When the ship stood out from the two enemy ships, Zhao Weiji knew that there was still a defensive chain waiting for them in front, and once the two ships behind reacted, they would immediately turn around and chase back, and the ship would immediately fall into encirclement.

Not only Zhao Weiji knows this situation, but even Wang Dayuan, who is mainly at the helm, also knows this situation, although Wang Dayuan has a lot of sailing experience, but he has never experienced this situation of a single ship against a group of ships, so now he is at the helm and doesn't know how to do it.

"Lord Wang?" Wang Dayuan, who was already completely panicked, could only look at Zhao Weiji with a pleading look now.

At this time, Zhao Weiji was also in endless entanglement, and he didn't know what to do, but at this time, a gust of wind suddenly blew on his face, and this gust of wind made Zhao Weiji suddenly think of something.

"Huanzhang, what's the wind direction now?" Zhao Weiji, who felt that he had thought of something, immediately opened his mouth and asked Wang Dayuan.

Wang Dayuan, who heard Zhao Weiji's question, felt a little inexplicable, and now asking the wind direction didn't seem to help the current situation, but Wang Dayuan still honestly observed the wind direction and then told Zhao Weiji.

"Lord Wang, the current wind direction is downwind, which is consistent with the direction we are moving forward."

After hearing this answer, Zhao Weiji immediately came up with a solution, and he immediately issued an order to Wang Dayuan, that is, to turn the ship to the right, and then sail at full speed at ninety degrees from the current course.

Although I don't understand why Zhao Weiji wants to give such an order, but there is no better way anyway, it is better to use a dead horse as a live horse doctor, Wang Dayuan obeyed Zhao Weiji's order, and turned the entire right rudder of the boat so that the hull of the ship turned sideways, and began to sail to the right.

When Zhao Weiji's ship began to sail to the right, the intercepted ships also began to turn around and prepare for pursuit, but because they were passively turning the direction, and in order to form an interception chain before, the distance between the ships was not too far, and the distance between the ships between them at this moment was completely unable to allow the ships to turn directly.

In this way, the adjustment and steering delayed a lot of time, which allowed Zhao Weiji's ship to have enough distance to escape.

Although there is an escape distance, because it is a fjord, it is impossible to really escape the danger by sailing laterally.

However, at this time, Wang Dayuan was surprised to find that although the lateral navigation could not really get out of danger, the distance between his ship and the blocking ship was getting bigger and bigger.

Seeing this situation, Wang Dayuan finally knew Zhao Weiji's intention to ask the wind direction before, just like Wang Dayuan himself said before, this slightly modified ship, although it has no speed advantage compared with the surrounding sea ships in the case of full sail downwind, but if it is a crosswind or headwind, the advantages of this ship can be brought into play.

The lateral movement of the ship is to turn the downwind into a crosswind, and if the opponent ignores it, your ship can easily bypass the defensive line.

After all, the Persian Gulf is very wide, and no matter how capable you are, you can't form a shipping route that can cut off the entire Persian Gulf.

And if the opponent turns and pursues, he will also fall into a crosswind situation, so that the speed advantage of his ship can be brought into play.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the side that gave full play to the speed advantage and threw the opponent out of the visible range.

At this time, Zhao Weiji's last order was also issued, that is, to turn the ship back to the right direction and get out of the battle circle at full speed.

The reason why Zhao Weiji was able to think of this method to break away was that in addition to Wang Dayuan's previous introduction to the speed characteristics of the boat, he also thought of a sport, that is, football.

In football, when the attacking side is facing the opponent's defense line that cannot break through head-on with accurate positioning, it will often transfer the ball to the wings on a large scale and use the width of the field to pull the opponent's defense line to move left and right, hoping that the opponent's defense line will be deformed in the process of moving, resulting in flaws.

And now on the sea, this width is much wider than a small football field, not only is it much wider, but Zhao Weiji does not have the need to get the ball into the goal, as long as he can break through this line of defense.

In this way, it is completely possible to take advantage of the ship's speed advantage in crosswinds to bypass that direction in one fell swoop.

It's just that although he bypassed the direction and successfully escaped, Zhao Weiji and the others felt very aggrieved, and everyone now only had one thought in their hearts, if Lao Tzu was on the Black Pearl, would you dare to be so arrogant.

Fortunately, when they left the Persian Gulf, they found that the Black Pearl had stopped not far from the mouth of the bay.

