Daming pirates

Madman Meng did not wait for the boat to reach the shore, jumped into the waist-deep water, staggered to the shore, waved his hands and shouted to everyone on the shore: "Things are not good! I was testing the water at sea with my people just now."

, suddenly saw thick smoke rising from the sky over Xiaohuang Island, so he moved a little closer, and found that our former village on Xiaohuang Island was now burning into the sky, and thick smoke was billowing!

No need to think about it, the government must have sent troops to chase us and set fire to our village on Xiaohuangdao first! Helmsman, what do you think we should do?"

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian felt his heart tightening. Only then did he realize that choosing Dahuang Island as their temporary residence was a rather risky decision.

Xiaohuang Island is only a dozen nautical miles away from Dahuang Island. This distance can be said to be very close to the vastness of the sea, but they chose to hide on Dahuang Island. If the officers and soldiers led the team had some ideas

, if you just go around Dahuang Island, you are likely to find them.

In this case, with their current manpower and force level, if they want to confront the officers and soldiers who come to encircle them, they are basically looking for death. As long as there are ten or twenty professional soldiers, they can easily kill them all.

So Yu Xiaotian suddenly became nervous, and he wanted to take people out to sea to escape now, but he turned around and looked at the brig whose mast they had just dismantled, and he was immediately discouraged.

It is slightly easier to remove the mast, but it is not easy to put it back on immediately! They want to take a boat to escape, which is impossible so far, and relying only on that small boat is simply not possible.

There is no room for them, who are more than thirty years old.

Just when this group of people became nervous, several bright lights suddenly flashed on the top of the mountain, and everyone became even more panicked, because since they returned to Dahuang Island, as soon as Yu Xiaotian took over the control, he immediately

In the name of safety, a lookout post was set up on the top of a hill on the coast at the beginning of the shift.

Standing on the top of this hill, you can clearly see the sea in several directions outside Dahuang Island. As long as a ship enters the vicinity of Dahuang Island, the sentry on the top of the mountain can quickly spot these with the naked eye.

ships, providing a certain amount of preparation time for the island.

If the person on duty has a telescope, he can see further and provide an earlier warning time for the island.

This time it was obvious that Yu Xiaotian's arrangement worked. The lookout post on the top of the mountain must have discovered that a ship was approaching Dahuang Island, so it used a small bronze mirror to reflect the sunlight to warn them.

"What can we do? What should we do? This must be a warship from the army! What can we do?" The horse rubbed his hands anxiously and asked Xiaotian one after another.

At this time, the gap between people became apparent. Although it cannot be said that Ma Lian and others have never seen the world, their psychological quality is obviously not that good. In addition, these people living in this era have little regard for the government and the government.

The officers and soldiers have a natural sense of fear. Under normal circumstances, they don't dare to go against the officers and soldiers, so except for Ma Lian, many other people were also a little panicked.

"How about we get on the boat and go out to avoid the storm!" Li Gouzi said with a panic look on his face.

When Yu Xiaotian heard this, he immediately waved his hand and said: "Absolutely not! Now the mast of the big ship has been dismantled and the ballast stones have been removed. It is impossible to go to sea for a while. This small boat can only carry a dozen people.

, is it possible to leave all the women on the island? Don’t say this again in the future! We are now one, and we should live and die together!

Don't panic! First pull the boat to the deepest part of the bay and hide, and the rest of the people will hide in the caves! Uncle Ma, Blackhead, and Uncle Meng, prepare your men! If the officers and soldiers land on the island and find us, we will probably have a fight with them today.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a dead end! Don’t delay, let’s do it together!”

As everyone on the island was busy working under Yu Xiaotian's instructions, the two boats were dragged to a hidden shallow bay in the bay. If you look inside from the mouth of the bay, you will see that there are

After the mast of the big ship was dismantled, it was really difficult to find them.

As for more hiding, they had no time to do it. The two young men on guard duty on the top of the mountain took the small bronze mirror and began to flash it downwards one after another. This meant that they saw a ship moving rapidly.

Close to Rhubarb Island.

After briefly tidying up the beach and dragging some scattered things on the beach to hide in the woods on the island, Yu Xiaotian led everyone to quickly retreat to a cave halfway up the mountain and began to prepare nervously for the battle.

The location of this cave is a hiding place that Yu Xiaotian and the others have chosen in advance. It is relatively secluded and overlooks the sea outside the bay. At the same time, the most important thing is that there is only one road leading to this cave, and the terrain is relatively dangerous.

, it can be regarded as a place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack, so it is more conducive to holding on.

So after Yu Xiaotian returned to the island, he used this place as their temporary home. Judging from the traces left here, this cave had been used by others before, and a lot of things were discarded in the cave.

It was obvious that someone had lived here. It might have been the place where the pirates had settled in the past, but now it was considered the lair of their sea wolves.

Everyone tried their best to carry a large blunderbuss outside the cave. The mouth of the blunderbuss was fixed and pointed at the path leading to the cave. The strings of the bows were hung up, and bundles of arrows were also hung up.

