Chapter 684: Pirate Attack
"In three or two days," Guan Fei said, "I'm not just taking you with me on this trip, but also other guests, and when everyone is ready, we'll set off." The night before departure, I will have someone inform you so that you can prepare. ”
"Okay," Wu Song said, "Then there is Brother Lao Fei, this is the deposit." ”
Wu Song put down a bag containing a small handful of gold.
"Cheers!" Guan Fei raised his glass and touched it with Wu Song's cup, and then both of them drank the wine in their cups.
Wu Song returned to the inn and told the others everything.
For the next few days, Wu Song and the others stayed in the inn, waiting for departure. It wasn't until noon on the third day that a dark-skinned man came to the inn and informed Wu Song to leave the next morning.
At midnight the next day, Wu Song and his party followed the instructions to a small pier outside the city.
There was a two-story boat parked there, and Guan Fei stood on the shore, and next to him stood a group of people, who were queuing up to get on the boat. Before everyone gets on the boat, they have to hand over the boat money to Guan Fei, pay the money first, and then get on the boat.
It was Wu Song's turn to take them, and Wu Song picked up a bag of gold, which was considered the money for all of them.
Guan Fei counted the amount of gold, waved his hand and let Wu Song and the others all get on the boat.
The space on board is quite spacious, and some passengers can stand or sit on the deck. Wu Song bought the location of the cabin for everyone, and the group of them entered the cabin.
Subsequently, Wu Song arranged the others and went to the deck.
He walked to a hidden corner and took the opportunity to observe the people on deck. The Golden Crow Sect was defeated in Storm City, and Wu Song thought they would not give up. Therefore, whenever Wu Song goes to a place, he will always pay attention to the people there.
The deck was basically poor, dressed in tattered clothes, all with yellow faces and thin muscles.
Wu Song looked around, and didn't find anything suspicious?
When the ship set sail, it was late afternoon. After sailing for an afternoon, by the evening they had left Xiangzhu City and sailed on the wide sea.
Ning Yan had never been on a boat before, this was the first time to take a boat, and it felt quite fresh at first, and everything was interesting.
As time went on, she became more and more uncomfortable. The seasickness reaction came an hour after the departure of the ship, and Ning Yan directly vomited out all the contents of his stomach in one go.
Then, as if she had collapsed, she sat on the deck, unable to walk.
Wu Song picked her up and took her back to the cabin to lie down.
Except for Ning Yan, everyone else in the company also had a more or less seasick reaction. But they are all advanced cultivators, and with their cultivation, they have suppressed the seasickness reaction.
Wu Song was worried about whether Yun Rong would get seasick, but fortunately she didn't react like this. Every evening, Wu Songdu and Yun Rong came to the deck. Wu Song described the beautiful scenery of the sunset on the sea to Yun Rong, and Yun Rong listened attentively.
This time is the most comfortable time for Wu Song, and all troubles will be forgotten for a while.
In the evening of the next day, Wu Song was standing on the deck watching the sunset, and Yun Rong stayed in the cabin because he was a little unwell.
Guan Fei walked up to Wu Song and said, "One more day's voyage, we will reach Black Bat Island." Once there, you can find merchant ships bound for the West Continent. ”
A one-day voyage, and that is tomorrow before sunset.
Wu Song nodded and didn't say anything.
Suddenly, the lookout on the mast shouted, "There is a situation!"
To the northwest, a few nautical miles away, four ships appeared. The hull of the ship was not large, but Wu Song saw that each ship was equipped with artillery, and this was four warships.
Wu Song turned his head to look at Guan Fei, "Brother Fei, what's going on?"
Now they are still sailing in the territory of the royal pirates, and the most likely one to come is the royal pirates. Guan Fei told them that he had already communicated with the Wang pirates and that there would be no pirate ships to harass them.
"Don't worry," Guan Fei said, "It may be the ship of the Wang family pirates patrolling nearby, and the pirates here all know my ship, and they will leave after they recognize my ship." ”
The four ships were getting closer and closer, and they were already two nautical miles away. At such a close distance, they could see Guan Fei's boat clearly. If it was as Guan Fei said, then they should have turned around and left by now.
However, the speed of the four ships did not slow down and continued to drive towards Wu Song.
"Something is not right," Guan Fei said uneasily, "those four ships are not the ships of the Wang pirates. ”
The pirate ships of the Wang family pirates are all in a uniform style, and Guan Fei is very clear about this, but the four pirate ships that have come now are completely different styles from the Wang pirates.
"Brother Fei, let your people prepare weapons, I'm afraid it's not good. Wu Song said.
He then returned to the cabin and informed the others that there was a situation on the sea, so that they could prepare for the enemy.
Wu Song returned to the deck again, and by this time the four ships had come within a nautical mile.
Guan Fei had already given the order, and the sailors on the ship all took up their weapons, all looking at the four ships that were rapidly approaching.
Now they could already see the people on the four boats, and they were also the same as Guan Fei's people, holding weapons and looking at this place with fierce eyes.
Now, Wu Song can already be sure that whether these four ships are Wang family pirates or not, their purpose is to rob.
