Two more days passed in the game, because the village had just been upgraded, there were a lot of things to be busy, and he dealt with government affairs with Yu Qian in the administrative center for two days, Zhang Fan couldn't stay any longer, if he hadn't sneaked out to meet Liu Ru when he was about to get off work every day, and relaxed, Zhang Fan probably would have found other things to do and would not stay in the village to deal with government affairs. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Village chief, deputy village chief, no, our ship has been robbed." Zhang Fan just wanted to go out, and a person hurriedly ran to the political center and shouted.

"What's going on, speak slowly."

"Today we went out to sea to fish, and when we came back, several boats suddenly rushed out from both sides of an island..."

The fisherman recounted what had happened.

"Pirates, you say? Sure it's a pirate. Zhang Fan took a breath and asked loudly.

"Yes, village chief, they call themselves islands, if our fishing boats are overtaken, they will attack with bows and arrows if they don't stop, I saw that the situation was not good, and immediately dumped all the fish into the sea, plus they ran out of the front relatively early."

"Hmm." Zhang Fan thought about how to deal with it, there were pirates around here, and Zhang Fan paid attention to it.

"How many boats do they have, and how big are they?" Zhang Fan asked.

"There were more than a dozen of them coming out after us, three of them were relatively large, and the rest were boats about the same size as us, and there were about a dozen people in each boat. How many people were on board the big ship is not clear. ”

After the fisherman finished speaking, Zhang Fan let him go down first.

"Yu Qian, what do you think?"

Zhang Fan turned his head and asked Yu Qian.

"These pirates must be cleared, otherwise it will seriously endanger our maritime industry, and we don't have a decent navy, or we don't have a navy at all, and we should take this opportunity to build our navy as well."

I didn't develop a navy before, because the ship was too expensive, a ship with dozens of gold coins, and the later maintenance was not cheaper than the one built, and it was necessary to raise a naval army of hundreds of people, I am afraid it would cost thousands of gold coins a month, so I can't afford it at present.

However, since there are pirates around the territory, it is not possible to develop a naval army, so you can only let the territory develop more slowly, or find other sources of income.

"Okay, I'll do that."

Zhang Fan immediately took over this task, he didn't like to deal with government affairs, and it was just right to go to suppress bandits.

Now there are 2,000 soldiers in the village, and there are hundreds of militiamen, and the militia can only be converted into soldiers after training.

Zhang Fan selected 800 people, who would be used as a water army, and at the same time, the two generals Yue Yun and Wang Da were also temporarily seconded, so that Lin Dayou could go to the cottage alone.

Zhang Fan transferred five big boats and more than a dozen fishing boats, although he didn't know how many people there were on the other side, but Zhang Fan still decided to be careful, these hundreds of people also had his own two generals, Zhang Fan couldn't afford to lose.

The navy was formed the next day, and Zhang Fan found out all the charts, and then set off.

Zhang Fan sent several small boats to reconnoiter in front, and then formed a fleet with the big ships as the center, with a hundred soldiers on each large ship, and the rest scattered in a dozen small ships.

Since fishing boats usually don't go very far, after two hours they are in a pirate-infested area, where there are so many small islands that it is difficult to find a boat hiding in a certain waterway.

"Village chief, we found a water village." The ship that was scouting ahead came back to report.

Zhang Fan kept the fleet hidden, and he followed the boat to investigate.

The cottage is hidden between two islands, one of which has a small bay in a depression into which the waterhouse is built, and there is only one waterway to enter here, so if there is an enemy trying to enter it, it is easy to spot.

Storm in? I don't understand the situation inside, it's easy to cause losses, don't attack, and don't know when they are going to come out, Zhang Fan is a little difficult.

If you look closely, you can see that the distance between the two islands is not large, and the entire waterway is narrow, so it is extremely difficult for the boat to turn around when it enters, and once it is ambushed, it will be in a dilemma.

Zhang Fan retreated, he decided to squat outside, hide the ship around, and they also came to ambush.

Waiting left and right, a day passed, the enemy did not appear, that night, Zhang Fan had to let some people go ashore to rest, and some people rested on the boat.

"That's not going to work." At night, on the bow of the ship, blowing the sea breeze, Zhang Fan thought about his next plan.

Maybe the pirates will come out, but I don't know when, Zhang Fan can't bring many people to spend with them all the time, because they occupy too many resources, if these troops go to the cottage, they can generate hundreds of gold coins every day, and these ships, not only do they have to spend a lot of maintenance costs, but they can't generate any benefits.

This is intolerable, so Zhang Fan has to find another way.

Early the next morning, under the gentle sea breeze, the soldiers had already assembled, and the weather was good today, and perhaps there would be a harvest.

"You two boats go around and see if there are any other exits, and keep an eye on the island to see if you can get in directly from the land." Zhang Fan began to assign tasks.

"You take two big boats and five small boats to challenge and try to lure them out, and we will ambush them outside." I can't get in, so I can only try other methods, and I can't just consume it like this, who knows when the pirates inside will come out.

The soldiers began to act in three ways, Zhang Fan, Yue Yun and Lin Dayou, each got on a big boat and prepared to fight.

The provocative fleet entered, swaggering in, and sure enough, it was discovered not long after, but it seemed that there was no ambush, and the other party immediately took action.

"Ah, whoever eats the leopard's gall dares to come to our water village to find trouble." A big man with a bearded face scolded and walked onto a big boat with a big knife.

After about twenty minutes, the pirate's ship also came out, they did not hang the legendary skull, but it was a little different from Zhang Fan's merchant ships, their ships were more conducive to battle.

But the battle of ancient ships is not important, what is important is the competition of soldiers on both sides.

The ship warfare of this era is nothing more than crossbow arrows and bows and arrows, and the crossbow arrows on the ship are very large, and the arrows are the size of fists, and they need to be pulled apart, and it takes two or three people at a time to pull them apart, which is very powerful.

These pirate ships are also equipped with crossbow arrows, two of the three big ships are equipped with crossbow arrows, but fortunately, only the bow is equipped with a crossbow arrow, if the ship is full of crossbow arrows, Zhang Fan must turn around and run, and there is no need to fight.

Seeing the pirates dispatching, the ship that went in began to retreat, but because the waterway was too narrow, the retreat was not very smooth, and after the big ship turned around, the pirates had already caught up.

The ships of Wanghai Village ran in front, while the pirates' ships pursued behind, and there was a distance between the two sides, and the bows and arrows could not attack, but the crossbow arrows could.