"Can we still catch up with the fleet?" a blessed middle-aged man asked the captain anxiously.

"No, they have been away for too long. Our sailing took too long. We can't keep up." The captain Zhang Scar said helplessly to the businessman.

"Damn it. Damn it all," the merchant stomped and cursed.

"What are you afraid of? We are also an armed merchant ship, with nine artillery on board. Among them are four powerful five-inch artillery, facing such artillery. No one can resist." Captain Zhang Scar said.

"This is what I worry about. No matter how many artillery we have, there are not as many pirates. What if we encounter pirates? I heard that they are all ships equipped with more than a dozen cannons." The merchant said excitedly.

"Nonsense, you don't know where you heard such news. Is it reliable? Who told you such news is really ridiculous." Zhang Scar said with a smile.

"This. This. Isn't it true?" The businessman asked puzzledly.

"It's true, but if equipped with so many artillery, they will not be able to run us at all. Moreover, the artillery is so powerful, it occupies a lot of space, and requires a lot of supplies. Many pirate ships are broken. Unless they robbed them. It is a military ship, otherwise there would be no such possibility at all." Zhang Scar explained.

"Okay. Don't think too much. Let's hurry up." Zhang Scar said with a smile. Then he ordered the ships to move forward because they had problems with their sails and their spare sails, which caused them to slow down and leave the Korean fleet. In order to prevent Korean ships from being robbed, the Korean government stipulated that the ships should make up at least ten. Only five ships can sail. This is a great guarantee for the safety of the fleet. There are still a certain number of pirates in the coastal areas of Chu State, but they are already powerless. They are unable to deal with the fleet of South Korean armed merchant ships. The number of artillery on them exceeds their artillery. A dilapidated pirate ship can hardly hijack such a ship. At most they hijacked Chu State merchant ships.

"A merchant ship was found ahead." The lookout post shouted at this time. Everyone noticed a merchant ship not far away.

"Oh." Zhang Scar curiously raised the telescope in his hand to check the situation. Generally speaking. Chu's fleet also gathers in twos and threes, especially merchant ships, not for other reasons, for safety, the fleet gathers, generally speaking, they have three ships, or more ships, a single ship can only explain The opponent's strength is extremely weak.

"Go ahead and ask them what's going on." Zhang Scar ordered at this time.

"You can't mess around. If it's a pirate ship, our condition is not good. Let's not mess around. Get out of here quickly." The merchant said.

"Don't be afraid, if you can involve your guards. Maybe you can make a small fortune." Zhang Scar said excitedly.

"Xiao Cai?" The businessman looked at Zhang Scar in confusion.

"Prepare to fight, take the battle on the port side." Zhang Scar shouted loudly. The sailors waved their machetes in excitement. If they hijacked a merchant ship on the road, their pay would be even higher. Of course. They also want to take risks, but they are more willing to do this, because the opportunity to make a fortune is here, and an honest trip to the sea can only be regarded as a small fortune. Getting rich is still far away.

"They want to run," the first officer said.

"Did you run? With so many cargoes, it must not run fast. Their ships are still old-fashioned Chu State ships, and they must be bought and sold. Get on." Zhang Scar ordered. Soon they approached, and the Chu State Merchant Ship on the opposite side became scared.

"Hey. The Korean merchant ship on the opposite side." After the two ships approached. The other side shouted loudly that the other side was sensitive to the danger of the strange approach of the Korean merchant ship.

"Don't come closer. We have cannons above us." The other side shouted loudly. Zhang Scar saw a small cannon on their deck. It was a two-inch cannon used by infantrymen. In naval battles, it may have a certain lethal effect, but its power is very small, far inferior to his own five-inch caliber. He can break the opponent’s mast at once, and the opponent has no way of sailing.

"We also have artillery. They are all five-inch cannons." The sailor on the ship shouted excitedly. Speaking of their artillery being pushed out, the muzzle of the black hole pointed at their ship, frightening the Chu crew on the opposite side.

"We are Chu people, Koreans and Chu people are from the Central Plains. We have to deal with the Menglais. It is not easy for us to come here. Everyone is from the Central Plains. Help each other out?" the other side shouted loudly. Obviously, the opposite party intends to give up resistance. After all, they are also willing to do business after coming so far, not willing to lose their lives.

"We also want to make a fortune. I don't know what kind of goods you are loading. If possible, give us some and we will go together. Otherwise, we will be welcome." Zhang Scar shouted loudly.

"Silk, we are all silk, and it is not easy for us. We have already spent a lot of money on this boat. We just want to make some money and come back. If we can, we can give you fifty horses, which is more. We take Can't come out. Really can't come out. We are all small businesses." The other party said.

"Fifty horses are too few, at least one hundred. Otherwise, we will go up and grab them. You know what the consequences are. You have to feed the fish yourself. Don't say I didn't tell you." Zhang Scar shouted excitedly. One hundred horses are fine. They also don't want to kill people, and once the fight starts, who knows that the ship on the opposite side can only withstand a few shots, and if it sinks, they will lose money. Therefore, under normal circumstances, if you can blackmail, you will be blackmailed. If you can't blackmail, you will fight. Of course, there are also horizontal ones and you will fight directly.

"Okay. We recognized it." The ship on the opposite side shouted helplessly. This is an act of pirate robbery. Merchants are also pirates, and pirates are also merchants. The justice here cannot be popularized and enforced here. It is still very chaotic. Everything is an anarchy stage, and it is easy for such random behaviors to occur. occur. The only way is self-protection, which requires a lot of commercial power, and the only way in the future is commercial organization, rather than a single individual behavior, because if this goes on, it is easy to cause huge losses. Take Chu’s ships, fortunately, they did not have a battle, and both sides left room. This was an amateur piracy.