As the sky grew brighter, the Izumo, who had been waiting for the ship to return at anchor in the original ground, waited until the three poles were on the day, and did not wait for the return of the Ichihan, and after the storm, a round of scorching sun jumped out of the water level, and thousands of rays of light were reflected on the Izumo, illuminating the ship in a golden patch. The waterfowl that flew from there stopped on the top of the bare mast and looked curiously at the sailors who were watching in Diao Dou.

Zheng Zhiyuan's face was extremely ugly, everything could be predicted, everything could be guarded against, but God couldn't estimate that a sudden storm would make all the plans of the sailor advance team come to naught.

"What should I do, big brother?" Zheng Zhiqiang walked to the eldest brother's side, looked at the eldest brother who gritted his teeth and couldn't stop cursing the weather, and asked in a low voice.

Hearing Zheng Zhiqiang's words, Zheng Zhiyuan suddenly realized that he was not in the Fuzhou Naval Division, no matter what happened, he was supported by General Deng Peng, and now, he is the backbone of this fleet, if he shows a depressed look, I am afraid that it will spread to all the officers and soldiers on the entire Izumo.

"What to do?" Zheng Zhiyuan suddenly smiled, but Zheng Zhiqiang was startled, and his heart said Could it be that the eldest brother was hit by this, and his mind was a little abnormal, how could he still laugh at this time.

"Are you alright? Eldest brother? Zheng Zhiqiang asked cautiously.

"What can I do?" Zheng Zhiyuan stretched out his hand and knocked him with a violent shudder, and said: "What is there to worry about, although the fleet is lost, but with their water skills, how can it not capsize in the sea, it is just temporarily separated, we slowly move forward, exploring the way as we go, while waiting for them, maybe we haven't gone far yet, we can meet them, or find them." ”

Seeing that the eldest brother was in a normal state and analyzed things in an orderly manner, Zheng Zhiqiang put his mind at ease and nodded: "Yes." ”

"All the soldiers are in place, and the Izumo sets sail." Zheng Zhiyuan beat his spirit and gave orders. Looking at the blue sea, Zheng Zhiyuan felt a worry in his heart, if these ships have not been overturned by the wind and waves, then according to the direction of yesterday's storm, these ships will only be blown deeper into the sea, and I am most afraid that some of these ships will capsize, then with the ocean current, there will definitely be ship wreckage and soldier corpses flowing to the coast, once these wrecks are found in the south, Dingzhou's strategic intention to support the Zeng clan around the sea route will be completely exposed.

"God forbid!" Back in the command room, Zheng Zhiyuan clasped his hands together and prayed sincerely to God who was still scolding just now.

Although the hundreds of soldiers on the ship were infected by Zheng Zhiyuan, their mood improved, but the disappearance of thousands of comrades-in-arms and several warships still cast a shadow on the hearts of the soldiers.

The Izumo slowly moved forward in a suppressed mood, and the soldiers on top of the battle opened their eyes wide to see a few sail shadows where the water and sky met, but until noon, they were still disappointed. Except for water, there is still water.

It was time to start the meal, the cook had made the meal and sent it to the deck, but no one was in the mood to eat, Zheng Zhiyuan came out of the command room, took a pair of dishes and chopsticks, walked to the cook, asked the cook to scoop a bowl for himself, took a big gulp, and said vaguely while picking: "Eat, eat, brothers, how can you have the strength to hurry without eating, how to have the strength to go to your comrades, eat, come and eat." ”

Zheng Zhiqiang was the first to walk up, followed by the marines lined up and walked up in turn.

Although it was difficult to swallow, the soldiers still desperately stuffed it into their mouths, and the general was right when he said that only when he had eaten enough could he have the strength to go to the brothers.

"Boat, I see the boat."

Above Diao Dou, the soldier who was watching suddenly shouted in surprise, and where the water and sky meet, several sail shadows appeared in his field of vision, about two of them, looking at the size of the ship, it was probably the two ships of three thousand materials that were lost.

Hearing the shouts of surprise from the soldiers, the soldiers cheered, threw away the rice bowls in their hands, and threw themselves on the deck, and sure enough, several black dots appeared in the field of vision.

"It must be them, there shouldn't be any other ships in such depths of the Black Ocean." Zheng Zhiqiang said excitedly, Zheng Zhiyuan nodded, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and took the rice into his mouth one by one, this calmness made Zheng Zhiqiang admire.

"No, not our people!" Above the fight, the soldier shouted again.

Zheng Zhiyuan's heart sank, his hands shook, and he almost dropped his rice bowl on the deck. Raising his head suddenly, he shouted, "Who is it, do you see it clearly?" ”

"It's a pirate, a pirate!" The soldier shouted.

