Chapter 105: Sea Beasts
The South China Sea Dragon Island is the nest of the Sea Dragon Gang, the Sea Dragon Island is quite large, in addition to the mountains and forests on the island, there are also a lot of land suitable for farming, the Sea Dragon Gang has been operating for many years, has built a town on the island, inhabited by the families of the Sea Dragon Gang, there are also all kinds of people captured by the Sea Dragon Gang, etc., the Sea Dragon Island is easy to defend and difficult to attack, three sides are cliffs, the only side that is not a cliff is a natural harbor, and easy to defend and difficult to attack.
"Knock Knock Knock ......"
The sound of drums came from a hall on the high ground of the port, but it was the leader of the Sea Dragon Gang who summoned his leaders to the meeting.
In the hall with gorgeous decoration, a man in his thirties sat on the middle seat, with a fair face, a mustache, and sharp eyes, which was known as Cui Hailong, the king of the sea dragon.
Cui Hailong couldn't help but be a little complacent, after years of hard work, Hailong Island has today's weather, besides, not only Hailong Island, but now nearly half of the Canghai Alliance is in his own hands, and it won't take long to completely control the Canghai Alliance. Originally, the Canghai League integrated almost all the pirates in the East China Sea and the South China Sea, with a huge momentum, many ships, and many martial arts masters, but after all, it was a plate of loose sand, after a few years of open and secret fighting, the Canghai League gradually fell into the hands of Cui Hailong and a few others, and as soon as the order came out, the pirates below did not dare to disobey, and the Canghai League became a real maritime hegemon, however, the sea is not all the world of the Canghai League, and there are two obstacles, one is the East China Sea Alliance established by some maritime merchants and gangs in the East China Sea. There is also the Sea Shark Gang that occupies Qionghai. However, Cui Hailong believes that as long as he completely controls the Canghai Alliance, whether it is the East China Sea Alliance or the Sea Shark Gang, there is nothing to worry about, but it takes a lot of care to manage the foundation of the Canghai Alliance.
At this time, the drums stopped, all the leaders arrived, and one of them asked, "Dragon King, the brothers have arrived, what is the important matter of gathering the brothers today?" ”
Cui Hailong smiled and said: "Today is a major event related to the livelihood of the brothers, I have heard the brothers complaining recently, the business is getting less and less, let's discuss this matter today, what do you brothers think?" ”
As soon as Cui Hailong's words fell, a leader came out, with a bitter look on his face, and complained: "Dragon King, the brotherhood has not had a big deal for a long time, grabbing some small boats is not enough to fight tooth sacrifices, in the long run, this business will not be able to be done, and the brothers can only drink the northwest wind!" ”
"I only know how to rob and rob, and those who pass by are all robbed, and I am afraid of robbing, and I dare not come, of course I don't have to rob, so you won't think about other deals?" The trade of pirates is not only to rob merchant ships at sea, but also to occasionally go ashore to rob, traffick in human beings, smuggle, and even do some maritime business.
"We are pirates, if we don't rob them, can't we still learn to escort people?" The leader was rightly arrogant.
"Alas, don't say it, it's really a deal, isn't the Sea Shark Gang just collecting tolls, business is booming in Qionghai, there are many merchant ships, each one collects a little less, and it is soft!"
"The merchant ships over there in Qionghai are all fat sheep, just grab one that is enough for us to eat for a few years! I heard that the Sea Shark Gang and the Brotherhood teamed up to create a sea market, which is the sea of gold and silver, and I drool when I think about it! ”
"Why don't the brothers go to Qionghai together to do a vote!"
"None of the brothers who went before could come back."
