The large ship that everyone robbed was very huge, more than twenty feet long and more than five feet wide, with three floors above the deck alone.
The oars of the big ship were located in the cabin below the deck. Yu Yi went to the cabin and forced the captured soldiers to paddle and sail the ship. Yang Kai and Shi Xuanming searched each room of the big ship separately, while Chang Sheng stayed on the deck alone, looking at the dock and observing the situation.
There were two to three hundred soldiers responsible for guarding the ship, and they only took away forty dozen. Although the remaining soldiers shrank when everyone was snatching the ship, they were very active in getting on the ship to put out the fire after everyone left. And this This was exactly what Changsheng hoped to see. He had previously set fires in many places on the two large ships. If the fires were not put out in time, once the fire spread, the two large ships would soon be reduced to ashes. Even if the Japanese pirates wanted to There are no ships available to return to the mainland.
The captured soldiers rowed hard for their lives, and the ship quickly moved away from the coast and entered deep water.
In addition to a large number of oars on both sides of the ship, there are also many sails on the ship. The young second-in-command came to the deck to confirm the wind direction, then ran back to the cabin and called a few captured soldiers. They worked together to pull the rope and use The windlass high up slowly pulled up the heavy sail.
Changsheng once took a boat down the river from Yuzhou. The official ship he boarded at that time also had sails, so he also had some understanding of the function of sails. The function of sails is to use the wind. Except when the wind is against the wind, the sails are of no use. When the wind is downwind or When the wind is blowing, you can use the sail to speed up. The wind blowing tonight is from the west, and the west wind blows eastward, not northward. However, you only need to adjust the direction of the sail to receive the wind, and you can also use the wind to go north.
The large ship that everyone grabbed had seven sails, and the two-handled leader pulled up three of them. The sails took advantage of the wind and the speed greatly increased.
Not long after, Yang Kai and Shi Xuanming escorted more than a dozen boatmen out of the cabin one after another. These boatmen were not Chinese people, they were all short Japanese.
After arriving on the deck, without waiting for Yang Kai and Shi Xuanming to speak, these Japanese people knelt down on their own initiative, their eyes full of fear, not the viciousness of the Japanese pirates.
"I've tried it all. These people don't have spiritual energy cultivation. Judging from their clothes, they should be boatmen." Shi Xuanming said.
Changsheng nodded and looked at the Japanese one by one. As far as he could see, everyone bowed their heads timidly and did not dare to look at them.
"Who are you?" Changsheng asked.
Hearing Chang Sheng's question, the boatmen became more and more frightened, but none of these people seemed to know Chinese. Although they were nervous and frightened, they could only hesitate and gesture.
"Who are you?" Chang Sheng asked again in Japanese.
Seeing that Chang Sheng could speak Japanese, the boatmen were overjoyed and rushed to speak first to identify themselves.
These people are indeed boatmen, but they do not have any official background. They are all recruited. Each ship has more than sixty boatmen. After the big ship docked, other boatmen got off the boat to have fun. A few of them were reluctant to spend the money. Money has been living on the boat.
After listening to what everyone said, Changsheng looked around everyone again, and at the same time asked Yang Kai and Shi Xuanming for their opinions in Chinese, "How to deal with them?"
"When the two countries are fighting, they should not kill the envoys or harm the civilians. This has been the rule in all dynasties," Shi Xuanming said. "I think they are all coolies, so there is no need to embarrass them. How about letting them all go?"
Without waiting for Chang Sheng to answer, Yang Kai spoke first, "You can't let go."
"Why keep it?" Shi Xuanming didn't know why and turned around in confusion.
"None of the boatmen we temporarily recruited have experience at sea," Yang Kai said sternly, "These Japanese boatmen have traveled across the ocean and experienced many winds and waves, and they are familiar with the routes. We may need them when we go to Japan."
After Yang Kai finished speaking, neither Chang Sheng nor Shi Xuanming answered immediately. Yang Kai naturally knew that his side was just a feint this time and did not really want to kill the other party's lair, but he deliberately released false news in front of these boatmen. Kai didn't like to make mysteries the most. The reason why he did this was most likely because he found that some of these boatmen could understand Chinese but were pretending not to.
After a brief silence, Changsheng nodded, and then said to the boatmen in Japanese, "Don't be afraid, just stay on the deck, we won't hurt you."
