She had no interest in staying and doing those delicate tasks with the children. Yes, after so many days, the large ship models of the south, north and south have not been completed yet, and they are still working hard.
Qian Jiujiu decided to go very quickly. After watching Mu Yexiao go out to mobilize troops, she did not sit idle either. She found someone in the palace who was free and could write and started writing little notes.
She had to take over the island tomorrow morning, and these little notes were essential. She had used the same skill before to write these little notes, which said that the prince and princess of the Great Zhou would attack the island today and reclaim the island as the territory of the Great Zhou. The people on the island would become the people of the Great Zhou and would not have to worry about food and clothing.
Qian Jiujiu asked people to prepare more than 3,000 small pieces of paper before stopping. The main reason was that there was not enough time. Otherwise, he could have prepared more small pieces of paper.
After the troops were assembled, Mu Yexiao sent someone to invite Qian Jiujiu. Qian Jiujiu took his little note and set off. After dark, all the big ships and fishing boats on the coast began to head towards the pirate island opposite.
Mu Yexiao discussed the topographic map of the island with Mu Laohei and other generals overnight, and divided the places that each general needed to capture. Compared with the Great Zhou, this island was really too small.
There was no rigid requirement from the imperial court before that the island must be taken down, and the generals and others on the coast also had no proactive ideas, which allowed the island to remain so rampant. But now it says it can no longer remain so rampant.
On the island, the second island owner Qi Xing was still a little worried: "Brother, do you think that Third Brother and Daya have found Sanya and her mother? Will Daya do anything weird?"
The island master Qi Lin frowned and said, "That shouldn't be the case. Daya is a woman after all, and she can't beat the third brother. Well, stay quiet for the time being and go to rest."
The second island owner was somewhat speechless. He had already sent the third brother over, but he didn't even ask for any information. What the hell, he should be quiet. Forget it, since the eldest brother doesn't want to care, then just ignore it.
The next day, when it was getting light, Qian Jiujiu asked the rabbit to control a lot of seagulls, each of which had a small note in its mouth, and then flew towards the island.
Control the seagulls to drop all the small notes in a certain area of the pirates. The small notes began to float around and then fell to the ground. When someone appeared, they would immediately find the small notes on the ground.
It was white and looked so clean. Then the man quickly picked it up, ran back into the cave, took out the note, and looked at everyone: "Who among you can read? What's written on it?"
Today, many people are like him. After going out, they saw the pieces of paper scattered on the ground, picked them up, and asked someone who could read to see what was on the pieces of paper.
Those who could read took it and looked at it, their eyes lit up instantly: "This note says that the prince and princess are coming to rescue us and reclaim the island as the territory of the Great Zhou, and the time is today."
"The prince is coming to rescue us?"
Some people couldn't believe it and confirmed it again. After asking, they still found it incredible: "But this is an island. How did the prince and princess get up here?"
"You're stupid, you must use a boat."
"But if we use ships, do we have that many ships? If we don't bring a lot of people, we won't be able to defeat these islands. What should we do?"
All kinds of words came out of these people's mouths. Some people couldn't help but say, "If it's really the prince and princess who are here, then I will go with the prince and princess to kill the pirates here. Killing one will cover our investment, and killing two will be a profit."
This statement was quickly echoed by others: "That's right, what kind of life have we been living since we were captured? We might as well fight them."
Except for women and girls, most of the other boys here were captured because of their young age. There were also people who went out to sea, fishermen, and all kinds of people. Those who were lucky enough not to be killed were all thrown here to do hard labor.
They do the heaviest work every day, and they don’t have enough food or warm clothes. Most importantly, they don’t even live in houses, but caves, where many people live, all crowded together, which is extremely pitiful.
At daybreak, the boat carrying Qian Jiujiu and others also arrived, but the person in the watchtower on the island did not go down to report, because at the very beginning, that person was attacked by the seagulls controlled by the rabbit, and he fainted and fell from the watchtower.
In addition, the pirates on the island never thought that people from the Great Zhou would attack them, so even at dawn, no one went to the lookout tower to check.
In this way, Mu Yexiao led his soldiers to land on the island smoothly, and then each general led his own troops to attack.
Qian Jiujiu was naturally with Mu Yexiao, because they all knew the route, so the pirates on the island were quickly surrounded. As for the pair of pirates guarding the seashore, Qian Jiujiu and Mu Yexiao shot and killed several people with bows and arrows before they even got off the boat.
