Chapter 129: Going to the island

Chapter 129: Going to the Island
“Aim for the warehouse on the pier, hopefully there will be something inside that can catch fire easily.”

Captain Quirk of the Hope so instructed the gunnery officer.

Once the barrels had cooled down and a new batch of solid shells had been fired until they were red hot, they were quickly loaded into the chamber and fired.

Soon the pirate’s dock was ablaze.

The pirate leaders who were still in the meeting just now also came to the vicinity of the pier at this time, and watched the whole process of the warehouse on fire.

The old pirate said in exasperation: “Why is the white flag still not up?”

A minion reported in tears: “Just now the brother of the order just into the warehouse to find a piece of white canvas, unexpectedly that strange ship also aimed at the warehouse, the brother looks like it is not out.”

“You guys! Immediately prop up any white stuff you can find and wave it hard, make sure to get their attention.”

……

The officers on the Hope soon saw the pirates’ movements on the dock through their binoculars.

A large group of men had taken off their clothes with white and tied them to sticks and kept waving them around, some had even taken off their white pants.

“They …… look like they want to surrender.”

“What to do, Captain? Should we stop the shelling?”

Quirk rubbed his thick beard carefully consider, the pirates themselves to surrender is not bad, although the battle has not yet begun the enemy head like, a little less exciting, but to be able to rely on a ship to force all the enemy to surrender, is certainly a great achievement.

“Hey, hey, all of you who are still in the base to repair, I, Quake, will not be polite.”

He hammered his palm and ordered, “Stop the shelling!”

Then ordered, “Approach the docks! Keep a safe distance though, who knows if they’re swindling.”

“Aye, Captain!”

……

Seeing that the other side had stopped attacking, the pirates on the shore breathed a long sigh of relief.

The Hope began to approach the pier, and the pirates shouted out to the sea, “We surrender! We surrender!”

However, the other party stopped not far from the pier, and the pirates’ hearts were immediately in their throats again.

However, they saw a dinghy being lowered from the strange ship, two people were seated on it, and it slowly rowed over towards the pier, the other party was really cautious.

These two people went ashore, but stood on the trestle bridge and did not move.

A group of pirates to surround up, the old Donahue hastened to stop: “We brain to surround up, the other side thought we were going to hijack them how to do?”

He sighed, “You guys stand here, I’ll go talk to them.”

……

Donahue came to the trestle bridge, the two Lords of Al immediately each aimed a burning stick-like object at him, he knew that it was a lethal weapon that could shoot projectiles that could easily take his life, the pirates of the Northwest Bay were scared at the mention of such a weapon.

“Do you wish to surrender?” One of the men asked arrogantly.

Although the other party’s tone was not kind, this was not the time to recover face, Donahue weighed his words and said carefully, “Yes, two lords from Arda, you have won and we have lost, now you can do whatever you want with us.”

It would be a bit funny to talk about surrender terms in this situation now, Donahue simply went out on a limb.

The two Arda men left the trestle and came over the land, Donahue followed them.

“Good then, now I’m relaying our Captain’s orders, gather all of your men at once and come over here and throw the weapons you have with you.” The naval warrior gestured toward the ground at his feet.

“This is basically all of us here, oh, the slaves didn’t bring them. I’ll have them come over here and surrender their weapons.” The Naval Warrior pointed toward a short distance away again, “Then crouch on that flat surface with your hands on your head.”

“Crouch on the ground with both …… hands on your head?” A huff flashed across Donahue’s face, such a shameful position, this is too bullying, right?
The two naval warriors sensed the change in his expression and shook the muskets in their own hands.

Looking at the blackened muzzles waving in front of him, Donahue could only say, “Alright, we follow your orders.”

……

A group of pirates squatted on the ground, and two naval warriors counted the number of people, 87 in total.

Then they signaled to the ship that all was well, and the Hope slowly docked.

Quirk and a few officers led the 30 or so men ashore with a huff and a puff, and the musket-wielding sailors surrounded the pirates while policing the perimeter.

“Isn’t that Chief Quake? Hey, Chief Quake, do you remember me?” Someone recognized the former pirate chief Quake and stood up to get closer.

The sailor standing next to him kicked this standing up pirate and shouted, “Behave yourself, this is our captain!”

The crowd of pirates looked at the naval captain who was circling around them, and soon the sounds of surprise and whispers rang out.

Especially those leaders, the Mud Loach Gang had dealt a lot with the former Quake Gang, and many of them recognized the leader Quake.

Due to the Alda army’s high requirements for the spirit of the officers and soldiers, coupled with long-term training in formation and military posture, Quake’s temperament has changed quite a bit compared to when he was a pirate, and the beard on his face is no longer a messy mess, but is neatly trimmed, and if not for the kind of grinning look coming out of his eyes, the onlookers would think that he’s a gentleman from a good family.

Therefore, those who know his pirates did not recognize him at the first time.

“I didn’t expect the rumors to be true!”

“Quake actually surrendered to the nobles? Didn’t he hate those parasites the most?”

The voices of the captives grew louder and louder until a gunshot silenced them.

Quake lowered his still smoking musket and said loudly, “The pirate head you knew is dead, and now standing before you is the captain of the battleship Hope of the Arda Navy.”

“For your information, we of the Arda army have always treated our captives with leniency, so long as they are not evil …… hmmm? Go see what’s going on there?”

Quake was just about to educate his captives on the newly issued prisoner management content from the staff, when he went and suddenly realized that there were people in the grove in the distance furtively looking this way, and he immediately ordered his men to go over and check it out.

A couple of sailors answered the call, and they soon returned with a couple of half-grown children in their hands.

“Let go of us! We’re not bad people.” Several children kept yelling.

The sailor saluted Quirk and reported, “Reporting to the Captain, we caught a couple of little pirates.”

“You’re the one who’s a pirate, your whole family is a pirate!” The children retaliated with an aggrieved look on their faces.

“Let go of them! If you’re not pirate cubs, then what are you?”

The boys, while rubbing their strangled wrists, hastily reported their identities, “We were taken captive by pirates on the island, they used us as slaves, save us.”

“Calm down, calm down, at least let me know your names and where you are from?”

One of the boys with brown hair said, “Are you Alda’s army? My name is Allen, his name is Tom, his name is Pine, and we’re all from the little corner village of Scarano, where pirates ransacked our village and took us as slaves. There are many other kidnapped slaves on the island, from all over the northwest. Can you take us back to land?”

Scarano? Quirk knew that it was a coastal countrey south of Arda.

“Boy, take us to where the slaves are being held, and tell them that the army under Count Graiman has come to rescue them.”

Quirk waved his hand ostentatiously.

(End of chapter)