I’m Not Really A Study God

Xiao Jichen ran six times from Lu Kingdom to Rome’s business, and every time he came back and forth, he had 12 chances to endure pirates and harassment.

Every three-month voyage, when he saw the pirates, his reaction had changed from the trembling with fear of walking on thin ice, panic and fear, etc., to a calm and steady old driver.

These same experiences made Xiao Jichen more and more obsessed with such excitement.

Xiao Family can be regarded as one of the Peak family in the gentry and powerful in the country of Lu. He is the second son of a concubine. In fact, there is not much to play in Shandong. You can’t spend time and money like the Third Brother and the younger brother of the first-in-law son. After all, no matter what kind of stuff the Third Brother has bought, because he is a second-in-law, there is a backer for him to settle.

Xiao Jichen is not only a concubine, his mother is also dead long ago. Although he still has a good relationship with Dad, he dare not act wilfully with the background of Xiao Family, otherwise the Mistress of Xiao Family, yes Let him understand what is called beating.

After taking this route from an elder in the clan, he flew across the sea to the seas, and when he arrived in other countries, he was the master of the fleet, and the powerful man who mastered everything was It made him addicted.

Of course, fighting against the sky and people in the ocean, whether it is the horrible scene of rainstorm, or commanding the fleet to fight pirates, the thrill of life and death brings Xiao Jichen’s excitement, It made him addicted.

Twelve one-way voyages, every time I was used to seeing pirates, but what hurt him the most was the last time he returned from Rome with a full load of goods, and he was about to return to Lu, suddenly Killing out a group of Duke Ventera’s navy, disguised as pirates, that battle was really terrible.

In the initial more than 30 merchant ships of the Xiao Family caravan, four were sunk directly, and nearly ten were damaged, with varying degrees of severity. Hundreds of people were killed and injured, including a large amount of property.

Of course, Grand Duke Ventera’s navy did not take much advantage. After three ships were sunk, and three of them were beaten and lost their navigation ability, other ships ran away with scars. Back to his duchy.

You must understand that although Ventera Duchy has naval pirates to robbery operations, but because they and Liu Guo have been fighting all the year round, they can’t do robbery every day, and this channel The merchant ship caravan is not just the Xiao Family.

Dashang’s own merchant ship, Zhao’s merchant ship, and occasionally there will be merchant ships from Zhou or other countries passing by. There are too many goals. In a country, how many families are there? How many fleets?

Last time, it was the first time that Xiao Jichen encountered the navy of the Grand Duke posing as a pirate.

And you must know that most of the time, the pirates they encountered were really just pirates…

Lu Guo went to Rome from the main route, and there were mainly two kingdoms along the way. The Kingdom of Ross and the Kingdom of West.

The treatment of the two kingdoms is similar to that of the Lu Kingdom. They are basically the dishes on the table of the Roman nobles or churches. They formally belong to the kingdom’s military strength, and there are few. And the noble caravans in the two kingdoms? Noble caravans are also very strong, but for the sake of word-of-mouth and long-term benefits, noble caravans seldom pretend to be pirate ships.

On this road, most of the pirates Xiao Jichen encountered were really pirates.

Those pirates don’t have many large artillery ships. Most of the pirates have limited matchlock guns. Most of them are bows and crossbows, relying on the tactics of jumping gang after the ship is next to the ship.

In the past Xiao Family caravan, ordinary armed merchant ships were enough to deal with most pirates. Twenty-thirty ships, even in the face of the plunder of hundreds of ships, can rely on With rows of bronze cannons, and refined musketeers.

Even after encountering ruthless stubbornness or big thief, the opponent can pull out a batch of gunboats to blast, but Xiao Family will not suffer much.

Only the last time they suffered the most.

So before starting this time, Xiao Jichen felt that as long as he left the port, he would encounter Ventera’s navy to make trouble.

They didn’t take advantage last time. They just lost six ships in vain, and that’s all of them.

After all, Lu is also living in a mixed race of 20% and more than 10% of white people. As a Duchy prince, Ventera wants to stare at them Xiao Family a little bit and find a chance to retaliate. It is very simple.

But this group of guys will never know that this time they went to sea, in order to give a vote to the white skins of Ventera Duchy, he had these 17 merchant ships, two of which were genuine Battleship!

It is still a large ship with a displacement of nearly 1,000 tons.

A battleship with 88 artillery pieces, all of which are Xiao Family’s elite craftsmen, and the other 15 merchant ships, which are also updated products. The former Xiao Family armed merchant ships were also limited in tonnage. The warehouse is filled with fewer people. There are about 20 artillery pieces per ship. Even if they are not shoddy, they are all made of the finest wood, but they are not thickened.

The last time I lost a lot.

This time is different. The tonnage of each merchant ship has been expanded a lot, with a displacement of seven to eight hundred and eight hundred to nine hundred tons, and it catches up with the two battleships, each with no less than 30 artillery.

You have to know that in this era of sailing ocean-going ships, in fact, the appearance of merchant ships and battleships is not very different. The biggest difference is that merchant ships build more warehouses, while battleships basically have no warehouses. It is full of gun and sailor cabins, with thick armor.

So, the Xiao Family fleet seems to have fewer ships this time, but the battle strength is actually much stronger.

Looking at the fleet of at least fifty ships that came out through the mirage, Xiao Jichen was not only in a hurry, but also wanted to laugh.

There is no way not to laugh. He has 17 ships, but they are drawn in a row and bombarded. How many artillery can be fired from one side? Two battleship 88 guns, 15 merchant ships also have more than 200 shells.

Can Ventera Duchy in the distance? Among the more than 50 ships, the smallest is only a few dozen tons in size, and the largest is only three hundred tons. The other party combined may not be as good as them.

Compare the thickness of the armor again…

The only thing to worry about is speed.

Since these guys were robbed, there must be no that many cargo in the cabin, and they will run faster.

But Xiao Jichen is still not afraid. His two battleships are not only the number of artillery, but also the caliber of the artillery!

A large caliber means a longer range, and there are more than 30 elite artillery soldiers that he has invited from the Dashang Empire to spend a lot of money.

Furthermore, the battleship itself has to run faster than the merchant ship, and there is no cargo on it, it’s all artillery and soldiers.

The two battleships are the most critical and fierce fists of this battle strength.

During the rapid voyage, the Xiao Family fleet turned around almost the time, and before it entered the range of the Ventera Duchy Navy, they lined up in a row, each with black hole muzzles, and They were pushed out of the cannon. Of course, they were afraid that the dense artillery of the two battleships would scare the enemy. They were not at all eager to push all the artillery out of the cannon.