The Pickup's second voyage went quite smoothly, without any blizzards or pirates. However, the heist was far from successful.
The pickup truck stayed on the route for fifteen days without catching a single ship. It wasn't that it didn't encounter any Japanese merchant ships, but rather that the merchant ships were too large—a fleet of fifteen ships sailing together.
Zheng Xuechang could see clearly from afar the cannons on the Japanese ships. The fact that he could see the gun barrels on the pickup truck indicated that these cannons, if not cannons, were at least field guns.
Although Su Qing advocated sinking Japanese merchant ships even if they couldn't be captured, it was clear that the Japanese had become more cautious after losing three large ships. At this point, the electric torpe
