choke element

"what?"

The sailors were startled.

Among these sailors were veterans who had retired from the Ding Navy, as well as villagers recruited by Wang Erbai after returning to Haizhou Wandu Village after he started his family.The villagers are related to each other, and a certain elder is even Wang Erbai's elder.

At that moment, the elder said: "Nephew, you are still alive! Could it be that the residual poison has developed and you are talking nonsense?"

He reached out and touched Wang Erbai's forehead: "Isn't it hot?"

Wang Erbai took a dagger from someone else's hand and put it in his bosom: "I've thought about it, there is a problem with the needle route of the fleet, there is a problem with the route through Heishuigou, and there is a problem with the private port here. , just happened to meet Shengfan, there is also a problem! This is all calculated! We were deliberately lured here! Some people want me to die, maybe everyone on this boat will also die!"

He curled up in the hammock, his eyes rolled a few times: "So, I will die first. You stop the boat and cry a few times, it is best to make a fuss on the deck, quarrel with each other, and pretend to have different opinions. "

"And then?" the subordinates asked.

"Since these people have plans, they must have left their hands at the mouth of the river to secretly monitor our movements. Just wait and see, which ship will come out of the Zhuoxi River to chase after a while, and which ship's people are planning to do something wrong... They think I’m dead, so I’m going to pretend to be on the boat to inquire, and take the opportunity to control the whole boat. Get ready, when they get on the boat, they’ll all be slaughtered!”

The poison attached to the raw lance was no small matter, even if the ship doctor dealt with it in time, Wang Erbai still felt dizzy and nauseated.He cheered up and said this, his whole body was weak, so he waved his hands reluctantly: "You guys prepare it yourself, hurry up!"

There have never been many incidents of killing people and stealing goods at sea, and the sailors have seen blood for a long time, and no one proposed to flee with the wind, or similar suggestions.Everyone laughed grimly at the moment: "Just do it!"

"Go!"

In the blink of an eye, everyone on the Fuchuan got ready.

In the spring of last year, Zhou Guogong in the north, who is now the Great Zhou Emperor Guo Ning, and Shi Miyuan, the Right Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, secretly joined hands to form a maritime trading company.With the establishment of the firm, the maritime trade of the Song State, which was originally the main direction of the Southeast Asian countries and islands, became an integrated whole with the Dazhou and Koryo countries in the north, and both trade volume and profits doubled.

Not to mention that high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen in the south made a lot of money, and the original more than 300 Tongzhou-like sea-going ships in the north were completely inadequate for use. Not to mention, most of those ships were used from the reign of King Hailing to the present, and they are almost 60 years old.

In order to maintain the north-south balance within the Shanghai Bank, on the one hand, Dazhou set up shipbuilding institutes in Tianjin, Fuzhou, and Dengzhou to hire shipwrights from the Southern Dynasties with a lot of money to restore the shipbuilding industry; Zhang Kai, a giant in the Yuan Mansion, ordered two batches of forty sea-going ships in Fujian.

The one everyone is moving now is one of the two batches of sea-going ships.

These two batches of blessing boats are all made of [-] materials, which is really inconspicuous in the Southern Dynasties.

In the last years of Shaoxing, the East Zhejiang Appeasement Department added the main warships for the last time, and used [-] empty names as funds to build [-] warships, each with a specification of [-] official materials.On top of the forty thousand-material warships, there are also larger two-thousand-material and five-thousand-material warships, which are still rampant in the sea.

Despite the severe losses during the Kaixi Northern Expedition, with reports from various places that armaments were lacking and the military and administration were in ruins, the number of large and small ships under the direct jurisdiction of the Coastal Construction Department of the Song Dynasty still remained at more than a thousand.

And the number of ships owned by the people of the Song Dynasty is too large to count.Two years ago, Zhang Kai's family was in decline, and he claimed to be impoverished, and he still had a sea-going ship with a thousand materials as a reliance on traveling at sea.The public estimate is one thousand, but the official estimate is five hundred, which is a circle larger than the ship Wang Erbai is in.

But these new ships are much stronger than the Tongzhou-like sea-going ships of the Northern Navy.Regardless of the comparison of load, speed, sturdiness, and anti-wind and wave performance, the navy and sea merchants in the north can be dumbfounded and admired.

