our family is gone

Madness is so fragile in the face of death. The pirates who were plundering like locusts had no chance to resist when they ran into the barrage of bullets.

"Run away!"

"Shit! Kill them."

"Brothers, take out your weapons!"

Seeing their fellow pirates falling down in large numbers and torn apart by bullets, the pirates' first reaction was not to surrender, but to turn around and run away, or to fight back with the help of buildings. It can only be said that these desperate criminals are still tenacious.

Of course, it was more because their pockets were filled with the stolen property, so they naturally refused to surrender easily.

But he is not even afraid of muskets. He is no longer an ordinary pirate. We must strike hard!
"Be careful with grenades!"

Grenades were thrown out amid the soldiers' shouts. The high-intensity training made them very confident in determining the landing points. When the bombs exploded in the corners of the buildings, the pirates hiding in them and trying to resist suffered a severe blow in an instant.

The power of the fragments is no less than that of bullets within the range, especially for those pirates without armor. They can easily penetrate into their bodies, or fly past and cut their flesh, causing blood to flow.

"Ah!!! My legs!"

"Please help me for the captain's sake."

"Save me, and I'll give you all the money."

These injuries were not enough to kill them immediately, but the fear caused by the injuries made them fall into despair.

The Pirates' will is being tested... Fear!
The pirates also had pistols, and even though they fired randomly in their previous counterattack, they injured some soldiers.

But compared to the situation with the pirates, the soldiers either retreated and bandaged the wounds themselves, or a doctor from one of the teams came to help. Even the injury of more than a dozen people did not shake the battle line.

"lay down your weapon!"

"Surrender without killing!"

"Get down! Put your hands over your head."

After a round of grenades swept the ground, the remaining pirates finally understood what people were saying. Their eyes became clear, and there was no trace of the madness just now.

In fact, the number of pirates killed by the soldiers was not even as much as the number of pirates killing each other just now. It was just that the pressure caused by the line-up shooting was too great, which was simply not comparable to fighting alone.

Pirates are all about close combat, but now the enemy can kill them without even getting close. Faced with this kind of situation, they have no idea what to do, and they are even more confused when they are hit by a grenade.

"I surrender! Don't kill me..."

Pirates have no loyalty or integrity. Once this kind of thing starts, it will spread and everyone will drop their weapons and surrender.

However, there are still some who want to be clever and hide under the corpses and pretend to be dead, but the soldiers have all received training on how to clean up the battlefield and take over the prisoners.

They advanced in groups of three, with bayonets fixed on their rifles. They would stab any corpse, regardless of whether it was alive or not. They would stab any motionless pirates lying on the ground twice. They would be very merciful to the seriously injured pirates and would raise their bayonets to send them away.

This scene scared some people who wanted to play dead and get away with it. Some stood up and tried to escape, some tried to bribe for mercy, and some were injured and knew there was no hope, so they wanted to drag others down with them.

But it's useless. Not to mention that Hamlet has strict military discipline and it is clear that the spoils of war on the battlefield must be returned to the public. Even if there is no such rule, the money will still be mine after I kill you.

As for those who want to escape or resist, just shoot them down with one shot. What era is this? Are you still using traditional combat?

The pirates were almost one-sided in the face of the advancing soldiers and soon went up to the buildings halfway up the hill. Only then did they discover how cruel the crimes these pirates had committed were.

These are relatively high-end brothels and casinos, as well as places where pirates with some strength and background stay. They maintain their own territories here, and these are not places that ordinary pirates can touch.

So they rushed in, raped and looted, and hacked to death those thugs who used to be so high and mighty by virtue of their pirate backgrounds. Those who they could not and dared not touch in the past, whether they were those in brothels or women who depended on pirates, also fell into the hands of these crazy pirates to vent their desires.

But there were too many people and they wouldn't line up. Many pirates grabbed the women and just took off their pants, and the next second their heads were gone. As blood gushed out, the bodies were pushed away and another pirate with a hideous face rushed up.

There was a frenzy of killing, and all that could be seen were corpses, most of which were pirates. A large number of women and children were killed. Their exposed skin was covered with various scars, and their faces were filled with fear and pain. No one knew what they had experienced in their lives.

