Chapter 10 Facing the Enemy and Showing Might

As the pillar sounded a warning on the bucket, the eight sea ships seemed to emerge from the sea, approaching closer and closer. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

A huge flag is hung on the mast of a ship headed by the leader, the flag is blue and black, surrounded by gold threads, on both sides are two seahorses standing opposite each other, and a big seal character "Chen" in the center, waving in the wind, majestic.

"It's Chen Sipan's fleet, all of them, ready to fight." Chen Dong shouted loudly and stood on the bow of the ship, like an iron tower.

Each of the four ships had a flag-bearer standing at the bow, and with the command of the head ship, they constantly waved different flags.

The sound of the trumpet resounded through the heavens and the earth, dull and long.

The sailors on board rushed to their combat posts, methodically, and it was clear that this was not the first time they had faced an attack by pirates.

Yun Qi was also standing by Chen Dong's side at this time, looking at the pirate ship that was moving quickly in the distance, he first stuffed his index finger into his mouth, dipped his spit, and then took it out to face the wind, tried the wind power, and then looked at the position of the sunset and the incoming ship, and suggested to Chen Dong: "The number of enemy ships is twice as large as ours, but the draft is smaller than ours, and now the wind power at sea is acceptable, we should take advantage of the wind, stretch the battle line, and gradually eat away at the enemy ships, as long as they sink two or three enemy ships, they will definitely flee without defeat." ”

Chen Dong nodded and said, "Just according to what you say." ”

Then he commanded in a loud voice: "All to the right, rudder for three points, in a long snake formation, and open up the distance from the enemy ship." ”

When the eight pirate ships saw that they wanted to run, they also increased their horsepower, puffed up their sails, and came at a high speed in this direction.

The pirate ship won in large numbers, and Chen Dong's ship won in the big ship, and when the battle between the two sides was not connected, it was really impossible to say who won and who lost.

In the vast sea, more than a dozen sea ships rowed through the long waves and began a fierce chase.

Four miles, three miles, two miles......

Gradually, the sailors on the last ship of Chen Dong could already see the appearance of the pirates, and even the weapons in their hands were clearly recognizable.

Behind them, a heavy cannon opened its black hole and faced the front, and a topless pirate stood beside the cannon with a blazing torch.

Behind the cannon, there are two huge trebuchets, also ready to be in place, two head-sized stones have been loaded into the bamboo basket, in front of each trebuchet is responsible for firing a wooden hammer in both hands, as long as the hammer falls, the collapse spring will pop out, and the stone will fly out of the bamboo basket.

Another 100 steps, it will enter the effective range, the pirates believe that as long as they enter the range, they will definitely be able to damage or even sink the battleship in front, over the years, they have sunk countless ships, although the leading ship in front is relatively large, but the pirates believe that as long as a few more shots, it will also sink, as long as any of the four are sunk, the remaining three will be defeated, let themselves clean up.

In this sea, the mighty is the king.

The pirates seemed to see the white flowers and silver on the ship, the bright silk, and even they saw countless beauties beckoning, as long as there was money, everything would be there, and on the ship in front, there was no shortage of money, because the pirates all knew that in front was Chen Dong's ship, and it was Chen Dong's ship full of goods.

"Woo" The horn on the pirate ship remembered that the pirates of all the ships were ready to move, they clenched their weapons tightly, and the battle was about to begin.

However, their excitement immediately stopped, because they saw a strange scene, the four enemy ships that had been fleeing, suddenly changed formation.

At first the largest ship was running in front, followed by the other three, and now suddenly the three ships behind spread out in the wings of geese, and the largest ship crossed the hull and faced the rear.

"Not good." The pirates couldn't help but be surprised.

The four ships roared at the same time, and a cannon on each ship spewed tongues of fire, firing heavy shells at the pursuing ships.

Obviously it hadn't entered the firing range yet, but Chen Dong's fleet opened fire.

Cannonballs flew in the sky, and the pirates were horrified to find that the cannonballs that were supposed to fall into the sea were flying towards their heads like eyes.

The pirates were helpless to see that because their ship was pursuing at full speed, the cannonballs on the opposite side could not shoot that far, but the ship on their side was too eager to brake, and would only rush forward in a daze, as if they were putting their heads into someone else's fist.

Boom, boom, two shells landed accurately on the ship that was chasing the front, one hit the side of the ship, the other hit the deck, and suddenly sawdust flew wildly, chickens flew and dogs jumped, and the pirates on board were in a mess.

The remaining pirate ships bypassed the wounded hull, and with an order, several cannons also rang out, firing at Chen Dong's fleet.

However, to the surprise of the pirates, their shells flew in the sky for a while, but all of them fell into the sea, and none of them hit the target, not because the range of their cannons was not as good as others, but because during the pursuit, the target kept moving forward quickly with the wind, and it was always a fraction of a millimeter when it should have hit.

