Liu hoped that the wind and waves at sea would increase a little more, so that the two pirate ships that followed behind could retreat from the difficulties and give up chasing them, this good wish was not realized, and for a period of time after they turned around and fled, the wind and waves on the sea did not increase, but as Liu Lao Liu expected, it weakened a little.

Although the waves on the sea were still relatively large, which made the ships jolt more when sailing, they did not pose any threat to the two pirate ships, so the two pirate ships still hung behind them like maggots on tarsal bones, and continued to sail after them.

This situation made the owner of Liu and the boatmen on the boat full of worries, and they were eager to find an oar to lie on the surface of the water to pick up the water, increase the speed of the boat, and quickly shake off these two tails.

However, this kind of ship relies on the sails to provide power when going to sea, and there will be no oars on the ship at all, and even if there is, it will not reach the surface of the water and let them row, so after the ship increases its speed, it will stabilize at a certain speed, and it can no longer be accelerated, and everyone can only watch the two pirate ships behind them, and gradually close the distance between them, but there is no way to do it.

Taking advantage of the fact that the pirate ship had not caught up, Shipowner Liu shouted loudly to the boatmen on the ship: "Listen! Yu has been waiting for you well, and now that we have met pirates, it is time to use you! What are pirates, you and others know what they are, and if the ship falls into their hands, everyone will not be able to get any benefits!

Today, if you can help Yu get rid of the pirates and repel the pirates, Liu will never treat you badly! After going back, everyone will be rewarded with a silver tael! ”

After the owner of Liu called out, the spirit of the boatmen seemed to be mobilized a little, and they agreed in a scattered manner, and clenched the guys in their hands one by one.

However, Yu Xiaotian is very suspicious of the role of one or two silvers, he doesn't know much about the current price level and wage level of the Ming Dynasty, but one or two pieces of silver is not much! This Liu shipowner is really stingy enough, since the reward is offered, he still refuses to hang high, at least there is a brave man under the heavy reward, I really doubt what this guy thinks.

In addition, he also thought that if he fought with the pirates, there would be casualties, but Liu Shipowner didn't mention what kind of compensation he would give if he was injured and died, so he wanted the boatmen to fight for him, isn't it a bit too much to take it for granted?

But on the other hand, the pirates are basically outlaws, this is at sea, there is no shop in the front of the village, the boatmen have nowhere to escape except jumping into the sea, once the pirates are allowed to board the ship, it is likely to threaten the lives of the boatmen, so the boatmen estimate that they don't want the pirates to board the ship, so it is still possible to fight.

Just when Yu Xiaotian was hiding next to the mast and pondering, he heard Liu Chuandong's voice yelling at him: "Dumb! Don't be stunned! Go and help carry the sandbags on the boat everywhere and open them, and find all the buckets and fill them with seawater and put them away! And take a few pumps from the stern of the ship to suck up the water, and if the pirates catch up and do something, they can't get them to release the rockets, and you can stare at extinguishing the rockets that fall on the ship! ”

When Yu Xiaotian heard it, he got it! This guy really uses Lao Tzu as a donkey! No wonder there are sandbags piled up on the boat, it turns out that this is what it is for! So he had to start working according to Liu Shipowner's instructions, after all, he was also a member of the ship now, and if the pirates came up, he would not be able to reap any benefits.

Bags of sandbags were placed by Yu Xiaotian everywhere on the side of the ship, buckets of seawater were hit on the surface of the boat by Yu Xiaotian with ropes, and placed in a position to take advantage of them, and several bamboo pumps were also found by Yu Xiaotian, leaned out in the sea to absorb enough seawater, and placed them on the surface of the boat.

At this time, Shangdou shouted from the mast: "The pirate's ship is getting closer and closer!" ”

Everyone quickly turned their eyes to the sea at the stern of the ship, and the two pirate ships were indeed closer at this time, and they could already see the shape of the pirate ship more clearly.

The two pirate ships are also brigs, and it seems that the shape is indeed close to the shape of the Fu ship, but the size is relatively small, and the speed of the ship is not very fast, but it is slightly faster than the ship they are on, but this speed advantage is not much, which is enough for the pirate ship to catch up with them before dark.

Everyone on the boat became even more nervous at this time, and began to concentrate towards the stern, and one by one they found the guy who took advantage of them and held them in their hands, and Yu Xiaotian's heart was also a little hanging.

