Daming Haikou

Suddenly there was a cannon sound on the calm sea, and the messy cannons in the barrel crackled and crackled on a ship, and some cannons fell on the sea, causing a splash of water.

After half a month of practice, the young sea wolves finally embarked on their first pirate journey. On the southern sea off the coast of Fuzhou, they finally found their first target.

Everyone on the boat was both excited and a little nervous. More than a month ago, most of them were either a group of peasants who only knew how to farm and fish, or people who only knew how to operate a boat, but a month later, they were Turned around and became a part of this big sea pirate, and had the title of a sea wolf.

After they went through all sorts of difficulties and dangers and found Treasure Island, Yu Xiaotian started a ten-day hellish training for these guys as soon as they settled down.

For more than ten days, this group of people got up before dawn. First, they followed Yu Xiaotian and ran around the beach of Treasure Island for more than two laps to exercise their physical fitness. Get on their brig, and under the guidance of Liu Laoliu and Hu Cheng, operate the ship according to the previous division of labor and rotation.

In the afternoon, these people will go back to the island for basic combat training. As for those designated as soldiers, their main duty is to do the most dangerous close combat work, so the requirements for them Yu Xiaotian is even stricter. Regardless of morning or afternoon, they have to catch opponents on the boat or on the beach with wooden guns or wooden sword shields, and carry out fighting training. Everyone is also forced to choose bows and arrows and firecrackers. One of them is to practice, and Yu Xiaotian does not expect to be able to train them to be marksmen in a short time, but at least they are required to pick up bows and arrows, to shoot back, to handle firecrackers, and to be able to load and fire. It is the most basic requirement.

In addition, in order to train these guys to keep their bodies stable on the swaying boat, Yu Xiaotian made some wooden boards hanging on the ropes on the beach according to the things in some movies and TV shows he watched before, forcing these guys to Standing on the board and grabbing the rope to fight each other.

In short, in the past ten days, all the men on the island, including a few old guys, were tortured to death by Yu Xiaotian.

Everyone was beaten and bumped during training, and their bodies were covered with bruises and bruises. At night, let alone having nothing to do, they got together to chat and fart. After dinner, everyone had to gather together. Those who have trained well will be named and praised, but those who have not been trained will be punished, at least they have to run around the island for more than one lap.

When they were asked to rest, almost all of them snored as soon as they lay down, and no one had time to think about women anymore.

Almost everyone felt a little bit miserable about this, and they wanted to protest, but they would have nothing to say about what Yu Xiaotian would say with all kinds of reasons, so they could only continue to practice honestly.

The only thing that made this group of people feel somewhat gratified was that Yu Xiaotian promised them that after two months, the five most trained among them would get the wives they dreamed of. It can be said that it is a very tempting reward.

So the young men had to grit their teeth and hold their breath, wanting to be the first lucky ones to have a woman on the island, so after more than ten days, no one was drilled by Yu Xiaotian, They all gritted their teeth and held on.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian also decided to improve the lives of the people, changing the two meals a day they were used to to three meals a day, not to mention the dry meals, and there are fish to eat, anyway, in the east of Treasure Island In front of it is a very good natural fishing ground. In addition to the ban on the sea in the Ming Dynasty, the number of fishing boats is very small, and the fishery resources on the sea are very, very rich. There are a lot of fish, and they don't plan to exchange fish for money anyway, so they are all taken by Yu Xiaotian to improve the quality of life of everyone, so as to ensure the energy needed by everyone for heavy exercise, and at the same time Improve their physique.

Of course, the reason why this group of guys can survive is also inseparable from Yu Xiaotian's devotion to everything. As the leader of this group of people, Yu Xiaotian has not done anything special because of this. Follow this group of guys, whatever they do, Yu Xiaotian will do what they do, and he has to pay more than them, and consume two or three times more physical strength than them.

This is actually how people are, there are leaders who set an example, and the rest of the people have nothing to say even if they are very tired. Things are here, and people who are leaders can do it. What else can these minions not do? ?So although this kind of drill made these guys yelled that they couldn't bear it, they still persisted.

The luckiest ones are probably only Zhao Mazi, Li Gouzi and the two younger children. They boarded the small fishing boat early the next morning after the agreement was made that day, left Treasure Island again, and headed for Lianjiang County. I went to the Li family to discuss the shipment.

That's why a few of them escaped the hell training on Treasure Island for more than ten days, but Yu Xiaotian said beforehand that after they came back, except for Zhao Mazi and Li Gouzi, the two younger students would still have to make up for them. lack of training.

