Speed is paramount in war.
Out of two thousand men, only three hundred were left to guard the island.
After dark, a fleet of over a dozen ships carrying more than a thousand men set off for Xiazigou in a vast procession.
Chu Lingguang ordered the entire force to advance at maximum speed. He had to reach Xiazigou before dawn, seize its port, and get all his men ashore.
He prayed that the pirates of Xiazigou were busy killing each other over the gold and jewels.
That way, his army could take Xiazigou with ease.
Heaven favors the loyal and righteous.
The fleet sped onward.
In the pre-dawn hours, Chu Lingguang took a small boat with Xuanyuan Jinkang and sped toward the port of Xiazigou.
The larger vessels had to follow the channel through the trench to enter the port of Xiazigou.
Although Chu Lingguang had swum through the trench with Eunuch Liu and knew of the traps below, he didn't know the safe shipping lane on the surface.