Although the pirate ship is still approaching, but the pirate chasing a merchant ship on the sea is not as simple as Yu Xiaotian imagined before, both sides are sailing ships, even if the pirate ship has a light load and a certain advantage in speed, but if you want to catch up with Yu Xiaotian's ship quickly, it is not something that can be done in a while.

It was another period of chasing and escaping, and in the blink of an eye, more than an hour had passed, and it was already past noon, but the pirate ship had not been able to catch up with the ship where Yu Xiaotian was.

The ship's owners and boatmen obviously had some experience in dealing with such things, and in order to increase their speed, they constantly changed the sailing angle on the sea, adjusting the sails on the ship, so that the sails could be as fast as possible, so although the pirate ships kept closing the distance, they were never able to catch up with them.

This situation made Yu Xiaotian understand, why the Liu family could work at sea for so long, and they were not bankrupt by pirates, it turned out that they still had a way to meet pirates at sea, but they could only be lambs to be slaughtered and let pirates plunder.

And things are not as simple as he thinks, if a merchant ship encounters pirates, they will definitely be robbed, if pirates want to successfully intercept a ship, it will take a lot of energy and time, and the success rate is not too high.

If they can really delay until the evening, then the pirate's hijacking operation can only be declared bankrupt, and it is estimated that many people who trade on the sea use this method to escape the pirate interception and resolve this crisis.

Seeing that the pirate ship was getting closer and closer, at this time, Liu Chuandong thought of Yu Xiaotian again, stretched out his hand to greet Yu Xiaotian and said, "Dumb come here!" ”

Yu Xiaotian hurriedly nodded and pretended to be stupid, ran to him and waited for his orders, surnamed Liu pointed to the two long poles placed on the side of the ship, as well as a rusty broken single knife and a rattan plaque and instructed him: "Dumb! You are born with long arms and strong strength! Once the pirates catch up and want to get on our ship, you can use this long rod to reach out and resist the pirate's ship, and push the pirate ship out of the way to prevent the pirates from getting on the ship and jumping onto our ship!

If they jump over, you can cut them down with this, as long as you do a good job, after today, Yu will definitely not be disadvantaged to you! I will give you good wine and meat to eat! Do you understand?

Otherwise, we're finished, and you won't be able to get better! In this world, I will pity you and take you in, if you fall into the hands of pirates, you will definitely be worse off than dead! Do you want to know the way of Entu? ”

Yu Xiaotian secretly despised this surnamed Liu in his heart, and now this guy thinks he is his benefactor, in fact, Yu Xiaotian now knows very well what the idea of this fight is, to put it bluntly, this guy still takes a fancy to his body, and wants to pick up such a free labor force for him as a cow and a horse! Now that the situation is dangerous, he began to use these words to trap him, and let himself work for him as cannon fodder, I'm bah!

But at this time he is "dumb", this is naturally impossible to say, even if he is not dumb, he does not dare to say such a thing at this time, so he can only nod his head again and again with a belly full of slander to show that he understands.

Time seems to be frozen in this pursuit, and there is a layer of dark clouds covering the sun in the sky at this time, so that gradually Yu Xiaotian can no longer continue to judge the time, but he roughly knows that Lu Dao must have passed noon, because his stomach has already rumbled at this time, and the bowl of rice he ate in the morning has already been digested at this time, making him feel hungry.

However, they are destined to not be able to eat on time today, because at this time, Shipowner Liu is all focused on the pirate ship behind, where is he in the mood to care whether the people on the ship are hungry or not!

The pursuit of the pirates continued, and after nearly an hour passed, seeing that although the distance was getting tighter and tighter, the ship where Yu Xiaotian was very slippery, and never let them succeed in approaching, one of the pirate ships seemed to gradually lose patience, and finally chose to give up, first lowered the half-sail, the speed of the ship slowed down significantly, and then began to gradually adjust the direction, stopped the chase, and gradually disappeared on the sea, which is undoubtedly like a shot in the arm for everyone on the Liu family's ship, The crowd was excited again, and some even began to cheer.

Ship Owner Liu's face also slowed down a little, if the two pirate ships caught up with them at the same time today, and cooperated with each other to attack them left and right, with their current manpower and strength on the ship, as long as they were caught up, they would basically have no power to fight back, because once they fought back, the other party would definitely not be polite to them again, and after seizing the ship, they would definitely kill all the people on their ship.

