"Headmaster, that woman insists on seeing our stewards here. He said that he wanted to tell us the island where the Cham pirates docked. But we sent several people to meet her, and she said that she was not in charge...... "The sixth squad leader followed Zhao Jiaren to introduce the situation.

Zhao Jiaren can understand the reason why his subordinates are so anxious, the pirates will not enter the port to repair with great arrogance, they must have their own islands to repair. If the location of the repair point is known, even if there is no way to end the pot, the possibility that Zhao Jiaren's six ships will capture twelve pirate ships is not a pipe dream.

The students who lead the way at the front hold torches, and under the flickering firelight, the school road is full of shadows. Zhao Jiaren asked, "Does the woman know about us?" ”

"This ...... Listen to what she means, as if she knows. The sixth class leader gave a very reasonable explanation.

"What about the other people who have been rescued?" Zhao Jiaren asked.

"A total of six people were rescued, and all five men were seriously injured. Two of them died halfway through. We buried them at sea. For the three people who survived, the doctor cleaned their wounds and stitched them up. But no one wanted to give them a blood transfusion, so they gave them some saline. So far, he has barely survived. The sixth shift leader described the process in detail, especially the medical process. It can be seen that this disposition has made a strong impression on him. As for whether the woman was injured, the sixth squad leader did not mention it.

Zhao Jiaren didn't ask this question either. For pirates, the purpose of keeping a woman behind was simple. Generally speaking, they do not use weapons to inflict heavy damage on women.

The school was designed to have a hospital from the beginning, and although it was rudimentary, the hospital was built as a priority building. When he entered a ward, Zhao Jiaren saw an oil lamp like a bean in the room, and in the dim light, three men were lying side by side on three hospital beds. A woman was sitting on a bed next to her, and when she saw someone coming in, she quickly stood up.

As soon as she saw Zhao Jiaren, the woman carefully identified it for a while, and asked tentatively, "It's Zhao Jinshi who came?" ”

Under the firelight, Zhao Jiaren stared at the woman suspiciously. I saw that the woman was of medium stature and looked quite sturdy. As for the appearance, it is a goose egg face, the appearance of a Jiangnan girl, the nose is not high enough. He was certainly not yet thirty years old. Zhao Jiaren had no impression of this face at all. And the woman's sentence Zhao Jinshi made Zhao Jiaren feel that her understanding of herself was not very superficial.

"Three years ago, I saw Zhao Jinshi boasting about officials in Quanzhou. At that time, the eldest brother next to you also bought me two cooking cakes. "Yuelian recounts the history of the past.

Three years ago, Zhao Jiaren still knew that there was such a thing after being admitted to the Jinshi street. As for the specific situation of parade on the street, he had long forgotten about it. Let the woman say this, Zhao Jiaren became more vigilant. Not only Zhao Jiaren was alert, but the sixth squad leader also looked at the woman suspiciously, and became even more uneasy about her identity.

At this time, Yuelian did not hide it. She said calmly: "My surname is Hu." Five years ago, my father, Hu Chuankui, had a bit of a reputation among Guangdong businessmen who went to the South China Sea, but he was jealous of the Pu family because of this. The Pu family sent Champa pirates to attack my ship, and my father escaped. came back to sue the official, the Pu family was powerful in Quanzhou, and he couldn't move him. Champa is their territory. We can only find a way to seek revenge by ourselves, and at that time, we went to the port of Quanzhou just to know when the Pu family's ship sailed, not to peep at Zhao Jinshi. ”

After some inquiry, Zhao Jiaren and others came out. The leader of the sixth squad ordered the people around him, "Tell the brother on duty to keep an eye on this woman." ”

Zhao Jiaren didn't speak, he felt that the logic of what Hu Yuelian said was clear, but there was always something weird in it. If this is true, it means that the Hu family is either very weak, or they are not very clean people, or the power of the Pu family is actually much more than Zhao Jiaren expected. Of course, businessmen from Guangdong came to Quanzhou to sue the rich people in Quanzhou, but no matter how you look at it, there is no possibility of winning. Zhao Jiaren felt that maybe he was thinking too much.

"Headmaster, is this woman credible?" The sixth squad leader leaned up and asked.

"Give it a try. Anyway, according to her, his father was also one of the three. I can't see clearly, do you think those two look alike? Zhao Jiaren replied.

"It's quite like." The sixth class leader replied.

"Then take this woman with you. Before I went over, I told her that her father's injury was so serious, and we tried our best to treat it, but if we couldn't cure it, we couldn't do anything about it. Zhao Jiaren made a decision.

