After some greetings, Qian Lang took Xiao Fan and others to the dock where the cargo ship was parked.

At this time, Baoshan was a small county seat at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

However, because of the prosperity of maritime trade in recent years, not only many inland goods are transported here along the Yangtze River, but also there is a large shipyard that can build 5,000 large ships.

Although it is not as good as Hangzhou, Mingzhou, Quanzhou and other places, it can be regarded as prosperous by virtue of water conservancy.

As soon as I arrived at the pier, I saw many large ships docked at the edge of the pier from a distance. The anti-bag laborers carried on their backs, or carried, or carried all kinds of goods up and down, compared with the huge ships, like a swarm of industrious ants.

In the distance, ships enter and leave the harbor from time to time. Whenever a ship docks, a tax collector will come to collect the tax. new

Xiao Fan had never seen the sea before, let alone so many sailboats.

Look at one of the trestles with two large three-masted galleons parked on them. One of them is a sea ship of 5,000 materials, and the other is also a sea ship of 5,000 materials.

The bow of the boat is V-shaped, with a narrow front and a pointed bottom, thinking that these should be the two new boats I bought.

"These two ships look really good, a lot bigger than the ones on the side." Xiao Fan didn't understand the ship, he only knew a sentence that circulated on the Internet in later generations.

Big is good, more is beautiful, and caliber is justice.

Although it is now the Great Song Dynasty and there is no artillery, the reason is still the same.

At sea, the bigger the ship, the more cargo it can carry, the more money it makes, the more people it can carry, and the stronger the force.

"Is that our ship? When you see it, you boast?" Qian Lang looked at Xiao Fan strangely and said speechlessly.

Xiao Fan looked at Qian Lang blankly, no, this is not our ship? Then why are you taking me this way? Is it just to see me make a joke?

"This isn't our ship? Where's our ship?" Xiao Fan asked.

At this moment, a steward who had previously commanded the loading and unloading of goods on the ship ran over and said respectfully to Qian Lang, "Shopkeeper, the goods have almost been loaded, and the crew members are all ready. I'll be able to set sail tomorrow morning."

Xiao Fan glared at Qian Lang when he heard this: What do you mean?

At this time, Zhao Pan'er on the side looked at Xiao Fan's embarrassed look, couldn't hold back anymore, and laughed directly out of a goose call.

"Fan Lang, your embarrassed appearance just now is really funny."

"Okay, just kidding, let's get on the boat and have a look?"

"Our two ships are made of similar materials, twelve feet long and three feet and five feet wide. There are three layers of gunwales and two layers of bottom plates, which are made of tenon knots, fish scales, flat joints and other processes, which not only make the hull more firm, but also facilitate the maintenance of the ship. The seams between the plates are made of hemp silk, tung oil, lime, etc., which can ensure long-term navigation without water leakage."

Leading Xiao Fan and Zhao Pan'er onto the boat, Qian Lang continued to introduce: "Our ship can carry 5,000 stones, the bottom layer is loaded with all kinds of porcelain, and the middle and upper layers are loaded with tea and silk and other goods that are afraid of moisture."

I heard Qian Lang say that this ship can carry 5,000 stones at a time, which is almost 300 tons. I can't help but sigh that water transportation is much stronger than land transportation.

If this were to be transported by horse-drawn carriage, a horse-drawn carriage would be able to carry less than ten stones, and a ship would be worth hundreds of carriages.

"How long does it take to get from here to Hangzhou?" Zhao Paner asked.

"It will be almost three days before we can get to Hangzhou," Qian Lang replied, "and then after the cargo is finished in Hangzhou, our two ships will go to Yuezhou to join our previous ship and the Qian family's fleet." Finally, they went to the South Seas together."

"That's okay, it's not too early, then let's go back to the inn for a night's rest first, and set off directly tomorrow morning." Xiao Fan said.

After resting at the inn for one night and recuperating their spirits, Xiao Fan and the others boarded one of the sea ships with Qian Lang.

If nothing else, they will arrive in Hangzhou three days later.

As a result, after a day and a night of sailing, there was no accident.

"Great treasurer, there is an official warship in the east that is being besieged by several pirate ships." Wangdou

The lookout shouted loudly below.

As soon as the lookout's words fell, the crew below suddenly panicked. I encountered pirates, and they were pirates who dared to attack the official army.

"Don't panic, don't panic!" While organizing the ship's guards and asking them to lead the crew to get weapons and prepare to deal with possible pirates, Qian Lang reported the situation to Xiao Fan and asked him to decide.

