Early the next morning, Liang En, who had been chasing for a night, led a team of mountain ghosts to escort more than 30 captives back to the River Temple, and when they approached the temple gate, they found that the other teams had also returned, and each escorted the captives.

Contrary to Liang En's previous suspicions, these pirates did not fight to the last moment, and in the pursuit they only eliminated more than 700 pirates, but captured nearly a thousand pirates, and in the end less than 100 people managed to escape.

For those pirates, once they completely fail to run in such an unfamiliar place, it is better to surrender than to starve to death, die of thirst, be eaten by wild beasts, or be lynched by the villagers.

Although it is said that after surrendering, you may be slashed, you may be hanged, and you may be captured for hard labor, but it is better than suffering and then dying.

As the victors, Liang and his team not only killed and captured a large number of enemies, but also captured a huge amount of booty, even to the extent that Liang En needed to mobilize manpower from other places to clean up.

After a brief count, they found that a total of 36 ships capable of sea transportation, more than 700 armor pairs, and a large number of food and weapons were captured in this battle.

Interestingly, the ship did not have all the gold, silver and jewels that a pirate ship should have, but instead had a far more than normal number of spare weapons and a large amount of baggage supplies.

"It feels a little weird." The ship's contents made Liang and the others frown, as the pile looked more like they had been found from a warship than from a pirate ship.

"There is nothing strange about it, except that this group of pirates should be prepared for a real war with an organized situation in advance." As a regular soldier, Tian Zongqi quickly figured out what this meant.

After leaving some people to sort out the loot and continue to maintain vigilance, Liang En and the two squads of mountain ghosts went to Yuanhe County.

According to the mountain ghosts who were in charge of scouting the surrounding area, a small group of pirates of more than 500 people had tried to sneak attack, but they were easily defeated by the defenders of the city, and only a dozen people escaped.

However, unlike the group of pirates who attacked the River Temple, this group of pirates was just a group of small local pirates who used the offshore islands as their base of activities, and they were divided into seven or eight groups, so after the bluff was discovered, they were naturally completely defeated by a simple charge of the regular army organized in the city.

In this battle, the civilian officials led by the county commander also made a lot of efforts, and they jointly released several fireballs to kill half of the pirates' front row elites and several leaders, and cooperated with the attacking army to completely disrupt the pirates' position.

After entering the city along the hanging basket of the pillow, Liang En and the others entered the county office as soon as possible and reported the results of the previous battle to the county commander, and after listening to the report, the county commander Zhang breathed a long sigh of relief.

"You did much better than I thought, not only defending the Wangyu River, but also eliminating the top three pirate gangs in this invasion." After listening to Liang En's report, Zhang Xianling stroked his beard happily and said.

"Actually, I was very worried when I heard that more than 3,000 people were gathering there, and I even asked for reinforcements from above, hoping to organize enough troops to support you. But I didn't expect you to not only defend that place, but also completely wipe out the invading pirates. ”

"We were just lucky, and prepared. Of course, the reinforcements and supplies you replenished in time before the battle were also the key to our victory-"

Liang En praised the county order with a smile, and then inquired about the current battle situation: "May I ask, how is the fighting in other places except us, has the enemy been eliminated or driven out?" ”

"Most of them have been wiped out, and because of what you've imparted, we've saved more people who might otherwise have died." Zhang Xianling smiled and nodded at Liang En.

"Most of them have been wiped out?" Liang frowned when he noticed a certain word. "In other words, there are still some enemies who have not been destroyed? I thought that if I was prepared, the court would be able to eliminate this rabble quickly. ”

"yes, that's what I thought, but that's not the case." Zhang Xianling sighed softly. "Those scattered pirates have almost all been wiped out by us, and we only have a few losses, but about 6,000 elites in the core of the other side have captured Wanghaiwei."

Wanghaiwei is a guard built on the south bank of the Yangtze River estuary dozens of kilometers upstream, and it is also an important lighthouse, so there has always been a hundred households stationed there before.

Although this hundred households are well-equipped and usually well-trained, it is naturally impossible for them to hold this position when more than 6,000 elite pirates flock to it.

Because they had a plan, they realized that the main force of the pirate attack was on their side, and the defenders on the island destroyed the materials hidden in the fortress and set fire to them, and then quickly evacuated.

The elite pirates did not pursue them, but immediately captured the fortress they had abandoned and held it until now, even when the army began to gather outside.

"That's not normal." After listening to the county order, Liang En frowned. Because the other party's approach looks inexplicable, it makes people completely confused.

Because of the launch of a military operation, especially now that tens of thousands of people have been mobilized and a lot of resources are consumed, there must be a goal, but now the opponent's attack target makes Liang En a little confused.

Wanghaiwei Fort, a small fortress by the sea, has almost zero strategic and tactical value - although it is on the edge of the Yangtze River, its location cannot block the Yangtze River at all, and although the whole building is built on a high platform, the space inside is extremely narrow.

So he really couldn't see what this large-scale attack, which had been planned for more than a year and mobilized tens of thousands of people, was only to capture such a small guard by the sea.

Due to the small size of the garrison, only about 200 of those attackers were able to enter the fort, while the others had to set up temporary camps around the fort and confront the gradually gathering imperial troops outside.

As for the imperial army, they did not attack, because it took time for the troops to assemble in various places before, and the 5,000 people who had already arrived could only be contained at most, and it was absolutely impossible to attack.

Because the local fighting was basically over, Liang En stayed in the county town for the next few days to guide the operation of the first aid station. Although he is not a professional, as a modern person, he is able to provide some valuable guidance with his own insight.

It must be said that the experience accumulated with countless lives is very valuable, and in the case of large-scale disinfection with alcohol and allicin, they have succeeded in reducing the infection rate to 1/30 of the past, and the mortality rate to 1/7 of the past.

At the same time, this highly effective treatment has greatly reduced the workload of those who have cultivated themselves, because they only need to save the most critical patients, instead of having to scratch their eyebrows and mustaches as before.

A week later, all the wounded in the emergency station were stabilized, and at this point, a dispatch was sent to the first aid station.

The order came from the supreme commander of the encirclement and suppression of the pirates, and the content was to mobilize the personnel and medicines of the ambulance stations from all over the country to the military camp near Wanghaiwei to prepare for the upcoming battle.

"It's finally over."

After glancing at the order, Liang immediately understood that the final attack on this group of pirates was about to begin, which also meant that this large-scale pirate invasion would soon be over.