The son-in-law is a thief

The flags of the State of Qi are all within the clairvoyant eyes. Under the blue sky, those black flags are particularly eye-catching. Gu Ruyang counted silently in his heart, two ships of Fuchuan and two ships of Guangzhou Ship. These are the four largest ships in the entire fleet. The hull was broken, and all around them were sand ships with g-masted and two-masted ships. Those small boats were so densely packed that Gu Ruyang couldn't even count how many boats there were.

"Heh... come prepared."

"Master, there must be a lot of people here!" Two sailors shouted on the other mast.

"Come one, kill one, come one thousand, kill one thousand!" Gu Ruyang yelled, and then said to the two sailors: "You two keep staring, whistle if something happens!"

"Order!"

Gu Ruyang quickly retreated to the deck. At this time, Gu Haixing was standing on the bow of the ship holding a drumstick. The bow had already started to move. It was exactly as Gu Ruyang arranged. southwest.

"Master, I'm waiting for your order!" Gu Haixing said.

"Notify all the owners of this fleet to gather at Jiutian immediately and discuss the matter at the bow!" Gu Ruyang turned and said to a sailor: "Go and call Uncle Zhou, and tell him not to forget to bring the chart!"

"Decree!" Gu Ruyang said with cupped hands, and immediately signaled to her subordinates, several sailors scattered in all directions for a while.

"Master! The Qi soldiers are about [-] nautical miles away from us!" The sailor on the mast shouted vigorously, while waving the flag in his hand to remind the people under the ship that they had learned these things from the Westerners.

Gu Ruyang licked his fingers, the wet fingers were more sensitive to the wind.

"The wind direction is in their favor." Hai Xing said, "They are all sand boats, and they are extremely fast. Do you really want to fight hard?"

"Master Gu Fan!" The Japanese man next to Gu Haixing ran up, knelt down on the ground, and said, "Just now the master Yue Fan's ship flagged, and they unified the number of the Qi army, and there are two Fu boats. , two Guangzhou ships, and eight hundred sand ships, I am afraid they came prepared."

"This size is not small." Gu Haixing frowned: "If it's a hard fight, it's not the same."

"Heads, Master Li Fan and Master Hong Fan are here."

"Master You Fan is here!"

Nine-day sailors pass the preaching, Gu Ruyang looked on the deck, and sure enough, several fan masters came to the bow of the nine-day boat one after another, she immediately asked Fan Xia to sit down, and Gu Haixing, the four fan masters had all arrived, Discussion on the bow is a tradition of pirates. As early as the beginning of the sea people, when there was no such thing as a pirate, everyone fished and went to sea for a living. Once they left the land and faced the majestic sea, people could only unite together. , so once a decision is made, they will gather at the bow of the ship to discuss together. Later, these people who went to sea were united, some became maritime merchants, and some became pirates, but the rules of discussion at the bow of the ship have not changed.

Waiting for everyone to sit down, Gu Ruyang said bluntly: "Fangfang has two Fuzhou ships, two Guangzhou ships, and [-] sand ships with one mast. They are now [-] nautical miles away from us. With the current wind speed, they can reach us in less than an hour at the fastest. We meet."

Having said that, Gu Ruyang stopped for a while, looked at the four people in front of her, and said in an unquestionable tone: "We are fighting!"

"Order!"

Several fan masters said in unison, although they can't violate the meaning of the family, but as Gu Ruyang said, the other party has [-] sandboats. This is not an easy battle. The Gu family has always been brave at sea, and if they want to fight, they must fight beautifully , since Gu Ruyang is leading the fleet this time, it is even more important not to lose face of the Gu family. It is not just talking about winning more with less. Gu Ruyang brings out veterans who have experienced many battles. After that, everyone began to discuss.

"The enemy is mainly sand boats, and they definitely want to fight quickly! What our ten lucky boats are most afraid of is a quick battle, and the opponent is large in number. If they surround us and the sailors throw eagles and catch them on board, this will threaten us. It's too big to fall into the other party's trap." Said You Changgeng, the commander of the Haima, who is also Wan Erniang's uncle, and he knows everything about Shachuan.

