When the boat left Wusongkou, the color of the river slowly faded, no longer the yellow muddy water in the Huangpu River and the black water of the Suzhou Creek, but became clearer and clearer, and gradually transformed into a jewel-like blue.

The oncoming sea breeze blew, the field of vision became broader, and several white seagulls were playing on the sea, Chen Xuan's mood instantly became high, since he hadn't thought of a way to solve the emotional problem between Xu Ruohan and Zhang Youwei, Chen Xuan cowardly chose to escape.

After coming to this world for more than a year, Chen Xuan has gained far more than he has paid, sometimes he wonders if he has the halo of the protagonist, a large number of various talents have gathered around him, and Cai Yuanpei's joining in the right place has made Chen Xuan full of confidence in his career.

During this period of coming to this world, Chen Xuan has been busy with various work, and has never had a day of relaxation, even when he went to Nantong to suppress bandits, it was also at night, and he came back in a hurry.

From time to time, I saw a group of swimming fish on the sea, and occasionally dolphins jumped on the sea, Xu Ruohan was so excited that she screamed, and even Xia Yunru, who had never talked like this, smiled a lot, and actually began to take the initiative to find someone to talk to, Zhang Guangyuan and Li Lizhu called out for a miracle!

Chen Xuan and his wife lived on the second floor of a 1,300-ton steam cargo ship converted from a passenger ship, divided into two floors, Chen Xuan and his wife, Xia Yunru and Li Lizhu Zhang Guangyuan lived on the second floor, and 30 members of the escort team lived on the first floor, led by a squadron leader named You Ling, who was also the leader of the escort team, Jiang Fangzhen's protégé, and the bottom was the cargo warehouse, loaded with a batch of ordnance sent to Java, and a small amount of machinery and equipment.

Chen Xuan, Xu Ruohan and others changed into casual clothes, spread out on the deck to play, sometimes went to the deck to fish, two big beauties around them waiting, how the two beauties wearing big sunhats looked so pleasing to the eye, Chen Xuan, who had no ambition, couldn't help but sigh that he lived up to this life.

Occasionally, Chen Xuan will also organize the members of the escort team to fish, there are so many fish in this era, you can get a harvest if you just cast a net, and occasionally you can catch more valuable fish species, these things Chen Xuan has never seen in his life, let alone enjoy them, Chen Xuan and Xu Ruohan Xia Yunru started a barbecue on the deck, and put some drinks next to it, which really makes people a little happy.

As time passed, I slowly approached the waters of Java, and I heard the sailors who often run this route say that they will reach their destination in half a day, but at this moment, something happened.

"Instructor, there are pirates!"

You Ling ran to the second floor and handed the telescope in his hand to Chen Xuan, Chen Xuan was taken aback, and hurriedly held the telescope to look in the direction of You Ling's guidance, only to see 5 fast boats approaching Chen Xuan's boat.

"I heard sailors say that there are often Western merchant ships in this area, sailors and merchants, their merchant ships are either bankrupt or sunk, these people originally went to Asia to pan for gold, and there is no chance to make money, they will organize some local ruffians to be pirates, and they will rob lone ships when they encounter them, it seems that this time they are targeting us!"

"You don't have to worry about us, prepare for war according to your ideas, I will call Ruohan and Yunru back to the cabin, and I won't cause you trouble!"

"Yes! Instructor! ”

You Ling performed a standard military salute and began to issue orders to prepare for war, Chen Xuan's Browning pistol had already been given to Xu Ruohan, and she was also taught how to use it, as for Xia Yunru, she had to go through the training of the escort team, and there were some foundations in shooting and fighting, as for actual combat, it was hehe.

Chen Xuan called Xu Ruohan and Xia Yunru back to the room, trying his best to appease the two beauties with disgraced faces, Li Lizhu and Zhang Guangyuan first found out a few weapons hidden in the room, calmly loaded the bullets, and handed them to Chen Xuan and the three of them, there are five 'Jianyuan style' *** in the room, that is, the imitation of AK47 in later generations, because the gun is still in the secret protection stage, and the technology is not mature, there is a danger of jamming from time to time, so there is no large number of equipment escorts.

Li Lizhu and Zhang Guangyuan each took away two *** and quickly loaded them, Chen Xuan appeased Xu Ruohan and Xia Yunru, helped Xu Ruohan load the Browning pistol, and handed Xia Yunru a Mauser pistol, and then began to equip his own weapons, two Mauser pistols and a *** neatly placed in the right window, so that it was easy to pick up and shoot at any time.

The converted passenger ship is equipped with a small cannon in the bow and stern, so it will definitely not take any advantage in the artillery battle, so You Ling's tactic is to put the pirates close to fight, and Chen Xuan also agreed with You Ling's tactics.

The telegram asking for help had already been sent out when the pirates were discovered, but fortunately, everyone had time to prepare, and the waiting time was the most painful, and the tension was calmed down.

