Chapter 149: The Long Way Home
The journey home was long, but after Zhao Weiji experienced so many things in Arabia, his longing for home began to grow exponentially.
At this moment, he was no longer annoyed that his children had sneaked into the boat at the beginning, because when the children ran in front of him, his longing for home could be eased a little.
However, what he didn't expect was that this trip made the two children grow rapidly, but this kind of growth seemed to Zhao Weiji to have a kind of talent tree point difference.
His eldest daughter Zhao Ling'er, after this trip because of the battle against the Vikings, seems to have discovered a talent for war, originally named her Zhao Ling'er in addition to commemorating the first goddess of childhood, but also hoped that she could grow into a gentle and virtuous woman like Zhao Ling'er.
But at this time, how did this little girl start to look a little like Lin Yueru? It's all day long.,The personality is also very straightforward.,Cheerful.。 Worst of all, this little girl is now showing an amazing talent for war, which is probably the least suitable human activity for women.
If Li Jiguang has an amazing talent for grasping the details of the entire war and the battlefield, as well as finding the flaws in the opponent's formation.
This little girl's grasp of the macro aspects of the entire battle situation has reached an extremely terrifying level, if her talent is carefully cultivated and developed, it is not impossible for her to command the three armies over time.
No, just when Zhao Weiji was still thinking about this, Xiao Nizi came over.
"Dad, I went back and thought about it again, you still made a fatal mistake in the final choice in the naval battle that day, if it weren't for our Black Pearl being strong enough, we would have died."
For seven days after the battle, every day Zhao Ling'er had to come to his father to review the battle, and then point out the shortcomings of his father's command, although Zhao Weiji used sophistry to refute his daughter's duties two days ago, but Zhao Weiji also found that his daughter's responsibilities became more and more relevant as time progressed.
"Oh, what did you discover this time?" Seeing his daughter's arrival again, Zhao Weiji, who had become accustomed to it, picked up his daughter and asked.
"I went back and thought about it, at the end of that battle, the ship that successfully attracted our attention came over and tried to attract our attention, so we shouldn't have paid attention to him, why did Dad command the Black Pearl to turn around and target him?"
In fact, winning the last battle of the Black Pearl is really very thrilling, as Zhao Ling'er said before, if it weren't for the steel armor on the outside of the Black Pearl that made the hull very strong, that battle would really be possible for the other party to complete the great cause of the same end.
When the Black Pearl's entire attention was drawn to the feint ship, the ship of the commander of the opposite fleet came from the flanks and rear.
While all the crew on the Black Pearl were still thinking about how to deal with the feint ship, the Commander's ship was already rushing towards the Black Pearl at a very fast speed.
At this time, Zhao Weiji didn't notice this incident at all, and he was still adjusting the angle of the hull, hoping to make all the guns on one side be able to enter the firing angle.
However, it was not that everyone did not notice the attack of the suicidal flagship, and there was one person on the whole ship who noticed the ship, and that person was Zhao Ling'er, who had been staying in the lookout on the top of the mast.
After the start of this naval battle, Zhao Ling'er and his younger brother Zhao Teng still stayed in the lookout at the top of a mast as before, and then used binoculars to observe the entire battle situation.
When the feint ship was dispatched, Zhao Ling'er was the only one in the crew who ignored the ship, and she kept an eye on the flagship's movements.
And because of her action, she was able to realize that the flagship had crashed into it at full speed.
"Dad, turn around and look in the direction behind you." Zhao Ling'er, who found that the flagship had rushed over quickly, immediately reminded his father.
Although Zhao Weiji's attention was still on the hull of the feint at this time, he was not completely unable to hear other sounds, and after his daughter's reminder entered his mind, he subconsciously pretended to look in the direction pointed by his daughter's words.
After seeing this, Zhao Weiji was immediately startled, and the ship that had been hoping to ram the Black Pearl with a lifeless attitude came over again.
And this time it has a good chance of succeeding, because it is very close to the Black Pearl at the moment, and the Black Pearl does not have enough time to dodge.
However, Zhao Weiji, who didn't want to sit still, still ordered to dodge the upcoming impact with all his might.