At this time, the ship manpower placed by Ding Haijun in the trading company was gradually peeling off the influence of the old people, and more new people with upright roots and talents trained by Ding Haijun were used.For example, Wang Erbai's boss Zhao Bin is currently assisting in preparing the navy under the Bohai Sea System, while Wang Erbai has become the bow of a large ship.

After Wang Erbai and his party took over the blessing boat, it was the second time they ran the Guangzhou line.Because the sailors are far inferior to the southern sailors in the degree of familiarity with stargazing, water depth detection and many needle paths, and the black ditch between Fujian and Liuqiu is notoriously turbulent, so the above Arrange for them to follow the two lucky boats that are accustomed to traveling by sea.

Who would have thought that they had crashed into the black ditch and fell into a certain trap?
"Boat, what you said is exactly right, someone in the fjord really made a firework signal!"

"I see, it's Wang Ziqing's boat! They've been waiting at the mouth of the Zhuoxi River, and they rushed out! Brothers, don't show your whereabouts, you should continue to make noise!"

"They are approaching and are signaling us to stop the boat!"

Wang Erbai raised his voice and said, "Do as we agreed, let them board the ship!"

After finishing speaking, he stiffened his entire body, except for the slight rise and fall of his chest, he never moved again.

Wang Ziqing is a powerful leader and private businessman in Quanzhou. He has strongholds in Nanxiao Mountain and Nanni Village near the junction of Fuzhou and Xinghua Army, and he has a reputation for being brutal.Many people know that he is also a powerful pirate who went ashore in Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other places and set fire to kill people.

Last winter, Prime Minister Shi Miyuan's confidant Hu Ju went south to serve as the magistrate of Fuzhou, and he worked hard to attract people from the sea.Wang Ziqing followed Hu Ju's path, won the title of Genuine Ninth Grade Baoyilang, and traveled around Shanghai as a small envoy.

As for the skills he has developed in the sea, there is really nothing to say. In less than a year of serving, no one does not praise him as far as Denglai in the north and Qianlishitang in the south.

At this time, the two ships were approaching, both sailed halfway, and sailed side by side with a distance of several feet.

Wang Ziqing's ship is a full-sized 60-material ship.There are more than [-] sailors on board.He left his deputy on his own boat, picked out more than a dozen valiant subordinates holding swords, divided them into two small boats, and rowed across the sea; then climbed the rope ladder and stepped on the board.

After a quick glance, he saw Wang Erbai lying on the hammock.Looking intently again, this Wang Erbai's face is ashen and defeated, isn't he dead?

Wang Ziqing was overjoyed, but there was a look of grief on his face: "Nephew! What's wrong with nephew?"

He jumped off the side of the boat and hurried a few steps towards the hammock at the bow, wanting to confirm the life and death of this guy again.Only two or three steps away, a sailor suddenly stopped in front, and said in a cold tone: "We are about to collect the body at the bow, so it is inconvenient for outsiders to disturb us!"

"Why am I an outsider? His surname is Wang, and I'm also surnamed Wang. I'm his uncle!" Wang Ziqing sneered twice, stretched out his thick and hairy arms, trying to push the sailor away forcibly, and sniffed.

When he reached halfway with his arm, he smelled a very faint smell from the ship, mixed with the fishy smell of the sea breeze. It was clearly the snake venom commonly used by Liu Qiu Sheng Fan, and there was also a strong smell of blood!

This kid Wang Erbai was indeed hit by the poisonous spear, how powerful the poisonous spear is, he is sure to die!

This job is a bit complicated.Those freshmen are all stupid, they put on such a big posture, but they couldn't finish it on the spot.Fortunately, Wang Erbai can't escape this catastrophe after all, I've done things properly, and I'm sure to satisfy my superiors.Taking the opportunity to win this ship at this time will also benefit your own pocketbook, haha!

Thinking of this, Wang Ziqing was in a good mood.He took some strength off his hand and slapped the sailor on the cheek in humiliation, causing the sailor to stagger back.

There was no obstacle in front of him, so instead of rushing to see Wang Erbai's body, he turned around and shouted at the other sailors who were still making noise on the board: "Stop making trouble! Tell me, what's the noise? It's because of the boat. My head is dead, don’t you know who to listen to next?”

