Chapter 145 Attack at Sea
After saying goodbye to the entire army, only four people remained, but two of the spies naturally could no longer connect with the two scholars who remained, so they found an excuse and left.
But they didn't expect that there were two other people waiting for them to escape, and these two people were the fewer people in the team they had not noticed before.
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When the team bid farewell to the people who chose to leave, they continued on the journey. After about an hour they left the town, there were horses flying on both sides approaching them from behind the team.
After the horse approached the team, it gradually slowed down, and then entered the team and began to approach the camel at the head of the team. The two Tang people were riding horses, and these two Tang people were the two people who disappeared from the team before.
When they brought the horses close to the camel at the head of the team, one of them spoke: "Prince, the matter has been completed."
Zhao Weiji looked at them and said, "It's good that you're done, thank you for your hard work."
After saying that, Zhao Weiji's eyes returned to the front and looked into the distance.
At the same time, two corpses were found in the town before. The cause of the death of both corpses was that there was a hole in the head.
Moreover, all the property on the body was missing. Because the town had always had poor public order, the two of them were considered to be robbed and killed by robbers without any suspicion.
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On the third day after solving all the problems, Zhao Weiji and his group finally arrived at Port Khomeini. In the port, Zhao Weiji and others had a round with the crew who had been waiting here for a long time.
However, after the crew member, Zhao Weiji got a bad news from the crew, that is, in the past five days, ships similar to warships have frequently appeared in the Persian Gulf, but their purpose is not to attack pirates.
, just cruise the sea every day, as if waiting for something.
After receiving this news, Zhao Weiji was sure that the news of these people had been completely leaked, and the ships that were cruised at sea may not be a single force. It is very likely that several forces have arranged obstacles at sea.
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And not only that, in order to determine which ship they had boarded, there should be a large number of spies in the Port of Khomeini.
This made Zhao Weiji fall into a huge difficulty at once, and when this difficult situation was difficult to resolve quickly, the crew members who came to pick him up gave another worse news.
That is, the ship that came to pick it up was the ordinary wooden ship. Because the Black Pearl was too silly, it did not drive over at this moment, but stopped outside the Persian Gulf to support it.
If the Black Pearl is coming, then Zhao Weiji can directly break through the siege with his powerful force, and it will be no problem if he gets angry and flatten the town casually.
But now he only has a ship of this era to use, and that ship is still a merchant ship. Although Zhao Weiji and his friends bought this ship and modified the ship a little and installed several pairs of sponge sails after buying it.
And a mortar. But that's all.
Such modifications are possible to deal with a warship. If multiple ships come together, there is basically no hope.
Fortunately, according to the news brought by the crew, there may be more than one force that is blocking at sea. This will give Zhao Weiji a glimmer of hope, that is, they may fight first.
But ideals are full, while reality is always skinny.
What Zhao Weiji did not expect was that when they went out to sea, the group of eyeing warships actually reached a private agreement, that is, to work together to capture the ships on Zhao Weiji's side, and then divide all the things on it, gold, books, and evenly
Some people are.
Just as the ship on Zhao Weiji left Khomeini Port for only half a day, Wang Dayuan, who had rich maritime experience, felt something was wrong.
So he hurriedly ran over to Zhao Weiji: "Prince, I feel something is wrong. The sea surface is too calm today. Logically speaking, Port Khomeini should be a busy port, but why are there only those who come in and not those who go out today
.We have been leaving the port for half a day and have not seen a second ship that leaves the port like us."
After Wang Dayuan said this, Zhao Weiji also felt something was wrong. Just as the ship was about to leave the port earlier, the crew members on the other ship were looking here with a strange look, and that look was like looking at death.
The reason for this look is that recently, many Han ships have been directly attacked by warships that lie in the Persian Gulf every day after going to sea.
After the number of times occurred, news naturally came back to the Port of Khomeini, which led to the merchant ships in the port not daring to leave the port for the time being in recent days.
But Zhao Weiji and the others didn't know about these news. First, they were outsiders and no one would tell them specifically. Second, since most of the people who could speak Arabic were taken away by Zhao Weiji, few people left, so this is what it means.
