No matter how complicated Zhao Bai's mind was, the Little Knife finally set sail, and it didn't take long for it to meet with the other two warships, the Great Knife and the Scythe, and then rushed towards the West Sea of the Huating Empire together.

Yes, it is the West Sea. In fact, the main reason why the Black Cliff Sea can become a place where wind and clouds meet is because this sea area is adjacent to the West Sea and the South China Sea at the same time. Needless to say, the South China Sea was never conquered when the Huating Empire was at its strongest, and compared to the South China Sea, people's eyes were more focused on the West Sea. And the pirates in the Black Cliff Sea naturally prefer to focus on the West Sea, because there are waterways on the West Sea, and where there are waterways, there are merchant ships.

The sea breeze is salty, and after staying at sea for a long time, there is a lingering strange taste in the mouth, and the wind in the open sea is very hard. Even if there is no wind and waves, it just feels like a gentle breeze, but if it blows for too long, the skin will definitely crack, and if you still have to persist, you will even completely open the skin. In such a situation, the vast majority of sailors do not stay on deck for long, which is why after a war at sea, no one is usually killed on deck.

Because it is one thing to think that there will be a spiritual cannon bombardment, and on the other hand, before encountering the enemy, the sea breeze has already forced people into the cabin first. In fact, on every warship, or as long as it is a ship going to sea, there is certainly more than one lookout, but the Knife is an exception.

Han Laosan is simply a monster, even after the warship sailed to the open sea, he never wore a shirt on the high mast, let alone a spirit armor, that is, he was naked, wearing the shabby pants that seemed to be torn by the sea breeze at any time, and stood against the sea breeze on the lookout. For such a situation, the other lookout on the Knife was naturally happy, after all, the wind in the open sea is really not a joke, even if it is rotated, it must be at least six hours a day, which time is not to take off a layer of skin.

On the entire knife number, it is estimated that this lookout is the one who likes Han Laosan the most.

"Captain, are we really going to rob the merchant ships on the West Sea Passage this time?" a young sailor in the cabin leaned over the old captain and asked worriedly.

The old captain kept squinting, and he didn't know whether he was sleeping or closing his eyes to recuperate, but when he heard the young sailor's words, the old captain still said slowly: "Yes, I'm going to rob the West Sea, how about it, don't you feel very happy." ”

"Happy?" the young sailor shrank his neck and said, "But there is nothing to be happy about, I feel that our regiment commander is a little crazy, what's wrong with eating black in the Black Cliff Sea, I just want to go out and rob those merchant ships, are merchant ships so easy to rob, their ships are fast, and the cannons are ruthless, it is said that not long ago, a pirate group robbed a merchant ship, and all of them ended up in the West Sea." ”

"Oh, that's their bad luck, it's okay, we won't be so unlucky. The old captain still said slowly, his tone full of comfort.

Zhao Bai's face was listening from the side, and his face had begun to twitch slightly. Now he gradually understands why the regiment commander doesn't like Han Laosan, in fact, it can be thought that if it weren't for the fact that this old captain has a lot of credit, he really can't move, and the knife is estimated to have been replaced by someone else. In fact, Han Laosan and Captain Lao are both people all the way, they have been on the battlefield for a long time, but they both seem to be indifferent to many things. For example, this time, when he went to grab a merchant ship on the West Sea, although Zhao Bai's face usually looked very calm, he was actually very nervous.

The Huating Empire, how can it be so easy to provoke, especially the current Huating Empire.

Seeing that the young sailor seemed to want to talk nonsense, Zhao Bai stepped forward and pushed him away, and said impatiently: "If you don't understand, don't ask nonsense, the decision of the head of the regiment is something we can discuss, wait for it!"

Although Zhao Baimian is young, he is a boatswain after all, and he is famous for his fierceness, the young sailor is actually one year older than Zhao Baimian, but when he saw Zhao Baimian's eyes, he could only retreat to the side.

The old captain looked at Zhao Bai's face with a smile, and still said unhurriedly: "Today's Huating is no longer the Huating of the past, and it's nothing to rob him of a few merchant ships, don't worry too much, relax." ”

Zhao Bai laughed a few times with a dry face, and didn't say anything more. His words were not spoken after all, after all, he really couldn't say that what he was most worried about was the old captain. Just thinking about the old captain's words, Zhao Baiyan couldn't help but nod after thinking secretly for a while.

Today's Huating seems to be more powerful, but in fact, it is no longer so awe-inspiring, otherwise how could there be so many pirates, and how dare pirates be so rampant.

