Great Song Pirate

Chapter 201 The oriole is behind

When Cao Laosi died because of Jiang Desheng, he didn't control the pirates. Although he used tricks to pull out a group of people and ships afterwards, he was still at a disadvantage compared to the third and second children, so he was counted among the three. He has the least influence, which is why he has to take the risk.

Now the relationship with the third child has been completely torn apart, and the second child is thinking about him behind his back. If he doesn't grow up as soon as possible, just relying on such small troubles, I'm afraid he will be forced out by the second and third in a short time. This territory may even be killed by them. If he successfully hijacked the Hangzhou fleet this time, then he will be prosperous, and he will have the capital to fight head-on with the second and third. The next time you get it, go recruit soldiers and buy ships.

Standing at the bow of the boat, Cao Laosi twirled the mustache under his chin, and secretly made up his mind. This time, he can be said to have come out in full force, bringing out all the men and ships he could bring out, a total of four Big boats, five clipper boats and seven fishing boats brought a total of more than 700 people. This is already his full strength. Looking at his fleet, if it is placed elsewhere, his current strength is already considered good. But in front of the fleet of the third or second child, it feels a bit shabby, so he must change this situation as soon as possible.

According to the news from his subordinates, the large fleet from Hangzhou should arrive in this water area at noon today, and now he has laid a net here, waiting for this fat sheep to fall into the net, Cao Laosi ordered All his subordinates were ready, and when the big fleet appeared, they would swarm up and hijack the fleet to his island, then he would get rich.

Standing on his Endeavor, Xu Yi followed the large fleet and sailed southward at a slow speed. This time, he put aside his affairs in Hangzhou and made a special trip south, not to escort the fleet. , but because he received a message from Wang Feng, saying that they had found a pretty good bay on Liuqiu Island and started to settle there. Xu Yi was overjoyed when he got the news, and his long-standing dream was about to come true How can you not make him happy?So when he heard the news, he immediately rushed back to Dulong Island, mobilized nearly half of the island's strength, and led the fleet out to Liuqiu Island to see how the place Wang Feng and the others found was. After occupying a heel there, they can truly have a space for development and be truly invincible. It just so happened that this time Hangzhou sent a large fleet, so Xu Yi brought the fleet out to serve The fleet will do some escorting.

Thinking of the short stay on the island this time, a smile appeared on the corner of Xu Yi's mouth. The petite Yiqing who was originally born is now almost seven months pregnant, her waist is much thicker, and it is difficult to walk. She is going to give birth in three months, and seeing Xu Yi return to the island, she has to act like a baby to him, complaining that he made her figure like this, but there is an expression of happiness that cannot be concealed on her face, hehe!In another three months, Xu Yi will become a father. How can this matter not make him happy?But it was also for this reason that Xu Yi felt that the burden on his shoulders seemed to be heavier.

And Yingchun had to complain about him, because last time when he left the island, his hard work seemed to be in vain again. Yingchun still didn't conceive, which made her feel sorry for herself for a long time. She is about to give birth to Xu Yi's first child. It would be strange if she was not in a hurry. Xu Yi had to comfort her, and took advantage of the short few days to work overtime. Can have a good result this time!

When leaving Dulong Island, Yingchun and the others saw him off, and they also urged him to come back from the south before Yiqing gave birth, and threatened him that his son or daughter would not be called father in the future. , Xu Yi patted his chest to assure it. In fact, the child in Yiqing's belly this time, he already had a bottom line in his heart. It should be a daughter. This was the conclusion Yang Hong came to after taking Yiqing's pulse. I was happy, so I didn't tell Yiqing and Yingchun about the women, but told him in private. Xu Yi didn't have any opinion on this. Anyway, the idea that boys and girls are the same has been deeply rooted in his mind. Daughter, he is equally happy.

He is not the only one who is as happy as him, now even Li Bo is as happy as him, because his wife on the island is also pregnant, and his wife is the one that Xu Yi asked for from Jin Huo The beauties on the official ship, after such a long time, have long since fallen in love with Li Boen, and have taken root on Dulong Island.

"Li Bo! What did Doctor Yang say after he took your wife's pulse?" Xu Yi asked Li Bo beside him.

"Hmm! Doctor Yang said that my aunt is pregnant with twins this time. Judging from the pulse condition, it may be twins, one male and one female, but I am so happy! Haha!" Li Bo's face rarely showed such complacency smile.

"Okay! You have a double hit, now you have both sons and daughters, haha! The son will definitely be a hero when he is born. After your two children are born, I will take them over and be my sons and daughters. Are you willing? ?” Xu Yi laughed.

Li Bo hurriedly bowed to thank him: "Thank you, Master, for looking up to Li Bo. This is exactly what Li Bo wishes for. I am willing, of course I am willing!"

When the two were chatting and laughing, Qian Gui ran over with Daniel and said, "Master, the fleet in front suddenly slowed down. It seems that something happened. What should we do?"