After more than ten days like this, although this group of people is basically a group of rabble, at least they have made great progress compared to before, especially for this brig, they are basically familiar with the operation, plus There are several old crew members such as Liu Laoliu, Hu Cheng, and Liu Tong, and they can basically operate the brig effectively.

The other seven or eight guys who were selected as soldiers, after more than ten days of practice, their hand skills have also improved a lot. Password, knowing that you should act according to the order, it is no longer as chaotic as before.

Originally, Yu Xiaotian thought that if they wanted to go to sea to plunder, they would have to go through at least two months of rigorous training, but these guys on the island opposed it very much, thinking that they can already do it now. It's not an option to practice like this every day, and they all asked to go out and try their skills.

Even Ma Lian, who had never interfered with him much, actually raised objections to Xiaotian's plan, thinking that since they are in this business, they always do nothing, and just practice on Treasure Island every day is not a solution, they can go out Give it a try, and they are almost running out of food reserves right now, if they don't go out to make a ticket, they will only be able to live on fish in the future.

After thinking about it for a while, Yu Xiaotian had no choice but to agree to their request, because although he is now the helmsman in name, his position cannot be said to be completely secure. He still has a lot of influence among this group of people. Sometimes he has to consider the thoughts of these old guys, and he has to make certain compromises when necessary.

In addition, these guys, especially young people, are in a stage where a bottle of water is full, half a bottle of water is rattling, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and they always suppress their desires, which is not necessarily a good thing. When you can let them check their level by themselves.

Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, Yu Xiaotian agreed to everyone's request, and only then did he take this action to go to sea.

Recently, there have been two storms at sea. The weather has just turned better, and the weather has started to cool down with the arrival of autumn. The wind direction on the sea has gradually turned to northwesterly winds, so it is the ships from the south that are going north. best time.

So under the guidance of Liu Laoliu, they went out to sea and headed straight for a route that often has merchant ships. Pointing to the sea in the distance, he shouted loudly to everyone on the boat.

"There's a boat! There's a boat ahead! There's a boat to the southwest of us! Haha! Look!"

After everyone heard this, they flocked to the starboard side of the ship, stretched their necks and looked in the direction of Liu Wang's finger. After a while, as expected, they found the shadow of a sailboat in their eyes.

Yu Xiaotian thought that their luck was pretty good, so he loudly ordered to adjust the sails and turn the rudder, and started to meet the sailboat.

After the two sides approached, after some identification by Liu Laoliu, the old sea wolf, they confirmed that the ship was indeed a merchant ship of the sea merchants, so Yu Xiaotian gave the order to raise their flags and start turning again. the rudder, and rushed towards the hapless merchant ship.

In order to make their name famous, according to the habit of pirates, each group of pirates will have their own flag. Xiao Dazui's flag is a clean black flag, and some people will hang green flags or flags of other colors. Banner, after Yu Xiaotian thought about it, he originally wanted to simply make a skull flag like the one commonly used by Western pirates, but after thinking about it, he is an authentic Chinese, why must he learn from Western pirates? ?

So after careful consideration, he chose a kind of indigo cloth that they had on hand as their banner, but in order to distinguish their identities from others, he drew a wolf head himself, although he was not good at painting. It's average, but after careful revision and rework, and many revisions, he still drew a more lifelike wolf head shape.

Afterwards, he asked the women on the island to embroider his hand-painted wolf head on a piece of indigo blue cloth with gold thread. In this way, a striking golden wolf head stood out on a piece of blue cloth. They made a banner that belonged to them, and after looking at it carefully, Yu Xiaotian was also very satisfied. Such a banner with a golden wolf head on a blue background also looked quite imposing, with a wolf head baring its teeth, with a bloody mouth open and its fangs bared. It is very fierce, and people can never forget it. If he does well enough, then he believes that this golden wolf flag will definitely become famous in the future, so he is completely sure that they will use this flag as their flag for a long time to come. flag.

When the first wolf's head flag representing their sea wolf was hoisted on the mainmast of the ship, everyone on the island couldn't help being very excited.

From their birth to the present, many people have never gathered under one flag to form a group, and this wolf head flag has become a flag to unite them, which makes everyone have an inexplicable sense of belonging, even Some people feel that this flag has become the most important thing in their life at that moment.

Yu Xiaotian even announced loudly that when they have this sea wolf flag, they will gather under this flag forever.This makes each of them more dependent on this group.

When the sea wolf flag was hoisted, everyone on board cheered up, and immediately followed Yu Xiaotian, the helmsman's order, and began to rush to their respective positions.

Crazy Meng, the soldier in charge, yelled in excitement, threw off his clothes, revealing his lean ribs, grabbed a single knife, and loudly ordered his soldiers to grab it and prepare to strike .