Although it was the first time for the security regiment to fight, it was not so obvious that one steamer and two armed merchant ships blocked the harbor, while the other ships patrolled the island, and any ships that tried to leave the island were chased and sunk or captured.

"This seems to be different from what I expected. Zhao Dagui also felt a little confused when he saw this.

This group of pirates is also too weak, and they have not issued any substantive attacks until now, so how can this have the effect of training.

However, there is no other way at this time, so let's go as planned.

Three ships blocked the harbor, sinking or suppressing the pirate ships in the harbor, and then all set up dinghys, and soldiers paddled to the shore to land.

After a while, ten small boats were lowered, and then two hundred soldiers landed with four artillery pieces, and Zhao Dagui was naturally among the first batch of soldiers to land.

Baisha Island is actually a small island, no more than two kilometers long and wide, which is almost immediately apparent.

The pirates on the island were actually very poor and did not think of building any defenses, but there were forty or fifty wooden houses not far from the port, and there were neither earthen walls nor moats.

"This is really a victory!" Zhao Dagui felt a little hot on his face, but he couldn't show it at this time, he just solemnly commanded the soldiers to gather together and line up in battle formation to be vigilant.

Of the two hundred soldiers who came ashore, one hundred and fifty infantry were on guard, and the remaining fifty immediately leveled the land, built forts, and dug trenches around them, all meticulously, in exactly accordance with the usual training.

When the pirates ran back to the hut, they summoned up the courage to organize two attacks, or rather, two groups of men to see what the people who had landed on the island were up to.

However, when the vigilance infantry saw the pirate-like men coming, they were very nervous and immediately raised their guns and fired bullets, killing seven or eight people on the spot.

In this era, the infantry of the average country was armed with front-loading smoothbore guns, and only less than one-tenth of the soldiers in the army could be equipped with rifles with a longer range;

However, Zhao Dagui had the money, and equipped the security regiment with a rifle with a water rifle or a rear-loading rifle with a Migne bullet, with an effective range of between 200 and 400 meters.

The world's breech-loading rifle appeared very early, during the American Revolutionary War, the standard rear-loading rifle that can equip soldiers on a large scale should be the American Hall rifle that appeared in the nineteenth century, the structure is simple, but the firing range is more than 200 meters, and the rate of fire reaches six to eight rounds per minute, which is a very practical weapon.

Zhao Dagui has many shipyards, advanced machine tools and workers, and it is impossible to produce tens of thousands of firearms, but it is not difficult to rely on the strength of the people to make hundreds of firearms.

The security guard gun equipped by the security regiment is largely borrowed from the American Hall rifle, but with some improvements, such as sealing with a rubber belt between the bolt and the barrel, and transforming it to fire Migne bullets, etc., which is far more powerful than the original Hall rifle.

To tell the truth, the British officers were also a little confused when they saw that all the soldiers of the security regiment were equipped with rifles.

The price of smoothbore guns and rifles in this era is very different, ordinary smoothbore guns are only about fifteen silver dollars, but rifles are basically above sixty yuan, and Hall rifles are the cheapest rifles, which are also more than forty-five yuan, and this is the factory price.

Because of the price, the vast majority of British infantry used flintlock smoothbore guns, and less than one-tenth of the best soldiers could get rifles, which were usually hidden in ordinary infantry, and then cold guns were released to kill key figures in the enemy army during the battle, which was evaluated by the people of the time as extremely atrophied.

With the security regiment fully equipped with rifles, it was impossible for pirates, with only more than 50 pirates, to get in front of these infantrymen.

The pirates were blocked twice, and they didn't know what to do, so Zhao Dagui's side methodically proceeded in accordance with the landing battle drills:

That is, first build a solid defensive position on the shore, build a battery, and then put the artillery on it, ready to suppress the enemy's artillery fire;

Then, the artillery suppressed the enemy, and then the infantry loaded with spears, with the assistance of artillery fire, lined up in a neat line, and charged the enemy, defeating the enemy's will to resist.

Originally, this work was carried out under the fire of the enemy's muskets and artillery, but now it was an independent stage for the security regiment itself, which only built its own positions and then attacked the enemy.

After the four cannons were pushed onto the improvised fort, they fired three rounds of shelling at the pirates' wooden houses, causing great panic among the pirates, and then Zhao Dagui led a hundred soldiers to attack the pirates.

When Zhao Dagui led people to the vicinity of the wooden house, he found that the pirates threw down their big swords and spears one by one and knelt at the entrance of the village to express their surrender.

At this time, Zhao Dagui couldn't think about it, so he had to command the soldiers to tie up all these pirates, and then enter the wooden house to search for the hidden pirates.

By the time all the pirates were captured and the village was all under control, it was only an hour, which was counted from the time Zhao Dagui landed.

In this battle, the security regiment itself suffered zero casualties, killed and wounded eight pirates, and resurrected more than 50 surviving pirates, which was a complete victory.

Everyone was very happy, only Zhao Dagui's face was a little pale, this kind of actual combat was too different from the actual combat he expected, and he couldn't expect any training effect at all.

These pirates were very poor, and the soldiers of the security regiment searched for a long time, and they found two or three hundred yuan, which should be all the belongings of these pirates;

The rest of the weapons were also found, such as a few guns and dozens of steel knives, but none of them were visible to the security team, and they were only brought back to Dinghai as souvenirs.

Zhao Dagui originally wanted to capture the pirates and give them to Gong Mujiu to boast of his military exploits, but at this time, he didn't have the same thoughts, so he took all the pirates back to Dinghai and put them to work in his salt pan in Dinghai.

To tell the truth, although the work of Yantian is hard, with Zhao Dagui's temper, three meals a day will be served on time, and the food is at least sufficient, which is probably several times better than the life of these miserable pirates on Baisha Island.

Zhao Dagui felt that this time it was a cannon to hit mosquitoes, and he lost his identity a little, but at this time, he couldn't think about it, and asked the officers and soldiers to sum up the experience of this battle and complete all kinds of finishing work in accordance with the regulations.

Most of the officers and soldiers of the security regiment could not grasp Zhao Dagui's thoughts, and only thought that their side had won a rare battle, and happily enjoyed the excitement for several days.

"Although some of the teachers are mobilized, at least the soldiers have experienced a real battle, and they will be considered veterans in the future. Zhao Dagui can only comfort himself like this.

From the beginning of the First World War on Baisha Island, the activities of the security group to sweep the pirates near Dinghai officially began.