Chapter 109: The Wokou? Annihilation!
When the natives saw that the messenger of the god of the sea promised to punish the robbers, they immediately rejoiced, because in their eyes, the messenger of the god of the sea was naturally omnipotent, and maybe they could summon a big wave to directly knock down those robbers!
But Zhuang Shaoyou was worried, he agreed without thinking about it on a whim just now, the main reason was the impression of the subconscious, but how to deal with the enemy now? If you fail, aren't you a liar? And it's a liar pretending to be an oracle! The consequences are very serious, who knows if these natives will come to fight with them!
"Pila, where did those robbers come from? How many people are there? What about armament? How many ships are there? How often to rob? In short, the more detailed the situation, the better! ”
Pyra hurriedly described in detail, it turns out that those Japanese robbers are referred to as Japanese robbers! They came from a large island more than 700 miles to the north, and each time they came, there were thousands of people, and they took more than 30 large and small ships, and every time they attacked at night, they ran away after robbing, and they would come almost once a month, and the last time they came to rob was more than half a month ago, and it is estimated that they will come again in ten days at most.
The natives of the Austronesian language group are scattered on the nearby islands one by one, and make a living from fishing, the natives on each small island range from dozens to hundreds, they are ordinary fishermen, and they cannot fight against the robbers' warships, there are thousands of natives on this northern island, but they are also scattered all over the island, not concentrated, and the most concentrated place is only more than a thousand people.
Every time, those would-be robbers attacked the small number of villagers, and every time they killed all the villagers, robbed all the belongings, and then set fire to the village, and thousands of villagers have been killed in the past few years! These natives were forced to live together, with at least a few hundred people in each village, but the lack of food and fresh water was a huge headache!
Zhuang Shaoyou listened to Pila's words, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that he is just writing about stragglers and pirates, not a large regular army, so he doesn't have to worry about frontal combat, the key problem is that the other party is elusive and unpredictable, and the natives can't live in a centralized manner, so it causes such a situation.
"Pila! How many islands are there near the North Island? What is the population of the island? Which island is the richest? The kind that everyone knows! ”
Pila thought about it, described the distribution and wealth of the surrounding islands and indigenous people in detail, and Zhuang Shaoyou finally selected the coral island on the east side of the North Island after careful analysis.
After careful planning, Zhuang Shaoyou finally chose to eliminate the Japanese on Coral Island!
"Pila, you tell the patriarch that it is not difficult to destroy the Japanese Kou, but you must obey my command!"
After Pyra relayed it to the patriarch, the patriarch agreed without hesitation.
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In the afternoon of the same day, dozens of kayaks were sent out in the North Island, and then the entire nearby islands of the North Island were all moved, and the natives scattered on the various islands took their possessions and rowed kayaks, dragging their families to the North Island, except for Coral Island, of course.
There are 600 indigenous inhabitants on the coral island, the island is eighteen miles long, the widest part is ten miles, the narrowest place is five miles, the whole island is gourd-shaped, the island residents have never seen the gourd, and there are large coral reefs near the island, so it is named Coral Island, the island's residents make a living by collecting coral, the island area is sufficient, but there is a lack of fresh water, only there is a small mountain spring on the mountain in the south of the island, which barely supplies the drinking water of hundreds of people on the island.
Zhuang Shaoyou left the two merchant ships behind, and took the intact merchant ship to anchor near Coral Island, and Ink and Pila led the craftsmen to work day and night, and finally after eight days, even the merchant ships were repaired.
Zhuang Shaoyou gathered the three ships on guard, anchored on the North Island during the day, and drove to the south of the coral island thirty miles at night to guard, Zhuang Shaoyou took one to stop in the southwest, and Ink took the other two to stop in the southeast.
I waited for three days, until the night of August 11, close to the Mid-Autumn Festival, but tonight's moonlight was hazy, the stars were dim, and the southeast wind on the sea was a little tighter.
Suddenly, Zhuang Shaoyou, who was standing on the deck, suddenly felt that the wind direction suddenly changed, from the southeast wind to the southwest wind, Zhuang Shaoyou suddenly felt a little sensed in his heart, hesitated, and still ordered the ship to prepare for battle.
Fifty miles north of the North Island, a group of Japanese robbers came here to rob again with more than 30 large and small boats, but after wandering around five or six islands, they did not find a single person, the leader of the Japanese invaders was furious, ordered to set fire to the village, and then thought for a moment, and commanded the fleet to go to the coral island in the southeast, if there is no one on the coral island, then it will be in vain tonight, the leader of the Japanese invaders thought.
More than an hour later, near the end of the day, the Japanese arrived near Coral Island and sent a small boat close to the island to reconnoitre, and after nearly half an hour, the spies reported that the inhabitants of the island were having a celebration, and there seemed to be a lot of food and seafood.
The leader of the Japanese pirates pondered, the celebration? I also know a few of these indigenous festivals, but I didn't have a festival today! What a book to celebrate! Could it be a lure to the enemy?
I have to say that this leader still has some brains, but Zhuang Shaoyou is not worried that they will not come.
The leader of the pirates hesitated and ordered his men to probe again.
After another half an hour, the hour had passed, and the spies reported that the inhabitants of the island had finished their celebrations and gone back to rest, but still left fifty people to patrol and guard, several times more than the usual number of patrols, and a house in the village was blackly lit, but there were still more than twenty natives standing guard outside!
The eyes of the leader of the Japanese invaders suddenly lit up, there must be something important!
