Chapter 77: Naval Battle
Li Mu didn't know what happened later, anyway, when Jamila and the others came back, they were all panting and flushed.
The night passed peacefully.
Early the next morning, Li Mu and the others returned to the big ship and headed towards the continent of Calradia.
"Boss, there's a pirate ship ahead of you, and it seems to be heading towards the mainland." Mama Cha stood on the mast and shouted to Li Mu.
"Can you see how many people there are on the other side?" Li Mu looked in the direction that Mama Cha was pointing and saw a pirate ship about two nautical miles away. The pirate ship had white sails and a black skull flag on its masts, and there were many sailors with scimitars standing on board. It seems that the other party has just driven out of the back of a small island, so he has not noticed it before.
Li Mu secretly used the farsightedness skill to freeze the perspective above the opponent's pirate ship.
This is a small brig, the ship is not large, the load is larger than Li Mu's, and it belongs to a general-purpose type of ship. There were a total of 22 sailors on board, these sailors did not wear any armor, all of them were dressed in linen, each sailor had a scimitar hanging from his body, and there were quite a few barrels and ropes piled up in the corners of the ship, and no traces of crossbows were found.
Seeing the other party's equipment, Li Mu relieved his heart. As long as the opponent does not have a long-range weapon, he can safely fight a broadside battle. Don't worry about the opponent's raid and cripple your team. Although Li Mu himself is not afraid of the enemy's bow and crossbow, his subordinates can't.
"Boss, there are twenty-two people in total, and there are no bows and arrows." Mama Tea on the mast also reported the observed information in due course.
"Well, got it, the ship turned around, rushed over, and fought a broadside battle." Li Mu drew out his tomahawk.
"Boss, why don't they have ranged weapons," Manid asked as he adjusted the combo crossbow in his hand.
"You think those bitter pirates are rich? Don't you need money to stock up on ranged weapons? It's no better here than on the shore, where you can pick up the arrows you shoot and use them again. It's gone when you shoot it into the sea, especially with heavy weapons like throwing axes and throwing guns. This kind of bitterness is good to be able to pick up some rocks as a ranged weapon. Li Mu withdrew his farsightedness skills and said disdainfully.
Sure enough, as Li Mu expected, the pirate ship began to turn around and rush towards Li Mu when it was about three hundred meters away from Li Mu, and at the same time, many pirates brought buckets of stones from the cabin, and each of them divided a few pieces and began to try at Li Mu's ship.
Li Mu patted Manid on the shoulder, "It's up to you, a hundred meters of effective range, ten rounds of combo crossbows, if you don't put ten before the broadside, you can jump into the sea and feed the fish yourself." ”
"Don't worry, boss, if you can't shoot fifteen, I'll jump into the sea by myself." Manid confidently wiped his combo crossbow.
Indeed, Manid's combo crossbow was the equivalent of a simplified submachine gun in this era, and it was simply a one-sided crush against such an unarmored target.
When the two ships were just approaching a hundred meters,
With a thud, a sharp crossbow bolt hit the chest of one of the pirates on the opposite side, and the scimitar in the pirate's hand fell off and fell into the sea, and the pirate slowly fell down with his chest clutched.
"Well done." Li Mu patted Manid on the shoulder.
"It's a fluke." Manid wiped the sweat from his head, originally he was aiming at the pirate next to him, but he didn't expect the ship to be hit by the waves just now, and the whole ship shook, causing the target to be a little off. Fortunately, the enemy stood in a dense position, and even if the shot missed, it could shoot people.
After confirming the results, Manid took his repeating crossbow and shot at the pirates. The sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air was incessant, and several pirates fell to the ground after being shot by the arrows.
Seeing this, the pirates on the ship did not dare to stay on the ship any longer, threw away the stones in their hands, and looked for a place to hide on the ship.
Usually they are trained to engage in melee combat, and when have they been suppressed with long-range weapons.
After firing a box of arrows, Manid removed a magazine from his back and inserted it into the repeater, continuing to shoot at the pirates. By the time the ship of Li Mu and his party approached the pirate ship, there were only a few pirates on the entire pirate ship who could resist, and they were still hiding behind the barrel and did not dare to show their heads. The rest were either nailed to the planks or collapsed to the ground dying.
Li Mu jumped onto the pirate ship with his tomahawk in his hand and began to clean up the remaining pirates on board. Jamila and the others also drew their weapons and jumped on the pirate ship to begin cleaning up the pirates on the pirate ship.
Seeing this, several pirates hiding behind the barrel quietly took two steps back, and then jumped into the sea with a thud. They swam desperately into the distance, but even if they swam as fast as Manid's crossbow arrows, after a few swishing arrows, there were no more pirates alive on the sea.
Li Mu pulled a pirate who seemed to be in a relatively high position aside, "I ask you to answer, if I find out that you are lying then I will drag you to the back of the boat and cut the wound on your body, I think there must be many animals in the sea who will like this food that cannot be resisted." ”
The pirates had a cold shudder when they heard the spirits, and they usually used such cruel methods to others, which was pleasing to the eye when they looked at it, but when this punishment came to them, it was not so likable.
The pirate nodded his head as if he were shaken, "Ask, my lord, the little one must know everything." ”
"Okay, tell me which pirate your ship belongs to, where you're going, and what you're going to do." Li Mu grabbed a flying axe in his hand and tossed it up and down.
"We were originally under the pirate king Nabal, and after Nabal died, the original chassis was swept away by the army of the Nord Kingdom, and after we couldn't get mixed up anymore, we ran around here, and now we are working under the one-eyed dragon pirates, and we were ordered to rush to the sea near the town of Chanda by this afternoon, and gather there to wait for orders." The pirate stammered what he knew, like a bamboo tube pouring beans.
"Well, are you telling the truth?" Li Mu threw the flying axe in his hand, but his eyes stared at the other party's eyes fiercely.
"The little ones are all the truth, and if there's half a lie, you're going to throw me into the sea and feed the sharks." The pirate's sweat was dripping down his forehead, but he didn't dare to wipe it. I'm afraid that one of my actions will anger the other party.
"Well, I'll verify your words, if there's half a lie, hehe." After speaking, Li Mu went to interrogate the next pirate.
After cross-examination, Li Mu finally determined the authenticity of the message in the pirate's mouth.
"Boss, things are not good, listening to the tone of the pirates, there are at least a few hundred pirates going to gather, why are so many pirates gathered together? Are they going to attack the town of Chanda? Manid frowned.
"No matter what they are going to do, we have to inform the news, notify it, scuttle the pirate ship, return at full speed, and target Chanda Town." Li Mu gave the order.
"And what about the captives?" Manid asked.
"Kill them all, I don't know how many people have been killed, their hands are covered with blood, if it weren't for the time constraints, I would have sent them to Ramon for re-education, now it's cheaper for them."
"Yes."