Such a scene is really like hell...

"Is that human being?"

"Damn it! Let's fight those pirates!"

"Kill, kill, kill!"

Any normal person would find it difficult to endure this scene, let alone the soldiers with weapons. Each of them was ignited by anger and shouted as they wanted to rush forward.

In comparison, the veterans were much calmer, because they had seen the city of Bastia ravaged by cultists, and the villages and towns looted by bandits or barbarians. They knew better how precious Hamlet's safety was and how heavy the responsibility was on their shoulders.

"Stay in formation!"

"Be alert! Watch out for those guys on the ground."

"Don't be controlled by anger. Reason is our most powerful weapon."

The veterans are in control of the situation, which is why Hamlet’s combat effectiveness has not declined too much after the military reform, and the grassroots officers can play a role.

When the soldiers entered the area controlled by the pirates, it seemed as if they had alarmed them and were treated as invaders, so a battle was inevitable.

What should soldiers do if pirates rebel?
Then the only option is to kill him.

Thousands of organized soldiers were just hanging around and beating up these pirates. Even the sporadic damage caused by pistols could not shake the formation. On the contrary, when the muskets in the soldiers' hands roared, the pirates fell down like grass being mowed.

They shouted that the soldiers needed to reload and wanted to rush over, but the continuous gunfire and a few sporadic grenades falling in crowded areas wiped out their hopes.

Do you want to learn how to kill with numbers? Then you have to see whether you have more people or more bullets. Even if you have a building to rely on to get close to you, it is useless. The sailor's knife is not long for the convenience of fighting in the cabin. When facing a rifle with a bayonet, you can pick it out one by one.

When death came upon them, they realized that fear was so real, and soon they could not bear it anymore and chose to surrender, but this time it was the soldiers who were blood-thirsty.

Whether you surrender or not is your business, whether you accept it or not is my business.

According to the rules, they had to practice humanitarianism, which was to kill those seriously injured enemies. Some soldiers saw the pirates were injured, and they would stab them twice, even if they were only slightly injured. This would cause serious injuries to the pirates.

Even if the pirates who dropped their weapons and surrendered were hit on the head with the butt of their rifles, if the veterans were not still in control of the situation, I'm afraid all of them would have been killed without a single one left.

Now you understand why people who retire from the battlefield have some mental illness. The complex situation will affect their psychology.

Anyway, for many new recruits who are going to the battlefield for the first time, this scene today will never be forgotten, and it will even flash through their minds from time to time.

However, discipline was maintained and everything proceeded in an orderly manner. Because they had to deal with the prisoners, only more than a hundred people finally reached the top of the mountain.

However, after they went up, all they could see was chaos and countless fallen corpses. Among them, a burly guy was sitting on the ground, leaning against the rocks, very prominent. Countless wounds could be seen on his body, and all the blood had been drained.

"Dead." Someone went up to check and found that he had lost all physiological response.

In other words, no one was spared, and all those who participated in the fight died... In fact, according to the real story, those who were still alive fled down the mountain, and naturally only the corpses were left behind.

But no one seemed to notice that there was no blood flowing on the ground, nor any signs of blood seeping down. Instead, it disappeared into the air as if it had evaporated.

Taking the top of the mountain means the destruction of the pirate forces entrenched here. Some people looked out at the sea outside the island and could still see the warships wandering around. Now all they need is this...

Accepting prisoners, cleaning up the battlefield, and treating the wounded, including some ordinary people who were abducted to the island besides pirates. It can only be said that there were heavy casualties, and those who survived were mainly women.

As for our lord, he was instructing the doctors in the rear to treat the wounded, perform surgery to remove bullets or suture wounds, and perform battlefield first aid such as stopping bleeding and bandaging. Basically all soldiers know how to do this.

After completing the bandaging, Lance would secretly perform flesh and blood reconstruction on the injured soldiers, turning their serious injuries into minor ones. Similarly, Lance was willing to spend a little spiritual power to keep some valuable targets alive.

When things here were over, Lance swung the Holy Grail of Blood, and there actually was a ball of blood in the cup that was as thick as mercury, and the power in it was even stronger.

