"Brother Hong, I'm still a little worried, except for Wu Yong, none of the other captains have ever been here, not even Da Song, will something go wrong with them?" Luo Youde couldn't stay in the bilge at all, surrounded by sailors and marines coming and going, and the tense atmosphere also infected him, so he simply ran to Hong Tao's side with Wen Nan, planning to listen to a few more words of comfort, whether it was true or not, it could make the little heart not beat hard. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In this case, people who have not been here are less likely to have accidents, because they don't think cranky, they only follow orders, and ten thousand people are like one person. As for mistakes, it is inevitable, as long as people will make mistakes, if you are afraid, go to the garden boat in the back with Lao Wen. It's at the back of the fleet, and even if something goes wrong, it's going to run out a little faster. By the way, I forgot to tell you, in fact, it is the same in the head and tail boats. Do you feel it? The tide has come, even if you want to turn around and run at this time, it's too late, no matter how powerful the sails are, they can't resist the power of the tide, unless you can drive Xiao Qi's big iron boat over. Accept your fate, Lao Luo, the most unwise thing you have done in your life is that you shouldn't have passed by that sea that day and provoked me with your mouth. Otherwise, you may be a rich merchant in Qiongzhou City now, what will hinder you from fighting or not, marrying more than ten concubines, having more than a dozen sons, and being confused for a lifetime. "If Hong Tao can comfort others, it is that he has drunk too much or smoked too much. The only thing he can give to others is stimulation, and the more you are afraid of him, the more he will scare you, and you won't finish what you say about wanting to commit suicide.

“…… Yes, it's all because I was gluttonous back then, you must know that this is the way it is now, I should have let the ship sail over your head back then, so that you wouldn't harm people everywhere. He was counted down again for no reason, and Luo Youde temporarily forgot about his fear and began to spray with Hong Tao.

"Brother Luo, you have been fooled again, he is distracting you, is he not as nervous as he was just now?" The bystanders were clear, and Wen Nan immediately sensed Hong Tao's trick.

"Can't you be normal? has become an old man, why don't you change your thief nature! Let Wen Nan remind him, and Luo Youde also understood. Not to mention, I really don't feel nervous, because nervousness has been replaced by anger.

"Hey, hey, hey...... The two of you are getting harder and harder to deceive, it's boring, it's better to be stupid. I advise the two of you not to suffer here, fighting is not your specialty, and I don't have the time to accompany the two of you to chat, if you have time, you might as well go to the cabin to discuss how to deal with your former official family and that large group of Great Song officials. It's my responsibility to fight, it's your job to grind your teeth with them, don't expect me to be kind all the time, but if they scold me too harshly, don't blame me for turning my face. Come, tell me how to deal with insulting the oracle in public? ”

Hong Tao is not nervous on the surface, but in fact, he is also flickering in his heart. This isn't a joke, if something goes wrong halfway through, it's going to be fatal. With such a big tide, it is very dangerous for the battleship to go in the wrong direction, and once the ship capsizes, let alone survive, it is a blessing to be able to land a whole corpse. At this time, his whole body energy was adjusted to those little eyes, even if he couldn't see the shape of the two sides of the strait clearly, he tried to see it clearly, and he didn't have time to play with Luo Youde and Wen Nan.

"Burn him to death with divine fire, so that his soul will be tormented forever and will not be able to rest in peace!" It was the Indian gunner who answered Hong Tao's question again.

"You...... Just follow him, sooner or later you will be unlucky! This time Luo Youde was unfortunately in schadenfreude, and he knew that the Indian gunner's answer was probably likely to come true. Most of the expeditionary fleet were Indian sailors and soldiers, and as long as Hong Tao gave an order, they would not hesitate to burn the entire city of Lin'an. This is not a sin for them, but a reward, a dedication to the God in which they believe, and it is a matter of course.

"Brother Luo, Brother Luo, don't worry, it's useless for you to lose your temper with the sailor, and he doesn't know what you're talking about. Let's go, Brother Hong is right, the two of us will follow him back, isn't it just to pick up the missing things for him. Let's go back to the cabin, we really have to discuss, it's really not easier to deal with those Great Song Dynasty officials than to fight, I've dealt with them a lot, it's difficult! Wen Nan couldn't stand it anymore, Luo Youde reasoned with an Indian soldier, isn't this looking for abuse.

Twenty-one battleships lined up in a row, and even if they were very densely spaced, with a distance of less than two hundred meters between each of them, they would have to pull out a long line of more than five kilometers, plus a string of mast lights hanging on the top of each battleship's mast, like a large water snake covered with red scales, pushed by the tide and meandering forward. The head of the snake has already entered the entrance of the Qiantang River, and the tail of the snake is still in Hangzhou Bay.

