Chapter 489: Life and Death Struggle
"Choke!"
The javelin plunged into the iron shield with a crisp sound.
Hit by the huge momentum, the two guards each took three or four steps back in a row, and their backs leaned against the side of the ship before they began to unload the liliang brought by the gun. However, although it was a bit embarrassing, the javelin only pierced the first shield, leaving a clear mark on the second shield.
Gan Yong's expression remained unchanged at all, the scene in front of him had long been in his expectation, these iron shields created by the Qin army had been tested at the beginning of use, although Greer was powerful, but the greatest possibility was to penetrate the two layers of superimposed iron shields.
"Sky Thunder Soldier, give the pirates some color." Enraged by the pirate javelin, the Qin army commander immediately gave the order to counterattack.
With the improvement of the jishu, the thunder soldier no longer relies solely on arm strength to fire gunpowder artifacts, Peng Sheng, the jishu madman, found a possibility from the crossbow, the sealed gunpowder bag is placed in a special box, and one end of the fuse is wrapped tightly with twine, so as to ensure that the lead is not extinguished during the projectile process, so that this primitive thunder, just like the classic grenade in later generations, can kill the opponent to the greatest extent.
Of course, even if the wire goes out accidentally, there is nothing? The strong collision on the battlefield and the sky-high fire may cause a muffled thunderstorm.
"What is this?" Grell and the other pirates widened their eyes, looking at the unknown objects thrown one by one in puzzlement, for them, the crossbow arrows shot by the Qin people were nothing, but the objects that appeared in front of them now were obviously completely different from the crossbow arrows.
"Boom!
"Boom!"
The successive explosions quickly answered their doubts, and Greer's battlefield experience saved his life, and in a hurry, he snatched the two pirates who were stunned and couldn't react, and blocked them in front of him.
The screams and moans resounded on the pirate ship, and the thieves who didn't know how to hide were in a panic. They ran around trying to escape God's punishment, but their actions only intensified the lethality of gunpowder. Greer lay tightly in the corner of the hull, and the scene of flesh and blood flying made him tremble, what kind of weapon is this, and it can have such power in the process of falling?
Physically strong pirates may have the upper hand in cold weapon melee combat, but in the face of such non-contact attacks, the pirates' advantages are gone.
"Brothers. Lean up, lean up, kill these yellow-skinned monkeys! Grell yelled, bloody. At this moment, even if he didn't admit it mentally, he understood that it was impossible to win for the pirates by relying only on the brute force of the javelin, and the next melee was Zuihou's choice.
The pirate ship made a difficult turn, and in the harbor, seven single-deck paddle ships were rammed and sunk. The remaining six pirate ships against the five three-layer paddle ships of the Shang Qin army, in terms of quantity, the pirates have one more, and there seems to be hope. But on closer examination, there were nearly three hundred soldiers of the Qin army on each of the three-story ships, compared to a single oared pirate ship, there were only fifty or sixty pirates at most, but. The difference in numbers didn't deter the pirates.
What about a lot of people?
It's just some landlubbers, and the guys who can't even stand on their feet dare to fight with us. With a strong sense of self-confidence. Greer and his brothers began a desperate counterattack.
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Waves stack on top of each other.
On the docks of the port of Crete, Dikar, who had just docked, had an earthy face, and he had a kind of luck not dying after finally escaping from the pirates. Looking back at the sea, the sound of shouts and killings, explosions, and war drums is like a passionate battlefield epic, which is the most fierce naval battle in the Aegean Sea after the outbreak of ancient Greek civilization.
Canoe battles have long been a thing of the past.
Between the Qin army and the pirate ship in the harbor, the battle had begun, but to the surprise of the pirates, the oarsmen, who were originally only responsible for paddling in the Western naval battle, actually pulled out their sharp swords from their waists one by one and rushed out like melee soldiers.
"Kill!"
"Great Qin, Great Qin!"
The long-lost black waves, like an invincible wave, jumped over the obstacles of the sea, and many Qin army oarsmen almost rolled and pounced on the pirates on the opposite side.
On the flagship, Gan Yong personally held the war drum, the green tendons on his forehead were exposed, and when the war hammer in his hand struck hard, the 1,200 Qin soldiers who participated in the battle let out a long-suppressed roar.
Two torrents collide.
Greer's experience in naval warfare allowed him to judge the situation in an instant, and the pirate ship turned around, suddenly dodging a wave of thunder bombs, and then quickly occupied the upper wind direction and rushed into the flank of the Qin fleet.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"
On the flagship, the soldiers of the Qin army who were in charge of the flag command eagerly waved the flag and ordered the friendly ships responsible for protecting the two wings to block the front one step in advance.
Left flank direction.
