Since it was already August, the weather was very hot, especially on the sea. It was extremely hot and humid, and it was very cool after the occasional storm. That day, Zhang Xiaowu stood on the deck and looked at the sea for a while, but found no seabirds, so he went there.
Island, so he returned to the cabin to rest. After taking a nap for a while, he always felt irritable and abnormal. Sure enough, Lei Wenqian ran back anxiously and reported that he had spotted a fast pirate ship in the distance.
"Oh? Pirate ship? Aren't our warships just for fighting pirates?" Zhang Xiaowu said with some excitement.
Lei Wenqian said nervously: "But the pirate ship is faster than our ship." If it was offshore, he would not be afraid, but he had never experienced a naval battle in the deep sea. Lei Wenqian also worked in the navy.
However, in a year and a half, this was the first time we encountered such a pirate attack.
Zhang Xiaowu waved his hand and said relaxedly: "It doesn't matter, we can just capture them and let everyone change into their military uniforms and their regular clothes on the ship to lure the pirates to the bait."
But the pirates probably guessed what Zhang Xiaowu was thinking. After looking around the three ships for a while, they reluctantly gave up the idea of conquering the Hailong. They probably evaluated themselves and found that they were not strong enough and had to give up.
Everyone laughed and looked down upon these pirates.
But First Officer Fuso frowned and said, "I guess they couldn't afford our ships themselves and joined other pirates instead of giving up."
Zhang Xiaowu asked: "Are there many pirates on this sea?"
First Officer Fuso smiled bitterly and said: "Many, even some warships from the small country of Fuso will disguise themselves as pirates and rob caravans. Some people are too poor to eat. No matter if you are a warship or a merchant ship, they will be robbed."
Lei Wenqian asked: "So we may encounter a fleet?"
"Sir, there is no need to worry. The warships of the small country of Fuso are only two to three hundred dan, and there are no warships in the entire Fuso Kingdom that exceed 500 dan." Fuso's first officer replied affirmatively.
Zhang Xiaowu asked: "How can they know where we are in this vast sea?"
First Officer Fuso pointed to the sky: "The monsoon, the monsoon will blow us in the direction of Kinda Island. They only need to sail along the wind to meet us."
After the pirates left, the fleet returned to normal again, but the dark clouds spread in everyone's mind. Fortunately, Zhang Xiaowu didn't care, and everyone regained their morale.
Sure enough, five days later, six pirate ships loomed behind them. Their ships had large light sails and were extremely fast. They caught up with the Sea Dragon fleet in less than half a day.
"Everyone, don't make any noise. After the pirates climb up, our navy will fight them out." Zhang Xiaowu ordered, but there was something strange in his heart. It was just that the pirates didn't know the Sea Dragon. Could it be that even the Beaver and the Hippo
Don’t you even recognize the number? What’s their plan?
After the pirates approached, they immediately hooked the three ships with hook locks. The extremely brave pirates began to springboard onto the ship to intercept the "merchant ships".
Regardless of ancient and modern times, pirates will not rob at the cost of destroying ships. What they want is money and women, not a burning ship. Even if they set fire to the ship, it is only after robbing. But the pirates boarded the Sea Dragon
It took three ships to realize that this was a trap, and they were ready to prepare.
The Holy Han navy held crossbows and waited for them to take the bait. Soon, some pirates were killed, some pirates were caught, and some pirates were about to escape, but they were shot by kerosene arrows on the ship, which ignited a raging fire. In this vast sea
In the middle, the burning ship had no choice but to give up, so they had no choice but to capture it.
After some interrogation, Lei Wenqian reported that these pirates turned out to be all the warships of the Hetu Kingdom in the northern region of the Fuso Kingdom. An earthquake occurred in the Hetu Kingdom half a year ago, resulting in the destruction of 80% of the fertile farmland in the country. It was not yet autumn.
, the country had no food, many people were so hungry that they could only eat grass, and even the king lost weight in circles.
Forced by helplessness, the Hetu Kingdom could only launch an attack on its neighboring countries, preparing to plunder the neighboring countries' food. However, the Hetu Kingdom's army was defeated by the neighboring country. As for the Hetu Kingdom's navy, it acted as a fishing boat, working day and night.
The purpose of stopping fishing is to prevent all Chinese people from starving to death.
Originally, the Hetu Kingdom planned to surrender as a whole, but the neighboring countries seemed not to want to take over the mess that the Hetu Kingdom was. After all, the land on the Fuso Islands was barren, each country had insufficient food rations, and the neighboring countries could not feed tens of thousands of mouths, so they refused to accept the surrender of the Hetu Kingdom.
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The most embarrassing thing is not the defeat and surrender, but the opponent's refusal to surrender after the defeat, or even chasing the opponent away as soon as the door is closed.
In order to make a living, everyone in the Hetu Kingdom decided to send all their warships across hundreds of islands to the East China Sea to look for merchant ships from Fusang, Shenghan, the Eastern Islands, and the South China Sea countries to plunder.
Not to mention, they really plundered a lot. This was their third plunder. The first two were successful and they robbed a lot of supplies and women. They executed all the men on the other side and exchanged the women with other pirates.
After collecting food, some of the gold, silver and food were left to live in, and the rest were all sent back to the country, which greatly alleviated the plight of Hetu Country.
The two successful robberies made them more courageous, and they even came up with the idea of Snake Tunxiang, but they did not expect to encounter the Holy Han's traveling warship.
"Are these all the warships of the Hetu Kingdom?" Zhang Xiaowu looked at the six broken ships in surprise and thought, can these warships have any combat effectiveness? According to the confessions of the prisoners, the entire navy of the Hetu Kingdom only has more than a hundred people, and now there are only
There are more than 20 people alive, and another 20 people are hiding in the base camp. The so-called national war in Fuso is not as big as the gang war between two villages in Shenghan.
"Headquarters?" Fusang Mate asked hurriedly, "Where is it?"
"On an active volcanic island," the prisoner said.
"How far is it from here?"
"Two days sailing."
Everyone looked at Zhang Xiaowu. Zhang Xiaowu thought for a moment, laughed, and said: "Go and have a look, and take a rest." This place is about twenty days away from Fuso Kindian Island, so it doesn't hurt to take two days to go to the pirate lair.
When you are tired from sailing, you need to rest, even on an active volcanic island.
The corner of Fuso prisoner's mouth curled up into a sneer, thinking that he would make you mad.
Zhang Xiaowu interrogated almost all the prisoners, and all of them did not hesitate to reveal their home base, saying that they called the island Hetu No. 2 Island. Hetu No. 2 Island is not big. Because the island is an active volcano, it can erupt at any time.
It erupted, so they took advantage of it and occupied it. After all, except for pirates who could board the ship and escape at any time when the volcano erupted, no ordinary people could live here.
"Is this pirate too honest?" Zhang Xiaowu wondered. He suspected that there must be something fishy about this matter that went too smoothly, so he immediately summoned the captains and first mates of the three ships for a meeting to discuss.
"Oh, are you suspecting that this is false news? Did they betray the country too quickly?" Fuso's first officer was surprised at first, and then laughed, "This is because you don't know much about the situation on the Fuso Islands. In Fuso, betrayal is not
What a shame.”
Everyone was greatly surprised. How come betraying the motherland is not a shameful thing? It should be noted that in the Holy Han Dynasty, if someone betrays the country, not only will the countrymen not spare him, but even his tribe and ancestors will be executed by the angry people, so the Han people are extremely