Chapter 138: Nameless Desert Island
"Oh God! There is another big Ming ship, are they a group? Captain Geert of the "Princess" exclaimed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
At the same time, there was a cheer on board the "Exocet".
"It's Fuchun! They're really fine, they've come here! The crew was overjoyed by the safety of their companions, and the arrival of reinforcements boosted morale.
The coming ship is the "Fuchun"! Some time ago, after being separated from the "Flying Fish" in a hurricane, the "Fuchun" did not drift as far as the "Flying Fish".
However, the problem faced by the "Fuchun" was that one of the three masts was blown off by the hurricane, and several crew members were killed and injured.
After the storm stopped, Pipe Bands decided to find a place to repair the ship.
It was easy to find a wooded island and drop anchor near the island. Send people to the island to cut wood, haul it to the ship to repair the tattered place. It took several days to get the ship repaired.
At this time, the position of the "Fuchun" did not deviate much from the original channel, and under the command of the experienced Sima Nan, the "Fuchun" quickly found the original channel.
It was not easy to find the lost ship in the vast sea, and after discussing with Sima Nan, Mao 18 decided to go straight to Japan, where he would join the "Exocet".
The "Fukuchun" followed the ocean current in a straight line, but the "Exocet" first went east to the Ryukyu Islands, and then from the Ryukyu Islands to the north to Japan. However, because it took several days for the "Fuchun" to repair the ship, the time for the two sides to arrive in Japan was about the same.
After arriving at the nearby sea in the early morning, he heard a dense artillery bombardment from the flank. Ming ships rarely loaded with artillery, because the structure of the ship did not allow for large guns, otherwise the recoil of the guns when the guns were fired, it was easy for the ships to fall apart. Such a dense artillery bombardment can only indicate that it is a Western ship, and the Japanese shogunate does not allow other Westerners except the Dutch to come to Japan to trade, so it is likely that there are Dutch ships ahead!
If it were someone else, it would definitely take a detour. But Mao Eighteen is a naturally bold person, so he has to come and take a look.
When Sima Nan stopped him, Mao 18's words "Maybe the Flying Fish is fighting with the Dutch ship" made Sima Nan speechless, so he could only obediently follow Mao 18's instructions to drive the ship towards the sea where the cannon sounded, and sure enough, he saw that the "Flying Fish" was fighting with a Dutch ship.
Mao 18 immediately ordered, and the "Fuchun" rushed straight towards the Dutch ship.
In fact, with the tonnage firepower of the Dutch ship "Princess", it is enough to deal with both the "Fuchun" and the "Flying Fish". It is a pity that Captain Geert has been frightened by the death shock of the "Exocet" just now, and now he saw another enemy ship rushing towards him desperately, where did he dare to stay, and immediately ordered the "Princess" to turn the rudder and turn around and flee to the west.
After successfully driving away the Dutch ship, the "Exocet" and the "Fuchun" were reunited, and the crews of both ships cheered happily.
The "Exocet" suffered several shots in the artillery battle just now, and the deck and side of the ship were damaged in many places, but fortunately, the shells in this year were all solid shells, and the deck was smashed to pieces, but in fact, the real damage was not very large, as long as it was repaired slightly.
Ren Siqi immediately ordered to find a place to rest.
The two boats continued north, and after half a year they found an uninhabited desert island, which was not large, but it was lush with trees, and there was a high cliff on one side of the beach, just enough to drive the boat to the sea below the cliff, only a few hundred meters away from the sandy beach on the coast.
Dropping off the boat, the crew went up to the island, where they would rest on the beach until the ship's carpenter had repaired the boat.
The "Exocet" was not badly damaged, and it did not really hurt its muscles and bones, and there were spare planks on board, which could be repaired quickly.
The reunion after separation, meeting again was particularly cordial, Ren Siqi pulled Mao Shibai and others, and talked about the situation after separation. The experience of "Fuchun" is very ordinary, but the experience of "Flying Fish" is much more exciting, when it comes to heartiness, Ren Siqi shouted Li Xingjiu, and kept praising Li Xingjiu's martial arts.
Mao 18 looked at Li Xingjiu's sturdy figure and nodded slightly, although he didn't fully believe Ren Siqi's words, he didn't want to compete with juniors for the limelight.
Ren Siqi originally wanted to provoke Mao 18 and Li Xingjiu to have a try, but when he saw that Mao 18 didn't answer, he just had to wait.
In the evening, a bonfire was lit on the beach, around which the crew cooked and after dinner, the crew on duty on both ships rested.
At night, Ren Siqi was sleeping soundly, and suddenly the sound of a commotion sounded, and everyone was awakened at once.
When asked, it turned out that the crew in charge of the meal caught a thief. Soon the thief was pulled in front of Ren Siqi, a twelve or thirteen-year-old widow child, with disheveled hair, ragged clothes, and dirty skin covered with dust.
He struggled vigorously when he was grabbed by the arm of the crew, his round eyes showed a pleading look, and he was talking in a whisper, and Ren Siqi couldn't understand what he said.
Fortunately, there was a Japanese crew member on board, and after the translator, he learned that the Japanese child was a resident of the island, and his family was sick, so he had no choice but to come out to look for food.
Isn't this a desert island with no people? When he first arrived on the island, Ren Siqi also sent people to search the island, but found no traces of people, how could it be inhabited?
After giving the child some food, Ren Siqi ordered him to be released, and the child took the food and ran away, and soon disappeared into the night.
After dawn, Ren Siqi, who had breakfast, was about to give the order to get on the boat, when suddenly the child ran out from the depths of the island and knelt in front of Ren Siqi and kowtowed.
After the translator, it turned out that the child's uncle was seriously ill, and the child asked Ren Siqi and others to save his uncle.
There was still a period of time before the "Flying Fish" was repaired, Ren Siqi decided to go and see what was going on, so that someone could get some spare medicine from the ship, and let everyone else return to the ship.
The island is not large, in the middle is a mountain range of more than 200 meters, at the foot of the mountain range is covered with dense jungle, such islands can be seen everywhere, because there is no flat land can not be cultivated, so there is no one to live.
After walking about a mile down the jungle, a tall locust tree appeared in front of me, this locust tree was so tall that it took a dozen people to hold hands to circle it. The tall trees are naturally unsuitable for the growth of other trees, so a small clearing is formed, and only low grass grows in the clearing.
The Japanese child walked to the big locust tree, opened a vine, and revealed a hole behind the vine, the child smiled slightly at Ren Siqi and the others who followed, and flexibly drilled into the hole.