Chapter 90: A Fruitful Harvest

Li Ming and Song Tao respectively took a few special combat team members to touch the sentry and killed a few dozing guards with knives. Then with a group of special combat troops, they swept the houses here. Most of the people who live here are mercenaries and sailors, and the conditions are much worse than those inside the merchant house, and there are more than a dozen people crowded into many rooms. In the process of sweeping, they encountered several resistances, but they were all easily killed by special combat soldiers.

At this time, the sound of the motors of the two landing craft came, and Liu Baoguo and his people also arrived. But when they landed, they found that there was nothing left to do. Li Ming contacted the three landing ships cruising outside Hirado Island and asked them to come immediately.

After Li Ming arranged the vigilance and guarding of the Dutch wharf, he and Song Tao took a group of special combat personnel to a building inside the Dutch Merchant House, where several high-rise Dutch Merchant Halls lived.

They woke up an old foreign devil, Li Ming walked up, put the dog's leg next to his neck, and said gloomily in English: "I don't want to talk nonsense, tell me the location of your vault, if you don't say it, I'll kill you." ”

The old man was frightened, and after a while he nodded tremblingly. Then led Li Ming and them to a room on the first floor. When Li Ming and Song Tao walked into the house, they found that there was originally a basement entrance here.

They smashed the door lock, lit the torches, and cautiously walked into the basement. There are a lot of things stored here, and at first glance it looks like a place to store valuables. There were more than a dozen large wooden boxes on the ground, Song Tao walked over and opened one, and immediately shouted excitedly: "I guessed really good, there is really gold here." ”

Hearing Song Tao's words, Liu Baoguo also rushed over, opened the other boxes one by one, and found that these large wooden boxes were filled with a neatly stacked ingot of gold. It looks like it's nearly two tons, and it's in very good condition.

Li Ming glanced at Song Tao, Song Tao nodded and walked out, after a while, there were a few muffled gunshots outside, Song Tao walked in with a calm face, and then briefly communicated with Li Ming with his eyes. Everyone in the room understood what was going on, but none said anything. There is no way to kill that old man, this time the matter must not be revealed, and no one who has seen them can stay.

Their appearance is so conspicuous that they will be unforgettable, both in shape and in terms of equipment. Once they plundered Sakai Harbor, it was easy for the Dutch East India Company to think about it. They don't want to make enemies with the Dutch now, it's not that they're afraid of them, it's just that the company has been a critical stage of development in the past two years, and they don't want to make trouble.

In addition to a dozen large wooden boxes filled with gold, there are more than 2,000 arquebuses, several large boxes of silver coins, and some precious jewelry, precious katana and other valuables. Everyone was very excited and polite when they saw it, and they were ready to give them a pot of dishes.

Li Ming contacted the landing craft directly and asked them to send two BTR-60 armored transport vehicles ashore and drive over to meet them. The weight of the gold and muskets was not light, and it was impossible to transport them back with more than 20 of them.

The landing craft received Li Ming's order, and the two armored transport vehicles in the landing craft rushed directly to the dock, because this time it was a looting operation, and each armored transport vehicle was equipped with a trailer, which was hung behind the vehicle and towed.

By the time Li Ming and the others had made great efforts to move everything out of the basement, two armored transport trucks had already driven into the courtyard of the Dutch Mansion.

Everyone saw that the armored car had arrived, and hurriedly organized the loading. As a result, the two armored transport vehicles and the two trailers towed were filled, but they were still not loaded, so they had to put things on top of the armored transport vehicles and tie them with ropes. The armored car was also stuffed to the brim.

Everyone left the Dutch Mansion behind the armored car and came all the way to the docks. Two armored vehicles were sent to the landing craft with difficulty. Then everyone went into the warehouse on the edge of the dock. It's all ordinary goods.

Including sugar, deer skin, venison, antlers and various rattan products from Taiwan. Dutch metals, medicinal herbs, European-style armor, Batavian spices, pepper, amber, linen, cotton, tin, lead, Chinese silk fabrics, porcelain and pottery. In addition to these, there are Japanese sulfur, copper, fans, swords, lacquerware, and folding screens. What excites them the most is that there is still a large amount of rice from Southeast Asia.

Li Ming suppressed the excitement in his heart and immediately organized everyone to move goods to the dock. But in the face of so many cargoes, even if the people of the three landing ships are added, it is not easy to load them all.

There was no way, Li Ming had to ask the members of the special combat team to wake up hundreds of foreign devil mercenaries and sailors, and let them all follow the loading, anyway, several sailboats on the dock also needed people to drive.

At this time, three landing ships had already arrived, each docking at the Dutch dock. Gao Jianguo and Qiao Haipeng also hurriedly got off the boat. Seeing the contents of the warehouse of the Dutch Merchant House, they were also excited, and they hurriedly ordered everyone on the landing ship to start disembarking and loading.

