Several servants standing beside Gu An had a bit of panic on their faces, and looked back in the direction behind them from time to time.

One of the servants said with a bit of panic: "Young Master, what should we do, if we continue like this, I'm afraid we won't be able to escape." ”

In the past few days, they can be said to have exhausted ways to get rid of these robbers who were chasing them, and even did not hesitate to abandon a few large ships to scatter and escape.

However, these Japanese robbers also scattered to chase and kill them, although it is not clear whether the other big ships they chose are now being caught up by the Japanese robbers, but judging from their experience, I am afraid that those big ships are now more than lucky.

After all, the big ships they are riding now are the fastest ships in their family, after all, in a fleet, it is impossible for all ships to have the same speed, and these big ships are also new and old, and the speed of the newly built big ships is naturally faster.

Even the slightly faster ships they were on were not able to get rid of the would-be bandits, so it would be strange if the other ships that were slower were able to escape.

With a bang, he could hear a clear roar from the pursuing Japanese ship behind him, and Gu An couldn't help but look nervous.

Just listening to the roaring sound, Gu An naturally knew that it was the Japanese who were shelling.

Of course, the Japanese shelled more than once, and I don't know if it was because the Japanese artillery was too poor, or because their luck was too good, but the Japanese did not hurt them in the slightest bit after several shellings.

But this kind of behavior of entrusting life and death to luck is obviously unreliable, in case of bad luck and the result is hit by a cannonball, even if the ship is not sunk on the spot, I am afraid that it will cause great damage to the big ship.

Right now, in the process of escaping, if there is a little problem with the big ship under them, it will definitely be a fatal crisis for them.

Gu An turned around and stared at the widows who were chasing them behind him, and said with a little coldness in his eyes: "Pass the order, let everyone speed up for me, and get rid of these widows no matter what!" ”

A servant listened to Gu An's words and opened his mouth, with a somewhat wry smile on his face.

Did he want to tell Gu An that this speed was already their limit at the moment, and if they could still speed up, why should they wait until now.

In fact, even Gu An knew this in his heart, but in the face of those widows behind him, it seemed that they had no other better way than to speed up.

After all, they had already thought of any way they could think of before, but it was of no use at all.

The would-be robbers behind them stared at them as if they couldn't get rid of them.

A person who has been standing beside Gu An, although his face is a little pale, but there is not much panic between his eyes, he is wearing silk and satin, just by looking at what you are wearing, you can know that this person is different from those servants of the Gu family.

Gu Thirteen, one of the candidates for the next generation of the Gu family, this person is only about twenty years old, but he has had the experience of going to sea several times, and he is one of the talents cultivated by the Gu family.

Gu Thirteen is just his title, but his name is called Gu Li.

At this moment, I saw that Gu Li, who had not made any moves, opened his mouth and said to Gu An: "Uncle, when you continue to suffer from it, it's time to make a choice!" ”

Hearing Gu Li speak, Gu An couldn't help frowning, his eyes fell on Gu Li, and he shook his head with a little struggle: "Thirteen, it's not that the uncle refuses to agree, but that your proposal is not realistic at all." Uncle can't watch you die. ”

It turned out that Gu Li proposed to put down two small boats from the ship, and then he would take a dozen servants to entangle those widows, giving Gu An and them time to escape.

Anyone who is not a fool can see that it would be strange if two small boats could stop these murderous pirates.

Gu Li looked at Gu An and said: "Uncle, if you don't fight, everyone will die, if you fight, even if there is one in ten thousand hopes, at least you can leave a breath of vitality for our Gu family, right?" ”

Hearing this, Gu An looked at Gu Li with a complicated expression, gritted his teeth and said: "Even if you want to stay, then it is Uncle I will stay, Xiao Thirteen, you take this big ship and strive to return to Daming alive." ”

Just as the two were arguing over who would stay, a dark shadow appeared at the end of the sea level.

The dark shadow looming over the sea could not be seen clearly by eyesight alone, but if someone looked through a clairvoyant mirror, they would find that it was actually a ship.

