Chapter Forty-Eight: Ambush on the Water, Old Man Temple (4)
"Prayer, brethren! The king of Dingjiang blessed——, the dragon lord blessed——, the gods of Poyang Lake blessed, ——, kill devils! ”
Jiang Yongming's shout aroused the high fighting spirit of all the soldiers of the Einsatzgruppen, especially the soldiers who were still soaked in the icy and biting lake water, they were full of fighting spirit, they shouted "kill the devil", while rowing in the direction of the devil's fleet, and kept shooting at the devil.
Xiao Xiong just felt that it was a pity that his ship had already begun to enter the water, and the main mast had been blown up by the devil's artillery fire, otherwise he would definitely be able to send the devil's transport ship to the bottom of Poyang Lake. He asked everyone to think of ways to plug the holes in the ship, and quickly scooped up the water in the cabin. The rest of the men rowed their oars towards the devil's fleet.
Suddenly, Xiao Xiong felt that the sky had darkened suddenly, and when he looked up, he saw that the dark clouds above his head suddenly became rolling, covering the bright red sun, and the lightning in the dark clouds pulled from the sky to the lake, and the rumbling thunder exploded overhead. Xiao Xiong felt that the boat he was riding suddenly lifted up, and suddenly sank down, and it shook violently from side to side. Because of the experience of exploring the lake a few times, Xiao Xiong and everyone knows: the waves are starting to rise.
Sure enough, the surface of the lake, which had been calm as a mirror just now, suddenly became manic, and the turbid waves rolled. Xiao Xiong turned his head and looked back, only to see the wind sweeping and huge waves rushing towards him from the south. The waves were at least a foot high, and they were like a tide across the entire lake, getting faster and closer. In a few moments, the wind poured down with raindrops the size of beans.
At this time, the entire water area of the Lao Ye Temple became dark, the wind was howling, the lightning was thundering, and the lake was boiling like a boiling pot. Huge waves surged from the south, wave after wave crashed against everything on the surface of the lake they passed, as if they were going to tear them to shreds.
While feeling the waves, Jiang Yongming shouted loudly:
"Everyone hold on to everything fixed on the ship, don't panic, don't move, and it will be fine soon."
He himself let go of the rope that bound him, held the rudder handle on his back and leaned against the rudder, and held the cabin in front of the rudder with his feet, holding the rudder firmly and not letting it swing in the slightest. Seeing this, the team members around him also tied their feet to the cabin with ropes, and then hugged the rudder with Jiang Yongming. Because Jiang Yongming knew that the only way to avoid this catastrophe at present was to stabilize the boat, so that it would always be at right angles to the waves, and it could follow the huge waves and let the hull swing back and forth. However, it will take luck to avoid this fate, because if you don't swing back and forth, you can break the hull in two. Now there is no other way but to stabilize the hull of the ship, if there is a slight deviation, the ship will be destroyed in an instant, and everyone will have to die at the bottom of the lake.
The huge waves continued to pound the sailboat, and some of them clung to the beams of the boat, and some of them threw themselves on the bottom of the boat and clung to the planks of the bottom of the boat, anyway, as long as the fixed things could be grasped and grasped.
The clouds were still rolling overhead, as if they were going to blow the ship into the air, and the ship was like a piece of paper. The thunder exploded in my ears, shaking people dizzy. Everyone felt as if the lightning was constantly passing through their bodies, and everyone felt numb all over their bodies. From time to time, huge waves swept over the canopy of the boat and then fell into the water in front of the boat, making a loud noise. Everyone feels that all this is really like entering a ghost gate.
Thankfully, a gust of wind blew over, and everything suddenly became quiet. The dark clouds overhead suddenly dispersed, and the sun was lazily leaning on the top of Lushan Mountain in the west. The wind was gone, and only a breeze blew. Poyang Lake, which was still furious just now, suddenly became as peaceful as a virgin. The old man's temple not far away is vividly visible, and he is looking at everyone peacefully.
Everyone let go of what they were holding, moved their hands and feet, and walked onto the bow of the boat.
"Look, Commander—" One of the team members suddenly shouted as he pointed to the lake in front of him.
Everyone had just come to their senses and followed the point of the team member, and they were all taken aback.
I saw that the lake in front of me had become empty and clean. Everyone only saw the surface of the lake rippling and sparkling, and the water surface was glowing with a golden luster. As if nothing had happened. The entire fleet of devils who had fought with him a few minutes ago, and who were fighting to the death, had disappeared without a trace after the storm. But the brothers who had floated on the surface of the lake after diving were all gone.
Jiang Yongming put down the rudder and ran to the bow of the boat, he knelt down in the direction of the old man's temple with a "plop", kept kowtowing, and cried out silently:
"Oh my God! The King of Dingjiang, the Lord of the Dragon, the gods of Poyang Lake! Thank you! Helped us clean up the devils. Will you tell me again? Where are my brothers? Where the hell did they go? ”
Several team members at the bow of the boat also knelt down, and they kowtowed to the old man's temple together.
The old man's temple still stands so quietly on the shore of Poyang Lake, its four eyes are staring at everything that is happening in the lake in front of it, maybe it thinks that everything that happens here is too ordinary, too ordinary.
Tears flowed down Xiao Xiong's face, he lowered his head, and involuntarily fell to his knees on the bow deck.
We are indeed victorious, this is God to help us, it is God to exterminate those inhuman Japanese devils, so when we are in danger, we launched this sudden storm, helped us destroy the devil's transport fleet, and sent the evil gas bombs into the bottom of the deep lake. The devil's two motorboats, a tugboat, and three iron barge transport boats loaded with supplies were also sent to the bottom of the lake, and the more than 200 devils were all fed to the king and turtles in Poyang Lake.
