Chapter 45: The Battle to the Death
The two-masted Exocet-class Inferno has two levels of cabins, the upper level is the gun room and the sailor's room, and the lower level is the storage room, the captain's room and the first mate's room. [Ran^Text^Library] []
Tang Jie's three-masted griffin-class ship is much larger because of its larger hull, and is divided into three floors: the upper floor is the sailor's room, the comptroller's room, the surveying room, and the gun room, the middle floor is the captain's room, the first mate's room, the war room, the staff room, the sailor's room, and the gun cabin, and the lower floor is the storage room used to store a large amount of fresh water and food and the timber room for storing wood for emergency relief.
Tang Jie's boat crashed into a big hole in the bottom of the boat, and the sea water poured seawater into the boat, and after a while, the lowest cabin became a water town.
Tang Jie slid down the stairs and saw food and wooden barrels filled with fresh water and rum floating everywhere, and the sailors were holding the planks snatched from the timber room one by one, and frantically rushed towards the hole!
When Bill saw Tang Jie's figure at a glance, he suddenly felt certain, as if he had a backbone, he walked over with his two legs in the knee-high water, and said loudly: "Captain, the current is too fast, we can't stop it!"
Tang Jie's heart was burning, but his face couldn't show it at all, he blushed his face, quickly glanced at the cabin, and shouted: "I'll plug this gap, and the other sailors hurry up and get the water out here!"
As soon as he gave the order, some of the sailors who were desperately blocking the gap with wooden planks breathed a sigh of relief, grabbed the floating wooden basins, began to scoop the water desperately, and then handed it to the sailors on the second layer as if in a relay.
Tang Jie looked at the hole with a diameter of half a meter, the sea water was constantly pouring in, and the cold air was rising in his heart, he gritted his teeth, sank his knees, and a thousand catties fell, his body was firmly rooted in the water, and he moved towards the gap step by step.
The power of the sea water in this gap is extremely great, ordinary sailors can't stand still in this kind of rapids, Tang Jie relied on his solid horse steps and waist and abdominal strength, forcibly pounced on the gap, just took a breath, he felt the cold and salty sea water smash into his body like a heavy fist, and he almost flew out!
"Give me the plank!!" Tang Jie stood in the gap, soaking wet against the raging water, and turned around and yelled.
Bill, who was very experienced, had already prepared a neatly cut rectangular strip of beech wood and handed it to Tang Jie.
This beech wood is so hard and tough that many sailors like to use it to nail holes in their ships, and almost every boat has them in stock.
"Boat nails!!" Tang Jie took the beech stick and held out a hand to Bill.
Bill turned his head and yelled, "Where's the ship's peg?"
The sailors looked at each other for a while!
Tang Jie stood in the rapids, fighting against the powerful impact of the current every second, he was anxious and angry when he saw this situation: "Hurry up and find the ship nails, you bastards, do you want to wait for the ship to sink!"
"Here, here!" the sailors panicked, and finally found the ship nail in the timber room, and quickly pounced on Tang Jie's side.
Tang Jie took the thumb-thick, more than two inches long boat nails, bit the two in his mouth, put the beech plank on the far left of the gap with both hands, then turned his head, took a deep breath with his face in the direction of the water flowing, supported the beech plank with one hand, and quickly took off the boat nail in his mouth with the other hand, wanting to press the boat nail on the plank!
But as soon as he let go of one hand, he felt a huge force coming, hitting the beech plank in his hand, and immediately knocked the plank out sideways!
Bill's horror as he watched from the sidelines shouted, "Hurry up and help the captain hold on to the plank!"
The two sturdy sailors immediately brought another wooden plank and handed it to Tang Jie, and after Tang Jie sealed the plank on the far left side of the loophole, they immediately pressed it up and down!
Tang Jie let go of a hand and just took off a ship nail from his mouth, but suddenly thought of something, and yelled at Bill vaguely: "Hammer, where is the hammer?"
Tang Jie was a little unclear because he had a boat nail in his mouth, Bill was stunned for a moment, and when Tang Jie stared at his eyes that were almost cracked, and made a fierce gesture of thrashing, he understood!
Bill glanced around the cabin in a panic, only to find that the entire bottom cabin was knee-high in water, and all kinds of dry pickled food and wooden barrels were floating everywhere, even the timber room.
Tang Jie saw Bill's expression, his heart tightened, he roared, simply didn't want the hammer, his fighting spirit suddenly became erect, and a fist sparkled with golden light, shining on this ship nail, and smashed it down with one punch!
This fist full of fighting spirit once smashed to death a third-level demon swordsman wearing heavy armor, it is not an iron hammer, but it is more hard and terrifying than an iron hammer!
This ship nail was smashed by Tang Jie, and it was all pierced into it at once, straight into the plank!
Tang Jie was at the other end of the plank, and with another fist, the plank was firmly nailed to the gap!
The sailors in the cabin at the bottom were dumbfounded, followed by a burst of joy and thunder, and they took the initiative to hand Tang Jie the beech planks in their hands, Tang Jie drew a scoop according to the gourd, and quickly nailed one beech plank after another to the gap!
