The Hypo travels from northwest to southeast, the wind direction is crosswind, and the speed of the ship is very high. The two sand boats had five masts, but they were not high, and they were traveling from south to north, with half a wind, and the speed was very slow. The two sides, one fast and one slow, gradually approached in the waters due north of Dengzhou Port. The two sand boats were thieves, one behind the other, diagonally to the south-central part of the channel, trying to force the Haibo to turn north. To the north is South Long Island, where the shallow water is not conducive to the navigation of a deep-sea ship with a pointed bottom.

"Port ready...... Right full rudder! When the two sides had pulled closer to about 200 meters, he suddenly gave the order to turn, and in an instant the sailmen on the mast were busy again, and the helmsman also turned the steering wheel desperately to the right, and the bow of the Haibo suddenly deviated to the right.

"Headwind...... Raise the angle of fire...... Put! "The two sand boats saw that the Haibo had changed the rudder, and they also wanted to turn around and intercept it, but unfortunately their speed was not enough, and the hull was too large, so it was too late to turn around, and they just exposed the side of the hull. Just as the Hypo passed by more than 20 meters to their port side, the whaling crossbow on the port side was launched under the command of Karl.

"Lower half sail...... Left rudder 10! Hong Tao is still squatting behind the ship with half of his head exposed, and the sailors on the Haibo are also the same virtue as him, and they can hide without exposing their bodies, except for the sailmen on the mast who have nowhere to hide, there is no one to see on the deck. When the two sides staggered by, Hong Tao issued a follow-up order.

"My lord! Aren't we going to turn around? As the first mate, Karl's first responsibility was to convey the captain's accurate orders to the first class sailors, and when he heard that the sails were about to be lowered, he thought that Hong Tao had shouted something wrong or that he had heard it wrong, so he asked again.

"Drop your mother's head! This is a shallow sea, do you want to turn around and find death! Lower the sails so that they can catch up with us and lure them into the deep sea. Hong Tao directly took off his fur hat and threw it at Carl, this red-haired pig brain, he is quite brave in battle, but he still doesn't have a comprehensive understanding of naval warfare.

"Yes! Lowering the half-sail ...... Left rudder 10! Carl understood, reached out to catch the fur hat that Hong Tao threw over, and while running over and handing it back to Hong Tao, he turned his head and shouted at the deck and pulled his neck.

The Haibo made an S-shaped arc on the sea, and the ship's speed suddenly slowed down, and it headed southwest along the main channel, and there was a wisp of black smoke behind it, as if something was burning on the ship, and several sails on the mast suddenly fell.

"Chase! Catch up! They were wounded...... "The sand boat behind was stunned by a crossbow bolt just now, they had never seen a crossbow bolt explode, although the broken iron pieces that popped out of it were not very powerful, but there were also several soldiers on the deck who were injured. Most of the men on board were Han soldiers, only five or six Mongol soldiers, and when they saw that the strange ship suddenly smoked and lowered its sails, one of them was a short man with a suede hat and a stiff leather armor, holding a scimitar, and gave the order in stammering Chinese.

"General! General, we didn't launch the rocket, why did it catch fire? Shouldn't you be cautious if you've never seen such a ship? Standing next to the big man was a Han general with an iron helmet, and he didn't agree with the big man's orders.

"Phew! Caution? We Mongolians never knew what prudence was, and when someone shot an arrow at the Mongols, they chased after it and shot it back, chase! The big man turned his head and spat the Han generals in the face, and simply shouted directly at the sailors on the deck. The Han sailors did not dare to contradict it, so they pulled out one long oar after another from the deck, inserted it into the groove on the side of the ship, hung it with a rope sleeve, and two people with an oar, shouted and rowed.

"I said Bo Jiao, what kind of thing are you ordering, it can't be the heavy oil in the crossbow arrow, right?" On the stern of the Haibo, Hong Tao was squatting behind the boat to secretly observe the situation of the two sand boats behind, but a stream of pungent black smoke made him cry.

“…… There is nothing else to order, that is, the heavy oil smoke is the largest, didn't the adults say to make the movement bigger? Bo Jiao was standing on the edge of the stern, staring at the flames in the two charcoal basins, where the smoke came from.

"You don't know it's poisonous! Cheng, you kid hate me to the core, looking for an opportunity to murder me, and want to poison me. Carl, keep in mind that this charge is at least two buckets of water! Hong Tao heard that it was really heavy oil, and even ran to the other side of the stern, poked his head out of the side of the ship and took a big breath, although he was not afraid of death, but he was very afraid of getting sick, that feeling that life is worse than death has been tasted once in his previous life, once is enough!

