He went to Japan to fight Japanese pirates, burned two ports, destroyed the largest Japanese pirate forces, forced the Himaki family and the shogunate general, burned at least a thousand large and large sea boats and sampans, and also obtained exclusive trade rights of Japan's Li family fleet, which was loaded with countless gold, silver and precious cargo, was returning on this sunny sea.

Although the weather is good today, due to the headwind, the Li family's large fleet of ten terrifying super flying scissor battleships can only move forward slowly in a zigzag manner with the crosswind. The speed is about one fifth of the time it is when it is downwind, and the range has become even longer. Therefore, it has been sailing at sea for several days, but it is still floating on the sea, probably only sailing about half of the range from Japan to Hangzhou.

However, the fleet was not in a hurry, because they had no important things to do, they just returned to Hangzhou to replenish supplies and deal with some seized goods. At the current speed, even if it was against the wind, at most three or five days, they would definitely see Qiantang River.

What they are more worried about now is whether the docks in Hangzhou can park their giant ships?

Also, will the big ship run aground in the Qiantang River?

Anyway, the crew members know that if the ship is too big, unloading will definitely be a big problem. As for those massive amounts of gold and silver, they definitely don’t need to worry about it, because those are not goods, but can be used directly as money, and then they can be transported back to the fortress base in Xiaoliuqiu and stored, which has deep water ports and many large berths.

"captain!"

“There is a situation!!”

"North!"

"There is a ship! Someone above waves the flag at us, and there is still a little smoke!"

At this time, just as the fleet was heading the flagship of the "Xiang Feihu" and heading towards the outside of Hangzhou, suddenly, the lookout hand on the mast supported the hanging basket for observation and howled at the bearded captain who was drinking tea on the podium.

"Wave the flag?"

"So the wolf smoke?"

There is nothing strange about encountering other ships on the sea. After all, although the Ming Dynasty has been implementing strict sea bans, ocean trade has huge profits, and making money outside the scope stipulated by law is more delicious than anything. Therefore, many merchant ship owners and even declining navy will take risks and use sea boats to do business secretly between the Ming Dynasty's waters, making a fortune in silence.

However, generally speaking, the other party would avoid the fleet from afar when they saw their Li family's fleet. Very few people would take the initiative to wave flags at them and light up wolf smoke from afar to attract attention.

“!!”

"It seems the sail is broken?"

"But……"

"How come a near-shore ship, how come the Cangshan boat, came to the deep sea? They are desperate?"

The bearded captain with a fierce look on his face and picked up the telescope and looked at it for a while, and he couldn't help but feel a little confused.

Because he recognized that kind of ship, it was obviously the Cangshan boat in the Ming Navy, which was the smallest among Haicang boats, also known as Cangshan iron. Its hull is small and is higher than the water surface. It has a snatch, and it has oars. When the wind is smooth, it will set sail, and when the wind blows, it will swing.

The ship is light and clever, mainly used to chase enemies and seize heads. It is equipped with two doors of Qianjin Folang, three bowl guns, four Lumi guns, forty spray drums, sixty chimney drums, thirty fire bricks, one hundred rockets, four medicine crossbows, and one hundred crossbow arrows.

"Send the order!"

"The other ships continue to move forward, and we, Xiang Feihu, leaned directly over to see what happened to them!"

After pondering for a while, the bearded man still planned to go up and take a look.

Because the other party sent a distress signal, and since they met at sea, they must have to go and rescue them because of their reason. In addition, they have a fleet of ten giant ships and a huge fleet of over ten thousand crew members. How could they be afraid that a small sampan of the other party would have any conspiracy?

Soon, under the command of the bearded man, after the flag bearers raised the signal flag, the flagship "Xiang Feihu" led by the leader left the queue. While the remaining nine warships of the fleet were still moving westward in the original direction, it skillfully turned around and accelerated towards the direction of the small sampan Cangshan ship found to the north.

About a quarter of an hour later, the flagship "Xiang Feihu" slowly leaned on the Cangshan boat that was floating on the sea, the sails were already in ruins and the oars disappeared.

"Who are you?"

"Is it the navy of the Ming Dynasty?"

