Chapter Sixty-Eight: Breaking the Demon Atmosphere with His Own Skillful Hands

On the 28th day of the first month of the tenth year of Jiading in the Great Song Dynasty, the northwest wind that had been blowing for a long time finally weakened slightly. Hanging Island Lighthouse, Meng Xisheng looked south, looking a little worried. Next to him, Li Yilao looked indifferent, playing the leaf flute while looking around.

"Yilao, Da Lang entrusted the safety of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau to you and me, how can you be so lazy!" Seeing him like this, Meng Xisheng complained: "If we go out of the pool, we will not be able to atone for our sins!" ”

"Don't worry, didn't Da Lang teach to make an emergency plan at the beginning, and now that the plan has been arranged, everyone on the island understands what to do if there is something." Li Yilao grinned: "If you don't prepare, you will be wasted, we are well prepared, what are you afraid of!" ”

"I'm not afraid of what happens, if something happens, I'm afraid it won't be as small as last year." Meng Xisheng smiled reluctantly: "Huo Chongcheng is also here, and he also brings a large team of people......

"He's afraid that Nading Gong Ai will run away again." Li Yilao pursed his lips: "Although his gang of men is skilled in guns and sticks, I don't think they can be better than the guards on our island." ”

After the pirates attacked the island last year, although Zhao and Ju did not pursue those guards, and they were even more credited to them afterwards, but since then, Zhao Zi said that Zhao and Ju had a secret order to slowly clear these guards. The newly recruited people all know the fate of those batches, so they practice every day, and now there are nearly 100 guards on the island, all of whom are trained by righteous teenagers.

Compared with them, the nursing home brought by Huo Chongcheng was simply a group of chaotic rabble, so Li Yilao couldn't look down on them.

"Did you two see anything here?"

said Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived, and while the two were talking, Huo Chongcheng staggered over.

Now Huo Chongcheng is seventeen years old, similar to the age of the two, but he is half tall, he is tall and broad-shouldered, and his voice is rich, almost exactly the same as when he was eleven or twelve.

"I didn't see anything." Meng Xi said.

Huo Chongcheng stepped on the stone masonry, raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and the group of companions behind him also squeezed up in a mess, squeezing Meng Xisheng and Li Yilao to the side. The two of them glanced at each other, and they both felt bored, so they confessed to Huo Chongcheng and went down the mountain.

"These two little guys are rude, let's come and they will leave." The big-bellied man muttered to Huo Chongcheng: "It's also a big official and magnanimous, otherwise we must make them look good!" ”

Huo Chongcheng said with a smile: "It's just that you were scolded by them when you went to the island, but you remembered it for a while, and you grew such a big belly in vain!" ”

"What do you mean by this?" One of them asked playfully.

"As the saying goes, the prime minister's belly can support the boat, and the boat can hold it, so he must have a big belly like Lao Qiu, but you see, his belly is bigger than a pregnant woman who is eight months pregnant, but he has a careful eye." Huo Chongcheng laughed as he spoke, and everyone around him laughed out loud regardless of whether he thought he was funny or not.

They are all idle helpers, relying on their fists and feet, they can eat in Huojiazhuang, and they will Huo Chongcheng like Lao Tzu. Huo Chongcheng was fatherless and had no discipline, but Zhao Youju stared at him very closely, and he was also a smart person, so he was never taken away by these idlers, but some small problems were always inevitable.

"Official, the ship, look at the ship." While everyone was talking and laughing, suddenly a sharp-eyed shout.

On the sea in the southeast direction, a boat appeared in everyone's sight, the boat was not big, like a fishing boat, so Huo Chongcheng was stunned for a moment and then scolded with a smile: "A fishing boat, what's the fuss!" ”

"He had been on the sea for a day, and his courage was vomited, so he became courageless...... Hey! Qiu Fatzi, who had just been ridiculed by everyone, seized this opportunity to ridicule the man, but immediately said out himself: "Big official, not only one, but many!" ”

Huo Chongcheng looked at the sea and sky again, and sure enough, after the fishing boat, several more boats appeared, at least three of which were about 2,000 husks of the same kind of big sea.

"It's coming!" His heart jumped.

Then he heard a bamboo whistle blow above the lighthouse, and a brass bell rang out on the spot. Huo Chongcheng looked at the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and the people who were originally walking outside disappeared into the house, and in a moment, one team after another of the guards clinged to swords, guns, bows and crossbows, or went to the fighting, or went to the city wall.

Li Yilao, who had just gone down, led more than 60 people to trot towards the dock, Huo Chongcheng pouted, if those ships were full of pirates, the number of pirates was only more than 1,000, and it was a strange talk that these more than 40 people wanted to block them in the port.

