Yue Hai was under a lot of pressure, although the impact of the warship was still very powerful, but he looked at the pirate ship in front of him, and knew that his hope of victory was very slim, especially when he saw that the ship of the Mixed River Dragon had been far away from his attack range and did not give him any chance at all, he knew that although the opponent was just a pirate, he was a smart pirate, and it was not easy to defeat him.

Zhou Qun took a very clever approach, he let the pirates disperse, took advantage of the fact that the pirate ships were lighter and more numerous than the sailor warships, avoided the frontal impact of the sailor warships, let the sailor warships lure into the position, and then caught up from the side and back, hooked the sailor warship with an iron hook, attached to the sailor's warship like a locust, climbed up, and fought with the officers and soldiers of the sailor.

In this way, the impact power of the sailor warship was useless, but the advantage of the pirate was brought into full play, and when the pirates were found to be trying to cross the sea, more than 20 warships had fallen into the siege of the pirates, and they quickly lost their speed, surrounded by more and more pirates, and many pirates jumped on the warship and started a bloody battle with the officers and soldiers of the sailor. Once they confronted the pirates head-on, the lack of combat effectiveness of the officers and men was manifested, and it did not last long before one after another the ships of the naval division fell into the hands of the pirates, who cut down the battle flag of the naval division, raised the pirate flag, and in turn charged the officers and men of the naval division.

The situation took a turn for the worse, and the morale of the pirates soared, and they began to be swept away by the depression caused by the onslaught of the sailors' warships, and they were boiling with enthusiasm, shouting all kinds of slogans, and counterattacking the sailors.

Yue Hai was helpless, so he had to order all the officers and men of the naval division to press, force back the pirates with the overall strong strength, and save more than a dozen warships that were still desperately resisting, and then retreat with all his strength, leaving the battlefield, and preparing to withdraw to the mouth of the waterway to make plans again.

In just half an hour, the defeat of the sailors was already visible, although more than a hundred pirate ships were knocked over in the initial impact, but then more than twenty medium-sized warships were lost, and the sailors suffered a greater loss in comparison.

A smug smile appeared on the corner of Zhou Qun's mouth, and he breathed a sigh of relief, and gave the other pirates the order to pursue in high spirits.

Navy? This time, you will have no return, and see whose East China Sea is in the future.

Seeing that the advance had successfully turned the tide of battle, countless pirates with a wait-and-see attitude no longer hesitated, followed the hoisting of the sails, rowed the oars, and rushed towards the officers and soldiers of the naval division. Defeat the sailors, and the more than 300 merchant ships will be their trophies, and no one will be left behind at this time. More than 2,000 pirate ships, large and small, followed several medium-sized warships, striking countless snow-white waves, scrambling to be the first, and for a time 10,000 oars were vying for the lead, and the shouts of excitement and the sound of hitting the water were mixed together, revealing the sound of endless greed and longing war drums one after another, and the sea was more lively than the bazaar.

Yue Hai was very aggrieved, he had expected that this time would be dangerous, but he didn't expect the danger to come so quickly, he had commanded many battles before, and he had also fought battles in which the weak defeated the strong, but today's strength is too different, and there are smart people in command among the pirates, and he can't resist it at all.

"Where did General Sun retreat?" Yue Hai's face was cold, his face was ugly, partly angry, partly regretful.

"They have withdrawn to the waterway, but General Sun stopped at the mouth of the waterway." His personal guard, Zhu San, smiled bitterly, "Look at that, he wants to intercept pirates." ”

"Ignorance." Yue Hai scolded in a low voice, spat a mouthful, and said hatefully: "Just his two ships can stop so many pirates? What a joke! Hurry up and wave the flag, let him retreat into the waterway, and I'll stop the waterway. Damn, this time it's a big loss, and Lao Tzu can't get it to ruin his reputation here. ”

"General, let's take General Sun and withdraw, there are so many merchant ships here, I don't think the pirates will chase after us."

"You think I don't want to." Yue Hai scolded: "Don't hesitate, let him enter the waterway, go out from the other end, hurry up, if he is stopped by pirates, none of us can leave, don't blame Lao Tzu for not being righteous when the time comes." For his meal, Lao Tzu lost more than 20 boats, a big loss. ”

Zhu San nodded and ordered the flag to be issued.

