When the morning sun is in the east, when the sea and the sky meet, a big ship looms between the sparkling waves.

It was a three-masted birdship, with its silver-white sails rising in the wind, and its huge hull cutting two snow-white waves.

Behind this bird ship, a blessed ship with its head and tail upturned and three masts slowly emerged, and behind it was a huge ship of similar shape.

"Reef spotted ahead." Suddenly there was a shout from the lookout.

Everyone on the ship's floor looked into the distance, and a long series of small dots seemed to appear in the sea not far away.

"The chart given by the Chamber of Commerce of the Four Seas is not wrong, it has been more than a month since Lasag, but I didn't expect to really find this place after more than a month of sailing." A middle-aged man in armor looked at the looming black dot at the sea and sky intersection and laughed.

"Order, Fuboqian Town is ready to land on the island." Li Du ordered.

After following Xiao Wu to suppress the pirates in northern Luzon, Li Du led the sailors of Fubo and the two towns to rest in Laoag for a few days, and was replenished by Liu Yu after summoning sailors, and set sail for the northern waters of Luzon.

The Ming army swept away the pirates in the area of the Babuyan Islands, and Xiao Wu also returned victorious.

However, there are still many pirates who take advantage of the decline of Spanish maritime power in Luzon to entrench themselves in the major islands of the Pabuyan Islands, and trying to digest these islands is enough to give the Luzon Ming court a headache.

However, Liu Yu overrode public opinion and ordered Li Du to lead the naval division of Fubo Erzhen to bypass the Babuyan Islands and go straight through the Balintang Strait to the Batan Islands, which are further north of the Babuyan Islands.

Liu Yu didn't have time to play a game of cat and mouse on the Babuyan Islands with the Spaniards or pirates, anyway, several large islands were also controlled and occupied by the Ming army's sailors, so the next step was naturally to take the Batan Islands further north.

As for the pirates scurrying between the islands of Babuyan,

It's just a bunch of sea rats, so why bother.

The second town of Fubo set sail from Laoag, bypassed Cape Bohador to Passalen, crossed the Strait of Babuyan, and fought a battle with a swaggering gang of pirates near Camiguin Island, capturing more than 20 men alive and beheading more than 50 people, with only six losses of its own.

Without stopping long, he crossed the Babuyan Islands, and under the guidance of the nautical chart, he crossed the Balintang Strait and came directly to the sea area in front of him.

The Batans Islands are also known as the Batanes.

It is about 310 kilometers north of Luzon in the Philippines, and is one of the 14 small islands in the Luzon Strait.

Out of prudence, Li Du sent more than 30 Ming soldiers carried by two clippers to land on the island as an advance team.

With the help of high tide and the efforts of the Ming sailors, the clipper soon arrived at the beach.

Submerged in the half-height seawater, the Ming soldiers struggled to walk towards the beach.

It was a white beach, as if no one had visited it for a long time.

Even the seagulls that entrenched here were not frightened away by the arrival of the living.

"Leave one class to guard the ship, and the remaining two groups follow me to explore." A co-ordinator twisted his wet shirt and spoke.

The Luzon Ming Army adopted the town association class system, and the first association had ten classes under its jurisdiction, with twelve people in each class.

Except for a group of 12 men left here to guard the ship.

The remaining two groups of more than 20 soldiers, led by a co-ordinator, walked to the depths of the beach.

The islands were noticeably much larger than normal reefs, and it took a while for the Ming army to get around the beach.

"Oh, there's still people on this ruined island," a pathfinder found several stone houses on the flat ground not far away.

The Ming soldiers did not continue to frighten these people, and after some investigation, they also walked towards the beach.

After all, it's sunset, and it's not wise to stay on the island.

By the time the Ming Clippers returned to the fleet, the sky had already darkened.

"If the charts drawn by the Chinese merchants in Luzon are not wrong, then we can reach Taiwan by bypassing the island and passing through the waters north of the island." Li Du looked at the chart and said with a smile.

Xiao Wu sent people to draw a nautical chart of the area around the Babuyan Islands, but it was not comprehensive, and the Batanes Islands further north were only a vague idea.

Out of loyalty to the Ming court in Luzon, the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce bought a chart from a wealthy local merchant in Laoag at a high price, translated it into Chinese and presented it to Liu Yu.

The chart was drawn by the Spaniards, and for some reason it was obtained by a wealthy local merchant in Laoag, and finally presented to Liu Yu by a Chinese merchant.

"Early tomorrow morning, the soldiers of the Three Associations will enter the island, and the warships of the Second Town Navy Division will take the island as the core to inspect the rest of the islands, and plant the Luzon Ming flag on this island." Li Du drew his sword and pointed straight at the dim sea in front of him.

The soldiers present were also eager to try, and a wave of enthusiasm surged into their hearts.

It's been almost a year since I left Taiwan, and I fled like a lost dog, and who would have thought that one day I would be able to kill back.

Many of the soldiers were stationed on the deck and looked at the dim sea level.

A pair of deep eyes silently stared at the looming island not far away.

Early in the morning, the naval warships of Fubo Second Town began to slowly separate and set sail.

Compared with yesterday's restraint, today's Ming army chose to land on three islands at the same time.

The Spaniards have long since disappeared from this sea.

Today, the owner of this sea area off Luzon is the Great Ming Sailor.

Some pirates who are like lost dogs, what are they afraid of?

There are many primitive natives living in the archipelago.

The islanders migrated from Taiwan about 3,500 years ago, and in the 16th century the Spanish invaded and intermarried with the locals, forming the local Ivantan people.

The traditional dwellings of the islanders are made of stone walls more than one meter thick, with turf roofs and small windows for ventilation, which are warm in winter and cool in summer.

The soldiers of the Ming army did not affect the lives of the aborigines of these islands.

After confirming that the aborigines of these islands did not pose any threat to the Ming army, they generously lowered their vigilance against these aborigines.

Not all Ming troops were smooth sailing, and a Ming army bird ship suddenly found a three-masted ship stranded between the reefs in the northern bay of an island.

"Looks like a pirate ship." A co-director on deck looked coldly at the flag hanging on the stranded ship, as if he had seen it somewhere in his memory.

Suddenly, several figures flashed across the deck, and in an instant they leaped into the sea.

"Fire," the co-organizer finally remembered something, looking at the few figures struggling to swim towards the shore.

Several four-pounder Franc cannons on the deck bombarded the shore incessantly.

Several of the pirates who swam to the shore were stupid.

One four-pound buckshot after another slashed across the surface of the sea and plunged headlong into the sea, blasting out huge waves one after another.

A pirate screamed as if he had been swept away by a cannonball.

The rest of the people swam desperately to the shore and ran to the shore without their lives.

"Lin Xu,"

"Here," a swarthy man walked out, looking at the co-chair in front of him with a conceited expression.

"These pirates obviously have a den on the island, give you two squads to kill him for me." The tall co-chair patted Lin Xu on the shoulder and laughed.

Lin Xu didn't say anything, and after ordering two squads of soldiers, he rushed to the beach on a speedboat.

When two squads of Ming soldiers washed up on the beach, several pirates had already run away.

"Follow the trail and chase me down, without leaving someone to guard the ship." Lin Xu looked at the series of chaotic footprints on the beach and said coldly.