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Chapter 202 Southern Sky 2

This encounter, or conflict, was ordered for a short period of time, and it ended before the dimness of night came.

Several high sea ships stood on the freeboard side of the single-story covered small boat, standing high on the edge of the freeboard to suppress the opponent's hard attack; they saw arrows flying like rain and falling like raindrops, and the broken limbs and broken bodies and shipboard fragments rippled in the blood-colored sea water, which was almost completely one-sided slaughter and killing.

Some of the ships were modified single iron crossbows and continuous crossbows, as well as poisonous fireballs and turbulent oil tanks for land combat, as well as a small thrower, as well as several crossbows (bed crossbows) fixed on the ship. This is a killing weapon that is claimed in "The Art of War of the Guards of Wei: Offensive and Defensive Equipment": "A single tooth is fired, and all arrows are raised, and 700 steps are raised. The city towers in the city are destroyed and the oars are also falling."

When the hull itself is not a problem, it will never go on this kind of melee jump-and-go naval battle. On the contrary, the wooden hard sails and cables used by the opponent are good natural fire-induced objects; and the hull strength of this kind of clutch is also quite limited. Whether it is hit or shooting under the water line with a crossbow, it is easy to break and sink in and into.

Therefore, the dozen or so large and small long fusiform ships that were climbing and biting and fixed on the Kunlun ship had almost no chance to escape or react, and were easily crushed into the water or knocked over, knocked down, and torn into the waves without getting the chance to escape or react.

Therefore, among the narrow and long sailboats that were initially attacked, two backward people turned around and fled desperately without caring about the opportunity; the remaining enemy ships were almost all surrounded by sea ships that gradually moved closer to the sea and were unable to escape.

Then, these temporary fortresses and firepower projection platforms formed by large ships anchored on the sea surface did not give the opponent much chance to fight in close combat, and intercepted and killed them under the freeboard above the waterline. Even if there were occasionally a few fish waving hooks and cables that were waving their nets, they climbed up with a moment of courage, and they could not escape the leisurely sword and spear, and were poked over again, chopped to death and fell down.

Soon most of the long futon-shaped ships trapped in the place that could not move forward or retreat were either overturned or burned into pieces. At first, some people competed to jump into the sea to try to escape, but they became living targets for the strong bows and crossbows on the ship to continue shooting; in fact, on this sea far away from the shore, they were already at the end of their strength and could not swim far away and had to sink to the bottom of the sea, or floated on the sea with fragments of corpses dying, holding them, and becoming a captive for laying down the pursuit boat.

In the end, only one of the largest fusiform sailboats was left, mixed with a dense wreckage rippling with the waves, and the trapped beast was still trying to continue to resist; Zhou Huaian had no intention of wasting more time and causing unnecessary accidental damage on the other side;

"Are the crossbow and poisonous fireball ready? Send it a flag verb and send it on the road quickly."

Then, the fireballs dragging thick smoke and huge arrows flying out of the sea ships, and smashed them hard on the sailing and fastening. In an instant, the superstructure burned into pieces with screams, and the human body and debris poured out from the broken hole under the waterline formed the last final scene of the pirate.

Suddenly, someone in the bottom cabin heard a strange movement. Someone on the other side actually sneaked into the boat to drill the boat. This was obviously the last desperate struggle of the other side in despair. It was just that this was a sea ship used to sail far away, with a hull wrapped in several layers of ribs under the keel, rather than a relatively thin thing like a river boat; at least when it was in the water that could not be leveraged, it would be impossible to achieve results in a short period of time with some knives and axes.

Moreover, in Zhou Huaian, the sea ship used a copper-covered bottom to prevent leakage and seepage, and wasolate the epiphytic barnacles; therefore, these underwater attacks were destined to be futile efforts;

Of course, Zhou Huaian did not let it go without any countermeasures; according to the experience of domestic oil tankers dealing with simple pirates in the waters near Somalia; he asked someone to put down the boat and spread a few large nets connected with hooks to the side of the boat, and rowed from both sides to drag the boat over the bottom, and immediately wrapped around more than a dozen struggling human bodies like fish and dragged them out of the water.

Then the ships that were approaching each other put down the boats one after another, and gathered on the boats of Zhou Huaian to report specific casualties and losses one by one. It can be said that in addition to the consumption of some equipment, the damage of personnel was minimal.

Because the main battle is to stand on the side of the ship and shoot arrows at the enemy ship under the cover of hand cards; therefore, compared with the dozen enemy ships that were fired and burned with floating corpses and debris, the casualties paid by one side in the end are calculated in double digits; and half of them are caused by falling or knocking down other things when they are unstable on the ship.

As for the hunting bows, wooden crossbows used by the bandits, they could not shoot through the armored clothes that the rebel soldiers had gathered on the deck, and could only hurt some exposed arms and shoulders. On the contrary, the hand axes, darts, short spears and other things that were thrown hard were still a real threat. Unfortunately, the corresponding range was too close, and most of them fell on the hull under the dormitory.

