Chapter 31: The Chamber of Commerce of Brut
After two days of inquiry, Bai Lingfeng already had a general understanding of the group of pirates mentioned by the Fengxian. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In fact, this group of pirates is not the only one around Modoc Island, but the other pirates are relatively well hidden, and the scale is not large, although they often harass merchant ships, but no one knows their specific whereabouts, and it takes a lot of time to search for their traces if you want to exterminate them.
However, the group of pirates mentioned by the Phoenix is different, they are powerful, arrogant, and they are not afraid of retaliation from others, and the location of the lair can be said to be well known.
However, they have to admit that they occupy a piece of feng shui treasure, that small island is surrounded by rocky reefs, bright reefs and uneven reefs, and if people who are not familiar with it rashly drive warships forward, they will run aground at least and sink by hitting the reef at worst.
Of course, there is no entrance and exit there, and if you are patient, you will definitely be able to find it. However, there was only one entrance and exit, and the width was just enough for a medium-sized battleship to sail in. If the enemy wants to cross this narrow passage, it will be greeted by a combined artillery bombardment of at least ten warships!
In that case, not to mention an ordinary battleship, even the Fengxian, which is both durable and well-armored, will be difficult to survive the opponent's two rounds of salvos!
The worst thing is the torpedo. When in a narrow passage, enemy torpedoes are fired directly from the front, and there is nowhere to hide!
Because of the dangerous terrain here, even if they knew where they were hiding, the caravans and forces that had been robbed did not dare to come to retaliate.
In the past, there was a small country that was plundered by this group of pirates and sent a navy to encircle and suppress it, but unfortunately, more than 100 warships were dispatched to conquer this place, but more than a dozen warships were lost in vain. Since then, no one has dared to encircle them, and they have become more and more arrogant and greedy, which has become the biggest hidden danger in this area.
"It seems that there are only two ways to eliminate them, either to carry out armed strikes from the air, or to lure them out first." Bai Lingfeng looked at the information collected by the Fengxian and looked a little solemn.
It is more difficult to attack from the air, either with ship-to-surface missiles or with bombers. However, those pirates have been operating on the island for so many years, and they must have a complete air defense system and missile interception system, otherwise they would have been razed by those small countries a long time ago.
If you think about it, the only way to lure them out is the safest way. Without the dangerous terrain, even if they have more than 30 warships, they are just a rabble. Moreover, it is not difficult to do, as long as they are still pirates, they will definitely come out to rob, and as soon as they come out, the opportunity comes!
On the fifth day of coming to the port of freedom, Bai Lingfeng finally decided to go to sea. At the port, the Fengxian and Mingxue found a suitable place and released their hulls respectively, and the huge battleships immediately appeared on the sea.
The boatmen and sailors on the docks were not surprised by this. It is very normal for the ship's mother to take the hull back into the subspace after docking in the harbor and release it when she goes to sea, and they have long been used to it.
"Do you already have a plan in mind to destroy them this time?" On the black battleship, seeing Bai Lingfeng leisurely looking at the scenery, the Fengxian finally couldn't help but ask.
"It's up to your luck." Bai Lingfeng said of course.
"What do you mean by luck?" Fengxian's face was suddenly full of black lines, "Lord Admiral, those pirates are not good at their peers, and we are not playing at home, don't joke with everyone's lives!" ”
"Sit down and talk about it, don't be so impatient, I didn't say that I would attack their lair directly." Bai Lingfeng said with a smile.
The Phoenix Immortal's face finally softened a little, "Since we are not going to attack their lair, then where should we sail?" ”
Bai Lingfeng didn't answer immediately, but glanced at the sea in the distance, and then said slowly, "I heard a news in the tavern in the past few days, the trading fleet of the Brut family set off with a large amount of goods early this morning, and it seems that they are going to sell it on the other side of the Zhongzhou Sea.
It is said that most of these goods are valuable goods transported from the Wandao Sea, including Qianhu pearls, rubies, emeralds, natural diamonds, and so on. You know, there's a lot of stuff out there, and the value of these goods is absolutely eye-catching! ”
"What is the trading fleet of the House of Tebrut, I'm asking you how to do it...... Wait a minute! ”
Halfway through speaking, the Phoenix finally reacted and said in surprise: "You mean that group of pirates will attack this trade fleet?" However, the strength of this fleet was not weak, and in addition to those merchant ships, there were at least twenty warships escorting the convoy, and the pirates were afraid that they would not dare to attack them. ”
"Even the port dares to plunder, what else would that group of pirates dare not do? Of course, I'm not sure if they'll do it, but it's an opportunity, so you might as well give it a try. If they do do it, then we can make yellow finches and eat them all! ”
In the end, a cold glint flashed in Bai Lingfeng's eyes.
"Eat them all? Does it include the Brut family's trade fleet? The Fengxian was stunned for a moment, looking at Bai Lingfeng in shock, what is the difference between this and a pirate?
"Why not?" Bai Lingfeng said as a matter of course, "Anyway, it's not the first time, the Qianlong Empire has issued me a privateer license, and this kind of behavior is legal." Besides, the Brut family is not a serious businessman, if I remember correctly, they should have started out as human traffickers, and even now, the business has never been cut off, but it has been transferred from the name to the shadows. At least one-third of the world's trafficking of women and children is resold through them. I'm not going to be soft on this kind of businessman. ”
"How come these scumbags are not punished by the law!" Listening to Bai Lingfeng's words, the Fengxian immediately classified the Brut family and pirates together, even more hateful than pirates.
"Most of the laws are set up for ordinary people, and in front of the really rich and powerful, it doesn't matter if you trample on it occasionally. And it just so happens that the Brut family belongs to this category. The total assets of the Brut Chamber of Commerce they established can rank among the top ten in the world, whether it is the East China Sea, the West China Sea, the Zhongzhou Sea or the Wandao Sea, they have their power. This kind of chamber of commerce, even some empires don't dare to provoke at will, who can judge them? ”
When he was in the East China Sea, Bai Lingfeng had dealt with the Brut Chamber of Commerce and knew a lot of dirty things about this Chamber of Commerce. Because of this, his relationship with the Brut Chamber of Commerce is not good, but it is a hostile state, as long as he meets at sea, either you fire at me or I fire at you.
Of course, it is generally the Brut Chamber of Commerce that suffers. Even, under the encirclement and suppression of Bai Lingfeng and his brothers, the power of the Brut Chamber of Commerce in the East China Sea was almost uprooted. If it weren't for Bai Lingfeng's accident later, maybe the East China Sea would never see the shadow of the Brut Chamber of Commerce again.