At dusk, there was a sudden fog on the sea, and the visibility was only more than a hundred feet, Bai Zizong was afraid that it would collide with the passing ships, so he hurriedly ordered the ships to slow down and slow down the journey.

After walking for more than an hour, there was a faint sound of gunfire in front of the right.

Based on Bai Zizong's experience, it must have been the Ryukyu pirates who took advantage of the fog to sneak attack the merchant ships of which country, so there would be such a fierce gunfire.

"To save or not to save?"

After pondering for a while, he decisively sent his brother to immediately send an order, let the dragon ship and the dragon boat stand by, and he took six ships to untie the cable and quickly sailed towards the right front, and soon approached the naval battle area.

After hiding in the fog and watching the battle for a while, Bai Zizong found that it was Japan, Ryukyu, and Korea, with a total of eight fast ships of five pirates, and a total of eight speeders were engaged in an artillery battle with the four black merchant ships of Portugal, so he immediately ordered: "Everyone, we will quietly go around behind the pirate ship and attack one ship each, and we will be able to relieve the siege of foreign ships." But remember, don't chase a thief ship in the fog. ”

Everyone was ordered, and the six ships went away from the left and right, and went around the back of the thief ship, and suddenly opened fire, and the arrows were shot indiscriminately, so that the thief ship was at a loss, and mistakenly thought that other merchant ships were coming to participate in the battle, and they fled one after another, and escaped in the fog, and the sea was instantly quiet.

The Portuguese merchant ship escaped the catastrophe and joined Zhong Lei and his six big ships, Bai Zizong had several generals, among which there was a Portuguese generalist and the other party "Jili Wow"

After exchanging for a while, he said: "We are the naval army of His Royal Highness Zhu Xiaotian, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, and we came to relieve your siege on the order of His Royal Highness the prince, so we don't need to thank you." Please ask your honorable name. ”

A tall and thin man squeezed from the crowd to the front, put his right palm on his chest and shook it slightly, and said, "My name is William, I am a Portuguese merchant, I don't know where His Royal Highness the prince of your dynasty is now, I want to thank him in person." ”

The general said with a smile: "His Royal Highness the prince is on the dragon and phoenix ship not far away." ”

William: "Hmm"

He said, "Youlao leads the way." ”

After the general told William's sincerity to Bai Zizong, ten ships lined up in a row and sailed north, and soon approached the dragon ship, and saw that there were two Japanese pirate ships next to the dragon ship, everyone was suddenly a little nervous, and they drew their swords and guns, and William saw it and hurriedly beckoned his subordinates to raise their guns and prepare to shoot.

At this moment, Zhao Hu's laughter suddenly sounded on the bow of the dragon ship, and then he only heard him say: "You don't have to panic, the thieves on the ship have let us cut down, these are just two empty ships." ”

It turned out that these two pirate ships were attacked by Bai Zizong and them, and they misguided in the panic escape, but they headed towards the dragon ship.

As a result, they were hooked by the grappling hooks on the eight dragon boats, and after a burst of random fire from the archers on the dragon ship, everyone got on the pirate ship with knives, killed all the Japanese invaders, and rescued thirty-seven Ming Han people in the cabin.

Everyone cheered, and ten boats leaned against a cable and attached to the dragon ship.

"Please, Mr. William. ”

After saying that, accompanied Zhong Lei, Bai Zizong and the six invited William and three foreigners to board the dragon ship, and sat on the left and right sides of the front hall with the courtesy of the guest and the host.

After a while, auspicious Ruyi brought tea, and William tasted it and praised it.

Zhong Lei smiled at Wang Leopard on the right: "I didn't think that this foreigner is quite knowledgeable." ”

Seeing William looking at Zhong Lei, Tongshi said to him: "This is our governor of Tianbo Mansion, and that power is like your governor." The manager is praising you, saying that you are very good at drinking tea. Mr. William, this is a tribute tea, and only half a catty of tea can be picked out in 100,000 quintals, so it is called Wanjin Xiang Tea, which we can drink. So, this fragrant tea is very, very, very precious. ”

This thing is really good at bragging, coaxing William as if he was floating in the clouds and fog.