"I think so too." The younger and lighter Master Li Fan also echoed. Not confronting directly does not mean compromise. Li Fanchang said: "But sand boats are always weaker. If we can go around behind them and take advantage of the wind If we set up a fishing net array, we can take advantage of the momentum to crush them, the stronger the wind, the stronger our strength, then we can hit them without leaving a single piece of armor."

"What if the wind direction changes?" Gu Haixing said bluntly: "Now it's just around the Dragon Boat Festival, and the wind is as stable as we imagined."

"Old Hong, talk to me too." Fanchang Li raised his elbow and bumped into the people around him.

"I was wondering why the other party came here? The other side is thousands of nautical miles away from Taiping Island. How did they know that we would be here? And they sent so many sand boats. They must know that we are using a big boat for this trip. ?" Hong Fu is also an old man of the Gu family, but he has followed Du Yong for many years, and he needs to be more thoughtful.

"That's what I was thinking too." Gu Ruyang said, she knew in her heart that most likely the inner ghost was out, and the inner ghost was either from Gu's house or from Nianguicheng.

"Is Uncle Zhou here?" Gu Ruyang asked the sailor beside him.

"Go back to the head of the house. I have notified him for a while. He should be here." The sailor replied.

Gu Ruyang looked at the deck, and sure enough, Uncle Zhou was trotting towards him with a painting tube in his hand. The pirates not only respected the strong, but also respected the seniors. Gu Ruyang got up and hurriedly greeted Uncle Zhou.

"The head of the house." Zhou Shu cupped his hands and knelt down on one knee.

"I can't stand it." Gu Ruyang hurriedly helped Uncle Zhou up, and walked to the round table at the bow of the boat, and the other chiefs stood up to show their respect when they saw Uncle Zhou coming.

"The head of the family invited Uncle Zhou, I'm afraid he already has a plan in mind?" Master You Fan asked.

Gu Ruyang shook his head: "There is no clear plan yet, I asked Uncle Zhou to bring the chart."

Uncle Zhou took the chart out of the painting tube and spread it out on the deck. The chart had been prepared long ago, and it was the blueprint of this sea area. These blueprints were all made by experienced sailors. One of the lifelines of the thieves, the crew who can guard the chart are highly respected.

"Uncle Zhou, you arranged to go out to sea at midnight yesterday because you wanted to avoid the storm. Starfish said that if a storm comes tomorrow, we should happen to be in a sea area with islands, right?" Gu Ruyang asked.

"It's exactly like that when you go back home." Uncle Zhou took out his waist knife and pointed at the chart: "We're heading north, and we can reach Liren Island tonight without any accidents. This island is not big, but let us go for ten One ship is enough."

"What's the situation in the waters of Liren Island?" Gu Ruyang asked.

"It's a good place, without any shoals, and it's most suitable for a big ship like us," Zhou Shu thought again: "There are some small islands nearby, but they are not suitable for shelter from the wind."

Everyone's eyes also turned to what Uncle Zhou was pointing at. There was a semi-curved island on the sea chart. This kind of island was a good place to shelter from the wind. It was about seventy or eighty nautical miles away. It will arrive in half an hour, and it will take an hour and a half if it is fully pushed.

"It is estimated that when we arrived at Liren Island, the Qi soldiers were all thrown away?" Hong Fan said, if it wasn't for Gu Ruyang to lead the battle, he would be more inclined to avoid the edge.

"I'm not afraid that he will come, but I'm afraid that he won't come." Gu Haixing followed Zeng Shi and was always fierce. She looked at Uncle Zhou again and asked, "Uncle Zhou, are you sure this storm will come?" Always change as you say, it is the most difficult to predict.

"How do you talk?" Master You Fan looked at Hai Xing: "Is this how Boss Zeng taught you?"

