Chapter 391: Catching up with the boat
The small black dot that Zhong Hao and Jiang Yuhan saw was indeed a small boat that Quan Xiangqing and the others were on. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The west wind blew all night last night, and their boat drifted northeast with the waves, but it was not a great effort. In addition, the people in their small boat took turns rowing desperately, and they escaped nearly a hundred miles of sea in one night, but they escaped far away from Cheyou Island.
Seeing the sun come out, they were about to find a small island first, and go to the island to rest for a while. Last night, the location of those small islands could not be seen clearly, because they had not gone to the island to take refuge. Besides, on those uninhabited islands, most of them are rampant with snakes and scorpions and other poisons, and if you go to the island at night, it is too dangerous and easy to be hit.
If it was bright today, Quan Xiangqing couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, this night's desperate rowing, they were really tired, they couldn't wait to find an island to rest temporarily, by the way to avoid the enemy's possible pursuit.
However, in the opinion of Quan Xiangqing, the enemy who attacked last night should have come completely from the property and women on the island, and it is very likely that they drove from the island, accidentally leaked their care, and somehow, they were discovered by others that there were a large number of goods on their island and the defense was empty. Since the enemy came for those goods, they would have collected their troops after robbing the island's property and women, and it was impossible to chase them and the leaders of the island to the death.
Of course, Kwon Sang-ching is a person who is used to pirates, and he knows that caution is the best, whether it is last night or let everyone on the boat row desperately, whether there is a pursuit or not, escape to a safe place first, and then be careful.
But just when they thought that they were finally away from danger, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but suddenly found that another big ship was chasing after them!
Although because it was a tailwind, Kwon Sang-qing's boat drifted quickly along the waves, but the boat of the Tide Gang was not slow. Don't forget, their big ships are all sails, and the three masts are full of sails, and the sea breeze carries the ships as fast as they sail.
Small boats are generally faster and more agile than larger boats, but that's when big boats have some inconvenient sails. For example, when the wind is headwind or when sailing near the coast, small boats are naturally more agile and fast than large sea ships. But in this long-range chase downwind, it was clear that the little boat must not be able to outgrow the sailed ship of the sea.
Zhong Hao and Jiang Yuhan were standing on the big boat, looking at Quan Xiangqing, their small boat couldn't see clearly, but it didn't mean that Quan Xiangqing couldn't see the big boat clearly when they sat on the boat. The big sea ship of the Haichao Gang has a big target, and Quan Xiangqing is looking at it with the sun on his back, so he can see it clearly.
Although Quan Xiangqing was not sure that this big sea ship was coming for them, they were still very nervous, and their first thought was to avoid this big sea ship.
On this North Sea, there are no good people on this ship, even those more honest Great Song Dynasty maritime merchants, when they encounter a lone boat, they will become pirates with teeth and claws, and they will definitely not let it go easily. On this vast sea, the people who robbed a small boat, threw them into the sea, and the boat sank, who knows who did it? Those who don't rob are fools.
At that moment, Quan Xiangqing on the small boat asked everyone to row desperately, and turned the bow of the boat to the north. The reason why Quan Xiangqing turned the bow of the ship to the north was naturally to make it too comfortable for those big sea ships to borrow their sails from the wind. Otherwise, if they continue to flee to the northeast, these big sea ships will be very comfortable with the west wind, and even if they are tired from rowing, they will not be able to get rid of these sea ships with full sails.
Kwon Xiangqing felt that they only had such a small boat, and if those big ships had the idea of snatching them at the beginning, they might not feel worth the effort to chase them when they were alerted and turned around.
Quan Xiangqing felt that even the big sea ship would not think that the people on their small boat had a lot of valuable things, maybe the big sea ship felt that it was not worth it to spend a lot of effort to catch up with a small boat that had little value.
However, Quan Xiangqing obviously misestimated the ideas of the three big ships led by Jiang Yuhan and Zhong Hao.
Seeing that the small boat turned to the north, Jiang Yuhan and Zhong Hao felt that it was very likely that this small boat was the target of their pursuit. Jiang Yuhan immediately ordered those Haichao gangs to turn the sea ship to the north, and adjusted the direction of the sails of the three-masted ship on the sea ship, and chased it to the north.