"Your chief steward is a friend of mine William. ”

As he spoke, William took off two muskets from his waist and a leather box containing gunpowder bullets, pointed at Zhong Lei and said to Tongshi: "These two guns are very powerful, give them to him." ”

The general hurriedly took the musket and leather box, and said in front of Zhong Lei: "Boss, this is a gift from Mr. William, and he said that he wants to make friends with you." ”

Zhong Lei felt that this foreigner was very bold, and he also intended to make him a friend, so he accepted the gift and called Ruyi and said: "Go and pack a bag of tea, go to the warehouse to get two urns of incense, and send them to the table when the time comes, I will be useful." ”

Knowing that Zhong Lei was going to return the gift, the matter was blown away again when he arrived at William's side, and he didn't know what he said, so the foreigner nodded and laughed, and raised his big finger at Zhong Lei.

Zhong Lei saw it and said to Wang Bao: "I didn't think about it, I'm quite good at coaxing people, look at him who coaxed others and forgot his surname." ”

At dinner, Zhong Lei listened to the general affairs, put the three large tables together and spread white cloth, saying that foreigners eat like this.

After putting the wine and food on the table, Tianxiao Danying was in the first seat, opposite William and Tongshi, Zhong Lei, Wang Bao, Zhao Hu, Feng Li, Bai Zizong, Sun Litang, Fang Shichuan, and Dongye Suo.

On the right are two foreigners, chasing the murderer for thousands of miles without looking back, the Flying Demon Heroine, Azaguri, Yang Biao, and the iron-headed monk.

Tian Xiao still saw the curly-haired foreigner with blue eyes and yellow hair for the first time, and it was inevitable that he was a little fresh, so he said to Dan Ying: "Look at this monster, how did it look like this." ”

Dan Ying grinned, "I think, maybe the monster looks like this." ”

The words of the golden boy and girl immediately caused Zhong Lei and others to laugh.

William understood that His Royal Highness the Ming Emperor was talking about himself, so he asked what His Royal Highness the Prince said.

The general suppressed his laughter and hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness the prince is saying to the county lord that you are very handsome. The county lord said that when she grows up and marries, she will find someone as handsome as you. ”

This caused William and the other two foreigners to burst into laughter.

Immediately, everyone chatted and talked about the customs of their respective countries, agriculture and commerce.

When it came to Portugal's clippers and firearms, Zhong Lei was energetic, and after asking carefully for a while, he immediately asked someone to bring two large boxes of silver, saying that he wanted to make a big deal with William, and opened his mouth to order fifty large clippers from him, requiring twenty guns on each ship.

These two large boxes of silver are deposits, and they will be delivered to Qiongzhou Mansion, a large island in the South China Sea.

After the meal, Zhong Lei asked Ruyi to bring tea and wine, personally delivered it to William, and said to Tongshi: "You sue him, if he thinks this tea and this wine are delicious, then when I return to Tianbo Mansion, I will prepare more than a dozen carriages for him." ”

As soon as the general told William what Zhong Lei said, this foreigner was very grateful, pointed his finger at himself, and pointed at Zhong Lei, and said sincerely: "You are my William's brother Ming." I invite you to Portugal as a guest and to meet our King and members of the royal family. ”

The general explained William's original words to Zhong Lei.

Zhong Lei nodded and said, "Brother William, if you have the opportunity, I will take you to see Long Live Lord." ”

Someone called Bai Zizong out and came to the deck.

"Big brother, I went to the cabin to see it, and the people who were rescued by Lord Zhao were Zhao Laosan and them. Zhao Laosan heard that the eldest brother became the general of the little prince's navy, and he wanted to defect to you, so go and take a look. ”

After hearing this, Bai Zizong suddenly thought of the lack of people in the Jianshui Army, his face was happy, and he hurriedly went to the cabin happily, Zhao Laosan and they cried when they saw Bai Zizong.

This Zhao Laosan is called Zhao Chong, there are six brothers in the family, all of whom know a few kung fu, and they are the leaders of fishermen in Fujian and Zhejiang, and they have gathered sixty or seventy large and small fishing boats to go out to the deep sea to fish.

This time, I don't know why, the Ryukyu pirates and the Japanese pirates, who have always been at odds, will join forces to arrest Zhao Laosan and them, and they will be locked up on a small island in the Ryukyu Islands, and I heard that they are going to be trafficked to the West as slaves.

"What?"

Bai Zizong was furious, stretched out his hand and patted Zhao Chong's shoulder and said, "Brother, Lao Tzu is about to exterminate these turtle grandsons. This revenge, Lao Tzu avenged for you. ”

He told him his plan and asked, "Do you people have the courage to go?"

