Luo Shengdong gasped heavily, feeling as if his lungs were about to burn, but he didn't dare to stop and rest, because the group of strange pirates in colorful short coats were chasing after him not far behind, like a desperate death.

After living for thirty-three years, Luo Shengdong feels that today is probably the most unlucky day in his life, and it is likely that it will be the last day. Obviously, it is a good opportunity to receive awards for meritorious service, why did things turn out like this? This is not the same as the script that was said to be good, hey! Luo Shengdong was indignantly recalling what had happened all day, and at the same time desperately moving his heavy legs and continuing to flee for his life.

As the only officer promoted from a military family background in Yazhou Shuizhai, Luo Shengdong has always been very active in the pursuit of military merits. Of course, this is thanks to his good father, if it weren't for his father's cumulative exploits in catching pirates during the Wanli years, then he would probably still be digging mud in the military camp to make a living. You must know that this hundred generals are not the hundred household officials of the guard system, although they only have the eighth grade, but they are real border army positions, and the people under their hands are also regular border soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is not comparable to those peasant soldiers in the military camp who face the loess all year round. Now that my father is old, he finally passed on the position of Bai Zong to Luo Shengdong, he didn't plan to stop there, and then pass this position to his next generation when he was old. Luo Shengdong felt that he was working hard while he was strong, and there was always hope for a promotion in the future.

This time, Luo Shengdong led the team to sail along the coastline from Yacheng Water Village to Yulin, first, to inspect the training situation of various outposts in Haijiang, second, the soldiers of some outposts have been stationed for three months and need to be replaced, and thirdly, to replenish the material reserves for various garrison posts by the way. As for saying that a small group of pirates from the South China Sea had taken advantage of the monsoon to land in the Yulin area before, Luo Shengdong was not worried, and even had a faint expectation for encountering pirates, and was there any faster way to be promoted than killing the enemy and making meritorious contributions?

Most of the South China Sea pirates who appeared in the waters of Yazhou in the past were natives from Luzon, Java, Johor, and Temasek, and these pirate ships were small and poorly equipped, and those stupid natives and pirates had no tactics at all, and they might not be able to beat the hordes of armed merchant ships at sea, and they could only attack some coastal fishing villages with the monsoon, and if they were lucky, they could grab some food and grab a few women. In Luo Shengdong's view, the combat effectiveness of these South China Sea pirates is even much worse than that of the guards, and the guards can still be equipped with standard weapons according to their heads, but these pirates can't even do a knife and gun in their hands, and some even come out to rob with wooden spears, and their strength is simply not the same as the pirate forces along the coast of Guangdong and Fujian. Although Luo Shengdong's team only had one Haicang boat and no more than 50 people, he was full of confidence in the possible battle.

When the ship arrived at Phoenix Town, which was still twenty or thirty miles away from Yulin, the ship happened to encounter a small flag that had withdrawn from the Yulin outpost. Unlike Luo Shengdong's single-minded pursuit of war, this small banner of ten people actually didn't plan to go back to Yacheng to report the news, but just wanted to take refuge in the area of Phoenix Town for a few days, and then go back to the outpost after a few days after the large group of pirates in the harbor were withdrawn, but they didn't expect to be caught by Luo Shengdong, who had patrolled here.

The idea of a few small soldiers is very simple, they are outnumbered, so they must have run away, is it for the sake of those fishermen to fight with hundreds of pirates? Giving up the position and escaping, this was originally a proper head, but after listening to their report, Luo Shengdong decided to give these deserters a chance to atone for their crimes. （.）

According to what they said, there were as many as several hundred pirates attacking this time, and there were "a huge ship with a height of several zhang and more than 10 ships of various strange shapes." In Luo Shengdong's view, this statement is simply a huge amount of water, and where did those native pirates in the South China Sea get the big ships that are several zhang high? Hainan Weiyi, south and north cannot find a big ship of this size, and if the pirates really have this kind of ship, they will still come to rob this broken fishing village in Yulin? Without thinking about these remarks, Luo Shengdong knew that it must be an excuse made up by these little soldiers in order to survive.

