Lu Ming

Chapter 259

The two fishing boats came to the familiar small bay of Cormorant Island before the last ray of sunset on the horizon.The reality is so ironic: yesterday everyone was still here to make money and treasures, but today they have become bereaved dogs and come here to seek refuge.

In the already dark night, Yu Chengde standing on the bow of the boat first looked back at the direction of the fishing village, then looked down at his feet - the bottom of the sea was the sunken ship that brought him wealth and disaster.

After a long sigh, he let go of his worries: what's the use of worrying about it now?Now that everyone has become a fugitive arrested by the Ming Dynasty, since there is no turning back, it is better to plan the way forward honestly.

Thinking of this, he turned his head to look at the endless strait in the east.The real danger is still ahead. If the two dilapidated fishing boats want to cross the strait, it has to be said that it is an adventure.

In the early morning of the next day, two fishing boats with a "total tonnage" of less than 400 materials set sail toward the east without hesitation.After departing from Cormorant Island, within an hour, the fleet arrived at the last landmark off the coast of Putian: Wuqiu Island.

Here is made up of two small islands.In later generations, this is the meeting point of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. The island guard soldiers on Meizhou Island can often observe their counterparts on Wuqiu Island with binoculars.

When Yu Chengde, a fisherman in the 17th century, came to the vicinity of Wuqiu Island, he saw only two desolate islands.There is no lighthouse, no barracks, the endless sea in front of him, and there will be no landmarks for him to refer to.

The fleet quickly adjusted its direction and sailed away from Wuqiu Island.An hour later, even though the sky was cloudless, Yu Chengde and the others could no longer see any small islands. Looking past, there was a vast sea all around, and two lonely boats were floating in it, stubbornly sailing towards the east.

Right now it is September when the south wind is strong, and the fishing boats can only resign themselves to fate after adjusting the sails at the last moment when they leave the sight of the island.

In the most ideal state, as long as the wind direction remains unchanged, the people on the fishing boat will see a certain coastline of Taiwan Island sometime tomorrow.

In the second-class situation, if the wind direction changes once or twice, and it is not too violent, then Yu Chengde and the others can use experience and memory to adjust the sail direction and maintain a general heading.

Worst case scenario is turbulent wind.As long as there are a few turbulent winds, fishermen without GPS will immediately lose their course, and at this time they can only let their boats drift with the current.

Probably God's test of the poor is not over yet. After Yu Chengde and the others drifted at sea for a whole day, the sky suddenly changed around 5 pm.

The originally clear sky gradually piled up thick clouds, and the sky and the earth gradually became dark.And the thing that the boatmen feared most also came - the turbulent wind.

It took only half an hour for the turbulent wind to completely plunge the people on the two fishing boats into despair: in the dark sea and sky, they had turned their sails countless times, and the course of the boats had long been lost. Headless flies.

A young fisherman even burst into tears on the spot.

"Bastard, your grandfather and I haven't died yet, what a fart!" Yu Chengde calmed the army's morale with a roar in time: "The wind and waves are not big, we have money in our hands, no matter where the wind blows, there is always a way out, panic what?!"

Yu Chengde grasped the crux of the problem: Although everyone is lost now, the wind and waves on the sea are not strong at the moment, and there is every chance that everyone will be blown to a certain land by the wind.It doesn't matter even if they go back to Daming, they can completely use silver to resupply near the shore and set off again.

Following Yu Chengde's roar, the emotions of the boatmen gradually calmed down.Then he ordered to go straight with full sail—since he was already lost, he might as well go with the wind with full sail, and maybe he could see land earlier.

Yu Chengde's idea is good, but the reality is far from so good: after a day's sailing, the fleet's position has reached the middle line of the strait.When he ordered the sails to follow the wind, the wind direction had actually changed back to the southerly wind, but the people on board couldn't locate the north, south, east and west at the moment, so they didn't know where the wind was coming from.

The two boats that originally sailed from west to east, now under the blowing of the southwest wind, have changed to go north from the center line of the strait. If it is bad, theoretically they will be blown all the way to the coast of Bangzi Country.

So sometimes ignorance is also a kind of happiness.

It was because Chengde and the others let themselves go, turned into seaweed, and not long after they swayed in the wind, probably God finally had enough, so between the sea and the sky, a savior with sparks and lightning appeared.

Five Chinese-style boats lined up in a line, slanting from the north to the south against the wind, met head-on with the two fishing boats going north.

While Yu Chengde was using the salvaged brass binoculars to observe the small black spots approaching in the distance, the opposite fleet was also observing the two small fishing boats.

The crossing fleet equipped with radar and half-meter-long telescopes spotted them as early as when the fishing boats were circling around the sea like flies.

This fleet departs from Hangzhou.The first two ships are 500-ton passenger-cargo dual-purpose shallow-draft new lock ships that are being mass-produced by Taijiang Shipyard. The model is S500.

This kind of gas engine sailing ship with hard sails but a Western-style hull is the standard transport ship type determined by the country. They are gradually replacing the old Fuchuan on the Hangzhou route. In the future, there will be a thousand-ton model such as the S1000.

After observing the two fishing boats opposite, the commanders who were bored on the flagship suddenly became interested.

You know, since the Zheng family was destroyed, the two sides of the strait have already been swept away N times by a certain force.Under the brutal strangulation of radar, telegram, high-speed destroyer and drone, pirates big and small either surrendered or fed the fish. The whole coastal area of ​​Fujian has now been turned into a sick situation where they never close their homes at night—the "monk soldiers" under Cao Guerrilla can already Stop the child crying at night.

Under such circumstances, there are still ships that dare to sail on the center line of the strait: they must have come out to be pirates.

Commander, you don't think these two small fishing boats with fishing nets are merchant ships, nor do you think that they came to the middle line of the strait to fish, let alone that these two boats are destined for senior officials. Who told them to go north and south at this time? Woolen cloth?So the Commander has completed the identification at this time: these are two small pirate ships that ran out to rob.

"Go forward and check, and the soldiers are ready for contact." When the order was transmitted, the fleet quickly responded: the flagship turned on the engine and accelerated towards the direction of the fishing boat, while the other ships kept their original course.

But when they saw the strange big boat getting closer, there was cheers on the fishing boat at the moment: the monkey who had been to Dayuan not long ago recognized this weird boat shape, this is the boat of Master Kun!

(End of this chapter)