"Here we are." Tang Jing's voice said.

Liu Ming subconsciously wanted to ask what was coming, but he felt like something was blocked in his throat, and finally couldn't make a sound. Besides, the questioning may be superfluous, because the undulations of the hull and the rough waves outside the stern have already told people what is coming.

Tang Jing guessed correctly before, after a storm, the treasure ship arrived in the "eye of the storm", and the wind and waves only calmed down a little temporarily. A second storm is coming.

After a while, in the midst of the noise of the great wind and waves, a shouting came from a wooden hole upstairs. Then one of his head leaned on the roof of the cabin and shouted: "Big wave, the left wing is five feet, one hundred and twenty feet!" ”

The voice of the report was very decisive, and although it was impossible for people to accurately measure the distance, and they only estimated it by eye, they still reported a categorical conclusion.

Tang Jing replied without raising his head: "Okay! ”

He gripped the rudder with both hands, his cheeks flushed, his eyes wide, and he kept turning his head to look at the waves on either side of the rudder and behind him. The boat was too long and the light was so dim that it was not easy for people in the stern to see what was ahead; Tang Jing may only be able to guess the estimated wind and wave conditions on the sea surface only by looking at the back and side.

The storm whistled in the sound of the crash, and the glass lamps hanging in the rudder flickered on and off, getting darker and darker, and many of the lights had gone out on their own.

Liu Ming gripped the railing on the bulkhead hard, and in the flickering lights, he saw that the soldiers around him were all acting like him, and people's faces were full of nervousness and fear. They stared at the dark night sky ahead, as if they had held their breath.

A moment later, a wave swept over the deck. Then the hull of the ship seemed to be thrown up and began to climb.

"Whoa!" The seawater poured into the helm tower and pounced on Liu Ming's face. He felt suffocated, his brain was dazed, the sea water in his mouth and nose was very salty, and he couldn't help but spit water indiscriminately.

After a while, the hull descended with a deafening loud noise, followed by the shouts of people and the clanging of debris. Liu Ming's abdomen hit the railing hard, and the pain made him weak. The wooden boat did not fall apart, which made him feel a magical sense of happiness.

Tang Jing's voice said loudly: "Let's meet the big waves, we must pass from the front!" Otherwise, the side side will be hit, and the ship will capsize. ”

At this time, Liu Ming suddenly realized why Tang Jing, as the commander, was in the helm tower instead of the command tower above. In the midst of the storm, the only thing a mortal can do is to control the direction of the ship's hull, and the direction of the ship is also the key to success or failure! Tang Jing obviously trusts himself the most.

Big waves are one after the other, and the intervals are not the same. Liu Ming occasionally felt a little remorseful, he felt that he should wait with his eyes closed in the bedroom of the official hall; It's better than this, hovering on the edge of the underworld again and again, with your heart hanging on your throat and unable to fall, and you can't predict the fate of life and death.

The shouts from the command tower came again, and the voice of the military general who passed the message was hoarse and trembling, and he could probably guess that a bigger wave was coming.

Tang Jing's face was flushed and glowing, and while he reached out to stroke the waves on his face, he shouted frantically and loudly: "The sea is my home, and the wind and waves are wild horses...... Phew! Tantrums......"

Suddenly lightning flashed between the sea and the sky, and Liu Ming could see the waves in front of him

。 It was like a wall of water, sweeping at a rapid pace, blocking most of the sky. The approaching giant wall made Liu Ming almost forget his breath, and his eyes froze there.

"Boom!" A deafening thunder roared overhead, and a flood of water rushed onto the deck, and the white splash and the raging tide poured straight into the helm, and all the lights were extinguished, and there was darkness all around. There was a "click" sound from the deck of a broken mast.

Liu Ming finally took a breath and coughed desperately. The hull of the ship jerked upward, and he had in his mind the magnificent image of a giant whale leaping out of the sea. However, at the moment, he could not see anything in front of him, and the darkness made people even more panicked.

Suddenly, there was a white light in front of him, and the lightning illuminated the four fields again. The rudder was located at the stern of the ship, and Liu Ming opened his eyes and saw the big waves at the stern of the ship sloping like a slope, and the huge turbulent water surface was very terrifying, and the whole ship seemed to fly up a hillside.

Some had already taken to the air, and people shouted almost in unison. In the shocking thunder and wind and waves, the people's shouts seemed so weak.

Liu Ming suddenly felt a kind of loneliness in his heart. There are no enemy troops here, the navy of the Ming Empire is only fighting with the natural divine power between heaven and earth, and mortals seem to be vulnerable and vulnerable in front of such a scene. Liu Ming even began to question the significance of the navy, after all, even if it could defeat the equally weak enemy army, it would never be able to compete with heaven and earth.

In the midst of the great tremors, the treasure ship swept through the waves unharmed. There was a cry and groan of pain all around, but the ship on which everyone depended was still there!