A Qin ship rode the wind and waves, straight from a backward position, and stood in front of the pirates when Greer tore through the ranks of the Qin army. This was the third ship in the Qin fleet, and it was commanded by Captain Lei. Lei Bei's Qin ship, according to the battle sequence, was not in front, but when the flagship was in danger, it bravely stood up.
In the Jianghuai area, the water network is dense, and the water nature of the thunder quilt is quite good. As the general colonel of the third batch of Western Expeditions, when Lei was included in the Qin army, he was assigned to the command of Huan Chu, the defender of Dongyang City, who he was more familiar with, but when he heard about Daqin's Trojan training navy, Lei, who was eager to prove himself in a war, volunteered to ask Li Yuan for an order to join this newly formed navy.
The sudden appearance of the third ship made Jihua, who was a group of thieves and warships, bankrupt, Greer was furious, and the sudden appearance of the Qin warship made Jihua, who captured the king, pounce into the air, and in desperation, he had to give up the Gan Yong ship, but sought to sink the thunder by the ship first.
A melee at sea, a close-range battle, hand-to-hand combat, completely different from the long-distance attack at the beginning, the Lei was separated by the pirate ship and the other Qin ships, and endured the siege of many enemy ships, while on the other side, Xiangshang, occupied a local advantage in numbers, and surpassed the main force of the opponent's Gan Yong fleet in terms of single ship strength, and was beating the rest of the pirate ships.
On the third ship of the Qin army.
Captain Lei was snatched from the stern position to the bow deck, just a round of collision, his battleship was besieged by two pirate ships, the stern troops were blazing, the powder magazine of the Tianlei Army accidentally caught fire, the entire stern was interrupted into several pieces in the creaking, Lei was not fast, he would have died before he could go on the expedition.
On the deck of the ship, Grell had already boarded the ship with seven or eight fierce pirates, and the pirates who were very imposing took advantage of the panic of the Qin army due to the explosion, and slashed and killed several Qin soldiers. However, what Greer and the others did not expect was that in such a heavy situation, on this seriously damaged Qin warship, the soldiers, including the oarsmen, all seemed to be not afraid of death, and the whole ship was still fighting to the death despite more than half of the casualties.
"I'll fuck you!" Ray was seen his soldiers die one by one, and his eyes immediately turned red, he roared, and the captain's sword at his waist was pulled out, and he pounced on the fattest pirate leader in front of him.
"Shhh Greer's arm was slashed by a sharp blade from nowhere, and his flesh rolled in severe pain, making him gasp.
"Yellow-skinned monkey, don't you want to live!" Greer was furious and looked for it, just as he saw a black-clothed and black-armored Qin general rushing towards him.
"White-skinned pig, if you want to die, come up!" Ray sneered and pointed his sword at Greer. I wanted to make meritorious service, but I was boarded by the enemy, so that Lei Hou, the former first ranger of Jianghuai, could no longer bear it, and he wanted to use his own bravery and his own performance to write the legend of Daqin Jian'er.
As a ranger, Lei Quilt's ability to fight alone makes him invincible, and this time, his opponent is the most ferocious pirate leader in the Mediterranean.
Greer is a tall horseman.
Compared with Lei Quilt, he has the upper hand in Liliang, but, compared to the flexibility of his body, the three Grell are not as good as Lei Quilt, the agility of the ranger, coupled with the ability to be born in the Jianghuai Water Town, makes Lei Quilt always be able to rush ahead of Grell in naval battles, and after only a few rounds, the great pirate Grell was stabbed into a bloody man by Ray.
"I'm so angry, if you have a kind, don't move." Grell was furious, and the massive loss of blood made his body crumble, while the mortal enemy in front of him became blurred.
Ray didn't answer, just continued to stab at the opponent's vital point, past experience told him that a water dog like Greer was about to drown, but before Zuihou breathed, they could fight back at any time.
Ray was not a celebrity.
Strategizing, the decisive victory has nothing to do with him, in history, Lei was the number one general under Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, and he did not have any outstanding achievements, but in contrast to the inaction on the battlefield, Lei was very famous in the Jianghuai area.
This time, Greer really chose the wrong opponent. After an hour of bitter death, the pirate leader finally could not stand it anymore, and with a false sword, he suddenly jumped sideways into the sea.
"If you want to escape, it's not that easy!" Ray snorted coldly, and jumped down without hesitation, and the two of them had a death fight in the sea, but fortunately, the sea area at this time was in the port of Crete, and there were fewer man-eating sharks around, otherwise, with the blood of the two of them, they would inevitably summon groups of evil sharks.
After a few moments, a figure emerged from the sea, and Ray grabbed a floating plank, gasping for breath, but Grell was nowhere to be seen.
The bandits who had lost their leader were now demoralized, and they fought separately, fighting and retreating, trying to escape to the open sea to join the other six ships, but in the narrow harbor lane, the Qin army's detachment was still blocked there, and it was not easy to break through. (To be continued......)