Daming Haiku

Chapter 215 Unspiric Premonition

Zhang Hu gasped and boarded his boat with the help of his men. After slowly boarding the tall stern, he held the railing in his hand and delivered a money bag to him. He reached out and grabbed a large handful of copper and broken silver from the money bag and raised his hand and sprinkled it on the crowd on the deck. Go down.

Copper coins and broken silver were scattered on the deck, and the people immediately cheered and poised their buttocks to coax. Looking at this scene, Zhang Hu felt a little proud.

He enjoyed this feeling of superiority very much. For his subordinates, he had a pleasure of giving. After sprinkling a few times in a row, he reached out to take the money bag, pulled open his throat and shouted loudly: "Brothers, listen carefully! Today, Zhang Hu took you out to do business again! It's all full of energy for me. Don't humiliate me! This money is all for everyone!

I don't get angry, they really don't know how many eyes Prince Ma has! Nowadays, even those young people dare to challenge our shark gang!

Today, let's go and do all the bastards that don't know the depth of heaven and earth. Let's see who dares not listen to our shark gang, and let them know who has the final say in this Fuzhou!

As long as the brothers do a good job for me, look carefully. This is a thousand taels of silver. After coming back, I have done a lot of rewards. I am greedy for fear of death and escaping from the battle. I will chop his mother's and feed it to the fish! All right, point gun! Raising sails and anchoring! Let's go!"

As Zhang Hu asked people to open a box, a white ingot of silver was suddenly exposed, which immediately aroused the cheers of his men again.

And he raised his hand and poured down the bag of money in his hand, and the copper and broken silver fell on the deck below. The tinkling sound was pleasant, and once again made the men on his boat cheer for a good fight.

In Zhang Hu's eyes, such a method is the most effective way to stimulate his men to work for his life. There is no money for any heroic words. Although he is usually very stingy, he still understands that if he wants his men to work for him without some blood.

So he once again sacrificed his old method, took out a considerable amount of money, and sprinkled it to boost the morale of his subordinates, and now it seems that the effect is not bad. At least the men who went out are very excited, which gives him a sense of satisfaction.

With his order, there was a roar on the shark gang wharf on Nanri Island. The ships in charge of each ship roared to raise their sails, and the boats began to move in the bay.

However, Zhang Hu's boat is not easy to move. His boat is a rare lucky boat among pirates. If you according to the classification of the Ming Dynasty sailors, this ship is at least close to the volume of the No. 2 lucky boat used by the sailor's main battle. The hull is tall and has three masts. The ship is equipped with four Buddha planes and three hundred children. There are two small Ferran machines on the other two sides.

In addition to artillery, there are more than 60 people on his ship. The ship is also equipped with hundreds of rockets, several fire bricks, oil tanks, 20 bows, 10 crossbows, knives and guns and other cold weapons.

Such a ship is almost as good as the larger No. 2 lucky ship currently used in the Ming Army Marine Division. Its combat effectiveness is only slightly weak, but looking at the pirate colleagues in Fuzhou, his ship is a huge thing and second to none.

However, such a lucky ship has considerable shortcomings, that is, the movement is relatively slow. Although the speed is not slow, the flexibility is relatively poor. When fighting at sea, other ships must cooperate with it.

When it rises its anchor and rises the sail, it is not easy to move by its own strength alone. When going to sea, you need to use a few ssams to drag it up and move it out of the bay before sailing.

In the past two years, this ship has rarely gone to sea. Most of the time, it is parked in the bay as a symbol of Zhang Hu. It puts on its appearance here and occasionally pulls out for activities. Usually, it is just let a group of people take care of it down.

But this time Zhang Hu is going to Tangyu Island, he can no longer put it in his home. Even if it is used to show off, it will look majestic, at least giving the enemies a sense of fear.

And the whole body of the ship is painted red, and it looks eye-catching on the sea. You can see its existence from afar. If ordinary people see it at sea, they will avoid it from afar.

With Zhang Hu's order, more than a dozen shark gang boats surrounded his boat and gradually sailed out of the bay in the northwest corner of Nanri Island. After adjusting at sea, Yang Fan sailed to Tangyu Island.

The straight-line distance from Nanri Island to Tangyu Island is about 40 miles. Under the condition of smooth wind and smooth water, even if the speed of the ship is not too high, it will take half a day to reach Tangyu Island.

So before noon, the fleet of the smooth-water Shark Gang appeared on the southern sea of Tangyu Island, and the thieves who received warning in advance also boarded the ship in advance and went to sea, blocking the way of the Shark Gang's fleet.

