"The head of the house, in front of Haitan Island, this area is very complicated, there are really a lot of peers here, do you think we should be more careful?" Zhao Mazi walked behind Yu Xiaotian at some point and whispered to Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian also saw a line of land exposed in the distance on the port side of the ship at this time, if you don't know the road, you think it is the mainland, it turns out that this is just the east side of Haitan Island, after hearing Zhao Mazi's reminder, Yu Xiaotian nodded and said: "What Uncle Zhao said makes sense, listen carefully, everyone on the boat is in their own positions, Shangdou stared at it carefully, the big guys cheered up, let's go outside Haitan Island, be careful!" Yu Xiaotian raised his voice and issued a warning to the whole ship.

Everyone who had been idle and had nothing to do, after hearing Yu Xiaotian's shout, immediately stood up straight, and Meng Madman immediately shouted and beckoned his soldiers, entered the cabin and began to take out the guys and get ready.

Zhao Mazi is right, the east and west sides of Haitan Island, has always been the place where ships from north to south must pass through, belonging to the busiest place in addition to Quanzhou, Fujian's coastal shipping routes, and it is exactly like this, many pirates have focused their attention on this area, so at this time there is a robbery of ships, and now their sea wolves have also become a part of the pirate group, and now the cabin is full of all kinds of goods, and they want to go to Dalian Island to trade with the Li family, if they are robbed by their peers here, it is a joke!

Everyone on the boat was nervous at this time, Liu Wang's body was light and his eyes were good, so he and the other two descendants were arranged by Yu Xiaotian to do the work of fighting, after getting the warning, Liu Wang immediately volunteered to greet one of the descendants above, let him come down, take his place, like a little monkey, he grabbed the rope on the mast and climbed towards the top of the main mast.

At the top of the mainmast, at this time has set up a simple small bucket, for people to squat in it, to look at the sea in the distance, although the scenery here is unique, but people who don't have a little courage can't do this, because in the place of Wangdou, it is the place where the whole ship shakes the most, and the sea breeze is also the largest place, and the people who look down and are afraid of heights will be scared to their legs, not to mention squatting here, looking out in all directions, even if they are brave people, after coming up, they must use a rope to tie their waistsIn case the wind and waves are too strong, they will be thrown down.

Liu Wang is not very old, he can't be regarded as a bold person before, but this guy is quite clever, after following Yu Xiaotian several times, this courage has also become bigger, and with this future brother-in-law, this kid has also become a lot more cheerful, plus he likes to climb high and low, so it is just more suitable for doing this kind of thing.

Yu Xiaotian these days, a let this guy focus on bows and muskets, but now I find that this guy's arm strength is relatively small, the bow is unstable, and he can't open a strong bow, and he didn't have any foundation before, so it's basically useless to practice bows and arrows, so he gave up the bow and arrow, specializing in musketeers, and among their limited few muskets, they selected a musket that is relatively good in workmanship, will not blow up the chamber and is slightly more accurate, and handed it to the three of them as their exclusive weapons.

Yu Xiaotian attaches more importance to the business of Shangdou than anyone else, not only can they take on the job of watching the ship, but at the same time, they are in a position with the widest field of vision, and it is also a very suitable position for sniping, if Shangdou can be a sharpshooter, he can snipe the enemy's leader at a high place by surprise, and sometimes it may affect the situation of the battle.

So far, the three of them have mastered how to load and fire the musket when shaking at a high place, but because of the limited conditions, the gunpowder they have at hand is very tight, and the musket in their hands can only be called a musket at best, and the accuracy is very poor, so it cannot play an effective role for the time being.

According to Yu Xiaotian's plan, if they can't get a better artillery in a short time, they must at least find a way to get a few well-made muskets or bird guns, at least in terms of close combat, they have a certain advantage.

