Six ships of cargo were sold to the Satsuma clan, and the fleet made a profit of 184,400 taels. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info of which the profit belonging to Li Tu is 129,600 taels, the profit belonging to Xiao Xiangui is 41,300 taels, and the profit belonging to Shimazu Tadashi is 12,700 taels.

With the development of the fleet, Li Tu earned more and more, not only a huge amount, but also far more than Xiao Xiangui.

In January of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, loaded with the return cargo, Li Tu's fleet left Hejinfang and headed for Zhangzhou.

The north wind in January whistling, blowing waves on the surface of the sea, crackling soft sails. The temperature was very low, and although the crew were all wearing cotton clothes, it was still a little chilly in the north wind.

The fleet drove for two days, and when it passed through Mashan and was about to sail to Qidao Mountain, Aban, who was on the mast, suddenly shouted: "There is a big ship in the east!" ”

Li Tu hurriedly stood up to the tail tower and looked east. I saw that on the sea level, a large ship with soft sails was sailing in parallel with Li Tu's fleet, and it was also heading for Qidao Mountain on the channel. The ship looked not small, and it was bigger than the Great Fortune ship of Litu. Since it has soft sails, it must be a ship of Westerners.

Li Tu's heart sank, and he shouted loudly: "Pass the order, lean up!" ”

The flag-bearer hoisted various flags and transmitted Li Tu's order to the fleet. The flotilla turned to the left and pounced on the big ships to the east.

As he got closer to the ship, he could see the shape of the ship clearly: the hull was slender and narrow, the stern was square, and there were four masts on board, the front three masts were hung with sails, and the back mast was hung with a spinnaker, and it was a five-deck galleon.

A little closer, Litu saw the flag on the ship: the flag of the tricolor Netherlands! This is a Dutch merchant ship.

Litu's fleet was approaching the ship, but they saw a Dutch merchant ship in the distance and the Dutch opened fire on Litu's fleet.

At a distance of three thousand meters, six shells roared, but after all, the distance was too far, the shells missed the target, and fell into the sea over Li Tu's head, making six huge splashes on the sea.

"Straight sissy thief!"

Frightened by the heavy artillery of the Dutch, Li Tu decided to become a pirate!

The Dutch are not a good thing, and Litu was almost robbed by the Dutch once. At this time, when you see a lone Dutch merchant ship, where are you willing to let it go? He wanted to use his own way to treat his body and rob him.

With a wave of his hand, he said loudly: "All the ships rushed up at full speed, we robbed this son of a bitch!" ”

"Whoever robs the red-haired boat, will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver each."

Hearing Li Tu's words, the crew cheered in unison.

Seeing that the opposing ship was alone, and it was no match for the fleet on this side, Li Tu's crew was in high spirits, and they climbed the mast to adjust the sails with a howl, and rushed towards the east at full speed.

Seeing that there were many ships on Litu's side, the Dutch merchant ships did not dare to fire any more, and turned their bows and fled to the east.

The Dutchman's Galen ship was not an old fortune ship, and it was also very fast. Li Tu's ship hung soft sails and carried goods, and the Dutch merchant ships also carried goods and operated soft sails, and the speed on both sides was about the same, and Li Tu couldn't catch up no matter how much he chased them. The distance of three thousand meters seemed to be an insurmountable moat, horizontal in front of Li Tu.

After chasing from morning to afternoon, Litu did not catch up with the Dutchman. Seven ships left the course in pursuit and sailed deep into the open sea. Li Tu's crew looked at the fat sheep in front of them but couldn't catch up, and they were very anxious, and stood on the bow of the ship one by one to watch.

During the chase, the bow guns of the new Fu ships and the stern guns of the Dutch merchant ships fired a few shots from time to time. But the distance was too far, and the artillery projectile in the waves was not accurate at all. After firing dozens of rounds for half a day, Litu's cannon hit the target only three times, making several dents in the hull of the Galen. The Galen's cannon was even more inaccurate, and only hit the Fire Source once, breaking a piece of the ship's outboard and making a small hole in the bow.

