The Victory originally planned to pass through Hekou Town and go to Giant Waterfall City to sell a batch of goods, but learned that a large number of water thieves had gathered outside Hekou Town and could attack Hekou Town at any time. After weighing the pros and cons, I decided to stay and help the town of Kawaguta defend itself against the water thieves.

Later, the Victory followed several warships led by Xu Zhou to hide in a predetermined position, planning to launch an active attack on the pirate fleet. Before this bold offensive plan was implemented, Xu Zhou received bad news: the enemy's strength far exceeded our previous estimates, and it was full of more variables!

After being silent for a long time, Xu Zhou still made up his mind to continue to attack according to the original plan, and let each of us go back and prepare for the final battle. I know that Xu Zhou's confidence is not as firm as it was at the beginning, but there is not much room for maneuver when it comes to the end, so I can only bite the bullet.

Back on the Victory, I relayed the information I learned to Liu Han and the Mocker. The sarcastic ghost was very worried, and immediately suggested that I sail away.

"We first pretended to rush at the enemy ship, and when we approached, we deliberately fired a few crossbow arrows, and then quickly turned away. In this way, even if the people in Estuary Town asked afterwards, we could say that we tried our best, but we really couldn't defeat those water thieves. Heroes don't suffer immediate losses! "It fooled itself into giving me a trick.

I said to it angrily: "Since I have promised others, it is a cowardly act to escape from the battle at this time!" This time I ran away like this, how can I have the face to pass through Estuary Town in the future? Besides, our goods are still in the warehouse at the port! ”

"I said I couldn't unload it all......" The sarcasm was still unconvinced, muttering to himself.

I ignored it, clapped my palms vigorously, raised my voice to cheer up the crew, and said, "Okay, don't say frustrating words!" We've been able to repel these water thieves with a single ship before, and we'll be able to repel them a second time this time! All obey orders and immediately enter a state of combat readiness! ”

"Order!"

Soon, as soon as we arrived, the town of the estuary was filled with the sound of a shrill siren. From the boat, we could see that the bayou town was already on fire, and we wondered if the guards of the estuary town had deliberately lit the fire to serve as an alarm signal, or if the water thieves had sent troops to infiltrate the town in advance and caused a riot.

Subsequently, the civilian ships moored in the port area began to sail out one after another, and set up a not so neat combat formation according to the pre-agreed position. Outside the port, there was a deafening shout of killing, and it was supposed that a large army of water thieves had finally appeared, and was rushing to Hekou Town at full speed.

Xu Zhou's flagship has been standing still, and it is estimated that it is still waiting for the best time to attack. However, the shouts of killing in the town became louder and louder, and it was clear that the water thieves did not directly adopt the strategy of attacking on the surface as we expected, but divided into two ways and sent a group of surprise troops to take the lead in attacking the town of Hekou.

After confirming this news, Xu Zhou couldn't hold back any longer, and then beat the war drum on the flagship, which was the signal he had agreed with us in advance to attack. When I heard this, I immediately ordered, "Paddle with all your might, attack!" ”

It is not a good idea to raise the full sail during battle, not only does it make the ship top-heavy and difficult to handle, but it is also easy for enemy ships to target the obvious target of the sail. Therefore, I decisively adopted the power method of relying entirely on the sailor's oars, which is more conducive to flexible positioning on the surface battlefield.

As soon as I broke out of the hidden waterway, I saw chaos in the town of the estuary. A number of houses caught fire, and the guards engaged the incoming water thieves in the streets, but they were defeated one after another. Civilians were driven away by the sudden bloody fighting, terrified.

At this time, the town was under the strong onslaught of water thieves from the land, and there was no time to pay attention to the battle on the water. And all the ships of the water thieves have appeared from the river, as reported in the intelligence, there are a total of fifteen large ships and seventy or eighty speedboats.

Although there are a lot of civilian ships left in the port area by our side, the six warships led by Xu Zhou can really fight, and one of them is the Victory that temporarily joined.

However, Xu Zhou can also be regarded as a resolute person, and in the face of enemy ships several times his size, he still took the lead in rushing into the enemy's fleet from the side without hesitation. The flagship, followed by the other five ships, was greatly encouraged, and the sailors beat the drums of war and began to fight hard.

The fleet of pirates was completely unprepared for the sudden appearance of the Estuary warship from the flank, and reacted slowly for a full two beats before panickedly shifting the troops and attack weapons originally placed at the bow to the side.

Medicine cannot be used in the underworld, and the weapons used in surface warfare are mainly traditional cold weapons. When the two boats approached, they shot arrows and threw spears at each other. Some ships were equipped with giant crossbows like the Victory, and the arrows were fired with a full bow string by twisting the machine.

The ships in Estuary also have stone fire altars that can be fired with large slingshots when the fire rope is lit, and once it hits the thief ship, it will immediately cause a raging fire. Even if the shot is not on target, falling to the surface of the water under the ship can cause a sea of fire, forcing the ship to flee in a hurry.