So if they are caught up by two pirate ships at the same time, the only thing they can do is not to resist, but to drop the sails and stop the ship, and honestly let the pirates board the ship to rob and rob, if the pirates are rules, then under normal circumstances, they do not want to make money, and they will not easily kill the people on the ship, but the goods on this ship naturally don't need to think about it.

Therefore, although the owner of Liu does not want to die, he also does not want to lose the cargo of this ship, because the value of this cargo, once lost, even if his surname Liu does not go bankrupt, at least it will not be able to turn over for a long time.

And at this time, when I saw a pirate ship give up the pursuit, the situation at sea changed, the pirate's strength was reduced by half, then the number of pirates on the remaining pirate ship was not very much, even if the pirate ship caught up, they could also have a fight, if they were lucky enough, they were very likely to repel the pirate ship, so that they were no longer as afraid as they were just now.

As a result, when the people on the ship saw this scene, their confidence began to recover somewhat, and their morale seemed to be lifted a little.

But then the people on the boat saw that the pirates on the remaining pirate ship seemed to be much more patient, although the Liu family's ship kept changing direction at sea to avoid, but they were always persevering behind, and what was even more frustrating was that at this time, the wind on the sea actually began to weaken, and the waves gradually began to get smaller, which is not a good sign.

And after all, the pirate's ship is going to come out faster, and the distance between the two sides has gradually been narrowed a lot in the next period of pursuit, and more importantly, the pirates on the pirate ship seem to be very determined this time, and they will never give up until they reach their goal, and they began to pull the distance between the two sides closer, and there is no momentum to give up.

"Damn, owner! This ship of pirates is going to eat us today! It won't take long for them to catch up! At the current speed of the ship, it will definitely be too late to get rid of them before dark, and if we are caught up like this, once they do it, we may not be good! Otherwise, let's lean towards the shore! Ma Biao rolled up his sleeves and looked at the two pirate ships that were approaching behind him, and said to the owner surnamed Liu with a blue face, as the escort invited by the Liu family, Ma Biao was responsible for the safety of this ship.

According to the rules of sailing at sea, if there is a great disparity between the two sides when the ship goes to sea and encounters pirates, these guards can give up resistance according to the opinion of the shipowner, which not only saves their lives, but also saves the lives of the others on board, so even if the ship's property is robbed, they will not be held accountable by the owner afterwards.

But today's situation, after a pirate ship gives up chasing them, only one pirate ship is left but still refuses to give up, so this situation is obviously not a huge disparity in strength, so once they are caught up by pirates, then the hired escorts like Ma Biao must shoulder the responsibility of preventing pirates from boarding the ship, otherwise, even if they give up resistance and finally save their lives, but the cargo is robbed, and after they go back, their reputation is not only stinky, but also recovered by the owner, in that case, Even if they were bankrupt, they would not be able to afford to pay the shipowner's goods and ships, and since the news had gotten out, they would not want to continue to eat this bowl of rice in the future.

On the other hand, if they were killed or injured in a confrontation with the pirates, the owner had to pay a sum of money for their bereavement.

So after thinking about it, Ma Biao put forward his opinion to this Liu shipowner, he said this in fact, in order to be safe, once the pirates caught up for a while, it is best to repel the pirates, but once they can't defeat the pirates, then there is no way out, when the pirates seize the ship, they are close to the sea, they can abandon the ship and flee, although they lose the cargo, but at least they can save their lives, this is not only for their own consideration, but also for the shipowner and the boatmen on the ship.

The surname Liu also had a very bad face at this time, and he could see that he might not be able to hide today, and the remaining pirate ship was clearly determined to eat them, and if he escaped like this, he would definitely be caught up before dark.

After listening to Ma Biao's words, the surnamed Liu thought for a while, nodded and sighed with a green face: "What you said makes sense, if it goes on like this, it seems that you can't get rid of them!" They're faster than us, it's still early before it gets dark, and it's unlikely to drag it out until dark, and it's okay if they talk about the rules, but if they don't talk about the rules, then we'll be all done!

That's it! As you say, lean towards the shore! It's better to abandon the ship and go ashore than to be killed by them! ”

As soon as the voice surnamed Liu fell, the people on the boat immediately got busy again, and the boat turned around again and began to sail in the direction of the shore, but does their decision still have a role at this time? Yu Xiaotian lay on the side of the ship, looking at the pirate ship at the stern of the ship, while secretly pondering.

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