Chapter 252: The Battle of Moon Island (Part 2)

After salvaging the pirate captives on board, Pei Donglai faced a difficult problem.

Blackbeard has gathered the remnants of his troops, a total of more than a thousand people, lined up at the pier, how to land on the island smoothly? ! The North Sea Fleet does not have the Marine Corps of later generations, and it can conduct amphibious operations very sharply.

In the end, Pei Donglai thought of a stupid way. He ordered the first battalion to land first, and the remaining four naval battalions still maintained a fan-shaped formation, covering the landing of the first battalion with bows and arrows.

Seeing the opponent's warship approaching the shore, Blackbeard immediately ordered to press on to prevent the opponent from landing.

At this moment, a wave of arrows rained down on the pirate's way under the hood. The pirate froze for a moment, hesitating and not daring to move on.

Blackbeard scolded his mother, and the enemy was too shameless. "Rush for me, or everyone will die!"

Under the urging of Blackbeard, the pirate braved the rain of arrows and marched tremblingly. People were constantly shot by arrows, injured and fell to the ground, or even died directly.

The pirates on the shore had already narrowly escaped death once when the pirate ship was on fire. After finally jumping into the sea and escaping a catastrophe, now that he is going to die, he feels a little reluctance in his heart.

As the number of casualties increased, some pirates finally couldn't bear it, instead of advancing, they retreated, sneaking towards the rear, trying to get out of the coverage of the arrow rain.

Someone takes the lead and someone follows. Everyone is afraid of death, and pirates are no exception. In this way, before rushing halfway, the team ran more than half.

Taking advantage of this time, the first battalion of the Beihai Fleet has already started to land and organize defense on the spot.

Blackbeard knew that he was powerless to prevent the opponent from landing, and if he rushed forward, he would only increase casualties.

"Withdraw!" Blackbeard said bitterly.

After receiving the order, the pirates slipped faster than rabbits one by one as if they were being pardoned.

Standing on the command ship, Ouyang Shuo shook his head amusedly when he saw that the opponent was so impatient.

In this way, the North Sea Fleet successfully landed on the island and began to attack the remnants of the pirates.

At this time, the pirates had already fled in all directions, and they were not organized at all.

In order to prevent any fish from slipping through the net, Pei Donglai ordered the fourth battalion and the fifth battalion not to go to the island, but to drive the Mengchong fighting ship to patrol the sea, block off the waters around Yue'er Island, and completely block the escape route of the pirates.

Yue'er Island covers an area of ​​only 50 square kilometers, so it's really not a good place to hide.

Pei Donglai implemented Ouyang Shuo's surrender policy very tacitly, let the soldiers shout out, and those who voluntarily surrender can be let go of the past; those who hide around and don't want to show up will be killed after being caught.

Pei Donglai's threat was very effective.

One by one, the pirates, with ashen faces, walked out of every knot in the island in frustration, and raised their hands in surrender. Only a few diehards such as Blackbeard are still stubbornly resisting.

For these diehards, Pei Donglai was not polite, and ordered the first battalion to search and arrest them with all their strength, and executed them on the spot.

The cleaning activity lasted for an entire afternoon, before all the remaining pirates were completely wiped out.

Accompanied by Pei Donglai, Ouyang Shuo inspected the entire island.

Black Shark pirates are good at looting, but their construction ability is really horrible.

The entire gathering place, not even a fence was built, it was completely open. The buildings on the island can be counted on one hand.

The most thought-provoking place for pirates is probably the pier where they landed.

Walking along the pier, it is a narrow dirt road, full of potholes, and the road surface is extremely wet. Ouyang Shuo had to watch his feet carefully, so as not to step on the ground and fall into the puddle.

On both sides of the dirt road, some wooden huts are scattered here and there. The wooden house was built in a very rough and simple way, as if it was improvised with a few wooden boards.

Ouyang Shuo even wondered if such a wooden house could keep out the wind and rain in rainy days.

Outside the wooden house, there is no decent courtyard, neither raising livestock nor growing vegetables. A few shabby clothes hung under the eaves, blowing in the wind.

Occasionally, you can see a few strings of dried fish drying, which is the home of a more diligent pirate.

The surrounding fields are basically uncultivated and barren, with no crops growing in the fields. On the contrary, the bristlegrass grows unusually lush, telling some kind of decadence.

It can be seen that pirates do not do production at all, and survive entirely on looted materials.

Continue to walk in, and suddenly there is a pond in the center of the island. Ouyang Shuo visually estimated that it was less than 500 square meters, and it should be the only source of fresh water on the island.

Because of this, the pirates regard the pond as their most important wealth and protect it closely.

Around the pond, a circle of buildings was built, all of which are wooden structures, which look stronger than the surrounding wooden houses, and should be the core area of ​​pirates. The tavern most popular with pirates was built here.

A courtyard at the highest point is very conspicuous among the wooden houses.

Needless to say, that must be the residence of the pirate chief.

Along the way, Ouyang Shuo had lost interest in visiting carefully and went straight to the courtyard.