"Commander! Captain! Look to the north, what is that! "Such a strange sight, even if there were clouds and the moon that night, no one would notice it. The two-masted clipper in Mingzhou Shuizhai was making a U-turn and preparing to return to Shuizhai before the tide fully rose, but the hapless lookout on the mast saw a string of red dots on the sea, and couldn't help but shout loudly.

"What else can there be in this hellish weather, you kid are hungry, right? It's a pity that it's a little late, this pot of wine has nothing to do with you, hahahaha......" Liu Juntou on the deck raised his head impatiently, raised the wine bottle in his hand to the lookout on the mast, tilted his neck, and poured the last sip of wine into his mouth.

"It's true...... It...... It's still moving! The lookout rubbed his eyes, wondering if he had been dazzled by the wind, and then twisted his head to the right ninety degrees again. After more than ten seconds, he was sure that his eyes were normal, and the long snake with a red glow was swimming towards the Qiantang River.

“…… That's the tide god...... He came with the tide! Quick, come down, let's go back and get the offerings, the tide god has appeared! Liu Juntou, who was disturbed again by the lookout, finally stood up, pulled the rigging a few steps before climbing up to another mast, and stood halfway to look northwest. Rub your eyes and look again, rub and look again! After a few times, he stared down at a pair of eyes that had been rubbed red and swollen by himself, bringing an even more outrageous answer to the entire crew.

But this kind of unreliable answer can be more convincing at such a time, even the lookout on the mast believes it, and while climbing down, he secretly admires the wisdom and knowledge of his military leader, and even the tide god knows! Fortunately, he followed such a military leader, otherwise if he really disturbed the tide god, the consequences would be unimaginable. As a result, the brig clipper was like an engine installed, and soon returned to the sailor's camp outside the port of Mingzhou.

Hong Tao didn't know that the whereabouts of his fleet were almost discovered by the Great Song Sailors, and he didn't care about this issue. Because now the tide is getting bigger and bigger, even if the Great Song Sailors find something, they are brave enough to sail to chase them, so that the side of the ship is hit by the tide, and there is a great possibility of capsizing.

When I was outside the estuary, although the tide was not small, there was not much abnormal feeling on the boat. But when the flagship sailed into the estuary, the situation was immediately different. The boat seemed to be suddenly pushed by something, and it accelerated violently and rushed forward, and Hong Tao leaned on the side of the boat, and felt the feeling of pushing back. At this time, the sound of the waves crashing against the hull of the ship is no longer rhythmic, but it has become a sound similar to a low roar, without intermission, always a tone.

The tide from outside the bay rushes into the river in the shape of a trumpet in Hangzhou Bay, concentrating all the energy on the Qiantang River, the only way out. Carrying hundreds of millions of tons of seawater, at a speed several times higher than the rising tide, roared and poured into the Qiantang River. And as the river gets narrower and narrower, the speed of the tide is getting faster and faster, and the tide head is getting higher and higher, and it really becomes a wall of water more than four meters high. Just a few hundred meters in front of the flagship, even in the dark of night, you can see the white spray rolled up by it, and you can even feel the mist stirred up by it.

"Sail down! It's all down, it's now a crosswind, and you can only rely on the rudder to control the direction. Inform the helmsmen of the boat behind them to keep their eyes open if they don't want to be swallowed by the tide! Even if he couldn't see the markers on both sides of the strait, Hong Tao could instinctively feel that his ship's course was slightly southward, but Wu Yong did not give the order to turn the rudder. Soon, Hong Tao relied on experience to find the reason for pushing the battleship to yaw, and those sails were the culprit. Since the speed was too fast and it was a crosswind, the sail became the wings of the airplane, pushing the ship to the left. At this time, it is really useless to ask for sails, but it is a burden.

The sails were all lowered, and the battleship finally stabilized its course, but the problem arose again. If you keep driving at a speed, you will be very particular about the timing of your steering. If the steering is fast, it will slide like a car at high speed, and then be pushed down directly by the tide. If the steering is slow, such a heavy battleship will not have time to complete the steering action along the river, and the result will not be much better, it will rush headlong onto the river bank, and then it will still be swallowed by the tide.

At this time, it depends on the ability of Wu Yong and his companions, when to turn and how much each time it turns, it is related to the life and death of the entire fleet. Hong Tao also regretted it a little at this time, if he had known that this would be the case, it would be better to attack it directly during the day, he would rather face to face and shake hundreds of battleships of the Great Song Naval Division, rather than play this kind of game with the tide god. It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in the world to take, and now he not only can't regret it, but also has to show a particularly confident appearance, not to question every order of Wu Yong, so as not to arouse the doubts of the crew.

"Five hundred meters ahead, prepare for the right rudder fifteen!" Wu Yong finally began to give the order to prepare to turn, as for how he knew that there were still 500 meters ahead of him to reach the corner, Hong Tao probably saw a clue. (To be continued.) )