Li Zhaoji shook his head slightly: "Zheng Tingqiu was originally an inside line arranged by the trading company in the pirates. ”

Ferreira was shocked, no wonder Li Zhaoji dared to lead the army to suppress the pirates before the Ming army was fully ready, it turned out that it was not only the strong strength of the trading company's armed forces, but also such an exquisite arrangement, one of the leaders of the four surnamed pirates was his inner line, and he naturally knew that he would not be defeated in a hundred battles.

And Ferreira also understood why Li Zhaoji became so angry when he heard that Zheng Tingqiu surrendered.

Now it is only the naval army that has destroyed the pirates, the land battle has not yet begun, and the ultimate goal is to exterminate the pirates' Dazhai on the island, and Zheng Tingqiu was supposed to play a greater role in this crucial battle, but he chose to surrender.

Tang Mu said: "Big shopkeeper, is Zheng Tingqiu's surrender a conspiracy, maybe he has other intentions?" ”

Li Zhaoji waved his hand and said: "There is no conspiracy, but there are two hearts." Now that the pirates have become turtles in the urn, what two hearts can they have, Zheng Tingqiu took the initiative to surrender, just to protect his reputation. ”

"Reputation?" Tang Mu was a little incomprehensible.

Li Zhaoji said: "Have you noticed that since the beginning of the crackdown on pirates, Zheng Tingqiu has sent six waves of people to deliver letters, and each of these six waves of people is a fresh face. ”

Tang Mu was responsible for contacting Zheng Tingqiu, and he had already discovered this, Tang Mu said: "Yes, after these people send the letter, they will definitely be killed by Zheng Tingqiu after they go back." ”

"Yes, it can be guessed that Zheng Tingqiu doesn't want these of his subordinates to know that he has already voted for the Oriental Trading Company.

Because we promised him that when the war was over, we would reorganize his pirate fleet into a privateer fleet, and give him permission to harass the coast of Japan.

If his subordinates had known that he had joined the Oriental Trading Company early on, they would have been happy at first and would have survived, but when he took charge and began to conquer Japan, everyone would have relented in their trust in him.

Because Zheng Tingqiu may betray himself at any time. Li Zhaoji said.

Tang Mu thought about it carefully, and he understood why Zheng Tingqiu surrendered early without informing Li Zhaoji.

Because when the trading company besieges Dazhai with arms, it will inevitably be used as an internal response, and Zheng Tingqiu has to do it in order to survive, and the reputation of betrayal will be determined. On the contrary, if he surrenders now, Li Zhaoji will also arrange for him to harass Japan according to the previous agreement, so his subordinates will be even more grateful to Dade.

"Do you want to teach him a lesson?" Tang Mu asked.

Li Zhaoji waved his hand: "Forget it, let him go, let's enter the strait and land outside Dazhai." ”

The location and construction of the pirate's Dazhai was full of arbitrariness, and it did not occupy the location of the hills, nor did it take advantage of the river ditch, the so-called Dazhai, more to covet the convenience of the smuggling port.

Located on the flat ground in the southern part of the original town, the village fenced off two brick and stone warehouses, and then dug a circle of trenches around them, and built arrow towers at intervals, which were the buildings where the pirates lived, and the large warehouses where the pirate leaders gathered were located.

In the past, the pirate leaders did not live here, but lived in more comfortable areas of the city, and Dazhai was just an exclusive area isolated by the pirates, a public brothel, an arsenal, a tavern, and a place to house their families, so the defensive attribute was far inferior to the life attribute.

However, after the tense situation, Dazhai was improved, and the destroyed street outside was reinforced with a lot of materials, and sharpened bamboo was buried in the trench dug, and all kinds of human and animal feces and corpses were thrown inside, and the people who stepped into it would be injured and infected even if they did not die directly.

After the attack on Po Tai, the pirates were cut off from escaping, and Dazhai also stockpiled food and began to prepare for a long-term confrontation.

