A large bird boat swept across the sea with its sails at a high speed.

A flock of seagulls flew above the clipper.

Suddenly, a buckshot smashed into the sea at a distance of only fifty paces, causing the seagulls to flee quickly.

"How can these pirates chase after each other." Wang An cursed, and the splashing mist covered his eyes.

"Three pirate ships in the rear have caught up." One of the sailors screamed miserably.

Not far behind the bird boat, several large ships were in hot pursuit.

Behind several large three-masted ships, a few ships loomed.

"Bad luck." Wang An scolded.

Half a month ago, Wang An and the others followed the pirate ship under the order of Lord Xu Bin.

Since the ghost scout was beheaded by the Ming army, these pirates fled as fast as if they had lost their souls, and they couldn't even care about the Ming warships that followed closely behind.

It was not until the seventh day that the pirates fled to a large island.

Wang An didn't know exactly where the island was, so he had to ask another bird boat to go back and report the news.

And he also took a bird boat and more than 20 subordinates and circled around the island.

Through sea fishing and dry food such as Jiguang cakes, he also persevered for some time.

It's just that there are obviously a lot of pirates on the island, but the Ming army bird ship hiding at sea was discovered by pirates in four or five days.

The Ming army bird ship discovered by the pirates was not ambiguous, and ran away directly.

It's just that what made the Ming officers and soldiers depressed was that the pirate ship that caught up was obviously not a few patrolling boats.

"My lord, I'm afraid that this nest of pirates on the island has been lured out by us." A young sailor shouted, looking horrified at the blackened ship behind him.

A bearded man on a three-masted pirate ship stares at the Ming army bird ship being pursued in the distance.

Half a month ago, he sent his most powerful subordinate Ghost Scout to the Ming army camp to sue for peace.

But instead of refusing Muhanvili's offer, Xiao Wu cut off the head of the ghost scout and sent him back.

This made Muhanvili furious, looking at the rotting head of the ghost scout.

Muhanvili immediately ordered to gather all the ships under his command and go to sea to kill directly on Dayu Island.

As a result, the fleet had not been out to sea for long before it saw a bird boat of the Ming army cruising near the island.

Muhanvili was so mad that all these wise men had been bullied to the door.

Seeing that his boss's lungs were blown up, these pirates under his command were naturally complicit, and several pirate ships rushed all the way over, shocking the Ming army bird ships to flee to the sea.

The length of the big bird boat of the Ming army reached eight zhang, "the head is small and the belly is long, the body is long and straight, the tail has two sides, the oar is urged, there is wind to sail, there is no wind to shake the oar, the steering is light, the long oar is fast, such as the flight of the bird." ”

Therefore, it is called the bird ship, and the speed of sailing on the sea is very fast, although the pirate ship chasing and killing in the rear is constantly bombarded, but because the bird ship always maintains a certain distance, the pirates will not be able to help this Ming army bird ship for a while.

"With so many pirates pouring out, it's not going to destroy one of our ships, right?" There was no love for such a young sailor before.

Wang An ignored the sailor's complaints.

He vaguely saw a few pirate clippers rushing past several large ships.

It was obviously a couple of bird boats as well.

Because of its high speed and seaworthiness, the bird ship is also regarded as one of the merchant ships of the South Seas.

After the pirates plundered the merchant ships that went to the South Seas, they would also use the ships as pirate ships.

Those bird boats were obviously smaller than the Ming army's bird boats, but their speed did not fall behind at all.

He drew his long knife and glared at the pirate ship that was chasing after him.

"Brothers, you can't escape, fight with them."

The sailors on the ships also saw the boats.

Seeing that they were about to be entangled by those small boats, the Ming gunners directly pushed out the Franc cannon and bombarded a bird boat on the nearby sea.

Bursts of choking black smoke rose and were then scattered by the wind.

"Give me a hard beating." Wang An personally pushed a cannon and adjusted the muzzle.

With the replacement of the sub-cannon, the Ming gunners lit the fire rope, and a buckshot was pushed straight out of the muzzle of the gun, and smashed straight into the pirate bird ship that caught up not far away.

With a tear, in the frightened countenance of the pirate, the lead bullet tore through the large sail on the mast of the bird ship, and the speed of the bird ship dropped instantly.

"Shoot me at their sails and knock them off." Wang An shouted.

Only then did the Ming gunners react, the artillery bombardment at sea, whether it was a pirate or a Ming gun, was too poor, after all, the distance was not very close, and the warship was only a target smaller than a thumb cover on the sea in the line of sight, coupled with strong winds and waves, dozens of guns may not necessarily hit the warship on the sea in the middle and distance.

This is also the reason why the Ming army bird ships can escape under the siege of so many pirate ships.

But the speed of several bird boats behind him was no slower than that of the Ming army's big bird boats.

The Ming army is running away, and a few bird boats are very fast, and it will be terrible if a few bird boats are entangled.

The big sail is an obvious target, and hitting the big sail can reduce the speed of the pirate ship, making the speed of the pirate bird ship significantly reduced.

The Ming gunners adjusted their muzzles one after another, aiming at the direction and then bombarded the pirate sails.

It's a pity that the Ming artillery is not equipped with chain bullets, so the power of breaking the sail will be greatly reduced.

However, as time passed, the lead bullets fired by the Ming artillery gradually hit the sails of several bird ships, tearing open several gaps, making the Ming bird ships gradually distance themselves from the pirate ships.

The pirates on several pirate ships in the rear were stupid, and the three clippers were pressed and beaten by one ship of the Ming army, and even the big sails were broken.

Muhanvili, who was on the big ship in the rear, was so angry that he almost threw away the thousand libo.

However, the firepower of the Ming army's bird ships in front was really fierce, and more than a dozen artillery pieces on the three pirate bird ships were suppressed.

"Mingren's fast boat is good, no wonder the brothers who went to sea before are in trouble." Muhanvili looked at the bird boat in front of him with a greedy look.

He had previously sent a large number of pirates to the rear of the Ming army to plunder the ships of the Four Seas Merchants, and the gains were not small, and at the same time, the relationship between the two main towns of the Ming army was divided, which can be said to be a very poisonous move.

Compared to strategy, he is indeed far stronger than Li Tianyou.

Muhanvili knew about the contradictions between the Ming army and the land and water towns, so Muhanvili sent pirate ships to plunder the trading houses of the four seas.

But what Muhanvili didn't understand was why Xiao Wu refused the conditions brought by the ghost scout, and even cut off the head of the ghost scout to Mingzhi.

When he joined forces with the Ming army to besiege Laoag, Muhanvili also met Xiao Wu, and Xiao Wu's character and strategy Muhanvili also knew a little about it.

He never understood why Xiao Wu would break with himself so cleanly.

Although Muhamvili was an Arab, he was familiar with the idiom of raising a kohru with self-respect.

Under the general trend of Liu Quan's uncle and nephew controlling the finances of the Ming court army in Luzon, Xiao Wu naturally needed the assistance of pirates, which is why Muhanvili dared to send ghost scouts to Dayu Island to negotiate with Xiao Wu.