But when he nailed the last plank, the impact of the water also reached its peak, Tang Jie and the sailors were crooked in the water, their heads were half in the water and half in the air, and they pushed the plank towards the gap little by little with all their strength!
Tang Jie led the sailors to roar in unison, letting out a roar that only the bloodiest man could make!
Tang Jie's body bowed into a trembling arc, and the angular rock muscles on his body soaked in the seawater, exuding a strong male aura!
The sailors roared and pressed the last beech plank against the gap, Tang Jie immediately took a deep breath, put the ship nail on the plank, smashed it down like a cannonball, and then smashed it down with a punch below!
The gap is plugged!
The sailors escaped death and cheered wildly, and they looked at Tang Jie with the most fanatical and reverent gaze, looking at this captain who was much younger than them!
This black-haired man, the scene just now has completely conquered them!
Tang Jie didn't care about enjoying this kind of royal worship, he didn't have time to take a breath, he heard Nia shouting loudly on the deck: "Captain Tang Jie, there are enemy ships approaching on the left and right strings, do you want to open fire?"
Tang Jie flew to the stairs, turned his head and yelled at Bill: "Bill, take the guys and quickly enter the gun cabin!
He quickly climbed onto the deck, and Bill pounced on the gun bay with most of the sailors again, nervously preparing for the next round of gun battles!
Due to the previous artillery fire in the Death Canyon before the sinking of the Victory and the Azure, some of the gun emplacements in the gun compartment have been blown away, the cylindrical cannons are crooked and horizontal to the ground, rolling with the swing of the hull, making a dull bone sound, some sailors killed by the shells fell in a pool of blood, and the gun compartment is filled with a heavy smell of gunpowder smoke and blood!
Bill, who had experienced a lot of naval warfare, saw the blood and severed limbs in this place, and his face remained unchanged, and he commanded the sailors to rush to the gun bay to replenish the cannon with gunpowder and shells!
When Tang Jie went to the deck, he saw that Nia had already beaten the ship horizontally, and successfully grabbed the horizontal "one" in the "T" shaped tactics of naval warfare, and the gun compartments of the sea ships were all facing the Sisis coastal defense army chasing behind him.
"Captain Tang Jie, which one should we hit first?" Nia stood on the helm platform, leaned forward, and asked anxiously at Tang Jie.
Tang Jie glanced at it, but saw that there were still as many as eight warships chasing after them on the left and right sides behind him, and the Hell was not far behind them, the stern of the ship was burning with flames and smoke, and the injuries were much more serious than theirs!
"Nia, raise the flag, tell Captain Barr that we will focus our fire on the first ship on the right side in a moment!" Tang Jie quickly gave the order, he pounced on the helm and replaced Nia.
The Hell received his flag, and quickly made adjustments, and the two sea ships, under the control of Tang Jie and Barr, drew a beautiful arc on the sea, and quickly circled to the side of the battleship on the right, still grabbing the most favorable naval battle position!
The hell and Tang Jie's sea ships, the hull of the ship was horizontal, and dozens of cannons were aimed at the coastal defense battleship of Sissi, and they roared in unison!
A torrential downpour of shelling!
From the very beginning, these warships of the coastal defense army were cunningly exploited by the pirates to paralyze their carelessness, and after Tang Jie broke out of the Death Canyon, they kept pressing on them, never letting them turn around, and fired back at them with the cannons on the side of the ship.
This is like two boxers in the boxing ring, one boxer always circles around each other, and his fists fall on the opponent's waist and abdomen like rain, attacking fiercely, and this beaten boxer, because he did not keep up with the opponent's pace at the beginning, is not only beaten everywhere, but his fists can never effectively hit the opponent!
Tang Jie held the rudder tightly, his eyes stared at the enemy ship on the sea, every pore on his body was open at this time, every nerve was magnified to the extreme, so keen that as long as the hull moved a little, he could immediately detect it, and through the rudder wheel for precise manipulation!
He knew that at this time, the slightest negligence and mistake would lead to the total destruction, and their boatload of people would die here!
With Tang Jie's super long play and the assistance of the sailor William, the three-masted griffon-class ship seemed to come to life, incarnated as an agile assassin, always appearing in the opponent's most uncomfortable position, preemptively jamming the opponent's throat, and then delivering the fatal blow!
"Boom, boom, boom!"
Another deafening blast of cannonade!
Under the combined attack of the Hell and Tang Jie's sea ships, the nearest three-masted vulture-class battleship instantly turned into a ball of fire!
But the pirates didn't have time to cheer and rejoice, but the remaining seven battleships took advantage of Tang Jie's concentrated firepower to sink a battleship, and turned all the hulls sideways!
Tang Jie looked at the side chords of the seven battleships, and the dense cannons pushed out of the gun bay at the same time, and he was so shocked that the cold hairs on his back stood upside down!
===========================================================Second watch, which hero is helping me smash the VIP today?
It's really a big deal, thank you so much, let's express my gratitude tomorrow with a small explosion.