"Let's stop arguing for now, let's see what the head of the family has to say." Li Fanzhu was a little impatient. Although he was not afraid of the Daqi sailors, it was not appropriate to fight among himself before the battle.

"Then Uncle Zhou, do you think the storm will come sooner or later?" Compared to Starfish, Gu Ruyang asked more tactfully.

Uncle Zhou frowned and looked towards the sky, then cupped his hands to the people present and said, "Masters, I bet my old life that the storm will definitely come. As for when it will come, it's not astronomical at this time." , the old man can’t see it, but what’s coming can’t escape.”

"Then it's hard for Uncle Zhou to stay on the deck." Gu Ruyang patted the old man's shoulder, and she immediately turned to Gu Haixing and said, "Beat the drums, tell all the ships to turn around, put down all the sails, and head north .”

"Order!"

As soon as Gu Ruyang finished speaking, everyone started to move. Several fan owners returned to their boats one after another. The sailors also followed the command of the captain and moved efficiently. The sailors who controlled the sails, the sailors who held the oars, the pipe belts who beat the drums, and the combat sailors all worked in turn. The sound of Shaogong's call sounded at the same time, and the ten huge blessing boats changed their direction at the same time, and the boats were half in conflict with each other, and they were coordinated as one.

With Gu Ruyang as the leader, the Jiutian accelerated and led all the ships forward.

Gu Ruyang sits firmly on the ship tower, and as far as she can see is the tallest mast in the sky, a sailor above the mast whistles, holding a flag in each of his left and right hands, while another sailor beside him is heading towards the sky with clairvoyance Looking at the southwest, the two cooperated well, and reported the changes in Qi Bing to Gu Ruyang.

"Master, the princess asks to see you." A sailor guarding the ship's tower carefully walked to the south of Gu Ruyang and cupped his hands.

In fact, if Zhaoyang doesn’t come, Gu Ruyang will go to find her, but now it’s an urgent matter, she needs to sit in the boat first, and Zhaoyang took the initiative to find her, in fact, it is also within Gu Ruyang’s expectation, the boat is constantly mobilized Twice, with such a big movement around, how could she sit comfortably in the room.

Gu Ruyang got up and walked to the stairs, and sure enough Zhaoyang stood there quietly, accompanied by only Fengjian and Fengdi, Gu Ruyang remembered that Huo Qishan was arranged by him on another boat, and there was no one capable of martial arts beside Zhaoyang .

"It's windy, why did it come up here?" Gu Ruyang took off his windproof cloak and tied it on Zhaoyang's shoulders, and pinned Zhaoyang's disheveled hair behind her ears.

"It's such a big commotion, why don't you come up?" Zhaoyang said, her brows were slightly frowned, but she was a little unhappy, Zhaoyang continued:

"I heard the sound of chant everywhere on the boat, but I didn't see anyone report what happened. I didn't ask Feng Jian to ask the workers on the ship tower. I didn't know that Qi Bing was coming."

Gu Ruyang saw that Zhaoyang also knew three points about this matter, so he nodded: "Well, they are the sailors of Qi State. There are not many big ships, and there are [-] small boats. It seems that they came prepared."

"Which direction?" Zhaoyang asked.

Gu Ruyang handed the clairvoyant to Zhaoyang, and pointed to the southwest: "It's there.

Zhaoyang fixed his eyes and saw that it was really dark, except for the four Fu Chuan, which were very eye-catching, the others were small boats with a single mast. They were light, and although they only had one sail, they took advantage of the wind to move toward them at high speed. It was advancing in the direction of Jiutian, but there was still some distance. Although Jiutian was huge and clumsy, the sails of the ship were also big. There were four huge sails.

"Does Ruyang want to avoid them?" Zhaoyang asked, but it was the northeast wind at this time, but Gu Ruyang was heading south, it didn't seem like he was running away.

Gu Ruyang sneered, she grabbed Zhaoyang's hand and said, "Oh, I want them to go and never return."