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Li Huamei nodded, and said, "Please decide the fate of the captives." ”

Nan Xiao didn't think about it, and waved his hand: "Behead them all." ”

Richard Huisen was so frightened that his pants were soaked, crying bitterly, desperately begging for mercy: "I am willing to give up my shares." I am willing to sign a waiver so that you can legally take my stake in the Li Family Water Division. You need a legal document like this. This allows you to avoid getting into a dangerous situation of engaging the Royal Fleet of the British Empire. Did we close the deal? I want nothing more than you to spare my life."

Nan Xiao stuffed a rag into the Englishman's mouth and instructed the sailor: "Give him preferential treatment, and it will be his turn to be the last." ”

The wolf-like sailors immediately dragged Richard Huisen and all his men away. The deck was filled with ghosts and wolves. They were beheaded one by one, and the blood was pouring and their heads were rolling. The corpse was then thrown into the sea, and the water was stained red.

When Richard was escorted to the side of the boat, a pitch-black triangular dorsal fin even appeared in the water. It's sharks, and they smell blood. He glared and tried to make a sound, but the sailor with the broadsword did not give him a chance, and cut off his head with a single sword.

Watching Richard be beheaded, everyone knew that there was no turning back from this matter.

Nan Xiao jumped onto the side of the boat, grabbed the cable with his left hand, and raised his right hand high: "Guys! Now the wind is in our favor! That's all we need! I command, sail! Sea! ”

Everyone responded with a bang: "Go to sea!" ”

Led by the flagship Jackdaw, more than a dozen medium-sized galleys left the harbor in an orderly manner, carrying some small sailboats in front and behind. In a hurry, the Li family sailor concentrated all the forces that could be dispatched as much as possible. Abandoned some of the ships that had been refurbished in the dry docks, but the goods, money, and supplies in the warehouses were ...... It has been loaded on the ship to the maximum.

That night, the Hangzhou government's plan to eat the Li family's water master was completely bankrupt. Hundreds of pirates made trouble in the prefect's yamen, slashing and killing the prefect's entire family, as well as dozens of maritime merchants who happened to be in the prefect's house at that time. The city of Hangzhou was full of flames, and the officers and soldiers stationed in Hangzhou were so frightened that they did not dare to leave the camp. It wasn't until the afternoon of the next day, when they were sure that the pirates had fled, that they hurried to the prefect's yamen to check on them.

It is said that the officers and soldiers found several open cellars in the inner hall of the palace, and there were still remnants of good things in them. What happened next, no one can be sure. In short, there was not a single living mouth left in the prefect's yamen, and all of them "died from pirate looting".

By the time the sun rose, the fleet was already far away from the port of Hangzhou. The scenery of her hometown has been left behind, and in front of Li Huamei's eyes, there is an endless vast sea.

"Admiral, where are we going next?"

Regarding Li Huamei's question, Nan Xiao is already confident. "Pirate Island, of course it's Pirate Island, it's a good base, it's a pity to put it in the hands of the Lai Island Pirates, let's go and take it down."

"Attacking Pirate Island?" Li Huamei frowned, "To be honest, I don't think we have enough strength. Pirate Island is not only the stronghold of the family on the island, but also entrenched in dozens of groups of pirates, large and small. They had as few as one or two boats, as many as a dozen boats, and there were two or three large galleys like Laidao, and there were no less than ten large galleys alone. I'm afraid that our little people, whether in artillery battles or broadside battles, have no chance of winning. ”

Li Huamei is telling the truth. The Laidao Pirates crisscross the East China Sea, with a large territory, tight organization, abundant financial resources, and combat power no less than that of regular sailors, making it a large pirate gang that is very difficult to defeat. Since Li Huamei's father, the Li family's sailors have been fighting against Laidao. Although he has won many times with the elite sailors, he has always been inferior in numbers, and he is just powerless to destroy the island.

According to intelligence, on Pirate Island alone, the Haikou family on the island has more than 50 large and small ships and thousands of deck combat sailors. Coupled with other sea cowards, the Li family's sailors are simply not enough to fill in.

However, Nan Xiao is not afraid at all, because he has confidence.

Where is the confidence, it comes from the jade seal.

After making a big fuss about the prefect's yamen, he became more and more convinced that the jade seal had the effect of suppressing the enemy. Probably like this: the strongest one of the people who are better than him will be forcibly pulled to the level of five or five with him, so that they can be defeated with the help of other strengths. is like Yang Xien, who is obviously stronger than him, but he was forcibly opened by Wuwu, and in the end he must have lost to him because of his shortcomings in agility and endurance.

As for those who were already weaker than him, or even similar to him, the coercive effect of the jade seal was even more obvious. Gou Hui, the lackey of the prefect Han Mo, was also a master, but when he was killed, he was stunned and couldn't move. That day, I killed all the way, it was really like chopping melons and vegetables, and I felt like I was wantonly.

Therefore, it is not terrible to say that there are many people, but more souls are absorbed by the jade seal to help him break through the extraordinary.

In the corner of the conference room, Apron Saeki secretly asked the female ninja Rin, "Is Brother Ronin going to pick up those pirates?" There are a lot of pirates on the island......"

The female ninja Rin snorted, "He must be going to say some high-sounding rhetoric again." He is a person who likes to talk big. Young master, why are you always deceived by him? Don't be fooled next time. ”

"But、When I went to sea before, Rin, weren't you very excited to listen to his speech?"

"Where do I have?"

"You have it, and you pull out the knife and keep swinging it."

"Ahem, I won't next time. Look at it, he has a lot of rhetoric, and in the end he will definitely not dare to fight the pirates. Most of us went to Nagasaki and sold the silk fabrics first, and then bought the cotton fabrics. Fighting pirates or something, how important is it to make money. ”

While the two were muttering, Nan Xiao was reiterating his plan to Li Huamei. "Pirate Island must be taken," he said with a serious expression, "A small pirate group of dozens of people and a boat can plunder all the way along the way, scaring the officers and soldiers of Hangzhou Fucheng not to go out." There are thousands of pirates on this island, and if we don't exterminate them in one go, the common people living by the sea will suffer in the future. The East China Sea is not the East China Sea of the Haikou, but our East China Sea! How can we not care? ”

Li Huamei smiled bitterly but couldn't refute: "...... That's the truth, but ......"

At this moment, the patrol clipper in front suddenly sounded the flag, saying that it had spotted a ship moored in the sea.

"Moored in the sea? Is it the sentry ship of the Lai Island Pirates? ”

Immediately, the whole fleet was nervous, but when they looked closer, they realized that it was only a small sailing boat, unarmed, and it should be an ordinary fisherman's boat.

If you look closely, you can see that there is a net casting device at the stern of the boat, which further confirms that it is a fishing boat. Moreover, there was a big hole in the hull of the ship on one side, and it was crooked in half, and the mast was broken, and the sails could not be hung up. Such a ship should be impossible to pose a threat and cannot escape.

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