It was a chore to go to sea in the middle of this season, but everyone on the ship was still very interested, especially the newly recruited trainees, all of whom were full of energy, planning to do a good job, and strive to make meritorious contributions, and become regular soldiers among the sea wolves as soon as possible.

In their opinion, although Yu Xiaotian is strict, he is lenient and strict with his subordinates, and he is both strict and caring for them, and it is not cruel, not like Zhou Cheng, who tortures them at every turn, so they are now more suitable for life on this kind of ship than the people who came from Dongshan Village.

Even though the weather at sea was very cold, the people on the ship still insisted on hitting the sea water every day and carefully cleaning the boat, so that all parts of their ship looked clean and tidy, and they looked very comfortable.

Now Yu Xiaotian no longer has to worry about the health problems on the ship, after his rectification, his gang of people have become accustomed to a clean life, and every day there will be a person on the ship who acts as a star officer, full-time responsible for the inspection of the health of the ship and the supervision of the discipline of the sailors on the ship, Yu Xiaotian, the helmsman, has become relaxed, this is the superiority of the establishment of the system.

However, hunting on the sea is not an easy thing, although there are many merchants engaged in smuggling and trading at sea at this time, but compared with the maritime trade of later generations, the sea of this era is still quite empty, and there are no ships for a long time.

After two days of hunting, they only encountered a fleet in the area of the south mouth of the Haitan Strait, but when they arrived, they found that this fleet actually had six ships acting together, close to each other, putting on a posture of waiting for each other, and it was not at all the prey that pirates of their strength could eat, so Yu Xiaotian could only drool and let this fleet go.

Seeing that he couldn't get a bargain in this area, Yu Xiaotian ordered to turn the rudder and go south to try his luck again.

But in the afternoon, the wind and waves at sea suddenly became bigger, which was nothing for a larger boat like them, but for the small fishing boat brought by Luo Xianbin in front, the wind and waves were too big, so Yu Xiaotian considered the safety of Luo Xianbin and others, so he had to order to temporarily go to a nearby island to dock and avoid the wind.

The coastline in this area is very tortuous, and there are many large and small islands along the coast, although there are many shelters from the wind, but there are also a lot of reefs and other things, when the wind and waves are strong, sailing in this area, without a person who is familiar with the waterway in this area, a careless may lead to the danger of hitting the reef.

In this area, even if it is an old runner like Liu Laoliu, he doesn't dare to say that he can ensure that nothing goes wrong, fortunately, this time they brought a few of Zhou Cheng's subordinates on the ship, one of whom is named Zhang Xiao, who was the helmsman on Zhou Cheng's ship at the beginning, and is more familiar with this area.

At his instruction, there was a small harbor on a nearby island, which was suitable for temporary shelter, so he sailed towards the island with a boat.

The wind and waves at sea are getting stronger and stronger, and some people who have not been on the boat long ago begin to get seasick, and the boat rises and falls up and down in the waves, and is thrown to the top of the wave for a while, and then falls heavily into the bottom of the waves, so that the people on the boat are a little unstable, and can only try their best to hold the side of the ship with their hands or pull the rope, or simply tie themselves to the mast with a rope to fix it, in order to control the body.

Yu Xiaotian was very worried about the boat that Luo Xianbin was on at this time, for fear that their boat would not be able to withstand such wind and waves, and if something happened, they would not even have a chance to rescue them.

Fortunately, a few guys on the boat led by Luo Xianbin have been running on the sea all year round, and they are quite experienced in dealing with such wind and waves.

After sailing for more than half an hour, they finally saw the island that Zhang Xiao pointed to, and saw the harbor on the island that could be sheltered from the wind, so in the cheers of everyone, Liu Lao Liu personally steered the boat, drove the boat with Luo Xianbin's boat, and sailed towards the bay.

But when they arrived outside the bay, Yu Xiaotian raised his eyes and was taken aback, because he was shocked to find that before they arrived, there were actually three boats in here, and with the experience he had accumulated during this time, these three boats were all merchant ships that ran the sea.

This time Yu Xiaotian didn't know whether to be happy or worried, there was a feeling that a blind cat hit a dead mouse, they came out and ran for almost three days, but they found nothing, they didn't expect to encounter this strong wind, forcing them to find a place to shelter from the wind, but they bumped into these three big fish.

According to their strength, if they ran into these three boats on the sea, they really wouldn't have to bite them, but now that the wind and waves have forced them here, they can't choose.

Zhang Xiao, who followed Yu Xiaotian, also saw the three boats in the bay, and seemed to be a little surprised, and asked Xiaotian a little worriedly: "Helm handle!" What are we going to do? ”

Yu Xiaotian spat into the sea, gritted his teeth and said, "What should I do?" Cold! Can we still turn around and walk away at this time? Go in and take shelter from the wind first! ”

Under the operation of Liu Laoliu and the others, their boat sailed directly into the bay, and Luo Xianbin's boat also followed closely and broke into the bay together.