Xu Yi was slightly startled, it seems that the three murderers really dare to attack such a large fleet!In his impression, this place should have passed Dachen Island, and it is still the territory of the three evils. If something happened, he must have met one of them, but he didn't know that it was one of the three evils this time. Which one of them got up and ordered: "Send a fast boat over there, take a look at the situation, and reply immediately, and all other boats are ready!"

The money was so expensive that he immediately ran to send an order, and the fast boat that was the outpost immediately speeded up and sailed towards the front fleet. The people on the other boats immediately made preparations. Now they can be regarded as training. A well-trained team is much stronger than the official navy, so it only took a short while for all ships to prepare for the battle, and all the personnel stood on their battle positions. Yiran didn't move, except for excitement, there was no trace of fear on his face. Xu Yi secretly nodded at their performance. With such a fleet, he really felt like a general. , he also began to get excited, even he himself was a little strange about his state, could it be that after being here for a long time, even he began to have bloodthirsty changes?But he felt that this was not the case.

The fast boat that was dispatched soon sent back the news that there was indeed a convoy ahead blocking the way of the merchant fleet. Lin Xiong ordered the cargo ship to turn to avoid it, and the boat he brought with him had already gone up to meet it.

"How many ships are there from the opposing fleet?" Xu Yi asked immediately.

Through the semaphore, he soon learned that the other party actually came with more than a dozen boats this time. Except for the four big boats, the rest were small boats. The fourth one is here, and he’s come out in full force this time! The fleet turned left, bypassing the large fleet in front from the left, and we’ll get behind them, so this time we’ll just get rid of Cao Laosi!”

The seven ships led by him immediately turned to the southeast, hoisted their sails and headed towards the place where the battle started.

Lin Xiong looked at the fleet of more than a dozen ships in front of him and felt a little headache. He was not afraid of this fleet, but felt that things were somewhat difficult. After all, the opponent's ships were much more than them, and they were coming fiercely. He met the five boats he brought with the clippers, and the rest of the clippers, it should be said that they were fishing boats, did not meet them at all. They avoided the five boats and rushed straight towards the cargo ships behind them. In the past, it was obvious that the opponent's idea was to use these big boats and fast boats to drag their five boats, and then let these fishing boats attack those cargo boats.

But right now, he has no better way. If he doesn’t stop the big ships and fast ships, it will be even more troublesome once they rush into the cargo fleet. He can only immediately order the two ships on the two wings to Breaking away from the formation, returning to the rescue fleet, to prevent those small boats from attacking the cargo ship, he took the remaining three ships and continued to meet the opponent's fleet.

Seeing that the five boats of the Escort divided into two large fleets to come back to aid them, Cao Laosi twirled his mustache and smiled triumphantly. Now he was more confident, he was now nine against three, and the opponent's The boat is smaller than his boat, if he can't kill the opponent, then he will have no face to hang around in this sea anymore, so he gave an order to center his boat, and the boats under his command are called a pocket-shaped boat formation , walked towards the three ships that were coming from the Escort Bureau, as long as these three ships were killed, then this large fleet would be in his pocket, there was no need to talk about any rules at this time, just start fighting!
After seeing the opponent's battle, Lin Xiong asked Dong Wei beside him, "How should we deal with it now?"

Dong Wei pondered for a while and said: "There is no good way now, we can only avoid it for the time being, we should start from their flanks first, kill one or two to frighten them, and then we will talk about this matter. I'm afraid it won't be easy to please the ship! We have to wait for the fleet of the master to come over!"

Lin Xiong thinks about it too. Escorting the fleet now is not as good as a fair confrontation between the two sides in open waters. Their first task is to maintain the safety of the cargo ships in the fleet. This will increase their concerns, otherwise even if the The three ships they have now will not be afraid of the opponent's ships.

The three boats immediately turned left collectively under the unified order. This time they chose the opponent's right flank, Cao Laosi's fleet also began to turn, and continued to squeeze towards them. At that time, before the three ships of the Escort opened fire, Lin Xiong saw four black objects flying out of the four large ships in the center of the other party at the same time, flying towards their ship, and couldn't help but feel a little bit in his heart. Now that there is a ballista, why not be able to shoot stones so far away?However, after seeing the throwing lines of those black objects, I immediately dismissed the idea, because the flying lines of these objects are very high and have a large arc, which is not like ballistas firing stone bullets or The parabola stretched low during the kerosene bomb, and then these black things fell into the sea far away from the three of their boats, stirring up a few waves.

"Idiot! These bastards startled me, they even load and throw cars on board! Haha!" Lin Xiong immediately burst out laughing, because this is not the first time he has seen such an idiot Oh, the person who loaded and dumped carts on a boat should be Pu Yinjian, a Korean. I didn't expect to meet such a fool again today, Lin Xiong couldn't stop laughing.

