When the pirates' ships approached the merchant ships, they lowered their sails and switched to using oars to provide power, which was more maneuverable and flexible, and reduced the uncontrollability of the sail speed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

On the merchant ship, Chen Wei asked the sailors to raise the sails, adjust the bow of the ship, follow the direction of the wind, and never stop. This is like a pack of wolves biting a running war horse, as long as the war horse has maintained speed, it will increase the difficulty of the wolf bite, once the speed drops down, surrounded by the group, the war horse is only torn apart.

This merchant ship is typical of the sand ship style, with its bow raised high, but instead of sharp dragon horns, it is flattened like a duck's beak and cannot hit the hull of the opposing ship.

In the middle part of the ship, there are two main masts six or seven feet high, and hard sails. There is an auxiliary mast in the front and rear of the main mast, which is slightly smaller.

The clever sailor climbed on the mainmast to observe the situation around the ship, shouting to inform Chao Wei, who was standing at the bow of the ship, commanding the whole situation.

Chao Wei's role is to command the overall situation, find the best way, and find a way to lead the ship out of the pirate encirclement.

On both sides of the ship, Chao Wei's two right-hand men, Chao San and Chao Liu, were in charge of commanding, and Chao Wei was responsible for grasping the overall situation, and the specific details were ordered by these two people at their discretion.

Chao San, nicknamed the third brother who is in charge of the left string, is a strong man with a deep eagle nose, who has been sailing on the sea for many years, and when he saw the pirate ship gradually approaching, he ordered to "release the arrows!" ”

A dozen arrows drifted sparsely past, but few hit. The training time of those sailors in bows and arrows was too short, and they only practiced occasionally, and their accuracy was naturally insufficient.

In the moment of life and death, they naturally did not think about the waste of a few arrows, but to disrupt the rhythm of the other party and discourage the passion of the pirates to get close to the merchant ships. So after the wave of shooting, Chao San issued another "wind up - raise --- arrows!" ”

The pirates were happily rowing and singing, when they were suddenly shot, and they immediately panicked. However, there are murderers among the pirates, and they cried out: "it!" Hurry up, hurry up! Kill all these beef cattle when you get there! ”

Those pirate minions pouted, you fuck it nice, you can try it! They quietly put the worn-out plank on their heads, their lives are their own, or protect it. As a result, the speed of the ship slowed down imperceptibly.

Longing for the two ships to come together are also two laymen, Thunder and Dongfang Xiao. Lei Ting walked around impatiently with his long-handled Pu knife, and said to Chao San: "That Chao San, why don't you let the thief ship get close, I'll go up and fight!" ”

The guards on the ship, Zhuang Ke, were a little angry when they saw that Thunder was so arrogant, but Chao San laughed and bowed his hand to Thunder: "Don't worry, Lei Zhuangshi, there will definitely be a place for you in a while." However, for the time being, it is better to delay as much time as possible, the pirates are outnumbered, but there are no bows and arrows, and it is the time when we are far from demoralizing them. ”

"But......" Lei Ting was about to say something, Dongfang Xiao pulled him, shook his head and said, "Have you forgotten what Brother Chao ordered?" ”

Only then did Thunder suppress his impatience and anxiously wait for the battle.

Although the speed of the pirate ship approaching slowed down, it was still gradually approaching, and it was pasted up in parallel, and the closer it was, the more damage the bow and arrow caused, and the pirates were also in a hurry, and threw out more than a dozen hooks from the ship, the hook was a thick hemp rope, connected with a three-headed iron hook, just like an anchor, the purpose was to hook the side of the ship, and quickly bring the two ships together.

Seeing this, Chao San said to those armed Zhuang Ke: "Cut the rope!" He also instructed a few sailors to carry a wooden pole with a bowl mouth thick and five feet long, and to resist the pirate ship with all his might, so as not to let them approach.

When sailing on the sea, once they are close to a kilometer, the water pressure between the two ships will cause them to suction, and they will quickly collide together, and it will be difficult to separate. This is the same as the fact that a person standing next to a speeding train is easily swept up by the air current.

The armed bankers used their knives to chop and scratch the rope, and a few others pushed the wooden poles against the hull of the pirate ship to prevent it from approaching, and the two sides were at a stalemate. However, the merchant ships still had an advantage, because even if the archers on the ship were not good at archery, they could still easily shoot their opponents within five zhang.

There were more than a dozen pirates rowing on the wooden board, but it was still a little difficult to resist and prevent them from approaching with a wooden pole, and several sailors with wooden poles retreated step by step. Thunder was already waiting impatiently, put the knife aside, grabbed the wooden pole and fought with all his might, and even firmly resisted the advancing thief ship, no matter how the ship pirate shouted and rowed hard, it was useless. The sailors around cheered in unison.

Chao San was also secretly happy in his heart, he was really a good man.

Dongfang Xiao helplessly glanced at the thunder that was working hard, but he stood up and guarded the thunder. He sensed that the pirates should soon have a strategy to break the situation, and not being able to take the side did not prevent the pirates from getting on board, otherwise these pirates would be in vain on the sea.

Sure enough, the leader of the pirate ship saw that the situation was deadlocked, and that the casualties on his side were increasing, so he immediately ordered a dozen pirates to use the cover of the sails to climb onto the mast and hard sails of their own ship from the back, condescendingly dropped the hook, hooked the buildings on the merchant ship, and slid down like a zipline. Chao was shocked, and hurriedly ordered: "Shoot up, shoot up!" ”

But it was too late, because the sailors were so poor at archery and so fast that they fell into the sea with a stray arrow, and at least ten pirates jumped onto the ship with their short knives.