At the same time, on the besieged official ship in the east, Liu Dabiao was struggling to fight the pirates.

Although the guards around him had been trying their best to protect him, he was still covered in several wounds, and although he looked covered in blood, his injuries were not very serious.

Most of the blood on the body is from the enemy, and most of the injuries on the body are skin wounds, which are not fatal.

Although the officers and soldiers are all elite and well-armed, and since this group of pirates dares to attack the officers and soldiers, they will not leave them alive.

Therefore, in the case of the back road being cut off, the officers and soldiers on the ship looked quite heroic. However, the pirates, who were outnumbered, slowed down their offensive because they had the chance to win.

After all, they are blood-licking and vicious pirates, but no one wants to die.

Moreover, most of the pirates were not happy about this operation, because most pirates have always respected the strong (bullying the weak and fearing the hard).

Can bully merchant ships with weak resistance ability, or even not resist, who will be so full that they have nothing to do, and run to fight the officials and soldiers?

Robbing merchant ships, whether they are sailing or returning, the goods on them are all worth a lot of money, and pirates are naturally willing to rob them.

However, if you fight to the death with the officers and soldiers, there will not only be a lot of casualties, but also there will be no oil and water. Therefore, if it weren't for the big leader Hai Jiaolong's insistence, no one would want to fight to the death with Ning Haijun.

The officers and pirates who were fighting spotted the two merchant ships in the distance, but they didn't pay much attention.

For the officers and soldiers, in the current situation, you can't count on merchant ships to help, right?

As for the pirates, it would be good if they didn't go to the merchant ships to make trouble, didn't they take advantage of the opportunity to escape when they couldn't spare time, but instead ran up and got into the tiger's mouth?

To the surprise of the two waves, the two merchant ships in the distance did not escape, but instead spread their sails and rushed straight towards them at full speed.

"Brother Fan, are we really going up up there to help?" Qian Lang was a little uneasy and said: "Our two ships, there are only more than forty guards, even if you count the crew, there are only about a hundred people, and the other party has five ships, although the ships are much smaller than ours, but they must have dozens of pirates on one ship."

"It's okay, I'll do it!" Xiao Fan crossed his hands and hugged Thunder, put them on his chest, his eyes were blazing, and he stared at the two warring sides in the distance.

Looking at Xiao Fan, who was full of anger, Qian Lang was stunned, he thought he knew Xiao Fan's skills. Although he is much stronger than him, he is not a peerless master.

Although Qian Lang was against it and didn't want to go, who made Xiao Fan's mind decided. And the people below were also stimulated by the reward announced by Xiao Fan before.

Kill a pirate and reward 50 times, and if you die in battle, you will receive a compensation of 100 pieces. You must know that these people who are willing to go to sea are fighting for their lives, and they usually go back and forth to Nanyang, and their wages are only about twenty or thirty times.

Looking at Zhang Rui who was staying with Zhao Paner in the distance, Qian Lang regretted bringing his own lady with him, and originally planned to take Zhang Rui back to his hometown after arriving in Yuezhou, take her to meet her mother, and let her live in her hometown in Yuezhou if she could, so as not to be alone when she went out, and no one would take care of her.

As the merchant ships got closer and closer to the battlefield, Qian Lang felt that he could only hope that the pirates were not strong in combat and that the strength of the official army was sufficient. And this probability is not low, after all, five to one, this gang of pirates has not taken the other party.

And the reason why Xiao Fan wanted to intervene in this battle was mainly because he had just seen the flag of the Ning Navy on this official warship.

Liu Dabiao looked at the two merchant ships that were approaching, the money and Xiao's flag on the ships, he was a little confused for a while, and thought silently in his heart.

Damn, what's the origin of these two merchant ships? Is there really anyone who is not afraid of death, and he can't rush to die?

Then he shouted loudly, "Sons, hold on, reinforcements are coming!" Zhang Yunlong, you

to the stern of the ship."

Then he said to himself: "Damn, I hunt geese all day long, and today I actually let the geese peck my eyes, and after I go back, I must see which straight lady thief is calculating Lao Tzu."

On the pirate side, the sea dragon, who was still as stable as Mount Tai, suddenly became anxious, and hurriedly urged the pirates under him to step up their attack.

After all, although they have a numerical advantage over the officers and troops, they are now unable to attack for a long time because of one stubborn resistance and one timidity.

Now two merchant ships rushed up without fear of death, although the sea dragon did not think that the guards and crews of the two merchant ships could change the situation.