"Lord Wang, just in case, we first drove the Black Pearl to the mouth of the bay and stopped, for fear that if something happens, we can respond to it." After seeing the Black Pearl, the crew who came to pick it up explained to Zhao Weiji.

After listening to his explanation, Zhao Weiji patted him on the shoulder happily and said, "Good job." ”

Then he asked the crew in charge of the lookout, "Are those people still pursuing?" ”

The reason for asking this is because the other party is not a fool, when they found that Zhao Weiji's ship was out of the range visible to the naked eye when they sailed horizontally, the president of this team immediately reacted to what Zhao Weiji was calculating, so he immediately ordered the entire fleet to turn the sailing direction to face the bay mouth and use the wind to pursue at full speed.

And Zhao Weiji, who couldn't give full play to the speed advantage in the tailwind situation, was quickly bitten by the other party, although there was no danger, but he couldn't completely get rid of it in a short time, plus God has been very faceless in the past few days, and it has always been a tailwind, so he has been chased to the mouth of the bay.

After looking at the crew in charge of the lookout with a telescope, he replied to Zhao Weiji: "Back to the prince, they are still pursuing." ”

"That's good." After waiting for this news, Zhao Weiji secretly clenched his fists.

"Brothers, we have been chased for so long, are you aggrieved?"

After Zhao Weiji asked this sentence, he immediately got a unison answer: "Aggrieved." ”

"Want revenge?"

"Yes!!"

After waiting for an affirmative answer, Zhao Weiji was very satisfied with the current morale, so he began to give orders.

First, he ordered the crew to transfer all the scholars to the Black Pearl, and then left some of the crew to continue sailing on the merchant ship.

He planned to use this merchant ship as a decoy to lure those pursuing ships over, and then use the Black Pearl to annihilate them in one fell swoop.

When these preparations were done, the crew that remained on the merchant ship turned the bow of the ship around, and then rushed towards the pursuing ship at full speed.

At this time, the Black Pearl secretly followed behind the merchant ship.

When the speed of the merchant ship had increased, the crew of the merchant ship fixed the rudder and used all the escape boats to escape, and then returned to the Black Pearl behind.

At this time, the pursuing ship suddenly saw that the ship that was chasing closely before actually turned its bow and came back, and everyone did not think about whether there would be a fraud, but accelerated the speed of the ship to meet it.

However, it didn't take long for the crew to realize that something was wrong.

"Captain, the ship on the other side doesn't seem to slow down, it's been heading towards us, they don't plan to crash into the ship and die together, right?"

"No, it won't." The captain thought for a moment, "Even if we all die, we will only be able to hit one of our ships at most, and we still have so many ships, they won't be so stupid." ”

Although the captain was full of confidence, sometimes the reality was such an instant slap in the face, and the merchant ship showed no signs of slowing down at all, and rushed over directly, and one of the ships in the fleet could not dodge, and was directly hit by the merchant ship.

Fortunately, the merchant ship was not too fast because it was sailing against the wind, which caused a lot less damage, and the ship that was hit did not suffer enough damage to sink.

Seeing this, the crew of the ship that was hit jumped onto the merchant ship, hoping to find what they were looking for.

But things didn't go as they had imagined, and they didn't see anyone when they got on board, and they didn't find anything on board except some drinking water or food.

"Captain, the ship is empty, and there's no one on it."

After receiving the report of the crew's return, the captain began to send out thunder, dispatched so many ships, and pursued them for so many days, and now there was no way to find anything.

"Not a single one? Only food and water? So where did they go, could it be that they jumped into the sea with books and gold? ”

Although the captain had been in a state of irritation, the crew was also annoyed and aggrieved, but they did turn the merchant ship upside down, and still found only water and food.

Just when all the interceptors were in confusion, they didn't notice that the Black Pearl had quietly appeared above the sea level.

Just when the captain was about to ask all the crew to go to the sea to find the traces of Zhao Weiji and others, a crew member suddenly came and reported that a strange ship had appeared on the sea.

"It's strange, it's strange, whatever, let them go or it's over, let's go and look for us."

"No, Captain, that ship is clearly coming for us, and it's fast?"

"Fast? Wait for me to see."

Just as the captain returned to the deck of his flagship, ready to see what the strange ship looked like, he was greeted by a loud blast of cannonballs, and a barrage of shells coming at their ship.