Chapter 544 Pirates
Niu Sanpao has run on this route from Qingdao to Zhoushan Islands, which is the landing location of Liangzhe. Every time he approaches Zhoushan Islands, he can see the fishermen. They seem to be waiting for Niu Sanpao's fleet to pass by.
Today, Niu Sanpao issued an order and started to use propellers to accelerate and push them directly from the Zhoushan Islands fifty nautical miles away. If you use acceleration to advance at this position, it can shorten the distance by more than 60%. Shortening this time is Niu Sanpao wants to see if this group of fishermen is deliberately waiting for him.
Although Niu Sanpao himself can't fish, he knew that fishing on the sea would never be waiting for you in the same place. Niu Sanpao's fleet had expanded its scale half a month ago, and now there are as many as thirteen ships on the way back and forth.
There were old fishermen on the boat, more of the naval army originally trained by the Brotherhood. Although they were not familiar with the sea conditions, their water quality was not bad. After the team expanded, and the water route had been traveling so many times, Niu Sanpao's courage also became stronger.
But today when the fishermen often appeared, Niu Sanpao did not find that those fishermen who were waiting there appeared on their fleet in the past. This result made Niu Sanpao feel that they always encountered fishermen in those days, but it was just a coincidence. Or they wanted to use the tide to go further away. So they would appear there at that time.
Niu Sanpao himself has worked hard to learn a lot of knowledge about fishermen and the ocean, which are also some of the fine traditions of the Brotherhood.
Since we are safe, we should continue moving forward. The sea is in this season. After slowing down for a while, the ship sailing in the front sent a flag whisper, saying that he had met a person in front. Niu Sanpao saw it with a telescope. Dozens of people were holding some broken wooden boards and floating on the sea. It was obvious that they were hit by a reef, or something else, and they must have encountered a shipwreck.
Since someone encountered a shipwreck, he would definitely not stand by. After putting down several small boats, he rescued more than 40 people who fell into the water. These people were all on the Niu Sanpao ship, which is the flagship of the entire fleet.
Although there were many people, Niu Sanpao did not expect that there would be so many people. The rescued men and women were men, of course, the most men were the most, and there were only five women. There were only one woman, and only one woman was considered a relatively young woman and looked quite good. The other four could not be described as "uncommon" such as "unsatisfactory". These four women looked stronger than thin men. Although they were wet after falling into the water, they still couldn't hide their tough temperament.
"Who are you? Where are you going? What happened? How did you accomplish this..."
Women are naturally friendly, especially beautiful women. Niu Sanpao asked, which was definitely the pretty woman in front of him. After the woman fell into the water, her silk clothes were soaked in the sea water, and the whole piece of clothes was stuck to her body. Her whole body was wrapped in the silk clothes, which looked exquisite and very attractive to men's attention.
"We came from Fujian and were going to Zhoushan to look for relatives, but who knew that we were about to arrive at the place and encountered a strong wind. My husband and my children... were gone... oh oh oh oh... oh oh oh oh..."
While crying, the woman said, she didn't dare to look at Niu Sanpao's eyes, she just lowered her head and touched her tears. What kind of pain is it to lose a relative? Niu Sanpao was very familiar with it. So she spoke directly,
"You are going to the other side of Zhoushan? We are also going there. You can do it in the past of our boat..."
Although Niu Sanpao had already said this, the woman did not express her opinion, but looked at the sea in a daze, as if her husband and children could walk out of it anytime and anywhere.
Niu Sanpao understood that she was too sad and became a little irrational, so she stopped disturbing the woman, but walked out on her own, thinking about taking these people to Zhoushan first and then making plans. If it really doesn't work, she can take these people to Qingzhou, Shandong.
The entire fleet, all the thirteen ships, began to move forward in the direction of Zhoushan after saving people. When the fleet passed by a nearby island reef, several small boats suddenly appeared from behind that island reef.
The boat was now wearing a black flag on the bow. It was said that it was of course compared to the huge ship that Niu Sanpao and others were riding on. The sudden appearance of these ships made the sailors on the boat a little panicked for a moment.
After all, I don’t know the other party’s identity, but fortunately, Niu Sanpao did not take those small boats seriously, because after all, it was not as big as his own, but a scary scene happened the next moment.
After crossing the island and reef, a dark sea area was filled with small boats. At this moment, these small boats had raised their sails and were quickly sailing towards the Niu Sanpao fleet.
At this time, Niu Sanpao was furious. What was the case? Is it a big ship like his own to be robbed by these small boats? If that were the case, Niu Sanpao's face would be gone. A quick trumpet sound came out on Niu Sanpao's ship.
"The whole group gathered to prepare for the battle, the spiral group was running at full speed! Go forward at full speed!"
However, after Niu Sanpao's order was issued, the Niu Sanpao's flagship leaning against the front did not improve its speed. Moreover, after a while, the person who pushed the gear wheels below became more and more difficult to exert force.
"Look, fireboat!"
When he heard this sound, Niu Sanpao looked around for a week and then found that there were countless small boats on the left side of his ship's side at some point, and dozens of fireboats burning in the front were burning the raging fire.
At this time, Niu Sanpao could not tell the situation even if he could not understand it. He probably met a pirate. And he was not a little pirate. The black fleet on the sea must have been organized by a large-scale pirate team.
In fact, because the Brotherhood merchant ships have excellent functions, they are far superior to other ships in this era, and Niu Sanpao is not a social person, so he does not know much about the humanities of this sea area. Neiu Sanpao has not established contact with them in the surrounding merchant ships or fishermen. He doesn't know how many bandits and pirates there are in this water area and what taboos are there.
Chapter completed!