When he heard that he wanted his own goods, Shen Chao didn't hesitate: "If you just want the goods, we can give them to you, but how can you guarantee that we will leave safely?"

The people on the Hongyi boat shouted: "Stop the boat and we will remove your cargo and then let you go."

Shen Chao stopped shouting and stopped the boat. Wouldn't this be fatal?

Obviously the sailors of the Shen family are not stupid. If they stop the boat and let the people on the other side come up, doesn't their life depend entirely on the other side's thoughts?

Not mentioning other fleets, can you believe what this Hongyi man says?

It is no joke to say that people who are not from my race will have different hearts. On the vast sea, even if they belong to the Ming Dynasty, if the Shen family's fleet encounters hostile families such as the Li family and the Wang family, they will not mind making a temporary guest appearance. A pirate's hand.

These are all Han people, not to mention the fact that they are facing the Hongyi people who often have conflicts with the Ming Dynasty along the coast.

"Let's fight, the other side has no intention of letting us go." Shen Chao said calmly.

The sailors grasped their weapons one by one and waited for the battle to begin.

The Hongyi people shouted for a long time. Seeing that the Shen family's fleet was silent, they knew it was useless, so they speeded up one by one, and the cannons on the bow began to take aim.

With a bang, a solid iron ball was shot out of the Hongyi people's artillery, drawing an arc in the air, rolling and spinning, rubbing against the Shen family's merchant ship with a hot breath, and fell into the water with a splash. The water comes.

This shelling was like a signal, and the artillery fire from both sides soon came back and forth. A solid shell kept flying around on the sea, and most of them fell into the water and made splashes.

And with the rumbling of cannons and rising smoke, communication between ships was blocked. The fleet that originally could only rely on shouting to know what it meant was now fighting on its own, and merchant ships were shouting curses. The sound of scolding never stopped, but in the deafening sound of artillery, these were covered up by the shells and gunpowder smoke.

There were no grand and magnificent scenes in maritime battles in the seventeenth century. There was only a ship firing out cannonballs one after another from a distance of one or two nautical miles and praying that the cannonballs would hit.

Shen Chao stood on the deck, commanding his sailors to fight back. A sailor gritted his teeth and turned red as he stuffed a solid bullet into the cleaned gun barrel. He fell to the ground before he could breathe. Only then did he realize that His head was hit by a stray bullet from nowhere, and there was a dark red blood hole on his skull, with blood and some white and yellow stuff flowing out.

But at this time, no one cared about the dead sailor. The fleet was desperately trying to hit the shells one after another. From time to time, a shell could be seen flying over everyone's heads and falling behind, causing a large splash of water. But more Most of them fell on the near side, and the water splashed on everyone's faces like rain.

The nervous sailors trembled with their matchlock guns and fired lead bullets one after another. The sound of gunshots and cannons was everything at this time.

Stray bullets flew, drawing hot lines in the air, engulfing people, ship walls, or making holes in the sails; solid shells rolled and smashed through the ship walls, forming a large gap in the side of the ship, some The shells fell directly on the deck and made holes. Some unlucky ones were directly hit by the shells and lost half of their bodies. Those who were missing arms and legs fell on the deck and wailed miserably.

Shouts, curses, and groans filled the sea.
Chapter completed!