Chapter 162: The Target Appears
After thinking about it for a while, Yu Xiaotian found that it was not as simple as he thought to come up with a set of such flags and lanterns, after all, this thing was built on Morse ciphers or letters, and it was definitely not easy to compile them easily, so he had to settle for the next best thing, first formulate a set of simple flags, follow the example of the officers and soldiers and peers at that time, and formulate some simple flags to convey information.
At the same time, lanterns are also temporarily used at night, with colors and numbers to represent different meanings, to temporarily meet the communication command at night, although the information carrying capacity is very small, but at least it is stronger than nothing.
For this matter, Yu Xiaotian's hair is about to fall out these days, and even Lan'er has been left out in the cold, and suddenly he remembered a few novels he had read, Pig's Feet is often either a historian or a supercomputer, and there seems to be no problem that cannot be solved, but why is it so difficult to do something for him?
After the Yellow Croaker came, it disguised itself as a fishing boat, and Yu Xiaotian still sent Luo Xianbin out of Lu to act as their sentry boat, monitoring the movement of passing ships near the fairway.
In this way, they waited here for two days, but the two boats of the Lei family still did not appear, which couldn't help but make the guys on the boat a little impatient.
Meng Madman saw that Yu Xiaotian was still on the boat and didn't have anything to do to write and paint, and he couldn't understand what he was doing, so after taking the soldiers to practice on the boat, he walked to Yu Xiaotian sweating profusely and said to Xiaotian: "Helmsman, you see we have all come here to hide for two days, but the Lei family's ship still doesn't even have a shadow, could it be that the news from the Li family is wrong?" We won't be left to wait in vain! ”
Yu Xiaotian closed the notepad in his hand, raised his head and looked at the sky, it was almost noon again, so he shook his head and said: "It stands to reason that the Li family should not have misinformation, they want to take revenge on the Lei family for a day or two, as the saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves, and the Lei family will definitely not be wrong when they will set off, but the Li family will not know when they will leave!"
So this kind of thing can't be rushed, let's wait and see! If you want to do something big, you can't do it without a little patience, this time we are bound to win, even if we wait a few more days, we will definitely take down the two boats of the Lei family!
Why is the Li family so good to us during this time? To put it bluntly, in their eyes, we are a dog raised by him, although this is very difficult to hear, but we have to admit that since they raise us like this, the picture is to let us do the dirty work for them when we are needed, biting!
Whether we admit it or not, this is an obvious thing, if we don't do it, with the ability of his Li family, we can find another family to support and abandon us like a shoe, but we really can't leave them at the moment! So we have to do some dirty work for them!
This is the first time that the Li family has entrusted us with something, if we can't do it, who will be willing to deal with us in the future? Tell the brothers below, calm down, what to do!
Let them sharpen their knives and guns for me, wipe their guns clean, and prepare all the gunpowder shells for me, and don't drop the chain for me when you need them! ”
Madman Meng nodded in agreement, and was about to turn around and walk away, when he turned around and asked Xiaotian: "Grandma, after listening to the rudder's words, my heart is really uncomfortable, but I can't help but admit that what you said is right!" Alas!
By the way, the helm handle just said that the chain is dropped, what does it mean to drop the chain? Why haven't I heard of it before? ”
When Yu Xiaotian heard this, he rolled his eyes, and then he remembered that there was no chain at this time, and the words of dropping the chain were also from the common saying of the Northeast people, and it was impossible for them to hear someone say it.
So he had to say: "This one is off the chain!" What's this...... The meaning of the place where I live is that when it is critical, it means that things cannot be done! You just know the way!
As for whether it is comfortable in the heart, it is naturally nothing if you figure it out! They are using us, why are we not using them? Now we can't do without them, but in the future, when we get bigger, I'm afraid they can't do without us! At that time, their Li family will become our dog, which is also called the store bullying customers, and the customers bullying the store! Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, not to mention that if we do a good job, it won't take thirty years at all!
All right, go down and do as I say. ”
Meng Maniac scratched his ass and turned his head as he walked, muttering: "Drop the chain, this is interesting, you all told Lao Tzu, the helm said, don't worry, what should you do honestly, prepare all the guys in your hands for Lao Tzu, don't drop the chain when the fuck is used......"
Another hour passed, and the sea outside the cape was still silent, and there was still no movement on Luo Xianbin's side.
So Yu Xiaotian sent a subordinate to go ashore to take a look nearby, replace the secret post set up nearby, and continue to monitor the movements around the shore, although there are not many people in this area, but he doesn't want the local government to know that he is here with two boats, and the province did not intercept the Lei family's boat, but recruited the officials and soldiers, then it is a big joke!
Just when the people on the boat were bored and looking for a place to sit down and rest on the boat according to the schedule set by Yu Xiaotian, two cannons suddenly sounded on the sea.
After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian immediately perked up and shouted: "All of them!" Lift anchor and hoist the sails! It's time to get to work! ”
When the people on both boats heard the sound, they all immediately became excited, and they all jumped up and ran to their respective positions as if they had springs under their buttocks.
The iron anchor was pulled out of the water by the docket's hand, and the sails were slowly lifted by the winch under the operation of the guards.
Both boats soon began to move, and began to slowly move towards the outer cape.
The helmsman kept pulling the rudder, and Hu Cheng, who was the leader of the boat, also shouted loudly to order his subordinates to adjust the sail angle, so that the sail began to eat the wind and push the ship to accelerate.
