Wu Ping crossed the sea on the ninth day of December. The weather was quite cold when he set off. Penghu was on the Tropic of Cancer, but in December, there was still a cold that should not be underestimated. Zhang Wei transported a batch of winter supplies to the port. Seeing that only "Breaking the Wind" and some small boats left in Penghu, there were only a hundred people left. He felt that his strength was a little weak and said to Li Yan: "Three young masters, it's better to go back to Yuegang for the New Year."

"No." Li Yan said straight: "I haven't found my second brother yet, so I'll stay here and wait for my heart. I hope to go ashore together after finding my second brother. With the restoration of the rituals and the others, I won't be lonely. If there is no news about my second brother during the Chinese New Year, I will go to Anping Village to celebrate the New Year with Yuting."

Zhang Wei said again: "Why don't I stay."

"No need." Li Yan smiled and said, "Are you afraid that something will happen to me? I still have hundreds of soldiers on hand. The people on the island support me now. There are three or four hundred strong men who can help with the war when they are mobilized. With them, I don't take the small group of pirates seriously. If I encounter a great enemy, it's not too late for me to return to Yuegang."

I didn't expect that the day after Zhang Wei went back, Jibei Island in northern Penghu had a problem.

"There is a wooden board floating down to the north!" A fisherman reported: "There are still bodies on the board!"

The body? Li Yan frowned. It was almost the Chinese New Year but he encountered a floating corpse, which was not a good sign. But he still sent Lu Fuli to inspect it.

When Lu Fuli arrived, a fisherman had already lifted the person above him, but he was a man in his thirties, with a dark face, but he had not yet died. It seemed that he had encountered a shipwreck.

"Save people quickly!" Lu Fuli directed the doctor Ye Chunxian, leaving only one deputy to come to Penghu Island, but fortunately the man was mainly hungry. An old fisherman opened his mouth, poured water, and took it with water to recuperate for half a day. The man woke up. Lu Fuli asked him where he was from, what was his name, what happened, etc.

The man gasped and said, "My name is He Jiu, a native of Chaofu. He was originally a sold raw silk in Japan."

"Go to Japan?" Lu Fuli was a little surprised: "How could he run here? Did he encounter a shipwreck? But there has been no strong winds recently. Or is your ship not strong enough and leaked?"

"Oh, this is a long story. Our ship owner is from Cantonese. Because we built a ship in Hepo, we went to sea from there. When we arrived in Japan, we really made a lot of money. When we returned to the voyage, we wanted to go to Shuangyu first, but our ship owner was greedy for the nearest thing. Thinking that the waterway beacon issued by Nan'ao had not expired, we wanted to rush to Chaozhou and return to Cantonese within the year. Who knew that we encountered a group of Folang Ji people on the way, and we couldn't beat them, so we were hijacked."

He Jiu started crying as he said that.

"Pirates of Folangji!"

Lu Fuli was muttering this term and felt a stern in his heart: "You have to report this matter to the third son!"

He Jiu, who was still quite weak, rushed to Penghu Water Village, and first told Li Yanzhi about the situation of discovering this person and what He Jiu had already explained. He then introduced Li Yanzhi to He Jiu. He heard that the young man in front of him was actually a filial and honest man, and his face showed a solemn look.

Li Yanzhi was also quite serious, so he asked the two sides about the power comparison and the details of the fall of He Jiu and his merchant ship.

The big ship of He Jiu and others was a four-masted Cantonese merchant ship, with more than 200 sailors on the ship, and two three-masted ships followed each other, with nearly 100 sailors on the ship.

As for the Florians, they were originally riding on a "pirate ship", which was only seven or eight feet long. There were fifteen or sixteen Florian pirates on the ship, and there were more than a dozen black men, twenty or thirty little Westerners, and twenty or thirty Chinese.

Li Yanzhi asked clearly and said, "Why are you so clear about these?"

He Jiudao: "Later I was captured by them and found out."

Li Yan frowned slightly when he heard this, and thought to himself: "I thought he was knocked down from the water battle. It turned out that he was not. He had surrendered to Folangji." But Lu Fuli said: "You can't beat them with just such a few people!"

He Jiu said indignantly: "These ghosts, they... they are not humans! Although their cannons and bird guns are powerful, we were not defeated at all. They just pretended that they had no food and water, and sent a nun to ask us for help, and said that they would give us treasures to the owner of the ship. Seeing that they were pitiful, our owner of the ship agreed to help them. The ghosts used a small boat to transport seven ghosts to come over, and among them were the ghost leaders, what was the name of the Bin.

Song. Although Bin Song looked like a ghost, they were very polite when they got on the boat. Our people were a little scared when they saw his scars. But after listening to the nun's translation, they felt that they were polite. Then the small sampan went to transport five people over, but this time they were two ghosts, three small Western divine people, and a big box. We asked them to carry the box on the deck, who knew..." He Jiu was so angry that he couldn't continue to say this.