A large ship that is more than ten zhang long and several zhang high sails smoothly on the sea, surrounded by a group of ships, each ship keeps a certain distance from each other, at a glance, there are no less than hundreds of large and small ships around.

It is absolutely rare for so many ships to be on the sea, and I am afraid that only the fleet brought by Zheng He when he went to the Western Ocean can be compared.

And in this sea area, it is impossible for any other country to be able to dispatch such a huge fleet except for the Ming Dynasty.

Needless to say, this fleet is the huge team of sailors led by Chu Yi.

The vast ocean is different from the inland lake, even if the soldiers selected by Chu Yi in advance are all selected people who are familiar with the water, but there are still many soldiers on the big ship who are not adapted to this sea environment and have seasickness.

Fortunately, a considerable number of soldiers were a little uncomfortable at the beginning, and after most of the day, they gradually got used to it.

But there are also a very small number of people, adding up to almost four or five hundred soldiers who can't adapt to the sea boat, and finally Chu Yi ordered those soldiers who can't adapt to the sea boat back to the shore.

Therefore, the whole fleet can be described as harmonious now, but there is no chaos.

On the huge ship, Chu Yi was in the cabin at the moment, and his eyes fell on Lu Dazhu and several other generals.

There are a lot of generals that Chu Yi brought with him when he went to sea this time, but there are not many generals who really stay on this flagship, and there are only a few generals such as Lu Dazhu.

I only heard Lu Dazhu say to Chu Yi: "Chief, all ships are in good condition, and according to the judgment of experienced fishermen, there will be no strong wind and rain on the sea for at least a few days." ”

Chu Yi bowed slightly, what the boat on the sea was most afraid of was not encountering enemies or anything, but encountering stormy weather.

If you say that you have encountered an enemy, then you can still fight, even if you die in battle, then there is nothing to complain about, you can only blame yourself for not being as good as others.

But once you encounter a storm, it is really a matter of life and death to God.

With such a fleet of hundreds of ships, Chu Yi didn't dare to say that he could be invincible across the sea, but at least within the scope of the sea outside the Ming Dynasty, there was no country that could threaten this fleet.

Even if you look at the whole world, I am afraid that no country dares to say that it can win.

Therefore, Chu Yi was not worried about whether he would encounter any enemies on the sea, he was only worried about the fickle weather.

At that time, Meng Yuan conquered Dongying, using more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, although there were many reasons for the final failure, but the weather was an extremely important aspect.

If there is no sea barrier, there is no fickle weather, with Meng Yuan's crazy expansion ability back then, Mo said that it was a Dongying, but I am afraid that several Dongying were flattened by Meng Yuan's iron horse.

Glancing at Lu Dazhu, Chu Yi said lightly: "Order people to always pay attention to the changes in the weather, once there are signs of a storm, they must be the first to be known to this king." ”

The mighty fleet sailed on the sea, and I saw a ship, and the lookout was checking the surrounding scene with the help of a clairvoyant mirror in his hand.

You don't have to worry about being ambushed on the sea as if you were on land, but if you encounter an enemy, you can find it first, and at least you can have time to react.

The lookout habitually looked around, the sea was endless, it can be said that there was no other scene except the sea water, especially at this time the fleet had moved away from the Ming Dynasty and entered the depths of the sea, and even water birds and the like were extremely rare.

Suddenly, the lookout was slightly stunned, staring in one direction.

In the clairvoyant mirror, you can vaguely see several black dots moving rapidly on the surface of the sea.

It's just a cup of tea, and I can already vaguely see that those black spots are ships one after another.

The news reached Chu Yi's case almost immediately.

Although Chu Yi was a little surprised to learn that the ship had been found at sea, he was not too shocked.

Although the probability of encountering a ship on the sea is not large, it cannot be said to be small, after all, with the opening of the sea in the Ming Dynasty, there are not a few people who drive merchant ships to sea.

And Dongying is one of the favorite trading objects of Ming merchants, so it is reasonable to say that on the route from Daming to Dongying, it is reasonable to say that some merchant ships are encountered.