But there is one thing that Luo Shengdong is sure of, the other party at least has a clear advantage in numbers, otherwise these soldiers would not have fled directly in fright before the battle. Although Luo Shengdong was convinced that his own combat effectiveness was stronger, he always had to take a certain risk of fighting more with less, and it would be too much of a waste of time to turn back to Yacheng to call for reinforcements now, and maybe he would delay the fighter, Luo Shengdong weighed the severity and finally decided that it would be more appropriate to bring all the living forces. Even if these people and horses under his command can't defeat the large army of pirates, it will definitely be no problem to ambush some pirate squads who go out in groups to loot materials, and cut off ten or eight heads to go back, which is the first major achievement of Yazhou Water Village in the seventh year of the Apocalypse.

Although Luo Shengdong is earnest, his actions are still relatively cautious. Considering that the pirates may have a large number of small boats, they are alone, and there is a danger of being besieged directly from the sea, Luo Shengdong did not take the liberty of letting the ship bypass the Luhuitou Peninsula and sail directly into the bay, but docked on the east bank of the Linchun River in the urban area of Sanya in the later generations, landed from here, and marched through the jungle to the Yazhou outpost, the distance was only five or six miles. Near the outpost was a fishing village, and pirates who wanted to go ashore to plunder supplies would have to go to this village, and then they could wait for an ambush.

Considering that the group of people who fled back to Phoenix Town were blind to the current situation in the harbor, Luo Shengdong had to send a few people to the nearby mountains to search for fleeing fishermen and pirates to land and plunder, this kind of thing happened not for the first time, and the fishermen would definitely have to hide in the mountains for ten days and half a month before they dared to go back. In addition, if you can find the fishermen who have taken refuge in the disaster, you can also verify from the side that what the deserters said can be somewhat true.

What made Luo Shengdong a little uneasy was that the fishermen found in the mountains were not only consistent with what the deserters said, reporting that the boat that this group of pirates was riding was huge, with a width several feet high, but also more exaggerated that this huge ship had no sail mast and could actually break the waves from the sea. In addition, the pirates did not kill or imprison the fishermen they caught, but kindly released the captives, and gave them some grain and refined salt, so that early this morning a few young students were bold enough to run to the bay to make a deal with the pirates. There are all kinds of indications that these people are different from the South China Sea pirates who came here before, and their style of acting is obviously beyond Luo Shengdong's understanding.

"Lure them with profit, coerce good people to go to the sea as pirates!" Luo Shengdong, who couldn't explain these doubts, and finally could only choose a sense of justice as a cover, finally came to a conclusion about this, and decided that these new pirates "must be ruthless and cunning", if you can't cut off a few heads on this trip, it will simply be sorry for the emperor, sorry for the military department, sorry for the father's hand-down position. Of course, the Yu family's father and son have been ruthlessly classified by Luo Shengdong as a "colluding pirate", and these people must be killed afterwards to set an example.

Luo Shengdong let the boat and a few sailors stay on the east bank of the Linchun River, and the others all took the guys and set off, first to lurk near the fishing village. The only thing that made Luo Shengdong regret a little was that he didn't bring more bows and arrows and archers when he set off, and there were only two full-time archers. There are a lot of firearms, 4 Franc machines, 3 bowls, 6 Lumi guns, in addition to spray cans, fire bricks, cigarette cans, rockets, etc., but most of these equipment are inconvenient to carry because of their size and weight, and there are only six Lumi guns that can really be brought ashore for use.

Although this Lu Mi gun is a good thing, but the ship with these Lu Mi guns is an old thing in the Wanli years, from the military department to the border army, it has been almost 30 years, several guns have been rusted into shape, even if they can still be fired, maybe a few more money of gunpowder will blow up. Such weapons are not so much used to kill the enemy, but rather to decorate the façade and fill the guts. In fact, there is no way to do it, the defenders of Yacheng plus more than 1,000 border troops in Shuizhai are basically supported by the military households that are reclaimed near Yacheng, and life is extremely difficult. As for the salary and silver issued by the imperial court, it is not enough to maintain daily training and patrols, let alone update the ordnance.

Of course, why military spending is insufficient, Luo Shengdong, as a grassroots officer, is actually very clear. It is common in the army to eat empty salaries and drink the blood of soldiers, and when the officers distributed the silver, Luo Shengdong did not take his share. Luo Shengdong hesitated for a long time, but he still asked people to bring all the Lu Mi guns, even if they couldn't be used in actual combat, it was good to take them to scare people when escorting prisoners.

After hiding in the woods and feeding the mosquitoes for a few hours, everyone up and down, including Luo Shengdong, gradually lost their patience, and just when Luo Shengdong was considering whether to go home or go directly to the harbor, Zhang Scar, a subordinate who was sent to the beach to investigate the situation, brought back good news that a pirate sailing ship was heading in the direction of the fishing village.

