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There is no wind on the sea, no clouds, and a clear sky and blue sun, which is a good weather for going to sea.

A large six-masted ship automatically cut a hole in the sea without wind, and quickly approached from the junction of sea and sky, followed by four slightly smaller ships.

Before the ship arrived, the loud sound of the trumpet on the ship had already been heard, and the trumpets of the merchants on the sea were also different, and the use was the same as the sound of darts shouting on land.

It is nothing more than a notification to the peers and pirates who have made up their minds, to give a face.

However, this thing generally does not work well for smaller caravans.

Although these merchant ships traveling back and forth between the Central Plains and the South China Sea are said to be merchant ships, they are actually smuggling ships.

If these smuggling ships were robbed, there would be no place to go to the case, but fortunately, the pirates were also concerned about the harvest of their own territory, and most of them would not be embarrassed after paying the tolls.

Since the Ming Dynasty began to implement the sea ban, it has been hundreds of years now, these smuggling merchants have appeared since the Ming Dynasty, and the boss of this fleet is an ancestral business.

Boss Wang's name is Wang Derong, he knows a few kung fu, he is half a martial arts person, his ancestor's surname is Wang, and he is a famous pirate and smuggler during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Zhi.

At first, Wang Zhi gathered his subordinates and the ronins of the island country to do smuggling business, and then annexed several large pirate forces on the sea, and once called himself "King Hui", which can be said to be the overlord of the sea.

Later, Wang Zhi was exterminated by the Ming government, and his descendants did not dare to use his original surname, so he went to Sandianshui and took a Wang character, changing the word without changing the pronunciation, until now.

The Wang family has inherited the smuggling business for hundreds of years, and now it has actually declined, Wang Derong is a very high-spirited person, taking advantage of the Shunzhi Emperor to order the implementation of the sea ban two years ago, he wants to take this opportunity to regain the power of the ancestors.

"Big brother, are we a little too careful?"

On the deck of a merchant ship, a tall and thin man looked around and found that there was nothing special about it, and he couldn't help but complain a little.

In front of him was a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, about thirty-five or sixteen years old, who seemed to give people a shrewd feeling, and this man was none other than Wang Derong, the owner of the merchant ship.

"Do you know why you can't go out and be on your own until now?"

Wang Derong glanced at this person lightly and said unhurriedly.

"You have followed me on the sea route for two years, you have experience, and you are familiar with the route, but you are too imprudent, too confident, and too inattentive to others. This is your biggest shortcoming, remember, we run a boat on the sea, and there is no difference between walking the rivers and lakes, we all pin our heads to the waistband of our trousers, and one day we encounter natural and man-made disasters, that is, the end of the ship's destruction and death. ”

The tall and thin man was Wang Derong's cousin, named Wang Dezhang, but when he heard this, he showed a disapproving look.

"In the past two years, under the leadership of the eldest brother, our Wang family has been gaining momentum, and in this pirate in the South China Sea, which force dares to come and provoke the tiger's beard. ”

"Don't the pirates dare, don't the pirates dare? They have plundered passing ships in the past, and I have not heard of them giving up robbing ships for fear of the name of the other party. If you are lucky to meet the Japanese bandits, although they are fierce and ruthless, and there are many people, at least they still use knives, and we can't beat them. If you run into red-haired pirates, do you think they will be afraid of the royal family's power?"

Wang Derong knew that although his family was now gaining momentum in the South China Sea, it was far from reaching the power of his ancestors, and the pirates entrenched in the South China Sea might still fear them, but the pirates and red-haired pirates did not have this scruples.

At the same time, more than 70 nautical miles away, a ship was moving slowly in the middle of the sea, and the sailors and passengers on board were obviously dressed as Japanese pirates, and there were more than 200 people on board.

In front of the bow of the ship, Yoshida is standing with a katana in one hand, looking into the distance and in high spirits.

Yoshida is about thirty years old, short in stature, with a mediocre face, and a pair of small eyes that are shining, as if he is calculating something in his heart all the time.

He was originally a samurai of the Tokugawa shogunate, but he was forced to flee due to a mistake, and gathered a group of idle ronin to go to sea to become pirates, but he didn't expect that life would be more nourishing than before.

"What's unusual in the nearby sea?"

"Seventy nautical miles to the southwest, a caravan is coming here, it seems to belong to the king of the South China Sea, and they have not found us. Chief, shall we do it?"

A samurai behind Yoshida Shochi stepped forward and replied respectfully.

It is also Wang Derong's bad luck, usually he is on the sea road, he is also a large force, and the relationship with other maritime forces is not bad, but this time he came to rob him, but it was a group of novices who had just gone to sea for a long time, even if Wang Derong had all kinds of skills, I am afraid that he would not be able to imagine such a change.

Yoshida Masakachi hooked a sneer at the corner of his mouth, looked at the front of the ship, stretched out his tongue and licked his lips.

"Why don't you do it? When you get to the meat in your mouth, you can still let them run? Summons the order, speed up my progress, and do it this time, let's all go to the tavern and have fun." ”

"Yes, full speed ahead. The warrior agreed, turned and began to deliver orders.

The more than 200 ronins on the sea ship heard that there was business to do, and they all came to the spirit, they all came to be pirates when they couldn't survive in the country, for them money is life, and having a business means that they have money and wine again.

But they didn't know that rushing to the caravan at such a speedy speed was tantamount to suicide, because Song Jie was on Wang Derong's main ship.

The two men and horses were driving head-on, only seventy nautical miles apart, and the speed was not low, and after a while, the two sides finally officially discovered each other's existence.

"Boss Wang, there is a ship coming from the northeast, it seems to be a wolf, coming towards us. ”

"Give me clairvoyance. ”

Hearing the report of the crew on the lookout, Wang Derong was shocked, and immediately ordered his subordinates to bring the binoculars and look into the distance, and sure enough, he saw a sea ship sailing straight to the northeast.

"Those who come are not good, and everyone is ready for war. ”

When Wang Derong saw the other party's posture, he knew that today's battle was inevitable, either you died or I died.

When the Wang family arrived in his generation, with the help of a favorable environment and a little legacy left by his ancestors, he was definitely a few big forces in the South China Sea, and the flags hanging on the opposite ship were not familiar forces, obviously they had just gone to sea to fight the autumn breeze, and he didn't mind giving the other party an unforgettable lesson.

"Big brother, who is the other party?" Wang Dezhang asked puzzled when he saw the look on his eldest brother's face was solemn and disdainful.

"Wako, it seems that he is a newcomer who has just gone to sea, not a force we are familiar with. ”

"A group of young people who have just gone to sea dare to fight our Wang family's idea, I really don't know whether to live or die. ”

If it were those forces that were more famous at sea, Wang Dezhang would still be nervous, and when he heard that the other party was just a newcomer to the sea, he immediately didn't pay attention to it.

"Shut up. Wang Derong had a gloomy face and shouted angrily: "Let you follow me for two years, and you will develop this kind of character? What do I say to you? The more new forces, the more careful you must be, no one knows what is strong in these new forces." ”

"You are presiding over the situation here, let's see who these would-be robbers are, we are businessmen, pay attention to harmony and make money, I will go to Song Gongzi to have a look." ”

"Yes. ”

Seeing his younger brother bow his head and agree, Wang Derong couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this younger brother is the most likely person in the family to replace him, but unfortunately, as the Wang family's power in the South China Sea grows stronger, people have become a little arrogant.

If he presses it, there is nothing to be arrogant, and if something happens to him one day, this arrogance will become a fatal flaw for the Wang family.