120 The shock of Qian Laosan and Luo Siye
Those who beg for a living at sea are more superstitious than those who live on land.
Pirates also worship things like sea gods and dragon kings that they have never seen before.
And now the sight in their eyes was like the dragon king was angry, and their ears were full of endless roars, and the sea in front of the ship was stirred up one by one huge columns of water, and then fell, and with the dark red light brought by the flares released from the sky, it was like an apocalyptic scene.
Fortunately, this was not the real end of the world, and Tang Ping finally did not order the direct bombardment of these pirate ships, but aimed at a place dozens of meters in front of them.
After all, he didn't know the past of this pirate, and he didn't have an old grudge against himself, so he still hesitated to bury so many people in this sea.
"Listen, you are surrounded by us! Stop the ship now, stop the ship now, or you will be killed! ”
On the airship overhead, the sound that came finally brought the soulless Luo Siye back to his senses.
"Anchor! Sail down! Stop the boat, stop the boat for me! ”
He felt that he had never roared with such a loud voice in his life, and the sea where the shelling had stopped was calm, and his voice and the sound of the airship above him were incomparably clear.
All the sailors on the pirate ship began to scramble to do so.
Even the cables for some ships to raise their sails did not have time to untie them, and they directly cut them with knives.
The huge sails slammed down, but their hearts widened.
In the distance, you can see the strange ships that don't have oars on the opposite side, and the two ends have begun to outflank from both wings, and the twelve small warships have firmly suppressed the forty-eight warships in terms of momentum.
"Is there anyone in charge? Waving a white flag on the bow of the boat for us to see! ”
The airship on his head spoke again, and Luo Siye stood at the bow of the ship and glanced at Qian Laosan on the battleship next to him, and then tacitly picked up a spear, hung a white cloth on it and waved it.
The two of them are not afraid of death, if they were really afraid of this, they would not be able to make a living as this pirate who licks blood from the knife edge.
But the current situation is not a question of whether they are afraid of death or not, it is despair, a kind of despair that rises from the heels to the door of the head.
They hadn't seen what the loud noise looked like, but they could imagine what it would be like if it hit their warship just by the surface of the sea where it had been struck by a huge column of water.
When the two of them waved the white flag, they swooped twice, and two bright lights hit the faces of the two, so that the two could only raise their arms and use their sleeves to block the sudden bright light.
"Please come by boat!" The things on their heads seem to know everything about the actions of the two of them, and now, Luo Laosi and Qian Laosan have no other choice.
A few loyal subordinates around him couldn't even say the classic line - boss, we rushed up and fought with them.
What do you fight? People and the dragon king are angry, and now they are afraid that the sails on their side have not been raised, and they will be torn to pieces by the other party.
So he could only watch the two of them go to the opposite side in a small boat.
The light that came over just now shone on the bow of the two boats, guiding them in the direction.
"Third brother, do you think this is like the light that the storyteller said, guiding the undead to the Lethe River?" After becoming the boss, Luo Siye, who had always only called the other party Qian Laosan, used the name of the two of them when they were under the old pirate Bearded Brother at this time.
"Fourth, since the other party didn't kill them all just now, it means that we still have a chance to live, let's go up and see what the other party says!"
Following the guidance of the beam, the two came to the bottom of the Taihao ship, and a soft ladder was thrown down from above, and the wooden sticks that formed the soft ladder struck the hull of the ship, making a jingling sound.
The two old pirates took such a soft ladder to the ship I don't know how many times, as soon as they heard the sound, they sensed that something was wrong, and when they climbed up, the two of them knocked on the hull with the knuckles of their fingers, making a slight clang.
The two people with painful fingers have chills down their spines, which ...... It's made of steel!
It's ridiculous that the two of them still think that although this fleet is weird, but the ships are not big, in this era of naval warfare where everyone is still competing with whose ship is bigger, who has more sailors, and whose bed crossbow has more, people have actually used warships made of steel.
I think that the tactic of using rockets to launch first at the beginning will have no effect on such an ironclad ship.
Even the bed crossbow on the new battleship of East Vietnam, it is estimated that it will be difficult to pose a threat to such a steel battleship!
Wait a minute...... East Vietnam?
The two were shocked, this mysterious fleet went from north to south, and the south was the territory of Dongyue!
I'm afraid that the thunderous sound just now is not the rumored Datang Shenwei cannon, right?
These are connected, and the origin of this mysterious fleet is about to come out - this is Datang's naval fleet!
Climbing onto the deck, the two were carefully searched and confirmed that they were unarmed before letting go.
Looking at the sailors on this deck, they were all wearing strange black clothes and strange helmets, they believed that these were Datang people, but their outfits were difficult to connect the two pirates with Datang.
"Young master, someone brought it over."
Luo Siye and Qian Laosan looked up at Tang Ping, who was sitting in the middle c, but they didn't expect the leader of this fleet to be so young.
