Chapter 244: The Dull Crossing

Chu Cailao's Dafu ship, he spent a lot of money the year before last, from a shipyard in Quanzhou ordered, in order to hide people's eyes, when the initial order, this ship Liaoliao claimed to be only a 400 material merchant ship, dare not say that this is Chu Cailao in their order to build a three-masted 600 material ship, so when the construction of the ship, not even the mast was installed, but after the hull was all built, and after the inspection was completed, the mast and sails were installed overnight, and launched before dawn, After entering the water, he was directly dragged away from the shore and returned to his old nest Dongshan Island by Chu Cailao's men.

The materials of this ship are exquisite, and the hard materials are used to build more, and the materials used in many places are more than the normal materials, the structure has been greatly strengthened, the construction quality is quite good, and of course the cost is more than twice that of the same ship.

The reason why he spent a lot of money to build this ship, in addition to satisfying his face needs, was that he got a few Hongyi cannons from the Francoman, and these Hongyi cannons could not be installed on the ships he used before, for fear that the ship would be damaged as soon as the cannon was fired.

So he spent a lot of money to build this Daifuku ship, and the hull structure has also been somewhat changed, so that the center of gravity of the ship has been lowered, the hull structure has been strengthened, and the deck has also been thickened, which can carry this Hongyi cannon.

With this ship, Chu Cai Lao can be said to be like a tiger with wings, this ship has also become his symbol, as long as the ship appears in the place, the general ship is not its opponent at all, with its huge size and structural reinforcement advantages, plus a few Hongyi cannons on the ship, this ship can not only fight with the opponent, with the ramming tactics to plow and sink the enemy ship, but also with the ship's cannon to sink the opponent far away.

Therefore, in the maritime merchants in Guangdong and Fujian, Chu Cailao's ship has few opponents, so it has also become his arrogant capital.

In the past two years, he also used this ship to attack some state capitals and counties along the coast from time to time, and by virtue of the range advantage of the Hongyi cannon on the ship, he showed off his might at sea, which was very unparallelable.

However, Chu Cailao's ship seems to be very powerful in the Ming Dynasty, but compared with several Western maritime powers in this world, it is nothing, and in this era, the Western Dutch, Spanish, British and even French and Portuguese have already begun to build large Galen ships with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons, not to mention the weight, not to mention the firepower, and even the firepower of the Seawolf's current sloop, it may not be able to surpass much.

But in the coastal area of the Ming Dynasty in this era, this ship is indeed quite powerful, if it weren't for the fact that there are many good cannons in the sea wolf this time, just a few Hongyi cannons on his ship can make the sea wolf suffer enough.

But now it seems that this boat can show off, in essence, it doesn't play much role, and in order to attack the sea wolf village, he also unloaded the two Hongyi cannons on this ship to the shore, one of which has been destroyed by the sea wolf, and the remaining one is still left on the shore for the minions on the shore to attack the village.

At this time, there was only one Hongyi cannon and a few small cannons left on this Daifuku ship, and there was not much advantage in firepower.

However, Chu Cailao still wanted to use the remaining Hongyi cannon on his ship to teach the sea wolf some lessons, so today he personally boarded the ship, sailed to the sea wolf village with his own boat, slowly sailed into the bay, and stopped at the mouth of the bay, in case it was too close and became the focus of the sea wolf cannon.

The sea wolf's cannon left a very deep impression on Chu Cailao this time, not to mention that their cannon hit far away, but also accurately and powerfully, which made him very jealous, and he no longer dared to be as arrogant as before, sailed the ship to the shore, and directly used the Hongyi cannon on the ship to bombard the target on the shore.

And just when Chu Cai was busy mobilizing the ships and manpower, preparing to fight against the sea wolf Dazhai again, on the sea about ten miles northeast of Nanri Island, there was a fleet of dozens of ships in a zigzag route on the sea surface towards Nanri Island at full speed.

None of these ships were lit by the light balls that were customary for ships to fly during night voyages, and from the front they were all hidden in the night, and their silhouettes could barely be distinguished, let alone their presence far away.

But if you look at the back of the boats, you can see that the stern part of these ships is lit up, and these lights are blocked from the light on the left and right sides and at the front, and only the rear side is transparent glass, which can let the light out, so that these lights cannot be seen from the side and front, and only the light at the stern of the front ship can be seen from the back.

