Chapter 69 Poor Performance

And the merchant ship also realized that something was wrong at this time and recognized that the ship coming towards them must be a pirate ship, so it quickly turned its sails and began to flee desperately.

This merchant ship is a small double mast-style ship. The hull of the ship is also relatively old, and the sails are basically dilapidated, with many patches. It can be seen that it is a long-term merchant ship with the sea, and the maintenance of the hull is also average. Therefore, when they found that Yu Xiaotian's group of people were not good intentions, they immediately fell off. It is not easy for the head to escape.

The two sides then launched a chase at sea. Yu Xiaotian's ship has just cleared the bottom of the ship and repaired the sails. All the performance is basically in a good state at present. In addition, they are in a light load state, so the speed of the ship is slightly higher than that of the merchant ship and is in a dominant position in the chase.

But the merchant ship is obviously not easy to meet. Although the boat is deeper, the boatman has good boating skills. After being chased by Yu Xiaotian's ship several times, they can make good use of the wind direction to adjust the direction and accelerate and get rid of the pirate ship chasing them.

As a result, Yu Xiaotian's group of new sea wolves tried to get close to them several times, but they were successfully thrown away. The angry people on the ship cursed one after another, but they couldn't do anything about the merchant ship for a while. They could only follow Hu Cheng's scolding, and followed Hu Cheng to turn the rudder and continue to chase the merchant ship.

Yu Xiaotian coldly watched the men on the ship working hard and did not scold them. Instead, he temporarily handed over the power to command and operate the ship to the experienced Liu Laoliu, which was also what he expected.

These guys have just been familiar with their boat for a long time, and they haven't been able to work together and skillfully control the ship at all. When they encounter such a merchant ship that has been living at sea for a long time, it is impossible for them to catch up with the ship, so he is happy to let these people eat first. Dao knew their own depth, so he simply stood in the bow and stared at the merchant ship in front of him.

The whole chase lasted for half a day, and it was not until noon that they approached the merchant ship again, and the distance between the two sides narrowed to about 100 meters.

Yu Xiaotian then ordered to prepare for the battle, and the four soldiers, including the black head of the ship, began to fill the big bowl of ammunition, and ordered the archers and firemen to prepare.

After a lot of busy work, the soldiers finally finished filling the big bowl of mouths, and the rest of the personnel were ready. They began to shout at the merchant ship in front of them, so that they could stop the ship immediately so that they could not die.

However, the merchant ship was unmoved by their threat and still continued to turn the sails to try to get rid of them again, but this time they did not succeed, because the seawolves already had some experience in boating. As soon as the other party adjusted the sails, they quickly adjusted the sails and predicted the other party's actions in advance. And the rudder continued to stick to the other party's ship, so that this operation was not successful.

Yu Xiaotian was more or less satisfied. He picked up a loudspeaker made of a temporary wooden board and shouted at the merchant ship: "The people on the opposite boat listened carefully! We are sea wolves! I have a crush on you today! You can't run away. I only ask for money and don't kill people. As long as you stop the ship and let us pick up the goods, I will let you wait to leave! Otherwise, don't blame me for waiting!"

His voice was very loud, and with the help of this wooden horn, the roar spread far away to ensure that the other party could clearly hear his threat.

However, the other party still did not stop the boat, but turned the rudder again and tried to escape to the seaside. Liu Laoliu scolded at the stern of the ship, "Grandma! In front is Pinghai Village. They want to escape to Pinghai Village! You can't be polite to them!"

Yu Xiaotian is also a little angry at this time. After all, this is the first time they have come out to rob. Although he also knows that his group of people are limited, he still thinks it is best to do it. Otherwise, it may affect their confidence in the future, so he is not polite now.

As he stared at the merchant ship that fled in front of him, he began to help Blackheads and others adjust the gun rack of the bowl mouth and try to aim more accurately.

The bowl mouth gun is an old-fashioned artillery, with a very close effective range, a small amount of charge, and there is no aiming gate and sight. The gun rack is also very difficult to adjust, so more often at sea, it is just a guy who scares people and expects him to sink the enemy ship. Yu Xiaotian has no such extravagant hope.

Seeing that the two sides were getting closer and closer, the other party began to panic a little at this moment. Someone also lay on the stern of the boat and shouted at them: "It's the Zhao family in Fuzhou! I have a friendship with the head of Ma Da on Nanri Island! I came here today and offended you. Isn't it? You'd better raise your hand and let us go over! There are thirty taels of silver here. If all the good men give their faces, they will take it away, which is a kind of filial piety to the heroes! I hope the good men will raise their hands!"