And Lao Cui's title just now also confused the two of them, isn't this the Tang Water Army? Why is the leader a young master?
"Look!"
The two stools were handed over, and the two of them didn't dare to sit down, so they only used their butts next to a stool, and Qian Laosan spoke first: "This son, we admit it, how does the son want to send us down, just say it." ”
Qian Laosan behaved very single, no way, what can he do if he is not single at this time?
I was pinched to death by the other party, is it possible that I have to choke with the other side as soon as I come up? Is it because you don't die fast enough?
"I'm Tang Ping, and I have never met the two of you, what are you doing today with the fleet?"
"We're pirates, what else can we do for? We're here to rob! Luo Siye said in a sullen voice, and then suddenly shook his whole body, and looked at Tang Ping with a shocked face: "You...... You said your name was ...... Tang Ping? ”
He glanced at Qian Laosan, and then knelt on the ground: "I've seen Ping Guogong!" ”
"You know me?"
The two of them nodded first and then shook their heads: "Of course I haven't seen Ping Guogong, but we have heard a lot of Ping Guogong's deeds, and what the little ones like most on weekdays is to listen to the story of Journey to the West written by Ping Guogong, and they also went to the city to take prisoners...... I went and asked a storyteller to come to our island and tell us. ”
Tang Ping didn't expect that this group of pirates was still his own book fans!
After speaking, the third Qian lowered his head: "Let's do this business, the knife edge licking blood has long been ready for today's day, I and the fourth brother will die when we die, but some of the brothers on the ship are the first time to come out to do business, and they haven't even stained their hands with blood, please let them live!" ”
Tang Ping didn't say yes or bad, just touched his chin and asked, "How long have you been doing this business?" ”
"It's been more than 30 years since I first boarded the ship as a child!"
"Have you ever killed someone?"
"If there is a guard on board the ship after boarding, there will naturally be a fight, and there will indeed be a few lives in his hands!"
These two people are also honest, and they really say whatever Tang Ping asks.
"But when we meet the merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty, we will take up to 30% of the goods, and as long as the other party surrenders, we will never kill a single person, and we will not touch the women, children and children on the ship!" That Qian Laosan was a smart person, and he felt that Tang Ping's tone was a little loose, so he quickly explained.
Fourth Master Luo is not stupid, when he heard Qian Laosan say this, he quickly nodded and said: "Yes, I don't believe that Pingguo Gong can just go to our ship to find a small one to ask, we are at most robbed by the merchant ships of Dongyue, Buyeo, and Fusang Goguryeo, but it's just ......"
"Just what?"
"It's just that in recent years, Dongyue didn't know where to get extremely powerful warship drawings, and after their navy used that kind of new warship, we couldn't fight it anymore, so we put the idea on your fleet, we dare to say that this is really the first time to do it to Datang's fleet."
"Yes, although there have been Datang Chamber of Commerce in this sea area this year, there are not many of them, and knowing our brother's reputation in this sea area, we will not embarrass them after we take care of one or two."
Tang Ping didn't expect that there was his own reason for this, and in order to get the cooperation of East Vietnam, he had to give the drawings of the new warship.
After all, in the past few decades, Datang has not been near the sea, and it is also after Beiyan has been taken down in the past year, and the area of Bohai Bay at the mouth of the Yellow River can be regarded as belonging to Datang.
Although Hou Junji and Datang are inseparable, the Tang merchants want to set off from the Bohai Bay by sea, as long as they pay enough taxes, he will not embarrass the other party.
Thinking about the decades of piracy career of these two people, the harm to Datang is indeed limited.
As for the rest, what merchant ships of Buyeo, Fusang and Goguryeo were robbed, and what does it have to do with him Tangping? He is not the Virgin.
"Are you familiar with this area?"
"Naturally familiar, it's not a small bragging, Ping Guogong saw that we came with the wind just now, but there were no lights, and I also know where we went."
The two of them were happy in their hearts, and when Tang Ping said this, it meant that the two of them had a chance to live.
Although he came up with the mentality of seeing death as home, if he could survive, who would want to die?
Sure enough, Tang Ping continued: "It's not that I can't give you the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, if you perform well, I can not blame the past." ”
This sea is the next target that Datang will inevitably conquer, but because the border is not near the sea in the past, Datang's navy is scarce, and the 20,000 people who followed Taihao's fleet this time are almost all the family of Datang's navy.
And these people are still fluttering in the rivers and lakes, and many people are still the first time they have come to this sea.
If this war goes well and the entire territory of Dongyue can be taken, then Datang will have a large area close to the coast, and a large number of sailors will be needed in the future, whether it is sea or naval warfare.
These pirates are actually a good choice, of course, provided that they are willing to be bound by the laws of the Tang Dynasty.
Hearing Tang Ping say this, both of them knew that their lives were really saved this time, so they knelt on the ground and clenched their fists and said: "Little Qian San, little Luo Si, I am willing to be sent by Pingguo!" ”