open sea

Chapter 130 Long Sword
In Haojingao, in the dark and cramped wine shop, Li Dan stepped up to the second floor.

Upstairs sat a few elderly pirates. Hua Yu sat on the moth-spotted wooden bed and sharpened his dagger over and over again. Seeing Li Dan coming in, he waved a dagger and threw it over. Li Dan held it firmly. In his hand, he took two steps and sat in front of the wooden table with his body, with the dagger stuck on it.

"Where's Mai Yatu?"

Hua Yu whistled softly, glanced at the window with his face in a black hair scarf, and asked, "Your foster father of Qianhu, is he really planning to fight Maiyatu's sailors in public?"

"He is an official, we are thieves, is it reliable?"

An old barbarian pirate with a red beard also said in stiff Chinese: "The officials of the Ming Dynasty like to let pirates fight with pirates. If there is no support, we will all die."

Li Dan ignored it, went to the window and opened it, and looked at the stone building across the street through the gap. A black and strong man carrying a weapon can basically conclude that Mai Yatu is in the tavern.

Haojingao is a very important transit point for Portugal and Yi. They opened up three important routes: Haojing-Nagasaki; Haojing-Goa-Lisbon; Haojing-Manila-America, with dozens of merchant ships traveling every year. times, but not many of these merchant ships employ black sailors, especially as guards.

Mai Yatu they were looking for counted as one.

Because Mai Yatu's ship is too big, the bigger the ship on the sea, the better. The centipede ship is a long ship that requires a large-scale manpower. An ordinary merchant ship that sells goods needs thirty or forty people to control it. Fast speed requires 300 people.

The best sailors of barbarian merchants are naturally skilled sailors from Portugal and Spain, while the inferior sailors are sailors from India, Manchuria, Ming, and Wa. Easterners on Western ships have no inherent advantage in handling them.

The last is the blacks, because they know neither hard sail nor soft sail, and it is relatively difficult to learn.

Centipede boats do not encounter such problems. More than a dozen Portuguese and twenty East Asians steer the sails, while hundreds of black and Indian soldiers are left to paddle. They are more powerful and cheaper.

"Do you really want to do it?"

Li Dan turned his head and nodded heavily, "This time, the Ming army will be stationed in Haojing. The imperial court mobilized Chen Chaojue to lead the navy to station overseas, and all the seven hundred flag troops in Xiangshan have landed on the island. If we do it, the imperial court will win; if we don't do it." , the court may lose for a while, but in the end the court will still win."

"We can only do it."

Hua Yu let out a long breath, pinned the dagger on his back, lifted a worn-out blunderbuss and stuffed it with lead pellets, handed it to Li Dan, spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders, and said: "I will prepare a few small boats on the east cliff. The Ming army backtracked, so we went to the chicken coop."

After all, Huayu took two Franji pirates and turned around and walked out, saying: "I'm going to the shipyard, you are ready to whistle, and wait for that fat man Mai Yatu to come out."

After Hua Yu left, there were two pirates left in the house, one was a Japanese man with a long knife, and the other was a Ming man with a gun.

The Japanese went downstairs, and the Ming man held the matchlock and firecracker and stood with Li Dan by the window, facing the entrance of the tavern.

Li Dan took a deep breath and whistled loudly by the window.

At the end of the street, seven or eight shabby and cheering children ran over, surrounded a few black people outside the tavern, stretched out their hands for something, and became chaotic in an instant.

Behind the child, Die Niang, who was holding the hem of her long skirt, walked with the two women, smiling and coquettishly saying, "Go slowly, go slowly!"

A few black guards guarding the entrance of the tavern drove the children away irritably, showing great interest in the three fair Ming Dynasty women, rolling their thick lips and making obscene gestures with a smile.

Two men in the tavern came out with glasses in their hands, laughing and cursing.

The next moment, the child grabbed the purse from the black man and ran away like the wind. Several black men chased after him with long legs.

The man who came out of the tavern dropped his wine glass, drew a knife and followed the black man to catch up, but their target was not a child.

"Ah! Killed!"

Die Niang yelled in horror, which was extremely ear-piercing in the street. Li Dan was holding a bird gun by the window, watching the performance of his mother and beggar, his heart raised his throat, and then he saw the noise outside the tavern that made the people inside The drinkers rushed out of more than a dozen people, and Die Niang yelled loudly to show them what happened.

They only saw a few blacks lying in a pool of blood, beggars fleeing in all directions, and two men running with knives in hand.

"Follow them!"

The drunkards who had nothing to do could not hide, and the only ones chasing at this time were the sailors of the Maiartu fleet who came out of the tavern.

Li Dan was condescending, and at a glance he saw Mai Yatu in the crowd wearing the iconic big ship hat and wearing plate armor. His strong body could hardly be hidden under the plate armor, which made his teeth ache.

With a bright armor painted with a red sword cross on his chest, Li Dan looked at the old bird gun in his hand, brought the matchlock to his side and ignited it, stuffed it into the gun shaft, and spat at his feet.

Damn!I don't know if this broken bird gun can penetrate this turtle's shell!

Mai Yatu didn't know that there was a window facing him through a window just ten steps away on the corner of the street, but he obviously noticed something was wrong.

Not to mention in Haojing, even in chicken cages, in Nagasaki, or in Malacca, no one would kill a few black slaves for no reason and escape.Even if Mai Yatu didn't know what it meant to tune the tiger away from the mountain, he felt that the defense force around him was rapidly decreasing.

Four guards at the gate died, and two followers chased him out. Now there are only two guards around him.

This made Mai Yatu feel a strong sense of uneasiness, his eyes kept paying attention to the small street but he didn't dare to leave rashly, his peripheral vision kept gliding across the strong and fierce drinker beside him, and his hands touched the hilt of his waist.

It's just that the most dangerous enemies often look harmless to humans and animals. The three women looked at each other and almost fell short at the same time. When they raised their heads again, they held short knives and daggers in their hands.

Die Niang's dagger was nailed into the unprotected leg bend of Maiartu's plate armor leggings, and the scream exploded.

boom!
boom!
At the window, a fire blunderbuss and a bird blunderbuss made a loud noise after Mai Yatu drew his sword and turned around. Gunpowder smoke filled the gaps in the window. Li Dan dropped the blunderbuss and jumped out, stepping on the tiles by the wall and onto the street. .

The Japanese pirate holding the samurai sword was already fighting with Mai Yatu, who was hit by the gun, Die Niang laughed and called: "Girls, let's go!"

One leg ligament was severed, and Mai Yatu, who was hit hard by the plate armor on his body, could not have much combat power, but the long sword was picked away by Dongyang Changdao after two rounds of fighting, and the hilt smashed seven times in the face. Meat and eight vegetables.

Li Dan stuck the dagger in his mouth back to his waist, picked up Mai Yatu's long sword with a cross gauntlet and flicked it twice in the air, and whistled through the entrance with his two fingers, and a group of beggars, old and young, swarmed at the end of the street At last, Mai Yatu, who was in a hurry and kept screaming but could do nothing, left.

The godson smiled and carefully inserted the long sword along the slit of the corset, put the captain's cap on his head in a very novel way, then took out more than a dozen Tongbao and threw them at the drinkers present, loudly speaking in Japanese smile.

"Go to the shipyard and tell Renta Miura that Mai Yatu is in the meeting square!"

(End of this chapter)