Daming pirates

Captain Liu hoped that the waves on the sea would become stronger so that the two pirate ships following him could retreat and give up chasing them. This wish did not come true. After they turned around and fled, for a period of time, the waves on the sea

The wind and waves did not intensify. On the contrary, as Liu Laoliu expected, they weakened a bit.

Although the waves on the sea are still relatively large, making the ship bumpy when sailing, it does not pose any threat to the two pirate ships, so the two pirate ships still hang behind them like maggots on the tarsus and continue to sail.

Chase them.

This situation made Captain Liu and all the boatmen on the boat very worried. They wished they could find an oar to paddle on the water, increase the speed of the boat, and get rid of these two tails as soon as possible.

However, this kind of ship relies on sails to provide power when going to sea. There are no oars on the ship. Even if there are, they cannot reach the water surface for them to paddle. Therefore, after the ship speeds up, it stabilizes at a certain speed.

The speed could no longer be increased, and everyone could only watch helplessly as the two pirate ships lined up behind them, and gradually closed the distance between them little by little, but there was nothing they could do about it.

Before the pirate ship could catch up, Captain Liu shouted loudly to the boatmen on the ship: "Listen up, everyone! I have always treated you well, and today we met a pirate, which is exactly what we needed."

When I'm watching you! You all know what pirates are. If the ship falls into their hands, no one will benefit!

If you can help me get rid of the pirates today, and fight them off, Liu will never treat you badly! When we go back, everyone will be rewarded with one tael of silver!"

After Captain Liu stopped calling, the boatmen's spirits seemed to be aroused. They all agreed in various directions and tightened their grip on the things in their hands.

However, Yu Xiaotian doubted the usefulness of one tael of silver. He didn't know much about the current price level and wage level in Ming Dynasty, but one tael of silver was not much at all! Captain Liu was really stingy. Since he was offering a reward,

I'm still unwilling to offer a higher reward. At least there is a brave man under the heavy reward. I really wonder what this guy is thinking.

In addition, he also wanted to know that if he fought with pirates, there would be no casualties, but Captain Liu didn't even mention what kind of compensation he would get if he was injured or killed. Just because of this, he wanted the boatmen to fight for him. Isn't it a little bit

Taking it too much for granted?

But thinking about it on the other hand, pirates are basically desperadoes. On the sea, there is no way to stay in the village or store. The boatmen have no place to escape except jumping into the sea. Once the pirates are allowed to board the ship, they will probably die.

It threatens the life safety of the boatmen, so the boatmen probably don't want the pirates to board the ship, so a fight is still possible.

Just when Yu Xiaotian was hiding next to the mast and thinking about it, he heard Captain Liu yelling at him again: "Mute! Don't be stunned! Go and help move the sandbags on the ship to various places and put them open. In addition,

Find all the buckets, fill them with sea water and put them away! Also use the pumps at the stern of the boat to fill them with water. If pirates catch up and attack later, they might launch rockets, so just watch and use them.

Put out the rockets that landed on the ship!"

When Yu Xiaotian heard this, he was like, wow! This guy really treated me like a donkey! No wonder there were sandbags piled on the boat, it turned out to be for this purpose! So he had to start working according to Captain Liu's instructions. After all, he was also on the boat now.

As a member of the pirates, if pirates come up, he will not get any benefit.

Bags of sandbags were placed on various sides of the ship by Yu Xiaotian. Buckets of sea water were brought onto the ship's surface with ropes by Yu Xiaotian and placed in handy positions. Several bamboo pumps were also placed by Yu Xiaotian.

He found it, leaned into the sea, sucked up enough water, and placed it on the boat.

At this time, the boss shouted from the mast: "The pirate's ship is getting closer!"

Everyone quickly turned their attention to the sea at the stern of the ship. The two pirate ships were indeed closer at this time, and they could already see the shape of the pirate ships more clearly.

The two pirate ships are also two-masted ships. It seems that the shape is indeed closer to the shape of the Fu ship, but they are smaller in size and the speed of the ship is not very fast. It is just slightly faster than the ship they are on.

But this small speed advantage was enough for the pirate ship to catch up with them before dark.

Everyone on the boat became more nervous now and began to gather towards the stern of the boat. Everyone found the guy who was taking advantage of them and held them in their hands. Yu Xiaotian's heart was also a little worried.

