"Bumped into?" everyone was shocked!

The boat stopped, but it did not enter the water as everyone thought.

"What's going on?" Jiang Lao Turtle walked out of the cockpit with a limp.

A sailor ran over in a panic: "Let's go into the water to check!"

Jiang Lao Turtle nodded: "The rest of the people, prepare for the sinking of the boat first! Throw out the planks, barrels, and basins on the boat, everything that can help float on the water! Check the reefs on all sides to see if there is a place to stay!"

As soon as the words fell, he suddenly heard a sound of underwater "bang", and Lao Lu came out from under the water: "Old turtle, the bow of the boat is stuck between two reefs!"

"What?" Jiang Lao was taken aback.

Immediately after that, Zhu Yi also poked his head out of the water, wiped the water on his face, and said loudly: "Is there a hammer? I'll go below first to see if I can smash the reef!"

Jian Qi hurriedly ran over and said, "Yes!

While shouting to someone to find a hammer from the bilge and throw it into the water, he shouted, "Be careful, go on!"

Zhu Yi took the hammer in the water, and then dived under the water with Lao Lu.

Here, Jiang Lao Turtle turned around and ordered: "Call the rhubarb in charge of the tail rudder, drive the tail rudder oar to the maximum, drive the boat back as far as possible, and exit!"

Jian Qi answered, and immediately ran to the stern.

After a while, the ship let out a loud whining sound, and the tail rudder oars were running wildly, but the hull of the ship remained still.

Underwater, Lao Lu and Zhu Yi took turns to operate the sledgehammer and hammered it on the reef with all their strength.

The two reefs were hidden at the bottom of the water, and the tops just reached below the surface of the water, forming a sharp shape that just stuck the bow of the Daji boat.

Although the strength of the two people's arms is great, but the sledgehammer has huge underwater resistance, and every time it is pulled out, the strength is weakened a lot, and the two people hammered several times, and the hammer made the arms sore, but the two reefs were still not damaged at all.

"What should I do?" Zhu Yi put down the hammer and looked at Lao Lu helplessly.

Lao Lu pondered for a moment.

"Boom! only blow-up!"

"But where did the cannonballs come from on our boat?" said Zhu Yi.

"Don't forget, there's a ship behind us. Lao Lu said in a deep voice.

The two of them surfaced together.

"Blow up the reef?" The ship's mate flatly refused: "What if the ship is blown up? Besides, where do the shells come from?"

"If you don't blow it up, this ship won't be able to come out at all, if it is blown up, there is still hope for the ship to come out," Lao Lu stood opposite him and patiently explained: "Isn't there a military ship behind us?" It is said to be one of the best military ships in the Zhenglan Empire, and the cannonballs equipped on it must also be the best, we can ask them for help. ”

"Please help them?" The ship's captain had an incredulous expression: "That boat has been following us all the time, not to mention any intentions, at least using us as their pathfinder, and they don't care about our life and death at all - can they agree to help?"

"It's because they use us as their pathfinder," Lao Lu said: "They don't want us to die here, after all, this place must not be the destination of their trip, we are alive, and it is still useful for them." ”

The ship's mate opened his mouth and retorted, "Okay!" Jiang Lao Turtle said: "Just do what Lao Lu said!"

The first mate had no choice but to keep his mouth shut and walked away.

Lao Lu glanced at Jiang Lao Turtle gratefully.

"You don't have to thank me," Jiang Lao Turtle said, "I'm also for our boat." ”

Turning around and looking behind them, in the thick black smoke, the yellow light lit up, and the huge green-eyed boat, which was originally far behind them, finally drove closer to them after blasting through the reef and making seven bends and eight rounds. But the ship was still slow and the hull was huge, and they needed to be more careful than the big boat.

"But it's also a question of who to talk to the people in that boat. Jiang Lao Turtle said: "This person must be bold and careful, be able to speak well, and be able to persuade them to come and save us." ”

He sighed slightly: "Although I am a demon clan, I also know that the soldiers of the empire are the most ruthless, and they never commend themselves for being close to the people, and it is still dangerous to get on that boat alone!"

"I'll go!" Lao Lu said without hesitation.

"You?" Jiang Lao Turtle glanced at him in surprise.

Lao Lu nodded.

"Those soldiers are not very polite to the Terrans!" Jiang Lao Turtle came out of his mouth: "Not to mention the soldiers of the Terrans!"

"Do you see that, old turtle?" Lao Lu's fingers subconsciously pressed the upper waist knife.

Jiang Lao Turtle nodded leisurely.

"The way you drew your sword, the calluses on your fingers, and your familiarity with that warship," he said, "even I, an old boatman who only knows how to sail on the sea, can see it, let alone those imperial soldiers with a keen sense of smell - although the Fengyan Continent has sunk, the grudge between the Empire and the Yanhuang Dynasty has never disappeared!"