"Damn, I'm afraid of hair, how many people are there in the Sea Shark Gang? actually monopolized the fat of Qionghai and didn't give us face in the Canghai League, our brothers in the Canghai League, one person spat and drowned them! ”
A lot of discussions among the leaders, Cui Hailong listened to it very much, of course he wanted to eat Qionghai's territory, but it was not easy, the Sea Shark Gang did not eat soft and hard, and he was never soft on the pirates who dared to invade, and he might be able to defeat it with the power in his hands, but, he had to think about it in the long run, a while ago, the Lingzhou Brotherhood rebelled and directly occupied Lingzhou, and even the army of the imperial court was defeated, the Sea Shark Gang and the Brotherhood were of unknown origin, and there were some rumors about their relationship with each other. There are others in the Canghai Alliance. Suppressing the thoughts in his heart, Cui Hailong turned his head and asked a scribe at the head of the head, "Does Mr. Wu have a good plan?" ”
The scribe surnamed Wu deliberately pretended to be thinking, and after a while, he said: "The method is also simple, that is, to learn from the Qionghai Sea Shark Gang and collect tolls from passing ships......
As soon as Mr. Wu's words came out, a leader immediately jumped up and objected: "Collect tolls? So what kind of pirates are we?! ”
Cui Hailong lowered his face, glared at the opposing leader, and said, "Listen to Mr. Wu!" ”
Mr. Wu continued: "The Sea Shark Gang is cunning, although the toll is not much, but it is a long stream, and it is a long-term business, we do a hammer deal every time, and we do it for a long time, and we can't fish for a long time, even if we take Qionghai, it will be the same for a long time, and we can't let those people fight to the death, and the East China Sea Alliance is an example." ”
Even if Mr. Wu made his words clear, the leaders of the gang still had different opinions, and they were noisy and shouting, which made Cui Hailong upset, and at this moment, an embarrassed pirate ran in, fell to his knees and shouted: "The dragon king avenges his brothers!" ”
"What's going on?" Cui Hailong asked.
"Those bastards of the Sea Shark Gang have attacked our island, and they will kill them without saying anything, and the brothers will die and the captured will be caught! I tried my best to escape, and later I learned that not only our island, but many of them had been raided by the Sea Shark Gang...... Dragon King, for the brothers, the Sea Shark Gang is too deceitful! ”
"What!" Cui Hailong was taken aback, he didn't wait for him to find trouble with the Sea Shark Gang, the Sea Shark Gang actually took the initiative to come to the door to stir up trouble, before, although there were some conflicts with the Sea Shark Gang, but, basically, the Shanghai Shark Gang would not cross the line, and even sent some disobedient thorns over there to let the Sea Shark Gang clean up, this time, the Sea Shark Gang went crazy, didn't he?
"Please ask the Dragon King to call the shots for the brothers!" The other leaders shouted that they didn't really want to be brothers or anything, but they wanted to use this to start a war with the Sea Shark Gang and take the opportunity to take Qionghai.
The Sea Shark Gang bullied the head, if you don't stand up for your subordinates at this time, it really can't be justified, Cui Hailong ordered: "In this case, prepare the boat immediately, and the brothers will go with me to meet the Sea Shark Gang!" ”
The leader of the gang went to prepare with excitement on his face, Cui Hailong asked about the specific situation of the leader who reported the news, and discussed it with Mr. Wu, guessing that the Sea Shark Gang was premeditated this time, and it was estimated that they wanted to sweep away the pirates one by one, and I am afraid it would not be long before they hit Hailong Island. The Sea Shark Gang is menacing, but this battle is inevitable, Cui Hailong does not dare to slack off, and is ready to go all out to make a killer move.
After half a day's effort, Cui Hailong led a fleet of hundreds of ships to march in the direction of Qionghai.
The next day, he met some pirates who had escaped and told them about the Sea Shark Gang's raid on the pirates' lair, and Cui Hailong and others also determined the approximate location of the Sea Shark Gang. After another night's sailing, at noon on this day, smoke rose from a pirate-occupied island, and some ships were fighting in the nearby sea.
"Brother Lei, I found some unknown ships approaching!"