Chen Xuan's remodeled passenger ship is not very fast, still trying its best to catch up, the five pirate ships behind are also chasing hard, the naval battle is difficult to achieve the 'fast as the wind' assault effect, the six ships pursued on the sea for nearly an hour and a half, the pirate ship finally caught up, the pirates shouted and scolded in a mess, Chen Xuan also began to get nervous.

The two pirate speedboats kept shouting in front of the passenger ship, and the passenger ship gradually slowed down and slowly stopped, but it did not shut down, which made Chen Xuan feel cold in his heart What was that there were two relatively large steam ironclad ships that did not approach the passenger ship, but stopped from a distance, and a row of black holes pointed directly at the passenger ship.

The members of the escort team hid in the cabin, a relatively large armed merchant ship and two speedboats quickly approached the passenger ship, and the pirates on the splint had already begun to prepare to jump into the gang to fight, and when they got closer, Chen Xuan also found that You Ling's estimated number of pirates was about two hundred, which should not be a big error.

Because the pirates thought that Chen Xuan and they were on a passenger ship, they didn't see a counterattack, and the pirates didn't think it was strange, You Ling was thoughtful, afraid that the pirates would see the flaws, so the members of the escort team pretended to cry in surprise, but in Chen Xuan's opinion, the team members really didn't have the talent to be actors.

Chen Xuan's heart was about to pick out his throat, Xu Ruohan and Xia Yunru were even more frightened, their little faces turned white, and the pistol of self-defense kept shaking with their trembling bodies, Chen Xuan was really afraid that they would go wrong, then Chen Xuan was afraid that he would die before he could get out of school, the pirates had already boarded the ship, and Chen Xuan could only keep comforting them softly.

"Smack!"

When most of the pirates jumped on the passenger ship, with the first gunshot, the gunfire of the whole ship began to sound sparsely, and many pirates who were not very well prepared did not have time to rush into the cabin, many pirates fell on the deck, and at the same time thick white smoke began to come out of the ship, but it was the team members who had been ready to smoke to cover the ship were trying their best to emit white smoke.

Some experienced pirates hurriedly found cover and shot at the team members in the cabin, and from time to time there was an explosion of Zhenhua's hand ** on the deck, and the pirates who slowly rushed to the splint found that the situation was wrong, although the gunfire in the cabin was not dense, but the marksmanship was surprisingly accurate, almost a gunshot could take the life of a pirate, and the whole ship was slowly covered by white smoke.

It was too late for the pirates to react, Chen Xuan clearly saw that a few guards sneaked out under the cover of white smoke, dragged some pirate corpses back, and changed into the pirates' clothes and weapons, and then pretended to shoot in the direction of the cabin, slowly shouting and retreating to the pirate ship.

There were about a hundred pirates who rushed to Chen Xuan's ship, and most of them had fallen in a pool of blood under the precise blows of the escorts, but due to the cover of the white smoke, the team members were pretending to release their guns, so the pirates kept shooting, but they didn't know that most of the pirates were dead, but they just thought that they still had the upper hand and kept attacking.

The bells and whistles painted on the faces of the pirate suits gradually approached the remnants of the pirates, and from time to time they released cold guns, and the pirates who jumped into the gang were tragic, one by one they kept falling, and the pirates were already a little timid, and slowly retreated to the pirate ship.

"Boom!"

As the team members shouted and retreated to the pirate ship, under a shout, more than 20 people who had been prepared threw their hands at the same time, blowing up the pirate ship to the point of crying wolf, the team members threw down the pirate spears in their hands, and at the same time opened the way with their hands, holding two guns and rushing towards a larger pirate ship and pirate speedboat close to the passenger ship.

The team members were well prepared and well-trained, and they were fast and slow, with the sound of hands in the pirate ship's cabin, the team members rushed into the cabin without hesitation, quickly killed the remnants of the armed pirates, and controlled the pirate ship, the passenger ship was also gunfired, and the Makqin, who had been prepared for a long time, began to exert his might, and the dense bullet marks were like a giant's whip, slamming the plywood pirates on the body, one by one pirates instantly split, as the pirate ship raised the phoenix flag of Zhenhua, the passenger ship also moved again.

The two pirate ships that were on guard from afar finally found out that something was wrong and began to fire artillery attacks, but the cover of the smoke blocked the sight of the pirate ships, and the passenger ship had already moved its position, except for the sporadic shells that hit the passenger ship, most of the shells smashed into the sea, Chen Xuan also knew that the guns were useless now, and ran over and hugged Xu Ruohan and Xia Yunru who were screaming in shock, and curled up as much as possible to reduce the effective strike range of the cannonball fragments.

These two women, who usually look like strong women, are now crying and curling up in Chen Xuan's arms, trembling like two frightened quails, trembling constantly, Chen Xuan has nothing to do, at this time, he can only resign himself to fate.