Lance is still researching and developing the power of this thing, but what is certain is that the gift will be of top quality.

Gifts from corpses that have had their blood drained out would be less spiritual, but that didn’t matter to Lance, picking up trash was what mattered.

Walking on the lands littered with corpses to offer sacrifices, and then looking through their belongings, or entering those buildings to look for any treasures...

The action started in the morning. The navy has been responsible for intercepting the pirates who want to escape. The war has never stopped. The roar of artillery has been echoing over the sea, and all those who dared to show their heads have been shot down. There are still many broken ships floating on the sea.

However, there are still too few people, so we can only block the outside and beat whoever stands out, and we dare not push too hard.

It was not until noon that smoke signals were seen on the top of the island, which made the fleet roaming on the periphery realize that the operation on the island had been completed and now it was time to complete the general offensive.

"Boys! Kill them and prove that our navy is also good!"

"It's the captain!"

There is no radio now, and ships at sea can only communicate through flag signals. Of course, when the plan is complete, there is no need for so much nonsense.

When the main ship set out, the rest also saw the signal from the top of the mountain and understood what they needed to do.

Quite a few pirate ships escaped the first wave, so they encountered a very embarrassing problem. That is, they also faced pressure from complex environmental conditions. The water current forced them to stabilize the ship at all times for fear of being swept in.

But now they have no choice. If they continue like this, they will collapse without the enemy having to do anything. They can only rush out and fight hard apart. Whether they can escape depends on whether they are lucky enough and whether the goddess of fate favors them.

A naval battle broke out off the coast of the island. Hamlet's gunboats had an extra thousand yards of range. They usually fired a round of single-barreled bullets at a distant ship, and a round of grapeshot at a close one. They didn't need to worry about crippling the ship and just turned to the next one. The pirates couldn't do anything in close combat and were extremely frustrated.

What era is it now? Are you still playing traditional naval warfare?

The era of giant ships and big guns is coming.

But Hamlet's few ships could not completely blockade the entire island, otherwise why would he be chosen by pirates to fight against the navy's territory? When the fleet concentrated on the exit with the most pirates, leaving only one or two ships at other exits, the pirates were overjoyed.

"Hahaha! Go forward, go forward!"

"Are they trying to stop us with these two ships?"

The pirate ships that were not selected didn’t care at all about those unlucky guys who were bombarded. This was their luck and the blessing of the big pirates.

As long as you go out to sea, there is nowhere you can't go in such a big place.
However, at this moment, there was a noise behind. A ship suddenly rushed out from the waterway which had been quiet for a while. At first glance, I thought it was a pirate ship, but when I saw the red scarf, I realized that it was catching up.

I'm waiting for my teammates, what are you waiting for?
There were too many pirate ships at the dock. After capturing the pirates on the island, a few hundred men were left behind, and the others operated the pirate ships to catch up.

These ships are not large and have no cannons, but these pirate speedboats have abandoned other unnecessary conditions and focus entirely on speed.

The soldiers maneuvered the boat close to them, and without any further ado, they saw the opportunity and threw Molotov cocktails at them, instantly igniting their deck. Encountering fire at sea is a big taboo, because once it starts burning there is no place to escape.

Even if some of them were not thrown up and hit the outside, the specially formulated sticky substance inside would still stick to it and burn. This was even more terrifying, and it would be difficult for those pirates to put out the fire.

This naval battle was even more difficult than the one on land. It ended in the afternoon. There were countless ship wreckages floating on the sea around the island, and many of them were on fire and still not extinguished, which really lived up to the name of the Shipwreck Bay.

Hamlet dispatched at least fifty large and small ships. Although the main force was only medium-sized speedboats modified with artillery, the rest were mostly small speedboats that were "borrowed" later.

But it was enough to illustrate their strength. It was difficult to organize a battle of this magnitude in the surrounding areas except Totnes, and the losses were even more exaggerated. The supplies that Hamlet had prepared for several days were also used up in this half day.

Are those cannonballs fired? They are gold coins.

However, these pirates threaten Hamlet's development, and he has to fight them. He can only hope that the harvest from this trip can make up for the loss... (End of this chapter)