After breakfast, Guo Yu came to the town guard envoy office, ready to perform his duties as a town guard envoy, and just took a sip of the soaked Biluochun, Zhou Wu came in to report a major event.

"Leader, according to the information from the agents, the pirates in the South Seas have been moving recently." Zhou Wu looked strict when he reported, and it seemed that things were a little strict.

"Tell me what you know, try to be as detailed as possible." Guo Yu's expression tightened, but then he thought that no matter what happened to the Nanyang pirates now, they should not exceed their ability to deal with it, so he relaxed again.

"According to intelligence, the Black Devil Thieves, the largest pirate gang in the South Seas, has united the seventeen largest pirate gangs in the South Seas and is preparing to attack our Machen Port and Huafu City. These eighteen pirate gangs occupy a large number of islands in the Riau Islands, Natuna Islands, Linga Islands, and Tameran Islands. ”

"There are 1,062 large and small islands in the Riau Islands, Natuna Islands, Linga Islands, and Tamelan Islands, covering an area of 20,000 square kilometers, of which the Black Devil Pirate Group has a population of nearly 50,000 people, which is the largest, most populous, and most powerful pirate gang in the South Seas. The other pirates are also around 10,000. The leader of the Dark Pirate Regiment is called Laktawila, a name derived from the name of an ancient demon in Hinduism. ”

"According to the information reported by the insider, the pirate gang in Nanyang once organized a loose organization called the 'Pirate Association' decades ago, and later fought for the title of the president, which caused a scuffle between the pirate gangs, and then existed in name only, but they still adhere to the principle of who is the biggest and who takes the lead, so now the nominal head of the pirates is Laktawila."

"Raktawila was extremely cruel, and was said to be a cult, and asked his men to join the sect, which was all about killing and blood, and they often sacrificed the living, bloodied the robbers, and offered the blood of the living to their gods."

"The combined combat power of these eighteen pirates is very strong, and the number of fighters should be about thirty or forty thousand, and there are nearly a thousand ships, including many old-fashioned warships." Zhou Wu finished reporting these situations, then looked at Guo Yu and waited for Guo Yu's orders.

Guo Yu sat there and thought for a while, then raised his head and looked at Zhou Wu and said, "Have you informed Dazhu of them?" ”

"I got this information three days ago, because the head of the meeting was not at home, so I took it upon myself to inform Deputy Commander Wu, and Kalimantan Island has received detailed information." Zhou Wu said.

"Then they should be prepared in advance, you go and make arrangements, we will take the Kalimantan cruise ship to Nanyang today, I hope we can catch up with this good show." Guo Yu also relaxed at this time, what should come will always come, if he is worried about even a few pirates, then how to face a more powerful opponent in the future.

And on the big island of Bindan in the Riau Islands in the South Sea, the big waves crashed against the reef, and five old sailing light cruisers were approaching the pier on Kanna Island, "Boy below, hurry up and catch the cable and fix the boat for me, Uncle doesn't want to be carried away by the waves when he sleeps at night." The crew stood on the mast and shouted loudly into the dock.

A pirate on the dock quickly took the thick cable dropped from the sail cruiser and fastened the cable to the bollard of the pier, and the crew of the cruiser stirred the cable winch and slowly docked the ship to the dock.

The cruiser's gang lightly touched the stone pier of the pier, the boat swung gently and then stopped, the ship lowered the pedals, and a bald man took the lead to step off the ship, looked at the pirates standing around the dock, and shouted loudly, "Uncle Bika is here, why no one came to greet you, is this how you Black Devil Island entertains guests." After speaking, he swept around the crowd with those cruel eyes.

Bindan Island is the largest island in the Riau Islands, with an area of nearly 1,100 square kilometers, Bindan Island is all occupied by the Black Devil Pirate Group, and a large amount of land has been reclaimed on the island for cultivating food crops, the Black Devil Pirate Group claims to be 50,000 people, in fact, the slaves on the island account for more than 40,000 people, and the real combatants are less than 10,000 people, and the combat force of 10,000 people is already the most powerful pirate combat force in the South Seas. Because the Dark Devil Pirate Regiment is very famous, people gradually call Bindan Island the Black Devil Island.

At this time, a few people walked out of a wooden house on the edge of the dock, the leader was very tall but dark and thin, with a gold ring in his left ear, coldly looked at the shouting of the bald man, squinted his eyes, and then put on a smiling face and greeted him: "Bika, your voice is still so loud, don't frighten the turtles in the sea, I am not qualified to meet you." The man who spoke walked over to the bald man.

"Haha, Vanusia, the second leader of the Black Magic Island, of course you are qualified to greet me, you are still so thin, isn't there enough food on the Black Magic Island, or are you women playing too much." After saying that, Bika grinned again. Bika doesn't speak well, because there is also competition between pirate gangs, so don't expect anything peaceful and loving between them.

