At the same time as the bamboo whistle sounded in the mouth of the captain of the "Water Ghost Team" of Soochow, the sound of an explosion also came. After the underwater ** sank to the depth of the bottom of the ship, they exploded one after another. The dense explosions were wave after wave, and the captain was terrified.

The captain's crippling heart is just an exaggerated description, but many of the "water ghosts" at the bottom of the boat are really physically broken. Dense underwater ** explosions, splashing out countless fragments, although these high-speed flying fragments are constantly slowed down by the resistance of water, but they are still very lethal in short distances.

Most of the "water ghosts" have been sewn into their bodies by various "shrapnel", these shrapnel have wood chips, iron pieces, and even stone tiles. The "water ghosts" on the periphery of the bottom of the boat were killed almost instantly. Those who were a little bit inside were also injured to varying degrees, and blood poured out of their bodies like no money~ out of their bodies.

In a very short time, the bottom of the ship became a dye vat, and the red dye continued to expand outward. Those who were injured were not the lucky ones, and their fate was even worse, not as good as those who died instantly.

Because in the water, their wounds are irritated by the river, and the pain is infinitely magnified. Everyone is frightened when they are suddenly attacked, especially when the attack is accompanied by a loud explosion and unbearable pain, and no one can stay calm. In the moment of being frightened, most people are likely to forget to breathe, and then compensate for the big gasps.

However, don't forget that they are underwater, and the consequence of gasping for air is choking. Choking on the bottom of the water, especially on the bottom of a boat where you can't see your fingers (blood makes the already dark bottom completely lose visibility), the consequences are even more serious.

Many of the injured scurried around like headless flies, bumping into bodies floating in the water and other injured people in the process. People who are drowning instinctively cling to things when they encounter them. And the end of clinging tightly is to sink to the bottom together.

Even a well-trained "water ghost" does not react much better than a normal person in the face of such an unprecedented crisis. As a result, many of the injured were drowned at the bottom of the boat, although they were not killed by the first blow-up. Just this round of underwater ** explosions, the elite Soochow "water ghosts" were directly or indirectly eliminated by seventy or eighty percent.

There are still lucky ones, there are some "water ghosts" in the middle of the bottom of the boat who have not been injured by shrapnel, the resistance of the water is still quite good, and the explosive power of two catties of fire ~ powder is not enough to push the shrapnel to a long distance.

Although the shrapnel did not hurt them, the loud rumbling noise, using water as the medium of transmission, hit their eardrums wave after wave, many of them were directly shocked to the eardrums, blood flowed from both ear holes, and many of them were shocked to the heart like the captain.

Many people drank a lot of water in a panic, and even some of them choked to death at the bottom of the boat. There were more than 100 "water ghosts" in Soochow, the most elite group of people in the Soochow Navy, and in the end, there were only about a dozen people left who could escape from the bottom of the boat alive.

The dozen or so escaped did not swim far, and they choked on a lot of water at the bottom of the boat, so that almost as soon as they got out of the bottom of the boat, they could not wait to rise to the surface and gasp for air, completely forgetting whether there was danger on the surface of the water.

These "water ghosts" who had just escaped immediately fell into the tiger's den again. The sides of the six warships were full of people, and among them, except for a group of bomb throwing groups every about five meters, the rest of them were armed with long-range weapons such as bows and arrows, crossbow arrows, and fire~guns.

They are waiting for these "water ghosts" in Putou, as soon as these "water ghosts" show their heads, the soldiers on the ship will fire a volley of arrows, fire ~ guns in unison. Pity these "water ghosts" who had just escaped from the wolf's den, and didn't know what was going on, and were panting for breath in an instant.

It's a pity that there are more monks and less porridge, and there are very few "water ghosts" who can float to the surface, and soon all of them were shot to death in the water.

The six ships were suddenly in an uproar, and all the small boats, including the lifeboats, were activated, and these small boats and lifeboats were crowded with people, searching in circles around the six battleships. They are not enthusiastic about rescuing the "water ghosts" of Soochow who have fallen into the water, on the contrary, they are going to beat the water dogs.

These boats and lifeboats tossed for a long time, and they didn't catch a few shipwrecked Dongwu "water ghosts", but it was really because Yang Qiu's move was too fierce, and he killed most of the "water ghosts" at once, and the rest were also frightened, and they couldn't swim far away to ventilate, and they were shot to death as soon as they showed up.

The captain of the "Water Ghosts" and several "Water Ghosts" who happened to come up to ventilate happened to be in a dark area in the distance at the time of the explosion, and they had a chance to escape. However, they were stunned by the continuous explosion of the underwater **, and then witnessed some comrades who had escaped death being shot and killed as soon as they surfaced, and they were instantly hit and almost had a nervous breakdown.

It was in this hesitation that they missed the best opportunity to escape, and it was not until the Jingzhou sailors on the six boats rowed their boats everywhere to look for the "water ghosts" of Eastern Wu who had slipped through the net, that they remembered to escape.

Unfortunately, their good fortune was finally exhausted, and the scout boats that had been patrolling the perimeter before saw that something was happening here, and they all shrank their alert range, and some ships even wanted to rush back to the big ship to find out. The captain of the Dongwu "Water Ghost Team", who was in a panic, lost their vigilance and did not pay attention to avoiding the bright place in advance, so they happened to run into a patrol boat rushing back.

"What people!"

"Stop!"

"Don't move!"

A shout came from the scout boat, and the "water ghosts" who were desperately rushing back were stunned for a moment, but they reacted immediately. After reacting, they all dived with their heads down, trying to escape from the water under the cover of night.

In the era of the bow and arrow, this was the right thing to do, because the bow and arrow would be greatly reduced by the resistance of the water after entering the water, and the power and range would be greatly reduced, as long as the movement was fast and flexible enough, and it quickly sank to a sufficient depth, there was no possibility of escape.

It's a pity that the Han Dynasty has entered the age of firearms, and the soldiers on these scout ships are equipped with fire~guns in addition to bows and arrows. In addition to being a powerful weapon to hit the enemy, the fire ~ gun also has the role of warning, as long as the gun is fired, it is simply a sonic shock in the silent night, and the friendly troops in the distant places know that something is wrong here.

Therefore, the scout ships of the Jingzhou Navy are equipped with a different number of fire~guns, and in this kind of emergency, fire~guns will of course be used first. Seeing those sneaky swimmers in the water and wanted to dive and escape, the Jingzhou Navy soldiers on the scout ship did not hesitate to shoot.

A burst of gunfire rang out, and the bullets fired by several fire~ guns were accompanied by a few arrows on the water where the "water ghosts" were staying just now, and a few blood flowers were aroused when they landed. Apparently, several people have already been shot or shot.