This time they went to Dalian Island to find a deal with the Li family, Yu Xiaotian had already made a large list of materials that needed to be purchased, including all kinds of firearms, now as pirates, mixing on the sea, and relying on simple cold weapons such as knives, guns, bows and arrows, it was already a little outdated, he pondered that since he wanted to do this business, he would strive to build a well-equipped subordinate, so that when they operated at sea, the chances of victory would be greater.

The ship continued to sail north, and after a while, Liu Wang shouted from the lookout at the top of the mast: "There are two ships five miles ahead!" Heading in the direction of Haitan Island! ”

After hearing Liu Wang's shout, the people on the boat immediately came to their senses and began to stretch out their heads to look at the front of the ship.

"The two boats in front turned! Coming towards us, it doesn't look good! After the ship had moved a little longer, Liu Wang shouted again on the mast.

After Yu Xiaotian heard this, his nerves immediately began to tense, and he raised his head and shouted, "Do you see that they have a flag on the ship?" What is the vessel? ”

Liu Wang replied loudly: "I can't see if they have flags or not, two boats, one big and one small, one like a three-masted lucky boat, and the other like a two-masted bird boat!" It's a bit like our boat! ”

Liu Lao Liu immediately said to Xiaotian: "There are two ships in this place, it is estimated that it is not an ordinary merchant ship, they must have seen our ship, so they came towards us, and they didn't know if they came to us!" ”

Yu Xiaotian was secretly also summing up, and now he couldn't see the other party's boat, but judging from Liu Wang's feedback, the other party must have come badly, so he raised his hand and ordered loudly: "Prepare!" ”

After an experience, the people on the ship performed much better this time, and the practice of true knowledge is good, the performance of their last ship robbery, Yu Xiaotian on the way back and the past few days have been repeatedly analyzing with this group of people, so that everyone understands the various mistakes they made in the last ship robbery, and let these people have nothing to say.

So although the last time they hijacked the ship, they behaved extremely clumsy, and they also paid the price of Zhao Tong's life and two injuries, but after the events of that day, they learned a lot from it, so it can be regarded as a great luck in misfortune, which is still quite satisfied in the past two days.

At this time, when they heard Yu Xiaotian's order to prepare, everyone on the ship did not show signs of confusion, but began to hang the bow in an orderly manner, a bundle of arrows was opened, and the rocket was also stained with fire oil, and at the same time, someone took out a torch for ignition, and more than a dozen fire pots filled with fire oil were also placed in the basket fixed under the side of the ship, and several three-eyed guns were also picked up by them one by one and loaded into gunpowder and guns.

Anyway, the chaos of the last time didn't happen again this time, and everyone quickly stood where they needed to stand, ready for the next step.

One of their bowls was also lifted at this time to reveal the barrel of the gun, a powder jar was removed and placed next to the gun carriage, and two of the descendants designated as gunners had taken out the pestle and were also ready to be loaded.

Now they are left with a bowl mouth gun, the last time the ship was robbed, that bowl mouth gun, because there was too much blackhead charge, after the gun carriage was cracked, and the gun mouth was also broken off a piece, and now it is placed on Treasure Island, ready to go back and recruit the blacksmith, and then repair, in a short time, they dare not use the bowl mouth gun again.

So at the moment, their heavy firepower has been halved, for them, it's okay to rob others, if they are besieged, they will suffer more, but after Yu Xiaotian saw the performance of his gang, instead of feeling too worried, he was a little relieved.

Fighting may be a way to temper people more than training, and his previous idea of calming down and training these subordinates has now changed, in fact, their last ship robbery operation, the harvest is not small, at least let these people know their shortcomings, know what to do, this is much more valuable than the little goods they robbed.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian has now changed his original mind and decided to take these people in the future, while going to sea to train them, he will do a few votes in a small fight, not seeking success, but only hoping to let these people accumulate more experience through actual combat, which may be more effective than simple training.

