This is the 17th time this year, and the first 16 were empty-handed, and this time it seems that there is little hope either. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"It's all a matter of luck, and you can't force it. Besides, even if you can't catch the pirates, you can still have a happy New Year this year. It's not like last year, and I didn't dare to let go of eating and drinking during the New Year. But Deng Yi said happily. I don't feel sorry for this, although the fight against pirates is the main purpose, but this is by no means the most important purpose, and the training of the navy is the most important thing. The goal of each expedition is to combat pirates, but in the process, it is to train the naval combat skills of his men.

Speaking of eating and drinking, Deng Yi couldn't help but think of his own mistakes before the update, he didn't listen to Jiang Ming's advice and missed the opportunity to hoard food, which caused him to lose a lot last year.

Originally, the grain reserves were insufficient, and Xiaoyao Town had just been upgraded, and the population base was small at the beginning of the year, and the labor force for cultivating the fields was insufficient, and the grain output was limited. On the contrary, the rapid growth of the population has repeatedly increased the pressure on the food supply.

In desperation, Deng Yi had no choice but to build more than ten grocery stores one after another, each of which could provide up to 100 kilograms of food per day after upgrading. What made Deng Yi most angry was that the price of grain in the grocery store actually took the opportunity to rise, from the original 10 copper coins to 12 copper coins per catty. So angry that he almost demolished all the grocery stores, the system is too black-hearted! Of course, in the end, I reluctantly chose to face the reality rationally and obediently admit the slaughter!

It cost Deng Yi 122 taels of gold to buy grain before and after, which is a huge amount of money! An ordinary worker's daily salary is only a few dozen copper coins, how many days does it take to earn a huge sum of 12.2 million copper coins?

At the same time, Deng Yi had to be glad that he had a small treasury as support. Other ordinary lord players were not so lucky, and they had to temporarily abandon the development of other industries to focus on cultivating food. In order to survive the food crisis, we can only take extremely painful measures such as refusing to accept displaced people and selling resources. In the end, there are still many territories that have starved to death and lost their citizens due to famine, and their territories have been forced to be downgraded or destroyed. This is arguably the most poignant and dark part of the history of lord players.

"There are boats! There are boats in the southeast direction! Six galleons were heading northwest. Suddenly, the lookout on the mast shouted excitedly.

"If only it were a pirate ship!" Xia Yu jumped up from the side of the ship, his eyes shining with anticipation. As he gets stronger, this guy gets more and more belligerent.

"They're turning, coming towards us!" The lookout shouted excitedly again.

"Great, it's definitely a pirate! Brothers, turn the ship's head. Rush over and kill them, leaving no piece of armor behind! Xia Yu shouted excitedly. In his eyes, the pirate is like a delicate beauty in the eyes of a pervert, making him hungry and thirsty, so now he naturally wants to pounce on it and ravage it to his heart's content.

"Wait! Keep moving forward, slow down for a while, and let them catch up slowly. Deng Yi hurriedly stopped.

Ordinary merchant ships are afraid of pirates, and when they encounter strange ships at sea, they are afraid that it will be too late to escape by detouring, and it is impossible to post them so unscrupulously? Although they only have one boat, and it seems harmless to humans and animals, who can say for sure if this is bait or not? Therefore, Deng Yi is also eighty percent sure that this fleet is pirates, and there is no doubt about it.

"My lord, why don't you rush over? Don't let them escape! Xia Yu asked anxiously.

"You're going to rush straight at you, and that's really going to scare them away. People are pirates, not fools. How can any merchant ship encounter pirates and take the initiative to post them to death if they don't run away quickly? I am showing weakness to the enemy and luring him deeper. Deng Yi smiled and said.

"Uh, hahaha! I forgot about it in a moment of excitement! Hearing the lord say this, Xia Yu suddenly felt a little embarrassed, scratched his head and said.

A lonely ship, encountered six pirate ships in the vast sea, did not run away and took the initiative to stick up, if there are no ghosts, who believes it? If they really listened to Xia Yu's direct rush, before they figured out the situation, the pirate ship would definitely turn around and leave. Although they are pirates, it does not mean that they are really lawless and not afraid of anything.

And what they don't know now is that it is extremely difficult for hostile ships to come together when they are facing each other, and it is very dangerous. Even if the pirates didn't turn and run away, they wouldn't be able to catch them.

"Leave thirty brothers on the plywood, and the others will hurry up and get into the cabin, ready for battle. Whoever leaks at this time and scares the pirate away, go back and pick his skin! "Xia Yu is a smart person after all, and after being woken up by the lord a little, he understands what to do. He roared excitedly and quickly commanded his subordinates to make reasonable preparations for battle.

"Tell your brothers to try not to kill or maim for a while. These pirate captives are good labor to return, and the territory needs them. Deng Yi commanded.

"Haha, no problem." Xia Yu agreed.

Under the control of the soldiers, the speed of the sailing ship began to decrease, and soon it fell from 200 kilometers to 180 kilometers per hour. When Deng Yi first got on the boat, he was startled by the speed of the sailboat. The sailboat can run up to 200 kilometers per hour, and even faster when the wind is good! Isn't that a little too crazy? Later, when I thought about it, I understood the reason.

The world is too big, but there are no high-tech vehicles in reality. If these relatively primitive means of transportation are still at the same speed as in reality, then there is no effective communication between places at all, and people can easily run on the road for several years or even ten or twenty years, is it too nonsense in the absence of a teleportation array? Who wants to go far away?

On the sea surface, the general visual distance is about 20 kilometers. In other words, when Deng Yi and the others found the pirate ship just now, they were about twenty kilometers away from each other. This is about 1 hour away from the pirates to catch up. Everyone on board held back the excitement in their hearts and waited quietly for the pirate to arrive.

"Quick, surround them, we can't let them run!"

At the shout of the pirate leader, four faster pirate ships began to wrap up. The fastest pirate ship even rushed to the front to intercept it, not giving Deng Yi the slightest chance to escape.

"Archers prepare, shoot me hard as soon as you get close!"

The pirate leader shouted excitedly, although the thirty or so people on the ship were not ordinary guards, but non-commissioned officers in leather armor, and the ship was not like an ordinary merchant ship.

But so what, how big a wave can a thirty little soldiers make? Could it be that nearly a thousand children under his command are all vegetarians, and they can't clean up more than 30 of them?