Zheng Zhiyuan, who was sitting on the deck, jumped up, threw away the rice bowl in his hand, and shouted: "Prepare to fight!" ”

The soldiers quickly threw away the rice bowls in their hands, several cooks quickly cleaned up, raised their eyes and glanced at the Izumo, Zheng Zhiyuan's face suddenly showed a smile, the deck of the Izumo was covered with rain cloths, and the whole ship looked like a merchant ship, at this time, the two pirate ships were clearly visible, it seemed that the other party had misunderstood that this was a merchant ship, and was ready to come up and rob it. Perhaps these pirates had robbed ships of this kind and sailed towards them with fear.

It is true that the sailors of the ordinary officers and soldiers will not come out to patrol in a single boat, and they have penetrated so far into the black water and ocean, and only smuggling ships will go around so far in order to avoid the blows of the officers and men of the sailors.

"Spare you like a ghost, and eat my footwash water today." Zheng Zhiyuan sneered, stretched out his hand to summon a few officers, and commanded in a low voice.

Several officers had smiles on their faces, nodded knowingly, and hurriedly went their separate ways to make arrangements.

In the distance, the two pirate ships with a black eagle are entrenched in the black water ocean of a bandit named Lianshan Island, the scale is not large, only two ships of three thousand materials, not far from here, only one or two hundred miles of waterway, but now it is a nest out, I don't want to have an unexpected joy, I actually found a smuggling ship.

The leader of this gang of pirates was called Black Hawk, named after the man who kept a Black Hawk, and today the ship was found to be thanks to this well-trained Black Hawk. Looking at the building ship that is getting closer and closer to his own ship, the corners of Black Eagle's mouth can't help but show a hideous smile, since being driven into the depths of the Black Water Ocean by the Southern Sailors, he is very sad, he can only go to sea secretly occasionally, lucky, he can meet a few merchant ships, if he is unlucky, he has to go hungry, no more than those very large pirate gangs, he can go to the other side of the Black Water Ocean, while doing business, while doing business, doing business without capital, he is saying that he has a good time, but they can only eat bran vegetables, This pirate is really angry, too.

"Brothers, do you see, the boat on the other side is piled up like a mountain of things, this time it's all going to be cheap for us, we're going to send it." Black Hawk laughed.

A group of pirates were all excited, they hadn't opened meat for a long time, and today they could finally make a big profit, and seeing that the ship was huge, and the deck was piled up like a mountain of supplies, they were all licking their lips, roaring and screaming on the ship, adjusting the sails, and aiming at the Izumo and sailing straight for it. By this time, they had seen that on the opposite ship, there were quite a few merchant-looking people running around in panic, as if they were opening their mouths to shout something.

"Fat sheep, grandpa is here!" Black Hawk laughed, brandished his steel knife, and roared, "Attack, attack!" Nearboard attack. "Two pirate ships, one on the left and one on the right, headed for the port side of the Izumo.

In the command room, Zheng Zhiyuan sneered on his face, under the covered rain cloth, several hundred-shot crossbows and eight-bull crossbows were arranged on both sides, and on the building ship, the members of the Marine Corps opened their bows and were preparing to attack the battlements.

"Come, come, let you taste what it means to rain arrows." Zheng Zhiyuan's heart blossomed, the Izumo was separated from other ships, and even logistics and supplies became a problem, and it was rare that someone sent a pillow when he was sleeping, since these pirates came here, it means that the place where they are entrenched is not far from here, and he just went to the bandits' den to replenish, "Rob Lao Tzu, I don't know who robbed whom?" ”

There were about three hundred pirates on each of the two pirate ships, and at this time, except for the necessary men who were on the boat, the rest of the pirates were crowded on the side of the ship with spears, axes, hook guns, and broadswords, and whistled while looking at the desperate merchants on the roof of the ship.

Several powerful pirates danced in circles with the iron anchor in their hands, saw the opportunity, shouted, and swung out violently, several black shadows crossed the gap between the two ships, and landed on the deck on this side with a sonorous sound, the iron chain between the iron anchors was quickly tightened, and the two ships were connected together, the pirates roared, and just waited for the two ships to meet the side, then climbed onto the big ship opposite, and plundered it on a large scale, the Izumo was much taller than the other ship's ships, and the pirates were crowded on the side of the second ship, just waiting for the two ships to meet, and they were going to jump over and feast.

With a bang, the ship on the left collided first, with a loud bang, the two ships crowded together, the Izumo slammed to the right, and it happened that the pirate ship on the right also squeezed over, and the Izumo was suddenly caught in the middle, and the hull shook violently, Zheng Zhiyuan grabbed the boat gang tightly, and knocked on the opposite side intently, seeing that the time had come, he shouted: "Do it!" ”

The covered rain cloth was suddenly lifted, showing in front of the pirates a hundred rounds of crossbows, before the pirates reflected, a buzzing sound, a black arrow rain overwhelmed the sky, for a while, in front of the pirates' eyes in addition to crossbow arrows, or crossbow arrows.

On the pirate ship, the black eagle's beak, which was about to roar and rob, was wide enough to fit into the mouth of an egg without making a sound, because he was completely shocked. He saw with his own eyes the strange weapons of the fat sheep boat on the opposite side, and with a single volley, the brothers huddled on the side of the boat fell down in unison like leeks.

(To be continued)