Chapter 54: A Desperate Shot
The people of the Vistelos cautiously entered the sailor's cabin, the fourth deck of the Hell God, with its numerous partitions and pillars, dividing the entire fourth floor into a number of small cabins, which had only a narrow passage from the small cabins.
"Bang, bang, bang......" As soon as Hudram took the lead and entered the first small cabin, a musket bullet came at him, and the plank he was holding immediately flew and was shattered into pieces.
"Hmmm! Lie down! Hedram snorted and was shot in the thigh, blood staining the hem of his trousers red. He rolled over and hid behind a partition, loudly alerting his companions behind.
"Whew!" While the Viking sailors were looking for cover, Ahan roared angrily, rushed out from the back of the crowd, carrying a small tortoiseshell shield, and rushed straight down, collapsing a partition in front of him, revealing the English sailors hidden behind.
Selena, who was hiding behind him, rushed past Ahan with a shining crosssword, and the brilliant sword light flew in all directions, stabbing at the English sailor in front of him like a dragonfly.
"Hmm!" An English sailor dropped his scimitar and fell to the ground clutching his throat, blood gushing from between his fingers. After Ahan and Selena broke through the interception, they didn't wait for the Viking sailors behind to follow, and went directly to the next small cabin, apparently trying to find the boss of the Hell God - Clifford before everyone else.
Gerhardt, who was fighting, inadvertently saw the cross sword in Selena's hand out of the corner of his eye, he was stunned, frowned slightly, and followed the two into the cabin in front.
Seeing this scene, Xu Mo's eyes flashed, and he kicked the opponent in front of him into the air, and then entered the next cabin. Behind them were quickly followed by a number of Viking sailors, including Frieza and Hurd, the fiercest sailors on the ship. Hedram struggled for a moment and was about to stand up, but he felt a sharp pain in his leg, so he had to sigh and dispel the idea of following the people in front of him.
"Dinah, are you still following behind, connecting me with the image of the real mind!" Xu Mo sent a message to Dinah.
"Well, I just entered the sailor's cabin and am heading towards you!" Dinah replied quickly.
With the strongest strength and defensive talent among the four reincarnations, Ahan crushed all the way through like a heavy tank. And Selena beside him was Gatling mounted on the tank, and the cross sword in his hand swayed a piece of death sword light, and the English sailors on the left and right sides of Ahan fell to the ground one after another.
The two of them broke through several small cabins in a row unreasonably, and finally came to the middle cabin of the battleship deck on this level. This chamber is much larger than the others, and is surrounded by numerous barrels and wooden crates, and serves as a food storage room.
The English sailors in this compartment were numerous and scattered in all corners of the cabin, overturning all the barrels in the cabin and pouring rum into all corners of the battleship. In the midst of them was a handsome young officer. The officer, dressed in a dark blue admiral uniform and holding the hilt of the commander's sword, was giving orders to the sailors.
In addition to Xu Mo, Gerhardt, Ahan, and Selena, there are only a few ordinary sailors left, and the rest are basically left behind, fighting with English sailors in other cabins. Seeing the crowd led by Gerhardt, Clifford on the opposite side was obviously stunned, he really didn't expect that the several cabins in front of him had been broken through so quickly.
"They want to burn the ship, stop them!" Gerhardt was startled at the movement of these English sailors, and immediately shouted at the others, and he himself was a long sword, and he was the first to pounce on Clifford.
Clifford smiled gracefully, gave a few orders to the sailors beside him, drew his saber, and headed for Gerhardt. He already understood that this naval battle was lost by himself, and with the help of the favorable terrain of the cabin, they could consume a large number of Viking sailors, and there was still a chance to turn the tables.
However, the last shred of hope of victory was extinguished by the remaining gunners of the Vistellos, who were immediately destroyed by the Vistellos' gunners every time they pointed the guns at the entrance hatch. Although the gunners on the Hell God were also trying to fight back, the gunners on the opposite side were clearly more tenacious, and time and time again, like the undead Xiaoqiang, their efforts were in vain.
When both artillery decks were breached by Viking sailors, Clifford knew that their defeat was irreparable, and immediately fortified the sailors' cabins to buy time to burn the battleship. Originally, they could have detonated the ammunition depot directly, but in this case, all the remaining English sailors would have to be buried with the battleship, and it was different from burning the ship, the fire would have spread to the whole ship, and the sailors of both battleships would have time to escape.
"Dang!" Clifford's saber and Gerhardt's sword collided with each other, bursting out countless sparks.
"Hedram?" Clifford asked with a chuckle.
