Chapter 152: Eight Nautical Miles (Part II)

Facing the menacing enemy ship, Tang Jie turned his head and smiled at Captain Pompey, and said slightly apologetically: "Man, I'm sorry to steal your limelight." ”

Captain Pompey was very self-aware, he smiled and patted Tang Jie's shoulder hard: "It's nothing, anyway, I know that I am not the material to be the captain, I will still be my first mate!"

After speaking, he frowned at Tang Jie and said, "You will find that I am a good first mate!"

Tang Jie smiled and nodded to him: "Then please." ”

Speaking of which, even if Pompeii has an opinion, he has no choice, the two people who have the highest power on this boat are all interested in Tang Jie, if he has any objections at this time, Angel, the princess who has been staring at him with his eyes, will definitely not hesitate to slash at him with a sword!

Moreover, the core armed force of this ship is the Royal Guard of the Falco Empire, but this guard is in the hands of Christina, and she is loyal to Princess Angel and is willing to die, and she will meticulously carry out all orders of Her Royal Highness the Princess.

Therefore, whether it is in terms of righteousness or strength, Pompey had to obediently hand over the captaincy power in his hand, and let Tang Jie, an outsider, become the captain.

Tang Jie himself knows very well in his heart that Angel's hand is to drive ducks to the shelves, throw himself on the fire and roast himself, and changing the commander in battle is a taboo for soldiers!

However, the current situation is not so much, Pompeii is indeed not a person who can carry the beam, Princess Angel has the courage to make a move to change the commander, Tang Jie naturally has no reason not to dare to follow!

Tang Jie looked at the hundreds of pairs of eyes on the deck looking at him, he knew that at this time in this kind of life and death time, the "old captain" was temporarily replaced, and his unfamiliar "new captain" took office, although he got along with these crew members these days, but Tang Jie could see from the seriousness of their suspicions that their hearts were fluctuating.

Tang Jie walked to the bridge, looked around the sailors on the deck with sharp eyes, and then his voice was sonorous and powerful, like a drum beat before the battle, and said loudly: "I know you are all thinking in your hearts: where the fuck did this fucking stranger come from, and why did he become this captain?"

Tang Jie burst into two foul words in a row, the sailors on the deck laughed one after another, and the tense and solemn atmosphere was suddenly relaxed, Tang Jie himself pointed out the doubts in their hearts, and suddenly their eyes were no longer so resistant to Tang Jie, and their eyes became concerned.

They were expecting an explanation from the dark-haired guy that would satisfy them.

Tang Jie pointed to the enemy ship behind him and said with a smile: "It's not that I want to be the captain of this ship, it's their Royal Highness the princess who forced you, and then she forced me to be the ......."

Speaking of this, Tang Jie's voice suddenly raised an octave: "So, you are not fighting for me, a stranger latecomer, you can see clearly, your Royal Highness the Princess of the Falco Empire is standing next to me, her chastity, her freedom, and her dignity are all in your hands!"

Tang Jie raised his arms and pointed to all the sailors and soldiers on the deck and said, "Do you want your proud imperial princess to be wantonly **** by the people of the Pound Empire?

Tang Jie's voice was as loud as rolling thunder, his voice erupted from his chest, like a boiling volcano, full of strong infectiousness, he stood at the highest place like those generals and marshals throughout the ages to do pre-war mobilization to his soldiers, mobilizing their morale and fighting spirit with simple words.

Although he just stood in front of everyone and said some empty words, but this is not something that everyone can do, the soldier pressed in front, hundreds of pairs of eyes stared at his body, and his shoulders had to bear the burden and responsibility of hundreds of lives at once, this unprecedented heavy pressure was enough to make a calm person collapse to incoherence.

But Tang Jie's face can't see the slightest fear and worry, he only has a smile on his face, a fearless and confident smile, this smile makes all the people here unconsciously infected by his fearlessness and self-confidence, this smile is a smile that no actor can disguise to perform, it comes from the heart, from Tang Jie's own strong strength and self-confidence.

Only people who have experienced countless waves and storms can have this kind of smile!

Anyone who can keep such a smile in such an environment, make a sonorous speech, and then mobilize his soldiers to fight bravely, no matter what world, no country, no matter which book, they have only one record and evaluation of such a person.

That is, the famous general!

"Genius ......" Christina stood under the bridge and looked up at Tang Jie, she could clearly feel that this black-haired man had grasped the key contradiction in front of him with just two simple words, and he changed the morale of the boat with a single word, and changed the eyes of everyone around her looking at him.

