In the era of sail warships, gaining the upper hand meant gaining a speed far beyond that of the enemy ship, and the huge impact force brought by the speed, which was crucial to victory.

When the sail operator heard the order, he immediately untied the sail rope and picked up the sail surface in order to better take advantage of the wind.

The captain of the boat stood in the bucket and did not come down, his eyes were blazing on the ships that appeared on the sea. As the distance narrowed, he had gone from being able to see only the sails at the beginning to slowly seeing the hull, but the distance was too far for him to see.

The ship's cargo had not yet been sold, and the people on board did not want to run into other ships, especially pirates and Dutch ships, but this ship was coming head-on, but it blocked their way.

Han Hua came to the side of the ship and looked out to the sea, and at this time he could also see the sails of the incoming ship.

"Better not a Dutch ship!"

Several guards on the side also had heavy faces.

Because the Jinghai merchant undertook the task of building ships for the sailors, the firm's own ships also absorbed the characteristics of official ships, which were larger and stronger than the ships of ordinary merchants, and also had elite escorts, and they were not afraid to meet ordinary pirates, but after all, the Dutch had been crisscrossing the sea for many years, and they could cross the ocean from the extreme west to the South Seas, and they must not be taken lightly.

On the sea, although they saw each other, they were actually very far away.

At this time, nearly an hour has passed since the discovery of the ship, and after the two ships quickly closed the distance, they looked at the boss of the boat on the bucket to see the truth.

The ship came from south to north, had three masts, and a skewed sail in the bow, typical of a ship.

The ship's boss's face changed, and he shouted below: "It's the boat, control the sails, swing the rudder, and avoid him!" ”

Hearing this, the people on the deck immediately became nervous, and the helmsman at the stern and the sailman immediately joined forces to make the ship deviate from course and avoid meeting the ship.

The boss of the ship hurriedly got down from Wangdou and commanded the sailors to operate the ship, but at this time, Wang Fugui on Wangdou suddenly shouted: "Shopkeeper, the ship is also changing its rudder and wants to intercept us!" ”

Han Hua listened, and took a few steps to the port side, and sure enough, the ship also deviated from the course, and the sailing trajectory of the two ships was like a fallen "eight", and sooner or later they would meet.

Seeing this, Han Hua knew that this Yi ship obviously wanted to intercept them, and the speed of the Fu boat was not as fast as that of Yi Chuan, this battle could not be avoided, either they overturned the Yi ship, or they were thrown into the sea, he immediately turned around and shouted: "Brothers, take good guys, get ready to fight hard!" ”

There is no royal law on the sea, people are dead, ships are robbed, even corpses cannot be found, evil deeds are not punished, and those who die unjustly have nowhere to seek justice.

The captain of the ship also understood the situation in front of him, he walked up to the ship's building, and immediately ordered: "Brothers, keep the ship, each person will be given twenty taels of silver, and another twenty taels will be added by cutting off a head, there is no upper limit, if the ship is snatched, the chamber of commerce will take half of it, and the rest of the goods will be divided equally among everyone!" ”

This maritime trade is extremely risky, not only to fight with the sky, but also to fight with people, but also to make a lot of profits, from the conditions offered by the shopkeeper Fu, it can be seen that this reward is several times higher than the reward of the five loyal troops for killing Jianyi.

The people on the boat are not newcomers who have just gone to sea, and they know that they can't hide if they want to hide at this time, so it's better to give it a go, and everyone doesn't stay on land, isn't it because they can make money by going to sea, and they can have a chance to get ahead?

"Wealth is in danger, **** mother!" Han Hua cooperated with the boss of the ship to shout, and the people in the army were good at boosting morale. The sailors on the deck also called out.

Seeing this, the captain nodded with satisfaction, and he walked down the ship, in addition to the Miao knife hanging from his waist, he took a bird's gun, skillfully poured the medicine in the medicine bag into the gun, used a cane to pound the medicine, and then loaded the lead and tamped it again, and then opened the fire door and put the ignition powder, and finally closed the fire door, and installed the fire rope to wait for the enemy to ignite.

With this series of complicated actions, it can be seen that the boat boss is a veteran.

Han Hua knew that the seniority of the boat boss was earlier than him, and he followed the king of Hengyang to guard Yangzhou, but because of his age, he was not incorporated into the army, and at that time he was only used as a helper to help the people and strengthen the people, and after he withdrew from Yangzhou, he was placed in Qiongzhou.

Wu Shizhao, the talent who piloted the pilot, this was not the first time he had encountered such a situation at sea, but he was still a little afraid in his heart, but this time he did not hide in the cabin as before.

He's not exactly a nerd, but he's hypocritical in his heart, he thinks highly of himself, he is withdrawn and lonely in his heart, but he can't pull his face down to communicate with the people below, and he also knows the consequences of encountering this situation, if he can't make the whole boat die, it's useless to hide, but he will be laughed at like last time, so he didn't back down.

The relationship on this ship is a little different from that on land, even the boss of the ship has to be polite to ordinary sailors, because everyone is in the same boat, no one can do it without it, the ship can't reach the shore, and the relationship is very equal, which is obviously not suitable for scholars in traditional society.

Wu Shizhao was very uncomfortable, he was respected as a scholar on the shore, and he was also respected at sea, but he was not superior to others because of this, so he wanted to escape, but now it was obvious that he had to help each other first and get through the current hurdle.

