After running for almost a quarter of an hour, as the distance between the two sides gradually narrowed, the armed merchant ship that Shi Daxuan was riding on finally ran out of luck, and a cannonball hit their aft deck.

Since this projectile hit the deck at a small angle, after hitting the aft deck, it bounced up again in a burst of sawdust and swept the three sailors on the deck in a row, and finally happened to hit the mast at the stern, and after making a muffled sound, it ran out of kinetic energy and slowly rolled on the deck.

The impact of the twelve-pound projectile was no joke, although it had consumed most of its kinetic energy after repeated impacts, but even so, the remaining kinetic energy knocked off half of the mast, which was as thick as an adult's thigh, so that the entire merchant ship shook.

Jiro Ishii, who was shocked by the shaking of the hull of the ship, stood up again as fast as he could and said loudly to Shi Daxuan: "My lord, we can't continue like this, if we continue like this, we will be caught up sooner or later!" ”

Shi Daxuan is worthy of being a person who has lived at sea for half his life, even if the merchant ship shook violently, he still stood firmly on the deck, and he said without looking back: "Then what do you want to do?" ”

Jiro Ishii said without thinking: "We also have artillery on our ship, so we should return fire immediately!" ”

"Fight back?"

Shi Daxuan turned his head and looked at the more than ten warships belonging to the Fujian Navy Division that were getting closer and closer behind him, with a bitter smile on his face, although there were shells falling just now, Shi Daxuan knew that the other party did not carry out a salvo, but just shelled them with sporadic artillery like a cat playing with mice, the purpose was to deter them and force them to stop the ship, if they fought back, then the consequences would be different.

Shi Daxuan didn't even have to think about it to know that once his side counterattacked, he would definitely not be greeted by sporadic artillery fire like now, but a stormy blow, and Shi Daxuan never doubted this.

"My lord, what are you waiting for, hurry up and give the order to fight back!" Seeing that Shi Daxuan was silent, Jiro Ishii was anxious and hurriedly urged loudly.

"Fight back...... How to fight back? Being made angry by Jiro Ishii's urging, Shi Daxuan couldn't help but turn his head and ask loudly.

"How to return fire, of course, with our artillery! Didn't we have several Hongyi guns on our ship? Jiro Ishii asked rhetorically without showing weakness, "We Fuso samurai are always up to the challenge when facing a strong enemy, and we will never retreat because of the strength of the opponent, even if we die in battle, it is glorious!" ”

"Killed in battle?" Shi Daxuan smiled angrily, "You don't care about your own life, don't you even care about the life of the young master?" ”

"Uh......"

As soon as he heard the words of the young master, Ishii Jiro was as dumb as a duck with his throat choked, although he could not take his life seriously, but he couldn't ignore Zheng Sen, his biggest task was to send Zheng Sen to Nagasaki safely, not let him die here, otherwise he, the retainer responsible for escorting the young master, would be too derelict in his duties.

"Day ......"

Just when Ishii Jiro was struggling in his heart, a rapid whistling sound came from mid-air, followed by a muffled sound, and a projectile hit the merchant ship next to it that had just been shot, and what was worse was that this time the projectile hit the part below the waterline, and the side of the ship immediately burst into the air the size of a bathtub.

It was terrible, and the raging sea water immediately poured into the cabin, and soon the exclamations of the sailors rang out on the merchant ship, and many people immediately picked up something to try to block the hole.

It stands to reason that the hole that was pierced is not very large, and it should be easy to plug it. But now the ship is sailing on the vast sea, and the sea water is pouring into the cabin like a fountain under strong pressure, and it is not so easy to block.

More than a dozen sailors blocked the entrance of the cave with quilts, wooden blocks and other sundries, but after finally blocking the hole, the hole was quickly washed open by the sea, and in this way the whole merchant ship began to descend slowly, if it sank at such a speed, it would not be long before the ship would be buried in the sea.

The situation of this armed merchant ship was seen by the rest of the merchant ships around, if it was normal, they could immediately anchor and stop the ship, and then carry out emergency rescue, but now more than ten warships of the Daming Naval Division are chasing after them, where can they stop and urgently repair the ship.

Listening to the cries for help from the merchant ship next to them, many sailors showed unbearable looks on their faces, after all, everyone knew each other on weekdays, and no one could watch their companions sink into the sea like this.

"It can't go on like this!" Shi Daxuan said suddenly: "If this continues, all of us can only die here." ”

"My lord, have you finally figured it out?" Ishii Jiro thought that Shi Daxuan finally stopped running away and wanted to fight to the death with these Ming sailors.

"No......" Shi Daxuan shook his head, with a painful look in his eyes, "Let's stop the ship and surrender, otherwise we will all die!" ”

Nani ...... Surrender? Ishii Jiro almost jumped when he heard this, the word surrender seemed to him to be impossible at all, how could a brave samurai surrender to the enemy? This is to be nailed to the pillar of shame!

Shi Daxuan gritted his teeth: "What if you don't surrender?" We can't fight and fight, we can't escape and escape, only surrender can save the young master's life, and those Ming troops don't know that the young master is on our ship, even if we surrender, if we do it well, maybe we can still let the young master return to the big boss safely. ”

"I ......"

Ishii Jiro was entangled at first, but after thinking about it for a while, he had to admit that Shi Daxuan made a lot of sense. As long as they agreed with each other to keep their mouths, the Ming army would not know that this inconspicuous child was Zheng Zhilong's son, as long as they bribed those Ming soldiers, maybe they could all successfully get out, and the Ming army would not embarrass a four-year-old child, right?

The more I thought about it, the more I felt that it made sense, Jiro Ishii couldn't help but nodded, the loss of goods this time was forgotten, as long as the young master could be saved.

"Okay, I agree." Jiro Ishii finally lowered his head, which was always held high.

"Your Excellency...... Those pirates have stopped their ships, and they are going to surrender! ”

Behind Liu Xiang came the excited shouts of the lookout.

Hearing the lookout's report, Liu Xiang also breathed a sigh of relief, with a hint of excitement in his eyes, it seems that this time the harvest is definitely not small......

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