"What a pity! What a pity!" Zhao Jiaren stood in the captain's position, that is, standing at the rudder wheel. He held the handle of the rudder wheel tightly and said with unclear meaning.

Zhao Yong and Zhou Weiyong, a sailor in his forties, stood on the left and right sides of Zhao Jiaren to protect him. The pirates dispatched four ships. Each of Zhao Jiaren's two ships had a pirate ship on both sides. Hearing Zhao Jiaren's words, he felt a little unsatisfied. Zhao Yong said anxiously: "Three Young Master, go to the cabin to avoid it."

At this moment, the pirates moved some cage-like things to the side of the ship. When Zhao Jiaren saw it, he roared and laughed a few times. They were torsional crossbows that could only be seen in professional history museums or history books. What the pirates moved out was not the Greek torsional crossbows, which were called extremely exquisite, but a simplified version of the Arabs.

Zhao Yong looked at Zhao Jiaren's attitude towards the battle as if it was a joke. He grabbed Zhao Jiaren's arm and begged: "Three Young Master, stop laughing! Let's hurry up and go to the cabin!"

Pull Zhao Yong's arm away from himself, Zhao Jiaren looked at the pirate's long-range weapon without turning his eyes. This torsional crossbow is a square or rectangular cage. There are many circles of hemp ropes wrapped in the upper and lower support sticks on the two sides in the non-firing direction, and insert the short wooden stick from the center of the wrapped many circles of hemp ropes, and then twist the hemp rope. After twisting the short wooden sticks on both sides for a few turns, hang a rope pocket at the end of the two wooden sticks near the boat, and put a stone in the rope pocket. It is said that some of the more well-made ones can also be placed in the javelin. Pull the rope pocket backward and aim at the target. After releasing the rope pocket, project the stone or javelin with the force twisting of the rope. This is the principle and operation of the torsional crossbow.

The torsional crossbows on the ship attacking Zhao Jiaren were projecting stones. Several flying stones as big as bowls crossed over a distance of more than 30 meters and flew to Zhao Jiaren's ship. The sailors on the ship raised their shields and blocked themselves and the gunners behind the shields. A few bangs, the stone either hit the shield or hit the deck. Judging from the sound and the reaction of the shield, the force of the stone after flying over more than 30 meters is no longer strong.

The Song Dynasty supported the construction of private ships and was rigorous in the construction of private military ships. Of course, military ships have their own styles, and Zhao Jiaren's ships and pirate ships are not in the styles of military ships. In other words, this kind of ship is not suitable for jumping to fight. Behind the torsional crossbows, many pirates looked at Zhao Jiaren's two ships with weapons. After each torque crossbow was fired, they would cheer.

Judging from the situation, Zhao Jiaren felt that the pirates had taken out all the things under the box. So Zhao Jiaren shouted at the top of his voice, "Let's fire!"

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

On the left and right sides of the ship where Zhao Jiaren was located, there were three kilogram cannons on each side, and one kilogram cannon on the bow and stern. The gunners had been nervously prepared for combat. As soon as they heard the order, they immediately lit the fuse. After a moment, the muzzle was sprayed with one kilogram of iron cannon and thick smoke. According to the large number of tests over the past two years, the effective range of a kilogram cannon is 60 steps, which is about 90 meters. At this time, the distance between Zhao Jiaren's ship and the pirate ship was more than 20 steps, which is more than 30 meters. The shells carried powerful kinetic energy and flew across this distance in an instant. The pirate ship disappeared, but screams and screams came.

When the gunners saw the enemy hitting the enemy, the nervousness that they didn't dare to exert was dispelled in an instant. They all cheered. Not only did they cheer, the deputy gunner quickly wrapped the tumbler with his hands and feet, cleared the muzzle with the wooden sticks dipped in water, and then loaded gunpowder into the cleaned cannon and stuffed the shells.

There is no gun mount for a jin cannon. There are two outwardly raised in the middle part outside the barrel. The bracket is a thing like a double-strand tuning fork. The tops of the double-strand forks are cast a ring, and both sides are raised into the rings on both sides. There is a sleeve in the middle of the fork, which can move up and down and left and right very conveniently. The two-strand fork-shaped bracket is a pointed cone-shaped under the bracket, and the nails are stuck in the center of the large wooden block inside the deck. Because the recoil is not strong, it depends entirely on the fork itself.

In just over a dozen seconds, the kilogram of cannon sprayed a kilogram shell on the pirate ship again. Zhao Jiaren could see clearly that on the ship on his left hand, a pirate's torsional crossbow was hit by an iron shell, and the crossbar in front was interrupted. The shells and flying debris made the pirates operating the crossbow behind scream.