He just threw down the cable to fix the other party, and before he could wait for the bearded captain who was looking down at the other party with a row of musketeers, he asked with condescending attention. An old man below who looked very embarrassed and had his lips chapped, asked hopefully.

“…”

Looking at the men and women who came out of the other party's narrow cabin, and even a few Ming soldiers with swords, the bearded man couldn't help but feel a little confused, not knowing what the people in front of him were.

"no!"

"We are from the Li family fleet!"

However, he did not make things difficult for the other party, but replied cheerfully and loudly after confirming that these people were probably just in trouble at sea, not the kind of pirates who were ignorant of the sky and earth.

"Li Family Fleet?"

"I dare to ask, which Li family fleet is it?"

The old man obviously didn't know the Li family fleet, so he looked at the giant ship like a towering mountain, and then looked at the big "Li" banner hanging on the top of the sail mast that completely covered the sun and the strange black blind man's bow on the bow. He hesitated for a while, and then asked again.

"snort!"

"Hangzhou Li Family Fleet!"

Seeing the old guys below who were obviously asking for help but still distrust and even asked questions, the bearded man began to snort coldly with some impatientness.

"Hangzhou!"

"That's great, then you must be the Ming people?"

When the old man heard the bearded man say it was a fleet of Li family or generals in Hangzhou, the old man finally breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly waved to the cabin, as if he was preparing some people inside to walk out?

"Yes!"

Although the other party was asking nonsense, the bearded man still answered this sentence patiently.

"Dare to ask the hero!"

"Where are you coming from and where are you going?"

“…”

"We just went to fight Japan, and now we are in triumph and are ready to return to Hangzhou to make some supplies."

"Back to Hangzhou?"

"Are you really people from the Ming Dynasty?"

"ha!"

"Look at what you said, can we speak Japanese dialect? Is the Li-character flag on it fake?"

The bearded man was really impatient. He saw that the guy below clearly refused to trust them easily. He didn't understand. The other party was in such a state of difficulty, why did he ask so many questions? If it weren't for their pitifulness and seeing that they were all people of the Ming Dynasty, he might have ordered the sail to go away directly.

"Very good!"

"The sky has eyes, the sky has eyes!"

"quick!"

"We escaped from Zhigu, that is, Tianjin, hurry up! Come down and welcome. There is a Princess of the Ming Dynasty on our ship!"

Finally, after saying this, the old man with chapped lips finally put down all his defenses and shouted loudly at the bearded man above him with excitement.

“!!”

"Princess Ming?"

"It's true or false, just your little broken ship, still has a princess?"

"I don't believe it!"

The bearded captain did not move, but still looked down with a condescending look.

If the other party's ship was a "seal boat" or other larger lucky boat and there were many followers, he might have believed it, but now, such a small broken boat, dares to say that it is equipped with a princess and ask him to welcome him, treating him as a three-year-old child?

"But……"

"This is a true thing!"

The old man below was stunned. He obviously didn't expect that the bearded man would have such a reaction and attitude.

"Then how did you float here?"

"this……"

"We encountered heavy rain on the sea, but we didn't dare to dock and stop the boat. We lost our direction without checking. We floated on the sea for many days, and the food was exhausted and there was not much water left."

"oh?"

"But, for sure, why didn't the princess stay in the capital?"

"Beijing?"

"You don't know?"

“??”

"What do you know?"

"The capital has been broken by thieves. We are trying our best to protect the princess and escape. Your Majesty has died in his country, and my Ming Dynasty has already died!"

The old man suddenly felt a little sad, and couldn't help but pound his feet and stamp his chest and sighed with a sad voice.

At this time, in the small cabin of the Cangshan boat, two young girls in palace uniforms finally supported a pale, depressed girl, and a gorgeous cloak wrapped around her body, crawling out of the cabin.

“!!”

"ah?!"

The bearded captain was startled, and the original suspicious expression on his face quickly turned into shock, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.

"I'm the Ming Dynasty..."

"Dead?!"

The exquisite monocular in his hand fell directly to the deck, but the bearded man had no intention of picking it up at all. He just looked at the small Cangshan boat below at a loss, and at the same time the focal length of his eyes began to gradually separate.
To be continued...