She married a dying prince and she won three babies.

Ajay wouldn't believe it anyway.

In order to find out how large the pirates are, Qasim had sent people to investigate many times before, and they had already known the scale of the pirates.

The pirates did not always come to the coast of Dorcas to rob; they roamed everywhere.

No one can do anything to them, they can only defend themselves as best they can.

But it is always impossible to guard against them. Those people come and go quickly and always succeed.

For so many years, it is the people on the shore who have been supporting them.

"Don't worry, we are sure of it." Shangguan Ziqi patted his chest and assured.

Ajay wanted to stop him again, but Shangguan Ziqi didn't give him a chance.

He gave the order to start the boat and asked Ajay and Rajiv to point the direction.

The two had no choice but to follow them.

The big ship set sail, hoisted the sails, and headed in the direction pointed by Ajay and the others.

After the pirate leader sent out people, he kept waiting for news, but after a night passed, no one came back.

The people on duty at the lookout tower reported to him every half hour.

But not once was it what he wanted to hear.

"Could it be that those guys got the gold and silver and ran away with them?" the pirate leader thought.

But that's impossible. They all have families on the island and it's impossible for them to abandon their families.

Just as he was frowning, the conch shell was blown directly from the lookout tower.

The pirate leader was so frightened that he stood up from his stool.

"Oh no, Chief, those foreign ships are coming towards our island." A little pirate who was running errands came running over.

"What?" The pirate leader walked out of the house and stood at the highest point, looking into the distance.

Sure enough, they saw ten large ships on the distant sea level coming towards the island where they were.

It was still quite far away and looked very small, but he recognized at a glance that it was a foreign ship.

Otherwise it would be impossible to see it from so far away.

"Quick, notify all the brothers to assemble and prepare to meet the enemy." The pirate leader immediately ordered.

He was startled, but not panicked.

He had more than 2,000 able-bodied men under his command, and including the elderly and the weak, there were more than 5,000 men. Those foreigners only had about 400 men, and there was no way they could defeat so many of him.

When Shangguan Ziqi commanded the fleet to arrive at the island, he saw countless pirates standing on the coast from afar, each holding a weapon in his hands.

A posture ready to fight.

However, Shangguan Ziqi did not let the boat sail directly to the shore. Instead, he slowed down the boat three miles away from the shore and moved it only slowly.

Yu Yuanzheng took a simple telescope and looked towards the shore.

A rough estimate is that there are at least two thousand people, and they are armed with various weapons.

Everyone looked over here with fierce looks on their faces.

"Your Majesty, everything is ready." Shangguan Ziqi checked the four cannons and stepped forward to report.

"Okay, teach them a painful lesson and make them pay the price for robbing countless people over the years." Emperor Qiming had been the emperor for decades and had no mercy on these bandits.

No monarch of any country would tolerate their existence.

If the monarch of Shen Duoguo was not incompetent, this group of pirates would not have grown to such a scale.

The Wei Dynasty had only killed a few hundred pirates before. The Wei Dynasty had always been strict in cracking down on pirates.

At this time, Emperor Qiming despised the monarchs of the Shenduo Kingdom very much.

Emperor Qiming, the old prince, and Yu Yuanzheng also brought their three children to witness the power of the cannon.

They all came and stood not far from one of the cannons.

Ajay and Rajiv didn't know what it was, but when he saw Emperor Qiming walking over to take a look, he also stood next to them.

Shangguan Ziqi personally commanded the soldiers to fire.

"Loading gunpowder."

"Compact."

"Reload."

"aim."

"ignition!"

Shangguan Ziqi issued orders one after another.

Each group of soldiers cooperated with each other step by step.

When a "boom" was heard and a big iron ball flew out of the barrel with smoke, Ajay and Rajiv saw the big ball crossing the sky and flying towards the island in a parabola.

I watched helplessly as the big iron ball hit the pirates on the shore.

The moment the big iron ball fell to the ground, both of them heard heart-wrenching screams even from such a distance.

And this launch was four large iron balls.

When the pirate leader first saw something flying from the sky, he didn't know what was going on.

When that thing fell to the ground and hit the brothers, the powerful impact was so scary.

The moment the iron ball landed on the ground, a bloody mist exploded among the pirates.

Sand and stones flew up along with the broken limbs, and the coastline was suddenly filled with wailing.

An iron ball was hitting the pirate leader three feet away, and the flying debris left three bloody marks on his face.

"The gods are angry!" An old pirate fell to his knees, but was trampled under the feet of the chaotic crowd.

The second wave of artillery fire followed, and this time an iron ball directly smashed the lookout tower at the edge of the woods. The burning wooden frame collapsed and ignited the hay under the frame, which quickly caught fire.

Then several large iron balls hit them, scaring the pirate leader so much that he collapsed to the ground.

"The gods are really angry."

"Master leader, let's run away." A stumbling pirate rushed in front of the pirate leader.

They had gone out to rob many times and had been chased many times, but they had never encountered such a tragic situation.

Everyone was so scared that they didn't know how to respond.

"Yes, hurry up and run." The pirate leader flipped over and got up, commanding his brothers to flee.

"Hurry, head towards the island."

Amidst the deafening roar, Emperor Qiming covered Shangguan Changyu's ears, turned to the old prince and said with a smile, "If my Great Wei had such a powerful weapon back then, we wouldn't have sacrificed so many soldiers in the war with Canglan."

"Didn't we have bombs later? God couldn't stand it, so he sent Yuan Zheng to open the iron box at the critical moment. Otherwise, we wouldn't have these four cannons today. When we get back, we'll make a few more."

"Haha, that's true." Emperor Qiming put away his regret.

The old prince raised his telescope to look at the battle situation on the island, and suddenly exclaimed, "Those pirates have retreated."

The surviving pirates retreated to the top of the mountain like a tide, but they were fleeing in a panic and had no choice but to go somewhere.

"Continue the bombardment." Shangguan Ziqi ordered.

The old prince raised his hand to stop the soldiers who were loading the gunpowder: "Save some ammunition. Now that the ship is close enough, it's time to use the new crossbow."

He gestured towards the stern.

Twenty soldiers rolled out ten peculiarly shaped crossbows, each with five kerosene-soaked arrows placed side by side in the arrow slots.

This is a new weapon developed in the past two years. Let's try it out and see how it works.

Shangguan Ziqi once again began to command the crossbowmen.

The fleeing pirates suffered another heavy blow when a row of flaming arrows was fired at the island.

Those who were alive fled even faster.

Soon, the pirates disappeared without a trace.

Ajay and Rajiv were dumbfounded.

This...isn't this too easy?

The pirates were beaten and fled in panic without even a close combat.

"Ziqi, take two hundred people and land in a small boat." Emperor Qiming ordered.

"Your Majesty, we'd better go around the island and see. Don't they have two islands? Maybe they are escaping to the next island from the other side." Shangguan Ziqi suggested.