But once the guards and officers and soldiers on the merchant ships were brought together, it would undoubtedly cause them more casualties.

"Little ones, hurry up to Lao Tzu, and when the official army is resolved, let's take advantage of the situation to take down the two fat sheep that rushed up! Kill one more officer and soldier, and in a while, Lao Tzu will give him an extra twenty yuan of money."

As the sea dragon shouted, the pirates also noticed the two merchant ships heading towards them. I also know what the consequences will be if I let each other meet.

Moreover, as long as the officers and troops in front of them are solved, those two boats will be fat sheep to be slaughtered. So one by one, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, they launched a fierce attack on the officers and soldiers on the warship.

The officers and soldiers on the warship also knew that it was a critical moment, as long as they withstood and waited for reinforcements, there would still be a glimmer of life in the originally mortal situation.

Fortunately, God gave face, so that Xiao Fan's ship rushed to the battlefield in less than a pillar of incense.

When they are a stone's throw away, they start shooting arrows at each other. On the pirate side, there were not many archers because they were besieging the remnants of the official army.

As a result, when they shot arrows at each other, it was Xiao Fan who took advantage of the height of the boat and gained the upper hand, killing and wounding seven or eight people on the spot, while only one was killed and one wounded on his side.

The one who died was unlucky, was shot through the eye socket by an arrow, and died on the spot. On the contrary, the injured one was only rubbed by the arrow, which was considered a minor injury.

When the two boats were more than 20 steps apart, Xiao Fan directly pulled out the thunder, and took advantage of the gap between the other party's arrows to jump up directly and fly to the opposite boat.

Facing Xiao Fan, who flew to his ship, the pirates were directly collectively stunned. Especially among the pirates, the second leader who is known as the water floater directly shocked Xiao Fan into a celestial.

Water drifting thought that he had been crisscrossing the rivers and lakes for more than ten years, and he could leap more than ten steps, and the light skill was already invincible in the world (he had never seen or heard of the light skill being better than him).

I didn't expect this person to be so powerful than him, and he was able to jump more than ten feet.

Liu Dabiao, who was fighting not far away, was also startled, and couldn't help but sigh, "Who the hell is this? I thought that shit's light skills were invincible in the world, but I didn't expect someone to be even more powerful than him! Where did this monster come from?"

Then, Xiao Fan let the two sides know what a monster is. I saw him shouting, "You are already surrounded by me, quickly lay down your weapons and surrender without killing!"

Just when the others looked at Xiao Fan with the eyes of a retarded person.

He rushed into the group of pirates alone, stabbing them, slashing them, teasing them, or wiping them, and after each move, one of the pirates fell to the ground and died.

And all the attacks of the pirates against him were dodged by him in a leisurely manner, and through his ability to move a cut above him, the pirates could not surround him.

With Xiao Fan's flickering and moving, as the pirates on the ship kept falling to the ground, in the face of such a monster, the remaining pirates collapsed directly.

Then they all bypassed the officers and fled to the other side, and joined the sea dragon.

At this time, including Liu Dabiao, there were more than 100 people on the official army's side, and now there are less than 20 people who still have the ability to fight.

On the pirate side, there were originally more than 300 people on five ships, but now there are more than 200 left, and they are still huge and overwhelming.

Although the officers and soldiers have fought hard, the result does not change with the will of the people. In the case of being ambushed and outnumbered, their casualties were greater than that of their opponents.

"Liu Dabiao, the deputy commander of the infantry army of the Xianing Navy, thank you for the rescue,

I wonder how many men you've brought?" Liu Dabiao, who was injured several times, came to Xiao Fan's side with the support of Zhang Yunlong.

"The guards and crews of the two ships, including those below, are more than two hundred people. Deal with this group of chickens and dogs on the other side, but Erer." Xiao Fan said confidently.

Liu Dabiao glanced at the guards and crew members who had just jumped over, all of them holding swords, bows and arrows and other weapons in their hands.

The sea dragon saw that the guards and crew members on the opposite side were all armed with a pair of bows and arrows, but because he and the others were all fighting in close quarters just now, there were not many people with bows and arrows in their hands.

Immediately shouted, "There are many of us, all rush up and kill them!"

Xiao Fan didn't care about the conversation with Liu Dabiao, and directly asked all the people with bows and arrows in their hands to shoot an arrow at the other party, directly causing more than 20 casualties to the other party.

Then he rushed forward first, and after the others behind shot an arrow, they all put down their bows, picked up their swords, followed Xiao Fan's back, and rushed towards the pirates opposite.