"No, Vestelos First Officer Gerhardt!" Gerhardt calmly replied, "Give up Clifford, you lose, burning ships will bring more death!" ”
"The newest warships of England cannot be captured by the enemy in my hands!" Clifford shook his head, "It's a pity, I thought I could meet the North Sea Silver Eagle at the end!" ”
"When, when, when!" Clifford slashed Gerhardt back three times with a swing of his saber, then bowed his head to him, retreated behind the English sailors, took the torch from one of the sailors, looked up at the battleship again, and threw the torch onto the rum-filled deck.
"Whew!" Blazing flames erupted throughout the cabin. Barrels, crates, bulkheads, and chambers spilled with spirits began to burn. The blazing heat forced the sailors on both sides to retreat, and even a few reincarnators had to take shelter for a while.
"You have done your duty well, the defeat of this battle has nothing to do with you, and I, in my capacity as Admiral of the Third Privateer Fleet of England, allow you to surrender to your opponents with dignity, and to preserve your useful body so that you can return to England and be reunited with your family!" Clifford raised his saber in front of him, saluted his sailors, and then turned and walked alone to the aft compartment, where the ship's ammunition depot was now empty.
"You ......, Admiral," cried the sailors.
"I am the Admiral of England, this warship is my flagship, it is my duty to live and die with it, honor is my life!" Clifford's words came from afar.
"Hehe, a few of us are also officers on the Hell God, so let's follow the Admiral!" Several of the English sailors, dressed in naval uniforms, straightened their hats and followed Clifford into the cabin.
"Boss, I'm coming!" Dinah, who was wearing a fiery red robe, finally broke through the interception from behind and appeared beside Xu Mo.
Seeing the raging flames in front of her, the frost-haired Dinah didn't seem to feel the blazing heat, and slowly walked towards the middle of the fire. An icy chill emanated from her body, sending a circle of mist around her.
"Frost Nova!" Dinah stretched out a jade finger from her fiery red sleeve and pressed it lightly towards the center of the cabin. A crystal white freezing point immediately appeared in the middle of the burning cabin, and the freezing point shrank and rose, exploding in all directions, forming a circular shock wave with a diameter of about five meters.
The objects that encountered the shock wave, whether it was the burning barrel, the wooden box, or the bulkhead, extinguished the flames at a speed visible to the naked eye, forming a layer of snow-white frost, and even sharp Xiaoice cones were hung from the top of the cabin, and a slow green smoke rose from the place where the fire was fired. Although the Frost Nova had not extinguished all the flames, the scattered fires in the corners were able to be extinguished by others.
When she had done all this, Dinah's figure slumped and she slowly sat down on a wooden crate, her face full of exhaustion.
"Long live Pastor Dinah!" The Viking sailor cried excitedly.
Ahan and Selena glanced at Dinah in horror, as if they had reacquainted themselves with the beautiful priest they had been treating only as a reincarnation-like reincarnation. Surprised to surprised, the two quickly chased after Clifford to the cabin he had retreated into.
At this time, there were many English sailors in this cabin, and when they saw that the fire had been miraculously extinguished by the enemy, they could not help but look at each other, and hesitated for a while, not knowing whether to continue the battle or surrender to the enemy as Clifford had ordered.
"Brave English sailors, you have done your duty, now lay down your swords, and I will accept your dignified surrender on behalf of the Vestelos." Gerhardt took a few steps forward and said with a serious expression.
"Dangchang!" One of the English sailors dropped their scimitars in frustration, as if it were an agreed signal, and the remaining sailors dropped their swords one after another, raised their hands, and squatted on the ground.
Seeing that these people no longer resisted, Gerhardt and the others immediately ran to the cabin where Clifford was. Inside, all eyes were on Clifford sitting on an ammunition barrel smoking a cigar, and several other English officers were calmly leaning on or sitting on the deck of the cabin, enjoying the last moments of their lives.
Seeing that Gerhardt and the others had actually crossed the barrier of the flames, Clifford's pupils shrank, he stood up, and said with a grim face: "You can actually extinguish that fire...... Alas, I didn't want to do that! ”
As he spoke, Clifford pressed the cigar into the powder keg and lit the powder keg's arquebus. Several officers on the deck also stood up and picked up their sabers again.
"Clifford!" Gerhardt let out a roar of rage and threw himself at the powder keg.
"Dang!" Clifford blocked Gerhardt, and several other officers also blocked Xu Mo's reincarnation one after another.
The ammunition depot was about to explode, and a flash of realization flashed in everyone's hearts.