This led to them having no idea about it and asking.
Due to the lack of intelligence, Zhao Weiji and Wang Dayuan are completely confused about the situation, but they know that there is probably danger waiting for them ahead.
"Huanzhang, tell me honestly, how fast can this ship run after it has been transformed?"
Wang Dayuan thought about it and said, "To be honest, because our transformation is limited, we do not have enough manpower and power as we did in Huating, so although the ship is equipped with spinnades, it is not as good as the sails.
How much can these ships from the Great Food Kingdom be released soon?
Our only advantage is that if they can't fill the sails, we can continue sailing at a relatively good speed, and they will slow down significantly."
"So according to your opinion, we can only pray for windless weather?"
"It's basically right to say that."
This made Zhao Weiji feel extremely inconsistent. He went out to sea to pray for the windlessness in the age of sails. I guess he couldn't believe it if he said it.
But if you don’t believe it or not, you really have to pray like this now.
But maybe it was too smooth before. God decided to balance Zhao Weiji's luck. The sea breeze was quite good all day after going to sea. In Wang Dayuan's words, there was no more time to go to sea than this weather.
God is so unpretentious that Zhao Weiji must come up with other ways to try to pass the blockade.
But now they are dealing with the weapon they can use in naval combat, except for guns in their hands, which is the mortar that was brought from the Black Pearl.
Although there is a mortar, there is only one, and there is not too much ammunition. It is not realistic to rely on this to directly make a breakthrough.
Fortunately, it is only the end of the tenth century, and naval battles basically have to rely on board battles to defeat opponents, which gives Zhao Weiji a glimmer of hope.
If it was the 17th century now, Zhao Weiji would not dare to imagine how miserable he would die here.
Before he could figure out any solution, the enemy did not give him more time. The information obtained from the sailors on the watchtower was that there were many ships forming an intercepting belt in front of him, and
Two ships have already begun to move towards the ship.
"Huanzhang, what should I do now?"
"There is no way, prince, we can only continue sailing as planned, because we have no way to confirm whether those ships will attack us now, so before we can deal with it, we cannot take the lead, otherwise we will give it to the other party.
Better excuse.”
Since there is no way to take the lead, Zhao Weiji can only continue sailing in a posture of waiting for death, but he himself does not intend to just watch.
So he ordered all the scholars to be invited back to the cabin to hide, and the sailors prepared their guns and were ready to fight at any time. The mortars were also prepared. Once the opponent approached and tried to launch an attack, he would give them a shot first.
Let’s talk about it.
As they were speaking, the two ships approaching the ship were getting closer and closer. When the distance between the three ships reached a certain value, they saw the sailors on the two ships began to throw hooks to them.
The lock completely fixes the three ships together.
However, Zhao Weiji, who had been prepared for a long time, was waiting for this time, so he immediately ordered the mortar to fire.
Since the enemy ships have fixed themselves, there is no possibility of mortars being missed. They bombed a big hole in the deck of one of the ships with one shot.
This shocking attack made the crew members on both enemy ships stunned, and they couldn't figure out what was going on.
Just when they were stunned, Zhao Weiji's second order followed, and all the sailors on their side began to shoot.
The crew members who were preparing to board the ship were shot to death immediately.
The sudden two heavy blows immediately hit the morale of the crew members on the other side's two ships. Some crew members actually remembered the legend of the devil ship at this moment, so they immediately shouted: "That's the devil ship, the devil ship, they are very legendary
As described in the article, they are killing people with magic.”
As soon as this was said, the people on the other two ships were completely panicked, and no one dared to take any action.
At this time, Zhao Weiji happened to seize this time. He asked the mortar to fire a shot at the ship that had not been attacked before, and then asked the sailors to cut off all the hooks.
After the hook lock was cut, the ship was relieved, so they immediately walked forward with full sails and escaped from the attacks of the two ships.
However, the two ships were freed from the clamping attack, but there were more ships waiting for them in front. And when the captains of the two ships reacted, they ordered the ships to turn around and chase them immediately. So Zhao Weiji and his ships,
Then he was surrounded.
Chapter completed!