Mu Shitie stood on the deck with a blushing face, beside him, many non-commissioned officers and sailors were shouting and busy, dragging the wounded soldiers on the deck down, and near the side of the ship, one by one, the soldiers with similar faces to him were holding long-handled hook guns, staring at the sea ship that had just blocked from the side of the ship, ready to stab the thieves who swung along the hook rope at any time.

And more of the soldiers with firearms ran out of the cabin, and according to the shouts of their commanders, they found their place opposite the side of the ship, and loaded them nervously.

"These thieves have a Fujian accent!" Xu Chang stood behind Mu Shi with a pale face and muttered softly.

Mu Shi turned his head and glared at him fiercely, he didn't care what the accent was, he only knew that it was these thieves who killed and injured so many brothers just after they saw him, if it weren't for this Mu Shi saying that this boat with the Zheng family's flag had a lot to do with his own family, would he let these people get so close, and still jump into his own boat?

When this ship appeared just now, he was not without vigilance, but when the flag was displayed on the other party's ship, and Xu Chang said something about his relationship with the Zheng family, he didn't pay much attention to it, after all, if it was really about the owner of this sea area, he was afraid that it was still the other party, and he had no reason to make too hostile moves.

Immediately afterwards, the other party's ship called the news, saying that it was in urgent need of their help, he hesitated slightly, or let the other party's ship post over, who knew that as soon as the two ships were connected, the other party lifted the camouflage on the deck, and one by one the sturdy thieves came out of it with sharp blades in their hands, and then, dozens of hooks and cables were directly on their shipside.

Caught off guard, more than ten people rushed onto the deck when they boarded, the battle on the ship, especially when it came to the ship, this long fire gun obviously did not have the other party's sharp blade and short axe, and the soldiers on the deck were cut down by these thieves, and the thieves behind, as soon as they saw that the front was successful, they were even more happy, and rushed towards this side even more frantically.

Seeing that he was about to lose his money, and was occupied by this thief, the remorse and anger in Mu Shi's heart needless to say, while shouting loudly to call people to gather people, he took out the sword at his waist and rushed out with the people around him, he just wanted to be able to slow down, so that the soldiers in the cabin had time to rush out and drive these thieves off the ship.

This person is obviously not the opponent of more and more thieves, even if they are all desperate, between a few ups and downs, several people have fallen under the thief's knife, Mu Shi also has a color on his body, and a thief has a short axe on his shoulder, and half of his body is dyed red.

Fortunately, this ship is not an ordinary sea ship, although it is not a warship, but it is indeed a ship belonging to the original Dengzhou Naval Division. The ship's large firearms are long gone, but there is still a small cannon on the bow deck. This cannon has almost no effect on the fire of warships, but for the current situation, it is where it comes in, it is a tiger squat cannon that specializes in dealing with enemies who have invaded their ships, firing not projectiles, but iron sand.

Just when Mu Shi led people to withstand such a while, someone had already dragged out the cannon under the tarpaulin, turned the gun head, and the iron sand fragments in the barrel were all loaded, as a small artillery for emergency use, at this time, it was necessary to ignite the lead and launch it directly.

When the thieves screamed and raised their knives and axes to chase after them, they found a black hole in front of them, and the sneering burning rope had burned near the fire door.

There was a loud "bang", and Mu Shi and the others, who retreated to this end of the deck, were dizzy one by one, and Mu Shi almost sat on the deck with his buttocks. Fortunately, it's just a small tiger squat cannon, if it's the kind of cannon erected on the city gate, like them, the enemy doesn't know if he dies or not, and the few people who are near the cannon can't run away, all of them will be shocked to death.

However, although they are unbearable, but, the thieves are even more miserable, when the tiger squat cannon is fired, the nearest thief, from the cannon port is only less than ten steps away, the farthest is just just along the rope climbed over and stood on the side of the ship, after a cannon sound, Mu Shi and others only felt that the sky was full of blood mist and broken meat, fixed eyes, the thieves behind were fine, although the whole body was like a sieve, blood everywhere, and a whole corpse was lost, but the first few thieves were not so lucky, The whole person was crumbled to pieces, and even the slightly larger pieces of meat could not be found.

At this time, there were already soldiers with firecrackers and hook guns running out of the cabin below, but they didn't need any orders, the gunners fired directly at the thieves who had not yet reacted, and the hook gunners ran onto the deck in a steady stream, protecting their colleagues behind them.