Seeing the large tanks also full of kerosene launched by the dump truck on his boat fall into the sea one after another, without even a smoke, Cao Laosi slapped the guardrail and cursed: "Can't you fight for some points for me?" Are you angry? The difference is too damn far away! Fill it up and keep releasing it for me!"

So the troopers at the bow who operated the throwing car hurriedly put down the throwing pole of the throwing car, put the fire oil tank in the basket again, and then a dozen people pulled the rope, and under the command of a small leader , pulled the rope violently again, and affected the throwing pole, so another kerosene tank was launched, and then the guys on the boat who watched the fun collectively booed, this time the result was even more outrageous, It's even worse than last time!Fourth Cao was completely speechless.

"Brothers, it's time to let them see how powerful our ballista is. All the boats aim at the boat on the far side, let me release it!" Lin Xiong slapped the guardrail and shouted.

After the three ballistas let out a dull "beep!" sound almost at the same time, three smoking kerosene bombs flew out of the string. It is much better when it is improvised. This kind of kerosene bomb is still made of ceramics, but its shape has changed a lot. The whole is round and the wall of the tank is thickened. Plug it tightly with an oilcloth, and just ignite the reserved oilcloth when firing. These kerosene bombs are all fired from a porcelain kiln in the hands of the Li family specially for Dulong Island, and because of the uniform shape and weight, the accuracy has increased considerably. It also reduces the risk of the porcelain altar breaking during launch. Now all the ships on the island have been replaced with this kind of kerosene bombs, and even the stone bombs no longer use stones picked up at random, but stonemasons. The specially carved and smooth stone bombs weigh the same as kerosene bombs, each weighing fifteen catties, and the deviation cannot reach one or two, let alone crossbow arrows. The shaft of the arrow is quite powerful, and Xu Yi uses this to continue to increase the accuracy of the ballista.

The kerosene bombs fired by the Escort were incomparably higher than the kerosene tanks fired by Cao Laosi. The nine kerosene bombs fired by the three boats actually hit eight of them, and the other one was because it was slightly higher. Even so, the eight kerosene bombs detonated on the unlucky ship, and the splashed kerosene and tiles immediately The pirates on that ship suffered heavy casualties, and the fire that burned immediately burned many guys. One round of launching made a fast ship lose its combat effectiveness, and the people on it were only busy fighting the fire.

Cao Laosi looked at the oil tank launched by the opponent's ship, and felt that he couldn't close his mouth. How could he launch so accurately?And there are actually three throwing cars on a fast boat, which is a bit too... too incredible!

"Fourth Lord! They don't seem to be carrying dump carts on their boats. I don't know what it is. It's much smaller than dump carts!" A sharp-eyed subordinate reminded Cao Laosi, who was in a daze, pointing at the escort's boat.

It was only then that Cao Laosi noticed that the other ship was not equipped with the throwing carts like theirs, but each ship had three strangely shaped gadgets, which were many times smaller than their heavy throwing carts. He made a mistake in his judgment for the first time, so he quickly patted the guardrail and shouted: "Why are you stunned? Hurry up and prepare the bed crossbow for me, and use the bed crossbow to shoot! Chase me and get close to them!"

There was another flurry on his boat, and after the bed crossbow was ready, it fired at the Escort's boat.

The Escort has long been prepared to deal with the crossbow. Jin Huo died from the sneak attack of this kind of bed crossbow, so the sides of the Escort's ships were equipped with punch-thick guards. After seeing the opponent launch the bed crossbow, the three fast boats The guard boards were erected one after another to firmly protect the people on the side of the ship. After the crossbow arrows hit the guard boards, they could penetrate through the thick wood at most, but they could no longer hurt people.

That is to say, after a face-to-face meeting, the two fleets crossed each other, and the Escort's ships fired two rounds, igniting Cao Laosi's two fast boats, and then they did not care about fighting at all, slipping past them, and the two sides The result of the battle was that there were no casualties in the Escort, and Cao Laosi's two boats caught fire, which made Cao Laosi angry.

But now it’s like this, and it won’t work if you don’t fight. The speed of the fast boats among his remaining ships is basically the same as that of the Escort’s ships. First, he turned around and chased after the Escort’s ships, and his main force, the four large ships, because they carried heavy weights The huge throwing car looked clumsy and hadn't completed the U-turn work at this moment, Cao Laosi was so angry that he patted the railing of the boat and scolded his subordinates for being idiots.

"Fourth master, look! There are a few more big boats coming over there, and they seem to be coming towards us!" A subordinate suddenly reminded Cao Laosi who was cursing.

Cao Laosi was all focused on the three boats of the Escort just now, and he didn't pay attention to the farther sea surface at all. After being reminded by his subordinates, he raised his head and looked into the distance.

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Five thousand chapters, there are nearly 420 words in only two chapters.hey-hey. .Be kind, don't worry, there are at least two more chapters tonight.I am now waiting for the monthly pass to reach [-]. .Then it explodes again! !

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