Reborn as King of South America

Chapter 128 Occupation of Torti Island
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Hou Taiyuan agreed to surrender to the Chinese Independence Army. The Feilong Island pirates and the support fleet merged to form the Caribbean Guerrilla Fleet. The guerrilla fleet eliminated some injured and weak Chinese pirates. The total number of people was 850, including 500 personnel for sea combat. The 200 infantrymen brought by Chen Sen and Chinese pirates from Feilong Island formed a land combat force to carry out landing operations and defend against pirates.

The two forces were mixed, with Chen Sen serving as the fleet commander-in-chief and Hou Taiyuan serving as the fleet deputy commander and chief of the Marine Corps, and was awarded the rank of major.

Wang Youtian was in charge of commanding the logistics team composed of eliminated Chinese pirates and seriously injured soldiers, with the rank of captain.

The support fleet set out together with the large fleet that was bound for Europe. When the two fleets separated, the support fleet replenished a large amount of food and supplies. Therefore, after the Caribbean Guerrilla Fleet was established, the food and supplies carried on the ship were quickly moved to Feilong Island, and the two military doctors also devoted themselves to the treatment of the wounded.

After more than ten days of busy work, the overall structure of Feilong Island has roughly returned to the situation before the pirate attack. Simple thatched houses have been built on the open space back to the center of the island, and the destroyed fences and guard posts on the coast have been rebuilt. Most of the more than 300 seriously injured soldiers survived with the treatment of the two doctors. Among them, more than 80 people recovered well and were able to rejoin the combat troops. The remaining 170 people were physically injured. After they recover, they will be assigned to the logistics team under Wang Youtian to undertake some auxiliary work.

The weather was fine and the sea was calm with a light breeze.

The sea and sky are one near Feilong Island, and the scenery is beautiful. However, such a beautiful scenery is broken by a team of discordant ships.

On the sea more than ten miles away from Feilong Island, a fleet of more than fifty large and small ships was sailing with the wind, heading straight towards Feilong Island.

Pirates were attacking, and shrill alarms sounded on Feilong Island. Teams of soldiers ran out of the huts and tents, picked up the weapons placed beside them, assembled urgently under the leadership of their respective commanders, and then rushed to the coast where the pirates were attacking.

There were five or six dilapidated small boats moored alone in the port on the shore of Feilong Island, but there was no sign of the main battleships of the guerrilla fleet.

There were only some Chinese sailors left on the five or six small boats. When the pirate fleet approached the port, the sailors on the boats knew the situation well and did not resist. They decisively abandoned the small boats in the port and ran towards the shore.

The Chinese soldiers who arrived at the shore one after another formed a simple line of defense, using their worn-out muskets and wooden bows and arrows to resist the pirates' attacks.

The pirate fleet quickly reached the shore, and a large number of pirates jumped off the ship and waded towards the coast in the sea water that half-covered their bodies.

Dozens of muskets of various types fired continuously, and more than a dozen pirates charging in the front were hit by bullets and fell forward on the beach thirty meters away from the defense line.

There were only a hundred or so Chinese soldiers in the defense line. After the first two rounds of musket fire caused more than thirty casualties to the landing pirates, facing more and more pirate attacks, the defense line consisting of more than a hundred Chinese soldiers was shaky.

The intensity of the pirates' attacks suddenly increased with shouts mixed with various indigenous languages. The pirates who had gathered behind the coast, led by more than a dozen leaders, swarmed towards the defense line amid the whistling sound of bullets.

Feilong Island is small in area, and the length of the coastline defended by Chinese soldiers is only 300 meters. The total number of pirates pushed forward by the entire army exceeds 1,000, and behind the large group of pirates, new pirates continue to join the attack team.

More than a thousand pirates occupied the entire coast in front of the defense line. Their dense formation attack method not only increased the number of casualties, but also brought great defensive pressure to the Chinese soldiers.

With a "boom", a shell fell in the center of the defense line. The fragments produced by the explosion of the shell took the lives of three or four Chinese soldiers. Several other soldiers were affected by the artillery fire and were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness.

"Brother Li, the niggers have set up artillery on the coast, and the brothers can't hold on any longer!"

When the shell exploded, Li Han was thrown to the ground by the Chinese pirate leader beside him, avoiding the fatal blow. "Pah!" Li Han spat out a mouthful of spit mixed with mud, tightened the yellow headscarf on his head, and shouted, "Damn it, all the damn blacks have come to the island, tell the brothers, our mission is completed, everyone retreat to the back!"

