If it was a face-to-face fight, the pirates would not be stunned by the Haihan militia, but the problem was that the pirates had no chance to directly confront their opponents, and the endless artillery bombardment of Haihan had exhausted their courage. ∷, if the pirates still had some illusions about fighting the Haihan before the war, then after the war they understood why the Haihan was so bold as to send only a few hundred men to the island to attack Nanrizhai - the difference in strength between the two sides was so great that the other side could directly ignore the number of troops and the disadvantages of fighting away.

The pirates had already tried desperately, rushing out to attack the two hundred brothers who harassed the Haihan position, and in the end only about half of them retreated back to the village with good hands, and paid such a big price that they didn't even touch a single hair of their opponents, and this battle could not be fought at all. At this time, the pirates understood why Xu Xinsu relied so heavily on the Haihan people on Qiongzhou Island in the South China Sea, and also knew that the defeat of the big boss Liu Xiang at the mouth of the Pearl River two years ago was not because he was ineffective, but because the gap between his strength and his opponent was too great.

Duan San's relatives died under the fire of the Haihan cannons, of course he wanted to fight with the Haihan people to avenge his relatives, but the others did not plan to die on this desert island for the heads of the Eighteen Zhi. The Haihan people have already given an ultimatum, and Duan San still wants to encourage the people of Nanrizhai to go out and work hard, if he is allowed to go, then everyone will die. Since this is the case, it is naturally better to let him die alone and save everyone's lives. The other leaders had already reached a tacit understanding in an instant, and they directly attacked Duan San when he was defenseless.

As for whether this will lead to Zheng Zhihu's liquidation afterwards, these people can't take care of so much, and it is more important to save their lives now. Kill Duan San, an unstable factor, so that everyone can have a chance to continue to live.

Before the time limit set by Shi Diwen arrived, he finally saw the pirates walking up to the wall, throwing their weapons off the wall in a dejected line. The reason why he did not go out of the village directly was because the gate had been blocked by pirates with stones the day before, and it was impossible to clear the passage for a while.

"Prepare to receive prisoners!" Shi Diwen was also greatly relieved to see that the pirates in the stockade had chosen to surrender. Even if Haihan's side has the advantage in strength, if the other party resists to the end, it is inevitable that there will be some casualties if they want to take Nanri Village. And for the limited number of troops on this trip to Fujian, any casualties are a situation that commanders must avoid as much as possible.

"Uh, by the way, inform your father and ask him to send someone to take over the defense of Nanri Village. Shi Diwen said to Xu Yuzhuo. The Haihan army is limited, and even if Nanri Village is conquered now, it is impossible to send troops to garrison here, so this work can only be handed over to the Ming army to be responsible. The main purpose of this operation is to show the Ming army the strong combat effectiveness of Haihan, and this goal has been achieved, as for whether the army can hold Nanri Island, it is not something that Shi Diwen has to worry about at the moment.

Xu Yuzhuo whispered beside him: "My father's troops are all at sea at this time, why don't you let the militia army enter the village to clear the remnants of pirates first?"

Shi Diwen was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart that this battle was fought by my Haihan, so why did we have to do the dirty work of cleaning up the battlefield? He was about to ask a question, when he suddenly came back to his senses -- this is the benefit of the Ming army fortress for himself!

This Nanri Island is located on the golden waterway in the waters of Fujian, and most of the passing ships have to pay a large amount of protection fees to Shibazhi to pass safely, and Nanrizhai is one of the most important strongholds of Shibazhi on the coastline of Fujian, and the gold and silver treasures stored in it are probably not small.

Of course, the Ming army could take over the affairs of cleaning up the battlefield immediately after the war, and swallow the property in the village by the way. However, Xu Xinsu thought that this time the Haihan people contributed money and sent troops to come all the way to conquer Nanri Island, so if the Fujian side did not say anything at all, it would inevitably chill the hearts of the Haihan, so yesterday he specially told Xu Yuzhuo, who was fighting with the Haihan militia group, not to rush to let the Ming army enter the village after the war, but to let the Haihan militia advance to the village to reap some practical benefits.

Whether this set of tricks will work, Xu Xinsu is not worried, he has heard of the "bad deeds" of the Haihan militia in Annan. At the beginning, after the Haihan conquered Hoi An City, almost all the things that could be moved in Hoi An City were transported back to Sanya by ship, and even the population was not spared, and this practice was implemented again after the Hai Han militia captured Hue, and it is said that it was also very fruitful.