Liu Ming closed his eyes and sat on the floor with both hands on the railing. He endured it head-on, and just wanted it to pass quickly.

A voice came from his ears: "Commander Tang, you are bleeding." They all shouted to each other, so Liu Ming heard it very clearly. Tang Jing said: "I'm fine, I can't die." ”

Liu Ming thought that maybe everyone would die in the sea; Perhaps the most dangerous place has passed, and it will be safe to endure a little longer. At this moment, everyone is just in the place of the judgment of fate.

Tang Jing's voice shouted again: "Attention, there may be a big wave coming." ”

Liu Ming was holding on to the railing close to the ship's wall, his eyes closed and he wasn't ready to open them. He felt that his tolerance had reached the limit, and he didn't want to know whether he was dead or alive.

At this time, he noticed that the lightning around him was shining again, even though his eyes were closed.

Suddenly, a screaming voice came from above: "Directly ahead, two hundred feet, capsize the Monchong ship!" ”

The voice was full of fear, and the sound of the words trembled between the words, as if they had seen a ghost.

The crowd was in an uproar. After the loud thunder roared, some people no longer cared about confusing the morale of the army and violating military law, and shouted there: "Death is done! It's over......"

Liu Ming didn't know sailing skills at all, but with his only sailing experience, he suddenly understood: it seemed that it was really going to be over.

The two boats so close together were only about two hundred feet, and even when the wind was calm, it was very, very difficult to turn and dodge. There is no way to do this, I really can't find an obstacle a little farther away at night, if it weren't for the lightning just now, it is estimated that the officers and soldiers on the command tower would not have seen it now.

What's more, a big wave is looming closer! I'm afraid that Tang Jing didn't dare to turn at all at this time, otherwise even if he was lucky enough to avoid the Monchong ship, the treasure ship would be overturned by the big waves because of the side facing the waves. Once the ship capsizes, the sand and gravel in the bilge pour up, and the hull cannot be turned over again. The cracks on the deck and in all parts of the ship could not hold back the sea at all, and the treasure ship was afraid to sink.

In this vast sea, people's bodies have been subjected to a terrifying huge storm, and it is strange that they can survive. Liu Ming made up his mind that he would die on the ship.

In the darkness, there was a cry of unknown people: "Mother, my son can't be filial." Vaguely, there are still people praying: "I haven't killed anyone yet, I won't steal or rob in my life, may the Buddha cross into the Western Heavens......" and someone shouted: "Brothers, don't fall behind on the Huangquan Road, get together!" ”

Liu Ming's eyes had adapted to the darkness, and he was very close to Tang Jing, and he could already see Tang Jing's movements in the darkness through the faint light.

Tang Jing was shouting nonsense, of course he didn't pray, he was just scolding, and there were all kinds of foul language.

And Liu Ming miraculously found that Tang Jing was still desperately breaking the rudder. He wants to dodge the Mongrush? That's impossible! So close that no one can dodge.

Sure enough, Tang Jing shouted: "It's going to crash!" ”

Liu Ming saw that Tang Jing was desperately turning the rudder to the right! Liu Ming suddenly understood a little.

The hull of the ship was tilted to the left at first, and Tang Jing was spinning the hull to the right before the impact. In this way, after the collision, the right-handed treasure ship is bounced to the left; The power hatchback is offset, maybe the angle of inclination of the treasure ship can be smaller? After planning to collide with the ship, Tang Jing prepared to face the coming waves.

Liu Ming suddenly had great respect for this person. Maybe Tang Jing still couldn't change the fate of the destruction of the treasure ship in the end, but at the last moment, he still didn't give up at all.

"Boom!" A deafening crash was heard, and the entire hull shook violently. The sound of the hull cracking of the Monchong ship was also clearly heard in the noise of the wind and waves.

Liu Ming's head hit something hard, and he couldn't see it clearly. Suddenly, he felt a burst of white mist rise between the black in front of him, and dizziness hit his whole body, and he didn't know where he was.

He wanted to scream, but he probably hadn't said anything for a long time, and he couldn't make a sound at all.

Or maybe it was Tang Jing's last insistence that stimulated Liu Ming's desire to survive. When Liu Ming's body was almost uncontrollable, his hands were still tightly gripping the railing, insisting on the desire to live.

"Wow!" The sea water hit Liu Ming on his face, and he vaguely felt a little sober. But he was still so faint that he couldn't feel what was happening. Subconsciously, he just thought that the waves might have hit again, because many times when the big waves came, there was seawater pouring into the helm.

The direction, the sound, everything around him became vain, and Liu Ming only remembered to hold on to the wooden pole tightly. He didn't know if the treasure ship had capsized or not, and in the haze he thought it might be helpless; In an instant after the collision, the waves came, where was the time to adjust the direction of the ship?

Suddenly, there was a "buzz" in his ears, and Liu Ming completely fell into the darkness, and he didn't know anything.