Those who can command hundreds of captains must be godlike beings. Hong Tao is currently the god. As long as the sailors know that he is still alive, they will no longer be afraid of any storms, because when the storms are at their highest, this tall figure will always stand next to the helmsman and swear in the sky. The curse is so fancy that it can make the rough man blush. No one has ever seen anyone who can communicate with God in this way and succeed again and again. He is the only one.

Oh, no, it's not the only one. The first mate on the Jinhe River used his linguistic talent to learn many words of cursing Hong Tao. Whether he understood or not, he meant that, anyway, when it was on duty, the sea surface should not change the sky. Once the sky changed, he started to curse at the top of his voice, and it was a bit effective. Anyway, the ship had never had any problems. This behavior not only won blessings for the ship, but also won the respect of the crew members. They felt that the scolding was so fancy, unique, and so neat, and the commander must be capable. Follow him to sea and his safety was more guaranteed.

"Who touched my schoolbag! Compassion, are you, my glasses?" The boat was not a place for civilized and politeness. Not only in ancient times, but also in modern times. If you ask the people in that industry, there must be seamen in the top three miles. A Song Dynasty literati as thorough as Wen Nan stayed on the boat for a long time, especially with Hong Tao for a long time, and also learned a few oral words. He didn't know when he would bring these so-called words in his mouth, and he spoke quite smoothly.

"Whoever wants your broken thing? After putting it on, you will see that it will be a double shadow. I will give it to you!" Cile took out gold-rimmed glasses from his pocket and handed them to Wen Nan. Although they were all the first mates on the boat, he still maintained the personalities of many children when he was not on duty. Curiosity was one of them. Seeing anything he hadn't tried before, he wanted to touch it.

"Don't move my schoolbag in the future. My husband doesn't move. Do you dare to turn it around casually! Where are we?" Wen Nan took his glasses and carefully checked them like a baby, and found that there was no damage. Then he relaxed his tense face.

"It's already past the Cape of Good Hope, and it will be there in three or four hours. By the way, husband Wen, I'll ask you something, what does this Cape Town mean?" Mercy glanced at the captain's room, and saw that Hong Tao didn't come out, and asked in a low voice about what he hadn't understood.

"...I really asked me this. I really don't know. It sounds like a personal name. Kai is an ancient surname, probably from my husband's hometown. I may be his relative." Wen Nan didn't know the origin of Cape Town. In fact, he didn't know the origin of many names on the globe made by Hong Tao. Hong Tao never explained, asked or said, he could only guess.

"Oh... I think it's the master's relative. It turns out that there is really someone with the surname Kai. You know a lot about Wen's husband." Ciqing also suddenly realized the meaning, and he slapped Wen Nan in the face. This is also his magical skill that most people can't stand it.

"Bang bang bang bang...bang bang bang..." Wen Nan was also planning to be polite, but suddenly a rapid bronze bell sounded on the top of the mast. This was an alarm! There was an alarm from ships on the sea!

"There are ships! Two! Sailboats!...Hang the battle flag!" Hearing the bell, Mercy immediately jumped out of her hippie smile, looked up at the flag words of the lookout hand, issued a battle order without hesitation, and then ran into the captain's room.

"Oh... Huh! My nose! Mercy, when will you develop the habit of knocking on the door?" As soon as you pushed open the door of the captain's room, Hong Tao's roar came from inside. He covered his nose and crawled out with tears in his eyes. Obviously, Mercy pushed the door too hard, and the door panel hit Hong Tao's face, who was about to go out. Why is it so inch?

"Master, there are two boats in front, sailboats... Cape Town is less than thirty nautical miles ahead. Didn't you say there are no boats in this place?" Merciful touched Hong Tao's temper. If you admit your mistake at this time, you will be punished. If you say that the matter is broken, you may be able to escape.

"Sailing! Seeing his damn ghost, did the Europeans start sailing in advance? No, I have to go up and see, you can take over me first!" Sure enough, when Hong Tao heard that the Cape of Good Hope had come out of the sailing boat, he immediately got angry with Mercy, and he didn't even wear the top in his hand. He ran up to the rigging of the rear mast, and then climbed onto the mainmast like a big monkey, following the spider web-like rigging, and then climbed onto the mainmast along the mainmast rigging.

The main mast of the Jinhe River is more than 40 meters high. As the saying goes, stand high and see far. This saying is especially correct in the sea. You can see a distance of one meter high. According to the current weather conditions, you can see a ship about ten kilometers ahead of the observation deck in the top of the mast. If it is in ordinary seas, Hong Tao will not be so cool. When sailing, there are still quite a risk of getting up and down the observation deck, especially if he climbs without wearing a safety rope.

