Chapter 64: Catch them all
This was not an assassination by one person, but began to kill all sides on the docks, and soon pirates sounded the alarm.
"Enemy attack, go and inform the big leader!"
The dock was a few miles away from the village, and sounding the alarm bell only served to warn the people around them, and if they wanted to let the pirates in the village know a few miles away, they had to use other means.
I saw wolf smoke billowing from a place in Yantai, and even people from a few miles away could see it clearly.
Originally, there were many people guarding the dock, but recently suffered a big fiasco, and there was a shortage of manpower for a while, leaving only more than 500 people on the dock. And Lu Shuang let the little boss who went out to rob take the lead to come back, and everyone didn't notice any danger for a while, when the people on Yantai found that there was a large ship approaching in the distance and hesitated to light the wolf smoke, there was a mutation on the dock below. At a glance, it was clear that there was an enemy infiltrating the dock and preparing to seize it, and although the wolf smoke was ignited as soon as the mutation occurred, it still gave the fleet of Tiefan Village a little time.
In fact, it's not that they don't want to light the wolf smoke earlier, but they all know the story of the princes of the beacon fire, what if it is a few small cargo ships from their own side that are not the enemy's big ships, what if they are wrong? That would have left the whole village running for nothing, and there were plenty of ships parked on the docks ready to fight, and they didn't think they would lose to any power at sea except the imperial navy, but they wouldn't find it so quickly.
But the fact is that the fleet of Iron Sail Village has not only approached the island, but the soldiers have infiltrated the ranks of the pirates, because of the strong intervention and harassment of these dozen soldiers, some of the ships cannot be evacuated or attacked in time.
What happened next was that the fleet of Tiefan Village successfully landed, and a large number of soldiers supported a dozen people on the dock from the ship. It took less than fifteen minutes from the chaos of the lurking soldiers to the arrival of the ships and the occupation of the dock, which happened to be the time when the pirates arrived from the village to the docks.
"Who is ahead, I have no grievances with you, why do you want to offend here?" A burly man from the pirate reinforcements walked out.
"Hmph, pirates are rampant and cause trouble in the world. I was sent by the imperial court to exterminate you, and I won't be arrested? Lu Shuang did not show weakness when attacking with his mouth.
The pirate leader glanced at the soldiers of Tiefan Village, and was shocked, although they did not look like the soldiers on the fleet of Tiefan Village that day, but each of them wore full-body armor and held some steel guns, and the lowest level was fish scale armor, which meant that if these equipment were not papier-mâché, then they were genuine seventh-order soldiers and eighth-order soldiers.
Looking at his own soldiers again, the leader who had a sense of superiority over the strength of his subordinates a few days ago suddenly felt that the strength of the two sides was one platinum and one silver rank.
I have a retreat in my heart, I can find another uninhabited desert island if the island is gone, and if the village is gone, it will be a little harder, but if the people are gone, I really can't turn over. As the dock here was occupied by the other party, he still built a dock in another place, where a large number of warships were parked. As long as he can draw people out and drag the person who claims to be the imperial navy in front of him, he can retreat from the flank, and if the opponent pursues too deeply, he can go around to the rear to attack his four-masted galleon, which is the dream ship of every pirate.
One, two, three, four...... A total of eight warships.
The leader silently counted in his heart that he had to fight a wave, and fighting on land was not good for them. There is no chance of winning in a head-on confrontation, pirates are okay at sea, but once they are on land, they will not be able to exert their full combat effectiveness. The number of the other party is not 1,000 but 800, and with his own 2,500 pirates, he still wants to fight against high-ranking soldiers, and he will kill himself at that time.
"Prepare the archers, wait until they get close to a hundred meters and release the arrows."
While directing the frontal battle, the leader secretly instructed some of the men to go to another dock to prepare, and his idea was to use the archers to keep firing arrows to draw the other side, so as to buy more time for his arrangement.
"Uh..." Lu Shuang was speechless when she saw this.
The two sides are still three or four hundred meters apart, and you are ready to release arrows as a fifth-order archer, so how many meters away should my seventh-order archer be ready?
"Heavy shield soldiers cover, seventh-order archers prepare, slowly move forward."
This time was different from the naval battle of the previous two days, and the soldiers who Lu Shuang communicated to support Tiefan Village were all fully armed, because according to his speculation, the battle between the two sides might take place on land, and the battle on land was not as limited as the battle on the sea. That's why there are a lot of soldiers wearing full-body armor and holding spears.
These heavy shield soldiers are all composed of seventh-order soldiers, holding a large rectangular shield, and the only small round shield used by the pirates is the sword and shield soldiers, and there is a gap in comparison.
The heavy shield soldiers on Lu Shuang's side moved to a distance of one hundred and fifty meters between the two sides and stopped, adjusted their formation slightly, and ordered to release arrows at the other side. This distance can't be shot by a fifth-order soldier's second-level bow, but a seventh-order soldier's fourth-order divine arm bow can easily shoot into the opponent's inside.