All the sailors looked at each other, and Wang Ziqing shouted again: "Don't make any noise! ​​This ship belongs to me now! What's the matter, I will decide for you! Now, kneel down honestly!"

Following his shout, more than a dozen of his subordinates pulled out their short knives and sharp swords at the same time, and rushed forward at a fast pace, the sharp blades only dazzled in front of the sailors' eyebrows.

However, there was a sailor who was about fifty years old with a weathered face, not only stiffened his neck and refused to kneel down, but also shouted loudly: "This is not your boat! It's not your turn to talk on this boat!"

Wang Ziqing's face darkened.He recognized that this old man was a veteran of the Northern Ding Navy, and he had some vague supervisory functions on this ship.He intended to intimidate, so he immediately flicked his chin and snorted through his nose, signaling to kill this key figure first.

Unexpectedly, several of the subordinates were gesturing at the old pawn with swords in their hands, but suddenly stared at Wang Ziqing's position, all of them dumbfounded.

What is this for?Scared?Don't dare to do it?
Wang Ziqing's face darkened again, and he yelled: "Do it! Kill him!"

Several subordinates were obviously slow to react, but the expressions on their faces changed from surprise to panic.Only then did Wang Ziqing think of a possibility, he hurried forward, but it was already too late.

His back hurt, and then the cold and hot touch penetrated the flesh and bones of the back, penetrated deep into the viscera, and then penetrated the bones and flesh of the chest.When he lowered his eyes, he saw a sharp blade protruding from the gap in his ribs.

Wang Ziqing opened his mouth to scold, blood poured out of his throat like a fountain.When he was about to breathe, the blood poured into the trachea along the blood vessels in the throat and chest at the same time, so that he coughed violently.He raised his hand to grab the blade, and wanted to tear his own throat, but his hand was exhausted.

In his sight, the sailors gathered on the deck broke out at the same time.

It turned out that each of them had hidden a sword secretly, and half of them were still wearing armor.It turned out that each of these people had undergone rigorous combat training, and they must have been on the battlefield.

The dozen or so people who followed Wang Ziqing on board were instantly defeated by multiple sailors who were besieging fiercely.Only sporadic three or five people jumped into the sea to escape, and the rest died in a short time.Their blood pooled into a small area in the middle of the deck, called the hall, and became a pool of blood.

Wang Ziqing's eyes were cracked, but he couldn't fight, couldn't move.If it weren't for the knife on his back supporting him, his legs would have been weak and he would have fallen down long ago.

His vision gradually blurred, his breathing gradually became weak, and he heard someone behind him giving the order: "Lower the sails! Turn the rudder!"

Damn, that's Wang Erbai's voice!The bastard is not dead!

Following Wang Erbai's order, the speed of the entire ship dropped suddenly.The ship leaned violently to one side, and slammed towards Wang Ziqing's thousand-material blessing boat.

The distance between the two boats was only a few feet, and after suddenly approaching, the speed of the water flow between the two boats accelerated, as if a huge suction force was generated, making the two boats approach faster and faster, like a horizontal collision.

Wang Erbai's subordinates all stood on the side of the boat, and everyone shouted and made gestures.On the thousand-material ship, there seemed to be ghosts crying and wolves howling.

"The bow of the ship! This collision will break half of our ship's side!" Someone shouted at Wang Erbai.

"No, I'll find something to put on it." Wang Erbai replied calmly.

After all, his thigh was seriously injured, and the toxin could not be exhausted.Killing people with a knife just now consumes a lot of energy, so it is inevitable that the movements will be a little slower now.Fortunately, after sweating, he finally threw Wang Ziqing, who was bleeding from his mouth and nose, over the side of the boat before the collision, and got stuck in the gap between the two boats without any mistakes.

In the next instant, there was the slight cracking sound of the thick planks being deformed and the muffled sound of flesh and blood being crushed at the same time. The impact of the closing of the two ships crushed Wang Ziqing's torso like thin paper, and the pieces fell into the sea one after another.

Wang Erbai nodded in satisfaction: "I said the side of the ship won't break, right? It's all good!"