After dawn, the sixth squad leader arrived at the ward and told Yuelian what Zhao Jiaren said. Yuelian wasn't too surprised, she thought about it along the way, and discussed the decision with her father, Hu Chuankui, who had woken up from a serious injury. It was not a problem to help Zhao Jiaren, but as soon as she heard her father's body, Yuelian retreated in her heart. Just when she hesitated to think about how to refuse to lead the way in person, she heard Hu Chuankui on the hospital bed say in a weak breath: "Yuelian, you can go." If I can't kill the Champam pirates because of me, I'll ...... Ahem...... I don't blink an eye. ”

"Don't worry, we'll do our best to take care of this father-in-law. If you have to talk about it, it won't help you much if you stay here or not. The sixth squad leader persuaded.

Yuelian did not object to this, she had seen too many injuries in so many years at sea. If it hadn't been for the Zhao family's fleet, her father and two others would have died long ago. Of course, there was also a very thrilling thing, the doctor on the ship drew blood from Yuelian's arm and injected it into her father Hu Chuankui's arm. The two sailors, who were less injured than his father, did not survive, but Hu Chuankui, who was in his forties, survived. This kind of practice that looks like an evil spell makes Yuelian scared and surprised.

Yuelian felt that if she could really make a contribution to Zhao Jiaren, Zhao Jiaren would probably not treat the Hu family badly. Thinking of this, Yuelian responded: "Dad." I'll be sure to come back sooner. ”

The next day it was dawn and the ship was launched. The cabin was full of trainee sailors, and Zhao Jiaren felt that if there were really twelve ships, all these sailors would go up, and they could only barely drive the boat back.

Yuelian was arranged in the captain's room, and the leader of the sixth squad took out the navigation chart and chatted with Yuelian to determine the location of the island. Yuelian knew that there was such a thing as a chart, but she never expected that there would be such an accurate chart. It was only by relying on a few relatively clear points that the general direction was determined. Of course, whether she can really reach her destination or not, Yuelian has no spectrum in her heart.

The ship arrived in Putian on the same day to join the fleet. Then Yuelian began to be questioned by the study committee members in various ways, and she thought that these people had nothing to say. After being asked for a while, Yuelian understood that this was not the case. These people have not been to Guangdong like Yuelian, let alone near Zhancheng. They have a strong interest in the uncharted seas.

Speaking of the dry rest of the road, Yuelian drank tea and couldn't help asking, "Is your fleet still ready to sail to Guangdong and Zhancheng?" ”

"Did you know that the earth is a ball?" The second class study committee member asked proudly.

Yuelian shook her head, and began to think that the man was a weirdo. The second class member continued: "We are not only going to Nanhai and Champang. I also want to take a boat around the earth and prove for myself that the earth is indeed round! ”

Hearing such bold words, Yuelian was stunned at first, and then desperately squeezed out a smile to show her friendliness. But in Yuelian's heart, this study committee member was upgraded from a weirdo to a weirdo who tried not to come into contact with him.

The earth is round or square, the ball is the cake, Yuelian doesn't care, all she cares about is that the earth under her feet doesn't change. However, these guys on the other side obviously really want to prove that the ground under their feet is a ball through their actions. This kind of guy who obviously belongs to the well-fed and supportive belongs to the type that Yuelian dislikes very much.

Although she didn't like these people, Yuelian had to admit that Zhao Jiaren's boat was really fast. Even with the southeasterly wind blowing, the ship sails in a beautiful zigzag pattern. Each sail was at the angle of the maximum wind, so that the boat creaked.

While resting, Yuelian couldn't help but ask, "The ship is so open, aren't you afraid of damage to the mast?" ”

The pirates couldn't enter the port to resupply and repair in the open, and they wouldn't let the ships withstand the maximum wind unless they had to. If the mast breaks, it is likely to give a small life to the sea. Yuelian also endured it for a long time before she couldn't help but ask this question. If she accepted this fact in silence, Yuelian felt that her previous experience had become a source of pain that tormented her.

In less than half a minute, Yuelian felt that she had miscalculated. The third-class study committee member who was asked was showing off, what kind of cable, mast, and inexplicable force angle and so on. All Moon Lotus is looking for is peace of mind, and proving that she has no problem with her previous idea of using the ship. She wasn't expecting to be tormented by a rhetoric she couldn't fully understand. Rubbing her temples slightly, Yuelian began to think about how to interrupt this torturous conversation.

"Go back to work!" With a deep scold, the chattering guy stopped showing off, stuck out his tongue and ran away.

Yuelian looked at the person who spoke, and it turned out to be Li Hongjun, the commander of the fleet. Li Hongjun said to Yuelian, "Of course we don't want our ship to have an accident, don't worry, it won't happen if you run the boat like this." ”

"Is it really possible to tie the mast with a rope?" Yuelian also heard some clues from that guy's nonsense.

"Nothing has happened until now." Li Hongjun replied confidently.

"It's good that nothing happened." Although Yuelian still couldn't understand the specific means, looking at the rigging connected to the mast was tight, Yuelian also felt as if she felt some kind of truth.

"It's about to start, and you're ready to eat now." Li Hongjun said.