When he heard the news, Xiao Tianlei was fighting with some brothers on the pirate island, wearing rattan armor and holding sharp blades, Shanyue soldiers fighting with pirates, a plate of loose pirates, against a number of trained soldiers, the results of the battle are self-evident, however, there will still be some mistakes, fortunately, the soldiers have a clear division of labor, frontal main attack, assist, responsible for defense, long-range support, and there are some medical guards behind, first aid and simple treatment and bandaging of wounded soldiers.
I remember that when I dealt with pirates, I liked to engage in sneak attacks, but I couldn't always sneak attacks, so Xiao Tianlei used the pirates' island as a training ground. For a long time, the Sea Shark Gang has been collecting some information on the islands occupied by pirates, and at this time it has played a role, uprooting them one by one, gradually advancing eastward, killing pirate islands, pirates are captured to do slave labor, and those who are disobedient are hacked to death and fed to fish.
"It should be the ship of the Canghai Alliance, hurry up and end the battle and prepare for the battle!"
Xiao Tianlei ordered to withdraw from the island and board a three-masted galleon, which was built according to the drawings obtained from the Hero of the Sea Disaster template, named Calamity.
Around the Calamity are a number of ships that are two sizes smaller, most of which were built before the Calamity was built in order to gain enough experience in shipbuilding. It has been a while since the construction of the Calamity was completed, loaded with artillery and ammunition, Xiao Tianlei and several brothers conducted sea trials together, this time, to deal with the pirates of the Canghai Alliance, the Calamity was also opened, however, if it is not necessary, do not use the artillery of the Calamity, otherwise, a round of shelling, the other party will surrender, what else to fight?
Of course, Xiao Tianlei would not think that with the Calamity, he would be invincible at sea when he arrived at sea, after all, it was just a ship, relatively ****** was really small, and the Calamity itself was actually not big, and among the large ships of the Great Xia Navy, there were many larger than the Calamity.
The sea is a weakness of Lingzhou, if the imperial court attacks from the sea, those land gates will lose their effect, and the long coastline will not be possible to build a Great Wall-like defense.
Mu Shuwen, the secret envoy, returned to Shendu, I don't know what kind of decision Daxia will make, but Xiao Tianlei does not plan to be idle, take the initiative to attack, develop and expand his sea power, train to earn gold coins, and capture a lot of loot, ships are one of them, shipbuilding is not a matter of one or two days, but if it is robbed, it is completely different.
The power of Lingzhou, for the time being, can not be hard to fight with Great Xia, a feudal dynasty, the people generally agree, is not so easy to deal with, even if they are not good at technology, they can completely fill with human lives, how many people are there in Lingzhou, Xiao Tianlei will not be stupid enough to fight this kind of war, so, Lingzhou can only take a defensive position at the moment, but it is not that there is nothing to do, while defending Great Xia with Guancheng, there are many things that can be done, the geographical location of Lingzhou determines that it can be developed to the north, west, and to the sea, and carry out commercial and trade activities, It also fights against all the targets that hinder the Brotherhood, bandits, bandits, pirates, and even some powerful people who cause obstacles.
For the sweep of the pirates of the Canghai Alliance in less than ten days, there has been a good harvest, such a large-scale operation, it is impossible for the Canghai Alliance not to react, there is an unknown fleet on the sea, Xiao Tianlei immediately guessed that it may be the Canghai Alliance.
Xiao Tianlei boarded the mast and watched, there were quite a few ships from the Canghai Alliance, about a hundred, much more than his own, but his own side had artillery, so he didn't have to be afraid at all, he didn't wait for them to get close, he could clean up almost everything, but I just hoped that they wouldn't run away.
"Catch up and fight!" Xiao Tianlei ordered, and the brothers on the other ships echoed one after another, and all the ships headed towards the fleet of the Canghai Alliance.
After sailing for almost three hours, the two fleets approached, and Xiao Tianlei didn't plan to say anything to the other side, and was ready to directly give the other party a round of warm welcome fire.
