197 Approaching the goal, moving forward
When Li Tianyang and his fleet came to the vicinity of their target island, they found that the situation was not very smooth for them, because they did not find the two sea ships originally owned by this group of pirates on this small island that covered an area of only a few miles and had no shelter, but only observed through the telescope from a distance that there were faint human figures moving around on the island, as well as the existence of a few pieces of land reclaimed from the edge of the island, which proved that it was inhabited.
"Master Sun, are you sure this is where this group of pirates hides?" Li Tianyang didn't see the sea ship that was supposed to dock near this small island, so he asked Sun Juyong, the whistleblower, with some unease.
"Little master, you're all here, I don't dare to lie to you even if I have a hundred guts! If you don't believe me, you can ask Zhou Yong, he has also dealt with this snake Wang Fei, and he should have been near this island! Sun Juyong hurriedly defended himself: "Maybe it's not the right time for us to come, this reckless snake Wang Fei is estimated to have just taken his gang out to do business, or we should wait, or change the target?" ”
"Forget it, it's all here, then let's wait." Li Tianyang got Sun Juyong's affirmative answer, and did not go to Zhou Yong to verify, because what Zhou Yong could know had already been hollowed out by him, and he did say that the existence and approximate location of this reckless snake Wang Fei and his gang were similar to the position explained by Sun Juyong.
"By the way, Brother Jie, you pick a few team members who are good at water and clever to stand by, and wait until the dead of night to go to the island to investigate." Li Tianyang looked at the sky, it was still afternoon, although there was still some time before the night, just enough time for Wu Jie to ask the team members to rest first.
"Okay!" Wu Jie has always been interested in this kind of thing facing danger head-on, and Li Tianyang's greeting immediately made his little heart excited.
The reason why Li Tianyang and the others didn't directly drive the ship to the offshore island and took down this group of pirates in one go was because of the geographical relationship of this island, except for a forest in the center of the island, the rest of the island was flat, and it was really difficult for Li Tianyang and them to approach quietly. And he didn't find out where the war ship of this group of pirates was, Li Tianyang was afraid of an accident, so he ordered the ship to be parked more than ten miles of sea outside the island, and monitored everything around him through Wu Gouzi at the top of the mast.
Speaking of the skill of using a mast to monitor the surrounding sea area, it is really a small skill that Li Tianyang and them have mastered with great difficulty, and the average pirate in the Ming Dynasty really doesn't know this skill.
Li Tianyang, who crossed over from later generations, knew that the earth was round, but in the Ming Dynasty of this era, not everyone could understand and accept this doctrine, and in order to prove this point of view, when Li Tianyang was in Tanmen, he took everyone to verify this fact by observing the appearance of ships on the sea level. And then there was such a very practical, but Li Tianyang and they did not have the skills of actual combat.
That is, the ship is docked just beyond the sea level that is not detected by the target, and the position of the sea ship is hidden by the curve of the sea level itself, and they can easily monitor the target through the top of the mast as high as three or four feet, and not be detected by the target.
Night fell quickly, Wu Jie and a few sturdy team members were well prepared and stood on the deck refreshed, waiting for Li Tianyang's order.
"Your task this time is to try to find out the number of pirates in this pirate camp without revealing yourself, understand?" Li Tianyang stood on the deck and told Wu Jie, for fear that he would be impulsive, so he would do it directly.
"Don't worry, I know the severity." Wu Jie's excitement was self-evident when he thought that he was about to go deep into the enemy's interior, and now he was looking at Li Tianyang with his eyes shining, just waiting for one of his orders.
"Put the boat and go!" Li Tianyang glanced at Wu Jie uneasily, if he didn't know that if there was no Wu Jie in this mission, then Li Tianyang wouldn't think that he could spend the rest of the time, he would definitely be annoyed by Wu Jie, and finally he set his eyes on one of the team members who were dispatched: "Dog, you have to take care of your brother for me." ”
"Yes!!" Wu Gouzi, as a specially trained observer in the camp, must have his presence in such a reconnaissance mission, and he should respond to Li Tianyang's order in one bite.
However, it turns out that although Wu Jie is brave and ruthless, he can still calm down at critical moments. When Li Tianyang and the others sat in the cabin, waiting for Wu Jie and their news for two hours, Wu Jie and the others returned with a full load, in addition to the six team members who were dispatched at the beginning, they also tied up three pirates who were dressed in rags, had vegetables on their faces, and each of them still had some flesh wounds on their bodies.
After Wu Jie and the others docked the ship firmly and escorted the captives to climb onto the warship, Li Tianyang asked them about their harvest this time: "How is the situation, is this the old nest of the reckless snake king flying to them." ”
"Yes, that's right!" Wu Jie's face flushed, and he seemed to be very satisfied with the scene of visiting the enemy camp at night: "They are a gang of reckless snakes, but our luck is not good, just in time for Wang Fei and he took people out to rob, so that they didn't find their warship docked on the island." ”
"Is that really when they're going to come back?" Li Tianyang then asked.
"With these left-behind pirates, Wang Fei has been out with their warriors for four or five days, and according to their usual habits and the fresh water food they carried, it is estimated that they should come back in two or three days at most." From the injuries on these pirates, it is not difficult to find that Wu Jie must have tortured these people, so Li Tianyang's question could not stop him.
"How many pirates are there left, and are there any sentry posts at night?" Li Tianyang continued to ask.
"Now the people left on the island, except for more than 20 pirates, the rest are all the families of their group of pirates, because they don't know how to count, they can only give an approximate number, about two hundred, in the dense forest in the center of this small island. As for whether there is a sentry, I really haven't paid attention to it, or should I ask again? "Wu Jie, who has always been rough and so-so, can do what he is now, it can be regarded as he is very attentive, and it is inevitable that there will be mistakes.
"No need, these people are out anyway, just pull them in and interrogate them directly." Li Tianyang waved his hand, and the pirates outside the cabin were picked up and slipped into the cabin where they were.
It seems that Wu Jie and their methods on the island are good for these pirates, and it didn't take much effort and energy for Li Tian to raise them, so these pirates confessed what they knew.
After taking these prisoners down, Wu Jie, Wu Daofu and the others looked at Li Tianyang and pondered, waiting for his order tightly.
After a short while, Li Tianyang's eyes widened, and he shouted to a few people present: "Pass my order, control the lights, and set off now!" ”
"Yes!" Wu Jie and several people were shocked, and responded in unison.
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