Although the wind is blowing from the west at sea, if you want to pursue it northward, you can borrow the wind as long as you adjust the sails to a suitable angle of inclination, but it is not as strong as the wind borrowed from the northeast.
While Jiang Yuhan ordered the direction of the sails to be adjusted, he asked the gang in the bottom warehouse to take turns desperately stepping on the oars and chasing the boat.
Although the wind direction is not too suitable, the three big sea ships of the Sea Tide Gang can still borrow wind power with their sails diagonally, plus the forty oars in the bottom compartment are greatly assisted by the trampling of the Sea Tide Gang, and the speed of the three sea ships driven by the Sea Tide Gang is also extremely fast.
Zhong Hao, Jiang Yuhan, and Shen Qianqian stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the big sea ship they were on and the boat that was quickly escaping, constantly approaching, and couldn't help but be very excited.
Soon, Zhong Hao could see the small boat clearly, just now when the small boat turned to the north, Zhong Hao actually didn't see whether it was a small boat or not. Just now, Zhong Hao's place on the big sea ship knew that this small boat turned to the north, and it was completely because of the Haichao Gang on Wangdou who was on Chen Er's side. At this time, seeing that he had chased a little closer, and the small boat had been clearly seen, Zhong Hao couldn't help but get excited.
Quan Xiangqing and the others on the small boat couldn't help but feel a little depressed when they saw that their small boat had turned to the north, and the big sea ship was still in hot pursuit. As for well, how much money can a small boat have, is it worth such three big ships to chase so hard?!
But depressed is depressed, and you have to run for your life. Under the pressure of the pursuit of the three large sea ships, Kwon Sang-cheong and the others, who had long been tired after a night of rowing on the small boat, rose up their strength and rowed desperately north.
However, the sea ships of the Haichao Gang have masts and sails to borrow the power of the wind, and the power of the Qing Dynasty only relies on their own strength, and sooner or later there will be an end of time, and it is only a matter of time before they are caught up.
The big sea ship of the Ocean Tide Gang was slowly approaching the small boat of Quan Xiangqing, and gradually Zhong Hao had seen the shape of the small boat clearly. It appears to be a sculled bird boat with a pointed head and a flat bottom. Because of its flat bottom, these bird boats are able to anchor in shallow bays. Of course, the hidden harbor of Cheyu Island belongs to the shallow bay, and the pirate leader of Cheyu Island naturally wants to get a ship that can anchor in the shallow bay. However, this ship, although it is a small boat, is larger than the small boat carried by these big ships of the Sea Tide Gang. Zhong Hao saw that the stern of the small boat seemed to have a lot of property.
While Zhong Hao and Jiang Yuhan were observing the small boat, Quan Xiangqing was also observing the three large sea ships that were chasing them.
At the current distance, Kwon Sang-cheong can already see the appearance of these three sea ships. When he saw that one of them was the sea ship they were driving to the island, he couldn't help but lose the last bit of luck. None of the three ships were flagged, but the hull of one of them was painted with the logo of the Goryeo pirates of Yeongon Island, and it was clear that these were the same enemies who had attacked them last night. It is evident that now their chariots and ships on the island have become the spoils of these enemies.
Just now he was holding these three big sea ships just happened to meet their small sea boat, and he wanted to grab a fluke, thinking that maybe these three big sea ships couldn't catch up for a while, so he stopped chasing, anyway, ordinary people's minds will feel that there is not much worth grabbing on this small boat.
But when he saw the sea boat on the island of Cheyou, his heart couldn't help but sink to the bottom, these people must have come from the small boat that chased them from Cheyou Island, and he was afraid that if he didn't chase the boat on which he was ridden, he would not give up.
When Quan Xiangqing saw clearly the logo of the Haichao Gang on the hulls of the other two ships chasing them, he couldn't help but be stunned, and then couldn't help but scold: "Xu Renchuan is a bastard, it turns out that it was their Haichao Gang who came to attack Cheyou Island last night. This bastard is really not a thing, the Haichao Gang who said that he would resist the Great Song Sailor with our Liangtang Island, this old boy is so shameless that he actually copied our back road! ”
Everyone on the boat heard Quan Xiangqing's scolding, and they couldn't help but look back at the three big ships chasing them. At first sight, except for one of the sea boats on the island from which they cared, the other two were indeed the ships of the Haichao Gang, and everyone on the small boat couldn't help but greet Xu Renchuan's ancestors for eighteen generations, and all kinds of swear words gushed out. For a while, the Korean language and the Japanese language flew together, and the red sun was the same color as the sea and the sky.
