Chapter 580: Captured

This place is only twenty or thirty miles away from Dinghai City at the mouth of the Yongjiang River, and Jintang Island is an island very close to the mainland, so Yang Wenqing did not expect to be intercepted in this place.

There are thousands of islands in Zhoushan, and there are many pirates of all sizes, so it is inevitable to encounter pirates when you go to sea all year round, but this place is too close to Dinghai! Moreover, as if they knew that their two ships were present at this time, they lay in ambush beside the surrounding islands.

"Get out!" Yang Wenqing shouted loudly and ordered at Guo Linfeng, the fire captain of the sea ship. The fire chief, who is responsible for the entire navigation of the sea ship, is the actual commander of the sea ship, Guo Linfeng is an experienced old fire chief, familiar with the route of the Japanese country, and is hired by the Yang family with a high salary.

Who knew that Guo Linfeng smiled bitterly, "Owner, it's too late!" Moreover, it seems that the other party is not a pirate, but an official soldier. ”

More than ten sea ships surrounded them, although the largest of them were only two two-masted ships, and the rest were all sloops, bird ships, wave boats, clippers and other small boats, but the speed was much faster than Yang Wenqing's sea ships loaded with huge amounts of goods, and the sun and moon flags of the Ming Dynasty were fluttering on the masts of each ship. Five ships were in front of them, and the others appeared on both sides of Yang Wenqing's two sea ships, and they were all copied.

"No matter, crash into it!" Yang Wenqing gritted his teeth and ordered.

Obviously, the sea side has already been given a confession, and at this time, there are officials and soldiers appearing, so there must be some accident. Yang Wenqing couldn't think about what was wrong, and he didn't want to deal with the greedy guys of the official army. As long as they rushed out, there was a vast sea outside, and no matter how many officers and men there were, there was nothing they could do. When I come back from the Wa Kingdom, I will have time to settle accounts with these unpaid guys!

Each of his two ships is much larger than the other ship, and even if it hits, it can sink the other! Naval warfare itself is a matter of large ships crushing small ones, and Yang Wenqing has been at sea for many years, so he naturally knows this truth.

Yang Wenqing paid attention, Guo Linfeng stopped talking nonsense, and a series of orders were passed on. A sea ship behind suddenly picked up speed, and the two sea ships advanced in unison, colliding with the official and military ships that were coming on the opposite side.

The bow of the three-masted ship is high, the bow is equipped with sharp ramming angles, and the hull is much higher than the official and military ships on the opposite side, and it only needs to hit it to sink the opponent in one fell swoop.

Seeing that the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, Yang Wenqing's eyes showed a crazy light.

The south wind of the hunt blew and blew on the hard sails, causing the sea ships to gain a lot of kinetic energy, and they collided at high speed towards several small ships of officers and soldiers on the opposite side. The huge hull plowed over the blue sea, leaving a deep trace behind, the three-masted sailing ship was as tall as a building, and the official and military ships sailing on the opposite side were like low bungalows compared to them, and the result of the collision between the two sides could be imagined, and Yang Wenqing could already imagine the result.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and Yang Wenqing could already see the panicked figures of the soldiers on the official ship. Finally, when the two sides were more than ten feet apart, the five official ships coming from the opposite side changed their rudders one after another, making way for the two merchant ships.

You know each other! Yang Wenqing sneered.

The ships of the two sides passed by, and the nearest official and military warship was only two feet away from Yang Wenqing's ship.

"No, what's that?" Yang Wenqing opened his eyes wide and looked carefully, and saw several strange things on the deck of the official ship next to him, which looked like bed crossbows. When did the officers and soldiers become so poor that they couldn't even afford to have guns and artillery?

Before Yang Wenqing came back to his senses, he heard a few string sounds of "Zheng Zheng", and saw several huge arrows leaving the bed crossbow and flying slowly towards his own ship, flying with fire.

The officer's bed crossbow was obviously not well adjusted, and the angle of the arrow was too high, so high that it fell over the hull of the sailboat and into the sea on the other side, but one of them was actually stuck in the sail.

"Not good!" Yang Wenqing suddenly came back to his senses, hurriedly looked up, and saw a small flame on the sail, which was quickly spread by the sea breeze.

Yang Wenqing hurriedly looked at the three-masted sailing ship next to him, but saw that the sails of that ship were even worse, and there were actually three rockets hung, and the sails on the three masts were ignited.

At the moment, the flames on the sails are not too big, and if they were lowered, they should be easily extinguished. However, seven or eight official and military ships are chasing after them from both sides, and the five official ships that have just missed are also turning around, so where is the time?

But if you don't extinguish the fire on the sail, as the sail burns more and more, the speed of the wind will drop if you can't hold it, and you will soon be caught up by the officers and soldiers.

What to do? Yang Wenqing's face showed a look of despair.

The sails were burned, and the speed of the ship dropped significantly, and the official and military ships were all warships, and it didn't take much effort for several official and military ships to catch up, approaching the two merchant ships from both sides.

Yang Wenqing wanted to say that he fought with them, but reason told him that he couldn't win. Although his two sailing ships were far larger than the official ships, they were loaded with a large amount of cargo, and the crew on each ship was no more than 40 people, and the weapons on the ships were bows, arrows, and spears, and there was not even a single artillery.

There are more than 10 large and small ships in the officers and soldiers, and the total number of people is not as large as nearly 1,000, and there are even such powerful weapons as the "bed crossbow", so there is no hope of winning at all.

As for the crews of these two merchant ships, they are all employed by Yang Wenqing, the proprietor, if they encounter pirates who kill people and overhaul goods, they will naturally try their best to resist, but the opposite side is obviously an official army, and no one will joke with their lives at this time, let alone have the intention of resisting.

Anyway, it was Yang Wenqing, the owner, who was caught up by the official army and lost, and the seafarers would not have any losses at all, so it was a big deal to find a new boat to go to sea to make money. Seeing the monsoon rising, some are shipowners who want to go to sea to venture out to sea to make money.

Without waiting for Yang Wenqing's orders, Guo Linfeng and the fire captain of the other ship had already ordered the sails to be lowered, and the sails had no power when they landed, which also meant that they would no longer resist.

"Lao Guo, you!" Yang Wenqing pointed at Guo Linfeng and said angrily.

"The owner, we have to know the current affairs, there is no need to fight hard with the officials and the army. Besides, with your background, the official army can't help us at all, it's just a big deal to spend money to eliminate disasters. Guo Linfeng sighed.

The officers and military ships quickly surrounded them, ordered the merchant ships to throw down the rope ladder, and then climbed up to the deck along the rope ladder.

"Where are you officers and soldiers, I am from the Yang family in Ningbo, let your chief speak!" Yang Wenqing came out in line and proudly said to the officers and soldiers who boarded the ship.

For a long time, as long as the identity of the Ningbo Yang family is thrown, whether it is black or white, it will sell three points of face, "one door three Shangshu, one family seven jinshi", Ningbo Yang family is the first class family in Zhejiang!