Suddenly, the middle two of the four boats began to turn around, and the hull of the ship turned sideways, facing Wu Song and them with one side of the hull.
"No, they're going to use artillery. Guan Fei lost his voice.
The next moment, a series of "boom!" sounded, and the guns on the two ships opened fire. More than a dozen shells whizzed, drew arcs in the air, and flew over.
Three shells hit the ship on which Wu Song was riding, and three holes were suddenly blown out of the deck.
Everyone panicked, looking for cover.
Guan Fei's ship did not have artillery, so it was impossible to return fire with artillery. Besides, even if there is artillery, he can't defeat four enemy ships with one ship.
Guan Fei hurriedly ordered the sailors to quickly turn the bow of the ship and escape as soon as possible.
The sailors were ordered, and several sailors ran to the bow of the ship to turn the rudder, and several sailors went to the mast to turn the sails.
The ship slowly turned its head, and just then, a cannonball landed near the rudder. With a "boom!", the rudder and several sailors nearby were all blown away.
The ship, which had begun to turn, stopped again.
In this way, the ship will be sunk sooner or later. Wu Song ran back to the cabin and found the Jade Rabbit Sect Master. He told the sect leader about the situation on the sea, and asked the sect leader to send several masters of the Jade Rabbit Sect with him to deal with those pirates.
The leader of the Jade Rabbit Sect agreed, and the Jade Rabbit Sect came with a total of eight masters, two of whom stayed behind to protect the safety of the sect leader and others, and the other six masters returned to the deck with Wu Song.
The pirates' strategy was obvious, that is, to attack with artillery first, and wait until Wu Song's ship was crippled and more than half of the people on board were killed, and then they boarded the ship.
So at this time, the pirate ship was still a nautical mile away. Wu Song: If they want to attack those pirate ships, they need to find a way to cross the water.
Wu Song picked up a few planks from the boat, then jumped off the boat and jumped into the water. He threw a plank on the water, put his feet on the plank a little, and then rose into the air.
Then he threw a plank again, his feet leveraging again.
In this way, Wu Song came to one of the pirate ships in the blink of an eye.
The other six masters of the Jade Rabbit Sect also crossed the water to another boat in the same way.
Wu Song boarded the pirate ship, and the pirates swarmed up. Wu Song launched the Celestial Elephant Fist, rushed into the pirates, and began to rush and kill.
The pirates are all ordinary people, so where is Wu Song's opponent?
The same was basically the case on the other pirate ship, where the pirates were beaten to the point of being defeated by the masters of the Jade Rabbit Sect.
Soon, all the pirates on both pirate ships were killed and overturned. Wu Song unleashed the phoenix chirping technique, spewing flames from his mouth and igniting the pirate ship.
The ** next to the cannon was ignited, producing a violent explosion, and the pirate ship was blown apart and slowly sank.
On another pirate ship, the Jade Rabbit Sect master also followed Wu Song's example. They picked up several packets of **, jumped off the pirate ship, and threw ** on the hull to detonate it.
The pirate ship was blown out of several large holes, and the sea poured into it, and the pirate ship began to sink.
The two pirate ships were sunk by Wu Song and the others, but the other two pirate ships had already surrounded Guan Fei's ship.
The pirates hooked Guan Fei's ship with a hook and set up a ladder between the two ships, and dozens of pirates rushed over.
Guan Fei had already greeted the Wang pirates before setting off, thinking that there would be no fighting during the voyage, so there were only a dozen sailors on board.
The disparity between the two sides was so great that in the blink of an eye, the pirates had slaughtered almost all the sailors on board. Guan Fei retreated to the side of a box on the deck with the few remaining sailors, and used the box as a cover to deal with the pirates.
A dozen pirates surrounded Guan Fei and them, while the remaining twenty or so pirates rushed into the cabin to attack the other passengers.
The two masters of the Jade Rabbit Sect stood guard in the cabin, protecting the leader of the Jade Rabbit Sect.
Because of the difference between men and women, Ning Yan and Yun Rong sat in the cabin next door, and the astrologer also lived alone in the same cabin because he had to perform astrological calculations in a quiet environment.
When Wu Song came down to inform them that they had been attacked by pirates just now, he had already taken Yun Rong and Ning Yan to the cabin of the Jade Rabbit Sect Master. The astrologer didn't know what to do at the time, and was not in the cabin.
The astrologer is of great importance, and without him, the people would not be able to find the Holy Land.
The leader of the Jade Rabbit Sect instructed a master, "You go and find the astrologer, there is only one person here to guard it." ”
The man was given the order to leave the cabin and follow the aisle to the next cabin. The next cabin is the warehouse, where the passengers' salutes are stored. Before, it was discovered that astrologers would often leave their cabins and come here for several hours at a time.
The astrologer's explanation was that it was quieter than the cabins, which was conducive to his calculations.
The master of the Jade Rabbit Sect came to the cabin on the ground floor, and at a glance he saw that the astrologer was sitting in the narrow gap between the two boxes, burying his head in writing something, ignoring everything beside him.