Although Xu Xinsu had only heard of it and had not witnessed what the Haihan militia had done at the scene, as the saying goes, "thieves are like combs, and soldiers are like grates", and he can roughly imagine how the Haihan militia looted the local spoils. Since the Haihan people love money so much, it is also considered to be a matter of giving them some property. Besides, the things in this Nanri Village are the property of Eighteen Zhi, Xu Xinsu borrowed flowers to offer Buddha, and he didn't have to post money to go in, and he could sell Haihan people a good, which can be regarded as a way to kill two birds with one stone.

"Let people quickly clear the door hole, and send two platoons into the village to search. Search for me carefully, don't let go of the pirate remnants!" After Shi Diwen came back to his senses, he naturally would not refuse Xu Yuzhuo's kindness, and immediately gave an order.

If it weren't for the fact that the Ming army would send troops to garrison Nanri Village in the future, Shi Diwen would probably have ordered people to directly blow up the gate blocked by stones. Fortunately, there is also an iron gate on both sides of Nanri Village, which is the passage used by pirates to attack the village before. The pirates in the village were ordered to walk out of Nanri Village on their own from these two places, and when one came out, the militiamen tied their arms with ropes, and every ten of them were dressed in a string and escorted to the side of the road to squat. Then the militia army entered the village and began to clean up the battlefield.

The clean-up of Nanri Village was carried out for about three hours, and during this time, Xu Yuzhuo tacitly made all the Ming troops who landed on the island retreat to the periphery, which was called a friendly guard. As expected by the Xu family's father and son, Nanri Village did hide a lot of gold and silver property, and the soldiers found more than 7,000 taels of gold, more than 123,000 taels of silver, and some jewels such as pearls, coral, jade, and jade. In addition, there are a variety of goods such as raw silk, flour, rice, medicinal herbs, and porcelain, and it can be seen that Shibashi used this place as a cargo transfer station.

There are indeed a lot of good things, but there is a problem in front of Shi Diwen - the Haihan warships that participated in the war this time do not have enough capacity to transport all the property in Nanri Village.

"It seems that only a part can be left for Xu Xinsu. Shi Diwen looked at the loot that had been packed into a hill, and said with some regret.

That being said, in fact, most of the high-value gold, silver, and jewelry have been loaded onto the flatbed trucks that were originally used to transport artillery shells, and with a military tarpaulin on the outside, it is impossible to tell what they are. As for the goods that could not be transported, most of them were heavier and less valuable goods, such as grain, oil, rice and noodles, which were also left for the Ming army stationed here as consumables.

As for the captives, after an inventory, a total of 792 pirates were captured on the island, and 131 pirate bodies were recovered. In addition, according to the confessions of several small pirate leaders, Zheng Zhihu, the big leader who was originally sitting on Nanri Island, had slipped out of the back door of Nanri Village after the war, and as Shi Diwen expected, he took more than 20 subordinates to the beach in the south and escaped by boat. When the Haihan militia learned the news, Zheng Zhihu had probably been out to sea for two hours.

If you know the course, in fact, the two-hour distance difference can be immediately sent to chase after you, but the problem is that no one here knows where Zheng Zhihu will go after he goes to sea. Maybe he will return to Penghu immediately, maybe he will go to the nearest mainland fishing village to avoid the limelight, maybe he will find a place on the nearby sea to gather his subordinates to make another plan, in short, there is no definite direction, and the Haihan militia can't track it down with a fast boat.

"Zheng Zhihu!" Morgan was greatly disappointed when he learned the news, he also roughly knew the status of this pirate leader among the Eighteen Zhi, and omitting such a goal was really a great loss for a veteran who claimed to be a battlefield hunter.

"If you had asked me to take someone around Nanri Village to the south to intercept it, maybe we would have caught this big fish!" Of course, Morgan also knew that it was too late, so he could only vent this anger on Shi Diwen, who blocked him.

"It's only a theoretical possibility, but I'm 100% sure you're safe. Shi Diwen was naturally not convinced by Morgan's accusations, and immediately refuted him.

