The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 451
The soldiers who went into the cave to investigate found that Aoki Erlang and others escaped from another exit, and immediately went out to report to the commanding commander.

The commander made a decisive decision and ordered some soldiers to enter the cave along the cave to continue the search. In addition, he sent a team of people to guard the entrance of the cave, in case Jiro Aoki set up a suspicious formation and killed him.

The rest quickly wiped out the remaining Japanese pirates on the top of the mountain.

On a cliff in the south of the island, a large group of weeds and dead branches was pushed out from the inside, and fell under the cliff, revealing a dark hole.

After a while, a head quietly emerged from the entrance of the cave. After observing left and right for a long time, he waved his hand to the back and jumped down. The entrance of the cave is not high from the cliff, which is about as high as one person, so it is easy to jump down.

Then, more than a dozen figures jumped out of the cave one after another.

This group of people is Aoki Erlang and others who escaped from the cave.

This cave was a secret passage that he had discovered before, used to escape, from the top of the mountain to the back of the cliff.

Usually, only he and his cronies know that it was originally for emergency use, but I didn't expect it to come in handy today.

Aoki Jiro led the people along the desolate weeds and thorns, and carefully came to a dangerous and desolate beach full of rocks.

A Japanese pirate carefully observed the surrounding sea surface, and after finding nothing unusual, he waved his hand and led a few people to pull out a small boat from between two huge reefs after a while.

This small boat was originally tied behind the reef with iron chains, and it was covered with waterproof things such as coir raincoats and tarpaulins.

Someone cut off the iron chain with a Japanese knife, dragged the boat out, and threw the oilcloth and other things on the boat aside, and then the Japanese pirates worked together to push the boat into the water.

Jiro Aoki hurriedly boarded the boat, and soon a sail was lifted from the boat.

The sail gradually bulged, driving the boat slowly towards the distant sea.

Seeing the small island gradually moving away, Aoki Jiro let out a long breath, clenched the Japanese sword in his hand, and cursed something in Japanese with a cold look in his eyes, probably nothing more than that I will come back, or I want revenge With such words, other Japanese pirates also cursed.

The most depressing thing for Aoki Jiro is that although he was beaten like a bereaved dog and fled in a hurry, he still doesn't know who the enemy is.

I asked a few cronies around who were also in a mess, and they all shook their heads in a daze, and couldn't tell who the opponent was.

They only know that the opponent's firepower is extremely sharp, and that the musket in the opponent's hand is more accurate and farther than the musket they bought from the English businessman, and they don't know anything else.

Although the generals of the Qin army had just persuaded them to surrender at the entrance of the cave where they were hiding, although these Japanese pirates knew a few words of Chinese, they could still hear them confusedly, and they didn't quite know who they were.

Entering the cave, the generals of the Qin army who continued to search along the cave quickly found another exit, followed the traces of Aoki Erlang and others from the exit, and traced all the way to the seashore, where they found abandoned tarpaulins and other objects, as well as chopped Broken chain.

The centurion leading the team made a quick judgment and knew that Erlang Aoki and the others had escaped in the boat that had been hidden in advance, so he had no choice but to go back and report to the commander.

At this time, the Japanese pirates on the entire island have basically been wiped out, and Di Qing also boarded the island with his personal guards.

The two commanders at the front line knew that Di Qing was coming, so they hurried over to report the situation.

"Report to the general, the Japanese pirates on the island have basically been wiped out. After a preliminary count, our army killed more than 500 Japanese pirates and captured more than 300 people."

Di Qing nodded after hearing this, and then asked: "Can the pirate leader Aoki Erlang be captured?"

The commander who was being questioned looked a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said: "I tell the general, that Aoki Jiro escaped by chance, and he should have already left the island by boat."

Di Qing frowned slightly, and asked: "Didn't the navy already control all the pirate ships, where did he get the ships to escape?"

The commander hurriedly replied: "Reporting to the general, judging from the traces, the small boat was prepared by Jiro Aoki to escape and save his life. It was hidden in a hidden place, so the navy failed to find it."

Di Qing didn't ask any more questions, and ordered: "Send someone to inform the navy, and tell them to capture Aoki Erlang."

The commander hurriedly took orders and sent someone to inform the navy.

Another commander came up to report at this time: "General, our army has rescued nearly 500 people from the island, most of them are women. And there are..."

Having said this, the commander looked a little hesitant and stopped.

Seeing this, Di Qing said in a deep voice: "If you have something to say, why bother to cover it up?"

The commander said: "We also found more than 300 corpses of ordinary people who were tortured to death by Japanese pirates, and most of them were teenage girls. They were thrown naked behind the cliff. At the same time, there are many bones at the foot of the mountain. It's really miserable, and the general really can't bear to say it outright."

Di Qing was silent for a while when he heard the words, and ordered in a low voice: "Restrain the people who died. All the bones were buried on the spot. The rest can still be recognized. Let the surviving people come and identify them. If there are relatives in the family, let them They took them back and buried them in their hometown. If there are unidentified remains, they can be buried locally."

The commander nodded, and then he took the order and left.

In fact, Di Qing and the others had already made psychological preparations for this situation before going to the island.

These Japanese pirates have been entrenched on the island for at least one or two years, so there must be many people who have harmed the people.

Now that all these Japanese pirates have been wiped out, and when the time comes, they will be taken back and killed in front of the graves of the people who died, which is worthy of the spirit of these people in heaven.

After arranging these things, Di Qing took people to the temporary field hospital to visit the wounded soldiers.

After questioning, only seven soldiers of the Qin army were killed, 13 were slightly injured, two were seriously injured, and the rest had no casualties.

These soldiers who died in battle were mainly shot by Japanese pirates' muskets when they were attacking the top of the mountain.

This is also basically the case for minor and serious injuries, because with the sophisticated new guns and artillery, there is basically no melee combat, so these wounded and killed are all caused by guns.

Di Qing nodded, and ordered the military doctors to continue to treat the wounded, making sure that the seriously wounded survived, and the lightly wounded could recover their combat effectiveness as soon as possible and return to the army.

Because of the use of anesthetics and penicillin, the death rate of the wounded in the Qin army has been greatly reduced. Basically, as long as they did not hit a vital point at that time, they could survive after being treated by military doctors.

　Two chapters in a row.

　　
　
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