Chapter 8 Pirates Attack

With the joint efforts of the helmsman and the handkers, the ship began to slowly adjust its course on the rolling sea, adjusting the position of the bow to the direction in which they came. When turning, the ship had a large inclination because of the wind, and some unfixed things on the surface of the ship slipped on the deck. Towards the port side, the waves beat on the side of the ship, and the waves splashed, splashing wet all over the body of the people lying on the side of the ship.

Another wave hit, and the hull shook violently. First, it was thrown by the waves, and then quickly fell to the bottom of the wave. Some unprepared people fell on the spot and slid to the port side with exclaiming. A lot of seawater rushed to the deck from the starboard side, and Yu Xiaotian was also splashed with half of the sea water, which made him excited. Yizhen hurriedly reached out and pulled a sail rope and stabilized his body, so he did not fall down on the spot.

Fortunately, not long after this situation continued, the ship gradually completed the steering, the tilted hull began to regain its balance, the full sails began to eat enough wind, and the ship's speed obviously began to accelerate, following the direction of the wind and waves, in the direction of their arrival.

The shaking of the ship began to turn into vertical shaking, but the shaking began to decrease significantly, allowing the people on the ship to return to normal walking. With the cooperation of the hand-to-hands, the sails were also adjusted to the angle where they could eat enough wind power to provide maximum power to the ship.

Only then did Yu Xiaotian know that the sailing boat in this era is not easy to operate. It not only needs the helmsman to control the rudder, but also needs the ship's hand to effectively adjust the sails and cooperate with the helmsman to successfully complete the steering. If it turns around urgently as they did just now, the wind and waves on the sea are relatively large, slightly Inadvertent ships may capsize.

For good, the helmsman and the hand on this ship are relatively skilled, and the cooperation is also acceptable, so that the ship did not get out of control and was knocked over by the waves. If it were a group of novices to complete such a move, there would be no chance that something would happen.

At this time, the bucket on the mast was still firmly attached to the mast and continued to monitor the two ships of unknown origin in the distance. The mast was swaying sharply in the wind and waves, which made people admire the courage to fight. The slightly more timid people would not dare to climb at all in this case. Go to such a high place, that's why some people say that only a brave person can become a qualified sailor.

As soon as the ship finished turning and increasing its speed to go north, the situation began to become more clear. The two unidentified ships always hung the ship where Yu Xiaotian was located, and constantly adjusted the direction of navigation with them turning around, and gradually began to approach.

This is more fully illustrated that their goal is this ship. When they encounter such a situation at sea, they can basically determine the identity of the other party. Generally speaking, according to what Liu Laoliu told Yu Xiaotian when he was free before, even if they accidentally met the imperial warship or official ship at sea, they would not When the wind and waves rise, they go to sea to ban passing ships, which means that the other party is more than 90% likely to be two pirate ships.

Only outlaws like pirates will choose to brave such storms to search for prey at sea and launch a pursuit of prey.

Once these fishing nets are supported, they form a net wall at the side of the ship. This thing certainly can't block the arrow, but it can effectively prevent pirates from jumping directly after relying on the gang. Otherwise, even if the pirates jump over, they will be hung on the fishing net. In that case, follow It's almost to die. If you don't fall into the sea, you will be stabbed to death by the people on this boat.

When the fishing net had just been hung, Yu Xiaotian was called by Liu Chuandong and ran to the side of a pile of things covered with oil cloth in the stern. Liu Chuandong shouted to Xiaotian nervously: "Mute! Hurry up and uncover it!"

Yu Xiaotian didn't know what was under the oilcloth, so he quickly untied the rope, lifted the oil cloth hard, and looked down. Suddenly, he was shocked again.

It turned out that there was a black cannon under the oilcloth! Before unveiling the oilcloth, Yu Xiaotian never thought that there would be such a big killer on their ship.

However, after looking at it carefully, Yu Xiaotian couldn't help but be a little disappointed again!

Because of this so-called cannon, the barrel is no more than ten centimeters thick. The length of the barrel is about two feet, which is absolutely less than one meter, and the weight is not too heavy. Moreover, from the muzzle, the muzzle is horn-shaped, and the barrel wall is also thin. The gun body is cast of raw iron, and the surface is very rough. Obviously, after casting, the gun body has not been polished, and there is a layer of rust on it, which looks rusty.

Because he can't carefully observe the barrel, and I don't know whether the barrel has been polished. On the whole, I feel that this thing can only be described in two words, which is vulgar! And it's very vulgar!

The gun is placed on a more crude wooden frame, and there is no wooden wheel under it, and there is no mechanism to adjust the pitch of the barrel. If you want to aim, it depends on manpower to move the whole gun frame to complete the aiming.

After a little look, Yu Xiaotian can basically conclude that this thing is actually a cannon, which is a bit of praise. This thing is simply a large iron barrel. Judging from the shape, it looks like a cast iron bowl.

