53. Hide and seek at sea
We walked silently in front, and the Kumano Naval Army of Nine Ghost Kataka silently chased behind. They can't reach us, so they don't fire; We had the range to reach their outposts, but they were innocuous boats, so we weren't in a hurry to open fire.
At present, we are heading about 45 degrees south-west, with our mainsails furled, the wind blowing diagonally, and the currents going in about the same direction, so that the ship is moving forward at about three-quarters of its top speed.
In such winds, their sail-and-oar boats are not superior to us in speed, or even slightly lower than ours. The reason why we didn't get rid of them was because we had other plans.
As night fell, a hazy mist began to fall in the air. According to the tactics that had been discussed, we would enter the fog in front first, and the Kumano Naval Army of the Nine Demons would be about half an hour behind us.
Standing at the bow of the ship, my heart is infinitely emotional, nature is the most powerful help or opponent, no matter how strong you are, in front of nature, as long as she makes a move, she will easily turn into powder!
Ordered all the ships to extinguish the lights and echo each other through the bangzi, and in an instant, all our ships were pitch black! Crash headlong into the fog ahead!
Since you're going to play Nine Ghost Jialong, let's play to the end!
In the fog, visibility is less than five meters, and because of the noise control, everything is transmitted in a very weak situation. The mist surrounded my body, cold, and drilled straight into my neck, I don't know if it was because of the cold, or because of excitement, my whole body was trembling slightly.
Arashi walked up behind me and whispered, "Sir, it's almost!"
I let out an "um" and replied softly, "Let's do it."
Lan took the order, and after a while, the first three and second of "Bang Bang Bang - Bang Bang" came out of the ship's building, with a total of five crisp sounds! Soon, the second ship Fuyuan and the third ship Pingyuan, which were on both wings, successively heard the sound of replying.
While the hull continued to slow down, the left full rudder began to turn to the left, and when the hull formed about 90 degrees from the course just now, the three ships stopped at the same time, the second ship was in front, the flagship was in the center, and the third ship was in the rear, forming a "one" shaped battle line!
And the boats on both sides of the hull have all been untied, and each boat has a water ghost, lined up on the battle line to the enemy side! Nine Ghost Jialong, since you're coming, let's play together!
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The enemy ships in front disappeared. Hehe, as I thought, they were trying to escape with this fog that had fallen into the night! It's not easy, the other party also has a master! - Nine Ghosts Jialong stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the enemy fleet to the southwest, thinking thoughtfully.
"Lord! The fleet of the Ming Dynasty people got into the thick fog! Do we pursue! First mate Masashige Hirayama asked.
Nine Ghost Jialong smiled slightly and said, "The head of the Hundred Lands Danbo Shou is worth 500,000 guan, and the living person is worth 1 million guan. This is half a year's income for our forces! Now that the meat is in your mouth, are you not ready to eat it? ”
Hirayama Masashige beat his chest and said, "Be the master!" I'm just worried about ...... below."
Nine Ghost Jialong interrupted him and said, "Worried that they have a conspiracy?" He touched his short beard and said with a smile: "What wind and waves can they stir up on this ocean?" Counter-charge? Our power is three times that of theirs, and that is undoubtedly looking for death? Ambush? ”
He laughed and said, "It's nothing more than a couple of boats!" But the Oda family's bounty can rebuild our entire fleet! ”
Hirayama Masashige lowered his head in shame and said sadly: "Yes!"
Nine Ghost Jialong stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction we were leaving, shouting, "Full speed pursuit!" Don't let go of the big financier of the three husbands of the hundred lands! Of course ......"
He smiled and said lightly: "Don't forget that there is also my brother who is not a weapon, bring it back, I will discipline him well, hehe."
The men were ordered, and the fleet of the Kumano Navy followed our water trail in our direction and crashed headlong into the thick fog!
Seeing that the fog was hard to see, the Nine Ghosts Jialong commanded after entering the fog: "Let all the ships come closer!" Form a dense formation! ”
He did this because he was afraid that the lost boats would be broken by me, so the Kumano naval army got closer and closer in the mist, diagonally against the wind, forming a rectangular dense formation, and rushing in our direction!
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The night was quiet, there was no sound at all, and there was so much white around me that I could even hear my own heartbeat. This feeling makes people feel bottomless, but I firmly believe that people like Nine Ghosts Jialong will definitely not let go of the opportunity to win!
Because he's an opportunist!
This can be seen from his historical style of doing things, he is not good at doing long-term, but he is very good at grasping opportunities! So he's sure to chase him! I'm convinced! And I'm risking my life for it!
The nine ghosts next to him looked extremely nervous, and he couldn't stop looking at the direction where the Kumano Water Army might appear, and he was restless! I looked at his appearance, laughed in my heart, and deliberately said, "Look at the meaning, Nine Ghost Jialong has given up!" This coward! ”
Nine Ghost Zhengxiao lowered his voice excitedly and said, "No! He will definitely come!! ”
The third wife of Baidi next to me looked at me and smiled slightly. I also smiled a little and teased, "Oooh! Maybe! Maybe! ”
The nine ghosts were so anxious that their faces were flushed, but they couldn't speak.