"My lord, they're catching up!" Carl and Bo Jiao have a very good relationship, they are both people who have been oppressed by Hong Tao, and they have sympathy for each other, as soon as they heard that Hong Tao was going to punish Bo Jiao again, they immediately found a very suitable topic to interrupt.

"Let's chase it, they don't have weapons on the bow, it's useless to just chase them, they have to be side by side with us...... Holy! Hong Tao poked his head out of the side of the boat and was also observing the two sand boats behind him, and as soon as he was halfway through his words, he suddenly screamed and retracted his head.

"Boom!" Just as he retracted his head, there was a muffled sound in the stern.

"I take back my order, they have crossbow arrows in the bow, bigger than our whaling crossbows! Everyone, hide it, don't let that thing shoot, the mainmast is full sail! Hong Tao saw clearly what was hitting the stern of the ship, it was a crossbow arrow, and the guy who fired the crossbow arrow also saw it clearly, just at the bow of the other party's ship, there were several soldiers operating a huge crossbow arrow, which was almost three times the size of the whaling crossbow.

"My lord, we also have crossbow arrows in the stern of the ship, should we fight back?" Carl was better than the concealment that Hong Tao was looking for, he crouched directly in front of the steering wheel, and the entire steering wheel and the helmsman were his shields.

"Shoot back! If you want to take advantage, you have to suffer first, where in the world is there such a thing as just taking advantage and not suffering a loss? Let them shoot, just keep your distance away. Hong Tao poked his head out again and took a look, the two sand boats were still paddling hard, but the distance was still 3 or 40 meters away, and they didn't get closer. This distance Hong Tao is not afraid at all, even if the crossbow arrow is big, if you want to shoot through 40 centimeters thick hardwood 40 meters away, it is nonsense, not to mention that the crossbow arrow is not successful, and the rifle is not successful.

Three ships, one running in front and two chasing behind, soon left the port of Dengzhou and headed due east towards the vast sea. may have seen the situation on the sea, and several more ships sailed out of Dengzhou Port, and they also followed far behind. Seeing that there were reinforcements, the two sand boats in front of them were even more energetic, and the rowers on the deck changed batch after batch, and even the Mongolian generals personally helped with the rowing. The butt of the ship in front of you is in front of you, and if you try to catch up with it, once you chase it to about twenty meters, you can launch a flying hook, as long as you catch that ship, the final result will definitely be your own victory.

Unfortunately, the distance was always not close, and although a few crossbow arrows hit the stern of the opponent's ship, they were all bounced off by the hard wood, and the remaining crossbow arrows were all missed. On the rickety and windy sea, a five- or six-pound crossbow gun is like a straw, crooked when shot out, and has no lethality at all.

"General, let's go back, the waves here are too big, and I'm afraid it will be even more unfavorable for us to chase after them. Its boat has a pointed bottom, ours has a flat bottom, and the deeper the water, the more stable it is. The chase lasted for an hour, and the three ships ran out more than ten nautical miles at a speed of about five knots, and the sailors and soldiers on the sand boats behind them really couldn't row, and even the Mongols were so tired that they took off their leather robes and sat on the deck panting. The Han general obviously understood water warfare, and when he saw that the Mongols were gone, he began to come together again to persuade him.

"Fart! The Great Khan's army is also invincible in the world! You are the head of the navy, it is your duty to pursue the enemy, let your people row for me, otherwise you will be beheaded for the crime of collaborating with the enemy! If you wait for the Mongols to say that they will go back, they will go back, but the Mongol general obviously did not want to admit his command mistake, so he became angry, and directly gave the Han general a knife back, and ordered to chase after him.

So the three boats began to chase after each other on the surface of the sea, and this chase lasted for more than half an hour, the land was no longer visible, the surrounding was full of black water, and the swells were getting bigger and bigger, and some of the officers and men on the sand boats had already ground blood blisters on their hands, and the frequency of the oars had dropped to five or six seconds. Moreover, the hull of the sand boat was blown by the strong sea breeze, and there was a violent tilt, and the oarsmen on one side were almost unable to row, but the oarsmen on the other side could not reach the seawater, so they could only row the oars empty.

"It's done, they're almost there, it's time for us to harvest. Prepare to turn windward...... Hang the full sails! Bo Jiao, hurry up and throw those two braziers into the sea for me, bear child! Hong Tao had been holding a telescope on the side of the ship to observe the situation on the two sand boats behind him, and at this distance, he could even see the sweat on the faces of the sailors. When he felt that he had tortured enough of these pursuers, he gave the battle order, and did not forget to scold Bo Jiao again.