Perhaps because of her daughter's timely reminder, the Black Pearl still moved a little distance after Zhao Weiji's order, although it still did not completely avoid the impact in the end, but it avoided the center of the hull, so that the Black Pearl was only hit by the enemy ship on the stern.
After a loud pop, the stern of the Black Pearl made close contact with the enemy ship, and the impact caused a huge force that everyone on the ship could not stand still and fell to the ground.
When the impact was over, everyone immediately stood up and rushed to the stern of the boat.
And everyone on the enemy ship was also unable to stand firm because of the impact force, and because the tonnage of the enemy ship was much lighter than that of the Black Pearl, the shaking of the enemy ship was even more violent, and many people were even thrown off the ship and into the sea.
However, those who were fortunate enough not to be thrown off the boat did not have the strength to pay attention to the partners who fell into the sea after they got up, and they all rushed to the bow of the ship as soon as possible. Because they wanted to see the Black Pearl sink with their own eyes.
It's just that after the two sides arrived at the bow and stern of their ships respectively, they showed two completely incomprehensible states because of the situation in front of them.
After Zhao Weiji's people saw the result of the collision, they all shouted that they were lucky, because the stern of the Black Pearl was only slightly deformed, but the hull wrapped in steel plates was not damaged.
But the people on the other side were in despair, for they saw that their bow had been smashed to pieces, and the sea water began to pour into the cabin from the broken bow. The ship on the other side was just stern and deformed, and nothing else.
This made all the crew members of the enemy ship completely despair, could they not have sunk this devil ship anyway.
However, at this moment, the commander suddenly reacted to something, and he loudly ordered all the crew to immediately prepare for battle, jump on the devil's ship through the place where the two ships collided, and take the devil's ship down.
I have to say that this commander's reaction at the moment is still very fast, he reacted keenly, since I can't sink you, I can take your ship down, now because the two ships collided, the hull has been connected together, and it is completely ready to board the ship.
It's just that although his idea is very good, when he gave the order, the people on Zhao Weiji's side also heard his order, and those who could understand Arabic immediately translated his order.
After everyone understood his order, the sailors on Zhao Weiji's side all took out the rifles that had been loaded on their backs and shot at the opposing crew.
The crew members who had just seen a glimmer of hope in their despair, drew their scimitars and prepared to fight for that glimmer of hope, were dead and wounded in an instant.
The commander, who saw that his men were killed by their opponents at a distance in a short period of time, could not have done better.
At this moment, he completely lost all fighting spirit, and sat down on the deck in a dejected manner.
After the crew of the Black Pearl shot all the enemies who tried to board the ship and seize it, the other party's ship began to sink because of too much water entering the ship.
After seeing that the opponent's ship had begun to sink, Zhao Weiji did not order the crew to continue shooting at the enemies who had narrowly escaped during the shooting just now.
When the men saw that the ship was beginning to sink, they all jumped into the sea, and then swam quickly to the periphery, but the commander, not including the commander, still sat there as if he were going to die with the ship.
However, at this time, Zhao Weiji didn't have the heart to care so much, because the battle was not over yet, and there was still the last enemy ship waiting there.
Since the enemy ship was trying to block the Black Pearl's retreat, it went farther away, and the ship without the telescope didn't notice what was happening here.
At this time, the Black Pearl, which had left the battlefield here, drove at full speed towards the last enemy ship, which thought that their flagship had succeeded, and was about to go back to see if it could save some of the ships that survived the overboard, but they did not expect the Black Pearl to appear in front of their eyes.
Then, as soon as their ship came into range of the Black Pearl, it came under the heaviest artillery fire, and the entire ship was completely shattered.
In this way, the naval battle finally ended in the thrilling victory of the Black Pearl, but as Zhao Linger said, his father still made a lot of mistakes in this battle.
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When Zhao Weiji's thoughts returned to reality from the battle, he had already been pulled by his daughter's ears because he was dissatisfied with his distraction.
"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, you can't take it lightly."
"Who told you to get distracted, Dad, did you listen to what I said?" After seeing Zhao Weiji's thoughts come back, Zhao Linger let go of his father's ears.
"Listening, listening." Zhao Weiji rubbed his ears and said, "Say, if we ignore the feint ship at that time, what should we do at that time?" ”
"Well." Zhao Ling'er began to prepare to say her opinion.
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