After the marines jumped on deck, they were desperately attacked by the pirates, and when the pirates saw Lin Jun coming with such a large fleet, they obviously wanted to drive the marines off the ship before escaping.

However, the Marines had always been pikemen wearing plate armor to fight the vanguard, and most of their attacks were fended off, only to see one pikeman slash his melee axe and split the pirate's head in half. The pirate fell straight onto the deck.

The pikeman roared with his axe, and despite the pirate's attack, he took two steps forward, and the axe in his hand was once again slashed at the neck of a pirate, who gave way to his comrades behind him, and the axe in his hand slammed down on the neck of one of the pirates, and the pirate's head flew up with a rain of blood. And the pikemen in the back jumped onto the deck one after another, joining the brutal white-knuckle battle.

The musketeers on the warship were holding muskets, the muskets in their hands were bursting loudly, and they were shooting to cover the charging pikemen, and these musketeers who dared to shoot in the chaos were all sharpshooters in the army, and they were all rifled guns for melee.

The pirate on the opposite side suddenly shot several feathered arrows, one of which hit the forehead of a musketeer, nailing him to the deck, and the commander looked at the feathered arrow in a daze, and suddenly the cat leaned down and shouted: "Longbow, it's a longbow, lie down, lie down." ”

The musketeers hurriedly bent down, their eyes looking at the fallen comrade, the feathered arrow was obviously a heavy arrow, very similar to the heavy arrow used by the Denglai army before.

Seeing the death of their comrades, those musketeers suddenly had red eyes and shouted, "Damn, brothers shoot these bastards." ”

In an instant, the gunfire rang out, and the musketeers under the cat's side immediately suppressed the pirates' longbowmen, who were small in number, and the pikemen who rushed to the deck with long knives and axes quickly cleared the deck.

The pirates had little protection, and the pikemen's axes were obviously exaggerated, and some of them hung their axes back on their waists, picked up their sabers from the deck, and entered the ship's hold.

Seeing that there was no hope of escape, the pirates in the cabin had to lay down their arms and beg for surrender in Hokkien, and many of the crew members in the fleet were from Fujian and Guangdong, but they could understand it, and controlled the remaining 20 or so pirates.

The soldiers found seven crew members captured by the pirates in the cabin, untied their ropes, and took them to Lin Jun.

Lin Jun inquired about the situation, and the crew of the flying shear ship was still a little apprehensive when they mentioned the previous attack, and they ran into the pirate ship when they were heading to Nagasaki.

The pirate ship was wearing the moon flag used by the ships of Denglei and the uniforms of sailors, and the pirates disguised themselves as Denglai's ships and asked for help from the clippers under the pretext that the hull was damaged.

The pirates were apparently from the south, and their speaking of Hokkien did not arouse suspicion among the crew, as many of the sailors in Denglai were recruited from the south.

As soon as the ships of both sides approached, the pirates immediately grabbed the hull of the clipper with a hook and rope, and the crew from the south saw this situation and immediately realized that something was wrong, but because of the high sail rate of the clipper, there were only fifteen people on board, and it was impossible to resist the pirates.

Because of resistance, they were killed by pirates, eight people.

Fortunately, these pirates were more knowledgeable and did not kill the crew members who stopped resisting. If you encounter a pirate who doesn't know how to do it, you're so dead that you can't even find your bones.

Lin Jun escorted the more than 20 pirates onto the warship, and then continued to return.

"These pirates are very professional, and they are disguised as our Den Lai attire, so they must have been plotting against us for a long time, and they must be interrogated." Lin Jun confessed and asked those pirates to be interrogated.

The interrogation soon yielded results, and the pirates were very arrogant, shouting that they were Fujian sailors and Zheng Zhilong's subordinates, as if they thought that they could run amok.

Zheng Zhilong was originally engaged in sea trade, but since he took refuge in the government, he has been continuously supplied with manpower and material resources on land, and his power has become more and more huge, and at this moment he has already become the overlord of the southeast coast, and his subordinates are naturally arrogant.

After Lin Jun asked about the origin of these pirates, he imprisoned them in the cabin of the ship, and prepared to take them back to Denglai to be handed over to the military court for trial, and the Zhaojiabao military court specially tried these bandits with official status, and their leaders were generally shot.

…… On July 25, Lin Jun returned to Qingdao Port with the fleet, bringing back ten merchant ships, five warships, a large number of American and Hawaiian goods, and more than a dozen stallions.

Zhao Yan was overjoyed when he heard about it in Zhaojiabao, and it seemed that the American Fleet was mixing well in the Americas.

On the second day, Lin Jun arrived at Zhaojiabao and handed Zhao Yan the administrative report of Liu Yuan and Guo Zhiyun, as well as the voyage of the fleet, and Lin Jun also reported to Zhao Yan that Zheng Zhilong sent pirates to attack the clipping ship.