"Alas-" Sun Shangxiang sighed: "The combat power of the sailor is really poor, look at the one surnamed Yue who blows fiercely, but the fight is like a puddle of mud, and he was defeated in half an hour, it's really embarrassing, I'm afraid my female guard will not be so miserable." ”

Guan Feng straightened up with her waist propped up, and looked down just now, which made her feel a little uncomfortable. She rubbed her eyes, looked at the retreating sailor warship, and turned her gaze to Sun Shao on the right, ignoring Sun Shangxiang's scratches.

Sun Shao was directing people to pull the pulley, dismantling the giant wood that connected the two ships, with the separation of the two ships, the shaking amplitude brought by the wind and waves was obviously much greater, Guan Xiaoqing and Qiao Yue caught up, and wanted to help her back to the cabin to sit down, but she grabbed the hatch and refused to go in, her eyes persistently looked at Sun Shao who was busy.

Sun Shao felt his gaze, he waved his hand to Guan Feng, and laughed loudly: "Auntie, madam, this place will be handed over to you, when the pirates come, you will fight hard, don't save face for them." ”

Guan Feng forcibly suppressed the tension in her heart and nodded vigorously, although she believed that Sun Shao would have an arrangement, but she didn't know whether his arrangement would work or not. It was only out of dependence on Sun Shao that she didn't say a word and let Sun Shao do it.

Sun Shangxiang's psychology is similar to Guan Feng's, but her surname is very aggressive, and now seeing the soldiers on the ship busy, she is more excited than afraid. Although she also has more than 200 female guards, and often trains in the barracks, but she has never really been on the battlefield, this time she is on the front line, or fighting with so many pirates, she feels that her heart is beating faster, the blood is surging on her face, her hands and feet are a little numb and swollen, and an indescribable sense of comfort fills her body.

"Aman, you can go with confidence, I am here." Sun Shangxiang patted his chest, and Da Chichi promised: "Don't worry, with me, your wife and son will not be short of a hair." ”

Sun Shao listened to the last sentence, and couldn't cry or laugh, this tiger aunt really swore endlessly.

"In this way, please aunt, if you win this battle, you will be a real female general."

"Hahaha, it has to be." Sun Shangxiang laughed very gracelessly, walked to the front desk of Feilu, and waved his hand: "Raise the battle flag of the old lady and prepare to slash the pirates." ”

Several female guards quickly rushed to the main mast and raised the battle flag of Sun Shangxiang, who had been on the battlefield for a long time but had never really been on the battlefield.

Sun Shangxiang leaned on the railing, looking down at the busy soldiers on the deck, and his eyebrows danced with excitement. With a creaking sound, fifteen ten-stone giant crossbows appeared on the deck out of thin air, three pointed straight ahead, and six on each side of the gangway, behind each giant crossbow, two strong men pulled a wheel-shaped handle, and little by little pulled the thick crossbow string towards the suspension knife. Sun Shangxiang was amazed, a ten-stone crossbow like this used to take more than a dozen people to be wound, and even a cow could pull it, but now through such a wheel, two people can be wound?

Whether she could accept it or not, it was a fact that the strings of fifteen giant crossbows were in place one after another, and another soldier who had been waiting for a long time quickly placed a huge crossbow arrow like a boat of spears in the arrow slot, and the cold and shining arrows pointed straight at the sea in front of him.

Behind the three giant crossbows in front of them, there were four thunderbolts at intervals, and behind each car there were four horsemen, who were working in an orderly manner, and they were doing things with their heads down, not even looking at the sailors who had retreated in front of them, let alone the pirates who were following them, as if all this was something they were doing every day, and it seemed very calm and natural.

There are no thunderbolts on the gangways on both sides, but there are three huge wooden pillars each, Sun Shangxiang has always thought that it is a side mast, but now he finds out that it is not at all, these six giant trees are about eight zhang high, three feet thick, and there is a black ball tied to an iron chain about one zhang and five feet long, which does not look very big, but it is extremely heavy.

"What is this?" Sun Shangxiang asked, pointing to the thunderbolt and the tall wooden pillars.

