King, There's a Fat Sheep Ahead!
Year 632, the sixth year of Zhenguan, autumn!
Outside Yuezhou City, the Dreamy Cloud Swampland was sparkling. The sky was high and the autumn was cool. A gentle breeze blew. The Dongting Lake water gently patted the reeds on the shore. The warm sun was reflected on the surface of the lake. It was a beautiful scenery of Dongting Lake.
In the distance, 13 ships of various sizes were rapidly traversing the surface of the lake!
For the Tang, these dozen ships were simply too fast.
Among them, five large ships were particularly eye-catching.
The three masts of these five ships were towering. Different from most ships sailing in the Dreamy Cloud Swampland, these ships were pointy bottom ships. They were completely black and their slender bodies cut through the waves of the Dreamy Cloud Swampland. The ships hanging on the masts were not the hard sailboats woven with bamboo strips commonly used by Tang ships, but soft rice made of canvas. There was also a large triangular sail hanging on the bow.
At the top of the mast, a red flag was embroidered with a ferocious black tiger.
The Black Tiger Navy had dominated the Great Lake for more than 30 years. There were about 2,000 of them. They rose up during the chaotic period of the Sui Dynasty. Now, they were the biggest threat to the Governor of Yuezhou, Lu Guangyi.
If a modern person who knew about ancient sailing ships came here, they would be able to recognize these five types of ships at a glance. These were the classic ancient sailing ships-the Great Arabian Galley.
On the bow of one of the three-deck galleys.
There was a burly man who was eight feet tall. He wore a red tiger cape, black armor, and an eight-petal melon skin iron helmet. His face was like a knife and axe, and he looked a little resolute. He seemed to be about twenty years old.
He was the leader of the Black Tiger Navy, Zhang Xun.
Zhang Xun looked at the dozen ships under his command with satisfaction.
As a transmigrator, Zhang Xun was a sailor in his previous life and had some knowledge of ancient sailing ships.
In this life, he had transmigrated to the Great Tang and become the leader of a group of pirates. After a thrilling struggle to seize power, he had eliminated a group of older pirate leaders and recruited new blood to promote the younger pirates. He had gradually taken control of this group of pirates.
And now, after a year of development, he already had five three-deck galleys and eight double-deck galleys under his command!
All of them were sturdy ships that could sail out to sea.
Indeed, for Zhang Xun, the Dreamy Cloud Swampland and Dongting Lake were too small.
Moreover, as the Tang Dynasty took control of the entire country, pirates like them no longer had much room to survive. In recent years, Yuezhou Governor Lu Guangyi had formed an extremely large navy and began to wipe out the various navy forces entrenched in Dongting Lake!
Therefore, Zhang Xun planned to go to the vast sea through the Yangtze River.
Only there could the sea be considered as vast and free for fish to swim.
Zhang Xun looked at his dozen warships. Although their numbers were far inferior to the Yuezhou navy, they were still not as strong as the navy.
However, as a sailor, Zhang Xun knew that in a water battle, the strength of the ship and the sharpness of the cannon were far more important than quantity.
His sturdy galley ships had ramming horns at the bow and stern, making them extremely sturdy. Each three-story galley ship had sixteen torsion-type catapults, which could throw iron bullets weighing one kilogram 500 meters away.
Zhang Xun stood at the bow of the ship with a group of armored soldiers behind him!
They were clad in iron armor and held Mo sabers in their hands. They were arranged in two rows and looked solemn. One look and one could tell that they were elites who could fight very well.
They were the adopted son's personal army left behind by his cheap father. They were absolutely loyal to him. If not for this personal army, Zhang Xun might have been assassinated by a few pirate leaders in the year he transmigrated.
"Report!"
In the distance, a small boat was rapidly approaching.
A muscular man with a calf nose shouted.
"Great King!" The man knelt on one knee on the deck of the boat.
"About three miles ahead, a fleet has appeared! There were thirty-six ships. It looked like they were definitely fat sheep!”
Zhang Xun's face lit up when he heard this.
During this period of time, due to Yuezhou Governor Lu Guangyi's actions, there were fewer and fewer caravans on the lake.
The remaining pirates had to either go ashore or find another way out.
"Good!" Zhang Xun roared.
"After this, let's give our brothers a good meal!!”
"Oh, oh, oh, oh!"
A group of rough pirates cheered.
"Let's go!"
" Chase after them!!!"
Soon, two lanterns were hung on the flagship.
In this era, there was no radio or communication command between ships. Zhang Xun had created a set of " lantern language " for communication command.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
On both sides of the galley, three rows of oars stretched out.
The huge three-story galley had three layers of oarsmen. There were a total of 120 oars. When it was necessary to move at full speed, the 120 oars would paddle with all their strength. On the lake, the thirteen galleys seemed to be flying!!
At this moment, Zhang Xun narrowed his eyes slightly as his consciousness entered his mind.
"Survival assistance system, activating 99.9%"
Five years!
In Zhang Xun's mind, the system had been activated for five years…
In these five years, the progress from 0% to 99.9% was extremely slow!
Now, it was finally about to be fully activated.
"There's at most one more day!"
Zhang Xun was looking forward to it. After all, the system was said to be a benefit for transmigrators.
At this moment, what he wanted the most was to grab enough materials, then break through the obstruction of the Tang Dynasty navy on the Yangtze River channel and enter the vast sea!
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