Zheng Tingqiu suddenly fled and surrendered with more than 300 henchmen, which was tantamount to a bolt from the blue for the pirates, and the entire Dazhai was in chaos, first a fire and a fire, capturing or killing Zheng Tingqiu's remaining subordinates, and then a bloody bullet pressure, killing those pirates who intended to flee or surrender.

The whole village was filled with the smell of blood, and because of this chaos, Shibi and Ma Xuansheng did not organize the resistance of the beach, and the Tamsui battalion, the Ferrera battalion and the fleet were able to go ashore one after another.

First, a forest of spears and bayonets appeared outside the village, and then the soldiers looked for planks from the streets or cut vines and branches in the field to make tags and shield carts to prepare for the attack, all of which were seen by the pirates in the village, but they could not cope with it.

When the Tamsui battalion first appeared, Xu Guixiang, who had lost its leader, once opened the gate of the village, and two or three hundred people ran out to surrender. But the pirates were not even professional in surrendering, they did not contact in advance, so they did not agree on the code mark, and they were afraid that Shibi and Ma Xuansheng would find out, so they rushed out like sheep.

This was as chaotic as the pirates' attack, so Zhao Dahe identified it as a harassing attack by the pirates, and under Zhao Dahe's order, the pirates were brought closer, and then there was a volley of flintlock pistols and the roar of six-pounder guns, and then hundreds of corpses were left between the two armies.

"It's too wide here, I'm getting two Franc machines, and I'm going to arrange it here." Shibi inspected the gate and said to his subordinates.

While patrolling, he tinkered with the defenses, but found that Ma Xuansheng's men were shuttling in the village, but there was no serious work, and the carriage in the dung heap in the distance was empty, and Lin Cha should be locked up inside. He scolded: "What about Lin Cha? ”

"The thief officer was taken away by our leader." Ma Xuansheng's subordinates said.

"What about Ma Xuansheng?"

"The leader went to Okura, and he hasn't come back yet." Said the little leader.

Shi Bi cursed, and immediately went to the big warehouse, in the closed big warehouse, he heard the woman's pleading and howling from afar, Shi Bi frowned, and ran to the room where the sound came, and there was a strong smell of wine coming from the half-covered door, and the floor of the room was covered with leather and cotton cloth, and there were wine jugs, plates, and people's clothes everywhere.

Ma Xuansheng was riding on a woman's body, struggling to kill, the whip in his hand made one blood mark after another on the woman's body, and on the side, there were several women kneeling there, without a piece of clothing on their bodies, trembling, in the corner, there was a woman's head stuck in the shelf where the clothes were originally hung, still dripping blood.

These women belonged to Zheng Tingqiu and Xu Guixiang, or their subordinates, and their surrender was sudden and unruly, so the female dependents were not taken away, and they were all captured by Ma Xuansheng, who picked them up by himself, and gave the rest to the other brothers.

Ma Xuansheng was playing, and suddenly felt that his buttocks were cold, and when he looked back, Shibi opened the door, and the whip in his hand waved more vigorously, shouting: "Brother Shi, come on, play together, Lao Tzu has to play these cheap skins to death!" ”

"You give Lao Tzu down!" Shi Bi scolded, dragged Ma Xuansheng down, and said: "When you are alive and dead, you are still here to have fun, do you know that the Dongfan thief is already building a shield car system, and he will attack in the near future." ”

Ma Xuansheng was thrown to the ground, but he was not annoyed, grabbed a wine jug casually, and poured it into his mouth: "Let them fight, let them fight!"

Damn, the fleet was destroyed, Zheng Tingqiu surrendered, Xu Guixiang's men also surrendered, just by fire, we killed seven or eight hundred people, haha, how to fight this battle?

