After bidding farewell to the entire large army, only four people remained, but two of the spies were naturally unable to communicate with the two scholars who stayed at the moment, so they made an excuse and slipped away.

Little did they know, though, that there were two other people waiting for them to slip away, and these two were the two missing from the group that they hadn't noticed before.

……

When the large group had waved goodbye to those who had chosen to leave, they continued their journey, and about an hour after they had left the town, horses approached them from the rear of the procession.

As the horses approached the group, they slowed down, and then entered the group, approaching the camel at the head of the group. Riding horses were two Tang people, and these two Tang people were the two people who had disappeared from the previous ranks.

When they had brought their horses close to the camel at the head of the procession, one of them spoke, "My lord, the matter is done." ”

Zhao Weiji looked at them and said, "It's good to be done, you guys have worked hard." ”

After finishing speaking, Zhao Weiji's gaze returned to the front and looked into the distance.

At the same time, two bodies were found in the previous town, both of which were caused by a hole in the head.

Moreover, all the belongings on the corpses were missing, and since the town has always been unsafe, the two men were killed as if they had been robbed by robbers without arousing any suspicion.

……

On the third day after solving all the problems, Zhao Weiji and his party finally arrived at Khomeini Port, where Zhao Weiji and others had a round with the crew who had been waiting here for a long time to meet them.

However, after the turn of the crew, Zhao Weiji got a not very good news from the crew, that is, in the past five days, there have been frequent warships in the Persian Gulf, but their purpose is not to fight pirates, just to keep cruising on the sea every day, as if waiting for something.

After getting this news, Zhao Weiji can be sure that the news of their group of people has been fully leaked, and it is possible that these ships cruising at sea do not belong to a single force now, and it is very likely that several forces have arranged blockades at sea now.

And not only that, but in order to make sure that his group of people boarded the ship, there should be a large number of spies in the port of Khomeini now.

This made Zhao Weiji fall into a huge difficulty at once, and just when this difficult situation was difficult to solve quickly, the crew members who came to answer gave even worse news.

That is, the ship that came to meet was an ordinary wooden ship, and the Black Pearl did not sail over at this moment because it was too ostentatious, but stopped outside the Persian Gulf to respond.

If the Black Pearl is coming, then Zhao Weiji can directly fight out of the encirclement with strong force, and it will not be a problem to raze the town casually.

But now he only has a ship belonging to this era that can be used, and that ship is still a merchant ship, although Zhao Weiji and they have made some modifications to the ship after buying it, adding several pairs of spinnakers and a mortar. But that's about it.

It is still possible for such a modification to deal with one warship, and if several ships come together, there is basically no hope.

Fortunately, according to the news brought by the crew, there may be more than one force blocking the sea now, which gives Zhao Weiji a chance to live, that is, they may fight first.

But the ideal is plump, and the reality is always skinny.

What Zhao Weiji didn't expect was that when they went to sea, the group of warships that were eyeing each other privately made an agreement, that is, to work together to capture the ships on Zhao Weiji's side, and then divide all the things on it equally, gold, books and people.

It was only half a day after Zhao Weiji's ship left Khomeini Port, and Wang Dayuan, who had rich experience at sea, felt that something was wrong.

So he hurriedly ran over to find Zhao Weiji: "Lord, I feel that something is wrong, the sea is too calm today, it stands to reason that Khomeini Port should be a busy port, but why only those who came in today, and those who did not go out." It's been half a day since we left the port, and we haven't seen a second ship that left the port like us. ”

As soon as Wang Dayuan said this, Zhao Weiji also felt that something was wrong, and when the ship was about to leave the port earlier, the crew members on the other ships were looking at this side with a strange look, that kind of look was like looking at death.

The reason for this is that many Han Chinese ships have been directly attacked by those warships that cross the Persian Gulf every day after going to sea.

After the number of incidents increased, the news naturally spread back to the port of Khomeini, which caused the merchant ships in the port to dare not leave the port for the time being in recent days.

But Zhao Weiji didn't know about these news, firstly, they were outsiders, and no one would make a special trip to tell them, and secondly, because most of the people who knew Arabic were taken away by Zhao Weiji, few of the remaining people would, which led to them not thinking about it at all.

