Wang Tom decided that the ship had bad intentions and decisively gave the order to open fire. (Baidu search update fastest and most stable dìng). However, his intention was to intercept the ship at sea and 'find out' its identity, not to attack the other side directly. However, this shell that passed next to the side of the ship seemed to have a real effect, and the other party saw that he could not escape the pursuit, and finally chose to lower the sail and slow down.

"Go around to the bow of the ship in front, the gunboat windows are open, and the first and second decks are ready for battle! The second and third ships approach from the left and right sides, blocking its turn!" Seeing that the other party's ship was slowing down, Wang Tom did not take it lightly, but ordered the personnel on the ship to immediately enter a state of combat readiness. In the East Asian naval battles of this era, artillery warfare did not become the mainstream, and broadside battles were what the "Discovery" really needed to guard against. Although there was no suspense at all about three large ships sandwiching such a small boat, Wang Tom still took a cautious attitude, he did not want to suffer casualties in the first combat operation under his command after the establishment of the navy. Tom Wang handed over the steering wheel to the first mate, and he picked up the HK416, walked quickly to the side of the ship, and began to preview the target. The pilot's slipway was nearly three meters higher than the deck of the pursued ship, and when approached, it was condescending to have an unobstructed view of the situation on the opponent's deck.

The "Discovery" circled the bow of the opposing ship from the side, and the second and third ships approached from both sides, one on the left and one on the right, and the three ships opened their gun windows together, 'exposing' their swarthy barrels. There is no need to aim at this distance, it is basically a way to point out which to hit. If the people on board dared to make a mistake, the multiple 'guns' aimed at it could knock the ship out of a bunch of transparent holes in an instant.

"Shout!" ordered Tom Wang.

A crew member raised an iron microphone and shouted loudly at the blocked ship: "Listen, people on board, you have been surrounded, in order to ensure your safety, please raise your hands and surrender immediately, and do not try to take any measures of resistance, otherwise you will bear the consequences!"

Due to the temporary assignment of the task, the second and third ships did not complete the configuration of the guns, and there were only two 'guns' on both sides of the ship, but the combat personnel on board were already fully equipped, and although there were not enough guns, they could be used as musketeers for the time being.

Perhaps the previous display of firepower had a certain deterrent effect, and as the three warships slowly approached, the intercepted ship did not show any resistance. After the No. 2 and No. 3 boats approached, they hooked each other's sides with bamboo poles and hooked them and slowly pulled them closer. Sailors with heavy guns began to board the ship from both sides at the same time in squads.

The ship's deck, with only seven or eight crew members, was quickly concentrated in a narrow position in the bow of the ship, under the threat of bayonets and muzzles, which faced the side gun window of the Discovery, through which they could even see the fierce men in the cabin adjusting their gun positions to aim at them.

"Who is the captain, come out and talk back!" shouted the captain of the sailor squad who took the lead.

A few crew members who have already begun to tremble, you look at me, I look at you, and in the end, no one spoke.

"Okay, don't say it, do you?

The sailors were divided into two teams, one went to the cabin at the rear of the ship, and the other was on the deck ready to open the cargo hold. But at this moment, a sudden change occurred.

As soon as the two sailors pulled the lid open on the deck, two bows and arrows flew out of it, one missed, and the other 'shot' one of the sailors in the shoulder. The wounded sailor screamed and fell backwards after suffering from pain, and the others immediately gathered around and aimed their guns at the cargo hatch. However, no one dared to shoot without the officer's order. Someone dragged the wounded sailor aside to check on his injuries.

Wang Tom also witnessed this situation on the "Discovery", cursed secretly, and then grabbed the iron microphone and ordered the sailors on the ship: "Shout again, if you don't surrender, shoot immediately!"

I was very careful, but I didn't expect that it was still unfavorable, and as soon as I got on the boat, I injured one of my subordinates, which made Wang Tom's patience quickly disappear to zero. No matter who is hiding in the cabin and resisting, Tom Wang can guarantee that his good luck in this life has come to an end.

"Listen, the people in the cabin should immediately disarm and surrender, or else they will bear the consequences!" the sailor squad leader took the lead in shouting, but in response he was the two bows and arrows that were 'shot' again from the black 'hole' and 'hole' in the cargo hold and a muffled scolding. However, with the lesson just learned, the sailors on deck were careful to avoid the angle, so that both arrows missed, and after flying some distance in the air, they fell into the sea.

"Fire!" the sailor squad leader was also furious and immediately gave the order.

Seven or eight muskets reached the hatch at different angles, and without aiming, they pulled the trigger and fired blindly into the cabin, and after the 'shooting' was completed, a second group of musketeers came up and 'fired' the inside in the same way. Amid the crackling gunfire, there seemed to be several shouts coming from the cabin. However, the angry sailors ignored this detail, and after reloading, they made two more rounds of 'shooting' before they stopped under the command of the officer.

