Daming Haikou

At this time, the merchant ship also realized that something was wrong, and recognized that the ship heading towards them must be a pirate ship, so it quickly adjusted its sails and rudder, and began to flee desperately.

This merchant ship is a small two-masted Fuchuan style ship. The hull of the ship is also relatively old. The sails are basically tattered and there are many patches. It can be seen that it is a merchant ship that has been on the sea for a long time. The maintenance of the hull is also average. , so when they found out that Yu Xiaotian and his group came with bad intentions, it was not easy to turn around and try to escape.

The two sides started a chase at sea. Yu Xiaotian's boat had just cleaned the bottom and repaired the sails, and its performance was basically in good condition. In addition, they were lightly loaded, so the speed of the boat was high. Slightly higher than the merchant ship, in an advantageous position in the chase.

But that merchant ship is obviously not easy to meet. Although their ship has a deeper draft, the boatman's skills are good. They were chased by Yu Xiaotian's ship a few times, and they were able to use the wind direction to adjust their direction, speed up and spin. Drive the pirate ship that chases them.

As a result, Yu Xiaotian and his group of new sea wolves tried to get close to them several times, but they were successfully thrown off by them. Everyone on the boat was so angry that they cursed, but they couldn't do anything about this merchant ship for a while. Amidst the scolding, the Liaoshou followed Hu Cheng and hurriedly adjusted the sails and rudder, continuing to chase the merchant ship.

Yu Xiaotian looked coldly at the busy work of the men on the ship, and did not scold them. Instead, he temporarily handed over the command and operation of the ship to the experienced Liu Lao Liu. This situation was also expected by him. .

These guys have just been familiar with their ship for a short time, and they can't work together to skillfully control the ship. When they encounter such a merchant ship that has been at sea for a long time, they want to catch up with it. It is impossible to get a boat together, so he is very happy to let these people suffer first, knowing their own depth, so he simply stood at the bow of the boat, didn't care about it, just stared at the front the merchant ship.

The entire chase lasted for half a day, and it was almost noon when they approached the merchant ship again, and the distance between the two sides was shortened to about [-] meters.

Only then did Yu Xiaotian give the order to prepare for the battle, he ordered the four soldiers including Heitou at the bow to start loading the big bowl of muzzle guns, and at the same time ordered the archers and musketeers to prepare.

After a lot of busy work, the soldiers finally finished loading the muzzle guns, and the rest of the personnel also made their own preparations, and started yelling at the merchant ship in front of them, ordering them to stop the ship immediately, so that they could not die .

But the merchant ship remained unmoved by their threats, and continued to adjust its sails and rudder, trying to get rid of them again, but this time they failed, because the sea wolves had some experience in sailing at the moment, As soon as the opponent adjusted the sails, they quickly adjusted the sails, anticipating the opponent's actions in advance, and turned the rudder to continue to stick to the opponent's ship, making this action unsuccessful.

Only then was Yu Xiaotian more or less satisfied, and picked up a big loudspeaker made of improvised wooden boards and yelled at the merchant ship: "People on the opposite ship listen carefully! We are sea wolves! I'm going to see you today!" Yes! You can’t run away, I only want money and don’t kill people, as long as you stop the ship and let us pick up the goods, I’ll let you go! If not, don’t blame me for being rude!”

His voice is very loud, and with the help of this wooden horn, the roar can be heard far away, ensuring that the other party can clearly hear his threatening voice.

But the other party still did not lower the sails to stop the boat, but turned the rudder again, trying to escape towards the sea, Liu Laoliu scolded at the stern: "****! There is Pinghai Village ahead, they want to escape to Pinghai Village! No Be polite to them!"

Yu Xiaotian is also a little angry at the moment, after all, this is the first time they have come out to rob, although he also knows that his gang is limited, but he still thinks it is best to succeed, otherwise it may affect their gang People have confidence in the future, so he is not polite at the moment.

While keeping a close eye on the fleeing merchant ship ahead, he began to do it himself, helping Heitou and the others to adjust the gun mounts of the muzzle guns, trying to aim more accurately.

The bowl-mouth gun is an old-fashioned artillery, with a very short effective range, a small charge, and no sights and sights for aiming at all. The gun mount is also very difficult to adjust, so it is more often used to scare people at sea. , counting on him to sink the enemy ship, Yu Xiaotian did not have such extravagant hopes.

Seeing that the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, the other party started to panic at this moment. Someone also lay on the stern and yelled at them: "This is the Zhao family in Fuzhou! I have friendship with the head of Ma Da in Nanri Island. Yes! I came here today and offended you. Is it my fault? You should still hold your hands high and let us go! There are 30 taels of silver here. If you are a hero, you can take it. Your filial piety! I hope that the heroes will hold their hands high!"