Yu Xiaotian already knew the rules, but he was not interested in the thirty taels of silver. At present, what he needed was a successful boat robbery to boost the morale and confidence of his men, so he picked up the wooden horn and shouted, "Don't talk nonsense! I don't care who you are or who you know! I'm going to order the goods on your ship today. Stop the ship quickly, or the uncle will fire!"

As soon as the opposite ship heard that the negotiation had failed, it stopped answering and tried to get rid of them again. The two boats walked back and forth in the shape of snakes on the sea, constantly staggering.

Yu Xiaotian saw that the distance of the other party had narrowed to about 50 meters, and then he loudly ordered his men to light the gun. The black head was bold and picked up the torch and pestled it at the fire gate of the mouth of the bow.

Yu Xiaotian's consciousness flashed and blocked his ears, waiting for the mouth of the bowl to roar, but when he turned his head, a white smoke rose from the mouth of the bowl, but it did not roar as expected, so his face immediately lengthened. It turned out that after their shooting, it was actually a Dumb cannon, Yu Xiaotian rolled his eyes angrily.

"I have already told you that the medicine is going to be hoarded, and you will forget to clean it as soon as you do it! That's good! Dumb cannon! Check it again, mother!" Yu Xiaotian burst into swearing with a black face. He used to be not such a rough mouth, but now after fooling with these rough people for two or three months, he has developed the habit of swearing and often likes to swear.

But not to mention, these people really eat this pot. If Yu Xiaotian is polite every day, they will think that he is easy to talk, but as soon as Yu Xiaotian swears, they will be much more honest. In this way, if the article is not successful, they will come to martial arts, which also makes Yu Xiaotian more and more like to curse people.

The blackhead also had a black line on his face. He quickly lowered his head to check the mouth of the bowl. After an inspection, he found that there was no gunpowder that could ignite the gunpow in the gunfire, and the gunpowder in the gunpow was still there, so he quickly drank and scolded an afterlife, so that he quickly pounded the ammunition in the gunfired and tossed After that, I was ready again.

At this time, Yu Xiaotian carefully moved away from a distance and secretly pinched a handful of sweat. When I saw this thing igniting, I was chilled. This time, when Zhao Mazi came back, he had to find a way to improve the gunpowder. If possible, he would find a way to buy a few new guns! The province is worried about these two broken cannons all day long.

There was another chase, and the distance between the two sides was basically maintained at about 50 meters. Yu Xiaotian couldn't wait and ordered to fire again.

This time, the mouth of the bowl lived up to his expectations and finally started as scheduled. With a gunshot, the cannon was scattered on the merchant ship in front of him.

The distance of 50 meters is still a little far for this bowl of guns, but at least it still reached the merchant ship in front of them, and some cannons snapped on their hull.

The people on the merchant ship knew that they were afraid and exclaimed that they quickly lay under the port of the ship, but they still did not stop the ship and continued to run away.

Although this gun did not kill anyone on the other side, it still played a certain role, forcing the boatmen on the other ship not dare to get up, so they could not continuously adjust the sails and take advantage of the wind direction.

Taking this opportunity, Liu Laoliu roared at Hu Cheng, and quickly adjusted the sails with his hands. After eating enough wind, he quickly rushed over and narrowed the distance between the two sides to 20 meters.

Yu Xiaotian rushed to the port side while ordering the blackhead and others to continue to load artillery and shouted to the people on the ship, "Fire arrows! Let it go! Don't let them look up!"

At this time, the sea wolves' boat had cut to the inside of Zhao's merchant ship, which could force them to sail towards the sea and could not continue to approach the coast, which was equivalent to letting Yu Xiaotian and others take the initiative.

At this time, the people of the merchant ship of the Zhao family also realized that something was not good. Someone screamed and asked the boatmen to get up and turn the rudder, but before they stood up, the sea wolves here began to fire, and several archers also began to shoot arrows at the Zhao's boat.

But on a rocking ship, it is very difficult to shoot targets 20 to 30 meters away with firebolt or bows and arrows, especially to let these rookies do this and hold primitive and rough firebolt, which basically depends on big luck.

So although I saw a boatman standing up on the opposite boat, he was shooting and shooting arrows, but he still couldn't hurt anyone on the other side. He just scared the other party again.

At such a low level, Yu Xiaotian was quite speechless. He also knew the level of these guys, but when he really did it, he looked at the bullets and arrows flying all over the sky, and the ones that fell on the other party's ship had not fallen into the sea, which really made him depressed.