After resting for a long time, Li Shan and the others also returned to the ship, ready to set off again.

Li Shan asked Yan Zhao and Zhuo Cheng to be vigilant about whether there would be a boat following behind the ship. Although Li Shan asked the man to pass the word at that time, Li Shan was not sure if those pirates would come, so it was better to be more vigilant during the cautionary period.

Li Shan's ship has a very obvious advantage, that is, their telescope, with which they can easily see things dozens of miles away, which is far beyond the reach of the human eye. There was no such thing on other ships, because there was very little transparent glass needed to make telescopes, and most of them were transported to the Tang Dynasty as tribute or precious devices, and the first telescope made by Li Shan in Jingzhou at that time cost more than a dozen taels of silver.

Therefore, the use of telescopes has not been promoted, only Li Shan himself has been using it, and others do not know the benefits of this thing.

At sea, the benefits of telescopes are vividly manifested. Human eyesight is limited and resolution is limited. When a ship is miles away, the human eye cannot see clearly, and farther away, you can only see some small black dots, and you can't tell whether it is a ship or not. But if you look at the telescope, you can easily see the ship dozens of miles away, and even distinguish the number of people on board, cargo, course, and so on.

At the same distance, you can see others, but the other party can't see you, you have completely grasped the initiative, which is equivalent to a blind person beating a blind person, and you yourself completely occupy the initiative. If you don't want to fight, he can't find you, and if you want to fight, you can look for the best fighter.

Sure enough, in the evening, Zhuo Cheng's boat had a flag signal, telling Li Shan that more than a dozen clippers were following behind him, and it seemed that the comers were not good.

Of course, they must have seen the scale of Li Shan's building ship, ten building ships, and there are hundreds of crew members who came out to purchase. It's just that they don't know that there are more crews on the ship, and they are well-trained and well equipped.

Li Shan said with a smile: "It seems that they really want to eat my big fish, but I don't know if they really have such a big appetite, don't be able to eat me at that time, but support yourself to death." ”

Zheng Peng said: "Further forward is the exit of the Strait of Malacca, and the front is a shoal to the west, if I were a pirate, I would deliberately start a fire attack in the east, forcing the ship to run west, and then engage in hand-to-hand combat." ”

Li Shandao: "Since you think so, then the pirates probably won't have other opinions." Then let's have a praying mantis catching cicada and yellow finch behind. ”

Li Shan's ten ships were not divided into goods. The four escort ships specially built by Li Shan are of special structure. Both the keel and the hull of the ship were fixed with a large amount of iron sheets, and the firing ports needed for artillery fire were opened, and the main force was also living in these ships, each with four hundred men in it. Because there was no need to load, only gunpowder and ordnance were loaded, it was not crowded.

These four ships are frigates, so although Li Shan's building ship is not protected by a small boat, it is more powerful than a treasure ship. Since pirates are good at night raids, they Li Shan also happened to use the cover of night to fight a counter-encirclement.

The pirates naturally didn't know that Li Shan had discovered their whereabouts, and at the same time, after nightfall, because they lost their vision, most of the cargo ships would choose to put away their sails and drift slowly, while the pirates would raid at this time.

Sure enough, as Li Shan expected, a fire suddenly appeared on the east side of Li Shan's cargo ship at night, and more than a dozen flying ships quickly approached the cargo ship. Yang Miaoling and Li Shan stood on the main ship and watched. Yang Miaoling looked at the rockets that kept shooting, and looked at Li Shandao with some concern: "I'd rather provoke a gentleman than recruit a villain, these guys are outlaws, if we offend them this time, I'm afraid that our merchant ships will never have peace in the future." ”

Li Shan smiled: "On the contrary, these pirates exist to make us never have peace. Their recklessness on this sea is to endanger our shipboarding, and only by cutting them down can we have no worries. These pirates can only say that they deserve to meet me, and count them unlucky. ”

The pirate's shouting and killing were gradually getting closer, and Li Shan had already arranged his tactics. Since the pirates wanted to drive them to the beach, Li Shan did the opposite.

Li Shan's four frigates were docked to the east of the fleet, and the pirate's ships attacked from the east, Li Shan was not worried at all, and took advantage of his huge hull to move west first, making the pirates think that he had succeeded. In fact, the building boat was scattered and divided into two sides.