"Fool who sent you to death, for Aju's sake, I'll pull you along." Huo Chongcheng muttered secretly in his heart, and then said to everyone: "Let's go down!" ”

These playful idlers used to be all upright and protruding, looking like heroes, but at this time they were silent. Hearing Huo Chongcheng's greeting, they barely went down, and Huo Chongcheng frowned when he saw it: "Kill a pirate, reward thirty times!" ”

Money is the courage of heroes, wine is a stunning medium, and there is a reward for listening to it, these playful idlers are bold, thinking that there are hundreds of men on this island, and by taking advantage of the location, they may not be able to defeat the pirates, and they are all heroes. Huo Chongcheng's own family felt a little dull on his face, but fortunately, these playful idlers were not the main force he brought, and the martial artists and his family who stayed in the village were the ones who could really fight.

From the lighthouse hill, Huo Chongcheng called his own people together, and when they arrived at the gate of the village, the gate was already closed, no matter how he shouted, the guards at the head of the city just refused to open the door. Huo Chongcheng was in a hurry and also went to the city, but saw that the ship that was originally parked at the pier actually hung up its sails and left the port.

Naturally, it was Li Yilao and others on the boat, who drove the ship out of the harbor, blocked the way into the port, and then anchored and stopped the ship, facing the big ships that were approaching with the side side. This ship is the big ship at the dock that Zhao and Ju saw before they went to Liuqiu, and it is not completely completed now, and there are still some things on the ship that need to be repaired, but it is no longer a problem to go around the offshore.

"Looking for death, if you hit it with a big ship, why drop anchor!" Huo Chongcheng didn't understand naval warfare, but when he saw the ship at anchor, he still saw something wrong and scolded loudly.

"I have my own plans." Meng Xisheng stood at the head of the wall with a pale face, he was not very bold, but according to the rules learned in Yuzhang Villa, in this case, as the master, he had to stand up, instead of shrinking in the room and trembling.

"Xisheng, you opened the gate of the village, let us go out, so that we can meet Li Yilao." Huo Chongcheng knew that he had Zhao and Ju Xinzhong, and he spoke to him politely.

"No, Huo Guanren, after the gate is locked, unless the pirates are defeated, they will not be allowed to open it again, this is the rule set by my master." Meng Xisheng categorically refused: "There is no need for Huo Guanren in this battle for the time being, please go back to the lodging and rest." ”

"That Ding Gong Ai is among the pirates!" Huo Chongcheng roared, but when he saw Meng Xisheng's solemn face, he knew that he couldn't move him. With his identity, he naturally couldn't deal with Meng Xisheng, and he had to save face for Zhao Heju no matter what, so he just glared at him hatefully: "Wait for your master to come, and then I will find you to settle accounts!" ”

When the two were talking, the pirates were already approaching the big ship, and the pirates may also have scruples about this huge ship, so they actually reduced their speed, presumably shouting to each other. When they realized that there was no figure on the giant ship, they let go of their minds.

Ding Gong Ai felt that something was wrong.

The ship was too big, more than twice the size of their largest ship, and if it was all filled with sailors, it would have been possible to hide hundreds of people, but at the moment the ship was empty, why didn't they take advantage of the sheer size of the ship to break themselves?

The instinctive reaction to danger made Ding Gongai want to retreat again. It's just that this time it was the eighteen pirates in the South China Sea who joined forces, and his manpower was nothing among them, so it was not him who decided to advance and retreat, but Wang Ziqing and Zhao Lang. He was about to wake up to the two, and the two had already begun to urge: "Stammer, hurry up, you are the striker, you should take the lead!" ”

Their voices came from the shouting of the sea ship, and Ding Gong Ai glared at the side hatefully, but let the sailors on his own ship shout: "Tell them that the wind is too loud for us to hear clearly." ”

While the two sides were shouting and shouting, a ship of pirates got impatient and rushed forward first. What these pirates are best at is fighting with a tailwind ship, and someone takes the lead, and each ship is heading for the giant ship.

"Take this ship and it will be our ship." Wang Ziqing said to Zhao Lang.

"They may not answer." Zhao Lang pointed at the rest of the pirates.

"Who can they do!" The fierce light flashed in the prince's eyes, and he said coldly.

The two looked at each other and smiled, both of them had their own ghosts. Zhao Lang looked at the giant ship again, and found that the bow of the giant ship was higher than the waterline, and suddenly opened two windows, he said "Huh", and just as he was about to speak, he saw a large pipe sticking out of one of the windows.

