Writers on a modern website have many descriptions of the methods used by the traversers to build and train the army after they arrived in ancient times, and Zhao Dagui did not know whether these methods worked, but he was rich, and spent a huge amount of money to hire a large number of British officers to help train them, and he took his soldiers to train weapons and ships in strict accordance with the British naval code of conduct.

Even if the army trained in this way is not as strong as the regular British navy, it should be no problem to bully the pirates of the Qing Dynasty with advanced Western warships, right?

By the end of May, the 800 members of the security regiment had also been training for three months, and it is difficult to say what the combat effectiveness was, but it was no problem to sail to the open sea and use artillery to ravage the floating wooden boats that had been prepared in advance.

According to the British officers, it is still very reluctant for the current security regiment to be called an armed force, after all, it has been established for too short a time, and even the former sailors and whaling members of the Vostok, who are called veterans, can only be regarded as unsatisfactory, let alone the 600 recruits.

The British officers believed that this team would need to train for at least one year before it could have a certain combat effectiveness, and then it could begin to go out to carry out simple combat missions, and slowly cultivate, and after three or five years, it would be comparable to the British Navy of the same level.

However, Zhao Dagui did not have the patience to wait for three or five years, and decided to start attacking in June to sweep the waters of the nearby seas.

"Isn't this too hasty?" At the military meeting, Yang Willy raised an objection, thinking that he should train for a while and then conduct actual combat.

"Not in a hurry. I'm not asking the security team to attack opponents of the same level, but I'm just sweeping up a few pirate strongholds.

These pirates are nothing more than fishermen with spears and knives, and they are just as good as their bare hands.

I actually want to give the security team a chance to fight, otherwise, I would dare to wipe out these pirates with seven or eight people myself. Zhao Dagui shook his head, quite disapproving.

"Major Zhao, you're too optimistic. Yang Weili did not agree with Zhao Dagui's statement, but there was no way to refute it.

Yang Willy knew that Zhao Dagui had a very strong combat ability, and his ability to use guns and cannons was much higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and if he led Zhang Meng and other warriors who were proficient in firearms to attack and carry the most advanced weapons, it was true that seven or eight people would have the ability to wipe out a pirate base of about 100 people.

It's just that this is outrageous.

"A hundred times of training is not as good as one actual battle. Now that we have such a big difference in weapons with the pirates, let's use this advantage as much as possible.

By the way, Lieutenant Ma, what do you think?" Zhao Dagui turned his head and asked the other officer.

The officer, surnamed Ma, was Ma Hansan, a fisherman from Xuwen County, Leizhou, who was tall and strong, very good at throwing harpoons, and was an important leader of the local whaling team.

Later, he was hired by Zhao Dagui and brought to Shanghai for military training, and later took charge of a whaling ship, and was the leader of the whaling team;

After the establishment of the security regiment, Ma Hansan's performance was also quite good, and he was later appointed as a lieutenant by Zhao Dagui, and was one of the highest-ranking officers below Zhao Dagui in the security regiment.

"As long as the pirates are not numerous, they should be able to be eliminated. Ma Hansan is rough-looking, but he is very careful, and said cautiously.

"It's not difficult to win, the key is whether you can effectively control the casualties. Yang Weili wanted to complain, but he didn't say it anyway, but he just complained in his heart.

Yang Willy and others made an agreement with Zhao Dagui that they would not directly participate in the war, but only as instructors or staff officers, although Zhao Dagui agreed very happily at that time, but Yang Willy knew that he had lived up to Zhao Dagui's expectations, and his voice had dropped a lot, so he didn't dare to think or say anything like before, and he had to consider it every time he had a meeting.

"I've spent a lot of money to ask people about the pirate dens in the Dinghai area, and I finally have some eyebrows.

The pirates on Baisha Island, in the southern part of Dinghai, have only fifty or sixty people, have three wooden ships, and are only armed with seven or eight old-fashioned guns and dozens of cold weapons..."

Zhao Dagui's original purpose in establishing the security group was to eliminate the pirates on Peach Blossom Island, but this group of pirates had more than 300 people, and there may be many warriors, so he did not regard them as the first target to be attacked.

The so-called persimmon picks up soft pinch, and the current security regiment has never experienced actual combat at all, so let's start with relatively weak pirates.

Yang Willy was originally worried that Zhao Dagui didn't know the severity, and he was going to exterminate a large number of pirates at the beginning, and then lose his troops, but at this time, he found that Zhao Dagui chose a small group of pirates with only fifty or sixty people, and the corners of his mouth twitched, this is too cautious, I knew that I didn't say anything to stop it just now.

The people present were all at the level of captains, and their military literacy was somewhat stronger than that of ordinary people, and they studied the intelligence that Zhao Dagui bought with money on the underworld for a long time, and then unanimously decided that this group of pirates was very weak, and it was very appropriate to use it as a sacrifice flag.

After a period of preparation, the first crusade of the security regiment against the pirates began.

Zhao Dagui's security regiment has not been established for a long time, but its equipment is rare and good.

Because this battle was actually the first actual battle of the security regiment, Zhao Dagui attached great importance to it, and used two 600-ton steam ships, three 1,000-ton armed merchant ships, and two small clippers.

The two steamships each had twelve guns, the armed merchant ships each had more than twenty to thirty guns, and even the small clippers had five or six guns, which means that the guns of these seven ships combined were more than a hundred.

Well, in the Japanese Black Ship Incident at the beginning, the United States used only four warships, and the guns on board totaled more than 60 or less than 70; if purely in terms of equipment strength, Zhao Dagui's security regiment really had the strength to destroy the city and destroy the country, and such a powerful force went straight to a pirate den of more than 50 people.

When these seven ships appeared near Baisha Island, the pirates did not realize that this fleet was coming for themselves, or they did not think that their group was important enough to be dispatched such a large fleet, and thought that this fleet was lost and out of course, and they were still thinking about guiding the fleet and making some money by the way.

There were only fifty or sixty pirates on Baisha Island, with three small boats of less than 100 tons, and they had no intention of running up to rob them.

It's just that this fleet is menacing, and as soon as it comes, it blocks the exit of the port, and one ship sees that the situation is not good, and wants to get out of the port first and escape to the open ocean, but those big ships immediately open fire, and the pirate ship is sunk with just two shots.

"It's not good, this is the sailor of the imperial court, run!"

"The officers and soldiers are coming, let's go!"

The pirates woke up from a dream and reacted to the idea of escaping, but unfortunately it was too late, and the port to go to sea was blocked, and they couldn't run at all.

There was a clever man who wanted to run to the other side of the island and escape in a boat that had been hidden beforehand, but he couldn't do so.