In the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty, countless heroes appeared in the Central Plains, and Guangdong and Guangxi, which were thousands of miles away, were no exception. Among them, pirates were a specialty of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and other places.

After Zhang Juzheng's reform and opening up of the sea ban, many large merchants emerged in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and other places. These guys were legal merchants on land, but when they went to the ocean, they became pirates, committing robberies and murders. The most famous among them was Zheng Zhilong, who made his fortune during the Tianqi period.

At the same time as Zheng Zhilong, there was also a big pirate in Guangdong and Guangxi, Liu Xiang, who was also one of Zheng Zhilong's Eighteen Zhizhi. After Zheng Zhilong was recruited by the court, he turned his guns and started to deal with his old brother, the weaker Liu Xiang.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, he was eliminated by Zheng Zhilong, and Liu Xiang himself committed suicide.

Liu Xiang died, and the pirates in Guangdong and other places were eliminated by Zheng Zhilong or Zhao, but some pirates who did not want to submit to the imperial court fled south and went to Luzon, Vietnam and other places to find jobs again. The ones who came to Haidian Island to rob this time were

Small and medium-sized pirates are entrenched in Yong'an Prefecture, Guangxi. They use thousands of islands in the Beibu Gulf as their bases to rob merchants.

The leader of this group of pirates is Huang Xin. He accepted a deal half a month ago and went ashore to burn and kill people to do some dirty work for his boss. Huang Xin has done this kind of work before, but it was all in the Guangxi and Vietnam areas.

The location was a bit far away, in Haikou, Qiongzhou Prefecture.

Huang Xin didn't want to take on this business at first, because pirates are divided into regions, and if they break the rules, they can't get along. Qiongzhou belongs to the sphere of influence of Guangdong pirates. The pirates from the Beibu Gulf went to Qiongzhou to do business, and they were afraid of being attacked by other pirates.

Attack in groups.

Although Huang Xin didn't want to accept it, he couldn't bear the offer. In addition to the robbery proceeds, he also gave an extra thousand taels of silver and five hundred shi of sugar. Under the temptation of the benefits, Huang Xin decided to do it this time.

Anyway, if you offend the Guangdong pirates and hide in the Beibu Gulf, the Cantonese gang will definitely not be able to find their exact lair.

In this way, Huang Xin took half of his men, a total of more than 300 people, and took six large ships to Haidian Island. They came ashore from the north while it was dark, and after meeting with the contacts, they were immediately slaughtered.

Baisha Village. Then under the leadership of the connector, we rushed to the factory on the island.

At this time, most of the workers were having a banquet, and only a few workers stayed in the factory to look at the steam engines and brick kilns, so the pirates easily took over the brick factory.

According to Huang Xin's wish, all these workers were killed, but the contact person said that these workers should be kept because they would be useful to the employer.

After getting the money, he had to do something. Huang Xin had no choice but to gather all the workers together and imprison them according to the order of the contact person, while the contact person was running around as if he was looking for something.

Huang Xin looked around. Isn't this a brick kiln? Although the brick kiln here is relatively large, it does not fall outside the scope of Huang Xin's understanding. On the contrary, it was the strange iron ball that whirred that aroused Huang Xin's interest.

Because he didn't know what it was, Huang Xin didn't dare to get close to the whistle that made the sound. He poked the ball with the knife in his hand and found that the thing was made of iron. When Huang Xin found the big iron ball, he immediately became red.

You must know that iron was very valuable in the Ming Dynasty. The big iron ball in front of you is three feet high. Even if it is hollow, it weighs a thousand kilograms. It is worth a lot of money when sold!

Huang Xin quickly ordered his men to put out the fire in the boiler and prepare to transport the big iron ball away. But at this time, the joint man ran over and said, "You can't touch this thing! It must be left to our boss!"

Huang Xin was a little unhappy and cursed: "Fart, wasn't it agreed upon at the time?

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Everything you rob belongs to me!"

When the contact person saw what Huang Xin said, he was not angry and said with a smile: "Huang Xin, do you know the identity of my boss? Do you think someone like you can make a big splash? There is no way you can offend my boss.

Can’t get to Qiongzhou Mansion!”

If it had been anyone else, Huang Xin would have killed him with one strike, but Huang Xin knew that the person behind this guy was not easy to offend. Although Huang Xin was not afraid of his backstage, he would not feel comfortable if he was offended.

Huang Xin had no choice but to retreat and said: "Okay, I don't want this thing, but give the rest to our head office!"

The contact person nodded and said: "You can't touch anything in the factory, and you can't kill the craftsmen. The rest of the island belongs to you!"

Under pressure, Huang Xin had no choice but to curse and take the people out. When he got outside, Huang Xin looked at the sky. It was almost dawn. Huang Xin cursed: "I don't believe there is only one village on such a big island. You guys?"

I’m going to look around and see if there’s any place where I can make a fortune!”

When Huang Xin's men heard what the leader said, they shouted happily and were about to look for the village. A small leader ran over panting. When he saw Huang Xin, he said: "Brother, it's not good, I just met a group of people."

The officers and soldiers were very tough, and we lost seven or eight brothers!"

Huang Xin didn't care how many people died. What he cared about was why there were officers and soldiers on the island. He quickly found a contact person and said angrily: "Why is your master so dishonest? Didn't he say that there are no officers and soldiers on the island?"