"They are all sharp weapons prepared by the husband, and with these sharp weapons, my aunt will definitely be able to become a female general with great achievements." Guan Feng sat steadily in the cabin and said with a faint smile.

Sun Shangxiang smiled a little embarrassedly, speaking of which Sun Shao handed over the ship to her, but she didn't know much about it, fortunately, Sun Shao just let her sit in charge, and didn't ask her to command, otherwise it would be ugly.

Zhao Sleeve pressed the knife, walked up to Sun Shangxiang, and bowed down: "Madam, the crossbow, thunderbolt, and slapstick are all ready, please give the battle order Madame." ”

"Okay, get ready for battle."

"Whoa." Zhao Sleeve turned around and struck the war drum, and the low drum rumbled and rolled through the noisy battlefield, like a muffled thunder before a rainstorm.

The merchant ships in the waterway could not see the battle situation in front of them, they only knew from the sound of the gong of the retreat of the sailor division that the sailor division had been defeated, and now General Henghai's building ship was the last guarantee in front of them. Some people in front saw that Sun Shao's building boat had separated and disappeared from their field of vision, what did they do, they didn't know, what they knew was that Sun Shao would never have left them alone to escape. Because although one of Sun Shao's building boats is gone, but that one is still there, they know that it is Sun Shao's wife Guan Feng's boat, Sun Shao's love for his wife is obvious to all, Guan Feng is here, Sun Shao will definitely not escape.

There is only one possibility, Sun Shao is fighting.

Can a building ship be braver than seventy or eighty naval ships? Although they hoped that Sun Shao could succeed, they were still apprehensive in their hearts, although Sun Shao's prestige among the officers and soldiers of the Jiaozhou Navy Division was divine, but no matter how godly, he couldn't be a hundred, not to mention that there were two thousand pirates here.

The merchants were skeptical.

When Yue Hai saw Sun Shao's warship, he was also very puzzled, he also had a building ship, and they were all defeated, Sun Shao dared to go into battle alone? Is he too self-righteous? Just as he was considering whether to do his last bit of thought, Sun Shao's upstairs came with a banner, asking him to help another building ship protect the waterway mouth after he returned to the waterway, so as not to let the pirate ship rush in and harm those merchant ships. Yue Hai wanted to ask more, but Sun Shao's boat had already sailed far away, so he didn't give him a chance at all.

Zhu San pointed to Sun Shao's back and was very surprised: "General, where is he going?" ”

Yue Hai was also very suspicious, but he stroked the short beard under his chin and did not say a word. The mouth of the waterway is in the west, the pirates are in the east, but Sun Shao turned to the south, the intention is unknown, but he found a problem, Sun Shao's ship is very fast, it is also a building ship, Sun Shao's ship is much faster than his building ship.

"He's famous on this ship." Yue Hai turned his head and glanced at Zhu San: "Did you see that he had a turret?" ”

Zhu San also found a problem, generally small boats use oars, big boats use oars, because oars are faster than oars, the building boats in Dongwu usually use giant oars, and the boat that crosses the sea is like this, Sun Shao's building is like a boat from Houguan Shipyard, of course, it is also equipped with a oar, but now this building boat only sees the oar, but not a oar, all they can see is the snow-white waves rolling behind the boat, in this wave, the building boat floated away at a speed they had never seen.

"Why is he so fast?" Zhu San muttered to himself, "It's half faster than our ship, and it's almost time to catch up with the fighting ship." ”

"General Sun's chest is a stick, do you remember that Ge Heng?" A shallow smile appeared at the corner of Yue Hai's mouth.

Zhu San thought for a moment and nodded: "I know." ”

"He is a guest of General Sun, and he is very interested in shipbuilding, and the last time I wanted to keep him in the shipyard, he refused. It seems that this ship is his masterpiece again. Yue Hai looked back at the pirate who was chasing closer and closer, thought for a moment, and gritted his teeth: "In this case, I will accompany him to go crazy." Ordered the soldiers to return to the waterway, divide them into two, one part at the mouth of the waterway, and one part through the waterway, and set up a formation at the other end. ”

Zhu San hesitated for a moment, and when he saw Yue Hai's resolute expression, he didn't dare to say more, so he had to give an order.

