Chapter 244 Dull Voyage

Mr. Chu Cai's Dafu boat was ordered from a boat house in Quanzhou that he spent a lot of money the year before last. In order to hide people's eyes and ears, when it was originally ordered, the boat house claimed that it was only a 400-material merchant ship. I dare not say that it was a six hundred-masted ship ordered by Chu Cailao from them, so it was under construction At that time, even the mast was not loaded, but after the hull was fully built, and after the inspection, it was equipped with masts and sails overnight, and rushed into the water before dawn. After entering the water, it was directly dragged away from the shore and was driven back to his old nest Dongshan Island by Chu Cai's men.

The materials used for this ship are exquisite, and most of them are built with hard materials. Many places use materials are much more than normal materials. The structure has been greatly strengthened, and the construction quality is quite good. Of course, the cost is more than twice that of the same ship. After Chu Cai got the ship, he used the ship as his ship.

In addition to meeting his face needs, another reason why he spent a lot of money to build this ship is that he got several Hongyi cannons from the ferryman, and these redyi cannons could not be installed on the ship he used before, for fear of damaging the ship as soon as the cannon was fired.

So he spent a lot of money to build this Dafu ship, and the hull structure has also been changed somewhat, so that the center of gravity of the ship has been reduced, the hull structure is strengthened, and the deck is thickened to carry this kind of Hongyi cannon.

With this ship, Chu Cai is like a tiger with wings, and this ship has also become his symbol. As long as the ship appears, ordinary ships are not its enemies at all. With its huge size and structural reinforcement advantages, plus several red cannons on the ship, the ship can fight against its opponents. At that time, you can use the collision tactics to sag and sink the enemy ship, or use the cannons on the ship to sink the opponent far away.

Therefore, Chu Cai's ship has a rare opponent for sea merchants in Guangdong and Fujian, so it has also become his arrogant capital.

In the past two years, he also used this ship to harass some state capitals and counties along the coast from time to time. With the advantage of the range of the Hongyi cannon on the ship, he was very powerful at sea.

However, Chu Cailao's ship seems to be very powerful in Daming, but it is nothing compared with several powerful countries in the Western sea in this world. In this era, Western Holland, Spain, Britain and even France and Portugal have already begun to build large covers with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons. The ship is not better than the weight, not to mention the firepower. Even the firepower of the sea wolf's current sloop may not exceed much.

However, in the coastal area of the Ming Dynasty in this era, this ship was indeed quite powerful. If it hadn't been for the sea wolf this time, there would have been a lot of good guns. A few Hongyi cannons on his ship alone could make the sea wolf suffer.

But now seems that this ship can only show off, which is actually not very useful. Moreover, in order to attack the sea wolf village, he also unloaded the two Hongyi cannons on this ship to the shore, one of which has been destroyed by the sea wolf, and the remaining one is still left on the shore for the people on the shore to attack the village. .

At this time, there was only one Hongyi cannon and a few small cannons left on this Dafu ship, and there was not much advantage in firepower.

However, Mr. Chu Cai still wanted to use the remaining red cannon on his ship to teach the sea wolf some lessons, so today he personally boarded the ship, took his own boat to the sea wolf village, slowly sailed it into the bay, and stopped at the mouth of the bay to prevent it from being too close and becoming the key object of the sea wolf cannon. .

The sea wolf's cannon left a very deep impression on Chu Cailao this time. Their cannons hit far away, but also accurately and powerful, which made him very afraid and no longer dared to be as arrogant as before. He drove the ship to the shore and directly bombarded the target on the shore with the Hongyi cannon on the ship.

Just as Mr. Chu Cai was busy mobilizing the fleet and preparing to fight against the sea wolf village for the last time, there were dozens of fleets coming to Nanri Island at full speed on the sea about ten miles northeast of Nanri Island.

All of these ships did not light up the light balls that were used to hang during the night voyage. From the front, all the ships were hidden in the night and could hardly distinguish their outlines, let alone find their existence far away.

But if you look from the back, you can see that there is a light on the stern of these ships. The left, right and front of these lights are blocked by the light. Only the back side is transparent glass, which can reveal the light. In this way, these lights cannot be seen from the side and the front, only from the back. I saw this lamp at the tail of the ship in front.

