Chapter 184: Late Arrival
After this false alarm, time was delayed a little, and after dark, the Sea Lion began to sail towards Nanri Island in a dark way, in order to avoid exposure, the ship did not light up any lights, and only relied on the moonlight in the sky to provide a little light for the people on board, and operate the ship to sail.
When they arrived at the small desert island in the southeast corner of Nanri Island, it was already more than half an hour later than the scheduled time, and before the Sea Lion could land on the small desert island, Yu Xiaotian ordered to start putting down the sampan, and ordered several people who participated in the rescue operation on the island to prepare for departure.
The sampan was slowly hoisted into the water by everyone with a rope, considering that the sampan was relatively small, and it was necessary to load the two Qian Wang and other people who might be rescued on the return trip, so the Sea Lion came out this time and carried two sampans as a backup.
Nine people, led by Yu Xiaotian, descended to the sampan, and each sampan was equipped with a sailor in charge of rocking the sampan, and stayed on the sampan after docking.
Eleven people said a brief goodbye to Liu Lao Liu and the others who stayed on the Sea Lion, and Yu Xiaotian deliberately left a message, if they did not come back before dawn, and there were signs of fighting on the island, let Liu Lao Liu not wait for them anymore and immediately return to Treasure Island with the boat.
Liu Laoliu took over from him and led everyone on the island to evacuate Treasure Island immediately and flee back to the Funing area to seek refuge in Chaojianglong.
Liu Laoliu shook his head again and again, but was reprimanded by Yu Xiaotian for a few words, and had to nod and agree, before Yu Xiaotian took people off the ship, he repeatedly told Yu Xiaotian and others to be more careful and return safely.
Yu Xiaotian didn't say anything more, turned around and climbed down the side of the boat and landed in the sampan, and with a wave of his hand, the two sampans quickly left the Sea Lion under the paddle of everyone, and headed towards Nanri Island.
The closest distance between the small desert island and Nanri Island was only a few hundred meters, but it was still two or three miles away from their scheduled landing place, and everyone on the two sampans was silent, following each other, rowing the oars in their hands vigorously, and there was a person at the tail of the sampan who was responsible for rocking the oars and controlling the course of the sampan.
Nanri Island is like a giant beast, entrenched in the sea, and under the faint moonlight, it looks gloomy and hideous, making people feel depressed.
Yu Xiaotian did not paddle, but stood in front of the sampan, his eyes kept scanning the island, paying attention to all the glowing places on the island.
According to the previous agreement between him and Fang An, Fang An will arrange for a crony to light a lantern in the east of the island to guide them to the place to land, which is also a key to their actions.
Once they didn't find out that Fang An had sent someone to light the lantern, then it meant that Fang An had been defeated before this, or that King Qian and the two had been killed, and the next thing they had to do was to retreat quietly and immediately, and return to Treasure Island when nothing happened, and even be ready to evacuate Treasure Island at any time.
The two sampans gradually approached Nanri Island, but the people on the sampans never saw any lights on the island, so everyone was a little nervous and began to be a little anxious.
"Helmster, there's no light on the island! Is something wrong? Ma Xiao asked Xiaotian in a low voice.
Yu Xiaotian raised his hand to stop the two sampans, and carefully searched the island in front of the sampan, Li Er was sitting behind Yu Xiaotian, and he was sweating all over his head at this time.
Because he also knew that if there was no light on the island to answer them, it would mean that Yu Xiaotian would give up this operation, and he, as Qian Song's subordinate, had no right to ask Yu Xiaotian to go to the island, after all, this also involved the fate of Yu Xiaotian and so many of his subordinates.
But he still didn't give up, refused to give up the idea of saving Qian Song, and pleaded with Xiaotian in a low voice: "Yu Dangjia, it may be that the person who came to answer has something, wait a minute!" ”
Yu Xiaotian nodded and comforted Li Erdao: "Don't worry, brother, let's wait and see!" ”
Time seemed to freeze for a moment, and the people on the two sampans were full of energy, staring at the dark island with two eyes, each with a different mood.
Like Li Er, what he is looking forward to at this moment is to see the lights come on, in that case, it means that they can continue to act.
And some people are not very interested in this trip, and feel that if the lights are not turned on, it is a good thing for them, so that they don't have to take this risk, and they can go back to sleep comfortably!
The waiting time is long, Yu Xiaotian also feels very difficult, the people who came to pick them up have not turned on the lights for a long time, what happened, he can't predict, even he himself began to play a small drum in his heart, he couldn't help but want to give up, turn around and go back to pull down.
