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Chapter 1305 Beat up the drowned dog

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    The task force squadron waited in the reeds for a day and a night. At dawn the next day, the intelligence agent on the shore came to report on horseback that Zeng Yiben's fleet had retreated to the Wanghai Prince's Palace area, less than 20 miles away from the mouth of Hanjiang River.  .

    The surveyor had already measured the flow speed of the Han River, and combined with the current wind direction and speed, quickly calculated the time when Zeng Yiben's fleet arrived at the ambush site.

    The well-trained police officers immediately took off their gun jackets, took out the shells, and prepared for battle in an orderly manner.

    Zhao Hao, accompanied by Wang Rulong, stood on the deck of the First Blood, looking at the mist-shrouded river.

    After nearly a month of haze, Mr. Zhao finally had a smile on his face.

    The retreat of Zeng Ben¡¯s fleet naturally meant the siege of Chaozhou, and his worries were basically relieved.

    "Brother Wang, we don't expect results in this battle. Just weigh them and settle the accounts with them later." Mr. Zhao became in a better mood and his murderous intent became less intense.

    "Understood." Wang Rulong responded first, and now he dared to talk nonsense.  "My subordinate came to Guangdong twice with Marshal Qi. The first time was to wipe out the Japanese pirates in Chaoshan; the second time was to defeat the giant pirate Wu Ping of Nan'ao Island. I didn't expect that there would be a third visit. I really have an indissoluble bond with Chaoshan."

    "Haha, I should meet a lot of 'old friends' then, right?" Zhao Hao asked with a smile.

    "That's natural." Wang Rulong nodded and said with a ferocious smile: "Zeng Yiben and the gang of sea masters were all Wu Ping's cavalry back then. During the battle on Nan'ao Island, our brothers beat us until the yolks came out."

    "His title of King of Hell came from that time." Brother Haier interrupted with a smile: "It is said that in those days, the three words 'Wang Rulong' could stop children from crying at night."

    "Then let them recall the horror of being dominated by the Qi family army, and the shame of being scared into fleeing." Zhao Hao raised his eyebrows and looked at the top of the mast slowly emerging from the mist in the distance.

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    A huge fleet consisting of hundreds of ships, large and small, is sailing down the Han River.

    ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Being known to me, that this is the pirates who encountered disgrace under Chaozhou City.  Compared with the arrogant scenery when they arrived, the huge fleet was immersed in an extremely depressed atmosphere at this time, and the shouts and cries could be heard far away.

    Because the pirates were all father and son brothers, and went to sea together from the same clan and clan, almost all of them had relatives who died under Chaozhou City.

    When they passed Wangshan Prince's Palace just now, the sailors rushed to the deck to kowtow and pray to the Sanshan King from a distance The Sanshan King is also called the Chaoshan Sanshan God. He is the oldest and most influential patron saint in the Chaoshan area. People call him  "Lord Lords", whenever a newborn baby or a relative dies of illness, they have to go to the temple to report to the three local masters, which is regarded as registering or canceling their household registration.

    So I don¡¯t know who reported it first that his brother had just died.  Then the pirates reported their mourning to the King of Sanshan one after another, and there was a loud cry of mourning on each ship.  The pirates were crying and cursing at the same time, scolding Zeng Yiben for being a bastard who was overestimating his own capabilities and being delusional, and who had killed everyone's relatives.

    "If they weren't on different ships, they could have used this strength to kill the big dragon head who could kill a thousand swords!"

    Zeng Yiben's flagship, the 5,000-year-old black-tailed boat, was filled with relatives and die-hards who shared weal and woe with him. Hearing the curses on each boat getting louder and louder, they were all frightened and hurriedly armed themselves.  Get up and be careful not to let a boat come up and mess around.

    Zeng Yiben could hear the loud noise outside clearly, but he no longer cared. He kicked everyone out and locked himself in the cabin alone, getting extremely drunk.

    The defeat of Chaozhou was an extraordinary blow to him, making him deeply feel that his strength was really exhausted, and it was a foregone conclusion that the tree would fall and the monkeys would scatter.

    The deep sense of frustration made him feel deeply world-weary. Therefore, he knew that he had not escaped yet and might be ambushed by the enemy at any time, but he still didn't want to care about it at all.

    If you should destroy it, destroy it. Anyway, as soon as you leave the mouth of Hanjiang River, you will become strangers and even become enemies.

    The leader gave up the task, so Da Jinya, Ji San and others had no choice but to pick up the burden first. Amidst the upsetting cries and curses, they tried their best to direct the fleet to slow down and pass in an orderly manner. The front seemed vast and calm.  In fact, it is a very dangerous water area.

    Similar to the Huangpu River, the lower reaches of the Han River, which is seriously lacking management, also suffer from severe siltation.  The Hanjiang Plain is densely populated, with half of Chaozhou's population living here. There are many bridges on the river, and each village and clan diverts water for irrigation and builds fields around embankments, causing the river to flow slowly.  Especially in the dry seasons of autumn and winter, huge amounts of sediment are deposited at the estuary, causing the river bed to continuously rise and the flood discharge capacity to continuously decrease.

    In today¡¯s wet season, the runoff has increased suddenly, and the river naturally overflows the river bed, submerging large areas of land on both sides.  So it looks like; In the end, half of the one hundred Daguang ships stayed at the mouth of the Hanjiang River.  In fact, there are not many stranded ships, but a few can block the already narrow channel and prevent the larger ships behind from advancing.  Escape back was a dead end. The people on the boat had no choice but to abandon the big ship and take small boats to escape to the mouth of Hanjiang River.

    In fact, in this battle, the casualties among the pirates were not too serious. At most, several hundred people were killed and drowned. It was not as big as the loss of a one-day siege.

    But the capacity of the small boat is limited, and it can only carry half of the pirates to escape to the sea.

    Fortunately, the river is not deep and the flow is not fast, so the pirates are good at water.  Those who could not catch the fish jumped into the water and swam to the south bank of the river, but they all escaped with their lives.

    Just run away, Zhao Hao doesn't care.

    In this Chaoshan area, pirates are worthless, just like leeks, after one crop, there will be another crop.

    But the dozens of large and Guangdong ships left behind were enough to severely weaken the vitality of the pirates under the background that Yin Zhengmao severely cracked down on the private shipyards in Guangdong, making it increasingly difficult for sea owners to obtain warships.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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