At first, the leader thought that he would wait for the other party to advance a few more meters, ten or twenty meters, and then he would give the order to release the arrows. But just when the heavy shield soldiers stopped at one hundred and fifty meters, he suddenly thought of something, these archers were also wearing fish scale armor, and it was hard to guarantee that they were not seventh-order soldiers.
In an instant, the soldiers of Iron Sail Village proved to the pirate leader that his conjecture was completely correct. Relying on the protection of the sword and shield soldiers, the pirate archers stood relatively high, and when the soldiers of Tiefan Village released their arrows from a hundred and fifty meters away, they sneered in their hearts, can they fight at such a distance? However, it was too late to find out that the parabola seemed to be able to shoot at it, and the archers of the pirate regiment had been severely damaged again since losing many archers in the naval battle two days before, and the small round shield might not even be able to protect the sword and shield soldiers, let alone the archers who were not wearing any armor.
"You, you're the one who fought with us the day before yesterday?" The leader thought that the other party had such a powerful archer, which was very similar to the forces of the naval battle that day, and he was pressing them all the time.
"Haha, there are so many pirates who have died at our hands, how do I know which team of pirates you are." Anyway, blowing the cannon only uses saliva and no money, and Lu Shuang tried to provoke him with words.
In fact, after the leader saw the four-masted galleon, he suspected that these two battles were the same force, but the four-masted galleon and the seventh- and eighth-order soldiers may be available in each territory, but not every territory is willing to take out a part of the seventh-order soldiers to be archers, and the sixth-order soldiers are considered high. Seeing that the range of the other party was between 150 meters and 200 meters, and thinking of the arrows that were also placed around 200 meters that day, the leader was even more sure that this was the army of the same force.
Although he wanted to avenge the revenge with one arrow, reason told him that he would not worry about running out of firewood to keep Qingshan, and it was important to save his life. Lu Shuang's words not only failed to anger the pirate leader, but made him mistakenly think that Lu Shuang was the kind of person who was ruthless to pirates and killed them all, and even more cowardly.
"Brothers, raise your shields, we hold our ground, they can't help us." The leader drew his saber, a little morale-boosting.
The pirates, who had been a little restless, settled down, because bows and arrows were used a lot in naval battles, so many people had some items in their hands to block arrows. When the chief saw that the pirates were quiet, he said, "You are guarding this place, and I will go back and sacrifice the heirlooms, and I will surely bring them back." ”
After saying that, the leader left with a team of cronies and elite soldiers, leaving only a few people who supervised the battle to prevent anyone from escaping.
"Lord, I think that guy wants to leave their men behind." Zhou Bai whispered in Lu Shuang's ear.
"Oh? And this kind of operation? "Lu Shuang was a little surprised, didn't a handful of rogues fight to the death, why would the boss throw down his little brother and slip away by himself?
"It shouldn't be wrong, he secretly took away all the elite soldiers, leaving only half of the pirate minions, even if they don't have a great influence on him, he can start again." Zhou Bai analyzed.
"Wouldn't it be better if he was gone?" Lu Shuang said with a smile: "You can eat these people without destroying it, and he can walk alone, in fact, there are even bigger surprises waiting for him." ”
The leader took almost all the official pirates, and the fifth-order soldiers marched quickly, and it didn't take long to reach another dock. It's just that he thinks it's very strange that why so many people have been drawn out, and there is no sound of killing on the frontal battlefield except for archery?
The pier that Lu Shuang now occupies is generally used for fishing and docking, and the more advanced schooners are placed on this more secluded pier. There are only more than 600 pirates brought over by the leader this time, but they are all official pirates, much stronger than the pirate minions on the frontal battlefield, which is also the capital of his turnover.
Food, money, and weapons were brought along with the ship.
The boat slowly left the shore and sailed into the distance, and the leader looked back into the distance, and he looked at his old nest with great reluctance. I was going to live a drifting life on the sea again, and I knew how to find the next island.
Soon they were sailing more than a hundred nautical miles, and just as one of them could get rid of the plague god, a pirate said in horror.
"The first... Chief, look, there are ships coming from the front and rear of the fleet. ”
The leader followed the pirate's direction, and found that there was a ship waiting here for a long time, and he was not naïve enough to know that it was his own men who had come to pick them up, for there were four-masted galleons in front and behind.
Are you going to finish?
The leader was not reconciled, and wanted to order to get close to the other party, and take the next ship first, after all, there are so many ships on his side, and he can't get close if he doesn't believe it. But a boulder fell into the sea in front of them, and the splash made them despair.
The four-masted galleon behind unconsciously circled its flanks, and something on the huge deck was aimed at them, and if they moved, a boulder would greet them. The four-masted sailboat that Lu Shuang brought over was equipped with a small catapult, although only two of them had such equipment, but it couldn't be better for pursuit, and the whole ship bloomed when it was smashed, and the people on board had no choice unless they hid in the sea to feed the sharks.