On the originally calm sea, more than 20 pirate ships suddenly gathered. Such scenes are really rare in the area around Fuzhou. Just as they gathered in the southern sea of Tangyu Island, a merchant ship fleet appeared on the sea. The merchant fleet saw so many pirate ships on the sea from afar. Shi was so scared that he quickly adjusted his sail and turned the rudder to speed up his escape.

Some of the boatman on the ship were even scared that their legs were weak. I don't know what happened today. There were so many pirates on the sea. Everyone made up their minds that if the pirate ship caught up with them, they would not fart. Lima surrendered and pulled them down, so as not to be chopped into meat sauce by others.

But then they found that these pirate ships did not pay attention to them at all and let them turn to escape. No ship came to chase them, which made them breathe a sigh of relief and carefully observe from afar.

After a closer look, they found that this group of pirates were not a group, most of the ships of the famous shark gang in this area, but the other group was a fleet of several pirates, so they guessed what this large group of pirates wanted to do.

Before they could figure out what the pirates wanted to do, the stewants on the ship roared and asked them to leave quickly. Don't care what these pirates did. Now it's important for them to run for their lives.

Although Zhang Hu was a little proud when he set out, his heart fell into anxiety again on the way out.

It turned out that more than a year ago, how majestic his shark gang was in Fuzhou. There were 20 or 30 large ships under his command, plus small boats, there were 40 or 50, and more than a thousand people under his command. Even the sailors of the imperial court did not dare to do anything to them. The government around Fuzhou was even more taboo about them. Shen never takes the initiative to trouble them.

But it was only more than a year. He looked at the fleet that followed him for the first time. In the past two years, his strength has not improved, but has been greatly reduced.

First, in the battle of Nangantang, he lost three boats. Then after Qian Song came back, he took the opportunity to attack Qian Song and Wang Hong, which made his men feel distracted. A few days ago, he sent He Guang to take four boats to destroy the sea wolf, but the meat buns beat the dog and did not return. In the end, the four boats only ran back to one boat.

The day before yesterday, he sent Fang An to bring six boats to save He Guang, and now he has not returned, so that he set out to Tangyu Island this time, but he could only bring out 20 boats, of which 12 boats were warable, and the rest were just some fishing boats that served as sentry boats. It must not be very useful to help the war. In this way, he In fact, his strength is not much higher than those who oppose him.

In fact, Zhang Hu is also very clear that with his strength, no peer can compete with him, but once these peers are tied together to deal with him, the strength of these guys is not too weak, and the manpower and ships pulled out together may not be much less than him.

So he secretly speculated that there was nothing to talk about when he came to Tangyu Island this time. He could not be soft and said that he had done something wrong. Once that was the case, his shark gang would not want to get along in the future, so he was invited to negotiate. In fact, to put it bluntly, those guys are going to be here and face him face to face. If he wins, then he can continue to dominate the coast of Fuzhou, but what if he loses?

Zhang Hu shook his head quickly when he thought of this and drove this idea out of his mind. How could he fail? He is the overlord of the sea of Fuzhou, and it is impossible for him to lose to a group of rabble!

At present, there are only about ten of his boats available, but he still has one hand! Fang An also brought six boats. As long as Fang An can come as promised after the fight, he can control the victory or defeat of this battle. At that time, he must let these blind guys see his fierce anger!

So Zhang Hu stood up, walked to the side of the ship, held the side of the ship, and looked at the sea.

The weather on this day is also awesome. The sea can basically be said to be calm. There are only some thin clouds in the sky, and the sea is rippling.

But after he stood up, he felt a little dizzy and couldn't help but press the ship's starboard. This situation made him speechless. How long has it been since he didn't go to sea? He actually felt seasick when he was so calm.

In fact, he doesn't know that in the past two years, he has gained a lot of weight, so he has suffered from wealth sickness. It's not caused by seasickness, but because he is a little older, and now he has changed to three highs.

In the past few days, because of He Guang's affairs and coming to Tangyu Island for an appointment, he didn't sleep well for a few days and nights. His blood pressure must have suddenly risen a lot. It's strange that he didn't feel dizzy.

Seeing that he was getting more and more dizzy, Zhang Hu's mood became worse again. He quickly turned around and let people hold him. He went back and sat under the umbrella, untied his clothes, revealing his fat chest.

"Grandma, why is it so hot! When will you arrive at Tangyu Island? Is there any movement in front of you? Zhang Hu scolded while letting people slap him.

His men quickly replied with a smiling face, "It's almost Tangyu ahead!" There was a boat in front of me that smoked just now. It must be the sentry ship of those bastards. I guess they should also come out!"

"Where's Fang An? Did the boat with Fang An appear? Zhang Hu thought of Fang An again, and his heart became more and more uneasy.