The two cannons just now were actually two big thunderbolts set off by Luo Xianbin of the Yellow Croaker outside, and the two firecrackers were tied to the arrows, and after being lit, they were launched into the air with a bow, and then exploded in the air, so that the sound could be transmitted farther.
The Yellow Croaker has been staying near the channel for the past two or three days, pretending to be fishing, monitoring the passing ships, looking for traces of the two boats of the Lei family.
This can not alarm the passing ships, so as not to attract the attention of others, and at the same time, they can also avoid their peers, once they find that the Lei family's ship has appeared, they will immediately use this method to report to Yu Xiaotian, who is hiding on the inner side of the cape.
Now that Luo Xianbin has sent a signal, it means that they have found the target, and immediately released an arrow to notify Yu Xiaotian.
Yu Xiaotian didn't dare to slack off, and immediately rushed out of the cape with the boat and headed towards the sea where the arrow rose.
The seal was handed over to Meng Maniac for temporary leadership, and he led his men to follow closely behind the Seawolf with the seal, and Shang Dou was even more energetic, looking at the sea with his eyes, searching for all suspicious targets on the sea.
Soon they saw the Yellow Croaker on the sea, and at the bow of the Yellow Fish, a man waved an orange flag, constantly pointing the small flag in one direction.
So the Seawolf and the Seal immediately adjusted their course and headed in the direction of the Yellow Fish, and soon saw two sea boats in the distance on the sea.
The people on the boat who had good vision gradually could see that these two boats were the same as the situation provided to them by the Li family, they were a lucky boat and a rushing boat, and the mainmast sail had a thunder word written on it.
In this way, it will not be wrong, these two ships are the two merchant ships of the Lei family that the Li family asked them to rob, so Yu Xiaotian immediately ordered the helmsman to turn the rudder and go straight to the two Lei family's ships.
The two Lei family's boats had also raised their vigilance after hearing two arrows on the sea, and after seeing the two boats of the Seawolf and the Seal appear on the sea, they realized that something was going on!
So the two Lei family's boats maintained a high degree of tension at this time, raised their full sails, began to adjust their sails to eat enough wind, and turned the rudder to try to get rid of Yu Xiaotian's two boats.
Although this would not be of much help, the Yellow Croaker raised its sails as much as possible, and stayed far behind the Seawolf, hoping to catch up with the operation.
Yu Xiaotian grinned, looking at the two Lei family's boats in front of him were about to flow down, he was now wanting two such good boats, and he couldn't let them run away today.
"Brothers, cheer up, hands, it's up to you to do what you do, don't be so happy, I think you're amazing, if you have the ability, take it out now, Hu Cheng! Hurry up for me, eat enough wind to speed up and catch up with them! Yu Xiaotian shouted loudly.
"Obey the helm! Rest assured! Can't run away from them! Hu Cheng immediately agreed loudly, now Hu Cheng has completely followed Yu Xiaotian to do it, a year ago, the Li family found his family in Fu'an County, and brought their family to Dalian Island, and was taken to Treasure Island during the Chinese New Year, and reunited with his family.
So Hu Cheng has nothing to worry about at the moment, so he has to do this business honestly, he is a good hand, and he has practiced the skills of the ship in the past six months, and the ability to serve the sails has improved by leaps and bounds, and the level of watching the wind and adjusting the sails can be said to be perfect.
And he also brought out more than a dozen sail masters, and now the hands on the two boats are not bad, plus the two boats are now in a state of light load, and they have just cleaned the bottom of the boat, and the speed of the boat is much faster than before.
Therefore, it was not a problem for them to chase the two merchant ships that were in a fully loaded state at sea, and it only took less than half an hour for their two ships to basically catch up with the two Lei family's ships.
The people on the two boats of the Lei family also knew that Lu Dao couldn't run away today, so they tentatively shouted, trying to negotiate with Yu Xiaotian and them to spend a little money to buy a road, Yu Xiaotian ordered both boats to raise the sea wolf flag, and copied the loudspeaker and shouted loudly to make the two boats of the Lei family set sail and stop the ship, not accepting their negotiations.
The people on the two Lei family ships saw that negotiation was impossible, and the two sea wolf ships had already made it clear that they wanted to eat them, so the two ships gave up the negotiation and continued to turn the sails and turn the rudder and fled.
Yu Xiaotian also stopped dabbling with them, and ordered the Seawolf and the Seal to first focus on the medium-sized lucky ship that was running fast in front, and then control it before the other one.
After Meng Madman got the order, he immediately drove the boat to the left and outflanked it, and the Seawolf attacked the lucky ship left and right.
At this time, as the distance narrowed, the people on the Lei family ship were also ready to resist, and when the distance was shortened to about 100 meters, the Fu boat and the rush boat all rose up with gunsmoke and cannon sounds.
This Lei family is also a rich man, and a cannon is also prepared on the ship, but as a merchant ship, their armament is weaker after all, and the artillery on the ship is not much better, and the level of the gunner is naturally needless to say, they rarely practice, but they just know how to use it.
At a distance of 100 meters, if they want to hit Yu Xiaotian's ship with their cannon, it is basically similar to hitting Dayun, at most, it can be hit by Sanzi, but it basically can't cause any damage.
Yu Xiaotian ignored their shelling, ordered the gunners to prepare, and opened fire at his orders, and the musketeers also lit the arquebuses and got ready, and the archers were in position on the side of the ship.
The distance between the several boats continued to close, and when the distance was about fifty meters, Yu Xiaotian began to order the cannons, and the Baizi Gun and the Big Bowl Gun on the Seawolf and the Seal suddenly fired together.