Vanucia narrowed her eyes again, and then said, "Our leader, Laktawila, is waiting for you on the island, Leader Bika, please come to the island." Vanusia made a gesture of please.

"Wait, don't worry, I can't come empty-handed when I'm a guest on Dark Magic Island, I have prepared a small gift for the leader of Raktawila, I hope he will smile." After speaking, Bika turned to his men and said, "Go ahead, get all the gifts I prepared and get off the ship." ”

Several sailing light cruisers lowered their pedals, and the cries of sailors were heard from the ship, mixed with the cries and exclamations of women. I saw a group of crying women who were driven down from the boat, and there were women disembarking from each boat, and in a short time, nearly 200 women were piled up on the dock.

The women all had frightened, sad, and dejected expressions on their faces, some of them wept bitterly because they were afraid that the two of them would hug each other, and some of them had blank expressions on their faces, and their clothes were in tatters, apparently having been abused by these pirates on the ship.

"Did Vanusia see it, these women, when I came, I wanted to bring some small gifts to the leader of Laktawila, so I went to the coast near the island of Java to snatch the women, among them there are a few Chinese women, Chinese women are whiter than the women of the South Seas, and many of them are virgins, I think the leader of Laktawila must like to use such women as sacrifices." The bald head Bika said loudly.

"Thank you for the gift, I think the leader of Lactavira will be very happy." As she spoke, she waved her hand, and a man stepped out of her side, ordering the pirates on the docks to drive the weeping women like sheep to the depths of the island.

"Chief Bika, let's go to the island." Vanusia said to the bald Bika.

"Okay, go to the island, brothers, let's go to the island to visit the most famous Black Devil Island in the South Seas." A group of pirates shouted and went to the island.

Pirates in the South Seas can be divided into three categories. The first category is the so-called amateur pirates, that is, a small number of fishermen and merchants engaged in maritime trade. They tend to fish in troubled waters at certain convenient times, taking advantage of the fire to rob other fishermen and traders. Originally, Malian's pirate gang was somewhat similar to this, fishing and robbing at the same time, just to survive.

The second category is piracy in the usual sense, i.e., professional piracy. The main area of professional piracy in the South Seas is from the Riau and Linga Islands to the southern waters of Singapore. This is the key point of the golden waterway of the South Seas, where they often hide and choose from the many merchant and fishing vessels that pass by.

Due to the semi-independent status of the islands near this body of water during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, professional pirate groups were often closely linked to the local political elite. With the support of these political forces, professional pirates robbed passing Chinese ships or those of local merchants, and rarely plundered the ships of European colonists. As a result, the European colonizers, who had not yet completely conquered the islands of Southeast Asia and whose naval forces were rather dispersed, were mostly indifferent to this type of pirate net, and did not intervene or pursue them.

At the same time, the British, Dutch, and Spanish colonizers, who often claimed sovereignty over certain islands at the same time, were reluctant to carry out anti-piracy operations alone, fearing that cross-sphere anti-piracy operations would affect their diplomatic relations. Of course, economic and commercial interests were the main interests of these colonial powers during this period, and they were constantly in a state of fierce economic and trade competition, unwilling to expend too much human, material and financial resources on the potentially troublesome anti-piracy business. The suspicion of different colonial powers made it almost impossible to cooperate in anti-piracy operations. As a result, the pirates in these waters have been almost free to do whatever they want for a long time.

The Black Devil Island is one of the best of these professional pirates, who use the money they get from the robbery to buy their relationships, and even buy warships from the Europeans to expand their power, and then continue to use them for robbery.

The third group of pirates is the slave raiders. This type of pirate is powerful and influential. These pirates usually have a sizable fleet of pirate ships with more advanced weaponry. They usually dock at random along the coast of Southeast Asia, land quickly, and immediately escape from the sea after capturing a large number of young and middle-aged laborers. The lack of labor and economic incentives are the main reasons for the rampant use of this type of piracy.

At that time, Southeast Asia, with the exception of Java, was generally sparsely populated and the labor force was scarce. The development of the colonial economy and the rapid growth of overseas trade required a large number of young and middle-aged laborers. As a result, large numbers of young men plundered by slave raiders were quickly replenished into the agricultural labour market or served as domestic servants in propertied households.

This type of piracy is one of the oldest in Southeast Asia, with many pirate families engaged in slave raiding for generations, and piracy has become a very important traditional profession and way of life for them. The bald head Vica is a typical slave trapper gang, and Pica's strength is second only to the Black Magic Island in the South Seas pirate gang.

On the way to the Pirate City on Black Magic Island, the bald Bika asked Vanusia, "How many pirate groups have come to Black Magic Island?" ”R1152