But it was a terrible victory, a terrible victory in exchange for the lives of six wooden sailing boats, 23 fishing boats, and more than 300 living Einsatzgruppen brothers. and the big brother Wang Yantai, who is closer than his own brother, is also gone.
Thinking of this, Xiao Xiong's sad heart was bubbling with blood.
Li Minghua walked to Xiao Xiong's side, he hugged his most respected commander, and the two slowly stood up. Minghua said softly to Xiao Xiong:
"Commander, death cannot be brought back to life. Don't grieve yet, let's retreat. ”
Xiao Xiong looked at the old man's temple standing on the shore of the lake, and suddenly knelt down towards it, and he shouted loudly:
"Lord Dingjiang, Lord Long, all the gods of Poyang Lake, I will definitely come back to burn incense and worship you."
After speaking, Xiao Xiong kowtowed a few times reverently, and then immediately stood up. He swept away the sad look on his face, and immediately ordered:
"Go down and get into the cabin, and hurry to scoop up the water in the cabin and plug the hole as quickly as possible. Yongming and Minghua hurriedly repaired the masts in the front and rear of the ship and pulled up the auxiliary sails. The rest of the brothers, except those who hung lots, hung oars on them, and all came to row. We need to get out of here. ”
Everyone immediately went into action in accordance with the orders given by the commander. Scooping the water, plugging the leak, hoisting the sail, hanging the oars, after a while, the wooden sailboat started. They could no longer go any further, so they had to turn around and head south of Poyang Lake.
Xiao Xiong looked at the two sides of the lake, and the fierce gunfire that had sounded on both sides of the lake could no longer be heard, but he saw that some turrets, guard boxes, and wooden boats moored on the shore were still smoking, and there were devils fighting the fire. I really don't know what happened to the brothers who were on cover duty on the shore, and Xiao Xiong was very worried about their safety.
After repairing and plugging the leak, the sailboat relied on the auxiliary sails at the bow and stern and the oars of more than 10 brothers, and the speed of the ship was significantly accelerated. After a while, they sailed out of the waters of the Lao Ye Temple.
As the north-westerly winds grew stronger and the boat moved faster, the paddlers were finally able to breathe without paddling.
Only then did everyone ease their nervous expressions, and they were all guessing what had happened when the storm had just come. Due to the high wind and waves, lightning and thunder, and heavy rain just now, everyone was very nervous at that time, and no one cared about what was happening around them. Even if you want to see it, you can't see it clearly.
Everyone speculated that the devil's transport ship was not much bigger than his own sailboat, but it was full of goods, and with the weight of its own iron ship, it was estimated that it was sunk into the lake by the wind and waves. And the motorboat, which was seriously injured, must have been shattered by the waves. Because it was a huge wave laterally, and under the heavy blow of the wave, it had to be broken in at least two.
"Commander, look, there's someone in the water ahead."
The team member who was on the lookout in the cabin shouted loudly.
Xiao Xiong looked up and saw that not far ahead, there was a person lying on top of a large wooden plank, waving weakly towards this side.
When they got closer, everyone saw clearly, it turned out that the person was Wang Yantai. Suddenly he cried out in surprise:
"It's Captain Wang!" "Brother Yantai." "Yantai!"
Everyone hurriedly rescued the dying Wang Yantai.
Xiao Xiong took off all the wet clothes on Wang Yantai's body, dried the water on his body, changed into dry clothes, and then wrapped him tightly in a quilt. Minghua also fed him almost half a catty of liquor.
After a long while, the frozen Wang Yantai gradually came to his senses.
"His grandmother's, almost froze to death." He scolded as soon as he opened his mouth, then took the remaining half of the bottle of wine in Minghua's hand, and drank it to the mouth of the bottle. I heard his throat gurgle for a while, and the half bottle of wine was dried up for him in one go.
Everyone had a lot of questions to ask him, and when he finished drinking, he dried his mouth. Minghua asked:
"Brother Yantai, why did you run in front of us?"
"His grandmother's, I don't know what's going on, why did she run ahead of you. I'm still wondering what to do. At that time, the sailboat we were on eventually sank. I told everyone to evacuate, and I was the last to leave the ship, and when I got off the boat, I drank half a bottle of soju and jumped into the water holding the largest and thickest plank in front of the rudder. At that time, I saw you coming. When I got off the boat, I brought several grenades with me and tried to row over the transport ship that blew up the devils.
It was then that a strong wind came, followed by such a big wave. The lightning and thunder scared people to death. I'm almost rowing to the devil's boat. Suddenly, a big wave rushed over, and when I came out of the wave, I saw that not far away, two transport ships of the devil hit the big wave and sank into the water. The hapless tugboat was also dragged into the water by the two transports, and they were never seen again. The injured motorboat was broken in two in the waves and immediately sank into the lake. ”
Wang Yantai smacked his lips and said:
"Where's my bong?"
"Here." Minghua hurriedly handed over the cigarette gun.
Wang Yantai took out a pinch of tobacco from the waterproof cigarette purse tied to the smoking gun, pressed it into the smoking gun, struck a match and lit the tobacco, took a hard puff, and said:
"His grandmother's, I can't imagine that I can smoke a cigarette again."
He saw that everyone was looking at him, and waited for him to continue, and then continued:
"I saw that the waves swept all our brothers into the whirlpool, and they never came out again. Before I could see it, I suddenly felt that there was something so powerful that sucked me up at once, grabbed me and flew so high and so far. Later, they threw me out of the sky, and no, I came here in a daze, and then I met you. ”
Xiao Xiong understood, it turned out that it was the tornado that saved Wang Yantai's life.