The Ming Dynasty began from Sarhu

Chapter 253 Iai Slash

A Fu ship with a broken mast was sailing slowly on the sea.

The sailors shouted slogans and rowed their oars vigorously for several hours, as if they were tireless.

The deck of the Fu ship was broken in many places and was carefully nailed together with wooden boards.

In the early hours of the morning, a giant, bewildered whale leaped out of the water and rammed the ill-fated ship.

The disaster caused a huge dent on the port side, but fortunately, there was no danger and the seawater did not flood in, otherwise everyone would have been buried in the vast ocean.

The second manager, Qian Mei, lay on the side of the ship and looked at the damaged Fu ship with a look of despair on his face.

He suffered a huge loss on this voyage. Most of the silver and goods were lost, and two sailors died.

On the deck not far away, the chief steward Han Chao acted as if nothing had happened and was chatting with the group of rebels.

Manager Qian spat into the sea and returned to the cabin cursing.

"Once we reach the shore, I will never go out to sea again."

Everyone on the deck leaned on the railing and looked into the distance, their faces full of sorrow.

An old man with white hair and beard pointed forward, looking very high-spirited. He turned to the person who had just spoken and said:

"Brother Shen is a chivalrous man with excellent martial arts skills. Why do you want to retire? Why not return to Liaodong with me and help Ping Liaohou accomplish great things together?"

"Oh. Marquis Ping Liao does a lot of things without any help."

Shen Lian shook his head.

Yang Hao came to act as a lobbyist again.

He has heard words like this countless times in the past few days.

It seems that retiring from society is a very strange thing.

Everyone wants to ask him why?
Why do you want to retire from the world?

Because he was old, because he was tired of killing, and because he had her.

Shen Lian walked cheerfully across the deck, holding the Annan girl in one hand and his mother in the other. The three of them pointed at the sea and chatted about everything from the scenery of Annan to how the streets of the capital were filled with rats a few days ago, scaring the cats into hiding.

"Do you have rats this big in Annan?"

Shen Lian's mother gestured with her hands, pointing to the big rat she saw in the capital.

Cai Lian burst into laughter when she heard this.

"I haven't been back to Annan for many years, so I don't know, but we have giraffes there, also known as Qilin..."

Old Lady Shen treated this foreign woman as her own daughter-in-law and chatted with her casually.

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"Brothers, why aren't you resting yet? Boss Han said that if the wind is favorable, we can return to Shandong the day after tomorrow."

Pei Dahu, Wu Xiao and others rolled their eyes at Shen Lian and turned their heads away, too lazy to pay attention to this man who valued women over friends.

Shen Lian didn't care at all. At this moment, a hoarse voice came from behind him.

"Hahaha, young and romantic, just like me back then. Back then, although I wasn't as handsome as Pan An, I also had a few beauties. Exhausted by the paperwork, I also wanted to retire to the countryside and enjoy the company of my beloved... ahem, but, can you just leave the imperial court whenever you want?"

Yang Hao leaned against the side of the boat, standing facing the wind, carefully combing his hair that was messed up by the sea breeze, his thoughts flying far away.

"Yang Jinglue, you're joking. How can Shen be compared to Jinglue? I'm just tired of killing and don't want to be involved in intrigue anymore."

"Return to the martial arts world? You can't escape the slaughter either. You can't stand the slaughter in the imperial court, so how dare you say you can stand the bloody storm in the martial arts world? Captain Pei..."

Shen Lian smiled and said, "Master Yang, you are now a thousand-man commander."

Pei Dahu frowned, glared at Shen Lian, and said nothing.

When this loyal head servant thought about the loss of another important general on this trip, he didn't know how to explain to Marquis Ping Liao when he returned.

In the past few hours, Pei Dahu and Wu Xiao stared at the sea, hoping to see Lin Yu, even if it was just a corpse?

However, they saw nothing.

Last night, Lin Yu pulled the torn sail and disappeared in a vast thunderstorm.

Pei Dahu looked up at Yang Hao.

"What are your instructions, General Yang?"

In the eyes of the head servants, Yang Hao was always the governor of Liaodong who commanded tens of millions of troops.

"Go and persuade that young man. How can he not think about making achievements at such a young age and indulge in the love of his children?"

Pei Dahu looked embarrassed. It wasn't that he didn't want to persuade Shen Lian, but he was just too dumb to talk Shen Lian down. Just then, a sailor's voice came from the lookout:

"The Japanese red seal ships are coming our way! They're coming so fast!"

Everyone stood up, and the sailors rowing the boat immediately adjusted the hull, turning it sideways, with the two Franco-Machine Guns pointing towards the red seal ship.

