Chapter 30: The Fierce Battle (I)
At the waterfront, the wind is blowing, and the sunset dyes through the waves.
A small army of nearly 500 men gathered at the anchorage of the stolen motorboat.
The birdman unit under the Haori organization is mainly divided into two teams, one is a "commando" composed of men, and they all hold harpoons. The other team is a "defense team" of women, who sit upright with different musical instruments.
A black shadow could be faintly seen in the distance, like a dark cloud, and the black cloud was about to destroy the city. That's hundreds of warships and tens of thousands of fish-men who seem to tell of destruction and death in the sunset. The birdmen around me let out a low cry of fear, and I guess they had never seen such a formation, and they trembled, terrified, and sat on pins and needles.
“wha! wha! wha! ”
Haori stomped around in front of me, shouting a slogan to the birdmen with a commanding tone, shouting hoarsely, I knew it was a sworn slogan, and Haori was trying to make her people brave enough to face this locust-like army. As everyone knows, despair is also eating her.
Yu Ge stood beside me, breathing deeply, she didn't dare to look at the sea again, her hands kept rubbing, because her palms were full of sweat. I gently put my hand on her palm, hoping to bring her some comfort.
It's just that her hands are colder than the sea, and my weak heat can't warm her at all.
"Izumi, am I shaking?"
"Izumi, I'll protect you."
"Izumi ......"
Yu Ge's hand was gripping me tightly, her palms were already soaked, and I felt the sweat dripping down my wrists. She was silent, and she couldn't stop talking to herself at the moment.
They really came, like a tsunami of wind and clouds, like a gust of wind that broke flowers and grass.
The fish-man's ship formation has sailed to a place less than a nautical mile from the coast, and it is really those drinking boys, no different from the appearance in the Qingdao bar, these people are holding silver crossbows in their hands, and they look shining on the sea, the power of these crossbows I and Yu Ge have already seen, don't look old, because they are fused with their spells, so there is a world of difference from traditional bows and crossbows, just looking at them makes people tremble.
In addition to the crossbow in hand, there are also many giant cannons on the ship, and on one side of these cannons there is a mercury pipe deep into the sea and a water pump that constantly makes piston movements, and the magic fusion technology allows it to directly take water from the sea as ammunition.
Ah Wan, who had invited me to drink, was standing at the bow of the boat at this moment, waving a huge fish-scale flag, which should have been made of a whole fish skin, which was particularly dazzling. His bow shouted "Revenge!" The other fish demons also shouted loudly, and a deafening wave instantly swept everyone on the shore.
"Revenge! Revenge! Revenge! ”
To be honest, I can't understand the birdman language, so I can't feel anything momentum at all, but these fishmen are shouting in authentic Chinese, and tens of thousands of people are shouting in unison, and their momentum is not huge. The shout alone makes people feel precious.
It's just that why are they shouting revenge? They're obviously invading, but it's ridiculous.
Ah Wan seemed to see me and shouted at me solemnly. "Human, it's none of your business, so why help it?"
I didn't answer him anything, he poisoned Long Shao, and the birdman saved Long Shao, I naturally distinguish between right and wrong.
"You all remember, don't hurt this human for a while, this matter has nothing to do with him." I heard Ah Wan instruct the drinking boys around me.
His two words really surprised me a little.
"You ignorant barbarians, listen up, I have no interest in your desert island at all, you hand over our people, and everyone will be at peace." Ah Wan did not rush to attack, but first carried out a persuasion to surrender. "I think you know in your hearts that you don't stand a chance of winning."
I whispered in Yu Ge's ear. "What does he mean by this, and what does he mean by delivering up their men?"
"I don't understand either, I guess it's just to make some excuses for my war."
Yu Ge is right, everyone who starts a war usually finds a high-sounding excuse, but this Ah Wan's expression always makes me feel that things are not so simple.
Ah Wan saw that these birdmen didn't react at all, and their momentum became even more fierce. "You fools, you can only listen to people's dispatches, don't you have any thoughts yourself? Where is your chief? ”
Haori, as the temporary leader, didn't pay attention to him, and she was tense.
“rere!”
At the sound of the order, her white veil flew, leading hundreds of her subordinates to rise into the air, creating a huge wave of air that almost knocked me to the ground, and for a moment the sky was full of churning white wings, obscuring the sky and the sun.
The fish-men did not stop, they immediately launched a counterattack, these fish-men all held crossbows, shot countless water arrows, these water arrows were made by the fish demon using spells to directly condense the seawater, and for a while, the rain of arrows in the sky hit them at Yuori. Yu Ge and I had already seen these water arrows that night, and today because of our wide field of vision, the power of these water arrows has almost been exerted to the extreme.
At the beginning of the battle, a birdman was shot in the chest by an arrow, and fell directly to the deck, surrounded by a group of fish demons, the group of fishmen tore it with both hands, broke its wings fiercely, and the blood flowed down the edge of the ship into the sea, and then it was lifted up and thrown into the sea, and only a few painful wails were heard, and it slowly sank to the bottom of the sea, and the blue sea had a little more blush.
The birdmen were furious when they saw such cruel acts, and they plucked their feathers, and while dodging the water arrows, they also shot their feathers at the fish-men below, and these feathers became the sharpest bows and arrows in an instant, and the bows and arrows in both directions met fiercely in the air, and I looked at it from afar, and the water splashes and broken feathers flew together, white and black intertwined, as if two smears of overturned paint, rippling in the rust-red glow.
Some of the birdmen flying in the sky were directly shot by water arrows and fell into the water, like a beam of white fireworks falling and sinking to the bottom of the sea and disappearing without a trace. Some of the fish demons on the deck were feathered by birdmen, accompanied by a cloud of smoke, and only the remains of white fish remained. The smell of death permeated the wind and waves.
"Haori girl! Hurry up and do what we planned! ”
Haori immediately ordered his men to descend and land on the deck of the head ship to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the fish-men on board, which was a countermeasure that I had discussed with her, although the fish-men warships were large in number and were connected by iron cables to form a whole that could be deployed with each other.
However, it will still take time to deploy forces between different ships, and we only have a small number of troops, and it is more effective to attack a single ship together than to attack it in a scattered manner. So we decided that when the battle began, we would only attack the head ship anyway, and we would stay here and wait for a steady stream of fishmen to arrive. In fact, it is just the desperate struggle of the weak, and it is not a solution.
The birdmen picked up their harpoons and prepared to attack, but when they saw this, they pulled a bone out of their bodies and fought with the birds, and the deck was full of swords and swords. When they tried to stab me on the Stoneold Man's Coast that day, they also pulled out their own bones as weapons, and if I guessed correctly, these fish bones must be their spines.
Haori and Ah Wan engage in a duel in an open area on the deck, and Haori manipulates the flying feathers, which are like sharp blades under Haori's manipulation, flying to attack the enemy.
"Little girl, you could have avoided this war by handing over my men, and now you're just a moth to a fire." Ah Wan nimbly dodged those feathers, light and elegant.