Although the pirate ships are still approaching, the pirates chasing a merchant ship on the sea is not as simple as Yu Xiaotian imagined before. Both sides are sailing ships. Even if the pirate ship has a light load and a certain advantage in ship speed, it wants to be very fast.

Catching up with the boat that Yu Xiaotian was on was not something that could be accomplished in a short while.

There was another period of chasing and escaping, and more than an hour passed in the blink of an eye. It was already past noon, but the pirate ship could not catch up with Yu Xiaotian's ship.

The owners and boatmen on the ship obviously have a lot of experience in dealing with such things. In order to increase the speed, they constantly change the sailing angle on the sea and adjust the sails on the ship so that the sails are full of wind as much as possible.

Increase the speed, so although the pirate ship kept closing the distance, it was never able to catch up with them.

This situation made Yu Xiaotian understand why the Liu family could work at sea for so long without being bankrupted by pirates. It turned out that when they encountered pirates at sea, they still had quite a solution, and it was not really just that they had to

Lambs to be slaughtered and plundered by pirates.

And things are not as simple as he thought. If a merchant ship encounters pirates, they will definitely be hijacked. If pirates want to successfully intercept a ship, they have to spend a lot of energy and time, and the success rate is not very good.

It's too high.

If they can really delay it until night, then this pirate ship robbery operation will only be declared bankrupt. It is estimated that many people doing business at sea use this method to escape the interception of pirates and resolve this crisis.

Seeing the pirate ship getting closer and closer, Captain Liu thought of Yu Xiaotian again, stretched out his hand to greet Yu Xiaotian and said: "Come here, dumb!"

Yu Xiaotian quickly nodded and pretended to be stupid, and ran to him to wait for his instructions. The man named Liu pointed to two long poles placed on the side of the ship, a rusty single sword and a pair of rattan cards.

He ordered: "Mute! You are tall, have long arms, and are strong enough! Once the pirates catch up and want to get on our ship, you can use this long pole to stick against the pirates' ship and force the pirates away.

Push the boat open to prevent the pirates from getting on board and jumping onto our boat!

If they jump over, you can use this to chop them. As long as you work hard, after today, I will not treat you badly! I will definitely give you good wine and meat! Do you understand?

Otherwise, we are doomed and you will not be in a good situation! The only person in this world who has pity on you is to take you in. If you fall into the hands of pirates, your life will be worse than death! Do you know that you must repay your kindness?

"

Yu Xiaotian secretly despised this guy named Liu. Now this guy thought he was his benefactor. In fact, Yu Xiaotian now knew very well what the fight was about. To put it bluntly, this guy still took a fancy to his body.

, I just wanted to use him as a free labor force for free! Now that the situation is dangerous, he started to use these words to trap him and make himself work for him as cannon fodder. Bah!

But he was "mute" at the moment, so naturally he couldn't say these words. Even if he was not mute, he would not dare to say such words at this moment, so he could only nod his head to express his understanding with full of slander.

Time seemed to have frozen in this pursuit, and there was a layer of dark clouds in the sky covering the sun. Gradually, Yu Xiaotian could no longer judge the time. He only roughly knew that it must have passed noon.

Because his stomach was already growling by now, and the bowl of rice he had eaten in the morning had already been digested, making him feel hungry.

But it was destined that they would not be able to eat on time today, because at the moment Captain Liu was all focused on the pirate ship behind him, and how could he be in the mood to care whether the people on board were hungry?

The pirates' pursuit was still going on. After nearly an hour, they saw that although the distance was getting closer and closer, the boat Yu Xiaotian was on was very slippery and never allowed them to get closer. Among them,

A pirate ship seemed to gradually lose its patience and finally chose to give up. First it lowered half of its sails, and the ship's speed slowed down significantly. Then it gradually began to adjust its direction, stopped chasing, and gradually disappeared on the sea. This was very important to the Liu family.

For everyone on the boat, it was undoubtedly like a shot in the arm, making everyone excited again, and some even started cheering.

Captain Liu's expression also softened a little. If two pirate ships caught up with them at the same time today and cooperated with each other to flank them, with their current manpower and strength on the ship, as long as they were overtaken, they would basically have no chance.

The power to fight back, because once they fight back, the other party will definitely not be polite to them anymore, and will definitely kill everyone on their ship after seizing the ship.