The matter probably goes back to more than ten years ago, almost thirteen or fourteen years ago, when those pirates of the Western Empire finally couldn't hold back their ambitions for the great empire of the East, and brazenly launched a war to invade the Huating Empire. When he heard the news at that time, Zhao Baiyan was only six or seven years old, with his age at that time, he didn't know what the connection between the West and the East was, and even he couldn't understand the difference between the West and the East at all, he just often heard the adults discussing the war between the Huating Empire and the Western pirates, and listened to it a lot, although he didn't understand it very well, but he also wrote it down. After he was able to figure out these things, he slowly sorted out some old things back then.

In the battle when the Western pirates invaded the Eastern Empire, almost everyone thought that the Western pirates were crazy, even after the entire Western Sea Battlefield fell, and even after the Western pirates had attacked the inland of the Huating Empire, people still believed that the Huating Empire would win. The Donglai Kingdom, where Zhao Baiyan lived, even mobilized an army of monks to expedition to Huating to help them fight.

But it seemed that overnight, the great war between the Western pirates and the Huating Empire suddenly ended, and the result was a very amazing victory of the Western pirates with almost no losses, the imperial capital of the Huating Empire was captured almost in a few days, many wealthy families were slaughtered, and a war involving the West and the East, between a huge empire and dozens of newly rising powers, ended abruptly.

No one knows what happened, or that the people who really know the inside story are not going to become pirates, so in the entire Black Cliff Sea, the pirates here just know that the Huating Empire is no longer what it used to be, but has become a Western powerful to occupy all the best resources, and after many wealthy families were slaughtered, those big families who succumbed to the hope and power naturally all fell to second-class families and became second-class people in their own country.

It is true that there are some truly powerful families that can still play a pivotal role in today's Huating Empire, but there are too few such families after all, and there are only three families when they are full. As for the royal family of the Huating Empire, after the Western tyrants captured the imperial capital and then captured the entire Huating Empire, they also disappeared without a trace, and since then, the Huating Empire has completely become the object of Western plunder. Except for the three families that were the first to attach themselves to the West, the other big families can only be people with their tails between their legs.

Of course, in the face of the invasion of the West, the Huating Empire and even the past major states had no shortage of resistants, only to be killed by the powerful warships and brave pirates of the West in the following years. The Donglai Kingdom, where Zhao Baimian was located, rose up to resist because he was unwilling to succumb to the suppression of the Western powers, and as a result, he was directly hit by Western warships to the harbor, and then the entire territory was captured. Zhao Baimian's family suffered when the Donglai Kingdom was destroyed, and when he fled, he was chased and killed by Western pirates, and as a result, he became an orphan and fled to the Black Cliff Sea.

When it comes to hatred for Western pirates, in fact, at least seventy percent of the people in the entire Black Cliff Sea area will not be less than Zhao Baimian, and the reason why there are so many pirates in the Black Cliff Sea area today is not because of the invasion of Western pirates, and the people with a little strength in the entire Huating either surrendered, or resisted and were killed, or were not killed after resisting, and fled to the Black Cliff Sea area. In fact, when it comes to today's Huating Empire, every pirate group in the Black Cliff Sea hopes to grab a handful, not only for resources, but also for revenge, because they all know that Western pirates are hateful, and those who betray are hateful, but their strength is indeed very strong, not to mention that these pirates are just a group of scattered sand, even if they really unite, what can they do, a huge force as strong as the Huating Empire back then could not resist the invasion of Western pirates, and what can they do about these pirates who are fighting separately。

Every time he thinks about the past and the current situation, Zhao Baimian will grit his teeth, but in the end, he often ends his memories and anger in helplessness.

"There is a ship!" Suddenly, when Zhao Baimian had just gathered his mind, he heard Han Laosan's voice coming from the sound transmission plate, and after a while, he continued: "It's a merchant ship." ”

Hearing that it was a merchant ship, everyone on the Knife was excited, but no one showed it too obviously, they were still waiting patiently. Not long after, Han Laosan's voice sounded again: "Merchant ships, three, there is no escort fleet, and there are spirit cannons on merchant ships." ”

After Han Laosan's words, a low cheer finally began to sound in the cabin, if it was only a merchant ship and there were only three of them, it would naturally be no problem to take down these fat sheep with the strength of their sickle pirate group.

The old captain finally showed a little concern, grabbed the transmission disc and said lightly: "What did the regiment commander say?"

The transmission disk was silent for a while, as if looking at the flag on the sickle, and soon after Han Laosan's voice finally sounded again: "The captain has given the order, a general attack." ”