In normal times, such dangerous behavior would be punished. But he really couldn't help but go up and see who actually reached the Cape of Good Hope in the 13th century. If there were two sailboats, the person on the opposite side might have to be a time traveler. At this time, the Europeans were still tossing in the Mediterranean, and no matter how big the storm was, they would not blow their ships so far. Not to mention the Africans, they were at best digging wood as boats and catching fish in the near sea. It was absolutely impossible for a large sailboat, unless the Arabs came down along the east coast.

"It's really a sailboat!" Hong Tao climbed up to the observation deck, took the large telescope dedicated to the observation hand, and really found two white sails on the sea directly in front of him, but the distance was too far, and the shape of the other party's ship could not be seen.

"Hanging the wing sail, the top sail, full speed! Notify the ship behind and let them keep up as much as possible." Two sails! Hong Tao thought about it for a moment and decided to let the Jinhe speed up and catch up to see what happened. If nothing unexpected happens, the Jinhe can solve them independently. If the other party is really a big sailboat, then it can only drag time to let the Quanzhou and Haibo catch up to surround and annihilate them. As long as the other party does not have artillery, everything will be easy. If the other party has artillery, it will be a tough battle. At this time, Hong Tao regrets it very much. He should have waited for another month, so that more than ten more artillery cannons will be available on the Jinhe.

The Jinhe, which has a full sailing equipment, is two knots faster than the smaller Jiaosha class warship, but this advantage will soon be caught up. The next batch of improved Jiaosha class will be made, the rear of the hull will be smaller and the bottom of the ship will be sharper. It will completely abandon the cargo capacity and become a 100% warship. With a higher mast and the same full-equipped sailing equipment as the Jinhe, the speed will definitely be faster than the Jinhe. How fast can it be, it will be clear after trying it.

The twelve wing sails on both sides of the mast and the three extreme top sails on the top of the mast were raised. The Jinhe quickly threw away the two ships behind, leaned slightly northward, and drew a white wake on the sea surface, rushing to the west. The gunner on the deck had removed the whale leather case covering the artillery, and began to use the gun brush to scrub the gun barrel, adjust the tightness of the sports car cable, and then used a pulley set to launch the medicine from the ammunition room in the bottom cabin. The shells were raised one by one, and the screams were very lively.

"Fatty, you're pretty good at playing! Shrink the wing sail, the extreme sail, and get rid of the combat state!" More than half an hour later, Hong Tao, who had been on the observation deck for a long time, finally put down his telescope, rubbed his eyes that were almost dazzled, and cursed.

There are indeed two sailboats in front, but their sailboats are too simple, looking like Arabian slurry boats, but there is no deck or cabin at all. The rowers sit on the hull with oars exposed. There are two large spinnakers with slanted spiders hanging on each masts in front and back. There are two more racks that increase buoyancy next to the hull. To be nice, they are called sailboats, but to be nice, they are large side rafts or three-body. They are catching whales on the sea at this time, and the most important thing is that the large spinnaker is painted with a mouse with both cheeks bulging. Hong Tao doesn't need to think about it, just know

Who painted this thing, who played with birds, and the fat man of Mettini, everything he drew was rounder than others. Where did Mettini come from these two ships? Hong Tao probably built them himself. Arabs are not unfamiliar with shipbuilding. There is also a large area of ​​primeval forest on the edge of Table Mountain, which is not short of wood, and big ships cannot be built, so it is no problem to build some small boats. As for the use of whaling, this is a problem after meeting. Maybe they want to eat meat, or maybe they use whale meat to exchange other food with the local tribe. Anyway, this fat man will not suffer any loss unless you can put a knife on his neck.

The two ships were indeed from Mettini, or from the Golden River Company, because they were hung with the flag of the Golden River Company. At this time, Mettini was paddling on one of the ships with a black sailor commanding a boat. He turned around until the helm reminded him and saw the shadow of the sail in the distance. Then he threw the drumstick in his hand, and the injured whale ignored it, jumping high on the bow of the ship, waving his arms as if the other party could see it.

It deserves the bad luck of the whale. You said that you were wearing a javelin and float ball, and you were not good at swimming, but you had to pass by the side of the Jinhe boat. It must have no idea that the ship was standing on the whale world's mortal enemy, so several big harpoons were inserted into its back. This time it couldn't run away. It couldn't pull the huge body of the Jinhe boat at all, but was dragged back like a dead dog by the Jinhe boat. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!