In Chu Yi's opinion, nine out of ten of the ships found by the lookout should be the fleets of those maritime merchants who went to Dongying to do business.

Chu Yi just ordered the lookout to pay attention to it at any time, and once there was any situation, he would be informed in time.

However, in less than a stick of incense, Chu Yi, who was reading a book in the cabin, looked at Lu Dazhu in front of him in surprise and said, "What, you said that the fleet you found seems to be being chased by another fleet?" ”

Lu Dazhu had a little excitement on his face, obviously it was the boring days at sea in the past two days that made Lu Dazhu a little depressed, and now there are people fighting at sea, how can this not make Lu Dazhu excited.

Seeing Lu Dazhu nodded excitedly and said, "Back to the general manager, according to our people's observations, it is the two teams of people who are chasing and fighting on the sea!" ”

Chu Yi got up, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Oh, this governor wants to see who it is!" ”

When Chu Yi appeared on the ship, several generals were almost on the lookout at this time, staring at the sea in the distance with the help of the clairvoyant mirror in their hands.

Chu Yi took the clairvoyant mirror from Lin Pingzhi's hand, and then looked into the distance with the help of the clairvoyant mirror.

In the lens of the clairnair, you can vaguely see that there are probably less than ten large and small ships in front of the other, the former fleeing, and the latter chasing and killing.

As for what the identities of the two sides are, because of the distance, it is impossible to judge for a while, but judging from the hull mode, nine out of ten of these ships are from the Ming Dynasty.

But even if this is the case, it is not easy to judge what the identity of the other party is, after all, the big ship built by the Ming Dynasty is owned by both Dongying and North Korea.

For businessmen, as long as there are enough benefits, even if it is a large ship, it is not impossible to trade, so it is a bit unrealistic to judge the identity of the other party through the model of the hull.

Suddenly, Lu Dazhu, who was standing beside Chu Yi and was also staring at the distant picture with the help of the clairglass mirror in his hand, exclaimed: "Hey, the Great Tomorrow Sun and Moon Banner is actually the Great Ming Sun and Moon Flag distributed by the City Division!" ”

Chu Yi opened the sea, and for those maritime merchants who went to sea to trade, all the maritime merchants who paid taxes and silver could receive a special Great Bright Sun and Moon Flag after the city was enthroned.

The Great Bright Sun and Moon Flag is equivalent to a sea pass, which is directly related to Chu Yi's next moves.

In Chu Yi's plan, once the more than 1,000 ships he advocated were launched, then he would build several sea fleets, and then these sea fleets would maintain order on the sea.

Of course, at the moment, these are naturally just an idea, after all, there are not many ships that the imperial court can use now, and there is no spare strength to form a sea fleet, so the Great Bright Sun and Moon Flag can only be regarded as a symbol of paying commercial taxes at the moment, and has no other role.

But these merchants with the special Ming Sun and Moon Banner are legal maritime merchants protected by the Ming Dynasty in Chu Yi's eyes, as long as the other party legally pays commercial taxes, then they have been recognized by Chu Yi In Chu Yi's plan, once the more than 1,000 ships he advocated for construction are launched one after another, then he will build several sea fleets, and then these sea fleets will maintain order on the sea.

Of course, at the moment, these are naturally just an idea, after all, there are not many ships that the imperial court can use now, and there is no spare strength to form a sea fleet, so the Great Bright Sun and Moon Flag can only be regarded as a symbol of paying commercial taxes at the moment, and has no other role.

But these businessmen with a special Daming Sun and Moon Banner are legal maritime merchants protected by the Ming Dynasty in Chu Yi's eyes, as long as the other party legally pays commercial taxes, then they are recognized by Chu Yi, but these businessmen with special Daming Sun and Moon Banners are legal maritime merchants protected by the Ming Dynasty in Chu Yi's eyes, as long as the other party legally pays commercial taxes, then they are recognized by Chu Yi, but these businessmen with special Daming Sun and Moon Banners are legal maritime merchants protected by the Ming Dynasty in Chu Yi's eyes, As long as the other party legally pays commercial tax, then it has been recognized by Chu Yi