Morgan shook his head in disappointment and said, "Dear Steven, next time we catch him, I'm afraid it won't be so easy." ”

"Next time we're going to arrest not only him, but also his brother and his buddies. Shi Diwen disagrees with Morgan's pessimism: "We still have many opportunities to make military achievements, but only if we first ensure our own safety." ”

There will be no definite outcome of such an argument, but Morgan also knows that after the matter is reported to the Military Commission and the Executive Committee, Shi Diwen's approach of trying to be safe will still be recognized by the high-level. Even though the military is bent on rapid expansion, it has always been conservative when it comes to the personal safety of the officers of the Traverser. A riskier approach like Morgan's doesn't get much support at the top.

It wasn't until the Haihan militia transported the gold, silver and jewelry found in Nanrizhai to the wharf and began to load the ship, that Xu Xinsu's ship entered the port and docked very tacitly. After meeting with Shi Diwen, Xu Xinsu didn't even mention half a word about cleaning up the battlefield, but thanked Shi Diwen first: "With the help of the Haihan militia in this battle, it is easy to win! The old man has thanked the soldiers and soldiers of Haihan on behalf of the Fujian army and civilians!"

Xu Xinsu's attitude made Shi Diwen very satisfied, it is obvious that the other party has been able to face up to the existence of Haihan's military strength with a relatively calm mind, and his words also revealed his willingness to continue to cooperate with Haihan, which is also one of the main purposes of the Haihan delegation's visit to Fujian. The battle to conquer Nanri Island should have made the top brass of the Fujian Ming Army realize the true combat effectiveness of the Haihan militia, and for them, cooperation is definitely a more reasonable choice than confrontation.

When it was dark, the ships guarding the nearby waters sent back the news that the several pirate ships that had been watching from a distance had all been evacuated, and it seemed that they had roughly guessed the result of the loss of Nanri Island. That night, the allied fleet was all stationed on Nanri Island, and Xu Xinsu sent 500 Ming troops into Nanri Village to live. Originally, Xu Xinsu also wanted to invite the Haihan militia to also enter Nanri Village, but Shi Diwen thought that the environment in the village was too poor, and he was not very worried that the three Haihan warships would stop at the seashore without sufficient defense, so he still insisted on arranging the militia station near the dock.

On this day, the dinner was extraordinarily rich, and Xu Xinsu ordered people to purchase all kinds of livestock from villages on the nearby mainland and transport them to the island for slaughter, as a reward for the three armies. Although not many people in the Ming army directly participated in this island attack operation, fortunately they had Haihan, a partner who was not greedy for money as long as they were not greedy for merit, and most of the Ming army would get their share of the battle in this victory, which was indeed a thing worth celebrating for them.

However, Shi Diwen thought that the celebration was a little early, and halfway through the meal, he invited Xu Xinsu and Xu Yuzhuo, father and son, to his tent and informed them that the pirates had sent a boat back to Penghu the day before to move the rescuers.

"Eighteen Zhi may not be able to fight back. After listening to this, Xu Yuzhuo first expressed his opinion: "Zheng Zhihu also ran away, and he had time to intercept the pirate fleet that came to the rescue on the way. ”

But it is also possible that he will not be able to swallow it in one breath, and will try to use reinforcements to retake Nanri Island again. After all, if they did send reinforcements, it shouldn't be a small amount, right?" Shi Diwen suggested another possibility.

The old man estimated that they would send at least eighty boats, roughly one or two thousand troops. Xu Xinsu continued: "The scale of the armed forces that Zheng Zhilong can mobilize in a short period of time is probably such a level, if he wants to mobilize more people, he must convene a meeting of the leaders of the Eighteen Zhizhi to discuss, and let each family send people out of the ship and send troops together." And the time required to do this will be at least seven or eight days, and it will be at least half a month after the first qiē is ready to send troops over. ”

"But if Eighteen Zhi's rescuers meet Zheng Zhihu on the way, will they come over to fight again?" Shi Diwen thought that Xu Xinsu's argument was more credible, so he asked him his question again.

Xu Xinsu responded: "Although Zheng Zhihu is a little reckless, he is not stupid, he did not fight to the death in Nanri Village, but chose to escape, which shows that he is still a person who can judge the situation." Therefore, the old man thinks that it is unlikely that Zheng Zhihu will return to Nanri Island with Penghu's reinforcements. Even if there is a fight, it will not be a matter of the next few days. ”