The encounter, or conflict, had been in order for half a day, and it ended just before the darkness of the night.

The several-story high-seaship against the single-deck covered longship stood on the freeboard side and condescendingly suppressed the opponent's laborious upward attack; I saw arrows flying like rain and falling like raindrops, and the severed limbs and fragments of the ship's planks rippling in the sea water that the blood did not have time to dilute, almost completely a one-sided slaughter and killing.

On board there are modified iron single crossbows and repeating crossbows, as well as poisonous smoke and fire balls and oil canisters used in land warfare, as well as supporting small throwers, and a number of crossbows fixed on the ship for temporary armament; This is what it is said in it: "When his teeth are shot, all the arrows rise together, and seven hundred paces." The city fortress in the place is all destroyed, and the building is also upside down".

If there is nothing wrong with the hull itself, this kind of melee jump-and-gang naval combat will not be stopped at all. On the contrary, the wooden hard sails and cables used by the other party are good natural ignitions; And the structural strength of the hull of such a clipper is also quite limited. Whether it is hit or shot under the waterline with a crossbow, it is easy to crack and sink into the water.

Therefore, the dozen or so large and small shuttle-shaped long ships that were biting and fixing on the Kunlun ship barely got a chance to break away and react, and they were already easily crushed into the water by several large ships that were slowly approaching, or they were knocked over, overturned, and torn in the waves.

So, except for the few narrow sail clippers that initially attacked, there were two backward ones who saw the opportunity quickly and desperately turned around and fled; Almost all the remaining enemy ships were gradually approaching the sea and anchoring, besieging the regiments and unable to escape.

Then, these makeshift fortresses and fire-projection platforms, which were anchored by large ships on the sea, did not give the opponent much chance of springboard melee combat, and intercepted and killed them under the freeboard above the waterline; Even if there are occasionally a few fish wielding hooks and ropes that slip through the net, and they are lucky enough to climb up with the courage of a moment, they will inevitably be stabbed and chopped to death and fall down.

Soon, most of the fusiform longboats, which were trapped in place and could not retreat, either capsized or burned to the ground. At the beginning, some people raced to jump into the sea and try to sneak and escape, but they became a live target for the ship's strong bows and crossbows to continue to shoot; In fact, on the sea far from the shore, they could not swim far before they had to sink to the bottom of the sea, or they were dying and floating on the sea with shards, and became captives who laid down the pursuing boat.

In the end, only one of the largest fusiform sail clippers remained, and it was still mixed in with a dense wave of wreckage, rushing left and right, and the trapped beast tried to continue to resist; Zhou Huai'an didn't have the heart to waste more time and create unnecessary accidental injuries on the other party anymore;

"Are the crossbows and poisonous fireballs ready, send it on its way with a flag."

Then, I saw that on the nearest big sea boats, fireballs with heavy smoke trails and huge arrows flying like lightning flew out, and smashed the sail oars clipper; The superstructure, which burned to pieces in the screams, together with the human bodies and debris poured out of the penetrated breach under the waterline, constituted the final scene of this last group of pirates.

Suddenly, someone under the bilge reported hearing a strange movement, and someone on the other side actually sneaked under the ship to carry out the act of digging the boat, which was obviously the last dying struggle of the other party in despair; It's just that this is a sea ship used for long-distance voyages, and there are several layers of ribs wrapped around the hull under the keel, rather than the relatively light and thin structure of river boats; At least when it is potentially impossible to borrow power, it is impossible to achieve results in a short period of time with a few knives and axes.

Moreover, in Zhou Huai'an, the seaship also used a copper-covered bottom quite extravagantly to prevent leakage and seepage and isolate those epiphytic barnacles; So these attacks from under the water are doomed to be a futile effort;

Of course, Zhou Huai'an is not resigned to this and has no countermeasures; Based on the experience of domestic tankers dealing with rudimentary pirates in the waters off Somalia; He asked the boat to lower the boat and spread out several large nets with hooks to the side of the boat, and rowed and dragged the bottom of the boat from both sides, and immediately wrapped around a dozen struggling human bodies like fishing and dragged them out of the water.

Then the boats that approached put down their boats one after another, and the boats that gathered on Zhou Huai'an reported the specific casualties and losses one by one. It can be said that apart from the consumption of some equipment, the loss of personnel damage is minimal.

Because the main battle is the lethal mode of standing on the side of the ship, firing arrows at the enemy ship under the cover of the hand; Therefore, compared to the dozen or so enemy ships that were shot and burned with floating corpses and debris, the casualties paid by their own side in the end were calculated in double digits; And half of them are injuries caused by falling or knocking over other things because they are unsteady on the boat.

As for the hunting bows and crossbows used by the thieves, they could not penetrate the armor worn by the rebel soldiers gathered on the deck, but could only hurt some of the exposed arms and shoulders. On the contrary, the hand axes, pike darts, short spears and so on that are thrown with all their might, and there are some real threats; It's a pity that the corresponding range was too close, and most of them fell on the hull under the broadside.