To ensure safety, the sailors escorted two crew members prisoners, put them in front, and then went down to the cargo hold with oil lamps. The sailors found three men lying in pools of blood, and it seemed that they had been unlucky enough to avoid them during the first few rounds of musket 'fire'. One of them had lost his breath, but the other two still had the strength to speak. The sailors had the captives carry all of them to the deck, and after the captives identified them, it was determined that they were the people in charge of the ship.

As for their identities, it also happened to be in line with Wang Tom's intuition - these people were indeed the pirates on the Dangan Islands to the east. After confirming his identity, Wang Tom immediately ordered to sail back, because this place is only more than ten nautical miles away from the Dangan Islands, although his own strength is not bad, but Wang Tom does not want to fight an inexplicable naval battle at this juncture.

The sailors put the captives in the hold again, and then separated several sailors to drive the ship back to Dawanshan Island with the fleet. As for the two injured pirate leaders, Tom was not so merciful to treat them, and there was no one on board who could perform the surgery on his own. King Tom had to have the wounds on their bodies tied tightly with strips of cloth, trying to prevent them from dying on the way due to excessive blood loss.

Despite this, after arriving at Wanshan Port, the medical team, who rushed to the dock to standby after receiving the news, regretfully announced that one of them was no longer breathing. The remaining wounded man was only shot in the arm, and did not hurt the vital point, so he would not have to worry about his life for a while.

However, Tom apparently didn't care about the injuries of these pirates, and kicked the pirate leader to the side, allowing the sailors who were injured in the operation to help them over. Fortunately, the arrow wounds suffered by the sailors were only skin wounds, and the naturalized civilians who had been trained in the port of victory cut the wound with a knife, removed the arrow, and then disinfected and bandaged the wound.

"So these pirates took the initiative to step on the plate?" Chen Yixin asked after listening to Tom Wang's brief statement.

"I guess, I'll know if I go back and interrogate the pirate leader. Wang Tom said fiercely: "I haven't touched them yet, but they have taken the initiative to find the 'door'! It seems that this time I can't wait for the approval of the base camp to take action!"

When he was fighting in Lijiazhuang before, Xiao Liang had mentioned to Wang Tom that he would take advantage of the surplus strength of his land and water armies to exterminate the pirates on the Dangan Islands east of Dawanshan Island. However, after this battle plan was reported back to the base camp, it has not received a positive reply. According to the original arrangement, the two companies that set off from Shengli Port this time were going to return to Shengli Port after resting for a week on Dawanshan Island.

Before they had time to interrogate the prisoners, the sailors who were cleaning up the pirate ship made a new discovery in the cabin -- there were actually quite a few goods sold in Victory Harbor in the cargo hold! These included seven or eight boxes of glass tableware, more than 20 sets of glass stationery, dozens of small round glass mirrors with a diameter of one inch, about 1,000 catties of Haihan's "fine" salt, and a small amount of matches and soap, and so on. However, all the Haihan goods that can be purchased on the market are more or less found in the cabin. In addition, a lot of sword and bow weapons were also found, a few rusty bird guns, and even a small Franc cannon, but the muzzle of the gun has collapsed a large piece, and it seems that even the pirates themselves dare not use this firearm with obvious hidden dangers.

"Is this a pirate or a maritime merchant?" Chen Yixin was a little dumbfounded by this situation.

"In this era, there is often no clear demarcation between maritime merchants and pirates. Wang Tom explained to him: "The sea merchants Li Dan and Yan Siqi, including Xu Xinsu, who we are now 'dealing with', are actually more or less pirates, and the sailors under Xu Xinsu are basically all pirates who accept Zhao'an. For the government or opponents of equal strength, they are maritime merchants, but if there is an opportunity to plunder others, they will become pirates. ”

"Do you dare to fight our idea to sell our goods? Is this considered a lower-level distributor using his brains to move the manufacturer?" said Li Dou, who rushed to hear the news.

"They don't necessarily know who the people who occupy the island are. Tom Wang shook his head and said: "Bacheng just found that there were people here, and I was going to get closer to inquire about the situation, but I didn't expect to be discovered by us early." ”

"Then what do you mean, are you going to be rude to them?" asked Li Dou.

Wang Tom glared and said: "It's already done, what else is there not to prepare? They have killed two leaders, and the ship's cargo has all been detained by us, do you think even if you let them go now, can this matter still be good?"

"I don't think there will be such a good-tempered person in the world. Li Dou answered seriously.

"If you want to blame, you can only blame the two of us for being too close. If you don't clean up the other party, it is estimated that no one will be able to sleep well in the future!" Although the captives have not yet been interrogated, Wang Tom has obviously made his own decision about the situation.

Later, the radio station on the island sent a telegram back to Shengli Harbor about what happened today, and the crossing officers led by Wang Tom interrogated the captives separately - the focus was no longer on why the ship appeared in the waters near Dawanshan Island, but on the pirate strength and defense arrangements on the Dangan Islands.

In the evening of the same day, Tom Wang organized a meeting to summarize the various intelligence information obtained during the trial. According to the captives, the total number of pirates on the Dangan Islands was about 300, but only two-thirds of them were actually able to participate in the sea operations, and the rest were the families of the old and weak 'women' and children. The pirates had a total of eight ships, including the one captured today, and more than a dozen smaller fishing boats.