Although they felt that the giant trees erected on the building ships were a little strange, they didn't have time to think about it, and after entering the waterway, they set up a blocking formation behind the building ships.

As soon as they were ready, they saw the shocking side.

The pirates who followed saw that there was only one ship left at the mouth of the waterway, standing still, except for a few people standing upright on the flying house, the deck was tightly blocked by the wooden female wall, and they could not see it very much, but they were not worried. Although the building ship is tall and powerful, but in addition to the many fighters on the building ship, the most important point is its large size, and it collides with it, except for the same building ship, there is basically no opponent, and it is more terrible than a medium-sized warship.

Rush up, climb aboard this gorgeous building ship, and grab it!

Without discussion, the pirates unanimously made the same decision, adjusting the bows of the first few ships and rushing towards the stationary building ship as fast as they could. They clenched the iron hook and ring knife in their hands, trembling with excitement, according to the rules of the road, whoever gets on this ship first and can survive to the end will be the owner of this ship. This is too tempting, the pirates have robbed medium-sized warships, but almost no one can grab the building ship, the reason is very simple, the combat power of the building ship is too strong, even if he is defeated, he can break through, the pirate's boat can't stop him at all, like today, stop here and let the pirates rob, it is the first time in the world.

Being able to grab a building ship, this is something that pirates never dared to think of before they went to sea, but now it appears alive in front of them, how can it not make people's hearts move?

The pirates shouted, and the sailors blushed, clenched their teeth, and with all their strength under the command of the drums, rowed the ship almost out of the water, and rushed towards the ship at a speed never before.

Everything seemed so excited, everything seemed so logical, even the officers and soldiers of the sailor felt that the fall of the building ship was only a matter of time, although Sun Shao's building ship had more than 300 elite soldiers, but could they stop as many pirates as ants?

Yue Hai and Zhu San glanced at each other, and at the same time held their breath, waiting for a miracle to appear.

The only thing that seems a little incongruous is the building ship, which just stops quietly, with low drums and slow rhythms, making people feel a little bit of the pre-war atmosphere, as if it is not in the noisy battlefield, but going out to sea for sightseeing.

One hundred steps! Eighty steps! Fifty steps!

The drums on the building boat suddenly rushed, "dong dong" two sounds, in the slow lyrical rhythm suddenly added two strong notes, making people's hearts tremble, with these two drums, a few sharp whistles from the building boat, a few black shadows cut through the sky, with the sound of the wind flying forward. Three slender black shadows flew a distance of one hundred and eighty paces, and hit the ships of the three pirate leaders one after another, and before the pirate leaders could feel frightened, the whizzing crossbow arrows had already penetrated their bodies, and before the remaining strength was gone, they pierced the deck, and the most serious one punched the ship a large hole, and the raging sea water immediately poured in.

The pirates were shocked by the powerful lethality of the giant crossbow, and were even more disturbed by the tragic death of the leader, looking at the sea water that was rolling in the waves, some of them screamed in horror, and some were dumbfounded, but almost without exception forgot about rowing, the warship that lost power quickly stopped, and the boat behind could not turn in time, and it crashed into it with a "bang", and suddenly people turned on their backs, and it became a mess.

Compared to the accuracy of the giant crossbow, the Thunderbolt was dwarfed, only two of the four Thunderbolts hit their targets, and the other two missed the direction, and the stone balls that flew eighty paces smashed into the sea, causing a splash of water three or five feet high, which frightened the pirates next to them dumbfounded. But the thunderbolt was much more powerful than the crossbow, and the two ships that were hit were as vulnerable as a pile of rotten wood, and the sawdust flew away, and the ship almost fell apart when it landed, and the sea water poured in, and it sank before its eyes. The worst of all was a pirate, who was hit by a boulder, and he didn't even have time to shout, and the man was still sitting there, but his head was gone.

One hit.

"Medium!" Sun Shangxiang clenched his fists excitedly and shouted. Zhao Sleeve's face did not change, he waved the red flag in his hand, and shouted in a deep voice: "Get on the arrow!" ”

(To be continued)