The bird boat still turned its rudder to the southwest.

The chief soldier always went to the captain's cabin to croak, and asked for astrological calculations. Chongwen was so annoyed that he simply soaked in the compass cabin and taught the old guy the astrological mathematics, and Chongwen also learned a lot of navigation, and the two actually had the idea of sympathizing with each other. The general soldier Shun is too old and not very literate, and many advanced astronomy cannot be comprehended after all. However, the catfish boy is smart and clever, knows everything and knows two, and enters the country quickly.

Chongwen sighed and said: "If you want to talk about the way of mathematics and science, my teacher is sincere and the prince is the only one in the world. He was an old man who calculated numerology, and he was all right, but I was stupid since I was a child and didn't learn much. ”

The chief soldier asked: "Since the prince has such ability, why don't you teach your disciples and leave this profound knowledge behind?"

Chongwen shook his head slightly: "When you reach the realm of the prince, it is enough to know the rise and fall of the world, how can such knowledge be spread among the people." ”

The chief soldier nodded and suddenly remembered something: "Then you... Oooh. He still couldn't help but didn't dare to ask, since this knowledge could not be spread among the people, how could this Sun Daguan worship Chengcheng Bo Wangji as a teacher, could it be that this person was from the palace?

Suddenly, I heard the lookout on the top of the mast shouting, "There are seabirds in the southwest!"

The compass cabin is refreshed, and the presence of seabirds means that it is not far from the land, and after wandering in the vast East China Sea for so long, there is no one who is not eager to set foot on solid land, and hope is just around the corner.

Chongwen, Zong Bingshun, Liu Guan and Catfish Boy walked out of the cabin and climbed the wooden ladder to the aft terrace. Lin Yanghao was looking in the southwest direction, everyone followed his gaze, and sure enough, a seabird soared freely between the sea and the sky, and the elf swept through the sea and clouds, flying up and down, light and agile, which made people feel refreshed.

"Look, the bird is coming at us. The catfish boy shouted excitedly.

Sure enough, the bird flew closer and closer, hovering over the bird boat, and Liu Guan said, "It's a red-billed sandpiper." ”

While the crowd was talking, the bird suddenly rushed down from the clouds and landed firmly on the battlement of the terrace. Everyone stopped talking, and they all looked at the red-billed sandpiper, and the bird also looked at everyone quietly, as if it was not afraid of people at all.

Chongwen stared at the red-billed sandpiper's sharp and agile eyes, which were a pair of yellow-brown eyes, and their pupils were like unfathomable nights, showing a strange look. Somehow, Chongwen felt that it was a pair of human eyes, with deep malice, which made him feel chills all over. The terrace was suddenly silent, as if the bird had a mysterious magic that made humans nervous for no reason.

The catfish cub quietly approached the red-billed sandpiper, as if he wanted to catch it, but the chief soldier stretched out his hand to stop the boy and said, "Don't move, don't move anyone, this bird is not right." ”

Liu Guan smiled: "Jokes, people can still scare birds." He pulled out the Yanling knife at his waist and strode forward. The red-billed sandpiper sensed the danger, turned its eyes and glared at Liu Guan viciously, its neck shrank, and it flew up, straight into the sky, and disappeared in an instant. Everyone watched the red-billed sandpiper disappear into the sky, and they couldn't help but feel lost.

The chief soldier said in a deep voice: "This sea is wrong, the ship must be extra vigilant, the bow must be wound, the soldier must be armoured, the cannon must be loaded with medicine, the lamp cannot be lit after dark, everyone must strictly guard the battle position, and no noise is allowed." ”

Liu Guan asked, "What's wrong?"

The chief soldier pointed to the sea in the distance and said, "Look. "In the evening, the setting sun filled the sea, but the southwest sea was glowing with a faint blue light. The sea was restless, not like a school of fish, but like a sea of shrimp and crabs churning under the surface of the water. The old man said in a deep voice: "I hope what I expected is wrong, otherwise we will be in great trouble." ”

The sky was getting darker, darkness enveloped the East China Sea, and the starlight outlined the outline of the Bloodbird ship, gliding silently on the calm sea, like a ghost waiting to devour people. It is already close to the Baiguo archipelago, there may be light and dark reefs, and the speed of the ship is very slow. The mainsail was lowered, and only the auxiliary sail was used to advance, and the Bloodbird ship turned its rudder due south, not daring to get too close to the island chain.

In the compass cabin of the stern, Chongwen, Liu Guan and the chief soldier stared at the sea under the starlight, and the atmosphere did not dare to come out. Since discovering that the sea surface was abnormal, the chief soldier Shun had a blue face and did not say a word, which made the whole ship nervous. The general soldier is a 50-year-old sailing, and the things that can make him nervous must be extraordinary.

At the beginning of the shift, the moon is in the middle of the sky, it is around mid-autumn, and the moon is full like a mirror, which is conducive to observing the sea conditions.

Liu Guan suddenly said: "I seem to have seen the coast. ”

Chongwen also stared at the sea, and said for a long time: "No, you are dazzled." ”

The cabin fell silent again, and the catfish boy had a double plug on his back, a pair of small bows in the bag on his left shoulder, and 20 carved arrows in the arrow gourd on his right shoulder. He is now small and weak, and he has not been practicing the bow for a long time, and he is still injured under the ribs, so he can't open a strong bow. However, he has a young heart, and after a few days of practicing shooting, he hopes that an enemy will try his skills.