It was only a distance of 30 meters, and the enemy's torsional crossbows were used as the bull's eye. Zhao Jiaren's gunners could fight by aiming directly. However, the pirates did not seem to be aware of this issue. Faced with the vigorous attacks of Zhao Jiaren's two ships, the pirates also tried to use the torsional crossbows on their ship to fight back.

However, the torsional crossbow cannon can only be completed in about one minute, and it is not easy to adjust the direction. The one-pound cannon is a thing that has been tested in the historical time and space where Zhao Jiaren is located, from naval battles between different ships to suppressing slave riots inside the same ship. This thing is not comparable to that of pirates. It took only ten minutes to have at least thirty pirates hit near the torsional crossbows on four ships. There are also twice as many pirates hit in other positions.

When they met a tough guy, the pirates were shouting in words Zhao Jiaren couldn't understand. Zhao Jiaren only understood the actions of the pirates. While hiding behind various objects that could cover their bodies, they moved the rudder and pulled the sails to prepare to escape.

"Catch up and make them unable to escape!" Zhao Jiaren ordered. He initially praised it, but he felt that the number of pirate ships was too small, only four. However, these four ships were small and medium-sized ships with a total of more than 100 tons, and one of them had to be about 220 tons. For Zhao Jiaren's current fleet, it was extremely huge profits.

Two days later, a fleet of six ships stopped outside the entrance of the Minjiang River, and a small boat was the first to go upstream. The people who sailed along the coast and the people at the port were used to the appearance of the Zhao family ship, and they were not particularly surprised. The only surprise was that the Zhao family brig ship had two sides hanging on the front mast instead of the sails. It was not until the ship entered the port that the sailors shouted and pulled a lot of people tied up with ropes off the ship. Fuzhou Port caused a sensation.

The people brought down from the ship all looked injured, and their clothes were quite different from those of the Song Dynasty sailors. The Fujian sailors were well-informed and had already seen that some of these people were Japanese and some were Chammen. Zhao Jiaren immediately sent someone to greet the port's official mission to help bring people. When they learned that Zhao Jiaren was attacked on the sea, the port's official mission ran over. Seeing so many prisoners and seeing Zhao Jiaren standing in full vitality, their hearts were put back in their stomachs.

On that day, after Zhao Jiaren, the criminal prison of Tidian, was attacked by Fujian Road, defeated pirates and captured pirate ships, spread throughout Fuzhou. Every household was discussing Zhao Tidian's bravery. Xu Yuanzhi, the governor of Fuzhou, did not participate in such discussions. He sat opposite him, the protagonist of the incident, Zhao Jiaren.

At this time, Zhao Jiaren was sixteen years old. His once round and round face had edges and corners, and would obviously grow into a square face in the future. Zhao Jiaren did not laugh or was angry, but felt a little tired. The calmness made Xu Yuanzhi feel a little stressed. The young man said in a very cold tone: "Zhao Zhizhou. According to the Song Dynasty, these pirates will be beheaded."

As a pirate, he attacked the imperial court official and was arrested. Xu Yuanzhi couldn't think of any other punishment. However, Zhao Jiaren always felt that he was planning something. Xu Yuanzhi nodded and said tentatively: "I don't know what Zhao Shidian is going to do."

Zhao Jiaren replied: "I am the attacked party. I directly tried the case, and it seems that it is not right."

"..." Xu Yuanzhi didn't know how to answer for a moment. The boy's behavior was really different from the action he should have at his age. Although the Song Dynasty did not have particularly clear regulations, the Song Dynasty also knew that it was necessary to avoid it many times. The problem was that Zhao Jiaren, who was the attacked party, talked about things related to him, calmly as if he was talking about others.

"Does Zhao Tidian want to execute them as soon as possible?" Xu Yuanzhi asked in a proper manner.

Zhao Jiaren still had the same cold expression. He was actually quite excited after he solved the pirates. After the excitement dissipated, what was left was a somewhat empty indifference. "I just inexplicably felt that there might be someone behind these pirates. Those people behind the pirates might do something. There are many pirates in Fujian, and pirates from four ships robbed me at the same time. Doesn't Xu Zhizhou think this pirate is extraordinary?"

There are no fools who can become magistrates. After hearing this, Xu Yuanzhi nodded slightly, "Don't worry, according to the Song Dynasty, these pirates are all death sentences. The difference is just beheading or hanging. If someone tries to rescue him, I will naturally care."

"Thank you, Magistrate Xu."

“It should have been.”
Chapter completed!