Volume 3 Pen Knife Spring and Autumn Chapter 458 Electricity and flint
Although Yelufu said it casually, the key is that except for the crew, the rest of the people on this ship are Liao, and they are basically landlubbers, so naturally I don't know whether what Yelufu said is right or wrong, anyway, it sounds like this, so I didn't dig deeper.
Now the three boats that they had been chasing behind were getting closer and closer to Muhiro's ship in front, and everyone was waiting for the moment when they approached the connection. There are indeed many rewards, and Yelu Junmao and Yelu Haiqi have even more generous rewards for these Liao, after all, any rewards related to ink blades are particularly generous in the Great Liao Kingdom.
Especially the nobles who had been assassinated by the ink blade before, they united to give a sky-high bounty, and Yelu Haiqi and Yelu Junmao were rare and generous this time, and they were willing to take out half of those bounties and distribute them to the people below.
You must know that those nobles united to offer a heavy bounty on the ink blade, but the entire Great Liao Kingdom knew about it, so these acceptances were also known, if Yelu Haiqi and Yelu Junmao really swallowed most of the bounty, they would lose some of their hearts.
If it weren't for the kind of people who were particularly well-known, they could be greedy for some of it, but this kind of well, it's better to be generous and generous, and this is not their own money, they are just generous to others.
As the distance between the four ships became closer and closer, from 500 at the beginning, to 400 paces, and then to 300 steps, the condition of the ships in front could be seen more and more clearly.
They saw that the ship had a charcoal basin lit at the tail and on both sides, and although they were a little curious, they didn't think much of it, but the charcoal brazier also completely lit up the surroundings, allowing them to see more clearly what was going on on the ship.
"Boss Wu, are they completely asleep? Why didn't you see anyone on deck? Next to Wu Chengye, a gang member asked.
Wu Chengye spat at the river, then slapped the head of the person who asked the question just now, and said in a huffing voice: "You ask me and I ask who to go, it's just that I didn't guess that we would chase and kill, and now they are all sleeping sweetly in the cabin." ”
The man touched the back of his head, his eyes were aggrieved, but he didn't dare to hide anything, he just cowered and said: "I just think they are also outlaws, so they don't have a sense of vigilance......"
Wu Chengye slapped the back of the head of the person who spoke, and scolded angrily: "What do you think, I don't want you to think, I just think that they are sleeping, then they are sleeping, what, they are sleeping, you are very unhappy, you have to wake them up, and then let them burst out with the strongest combat power to fight us to the death when they are at stake......
At this time, the person who asked the question before was even more aggrieved, and he didn't even reply, but the ink man's own head, with his head down, didn't even dare to look at Wu Chengye.
However, although Wu Chengye refuted his subordinates twice in a row, he began to feel that something was wrong in his heart, since he could be appointed by Jing Zhe to be the commander of this ship, he could be regarded as Jing Zhe's henchman, otherwise he would not have brought it over when he was chasing and killing Mu Hong.
He naturally met Mu Hong with Jing Zhe before, and he also knew Mu Hong's character and personality, according to the original Mu Hong's character, he must be very careful, under normal circumstances, even if there is a shortage of manpower, one or two people will be left to keep watch at night, but this time there is really no one.
Could it be that he felt that they did not choose to stop at night but rushed overnight, so he felt that there would definitely be no pursuers to follow them overnight, and when Mu Hong and they left, there were no pursuers, and they left very safely and calmly, it is difficult to say that Mu Hong really feels that they are safe.
Of course, this is just Wu Chengye's own inner judgment and understanding of Mu Hong, thinking about it like this, it seems to have become reasonable, and he didn't bother with this doubt before.
In the eyes of everyone, this encirclement and pursuit of Mu Hong is not difficult at eleven points, not to mention that there are five hundred people in their entirety, even if they are currently in their early three hundreds, Wu Chengye also feels that it is more than enough to destroy Mu Hong and his helpers. He even felt that the gang leader Jing Zhe and the two Liao deputy gang leaders' ships would not rush over, and they could just wait for him in place and their triumphant return.
As they dispersed, the three ships that formed an encircled situation were getting closer and closer to Mu Hong's ship, and slowly entered a distance of two hundred steps, and everyone stopped their conversations, and some of them had to say, and they also unconsciously lowered their voices, for fear of waking Mu Hong and them.
Like Wu Chengye, the other two ships, with the blessing of Yelu and Ge Mi, also fell silent, waiting for the ships to connect and quickly rush to kill.
For them, people who are asleep, or who have just woken up, are far less effective than those who are prepared in advance, and who are in despair and can only fight hard. For Wu Chengye, Ge Mi and Yelu Servant, the people under their hands are also flesh and blood, and they will also be injured and killed, so now that they can sneak attack quietly, why do they have to wake up the other party and wait for the other party to fight back desperately.
Therefore, the three ships that spread out to form an encirclement and suppression trend, at this time, the people above were all looking at the ship in the middle with an excited face, and the distance between the three and three ships and the middle ship was just right, ensuring that the waiting meeting could connect with the middle ship at almost the same time.