It wasn't until the sky had begun to turn slightly white that all the goods from the Dutch Mercantile storehouse were loaded onto the three landing ships. It's been a busy night. But everyone was very excited, this time the harvest was too great, and the action was very smooth, and there was no trouble.

Three landing ships towed several sailboats back to Mijima, where they rested for the day. After counting, nearly two tons of gold, more than 80,000 silver coins from various countries, and a large number of other goods were looted this time.

There were also ten Dutch merchant ships, including one of about 1,000 tons, four of 500 tons, and five armed merchant ships of 350 tons. The ship was equipped with more than 200 front-loading guns, more than 2,000 arquebuses, and a large number of swords, spears and European-style armor. Although they don't like this kind of thing, it can be sold to the military leaders of the Ming Dynasty, the Korean court, or the Japanese daimyo in the future.

In addition, the ten sailboats were also loaded with various cargoes, and everyone was very excited about this harvest. Especially Song Tao, he laughed and said: "No wonder so many people go to be pirates, just I lead the special combat team to be pirates every day, it's too promising."

Li Ming scolded with a smile: "The purpose of pirates is to rob things and sell them for money, and we haven't even done a good job in basic industry now, so it's just a shelf." Even the basic social structure is not sound, so what do you want so much money for? There are still many things to do at home, and if it weren't for the actual problems of the employees, we wouldn't have come out this time. The robbery of the Dutch East India Company's Japanese trading house and the raiding of Sakai Port are all picking up rabbits along the way, and you still want to be a professional pirate. ”

Qiao Haipeng saw that Song Tao was a little disappointed, so he smiled and said: "Xiao Song, after the sailboat is launched in the future, in order to form combat effectiveness, I will let them make a cameo appearance as a pirate." I thought about it, when the time comes, we will go to the Strait of Malacca and rob the ships of those foreign devils, and if you are interested, you can follow the ships out as a land attack force. ”

"Old Joe, then you can make up your mind, thank you...... Haha......"

After a day's rest, the fleet set off again, this time heading straight to Sakai Harbor for their biggest raid since arriving on another plane. Sakai Port was the economic center of the shogunate in Japan at this time.

It is home to a great deal of wealth, and it is also a commercial hub for contemporary Japan. For this operation, Gao Jianguo and Li Ming have no bottom in their hearts, after all, this is the most prosperous Sakai Port in Japan. It's not Gaishu and Heido, and it's not Sado Island.

The situation here is still unknown to everyone, so before the operation, it was decided to let Li Ming and Song Tao take Fujita and a few Japanese samurai ashore to reconnoitre. To figure out the situation in Sakai Port, that is, as the saying goes, step on the spot, and do not fight unprepared battles. Originally, Gao Jianguo and Qiao Haipeng didn't want Li Hao and Song Tao to take risks.

What they mean is that they don't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, rush in and grab a guy and leave. But Li Ming disagreed, this kind of robbery is too untechnical, and it is not cost-effective to come all the way and rob it indiscriminately. And there will be a lot of unexpected things happening.

Gao Jianguo and Qiao Haipeng finally agreed to Li Ming's construction, but they also told them that they must ensure safety and not take risks. After several days of trekking, the three landing ships finally arrived at the Kii Suido in the waters south of Japan. In the early hours of the morning, the No. 3 landing ship lowered an assault boat and sent Li Ming and Song Tao to the coast.

The landing place they chose was outside Osaka Bay, which was relatively deserted, and if they entered the fleet and directly entered Osaka Bay, it would be strange that three landing ships of this size would not be discovered.

Li Ming and Song Tao were all dressed in the costumes of the Ming Dynasty maritime merchants, each with a pistol, a few grenades and a few smoke bombs, and the others were pistol bullets. Some of the messy silver coins from various countries were also brought. There are also a few modern small goods.

Fujita: They pretended to be guards, and they looked like that. They made their way to Sakai Port, a commercial hub of Japan's time, with thousands of sails and countless ships anchored here.

Only a few main streets in the city are fairly wide, and more are crisscrossed by small streets and alleys, with houses lined up on both sides, full of shops, and bustling with people. Fujita and a few Japanese samurai were responsible for opening the way, knocking into the civilians who were blocking the way, and they acted like dogs.

After a day of strolling here, in the evening they came to a hotel and rented a few rooms. Li Ming threw Fujita a large handful of silver coins to each of them, and told them to take them out and be happy. Li Ming let them play casually, but the flowers were not enough to come back and get them.

He also told them to go out and have a look, try to find some down-and-out wandering samurai, and talk to them. You have to be a true samurai, you have to have strength. Fujita and the others left with the silver coins in their pockets, and they were all stupid with joy. R1152