Their appearance immediately disturbed the three merchant ships that had sailed into the bay in advance, only to see the figures on the three boats shaking, and many boatmen running back and forth on the boats.

Although Yu Xiaotian has not ordered to hang their signature sea wolf flag at this time, but with experienced boatmen, after a closer look, they can still basically judge their identity, generally even if a merchant ship of their size is added with a few guards on board, that is, more than a dozen people, and under normal circumstances, whether it is going south or north, they will try their best to allocate goods, and strive not to run empty, in order to earn more silver, so the ships that appear in this area, as long as they are merchant ships running the sea, Basically, it will not be empty.

On Yu Xiaotian's ship, there are at least twenty or thirty people on the deck at this time, and they are still unloaded, the hull draft is shallow, the speed is fast, and the sails are deliberately increased to increase the speed of the ship, such characteristics explain their identity, even if they don't hang up the flag, they can basically judge their identity at close range, at least they can guess eight or nine.

Therefore, as soon as they appeared, the people on the three merchant ships in the bay who had come to take shelter from the storm in advance were all panicked, and they all ran back and forth on the boats, apparently in preparation.

Yu Xiaotian couldn't take care of them for the time being, and after taking the boat into the bay, he anchored and stopped the boat at the entrance of the bay, blocking the mouth of the bay, and the small fishing boat with Luo Xianbin also stopped not far from the main boat.

The wind and waves on the sea are getting stronger and stronger, and even the waves in the bay are not too small, and several boats are up and down in the waves, and there is a tense atmosphere in the air.

During this time, they bought some buffalo skins from the Li family, although the leather is not as strong as the yellow cow skin in the north, but the raw buffalo leather is also very hard, and it can still be made into leather armor to provide a certain amount of protection for the user.

Therefore, taking advantage of this time to build the village, Yu Xiaotian ordered his subordinates, who had learned the skills of a leather craftsman for a few days, to let him cut and sew these raw buffalo skins into more than a dozen pieces of upper body leather armor for the use of soldiers doing rough work.

The craftsmanship of this two-and-a-half hanger cobhermaker is very bad, and the leather armor made is very rough and ugly, and there is not even an arm guard, but it only protects the main torso part of the body, because the leather is relatively hard, and it is not very comfortable to wear, but it is undeniable that these buffalo leather leather armor still provides a certain amount of protection for people.

At least the light arrows shot at medium and long distances will no longer easily cause damage to people, and the iron sand at long distances can also be somewhat defended to reduce the damage to the human body.

Therefore, the soldiers were still very satisfied with this rough leather armor, which also made them feel safer when they did it, and undoubtedly made them more courageous to some extent.

As for the iron armor, Yu Xiaotian didn't think about it at all for the time being, after all, they were working on the water, and they might sometimes fall into the sea, although the defense of the iron armor was improved, but because of the heavy weight, they were inconvenient, and it was easy to fall into the sea when jumping into the water, once they fell into the water, the heavy iron armor would immediately fall into the water and drown the wearer, and there would not even be time to take off the iron armor.

Except for the soldiers who took advantage of this time to start preparing, the rest of the crew were not idle, and they also distributed their weapons and handed them into everyone's hands, and they would also follow the soldiers to help in the battle if needed.

Because of the limited strength of the hull, although they now have four cannons, when Yu Xiaotian went to sea, he still only installed two cannons on this ship, and the remaining two were temporarily placed in the stockade as a weapon for guarding, so at this time, the two cannons were placed in front of the bow and stern.

Liu Tong also led people to load the cannons at this time, just waiting to be ready to fire at the three merchant ships in the bay at any time, ready to take them down, as for the other firearms and other firearms on the ship, they were also loaded, just wait for a while after the wind stops, and start to move.

Everyone stared at the three merchant ships in the bay with all their might, and now they didn't need to hoist their sea wolf flags, and they had already identified themselves.

But God is not very beautiful, in this season, it still rained at night, and the robbery and robbery that was originally planned had to be postponed because of this rain.

The cold rain sprinkled down from the sky, and soon the rain became heavier and heavier, this cold day, the taste of being poured into the soup chicken was not pleasant, the conditions on the ship were limited, only a few sets of clothes and a few ponchos made of oilcloth, so Yu Xiaotian looked at the sky and sighed, so he had to order the ship to leave part of the personnel on duty, lift the state of readiness, and the rest of the people went down to the cabin to shelter from the rain, and some people in the province were frozen and damaged.

It rained all night long, and at dawn the sky continued to shed raindrops, and all the people on the boats who took shelter from the wind in the bay could be said to have stayed up all night, and spent the night in this long wait.

Seeing that the rain began to light down and the sky began to brighten, the sea wolves began to poke their heads out of the cabin one after another, and began to prepare for action again.