There is no time in the mountains, and the cold does not know the year.

This also applies at sea.

Chen Kan didn't count how many days and nights he spent on the ship, because in addition to the rising and setting of the moon on the sea, all that was left was a boring voyage.

The sea is beautiful, but no matter how beautiful the scenery is, you will get tired of watching it for a long time.

Today, the sky is clear.

Chen Kan leaned back on the recliner to bask in the sun, and from time to time he took a sip of coconut juice from a reed rod.

"Dashuai, Dashuai, Annan has arrived!"

The sudden noise made Chen Kan couldn't help frowning.

Zhang Dong quickly trotted to the front and arched his hand: "Master Hou, the front is the Annan Port, does our fleet need to anchor and rest?" ”

Chen Kan stopped, took a sip of coconut water, and said lightly: "What is the rest, send two small boats to dock, take Siam and Zhenla, and tell Zheng He that reinforcements are coming, let him come to the strait to meet Benhou." ”

"Oh!"

Hearing that Chen Kan was still not ready to moor, Zhang Dong scratched his head, turned around and ran away again.

was so noisy by Zhang Dong, Chen Kan didn't have the heart to continue basking in the sun.

The fleet's entry into the waters of Annam means that it is not far from the Strait of Malacca, and it only needs to continue sailing south along the continental shelf of the Southeast Asian Peninsula and through the South China Sea to enter the Fan Sea of the Malay Peninsula.

And once he entered the Malay Peninsula, Chen Kan's leisurely vacation life came to an end.

Thinking of this, Chen Kan couldn't help but get up and walk towards the kitchen.

His good days are coming to an end, and after entering the waters of the Malay Peninsula, the entire fleet will enter combat mode, so he needs to cherish this peaceful time.

How to cherish a good day, of course, starts with food.

In fact, when Chen Kan is bored on the boat, he will choose to cook by himself.

Although he is not very picky about the taste of his food, since he has time, it is not too much to improve the taste.

Today, Chen Kan plans to make a whole fish feast.

It's not that he likes to eat fish, it's mainly that there are many fish in the sea.

Halal sea bream, lobster sashimi, blue crab dipping sauce.

When Chen Kan made a large table of seafood and was about to eat it, trouble came again.

This time it was Song Qing, who looked a little excited.

Seeing that Chen Kan was eating, Song Qing hurriedly restrained his movements, preparing to wait for Chen Kan to finish eating.

Chen Kan asked while eating: "Say, what's the matter?" ”

Song Qing smiled and said, "It's not a big deal, a pirate has surrounded our fleet, and wants us to leave a treasure ship as money to buy it." ”

"Oh!"

Chen Kan sighed and said, "That's really not a big deal. ”

Song Qing nodded, just about to continue speaking.

Chen Kan suddenly shouted: "What are you talking about, our fleet is surrounded? ”

Song Qing was stunned for a moment, scratched his head and said, "Didn't the last general say it clearly enough?" ”

Chen Kan's face suddenly became excited: "Are you sure it's a pirate?" ”

"yes!"

Song Qing was a little confused, Chen Kan's reaction, what kind of reaction is this?

He didn't think he understood much.

Surrounded by pirates, is it necessary to be so excited?

Chen Kan asked excitedly, "Is it the kind of pirate who wears a straw hat and shouts that I am going to be the king of the pirates?" ”

"Ahh This..."

Song Qing looked at Chen Kan blankly, thinking to himself what is this?

"Isn't it?"

Chen Kan got up suddenly and grabbed Song Qing's neckline.

Song Qing subconsciously shook his head: "No!" ”

Chen Kan was stunned for a moment, and asked again: "Is that the kind of pirate who is crazy, uninhibited, changeable, loves to drink rum, loves peanuts, loves all kinds of beauties, and has an immortal body, driving the Black Pearl?" ”

Song Qing: "? ”

Song Qing's expression suddenly became flustered, and he felt that he might have been abandoned by the tide of the times.

What is this and what is the marshal, how can there be such pirates in the world?

Chen Kan was anxious and asked, "Is it true or not?" ”

Song Qing: "......"

Seeing that Song Qing didn't speak for a long time, Chen Kan suddenly let go of his collar, and a look of depression appeared on his face.

Seeing this, Song Qing had to reply in a low voice: "No! ”

As soon as Song Qing's words fell, he couldn't help but be angry and said, "Since it's not you, what are you talking to me here, wouldn't it be good to kill it?" ”

"Oh!"

Song Qing nodded approvingly, knowing that he shouldn't have come to tell Da Shuai the news.

How can a pirate still be told flowers by a marshal?

Song Qing left in despair.