Hostility, resistance, contempt, and indifference suddenly turned into anger, passion, and fanaticism, and Tang Jie transferred these hostile emotions to the Pound Empire, and he elevated the nature of this battle to the level of a group and an empire.

For the sake of their country, for their pride, for the sake of their most beautiful princess, they will also fight to the death!

Angel felt that the black-haired pirate beside her, who had always made her feel complicated, was blooming with a light that people couldn't look at directly, and he seemed to be born for this moment of crisis!

He was destined to turn the tide in a desperate situation!

After Tang Jie finished shouting loudly, the deck was extremely quiet, and everyone's eyes were looking at him tightly, as if there was a magnet on his body, and there was a kind of magic that attracted the attention of all of them.

Tang Jie looked at them, and then said with a cold gaze: "Warriors of the Falco Empire, are you afraid of death?"

"Don't be afraid!!" everyone yelled at the same time, even Christina couldn't help but roar along.

Tang Jie stared at them, turned around and pointed to the Moore Strait: "This is a strait that is said that no one can cross, do you dare to follow me in to die?"

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid!!!, don't be afraid!!" The sailors shouted loudly with their dark-skinned arms waved, and the warriors of the Falco Empire roared loudly with their swords held aloft.

Pompey's first mate stood next to Tang Jie, he watched the sailors on the deck who were still panicked just now one by one passionate and generous at this time, and the roar was like a wave, surging towards him, making him almost unable to stand!

The first mate, who came from a merchant family, suddenly understood the truth of "why a hundred sheep led by a lion can defeat a hundred lions led by a sheep"!

Everything that happens in front of you is the reason!

"That's good!!" Tang Jie saw that the blood of these sailors who had already fallen into their guts had been stimulated by him at this time, and he immediately said, "Now listen to my orders!"

"Lower the mainmast and sail at the four corners, and go up the dwarf!" Tang Jie gave a categorical order that shocked all the sailors.

Princess Angel's change of coach is exaggerated enough, but this guy wants them to change sails!!

It's like a person goes to the battlefield and the enemy has already rushed over, and the commander tells him: the weapons and armor in your hand are not good, hurry up and change them on the spot.

Damn, how can there be such a thing? How can it be in time!!

Even if the sailors were in high spirits, they were frightened by Tang Jie's order, at this time to get off the mainsail, which means that they will abolish their ability to move, and then stay on the sea and wait to be beaten, when the sails are not changed, when they can't move!

Thinking of this, the experienced old sailors were sweating profusely, and their eyes were staring at the approaching battleship in the distance, and their eyes were straight.

Angel looked at the sailors' strange appearance and looked at Christina with puzzled eyes.

Cristina leaned to the side and explained: "The purpose of removing the four-cornered sail and replacing it with a spinnaker is to reduce the speed of the boat and increase the flexibility of the boat. In the Moore Strait, we don't need speed, we need the agility of the ship, so it's a good move. ”

Christina said, she glanced at Tang Jie with awe: "However, this is also a crazy move, changing sails on the fly will make us become targets at sea for a while!"

Angel didn't speak, she just nodded, at this time, she had put all the power into Tang Jie's hands, she could only trust him unconditionally and support him!

Tang Jie looked at the terrified sailors on the deck, his brows furrowed, he was about to speak, but the first mate of Pompeii next to him suddenly spoke, he stared at the sailors and roared: "Are you all deaf? Why don't you move your stupid fat ass quickly!!"

Pompey's first mate is indeed as he himself said, he is a competent first mate, behind Tang Jie's burly body, he can give full play to his strengths, responsible for the organization and mobilization of all kinds of meticulous work on the deck.

"Sawyer, take the guys to loosen the rope winch of the spinnaker, Donisko, you lead the men to climb up and lower the mainmast, as fast as possible......" Pompeii rushed down from the bridge and got into the crowd of sailors, kicking the sailor's ass and pounding the sailor's chest, roaring.

Under Tang Jie's encouragement and Pompey's specific mobilization, the sailors were busy, and at this juncture, they would use the greatest strength of their whole body to complete everything they needed to do as quickly as possible without anyone's encouragement.

At this time, it is a race against time!

The enemy ships in the distance were getting closer and closer, and they could no longer be seen clearly with the naked eye without the help of binoculars, and the bow guns of the four battleships in front of them were fired one shell after another.