Even if you go to the island, the road along the road has not been improved, and it is still so potholed. On both sides of the road, vigorous dogtail grass flutters in the wind.

Buildings are the first sequence of soldiers cleaning.

Therefore, when Ouyang Shuo arrived, apart from the soldiers of the North Sea Fleet on duty, there was not a single pirate in the house. On the ground, occasionally some bloodstains and traces of fighting can be seen.

Seeing Ouyang Shuo, the guards immediately saluted.

Ouyang Shuo nodded and walked through the gate.

The soldiers on duty did not expect to get a response from the prince, and they felt warm in their hearts.

Ouyang Shuo looked up and checked the most advanced building on Yue'er Island.

The small courtyard in front of me is just a simple courtyard. Rather, it reminded Ouyang Shuo that the Lord's Mansion when Shanhai Village was first built was very similar.

Ouyang Shuo came to the conference hall and began to wait patiently for the information gathered by all parties.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, all the information gathered to Pei Donglai, and he reported to Ouyang Shuo.

Under Ouyang Shuo's signal, Pei Donglai took a seat at the bottom of the conference hall and said, "My lord, this battle has gone much smoother than expected. There were almost no casualties on our side, only more than 150 people were lost."

Ouyang Shuo nodded, the progress of the war was indeed beyond his expectation.

"A total of more than 1,650 pirates were captured in this battle, and all the rest were killed. The pirate ship was basically burned in the fire. Only five or six ships survived and were towed back to the dock." Pei Donglai went on to report: "Through the seizure of various treasuries and the thorough search and seizure of pirate rooms, a total of more than 12,500 gold coins and a box of various jewelry were seized. The weapons, equipment, food and other materials seized are relatively scarce, and there is no large inventory .”

Ouyang Shuo nodded, this situation was expected. Pirates lived by plundering, and they went out to plunder when they were running out of food, so there would definitely not be much food.

On the contrary, all the gold, silver and jewelry seized by pirates in previous plunders were backlogged because there was no way to buy them. That's why a pirate organization with more than 3,000 people can have a wealth of more than 10,000 gold coins.

"From the captured funds, take out 500 gold coins and reward the soldiers." Ouyang Shuo said.

I don't know when, Ouyang Shuo began to reward the soldiers who participated in the battle on the spot to encourage them to fight bravely.

"Thank you Junhou for the reward!" Pei Donglai thanked his subordinates instead.

"Have you seized any special items?" Ouyang Shuo asked. The special items he was referring to were actually special items. Generally speaking, pirates plunder everywhere, and there is a high probability of getting some weird items.

"Yes." Pei Donglai did not disappoint him.

Under Pei Donglai's signal, the soldiers on duty outside moved all the seized gold coins, jewelry and special items to the meeting hall for Ouyang Shuo to inspect.

Ouyang Shuo stood up, except for leaving 500 gold coins, put all the remaining jewelry and gold coins into the storage bag. The full meeting hall was empty again, leaving only two items, one stone and one picture.

Ouyang Shuo first picked up the black stone and checked its properties. The stone is not big, only the size of two fists, it is indeed very heavy in the hand.

[Meteorite Refined Iron] (Purple Gold Grade): Divine Stone from Heaven, a rare forging material.

The properties of the item are very simple, but it makes Ouyang Shuo's heart agitated. Purple-gold grade forging material, Ouyang Shuo seemed to be beckoning to him when he saw his exclusive weapon.

Ouyang Shuo felt that this trip was worthwhile based on this meteorite's refined iron alone.

Ouyang Shuo reckoned that Blackbeard got this piece of meteorite refined iron but didn't use it to forge weapons, so he must not be able to find a suitable blacksmith. This advanced material requires at least a master blacksmith to forge.

He carefully put the meteorite refined iron into the storage bag, and picked up the blueprint.

["Treasure Map of Beihai Bay"] (1): According to legend, a very famous pirate was born in Beihai Bay, known as Xuetu. After Xue Tu died, the huge wealth he plundered in his life also disappeared.

Rumor has it that Xue Tu buried this treasure on an uninhabited deserted island before his death. Xuetu drew the address of the deserted island into a treasure map, and divided it into three parts for his three most trusted generals.

After Xuetu's death, the three generals attacked each other in order to compete for the treasure map in each other's hands. Thus, a civil war that lasted for a year tore apart the pirate organization that Xue Tu had formed before his death. In the end, none of the three generals could defeat each other, and died in depression one after another, leaving the treasure map to future generations.

In the next hundred years, the treasure map has changed its banner several times, causing several bloodbaths.

Regrettably, no one has ever managed to collect all three treasure maps and find Xuetu's treasure. Gradually, there were rumors that Xue Tu's drawing of the treasure map was simply a cover, and its real purpose was to trigger a war among pirates. This kind of speculation is very in line with the nature of the blood-slaughtering madman.

Slowly, the truth about the treasure map dissipated in the long river of history, and no one believed the rumors of the bloodbath anymore. The treasure map has also become a collectible, and no one is struggling to fight for it.