Today, when they came to Dalian Island, Yu Xiaotian did his best and brought out most of his capable people, firstly, to ensure the safety of the goods they carried on this trip, and secondly, to let these people conduct some training on the way to Dalian Island this time.

And today it seems that the situation is not very good, nine times out of ten they have met their peers, but they can't dodge, at the moment their cabin is full of goods to go to Dalian Island, the ship is in a full state, the draft is relatively deep, the speed is relatively slow, rather than showing weakness and dodging now, it is better to swagger up to meet it, and show the identity of the good.

At present, everyone on the ship is ready, if the other party really wants to eat black and black, they will not give it in vain, not to mention that pirates also have rules, under normal circumstances, as long as they are peers, not opponents, meet at sea, more is to say hello, and no one wants to fight desperately with each other.

So Yu Xiaotian did not give the order to turn, but continued to swagger with a full sail and greeted the two boats in front.

"They've raised their flag! The big ship is raised with a green flag, and the smaller boat is raised with a blue flag! There seems to be a word on the green flag! I can't see clearly! Liu Wang, who was on Wangdou, once again reported loudly on it.

At this time, Yu Xiaotian and they could already see the two boats that appeared on the sea level, there was a slight commotion on the boat, Liu Laoliu was experienced in this, and immediately said: "Xiaotian, the two boats on the other side are not a group, it is not good to make it two groups of people who came out together, but I don't know what their origin is!" What shall we do? ”

Yu Xiaotian took a deep breath and said, "Steady!" Let's just go with ours! Well water does not interfere with river water! As long as they don't want to play with their lives, they shouldn't be able to do anything with us! Departments just get ready! ”

Yu Xiaotian's calmness made everyone on the boat quiet again, and the handsome adjusted the sails slightly according to Liu Laoliu's instructions, and were ready to turn the sails at any time, and the soldiers and other crew members who had nothing to do for the time being also stood up straight at this time, standing on the side of the ship, everyone stood up and raised their bellies as much as possible, making them look more majestic.

As the ships on both sides moved in the opposite direction, the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, and Yu Xiaotian could already see some details of the other party's ships, and also saw the flags of the other party's two ships.

Among the two ships that came over, a larger ship is a unique type of fortune ship belonging to the coast of Fujian, with two mainmasts and a low inclined foremast, such a fortune ship is twice as large as the displacement of the bird ship they are currently under, and the speed is slightly higher, it belongs to a medium-sized fortune ship, but compared with the second fortune ship of the Ming Dynasty sailor, it is smaller, and the degree of solidity is not as good as the warship, it is a more common sea ship in the coastal area of Fujian, and it is estimated that it was also a merchant ship earlier, and now it has become a pirate ship.

The advantage of such a lucky ship is that the ship is tall, the hull is strong, and under normal circumstances, it can be used to collide with the enemy ship with the tactics of collision, of course, the premise is that it is a smaller ship, and the ability to resist wind and waves at sea is also relatively strong, more suitable for sea navigation, but the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, the degree of flexibility is not enough, when encountering lighter ships, it is not easy for them to turn, and it is difficult to effectively catch up with other ships, so such a ship looks majestic, but it is not very suitable as a pirate ship, and it is no wonder that they will group up with two ships.

The other ship is similar to Yu Xiaotian's ship, both of which are of the type of bird ship, and they are also brigs, and the displacement of the ship is basically similar to theirs, but the difference is that the bow of the ship looks more awkward, it doesn't seem to be original, but it looks like it is on the original ship, and a bow is installed, which looks very awkward.

The flag raised by the three-masted fortune ship is green, and there seems to be a traditional Liu character written on the flag, but the distance is relatively far, and Yu Xiaotian can't be sure yet, it is a Liu character, and it can only be determined when it is closer.

And the other bird boat rose with a blue flag, and on the tattered blue flag, it seemed to be a clean face, and there was nothing, and it was impossible to determine what their identity was.

(Ask for a red ticket!) Brothers, help smash a few! Hehe! ）