Due to the lack of information, Zhao Weiji and Wang Dayuan are completely confused about the situation now, but they know that there is danger waiting for them in front of them.

"Huanzhang, tell me honestly, how fast can this ship run after it is transformed?"

Wang Dayuan thought for a while and said: "To be honest, due to the limited transformation of our family, we do not have sufficient manpower and powerlessness like in Huating at the beginning, so although this ship is equipped with a spinnaker now, it is not much faster than the ships of these Great Food Countries when it is full sails."

The only advantage we have is that if they can't reach full sail, we can continue at a relatively good speed, while they slow down considerably. ”

"So what do you mean, we can only pray for windless weather?"

"That's basically true."

This made Zhao Weiji feel extremely disobedient, and he actually went to sea to pray for no wind in the sail era, and it is estimated that any other ship would not dare to believe it.

But if you don't believe it, you don't believe it, and now you really have to pray like this.

It's just that maybe it was too smooth before, God decided to balance Zhao Weiji's luck, and the sea breeze was quite good all day after going to sea, in Wang Dayuan's words, there was no better time to go to sea than this weather.

God is so faceless, so Zhao Weiji's side has to come up with other ways to try to pass the blockade.

But for now, in addition to the guns in their hands, the weapon that can be used in naval battles is the mortar that was brought from the Black Pearl.

Although there is a mortar, there is only one, and there is not too much ammunition, so it is really unrealistic to rely on this to directly kill a bloody way.

Fortunately, it is only the end of the tenth century, and naval battles can basically rely on broadside battles to get the opponent, which gives Zhao Weiji, who has a musket, a glimmer of life.

If it was the seventeenth century, Zhao Weiji wouldn't dare to imagine how miserable his side would have died.

Before he could come up with any solutions, the enemy did not give him much more time, and the information he received from the sailors on the lookout was that many ships were seen forming an interception zone ahead, and that two of them had already begun to move in the direction of their own ship.

"Huanzhang, what now?"

"No way, Lord Wang, we can only continue to sail forward as planned, because we have no way to confirm whether those ships will attack us now, so we can't take the lead before we deal with it, otherwise we will give the other party a better mouth."

Since there is no way to take the lead, Zhao Weiji can only continue to sail in a posture of sitting and waiting for death, but he himself does not plan to just do it.

So he ordered all the scholars to be brought back to their cabins to hide, and the sailors to have their guns ready for battle. Mortars are also prepared, once the other side is close to try to attack, then their own side will give them a shot first.

As he spoke, the two ships approaching the ship were getting closer and closer, and when the distance between the three ships reached a certain value, he saw the sailors on the two ships begin to throw hooks and locks at him, and completely fixed the three ships together.

However, Zhao Weiji, who had been prepared, was waiting for this time, so he immediately ordered the mortar to fire.

Since the enemy ship had already fixed itself, there was no possibility that the mortar would miss, and a single shot blew a large hole in the deck of one of the ships.

This earth-shattering blow made the crews of both enemy ships stunned, unable to figure out what was happening.

Just when they were stunned, Zhao Weiji's second order followed, and all their sailors began to shoot one after another.

The crew members who were preparing to board the ship were immediately shot to death.

These two sudden blows immediately hit the morale of the crews of the two ships on the other side, and some of the crew members actually remembered the legend of the devil's ship at this moment, so they immediately shouted: "That's the devil's ship, the devil's ship, they are very legendary, they use magic to kill." ”

As soon as these words came out, the people on the other two ships were completely panicked, and no one dared to make a move.

At this time, Zhao Weiji seized the time, he let the mortar fire at the ship that had not been attacked before, and then asked the sailors to cut all the hooks.

After the hook and lock were cut, their ship was relieved, so they immediately sailed with full sails, freeing themselves from the attack of these two ships.

However, the flanking attack of these two ships was freed, but there were more ships waiting for them in front, and when the captains of the two ships reacted, they also ordered the ships to turn around and pursue immediately, so Zhao Weiji and their ships fell into the encirclement.