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Chapter 1337: Side Story: Having the Whole World in View (14)

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Knowing that the pirates’ marksmanship was quite accurate, they activated their qinggong and began to swiftly move among the pirates. As their choice of weapon were swords, they were extremely agile. Since the pirates did not even wear armor, it was too easy to kill them.

The pirates had never seen Chinese martial arts before and only thought that the Great Qi soldiers were simply faster. The moment Tiger Head threw out the sampan, the soldiers on the warship set up the sampan at the same time and attacked the pirate ship from both sides.

With Lin Chengxiu commanding the suppression of the pirates on the pirate ship and Tiger Head and the other three providing cover on the pirate ship, the Great Qi soldiers boarded the pirate ship one after another. Seeing that everyone was engaged in a chaotic battle and that the Westerners were tall and strong, it was clear that the Qi soldiers were at a disadvantage. Lin Chengxiu immediately shouted, “Get into groups of three and get into formation to kill the enemy. Make sure not to split up…”

The ammunition on the pirate ship was almost used up, and their only remaining ammunition was used on Tiger Head and the other three who were extremely fast. Thus, when they faced the Great Qi soldiers, they could only take out their swords and sabers, which meant it was cold weapons ¹ up against cold weapons.

Not afraid of fighting with swords, Lin Chengxiu immediately got the soldiers to get into formation and kill the enemy.

They had long known that the Westerners were taller and stronger than them, so they usually trained their troops in formations.

Knowing they could not defeat them one on one, the Great Qi soldiers formed groups of two, three, or five. They had plenty of ways to wear them down.

Lin Chengxiu stood on the battlefield and commanded. Soon, the soldiers gathered together and advanced in an orderly manner. The soldiers’ morale was high, and they quickly occupied half the pirate ship, forcing the remaining 20-odd pirates to the back of the ship.

The pirate leader looked at his companion who had fallen to the deck and gritted his teeth. He whispered to the person beside him, “Jump into the sea and leave!”

Tiger Head raised his eyebrows and looked at Little Lion. His figure quickly flashed forward, picked up the leaders, and smashed them into the middle of the soldiers. When the two secret guards saw their young masters move, they understood their intentions. Moving even more swiftly than the two young masters, they threw over four more people in an instant. The other pirates immediately jumped into the sea. All this happened in less than two breaths.

The soldiers reacted slower, but they, too, quickly split into two teams. One team went over with guns and arrows to shoot the pirates who had jumped into the sea. The other team tied up the eight pirates who were thrown over. In order to prevent them from committing suicide, they even deftly dislocated their chins.

Lin Chengxiu quickly walked over and looked at the eight captives. With a nod, he said, “That’s right. Drag them back to the cabin immediately and interrogate them. Spread out and search this area. Don’t let any pirates escape.”

“Sir, we don’t know the foreign language.”

“Go look for Patriarch Zhou. He does.”

Tiger Head and Little Lion immediately volunteered. “Sir, let us go. They were speaking English just now and we’ve learned it before.”

Lieutenant Lin glanced at them and said calmly, “You two are in charge of cleaning up the battlefield and searching for the escaped pirates.”

Don’t think that he didn’t see the warning gazes of the two guards behind the two of them. This was understandable though. After all, torture was an unorthodox method. At their young age, the two young masters shouldn’t be witnessing such things.

On the third day after Lin Chengxiu and the others eliminated this group of pirates, the Guangzhou Port sent out a group of vanguards with much fanfare. Behind them were two warships and merchant ships that needed to be escorted out to the sea. Together, they majestically headed towards the Indian Ocean.

Only then did the pirates in the pirate nest receive Andre’s letter and know that Great Qi had sent troops to seek justice for the merchants of Great Qi.

Although the few groups of pirates exchanged information, they were actually not on the same island. After all, they belonged to different countries and camps. Therefore, they adopted a wait-and-see approach. They wanted to first take a look at the troops sent by Great Qi, before deciding whether to take the opportunity to teach Great Qi a lesson or temporarily avoid them.

And it was precisely because they operated independently that they did not discover in time that there was no news from an island occupied by England.

However, that island was only an island controlled by England and was not the main force. Therefore, no one took it to heart.

Not only did England occupy a large part of India’s coastal area, but they also occupied a lot of nearby islands. They only needed to discuss with the governor in India, and they did not need to send people from every island to discuss.

This also gave Lin Chengxiu and the others more time to extort confessions.

However, the captives were far more stubborn than they had imagined. They had no choice but to find a small island to dock and focus on interrogating.

By the time they pried open the mouths of two pirates, it was already three days later. As they only had one ship of people, it was naturally impossible for them to fight all the pirates in the Indian Ocean. Moreover, they did not have enough firearms and ammunition.

Lin Chengxiu’s strategy was to first take down a weak island and occupy it as their resupply base before waiting for reinforcements to arrive.

Then, he would think of a way to snatch the merchants’ goods back.

From the two pirates who had relented, he learned that although the foreigners in this area had agreed to only rob the Great Qi people, they were not united and had many conflicts.

Putting aside the political factors between their countries, they could not stop fighting over these territorial waters alone. This was because there were only a few merchant ships from Great Qi. Since everyone saw it, everyone swarmed forward to rob them. No matter how much effort they put into negotiating, the distribution of benefits remained a contentious issue. Therefore, there was a lot of conflict between them.

Lin Chengxiu was only focused on exterminating the bandits and did not care much about this situation, but Tiger Head and Little Lion were more concerned.

Great Qi’s sea trade would continue, and the sea route from Great Qi to the west was long. It was impossible for the Great Qi army to escort them to the west. Therefore, such a protection method could be used one or two times, but it could not last long. Not only because the soldiers could not leave the mainland for too long, but also because the expenses were simply too huge.

Therefore, they had to prevent the Westerners from joining forces to deal with the Great Qi people again. As such, the conflicts between the various countries would be very useful.

Tiger Head and Little Lion carefully memorized the situation of the various countries in the Indian Ocean. Since the conflicts between the various countries were already so intense, wouldn’t they become mortal enemies if fuel was added to the fire?

Ever since they were young, their mother had told them that there were no eternal enemies and friends in politics. There were only eternal interests!

They didn’t believe that they would be more vigilant against Great Qi than against their surrounding countries.

After all, no matter how powerful Great Qi was, the threat to them was limited. Because they were too far apart, their greatest conflict was only in trade.

On the other hand, the surrounding countries posed a territorial and military threat to them. This was the greatest threat.

If one were to ask who Great Qi’s greatest enemies were, it would naturally be Great Yuan and Later Xia.

As for these western countries? All of them added together were not even as threatening as a small regime in Later Xia.

This was not only the understanding of Tiger Head and Little Lion, but also the understanding of everyone in the world, including Westerners.

The reason why they targeted the people of Great Qi together was because of benefits. Because of the Great Qi people, the benefits they obtained from the sea trade had been greatly reduced.

For the sake of benefits, they could temporarily set aside their hatred and cooperate with each other. Naturally, for the sake of benefits, they would one day abandon their current alliance and cooperate with Great Qi.

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