The 30,000 pirates who landed at the same time were closely watching the results of the battle here.

Soon after Fernando ordered the surrender, the pirates who invaded the central route retreated decisively. A quarter of an hour later, the news reached the northern route.

When Lin Huanong heard that the Red-haired Devils were completely wiped out, his face turned green. How could he dare to yell at Lin Zhiying and others? He just slipped away.

So they retreated back to Shen'ao Bay along the same route.

~~

At ten o'clock in the morning, the dust settled on the battlefield of Nan'ao Island.

Young Master Zhao showed up at the inner wall defense line to express his condolences to the Marines and security team soldiers.

"Thank you all for your hard work!" Young Master Zhao was all smiles and shook hands cordially with the participants, making people feel like they were in spring breeze.

"It's not hard! It's not hard!" The soldiers were so excited to have the opportunity to have close contact with the beloved Master Zhao that some even had tears in their eyes.

"It's really not hard. People say it's much easier than construction." Macron said with a smile, "My lord, you always say that more sweat in peacetime means less blood in war. It's absolutely true!"

"Oh, then the loss is not that big?" Master Zhao asked happily.

"Yes, no one was killed in the battle. Only a few unlucky ones sprained their ankles because the fog was too thick and they couldn't see the ground clearly. The most seriously injured one had a broken bone." Macron said with admiration, "This is all thanks to you, young master!"

"Hahaha, you're so good Macron, even a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes can flatter." Zhao Hao was in a good mood and joked with everyone.

At this time, a stiff shout came from the artillery platform not far away:

"I want to see Zhao Hao. I am qualified to see him... um..."

He stopped talking in the middle of his words, probably because his mouth was covered.

Huang Xiaohu quickly sent people to check what was going on. After a while, they reported that it was the captured deputy commander of the Macau fleet, the commander of this landing operation, who was clamoring to see the young master.

"Then let's meet." Zhao Hao was in a good mood and nodded with a smile.

Soon, Colonel Fernando was pressed forward with his hands tied behind his back. The position of his upper body leaning back made the lump in his crotch particularly eye-catching, causing the officers and soldiers to look at him sideways.

"Fuck, it's that big?"

"What a donkey..."

"Cut him half..."

The use of 'Codopes' is what these ignorant guys mistakenly think is very big. But in fact, the testicles need to be cool. If the cotton is covered there for a long time, it will cause the spring bag to overheat, reduce its ability, and even infertility.

Fernando had fresh wounds on his face and a black eye on his left eye. This was the price for shouting and yelling just now.

"Mr. Zhao, you can't treat me like this. I am a noble and should be treated preferentially!" When Fernando saw Zhao Hao surrounded by the crowd, he immediately protested loudly.

"Kneel down!" Two strong Marines pressed him to the ground.

"You speak Mandarin so well. You should understand the saying 'When in Rome, do as the Romans do', right?" Zhao Hao turned his eyes away from Fernando's crotch and smiled, "My Ming Dynasty does not have a tradition of treating prisoners well, especially invaders. There is only one thing to say..."

As he said this, he raised his hand and turned sideways. The soldiers on the wall and below shouted in unison: "Foreigners and internal invaders, anyone who dares to attack us will be killed!"

"He must be killed!" Soldiers and employees farther away heard this and roared along with them.

Fernando was so frightened that his face turned green.

"Of course, surrendering is always beneficial. You will have a chance to defend yourself in the garrison court, and the final decision on your punishment will be made by the arbitration committee." Zhao Hao stretched out his hand to scratch his tall nose and encouraged Fernando, "Try to survive."

"..." Fernando's head was buzzing. This was obviously seriously inconsistent with his expectations, so much so that he even forgot the purpose of meeting Zhao Hao.

It was not until the guards were about to take him away that he woke up and regained consciousness. He struggled to turn around and said, "Master Zhao, I have a few questions for you!"

Zhao Hao nodded slightly, and the guard turned him around again.

"The first question is, you are obviously strong, well-trained, and well-equipped, so why can't you fight us fairly?" Fernando asked.

"Because morality is something we talk about with friends, we will certainly use all means to fight jackals!" Zhao Hao sneered and said, "Besides, the lives of you red-haired devils are too cheap. Even a hundred of them cannot buy the life of one of my subordinates. Do you understand?"

"Even if you win, we won't accept it!" Fernando said he was asking for advice, but in fact he was just venting his emotions. "Yes, this is called unethical!"

"Then I will kill you until you are convinced." Zhao Hao said grimly, "The Portuguese are just a small country with a population of only a few million, and there are powerful neighbors eyeing them covetously. I want to see whether you will destroy the country first or make them submit first?!"

"Mad man..." Fernando couldn't help but shudder and muttered in Portuguese. Although he didn't believe Zhao Hao could kill his way to the Portuguese mainland, it would not be difficult for this mad man to kill all the Portuguese in Macau.

His whole family is still in Macau...

"Any other questions?" Zhao Hao asked in a deep voice.

"Oh, one more thing." Fernando's next question was much cuter. With his hands tied behind his back, he pointed at the wall under his feet with his chin and asked, "Excuse me, how did you build this wall? Why is it so strong?"

"It's a military secret. I can't disclose it." Zhao Hao shook his head.

