He was right, if he encountered a warship that was an ordinary sailor, he might be able to fight against it, and even rush out of a chance to survive, but unfortunately it was the team led by Zhao Tianyou. Although it is not a super powerful weapon, the design concept has surpassed this era, and this is a military industry developed from a small fishing village under the condition that human and financial resources are very scarce. If it takes time, in this place in Quanzhou, and gives Zhao Tianyou an extra year to develop, I am afraid that as soon as a more powerful weapon is unveiled, the people on this boat will have to be directly scared.

In one war after another in history, in order to create weapons of mass destruction, the brains of countless skilled craftsmen have been exhausted. It took hundreds of years to go from trebuchets to gunpowder to fire solid iron shells, and it took many years to develop from solid iron shells to full-fledged flowering shells.

And Zhao Tianyou is a soldier who is familiar with the principles of artillery and firearms, and the detours taken by artillery and firearms in history do not need to be repeated here, and a shortcut to the other side is in his head.

However, Zhao Tianyou did not have the intention of hegemony, and the main purpose of making these gunpowder rockets was also to protect himself, and he made some optimizations and changes to the existing weapons, and even increased the power and formula of gunpowder out of this idea to protect the Mengjia fishing village from invading.

The speed of the Black Tiger flagship did not decrease at all, and the sailors under the cabin continued to paddle hard, and the helmsman who had been injured had been replaced, but the steering wheel, which had been half blown off, was somewhat difficult to operate. The outflanked warships on both sides are still far away, but two clippers have already arrived in front, and if the course of the Black Tiger flagship remains unchanged, a stick of incense can be blocked by the clippers in time.

The trebuchet in the bow of the ship adjusted its direction and fired a shot at the closely pursuing warship, and eight round stones the size of watermelons were thrown high and flew towards Zhao Tianyou's bow. The ship is moving fast, it is a rare thing to find the right head, after the first cannon is fired, another cannon is fired, relying on the scattered stones of the goddess, and the light of the cannon should be quantity rather than quality. Its purpose is not to really kill, but mainly to slow down the chasing warship and leave a way for the Black Tiger flagship to live.

Three hundred paces was not far away, and it was just at the edge of the trebuchet's range, and you don't know that two stones really hit the ship, smashed two holes in the side stacks of arrows, and wounded two archers.

"Damn, go ahead and launch three sets of Breakrun!"

"The sailors paddle in shifts, accelerate a little closer, and prepare the rockets with the Divine Arm Bow to burn their sails."

"The bow of the ship is ready, aiming at the stern waterline, waiting for my order."

After a series of explosions, Xiao Tianxiong also ran out of the command cabin on the third floor in a mess, a thunderbolt exploded outside the cabin, and the lead bullet blew through the partition and injured the two pirates, which also shattered Xiao Tianxiong's last confidence.

The oarsmen of the warship took turns, and the distance between the two ships became closer and closer, and finally reached the range of two hundred paces of the Divine Arm Bow, and the archers who had been waiting on the two ships for a long time finally came in handy.

Just listening to the whizzing sound in the air, the rockets fired by both sides are aimed at the local sails, the same technique and the same tactical purpose, but because of the difference in structure, the effect is like the difference between heaven and earth.

The crossbow arrows shot by Xiao Tianxiong were tied to the rope and stained with sesame oil, and they were ignited and fired, but before eighty or ninety percent of the crossbow arrows hit the target, the fire on the arrow shaft had already been extinguished.

The efficiency of the gunpowder arrows here was immediate, more than a hundred crossbow arrows pierced the first vertical sail, and after the flame ignited, the sail had no chance to save it, and a raging fire ignited from top to bottom.

"Drop the sails, cut the ropes, drop the sails, drop the sails, drop them all!"

"The crossbowmen keep firing, and the others put out the fire!"

Although Xiao Tianxiong's order was very timely, the pirates on the Black Tiger flagship had already messed up, and many people subconsciously went to fight the fire, which affected the efficiency of the firefighting, and the launch speed of the second wave of rockets was a beat slower.

"The Divine Arm Bow and Longbow fire a salvo, and the armor-piercing cone gunpowder arrow is fired in turn!"

"Thunderbolt continues to fire!"

The second wave of Zhao Tianyou's divine arm bow shot out an armor-piercing cone, and the triangular heavy arrow can penetrate the human body, and it also has a certain lethality to the person wearing armor and armor. Not only did they kill the crossbowmen on the deck, but the second sail was also ignited, and the fire that had just been extinguished was ignited on the deck. As the other two sails were lowered, the Black Tiger flagship slowed down.

Zhao Tianyou's warship was also hit by dozens of arrows in its sails, but the power of the fire was too small, and it burned a few holes in the sails before being extinguished by sailors armed with bamboo water guns. This is also Zhao Tianyou's idea, using the open bamboo pipe to make a simple water dragon, which can be sprayed a few zhang away after being pumped with water, and the main purpose is to extinguish the rocket on the sail.

The gunpowder arrow he made was designed to burn the sail of the opponent's ship, so he naturally thought of preventing the opponent's attack, but if Xiao Tianxiong also used this kind of gunpowder arrow to ignite the sail, the power of this water dragon would have to increase several times to prevent the sail from catching fire.

In such a tense chase, the other three warships stood in position, and they had formed an encirclement of the Black Tiger flagship. When the pursuers gathered closely, the Black Tiger flagship was already under attack on all sides, and there were warships rushing over on either side.

"Boom, boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The other three ships slowly came into range, and the most powerful Thunderbolt began to fire, and the Black Tiger Flagship's trebuchet fired two rounds before being blown up by the hit Thunderbolt. The two tiger teeth of the Black Tiger Flagship were broken, and only the archer of the Divine Arm Bow was left to resist stubbornly, constantly firing crossbow arrows at the enemies on all sides.

"Boom, boom!

Another round of thunderbolt explosions, the deck more than a dozen feet long was littered with corpses and wounded, and only scattered archers could still shoot arrows, and there was no longer effective long-range resistance.

"Gromble fire."

There was a loud bang of "Peng" in the hall, and the thick crossbow bolt hit the waterline of the Black Tiger flagship, and after shooting through the thick deck, it got stuck there, and the two ships were tightly chained together. With an order, the blades of the sailors of the warship stopped moving, and the Black Tiger flagship suddenly paused, and the rope of the link was straightened.

When the rope was about to break, the oars of the Black Tiger Flagship all stopped, and the Black Tiger Flagship, which had lost power, slowly stopped, and with the ups and downs of the sea, there were streams of blood flowing on the deck.

Under the rain of arrows from the four surrounding warships, there was no longer a single living person on the deck of the Black Tiger flagship. The command cabin on the third floor had been blown over by thunderbolts, and the remnants of dozens of pirate turtles were huddled in the upper and lower cabins, and the sailors in the bottom bilge had lowered their oars and came out with sabers ready for hand-to-hand combat.

Xiao Tianxiong sat on a chair in the cabin on the first floor, with a boxy hardwood table in front of him and a box painted with black lacquer. Judging by the yellowed and faded coarse cloth under the box, the box has not been touched for many years.