Fang An said in the past: "There could have been more, the second brother and the third brother and all the boats in my hands went, the sixth one boat was sent to repair during this time, and the other boat was ordered to go to Guangdong, the seventh originally had five boats, but this time he was only willing to go to one, eight years ago, a boat was destroyed in the hands of the mixed river dragon, and only one boat remained, so now we can only take out so many boats!" ”

"Then it stands to reason that Zhang Da should have at least a few boats in his hands! Why didn't they go? Yu Xiaotian asked the bottom of the question.

Wang Hong couldn't help but scold: "Don't mention it! He had six boats in his hands, but two went to Quanzhou, two of which he said he wanted to stay and take care of his family, and two that he said he wanted to send to repair the boats, which made it clear that a few of our brothers were going to work hard! ”

Yu Xiaotian has nothing to say now, Zhang Hu is obviously doing this to consume the strength of the brothers under his hands, it is best to win, if he can't win, the loss is also his brother's ship, which can show that this Zhang Hu is actually aware of the threat to his position by his brothers, and wants to take this opportunity to weaken the strength of his brothers.

But he couldn't say this kind of thing, so he could only secretly be a little more careful, in short, after listening to the words of Wang Hong and Fang An, he began to feel that this time he would not be too easy to go to Matsu to fight with the mixed river dragon.

From Treasure Island to West Dog Island, they did not delay any more on the way, and along the way, Yu Xiaotian constantly asked Wang Hong and Fang An about the experience of fighting people at sea.

Wang Hong and Fang An also treated him as their own family, and told Yu Xiaotian some of his experiences without concealment, and at the end of the day, Yu Xiaotian could be said to have benefited a lot from their words.

He had not participated in any large-scale naval conflicts before, and had not even seen any large-scale naval conflicts, and the only experience he had in fighting people at sea was only a few times when he went to sea to rob ships, although he was very confident in the subordinates he brought out this time, but he still believed that he and his subordinates were inexperienced in this area, so even if he sharpened his guns in battle, it was better than not knowing at all.

And Wang Hong and Fang An, have participated in relatively large-scale naval conflicts several times, not only with other pirates and forces, but also with the official army and naval divisions, this experience is much stronger than his own, Yu Xiaotian in line with the idea that there must be a teacher in a threesome, such a rare opportunity to ask for advice, will not be easily let go, along the way as much as possible to get the questions, have been raised to the two of them.

And Wang Hong and Fang An didn't hide too much, and basically told Yu Xiaotian everything they could say, so that Yu Xiaotian more or less understood some things to pay attention to when there was a large-scale conflict at sea.

From this point, Wang Hong and Fang An also saw Yu Xiaotian's shortcomings, knowing that Yu Xiaotian had indeed been at sea for a short time, and had not gone through this kind of thing, so he repeatedly reminded Yu Xiaotian that once they arrived in Matsu and fought with the mixed river dragon, Yu Xiaotian must not leave them without permission, but must follow their fleet closely, and never be left alone, otherwise it is likely to become the target of the other party's siege.

For Wang Hong's explanation, Yu Xiaotian thought so, originally, this time he went to help Wang Hong and them, not to play with Mingjianglong, he couldn't kill the enemy single-handedly and act as a vanguard.

In this way, Yu Xiaotian walked all the way, studied all the way, and after a day and a night, they finally arrived at West Dog Island before the agreed time, that is, in the afternoon of the second day after the first departure.

West Dog Island is located in the sea east of Fuzhou, belongs to one of the islands of the White Dog Islands, is only twenty or thirty miles away from the mouth of the Min River, not far to the east, is the East Dog Island, here is not a major waterway, but there are a small number of fishermen living in this area, mainly engaged in fishing.

But this time, West Dog Island was chosen by Zhang Hu as an outpost assembly site for the battle with the Mixed River Dragon, just because it was relatively close to Matsu Island, and after assembling here, they could quickly go to the area of Matsu Island to fight the Mixed River Dragon.

And before Yu Xiaotian followed Wang Hong and Fang An to arrive here, Qian Song, the second child under Zhang Hu, had already arrived here with some boats in advance.

The place where they assembled was a bay on the south shore of West Dog Island, and when Yu Xiaotian approached with a boat, he saw that there were already six boats moored in the bay here.

Four of the boats were of the type of Fukubune, some large and some small, and the other two, similar to his Seawolf, belonged to the type of bird boat, and each boat raised flags, four of which were red flags representing sharks, and the other two were green and one was black.

In this way, it can basically be seen that the red flag must be the ship under the shark Zhang Hu, and the other two belong to the pirates who came to help him almost the same.

So, in order to identify themselves, he also ordered their own sea wolf flag to be hoisted on the mast, and before they reached the West Dog Island, a small boat rowed out, picked them up, and led them into the bay.

There are no decent trestles or piers, and all boats can only be moored close to the shore, and they have to go ashore by the small sampans that come with the big ships.

Under Wang Hong's beckoning, Yu Xiaotian followed him up to the beach and set up a few tents here, obviously Qian Song regarded this place as a temporary headquarters.

