On the other side outside the gate of Base 1 were the captured pirate weapons, there were a lot of knives, guns, and guns, there were seven firearms, and two three-eyed guns, and the other two large ships each had an earthen cannon, and the strength of the armament was actually not very weak, a little stronger than the imagination of the traversers, but the vast majority of these weapons did not come in handy in this battle with a huge disparity in strength. The men from the Military Police Department have already examined these weapons, and they have been given the assessment that "the quality is too poor to use", and the only thing that awaits them is probably to return to the furnace to make iron.

Luo Shengdong noticed that there were several more Canton ships on the beach of Shengli Harbor, the larger two were actually the same size as the Haicang ship under his command, and the other two smaller Canton ships seemed to have been bitten by some monster, and they were so damaged that they couldn't look like they, and one of them even tilted significantly because of too much water. Luo Shengdong is also a person who has been running at sea for a long time, and from these injuries on the hull, it is not difficult for him to imagine the fierce battle situation when the pirates attacked yesterday. But looking at the orderly appearance of the port, it should be that these have been defeated by the shorthairs on the sea before they have completed the landing and landing.

Luo Shengdong was suddenly moved and rejoiced, he had previously thought that it would be good if he could meet this group of pirates, and he could probably cut off some heads and return to Yazhou to ask for credit. But judging from the situation seen now, the strength of this group of pirates is not weak, and if their own sea ships really encounter this pirate fleet at sea, most of them can only choose to retreat.

"Put him on the ship first, and Tao will always take care of his affairs later. Yan Chujie, who came to receive Luo Shengdong, had red eyes and said while yawning.

Yan Chujie also didn't sleep last night, and organized people to conduct an overnight surprise interrogation of the captured pirates. Judging from the current situation and the confessions of the pirates, the crossing side has basically controlled the situation. Last night, the original target of the pirates who traveled south from Leizhou was not Shengli Harbor, but the densely populated coastal area near Yazhou City.

However, when they passed through the waters around Sanya after heading south from the east coast of the South Island, they stumbled upon two catamarans that had finished their patrol and were on their way back. The pirates had never seen such a strange ship before, so they cautiously rounded the bay, found a place to dock at Luhuitoujiao, and sent several spies disguised as local fishermen to investigate the area around Victory Harbor. As King Tom had speculated, the pirates, after determining that the harbor was empty, wanted to launch a surprise attack when they had returned to the harbor by the patrol ships.

Although the lurking pirate scouts had figured out the patrol schedules of the traversers, they did not know that there was a hidden early warning post on the mountain range of Yulin Point, and that it had communication technology that they could not imagine. The spies also saw the iron-hulled fishing boats docked on the shore, but they could not imagine the power of these strange ships without masts and sails in naval battles. The technological gap of nearly 400 years made it almost impossible for these pirates who had been at sea to resist the onslaught of the Crossing Crowd effectively, and they were quickly and completely defeated in a one-sided situation.

The leader of the pirates was killed instantly by three bullets during the first rendezvous with the Crossing Crowd yesterday. The deputy leader is on another stranded ship, and is still absconding. According to the pirates' confessions, their total number was about 160 or 70, and the number of those who escaped from the stranded ship should be around 40, and the "missing persons" who have not been found so far are estimated to have been fed to fish in yesterday's naval battle.

This morning, Yan Chujie will lead the elite forces of the Military Police Department to pursue and suppress the sandbar where these pirates abandoned their ships yesterday, but it is still difficult to say what the outcome will be. The sandbar is connected to several mountains at an altitude of about 300 meters, and if the pirates choose to escape into the mountains, then the Israeli military police department will definitely not be able to enter the mountains with limited manpower.

However, the military police department did not think that these escaped pirates could cause any trouble, and the pirates confessed that the ship's food reserves were already low, at most enough for the crew to last another four or five days, which is one of the reasons why their leader did not want to wait any longer and chose to launch an attack yesterday. The west and north of that sandbar is the estuary of the Tiandu River, and to the south and east is all continuous mountainous areas, and the nearby radius of dozens of miles is deserted, and it is difficult for people who have not received special training in wild survival to survive in this environment for a long time.

Luo Shengdong was once again locked in the barge cabin, still the same place, still familiar taste. Luo Shengdong even recalled the days when he was first arrested, and thought that he would definitely be dragged out and killed by the shorthairs for a random reason, but he didn't expect to survive well. But fate turned, and he returned here again, and he didn't know whether the result waiting for him was a blessing or a curse.