Hearing Changsheng's words, the Japanese boatmen were overjoyed as if they had been pardoned, and thanked them profusely.
Chang Sheng then straightened his face and said in a deep voice, "No one should try to destroy the ship, let alone try to escape. As long as one part of the ship is damaged or one person escapes, everyone else will be killed."
Everyone was frightened when they heard this and looked at each other.
"Huh?!" Changsheng raised his eyebrows.
"We will never destroy the ship, and we will never escape." A group of boatmen rushed to express their assurance.
Changsheng looked around at everyone, then picked someone at random and said, "You, follow me."
Seeing Changsheng pointing at him, the chosen person trembled with fear. After looking around nervously, he stood up tremblingly and followed Changsheng to the bow of the ship.
Changsheng took the man to a secluded place where there was no one, and asked about the specific time when the fleet docked and the general situation of the Japanese pirates on board.
This person knew that Changsheng would ask other people later, so he did not dare to lie. According to what he said, the fleet docked years ago, almost a month ago. There were four large ships when they set out, but one of them sank during a hurricane. , most of the people on the sunken ship were transferred to three other ships. The number of Japanese samurai who came to Middle-earth should be more than 3,000.
Although this person is just a boatman, he has been wandering on the sea for many days with the Japanese pirates whom they call Japanese samurai, and he has some understanding of their situation. According to this person, the Japanese pirates who came to China this time belong to The eight major families in Japan are also the eight most powerful and prestigious families in Japan. They all have their own special skills. Some families are good at martial arts and ninjutsu, some are good at firearms and creation, and some are proficient in formations and mechanisms. , there is also a family that is good at yin and yang magic, and there is another family that can control tigers, leopards and jackals. In short, these people are the most powerful people in Japan.
After asking one person, then another person, the two people said the same thing.
Changsheng asked four people one after another, and the stories they said were roughly similar. Two of them also asked, intentionally or unintentionally, what other powerful people there were in Japan besides these eight major families. The reason why he asked this was to mislead his opponents. If these boatmen were looking for opportunities, After escaping, the Japanese pirates asked him what he had interrogated afterwards. The answers of these boatmen could make the Japanese pirates mistakenly think that he was confirming the situation in Japan.
In addition, the reason why it was only mentioned in the interviews of two people was to increase credibility. If the same issue was mentioned in the interviews of four people, it would seem a bit deliberate.
At dawn, the big ship arrived at Jiangzhou Pier. At this time, Da Tou had already returned first and was waiting eagerly from the pier with a group of boatmen and a large number of civilians.
As the ship docked, everyone immediately began to load rice and grain supplies. In addition to grain, vegetables, freshwater fruits, and large bundles of fodder, as well as many live sheep and chickens, all the supplies needed to cross the sea were not left out.
Changsheng hoped that these Japanese boatmen would take the opportunity to escape, but he had previously threatened and intimidated everyone, and although they wanted to take advantage of the chaos to escape, they were still undecided.
Changsheng was determined to create conditions for their escape, so he ordered Yu Yishi, Xuanming and the others to escort the previously captured soldiers off the ship and hand them over to the Jiangzhou government for custody.
Datou commanded from the dock, Yang Kai made arrangements on the ship, and Changsheng stood at the highest point of the ship to observe the surrounding situation.
Yu Yi and Shi Xuanming knew what Chang Sheng was thinking. Time was so tight that they had no time to escort the captured soldiers to the government office. Therefore, as soon as they got out of the dock, they deliberately relaxed to create opportunities for the soldiers to escape separately.
Seeing that Yu Yi and Shi Xuanming were slacking off, a group of captured soldiers immediately rushed into the woods on the left and right sides. Seeing this, Shi Xuanming deliberately raised his voice and shouted to catch up.
Shi Xuanming's shout came, and Changsheng immediately shouted in response, "Don't let anyone escape, kill them all."
As soon as Chang Sheng shouted, Da Tou and Yang Kai immediately put down what they were doing and used body skills to rush away.
Even with the help of Datou and Yang Kai, there are only four people on our side, and there are more than forty prisoners who escaped, so naturally they cannot catch up with them all.
Seeing this, Changsheng "had no choice but to take action personally". As a result, the Japanese boatmen were completely relieved and fled into the water one after another...