Some people even drew their waist knives and chopped off the hooks thrown from the boat over there, and some thieves who were still climbing on the hooks lost the support of the hooks and fell into the sea one after another.

The number of muskets and cannons obviously surprised the leader of the thieves on the ship, and he heard only shouts coming from the opposite ship, and the thieves who were not dead and the thieves who fell into the sea fled back to their own ships.

Although the thief has temporarily retreated, he doesn't seem to be giving up, and he always hangs behind like a ghost's boot, and he doesn't know what new ideas he has.

However, Mu Shi is relaxed at the moment, as long as he has defense, unless the other party is a gunboat, he directly sinks his own ship, otherwise, there is no need to worry about the other party, is the other party a gunboat? Obviously not, this gunboat is said to be only two ships in the Zheng family, and it is really a thing piled up with silver, and it is obvious that these two ships do not include the one in front of them.

After this relaxation, Mu Shideng felt a heart-piercing pain in his shoulder, and Xu Chang, who had just arrived, suddenly said such a thing, so that he could not be annoyed.

"Steward Xu, let's do our own errands, if you think it's inappropriate, after you go back, let you tell the adults, but here and now, the sword soldiers are dangerous, and Mu may not be able to protect you thoroughly, you still go down to do your own errands!"

Xu Chang could hear the resentment in these words, but he really couldn't argue, so he blushed slightly, and said loudly: "What is your errand and my errand, what we are doing is an errand, the general is here to fight for his life, is Xu a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death?" ”

The soldiers threw the corpses of those thieves into the sea one by one from the gap in the side of the ship, and the tiger squat cannon on the deck was also nervously cleaning the chamber and loading ammunition. At sea, bows and arrows are difficult to maintain, this firearm artillery is the biggest long-range weapon, see the thief's ship following behind, but no longer make any moves, it is estimated that the other party has no means to use, as long as the other party does not let the other party come up, these thieves basically can't help their own ship.

Seeing this, Xu Chang's heart calmed down a little, and at this time, he had time to ponder the other party's approach.

Nagasaki is the Zheng family's sphere of influence, this is undoubted, it is said that Zheng Zhilong still has this outer room in Nagasaki (the national hero Zheng Chenggong was born in Nagasaki, this is not nonsense, his mother is not a Ming person), the Zheng family's ships appear in this sea area, it is not surprising, but, the rabbit does not eat the grass by the nest, it is only three or two days away from Nagasaki, this Zheng family is not a bad brain, doing this kind of thing in their own territory, their Zheng family is sitting on the ground and sharing the spoils, is it necessary to do this?

Although the Zheng family's flag on the thief's ship has never landed, Xuchang already feels that something is faintly wrong.

His own ships are regulated by sailors, even if those uninformed pirates can't tell it, but can't the subordinates of Zheng Zhilong, a coastal defense guerrilla, still can't tell what is a military ship and what is a civilian ship? Besides, when the ship was full of copper coins, they did not come to plunder when they moved slowly, but when they returned, they almost became an empty ship before they started, which is too inconsistent with common sense.

However, what about the Fujian accent of those thieves, Fujian dialect is simply the most difficult language in the world, and outsiders can't imitate it.

He was thinking about it when suddenly a soldier ran over from the back side and reported loudly: "My lord, the thieves have put down a small boat and are coming towards us, how to deal with it, please show me!" ”

Mu Shi sneered and asked, "How many people came?" ”

"About three or two people, I can't see it clearly!"

"Let them come over, see what moths they have, what is going on behind them, you're welcome, just hit the fuck!"

The soldiers took the order and left, Mu Shi turned his head and asked Xu Changdao: "Do you want to kill a few thieves and have a good time?" ”

Xuchang's appearance is not too dignified, but compared to the obscene philistine image in the bones of Long Yuan, it is a little more calm, but, no matter how you look at it, this appearance has nothing to do with the martial artist, going into battle to kill thieves, for him, it is still a very distant and unreliable thing, Mu Shi said this, I don't know whether to ask sincerely, share some military merits for him, or ridicule him, but he doesn't know how to interface for a while.

However, no matter how he interacted with it, this Mu Shi let the other party over, but he didn't plan to let the other party go back, but he had a clear view, he smacked his lips, didn't pick up the stubble, but said to himself: "These thieves are a little strange!" ”