The Victory's giant crossbow was designed and manufactured by Wang Shou himself, with better accuracy and greater power. The ghost sailors have long been very skilled in their daily practice, and almost every crossbow arrow fired will definitely hit the target. In a short time, one of the pirates' large ships and several speedboats were sunk by the Victory, which made the other group of pirates angry and screaming.

Although there are many ships of the pirates, they do not have a large number of heavy weapons similar to ours. They still want to rely on the old routine of jumping gangs to take the ship by virtue of their numerical superiority in melee combat on the deck, but the iron-headed and other devil tough guys on my ship are not vegetarians, and they will stay on the side of the ship to block the attack as soon as possible. Coupled with Liu Han and I, the two Yin cultivators who were superior in cultivation and martial arts, they quickly beat the water thieves who jumped over to the ground, and except for some who escaped by diving, almost all the other troops left on the deck were wiped out.

The water thieves on the opposite side finally recognized the Victory, and they dodged as if they had seen a plague god, and no thief ship dared to approach the jump gang anymore. However, there were still a few self-defeating pirate ships that sent troops to dive from under the water to scuttle the boats, but half of them were killed with spearguns by the sailors responsible for the defense of the bottom of the ships. When the killing arrived, the water demon simply led several subordinates with excellent water skills to dive into the water from the bottom of the ship, and directly fought with the other half of the water thieves, ensuring the safety of the Victory below the waterline.

Although there are many ships and soldiers on the water thief's side, the offensive tactics are too simple, and they don't know how to deal with such a sudden change. After an hour of chaotic fighting, although they were superior in numbers, we sank three large ships and a dozen speedboats. Only one of our ships ran aground on the beach because of a leak in the bottom of the ship.

Just as the battle on the water was at a stalemate, a roar of rage came from the direction of Estuary Town. The big eye who was in charge of the lookout on the mast shouted down excitedly: "The troops in the town have begun to retreat!" They're running away! ”

When I heard this, I hurriedly looked far away in the direction of the town, and saw a great ghost fighting and retreating in a hurry, and the dry water thieves hiding behind it did not dare to fight, and fled out of the town. At some point, a master came to the side of Hekou Town, leading the guards to launch a counterattack, and the more they fought, the more courageous they became.

The surface ships of the pirates were already in disarray, and the leaders who were in charge of the command on the ships simply shouted as soon as they saw that their land troops began to withdraw: "Retreat!" Fall back! The big boss ordered to retreat! ”

It turned out that the leader of the water thieves actually personally led a team to attack the town of Hekou by land, no wonder these fleets were leaderless and vulnerable when they fought.

In any case, stragglers are a rabble, and when they win, they like to rush forward, and when they are defeated, they are all defeated. The fleet of pirates began to turn around on the outskirts of the port area, and fled in a hurry in the direction they had been coming.

However, the leader of one of the pirates on the ship before he ran away shouted at the Victory: "I know where you are!" Wait and see, our big boss won't let you go! ”

I remember very well that guy was the leader with the axe I had met last time outside the Thousand Islands. That time, the Victory also rammed and sank one of their large ships, and smashed several speedboats with rice bags. Alas, the old revenge has not been avenged, and new hatred has been added, and the beam between me and these water thieves can be regarded as immortal!

Thanks to Xu Zhou's successful tactic of cutting off the fleet of pirates from the flanks with warships, the ships of Hekou Town did not suffer much damage, but the town suffered heavy losses because they did not anticipate the sneak attack of the water thieves by land. It is said that in the end, it was only by the personal intervention of Mayor Lin Miao, who had the fifth level of cultivation, that he could barely resist the other party's fierce ghost leader, thus repelling the incoming enemy.

In fact, I think the main reason why they can really repel the water thieves is that their pre-determined plan to advance by land and water was disrupted by me and Xu Zhou and others. After all, the number of pirate troops who were the first to infiltrate the town was limited, and there was no support from the water for a long time, so its leader had to order a retreat.

However, in this offensive and defensive battle, the water thieves only lost a total of three large ships and about 400 gangs, and their vitality was not injured. Suffering such a great humiliation in the town of Hekou, it is estimated that they will definitely not give up, and the possibility of organizing a large-scale attack again cannot be ruled out.

Xu Zhou admired me and the Victory for their performance in the battle, and said that he would report to the mayor for a reward, and also hoped that the Victory would stay in Estuary to prevent the water thieves from attacking again.

After thinking about it, I politely declined Xu Zhou's kindness, and decided to return to the fishing village for a while to avoid the limelight, and wait for the situation to stabilize before setting sail for Giant Waterfall City.

So, as soon as the battle was over, I took command of the Victory to dock, sent sailors back onto the ship, and set sail back to the fishing village.