Chapter 44: Death Canyon II
Captain Smith watched the three-masted griffon-class ship sail into Death Canyon, and the heart he had been carrying was put back in his chest. [Ran^Text^Library] []
He had been worried that these pirates would play tricks, and if they got into flames, they might not be able to fulfill Lord Alamsey's orders.
The instructions given to him by Alamsei were to intercept and capture the two ships alive, not to sink them!
Since these frightened pirates were so cooperative, it also saved him a lot of trouble.
Smith smiled proudly, the military appearance of the Sisis First Coastal Guard is really strong, and it can deter these lawless pirates without firing a single shot!
The adjutant next to him looked carefully at the sea ship that was caught between them, and he suddenly frowned: "Why are there so few sailors on deck?"
Smith waved his hand disappreciatively: "Do you think pirates are our coastal defense army, it's normal for there to be fewer people!"
The lieutenant heard the captain's explanation, and thought it was so, but when his eyes fell on a black-haired young man on the deck, the uneasiness in his heart became more and more obvious.
The young man, with his burly physique, broad and thick shoulders, resembled a sturdy young lion, and he stood on the deck, staring at them with sharp eyes, and shooting a fierce and fierce gaze.
This is definitely not the gaze that a surrendered pirate should have!
"There's a problem!!" the adjutant suddenly shouted.
But at this time, Tang Jie suddenly raised his hand in the air and waved his hand heavily!
There was a "bang", and almost at the same time, the gun bay of the three-masted griffon-class battleship suddenly opened at the same time!
The dense cannons stretched out, like a demon suddenly baring its fierce fangs like his enemies!
Captain Smith, who was still smiling with disdain on his face in the last second, looked at the rows of cannons that were close at hand, and his smile suddenly froze!
The gears of time seem to slow down at this time.
Smith clearly saw that the black-haired young man on the ship was staring at him deadly, and a grim smile bloomed on his face, like a devil!
Smith felt like his heart was instantly grabbed in the palm of this young man's hand, and he was suffocated!
Tang Jie's hand slowly waved down in the air, and Nia, who was standing in the cabin, slowly turned her head and shouted at the gun cabin: "Fire the cannon !!"
The blonde first mate, her lips and teeth collided together, vibrating the air, and a flaming sound was transmitted to the cannon bay in a heart-rending manner!
Even without Bill's herald, the cannon bay was set on fire in no time!
When all the sailors heard this, their backs tightened at the same time, and they let out a loud roar in unison, puffing up their strong muscles, and pushing the cannon out of the gun bay.
Now that they are on the ship, they have no choice but to fight with the captain of this ship!
In the face of the sudden battle, their minds went blank, and their eyes were only the cannon in front of them, and the enemy ship on the opposite side that seemed to be close to reaching out!
They don't need to aim, they don't need to adjust, all they have to do is fire the shells as fast as they can!
As the cannon was pushed out of the gun bay, the sailors quickly lit the fuse with their torches.
There was a neat hissing sound, and the three-masted griffon-class ship suddenly shook, and the cannons in the gun compartments on the left and right sides retreated in turn, and the forty breech shotguns let out a series of earth-shattering roars!
These shotguns exert terrible lethality at close range!
The Azure and the Victory, which are also three-masted griffon-class ships, seem to be instantly enveloped in a cloud of smoke, in which sparks and various debris continue to roll and fly, and the terrible screams of sailors are everywhere!
The calm sea turned into hell in an instant!
Captain Smith, the captain of the Victory, was unscathed by the heavy bombardment just now, and he stood on the bridge, trembling as he looked at the nightmarish battleship in front of him.
Around him, the officers and men ran around like crazy, some of them had their legs broken by shells, they were lying in pools of blood and wailing, and some were desperately trying to extinguish the flames on the ship with canvases and buckets.
"Pass, pass my order, return the shot! Shoot back!" Smith's lips quivered, but he didn't hear the adjutant's voice.
The furious Smith grabbed the adjutant beside him with his backhand, and then turned back sharply, just about to speak, but was shocked to see that the adjutant's head was shot out of a terrible hole, and the flesh and blood were blurred with a puff of green smoke!
Smith shuddered and pushed the corpse aside, and another clear roar came from his ears: "Fire !!"
Another ferocious round of shelling began!
Smith only saw a puff of white smoke coming out of the ship, and then he seemed to be pushed hard, and he lost consciousness again.
After Tang Jie roared and ordered the second round of shelling to begin, he and William began to pull the mainsail up with all his might.
The muscles in his arms bulged like a hard rock, and the green tendons rolled under the skin like small snakes. Tang Jie dragged the wrist-thick sail rope, and his legs were like old trees with roots, tightly tied to the deck.
"One, two, three, pull!!" Tang Jie's horn was like a burst of thunder, even in the rumbling cannon sound, it was clear in the ears, so that the sailors pulling the sail line were in high spirits at the same time!
Although the captain and lieutenant of the Victory were killed under the first and second rounds of artillery fire, and the Victory was in chaos, some of the officers and men in the gun compartment still spontaneously began to fight back desperately, and one cannon after another was pushed out of the gun bay and began to roar back.
