The pirate ship closed in swiftly.
It was easy to see that the pirate ship wasn't as large in tonnage as the Tang family's flagship, but it wasn't smaller than any of the other ships in the Tang family fleet either. As upwards of a hundred ships rushed over, the visual oppression was quite intense.
Tang family sailors quickly spread across the deck, drawing their bows and nocking their arrows, even going as far as to pull away oilcloth with a swish to reveal several bed crossbows.
Zhao Changhe glanced sideways and thought to himself that these bed crossbows were very likely embezzled by Tang Buqi under the guise of public benefits—this man with thick eyebrows and big eyes was no good...