Chapter 888: Captive
With Zhou Tai's order down. The centaurs responsible for dropping the trebuchets and crossbows sprang into action.
Fill the prepared stones at the location of the trebuchet.
With a burst of bombardment from trebuchets.
Countless stones flew out of the ship, smashing into the pirates' ships in an instant.
The stones projected by these trebuchets could even break through the walls, let alone the warships made of wood.
A burst of trebuchet bombardment immediately knocked holes into the ships of these enemy pirates.
When a hole appears in a ship, it is announced that the ship is about to be scrapped.
The water from the bottom of the ship continued to pour into the hold, and the ship began to sink in the process.
Originally, these pirates, who still had this strong morale, were frightened by the trebuchets of Liu Zheng's army at the moment, they had been at sea for so many years, and it was the first time they had encountered such a great change.
At first, these pirate ships still had some desire to fight, but such obviously unequal weapons made them not think of engaging in a long-distance battle with Liu Zheng's navy, but directly drove the remaining ships and approached the building ships of the navy.
I want to do hand-to-hand combat with Liu Zheng's navy on the deck.
In hand-to-hand combat, these pirates' knives are sharp and long, compared to the many sea armies they have encountered before, but they have not been able to get any advantage under their hands, so the pirates can only hope that they can win in close combat.
It's just that after their ships approached the dragon ships of Zhou Tai and others, they found that these dragon ships were huge, and they were not ships of the same magnitude at all, even if they were close, it was not deck-to-deck, but a lot shorter than the dragon boats, and they wanted to go up to the dragon ships.
You can only go through the rope and climb over it slowly.
By the time they took out the rope from the cabin and hooked it to the dragon boat, they had already been shot into countless targets by Zhou Tai's sailors.
Just from the deck of their ships, running to Zhou Tai's men, the decks of these dragon ships have already caused them to lose more than half of their soldiers and horses.
Wait until the two sides begin to engage each other in close combat and fight directly together.
There are not many of these pirates left.
Jiang Qin's face turned hideous, and he drew his big knife.
He had long been eager to fight these pirates, and now that these pirates had finally arrived on their deck, how could he bear it, and quickly jumped up and slashed at some of the pirates at the front.
Kill two pirates in an instant.
Under the leadership of Jiang Qin, more than 10,000 sailors finally fought with these thousands of pirates at this moment.
The battle didn't last long.
Whether it's an advantage in numbers or an advantage in weapons.
The soldiers and horses under Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin were far superior to these pirates.
These pirates simply barely resisted by taking advantage of the more familiar terrain and some adult years of experience living and fighting on deck.
In less than half an hour, nearly half of the dozen warships of those pirates sank.
Three or four thousand pirate personnel were lost, and only a small part of them lost their ability to resist and had no choice but to surrender.
If it weren't for Jiang Qin, thinking that he would capture some pirates alive and go back to obey Liu Zheng's fate, he would have planned to directly kill all these pirates here to vent his hatred.
Zhou Tai tied up all the pirates he captured alive and imprisoned them on a ship.
These pirates can see them clearly even when they look at them from a distance. More or less different from the people of the big man.
If you look closely, you can see the difference.
These people are more like some Westerners, with slightly darker skin and very short stature. But the body is really majestic. It's big, but it's not tall.
Speaking a language that Zhou Tai and others couldn't understand.
"Brother, what kind of bird language are these people talking about, do you understand?"
After Jiang Qin captured some of the captives, he wanted to find out their identities, but he communicated with them. They were always babbling, and they couldn't understand what they were saying.
So I asked Zhou Tai to see if Zhou Tai had any ideas.
Zhou Tai also shook his head when he heard this, saying that he didn't know what they were talking about.
However, Zhou Tai's eyes were very sharp, and his gaze scanned back and forth over the bodies of these hundreds of captives. I saw a person who looked a little like the people of the big man.
Then he walked over and lifted the man out of the crowd.
"You? Do you understand me? ”
The man was a little flustered, his expression was tense, he had just suffered a defeat, and he felt that all the people around him had been killed, and now he was frightened.
After hearing Zhou Tai's words, he relieved his expression a little.
After half a ring, he nodded his head to show that he understood.
"Back to ...... Back to the adult, the little ...... The little ones can understand. ”
"Can you understand me, you're Han?"
The man spoke something in Chinese, which immediately made Zhou Tai and the others stunned, knowing that this person should be a Han person.
The man nodded.
It also made Zhou Tai and others more convinced that this person was Han.
"Very good, since you are Han, it is convenient to communicate. Now you can answer whatever I ask, and if I am not satisfied. Those corpses are what happened to you, do you understand? ”
Zhou Tai's face tightened, revealing a hint of ferocity, wanting to scare and scare the captive.
In fact, there is no need to scare him, he has already been scared, and at this time, when Zhou Tai said this, he was even more frightened, and nodded hurriedly.
"The small ones know everything, and they say everything. Please spare the life of the little one, and the little one is also forced. ”
The captive begged for mercy and wanted Zhou Tai to let him go, but Zhou Tai ignored it and asked what he wanted to know.
"Who are you?"
"We are the soldiers and horses of the German king."
"King De. Who's this? ”
Zhou Tai was stunned, and when he heard the name King De, he was a little unfamiliar.
The captive also realized that the other party might not know the name alone, so he immediately changed his words.
"King Yan Baihu."
"Yan Baihu."
When these three words were spoken, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin were stunned for a moment, and then they knew that the two of them had not guessed wrong, and the black flag and white tiger they had seen before was Yan Baihu, one of the four great water thieves they had in mind.
It's Yan Baihu who seems to be known as the king of Eastern Wude.
In this way, all the clues were on them, and these horses were indeed Yan Baihu's men.
"Yan Baihu, didn't that guy flee from the open sea a few years ago, why has he been adrift at sea all these years? And who are these people? What kind of bird language is spoken in my mouth, why I can't understand a word. ”
Zhou Tai pointed to the other captives on the ship and asked.