Volume 3 Spring and Autumn of the Pen Knife Chapter 461 The peak turns around, and he is suddenly saved!
Now the fire on the ship has reached a situation where it cannot be controlled even if it is tried to, not only has the towering pole been burned off, and it has fallen down to continue to ignite the canvas that has been significantly reduced by open flames, but the half of the pole that is still standing is still burning violently.
Wu Chengye wanted to go out and use tools such as brooms to put out the fire, but from his point of view, he could see that half of Yun Qing's people were holding crossbow arrows, waiting for them to kill when they went out to fight the fire, and half of them were slowly arranging the rockets, he watched the other party ignite the tarpaulin on the rocket, and then focused on his side.
Then Wu Chengye heard the sound of "bang bang", and as soon as he heard it, he could hear the sound of bows and arrows hitting the outer wall of their cabin, because the whole ship was made of wood, so crossbow arrows could shoot into the wall.
At this time, Wu Chengye thought that each crossbow arrow was tied with a burning tarpaulin, and because of the raging flames on the canvas on the deck and on the pole, the ship was now setting off heat waves from time to time.
Let the temperature in this space become scorching, Wu Chengye can naturally judge that if there were only a few rockets fired on the cabin, they would definitely not ignite the wood outside the cabin, but now, even his face has felt the burning unbearable, and his skin is very hot, so at such a temperature, the wood outside the cabin is really likely to be ignited by those rockets.
Wu Chengye is so depressed that he wants to vomit blood now, he is too aggrieved, there are so many people, but because of the advantage of long-range archery, more than 40 people were shot alive, and he also watched the other party use fire attack to set his ship on fire.
The point is that they can't put out the fire yet, they can't do anything, just wait for the fire to get more and more intense, and others are waiting for them to go out to put out the fire with crossbow arrows in their hands, maybe now others want them to do it.
But it's not a way for them to huddle in the cabin, and if they wait like this, the whole ship will catch fire, and they will still be killed, as for jumping into the river? It's basically a life of nine deaths, and you won't do it until you have to. Because the cabin still led to the stern, they were not very panicked because the fire was too big to get out.
If it doesn't work, everyone will flee to the stern of the boat, and then make a decision depending on the situation, but this is already the last choice to be made. Thinking of this, Wu Chengye's eyes suddenly lit up, and he turned to the people in the cabin and said.
"Hurry to the stern of the ship and pry open the walls and decks behind the cabin!" After speaking, he walked to the stern of the cabin first.
The rest of the people looked at each other, not knowing why Boss Wu suddenly asked them to do this at this time, could it be that they wanted to use this kind of split or pried wooden planks to fight fires?
Then a person suddenly reacted and exclaimed: "Boss Wu is preparing for jumping ship later, there is a wooden stick or plank to hold, at least he can float on the river!" ”
After he said this, everyone reacted and hurriedly ran to the back of the cabin, and the crew members who had been cowering in the cabin early before also reacted at this time, and each went to find tools, such as kitchen knives, hammers, axes, hammers and other tools, as long as they could use everything in their hands, they also wanted to live.
As for their ship being destroyed because of this, it has become unimportant in the face of life and death, even if they want to protect it with all their hearts, they can't stop Wu Chengye's gang from chopping, and they can't stop the fire from continuing to grow bigger and ignite the whole ship. By that time, all the wood will be burned to the ground, and perhaps the bottom of the boat will survive after being soaked in the water.
Now this precarious situation is not only on Wu Chengye's ship, but also on the ships of Ge Mi and Yelufu, who are also facing the embarrassing situation of watching the fire on the ship slowly grow larger but unable to do so. They had already organized a firefight, and all but two who had a quick reaction to re-lie down or crawled to a safe place, were all shot as live targets.
The two ships were shot and killed just because of firefighting, and there were more than a dozen people each, and when they got to the back, even if Liu Baiqing's side and Mu Hong's side shot rockets at the outer wall of the cabin on their sides, they were indifferent. And they had already thought that if the fire on the boat was too fierce, they could only abandon the boat and jump into the river.
Yelu Servant is very desperate for this, if he does not jump, he will be burned to death or suffocated because the fire in the space is too fierce to breathe, if he jumps, they are all landlubbers, and jumping down is also a certain death, so Yelu Servant tried all kinds of methods, and finally thought of using the wood that is still intact on the ship now, and chopping it into door panels or strips, and using the buoyancy of the wood in the water may be able to escape.
Thinking of this, they just said they would do it, anyway, they were waiting in the cabin, and because they approached Mu Hong's ship at a similar angle to parallel, they were slowly approaching when they were moving forward in the oblique thorn, so at this time, one side of them was completely seen by Mu Hong's ship, even the stern.
