Yang Ce's anxiety also appeared in the hearts of Jia Ao on the Santa Caterina, they only knew when their reinforcements would arrive, but at the same time they were worried about whether the other party's reinforcements could arrive in time.

On the fourth night of the pursuit, the navigator of the Santa Caterina reported that there was still a day and a night to go from the port of Malindi, and Gao ordered the lights on the ship to be extinguished, the sails lowered, and the ship anchored quietly on the surface of the sea, like a giant beast shrouded in shadows, waiting for its prey to take the bait.

On the deck, there were many Portuguese sailors, the gunners stood behind sixteen whirling guns nailed to the side of the ship with flints, and the lower deck equipped with heavy guns also extended the muzzles of the guns out of the gun windows, and more sailors put on their best armor from the cabins, and stared at the dark and calm sea with all kinds of weapons.

Darkness and sea water are two things that are born with fear in humans.

But they have no fear in their hearts, and at this moment, they are the embodiment of fear.

Captain Gao, who wore a velvet-covered light helmet, walked slowly across the deck, whispered cheers for his men, and followed behind him a column of sailors with unlit torches, who commanded: "When the battle begins, you light all the torches on board." ”

In Mogadishu, if it weren't for the 'Ming army' who followed closely after the Ming pirates, if the defeated Lina had killed the Ming ship at the first time, perhaps this exhausting chase for four days and four nights would have been over.

He waited until four days later, and finally found that there was only one Ming ship hanging far behind them, a Ming ship with not so much firepower and soldiers.

God knows what gave Akito so much audacity, a ship to pursue the Santa Caterina for four days and four nights?

And what made Akito have the illusion that he could defeat them?

In fact, on the other side of the ocean, the pirates of the Baihu who sailed through the waves also had great suspicions, and they expressed to the leader more than once that they might not be able to win in the event of a war, but whenever the leader asked: What can they do if they can't win?

They will still choose to continue the pursuit.

This is not out of a competitive heart, nor does it have anything to do with winning or losing, but only about the dignity of their professional ethics.

Some of them are likely to die in a fight, and it is very likely that they will not win in the end, but when they see a big fish, they must not let themselves turn around and leave, they must try.

Maybe...... Reinforcements are coming?

Yang Ce's plan to recruit local natives was extremely successful, although at first the boat docked by the local black-skinned people with longbows and short spears to use them as slave ships, but later he did find a merchant in the fishing village who had been to the Ma Woods to do business, the merchant named Ali, who could speak some Portuguese, and was happy to board the ship to recruit men for his sake of silver.

"I'm not going to join you in the fight, but before the battle begins, you're going to put me on the shore and recruit a strong man on the road to give me such a big piece of cloth." Ali has obvious Arab blood in appearance, but his complexion is like that of northern Arabs, and he is blackened, and it is not inevitable to talk about trading with Asian pirates with a slight philistine, and his eyes widen slightly to reveal the taste of money, and said: "I can help you sell your loot on the spot." ”

Yang Ce leaned on the mast and blew the evening breeze, watched Ali draw a distance of about one foot with his hands under the torch, lifted the Indian cotton cloth under his feet and drew a foot square with a knife, and then said: "This is one foot, you helped me recruit fifty-eight people, of which seventeen brought their own weapons, and I will give you seventy feet of cloth." ”

"No, fifty-eight feet." Ali didn't seem to be cooperating with pirates for the first time, looking at Yang Ce, Sun Liu and the others with cautious eyes, and said firmly: "I only want what I want, and you will put me on the shore, right?" ”

This answer made Yang Ce and Sun Liu look at each other and smile, even Sun Liu, who had been busy intimidating Ali, couldn't bear to intimidate anymore, but said to Yang Ce: "He can't get off the boat, only he and you can speak Portuguese, without him you can't talk to those people, they look like good hands at eating this bowl of rice, but they don't know how to do it." ”

After Ali's short recruitment, they docked four times to recruit fifty-eight sailors, some of whom were restless pirates who were extremely familiar with the life of the near sea, and some of them heard that Yang Ce had paid to recruit people to fight with the Portuguese, so that the Baihu was close to full at this time.

But now it was better, Yang Ce had seized the Portuguese clothes and issued them with clothes, and each of them put on their clothes and then picked out the clothes and armor on the boat, holding a long bow, a short spear and a short knife, and it was like that.

The biggest flaw is that there are so many people who know how to use firearms, which is disappointing.

"You won't be able to get off the boat for a while, but I'll keep you alive......"

At this moment, the lookout hand on the watchtower holding Yang Ce's inferior god goggles given by Lin Feng quickly climbed down, whispered a few words to Sun Liu's side, and then Sun Liu told Yang Ce the news, interrupting what he was going to say, he frowned in surprise, pushed Ali into the cabin, and followed Sun Liu to quickly climb up the watchtower.

The young lookout pointed to the approximate direction in the distance, and Sun Liu handed it to Yang Ce with the Divine Eyepiece, and said, "Their boat fire is out, and they stop there I don't know what it means, looking at the strange cautious people." ”

It is indeed not easy to find if you don't look carefully, the interval is nearly ten miles away, Yang Ce carefully searched the sea twice before finding that the Portuguese ship with a huge hull has now extinguished all the lights, and even the sails have been lowered, leaving only the huge silhouette in the shadows quietly moored on the sea.

In the goggles, Santa Caterina is like an elephant squatting on the grassland with her nose covering her eyes, and the corners of her mouth are full of smiles that only she knows, thinking that others can't see it.

looked at Yang Ce and laughed.

"What to do, it seems to be waiting for us."

Sun Liu didn't notice the smile on Yang Ce's face, the wind on the mast was very strong, which made him squint, and said, "It looks like that ship wants us to pass from the side and bombard us with artillery first." ”

"What else can I do, thank Chen Shuai, if it weren't for this thing, it would be too late to find them." Yang Ce inserted the shoddy god goggles back into his waist and patted Sun Liudao: "We passed from the left side, and when we approached the rudder, we bombarded him with the port side for a while, and then turned around and left, and it took him a while to raise the sails, and he couldn't hit us." ”

This gives them an advantage, but unfortunately there are no heavy guns on board.

"Full speed ahead, let's take a closer look at this big belly!"

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