The decks of the three ships were full of people, and even the people behind were desperately squeezing forward, thinking if they could squeeze to the front, and when the time came, they could also rush to the front, and slash twice when the other party did not react.
It's hard to say that the other party is strong in martial arts, and he wants to kill but is killed, this is not nothing, this will definitely happen, so those who are crowded in the first row definitely don't want to let go, and the people in the back are desperately squeezing forward, but the local space is really crowded, and it is not convenient to turn around and squat or move your feet.
Except for Yelufu, Wu Chengye and Ge Mi, the space around them is quite spacious, and the other spaces are really crowded with people, which also lays the groundwork for the tragedy later. However, they didn't know what awaited them in front of them, and they just took it for granted that since they didn't see any figures swaying on the deck, they were really sleeping.
At this time, wrapped in the stern of the ship in the middle, Yun Qing was half-squatting behind the cover, looking at the condition of the ship, and he could also see that the distance between the ships on both sides was also slowly narrowing, and the distance between the three ships and their ship was about one hundred and fifty steps.
Yun Qing gave Helian Qishan and Wu Angel beside him a look, the two nodded knowingly, and quickly crawled to both sides of the ship very covertly, and notified Liu Baiqing and Mu Hong respectively, saying that the enemy's ship was about to arrive, ready for battle, and then quickly crawled back to the stern.
Previously, when the pursuers were only five hundred paces away from them and lit the charcoal brazier, Yun Qing ordered everyone to check their combat equipment, and if they were all ready, then lie on the deck to rest, recuperate, and wait for the notice.
It had been said in advance that when the time was one hundred and fifty paces, someone would be sent to inform them, and at this time they would pay full attention, and the arrows would be placed in the grooves of the crossbow arrows, ready at any time, and as soon as they remembered the whistle, they would immediately stand up and shoot at the enemy.
Of course, in order to prevent them, especially the people of Lei Laohu's pair, from being accidentally injured or affecting the shooting of his comrades next to him because of confusion or mistakes in occupying the place, Liu Yunqing used black charcoal to divide the position for everyone on the deck, lying on his stomach is also lying in this position, and standing in this position when he stands up later.
Now that everyone had heard the announcement, the enemy was only one hundred and fifty paces away from them, and was about to be within a hundred paces of fire, so everyone carefully examined their crossbow arrows, and had already placed their homemade arrows on the grooves, waiting to stand up and pull the buckle.
And everyone put their homemade wooden arrows into their quivers, put them in front of them, and when they finished shooting a round, they could immediately bend down and take the arrows, put them in the grooves, and then pull the arrow strings behind them to shoot.
Taibai Secret Guard don't worry, when they were still training in the secret camp before, they had practiced many times, and this kind of action can be said to be completed in an instant, and even if the position of the quiver is placed in advance, it can be quickly completed with your eyes closed. As for Lei Laohu, several of them had never touched crossbow arrows before, and although they had practiced hard in the afternoon, the speed of loading arrows was still not very fast. Fortunately, the ten of them are scattered, and there are only four places at most among the more than 20 people on one side, so the impact is not very great.
Yun Qing was still half-squatting and hiding behind the bunker, carefully looking at the distance of the enemy ship in the direction of the stern and the direction of both sides of the hull, judging by the naked eye that it had reached a distance of one hundred paces, he suddenly blew the whistle that had been shouting in his mouth, and at the same time Huo Ran stood up, while holding the crossbow arrow in his left hand, he waved his right hand violently and roared: "Shoot arrows!" ”
Then he quickly put his right hand on the wrench of the crossbow arrow and pulled it down hard. In an instant, all seventy-three people on the ship stood up, and seventy-three arrows were shot in three directions.
And when Yun Qing whistled and stood up and shouted and shot arrows, Wu Chengye, who was in the direction of Yun Qing's stern, was standing at the bow of his ship at this time, and he was at the front, and he saw the crossbow arrow in Yun Qing's hand for the first time, as well as the sound of "archery".
He was immediately frightened, his eyes widened, almost his soul was scattered, between the lightning and flint, he wanted to bend down to dodge too late, because he didn't know where the opponent's crossbow arrow was aiming, if it was the original head position, then he just dodged, if the opponent was originally aiming at the waist and stomach position, then he bent down just to be shot to the head.
And there were people all around, even if he wanted to jump to avoid the arrows flying over, it was too late, at the moment of emergency, I saw that he had caught the person who had been asking questions before, and pulled it horizontally in front of him, and at the same time of pulling, he also took two steps back, which was equivalent to in an instant, the person was completely in front of him.
"Poof", the body of the person in front of him shook, and the scream stopped abruptly halfway, although he fell softly, Wu Chengye knew that the other party was hit by an arrow, and he was already dead when he saw this situation, and he was glad that he had escaped the catastrophe at the same time, he was also afraid.
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