Late Ming sea owl

Chapter 313 Surrender
After nightfall, a crescent moon climbed up into the night sky at the mouth of the Pearl River.

Lin Hai ordered his troops to withdraw as early as dusk. The smoke from the northern channel of Lantau Island had long been blown away by the sea breeze. The water was quiet, and the faint moonlight was dancing on the waves.

At exactly 12:00 p.m., the sound of oars was heard faintly on the sea, making the night even more peaceful. It was a Tanka boat sent by Lin Hai to persuade the enemy to surrender.

There were only two people on the boat, one was Huang San, and the other was the captured Pearl River Estuary pirate Chen Wu. The latter was also the boss of a pirate gang, with only a few dozen men under him. He was originally attached to Li Zhongguo, but was later recruited by Li Kuiqi and became a subordinate of Ma Xuansheng.

When the two men arrived near Jishuimen, they were quickly stopped by a pirate patrol boat. After asking about their purpose, the patrolling pirates tied them up on the patrol boat and took them back to be handed over to the leaders for punishment.

With the hemp rope around his body, Huang San felt a little regretful. He thought of his tender and delicious young wife at home. She was at the age of a virgin. Was she going to die less than three months after he was bought?

Huang San's first wife was a fisherman's wife that he had kidnapped more than ten years ago. She was several years older than Huang San, and he was still not sure whether she had given birth to a child before. Now that he was over forty, he had finally bought a young lady who had never been in love with anyone from a government slave. He hadn't enjoyed her enough, so how could he bear to part with her?
The patrol boat sailed into the hinterland of Jishuimen, passing many pirate ships along the way, and there were also many pirates who came out to watch the excitement. Huang San recognized that those guarding the periphery were all Li Kuiqi's former subordinates, and most of these former brothers looked at him unkindly.

Thinking of the way Li Kuiqi treated traitors, Huang San became more and more frightened and began to tremble uncontrollably.

"Huangtou, don't worry. I think we will be able to return safely this time." Chen Wu comforted Huang San. He surrendered and was captured at noon today. Dozens of his men were also captured. Like Huang San, they also volunteered to be lobbyists to persuade the enemy to surrender.

Chen Wu was a rather enthusiastic person. He saw that Huang San surrendered early and seemed to have some status among the members, so he wanted to curry favor with him.

Huang San replied angrily, "You are a man who speaks without any hesitation. You were captured after the defeat, so they will not make things difficult for you. But I took the initiative to surrender to Lord Lin. How can this be the same?"

As soon as Huang San finished speaking, he heard a voice from afar: "Isn't this Brother Chen Wu? What are you guys doing? Why are you tying up Leader Chen?"

Huang San looked in the direction of the sound and saw seven or eight more boats parked not far away. The pirates had no camp at Jishuimen and had been living on boats for the past few days. Huang San did not recognize the people on those boats. They were obviously the Pearl River Estuary pirates who had been surrendered by Li Kuiqi not long ago.

The patrol pirate bowed to the leader of the opposite ship and said, "Captain Hu, Chief Chen has surrendered to the dog official, and he came back to persuade him."

The Hutou replied nonchalantly, "So what? Everyone might surrender tomorrow. You bastards, quickly untie Brother Chen Wu. I'll take him to see the leaders."

The patrol pirates were Li Kuiqi's old subordinates. The leader hesitated and said, "This... Hu Tou'er, patrol matters are not your responsibility. Please forgive me for not obeying your orders."

"Damn it, I'm a leader too, so my words don't count, right?" Hu Touer whistled softly, and hundreds of men suddenly came out from the surrounding boats.

"Hu Tou'er, since you are willing to do the job for me, I will obey you." The little leader saw that the situation was not good and quickly ordered, "Brothers, our job is done. Hand over these two lobbyists to Hu Tou."

In this way, Huang San and Chen Wu were handed over to the Pearl River Estuary pirate Hu Han. While Hu Han ordered Chen Wu to be untied, he pointed at Huang San and asked the patrol pirate: "Who is this big guy?"

The patrol pirate replied, "His name is Huang San. He was a leader under Zheng Da, but later he became a traitor. I heard that Liu Xiang was instigated by him to join the corrupt official named Lin."

"Oh, that's the guy." Hu Han then said to his men, "Don't untie this Huang yet, tie him up tighter."

Hu Han took Huang San and Chen Wu to the locations of several big leaders, and called up a bunch of small and medium-sized leaders along the way. Most of these people were former pirates from the Pearl River Estuary, and now they were under the leadership of Ma Xuansheng and Xu Guixiang.

Ma and Xu are the top leaders of the Jishuimen pirates, but above them there is a man named Li Meiyu.

This man was Li Kuiqi's adopted son, and he was the third in command in the gang, second only to Li Kuiqi and Chen Shengyu. Li Kuiqi trusted this adopted son very much, otherwise he would not have given him the most important Jishui Gate to defend.

Ma and Xu were later sent to reinforce Jishuimen. They seemed to have more troops than Li Meiyu, but most of them did not obey the brothers. Moreover, now that Li Kuiqi himself was beaten and fled, many people secretly thought of surrendering.

The current situation at Jishuimen was quite delicate, so Li, Ma, and Xu made careful arrangements. The three people's confidants were arranged around them, and the front lines of the two directions were all Li Kuiqi's old subordinates, while people like Hu Han were caught in the middle.

Hu Han deliberately called a group of leaders from the Pearl River Estuary faction together because he didn't want Li, Ma and Xu to face the lobbyists alone. This matter had to be decided by everyone collectively. Pirates have always been democratic in times of crisis.

"Chief Hu, what are you going to do? Don't you trust us, the leaders?" Xu Guixiang was a little flustered when he saw his leaders gathered together and entered without notice. He didn't dare to scold them, so he caught Hu Han, the leader, and questioned him.

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"What you said, Boss Xu, you have always been loyal. Your sworn brother Shibi and later Boss Li were all well-known. Who am I, Hu Han? How dare I not trust you..."

Xu Guixiang's face turned red when he heard this. His brother-in-law coughed and said, "It's good that all the brothers are here. It's a good opportunity for everyone to hear what tricks that Lin has up his sleeve."

Ma Xuansheng then said to Li Meiyu who was sitting between him and Xu Guixiang, "Third Master, although the words of the officers and soldiers are never trustworthy, but since they have sent someone here, why don't we listen to what he has to say? Just treat it as a joke."

"No hurry, it's enough for one person to tell the joke, let me punish you first..."

Li Meiyu stood up and pointed at Huang San, saying, "This guy was a traitor to Wanggang. He was originally a subordinate of Zhong Liulao. Liulao was killed by Lin the dog official in Dongshan Overseas. But this guy betrayed his master and encouraged Liu Xiang to surrender to Lin the dog official. You are all gangsters. How do you think we should deal with this disloyal and unrighteous person?"

(End of this chapter)