The entire battle actually ended when the infantry lines opened fire.
Even Ma Dalian, who felt he was the most awesome, was so frightened that he jumped from the deck into the sea.
No matter who it is, everyone knows that the dock area won this battle.
Even though the soldiers still needed some time to reload their ammunition, the gunfire that never stopped sent the pirate ships approaching the dock one after another into the sea.
There are a large number of musketeers in front of us, and artillery shells are constantly coming from both sides. How can we fight this battle?
As the first pirate ship lowered its black flag and hoisted its white flag, the remaining pirate ships seemed to have broken a psychological boundary and hoisted their white flags one after another.
At this time, two 100-ton patrol boats that had not yet gone into battle also came out. They were full of soldiers and took control of the surrendered pirate ship.
It took a lot of time to hunt down some pirates who had absconded ashore and to rescue those who fell into the sea.
By the time the enlarged meeting of the interim management committee was held, it was already early the next morning.
As the leader of the military team and the commander-in-chief of the regiment training, Sun Xuebin read out the post-war report to the senior management committee officials and backbone members of the group who participated in the enlarged meeting.
"...Due to the concerted efforts and fighting of our officers and soldiers, a total of 573 pirates were killed and 2,390 pirates were captured and captured, including thieves with heads and horses and big faces. Thirteen people including Zhang Sanqi, Huang Shifu and others captured three lucky ships, twenty-seven fast ships, and thirty sentinel ships..."
When Sun Xuebin finished reading the post-war report, everyone in the audience showed a happy smile.
It has to be said that with a team training that only took less than two months to defeat more than 3,000 pirates who had experienced hundreds of battles, this was already a major victory beyond expectations for the members of the group.
However, before the meeting was over and everyone was still discussing how to use this pirate invasion to expand the reputation of the dock area, several interrogators from the military team quietly came in and informed them of the news.
After emergency interrogation, they learned from some pirate prisoners the location of the base of these pirate gangs.
To put it simply, three of the larger pirate gangs have their bases in the Lingao area!
This is one of the reasons why these pirates can easily grasp some situations in the dock area.
In addition, some other pirate gang bases are in the Leizhou Peninsula on the opposite side.
After receiving this information, Sun Xuebin did not hesitate and immediately proposed a plan to clear out the pirate lair.
It must be said that the timing he seized was very clever.
If at another time, any plan he proposes to exterminate pirates will definitely be rejected by the Provisional Management Committee, because most senior officials hope to solidly practice their internal skills first. It is not appropriate to continue fighting externally now to avoid continuous fighting that will destroy the dock. The development of the district was brought to a halt.
Indeed, as far as the current commercial channels in the dock area are concerned, it is relatively easy to buy bulk materials such as grain, but other goods can be purchased, but it is difficult to expand the scale.
For example, saltpeter.
At present, it is really difficult to contact merchants from the origin of saltpeter in the dock area.
Most of the purchased saltpeter has changed hands more than twice.
One of the reasons is that there are currently no saltpeter mines on Nanming's territory.
Most saltpeter was transported from the Americas by the Francois.
Fang Xiaoyue knew that there was a huge saltpeter mine northwest of Nanming.
But with the current strength of the dock area, it is simply impossible to send the army that far away.
They couldn't even send an army into the hinterland of Nanming.
For Sun Xuebin, this is a rare opportunity to train the navy.
You know, although the prototype of the navy for group training in the dock area has been established, it has never experienced any actual combat.
Now that the pirates' lair has been found, it's just a good opportunity for the navy to take advantage of it.
Now the main force of the entire navy in the dock area is the three 100-ton patrol boats.
No way, there is a heavy machine gun on it. In this era, it is an invincible weapon.
In addition to this, there are several slightly modified fishing boats.
Although these fishing boats do not have heavy machine guns, it is barely enough to temporarily install Napoleon cannons and send a few teams of musketeers.
The navy did not waste time to hold a grand expedition ceremony when it set off. After the interim management committee gave Sun Xuebin the authorization, Sun Xuebin came to the dock with a group of cross-country officers who were determined to travel across the world.
At this time, the navy sailors also made preparations on the ship early.
Following Sun Xuebin's order, eight large and small boats began to move away from the dock and toward the open sea amidst the roar of their engines.
This trip was not only led by Sun Xuebin, but also by Wang Haitao and others from the transportation team.
No way, they are the captain. If they are not brought on board, let alone Sun Xuebin, no one of the crossing officers will be able to drive the ship away.
It should be said that Sun Xuebin still wanted to recruit Wang Haitao and others into the military group.
After all, these sailors are really just sailors now. Even if all the time-traveling officers are added together, none of them can sail a ship.
Of course, if you insist on saying that if I can turn the rudder, it means sailing, there is not much to say.
But it is difficult to say whether the boat can be driven back after it actually goes to sea, or whether it will run aground accidentally.
The skills required to sail a boat cannot be learned in a short time.
The most critical issue is that Wang Haitao was originally a naval officer who changed careers, but he worked in the freight industry for seven or eight years after changing careers.
Of course, Wang Haitao is not the only one, there are several others in the transportation team who have also transferred to the navy or retired.
"Old Wang, what do you think? It's better to come to the navy. When you come to the navy, you will be the commander of the navy! You are much better than the transportation team, right?"
Sun Xuebin suffered from the lack of navy manpower and kept standing behind Wang Haitao to lobby.
Wang Haitao was extremely calm. It wasn't that he didn't want to go to the navy. After all, he was transferred from the navy and he still liked the big guns at sea.
It's just that he dared to call himself a navy with so little property in the military team, which really made him look down on him.
But it cannot be said that Sun Xuebin's patience was really good. From the beginning until the end of the encirclement and suppression of the pirate lair, Wang Haitao was finally moved.
"Okay, I promise you, but since you want me to manage the navy, everything must be done according to regulations!"
After Wang Haitao expressed his stance, Sun Xuebin heard a series of demands made by Wang Haitao before he could be happy.
These include but are not limited to building real warships, establishing naval training academies, etc.
This stick hit Sun Xuebin quite badly.
Apart from anything else, just building a warship is not that easy.
