After Weiyuan's fleet arrived in Quanzhou. Zhang San's sugar ship also entered Quanzhou Port, this time in order to increase the attractiveness, Zhang San got two ships of sugar, worth nearly 400,000 yuan, of course, the cost is only more than 40,000 yuan.

When the sugar ship arrived in Quanzhou, Wu Decai began to sell his sugar in the shops in Quanzhou, and the fame of white sugar gradually became hot in Quanzhou, Wu Decai sold less than 50,000 pieces of white sugar, and the news that there were two ships of white sugar in Quanzhou Port spread.

Then, before everyone started to rush to buy, it was reported that Yixing and the firm bought two boatloads of sugar for 400,000 yuan, ready to be shipped to Hangzhou and Tokyo for sale.

In order to prevent the pirates from having too much time to react, Yixing Hutchison immediately announced that the sugar would be transported by Weiyuan Dart Bureau, and the port would leave the port on the third day.

The next day, Weiyuan's three warships converged with two sugar ships to form the northbound fleet, out of Quanzhou Port, more than a dozen fishing boats near the port hung far behind them, followed out of the port, the fleet was 20 kilometers away from the sea, Weiyuan's nine warships formed the First Fleet, and the Ryukyu Fleet 16 ships formed the Second and Third Fleets also set off.

It was only more than ten miles out of Quanzhou Port that the fleet encountered pirates, dozens of fishing boats shouted around the fleet, and these fishing boats, which did not slow down without slowing down, desperately approached and tried to throw their hooks and claws on board. The three warships fired stone bullets in a timely manner, and basically as soon as they hit, the ships were destroyed and killed.

What's more, there is a bed crossbow on the warship, a big killing weapon, the crossbow arrow is tied to a bamboo tube, the bamboo tube is filled with fierce fire oil, as long as the lead crossbow arrow is shot into the hull of the ship, the bamboo tube is cracked, it is baked, burning a large piece, although it is not as big as the fire oil bomb fired by the ballista, but his penetration is indeed stronger.

As long as the crossbow arrow pierced the plank, the fire oil could burn into the cabin, and the fire inside the ship was even more difficult to extinguish, of course, it was completely useless to deal with these small fishing boats, only the catapult threw the stone-throwing projectile, and then the archers shot a few rounds of these pirates and it was finished.

These pirates who rowed fishing boats were just some condiments, so after Weiyuan's people packed up a batch, they didn't even bother to stop and collect the prisoners and continue to move forward, and after these fishing boats lost half of them, they couldn't catch up and couldn't beat them, so they had to abandon their companions who had recently started to salvage overboard.

When everything had passed, the warships of the Nine Weiyuan Darts Bureau came from behind, and the more than 100 people immediately became prisoners, and these captives were gathered in one boat for interrogation for a short time, and the two ships left the fleet and beckoned a cargo ship to raid the pirates' lair.

The next journey was indeed a crowd of thieves, the big one used to have four or five boats, and the small one was about a hundred people in a boat, but there was nothing to do in the face of this small fleet of five boats.

After improving the sail and hull structure, Fubune can run one or two knots faster than the ships of its time, but as long as the gap between these two knots is not blocked head-on, then all the pirate ships will have to follow the fleet and eat air.

After chasing for a while, in addition to losing more men and ships, it is completely helpless against the opponent's fleet, and after giving up, it will receive the key care of the first fleet of the Weiyuan Dart Bureau. Then the captives were packed, and warships were sent from Ryukyu Island to raid the pirates' lair.

Along the way, with the close cooperation of the three fleets, from Quanzhou to Fuzhou, and then to Wenzhou and finally to the port of Taizhou for repair, the five ships were nominally repaired but were actually waiting for the various detachments to come and meet to exterminate the pirates.

Another is to leave more time for the Zhang family to prepare, this small fleet has been famous in the East China Sea after a great battle all the way, after all, even if Zhang San and the others are careful that dozens of pirates are wiped out along the way, there will always be a net.

Therefore, along the way, the fleet of the Weiyuan Dart Bureau could not be provoked, and whoever dared to rob it would be wiped out, and the pirates with more or less heads and faces and names disappeared along the way, and also scared off some speculators.

Therefore, the farther north the fleet went, the fewer pirates it encountered, and Zhang San had to let the sugar ship stop in Taizhou for repairs to give the Zhang family a chance to gather manpower and give the pirates time to form an alliance.

After dozens of major battles, the three warships also suffered a lot of damage, and this time they simply stayed for a while in the name of repairing the ship, and found a shipyard to drive the warship into the dock, and it is expected that the repair can be completed in half a month.

Zhang San returned to Sea Shark Island, Hangzhou came to the news that the Zhang family's fleet had assembled and left the port, and the pirates near Zhoushan had recently begun to be active in series, Zhang San originally wanted to wait for things to develop, but he didn't expect the pirates to send a post saying that they were invited to Sea Shark Island to participate in the pirate conference.

Zhang San thought about it for a while and sent Li Jun and Shi Qian to get two original pirate ships to attend the conference to see what these people were discussing, Li Jun was originally very mysterious as the big boss of Sea Shark Island, but when everyone saw these two broken ships, the veil of mystery was gone.

Originally, Li Jun thought that he would just bring one ear, but he didn't expect a mysterious person to appear at the pirate conference to control it, and Shi Qian inquired a little and sent it to the Zhang family, it turned out that the Zhang family had sorted out the Weiyuan Dart Bureau from the news obtained, and in addition to these five ships, there was also a stronger fleet behind him.

The purpose of calling the pirates this time is to let these pirates use them as bait to lure out the fleet behind the Weiyuan Dart Bureau, and then the Zhang family can wipe out the fleet of the Weiyuan Dart Bureau, and they can also consume the strength of the pirates.

Then the Zhang family can continue to organize the fleet to go south to collect protection fees, when Zhang San knew the Zhang family's plan, the corners of his mouth also curled, this is also what he wants, the Zhang family wants to catch him all, why don't he want to kill the Zhang family too.

The Zhang family is mobilizing ships, the pirates are also mobilizing ships, Zhang San is also mobilizing ships, the three parties are desperately accumulating strength and waiting for the arrival of the big war, after statistics, Zhang San participated in the war There are 28 warships, the Zhang family has more than 30, and the pirates have also gathered more than 60 ships.

More than 100 ships of more than 2,000 stone are not very many for the entire Great Song Dynasty, but this battle does determine the future direction of the East China Sea, and before you know it, half a month has passed, and all the ships of the sugar fleet have been repaired, and the fleet has begun to slowly leave the port.

Originally, there was no more pirate harassment along the way, and everyone also got the news that there was a large number of pirates waiting for them before the storm, and after two days of safe sailing, the fleet reached the sea off Xiangshan, and the three brothers of the Ruan family in the fleet were very nervous, because they knew that the gathering place of the pirates was the sea outside Xiangshan.

Sure enough, when the fleet reached the channel between the Jiushan Islands and Xiangshan County, the pirate ships lined up in three rows and blocked the front, and the sixty ships were just black spots sprinkled on the sea, but Ruan Xiaoer and the others did not dare to hesitate for a moment, and immediately fled to the open sea with full sails.