Heading towards the mountain, they soon discovered that some of the captives who were originally from the Great Zhou were hiding in caves because they were afraid, while some brave men were already holding hoes and other working tools, ready to fight the pirates to the death.
But when he saw the regular army of the Great Zhou appear, he was immediately shocked, but then he became extremely excited: "It's really the army of the Great Zhou, the army of the Great Zhou is here to save us."
The happy voices of these people finally woke up the pirates in the city: "What's that noise? Send someone to check, are those slaves going to rebel?"
Soon some pirates went to check, but all the pirates who came to check were captured by Qian Jiujiu's men. Qian Jiujiu and Mu Yexiao looked at each other and couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect that the pirates on this pirate ship were all spoiled."
Mu Yexiao nodded: "Who said it wasn't? They only sent one person out to check. Isn't that sending someone to die? If this person doesn't go back, will there be other people coming to check?"
The pirates were still very alert. When this man did not return, the pirates also began to be alert: "Why hasn't he come back yet? I feel something is wrong. How about we go and tell the island owner?"
The other person seemed to have heard the voice and looked at the person in front of him: "Don't talk yet."
He put his ear to the ground and said, "There are a lot of people approaching this side. It looks like we need to kill another batch of slaves. Otherwise, these people may be hard to control."
The two guards went to the pirate island master and told him that the slaves were going to rebel. The island master immediately called all the pirates together and prepared to go out to suppress the rebellion. But when the assembled people appeared, they discovered that they were not slaves at all.
Instead, the Great Zhou army had surrounded the entire island. The island owner was dumbfounded. These Great Zhou troops seemed to have fallen from the sky. "How did you appear?"
Mu Laohei laughed: "Of course they came here by boat. You stinky pirates, today is the day you die. Come on, General, capture all the pirates."
The soldiers were in high spirits when they heard Mu Laohei's order and rushed towards the pirates one by one, wishing to kill them three times in and out.
Mu Yexiao watched the two sides start fighting, and grabbed Qian Jiujiu. There were so many people here, it would be better for this guy not to join in the fun. If the number of people coming now was twice that of the pirates, and if he still couldn't take down the pirates, he, as a prince, could commit suicide.
This battle lasted for three hours, from morning to afternoon. There were many bodies of soldiers and pirates on the ground, but Qian Jiujiu and Mu Yexiao had both been on the battlefield, so they didn't feel anything.
The big island master and the second island master have now been captured, as well as a small number of pirates. They are trapped tightly. They are going to be sent back to Da Zhou to be paraded through the streets and then hung on the wall to die.
Seeing the battle was over, Mu Yexiao looked at Mu Laohei and said, "Mu Laohei, after counting the losses, all the bodies of the soldiers will be transported back to Da Zhou by your men for a proper burial. In addition, you will take some of the men back to continue guarding Da Zhou, and half of the remaining men will stay to guard this island."
Mu Laohei nodded quickly: "Yes, Your Majesty, rest assured, the safety of the Great Zhou is in my hands. Can I take these two back with me?"
Qian Jiujiu and Mu Yexiao shook their heads: "That's not necessary. I think these two island masters don't need to leave the island. Stay and I will interrogate them personally."
As Mu Yexiao spoke, he stepped forward and stuffed two pills into the mouths of the first and second island masters: "Okay, take the people away first."
As for the pirate corpses on the island, that was very simple. Just find a place, dig a huge pit, throw all the corpses in and bury them.
Half of the soldiers who stayed on the island to guard the island did this. The other half began to register the so-called slaves who were captured: "Before you came, where were you from? How did you get here? All of you must be registered, and then we will arrange for you properly."
Because they were the army of the Great Zhou, all these people cooperated very well. They registered one by one, looking forward to the day when they would be sent back to the Great Zhou.
Mu Yexiao looked at Qian Jiujiu: "Jiuer, how do you think we should settle these people? Should we send them back to Da Zhou? These people are the main force in building the island."
That’s right, after all the pirates on the island were cleared, there were not many people left on the entire island. If you want to build an island, you need a lot of people.
Qian Jiujiu blinked and looked at Mu Yexiao: "Taking over the island is a good thing. As for other things, shouldn't they be left to others to worry about? What do you think?"
Mu Yexiao looked into Qian Jiujiu's eyes and suddenly realized who the other people she was talking about were. He couldn't help but laugh: "You're right."