Chapter 215: Ominous Premonition
Zhang Hu gasped, boarded his boat with the support of his men, and slowly climbed to the tall stern, he held on to the railing, and one of his men carried a money bag to him, he reached out and grabbed a large handful of copper coins and broken silver from the money bag, and raised his hand to spill it into the crowd of minions on the deck.
Copper coins and broken silver dings were scattered on the deck, and the minions immediately cheered and pouted their butts and grabbed them, looking at this scene, Zhang Hu felt a little proud.
He enjoyed the feeling of being on top of him, and he felt the pleasure of giving to his subordinates, and after a few handfuls of sprinkles, he reached out and took the money bag, tore open his throat, and shouted, "Brothers, listen carefully! Today, I, Zhang Hu, will take you out to do errands again! Give Lao Tzu a lot of energy, don't fucking embarrass Lao Tzu! This big guy has a share!
Lao Tzu is not angry, they really don't know how many eyes the prince of Lu Dao Ma has! Now even those young people dare to argue with our shark gang!
Today, let's go and do all those bastards who don't know the height of the sky, and see who dares not to listen to our shark gang, so that they all know the Tao and know the Tao, who has the final say!
As long as the brothers do a good job for Lao Tzu, you look carefully, this is a thousand taels of silver, after coming back, do a good job, Lao Tzu has a lot of rewards, greedy for life and afraid of death and escape, Lao Tzu will chop his mother's chop and chop and feed the fish! Well, the point cannon! Raise the sails and anchor! Let's go! ”
Saying that, Zhang Hu asked people to open a box, and a silver ingot of Bai Huahua was suddenly revealed inside, which immediately caused a cheer from his minions again.
He raised his hand and poured the money bag down, and the copper coins and broken silver fell on the deck below, and the sound was pleasant, and once again the men on his ship cheered and scrambled.
In Zhang Hu's eyes, this method is the most effective way to stimulate his subordinates to work for him, no rhetoric has money to afford, don't look at him on weekdays, but when the matter comes to an end, he still understands that if he wants his subordinates to give him his life, it will not be possible without some blood.
So he once again sacrificed his old method, took out a considerable amount of money, and sprinkled it to boost the morale of his subordinates, and now it seems that the effect is quite good, at least the minions who followed out are very excited, which makes him quite satisfied.
With his order, there was a roaring sound on the dock of the Shark Gang on Nanri Island, and the captains of each ship roared and ordered their men to lift anchors and raise their sails, and one by one the boats began to move in the bay.
But Zhang Hu's ship, but not easy to move, his ship is a very rare pirate of a lucky ship, if according to the classification of the Ming Dynasty sailors, this ship is at least close to the size of the second fortune ship used by the main battle of the sailors, the hull is tall into the building, there are three masts, the ship is equipped with four big Buddha Lang machine and three hundred guns, and the other two sides have two small Buddha Lang machines.
In addition to artillery, there were more than 60 people on his ship, hundreds of rockets, several fire bricks, oil canisters, 20 bows, 10 crossbows, and hundreds of cold weapons such as knives and guns.
Such a ship is almost as large as the No. 2 Fu ship currently used in the Ming Army's naval division, and its combat effectiveness is only slightly weaker, but looking at the pirate counterparts in the Fuzhou area, his ship can be regarded as a behemoth and second to none.
However, such a lucky ship has considerable shortcomings, that is, the action is relatively slow, although the speed is not slow, but the flexibility is relatively poor, when going to sea to fight, there must be other ships to cooperate with its action.
When it lifts anchor and lifts its sails, it is not easy to move with its own strength alone, and when it goes out to sea, it must be dragged up with several sampans and moved out of the bay before it can sail.
In the past two years, this boat has rarely gone to sea, most of the time it is parked in the bay, as a symbol of Zhang Hu, it is put on a show here, and occasionally it will be pulled out to carry out activities, and usually let a group of people take care of it and pull it down.
But this time Zhang Hu wants to go to Tangyu Island, he can't put it in his home anymore, even if he uses it to set up music, it looks majestic, at least it makes the enemies feel a sense of fear.
Moreover, the whole body of this ship is painted red, and it looks even more dazzling on the sea, and his existence can be seen from afar, and if ordinary people see it at sea, they must avoid it from afar.
With Zhang Hu's order, more than ten Shark Gang boats surrounded his boat, and gradually sailed out of the bay in the northwest corner of Nanri Island.
The straight-line distance from Nanri Island to Tangyu Island is about 40 miles, and in the case of smooth wind, even if the speed of the ship is not too high, it will take half a day to reach Tangyu Island.
So before noon, the fleet of the Shark Gang, which was smooth sailing, appeared on the sea south of Tangyu Island, and the thieves who had been warned in advance also boarded the ship and went to sea in advance at this time, and ganged up to block the way of the Shark Gang fleet.