Yu Xiaotian already knew the rules, but he was not interested in the 30 taels of silver. What he needed now was a successful shipjacking to boost the morale and confidence of his subordinates, so he picked up the wooden horn and shouted loudly: : "Stop talking nonsense! I don't care who you are or who you know! I'm going to order the goods on your ship today, stop the ship quickly, or the uncle will fire!"

The boat on the opposite side heard that the negotiation had failed, so they stopped answering and tried to get rid of them again. The two boats just snaked back and forth on the sea, constantly staggering.

Yu Xiaotian visually observed that the opponent's distance had been shortened to about 50 meters, and then he loudly ordered his men to light the cannon. Hei Tou was so bold that he picked up the torch and smashed it at the fire door of the bowl-mouth gun in the bow.

Yu Xiaotian flashed his consciousness for a moment, and plugged his ears, just waiting for the roar of the blunderbuss, but when he turned his head, a puff of white smoke rose from the fire door of the blunderbuss, but it was not as expected There was a roar, so the face immediately elongated, it turned out that after they fired the cannon, it turned out to be a squib, and Yu Xiaotian rolled his eyes in anger.

"I told you a long time ago that you have to stockpile the powder, and you all forgot it when you started it! That's good! Squib! Check it again, mother!" Yu Xiaotian burst out with a black line, He wasn't such a swearing-mouthed person before, but now after two or three months with these rough people, he has developed a habit of swearing, and he likes to swear at people every now and then.

But not to mention, this group of people really only eat this pot. If Yu Xiaotian is polite every day, they think he is easy to talk to, but when Yu Xiaotian swears, they will be much more honest. If it fails, come to Wu, this also makes Yu Xiaotian more and more fond of swearing.

The black head also had black lines all over his face, so he quickly lowered his head to check the muzzle of the bowl. After some inspection, he found that the primer in the fire door did not have the gunpowder that could ignite the barrel, and the gunpowder in the barrel was still there, so he hurriedly cursed a young man, Tell him to tamp the ammunition in the barrel quickly, and after some tossing, he is ready again.

At this time, Yu Xiaotian cautiously moved away for a certain distance, sweating secretly, thinking in his heart, seeing this thing ignited, I felt chilled, this time when Zhao Mazi came back, he had to think of ways to improve it Improve gunpowder and find a way to buy some new guns if possible!The province has been worrying about these two broken cannons all day long.

There was another chase, and the distance between the two sides was basically maintained at about 50 meters. Yu Xiaotian couldn't wait any longer, and ordered to fire again.

This time, the blunderbuss did not live up to his expectations, and finally fired as scheduled. With a sound of the cannon, the cannonballs were thrown at the merchant ship ahead.

The distance of 50 meters is still a bit far for this bowl of guns, but it is still enough to reach the merchant ship in front, and some cannons crackled and hit their hull.

At this moment, the people on the merchant ship knew that they were afraid, and hurriedly squatted under the side of the ship, screaming again and again, but they still did not lower the sails to stop the ship, and continued to run away.

Although the cannon didn't kill anyone on the other side, it still played a certain role, forcing the boatmen on the other side's boat to dare not get up, so they couldn't continuously adjust the sails and take advantage of the wind direction.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liu Laoliu yelled at Hu Cheng loudly, and led his hands to quickly adjust the sails. After getting enough wind, he rushed over quickly, shortening the distance between the two sides to a distance of 20 meters.

Yu Xiaotian ordered Heitou and others to continue loading the cannons, while rushing to the port side, he shouted to everyone on board: "Fire the arrows! Fire the guns! Don't let them look up!"

At this time, the sea wolves' ship had already cut to the inside of the Zhao family's merchant ship, so they could be forced to sail to the open sea and could not continue to approach the coast. This was equivalent to letting Yu Xiaotian and the others seize the initiative.

At this time, the people of the Zhao family merchant ship also realized that something was wrong. Someone screamed and told the boatmen to stand up and adjust the sail and steer, but before they could stand up, the sea wolves on this side began to let go After firing the firecrackers, several archers also started to shoot arrows towards Zhao's boat.

But on a swaying ship, it is very difficult to shoot a target 30 meters away with firecrackers or bows and arrows, especially if these rookies are allowed to do this with primitive and crude firearms. The blunderbuss basically depends on luck.

So although I saw a boatman standing up on the opposite boat, but this side was firing guns and arrows again, but it still didn't hurt anyone on the other side, it just scared the other side again.

With such a low level, Yu Xiaotian was quite speechless, he also knew the level of these guys, but when he really did it, he looked at the bullets and arrows flying all over the sky, and those who fell on the opponent's ship had not yet fallen into the sea More, it really made him depressed.