The current Roman emperor and Marquis Jacques Garrel thought more and more, the more they felt more and more frightened. When they wanted to express their friendly attitude towards the Chinese as soon as possible, Su Heng was on the vast ocean, quietly watching more than a dozen merchant ships sailing down the wind.

These dozen merchant ships were caravans under a gentry in Lu State, and they were on the route from Lu to Rome.

The biggest reason he would pay attention to this caravan is that these dozen merchant ships have been targeted by a pirate gang.

Even the identity of the pirate gang is very interesting. It is a navy under the command of the Grand Duke of Ventera, a one-month voyage in the northwest of Lu. Ventera is just a maritime principality here, not even a kingdom. There are only a dozen small and medium-sized islands in the country, with a population of 600,000 to 700,000, of which more than 90% are white, less than 100 are mixed-race. The Grand Duke Nix Ventra has a full 50,000 navy. Although the navy is controlled by the fact that the Principality is not so rich and cannot afford to support a battleship, there are still several cruisers.

In addition to cruisers, they also had dozens of armed merchant ships, which were also in the naval sequence.

The Principality of Ventra is very small but very cruel. The most common thing to do is to disguise yourself as pirates and plunder all directions.

Of course, the main target of their robbery was the caravan composed of Chinese seedlings traveling on the main channel between Shang and Rome.

Nowadays, a merchant ship under a gentry of Lu State who is sailing on the ocean transports a large number of oriental goods such as porcelain, tea, silk and other oriental goods to Rome.

These crystallizations of Eastern civilization have always had a huge market in the Western aristocratic circle. As long as they are transported from Shangtang to Rome, they will basically have more than ten times the profits of the local area.

It is precisely because of understanding these that the kingdoms and principalities composed of white people in the ocean are staring at the many caravans, like wolves lurking in the ocean, and they may wait for an opportunity at any time.

It can be said that the caravan was targeted by Grand Duke Ventra as soon as he set off from Lu State.

Rather than letting the gentry of Lu transport precious goods to Rome for a big sale, how could he grab it directly? It was so refreshing to come?

The navy under the command of Grand Duke Ventera not only stared at the Eastern Merchant Ship Caravan on this channel, but also was Liu Guo, an island country composed of another not too far away in China. He often fought back and forth and woke up from his blood.

The Principality of Ventra is the kind of country composed of Chinese seedlings. When it is bordered by a relatively close relationship, it is the most exciting to cause trouble because of different races, conflicts or wars with each other.

The "Iron Blood" Duke who was still on the stage shouted more than once that he would destroy the Liu Kingdom and capture all millions of Liu people as slaves.

Of course, Grand Duke Wentra is not stupid. The country of Liu has more than one million people. Compared with the Principal of Ventra, although the size is nearly doubled, the difference of one is not too exaggerated, so he dares to shout blatantly.

Facing the State of Lu? Even if the State of Lu is a dish in the minds of the powerful men of Zhao, it is just a dish on the dinner table of the great merchants and gentry, no matter what, the State of Lu has more than 6 million people and has developed trade. Even if there are not many soldiers on the surface, they dare not provoke them on the surface.

It is better to be careful to lower the national flag and put on makeup before pirates dare to do it and pretend to be pirates? Then it is impossible for the cruiser to take action.

Therefore, when the caravan composed of more than ten merchant ships in Lu State was about to arrive at a supply island on the route to rest, merchant ships with pirate flags rushed out of the supply island...

Taking advantage of ambushing and taking the lead, the Ventra Navy obviously wanted to grab the T-shaped position. The T-shaped tactics were one of the most classic tactics in this era of Sail Bronze Cannon.

But they rushed out, and the flagship at the front of the Lu caravan immediately began to use various flags to notify the merchant ships in the rear.

"Hurry, turn! Damn, this group of garbage is coming again. After this wave and returning to Lu, I have to kill a few white skins to get rid of bad luck."

On the caravan flagship, a young man holding a baili mirror first ordered the sailor to utter the flag to inform the friendly forces, and then he made his merchant ship turn rapidly to avoid major losses.

Why is T-shaped tactics a classic? Because of the merchant ships or battleships of this era, there is no ability to directly attack your ships, and all artillery is arranged on both sides of the ship.

Only when you use the ship to face the target can you exert the impact of the cannon.

While he was sailing in a straight line, the bow of the ship was in a shape in front of him, and he was facing rows of cannon muzzles. On the other hand, his big ship rushed forward without any firepower, so he could only turn, and the side of the ship was opposite the side of the ship, so that he could bombard him.

This young man is also the owner of this caravan, one of the pillars of the Xiao family in Lu State, Xiao Jichen.

No matter how warlords such as General Zhao State's Mansion, King Zhao State He Jian, Gao Zhen and other warlords looked down on the local gentry of Lu State, the Xiao family itself still has a certain degree of arrogance and confidence.

After all, the geographical location of Lu State is very good. More than 90% of merchants and Rome's caravans have to be supplied by Lu State. Standing in the middle, they often make a fortune by making a fortune.

Therefore, as a local tyrant in Lu, the Xiao family is still very strong.

As Xiao Jichen issued an order, a sailor standing not far away laughed, "Second Young Master, don't worry, although someone must have spread the news before we set off, those eyeliners would not know that we have undergone a major blood exchange behind our backs. This time we will definitely give this group of scumbags and send a ruthless vote."

Making a difference is a very good method. For example, when the Shang Empire caravan arrived in Lu State, he didn't want to continue running and sold goods directly in Lu State. Silk and porcelain were only about five times that of the Da Shang local area.

The gentry and powerful people in Lu only need to wait for the Roman caravans who arrived in Lu from Rome and sold them for six times the price. The Roman caravans would collect them. When they arrived in Rome, they would be sold for more than ten times the time the big merchants shipped the goods.

This quick money made is enough for the gentry and powerful people in Lu to eat.

Only caravans under the banner of the Great Shang, Tang Empire or Roman Empire will basically be disturbed by pirates along the way.

But if the gentry of Lu State wanted to build his own caravan and transport the goods to Rome directly, he could sell the goods to Roman merchants at a price of more than ten times the local price of Da Shang.

Of course, this makes more money, provided that there will be many pirates on the road.

Even so, it was already the sixth time that Xiao Jichen had traveled to Rome. It was a big risk? Compared with profits, if there was enough profit, what was the risk? They could not only transport porcelain and silk to Rome to make a fortune, but return to the city to purchase Roman goods, and return to the city to buy Rome's goods, which was another big fortune.

Now these dozen merchant ships are Xiao Jichen's greatest confidence and confidence. It seems that they are all armed merchant ships, but armed merchant ships are also different from armed merchant ships.

Just say that the armed merchant ships in the Principal of Ventera basically do not have thickened hulls, and the number of artillery is limited. Often, a ship only has 8 to 16 artillery guns. There are many cargo warehouses on the entire ship and few people. In order to save costs, they also like to build ships with poor quality wood. Basically, as long as they hit, they will be a big hole when they run.

But the more than ten armed merchant ships of the Xiao family are different.
Chapter completed!