On the sea that was originally quite calm, suddenly more than 20 pirate ships gathered, such a scene is really not many in the Fuzhou area, just when they gathered in the southern sea of Tangyu Island, a fleet of merchant ships appeared on the sea, this fleet of merchant ships saw so many pirate ships on the sea from a distance, and they were immediately frightened, and quickly turned the sail and turned the rudder to speed up.
Some of the boatmen on the ship were even so frightened that their legs were weak and their feet were weak, and they didn't know what was going on today, but there were so many pirates on the sea, and they all made up their minds that if the pirate ship caught up with them, they wouldn't let go of a fart, Lima surrendered and pulled down, and the province was chopped into meat sauce.
But then they found that the pirate ships had not paid attention to them at all, and let them turn and flee, and no ships came to chase them, which made them breathe a sigh of relief, and carefully observed from a distance.
After taking a closer look, they realized that this group of pirates was not a gang, most of them were the ships of the famous Shark Gang in the area, but the other group was a fleet of several pirates put together, so they guessed what this large group of pirates wanted to do.
Before they could figure out what the pirates in this area were trying to do, the stewards on the ship yelled at them to hurry away, leaving them alone for their lives.
Although Zhang Hu was a little proud when he set off, on the way out, his heart fell into anxiety again.
It turned out that his Shark Gang was so majestic in the Fuzhou area more than a year ago, there were as many as twenty or thirty large ships of all kinds under his command, and there were forty or fifty small boats, and there were more than 1,000 people under his command, even the navy of the imperial court did not dare to do anything with them, and the officials in the Fuzhou area were even more taboo about them, and never took the initiative to come to them for trouble.
But it has only been a little more than a year, and he looks at the fleet that came with him for the first time, and his strength has not improved in the past two years, but his strength has greatly decreased.
First of all, the battle of Nangantang, he lost three boats, and then after Qian Song came back, he took the opportunity to attack Qian Song and Wang Hong, which made his subordinates disheartened, a few days ago he sent He Guang to bring four boats to destroy the sea wolf, but the meat bun beat the dog and never returned, and the four boats only ran back to one boat.
The day before yesterday, he sent Fang An to bring six boats to save He Guang, and now he has not returned, so that he set off to Tangyu Island this time, but he can only bring out twenty boats, large and small, of which twelve boats can be used for battle, and the rest are just some fishing boats that act as sentry boats, and it is definitely not much use to help in the war, so his strength is not necessarily much higher than those peers who are against him.
In fact, Zhang Hu also knows very well that with his strength, looking at the area of Fuzhou, no peer can compete with him, but once these peers are tied together to deal with him, the strength of these guys is not too weak, and the manpower and ships that they have pulled out from here and there are not necessarily much less than him.
So he secretly speculated, this time to Tangyu Island, there is nothing to talk about, he can't be soft, saying that he did something wrong, once that's the case, his shark gang won't want to be mixed up in the future, so he invited him to negotiate, in fact, to put it bluntly, those guys are here, and he has a fight with him face to face, if he wins, then he can continue to dominate the coastal area of Fuzhou, but what if he loses?
Zhang Hu quickly shook his head when he thought of this, and drove this thought out of his mind, how could he be defeated? He is the overlord of the Fuzhou Sea, and he Zhang Hu will never be defeated by a group of rabble!
Don't look at the dozen or so ships available at the moment, but he still has a hand! Fang An also brought six boats, as long as Fang An could come as promised after the start of the fight, he could influence the outcome of this battle, and when the time came, he must let these blind guys see his Zhang Hu's thunderous anger!
So Zhang Hu stood up, walked to the side of the boat, held the side of the boat, and looked at the sea.
The weather on this day can be regarded as powerful, the sea surface can basically be said to be calm, there are only some thin clouds in the sky, and the sea water is rippling.
But after he stood up, he felt a little dizzy, and he couldn't help but quickly press the side of the boat, which made him speechless, how long had he not been out to sea! is so calm, he actually has another feeling of seasickness.
In fact, he didn't know what to do, in the past two years, he had been overly drunk and full, and his weight had skyrocketed, so he got the disease of wealth, not because he was seasick, but because he was a little older, and now he has three highs.
In the past few days, because of He Guang's matter, and he has to come to Tangyu Island to make an appointment, he has not slept well for a few days and nights, and his blood pressure must have suddenly risen a lot, so it is strange that he is not dizzy.
Seeing that he was getting more and more dizzy, Zhang Hu's mood became bad again, and he quickly turned around and asked people to hug him, went back and sat under the umbrella, unbuttoned his clothes, and revealed his fat chest.
"Grandma, why is it so hot! When to Tangyu Island? Is there any movement ahead? Zhang Hu scolded while asking people to fan him coldly.
His subordinates hurriedly replied with a smiling face: "It's almost Tangyu ahead!" There was a ship in front of us that smoked, it must be the sentry ship of those bastard things, I guess they should come out too! ”
"What about Fang An? Did Fang An's ship appear? Zhang Hu thought of Fang An again, and felt more and more uneasy in his heart.