The leader was also confused and explained: "There are indeed no official troops on the island. Have you encountered the joint defense team? They were just refugees two months ago, but you should be careful with the two leaders. They have some

ability!"

When Huang Xin heard about the joint defense team, he asked the little leader just now. When he heard that the troops on the opposite side were not wearing the Ming army's standard armor, but were wearing gray cloth, Huang Xin was so angry that he cursed: "Barbarian,

I've told you to be careful in everything you do, even a group of refugees can scare you like this!"

The little leader wanted to explain, but Huang Xin no longer believed him. Instead, he urged his men to gather together and prepare to find another village on the island to rob.

Just as Huang Xin gathered his men, a team came out neatly from the corner of the road in front of the brick factory. Zhao Heng's new army finally arrived.

Zhao Heng wanted to maintain the shape of the new army, so he marched very slowly. It took him an hour to reach the five-mile journey. When he arrived at the brick factory, he happened to encounter pirates gathering their troops. Zhao Heng ordered the troops to spread out and stop for a rest.

Huang Xin saw this team, just as the little leader said just now, they were all wearing gray and black cloth and holding spears of different lengths in their hands. At first glance, they were temporarily organized villagers.

Huang Xin smiled and said: "His grandma, such a small number of people want to come and fight me?"

Huang Xin summoned several of his subordinates and asked them to organize their manpower to rush in and kill all the villagers.

Huang Xin brought a total of 300 people. In addition to leaving 100 people on the boat, more than 200 people came ashore. In addition, some people did not obey orders and acted alone. Now Huang Xin only has about 167 people.

About ten people.

However, Huang Xin felt that these people were enough. There were only fifty people on the opposite side, and they were all villagers. His side would definitely win no matter how he calculated it.

Huang Xin shouted loudly: "Children, go up and kill these guys, and then we can make a fortune!"

The pirates, who numbered more than a hundred, did not follow any formations. They were holding a variety of weapons in a chaotic manner.

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He rushed towards Zhao Heng's team.

On the other hand, Zhao Heng was very calm. After the baptism of the first battle, these recruits gained initial confidence. Many soldiers were no longer afraid when they saw the screaming pirates, and they all clenched their spears and waited for Zhao Heng.

Constant command.

Zhao Heng saw that the pirates were still twenty meters away from him and shouted loudly: "Spear with a flat end, follow the order and move forward!"

When Zhao Heng saw that the soldiers had flattened their spears, he began to shout commands and at the same time led the team to advance at a distance of twenty centimeters per step.

"One, two! One, two!"

Under Zhao Heng's slogan, these soldiers stabbed out the spears in their hands in order, one to stab, the other to withdraw, and they took half a step at the same time.

The pirates at the front did not have any time to react and were stabbed by spears one after another. Even if some people wanted to stop, they were pushed by the pirates behind and hit the spears, and died at the hands of the new army.

Because there were so many pirates this time, Zhao Heng arranged a formation with three lines in the middle and single lines on both sides. The three spears in the middle ensured that no one missed the net. There were some pirates who fell to the ground without stabbing their vital parts.

He was killed by the five platoon leaders behind the team with swords.

The pace of the recruits' advance seemed slow, but in fact it was very fast. They had advanced more than 20 meters in less than five minutes. There were more than fifty dead bodies lying behind them, and one-third of the pirates' men were just short of them.

In just five minutes, the loss was at the hands of the New Army.

Huang Xin was shocked when he saw this scene later. What kind of joint defense team is this? They are more powerful than the imperial army. Pirates are different from bandits on land. Pirates are high-tech jobs and do not require certain training.

He didn't know how to sail a boat at all, so the deaths of more than fifty people really pained Huang Xinxin extremely.

However, his own life was not as important as his distressed subordinates. Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Huang Xin shouted: "The wind is strong, everyone, run!"

Seeing their companions in front of them being killed one after another, these pirates originally wanted to run away, but now that they heard what the leader said, they even ran away without caring about their companions.

The pirate ran away, which made the contactor suffer. He cursed: "Huang Xin, you have no faith. You took my employer's money, why did you run away?"

Huang Xin could no longer hear the contact's curses at this time, and even if he heard them, he would not pay attention to them. What kind of faith do desperadoes like them wandering on the sea have? Let's save our own lives first!

Seeing the pirates running away, Zhao Heng also did not let his men chase after him, but ordered his men to clean the battlefield first. Li Yu saw a man trying to run away sneakily, so he stepped forward and kicked the guy in the head and cursed.

: "You guys still want to run away?"

Seeing that he could not run away, the man was afraid that Li Yu would kill him as a pirate, so he quickly begged for mercy: "Master, the villain is not a pirate, you can't kill the villain?"

Zhao Heng heard this guy call him eldest young master, and he seemed to know him. Zhao Heng stepped forward and looked at this guy. He looked thirty years old, was wearing a robe, and his hands were fair and he didn't look like a pirate wandering the sea.

"Tell me, how do you know me?"

Just now, in order to survive, the guy blurted out and called the eldest young master, but now he said quietly: "I have been to the island and met the eldest young master several times!"

Zhao Heng saw this guy's eyes flickering when he spoke, and knew that what he was telling was not the truth. Zhao Heng said to Li Yu: "If this guy doesn't tell the truth, cut off his hand!"

Li Yu swung his sword and was about to take action. The guy was so frightened that he shouted: "Young master, my surname is Zhang. I am still related to your family. I am a nephew of the same clan as Zhang Qianhu!"

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