Po Toi Island.

Ferreira stood on the side of the ship, enduring the cold touch of the winter breeze into his neck, and couldn't help but shrink his neck.

At his feet, the Tamsui River swayed with the water, making him feel drunk for a moment, and in the distance, the shadow of Po Toi Island loomed and disappeared, which was the secret base of the four pirates.

The island is located in the southeast of Hong Kong Island and is not on any important shipping routes, so few people come here. The big ships of the four pirates were all moored here, but unlike in the past, there were only ten ships in total.

According to the secret report given by Zheng Tingqiu, the wealth accumulated by the four surnamed pirates is gathered here. In the face of the suppression of the imperial court and all parties, the four pirates were also forced to change their ways.

In the past, in the face of the imperial court sea sweepers, they would scatter in all directions, use the islands at the mouth of the Pearl River to evade the imperial army, and then after withdrawing, continue to make waves. But this time is different, they have already arrested Lin Cha, and if the court fights, it will definitely come to the real thing.

Therefore, if there is a crisis in Po Tai, the chiefs can change to a large boat and flee with the treasure and cronies, and as for the various departments, they will naturally have to give up.

The only thing that left the four pirates unsure was where they were going to flee.

This is the key to piracy, and it is also the first cannon sound to exterminate the four surnames, and this sound must be earth-shattering to let all parties know.

Around Ferreira, there was a Calaisse and five galliers, as well as six fast crabs, a total of twelve large ships, carrying all of the Tamsui Battalion and Ferreira Battalion, which had already arrived in Macao.

"Ferreira, do you really want to lead the team yourself?" Chen Liuzi asked with a smile while smoking a cigarette.

Ferreira nodded: "Yes, Shopkeeper Chen, this is a rare opportunity, please be sure to give it to me." ”

Chen Liuzi smiled, the current situation is very clear, and the higher the status, the easier it is for people to see clearly. After the four surnames are wiped out, there will not be another pirate gang that stirs up the situation, but there will be a huge force such as the Oriental Trading Company to reshape the local order.

Anyone who wants to develop in the Pearl River Estuary must find his place in the order established by the Oriental Trading Company, and Ferreira chose the most direct way.

"Then have you prayed to your God?" Chen Liuzi asked with a smile.

Ferreira was helpless: "Let Mazu bless me." ”

Ferreira was a Catholic, and he used to be very religious, but he was very religious. For in Macau, only the devout Catholic could obtain the means of ascension, but for him, neither God nor Our Lady fascinated him with gold coins and authority.

After seeing the situation clearly, Ferreira went to Tamsui once, where he found that his faith, far from being as convenient as he had been in Macau, was restrictive.

There were many members of the Oriental Trading Company from the Taixi countries, as well as Chejitan, but all of them were outsiders. There are believers in Tamsui, but there are no churches, and there are no clergy such as priests, and those who believe in foreign religions cannot buy land in Tamsui or engage in public religious activities.

Just as he chose to join the church for the sake of his future, he is now willing to give up religion for the sake of his future.

The night was as thick as ink, everything was shrouded in darkness, Wu Siniang got out of bed, the cold weather made the humid air biting, the cold wind blew, and everything that was wiped made a sound.

"Chief, you're still on patrol." A maid asked.

Wu Siniang put on a cloak and nodded slightly, she is Xu Guixiang's wife, but she is not a simple woman, she is still the second leader of Xu Guixiang's department.

Out of the house, walking in the stockade, the so-called stockade with a fence to enclose several houses, around the house scattered tents of various departments, Wu Siniang carried a knife, walked in the fence, listened to the movement, looked at the details, suddenly someone asked: "Who is it?" ”

"I, Wu Siniang." Wu Siniang replied.

"Leader Wu, why did you come to us?" A man emerges from the tent and is a close confidant of Shibi.

Wu Siniang said: "The situation is unstable, each family can't only take care of themselves, if something happens, no one can get out." I don't think there are many patrols in the second half of the night, so I come to top this shift. ”

"Yes, that's what the black leader said." The pirate laughed, stretched, and went back to sleep.

Wu Siniang said to the maid who followed behind: "Remember, there is a small tent where the secret whistle lives behind the big rock, and we didn't even find it before. ”

The maid nodded: "It's all written down, chief." ”

The four pirates now feel that the future is uncertain, and as for what the future holds, everyone has their own ambitions. Shibi wanted to go to Fujian to vote for Zheng Zhilong, Ma Xuansheng and Zheng Tingqiu claimed to want to go to Nanyang to be the master of the sea and the port, while Xu Guixiang wanted to go to western Guangdong, that is, the area around the Beibu Gulf, which was the base camp of the Tan people.

Not only that, Xu Guixiang saw that the wealth of the pirates was all on this Potai Island, and thought that if he left, he simply robbed these treasures, so he sent Wu Siniang to preside over the overall situation on the surface, but in fact he was to inquire about intelligence.

"Boss, when did you say our shopkeeper would come....... The maid asked.

Wu Siniang turned around and scolded: "Is this what you can ask?" ”

But before she could finish speaking, the maid's body had fallen to the ground, and out of her neck came a short axe stuck there.

Sou! Wu Siniang heard a breaking wind in her ears, and instinctively rolled to the ground, and an axe flew over her head and wedged into the ground on the side.

"Enemy attack!"

Wu Siniang immediately pulled out her knife, roared and rolled, and hid behind the stones, and on the ground where he was just now, two throwing spears immediately appeared.

"Who's calling, who's not letting people sleep!" Someone came out of the tent and shouted, but was killed on the spot by a spear shot from the darkness.

