Due to the hospitality of King Bori, the expedition stayed in the country of Bori for ten days before leaving. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Before parting, King Bori also gave Zhang Qin, Wang Haichong, Yu Hong and other expedition principals a small golden Buddha each, which means that the Buddha stays by his side, and everything is safe at sea!

Wang Haichong is more embarrassed, he is a Taoist priest, and he has a small golden Buddha statue around him all day long, but it is impossible to throw it away or give it to others, this is worth hundreds of dollars. For this reason, he was ridiculed by Yu Hong and others, saying that his Taoist heart was not sincere, why did he face the Taoist patriarch?

Wang Haichong immediately waved the Buddha dust in his hand and said to the void: "The Sanqing Patriarch stays in his heart, and the golden Buddha is outside the body to help his body." ”

Yu Hong and the others, who were sneering, suddenly couldn't laugh anymore, and they didn't know what Wang Haichong meant? Suddenly, Wang Haichong pretended to lament and said: "You don't know poetry and books!" ”

Yu Hong and the others who said it bluntly were ashamed, and they quickly dispersed, so as not to stay here and continue to be embarrassed.

After leaving Borneo, the expedition sailed west along the northwest coast of Borneo, exploring what the merchants called the Golden Straits (Strait of Malacca), the Golden Peninsula (Malay Peninsula) and the Golden Island (Sumatra), and visiting Sri Buddha, a powerful country in the South Seas.

Zhang Qin used to be a maritime merchant in the South China Sea for many years, and he was quite familiar with the area around the Golden Strait, where there were ports and where there were vicious pirates, and the regions where each country was located knew in his heart.

The expedition crossed the vast waters between Borneo and the Golden Peninsula into the Riau Islands, and Zhang Qin ordered the fleet to be put on alert because of the notorious Aurang Lauts in this area.

Known as the gypsies of the sea, the Auranglaut people live in the coastal areas and islands of the South Sea, and are fierce by nature, excellent in water and good at navigation. Because he was familiar with the location of local sandbanks and shoals and the characteristics of the monsoon, he often drove sampan boats to and from important waterways to plunder merchant ships, and every time he boarded the ship, he would kill the people on board and plunder his property.

Because the Auranglauts were born with excellent naval forces, they also became the objects of the indigenous kingdoms in the South Seas to control and form their own naval forces. Use them to protect your country's sea routes and ports from pirates. It was also used by the indigenous kingdoms to intercept merchant ships that passed through the seas under the control of the country without paying the toll tax.

One of the most outstanding in this regard was the death of Sri Buddha, who had risen to prominence along the southeast coast of the Golden Island thirty years ago.

Zhang Qin attached great importance to the Aurang Lauts in this place, Yu Hong did not dare to slack off, since the fleet sailed into the waters of the Riau Islands, the armor on his body has not been removed, the commander of the soldiers waited solemnly, and Ming Lingnuo found that there were unknown ships approaching around the fleet, and immediately shot them.

For the sake of his own life, Wang Haichong, who was getting fatter and fatter, took out a pair of black lacquer Mingguangshan armor and Fan Yang beast helmet prepared before setting off from Duli Town from the cabin where he lived, and pinned a delicate horizontal knife from Li Yu to his waist.

However, in the past few months, the body has already gained weight, and the armor customized according to last year's figure cannot be worn for a while. Wang Haichong hugged the fat on his belly in frustration and sighed: "I must lose weight after returning to Anton, otherwise Dao Ye will not be able to escape for his life." ”

In the end, Yu Hong couldn't stand it anymore with his smiling stomach, so he ordered the four soldiers to put on the armor that was one size smaller for Wang Haichong.

Poor Wang Haichong was sweating profusely, the weather in Nanyang was hot, and it was a problem for the armor to be breathable against the skin, and his whole body was almost described as sweating like rain.

Just when Wang Haichong hid in the cabin and was depressed, more than 100 sampans and canoes suddenly appeared on the sea several miles away on both sides of the fleet, heading straight for the expedition.

The men on the sampans and canoes only wore a piece of cloth around their waists, and waved their swords in the sunlight in their hands, and shouted at the expedition.

"Crossbowmen ready!" Yu Hong shouted to the left and right.

On the decks of the three ships of the expedition, all the soldiers were waiting with bows and crossbows.

Yu Hong can be regarded as a battle-hardened battle, although it is the first naval battle, but the ship is large, with a total of 500 tons, and it feels not much different from land.

Stretching out two fingers of his right hand, he gestured to the natives who were desperately rowing towards the fleet, and determined the distance between them. Yu Hongda shouted: "Shoot!" ”

"Whoosh......"

The three ships of the expedition were all medium-sized sea-going vessels of 500 tons, capable of carrying 200 people and carrying enough fresh water.

At this time, in addition to the fifty sailors who continued to sail the ship, each ship had one hundred and fifty soldiers, and at the command of Yu Hong, each of the three ships had a rain of arrows towards the daring Auranglauts.

The Auranglauts had no armor on them, and laughed fearlessly at the arrows fired by the expedition, not believing that the expedition's bow and arrows could shoot so far.

When four hundred and fifty arrows whizzed towards the Aurang Lauts, they were shocked and were killed and wounded fifty or sixty people in an instant.

The Auranglauts, who had escaped the first wave of arrows, saw another wave of the expedition and hurriedly searched the ship for something to stop, and some simply used their oars to block the arrows.

Shot twice in a row by the expedition, the leader of the Auranglauts who wounded more than 100 people was furious, and this was the most humiliating battle he had fought in his life. He roared at his own people, causing them to bend their bows and teach these outsiders a lesson.

However, the arrows of the Aurang Lauts could reach the ships of the expedition, and several times they fired angrily, and none of the expedition soldiers were injured.

"Hahaha......"

The expedition soldiers laughed and cursed at the Orrang Laut people on the boat, slapped the leader of the Aurang Laut in anger, and kicked over a wounded tribesman who was rowing desperately with his own oars.

Shooting long enough for the expedition, the Auranglaut people held their breath and rowed the small sampan and canoe with all their might, quickly narrowing the distance between them and the expedition.

Zhang Qin couldn't see it well, the Aurang Lauts were notoriously fierce at sea, and they had poisonous arrows as sharp weapons, and now their own numbers were at a disadvantage, once they were allowed to get close, the expedition team was in a very disadvantageous position.

Yu Hong patted the worried Zhang Qin and comforted: "Brother Zhang, don't worry, these thieves want to intercept us, it's just a delusion. He shouted to the soldiers on the left and right: "Brothers, bring up all the new guys that His Highness has prepared for us, and let these thieves see the benefits and disadvantages of my Datang!" ”

"Okay!" The soldiers happily led the men down the cabin and carried up a heavy copper cabinet.

Zhang Qin looked at the copper cabinet and was confused, and seeing that there was no danger on the deck, Wang Haichong came over curiously to take a look, and exclaimed: "This is the fierce fire oil tank that my master invented after listening to His Highness's proposal, how can it be on the ship?" ”

"Fierce Fire Oil Tank?"

Zhang Qin was even more puzzled, until Wang Haichong explained to him: "Fierce fire oil is the name of His Royal Highness, and it is actually called stone lipid water, a black liquid that is flammable and does not extinguish when exposed to water......"

Yu Hong proudly patted the fierce fire oil tank and smiled: "Before leaving, His Royal Highness ordered a special trip to carry it, and if it encounters pirates, it will be used to test its effect in naval warfare." ”