The people next to him let out a suppressed laugh together, and he realized that he had been tricked! Suddenly his face was red with shame, and he didn't know what to say.
I smiled, looked into the distance and said, "Calm down! Youngster! ”
There was another burst of suppressed laughter.
Suddenly, the float we had set up a mile and a half around us exploded! There was a crunch! Then, five explosions in a row were remembered! The sound was crisp like a firecracker in the empty night!
The enemy is coming! The first sound represents the distance, while the loud sound represents the amplitude. With these crisp sounds, we understand the distance and direction of the enemy, and at the same time, we also roughly grasp the width of the enemy's formation!
The Kumano water army began to shout wildly! They know they've found us! The only strange thing is why we dare to stay here and ambush them!
Nine Ghost Jialong has a doubt in his heart, could it be that this is a suspicious soldier? But there's no reason for that! How long can they stay in such a position? But the constant vigilance still made him order, all ships slow down!
In this way, the boat in front of you slows down well, and the speed slows down faster! The big boat behind is still moving forward at a relatively high speed due to its large inertia and its deceleration performance is not as good as that of the small boat! As a result, their formation was further flattened!
I don't know this, but I know that the enemy is more than a mile away! So I gave Arashi a gesture, and Arashi rang the bang again!
"Bang Bang - Bang Bang!" There were four crisp sounds from the flagship, and the small fleet of boats in a row suddenly moved! The water ghost on the ship quickly pulled up the sails, and the boat took advantage of the strong force of the west wind to the east, and followed the turbulent water, accelerating sharply, like an arrow off the string, and rushed straight towards the formation of the Kumano naval army!
In a flash, there was only half a mile left, and the water ghosts on the ship took out the fire fold at the same time, and after burning it, threw it into the cabin, "Boom! "The oil in the cabin was ignited instantly! All the boats began to burn violently! The water ghosts aimed in the direction, drove forward for a short while, and then turned over and dived!
The Nine Ghosts in the fog suddenly saw a hazy light in front of him! He thought we had the lights on, but ...... But that's too fast! He rubbed his eyes vigorously, and with a sharp slap, a terrible thought flashed through his mind, and he shouted as hard as he could: "Spread out! Spread out! It's a fireboat! ”
However, it was already too late! The compressed dense Kumano Navy had no room to evade at all, and in a burst of exclamations, it ran head-on with our fireship!
I was standing on the deck and saw a row of red mist drifting away in front of me, and suddenly! The sound of "boom" rang out! That row of red mist suddenly became high! It's getting bigger!
"Hit the mark! The Kumano Water Army has been tricked! The Nine Ghosts shouted with a wave of his hand. I glanced over his shoulder, and there was his own brother in the burning boats. How deep does this hatred have to be to reach such a great grudge today?
However, the confusion in my heart did not affect my decision, and I shouted at Arashi, "Let's fight!"
Lan received the order, and a trumpet cannon "Whoosh!" The sound of "knock-click" exploded! This is the starting gun! Suddenly, all the firepower of the three ships began to pour fire in the direction of the fire!
When I came, I said that in addition to the position of loading people, the rest were loaded with artillery and ammunition! Each boat has ten tiger squat cannons and four jack franc machines, and they shoot freely towards the red light half a mile away!
One after another, the artillery fire was concentrated on a width of tens of meters like the angry waves of the sea, and the sound of explosions on the opposite side of the explosion was everywhere! And the other party's ships could not contain the momentum, one ship squeezed another, one ship burned another, plus our artillery fire, in less than ten minutes, the opposite side had become a sea of fire!
Moreover, the opposite flotilla is constantly approaching us due to inertia! By the time the call could be heard, the two sides were already more than two hundred steps away! I told the Burn that the musketeers began to fire, and the fire poured into the opposite side was one more heavy!
The roar of artillery, the scream of muskets, the shouts of personnel, the wail of the hull! Converge into a tragic battle song! I know that behind every wail, there is life that is dying, but so what? In this situation, either we destroy them, or they rush up to destroy us!
To put it bluntly, this battle has you without me, with me without you, there is absolutely no intermediate value! Therefore, every time there was a wail from the other side, my heart became even colder and harder, until it was as hard as iron!
Suddenly, the sea of fire on the opposite side began to spread out in both directions! Lan yelled, "Sir, they're going to run away!"
Sure enough, it was the scattered formation of the fleet, and the other party had indeed launched an escape posture with all its might.
The Nine Ghosts Zhengxiao shouted eagerly: "Sir! Let's rush in! ”
I glanced at him, smiled, and didn't answer. Instead, he turned his head to look at the third wife of Baidi, and asked with a smile: "Baidi senior, what do you think?" Should we fight back? ”
The third wife of Baidi smiled silently, looked at the sea of fire opposite, and did not make a sound for a long time.