a great advantage in terms of numbers and firepower, and even if the pirates have guns, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not panic and will not be able to give full play to the power of guns.

The only thing that made Lin Haijiang unsure was that the Li madman didn't know about the weapons of the island owner Luo Sanping's guards, as for Jiang Rong'er, who provided the information, Lin Haijiang deliberately and completely affirmed that this Luo Sanping must have a grudge with the White Lotus Sect, otherwise Jiang Rong'er would not have borrowed a knife to kill people.

As feared, a quarter of an hour before the island was struck, a flock of birds flew away from the woods, and with a single gunshot, a stumble of gunfire rang out in the direction of the other two entrances.

Lin Haijiang deliberately affirmed that the commando team was ambushed by the other party, and in the face of this kind of terrain, Lin Haijiang did not have any wonderful plans!

"Full reinforcement commando!" Hearing the gunshots getting more and more intense, Lin Haijiang immediately issued a second order, and a full two thousand people swarmed in.

Lin Haijiang wanted to follow up, but he was protected by Wang Dongxu and refused to let him in, so he had no choice but to wait until a full two quarters of an hour had passed, until no more gunshots were heard, and the soldiers who came out of the valley also began to report that the battle was over, and all the bandits had been killed.

Paddle slowly into the dark cave, lined with slippery dark green moss, and a few unknown seabirds inhabited the sea in the hole the size of a disc, which flew back under the startled sound of the previous gunshot, and it took six or seven minutes for this dark environment to gradually see the light.

After a quick row, Lin Haijiang saw the corpses all over the ground, and casually calculated that there were as many as sixty or seventy corpses, and more than a dozen of them belonged to the sailors, he sighed, the strength of the pirates was much greater than he imagined, and the resistance was also very fierce.

When the casualties in the other two places came, Lin Haijiang frowned, the three entrances had lost 200 people, and more than a dozen people were seriously injured.

According to statistics, the number of pirates did not exceed 300, but there were hundreds of foreign guns, and the officers and men of the naval division were not familiar with the terrain here, so they concentrated their attacks to cause such heavy casualties.

Lin Haijiang fiddled with a French-made Raiden rifle and fired a rifle, he knew that this was the standard equipment of the French army at the moment, and a small pirate could have more than a hundred? It's incredible!

After searching, six large warehouses made of natural caves were found in the mountains around the valley, which were stacked with small mountains of opium, and the number of warehouses was even two more than the fur seal Li Luozi said, and it seems that this Li Luozi has really been mixed for more than ten years.

Just when Lin Haijiang was taking people to count the opium, a person came to report that he had found a secret room covered by a house on the other side of the valley.

When Lin Haijiang rushed with people and stepped on the stone stairs to enter the secret room, his eyes were almost dilated for a moment, and even Wang Dongxu and Jiang Rong'er behind him were stunned.

(To be continued)