This is also the invention of sea wolves. In order to not expose the whereabouts of the fleet during the night voyage, they can also let the following friendly ships see the direction of the ships in front of them, so as not to disperse during the fleet sailing.

After they set out from Treasure Island in the middle of the night, all the ships stared at the stern light of the previous ship, maintained a vertical formation, and then sailed silently on the sea under the leadership of the first ship, in the direction of Nanri Island in a semi-headwind state, constantly drawing zigzag routes on the sea.

The speed of the fleet is not very fast, because every time they turn to make the sails windy, the fleet has to slow down and maintain their formation, so that the ships behind them will not be lost or mess up, so they set out from Treasure Island in advance in the middle of the night and embarked on the road back to Nanri Island.

In addition to the hidden lighting in the fleet, silence was also maintained in the fleet. Except for the necessary personnel issuing orders and executing orders to operate the ship, the rest of the personnel were ordered not to make noise without authorization.

Everyone is required to lie down or sit down and rest on their respective positions when there is nothing to do. If they can sleep, they will sleep, and those who can't sleep will also close their eyes.

But at this time, most people couldn't sleep. They lay in their battle positions silently listening to the sound of the sea wolf beating the hull, silently praying to the gods they believe in, or secretly praying to their relatives, praying for the gods and their relatives to bless their safety.

The originally morale crew suffered more or less psychologically after experiencing Ma Feng's rebellion. After all, Ma Feng is a senior member of the sea wolf fleet and has the position of deputy management of the third-point fleet. Even he is not attracted to this battle with Chu Cai Lao. Confidence will naturally cause some people to suffer.

So after experiencing this incident, the crew of the sea wolf's mood is overshadowed. Even if Ma Xiao let them take another day off yesterday and made the captains repeatedly cheer up their crew, but they still can't completely restore everyone's original fighting spirit.

In addition, especially some of the crew members of the second fleet are in a very sad mood, because Wang Hong has been the management team of their second team for such a long time. He has been taking them everywhere on the sea, leading them to practice, fooling around with them in their spare time, and making friends with many of them. It's good.

But suddenly, their leader was seriously injured by his closest brother Ma Feng. On this day, he has been in a deep coma, his life is hanging on the line, and there is a possibility of death at any time, which makes the sailors of the second team unacceptable. Most people feel very sad, and at the same time Worried about Wang Hong.

So the sailors of the second team are often unhappy about this, and they are not even interested in eating.

As the crew of the third team, they also feel uncomfortable, because Ma Feng is the deputy management team of their third team. Whether this man has been suspended recently or not, after all, this man is nominally the leader of their third team. There is such a super scum in his own fleet, which makes the people of the three teams I feel very ashamed and depressed.

And from the day of the accident, as soon as the news spread, the crew of the second team saw the people of the third team staring at each other, with a look of contemptuous expression and ignored.

This made the crew of the third team feel even more uncomfortable. They suddenly felt that they owed a large amount of money to each of the second team and refused to pay it back the debt, which made them feel a little unbearable.

In another fleet, because of Ma Feng's involvement, many people on the ship were involved in this matter. The day before yesterday and yesterday, a large number of people were taken away and held on Treasure Island. These people also have their own friends on the ship. After experiencing this incident, they are also under great psychological pressure. Some of the arrested people were tortured but biting, and they were also involved.

So many people are worried when they set out. In a word, Ma Feng's incident had a great impact on the morale of the sea wolf fleet, which was beyond everyone's expectations.

So the whole sea wolf fleet looks a little dead today. It has lost the active atmosphere of the other day, and many people are worried about it.

This situation has also fallen into the eyes of the captains of each ship. Although the Ma Feng incident is very involved this time, it is gratifying that among all the people involved, no captain or first mate has been implicated. The highest-level personnel involved are just the captains of the two ships, and the rest of the bases They are all low-level sailors.

So the officers of each ship were not greatly affected in this incident. It can be said that the overall structure has not been fundamentally damaged, which is also a blessing in the misfortune of this incident.

(Thanks to the wandering Jiangnan brothers for their reward yesterday! Let the reward be more fierce! Ha ha!)