Chapter 164: Making a Big Profit

Yu Xiaotian couldn't see the battle situation on the big ship, and was a little worried about the black head and the others, but he still resisted his desire to pull out his sword and rush forward in person, these guys under him are not children, they will have to be alone one day, he can't take the lead every time, so he must trust them, so he shouted at the top of the mast, let him take a look at the gun, and support the black head soldiers.

Originally, Yu Xiaotian wanted to give them a few more, so that after they were loaded on it, they could be fired continuously, but unfortunately he only had a few bird guns on hand, so he could only let them bring one.

In addition to training eyesight, the most important training in Shangdou is to be able to judge the shape of the ship at sea and friend and foe, and the other is to practice aiming and shooting with muskets.

However, it is not easy to accurately hit a human-sized target on a shaky mast, and if the muzzle is downward, the projectile may slide out of the chamber if it is smaller, so when the gun is placed on the top side down, when loading the projectile, it is necessary to wrap the projectile with a small piece of silk to fit it into the barrel.

In short, it is not easy to put a gun on it, and it is necessary to shoot accurately, which makes the requirements for the fighters a little higher.

Now the Shangdou above is not Liu Wang, but another young descendant, nicknamed Monkey, because of his thin stature, but he is very flexible and courageous, so he was selected by Yu Xiaotian as Shangdou.

This guy was on it, silent, holding a bird gun, his body continued to swing back and forth with the left and right of the mast, and suddenly with a pull, the bird gun immediately banged.

Yu Xiaotian didn't know if this guy hit Lu Dao, but after a while, the sound of people begging for mercy sounded on the Fu boat.

"Don't kill! Don't kill! Shall we not be able to do it? Squat, squat! We've lowered ......"

Immediately afterwards, I heard the cheers of the sea wolves on the Fu boat, and then heard the black head shouting from above: "His grandmother's, surrender and don't kill!" Hold your head and get down! All hugged the back of Lao Tzu's head, lying face down on the ground, who dares to move, Lao Tzu's knife does not recognize people! ”

Yu Xiaotian breathed a long sigh of relief, knowing that the battle on the Fu ship was basically over, and listening carefully, the sound of fighting above had basically stopped at this time.

So he didn't stay any longer, shouted and ordered the helmsman to turn the rudder, leave the ship, and leave the things above to the blackhead and other soldiers, and let them control the ship for the time being, and then deal with the boat.

The boat was still following behind the ship just now, trying to help the boat, but at this time, seeing that the pirates had climbed onto the ship and started to jump into the white-knuckle fight, he knew that things were not good, so he quickly turned around and stopped following the ship, trying to take advantage of this opportunity to escape.

The Yellow Croaker came from afar, chasing the boat like a puppy, and Luo Xianbin on the boat jumped on his feet and brandished a single knife, shouting and scolding, ordering the boat to stop the boat quickly, otherwise what else......

But their deterrent power was so small that they were directly despised, and the men on the boat ignored their threat and continued to turn around and flee.

Fortunately, Yu Xiaotian made the seal turn in time and began to pursue the ship, but did not let him slip away, and soon caught up with the ship and began to fire at it.

The boat also tried to resist, and fired back, only to see a bang on the seal, and the stern part of the ship was hit, and immediately a hole was punched, and the angry Meng madman jumped to his feet and scolded.

Meng Madman shouted loudly and ordered the gunners on the ship to immediately return fire, and the two shells bombarded the past, and two holes were also punched out of the boat, which was regarded as direct revenge.

After Yu Xiaotian solved the Fu Boat, when he turned around and began to pursue the Catch Boat, the Catch Boat and the Seal had already run far away, and he could only accelerate the pursuit behind.

At this time, the monkey above shouted, "There is another boat in the south, and it is impossible to tell what it is doing!" ”

After Yu Xiaotian glanced into the distance, he told the monkey loudly: "Keep an eye on them, leave them alone for now!" ”

After a while, the monkey shouted from above, "The incoming ship has begun to turn around and escape, don't worry about the helmsman!" ”

After nearly half an hour of pursuit, the boat was finally equalized by the Seal, and the two sides first fired a cannon bombardment at each other, and the boat was defeated, and one of the cannons on it was dumbfounded.

The Seawolf took advantage of this time to chase closer, at this time the Seawolf had no soldiers on the Seawolf, and could only support the Seal on one side, Liu Tong took a gunner to operate the first and last two guns respectively, and the other gunner operated the small Franc machine on the side of the ship, and also launched a bombardment from the other side.

Although their artillery wanted to sink the boat, it was a bit overwhelming, but it could effectively scare and deter the boatmen on the boat.

Seeing that the ship had fallen sail and was controlled, the three pirate ships surrounded it, and the ship could not escape from it, and it could not be beaten, and it was only a dead end to continue to resist, so the steward on the ship had to order the sail to stop and surrender to the sea wolves.

So to clean up this boat, the sea wolves did not pay much price, and Meng Maniac quickly jumped on the boat himself, led people to tie up all the people on the boat, and completely controlled the boat.

