"They had two batches in front and behind. The first batch was estimated to be four or five thousand, and the next batch had three or four thousand. According to my estimate, the number should be less than eight thousand. However, a considerable number of them were women and children."

Yu Zigao nodded, "Can you know how many ships they have?"

"If you want to talk about boats, I'm afraid there are no less than five hundred."

"What, so much?" Liu Hongsheng was shocked.

Or Yu Zigao is more calm. "What kind of ships are they?"

"There are mainly small sloop boats, and there are also large boats, but not many."

Liu Hongsheng then breathed a sigh of relief. "Do you know where they live?"

"This, the villain has never been there, but when others heard that they lived in Danshui, more than thirty miles away, from here, down the waterway in front, and arrived thirty miles ahead."

Yu Zigao glanced at Liu Hongsheng. Liu Hongsheng nodded to Yu Zigao.

"Okay, you go down first! Reward this fellow villagers for ten taels of silver. If he is willing to lead the way, he will reward him for fifty taels of silver." Yu Zigao ordered.

The man went on with great gratitude.

"What should I do? Sir." Liu Hongsheng asked anxiously when he saw the man walking out of the cabin.

"No hurry. We have been waiting for so many days, and we don't care about waiting for this time. You send someone to recall the Clippers we had previously chased against the enemy. If I guessed well, they should have already fought with the pirates at this moment. If they don't retreat, there will be only one result."

"What's the result?" Liu Hongsheng asked.

"The whole army was wiped out. So, you should quickly bring people to welcome them. But remember that if you fight with pirates, you can only lose, not win.

This time is a great opportunity given to us by God. If I want to be foolproof, I must wipe out all these pirates here. If they are allowed to escape, the trouble will be great in the future."

Liu Hongsheng agreed.

As soon as Liu Hongsheng left, Yu Zigao immediately called his two thousand generals and asked them to lead a thousand people each, traveling around from land to Tamsui 30 miles away, and secretly surrounded pirates from both north and south to prevent them from breaking through the surrounding mountains after the battle.

"Remember, you two must conceal your whereabouts this time, and you must not let the enemy discover your whereabouts. You go back first to prepare early. At midnight, you will bypass the ship five miles north and south, and then abandon the ship and land. Do not let others discover your whereabouts. If the enemy discovers our intentions and runs away, I will only ask."

Two thousand generals bowed their bodies and bowed down.

After a while, Liu Hongsheng hurriedly walked in with a soaked President Qian.

"Report to the Lord, I've brought them back."

"What is the result of the battle?"

When the President Qian heard this, he lowered his head in shame. Liu Hongsheng replied for him, "I lost, I was very badly defeated. Almost all the troops were wiped out. When I went to pick me up, President Liang Qian escaped with only two small boats."

When Mr. Liang Qian heard this, his head lowered even lower.

“Very good, very good!”

Mr. Liang Qian thought Yu Zigao was talking sarcastically, so he knelt down and kowtowed, "Sir, please spare me, please spare me. Please give me another chance. I promise not to let me down again."

Yu Zigao laughed twice, "Didn't I say it's good? You've lost very well! This is exactly what I want."

Mr. Liang Qian thought Yu Zigao refused to forgive him, so he had to keep kowtowing.

Yu Zigao said to Liu Hongsheng, "Hongsheng, help him up."

Liu Hongsheng walked over and helped Mr. Liang Qian up, "Don't worry! Shihu, sir, really have no intention of blaming you. In this battle, sir, sir, was to let us only lose but not win. The more you lose, the better."

Liang Shihu looked at Liu Hongsheng suspiciously and looked at Yu Zigao again. Seeing that Yu Zigao was indeed not angry, he felt a little relieved.

"Did you see the exact location of the enemy's nest?" Yu Zigao asked.

"See it."

“Where is it?”

"Just on both sides of the waterway thirty miles away from here. As soon as we got there, we were surrounded by a large number of pirates who suddenly appeared. Fortunately, Bei Yi ran away quickly, so he saved his life."

"Are you sure their nest is there?" Yu Zigao asked again.

"It's absolutely impossible. I saw with my own eyes that thousands of temporary wooden houses were built on the shores on both sides." Liang Shihu said.