Halfway through, Chen Kan's voice suddenly sounded behind him: "Wait, come back!" ”

Song Qing looked back and asked, "What else does the big marshal command?" ”

Chen Kan leaned back in his chair and asked excitedly, "What kind of pirate are you talking about?" ”

Song Qing: "? ”

This question stumped Song Qing, and after thinking for a long time, Song Qing muttered: "It's just some pirates who are not tall, take figure-eight steps, speak some monkey words that they can't understand, and look like monkeys." ”

Song Qing swore that this was already the highest literary attainment in his life, and he really couldn't describe the specific appearance of those pirates.

Anyway, it doesn't look like a thief, but like some beggars, and the ships they take are all small broken ships, and they don't even have cabin decks.

The largest ship, the Pengpeng boat, which had long been eliminated by the Daming Sailors, was one or twenty meters long, had two masts, and the speed and direction were all controlled by the wind.

The cruisers of the Daming Navy Division are all stronger than them, not to mention the treasure ships of the Daming Dynasty.

All you have to do is just crash through it and you can smash those pirate ships.

Chen Kanyi nodded happily and continued to ask, "How many of them dare to come to surround our fleet?" ”

Song Qing said: "The number of people is not clear for the time being, but their large ships and small boats add up to more than a hundred, and according to the estimation of twenty people on one ship, the maximum number of people is not more than two thousand." ”

After getting Song Qing's answer, Chen Kan stood up and said lightly: "Let's go, Ben Hou will also go with you to have a look!" ”

After speaking, without waiting for Song Qing, he went straight to the bow of the boat.

Chen Kan wanted to see what the pirates of the Ming Dynasty looked like, but if he wanted to say that he was curious, he was not too curious, he was just bored and had fun.

That's right, it's just having fun.

Chen Kan followed the road to the south, and it was not without encountering pirates, and even the ships of the Japanese robbers encountered several.

But without exception, the moment they saw the giant treasure ship, they quickly fled without a trace.

He didn't even have the courage to get close to the treasure ship, let alone rob Chen Kan.

The leader of this pirate army must have a lot of iron to dare to bring such a few people to trouble Chen Kan's fleet?

This is what Chen Kan is more curious about.

At the same time, he also had the idea of waste utilization in his mind.

Walking to the edge of the deck and standing still, Chen Kan took the clairvoyant mirror handed over by Song Qing.

If you look closely, there is a dense dot on the sea in the distance.

Daming's cruisers are driving away those small points, and it seems that Daming's fleet has not suffered any losses at present.

As for people, they can't see clearly, they can't see at all.

Returning the clairvoyant mirror to Song Qing, Chen Kan summoned his personal guards and instructed lightly: "Arrange the frigate, Benhou will go to Juzong No. 6." ”

Juzong is the name of Zheng He's car.

At the same time, it is also the largest treasure ship of the Ming Dynasty, with a length of 44 zhang and a width of 18 zhang, which can be called a real sea giant.

The treasure ship of the sailor of the Ming Dynasty also followed the name of Juzong.

Zheng He's ship is Juzong No. 1, and the rest are No. 2 to No. 9.

The second of them was given to Chen Kan by Zhu Di as a reward, so the other two ships in Zheng He's fleet were No. 3 and No. 4.

No. 5, No. 6, No. 7 belong to the Jiangnan Naval Division, and the ship under Chen Kan is No. 5.

As for No. 8 and No. 9, they were stationed in Dengzhou and Laizhou and belonged to the Shandong Water Division.

Chen Kan's fleet sailed in a triangular formation of three armed forces, that is, Chen Kan's car was the head, and the other two were parallel at a distance of hundreds of meters behind Chen Kan's Juzong No. 5, one on the left and one on the right.

As for the remaining Fubunes and cruisers, they were scattered between the three ships to escort the ship.

So soon, Zhang Dong prepared a cruiser for Chen Kan.

Cruisers, as the name suggests, are known for their ingenuity and agility, so the hull is naturally not very large, about one-tenth the size of a treasure ship.

The number of people who can ride is very limited, usually equipped with one helmsman, two sailors, and three small flag soldiers, a total of twenty-one people.

Chen Kan and Song Qing landed on the cruiser along the ladder, and the helmsman turned around and carried the two straight to Juzong No. 6.

Sail to the stern of the Juzong VI and climb the ladder to the deck.

The master of this treasure ship will be Tan Cong, the commander of Shaoxingwei.

Seeing Chen Kan and Song Qing coming together, Tan Cong suddenly looked shocked, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute: "Handsome, handsome, why are you two here?" ”

"I've heard that pirates are attacking the fleet, so I'm here to take a look."

Chen Kan answered, and walked to the edge of the deck with his hands behind his back, this time, he could finally see the true appearance of those pirate ships.