He put down his books, got up from the cargo, walked over to the weapons piled up on the deck, and picked a handful of the guards from it, and several of the guards saw it with a lot of jokes.

This is the last time the fleet encountered a Shimazu clan's vermilion ship, and the trophy after a bloody battle was brought by a samurai of the Shimazu family. Japanese samurai usually wear fancy kimonos, step on clogs, and usually carry two or three swords stuck in their waists, like nouveau riche.

This samurai's saber is exquisite, the longer one is the knife and the sword, which is used to cut people, and the shorter one is called Wakicha, which is mainly used to commit suicide by disembowelment, and I don't know what the Japanese samurai do with a knife used to commit suicide all day long.

Wu Shizhao just took the threat, no wonder the guards joked, but he didn't know that the self-esteem of the scholar had been hurt again, and at this moment, Han Hua handed over a bird's gun, "Use him when you are far away!" ”

Bird guns are not as good as bows and arrows, although the steps are complicated and the rate of fire is slow, but it is suitable for newcomers who have little strength. Wu Shizhao did not refuse, took the bird gun, and Han Hua took him a Japanese knife from the weapon, also because it was light and suitable for Wu Shizhao to use.

Then he took a bird gun himself, loaded the ammunition, Wu Shizhao stuck the knife in his waist, looked at it, and it was ready immediately.

"It's Heyi's ship!" Just as everyone was preparing weapons on the deck, Wang Fugui on the bucket suddenly shouted again.

As the distance approached, the outline of the ship became clearer, and it could only be judged that it was Xiyi's ship, but now you can see the top of the mast, a yellow, white and blue flag hunting in the wind, it is indeed Heyi's ship.

In fact, for the Daming maritime merchants, in the vast sea, whether it is the Dutch, Spain, or Portugal are dangerous, but at this time the threat of the Dutch is greater.

When the people on the deck heard this, they moved more quickly, the sea was no better than the land, they could drill into the mountains and forests, and the Dutch ships were known for their speed, if it was afternoon, they could also consider dragging it until the evening and using the night to escape, but it was still morning at this time, and there was basically no possibility of getting rid of it, only a desperate battle.

After another half an hour, the distance between the two ships was shortened to about four nautical miles, and a burst of gunpowder smoke suddenly rose from the Dutch ship, and a loud "boom" was heard, and two iron bullets splashed two water injections on the sea more than 100 feet away from the Fu ship.

Han Hua spat and scolded secretly, "It's so far away, is it okay?" ”

At this time, the artillery, whether it is in the west or in the east, is not high, and it is not accurate to hit on land, let alone on the bumpy sea, to hit moving ships.

If it was a duel with the Grand Fleet, maybe the blind cat would be able to meet the dead mouse and get lucky, but the two ships were heads-up, and the two cannons of the Dutch just now were purely to scare people, which meant that Lao Tzu had cannons and surrendered obediently.

Han Hua's eyes rolled, and he suddenly ordered: "Put down all the running windows and cover the cannon with an oilcloth!" ”

The boss of the ship understood what Han Hua meant as soon as he heard it, Wang Yan only recently allowed the maritime merchants to equip artillery and firearms in the name of regimental training, many merchants have not yet been equipped, and the Jinghai merchants relied on the strong background of the five loyal armies, and were the first to equip them, but the red-clothed cannons were relatively scarce in the imperial court, and the merchants could only retreat to the second best thing and equip some Franco cannons, but the Dutch obviously did not know this, so they thought that the cannon could deter the merchant ships and easily snatch the merchant ships.

The boss of the boat immediately said: "Wait for the Han leader to speak, and everyone will fire again." ”

After another half an hour, the two ships approached, separated only a mile, during which the Dutch fired several shots, but without exception, all fell into the sea.

As the distance narrowed, the atmosphere on the deck suddenly became tense, and Wang Fugui in the bucket could already see the red hairy Yi running on the Heyi ship, and how many red-clothed cannons there were on the ship.

Wang Fugui is a landless peasant, the Chinese rural plot is very heavy, as long as they do not starve to death in their hometown, they will basically not stay far from their homeland, and only people like Wang Fugui who have lost their land are willing to go to sea to take risks, but the adventure is risky, but it is better not to die at sea.

Seeing the Dutchman's ship clearly, Wang Fugui was glad that it was not a warship, so he hurriedly shouted down: "Armed merchant ships, fifteen red-coated cannons on the side, about fifty Hongmaoyi, and many natives. ”

The guards and sailors on the deck listened to this, and they were about to breathe a sigh of relief, the difference in strength was not far away, and they also had more than fifty people, who could fight.

At this time, on the Dutch merchant ship, a Heyi stood on the foremast and shouted loudly in Chinese, which he thought the Chinese could understand.

Although the people on the Fu boat didn't understand it at all, they could probably guess that they were asked to stop the boat.

He Yi shouted for a while, and when he saw that there was no response, he got off the bucket and whispered to He Yi on the boat.

A moment later, a loud "boom" was heard one after another, and on the side of the Heyi ship, fifteen guns opened fire one after another, the cannon body suddenly retreated, the hull of the ship shook, and the smoke of gunpowder rose, and fifteen white clouds were fired in succession.

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