When Yu Xiaotian, Wang Hong, and Fang An went ashore, Qian Song personally greeted them, and after saying hello to Wang Hong and them first, he immediately hugged his fists and smiled at Xiaotian: "Brother Yu, let's meet again today!" Thank you brother for coming to help! After everyone arrives tonight, Qian will definitely set up a drink to treat his brother! ”

Yu Xiaotian also hurriedly hugged his fists and saluted back: "Xiaotian has seen the second master!" Since the second and third masters have lives, how dare Yu not come? It's just that someone is weak, and I hope that the second master will not dislike it! ”

"Where, where! Friends are the ones who can come! How can I dislike it! Inside please! Saying that, Qian Song let Xiaotian into the tent, ordered someone to send a bench over, and asked Yu Xiaotian to sit down and talk.

After Yu Xiaotian sat down, Wang Hong shouted in a rough voice: "Where is the seventh child? Why didn't you see the seventh? It stands to reason that he should have come over a long time ago! ”

Qian Song glanced at Wang Hong, shook his head and said, "The seventh can't come!" He sent Zhu Da to come on his behalf! ”

"Oh? Didn't you say it before you came? He wanted to bring the boat over in person, but why did he change to Zhu Da? What about Zhu Da? Wang Hong stopped doing it as soon as he heard this, and immediately roared at the top of his throat.

"Three masters! Here's how! Zhu Da sees the three masters! A short black fat man heard Wang Hong shouting in the tent, and hurriedly walked in, hugged his fists and bowed to Wang Hong.

Wang Hong glared at the black fat man and immediately shouted, "What about the seventh child? Why did you bring someone here? ”

"Qi Yu three masters! Before our seventh master set off, he occasionally felt a cold and had a terrible headache, so he couldn't come this time, so he could only send a small one to come on his behalf! The seventh master specially instructed that the little one obey the orders of the second master, and I hope that the third master will forgive me! After hearing Wang Hong's question, this Zhu Da did not show great arrogance, accompanied by a smiling face, and bowed down again with his fists.

Wang Hong was very dissatisfied with his answer, and was about to scold again, but was stopped by Qian Song: "Enough!" The seventh child is sick, so it's okay if you don't come! This is not the time to talk about this, Zhu Da, you go out and wait first! ”

This Zhu Da nodded and said, "The little one obeys!" Three masters, small retirement! After saying that, he turned around and walked out of the tent, but Yu Xiaotian sat aside, but when he saw him turn around, there was a sneer of disdain on his face.

Seeing such a scene, Yu Xiaotian couldn't help but secretly shook his head, this matter has come to this point, but Zhang Hu's subordinates can't be screwed together, Lao Qi, as Zhang Hu's cronies, can't make excuses, it can be seen that this battle is probably not easy to fight, so he is even less optimistic about the prospects of this battle.

At this time, a man who was still hanging an arm walked in and said angrily: "Second brother! Seventh Brother is too much! Brother, I suffered such a big loss, but this time he refused to come, and only sent such a Zhu Da to bring a boat over! This makes it clear that I don't take my hatred to heart! ”

Qian Song shook his head and said, "That's it!" Say no more! Let Brother Yu see the joke! Come to the eighth child, let me introduce you to you, this is Yu Xiaotian, the big boss of the sea wolf that your third brother told you! You can also see, this time Brother Yu listened to the greeting, and immediately followed your third brother and fifth brother to bring the boat over! ”

Yu Xiaotian hurriedly got up, hugged his fist at this old man and said: "Under Yu Xiaotian, I have seen the eight masters!" ”

The eighth could only hold back his anger at this time, looked at Yu Xiaotian, nodded and said, "What a good man!" The third brother can't be wrong when he sees people, not bad! In the lower horse peak! Thank you for coming over and helping! ”

After a few words of greeting, Wang Hong then asked: "We have all arrived, Liu Yidao, One-eyed Dragon, Li Dabeard, and Ma Xiao...... Why hasn't it arrived yet? ”

Qian Song replied: "I don't know, wait a little longer, it's still early before the agreed time, and the people you and Lao Wu sent to call them over haven't arrived, and it's clear whether they come before dark!" ”

Yu Xiaotian has seen Liu Yidao and the one-eyed dragon, but Li Dabeard and Ma Xiao and others, he has only heard of them, but he has not seen them, they are also the leaders of a small group of pirates on the sea side of Fuzhou.

Yu Xiaotian saw that Qian Song and a few people seemed to want to discuss things, and it was obviously a little inconvenient for him, an outsider, to be here, so he excused himself to go out of the house to take a look, got out of the tent, and walked to the beach to look into the bay.

At this time, ten ships have been assembled in the bay of West Dog Island, some large and some small, the largest ship should be Qian Song's ship, which is also a brig ship, but the length is about forty or fifty meters, compared to his sea wolf, it is really a lot bigger, the average small group of pirates, it is difficult to have such a big ship, and only people like Qian Song can make this kind of ship, no matter what, the strength of their shark gang is still good.

(Today, my friend Whitewater pointed out some loopholes in my book about ships, and I hope that if you find a problem in the future, you can just raise it!) In addition, thank you for the reward from the iron hand mistress! Thanks a lot! ）