"Okay, you go down!" Yu Zigao said, waved his hand to Liang Shihu.

Yu Zigao's fleet was divided into two groups and surrounded Tamsui from east to west the next day. However, the group of pirates gathered in Tamsui at this time did not react at all. Yu Zigao led his fleet to Danshui for more than ten miles, but still did not encounter a single ship.

This abnormality made Yu Zigao a little worried.

"Sir, these pirates are a bit abnormal! Could it be that they have set up traps long ago?" Liu Hongsheng stood behind Yu Zigao. The waterway in front of him was really not wide. Although their big ships came in, it would be difficult to get two ships to run side by side.

What made Liu Hongsheng even more worried was that the waterway was winding and twists and turns, and the straightest place could not be seen two miles ahead.

"Sir, otherwise, let's just withdraw the fleet first and then encircle the pirates by land!"

Yu Zigao shook his head, "No. We have no advantage in land attack. How can we guarantee the victory of this battle? Only by relying on the artillery on the ship can we gain an absolute advantage and launch a fatal blow to the pirates.

I know they may make small moves in the water. But don't worry, they have just escaped here for a while. Even if they want to make trouble in the water, they don't have the time to do so. They can only do some temporary simple traps or obstacles. Our ship is big, and ordinary traps and obstacles cannot do anything to us."

Liu Hongsheng didn't say anything anymore. Since Zhejiang cleared out the Xu pirates, Yu Zigao has often predicted the enemy's initiative and won every possible result. Although Liu Hongsheng was a little worried, he still believed that his coach's judgment was correct and that he could completely eliminate the remaining enemies in front of him in one fell swoop.

Of course, there is another thing that reassuring Liu Hongsheng is that Yu Ren, who is said to be the most resourceful and war-capable of the Xu family group, is dead. Without Yu Ren, Liu Hongsheng believes that these pirates are just food in their mouths.

Yu Zigao's fleet stopped less than ten miles from Tamsui. He was waiting, waiting for a signal from the teams surrounding north and south on the land.

About an hour later, three cannons came from the south, followed by a shout of killing, and then there were also cannons and shout of killing from the north.

When Yu Zigao heard the voice, he excitedly picked up the flag. "Okay, the time has finally come." After saying that, Yu Zigao waved the flag and the fleet moved forward quickly.

Seeing that the encirclement was about to end, Yu Zigao was thinking about the matter of rewarding merit after the war. His habit was always that every time he wrote a war report, he had to judge the amount of money seized by his generals. As for how many enemies he killed, it was just an accompanying reference value.

At this moment, Liu Hongsheng hurried over.

"Report, report to the Lord. A group of enemy ships were found in front of him."

"There are enemy ships? OK! Fire the cannon immediately and destroy them." Yu Zigao said.

"But, but, their boats are loaded with things." Liu Hongsheng's voice sounded a little trembling.

"What? Isn't it silver? If it's silver, you have to be careful and never sink. Otherwise, it would be a pity if you can't get it later."

"No, it's not silver." Liu Hongsheng shook his head.

"What is that?"

"Yes, it's fire." Liu Hongsheng said.

"What? Fire? They want to burn our ships with fire? Don't worry! I had already expected that they would come here. I ordered each ship to raise the prepared buckets. Don't worry, they can't burn us for a while. When our two thousand teams on the land advance, they will be completely desperate. By then, they will become the meat on our desk."

Before Yu Zigao finished speaking, another Qianmao hurried over to report.

"Report to the Lord, the fire on the enemy's fire ship cannot be extinguished. It seems that they have used tinea oil? What should we do? Do we need to withdraw?"

"Retreat? No. Aren't it just a few fireboats? Send the orders and let the three No. 2 blessed ships in front stop the water. Don't let their fireboats rush over. Other warships keep a distance of twenty feet from them. I don't believe that their fireboats can still burn us. As for those three ships..., let them burn! Order all the ships to fire on the shore and support our land team. Remember, the key is to attack their fortifications."

As soon as the commander went down, he saw another school running over.

"Report to the master, big things are not good."
Chapter completed!