Emperor Zhengde of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 180 Sneak Attack ([-])

within the frontier waters.

As soon as Zhu Houzhao finished inspecting everything, Qi Jingtong arranged for his deputy Deng Wenlong and Qi Jiguang to continue to increase the training of the navy at sea.

It can't be that they don't care about everything after the inspection, the navy of the Ming Dynasty has given full authority to Qi Jingtong, and he has to take full responsibility for the navy of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, not far away, several small broken boats were floating and shaking.

But under the tattered canvas, there are hidden firecrackers and a few cannons.

"Hand the plate, we are only here to plunder some small fishing boats, there is not much oil and water in it?"

"Yes, yes! There is no point in floating around on this sea all day long and robbing some small ships."

"If there is no big business to start, I guess the brothers will be hungry."

"I haven't touched a woman for more than a month. I'm in charge of the dishes. Why don't we think of other ways?"

On the dilapidated fishing boat, a few pirates wearing white towels were discussing the few matters ahead.

"Take the plate, why don't we go ashore, loot the surrounding villages, take the opportunity to play with women, so that the brothers can have sex!"

On this dilapidated ship, more than [-] pirates were discussing, and what you said to each other expressed their recent thoughts.

And the headed one-eyed dragon pirate was obviously the leader of these pirates. He didn't wear anything on his head, and he looked fierce, with a bearded face and a ferocious face.

"Do you think I don't want to?"

"But we are pirates. Once we go ashore, we will be chased and killed by Ming officers and soldiers. I'm tired of those days!"

After finishing speaking, everyone present fell silent. Does their leader have any better ideas?

However, after a while of silence, the head of the family didn't say anything.

However, the second boss had quick eyesight and quick hands, seeing that the big boss was silent, he strode over and said to the one-eyed man, "The big boss, but the younger one has a way, let us brothers be bigger."

"Well, you should talk about it."

The second-in-charge rolled his eyes a few times, looking at the brothers around him, they were all waiting for his advice!
"I'm talking about the master, it's not interesting to just rob these small fishing boats. I heard that not long ago, the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers came to a high-ranking official. It is estimated that the emperor's second child came and brought a lot of gold and silver. And food, if we can get some silver and food by mixing with the ships close to the government, then it will be worthwhile for the brothers to live on the ship all year round."

When the second master spoke, many people's eyes widened.If the emperor came, it would be necessary to bring a woman to rob the big ship, and they would get rich.

"You said it lightly, and you thought very well, but, how come the ships of the Ming Navy are approaching? Their ships' sharp guns are not easy to deal with."

"Yes, what the boss said is correct!" Many people echoed.

Seeing that everyone's enthusiasm was mobilized, the second leader became interested, rolled his eyeballs a few times again, and said to the one-eyed dragon with a dry smile: "Big leader, you can't force us, why don't you use resourcefulness?"

"Tell me about your ingenuity!"

Several men simply lay on their backs on the deck, comfortably enjoying the warmth of the autumn afternoon sun.

The second leader rolled his eyes and said to everyone: "I said, brothers, think about it, we plundered those small boats because of the large number of people. Our boats are shabby on the surface, but they are actually very strong. "

"After waiting for a while, Tietou will wait for you guys to dive into the water, first go over and dig a few holes under Daming's treasure ship, and we will pretend to be refugees who come here to beg, and go up and catch their main attention. , as soon as the cabin enters the water, we will act, grab as much as we can, and jump into the water if we grab it, this water skills, brothers, it should be no problem for many years!"

When everyone heard this, it was indeed a good idea. It was going to be the cold winter season soon, and the temperature under the water was hotter than above, so it was easy to succeed when people went down to work.

More than [-] pirates discussed all the countermeasures, and rowed towards the treasure ship Zheng He.

At this time, the sun was setting, and a smear of red sun dyed the entire sky red.

On the treasure ship of the Ming Dynasty Zheng He, a soldier was standing on the lookout post when he suddenly noticed a small boat approaching slowly.

Not daring to be careless, he immediately climbed down from the mast and reported the matter to Qi Jingtong.

Qi Jingtong had just finished his work and was about to go out for a walk. When he heard that an unknown ship was heading this way, his expression immediately became tense.

Ever since he was attacked by Japanese pirates in front of Zhu Hou last time, he has also learned a lesson, as long as there are suspicious ships, no matter how big or small, he must be cautious.

"See clearly? How good are they? Are there any artillery on their ships?"

"Reporting to the general, there are not many of them, and they are still approaching our ship in a dozen miles, and their ship looks tattered, as if it is not equipped with artillery or anything like that."

"Go back and take a closer look!"

Qi Jingtong waved his hand at the spies, and the spies continued to investigate, but he carefully analyzed the spies' reports just now.

At the same time, he also ordered the soldiers on board to increase inspections, including the bottom of the ship.

In less than a cup of tea, I heard people making noise not far away, as if there was some great injustice.

Qi Jingtong put down the tea bowl in his hand and walked out, only to see several men dressed as fishermen were already standing on the diving board, because they were blocked by officers and soldiers, they did not jump onto the deck.

"What's going on?" Qi Jingtong asked.

"Go back to the General Administration, these people claim to be fishermen here, and they say that it's getting late and they can't go back, so they want to come here to spend the night."

After hearing this, Qi Jingtong nodded slightly and said, "Originally, outsiders are not allowed to board the boat, but seeing how pitiful you are, I will allow you to come up and live on this boat, just for a night."

As soon as the words fell, several fishermen looked at each other, and immediately thanked Qi Jingtong with fists together, and jumped into the boat.

However, at this moment, Qi Jingtong felt a little bit of something wrong.

They looked at each other with affirmative expressions in their eyes, which showed that these people had other plans, and they didn't come to stay overnight at all.

As soon as I thought of this, those men had already made an appointment on the deck, bowing to Qi Jingtong hypocritically to thank him, but their eyes were looking around.

Qi Jingtong became more and more suspicious of the identities of these people.

With his many years of experience, these few people are definitely not fishermen.

Looking at the back of them, all of them are bulging, and they must all have hidden weapons, which he can't miss.

"Thank you for taking care of the adults, where do the little ones live?"

A man who looked like a leader looked around pretendingly, then asked Qi Jingtong with his hands clasped.

Qi Jingtong said calmly: "There are several guest rooms on this ship, you can go in and live there as you like, but because of limited conditions, you can only sleep on the ground temporarily, and you will leave here tomorrow morning."

"Thank you, sir." One of them thought that the treacherous scheme had succeeded, so he thanked Qi Jingtong and followed a soldier out.

(End of this chapter)