Watching Yuelian flick her braids and walk to the cabin. Li Hongjun couldn't help but sigh, he didn't expect that there would suddenly be an extra woman on the boat, which made a group of young men who were originally quite serious become improper. It seems that the ancestral motto of the ship's family not to take women on the ship is indeed very reasonable.

On the third day of sailing, the fleet finally reached its destination. Seeing the familiar island from afar, Yuelian admired Zhao Jiaren's fleet in her heart. Then he heard the sailors who were watching from the mast shout: "Sure enough, there are eight ships ahead." ”

Then I heard someone shouting, "News has also come from other ships, there are eight ships." ”

The island was a desert island, and it wasn't on the shipping line. If it makes sense to have one or two ships over there, but eight ships over there, there must be a problem. As soon as Li Hongjun heard this, he was sure in his heart that what Yuelian said was more reliable. He then shouted, "Prepare for battle." ”

The pirate ship was quite alert, and when they saw six ships approaching, they quickly set sail. The Chinese-style hard sails were easy to handle, and they finally left the island before the Zhao family's fleet approached. As soon as the two sides approached, Yuelian shouted, "They are the Champa pirates!" ”

After two fights with pirates, the Zhao family's fleet knew that it was not a Great Song ship as soon as they looked at the personnel on the opposite ship. What's more, the other side did not try to communicate through various means at all, and their response was to bring the torsion ballista to the deck. A large number of sailors with weapons rushed to the deck and shouted and demonstrated against the Zhao family's fleet. If it's a serious fleet, it's better to avoid fighting.

By this time, the fleet had nothing to talk about. Li Hongjun shouted "fire", and the battle began.

Yuelian watched as the Zhao family's fleet approached the pirate ship, and the sailors manipulated strange weapons to destroy most of the pirates' torsion ballista. This made her extremely excited, and every time her ship fought against the Champa pirates, it would suffer from the enemy's ballistas. The only way to reverse the disadvantage is to use gang jumping as soon as possible.

Now the Champa pirate ship has become the losing party, they saw that they could not get rid of the Zhao family fleet in the wind, so they simply pulled the ship over, the pirates held weapons, hid behind the place where they could hide, and only waited for the ships on both sides to make contact before winning with hand-to-hand combat.

With a loud bang, the two ships pressed together. Under the violent shaking of the ship's hull, Yuelian saw someone on the opposite boat standing unsteadily, and fell from the side of the ship into the sea with a scream. The crew of the Zhao family's fleet clung to the things on the ship, and there was no accident in the violent vibration.

There was a roar from the opposite side, and the Cham pirates held their weapons towards the contact point between the two ships, ready to jump over the boat gang and kill the Zhao family's ship for hand-to-hand combat.

On the deck, what had always been hidden from sackcloth during the fierce artillery battle was uncovered. They were three even larger iron gadgets, much larger than the small cannons in long-range combat. Someone lit the fuse on the iron guy with a torch. A moment later, with a muffled sound, Yuelian saw a large amount of rubble erupt from the thick muzzle. The rubble washed over the deck like a storm, and in the blink of an eye, there was a howl on the deck. One by one, the pirates who gathered to jump into the gang covered their faces and screamed, or they fell on the deck and screamed.

Three shots in quick succession, and the entire deck of the pirate ship was washed. Yuelian saw the men in the Zhao family's fleet carrying weapons, ready to jump onto the pirate ship. Unlike their proficiency at striking enemies with ranged weapons, the gang-jumping guys are slow to move and are distinctly fearful.

Yuelian's hand pressed on the hilt of the knife at her waist, and she strode forward to the side of the boat, drawing a short knife in each hand. Before getting on the boat, Zhao Jiaren asked Yuelian to go to the blacksmith shop to choose weapons, and she chose this pair of short knives. In the past few days on an unfamiliar ship, it is precisely because of this pair of short knives that Yuelian can feel at least a little relieved. If the guys in the fleet dared to do anything, she would have a chance to kill herself.

Now that Yuelian had seen the best battle situation she had ever dreamed of, the enemies waiting to be slaughtered were no longer able to resist. The group of useless men on the boat couldn't see the momentum they had when they were blowing blindly these days. Yuelian, who was extremely dissatisfied with this sluggishness, jumped from the Zhao family's ship to the pirate ship.

The men didn't expect to have a goose egg face, a small nose, and a very gentle look, and it is said that Yuelian, who was only eighteen years old, actually took the lead in rushing the pirate ship.

Liu Meng, a member of the sports committee, was about to call Yue Lian back, when he saw Yue Lian striding forward dexterously, and then the short knife in his left hand had already slashed through the neck of a pirate. Just as blood spurted from the pirate's neck, Yuelian had already taken two more steps forward, and the short knife in her right hand stabbed the throat of the other pirate.

One, two, three, the men watched in amazement as the only sister on the ship slaughtered on the pirate ship, dominating the pirate ship with an unstoppable attitude.