Thunder in a calm place, and death often hides behind angels.

Whether it is Anle Village or the Centipede Mountain Mine, they have entered the track of benign development. Most of the villagers entered the cat winter mode, and the mining team entered the excavation stage at full speed. While it is quiet and silent, it is in full swing. One is still and one moves, and everything is safe.

On this day, on the construction site of Lai Xi, several miners pointed to the sea in the distance, as if they had found something. Soon, the captain Zuo Yintang arrived, picked up a high-powered telescope and looked into the depths of the sea.

The offshore sea has long been frozen and snowy, and the sea is still flowing slowly in the distance. But both the sea and the ice are shrouded in large clouds of snow and fog, and it is impossible to see what is on the other side.

Zuo Yintang held the binoculars and stared silently. There are a few small black dots in the snow and fog that appear and disappear from time to time. It's like a black cloud, and it's like wind and sand.

A few miners were just curious, but they didn't really identify the black dots as anything concrete.

Zuo Yintang didn't either, and even had the idea of putting down the binoculars and turning around and going back to the mine. What will appear on such a foggy sea surface in the telescope, at best, a few hungry black bears.

But these black dots are moving extremely fast, a bit of a levitation speed. Therefore, in just a moment, the black spot became the size of a black spot, and in the thick snow fog, it inadvertently flashed, and it became larger and larger.

The miners gathered more and more, enclosing the coast in a semicircle.

Suddenly, someone shouted, "That's a boat, a few big boats." ”

But there was no response. On the ice, which is close to half of the sea level, how can there be a ship sailing, is it really suspended?

Someone shouted, "It can't be a boat." It must be ice moving on the surface of the sea, right? ”

It's quite possible, but how can the ice be black?

Another person guessed: "It's not ice, it's a broken reef." Reefs in the sea surface, are shattered by wind and waves, and then glide and move on the ice. ”

This speculation is very realistic, and it is very consistent with what you have witnessed. As a result, most of the miners surrounding the shore breathed a sigh of relief and quietly enjoyed the moving scenery that is rarely seen in normal times.

Only the captain Zuo Yintang's expression became more and more solemn. Zuo Yintang is completely different from the miners, first of all, his unusual experience and extremely keen senses. The main thing is that he has a high-powered telescope in his hand. Therefore, when the miners only saw a few black spots in the snow and mist, Zuo Yintang saw several black shadows. And when Zuo Yintang made the objects in the telescope more and more clearly, all the miners saw in their eyes were a few black spots.

The corners of Zuo Yintang's cold and thin mouth twitched slightly, and then he shouted decisively in a command-like tone: "Go back to the workshop and get your weapons!" ”

The miners did not react.

Zuo Yintang shouted again in a louder voice, saying, "Pirate, it's a pirate!" ”

The miners still didn't move as if they were frozen.

What Zuo Yintang saw in the telescope at this time was at least the prototype of a giant ship. The giant ship has a twisted shape and a slender body, which is convenient for reducing drag and increasing speed in seawater. Moreover, the boat gang is much higher than the average ship, which is conducive to erecting artillery and storing bombs, and is also a kind of shelter to resist fire. Therefore, when Zuo Yintang gradually saw this slender giant ship clearly, he felt that danger was approaching.

Then, the huge sails were revealed. The sail is divided into the main sail and the auxiliary sail, and the main sail is like the back of a shark, waving in the wind. The numerous auxiliary sails are used to adjust the direction and speed, so that the boat is more flexible and maneuverable when running. Eventually, the entire giant ship was revealed through the telescope, especially the black skull flag floating on the mainmast. The black flag was shabby, toothy and toothy, but the skeleton above it was striking and glaring, and the empty eye sockets looked at anyone who stared at him, grabbing courage and confidence endlessly. Under the skeleton are crossed bone rods, which signify death and destruction.

Knowing that this was the exclusive flag of the pirates, Zuo Yintang loudly ordered the miners to prepare for battle.

The miners were in a bit of a commotion, because at this time, they were gradually seeing what the object on the opposite side was.

