Yu Ren did not walk with Xu Xinsu this time. He was left on Nansha Island by Xu Xinsu to assist Xu Hai in presiding over the last battle with the officers and soldiers that will come. Because Xu Xinsu knew that although Xu Hai was sophisticated, fighting was like learning piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and required a certain talent.

Xu Hai is the kind of person who has no military talent. Yu Ren is different. He has shown his unique talent in war since early on and always defeats the enemy in ways that others have unexpectedly seen. The most representative one is the sneak attack on Chen Qianshan.

Xu Xinsu knew very well that after his trip, the officers and soldiers would inevitably come out in full swing. If he wanted to repel the officers and soldiers' attacks, it would not work. Xu Xinsu thought for a long time and felt that no one of the brothers around him could take on this important task. He could only place all his hopes on Yu Ren.

As Xu Xinsu expected, as soon as he arrived in Suzhou, he was under house arrest by Xiong Wencan's subordinates. Xiong Wencan had actually arrived on Chongming Island at this time.

He wanted to personally direct his own troops to complete this bandit suppression operation. In Xiong Wencan's view, these pirates were just some mobs. Therefore, although Yu Zigao failed to capture the island in the first battle, he did not think they were of much interest. Therefore, he sent Yu Zigao from Fujian and Shen Yourong from Zhejiang respectively. He believed that it would take not long before they could capture Nansha Island.

Just then, Yu Ren asked Sun Sheng to make peace with him and proposed a plan to recruit him. Xiong Wencan originally disagreed, but later he accepted Huang Yuanji's suggestion and took the trick, first transfer Xu Xinsu out of his nest, and then attacked the island.

Xiong Wencan thought that as soon as Xu Xinsu left the island, these pirates would be without a leader, and it would be easier to wipe them out.

Therefore, after Xiong Wencan got the confidence that Xu Xinsu arrived in Suzhou, he immediately recruited five generals from his navy and discussed attacking the island.

The next day, Xiong Wencan personally supervised the army and led his 10,000 naval troops to launch a comprehensive attack on Nansha Island. This time, Xiong Wencan made plans in advance, and the officers and soldiers divided into three directions and launched an attack at the same time. Although the defense of Nansha Island was thorough, Xiong Wencan believed that if he dispatched all the warships, there was no reason that he could not conquer them.

The artillery on Nansha Island was still as fierce as before. The officers and soldiers were not showing any weakness. They lined up the warships and fired fire on the island at sea. The two sides fought fiercely for half a day, and the officers and soldiers' warships suffered considerable losses. Even Xiong Wencan's flagship was also shot, but fortunately they were not much damaged.

Seeing his warships being sunk one by one, Xiong Wencan's heart began to sway. At this moment, someone suddenly came to report that he had found more than a dozen warships of the enemy fled in the west.

Xiong Wencan was overjoyed when he heard this. "It seems that they can't stand it anymore. Don't chase after you first, tell them and attack the island with all your strength."

The commander left after the order was ordered. After a while, another war report came. "The artillery fire on the island stopped, and news came from the west, and more than a dozen more boats went out to sea."

This time Xiong Wencan no longer sit idly by, "Send an order to chase the enemy at full speed on the west road, and there is no need to attack the island anymore. If I guess well, the bandits are afraid they will run away."

After giving the order, Xiong Wencan ordered the navy from the other two directions to land on the island.

At this time, the artillery fire had stopped on Nansha Island, and no one resisted the officers and soldiers because there was no one to see anyone. Xiong Wencan took his 3,000 men to Nansha Island and soon joined the 3,000 men in the other direction. However, at this time, the entire Nansha Island was empty. The daily necessities and decorations in the house were all there, as if they had just gone out to work.

Xiong Wencan walked into Xu Xinsu's yard. Seeing that the courtyard was designed with a bit of Jiangnan gardens, he couldn't help but smile. He said to the three generals who had just arrived, "It seems that Xu Xinsu is really a talented person. He has managed this small desert island in Nansha to look like this. Those who don't know would think that they were going to in a prosperous Jiangnan town!

I visited this place once more than 20 years ago. It was still deserted at that time, with only a small village with more than a dozen fishermen living in. Unexpectedly, it became like this in just twenty years. It was not easy, not easy!"

After saying that, Xiong Wencan was about to enter the house, and one of his generals hurriedly stepped forward to stop him. "Sir, please sit in the yard for the time being. The brothers in this room have not seen it clearly yet, and it will not be too late for them to go in again after they have seen it clearly."