Especially the Azure, the front and rear masts of this battleship were all blown off, and the damage was even more serious than that of the Victory, but its captain was not injured, and he commanded the officers and men to carry out an organized counterattack at the first time!
The cannons of the Azure were pushed out of the gun bay, and at a glance, even if the number was a little scattered, the damage caused by such a close shelling was still terrifying!
"Boom, boom!!"
Tang Jie only felt as if an earthquake had occurred under his feet, not far from him, the winch was shattered by a cannonball, and some of the sawdust flying everywhere pierced into his body like a sharp blade, and some were like rapidly rotating sawteeth, pulling a deep and long cut on his cheek!
Blood poured out at once!
Tang Jie was bleeding profusely, but he was still pulling the hoisting rope to the death, and he was not half shaken and afraid because of this terrible shelling that happened around him!
He knew that the artillery battle at this time was like fighting bayonets!
You come and go, there is no opportunism to speak of!
The fight is to see whose bones are harder, whose spirit is stronger, and whose fighting spirit is crazier!
At this time, as the captain, you must not waver in the slightest, not even frowning!
The blood on Tang Jie's face was like a flame, which instantly ignited all the sailors on the deck, and they shouted loudly, quickly pulling up the mainsail at an incredible speed!
The sea breeze blew on the sails, causing the boat, which had barely stood still, to suddenly move again.
"William, hurry up and fix the halyard!" Tang Jie didn't care about wiping the blood from his face, he threw the halyard to Nia, and he himself pounced on the helm like a mad lion!
He's going to steer the ship out of Death Canyon as fast as possible, and the longer he delays, the more likely he is to be surrounded, and the more the Inferno behind his stern is shelled!
When Tang Jie's warship frantically engaged in an artillery battle with the Victory and the Azure, the other warships of the First Coastal Guard of Sisis were shocked at the same time.
They never dreamed that someone would be crazy enough to get into the bag of "Death Canyon" and start shelling their opponents!
By the time they came to their senses, the Victory and the Azure had been blasted into two burning and sinking fireballs!
They wanted to fire back, but they were afraid of being covered by the Victory and the Azure.
These two battleships, which originally formed a nihibitive situation, have become Tang Jie's best protective barrier at this time!
Tang Jie turned the rudder and frantically hit a left full rudder, he had to turn the boat sideways when the boat sailed out of the "Death Canyon", he had to grab the position of the horizontal "one" in the "T" shaped tactics of naval warfare!
Only in this way will he be able to grab the most advantageous position in the next naval battle!
The three-masted griffin-class ship made a creaking sound, and its huge figure moved forward diagonally, and because the direction of progress was seriously to the left, the stern of the ship slammed into the Victory on the right little by little!
"No, I can't dodge!" Tang Jie's palms were wet and greasy, and the armrest of the rudder he was holding was slippery and slippery, and he yelled at Nia: "Let the crew pay attention to protection!
Nia looked at the Victory as it approached, her face turned pale, and she yelled at the crew on deck, and then passed the order into the cabin.
For a moment, the three-masted griffon-class battleship, which had been firing non-stop, suddenly fell silent, and all the sailors hugged any fixed objects around them, their eyes wide in anticipation of the impending collision!
Tang Jie's battleship, the stern of the ship approached the burning Bisheng little by little, and suddenly, the hull of the ship shook!
All the sailors shook at the same time, and the people turned on their backs!
Cannonballs, buckets, and even weapons stuck in the waistband of pirates' trousers, rolling all over the ground!
Tang Jie's ship smashed the burning Victory to pieces, and finally escaped from the canyon of death!
But before the pirates had time to cheer, the other warships of the surrounding Sisis Coastal Guard came up from both sides!
Bill got up from the plank, shook his head and groggy head, and suddenly he heard a rushing sound of water coming from below the cannon bay.
As a veteran sailor who has been sailing for many years, he certainly knows what this sound is all about!
He quickly slid down the stairs of the gun bay into the lowest cabin, only to see a large hole about half a meter in diameter in the cabin storage room at the stern!
The raging sea is rushing in!
Bill's face turned pale and he shouted in a high-pitched voice, "The cabin is flooded!!"
Nia, who was clinging to the railing of the bridge, heard this voice, and her face turned blue with horror!
Having sailed for many years, she certainly knows what it means to be flooded in the cabin in this situation!
"Go fix the leak in the cabin!!" Nya yelled at once, without thinking about it.
There was a terrible sound of rushing water from the cabin, like a monster whimpering and roaring, and Bill's voice of despair came clearly from this roar: "Can't be blocked, the current is too fast!!"
Nia turned her head sharply, and yelled at Tang Jie with a pale face: "Captain, the cabin is flooded!"
Tang Jie was nervously and concentrating on driving the boat, he heard Nia's voice, and shouted without thinking: "Fill the hole!"
Nia had already pounced on him at this time, and shouted fiercely, "The water is too fast to make up for it!!"
Tang Jie's head and face were covered with red blood, looking extremely hideous and terrifying, he turned his head with a blue face, and pulled her to the helm station to stand: "Now you come to control the boat, you come to command! I'll go plug that damn hole!"
After saying that, he rushed off the bridge without looking back and threw himself into the cabin!
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