"What's that?" The two spoke in unison.

The pipe moved around, obviously aiming, all the pirates were not stupid, seeing the big ship was suspicious, but now it is even more suspicious, that is, the few thieves who rushed to start the ship, now they also ordered to slow down, and almost dropped anchor to watch.

The big pipe was aimed in the direction of the nearest pirate ship and didn't move, and after a few moments, everyone saw the fire and green smoke spewing out of the big brass pipe, and then they could hear the sound. When the sound first came to their ears, all the pirates were stunned, and they only felt that a hundred dry thunders exploded in the sky at the same time, so that there was such a sound, and even the big ship trembled because of this loud noise.

"Boom!"

The squirt came from the large brass pipe, and the ship that was being targeted at the front was fine, but there was a crisp sound from a ship on its side, and then the pirates saw that the ship's mast was broken along with the sail.

"What is this?" Everyone's minds thought so at the same time.

The big brass pipe retracted, and before everyone was hesitating, another big brass pipe stretched out from another window, watching the brass pipe slowly move, and the pirates felt panicked for no reason.

"Boom!" A second loud bang rang out.

The ships of the sea were lined up, the nearest ones were only more than forty feet away from the big ship, and the far ones were less than a hundred feet, so all the pirates on the ship understood that with this sound, something was spewed out of the large brass pipe, and then scattered in two pieces in the air, and with a terrible scream, it spun and flew towards another pirate ship. The thing flew so fast that the pirate ship couldn't avoid it at all, and with another click, the pirate ship's mast also fell.

"I'm not sure again!" Li Yilao scolded that he tried very hard to calibrate the distance with the gun carriage and sight, but he failed to hit the target twice. It's just because there are too many pirate ships that the blind cat hits the dead mouse.

"This ...... What is it? ”

Ouyang Yingfeng muttered, they were still so far away from the big ship, and the other party was not using a crossbow, how could a copper pipe have such power?

"Hexology, it must be sorcery!" One of the pirates screamed in horror as they saw the brass pipe in the first window come out again. The brass turned left and right, as if choosing someone to eat, and this time it targeted the tallest sea ship, which was also the ship of Wang Ziqing and Zhao Lang. The two of them were stunned for a moment and then shouted wildly: "Turn the rudder, turn the rudder, quickly raise the anchor!" ”

However, before they could finish it all, the brass thundered again.

This time it was a little more accurate, and although the thing shot out of the brass pipe hit Wang Ziqing and Zhao Lang's ship, it failed to directly twist the mast, but swept the bow of the ship against the side, and then hit the mast. In the midst of the splash of broken wood and rotten flesh, the pirates let out a miserable wail, and the five or six pirates who were most forward to board the board were twisted in two by the thing, and behind them, more than a dozen people were seriously injured.

The thing fell in front of Wang Ziqing and Zhao Lang, and the two of them finally saw clearly now that these were two semicircular iron mounds, connected by iron cables in the middle. Obviously, on the other side's ship, there is a kind of naval warfare weapon, which is more damaging to the sea ship than its stone throwing and bed crossbow.

The frightened pirates couldn't understand how such a thing could be shot out of the brass pipe, although they had more or less seen the navy fighting, but they had always used bows and arrows and stone crossbows as supplements, with the help of slapping rods and corners, and mainly fighting on the side, and how many times had they seen a sharp weapon that could cause such a terrifying kill from a distance of two hundred zhang! Wang Ziqing and Zhao Lang were so frightened that they couldn't possess their bodies, not to mention those ordinary pirates, so their boats immediately became chaotic, these pirates who killed people and set fire without blinking their eyes are now like wounded dogs that have lost their homes, wailing and running around on the boat, everyone wants to find a safe place to hide. Feeling unsafe on the deck, everyone rushed into the cabin.

Originally, there were no more than a dozen dead and injured on their ship, but the screams and chaos at this time fell in the eyes of the rest of the pirates, but they thought that the ship had suffered great damage. Ding Gong Ai was the first to react, and he shouted: "Turn around, let's get around and avoid this boat!" ”

There was more than one "smart" like him, and almost all the moving pirate ships began to turn their rudders, and the two ones with broken masts switched to oars. In this hurry, the boats are dense, where is it so easy to get out, it is inevitable that you will squeeze me and I will squeeze you, but there are a few small boats, which were hit by accomplices and overturned.

Just when the pirates were in a mess, the giant ship also lifted anchor, and the sailors on board began to adjust the direction of the sails, and in the process, the two copper pipes were released three times each, and the pirate ships were so dense that these six blows were almost uncommon, and three more masts were broken, and two pirate ships were damaged.