It must be said that the second shot of the enemy ship to knock down the lookout was indeed luck, and the accuracy of the shelling carried out without measuring tools at sea was extremely poor, and it was ideal to attack the enemy at a distance with the bow gun during the march, and it was ideal to hit two out of ten shells.

So for a time the eagle was bombarded with shells all around, and the water fell like a torrent of rain on the sailors on deck, splashing them all wet.

But at this time, these sailors were in no mood to care about these things, they gritted their teeth one by one, their muscles tensed, and they frantically turned the winch, lowered the four-cornered sails on the mainmast, and hung up the triangular skew.

The huge quadrangular sail alone weighs hundreds of pounds, unloading it, and then hanging the same hundreds of pounds of triangular bias sails, this is a big project, it requires hundreds of sailors to work together at the same time, and it is possible to complete it without the slightest mistake, this kind of thing will only be done when the ship is repaired in the port.

Except for Tang Jie, a madman, there will never be anyone who temporarily changes sails at sea, let alone changing sails under the guns of others.

Fortunately, the Eagle had a spare jib tied to the mast beam, and if the short halyard was released, the jib could be shaken off by the halyard and then raised.

One after another, shirtless and sweaty sailors climbed to the beams of the mainmast, shouting neatly and pulling the short sail ropes that were tightly bound and tightly tied, and the whole ship was like a huge machine that rumbled and turned, and every part was moving at a rapid pace.

Under the threat of the Grim Reaper, each of them bursts out with an amazing potential, and they change the sails of the ship at an astonishing speed!

"Hurry, hurry!!Faster!!" Tang Jie's face was calm, and he whispered in his heart, he watched the triangular skew being dragged up by the sailors little by little, and a series of powerful sailors dragged the thick sail ropes, pulling desperately, but a sailor in the middle stepped on the deck with seawater, and suddenly his feet slipped, and the person fell to the sky, and the sailors behind him also hit one after another.

The huge spinnaker lost its pulling power and fell down with a thud.

Tang Jie's eyes widened suddenly, he jumped to the side of the hoisting sail rope, grabbed the huge sail rope, took a deep breath, his waist sank down, and his hands slammed down!

The huge inertia generated by the spinnaker falling down made Tang Jie feel that the sail rope in his hand was like a knife, cutting the palm of his right hand to blood, and for a while, the sail rope still kept hissing away from his palm.

"Steady!!" A loud roar came from behind Tang Jie, Christina arrived almost at the same time, her fighting spirit suddenly erupted, and the red eighth-level fighting spirit made her majestic and look like a domineering Valkyrie!

Christie grabbed the sail line, and the line suddenly stopped, and the huge dangle that was falling down suddenly stopped.

"Drag back!" Tang Jie looked back and nodded to Christina, he yelled loudly, "Listen to my slogan!"

"Yes!" Christina replied aloud.

Tang Jie shouted the trumpet, the muscles of his arms burst out like a coiled python, and the whole person was like a Hercules, and every step back would make the deck tremble.

With the strong help of Tang Jie and Christina, the spinnaker slowly rose again.

Angel, who was standing on the bridge, looked at the tacit understanding of the two of them, and somehow felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, she unnaturally looked away, but suddenly saw a dense burst of fire flashing from the battleship in the distance.

She was suddenly horrified, and shouted loudly: "Shelling!!, dodge ......" Before she finished speaking, she heard Tang Jie's roar.

"Don't hide!" Tang Jie immediately interrupted Angel's words, and shouted, "Continue to finish the work under the fire!!" We are the darlings of the sea god Tira, and they can't hit our !!."

"Boom, boom, boom!!

Such a dense attack must be the main gun in the ship's hold, which also means that the enemy ships have entered the best range of artillery fire, and they can cross the ship and bombard the Eagle at will, which is almost parked on the sea.

Countless shells covered the surroundings of the Eagle at once, and although most of the shells did not hit, a few shells still hit the ship, blasting a large hole on the deck and on the side of the ship, and sawdust flew everywhere, and the sailors who were unfortunately hit by the shells were suddenly shattered and flesh and blood flew everywhere.

"One, two, three, pull!!" Tang Jie shouted in the midst of the gunfire, and the sailors behind him let out a neat shout, with the strength of his rapid trumpet.

Seeing that the triangular skew was raised to the highest point little by little, Tang Jie immediately shouted to the first mate of Pompeii: "Go and turn the front sail, let's turn around and head towards the Moore Strait!" After speaking, he turned around and said loudly to Christina behind him: "You go to the lookout and be responsible for observing the enemy's situation, and I will go to the helmsman to take the helm!" You are my eyes, and whether we live or die depends on you!"

