I have to say that these former Zheng Jun shipwrights who were coerced by Xiao Wu from Taiwan to Luzon are indeed experienced.

When Xu Ming proposed to build a big bird boat, one by one they were confident and started construction one after another.

Several medium-sized merchant ships that were originally under construction in the dock immediately began to be rebuilt.

These merchant ships were largely at a standstill because the shipyards were rushing to build two armed merchant ships and taking up too much shipwrights and labor.

Now that Xu Ming has arrived with a group of shipwrights, he has also made up for the lack of shipwrights in the shipyard.

Construction began on several merchant ships that had only keels and had not yet built superstructures.

He was all too familiar with the laborers of these shipwrights for the big bird boats, and the Qing Zheng sailors were equipped with hundreds of big bird ships at the same time, and whether it was building or repairing ships, these shipwrights had become perfect.

In the nearby dockyard, the Vigan shipwrights were also working overtime to produce two armed merchant ships.

The Ming shipwrights did not understand how Western-style armed merchant ships were built, but these Vigan shipwrights often repaired and even built ships for the Spanish merchant fleet, so they were naturally familiar with building armed merchant ships.

It would be appropriate for them to build their own ships.

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On the rough sea, a three-masted merchant ship was moving unhurriedly.

The bright yellowish canvas was whirring in the wind.

A flock of seabirds hovered over the big boat, and with a sharp chirp, the big birds scattered in all directions.

On the mast, a sailor was whistling desperately.

"Ships, four, southeast." He shouted towards the deck.

With the shouts of the sailors on the lookout post, the people on the deck were suddenly in chaos.

In the distance, a few small dots appeared on the surface of the sea, drifting with the current, gradually approaching.

It was a couple of sentinel ships, unhurriedly approaching the merchant ships.

"What a good day is today, a big ship is delivered to our door without knowing whether it is alive or dead." On a sentry ship, a pirate leader sneered.

"Head, these days Vigan's ships are going to sea less and less, and many brothers have not seen a merchant ship coming out of Vigan for more than half a month, and this ship has come directly to our door instead of taking the normal course." A pirate looks around and always feels that something is wrong.

"It's a bit weird indeed, let's let the brethren who board the ship be clever and don't follow each other's ways."

The pirate leader's expression was grim, his sentinel ship was getting closer and closer to the merchant ship, but the big ship in front of him was still moving unhurriedly without the slightest intention of evading.

"Something is wrong, this ship seems to be heading towards our island." The pirate leader sensed a clue.

"Quick, let the brethren roll the oars and catch up." The pirate leader shouted.

Obviously, the pirates on several ships sensed that something was wrong, and they all desperately paddled towards the merchant ship.

The pirate leader stood on the ship, staring intently at the merchant ship in front of him, and his heart gradually relaxed as the distance narrowed.

There is no black smoke rising from the big ship on the opposite side, which proves that the other side did not fire cannons, then the only possibility is that the ship on the opposite side is a large merchant ship without protection.

Although I don't know why this merchant ship sailed towards its own island impartially, after seeing that the other party had no intention of firing cannons.

The pirates on several sentry ships also breathed a sigh of relief, but the arms of the oars did not dare to stop at all, and they still quickly shook the wooden oars to get close to the merchant ships.

Soon several sentinel ships were attached to the merchant ships.

Several long iron hooks were thrown onto the side of the ship.

More than a dozen pirates bit the back of their knives and climbed up.

The pirate leader took the lead and jumped on deck first.

When the sentinel ship approached the big ship and the big ship did not fire cannons to stop him, he dismissed the idea that the ship had prepared artillery.

But his years of raiding at sea have given him a keen instinct.

He jumped onto the side of the ship with a steel knife in his hand.

More than a dozen good men jumped onto the side of the ship with him.

What the pirate leader didn't expect was that there was no ambush on the deck of the ship.

More than a dozen sailors were kneeling on the deck tremblingly, shouting for mercy.

This made these good players stunned.

"Haha, I haven't had oil and water for more than half a month, and this time it's good, I actually sent a big fish by myself." The pirate leader laughed out loud.

A bright steel knife was attached to the neck of a sailor, and he said coldly: "Who is your shipowner?"

"It's me," a man suddenly stood up in the kneeling crowd.

The man walked over tremblingly, and shuddered at the sight of the pirate leader with the knife.

"Dare to ask this sea hero, but he is a member of the Ichthyosaurus Gang." The shipowner spoke.

The pirate leader nodded incredulously, he wasn't very murderous, at least he didn't want to kill until he finished asking.

"To tell you the truth, this ship belongs to the Four Seas Commercial Company, and it was entrusted by the Ming Army to go to Shuangdao to meet the big boss of the Fish and Dragon Gang." The wealthy merchant who looked like a Han man spoke.

"Oh, Akito." The pirate leader was a little surprised.

These days, the merchant ships that go to sea from Vigan, whether they are chambers of commerce or Chinese merchants, have been robbed by the Ichthyosaurus Gang.

Even the Ichthyosaurus Gang attacked the port of Vigan, which can be said to have completely torn the face with the Ming people.

However, at this time, the Ming people actually wanted to meet the big gang leaders of the Fish and Dragon Gang, what did these Ming people want to do.

The pirate leader put the blade on the owner's neck again.

Suddenly, a wisp of red blood flowed down.

"What's on board?"

The shipowner calmed down and said softly, "Silver."

Twin Islands, a small island with no known name.

The island is not large, but it has a large gap in the south that almost divides the island into two parts, hence the name Twin Islands.

Since the pirates fought the Spaniards in Laoag, many pirates felt that the deal was not worth it and withdrew.

The first of them is the Ichthyosaurus Gang.

The pirates did not contribute to the naval battle with the Spaniards, and withdrew quickly before they were about to be defeated, so they did not suffer much.

Under the persuasion of the second leader of the Ichthyosaurus Gang, Li Gui, the Ichthyosaurus Gang also came to Vigan, and while other pirate forces were still besieging Laoag, they wantonly plundered Vigan's merchant ships.

The inconspicuous island of Twin Islands was chosen by the Ichthyosaurus Gang because of its location near the Vigan Merchant Shipping Route, as well as the fresh water on the island.

At this moment, more than 20 ships and hundreds of pirates of the Ichthyosaur Gang are entrenched on this small island.

Several sentinel ships were heading towards the island with a galleon.

The island's pirates soon spotted the fleet.

When I saw a few sentinel boats next to the galleon slowly heading towards the island,

The pirates on the island burst into earth-shattering cheers.

After all, after the Ming army ordered the Vigan ships to strictly prohibit going to sea.

There are fewer and fewer sailboats on the sea.

The pirates who often haunt the sea can only run into fishing boats that are not afraid of dying to catch fish.

These shabby and deadly broken ships can't get a few copper plates.

And this is the first time I have seen such a large three-masted galleon in more than half a month.