As far as Xiaotian knows, there are a variety of firearms in the Ming Dynasty. Although the Fran machine guns and Hongyi cannons of Western countries were introduced in the late Ming Dynasty, many guns are still more old-fashioned guns, and the bowl mouth is one of them. This thing has a short barrel, the gun wall is thin, it is not easy to load, and the firing speed is very slow. The most critical thing is the range and The power is not very good. When he traveled to Beijing to visit the military expo, he saw such a bowl of the Ming Dynasty on display in the military expo. The shape is quite similar to the bowl in front of him.

However, this bowl seems to be more vulgar than the old antique in the military expo. Yu Xiaotian secretly guessed that this kind of cannon was definitely not officially cast. Maybe it would be Liu Chuandong who spent a lot of money to cast it for him through an underground workshop. Because the process is simple, it is so crude.

Yu Xiaotian had just uncovered the bowl mouth, and then Liu Shipdong ordered him to go to the bow position, where there was also a pile of things covered with oil cloth. After Yu Xiaotian ran to uncover it, he really saw that there was the same bowl in the bow position.

So Yu Xiaozhen was a little surprised. No wonder this guy surnamed Liu could run at sea for so many years and had not been ruined by pirates. It turned out that this guy knew how to make money and actually had two such guys on the ship. I guessed that he relied on these two cannons. , which scared off many pirates, so that his ship could be saved.

Although these two bowls really can't enter Yu Xiaotian's eyes, Yu Xiaotian also has to admit that this thing is indeed quite deterrent to people in this era. No matter how much money Liu Chuandong spends, it is unlikely that it is impossible to get Hongyi cannons or a "advanced weapon" such as Franco machine on his ship. It's quite good to get two such bowls.

After the two bowls were uncovered, Ma Biao and the others immediately took out several gunpowder barrels from the cabin and opened the lid of the gunpowder barrels. In addition, they also lifted out barrels of iron nails, iron sand, broken iron particles, and even mixed stones, broken porcelain pieces and other things, which must be used as cannons.

Ma Biao took advantage of Yu Xiaotian's standing by the cannon and watching, took advantage of Yu Xiaotian's unpreparedness to kick Yu Xiaotian's leg and scolded with contemptuous face, "Dumb! Get out of here, don't get in my business! I haven't seen the steamed buns! This thing is awesome! Help me move and aim at the back! Damn, if the pirates catch up with me, let's see if I blow them to death!"

Yu Xiaotian secretly scolded Ma Biao as a local bun. What I have seen, you can't imagine that you have used all your toes!

But at this time, he didn't have time to argue with Ma Biao and reached out to help move the gun rack of the bowl mouth. Only then did he know that this thing was even with a gun barrel with a gun rack. It was estimated that it was not light. It was estimated that it was more than 200 catties. The wood of the gun rack was estimated to be made of mulberry wood, which was bulky and strong, and it was very difficult to move. .

Then Ma Biao showed off with a subordinate and began to fill the mouth of the bowl with ammunition. He first poured the gunpowder into the muzzle. The gunpowder Ma Biao and others used was * and powdery. This kind of * quality was unstable. When stored for a long time, because the three raw materials of saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal were different proportions were different. The size of crushed powder particles is also different. After a long time, the raw materials with a large proportion will sink, and the charcoal with a light weight will float on it, causing the power of gunpowder to decrease, and even be impossible to detonate.

But obviously, these people did not understand this knowledge, so they took out gunpowder and began to fill it directly. Yu Xiaotian was not very clear about the specific ratio of this *. Naturally, he could not be sure of the power of this *!

Ma Biao and another escort put the gunpowder into the mouth of the bowl, then used a pestle to push the gunpowder to the bottom of the gun mouth and pound it hard, then stuffed it with a wooden plug similar to the diameter of the gun barrel, and also pounded it with a pestle rod. Finally, they filled the messy cannon into the gun mouth. The loading process was very complicated and tedious, and Slow.

Yu Xiaotian pretended to be curious and looked at Ma Biao and others loading ammunition for a while. When Ma Biao and others were busy with their work, after loading, and poured the medicine into the fire door, Yu Xiaotian quickly retreated quietly and hid far away.

This bowl of mouth is crude. God knows the safety of this thing, and when Ma Biao and others filled the gunpowder, they also estimated that it was more or less, and no one said clearly.

Once the gun is really fired, then Yu Xiaotian is not sure that this thing will be a large and medium-sized pirates. In his opinion, this thing is very likely to explode, and the possibility of killing the enemy is probably not likely to blow up his own people! So he secretly made up his mind that if he started fighting for a while, he would stay away from these two cannons. Don't really blow up the fire, even he took it with him! In that case, he will be wronged!

And Ma Biao did not dare to neglect the bowl after taking someone to fill the mouth of the boat, so he quickly ran to the bow position and began to fill the other bowl mouth...

(Today's Chapter 2! Please collect the friends who pass by first. If you think it's thin, it's not too late to fatten up and then kill it! At the same time, please leave the precious red ticket in your hand. Han Feng is here to say thank you!)