Chapter 500: The Higashihei Clan
Taira Kiyomori, who was born in the famous Ise Taira clan in Toei Province, is a well-known figure in the Iga region. Now he is a daimyo and a part-time pirate.
And this pirate fleet of thirteen ships, he is the commander.
He was twenty-eight years old, with a white face, dark eyes, and a high, pointed hooked nose, which added a bit of coldness. Like all Dongying men, he was only a little more than four feet tall, which was equivalent to the height of a twelve or thirteen-year-old child in the Central Plains.
The armor on his body is the most popular large armor in the Eastern Ying Kingdom. The armor is made of iron with a knot, the shoulder armor is large, the middle armor is made of small pieces, the neck part is very short, the color is bright, and it is woven with silk and rope. Every leaf on the armor is oiled gold, and all the silk threads on it are bright red, giving the whole armor a subtle look. The visor was dark and gloomy, and it was made in the shape of a monster, which was terrifying.
Unlike the armor of the Central Plains, Taira Kiyomori's helmet has an unusually complicated headdress. There are two horns on the top of the head, and the snow-white animal hair is on both sides, which looks very strange. The animal hair is the bristles, the Central Plains called a person who can fight very well as the "tiger general", and the fiercest beast in Dongying is a wild boar, so Dongying uses bristles to show the bravery of a samurai. He also had two swords, one long and one short, pinned to his waist, and looking at the shape, it was nine points similar to the horizontal knife improved by the Akagi Army.
Looking at the Central Plains fleet a few miles away, the corners of his mouth showed a cruel and greedy sneer.
The warships of the Central Plains are very good, and the weapons are advanced enough, but their combat effectiveness is too low. More than a month ago, he personally captured a Central Plains fleet, and the mountains of cargo on those merchant ships still excite him. As for the so-called warships, they are now lying in his dock, and once they are repaired, they will become sharp weapons in his hands.
"Daimyo, we are really lucky today, we just robbed five merchant ships, and here are four more." His subordinate Heian Tai also said excitedly.
"Don't be careless, the ships on the other side are ready." Although Taira Kiyomori was arrogant, he was also a careful person, and he pointed to the three high-raised clap poles of the Fire Dragon King and admonished.
"Hah! It's this kind of big stick again, I really don't know what the use is. "I've heard that boats like theirs are river boats, and those poles may be useful in narrow rivers, but on the sea, I will teach them how to behave." ”
Ping Qingsheng smiled slightly, noncommittal, in fact, he also knew in his heart that Ping An Tai was right, this is the sea, the space for the movement of the ship is much larger, and their small boat has countless ways to avoid the slap on the big ship of the Fire Dragon King, and easily lean on.
Ping Qingsheng's eyes suddenly keenly caught several cold rays coming from the surface, "The fleet is scattered!" He knew that it was a crossbow arrow from the Central Plains, and immediately ordered.
Seventeen or eighteen Toei pirate ships scattered like fish, successfully dodging the four small spear-like crossbow arrows.
"That's a lot of speed." Seeing the Dongying pirate's ship moving so quickly, the Fire Dragon King exclaimed again, "The bed crossbow continues to shoot, fireball."
The machine also began to shoot. ”
After receiving the order, the bed crossbows and fireball machines on the seven ships immediately moved, and for a time countless crossbow arrows roared towards the pirate ship, and the fireballs ignited a raging fire and smashed into the pirate ship in a parabola. The momentum is extremely terrifying, but the results of the battle are pitiful, the two sides are still about a mile apart, and the sea is turbulent, and the accuracy of these big guys is even worse, it is not easy to hit a small pirate ship, a round of coverage and blows down, almost no damage to the pirates.
The pirates' Xiao Zao and Guan Ship kept making evasive moves, and they all pounced on the Fire Dragon King in a zigzag shape. The Fire Dragon King saw with his own eyes that several crossbow arrows almost stabbed the enemy's largest ship, but they were all deftly dodged. Only one ship was unlucky, and it collided head-on with a fireball, which was immediately ignited, and the pirates on it hurriedly began to extinguish the fire.
"These pirates are not simple, and compared to them, our brothers are like landlubbers." Seeing the enemy operating the warship so skillfully, the Fire Dragon King said solemnly.
"Yes, these pirates are really hard to deal with." Huo Geng no longer had the frivolity he had at the beginning, and he frowned and said.
The father and son are right, they have been paying for water on Huolong Island for more than ten years, and they can be said to be sideways characters on the Yellow River. If you want to talk about the skills of boating, they call it second, no one dares to call it first, today they have seen what it means to have people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the sky. These pirates are countless times more skilled than them.
"Geng'er, pass the order down and let the brothers prepare to take over the battle." The Fire Dragon King put away his mind and ordered Huo Gengdao.