So if they are overtaken by two pirate ships at the same time, the only thing they can do is not to resist, but to drop the sails, stop the ship, and let the pirates board the ship and rob it. If the pirates follow the rules, then usually they will try to

People on the ship will not be killed easily if wealth is not life, but there is no need to worry about the goods on the ship.

Therefore, although Captain Liu does not want to die, he also does not want to lose this cargo, because once the value of this cargo is lost, even if he is not bankrupt, it will take a long time to recover.

body.

And now when I saw a pirate ship giving up the pursuit, the situation at sea changed. The strength of the pirates was reduced by half. Then the number of pirates on the remaining pirate ship was not very many, even on this pirate ship.

If they catch up, they can give it a try. If they are lucky enough, they are very likely to repel the pirate ship. In this way, they will no longer be as afraid as before.

After seeing this scene, everyone on the ship began to regain their confidence, and their morale seemed to be lifted.

But then the people on the ship saw that the pirates on the remaining pirate ship seemed to be much more patient. Although the Liu family's ship kept changing directions at sea to avoid it, they always stayed behind.

, what is even more discouraging is that at this time, the wind on the sea actually began to weaken, and the waves gradually began to become smaller, which is not a good sign.

And after all, the pirate ship had to get out faster, and the distance between the two sides gradually got closer in the following period of chasing. More importantly, the pirates on the pirate ship seemed to be very determined this time.

Da, Da has a posture of never giving up until the goal is achieved, and begins to draw the distance between the two parties closer, without any intention of giving up.

"Damn, boss! This pirate ship is planning to kill us today! It won't take long for them to catch up if this continues! With the current speed of the ship, it will definitely be too late to get rid of them before dark. If

If we are caught up like this, if they do something evil, we may be in trouble! Otherwise, I think we should move closer to the shore!" Ma Biao rolled up his sleeves at the stern of the boat and looked at the two pirate ships approaching from behind.

, with a livid face, he said to the ship owner named Liu, as the guard hired by the Liu family, Ma Biao is responsible for the safety of this ship.

According to the rules of sailing at sea, if the ship encounters pirates when going out to sea, and there is a huge disparity in strength between the two sides, the guards can give up resistance according to the opinion of the ship owner. This not only saves their lives, but also saves the lives of other people on the ship.

, so even if the ship's property is robbed, they will not be held accountable by the owner afterwards.

But today's situation is that after one pirate ship gave up chasing them, there was only one remaining pirate ship that still refused to give up. So this situation is obviously not a disparity in power, so once they are caught up by pirates, then those hired like Ma Biao will

The escort of the ship must shoulder the responsibility of preventing pirates from boarding the ship. Otherwise, even if they give up the resistance and finally save their lives, the ship's cargo will be robbed. After returning, their reputation will not only be ruined, but they will also have to be compensated by their owners.

, in that case, even if they lose everything, they will not be able to pay back the shipowner's property and ship, and if the incident spreads, they will no longer want to continue to have this bowl of rice in the future.

But on the other hand, if they were killed or injured in a fight with pirates, the owner would also have to come up with a sum of money as their compensation.

So after thinking about it, Ma Biao put forward his opinion to Captain Liu. He actually said this to be on the safe side. Once the pirates catch up and start attacking, it would be best to repel the pirates, but once they are unable to defeat the pirates,

, then there is no way out. When the pirates seize the ship, they can abandon the ship and flee as they approach the sea. Although they lose the cargo, at least they can save their lives. This is not only for their own consideration, but also for their own safety.

Consideration for shipowners and boatmen on board.

The man surnamed Liu looked very bad now. He also saw that he might not be able to escape today if he wanted to. The remaining pirate ship had made it clear that it was determined to eat them. If they escaped like this, in the dark

I would definitely have been caught up before.

After listening to Ma Biao's words, the man surnamed Liu thought for a moment, nodded and sighed with a livid face: "What you said makes sense. If this continues, it seems we can't get rid of them! They are faster than us, and we are leaving now."

It's still early to get dark, so it's probably impossible to delay it until dark. It would be okay if they follow the rules, but if they don't, then we're all doomed!

Forget it! Just do what you said and move towards the shore! If it doesn’t work, just abandon the boat and go ashore, it’s better than being killed by them all!”

As soon as Liu's voice fell, the people on the boat immediately started working again. The boat turned around again and started to sail towards the shore. But does their decision now still have any effect? ​​Yu Xiaotian lay on his back

On the side of the ship, while looking at the pirate ship at the stern, he thought to himself.

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