A pirate fell right above Thunder's head, and the guy kicked down like an arrow with his legs straight, as if he wanted to use the force of the fall to kick the unsuspecting Thunder head with all his strength against the wooden pole.

Dongfang Xiao, who had long noticed this person, snorted coldly, and with a wave of the heavy iron square beam, the pirate flew away like a baseball that had been slapped.

Thunder was unable to speak with all his strength against the wooden pole, but just grinned at Dongfang Xiao, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.

Chao San saw that the pirates had already boarded the ship, and several of his sailors with bows and arrows were unsuspecting and had their throats cut, and those armed bankers hurriedly besieged them with long knives. The short knife used to deal with the pirate with a long-handled simple knife seems to have an advantage. But Chao San was keenly aware of the other party's intentions, and hurriedly ordered: "All sailors withdraw into the cabin, quickly!" ”

At this moment, on the opposite pirate ship, more than a dozen hooks were thrown, and the armed bankers with knives were entangled, unable to cut the hook ropes in a short time, and the gangside battle was inevitable, so let's save our strength first and accumulate strength for the subsequent counterattack.

Taking advantage of the time lag between the pirate ships and the approach, Chao San commanded the armed bankers to besiege the shortsword pirates on the ship, covering the sailors with little protection ability to hide in the cabin with bows and arrows on their backs. Seeing that the sailors entered the cabin, they shouted to Thunder, who had been holding a wooden pole to prevent the pirate ship from approaching: "Thunder Zhuang, no need to top it again, kill the enemy as much as you want!" ”

Hearing Chen San's words, Thunder, who had been suppressed, picked up a five-zhang long wooden pole and stood on the side of the boat, and swept towards the pirate ship, and suddenly several pirates who wanted to resist were swept off the ship and fell into the sea. Thunder laughed and said, "Happy, happy!" Let you taste grandpa's awesomeness! After saying that, he smashed the wooden pole again, and a pirate's brain suddenly burst.

Dongfang Xiaoshan is bigger than Thunder in terms of strength, and he can carry a main beam of the house, not to mention this bowl of thick wooden poles, but he silently chose to guard behind Thunder, and those who dared to sneak attack Thunder behind him were all smashed by him with an iron square beam.

The pirates were also very depressed, the other party's wooden pole was too long, and they could only be beaten passively, but they couldn't reach the other party, and the long stick was fierce and heavy, and it was really close to death, and it hurt if it touched. The leader of the pirates on the ship had already hid behind the mast when he saw that the situation was not good, but he shouted: "Rush up, rush up and kill him!" ”

The sailor, who had been watching the situation from the high mast, shouted to Chao Wei at the bow: "The port pirates are on board and are taking the ship." The ships on the right are approaching, and the ships in the rear are being suppressed! ”

Chao Wei clasped his hands in front of his chest, standing at the bow of the ship and looking at the two pirate ships in front of him, standing still despite the waves.

The situation on the left and right has long been expected by him, Chao San and Chao Liu are both brothers who have followed him for many years, they are trustworthy, and they are very clear about their own tactics, so they don't have to worry too much. On the contrary, there are some accidents at the stern, and the purpose of the thief ship at the stern is only to drag the merchant ship with a rope hook, causing drag and reducing the speed of the ship, so it is generally not a major combat force. But there were only the young master and two subordinates there, and they actually suppressed a boatload of people, and it seemed that they had to reestimate their combat power and reconsider their role.

A shield-wielding banker beside Chao Wei shouted "Be careful", raised his shield to block a short axe flying towards Chao Wei, Chao Wei glanced at the pirate ship that was colliding with the bow of the merchant ship not far away, the pirates lacked bows and arrows, and they were not good at shooting, but there were a lot of flying knives and short axes. The pirate ship had a pointed bow, and it was afraid that it was trying to stop our ship by ramming.

Chao Wei frowned and said backwards: "Prepare the fire oil!" "To be honest, he didn't want to use fire oil so early, although there were quite a few on board. Because once the opposing ship is ignited, the pirates who have no way to retreat will probably be even more crazy, and in order to survive, they will be self-defeating to snatch their own ships desperately.

However, if the bow of the other party is allowed to collide like this, once the hull of the ship breaks and enters the water, it will be completely finished.

In charge of intercepting the front of the merchant ship were two pirate ships, one of which crashed into the bow of the ship, and the hull of the ship shook, and everyone was in a panic, almost unstable, but fortunately, the hull was thick and did not break.

The hull of a merchant ship of 4,000 stones was half a zhang higher than that of a pirate ship of several hundred stones, and the bow part of the ship was more than one and a half feet higher. ”

Seven or eight clay pots smashed into the opponent's ship, and then a fire broke down, and the bow of the pirate ship was suddenly in flames, and several sailors carried long wooden poles to prop up the opponent's ship to prevent the fire from spreading to their own ship.

Those pirates were busy drawing seawater to extinguish the fire, but the fire formed by the fire oil could be easily extinguished by water, taking advantage of the chaos on the pirate ship, Chao Wei commanded the merchant ships to break out of the encirclement.

At this time, Chao Chong was relatively relaxed, watching Chao Sheng use a bow and arrow, shooting the pirates on the stern pirate ship one by one, he was in a happy mood, and the pirates were nothing remarkable.

Shi Qian said enviously: "Brother Sheng'er is really powerful, that magic arrow is everywhere, killing from root to root, if I have this ability, it will not be in vain." ”

Once Chao Sheng pulled up the bow and arrow, the whole person's temperament became confident and serious, no longer the usual cynical appearance, the strength of the eight bucket bows is not big, it is not small, so it has been pulled more than 30 times in a row, but Chao Sheng has no feeling of fatigue at all. The pirates on the boat behind had already shot more than two dozen people.