Just after they had waited for a full quarter of an hour, everyone's patience was almost exhausted, and even Yu Xiaotian himself was about to give up, Li Er suddenly pulled Yu Xiaotian's clothes behind him, and his voice was a little trembling and shouted: "Yu Dangjia, look, where is it!" Where! There is light! ”
Yu Xiaotian hurriedly looked in the direction of Li Er's finger, and sure enough, halfway up the mountain at the eastern end of the dark Nanri Island, a light lit up.
After Yu Xiaotian saw this point of light, he immediately waved his hand forward, and everyone cheered up again, and began to paddle hard, swaying the oar, and driving the two sampans towards the bright place quickly.
The waves crashed against the reef by the sea, making a rattling sound, and the tide washed onto the beach, leaving behind a patch of white foam that looked a little bleak in the moonlight.
The two sampans rushed directly to the beach, and several black shadows jumped from the sampan to the beach one after another, stepping on the wet sand, following the figure of a low pier, and running towards the shore.
Li Er didn't look tall, but his running speed was not slow, his two short legs were thrown away, and he ran forward like a wheel, so that the people behind him had to hold on to his two legs tightly to keep up with his speed.
Yu Xiaotian was highly nervous at this time, and while running forward with Li Erchao, he pricked up his ears to search for all the sounds coming from the air, analyzing possible abnormal noises, and his eyes kept searching in all directions, for fear that a figure would suddenly appear around at this time.
The people who came to pick them up appeared a lot late, Yu Xiaotian didn't know what happened to Lu Dao, if Fang An's side failed, and the news that he was going to bring someone to save King Qian and the others was revealed, then he and these subordinates would be unlucky today.
So after going ashore, Yu Xiaotian felt that his nerves were about to collapse, and even his body felt a little stiff.
Li Er didn't think about it so much at all, and after going ashore, he ran straight to the place where the lights were on, and he only wanted to hurry to the Dead Man's Cave and rescue King Qian and the others.
When everyone's feet hit the ground, there was a dense sound of crackling, and it was like rolling thunder in everyone's ears, which made people a little worried.
However, after they went ashore, they ran for a considerable distance, but there was nothing abnormal, and the entire eastern coast of Nanri Island was quiet.
In this day and age, night raids were a very difficult and risky thing to do, and even on land, it was very easy for them to get lost and scatter their ranks, ultimately leading to the failure of the operation.
Therefore, in ancient times, those who dared to take risks to carry out night raids were either geniuses or genius fools, and there were only a handful of cases where night raids could be successfully conducted.
Therefore, the ancients were relatively lax about the precautions at night, and once they succeeded, they would be very successful, otherwise they would be a mess.
Not to mention the night raid on the sea, the ship sails on the sea during the day, sometimes it will lose its way, and at night the reef on the shore is lined up, and the ship has to take a very big risk when it docks, and if you are not careful, let alone sneak attack on others, you may run aground on the reef, and you don't have to wait for a sneak attack on others, and you will kill yourself.
Therefore, it is much more difficult to carry out a sneak attack at sea than on the shore, so people like pirates are not very vigilant at night.
But for what Yu Xiaotian wants to do this time, the island has great advantages, but at the same time, there are also many disadvantages, originally Nanri Island is relatively large, with an area of dozens of square kilometers, although the Shark Gang has a lot of people, but it is only about a thousand people who add up to everything, and it is not a simple matter to set up sentry posts everywhere on the island.
In addition, the Shark Gang's Dazhai is located in the northwest corner of the island, twenty miles away from the easternmost part of the island, and their guard focus is basically concentrated on the northwest corner of the island and the sea north of the island, so it is unlikely that too many people will be left behind in the east end of the island.
This has created good conditions for Yu Xiaotian, space in exchange for time! This is also the reason why he dares to bring people to take risks, if it is a relatively small island, Yu Xiaotian asked himself, he really doesn't have the courage to bring people to do this kind of thing.
Li Er is quite familiar with the terrain in this area, and it seems that he has been active in this area before, which makes Yu Xiaotian a little suspicious, how can this guy be so familiar with the situation in the east of Nanri Island.
Under his leadership, everyone hurried all the way, and soon arrived at a slope dozens of meters above sea level, where there was a natural depression that was concave into the mountain.
The place where the light they saw on the sea just now is here, and the place chosen by the person who answered them is very good, light a lantern in the depression, and the lights can be seen on the sea, but the four walls of the depression block the divergence of the light, even if it is near this place, it is difficult to see the light emitted here in parallel with it, so it reduces the possibility of being discovered.
When Yu Xiaotian followed Li Er here, he probably heard their footsteps, and the light in the depression was immediately extinguished, and a person with a knife flashed in front of them, and shouted in a low voice: "Who? ”
(Thanks to the three brothers of the wolf for being obscene, the panda burning incense, and the wings of the green feather!) Doze! I haven't slept much in four days! )