Finally, it was the turn of the survivors of the Kunlun ship who looked dead and injured and covered in bruises. Then a small boat was taken to Zhou Huaian to board the boat; the leader was a man with deep skin, concave eyes, wide robe and big head wrapped. He stood in the deck with a ring of the guards, holding his chest and bowing his body in a strange tone:

"My servant, thank you for help from Lord Shangguo..."

According to the next stuttering self-introduction, this man was a local noble surname from the Lion Kingdom/Sinhalla (Sri Lanka), named Bingana. He also paid tribute to Dongtu once many years ago. This time, he was a family representing the eleven city lords, full of treasures and specialties from the coast of Tianzhu, and came to seek a business trip. In addition, some passengers and business trips on board along the way on the ship are mentioned in a different way.

But among the other party's entourage, someone suddenly burst into surprise with some incredible surprise.

"My benefactor, is he a benefactor?"

However, it was a small short and fat figure in Baotou. Under the push of the guards in front, he waved his hand to Zhou Huaian desperately and attracted attention.

"I am Shannuo, the one who saved your life by you..."

"Let him come over and ask questions..."

Zhou Huaian nodded and said.

"It's true that my benefactor is above me... I'm so enviable now..."

A short and fat man named Shan Nuo wiped the sweat on his forehead

"I'm afraid it's not a guardian... I still remember that the villain is really in the mind of the five senses."

Then he made a few simple conversations and found out that after losing most of his possessions and staff in that incident, he actually found a way to find a boat to go out to sea and did a general translation job. Although he couldn't stay in Guangzhou, he finally started a new life and career in Jiaozhou.

After the Kunlun ship arrived in Jiaozhou, it had already sold some of the goods and then wanted to go to Guangzhou, but it was dissuaded by local merchants and port management, claiming that it was extremely dangerous and robbed and killed foreigners. However, as the owner of the ship, Bingana, who was not sure what the considerations and ideas were, insisted on going to sea while doubting it. As a result, he encountered such a thing unfavorable situation and almost suffered the destruction of the entire ship.

Because there were many casualties on the ship during the previous resistance, and there were many damages in the hull and sail cables, and it was not appropriate to continue voyages, at the suggestion of Zhou Huaian, it was easy to accept the nearby fleet of the rebels and return to Jiaozhou Port to repair and supplement the suggestion of setting off again.

Then he returned to the other party on the Kunlun ship, and then moved dozens of large rattan boxes from the cabin and teleported them over with a row, claiming that he was a thank-you gift to the Lord of the Supreme People's Republic and his subordinates; Zhou Huaian also took it without hesitation to calm him down.

"Can I believe you?"

During this delivery period, Zhou Huaian privately told Shan Nuo.

"I'll just give me instructions."

He suddenly said a little surprised and nervously.

"I was hired on board only in Jiaozhou, I'm afraid I don't know much."

Zhou Huaian smiled slightly. This guy was quite professional and bottom line, rather than a fence-bearer who just surrendered to him.

"I plan to appoint you as the junior official of Guangzhou Tongmao Pavilion... all these things are left to you."

"After you arrive at the Guangzhou Mansion in Anran, you can report to the head of the duty station Wang Qinian..."

"He will naturally teach you how to do it... You must contact the foreign business trip of this ship. If you do it well, you will naturally have a prosperous future."

"More...more...more...thank you for your support..."

Shannuo said in a terrified manner.

"The villain must do his best to repay him..."

Then, the other party drove out a dozen women with different tulle skirts from the cabin, which was also a private gift to Zhou Huaian, the General Secretary of the Shangguo. Zhou Huaian pinched his nose and asked someone to bring them to the special warehouse. Although most of these women are South Asian or Southeast Asian species with dark skin tones and do not meet his aesthetic taste, it would be better to go back and give them to their subordinates as a reward.

Then the movement immediately attracted the soldiers on the ship where he was on the boat to run out, and there was a lot of curious onlookers and discussions.

"This is Kunlun slave..."

"Isn't Kunlun slaves claiming to be as dark as charcoal, and they are good at hiding in the water..."

"These girls can't see it..."

"Damn, I'm wearing very little clothes..."

These unintentional words suddenly reminded Zhou Huaian of a joke in history.

Because a large number of slaves from the outside world were sold to Dongtu in the Tang Dynasty for many years, the Tang people usually regarded people with dark skin as Kunlun, and those with white skin as Taixi. Therefore, it also made a lot of jokes;

For example, the black uncle who was trafficked from the Sanlan Kingdom of African continent (now Somalia) and the indigenous people of the small black race who had not yet been exterminated by the Sinhalese people from the South Asian subcontinent were collectively called Kunlun slaves.

The Romans, who were mostly black hair, black eyes, light yellow skin, were also called the Qin race, and were once regarded as the blood descended by the Zhou emperor who traveled to the West by eight horses; and the Aryan races sold by Arabs and Persians on the Iranian plateau, together with the Caucasian races from Eastern Europe and the white slaves around the Mediterranean region, were called the Taisie (Pan Greek) slaves.
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