With a melodious and heavy conch sound piercing the night sky, the outer fence was pulled down almost instantly, and then, the sound of shouting and killing came, a group of soldiers wearing iron armor and various iron helmets rushed out, they were armed with spears and broadswords, and charged in formation, and the pirates who had just come out of the tent saw it, and immediately ran away in fright, but they had been pierced by the spear in the back of the heart, and before they could cry out in pain, a black shadow swept by, cutting off the man's head.

The pirates' camp had been turned into an assura field, and the spearmen surrounded the tents, which could not help but be a stab, and when there was no movement inside, they threw torches and lit them, and one tent after another was set on fire, and the flames soared into the sky, illuminating the sky, but also illuminating the sword and sword.

The sound of conch, chopping, fighting, screaming, mixed together, Rao is Wu Siniang has also seen battles, and she is too frightened to fight back at this time, she beckoned her subordinates and ran towards the dock.

All the goods are on the big ships, but they are not going to rob the big ships, but the small ones.

There were elite guards on the big ship, but there were no oars and no sails on board, so they didn't drive away from the ship, and the sailors were all on the shore, but now they have been slaughtered.

"Quick, get on that dragon." Wu Siniang shouted loudly.

But it attracted the attention of an attacker, he rushed with a spear, and assassinated a guy holding the oar on the spot, but the spear was also stuck by the person's sternum, and he couldn't pull it out, Wu Siniang slashed at the attacker's back with a knife, but directly cut a big gap in the outer robe, and the blade collided with the iron armor, erasing a spark.

Soldier A staggered, blocked the knife with his arm, pulled out the knife, and gave Wu Siniang a knife, Wu Siniang fell into the water, and the soldier no longer cared, but killed indiscriminately at the dock, grabbed an oar with his hand, swept up, and the frightened pirates jumped into the water.

In the light of the fire, one by one they struggled on the water, and the armor soldiers swung their oars and smashed their heads one by one.

By daybreak, the battle was over, and in the distance, the galleys sailed into the docks, threatening the pirates on board with their guns to hand over the ships, and no one dared to resist under the threat of the guns of the black holes, and all the belongings of the ten large ships were controlled.

Ferreira, on the other hand, met the injured Wu Siniang at the docks.

The lower half of her body was soaked in the waterhole on the beach after the tide went down, and the blood stained red, and she covered her stomach, her face already pale.

"Give...... I'm in pain...... Come on. Wu Siniang had a weak voice and said intermittently.

Ferreira said, "You are Xu Guixiang's woman, right?" Do you know where Lin Chaguan is? ”

He ...... He's in Dazhai, not here. Wu Siniang said.

Ferreira nodded, and the knife he pulled out stabbed through Wu Siniang's ribs, ending her pain.

South Park, Guangzhou.

"Chen Jisheng, Chen Jisheng!"

Outside the flower hall, seven or eight gentry hurriedly came, Master Huang wiped the sweat on his face, and shouted loudly, this kind of behavior of calling Chen Zizhuang's name is rare to see, and those servants dare not provoke, so they dodge again and again.

At the door of the flower hall, Chen Zizhuang appeared, and he said coldly: "Master Huang, you came here and called the old man by his name, could it be because the old man owed you money, and you couldn't come to the door to ask for it?" ”

Even if he is a well-cultivated person, he will be called by his name in public, not to mention, Chen Zizhuang is the head of the gentry and has the best face.

Master Huang was not afraid at all, and said: "Chen Jisheng, you don't have to pretend here, I called all my colleagues from the regimental defense bureau, and you should make it clear in person if you have some words."

What's going on on Potai Island, why did the Oriental Trading Company suddenly attack and use swords against the four surnames.

Although it is said that the four surnames were exterminated and the Oriental Trading Company was invited, shouldn't it be up to the governor and our regimental defense bureau to decide when to start a war and attack the strategy? Why do you have to meet in Hongbin Tower, and then march into the conquest, why do you want to fight now. ”

"Yes, did you play any tricks, in front of such colleagues today, let's make it clear." Master Lin also came up and said, and the rest of the gentry shouted one after another.

As soon as these people got the news in the regimental defense bureau, they realized that something was wrong.

Although Li Zhaoji has a grudge against the four surnames and is interested in the development of Guangdong, he will never start a war without authorization when the Guangdong government and gentry invite him to participate in the suppression of thieves. Everyone couldn't understand it for a while, and they felt that Chen Zizhuang had a lot of concerns about this matter on weekdays, and his young son was also trapped in the Japanese Kingdom because of the Oriental Trading Company, so he might take revenge for personal gain.

If Chen Zizhuang really hid the chaos between the League Defense Bureau and Li Zhaoji, it would hurt everyone's interests.

"Hehe, everyone is here, no matter what, it's better than the old man going to invite them one by one." Another person came out of the flower hall, it was the governor Shen Youlong.

For the sake of interests, the gentry put away Chen Zizhuang's flattery on weekdays, and came to the door shouting, but in the face of Shen Youlong, they could only bow their heads again.

The gentry poured into the flower hall, and saw that Chen Zizhuang was calm and calm, while Shen Youlong was not in a hurry, so he could only sit down.

"The battle of Potai, the old man knows, but it is not the fault of Mr. Chen, and it is not what happened to Li Zhaoji, if you want to blame, you can only blame the chief soldier Lin Cha, who is good at starting the war, Li Zhaoji is on the order of the old man to enter the army, is to avoid the situation from being out of control." Shen Youlong said with a smile.

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