"Head, it seems that there are tails behind us! But when we need to observe carefully, they disappear below the sea level." A shirtless man with a curly beard walked up and said to Lin Tao.

Lin Tao thought for a moment and gave a few instructions to the shirtless man. After a while, on the ship where Lin Tao was located, the soldiers ordered the soldiers to whisper the flags on the masts. The ships immediately lowered the Viking boats from the deck, and they left the brigade and sailed towards the land on both sides.

This is the narrowest place in the strait. When the weather is clear, standing on the mast, you can clearly see the outlines of the mountains on both sides of the strait with the naked eye. These Viking boats travel farther and farther, and finally shrink into a small dot, blending into a small dot, blending with the land exposed on the skyline, and being invisible.

The fleet continued to travel south, and after a moment, three small boats emerged sneakily again. These were three traditionally venomous crane sailboats, saying that they were small boats, but compared to the multi-masted sailboats of Liang Kingdom. In fact, their hulls were also long.

Lin Tao's five multi-masted sailboats stopped. At the distance, the three bends and spinning boats were not able to see that the target ahead had stopped. When they discovered it, Lin Tao's fleet had turned around on the sea and suddenly shot back.

After knowing that they were exposed and being pursued by the other party, the three bent spinning boats quickly turned the bow, raised the spinning sail and fled to the north in panic.

But shortly after they escaped, they saw five strange-shaped square sailboats coming towards them. Moreover, the ships were very fast, and the long oars on both sides of the ship stirred up rolling white waves. The two sides got closer and closer, and finally they could see the faces of the other sailors clearly.

On the bend of the triangular sailing boat, a leader called out, probably asking the sailors to paddle hard. A javelin suddenly flew over and pierced the canvas, which was neither side nor slanted, hitting the leader's vest. He screamed and fell on the deck at the bow of the ship.

Immediately afterwards, several hook claws threw themselves towards the three ships, and with the sound of metal entering the wood, the hook claws firmly grasped them. A thin and dark-skinned man held a dog-legged steel knife and swung his knife to cut off the rope on the hook claws.

In the midst of lightning, a black object was spinning at high speed and rushed to the man's face. With a crisp sound, a sharp battle axe slashed into the man's head in front of the man's head, causing him to fall into the sea with his feet facing the sky.

In less than half a quarter of an hour, more than 30 fully armed sailors of Liang State jumped to board the spinning sailboat. Some sailors on the ship tried to resist, but the resisters were soon killed by the sailors of Liang State.

Finally, three bent triangular sailboats, all of which were captured by the other side, and more than ten others were killed. These prisoners were tied up and taken to Lin Tao's flagship.

"Who are you and why are you following our fleet?" Lin Tao immediately interrogated.

Because there are still a large number of Monk Khmers and Moluoyu people and "black" tribes that are not known to belong to, including the Beigemi people.

Therefore, among Lin Tao's fleet members, there were Meng people who were familiar with these mainstream indigenous languages. These translators immediately translated Lin Tao's words to the other party. But the prisoners pretended not to understand, lowered their heads and closed their eyes without saying a word.

Lin Tao's crew members were all extremely vicious people. With their means, how could they not be able to open the other party's mouth? Amid the screams, the other party quickly spoke.

It turned out that these people were just a group of pirates composed of various people. Among them were Zhuluo merchants who went bankrupt and evaded debts, Moluoyu in exile, Funan people, and even some black skin and curly hair. They all lived in a fishing village called Malajia, and all the indigenous fishermen in the fishing village had been killed by them.

Lin Tao thought to himself: "It turns out that they are not from Langya Xiu and Gantuli Kingdom." So he asked: "Do you know where Langya Xiu and Gantuli are?"

According to the situation in which Liang State is now in control, there are more than a dozen Zhuluo's subordinate states directly and indirectly ruled by Brahmins in the series of large and small islands in the southeast. Langya Xiu and Gandoli are the largest two. One is on the east coast of the strait and the other is on the west coast, but the specific location of Liang State is not known. Only know that Langya Xiu is a "black" country, but the ruling class is Brahmins, Gandoli is a Moluoyu country, and the king is also a Brahmin caste from Zhuluo.

After hearing Lin Tao's words, these people showed doubts on their faces. It turned out that the country's name itself came from transliteration, and it changed after two translations, so they did not understand the translation for a while. After the translator repeatedly corrected and checked, they understood what Lin Tao meant. They bowed to Lin Tao one after another:

"This wolf teeth are more than a hundred miles north of our Malajia, and Gandoli is on the southeast coast of Sumatra Island on the other side."

When Lin Tao asked them about the details of these two countries, these people said that they were not very clear, but told Lin Tao that their leaders should know the situation of these two countries, because their leaders were a toxic businessman who went bankrupt and evaded debts, and had been in contact with these two countries for a long time.

Lin Tao thought they didn't seem to hide it on purpose, and there was no need for them to do so, he thought to himself.

"We just happened to find a place to build a stronghold in this strait. If we snatch their stronghold for ourselves, wouldn't we get twice the result with half the effort and save the manpower and material resources for the construction of the stronghold. Maybe we can still use these pirates for our own use."

After making up his mind, he said to these pirates: "We are the heavenly army sent by the King of Liang of the Great Han Kingdom. If you surrender to our Liang of the Great Han Kingdom, you will not only spare you from death, but also have a heavy reward."

Several people quickly kowtowed and said, "We are willing to surrender to the Heavenly Army, join the Han Dynasty, join the King of Liang..."

Lin Tao said again: "The first thing you have to do is take us to this Ma Liujia... Well, Ma Lajia."

...

The sunset had already fallen on the sea level, Dusang was lying on a bamboo chair placed in the beach, holding a fresh coconut and sucking with a reed pole. Next to it, a female slave with brown and black skin "exposed clothes" used banana leaves to fight for him.

Dusang was the leader of the Malajia Pirates. A day ago, they discovered that Lin Tao's fleet entered the strait from the Andaman Sea. These ships were very huge and strange, and immediately aroused Dusang's interest.

He immediately sent three ships to follow the other party. But the whole day passed, and the three ships he sent should have echoed. But no one of them came back.

Dusang waved his hand, and a short Moluoyu man ran forward and asked, "What are the instructions of the leader?"

When Dusang was about to send two more boats out to see what was going on, he immediately sat up from the bamboo chair because he saw several sailboat shadows rising from the sea level.
Chapter completed!