Those placed at the entrance of the cave, including a limited number of muskets and three-eyed muskets, were also invited out and began to be loaded with gunpowder.

Yu Xiaotian lowered his head and looked down at the outside of the bay below. From here, he could see the ship hidden in the bay. However, due to the angle, the ship was hidden there and it was not easy to find it even from the top of the mountain. So Zhao Zhao

The small bay that Mazi led the people to find was indeed a better hiding place.

Yu Xiaotian turned around and looked at the subordinates around him. Now he has no confidence in these subordinates. Although they have already embarked on this path, this group of people does not have a strong sense of obedience.

Xiaotian didn't have time to train them, so if the officers and soldiers discovered them and asked him to take this group of people to fight with the officers and soldiers below, he could guarantee that they would not last for three minutes and would immediately collapse.

So at the moment, they can only take advantage of the terrain and estimate that they can have a chance to fight.

Seeing the noisy group of subordinates, jumping up and down one by one, they had no idea what they should do. No one told them, so they made a mess on their own. Xiaotian was quite helpless about this, so he could only work hard and finish the work.

They made arrangements, some were responsible for holding the bow, some were responsible for the fire blunderbuss, some were responsible for taking care of the bowl mouth blunderbuss, and the remaining people prepared long spears and short knives for close combat.

In short, after a thorough detachment, this group of people was able to calm down and stay where they should.

Yu Xiaotian turned around and entered the cave, walked straight to the deepest point, came to Lan'er who was lying on a small bed, and squatted down.

Since Erya returned to the island, she officially changed her name to Ruolan after consulting Liu Laoliu. Erya liked the name Yu Xiaotian gave her very much. After returning these days, regardless of

Whoever it is must be called Lan'er or Ruolan, and no one is allowed to call her Erya!

Now everyone on the island has been clearly informed by Liu Laoliu that he has betrothed Erya to Yu Xiaotian. Although the young people who have a crush on Erya are greatly disappointed, these guys themselves

After weighing it in their hearts, they all could only be greatly discouraged and acquiesced to this fact. Who told them that no matter what they discussed, they could not compare to their helmsman? So no one expressed any objection to this.

After all, in this era, matters such as marriage are still based on the orders of parents and the words of matchmakers. Liu Laoliu, the father, has the right to choose his son-in-law, and no one can say otherwise.

After Lan'er (Erya) returned to the island, Yu Xiaotian handed her over to Ma Lian and Li Gouzi's wife to take care of her. After the two looked at Lan'er's injury, they discovered that Lan'er had...

The wounds had been carefully cleaned, medicated, and bandaged.

At the beginning, they were a little confused. Many injuries like Lan'er's were in very secret places on the body. It stands to reason that the people who went to rescue Lan'er this time were all a group of big men. There were no women on the boat, so who could save Lan'er?

Why did you treat these wounds so well?

So they carefully tentatively asked Lan'er. Lan'er was so ashamed that she wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl in. She hesitated and refused to answer, but her thoughts were still vaguely revealed. This made the two old men

The woman guessed that Lan'er's injuries should have been handled by Yu Xiaotian himself.

Lan'er's injury did not heal as quickly as Yu Xiaotian imagined after returning to the island, although Ma Lian and Li Gouzi's wives also took good care of her, and according to Yu Xiaotian,

They carefully applied medicine to Lan'er's wound, but for some reason, Lan'er's injury did not heal. As a last resort, they had no choice but to turn to Xiaotian for help. Anyway, now Lan'er is also Xiaotian's unmarried wife.

When Yu Xiaotian looked at her body, it was not a big deal!

Although the Neo-Confucianism of the Ming Dynasty has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, for the common people in the coastal areas, they did not take it as seriously as those in the upper class of society.

Yu Xiaotian went to take care of Lan'er when he had free time in the past few days. After rejecting everyone, he personally debrided Lan'er and applied medicine. Strangely enough, Lan'er's injury did not improve under the care of the two aunts, but

Once she was in Xiaotian's hands, she immediately fell in love with her, but once she handed it over to her two aunts to take care of her, the situation started again. As a result, her two aunts had no choice but to let go and change Lan'er's dressing.

It was completely left to Yu Xiaotian to deal with it, and Lan'er's injury got better day by day.

In the past two days, Lan'er has basically been able to go out and move around, and her complexion has become much better.

How could Yu Xiaotian not guess what Lan'er was thinking? In fact, by changing Lan'er's dressing, he had already figured out that Lan'er's injuries were not repeated because her two aunts were changing her dressing, but that she was looking for excuses.

She just asked Yu Xiaotian to spend more time with her. The little girl's idea was actually that simple. After Yu Xiaotian secretly laughed, he simply saw through it without telling her. He took some time every day to accompany Lan'er. Anyway, he faced it every day.

With those stinky guys, it would be a good relaxation for him to find an excuse to spend some time with Erya in private.