"Get closer and hit again, all aim!"
"Ready! Put! ”
At a distance of about two miles, the artillery on the side of the Calamity roared, and with a single salvo, hundreds of projectiles flew out. Although the hit rate is not high, but so many shells are fired, there are always hits, and there are snow-white water columns rising in the fleet of the Canghai Alliance, and some unlucky ships are hit, either the mast is broken, or the fire starts, although there are not many, but it can be seen that the opposite side is stunned by this long-range attack, and there is some chaos.
"Keep shelling, get closer to them!" Xiao Tianlei shouted, at this time, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, suddenly, a splash of water rose on the side of the Calamity, and the Calamity tilted violently, what happened?
"Brother Lei, there's a big guy in the sea!" A brother saw something that attacked the Calamity.
Xiao Tianlei also saw and heard, accompanied by a "oh woo" sound similar to that of a whale in the deep sea, the Calamity was hit violently again, and saw a huge tail, some like a snake tail, but with fins at the end.
It's a beast of the sea! Xiao Tianlei realized this, the size of the sea beast was much larger than the alien beast on land, and the destruction of nature was also great, how could he find the Calamity? Xiao Tianlei was a little puzzled.
"Chief, the cabin is leaking and can't be stopped!"
"Divide that cabin!"
Fortunately, the Calamity is large enough and adopts the design of a watertight cabin, so it will not sink if it hits a hole, otherwise it will probably be overturned.
Xiao Tianlei didn't have time to think about why the sea beast attacked the Calamity, and after observing the situation on the battlefield, the ships of the Canghai Alliance took the opportunity to approach.
"Keep shelling, don't stop! I'm going to clean up this guy! Xiao Tianlei said in the private chat system, pull out the Wuji Sword, there is no way, I didn't bring some other weapons to the sea, I can only use the Wuji Sword.
At this time, the sea beast has been entangled with the Calamity, which is a strange beast similar to the dragon in myths and legends, covered in dark green scales, the sea beast seems to want to drag the Calamity into the bottom of the water, but the Calamity is very strong, with a displacement of thousands of tons, it is not so easy to be dragged into the sea, but the Calamity has been tilted, Xiao Tianlei looked at the tail of the sea beast, and slashed it down with a sword.
The blood light appeared, and the Wuji Sword, which had been upgraded many times, could be regarded as a divine weapon, and it lived up to Xiao Tianlei's expectations, cutting off the scale armor of the sea beast at once, leaving a deep wound, but compared to the size of the sea beast, it could only be regarded as a small wound, but Xiao Tianlei did not stop, and slashed frantically, only cutting the flesh and blood mold lake.
"Roar!"
The sound of the sea beast screaming came out, and a huge head rose from the sea, its head was like some kind of lizard, and the head was flanked by fan-like fins.
Xiao Tianlei in a normal state is estimated to be unable to dodge, but Xiao Tianlei opened the ultimate move of the Infinite Sword Saint at this moment, the reaction speed and movements are a few percent faster, and the speed is extremely fast to dodge, and at the same time, he did everything possible to use the Infinite Sword to cut this sea beast, leaving wounds on its tongue and lips, and the sea beast crashed on the deck, and at the same time, in his mind, he confessed to the brothers on the same ship to try to deal with this sea beast.
"Alright, now is it!" The sea beast bit down again, Xiao Tianlei shouted in the private chat system and his mouth at the same time, one rolled, drilled into the cabin, and at the same time, a lit powder keg was thrown into the sea beast's mouth.
Rumble!!!
"Roar roar ......!"
The powder keg exploded, exploding into a ball of fire and a lot of smoke, enveloping the sea beast, which roared into the sea, and no one knew how much damage it had caused.
"Retreat!"
Xiao Tianlei decisively ordered the whole army to retreat, if this sea beast came back, it would not be easy to resist. (To be continued.) )