So it was useless for them to even run to the stern of the boat to chop like Wu Chengye, they could only come to the other side of the ship with their backs to Mu Hong to chop. On Ge Mi's side, because Ge Mi and the leaders died in large numbers at the beginning, now the dragons are leaderless, and the people who are still alive are hiding in the cabin, and those who were seriously injured by the crossbow arrows before are still lying on the deck, unable to move themselves, and no one is willing to help at this time.
Several of them were hit by the canvas that fell from above, and some of the canvas hit right next to him, but at such a close distance, the temperature was also extremely high, and several half of their bodies were pressed by the canvas that was slowly spreading from the fire, and the canvas on their bodies also began to burn at this time, and these people were burned alive with such a wail.
Even the air was filled with the peculiar smell of burning people in addition to the burning smell of wood and canvas, which made everyone else in the cabin nauseous, and some even retched or vomited on the spot. They are now feeling deep fear and helplessness.
The status quo of being able to wait for death slowly also made the atmosphere of the scene extremely depressing, and some people even broke down and cried because they couldn't bear it! They never thought that one by one they happily wanted to come over to kill people and receive rewards, but now that no one has been killed, and even the other party's ship has not boarded, more than forty people have died on their side, and the rest of them will have to spend time waiting for death.
Such a gap is too big, coupled with the fear and torture of slowly waiting for death, so that some people who are not very determined will collapse directly, and even more unable to hold on to waiting like this, jumping directly out of the cabin window into the Yangtze River.
This man's actions startled everyone, and the others hurriedly ran to the window to look at the man, and saw him fluttering in the river at this time, he could swim, but he seemed to be very unlucky, and there was a small whirlpool next to him, which sucked him, and after two flutters, he went down, and then after a while, the man floated again, trying to swim up the riverbank, but after a while, he encountered a small whirlpool, and was swept into it again, and this time he never floated again.
Everyone saw it in their eyes, and their hearts were even more frightened, everyone knew that person, usually the water nature was already good among everyone, but it was such a person with good water nature, in the Yangtze River, where there were some wind and waves, and the undercurrent under the river was surging, in the end, he still couldn't escape the end of drowning.
It was inspired by this man, so the people on the ship also thought of chopping the wood on the ship as a way to save the driftwood, and everyone began to chop on the edge of the cabin window on the other side, which was better to start here, and even more so to use the axe, at this time they had the advantage, and the axe was rounded and the axe went down, and a large hole was opened, while the long knife did not have such an effect, and some even had the edge of the knife curled.
"Cloud Commander, they don't dare to take the lead at all!"
At this time, Liu Baiqing and Mu Hong both came to the stern of the boat to find Yun Qing with happy expressions, wanting to ask what to do next.
Because no one on the other side appeared in their line of sight anymore, and all of them hid, then they naturally would not waste arrows to shoot blindly. After firing a few arrows with rockets, they found that the fire on the other party's ship had completely become bigger, and as long as someone did not fetch water to fight the fire in the back, it could theoretically not be extinguished.
"Yes! Now the fire has become bigger, unless it is suddenly raining heavily, otherwise with the current fire, even if they come out to put out the fire, it is estimated that it will not be extinguished, and we still wish that they would come out to put out the fire, so that we can shoot a few more people. Mu Hong said with a smile, he himself has been hunted and killed, and his son has also been hunted and killed, and in the past few days in Xicheng, it can be said that he is like a lost dog, hiding in Tibet, and after a period of time, it is better to hide in Ba Xuyao's mansion.
Now seeing that these people who chased him have such retribution, he is naturally very happy, and the evil anger in his heart finally came out a little, but unfortunately he knows that Jing Zhe and the two Liao people are definitely not on these three ships, but behind to supervise the battle, but seeing that these three ships that have been chasing and planning to encircle and suppress them are on fire one after another, and the people on board are either dead or slowly waiting for death, he still feels that the depression in his heart has finally eased a little.
It's just that before he finished saying this, the smile on his face hadn't faded away, and he heard a burst of thunder, even though there was a crackling sound of burning wood all around, he could still hear this thunder very clearly.
Yun Qing and Liu Baiqing both looked at Mu Hong with strange eyes, this crow's mouth is really whatever it says!
And Mu Hong was also stunned for a moment, then slammed his mouth and said hatefully: "My stinky mouth!" ”
And the people of the other three ships, including Yelu Servant, Wu Chengye and others, all stopped chopping, and at the same time raised their heads to look at the night sky, I don't know when, the original moon star was rare at this time, but there was already a thick layer of dark clouds, and it was in the sky above them, looking at this situation, it seemed that it was about to rain!
"Boom!" There was another loud thunderclap, and they had seen a flash of lightning in the clouds!
"Saved! Hahaha! Almost everyone burst into maniac laughter.
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