Shibi, we are doomed to lose, we are doomed to die, it is better to play a good game before we die, and we will be a happy ghost when we die. ”

Seeing Ma Xuan's appearance of waiting for death, the root of Shi Bi's hateful teeth itched, he gritted his teeth and said: "This is not the last time, we still have Lin Cha, he is the chief soldier of Guangdong Province, and the Dongfan thieves dare not make a mistake." ”

Shibi looked left and right, but Lin Cha was not seen, and asked, "Where is Lin Cha?" ”

Ma Xuansheng pointed to the head casually, Shibi thought that Lin Cha had been killed, and when he lifted the long hair on his head, he saw that it was a woman's, he saw that the bottom was moving, lifted the cloth, and found that Lin Cha was tied to a wooden bench under the shelf, naked, with whip marks on his body, and the middle of his thighs was covered with candle oil, and his mouth was supported by an iron pipe, and the blood and brains dripping from his head fell into his mouth.

Lin Cha couldn't speak, and screamed when he saw Shibi.

Since he was captured, he has been kept in a cage on a dung pit, guarded by four families, locked with four locks, and can only be released if they are opened together.

Because of this, no one mistreated him, and no one treated him well.

But this chaos, the original system was destroyed, the cage was cut off, Lin Cha was tied up here by Ma Xuansheng, accompanied him for sexual pleasure, and was abused by him, obviously, Ma Xuansheng is thinking now, before he dies, he will kill Lin Cha and all the women left by these rebels and bury them.

Knock knock!

The dull sound of drums came, and the stone wall cut the rope on Lin Cha's body, ordered someone to put him on, and said to Ma Xuansheng: "The Dongfan thief is about to attack, if you are a man, go out with me, even if you die, you have to pull a few more pads." ”

Shi Bi walked out of the room with Lin Cha, and soon, he heard a scream, and then, Ma Xuansheng walked out of the room with a bloody knife, and there was no sound in the room.

After Dazhai is over, the army has been arrayed.

Li Zhaoji was standing on the second floor of a mill at this time, which was a brick and stone building, so after the fire, the main body of the building was left, and the situation in Dazhai could be clearly seen, Li Zhaoji said to Ferreira: "Ferreira, let's start." ”

Ferreira nodded slightly, blew the horn, and then a round of drums sounded, and as the two flags tilted forward, a column of horizontal formations was advancing.

At the front of the squad was a row of arquebusiers, they set up a straggler formation, about fifty people, each dressed in different costumes, they were the elite mercenaries of the Ferreira battalion, their equipment was brought by themselves, and their shooting level far exceeded that of the musketeers of the Tamsui battalion, and they had very rich combat experience.

Unlike usual, these people carried arquebuses on their backs, and carried in their hands a sign made of vines or wooden boards, which was very large, chest-high, and four or five feet wide enough to cover the whole body, and there were brackets behind the cards, which could be placed on the ground to support them, but these skilled musketeers could shoot with the cards as cover.

Behind this line of skirmishers was a dense array of Ferreira's battalions, three hundred men in all, half armored men and half arquebusiers, who marched slowly in two formations.

This attack was a test for Li Zhaoji, he wanted to see what kind of firepower the pirates had, after all, in the bay, the opponent's Hongyi cannon was discovered, and Li Zhaoji had to be cautious.

Although the Ferreira battalion has not been organized for a long time, everyone has combat experience, and many of them are mercenaries from Portugal or other Western countries who have been in the South Seas for many years.

The speed of the Ferreira battalion's advance was not fast, but the formation was tight, and they advanced with the gentle sound of drums, which made Shi Bi and Ma Xuansheng, who were standing on the big watchtower, a little dry throat.

The pirates advocate courage in combat, but what they are most afraid of is that they are neat and calm, compared to them, the pirates are completely disorganized.

"It's all fucking steady, don't shoot arrows, whoever dares to fire before I give the order, Lao Tzu will hang him up and let the dog gnaw to death." Shibi's order was passed on, and the pirates looked nervously at the Ferreira camp that had overridden them.

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