Zhao Chongdang even said: "From today on, we will follow you, and you will go wherever you say." ”

He is short of manpower to attack the island, and now there are more than 30 of them in Zhao Chong, how can there be no joy, such as rescuing the fishermen locked up on Ryukyu Island, there will be a sailor army of more than 1,000 people.

"Rest for a moment, and be ready to go. ”

Yan hurriedly went to the deck, and when he saw Zhong Lei and they were talking to William in the front hall, he walked in and told everyone about the conversation with Zhao Chong and his own thoughts, Feng Li said that he would save people first, and Zhong Lei and others also agreed.

William asked the general officer, and learned that the little prince's sailor was going to exterminate the pirates living in the Ryukyu Islands, so he asked the general to tell Sù Zhong Lei that he was willing to use the artillery of his merchant ship to help Tianbo Province capture the island.

In this way, this strength will be stronger, and everyone's heart will rejoice.

That night, three two-masted ships, five clippers, four black merchant ships, and eight dragon boats led the dragon ships south.

On the fourth watch, the fleet was approaching the waters west of the Ryukyu Islands.

Due to the shallow water here, the draught was too deep for the dragon ship to sail, so it had to stay.

Yu Boat slowly moved forward in a fan shape, until it landed on the island, and then disembarked softly under the cover of night, and slowly touched towards the island.

There are about 300 pirates living on this island, making it the largest of the fifteen pirates in the Ryukyu Islands.

There are twelve defensive cannons on the island alone, as well as forty or fifty muskets, but recently I have been tired of catching people, and when I beat William's merchant ship at dusk yesterday, I made Bai Zizong and them dizzy with a sneak attack, and they returned to the island and drank wildly, and they were so drunk that they became dead pigs.

Several sentry pirates couldn't stop the biting wind and cold, and they all huddled together to keep each other warm, never expecting that someone would dare to touch the island to break ground on Tai Sui's head.

Pity these sentries died under the knives before they could see the appearance of the comers, and their accomplices also died in their sleep one after another, and they could no longer kill people and goods in this life.

Zhong Lei sent this time, in addition to the pirates' seven clippers and forty-three fishermen's dhows, the lava cave was full of treasures, more than 5,000 taels of gold alone, not to mention silver, more than 800,000 taels.

A total of 872 fishermen were rescued, all of whom carried the treasure to the masted ship with Zhao Chong.

Zhao Bao and a dozen greedy fishermen each stole a few ingots of silver and hid them in their arms, and as a result, they were reported to Zhao Wei, the boss of Zhao.

was so angry that Zhao Chong's six relatives did not recognize it, and immediately asked people to tie up the fifth brother and those fishermen, and ordered Haosheng to take care of them, and hand them over to Bai Zizong after leaving the island.

Before dawn, all the belongings on the island were emptied, and three large sloops were loaded and escorted to the dragon ship by General Sun.

Then, after a long time on the battlefield, Feng Li, who was good at using soldiers, led Bai Zizong and William to capture the left and right islands by surprise, and the sky was just bright at this time.

"Bring it all. ”

At this time, Zhao Wei brought Zhao Bao and a few of his brothers who had hidden the silver to Zhong Lei and the others and said, "A few adults, these unscrupulous brothers stole the silver, and let me tie them up and hand them over to you for disposal." ”

Zhao Chong glanced at the fifth brother angrily and said: "Fifth brother, if you want people to look down on you, you must first respect yourself, how can you do such a shameful thing." ”

Zhao Cai and the three of them also sighed, and they all felt very embarrassed.

Zhong Lei saw that everyone didn't speak, so he had to come forward to intercede for Zhao Bao and them.

"Forget it. Thinking that they are all first-time offenders, I won't deal with them this time. If there is a next time, the head will be cut off. ”

Zhao Bao and the others hurriedly knelt down and thanked the chief manager for not killing, and this matter was over.

Zhong Lei pulled Bai Zizong aside and whispered: "Zizong, I will hand over these people to you, and you will be your soldiers in the future, but you must control it well and don't cause anything else." ”

Bai Zizong knew that the responsibility was heavy, so he hurriedly asked: "Chief, do you really want to attack Qiongzhou Mansion and occupy that big island?"

Zhong Lei nodded and smiled.

"There is this kind of thinking, but to have a chance. ”

As he was talking, Feng Li came to them and told them all about the discussion with William and Wang Bao, wanting to hear what they meant.