As for their livelihood, as King Tom said, half of them were made by plundering the goods of merchant ships at sea, and half of them were profiting from all kinds of 'smuggling' trade. The various Haihan commodities found on the captured ship were purchased from Guangzhou a few days ago. The reason why they wandered around Dawanshan Island was because when they were shopping for supplies in Guangzhou, they happened to hear that the "Qiong Lianfa", which has been in the limelight recently, had registered a business inn with the government, and the location of this business house was Dawanshan Island.

The distance between Dawanshan Island and the Dangan Islands where this group of pirates lived was only more than 30 nautical miles, and the distance was very close. Therefore, on the way back from Guangzhou, the ship decided to turn around to the side of Dawanshan Island after leaving the mouth of the Pearl River to take a look at the situation, but it never thought that it would be 'exposed' early and be noticed by the garrison on the island. After that, the "good thing" Wang Tom led the fleet to chase more than ten nautical miles in one breath and stopped the ship at sea.

Several of the leaders on the ship 'touched' the origin of the group that was chasing them, but after the other party showed off their artillery, they unanimously agreed that they had encountered black and black, because ordinary merchant ships would not be equipped with so many guns on board. The three leaders decided to hide in the cabin of the ship and attack their opponents, and if they were lucky, they might just kill the leaders of the other side, and then there might be a chance to turn the tables - of course, it turned out that this was all unrealistic delusion, and in the face of sharp Haihan firearms, even a single measure of resistance was futile.

After 'figuring' the ins and outs of the group, Tom Wang consulted the officers present on whether further military action was necessary – and it was clear that none of the officers objected to the next military action, whether for security reasons or for the sake of accumulating military merit. Although the base camp has not yet made a final decision, Wang Tom and others can't wait to start planning an attack on the Dangan Islands.

The Dangan Islands are located in the eastern part of the Wanshan Islands and consist of a string of small islands in the sea. And the location where this group of pirates lived was on the easternmost and largest island of Dangan Island. The island is named because of its long, narrow terrain that resembles a flat pole, and its geology is a 'flower' granite structure, with the highest point of the island being more than 300 meters above sea level. Due to the rocky shores, only one pier at the eastern end of the island can be docked for boats.

As for the island's defenses, the island's defenses were lackluster, and due to the limited human and financial resources, it was impossible for the pirates to build large shore fortifications in the port stronghold like the Crossing Group, and there was only a stone and wood wall on the shore as a means of defense. And this kind of defense can only be regarded as better than nothing for a navy equipped with artillery, and at best it can consume a little more ammunition 'medicine' for the attacking troops.

Considering the relatively unfamiliar local environment, the officers put the time of launching the operation in the morning when making plans. This is also done in order to try to settle the battle during the day and avoid possible sneak attacks after nightfall.

On the morning of the next day, the base camp sent the final decision of the executive committee -- agreeing in principle with the plan put forward by Tom Wang to take the initiative to attack, and after determining the battle plan, he could grasp the timing and intensity of the attack on his own.

The officers were very excited by the executive committee's efficient reply this time, and this operation was almost equivalent to adding another glorious stroke to their personal qualifications, and it was a good opportunity to brush up on experience. Equally excited are the cadets, who are not part of the Army, but this does not hinder their enthusiasm for participating in military operations.

The battle that took place in Lijiazhuang a few days ago ended too quickly for them - it took them a full five days to arrive at their destination, and they stepped into the battlefield with mixed feelings, but the time to actually fight on the battlefield did not even reach five minutes, which was almost like a joke. Especially for a berserker like Takahashi Minami, who takes hand-to-hand combat as his greatest preference, he actually has a lot of criticism about the combat method of Lijiazhuang that focuses on firearms strikes - although musket artillery is a good thing, shouldn't a warrior be proud of ending the opponent's life face-to-face?

What's more, Li Jiazhuang's opponent was still so weak, Takahashi Nan thought that under the circumstances at that time, the militia should be put out to have a white-knuckle battle with the opponent, so that these soldiers could feel the pleasure of using cold weapons to kill the opponent. Of course, after he put forward this opinion, he was severely criticized by Wang Tom -- When a soldier performs a mission, he only asks about the result, not the process, can you use cold weapons to complete the combat mission on time and in quantity? However, this time to exterminate the pirate's lair, Takahashi Minami believes that it is impossible to avoid the situation of hand-to-hand combat. Even if the guns on the ships were able to achieve an overwhelming superiority, the destruction of the pirates on the island would still require infantry landing, and the terrain on the island was not flat, making it difficult for the musketeers to move in battle formation. At this time, it is often necessary to rely on people with outstanding individual ability to give full play to their strengths. Zheng Ting from Annan also thinks that this is a good opportunity to save his image, the previous "competition" suffered a loss under Takahashi Minami, and this time he can let that Dongying dwarf take a good look at the real strength of Annan's soldiers in battle.