Xiong Wencan didn't insist. So someone brought a big rattan chair over, and Xiong Wencan sat down in the yard.

After a while, several other generals led the way and reported that there was no trace of a pirate on the island. Xiong Wencan smiled and said to the generals, "What am I saying? These pirates just look fierce. In fact, as long as we can attack the island, they will not dare to resist the island and defend it again.

Ma Bin, Zhang Ji, you two each brought twenty boats to continue chasing. This time, you must solve all this gang of pirates. However, you must also remember that God has the virtue of being a virtuous person. Although they are bandits, they are also the people of my Ming Dynasty. If they are willing to surrender, don’t kill people again.”

Ma Bin and Zhang Ji agreed and led their men.

Xiong Wencan took the remaining 2,000 people to wait for news from Ma Bin and the others on Nansha Island. Originally, according to Xiong Wencan's intention, he asked his brothers to live in this ready-made house. However, his adviser Huang Yuanji believed that these pirates were too straightforward and thorough, and would not know that they would not make trouble in the house.

Xiong Wencan followed Huang Yuanji's advice and asked his brothers not to go into the house to sleep at night, but instead chose a mountain to camp outside.

But these officers and soldiers were not willing to live in a good house. Seeing that there was a good house, they wanted them to live in a tent, everyone was unhappy. Moreover, there were still some things in the houses, and they had not found them to clean them yet! How could they live in the tent outside with confidence? So, a few brave men quietly ran out of the tent after dark and went to the house to live.

Some people lead the way, and others don’t want to be the queen. So before the first update, most of the officers and soldiers in the tent ran away.

Seeing this, Huang Yuanji hurried to find Xiong Wencan and asked him to get everyone who went into the house to sleep. However, Xiong Wencan did not accept Huang Yuanji's suggestion anymore, but just said in a vague way, "Since the brothers don't want to live in the tent, let them go! I see that these pirates have already run away from sight, so how can they do anything else?"

Seeing that Xiong Wencan didn't listen to his advice, Huang Yuanji could only sigh and go back to his tent. But he couldn't sleep and always felt that something was going to happen tonight.

But the night was calm and nothing happened. When it was almost five o'clock, Huang Yuanji breathed a sigh of relief and was falling asleep. Suddenly he heard someone shouting outside, "No, I'm leaving."

When Huang Yuanji heard this, he rushed out of the tent. Sure enough, he saw a fire on the west side of the camp, and the fire was quite strong.

Huang Yuanji secretly shouted that he was not good, so he ran to Xiong Wencan's tent. Before he could run a few steps, he saw that there were fires in other places. In a moment, the entire camp was filled with fire.

Huang Yuanji rushed to Xiong Wencan's tent and saw that Xiong Wencan didn't even have time to wear clothes, so he rushed out, with only a dozen confidants following him.

When he saw Huang Yuanji, Xiong Wencan said almost cryingly, "What should I do sir?"

Huang Yuanji looked at the rows of blue brick houses not far away in front of him. This place was only half a mile away from that place, and there was a fire in the camp, and there was a mess, but there was no movement there. Huang Yuanji judged that the brothers who entered the house had already approached the enemy.

"There is no other way to imagine at this moment, so I can only take the boat away." Huang Yuanji said, while he surrounded dozens of confidants who gathered up and rushed to the dock where they were parked. In order to grab the time, Huang Yuanji specially picked ten more people running fast and rushed to the dock first.

When they arrived at the pier, the pier was empty, and there were already no one of the twenty or thirty warships parked here just now.

Huang Yuanji sighed. Although he had already thought of this result, he still did not give up, so he had to take Xiong Wencan here. Because he knew that their only way to live was to escape by boat. He always held a little luck, hoping to rush onto the boat in front of the pirates.

But now, he knew how futile all this was.

"It seems that I underestimated these pirates! Among them, there must be masters. For the sake of this, we can only accept their recruitment conditions."

Huang Yuanji didn't say anything. He thought to himself, "It's not that we can accept their recruitment conditions now. It's the question of whether they can let us go." But Huang Yuanji did not say this. Although he has always been dependent on Xiong Wencan, he also knew that Xiong Wencan was a very good person.

Huang Yuanji was thinking about whether to suggest Xiong Wencan turn around quickly to see if he could summon some remaining brothers to fight the pirates to the death. But suddenly someone came to report that he had found our two warships not far ahead.
Chapter completed!