The old captain sighed earnestly.

Lao Lu silently lowered his head, and his fingers left the scabbard.

After a while, he raised his head and looked firm: "On this ship, no one is more familiar with those jackal-like imperial soldiers than me, and no one knows their psychology better than me.

He raised his calloused palm and patted Jiang Lao's shoulder: "Old turtle, don't worry!"

Jiang Lao Turtle was speechless, slowly raised his palm, patted the back of his palm, and nodded heavily.

Lao Lu took a deep breath, suddenly turned around, and strode towards the side of the ship.

"Lao Lu!" Chang Sheng called out behind him.

Lao Lu stood on the side of the boat, turned around, and there was a smile on his face: "Remember, the agreement between me and you, second brother!"

Chang Sheng nodded, but tears overflowed his eyes in an instant.

But he didn't say anything.

Any word to keep the fetters will disturb Lao Lu's heart at this moment.

And disturbed minds are a big no-no when facing enemies.

Any slightest disturbance is in mortal danger!

"Brother Lu!" Zhu Yi shouted from behind, his eyes were red: "I'll go with you......!" Others say, although I am a bit stupid, but stupid people are stupid!"

Lao Lu looked at him and waved his hand with a smile: "Keep your blessings for marrying a daughter-in-law in the future!"

Then he turned around and, without hesitation, jumped over the side of the ship and into the water.

"Lao Lu!" Several people ran to the side of the boat, but they only saw a trace of waves, and they quickly calmed down.

Other than that, as far as the eye can see, there is still a vast darkness with no end in sight.

"Sea smoke can drift with the wind and cover dozens of zhang long," Jiang Lao's eyes were cloudy: "I don't know when we will be able to get out of this damn sea smoke!"

In the dark smoke, in the distance, only a faint yellow light flickered.

It was the warship of the Empire.

Lao Lu dived under the icy waters.

Underwater, there are huge and ugly reefs, which take on an iron-gray color in the water, like small mountains, standing cold, and if you are not careful, people will bump into them, and the sharp stones will cut the skin and bring up a pool of blood.

Luckily, there weren't many fish living on the reef, and there weren't any of the huge piranhas, so the smell of blood didn't attract the attention of the bloodthirsty.

The mermaids who had attacked them at the bottom of the sea, trying to scuttle the bottom of their ship, were also far away from knowing where to hide.

Lao Lu dived underwater for a while, then raised his head, raised his head out of the water, looked at the faint yellow light in the distance, and then dived underwater again and continued to move forward.

Relying on the water to avoid the water droplets, he did not need to breathe underwater, and according to his estimates, two or three more heads appeared to determine the direction of the warship, and he would be almost there.

The sea water was cold, as if he was in an abyss, he had been diving underwater for a long time, and even his bones were tingling, and the cold stinging pain made him shiver all over.

"Hold on! hold on! It's coming soon!" he commanded, counting silently in his mind.

This is a method handed down in the barracks, often in the middle of the night march, or passing through deserts, glaciers and other places of extreme heat and cold, many sergeants could not hold on and were about to fall, he taught them to count silently in their hearts, and when they reached nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine, they would definitely arrive.

"What if I can't get there?" he remembered, when a childish-looking soldier who looked like he was just fourteen or fifteen years old asked him. His face was gloomy, his eyes were dull, and he looked like he was about to hold on.

"It will come," Lao Lu replied to him, "the road to heaven is as far away as the road to hell." ”

A thundering arrow flew and hit the creep's vest, and he fell in front of him.

Before he died, he said: "General Lu, I'm here...... I saw the sun, and there was a frozen lake down there, like my hometown ice and snow field, and there was a fairy sister on the ice lake, who was walking towards me, and she was smiling at me, and she ...... It's beautiful!"

A smile spread across the soldier's face, "Is that heaven?"

"Yes!" Lao Lu told him with certainty: "Heaven is what hometown looks like." ”

Then he soothed his unclosed eyes, stood silently, and slashed forward with a swing of his sword, slashing the enemy archer to death.

This time they fought very hard, they fell for the enemy's trick to lure the enemy, went deep into the desert for dozens of miles, surrounded by an enemy ten times their size, and finally only a few people broke through.

The creep was the last one to fall beside him.

After that, he broke through the siege, brought in reinforcements from the nearest Kashgar district, and routed the enemy in one fell swoop. He rediscovered the desert, but could no longer find the bones of the creep, where he had cut a stele from a poplar branch where he had fallen.

Standing in front of the tree monument, he silently said in his heart: "Rest in peace, child! There is no ice lake in heaven, but the soul that has gone through hardships can always return to his hometown." ”

Then he walked out of the desert without looking back.

"Two thousand three hundred and sixty-one. Lao Lu silently counted in the water, and with a sharp breath, he surfaced.

A rain of arrows suddenly shot down on the water!