"It's a good time!" Luo Shengdong shouted loudly: "Later, the brothers will listen to my orders, rush out together and cut off the heads of these thieves, and after returning to the city, I will ask the general for the brothers!" Everyone responded with a bang, and their morale was high for a while, and they seemed to have eaten the gang of pirates who were about to appear.

But after a stick of incense, the situation changed unexpectedly. First, according to Luo Shengdong's order, the two archers launched an attack on the pirate who climbed to the tree, and when they saw that an arrow missed and an arrow hit the target, Luo Shengdong's confidence was greatly increased, and he pulled out his waist knife and ordered loudly: "Brothers, rush out!

His soldiers obediently poured out of the ambush woods, screaming and rushing towards the enemy, but soon heard a sharp whistle from the opposite side, followed by a crackling explosion that seemed to be the firing of some kind of firebolt, and then saw that the few men who were at the forefront of their own were instantly knocked to the ground. Luo Shengdong even saw with his own eyes that Zhang Scar, who had always been the fastest runner, was hit in the head during the run, and before he even had time to scream, a big hole was directly blown out of the back of his head, and the blood mixed with the brain slurry flew out, and his body fell straight into the mud of the rice field, and he saw that he couldn't live. The worst thing is that the guns used by these pirates don't seem to need to be reloaded at all, and they can shoot one shot after another.

"These pirates have such sharp firearms!" "Before Luo Shengdong could regret it, the offensive he instigated had been repelled by the opponent's powerful firepower in an instant, and the fleeing soldiers blew past Luo Shengdong like a whirlwind, and when he came back to his senses, there was no other way than to flee with the rout.

This group of people escaped from Lixu in full force, and only then did they slowly stop because of their lack of physical support, Luo Shengdong had a chance to gather the team, counted the number of people, and found that there were eleven people missing, and I don't know if they all died in the wave of offensive just now or if someone lost their way on the way to escape. And the deserters lost most of their ordnance along the way, including the only two bows they had and the six Rumis guns they used to decorate the façade.

Before the angry Luo Shengdong had time to make a post-battle summary, the short-haired pirates had already chased into the forest, chasing the ass with that strange firearm and shooting again, and the frightened border soldiers hurriedly pulled out their legs and continued to flee.

After repeating this two or three times, except for a few more unlucky ghosts who were knocked down by the chasing firearms bullets, the other soldiers were also on the verge of collapse. Luo Shengdong only began to really resent the impact of greed for military salaries on soldiers' drills, if he could do it every five days in peacetime...... No, even if it's a every ten days, it won't be like now, and after running for just two or three miles, even the strength to escape is almost gone!

The pursuing pirates were shouting in a strange northern accent, with occasional phrases of the Maritime dialect interspersed. Luo Shengdong's ancestor was from the Zhili Mansion, and it was only in his grandfather's generation that he was driven to this place at the end of the world as a big soldier, so he could roughly understand that the pirates shouted "abandon weapons and kneel on the ground and don't kill", and the content of the dialect is also similar. Now that they had a chance to live, some of the exhausted soldiers really didn't run, and just stopped and surrendered on their knees as the pirates said.

So the fleeing team became fewer and fewer, but Luo Shengdong didn't dare to stop, he was an officer, not a soldier, if he was captured, even if he could survive in the end, his career in this life would definitely be over.

"As long as you can escape on board!" Luo Shengdong didn't dare to think about any meritorious service now, and being able to escape with his whole body was his biggest wish at present. As long as you can escape back to Yazhou, you will naturally have a chance to make a comeback. It should be less than two miles away from the place where the ship is anchored, and you can escape by holding on a little longer!

At this moment, Luo Shengdong didn't know whether he kicked the root of the tree or something else, his body lost his balance, and he flew into the air all of a sudden, and then fell heavily to the ground. This fall was really not light, Luo Shengdong almost lost his breath, but at this time, everyone was busy running for their lives, and no one would stop to help him.

Before Luo Shengdong could support his body with his hands, he felt that he was being stepped on his back by a foot, and his body was firmly stepped on the ground and he couldn't move, and then someone twisted his two arms behind him and quickly tied the two wrists together with a thin and tough branch. Luo Shengdong was angry and anxious, and under the anger, his eyes turned black and he fainted.