Two sailors climbed up the mast and changed the direction of the sail. Fortunately, they only had two sails left, so the operation was much easier than usual.

Five miles away, the red seal ship was rapidly approaching the Fu ship. The red seal ship was obviously much smaller than their Fu ship. Its sails were filled with wind and it was moving very fast, following the Fu ship like a vicious wolf.

In the blink of an eye, the red seal ship was already running parallel to the blessing ship, and the distance between the two ships was less than two miles.

Han Chao climbed up the lookout pole and shouted orders, asking the sailors to prepare for battle.

"What? Are you going to start fighting before you even see the people on the boat?"

Lu Jianxing looked at the busy sailors around him with surprise.

Shopkeeper Qian Er's eyes gleamed as he yelled at the sailors:

"We'll use our flying claws to hook them later! If we can rob the Japanese, this trip won't be a loss! Brothers, if you chop off a Japanese head, the boss will reward you with one hundred taels of silver, no, two hundred taels! If you want to get rich, come to me!"

There were strange cries of sailors from the surrounding decks.

Pei Dahu was about to help Yang Hao hide under the cabin, but was pushed away by the old man.

"I've seen a lot in Korea. These Japanese red seal ships are undoubtedly pirates, killing people without a care. Now that you've encountered them, don't even think about running away. Give me a musket!"

"Yang Jinglue, the Japanese are brutal and their swords are merciless, but you still..."

Yang Hao said angrily:

"Back in Pyongyang, I defeated tens of thousands of Japanese pirates. Why should I be afraid of these few pirates? I'm old and can't lift a heavy sword, but I can still fire a gun from behind!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Pei Dahu had no choice but to take a fine long-barreled bird gun from the guard, hand it to Yang Hao, and step forward to instruct Yang Jinglie on how to load it.

Yang Hao grabbed the bird gun and said angrily:

"I've been on the battlefield, I know how to use it!" Pei Dahu smiled and nodded. Everyone around him looked at Yang Hao with respect. Pei Dahu took a good position on the port side near the bow and asked Yang Hao to guard here.

"Yang Jinglie, take care of yourself! Let's go back to Liaodong together and make great achievements!"

Yang Hao watched the loyal guard go away, holding the bird gun tightly in his hand, his gray beard trembling in the wind.

On the deck, weapons clashed and clashed. The sailors had already begun preparing. They took their spears, hooks, and talons to the port side and placed them there. They helped each other put on the mail armor they had picked up in Zhangjiagang a few days ago. Then they took out the hidden muskets and bows and arrows from the bottom of the cabin.

Seeing these sailors turn into pirates in the blink of an eye, Wu Xiao opened his mouth in shock. Born in Shaanxi, the only thing he could think of at this moment was the Northwestern bandits.

"A pirate on the sea."

Wu Xiao murmured in a low voice.

Pei Dahu looked at the red-sealed ship rapidly approaching from a distance and shouted to everyone:
"Fuck it! No matter if they are Jinyiwei or Japanese pirates, if they dare to stand in our way, we will kill them!"

"Follow my sailor brothers, take up your spears and put on your armor! Form a defensive formation. You guys, get the crouching tiger cannons out!"

Several people using bird guns were already reloading. Wu Xiao didn't like using firearms, so he ran back to the bottom of the cabin and took out a longbow.

When he came back, he was talking to Shen Lian while loading the arrows with wolf-fang barbs.

"Hey! Protect your mother and don't go on deck. We can't kill a few thieves!"

Shen Lian helped his mother down the cabin stairs, looked up at Wu Xiao, and said with a smile:

"How can I be absent from the final battle?"

After saying that, he drew the Embroidered Spring Sword out of its sheath, jumped onto the deck in two steps, patted Wu Xiao on the shoulder, turned around and told Cai Lian to take his mother back to the bottom of the cabin.

Wu Xiao looked Shen Lian up and down and nudged Shen Lian's armor with his elbow.

Captain Shen had put on fine fish-scale armor and had a flintlock pistol hanging around his waist.

He looked at Wu Xiao and said helplessly:
"There's no other way. I have to kill people. Come on, Brother Wu, let me show you my killer moves. I'll draw my sword and kill one pirate at a time. After we finish killing these pirates, let's have a good drink! I'm afraid I won't have the chance to drink with you guys after we leave Liaodong!"

The two walked forward a few steps and heard Cai Lian's voice behind them.

"Shen Lang, I'll go with you."

When Shen Lian looked back, he saw that the Annan woman had changed into leather armor at some point.

She held a sharp knife in her left hand and the short crossbow in her right hand was already strung.

(End of this chapter)