If Jiang Yuhan heard Quan Xiangqing's scolding, he was afraid that he might clap his hands and shout and scold.
However, Quan Xiangqing scolded Xu Renchuan on his lips, but he did not slow down in his hands, and still struggled forward.
But manpower is always poor at times, and the sea ships of the Sea Tide Gang can use their sails with the help of the wind, but when Kwon Sang-qing and they always use their best strength only by manpower, the three big ships of the Sea Tide Gang finally caught up with the small boats of the Cheyujima pirate leaders Kwon Sang-Kiyoshi and Haneda Ostoshi after chasing for nearly an hour. The three large sea ships spread out in formation and outflanked, surrounding Quan Xiangqing and their small boat in the middle.
Quan Xiangqing and their strength had already been consumed on paddling at this time, and they were powerless to resist at all. Of course, even if they resisted, it was useless, the sea ships of the Tide Gang were going to run over their boats, and they could easily knock over and smash their boats. Even if you don't hit them, you only need to fire bows and arrows and throwing guns from three ships, and they will soon become hedgehogs.
At the moment, they are also very knowledgeable, and they are not resisting in vain, but they are scolding Xu Renchuan for being a bastard and not being righteous. Quan Xiangqing can speak Chinese, and he speaks it well, if it is placed in the era when Zhong Hao lived in the later generations, maybe he can find a job as a translator! At this time, his subordinates and Haneda Yingshou were scolding Xu Incheon in their native Goryeo and Japanese languages, and only Kwon Sang-cheong was scolding in Chinese.
Jiang Yuhan couldn't help but be happy when they heard Quan Xiangqing scolding Xu Renchuan. Although Jiang Yuhan knew that Quan Xiangqing and them were obviously the three sea ships she brought and recognized as Xu Renchuan's subordinates, Jiang Yuhan was still very happy to hear them scolding Xu Renchuan.
Originally, Jiang Yuhan had no good impression of these Goryeo pirates and Japanese pirates, and was ready to leave none of them, but at this time, after listening to them scolding Xu Renchuan, he felt that he might be able to spare them a small life.
At that moment, Jiang Yuhan asked people to shout, asking Quan Xiangqing and them to drive the small boat to the side of the big boat, and the gang of the Haichao Gang hung down the rope to pull the small boat and people to the big boat.
When Quan Xiangqing and the others saw the three big sea ships surrounding them, countless Haichao gang members were aiming at them with throwing guns, knowing that if they didn't do what the Haichao gang on this big ship said, they would immediately be pierced into a big hedgehog by those countless throwing guns.
At the moment, they had no choice but to do what the tide gang shouted. They rowed their own boats, came to the side of the big sea boat that Jiang Yuhan was riding, tied the ropes hanging from the big sea boat to their own small boat, and then let their small boats be pulled onto the big sea boat by the Hai Chao gang on the big sea.
The bandits or bandits on this land will often only keep their wealth and not kill people when they rob the road. But life on the North Sea is cruel, the pirates on the North Sea will not only keep their wealth and not kill people like the bandits on the land, and the pirates will definitely kill all the people on this ship after the robbery.
On land, no matter where it is, the government always has a certain amount of influence. Although those robbers blocked the road and robbed, they were still afraid of some laws, and they generally wouldn't kill people if they couldn't kill people. Because once there are too many killings, it is very likely to arouse the anger of the government, which will attract the government to encircle and suppress them.
But at sea, the government has no influence. There is no law on this robbery and murder, and at most there may be retaliation from other forces. But on this sea, it is too simple to rob and kill people to destroy the corpse, if you want to kill and rob without being discovered, you only need to throw the corpse into the sea and burn or scuttle the ship of the robbed force, which is really very simple. Therefore, the battle at sea was very cruel, and usually the losing side would end in being killed.
Quan Xiangqing naturally knows that their current fate is most likely to be killed. However, they had no room for resistance, and could only do what the tide gang said, because if there was any change, they would immediately die a miserable death.
Therefore, although they knew that they were on the big ship and waiting for them to be killed, they could only obediently follow the words of the Haichao Gang.