Chapter 85: Temptation
The water and sky are colorful, and the blue sky is cloudless.
Today was a good day, the sea was calm and there were no waves.
Huang Tianxiang took his family and rowed a small boat to the shore, and then quickly raised the sails and sailed in the direction of the fleet.
After about half an hour, the fleet of ships that were sheltering the sea in front finally appeared in view.
This distance is still very fast, at least ten miles away from the fleet, the fleet target is large, easy to find, but the small boat is too small, and there is only one, the people in the fleet can't see it at all, so they can only continue to approach.
It didn't take long for the people in the flotilla to see the boat as well.
"Brother Xiang, it's the Zheng family's ship."
A sailor lowered his binoculars and turned his head to say.
"I'll see!"
Huang Tianxiang took the binoculars and soon saw the flag on the fleet, this time the Zheng family did not hide it, and then pretended to be a pirate, but directly played the flag of the Zheng family, and all the ships that came were warships, not armed merchant ships.
"Greet them, send flags to let them go!"
Huang Tianxiang put down the binoculars and commanded with a calm face.
"This ......"
The sailor was puzzled: "The Zheng family is overbearing at sea, will they be so obedient?" ”
"You know!"
Huang Tianxiang scolded: "That's what the young master meant by letting us come over, to determine the Zheng family's intentions." If the Zheng family didn't come to beat us, even if they were domineering, they would give a word. If the Zheng family is here to beat us, they will definitely ignore us. ”
"I see!"
The sailor understood, and immediately steered the boat over.
When the fleet was still a mile away, Huang Tianxiang asked the sailors to put away the sails and stop the ship.
"Flag Message!"
Huang Tianxiang commanded, and the sailors immediately issued a flag.
The flag language is not the flag language in the army, but the flag language used in the sea sailing, which has only a few simple meanings, and is not as complex as the flag language in the army.
After the flag was issued, the fleet quickly reacted.
The reaction of the fleet startled Huang Tianxiang.
Rumble.
With a loud bang, one of the Daifuku boats at the front opened fire.
The cannonball landed fifty meters away from the boat, although it did not affect the boat, but Huang Tianxiang and the sailors were startled, this will no longer be tempted, looking at the state of the fleet, you know that these people are not here for an outing, let alone passing by.
"Let's go, go back!"
Huang Tianxiang made a decision immediately and decisively ordered to return to the ship.
The sailors were not verbose, and sure enough, they turned around and raised the sails.
But soon, the sailor who was at the helm in the stern shouted.
"Brother Xiang, catch up."
Huang Tianxiang snorted, a cruel smile appeared on his face, he naturally saw it, but he didn't have the slightest worry, but said with a cruel smile: "I have always heard that the Zheng family dominates the sea frontier, and even those red-haired devils are not opponents, so I happened to see it today." ”
The sailors were not worried, and they all said optimistically: "Exactly, when we came, the young master allowed us to bring muskets, so that these thieves of the Zheng family could taste the taste of the young master's Western muskets, so as to save them from arrogance." ”
It was not the big war ships that caught up, but two speedboats.
Although the big ship is large and strong, it is as fast as a snail, much slower than the small boat.
Although the small boat could not fit a few people and could not withstand the wind and waves, it was much faster than the big boat.
Whenever the fleet goes to sea, it will take a few small boats with it on the big ships in case of emergency.
On the two speedboats that followed, not counting the sailors, there were five or six soldiers each, each carrying a knife, with a murderous face, constantly urging the sailors to row quickly, and the speedboat was like an arrow from the string, and chased a mile to within two hundred paces of the boat.
It's not that Huang Tianxiang's boat can't run fast, but that it can't run as fast as a sailor's oars driven by the wind alone.
Two hundred steps, which has entered the effective killing range of the M14.
With the telescope in hand, Huang Tianxiang had clearly seen the murderous aura on the faces of the Zheng family soldiers on the speedboat.
"Brother Xiang, when will you shoot?"
Except for the sailors who were at the helm at the stern, the rest of the sailors had already taken out their guns, loaded their bullets, and were waiting to fire, seeing that the speedboat had entered the firing range, they were all a little impatient, and couldn't help but turn their heads and ask Huang Tianxiang.
"Hurry up!"
Huang Tianxiang scolded: "At such a distance, can you hit with your three-legged cat's marksmanship?" ”
The sailor was so angry that he had to open the scope and wait patiently.
Soon, the two speedboats chased within a hundred paces.
"Call me!"
Huang Tianxiang waved his hand fiercely, and the cruel smile on his face became more and more hideous.
After saying that, he hurriedly put the telescope into a special bag, carefully put it away, and then impatiently picked up an M14 rifle, the bullet had already been loaded, and after the first shot, he opened the scope and began to look for the target.
Bang bang bang......
The sound of gunfire rang out like fried beans, and it was incessant.
Yes!
The first scream sounded, and a man on the speedboat, who was unlucky, was shot in the left chest, and immediately fell to the boat and screamed heartbreakingly, and the rest of the soldiers and rowers were startled.
Bang bang......
The intense gunfire continued, and although only four guns were fired, the modern version of the firearm fired less than a second apart, and the gunfire did not stop until the bullets in the magazine were finished.
The M14 has a magazine of thirty rounds.
Soon, a second scream rang out.
"Holy!"
"What the hell!"
"Hurry up and get up!"
The soldiers on the speedboat were furious, roaring angrily, and at the same time looking for something as cover, but there was really nothing extra on the speedboat, so they had to lie down on the boat, poke their heads and curse and look.
I have to say that Huang Tianxiang and a few sailors have really poor marksmanship.
First, there is no talent, secondly, there are not many exercises, plus the ship is not stable, and the influence of the wind, all kinds of factors add up, even with the high precision of the M14 plus the front sight, the sailors' hit rate is so bad that they fall off the slag.
"Damn, aim and hit again."
Huang Tianxiang fired three shots and didn't hit a single shot, he only heard the continuous sound of gunshots in his ears, but only two thieves fell, he couldn't help but curse angrily, and had to calm down, and carefully aimed for a long time before pulling the trigger fiercely.
Bang!
The gunshots rang out, followed by screams from the speedboat.
The sailors hurriedly slowed down the frequency of their shots and took serious aim one by one.
The soldiers on the speedboat were miserable, although the frequency of shooting was reduced, but the accuracy was improved.
Even if the soldiers lay down, the space on the speedboat was really limited, and the sailors in charge of the helm could not lie down, and soon several soldiers who had nowhere to lie down and the sailors in charge of the helm were shot and killed by Huang Tianxiang and the sailors one after another.
“! @#¥¥%。! ”
There was a scolding on the speedboat, and the hearts of the Zheng family's soldiers were also broken.
What kind of firebolt is this, how can it have such a terrifying range and accuracy.
It is unheard of to be able to kill someone in a hundred steps.
Originally, the first batch of people who came to pretend to be pirate attacks said that the Western firearms in Li Chuan's hands were powerful after they returned, but the high-level officials of the Zheng family didn't believe it at all, thinking that the soldiers who fled back deliberately boasted about the power of Li Chuan's firecrackers in order to avoid being punished, so as to escape responsibility, and these lowest-level soldiers actually didn't know that Li Chuan had artillery and firearms.
At this moment, he was suddenly beaten, how could he not be frightened.
The two speedboats were still moving forward, and finally they were within fifty paces.
At this time, the sailors also trembled and couldn't help but slow down the frequency of paddling.