Li Yanzhi said: "Is that box strange? Is it?"

"Yes." He Jiu said: "That box was not filled with Western treasures, but weapons! There were bird guns and swords! At this time, they had already stood firm on the deck, and there were more than a dozen people. After opening the box, they immediately took out the bird guns and swords. The ghost leader Bin Song even took out the neck of our ship owner with a sword while our ship owner was not prepared! We didn't dare to move the bird guns in their hands, so he asked the ship owner to come and call the supervisor, treasurer, and fire chief to come and said they wanted to negotiate. But after the people came, they suddenly took action and killed our ship owner... wuwu...! Then, the ship fell into their hands."

Lu Fuli, beside him, sneered and said, "You just watched them kill the ship owner. Humph! But you are too cowardly! A few swords, a few bird guns actually hijacked a huge ship?"

He Jiu felt ashamed and said, "We are also dissatisfied, but after they killed the ship owner, we didn't know what to do for a moment, and they were all confused. They were surprised. After a melee, more than a dozen people died. Following the supervisor, they took the lead in surrendering. They asked the supervisor to take charge of us, but locked up the treasurer and the chief fire chief. Everyone was not good at all. One of the ships that followed surrendered, and the other fled, but they sank with cannons. Everyone was even more afraid. And he promised not to harm anyone except the ship owner, so we obeyed them... Who knew that they were all human-faced and beastly hearts! They didn't keep their words!"

Li Yanzhi thought to himself: "The coastal garrison has not repaired its defense, and these European pirates are becoming more and more presumptuous!" He asked again: "What happened later?"

He Jiuyi cried again and cried, "Later, later... those dog thieves! They killed our ship owner and wanted to kidnap us to Malacca. We endured all the way and didn't dare to attack. Until three days ago, one of our brothers accidentally got a news that those ghosts thought we were not honest, but now someone had to drive the ship. When they arrived in Malacca, they killed us all. When we arrived in Malacca, we were also hiring people to drive the ship. When we heard this, we wanted to kill them while they were sleeping to avenge the ship owner. Who knew that a coward told the news, the group of Folang Jimen took action first, and we were dead

There were more than a dozen people, and I was forced to jump into the sea in the chaos, and then I floated here." When he said this, his crying, which had been choked, turned into a wail: "Brothers died so miserably. When I was in the sea, not far from the boat, I saw with my own eyes that they chopped off our Aban's fingers one by one in order to calm the others on the boat. After chopping up the fingers, they chopped off their palms and chopped their feet. Finally, they cut off their hands and feet before pushing them into the sea... If I jumped into the sea one step slower, I would have to be killed like this. Woo... These ghosts are not humans!"

Wang Jingkai, Lu Fuli, Lu Yanda, Cai Dalu and others could not help but scold the group of Folang Jimen who would not die well after hearing this. Li Yanzhi interrogated He Jiu a lot, from his hometown to the cargo carried by the ship, as well as details such as fighting, resistance, being killed, falling into the water. Until he felt that there was no flaw, he asked someone to take He Jiu down to rest, but asked Cai Dalu to take his people to the north to patrol and observe, and arrange the troubled wolf smoke, especially paying attention to whether there are ships holding skeleton flags.

Lu Fuli asked: "Three Master, should I send someone to notify Yuegang, and the senior officials?"

"It's useless to notify these two sides." Li Yan said straight: "The team we can fight the most is to take, one from Wang Mumin, to patrol the island, and the other from Wuping, to Nan'ao to negotiate with Li Dayong. Zhang Wei's people at hand are not equipped and trained enough, and it's okay to move and lift, but it's probably not good to fight tough battles. Not to mention Anping Village, we have to rely on our protection." He frowned at this point, and thought to himself: "This happened a bit coincidental! Why did we come when we were weak in Penghu's defense? I just don't know how strong this group of Folang Ji pirates are."

Lu Fuli said: "Then should we send someone to notify Wang Guandai and Senior Wu?"

Li Yanzhi thought about it and said, "Folang Jimen's description, there are not many hundred people in the team. Even if He Jiu and others are annexed, these Chinese sailors can help them fight, and it is estimated that there will be only two hundred people. Now we have 100 soldiers on hand. Although most of the strong men from Penghu villages have been transferred by Anping Village, there are more than 200 people who stay in Penghu to continue building water villages. There are already organizations, and according to the terrain of Penghu, they should be able to protect themselves. Besides, those Folang Jimen may not come here yet. But just in case, send someone to send letters to Wu Ping and Wang Mumin." He asked Wang Jingkai to write a letter on his own and said, "Tell them the situation here and let them adapt to the situation. If the matter is settled, come back early, come back early." (To be continued)
Chapter completed!