In the end, it was the turn of the survivors on the Kunlun ship, which looked to be riddled with dead and wounded; Then a small boat man was taken to Zhou Huai'an's boat; The leader was a man with deep skin and concave eyes and a wide robe wrapped around his head, facing Zhou Huai'an, who was standing on the deck under the guard, holding his chest and bowing in a strange tone:

"Ministers, thank you for your help."

According to the stammering self-introduction that followed, this person was a local nobleman from the Lion Country/Sinhalese, named Bingana, who had also passed through the Dongtu once many years ago; This time, it was on behalf of the family of the eleven city lords, loaded with treasures and specialties from the coast of Tianzhu, and came to seek trade, in addition to some passengers and business travelers on the ship along the way, it is not to mention.

It's just that among the other party's entourage, someone suddenly screamed in some unbelievable surprise.

"Eun Gong, is it Eun Gong."

But it was a short and fat figure with a small baotou, and under the push of the guard in front of him, he desperately waved at Zhou Huai'an to attract attention.

"I'm Sanno, the one you saved my life."

"Let him come over and ask him about it."

Zhou Huai'an nodded.

"It's really a grace on the top. Now it's majestic, so it's enviable. ”

Humpty Dumpty, named Sanno, wipes the sweat from his head

"I'm afraid it's not a party to the courtiers. I still remember that the villain is really full of five senses. ”

After a few brief conversations, I learned that after losing most of his belongings and manpower in that turmoil, he actually found a ship to go to sea and got an errand for interpreting. Although I couldn't stay in Guangzhou any longer, I finally started a new life and career in Jiaozhou.

After this Kunlun ship arrived in Jiaozhou, it had already sold some of its goods, and then wanted to go to Guangzhou, but it was dissuaded by local merchants and port management, claiming that it was extremely dangerous and specialized in robbing and killing foreign vassals; However, as the owner of the ship, Bingana did not know what considerations and thoughts, and insisted on going to sea despite doubts, but the door was opened unfavorably, and this kind of thing happened unfavorably, and the whole ship was almost destroyed.

Because there were many casualties on the ship during the previous resistance, and because the hull and sail cables were damaged and it was not suitable to continue the voyage, under Zhou Huai'an's suggestion, it was easy to accept the suggestion to follow the nearby fleet of the rebels and return to Jiaozhou Port to repair and replenish before setting off.

Then he returned to the other party on the Kunlun ship, and then moved dozens of large rattan boxes from the cabin, and teleported them over with a row, claiming that it was as a thank you Yunyun who was not stingy to help Lord Shangguo and his subordinates; Zhou Huai'an also accepted it unceremoniously to calm his heart.

"Can I Trust You?"

During this closing period, Zhou Huaian said to Shan Nuo in private.

"Please ask Engong to just give orders."

He was suddenly a little surprised and nervous.

"It's just that I was hired on the ship in Jiaozhou, but I'm afraid I don't know much."

Zhou Huai'an smiled slightly, this guy still has a bit of professional ethics and bottom line, not a casual wall grass.

"I'm going to appoint you as... The junior general officer of the Guangzhou Trade Center. These things are left to you to deal with. ”

"After An Ran arrives in Guangfu, you can go to the Trade Hall and report to Wang Qinian, the director on duty."

"He will naturally teach you what to do. Be sure to contact the foreign business travel of this ship, and if you do it well, you will naturally have a rich future. ”

"Many... Many.. Thank you for your support. ”

Shannuo looked a little scared.

"The villain must do his best to repay it."

Then, the other party drove out more than a dozen women with different gauze skirts and wraps from the cabin, which was also a personal gift to Zhou Huai'an, the lord of the kingdom; Zhou Huai'an pinched his nose, but still asked someone to bring it over and place it in a special warehouse; Although most of these women are South Asian or Southeast Asian species with darker skin tones, and there is no existence that meets his aesthetic tastes, it is good to go back and give them to those subordinates as a reward.

Then this movement immediately attracted the soldiers on his ship to run out one after another, and there was a curious onlooker and discussion.

"This is Kunlunu."

"Isn't Kunlun Nu known as pitch black as charcoal, can he still be good at hiding in the water?"

"These girls can't see it."

"Damn, I'm wearing really little."

These unintentional words suddenly reminded Zhou Huai'an of a joke in history.

Because a large number of foreign slaves were sold to the East in the Tang Dynasty all year round, the Tang people usually regarded the black-skinned people as the Kunlun genus, and the white-skinned ones as the Taixi genus; So there were a lot of jokes;

For example, the black uncle who was trafficked across the sea from the Sanlan country on the African continent and the Sinhalese people in the Southeast Asian islands who had not yet been exterminated by the Sinhalese people from the South Asian subcontinent were mixed together and called Kunlun Nu.

He also called the Romans, who had black hair and black eyes, and most of them had yellow complexion, as the Great Qin race, and were once regarded as the blood left by Zhou Tianzi when he rode eight horses out of the West; The Aryan race on the Iranian plateau, which was trafficked by Arabs and Persia, and the Caucasian race from Eastern Europe and the white slaves from the Mediterranean region, were all called Tessino.

And so on and so forth.

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