"Do you want to continue firing crossbow arrows and fireballs?" Huo Geng received the order and asked again.
"Of course, that would confuse them. Didn't they want to fight us hand-to-hand? I have two thousand men waiting for them. The Fire Dragon King said with a sneer.
Seeing the enemy's continuous firebow arrows and fireballs, Ping Qingsheng sneered slightly, the Central Plains people also have some ability in this regard, and when they are engaged in hand-to-hand combat, they are definitely not the opponents of the Dongying warriors.
"Pass the order, speed up!" Watching the ship that was hit by the fireball slowly sank, Taira Kiyoshi decided to escape from the coverage area of the enemy's long-range weapons as soon as possible, and ordered loudly.
A strange horn sounded, and the already fast pirate ship picked up speed again, and plunged into the gap in the middle of the Fire Dragon King's fleet.
"Bump it over!" Seeing Xiao Zao, who was in the lead, rushing towards his side, Liu Qing ordered loudly.
The sea falcon immediately turned and cut off the way Xiao Zao had come. Although the sea falcon ship is much larger than Xiao Zao, because it is downwind, it is even more sailed, and the speed is not much slower than Xiao Zao. Crashed into Xiao Zao like a lightning speed.
"Yaga! Turn! Seeing that the sharp collision angle of the bow of the sea falcon was getting bigger and bigger, the commander of the small early ship hurriedly shouted.
The helmsman of the small hayafune struggled to the right to rudder, and at the same time the oarsman on the left immediately stopped rowing, and the speed of the oarsman on the right suddenly accelerated
It was able to avoid Liu Qing's impact.
The commander happily wiped the cold sweat, and before he could put his hand down, he only felt "poof!" on the splint. There was a muffled sound, and then there was a flurry of sawdust. He hurried over to find a big hole in the splint.
It turned out that Wang Yu saw that this little morning boat avoided Liu Qing's collision, and just sailed towards him, the speed was not fast, and he immediately ordered the bed crossbow to shoot. As expected, the blow was a hit.
"It's leaking! It's leaking! "There was a ghost cry from the bilge of the small early ship, and it turned out that the crossbow arrow had shot it through.
The small size of the small boat was obviously too late to heal such an injury, and the sea rushed in, and in the blink of an eye, it flooded half of the cabin. The pirates jumped into the water and swam towards the surrounding allies.
"Run over!" The fact that he didn't hit the small boat just now made Liu Qing's face feverish, and he pointed to the three or four human heads floating on the water, and ordered loudly.
The sea falcon spun around and accelerated, successfully crushing a dozen heads to the bottom of the ship, crashing straight into a ship that was rescuing friendly troops, and a burst of blood swelled in the waves behind it.
"Bang!" With a loud bang, the twelve or thirteen-zhang long ship was hit by the sea falcon boat. Because the ship did not have a keel, the sharp sea falcon slammed it into two pieces like a torn paper. After a few breaths, it sank.
The hull of the sea falcon was also a huge earthquake, and the sailors and soldiers on the splint were caught off guard and fell to the ground like dumplings. Liu Qing grabbed the railing in front of him in advance, and sat on the ground with his ass.
Just after the battle, he lost a Guan ship and two Xiao Zao, Taira Kiyomori finally felt that the enemy was unusual, but he was not false, all the warships under his command infiltrated the enemy's ships, just waiting to board the ship and kill people, "Order, take the ship!" ”
With his order, more than a dozen small morning boats immediately changed direction and rushed towards the sides of the ships on both sides of the sea eagle and the Lou ship.
These Dongying people are worthy of being experts in robbery and expert in handling boats, and they rely on the small and flexible boats to drill into the gap between the levers.
The Fire Dragon King naturally wouldn't let these ships get close, and with an order, the high-raised slap rods on the seven boats smashed fiercely towards the small morning boat.
......There was a loud bang, and the hundreds of pounds of stones on the slap rod smashed into the water vigorously, stirring up several zhang waves. More than a dozen clapsticks fell into the water at the same time, making the waves in the center of the battlefield turbulent, and even the Fire Dragon King's building ship trembled, and even directly overturned the two small morning boats.
"Ding Ding Ding ......" There was a crisp sound, and more than a dozen iron hooks were instantly hung on the sides of the boat on both sides of Liu Qing, and the ropes under the iron hooks were instantly tightened.
"Get up and get ready for hand-to-hand combat!" Liu Qinggang stood up and commanded loudly to his subordinates.
The soldiers who had just fallen to the ground immediately got up and hurriedly ran to their respective combat posts, ready to pick up the station.
"Cut the rope!" Liu Qing knew that there must be countless pirates climbing up on the rope, so he hurriedly ordered.
A soldier hurried to a rope near him, raised his horizontal knife and was about to cut it.