The huge building ship formed an encirclement and surrounded more than a dozen flying ships inside, and the two ends were the frigates, using the sturdy ramming head of the hull to impact at full speed, directly knocking the flying ship into pieces. Then there was a flurry of artillery and crossbows, and in an instant the airship suffered heavy losses.

But the people on the flyship were obviously not frightened, and immediately adjusted their position, let the flyship get close to the building ship, threw the flying spear to the building ship, and one by one the pirates began to board the ship.

But to their disappointment, the number of people on the building ship was large and well-equipped, and the sailors were even more well-trained, not at all like ordinary sailors.

Two airships were directly smashed by two protective ships because they had to board the ship by the building, and for a while, the pirates on board could only jump ship to escape.

Because of the bombardment of thunder, several flying ships have also caught fire, and if the fire is not extinguished, the flying ship will not be saved, but because of the suppression of the firepower on the ship, there is no way to extinguish the fire.

I heard the people on the flyship shouting: "We want to negotiate, can you ask the owner of the building ship to come out and talk." ”

The person who shouted was shouted in Arabic and Chinese, and it seems that this pirate also has diplomatic ability, and it seems that there are probably all the pirates who are united, whether they are Arabs or Tang people.

Li Shan raised a torch to signal the building ship to stop attacking, and ten building ships surrounded the flying ship in the center. A small boat came out of the airship and boarded Li Shan's main ship.

There were three people on board, one with a beard who looked like an Arab, and the other who met and spoke Chinese, presumably a Tang person. There is another one who does not know what to say, it is estimated that it is the indigenous people of the Straits of Malacca. Sure enough, this pirate is still a Combine Army.

The Tang pirate stepped forward and said to Li Shan: "This lord, we don't know Mount Tai with our eyes, and we have collided with your fleet, please raise your noble hand and let us live." ”

Li Shan smiled: "Oh, you were the ones who first wanted to rob my cargo ship, and now you can't beat it, and you want us to let you live, this is too much to say, right?" ”

Tang pirate said: "Our brothers are also some famous in this sea area, and there are thousands of brothers under him, this time we are careless of the enemy, we admit it, this time even if we don't fight, we don't know each other." As long as the boss can raise his noble hand, we will be friends in the future, and we will definitely give away your merchant ship and never infringe. ”

Li Shandao: "These flying ships of yours are not vulnerable in front of my building ship at all, even if you want to rob me, you don't have the strength, why should I make you a friend?" Without you, I can still pass through this strait safely, what use are you to me? ”

Tang Pirate said: "You can't say that, you rely on your parents at home and your friends outside, many friends and many roads, everyone has a tiger in Pingyang." There are many pirates in the Strait of Malacca, and our brother is also counted as the number one, and we can more or less sell face, what do you say? ”

Li Shan shook his head and said: "I am a businessman, I don't pay attention to the righteousness of my friends, I only value interests." What good can I do by letting you go? I think you've robbed a lot of money, right? I don't know if there is anything on this airship, hand it over, and I'll let you live? ”

Li Shan's words are purely joking, will pirates go to sea with gold and silver treasures when they rob? Definitely not.

The Tang pirate said: "Be a man and leave a line, he really wants to see him in the future." If you don't want to let us go, we can kill your two cargo ships even if we fight to the death, so why do you have to lose both? ”

Li Shan laughed and said, "Do you really think you can escape?" Do you really think I'm really talking to you about terms? ”

As he spoke, Li Shan waved his hand behind him, and the flag soldier on the lookout waved his torch.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

There were violent explosions under all the flying ships, and suddenly all the flying ships had leaked their cabins and had begun to flood in large quantities. Li Shan didn't intend to let them go from the beginning, but forcibly besieging them would indeed cause some losses, so Li Shan would pretend to negotiate with them. At the same time as the ceasefire, Li Shan ordered the sailors with good water characteristics to dive to the airship with thunder and place explosives.

These thunderbolts are all idiosyncratic, and the outside is wrapped in lard-soaked oil paper, not afraid of immersion. So it can be detonated directly in the water. This time all the airships leaked, and the pirates couldn't escape.

The three pirates were furious when they saw this scene, and they pulled out their knives and slashed at Li Shan, and there were more than a dozen archers standing behind Li Shan who fired directly together, and the three pirates were killed without any chance to fight back. Li Shan never showed mercy to his enemies. For mercy to one's enemies is cruelty to oneself.

As soon as the three pirates died, the pirates below had no room for resistance, it was a purely one-sided massacre, and they were directly wiped out. (To be continued.) )