Tang Jie's words made Christina stunned, she touched her heels, and was about to salute, but when she saw a figure in front of her, Tang Jie had already pounced back on the helmsman on the bridge, and he didn't have time to listen to her salutation.

Christina climbed the mainmast with a monocular, she looked at the bloody lookout, and felt nauseous, so she also followed Tang Jie's example and climbed to the top beam of the main mast, but she didn't have Tang Jie's **** strong balance ability, she used her pair of slender and strong **** like a snake to fix her body on the beam, and then concentrated on the duty of the lookout.

"Ahead, there's a whirlpool!!" Christina looked at it with a monocular, and was immediately startled, and shouted in a lost voice, "This whirlpool is moving, it's moving towards us!!"

"What?" Tang Jie's scalp suddenly exploded, he suddenly rushed to the side of the boat in the direction Christina was pointing, and sure enough, he saw a huge whirlpool slowly approaching them!

This huge whirlpool is like a terrifying demon's mouth, opening its big mouth of a black hole, and pounces on them!

As long as they are swept in, they will all be buried in the sea without the enemy shelling them at all!

"Hell, there's a water magician!" Tang Jie had been with the Magic Queen Fiona for so long in Mozambique, and of course he knew what was going on.

He turned the rudder sharply, and the entire hull of the Eagle tilted dramatically, and began to turn around and rush towards the Moore Strait.

The enemy ships in the distance discovered the direction of Tang Jie's sailing, and it seemed that their move was what they expected, so they were not in a hurry to speed up, but always carefully maintained a three-sided flanking formation, bombarding the Eagle with continuous artillery fire, forcing them closer to Moore Canyon.

When he was about to sail into Moore Canyon, Tang Jie, who was standing on the bridge, felt that the narrow strait with the craggy rock wall and steep cliff bank in front of him was like a one-way road leading to hell, and it was dark and gloomy inside, which was extremely terrifying.

The sailors on the deck seemed to have forgotten about the pursuing cannonballs behind them, and just looked nervously at the approaching Moore Canyon.

Due to the sudden tightening of the rock walls on both sides of the canyon, the whirring sea breeze suddenly let out a ferocious cry and a demonic scream, which to the sailors sounded like someone scraping their skin with a knife, making them creepy!

The sea also suddenly became turbulent, and since this was the mouth of the Pound Inland Sea, the fierce sea water slapped against the bow of the Eagle, making a fierce tidal sound.

Before they had yet fully entered the Moore Strait, all the people of the Eagle seemed to feel that the Moorish Strait seemed to be alive, and that it suddenly came to life, turning into a monster with teeth and claws, making a sharp whistling that frightened them, waving its hands and pushing them.

Can we get by in such a canyon with fierce currents, dense reefs, and boats sailing against the current?

Only one person laughed.

Tang Jie laughed and said, "Is it afraid that we will break its ** female record?".

He pointed to the high and steep cliffs on either side and smiled at the sailors on deck, "You see, this place doesn't look like a woman?"

The sailors were stunned for a moment, and involuntarily followed Tang Jie's gaze, and immediately burst into laughter, and these rough men forgot their fears at once.

"Hahaha, what's there to be afraid of in that girl's words?"

"That is, the old women are not afraid, will they be afraid of this little canyon?"

The sailors laughed.

Princess Angel took a sip with a red face, and scolded the vulgar and low-minded Tang Jie in a low voice, but deep down in her heart, she secretly felt that this seemingly reckless man had a strange charm at this time, which made her panic.

"Buddies!" Tang Jie stood on the helmsman's platform, laughing and shouting, "Everyone is ready, we are going in!"

The sailors laughed and said yes again, and then returned to their respective posts, grinning and busy with their own work, as if they were not facing the most dangerous and terrible strait in the world, but a tourist destination full of beautiful women.

Amidst the outrageous laughter of the Eagle, the Eagle sailed into the Moore Strait in the most fearless manner, a terrible strait that no one had ever managed to cross!

However, the battleships pursuing behind the Eagle hesitated a little in the Moore Strait, then reversed their formation again, and then rushed into the Moore Strait one after another!

In the desperate situation of reef rapids in front and raging pursuers behind, from the entrance of the strait to the exit of the strait, there are only eight nautical miles.

Tang Jie: Can they escape alive and create another miracle in the history of naval warfare, and the distance between life and death is only eight nautical miles......