open sea

Chapter 178 Black Ship
boom!
Cannonballs flew from nowhere and blasted across the forecastle with screams, shattered sawdust flew all over the sky, and knives and guns came out of the room. Chen Mu tried his best to smash the Japanese pirates in front of him, blood spattered all over his face.

There was a strong wind coming from behind his ears, and he hurriedly lowered himself down, only to hear a terrifying sound of breathing down beside him, Qi Zhengyan raised his head and leaped out beside him to meet the enemy, fighting in a ball, and from the corner of his head, he saw Long Junxiong sideways The Japanese pirate who wanted to sneak attack Chen Mu was shot and killed, then turned around and pulled out the long knife that had been inserted into the Japanese pirate's throat, shouted loudly, kicked his feet and thrust out nearly ten feet.

In the blink of an eye, Fuchuan was in chaos.

In the past two years, Qi Zhengyan and Long Junxiong have been supported by Chen Mu, and they are full of food and strength. The original high-strength short-handed fighters can fight more fiercely, and the combination of two people in the square inch fight is very well-organized. Touch, only pick the enemy's unarmored wrist and neck with a knife, and it is steady and accurate. Even if seven or eight pirates swarm up, Fangcun jumps and fights, and the head will be decapitated.

In the chaos, Chen Mu saw the familiar figure standing on the forecastle tower who was dodging the incoming shells. The withered beard and sunken eye sockets were impressive. He saw the man holding the battle sword and swinging towards the commanding banner guards. Shi Qi ordered loudly.

"Bomb them!"

Two Francophones were set up on the forecastle, facing the direction of Shi Qi!
Chen Mu's scalp became tense, and he shouted loudly: "Shi Qi, the bird gun team!"

Shi Qi was giving orders loudly, leading the flag army from the centipede boat to jump to the deck of the Fuchuan, and launched an attack on the poop where the Japanese pirates gathered a large number of sailors. In the short time since they hit the Fuchuan, three enemy ships had already approached without stopping. Bing, this is the result of a big blessing boat being bumped into by Deng Zilong, and the surrounding cannons blare, so how could they notice Chen Mu's shouts.

With no other choice, Chen Mu had to rely on guesswork and repeat the old trick.

"Master Zeng!"

The waist knife fell to the ground, and the short gun was in hand.

Chen Mu couldn't be sure that the bearded man was Zeng Yiben, but his intuition told him that this person was Zeng Yiben who had been chasing and burning all over the place for several days!
His intuition was right. Zeng Yiben, who was startled by Chen Mu's blunderbuss during a brief meeting at sea, heard someone calling himself in the confusion. The leader of the army who had met once had his left arm hanging on his chest, and was pointing at him with a pistol in one hand!

boom!
Before Chen Mu hit the gun with his hand, before he could see if it hit, the Japanese pirates on the forecastle with the Franco cannon were about to fire, when they suddenly heard a series of cannonballs from the direction of the centipede ship behind them, and countless Franco shells flew like locusts On the poop of the Jufu ship, sawdust was flying all over the sky, and some people were even thrown into the sea by Franji.

The artillery meritorious deeds of the ships left behind are paid yuan.

In the chaos, Chen Mu saw someone climbing up from the stern tower, throwing down their weapons and jumping into the sea shouting, and some people swung their knives at the deck with a sad and inexplicable mortal ambition, and were then hacked to death by Qi Zhengyan.

"The leader is dead!"

It seemed that the fierce sea battlefield was paused for a moment because of this shout, and then the banner army obviously felt that the morale of the Japanese pirates had dropped to the lowest level. The survivors fled by boat.

But they didn't run far, Bai Yuanjie led a group of small boats to meet the battle, and then Chen Lin led a fleet to join the battlefield, and there was a big black ship floating in the sea in the distance, there is no way for the Japanese pirates to survive under the encirclement.

The pirates on the Dafu ship were emptied in a blink of an eye, and Chen Mu left a few survivors for Shi Qi to identify the corpses. He hurriedly boarded the forecastle and asked loudly about the situation of the sailor Li Dan who came from Haojing. The famous Li Dan has already climbed onto his lucky boat.

"Father, don't worry, the child is fine!"

The sea water soaked a wound on Li Dan's shoulder and turned white, but he laughed straight on his face. Looking around at the messy corpses in the forecastle, he suddenly knelt down and clasped his fists: "Congratulations to the adoptive father for killing Zeng Yiben! This is a great achievement!"

Others don't know Zeng Yiben, but Li Dan has heard people talk about the appearance of the three elders. Who else is lying on the ground with a gun in his chest besides Zeng Yiben?
Seeing that Li Dan recognized Zeng Yiben, especially the fatal wound on Zeng Yiben's body from the gunshot wound on his chest, Chen Mu couldn't help showing a satisfied smile, "Floating on the sea for the past few days can't eat or sleep well. With the result... where did the big black ship come from?"

There are unowned warships everywhere on the sea, but neither the black-tailed blessing boat nor the white-tailed blessing boat can arouse Chen Mu's interest. What interests him most is the huge Carrick sailing boat from afar.

"It was found by Pereira, the leader of the Franji, a merchant ship that had just arrived in Haojing from Manchuria, and was borrowed by Pereira...Father, the Franji have no merit in this battle, don't give it to them Reward."

Chen Mu frowned and asked, "They didn't fire?"

"It's going to be slow, there are several cannons on the boat, and when they get close to our boat, they will all fight together." Li Dan shook his head, looked at the big black boat with a smile, and said, "Franji can't tell who it is. Who dares to shoot?"

Chen Mu thinks about it too, and smiles casually, there is hard work even if there is no credit, he has no intention of really not giving Franji people at all, otherwise it will hurt their enthusiasm too much, but in short it will not be too much.

"Have someone bandage your wound, and let the doctor show it to you when you return to Xiangshan. Let's send someone to count the casualties first. You can count the losses and military exploits of the merchants, and be sure to be truthful."

He is going to check the spoils of war. Most of the things belonging to the people of Xin'an and Guangcheng on the ship cannot be moved. These ships will also be handed over to the Guangzhou government, but the pirates' weapons and belongings still belong to their war spoils. This matter requires him and Chen Lin and Bai Yuanjie discussed and decided together.

Not long after, Huayu boarded the blessing boat and said to Chen Mu: "Qianhu, Pereira and those Frangji people are very sorry that they didn't help them, let me ask you what they can do. "

"What can they do? There's a lot they can do. Come on, come on their ship with me and have a look."

There are indeed things that Pereira must do, for example... to pull out the two centipede boats embedded in the Fuchuan hull, and on the way back to Guangcheng, they also need to use their boats to tow the immobile big boat.

It is not a problem for these ships to be placed at sea.

"Qianhu, this is not the first time we have cooperated with the imperial court. Although the governor did not give us what we wanted when we sent troops last time, it is at least a good start. We are businessmen that Ming can trust." The priest slowly translated Pere If you want to pull, hold the cross on your chest and nod slowly, and then say: "We are happy to use the big black boat to help you pull the boat."

It seems that the priest did not mention a word of the reward, which made Pereira a little anxious. After a few words, the priest said reluctantly: "Pereira asked you, will our sailors get the promised reward?"

Chen Mu smiled and said: "There is no military achievement, but there is still hard work. You fought with Chief Li and fulfilled your duty as a merchant in Haojing, so I decided to give some money as a reward for your voyage here. Let's talk about this matter back to Haojing."

"If I wanted this boat, how much would you price it?"

(End of this chapter)