"Zheng Zhilong? Looks like he's done it to us. Zhao Yan smiled. Lin Jun said: "Zheng Zhilong is dominating the southeast coast, our merchant ships should reduce their individual actions, and the clippers must judge the correct flag before approaching the unknown ships." ”

"Hmm!" Zhao Yan nodded and agreed. Then Zhao Yan looked at the sailing chronicles of the fleet, as well as the administrative chronicles of Liu Yuan and Guo Zhiyun.

Zhao Yan asked questions from time to time, and Lin Jun explained on the side.

After reading it, Zhao Yan understood the plundering process of the American Fleet in the Americas, and the plundering process of the American Fleet could be described as unscrupulous, and even the Spaniards did not dare to do so. Zhao Yan said worriedly: "The center of power of the Dutch is in Europe, and they may send a large fleet to attack the American fleet and ports at any time, so they must always be on guard. Those five warships, after they are equipped, they will all be transferred back to the American Fleet! ”

"Yes." Lin Jun was overjoyed, these five warships were all transferred to the American Fleet, and the strength of the American Fleet could be increased a lot.

"The five newly launched clippers will also be sent to the Americas and Hawaii, and the various personnel of the overseas colonies will be recruited tomorrow, and another thousand marines will be transferred to you." Zhao Yan continued, Lin Jun was stunned, and asked incomprehensibly: "My lord, isn't our focus not on America?" ”

"Now the Americas are also one of the centers of gravity, and you can grab a lot of ships in the Americas, can't you?" Zhao Yan asked with a smile.

"Hmmm! Hehe! The Europa did have a lot of ships in the Americas, and we could even use the Americas as a springboard to plunder ships in Europa. Lin Jun also laughed.

The next day, Lin Jun did not rest, and directly began to prepare for the arms to be shipped to the Americas, and the colonies were not allowed to make their own arms, which was Zhao Yan's death.

Regardless of which aspect is considered, this provision is correct. There may not be any problems in the short term, but in the long run, it is easy to have problems, and the Yankees did not go out of the British reading power.

Therefore, all the munitions had to be transported from Denglai, and a single ship could carry a lot of munitions, that is, artillery, shells, guns, and rockets, and gunpowder could be made in the colonies.

In addition to the ten merchant ships that returned to the Americas, there were also five clippers and five warships. The carrying capacity reaches more than 5000 tons.

The fleet carried out the more than 1,000 large and small guns in stock, and loaded them on three merchant ships in batches, although these guns could be loaded with a sailboat, after all, the heaviest guns were only 2,000 catties, and the small ones were only 300 catties, but they were obviously not enough to be insured on one ship.

In addition to the artillery, which was shells and muskets, the three merchant ships were loaded to the guard of the waterline, and another merchant ship was loaded.

In addition to these munitions, the fleet was loaded with a large number of iron and steel products, as well as some equipment needed for shipbuilding, mining, and smelting.

These are heavy industry products.

Except for a small amount of daily necessities, there are no other light industrial products. Finally, there were the livestock, and the fleet loaded 500 servant horses and mules and 300 ploughing cattle for Hawaii.

There was no need to worry about the service cattle in California, and the colonies would use a portion of their income to buy livestock from the Spaniards and Portuguese.

Livestock will arrive in a steady stream from Europe.

The Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Personnel began to assist the American Fleet in the redeployment of personnel to the Americas.

Among the military personnel, 1,000 marines and 2,000 navies will be sent to the Americas, and the number of warships of the American Fleet has reached ten, and it will continue to expand in the future, and there is already a great shortage of sailors and artillery.

Among the civil servants, 30 teachers, 500 shipwrights, 20 doctors, and 30 students of the agricultural faculty of Denglai University will be redeployed.

For these military and civil servants, they have no choice, they must be ready to board the ship when they receive the order, and their transfer period is three years, and after three years, they can choose whether to return or continue to stay in North America, during which their monthly salary will be increased by one or two silvers.

The Americas are both familiar and unfamiliar to most people, and in the popularization of geographical knowledge, many military and civilians know that overseas has a vast world and a lot of fertile land.

It's just that going to the desolate overseas makes many soldiers and civilians retreat a little, this phenomenon has appeared in various colonial countries in the world, not everyone has the courage to give up their current career and familiar environment, at first only those who have nothing, are willing to go to sea to take risks.

However, Zhao Yan's immigration policy conflicts with this law to a certain extent, Zhao Yan attaches great importance to the development of colonies, so the soldiers and civilians who immigrate must be loyal, and he hopes that the immigrants are well-educated, and he does not want to create a mixed colony.

He's going to copy a new Ming to North America!

In the future, not only the Indians of the Americas could not exist, but also those people of low quality who had no sense of loyalty to the nation could not be released to the Americas.

Therefore, for military and public officials, a compulsory surname transfer is adopted, but it is only three years, and it is believed that after three years, some people will choose to stay in the Americas, and every year there will be military personnel and public officials transferred to the Americas, and as many people will be transferred back as many as they come.

(To be continued)