Hearing Chen Kan's casual tone, Tan Cong suddenly relaxed.

He bowed to Chen Kan and said: "Don't worry, the marshal is just a pirate, the last general can be defeated in an instant, and please sit down with the marshal to see how the last general breaks the enemy." ”

Chen Kan nodded, walked to a chair brought out by a soldier and sat down, and asked, "What is the origin of these pirates, have you inquired clearly?" ”

Tan Cong nodded and said: "I heard the envoy sent out to negotiate on the other side said that they are ronin warriors who went into exile overseas after the defeat of the Wa Kingdom, and this time they intercepted my Ming Wang Shi because they wanted to borrow a treasure ship to go back to the Wa Kingdom to find some princess to take revenge, anyway, it sounds quite bluffing." ”

"Wa people?"

When Chen Kan heard this, he immediately became interested.

I thought it was an ordinary pirate, but I didn't expect it to be a wolf.

It's just that the appearance of these widows doesn't seem to be too good.

In the late Ming Dynasty, he was harassed by such a group of things?

After pondering for a moment, Chen Kan said lightly: "Give them a lesson first, and then order all the escort ships to surround them, don't let them escape, but don't kill too hard, just give a lesson." ”

Tan Cong was stunned for a moment, and asked cautiously: "What does the big marshal mean by this?" ”

Chen Kan smiled indifferently, turned his head to look at Song Qing and asked, "What does Song Jieshuai think, how are these servant troops?" ”

Song Qing looked at the pirate ship on the other side with an expressionless face, nodded and said: "The courage is acceptable, but if they go to attack the city, I'm afraid it will be a little overwhelmed, but it is enough to use it as cannon fodder to attract artillery fire!" ”

Chen Kan said: "The courage is acceptable, then it's okay, our Ming soldiers, can one less die." ”

The two asked and answered, but Tan Cong on the side was confused.

What servant soldiers, what cannon fodder, what siege cities?

Didn't they go to kill Zheng He to take Zheng He home through the strait, why did they have anything to do with the siege again?

Seeing that Tan Cong still didn't move, Chen Kan couldn't help urging: "What are you doing in a daze, work!" ”

Tan Cong tugged at the corners of his mouth, but he didn't dare not listen to Chen Kan's order, so he had to order to the herald beside him: "Order, let the cruiser block the sea area, and in addition, casually fire a few cannons at the pirate group." ”

Now, the confused one becomes a herald.

What does it mean to shoot a few shots at random?

There is a saying that when the cannon sounds, the gold is ten thousand taels, when will the Ming Dynasty be rich enough to play with cannonballs casually?

However, the military order is difficult to disobey.

The messenger waved the flag in his hand and began to summon the message.

After receiving the order, the war drums on the ship were also beaten instantly.

The next moment, hundreds of cruisers quickly dispersed to both sides.

The location of the pirate ships was less than a few kilometers away from Chen Kan's fleet.

And their ship, wanting to compare speed with cruisers, is wishful thinking.

Before a group of pirates could react, a deafening rumble sounded from the side of the Daming fleet.

It was the sound of Hongwu cannon firing.

The current cannon of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be blooming on all sides, before Chen Kan did not improve the firearms, the Ming Dynasty had Hongwu cannons, Shengong car cannons, general cannons and many other artillery.

It also has melee weapons such as arrows and earth-shattering thunder.

And the most powerful of them is the Hongwu cannon.

But the Hongwu cannon had two drawbacks, the first was that it was bulky, and the second was that it did not have a long range.

In other words, all the cannons of the Ming Dynasty have such shortcomings.

Among them, the Shengong car cannon has the longest range among the three cannons, but the maximum range is only about four kilometers.

The bulky Hongwu cannon has a range of only 100 meters.

However, the Hongwu cannon created by Chen Kan with the help of the Firearms Bureau has been able to catch up with the Shengong cannon, and the power is dozens of times that of the Shengong cannon, and at the same time, the lightness is enough to compete with the Shengong cannon.

In the past, the Hongwu cannon weighed five or six hundred catties at every turn, and smaller ships could not be installed.

Now it is more than 100 catties, and it can basically be done for each person.

Don't look at the more ships that Chen Kan brought out this time, but he brought out more cannons.

"Boom!"

The cannon burst out, bringing out bursts of sparks, and in Chen Kan's clairvoyant mirror, the sound of the cannon just sounded, and the pirate ships began to scatter and flee.

However, no matter how fast they are, they can't be faster than the shells.

A ship exploded directly on the sea, and Chen Kan couldn't help frowning.

"Boom, boom~"

After several more explosions, Chen Kan's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

couldn't help but scolded Tan Cong: "It's not that you just tell you to just put a few cannons to scare them, you killed everyone, who will attack the city for us?" ”