The experiences of Huang Hu'er and Li Ya'er are just inconspicuous small waves in the wave of vigorous development. After Yu Zhu arrived at Zhoushan Port, he quickly summoned Li Kaipeng, Qian Laoda, Liao Loach, and Xia Dagen to discuss the matter, and these people formed a joint military and political meeting of Liuqiu Company. The main content of the agenda was to implement the Perak Army's development strategy for Liuqiu, with a focus on occupying Keelung Port and building it into the headquarters of Liuqiu. After all, Li Kaipeng's team has more than 1,000 people, plus more than 100 people brought by Boss Qian and 1,500 people brought by Yu Zhu, which is really a lot. If we count the displaced people secretly recruited by Li Kaipeng, the number has reached thousands. With so many people staying in Zhoushan for a long time, the government will definitely not sit idly by. Only by going to the island as soon as possible can we avoid attracting the attention of all forces.

Long before arriving, Yu Zhu asked Li Kaipeng to prepare ships suitable for naval warfare. The winds and waves at sea are strong, and inland river vessels can sail along the coast, but cannot go out to sea. The rivers in western Sichuan are light and shallow, the ships are small and the draft is shallow, and the sails are not suitable for long-distance sailing. After receiving Yu Zhu's order, Li Kaipeng spent a lot of money to buy ten large sea ships, and under the guidance of the technical personnel who arrived in the early stage, he worked overtime to carry out the transformation. Rao was like this, and after Yu Zhu arrived with his army, it took another five days to move the artillery to the sea ship.

After getting ready, Liao Loach set off with his army and appeared outside Keelung Harbor three days later. The leader of the pirates in Keelung was overjoyed when he saw this, but he said that it was the merchant fleet that was lost under the typhoon. It is said that after they occupied Keelung, they plundered ships coming and going in the vicinity, and their methods were uncanny and cruel. Over time, no merchant fleet dared to pass through this sea area, let alone approach Keelung Port, which greatly affected the "career" of the bandits. Although this group of pirates is fierce, they dare not go to the mainland to rob, after all, the strength of the Song army is very strong, and Pu Shougeng and other sea merchants are not something they can provoke.

According to the words of western Sichuan, "seeing the pig is not neat and three points of sin", seeing that the big fat sheep actually took the initiative to send it to the door, the pirates who were stunned by the pie falling from the world rushed out of the port in a swarm, and screamed while paddling desperately. The boats relied mainly on the power of the wind, and rowing did not increase their speed much, and the pirates obviously understood this, but they still rowed forward with all their might, for fear of falling behind the rest of the ships. These pirates also have a performance appraisal mechanism, for example, the first pirate to jump on the ship, can give priority to the selection of loot, which includes gold and silver property, but also the bandit's favorite woman. Years of life at sea have made the pirates extremely eager for women, and the bold ones will even risk being eaten and go in groups to captive and prey on the women of the tribe.

The pirate sentries on the harbor tower had a faint feeling that something was wrong at this time, and as usual, the merchant ships would either flee or form a defensive circle when they saw these dozens of large and small ships rushing towards them. Instead of fleeing, these merchant ships outside the harbor lined up in a horizontal row and aimed their sides at the pirate ships. When the pirate ships burst into a mile, the side of the merchant ships began to glow with fire, accompanied by bursts of thunder and a large amount of white smoke. The sentry looked at the ships on his side, and except for a few that were still moving forward, most of them had stopped moving, and a small number of the bows were deflected, apparently losing control.

The sea is rough and windy, and the sea vessels are much larger than the inland river vessels. Larger tonnage means more artillery can be accommodated, resulting in a greater density of firepower. Since Liao Loach was absolutely sure of this battle, and Liuqiu Company needed to capture the pirates' ships, he ordered all shotguns to be used this time with little damage to the ships. In other words, sea ships are too expensive, and buying those ten sea ships almost cost Li Kaipeng more than half of the funds he had accumulated in the early stage. Yu Zhu and others discussed that various factories would be built after the occupation of Liuqiu, and the shipyard was among the first batch of factories.

While the pirates were still confused, Liao Loach had already commanded the ship to aim the other side at the pirate boat. After the second round of shelling, the boats were completely disorganized, some stopped sideways, some began to turn their bows to escape, and two small boats were on fire. Seeing the pirate ships on fire, Liao Loach was anxious, in his eyes, those pirates were already free labor in the mines, and those ships were also the assets of the Thunderbolt Army. How can you not feel heartache when you see the ships that are about to arrive burning? Then he ordered the boats to surround them.

After a while, half of the pirate ships were captured by the Thunderbolts, and most of the remaining returned to Keelung Harbor, with only a few small boats escaping the encirclement and scattering. Liao Loach did not send a boat to chase after him, on the one hand, these bandits were familiar with the surrounding sea conditions, and they found a place to hide at will; On the other hand, the target of the Thunderbolts is Keelung Harbor, and you must not pick up the sesame seeds and lose the watermelon. As for those who escaped in the future, they did not dare to go to the coast of the mainland to throw themselves into the net, let alone take the risk of driving small boats to the Wa Kingdom and Goryeo in the north, or to Cochin or Luzon in the south. The surrounding waters are stormy and stormy, and a big wave will capsize the brisk boat, and the people on board will also die in the belly of the fish.

The soldiers were fast, and Liao Loach led the army to Keelung Port. The wooden gates and fences of the pirates withstood the artillery bombardment, and then crumbled after a round of shelling. It's just that these pirates are very stubborn, and they have hidden in the corners of the wall, turning a deaf ear to the persuasion and shouts of the Thunderbolt army. Liao Loach was reluctant to damage the houses in the village, so he had to send troops into the village to conduct street battles. In this expedition to Keelung, the Thunderbolt army dispatched a total of 800 people, including 500 sailors and 300 infantry troops, which can be described as elite, which is also the confidence of Liao Loach in the first battle, after all, according to intelligence, there are only four or five hundred pirates, and there are less than 100 large and small ships, and most of them are small and medium-sized ships.

The reason why the pirates refused to surrender was that they wanted to turn the tables by street fighting. These bandits have been licking blood for many years, and gang jumping is their strength, especially good at hand-to-hand combat, and can easily defeat even an equal number of officers and sailors. The leader of the pirates and his personal guards were also armed with Japanese knives and sea shark leather armor, which were inherited from the Tang Dynasty and were extremely sharp, making them a sharp weapon for individual combat, and could even split the human body in half. The skin armor of the sea shark is made from the skin of the adult sea shark that has been repeatedly tanned, which is smooth and tough, and can slide through the scimitar to slash and stab with a sharp blade. The leader of the pirates believed that with their superior weapons and home advantage, they would be able to bring this group of unknown origins home.

It's just that what these pirates don't know is that times have changed. The Thunderbolts who came ashore were in squads, some with shields in the front row, others in the back with muskets. When a bandit rushes out of the house, he will be confronted with the stinging of spears and a rain of bullets, and if he hides in the house, he will be killed by a grenade thrown in the house. It is said that the officers and navy are also equipped with firearms, but the smoke and sound of those firearms are loud, but the lethality is low. At the moment, the firearms in the hands of these attackers were far more powerful than they could have imagined, and even the bandit leaders and their personal guards all fell to the ground after a burst of bean-like sounds. The skin armor of the sea shark, which had been invulnerable in the past, was also hit with holes, and blood mixed with bubbles was bubbling out of its body.

Seeing that the other party was unstoppable, and seeing that the bandit leader was dead, the rest of the bandits surrendered one after another.