Although he guessed that all this might be true, the thought that it was true made the pirate leader feel like he had swallowed a fly.

"Newspaper—" With the sound of hurried footsteps, another pirate ran in and rushed into the pirate leader to report: "Boss, they are beating the drum!" ”

"That's the drum?" The pirate leader was a little surprised, according to the rules of the sea, when the two sides meet, if they want to negotiate peace, they will wave their flags, and if they want to fight, they will beat the drums, because the drums are to gather people and horses and prepare for battle.

Generally beating the drums, then the negotiation is fruitless, and the fists speak.

However, they are still negotiating, why are they beating the drum so quickly?

"I'll go out and have a look." The pirate leader spoke.

The second master of the pirates nodded and stood up as well: "I'll go out with my eldest brother to have a look." ”

"It's fine." The pirate leader nodded, and walked out with the second master of the pirates.

The two walked to the deck, took out the Western clairvoyant mirror they had stolen from overseas merchant ships, and saw a total of four warships in the distance, and the sailors of the warships on the deck were beating drums and shouting, full of fighting spirit.

"Big brother, this time, these people seem to really want to fight us." The second master of the pirates said with squinted eyes.

Seeing that the other party was beating the drum so urgently, he must have planned to fight them to the death.

The pirate leader squinted his eyes, and after scanning the four warships up and down, he sneered: "Fight, fight, just their old and weak soldiers, and they are afraid that his grandmother will be a bear." ”

The leader of the pirates secretly thought, this Ding Navy, he has been in contact with many times, although the soldiers of the Ding Navy are not afraid of death, and the generals of the Ding Navy are also brave and good at fighting, and the leaders are not bad, but it is difficult for Qiao women to cook without rice, and the Ding Navy has only a few broken warships, knocking back and forth to make up for it, which is not enough for them to bombard.

Moreover, the imperial court was very dissatisfied with the repeated defeats of the Dinghai Navy, and refused to give them more warships at all, and the military salaries allocated by the imperial court were exploited by officials at all levels, so that those Dinghai soldiers were about to starve and shake one by one.

When the second leader of the pirates heard the words of the pirate leader, he was full of sadness: "Big brother, I heard that the Nading Navy was incorporated by the county order of Longtong County, and a lot of tolls have been collected at the city gate for a while. ”

When the pirate leader heard this, he was a little puzzled: "Why, they are all beating drums, can they still not conflict?" ”

"The so-called thousands of miles for officials are only for money, and the navy is now under the control of the yamen, so we might as well talk to the new county commander, maybe it will make sense." The second master of the pirates spoke.

The leader of the pirates frowned, Yanzhou is a place that has hardly changed because of its special location, but only this Longtong County is an exception, officials in other places rarely change, and the county orders of Longtong County are changed from time to time, and most of them are made up by new county orders after they die, this time, the new county order of Longtong County is still a boy who is not weak, I really don't know what to say.

"It's just a hairy boy, I don't know how long I can live, so there's no need to go to great lengths to please him." The pirate leader said disdainfully.

When the second leader of the pirates heard the words of the pirate leader, he immediately frowned, and when he wanted to persuade them to do something, the warships over there had already attacked them.

This attack was more or less unprepared, which made the pirate leader and the second leader of the pirates shocked, and the pirate leader was angry and shouted for the brothers to pull out the artillery.

In contrast, the second pirate is much calmer, but no matter how calm he is, he is a pirate in the end, and he is not from a showman's background, so he is persuaded on the surface, and he agrees with the fight in his heart, so after the pirate warship pulls out the artillery, the warships of both sides will start to attack from a distance.

However, just when the leader of the pirates felt that he could sink the opposing ship, the opposing ship unexpectedly began to retreat, which made him feel like he had punched the cotton.

"What the hell is this guy trying to do?" The pirate leader said with some annoyance.

The second leader of the pirates narrowed his eyes and said, "Big brother, in my opinion, there is only fear of fraud in this." ”

"Fraud?" The pirate leader narrowed his eyes as well.

The second master of the pirates nodded vigorously, and said: "The general of the Ding Navy is named Yan Hongxin, and it is not the first time that we have dealt with him, although there has never been a life-and-death naval battle, but only from the previous naval battles, as well as the rumors that I have heard, he is a person who is a little fearless of death, so the possibility of escaping like this is mostly deceitful, after all, he didn't even have such a few warships before, and he used some fishing boats, and he was never afraid of war." ”

The second leader of the pirates said what he thought, and the pirate leader narrowed his eyes dangerously when he heard this.

In fact, for Yan Hongxin, there is no need to say that the second head of the pirates has also heard a lot of rumors, it is said that this person leads the troops well, but he has been in contact with it a few times over the years, although it is just a small fight, and it does not hurt the peace, but he still feels that the rumors of Yan Hongxin are a bit exaggerated.

It's just that I've seen it a few times before, Yan Hongxin is all disgraced and doesn't seem to have much spirit, but just now, Yan Hongxin's state is a little high-spirited, so the idea of the second leader of the pirates is also the idea of the leader of the pirates, and he also feels that this Yan Hongxin has no reason to retreat suddenly, most of them are conspiracy.

It's just that he knows in his heart, but the pirate leader thinks that if he retreats just because of this, doesn't it seem too cowardly?

"Boss?" The second master of the pirates called.

The pirate leader came back to his senses from his thoughts, and said impatiently: "Pass the order and take advantage of the victory to pursue." ”

"Chase after victory?" The second leader of the pirates stared at him in shock, obviously unable to believe that the leader of the pirates would make such a ridiculous decision.

The pirate leader was a little impatient and said, "Why can't you take advantage of the victory to pursue?" They are only four ships, and now they have turned around and run away, they must have no artillery to run, if we can now take advantage of the victory to pursue, we can get rid of them, that is the Ding Navy, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and it is also a face-saving thing to say, not to mention, I see that they also remember us, and letting them go now is equivalent to returning to the mountain, when they have enough artillery, and they will not find us? ”

"That being said, you can see that there is a trap in this situation." The second master of the pirates persuaded with a bitter face.

The pirate leader pursed his lips and stubbornly remained silent.