This is also an invention of the sea wolf, in order to not reveal the whereabouts of the fleet during night sailing, but also to allow the following friendly ships to see the direction of the ships in front of them, so as not to run away during the voyage of the fleet.

When they set off from Treasure Island in the middle of the night, all the ships kept an eye on the stern lights of the previous ship, maintained a column formation, and then led by the first ship, sailed silently on the sea, heading towards Nanri Island in a semi-headwind state, constantly drawing a zigzag route on the sea.

The speed of the fleet was not very fast, because the fleet had to slow down and maintain formation every time the sails were turned so that the ships behind them would not be lost or thrown out of formation, so they set out from Treasure Island in the middle of the night and set out on the road back to Nanri Island.

In addition to the concealment of the lights in the fleet, silence was also maintained in the fleet, and the rest of the personnel were ordered not to make noise, except for the necessary personnel who gave orders and carried out orders to operate the ships.

Everyone was asked to lie down or sit down in their respective battle positions and to rest when they had nothing to do, and to sleep when they could and close their eyes to refresh those who could not.

But most of them couldn't sleep at this time, and Kimono lay on their battle positions silently listening to the sound of the sea wolf beating the hull, silently praying in their hearts to the gods they worshipped, or secretly praying to their loved ones, praying to the gods and their relatives to keep them safe.

The originally high-morale crew members, after experiencing Ma Feng's rebellion, have been more or less psychologically hit, after all, Ma Feng is the high-level of the Seawolf fleet, and he is the deputy manager of the third fleet, even he is not confident in this battle with Chu Cailao, which will naturally lead to the confidence of some people.

Therefore, after experiencing this incident, the seawolf's crew was in a shadow, even if the horse owl gave them another day of rest yesterday, and made the captains of each ship repeatedly cheer up their crews, but it still could not make everyone completely regain their initial high fighting spirit.

In addition, especially some of the crew members of the second detachment were in a very sad mood, because Wang Hong had been the leader of their second detachment for so long, and had been taking them around the sea, leading them to practice, and messing around with them in their spare time, and having a good relationship with many of them.

But suddenly, their Wang Commander was seriously injured by his dearest brother Ma Feng with a short gun, and for this day, he has been in a deep coma, his life is hanging by a thread, and he may die at any time, which makes the sailors of the second detachment very unacceptable, and most of them feel very sad, and at the same time worry about Wang Hong.

Therefore, the sailors of the second detachment were mostly depressed about this, and they were not even interested in eating.

Also as the crew members of the third team, their hearts are not comfortable, because Ma Feng is the deputy manager of their third team, regardless of whether this guy has been set up recently, but after all, this guy is nominally the leader of their third team, and there is such a super scum in their fleet, which makes the people in the third team feel very ashamed and depressed.

Moreover, from the day of the accident, as soon as the news spread, the crew of the second detachment saw that the people of the third detachment were all staring at each other, with a contemptuous expression, and they looked like they loved to answer.

This made the crew members of the third team feel even more uncomfortable, and they felt that all of a sudden they owed a large amount of money to everyone in the second team and still did not pay the bills, which made them feel a little unable to raise their heads.

In the other fleet, because of Ma Feng's involvement, many people on the ship were involved in this matter, the day before yesterday and yesterday, a large number of people were taken away and detained on Treasure Island, among these people also have their own fox friends and dog friends on the ship, these people after experiencing this incident, the psychological pressure is also very great, I am afraid that these arrested people will be tortured but bite indiscriminately, and they will also be involved.

So there are many people who are worried about it when they set off, all in all, Ma Feng's incident has a great impact on the morale of the sea wolf fleet, and the scope is beyond everyone's expectations.

So the entire fleet of Seawolves looked a little lifeless today, losing the lively atmosphere of the previous days, and many people were preoccupied.

This situation also fell in the eyes of the captains of each ship, although the Ma Feng incident was very involved this time, but it is gratifying that among all the people involved, none of the captains or first mates were implicated, and the highest-level personnel involved were only the captains of the two ships, and the rest were basically low-level sailors.

Therefore, the officer level of each ship was not greatly affected by this incident, and it can be said that the overall structure was not fundamentally damaged, which is also a blessing in the misfortune of this incident.

(Thank you to the wandering Jiangnan brothers for their generous tips yesterday!) Let's make the tipping more violent! Hehe! )