Ajay wouldn't believe it anyway.
In order to find out how large the pirates are, Cassim had sent people to investigate many times before, and they already knew the scale of the pirates.
The pirates did not always come to the coast of Dominican Republic to rob; they roamed everywhere.
No one can do anything to them, they can only defend themselves as best they can.
But it's always hard to guard against them. Those people come and go quickly and always succeed.
For so many years, it was the people on the shore who supported them.
"Don't worry, we are sure of it." Shangguan Ziqi patted his chest and assured.
Ajay wanted to stop him again, but the game of Endgame didn't give him a chance.
We got off the boat and let Ajay and Rajiv show us the direction.
The two had no choice but to follow them.
The ship set sail, hoisted the sails, and headed in the direction pointed by Ajay and the others.
After the pirate leader sent out people, he kept waiting for news, but after a night passed, no one came back.
The people on duty at the lookout reported to him every half hour.
But not once was it what he hoped to hear.
"Could it be that those guys got the gold and silver and ran away with it?" the pirate leader thought.
It's impossible. They all have families on the island and it's impossible for them to abandon them.
Just as he was frowning, a conch shell was blown from the lookout tower.
The pirate leader was so frightened that he stood up from his stool.
"It's bad, chief! Those foreign ships are heading towards our island." A little pirate who was running errands came running over.
"What?" The pirate leader walked out of the house and stood at the highest point looking into the distance.
Sure enough, they saw ten large ships on the sea in the distance heading towards the island where they were.
They were still quite far away, but looking at the little boy, he recognized at a glance that it was a foreign ship.
Otherwise it would be impossible to see it from so far away.
"Quick, notify all the brothers to assemble and prepare to meet the enemy." The pirate leader ordered immediately.
Although he was startled, he was not panicked.
He had more than 2,000 strong men under his command, and more than 1,000 including the old and the weak. Those foreigners only had about 400 people, so there was no way they could defeat so many of him.
When Shangguan Ziqi led the fleet to the island, he saw countless pirates standing on the coast from afar, each holding a weapon in their hands.
A posture ready to fight.
But Shangguan Ziqi did not let the boat go directly to the shore. Instead, he slowed down the boat three miles away from the shore and moved it only slowly.
Yu Zheng took a simple telescope and looked towards the shore.
A rough estimate is that there are at least two thousand people, and they are armed with various weapons.
Everyone looked over here with a gleam on their faces.
"Your Majesty, everything is ready." Shangguan Ziqi checked the four cannons and stepped forward to report.
"Okay, teach them a painful lesson and make them pay the price for robbing countless people over the years." Emperor Qiming had been emperor for decades and had no mercy on these bandits.
No monarch of any country would tolerate their existence.
If the monarch of Shen Duo Kingdom was not incompetent, this group of pirates would not have grown to such a scale.
The number of pirates killed by the Wei Dynasty before was only about one hundred. The Wei Dynasty had always been strict in cracking down on pirates.
At this time, Emperor Qiming despised the monarchs of many countries.
Emperor Qiming, the old prince, and Yu Yuzheng also brought their three children to witness the power of the cannon.
They all came and stood not far from one of the cannons.
Ajay and Rajiv didn't know what it was, and when they saw Emperor Qiming walking over to see it, he also stood next to them.
Shangguan Ziqi personally commanded the soldiers to fire.
"Load the powder."
"Compact."
"Reload."
"aim."
"ignition!"
Shangguan Ziqi gave orders one after another.
Several soldiers worked in perfect harmony step by step.
When a loud "bang" was heard and a big iron ball flew out of the barrel with smoke, Ajay and Rajiv saw the big ball crossing the sky and flying towards the island in a parabola.
I watched helplessly as the huge iron ball hit the pirates on the shore.
The moment the big iron ball fell to the ground, both of them heard heart-wrenching screams even though they were so far away.
And this launch was four large iron balls.
The pirate leader first saw something flying from the sky and didn't know how it came back.
When that thing fell to the ground and hit the brothers, the powerful impact was terrifying.
The moment the iron ball landed on the ground, a blood mist exploded among the pirates.
Sand and stones flew up along with the remains of the body, and the coastline was suddenly filled with wailing.
An iron ball was hitting the pirate leader three feet away, and the flying debris left three bloody marks on his face.
"The gods are angry!" An old pirate fell to his knees and was trampled under the feet of the chaotic crowd.
The second wave of artillery fire followed, and this time an iron ball directly smashed the lookout tower at the edge of the woods. The burning wooden frame collapsed and ignited the hay under the frame, which quickly caught fire.
Then several large iron balls hit them, scaring the pirate leader so much that he collapsed to the ground.
"The gods are really angry."
"Master Chief, let's run away." A stumbling pirate rushed in front of the pirate leader.
They had gone out to rob many times and had been chased many times, but they had never encountered such a tragic situation.
Everyone was so scared that they didn't know how to respond.
"Yes, hurry up, run." The pirate leader flipped over and got up, commanding his brothers to flee.
"Hurry, go to the island."
Amid the deafening roar, Emperor Qiming covered Shangguan Changyu's ears, turned to the old prince and said with a smile: "If my Great Wei had such a sharp weapon back then, why would we have sacrificed so many soldiers in the war with Canglan?"
"Didn't we have bombs later? God couldn't stand it and sent Zheng to open the iron box at the critical moment. Otherwise, we wouldn't have these four cannons today. When we get back, we'll make a few more."
"Haha, that's true." Emperor Qiming put away his regret.
The old prince raised his telescope to look at the battle situation on the island, and suddenly exclaimed: "The pirates have retreated."
The surviving pirates retreated to the top of the mountain like a tide, and they all fled in panic.
"Continue the bombardment." Shangguan Ziqi made a move.
The old prince raised his hand to stop the soldiers who were loading the gunpowder: "Save some ammunition. Now that the ship is close enough, it's time to use the crossbow."
Then he gestured towards the stern.
Twenty soldiers pushed out ten peculiarly shaped crossbows, each with an arrow slot loaded side by side with two arrows soaked in kerosene.
This is a weapon that has been developed in the past two years. Let's try it out and see how it works.
Shangguan Ziqi once again began to command the crossbow soldiers.
The fleeing pirates suffered another heavy blow when a row of flaming arrows were fired at the island.
Those who were alive fled even faster.
Soon, the pirates disappeared without a trace.
Ajay and Rajiv were dumbfounded.
This...isn't this too easy?
The pirates were beaten and fled away without even a close combat.
"Ziqi, take two hundred people and land in a small boat." Emperor Qiming ordered.
"Your Majesty, we'd better go around the island and see. Don't they have two islands? Maybe they are escaping to the next island from the other side." Shangguan Ziqi suggested.
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