Three quarters of an hour later, there was a sudden shouting on the island, on a mountain peak on the island, a huge torch was lit, Zhuang Shaoyou in the distance saw the firelight, and immediately ordered the prepared ships to drive over at full speed, the southwest wind was blowing on the sea, Zhuang Shaoyou's ship was in the southwest, so it was smooth sailing, and it took less than half an hour to kill the coral island.
But when I saw a fire on Coral Island, many houses were set on fire, and those would-be robbers kept kicking in the door, but found that there was no one in the house! The patrolling soldiers fled swiftly south.
The leader of the pirates pondered and gathered his men and headed for the heavily guarded house, but by the time they arrived, the guards of the house had been withdrawn, and the whole house was darkly lit and blinded.
The leader of the Japanese invaders was puzzled, and sent two of his men to explore the way, and the two men cautiously walked to the house, kicked open the door, but found nothing, and then the two men bravely carried torches into the house, and found that the house was empty!
Then suddenly the sound of gongs and drums sounded on the mountains to the south, and hundreds of natives rushed towards the village with spears and bows and arrows.
The leader of the Japanese was shocked, but he was ruthless, and ordered his men to charge and kill all these natives! The Japanese immediately gathered to meet the natives, and after a few arrows, the natives hurriedly retreated and ran to the mountains to the south before the two armies could make contact.
When they reached the foot of the mountain, they suddenly rolled down hundreds of huge boulders from the hillside, and in an instant, they pressed the nearby Japanese to a blur of flesh and blood, killing and wounding more than 100 people.
Seeing this, the leader wanted to chase, but those natives ran into the mountains after shooting arrows, familiar with the road, a pair of big feet, a pair of long legs, where can they catch up, the leader of the Japanese Kou was furious, but he still resisted his unwise move and ordered a retreat!
As a result, when the natives saw that the Japanese were about to run and followed behind to shoot arrows, the leader of the Japanese invaders held back his anger and did not give the order to reflexively return fire, but secondly, he ordered to run to the seaside boat at full speed.
Thousands of Japanese robbers tossed in only half an hour, more than 200 died, and more than 700 people remained, and they boarded the ship in a hurry, but when they had just set sail and were about to flee back to their lair, three large ships stopped domineeringly in the north, and the stern faced the fleet, and then there was an overwhelming rain of rocks.
The stone rain is big and small, the small one is the size of a fist, the big one is the size of a watermelon, and it smashed the Japanese fleet to wail, and a few unlucky ships were hit by the boulders in key parts, scrapped, a moment of effort, the Japanese invaders suffered more than 100 casualties, and several small boats were smashed and could not be used, the leader of the Japanese invaders grinned and ordered the fleet to assault forward!
His own boat is fast, and as long as he can get close to the ship and board the boat, this group of rats is not a local chicken and tile dog? If you win this kind of big ship, your strength will definitely increase, and you may not have to go to this slope to rob you and drink spicy food!
As a result, as soon as the fleet of the Japanese invaders set out, the big ships also moved, and while running in the northeast direction, they kept throwing stones.
In a quarter of an hour, the pirates suffered hundreds of casualties, and while the leader of the pirates hesitated, the ship stopped throwing stones.
The leader of the Japanese was overjoyed when he saw this, and there were no stones! So he urged the boat to pursue it with all its might!
The small boat chased closer and closer, and when it was still two hundred steps away from the big ship, a wave of dense stone rain suddenly came out from the big ship, which smashed into the Japanese fleet, causing dozens of casualties, and the number of Japanese was only more than 500 people, and there were only 20 ships left.
However, the morale of those Japanese pirates was very low, and the successive attacks did not go well tonight, and the beating was called a grievance, and the leader of the Japanese stood up, and he didn't know what he was saying, and the morale of the Japanese was suddenly greatly boosted, and the fleet accelerated to the big ship.
Two hundred steps, one hundred and fifty steps, getting closer and closer! The big ship suddenly accelerated, and then the three ships turned east at the same time, and in a moment's effort, all three big ships crossed the hull, and at this time the Japanese were only less than a hundred steps away from the big ship, and a violent bowstring sound suddenly sounded on both sides, and a dense rain of arrows roared towards the Japanese robbers, and the screams of pieces and bursts of crossbow arrows nailed to the board of the ship made an aggressive sound.
The four-masted merchant ship is equipped with eighteen six-shot fixed crossbow machines, nine on each side of the ship, a salvo is fifty-four crossbow arrows, and there are hundreds of soldiers on each ship, each with a double-fire crossbow machine, a salvo is also nearly 200 crossbow arrows, and the three ships are even more than 700 crossbow arrows in a salvo, and at such a close distance, the penetration is extremely strong, and those fragile small boats can be shot through.
The dense rain of arrows caused more than half of the casualties of those pirates in an instant, and there were less than three hundred people left, and the leader finally couldn't bear it anymore, and ordered a retreat, and then he took the lead in a clipper to run, but just ran far, the second round of crossbow arrows came again.
Zhuang Shaoyou stood on the side of the boat, looking at the tragic situation below, his face was expressionless, and he shouted loudly: "Those who can speak Chinese can live, and the rest will die!" ”
There were less than a hundred left Wako who saw that the leader was shot into a sieve by the volley just now, and completely collapsed, and they were all at a loss when they heard someone shouting on the boat, but there were still two voices shouting: "I will!" I will! Don't kill me! ”
Zhuang Shaoyou glanced at the two people with disdain, and instructed his subordinates: "Get these two people up, and don't leave the other one!" A bad aura emanated from Zhuang Shaoyou's body unconsciously, so frightened that the ink next to him who wanted to dissuade didn't dare to say anything.