But these minor injuries did not affect the situation on the battlefield at all.

They chased until the afternoon, when they were chased by Litu in a hurry, and the Dutch merchant ship began to throw goods into the sea. If the heavy cargo is abandoned, the ship can move faster and avoid Litu's pursuit.

When the crew of Li Tu saw the fat sheep in front of them doing this, they felt that the Dutch were throwing their own silver, and they felt that they had lost a lot.

Li Tu saw that the Dutch were trying to survive with such broken arms, and he also felt that he probably couldn't catch up this time.

But just as Li Tu was about to give up, he saw the Dutch ship stagnate suddenly, and its speed dropped suddenly, and it actually came to a halt on the surface of the sea.

It was too far from the course for the Dutch to know the geography beneath the surface, and the Dutch Galen ship crashed into a reef and stopped in the waves. All of a sudden, the Dutch ships were completely immobilized and could not even make a turn.

If you leave the channel for too long, the risk of hitting the reef is very high. The reason why merchant ships risked being robbed by pirates also sailed the waterway was to avoid this. Seeing the appearance of the Dutchman, a deafening cheer rang out in Litu's fleet. This big fat sheep finally couldn't run and came to his mouth!

At this moment, Li Tu can clean up the Dutch as much as he wants.

Under the frightened gaze of the Dutch, the Shouyi and the Huoyuan slowly sailed to three hundred meters directly behind the Dutch merchant ships, set up their cannons, and began to shell the Dutch merchant ships. The Dutch merchant ship was stuck on the reef and could not turn around, could not fire with its broadside guns at all, and a gun in the stern was no match for Litu, so it could only be beaten right in front of it.

Only a few loud bangs were heard, and eight shells made eight dazzling straight lines and rushed towards the red-haired boat a few hundred meters away. Six shells hit the target: five shells hit the hull of the Galen ship, sending out patches of wood chips, which were estimated to have struck a lot of wood chips in the cabin and cut many people; A cannonball landed on the deck, and in the bounce, it hit two red-haired soldiers, breaking bones and shattering internal organs in one fell swoop, killing both of them.

After the port shelling, the two new ships turned around and aimed at the Dutch merchant ships on their starboard side. With a loud bang, eight shells flew out again. This time the five shells hit the Dutch merchant ship, causing the hull of the stern of the Galen ship to crackle. Two shots hit the weak point of the hull, pierced the hull and made two large holes in the stern.

After two rounds of artillery fire, the Dutch merchant ship collapsed and raised the white flag.

Amid the cheers of the crew, Li Tu asked the Zaixing and the Crescent to come close. After all the red hairs were tied, Li Tu boarded the ship for inspection.

It was a galleon of more than six hundred tons, with fourteen cannons on board. There were more than 60 crew members, as well as more than 40 soldiers, all of whom knelt on the terrace with their hands tied behind their backs. The cabins on the ground floor of the ship were loaded with copper and sulfur brought from Japan, probably worth tens of thousands of taels.

Not only were these goods valuable, but the Galen ship itself was also worth two or thirty thousand taels of silver.

The Dutch captain was a tall Dutch man with gray hair, who was escorted to Li Tu with his hands tied behind his back. Looking at the young Li Tu, the old man looked incredulous: "Why did your fortune boat sail so fast!" And the fragile ship is also loaded with heavy artillery, my God, it's simply impossible! ”

Without waiting for the general to translate the Dutch captain's words, Jiang Yu kicked the Dutch captain in the knee. The captain threw himself on his knees in front of Li Tu.

"**** red hair! Let you rampant in Zhangzhou to rob the people! Kneel for the owner! ”

kicked down the Dutch captain, Jiang Yu didn't scold. His words caused the surrounding crew to laugh.

Li Tu looked at the Dutch captain with a smile and said slowly: "You think there are many things that are impossible!" In the future, when I hit the big guys, you will be surprised! ”