"Then your muskets should be copied from our matchlocks, right? How do you achieve continuous firing?" Fernando asked again: "I clearly remember that you have practiced continuous firing, and the speed of matchlocks is not that fast."

"Military secrets, no comment." Zhao Hao shook his head again, and suddenly smiled and said, "Of course you can want to know, but would you rather die than hear the truth?"

"Ah?" Fernando's Chinese proficiency was limited to spoken Chinese, so he had no idea about the elegant written language.

"That is to say, you can know it, but after telling you, you must commit suicide immediately to ensure that the secrets of our group are not leaked." Macron explained for the young man.

"This... I suddenly don't want to know anymore." Fernando hesitated for a moment, but gave up.

Master Zhao waved his hand and asked the guards to take Fernando away without getting any answer. Those who have a stronger desire to survive than to live are not worthy of knowing the truth.

~~

"But sir, the multi-barreled guns used by the guards are really powerful..." On the way back to the headquarters, Macron couldn't help but asked with envy: "When can we be equipped with them?"

"It won't be put into service on a large scale." Zhao Hao poured cold water on him and said, "The Thunderbolt Gun invented by Zhao Shizhen was only manufactured in small batches and allowed the guards to test it."

"But the test results are not optimistic. There are too many defects." The nephew who was accompanying him nodded and agreed: "For example, the cost is too high, the structure is too complicated, the failure rate when firing is high, and reloading is too cumbersome. Therefore, it cannot be put into actual combat, let alone mass deployment."

"I see." Macron sighed in disappointment, "I thought the era of cavalry was coming to an end."

"That's going to have to wait until the Gatling gun comes out. His Thunderbolt can only be considered a 'Gatling gun' at best." Young Master Zhao laughed and was unwilling to mention this gun any more.

The Thunder Gun is one of Zhao Shizhen's many genius inventions. Although his nephew is now famous for casting cannons and focuses on continuously improving the performance of cannons, the musket was his little lover in his previous life.

After he invented the Longqing-style rifle, he had been wanting to make another breakthrough. This genius weapon master was keenly aware that the limitation of the musket to exert greater power and completely replace the shackles of cold weapons was not the range, but the firing rate!

The only way to defeat martial arts in the world is to be faster. As long as the musket can shoot fast, it will be invincible in the world!

At first, his idea was to imitate the Portuguese and change the musket to a rear-loading sub-gun style. In this way, the sub-guns would be loaded in advance before the battle, and they would be loaded into the barrel and fired in turn during the battle, and the shooting speed would naturally increase. So it was called the "electric gun".

But this overly advanced idea was ruthlessly rejected by Zhao Hao.

In fact, the Spanish had a similar design a long time ago, but firstly, it was too expensive to make a metal bullet. Secondly, if the bullet was loaded from the breech, the problem of air leakage would be difficult to solve, which would not only reduce the bullet speed, but also greatly reduce the range and make it easier for the shooter to get hit. Therefore, this gun is more like a concept product. With the current industrial level, it is probably impossible to make it practical.

Zhao Shizhen then took a different approach, absorbing the advantages of the three-barreled gun and installing several barrels on the Longqing-style gun. All the barrels shared a bolt mechanism, and after each shot, the barrels could be rotated to fire another one, thus achieving the effect of continuous firing.

The concept and appearance of this firearm are very similar to Gatling guns, so Zhao Hao called it "Gatling gun". Unfortunately, it is as complicated and expensive as the electric gun, and even more difficult to reload than the former. In a battle, all the barrels are exhausted and it is basically impossible to reload.

But the biggest advantage of the Thunder Gun is that because the barrel is exactly the same as the Bird Gun, the range and power are not compromised.

So although it is not possible to equip it in large quantities, if it is equipped in small quantities to special forces - such as the guards of the Security Department, the powerful power burst out by the Thunder Gun in a short period of time will be enough to suppress the charge of cavalry, or achieve the effect of defeating the larger force with the smaller one.

This point has been well demonstrated in the battle just now.

Zhao Hao had never expected that the special-shaped firearms designed by Zhao Shizhen could be really useful in certain situations. This made him agree with Zhao Shizhen to first manufacture 200 guns and give them to the Security Department for trial use.

Thanks to the 'Thunder Gun', the shelved 'Electric Gun' design was revived. Zhao Hao agreed to let him try out a few sample guns first to see if there was any value in improvement.

However, whether it is the Thunder Gun or the Electric Gun, even if it is really improved and practical in the future, for example, the Electric Gun evolves into a breech-loading gun like the Hall Rifle, Zhao Hao does not plan to equip the Coast Guard, let alone the Security Team.

In addition to controlling costs and ensuring the reliability of standard weapons, there is another reason that is unknown to outsiders, which is the limited generation gap theory he proposed.

This is not groundless worry, as can be seen from Fernando. People and countries that have been in a state of war for many years have an unusual keenness and desire for new weapons and inventions that may affect the balance of war.

Zhao Hao could not help but make up his mind. In order to avoid attracting the Europeans' spying too early, he wanted Fernando and his partners to go to Keelung to dig for the rest of their lives...

So, curiosity kills the cat. Don't ask around...

P.S. Sorry, this is just one update. I'm so sleepy...