Boom, the cannons on both sides rang out from time to time, the cannonballs flew around in the sky, there were countless black smoke rising, most of the cannonballs fell into the sea, but there were also a few that hit the target, so the roars, screams, and reprimands were mixed, two of the pirate ships were hit, and Chen Dong's ship was also injured one.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, the roar of the cannons is gradually decreasing, the trebuchet has become the main force of the contest between the two sides, the big stone ball in the sky carries the sound of the wind, flying from one ship to another, the firepower of the pirates completely suppressed Chen Dong's fleet, the pirates seem to see the dawn of victory ahead, they began to draw their waist knives, draw their spears, and shout at the enemy ships as if demonstrating.

Chen Dong's face was heavy, he walked forward and backward from time to time, commanding loudly, the number of his ships was not as good as others, the number of cannons was less than that of people, and the number of people was insufficient, whether it was a long-range attack or a hand-to-hand combat, he did not have an advantage, it seemed that this time he was more than lucky, maybe this life would be confessed here.

Just when Chen Dong looked anxious, he suddenly caught a glimpse of Yun Qi directing the sailors to lower the lifeboat on the boat into the sea, and then loading something on it.

The sunset was like blood, and the sea was reflected in the brilliant sunset, and in the sea breeze, the smell of gunpowder smoke was so unpleasant.

More than a dozen ships moved quickly on the sea, firing cannons at each other and throwing huge stones as they went, and both sides were damaged, but none of them were fundamentally harmed.

Many pirates slapped the side of the ship with the knives in their hands, staring at the bloodthirsty eyes, victory was in sight, although two ships were hit by Chen Dong, but neither of them sank, they still had a certain combat effectiveness, in terms of strength, their side still had a great advantage.

The enemy is constantly fleeing, but because the ship is relatively large, flexible and inconvenient, the speed is obviously inferior to his own side, it seems that it will not be long before his side can form an encirclement, as long as Chen Dong's fleet can be cut off, victory will be within reach, and at that time, the silver of the white flowers, the girls of the white flowers are beckoning to themselves, and it is exciting to think about.

Some pirates couldn't help laughing when they saw that a lifeboat was being put in front of them, on this sea, the dinghy was destined to not be able to escape, it seemed that Chen Dong had lost his rationality and panicked.

After the lifeboat was put on the surface of the sea, it suddenly lost control, staggered and drifted away with the current, and there was a man standing on the lifeboat, dancing and shouting at the big boat, and paddling in the water in a panic, but the boat was still getting farther and farther away from the big ship.

The pirates shouted happily as if they were watching a play, and watched the unlucky man in the lifeboat get closer and closer with the current, and several pirates opened their bows and arrows, and shot at this person from a distance, because of the distance, and the sea breeze was strong, the arrow flew half and floated to the side, but this also scared the people on the boat enough, and quickly took out a pot-lid-like thing from the boat and put it on their heads, and the people shrank in the boat and shivered, looking like a wreck.

A pirate took a stone from the trebuchet, separated the crowd, stared at the lifeboat viciously, and raised his neck at the people around him: "Brothers, see that I have sunk this boat with a stone, let that kid feed the king." ”

However, the thief on the ship stopped him, a small lifeboat can't turn over any big waves, the biggest threat at present is still those big ships, as long as you can sink one or two big ships, everything else can be ignored for the time being, trebuchets, or use the most critical place.

In the blink of an eye, the lifeboat came under the big boat, but saw the sailors on the boat squatting there and did not know what to do, and then, one turned over, jumped from the boat into the water, and the other dived far away.

The pirates looked at each other, not knowing why.

Suddenly, someone shouted: "It's not good, get out of the way." ”

I saw smoke snorting from the lifeboat, a little fire flickering, and it seemed like a nimble snake dancing.

Is that......?

Only a "boom" was heard, a huge explosion sounded from the bottom of the big ship, the lifeboat was blown in two, and broke in the middle, and the big pirate ship was blown up a huge hole, and the sea water rushed to the cabin, and the big ship quickly tilted.

The pirates on the deck stood unsteadily, fell into a ball, and the knives and guns were thrown somewhere, the pirates showed a frightened look on their faces, looking for life-saving objects one by one, many sailors in the cabin came out from below, scurrying like headless flies, and many pirates jumped directly from the side of the big ship to the sea, and countless black heads suddenly appeared on the sea.

The pirate ships that followed behind were taken aback and were about to come to the rescue, but they saw that Chen Dong's fleet had been lined up, and the sound of artillery rang out, and countless boulders and shells smashed overhead with the sound of the wind.

There was a lot of mourning everywhere.