Li Degong led the soldiers and had almost approached the "Palace" where Zhang Jiexu was without going through much fierce battle.

"Quick in and search! Find this Zhang Jiexu!" Li Degong said, standing outside this room similar to the Qing Dynasty County Government. Along the way, there were some pirates who fled in various places, and they had all caught hundreds of them. Now they were going to take people to rush here to catch the arrogant Zhang Jiexu.

The soldiers rushed inside and came to each room. After searching for a long time, they only found some scared pirates.

One of the soldiers came to the place where Zhang Jiexu had just eaten in the palace, but they saw the chicken legs, steamed buns, various dishes and so on that they threw on the ground, but there was no one.

Another soldier came to the backyard of the palace, and then saw many women, including those with big belly, those covered in bruises, some of them, some of them were bruised, some of them. They all looked at the Ming soldiers with very horror. It seemed that they were snatched by Zhang Jiexu and his gang of pirates.

Then, the soldiers told Li Degong the news.

"Not showing up? They ran so fast!" Li Degong said. He didn't expect these pirates to slip away quite quickly. But where can they go? The Jinyiwei had already investigated it before and drew pictures of all the places on the island. They could not escape to the outside seas, because all their ships were docked in the harbor and have now been destroyed. Where can they escape?

"Report! Commander, there are traces of pirates in the dense forest now!" At this moment, a soldier ran over and quickly reported.

"Where are you? Take people there!" After Li Degong said that, he took the troops around him to the location mentioned by the soldier.

The environment on the island of Tanatuna is very similar to Mindanao, Borneo and Luzon, and there are also large areas of tropical rainforests on the island. Zhang Jiexu and others hid in the dense forests, hoping to use the numerous dense forests to let these people who landed on the island retreat by themselves because they felt troubled.

However, Li Degong received the order to completely capture Zhang Jiexu and his subordinates to Chengtian Mansion, so that Zhu Haitao could see with his own eyes what this person who wanted his head to be a chamber pot looked like. Therefore, Li Degong could not give up on the pursuit.

"Where is it?" Li Degong asked. At this time, he had arrived at the edge of the dense forest. The soldiers just now ran over when they heard the conversation of pirates nearby.

"Someone said here just now. It sounded like pirates slandering, saying that they saw us coming and wanted to hide in it. Now they should be going into the forest." The soldier said. Many soldiers of the Ming Dynasty had contact with pirates, or had used to be pirates, so they could distinguish the slandering slanderings that Chinese pirates said.

"You go and find everyone. Before tonight, I will catch Zhang Jiexu!" Li Degong also guessed that Zhang Jiexu might have brought people here and sent troops to call back all the people who cast the net. There were still some left, responsible for watching the caught pirates.

Soon, everyone from the Royal Guard Division rushed to the edge of the dense forest.

"Zhang Jiexu is probably inside, everyone will go in with me! Try to catch the living!" Li Degong said, and then he was the first to walk into the dense forest. Although Zhu Haitao criticized him several times, there were very few talents at the level of division commanders like him and could not rush into the enemy formation casually, he still likes to lead by example, otherwise he would feel bound.

After walking for about fifteen minutes, the soldiers of the Royal Guard Division found traces of personnel moving in the dense forest, and many of the short trees and grass on the ground were trampled. This must be a trace of Zhang Jiexu and the others walking through.

"They have 20,000 or 30,000 people. Except for the thousands caught outside, the rest are here. Everyone has their eyes shining! We must not let them run away!" Li Degong shouted loudly.

"Huahuhuhu..." Who knew that as soon as Li Degong finished shouting this sentence, a dense sound appeared in the woods in front of him.

"They are right in front, chase!" Li Degong said immediately.

It turned out that Zhang Jiexu was hiding nearby with the remaining people. There were more than 20,000 people, but now they were all driven into the woods, and the sound of walking was very loud.

The soldiers Li Degong and his soldiers soon chased them and kept firing fire to warn them, asking them to kneel down and surrender on the spot. Many people were so scared that they knelt on the ground and dared not move. There were also many professional pirates who were unruly. Seeing the current situation, they even rushed over with shouts, but were knocked to the ground by bullets.

Although they are numerous, most of them are the people who have been kidnapped and they usually surrender to the tyranny of these pirates. The islands that really follow Zhang Jiexu are actually more than 2,000, but they can shock so many people and drive them to work for themselves.

Soon, all of these people knelt on the ground and surrendered, leaving only Zhang Jiexu and the others, who wanted to run away.

But at this time, the Royal Guard Division had already surrounded them and surrounded them all.

"Brother, we have nowhere to go!" said a pirate.

"Brother, we are surrounded by them, what should we do?" Another said again.

"Why might as well fight with them!"

"Brother, tell me what should we do?"

Zhang Jiexu's face is now full of sweat. Although partly due to the hot weather in the rainforest, most of it is due to panic and nervousness. Now he doesn't know what to do. Should he fight them in a bloody battle? Or should he kneel down on the ground to surrender? Or should he commit suicide?

"Kneel on the ground and surrender! Throw your weapons on the ground! Hold your hands in your head!" At this moment, the encirclement became closer, and an officer shouted.

"I'll fight with you!" One of the pirates was very unwilling to accept it, so he rushed over Zhang Jiexu.

"Bang!" A bullet hit his head directly, causing his body to rush up to stagnate, and then he fell to the ground and couldn't get up.

"You hand over your leader quickly and Zhang Jiexu will come out, and you will be spared! You must hand over the life! Otherwise, we will shoot!" Li Degong also rushed into the encirclement and shouted.

"Surrender quickly and hand over Zhang Jiexu!"

"Surrender quickly! Hand over the living Zhang Jiexu!"

The psychological defenses of the pirates have been shattered. A pirate walked to Zhang Jiexu carefully with an iron rod in his hand and asked, "Brother, you don't think it's better than us..."

"Get out of here, labor and capital cannot surrender!" Zhang Jiexu shouted loudly.

"Hey, brother, look over there! They are going to shoot!" The pirate pointed to the Ming army soldier next to him, and Zhang Jiexu looked over there.
Chapter completed!