Li Han looked at the pirates who were charging recklessly with hatred, turned his head, waved his hand and led more than a hundred Chinese soldiers under his command to retreat to the rear.

The Chinese soldiers withdrew from the defense line, and the pirates, without any obstacles, followed the Chinese soldiers unscrupulously towards the center of the island.

The Chinese soldiers fought on their home turf, and the retreating Chinese soldiers, relying on their familiarity with the terrain of Feilong Island, kept a distance of more than 100 meters from the pursuing pirates, thus avoiding the danger of being caught up by the pirates behind.

The retreating Chinese soldiers dragged the pirates towards the center of Feilong Island. After running seven or eight hundred meters, the Chinese soldiers suddenly turned and ran into a jungle on the right. The pirates chasing behind them grabbed the Chinese soldiers and followed them into the jungle.

"Da da da", the pirates entering the jungle were greeted by a rapid-fire volley of bullets.

As the sound of machine gun fire rang out, dense musket fire quickly rang out in the small jungle within a radius of three miles.

The pirates who had entered the jungle for less than a minute were immediately hit hard. More than two pirates fell in the jungle within a few minutes. The pirates who were chasing them with all their might were stagnant. The pirates who had managed to escape the intensive shooting were stunned by the sudden attack. They were like headless flies, bumping around in the jungle, eager to escape the hail of bullets.

Half of Feilong Island's reorganized troops were lying in ambush in the jungle, with a machine gun placed on each side of the front entrance of the jungle as a defensive fulcrum. When the pirates reacted and wanted to leave the jungle by the same route, the two machine guns hidden behind the boulders formed a line of defense with uninterrupted bullets. Rows of pirates who were fleeing in a hurry fell under the machine guns, leaving corpses all over the ground.

The fierce shooting continued for more than ten minutes. Nearly half of the pirates who entered the jungle fell under the bullets shot everywhere. Except for a few pirates who hid, most of the remaining pirates crawled on the ground with their heads in their hands.

The shooting quickly stopped, and more than 400 Chinese soldiers emerged from their hiding places with muskets in hand, approaching the remaining pirates warily.

The battle in the jungle was fierce but not intense. After killing more than a dozen pirates who refused to surrender, the remaining pirates calmed down, dropped their weapons and surrendered to the Chinese soldiers.

The jungle battle was over. Li Han left fifty people to guard the five hundred captured pirates, and the remaining three hundred people cooperated with Chen Sen's maritime fleet to launch the final attack on the pirates entrenched in the pirate area.

The black pirates lost more than 700 people in the jungle. Although there were still nearly 1,500 people gathered on the coast, they were facing a pincer attack from the Chinese troops from the sea and the land. The pirates, who had already become frightened birds, laid down their weapons and chose to surrender after a round of attacks by the Chinese soldiers.

The battle of Feilong Island ended quickly. After seizing more than 40 large and small ships and nearly 2,000 prisoners, Chen Sen and Hou Taiyuan agreed to leave Wang Youtian and 200 soldiers to guard Feilong Island, while the remaining 600 Chinese soldiers and 12 selected pirate ships, with the black pirate prisoners as guides, sailed to the pirates' lair, Torti Island.

Tortuga Island is close to the main island of Haiti. However, after the Haitian independence leader was overthrown, Haiti quickly fell into a situation of warlord separatism. Haiti now has lost the Dominican Republic to the east of the island, and there are three major warlords coexisting on the mainland. Tortuga Island has also become a pirate base after losing effective rule over the main island.

The main force of pirates entrenched in Torti Island was swept away by the Chinese Independence Army. After the fleet led by Chen Sen and Hou Taiyuan arrived at Torti Island, they quickly occupied the island with no troops, and the wealth accumulated by local pirates for decades also became the property of the Chinese Independence Army.

Torti's black pirates were relatively poor. Although the wealth they had accumulated was not as much as that of their predecessors, the Caribbean pirates, the wealth accumulated over decades was also a considerable amount. The seized pirate wealth was of great help to the Chinese Independence Army in gaining a foothold in the Caribbean Sea and alleviating the logistical pressure of Rio Grande do Sul on the Caribbean Fleet.

(End of this chapter)