Yu Xiaotian happily exhaled a mouthful of turbid breath in his chest, and his mood suddenly became much more comfortable, and he couldn't help but laugh at Ha Da Lu, and said in his heart, Lao Tzu also has this day! Now that it's developed, I got two boats at once, and let's see who the hell in this area will dare to look down on Lao Tzu in the future!

Thinking of this, he ordered the flag to be raised, and ordered the black heads on the ship to begin to gather towards them......

Originally, according to the Li family's idea, they didn't even leave the people on the two boats with the Lei family, and killed them to destroy the corpses, so that the Lei family couldn't figure out what happened to the two boats.

But doing so obviously conflicts with Yu Xiaotian's style of acting, Yu Xiaotian only promised the Li family to hijack the ship, but did not agree to kill all the people on the ship, he wanted money but not life, and he had his own principles in doing this business.

Steward Li was a little disappointed at the time, but he still agreed to Yu Xiaotian's conditions, only hijacking ships and killing fewer people, but he still hoped to cause more losses to the Lei family as much as possible, so after Yu Xiaotian considered it, he decided that once he captured the two Lei family's boats, he would tie up all the people on their ships as meat tickets and ask for ransom from the Lei family.

So when Yu Xiaotian robbed these two boats, he did not let go of the people on board as usual, tied them all up and threw them into the cabin, and then ordered his men to take four boats, dragged the Yellow Croaker to the stern of a boat, and sailed back to Treasure Island.

After this trip, Yu Xiaotian's loss was not very large, but when he was seizing the fortune boat, he was injured by two relatively strong escort boats, three of his subordinates, two of them were slightly injured, and one was seriously injured, but the black head also led people to kill the four escorts on the spot.

In addition, three people were killed by shelling and shelling, and the rest of the people, including the stewards of the two ships, were captured, and a total of 27 people were captured.

After interrogation on the way back, Yu Xiaotian also got a list of the goods on the two ships, which were nothing more than some common goods, mainly porcelain, silk, tea, and lacquerware, all of which were mainstream export commodities.

Moreover, on the two ships of the Lei family, there are a total of three cannons, all of which are light and similar to bowl-mouth guns, which belong to old-fashioned artillery with limited power and can only resist small groups of pirates, and the deterrent effect is greater than the actual combat effect.

These old-fashioned artillery pieces are not what Yu Xiaotian wants, these cannons have a short range, low power, no illuminated doors and crosshairs, whether it is naval or land warfare, they are far behind Western-style artillery.

So what he wanted most at the moment was not this thing, but the more advanced Western-style artillery, even if it was just a smaller three-pounder or four-pounder gun, at least it was much more powerful than the messy artillery he was using right now.

It's a pity that he doesn't have the strength to make this thing by himself at the moment, this is not something that a few blacksmiths can make by himself by making an iron furnace, he must have more resources before he can forge his own artillery.

So he didn't have anything to be happy about the capture of these three small cannons, but on the Lei family's ship, he captured a few more bird guns, which is still a relatively good thing, at least not far behind the times, and it is quite a sharp weapon in this era.

The news of the successful hijacking was quickly sent to the Li family, and at the same time, the news was transmitted to the Lei family through the channels outside the Li family, and Yu Xiaotian proposed a ransom of five hundred taels of silver to the Lei family according to the different heads and identities, and asked the Lei family to pay the money to ransom the person within a month, otherwise the ticket would be torn up.

The Lei family lost two boats and a full ship of goods, and was also asked for a ransom of five hundred taels, when even if they panicked, they jumped up and down to find a way to contact Yu Xiaotian through various channels, expressing their hope to pay the silver to ransom the people, and then take out some silver to redeem their two ships.

In the end, they didn't know that the Li family was the owner of the sea wolf's den, but through a pirate named Zhang Chuan on the coast of Fuzhou, Zhang Chuan found Liu Yidao, who knew Yu Xiaotian, and found Treasure Island through Liu Yidao, and found Yu Xiaotian to try to discuss the matter.

Yu Xiaotian was very polite to Liu Yidao's visit, but he refused to the conditions proposed by the Lei family, the reason is very simple, he fell in love with these two boats, and decided to stay to replace his boat, and would not return it to the Lei family, but for the sake of Liu Yidao's face, the ransom can be exempted from two hundred taels.

Liu Yidao looked at the boats in the Shuizhai Bay of Treasure Island, and his saliva was about to flow to the ground, although his boat was also a medium-sized lucky boat, but his boat was not as good as the lucky boat that Yu Xiaotian took from the Lei family.

Of course, he knew the importance of such a boat to their industry, whoever got this kind of boat would not let go easily, he must have come for nothing this time, even if Yu Xiaotian gave him face again, it was impossible to return this boat to the Lei family, but Yu Xiaotian did not completely throw his face on the ground, but he very readily promised to give the Lei family two hundred taels of silver for ransom, which was quite a face.

Special thanks to the iron hand for the reward of the lover, today is my birthday in the cold wind, give yourself a day off, go out to have fun! Hehe! )