Zuo Yintang put down the binoculars, which were no longer needed at this time. He could see not only the giant ship on the opposite side, but also several small boats on either side of the huge ship. These ships, which are several times smaller in size, are actually frigates of the giant ships in the middle.

Zuo Yintang had already turned and rushed towards the shed, shouting orders for the miners to retreat and take up arms.

The entire pirate fleet has been completely exposed to the ice, and the speed is amazing. At this point, all miners can see the skull black flag on the pirate ship's mainmast and even the faces of the people standing on the side of the ship. These people are dressed in different colors, tall and short, armed with weapons, and have fierce faces, like a group of fierce ghosts from the netherworld.

Then all saw the gun carriage raised on the side of the ship. Only then did the miners realize how dangerous it was and turned to run as hard as they could.

The guns in the bows of the pirate ships of all sizes began to light the fiery twists, and then fired in unison. The rumbling sound and the crumbling fire exploded one after another among the fleeing miners. The artillery is very primitive, but it is not at all less powerful, especially in places where people are concentrated at close range. The miners were blown to pieces, and the miners, who were not hit by the shells, began to flee aimlessly. This somewhat reduced the exact landing point of the shells and the huge lethality.

However, the Corsair stopped shelling. The ship slowed down and docked not far from the coastline. Then, ladders were erected on the side of the ship, and pirates from large and small pirate ships ran down these ladders to the ice, and then fired as they charged the mining teams on the coast.

At this time, Qin Xiao and Chen Xiangmei never dreamed of what happened in the Centipede Mountain Range. Therefore, when the disheveled miners who fled back and were covered in blood reported the situation in a panic, Qin Xiao and Chen Xiangmei couldn't react for a while.

The two of them just grabbed the earthen guns and followed the miners to the mines in the Centipede Mountains. When we arrived at the construction site, it was also the time when the pirate attack was at its craziest. Only a part of the miners remained in the shed, and for a long time did not know what was happening, and only then did they panic to find weapons and shoot back. Everything was flustered and seemed unprepared. Because the main enemy of the mining team is the mountain bandits of Mrs. Shang on the other side of the sea. Heavy snow covers the mountains, people and birds are gone, and the safety index is almost close to 100%. The knives and guns were put into storage, the horses returned to Nanshan, and for a while, the weapons could not be found.

Fortunately, the descendants led by Qin Xiao and Zuo Yintang have all experienced a hundred battles and are not chaotic in the face of danger. Find weapons and cover as quickly as possible, get into battle mode and shoot back. The pirates in the front row fell in rows, and the pirates in the back filled up at a faster pace, still charging frantically towards the shed.

At this time, Qin Xiao and Chen Xiangmei arrived with a few miners. The two couldn't believe their eyes, the image of large and small pirate ships and hundreds of pirates charging at the mines in the distance on the coastline was a little too shocking.

But Qin Xiao and Chen Xiangmei instinctively raised their guns to aim, and kept shooting at the pirate group. Other miners also opened fire. The miners, who had previously been scattered to find their weapons, also fired at the pirates from different directions.

The attack on the flank of the attacking pirates greatly relieved the pressure on the captain Zuo Yintang and the miners in the shed. Riots began to break out in the pirate group, and some were at a loss.

Qin Xiao and Chen Xiangmei were looking for a place to hide, while raising their guns to shoot, and then approached the shed, hiding, and shooting again.

Qin Xiao and Chen Xiangmei, like Zuo Yintang, never expected that the danger of the mining team would come from the frozen sea. So, there are only symbolic pistols around. The bullets ran out quickly, as there were not a few rounds in the gun. The two threw away their empty guns, snatched weapons from other miners, or from the corpses of pirates in the snow, and continued to shoot at the pirates.

Qin Xiao and Chen Xiangmei finally approached the construction site, and then went around to the back of the shed, first looking for weapons. Chen Xiangmei's leopard print sniper rifle had already run out of bullets, so she grabbed a homemade sniper rifle. Qin Xiao found a hand-held short machine gun, and the other miners who followed also found a relatively good weapon, and then shot at the pirates together.

To be continued/