Tao Donglai went to inspect several sailing ships seized yesterday early this morning with several heads of the Ministry of Shipping. Both large ships are in very good condition, and there are few places that need to be overhauled, except for the complete disinfection of the cabins. According to the pirate's confession, before going south this time, they also did a special bottom maintenance for these two large ships, which was cheaper for the shipping department.

But the condition of the two small boats was very worrying, one of the ribs had been pulled out of a large gap more than seven feet long and nearly two feet wide, while the stern of the other was damaged and had to be brought ashore to the dock to be repaired. Sun Changmi's final judgment was that the ship's hull structure had been damaged and that it was difficult to completely repair it, and even if the stern was repaired in the future, the ship could not withstand strong winds and waves because of its insufficient structural strength, and could no longer sail into the ocean, and could only be used in areas near the coast. Sun Changmi's construction was to use the ship as a training ship for the Ministry of Shipping, and occasionally it could also be used for short-distance transportation near the mouth of the Hotan Du River in the Shengli Harbor.

However, in this way, it has relieved the pressure on the Ministry of Shipping to rush to start the shipbuilding project. At present, the preparation progress of marine timber alone is far from meeting the requirements of shipbuilding, and it will take at least one to two months to build a ship of the same tonnage as the Haicang ship, and it will take at least one to two months to prepare the ship materials, and it will be difficult to get the end of the year when it is well built and launched. Now, these four ships only need to be repaired, and the materials required and the man-hours required are much less than those for shipbuilding, and the speed of operation is certainly much faster than building new ships.

After Tao Donglai discussed the matter with the Ministry of Shipping, he brought some fresh fruits and went to visit Luo Wudan, a war correspondent who was wounded in the line of duty. However, regarding Luo Wudan's proposal to set up an independent news agency led by her, Tao Donglai played haha like Gu Kai and perfunctory first. It was not that Tao Donglai discriminated against journalism and was unwilling to support the project, but on the contrary, it was because he knew the role of news reports in guiding public opinion, so he did not dare to agree to Luo Wudan's application.

Many of the old men who participated in the crossing are here for the days of three wives and four concubines in the future, so that Luo Wudan, a strong woman who can speak well, has mastered the propaganda mouthpiece, and will everyone look forward to the "sexual happy life" in the future?

After finishing all this, Tao Donglai returned to the headquarters office of the No. 1 base, sat down and just drank a sip of water, suddenly remembered Luo Shengdong's matter, and when he asked, he knew that he had escorted people from the upper reaches of the Tiandu River early this morning, and immediately called someone to pick him up on the barge.

This was the first time Luo Shengdong had entered the interior of Base No. 1, and he couldn't help but look around curiously along the way. The No. 1 base was built in accordance with the drawings jointly designed by the Ministry of Construction and the Military Police Department, covering an area not too large, including the outer fortifications, it is only about 40 acres, and the interior is mainly divided into several parts: residential area, office area and material warehouse area. The whole camp is clearly divided into functions, there are no superfluous buildings, and even the above-ground drainage ditches are dug neatly. However, there are not many people living in the camp recently, and most of them have gone out early in the morning to do business, so it seems very deserted.

The neat rows of prefabricated houses here surprised Luo Shengdong and made him a little inexplicably disdainful: "These short hairs are so powerful, but the house they live in is so simple that they haven't even repaired a courtyard." ”

Tao Donglai saw Luo Shengdong being escorted in, and pointed to the stool opposite him. Luo Shengdong comprehended, walked over and sat down by himself.

"I heard that you caught that pirate's spy last night?" Tao Donglai asked with interest about last night.

"It's just a matter of piracy. Luo Shengdong hugged his fists very comfortably, but his hands and wrists were tied with straps, and his movements were a little awkward.

"Your sudden proposal to negotiate with us must have something to do with the appearance of these pirates, right?" Tao Donglai continued to ask. Last night, he, Yan Chujie and others had analyzed the shape and thought that Luo Shengdong's motive for proposing to negotiate at this time should be influenced by some external factors, such as the sudden attack of pirates this time. As for his true thoughts, several people couldn't figure it out for a long time.

Luo Shengdong nodded and said, "That's right." I want you to hand over these pirates to me. ”

"Hmm, I'll leave it to you?" Tao Donglai hadn't regained his thoughts on this sentence for a while: "We really have plans to put all these pirates into labor camps, and they should be your subordinates when the time comes." There may be changes in the establishment of the labor camp in the future, so you just need to listen to the arrangement of the commander. ”

"No, I want their heads. Luo Shengdong said very calmly: "I need to take these pirate heads back to Yazhou City to be rewarded for meritorious service." ”