Suddenly, the bird boat shook violently and tilted to the right, and the whole ship was in an uproar. Chongwen fell to the right, he grabbed the long case, stabilized his figure, these days of life at sea have made him adapt to the swaying rhythm of the ship, and his feet have also taken root, so he is not so easy to fall. By the bright moonlight, he saw a huge fleshy fin appear on the wall of the daughter on the port side, and he didn't know what it was.

Liu Guan ordered loudly from the stern: "Don't panic, cut the damn!"

A few armorers shouted and rushed up to cut it, and the fleshy fin disappeared at once, and a few wild goose feather knives were slashed at the battlement, without hurting the fleshy fin at all. The boat returned to stability, Chongwen's heart was pounding, and he asked the chief soldier in a loud voice: "What is that thing?!"

The chief soldier said expressionlessly: "It's Monk Hai." ”

Liu Guan straightened his saber and said, "That thing is near the left, I'll go down and take a look, Ah Shun, you hold the rudder, if the situation is not right, turn the rudder to the east and leave here." The chief soldier replied in a deep voice: "Don't worry, I am here." ”

Liu Guanfei also ran to the foredeck and shouted loudly: "Thieves and birds, don't move! The first class to the port side, the second class to the starboard side, and the third class to the terrace, all with short soldiers, cut things when they see them, protect the gun position, and do not fire guns without my order!" Liu Guan shouted and scolded in a rough voice, and the deck immediately fell silent, and everyone took their places.

Suddenly, a strong force surged from the bottom of the sea, and the entire stern rose above the sea, and the bow plunged into the sea. Before everyone could get up, the stern fell to the surface of the sea, the bow of the ship rose, and a huge black head suddenly appeared in the bow, which could be seen clearly under the starlight, the head of the light, the high nose protruding from the cheeks, revealing the nostrils of the black holes, and the two eyes the size of a food plate were lined up on the left and right. The monster opened its big mouth under its nose, revealing Bai Sensen's teeth, and let out a shocking bull's roar from its mouth, which heard more than ten miles of sea.

A huge sonic wave swept across the foredeck, and 4 or 5 armorers fell backwards. At this moment, a carved arrow from the stern shot silently, hitting the monster's high nose. The monster frantically flailed its neck, but still clinging to the bow and refusing to abandon it.

Liu Guan shouted: "Cut him!" The soldiers rushed to the bow of the ship, and cut down with their knives without a head or face, some hit the head and face, and some cut the flesh fins. In an earth-shattering wail, the monster finally let go of the ship's planks and fell into the sea on its back.

The bow of the ship crashed against the surface of the sea, stirring up a large wave and regaining its balance. People were in a trance for a while, if it weren't for the blood and scales remaining on the deck, it seemed that the chaos just now was just a dream.

The catfish boy shouted excitedly: "I shot it! I shot the big guy!"

Chongwen patted the young man on the shoulder and praised, "Well done!" He turned to the chief soldier and said, "I saw the back armor of that monster, it was a large turtle, I'm afraid it was the size of our ship." ”

Chief Bing Shun frowned and said, "The turtle can't make a sound, that's the sea monk." ”

Lin Yanghao's heart-rending voice suddenly sounded from the terrace: "There is a shark on the sea!

Liu Guan lay on the battlement and looked behind the side, and sure enough, a cluster of black swarthy dorsal fins was exposed in the moonlight, and it was outflanking the bird boat. He shouted, "Throw away your sword for a bow and crossbow, and shoot him with arrows." Before the words fell, the sea suddenly cracked, and a two-person tiger shark jumped out of the sea, opened its blood plate and writhed and pounced, and the smell of the mouth sprayed directly on the human face, and the middle man wanted to fall.

Danger came suddenly, Liu Guan's reaction was as fast as lightning, he picked up the big knife and slashed, the blade slashed from the shark's upper jaw to the lower jaw, almost cutting the lower jaw open. In the crisis, Liu Guan burst out with all his strength, this knife was too fierce, the knife was stuck between the shark's lips and teeth, and the broken flesh and bones pounced on Liu Guan's head and face. The shark shook and fell to the surface of the sea, taking Liu Guan's knife with him.

Liu Guan was shocked, and there was a terrible thud from the bottom of the boat, and he suddenly realized that this was the most terrifying beast of prey on the sea, the saber-toothed shark. This guy has a long saber tooth in the upper jaw, which is as sharp as iron, and once it chisels through the bottom of the ship, everything will stop.

He didn't care about the fear of the rest of his life, and shouted: "The saber-toothed shark is digging the plank at the bottom of the boat, quickly raise the mainsail, Ah Shun turns the rudder unitary position, and then turns the rudder Ding Wu, and shake them off! Ajie! Quickly get off the net and stop the beasts at the bottom of the boat! Send someone down to survey the bottom of the ship, and hurry up to fill the leak!"

In the dark, people said yes.

Liu Guan ran to the aft terrace, which is the commanding height of the whole ship. Captain Lin Yanghao is directing the crossbowmen on the stern tower to shoot at the surrounding tiger sharks, and 20 archers on both sides are also shooting at the sea under the command of Captain A to prevent the sharks from approaching the bird boat.

However, there are still tiger sharks that break through the rain of arrows and approach the side of the ship, and from time to time jump out of the sea to attack the sailors on both sides, the sea water is agitated, and the whole ship is violently shaken at sea. Liu Guan saw with his own eyes that some soldiers were dragged into the sea screaming and disappeared, and there were roaring black shadows everywhere.

He took out a brick of fire, ignited it and threw it into the sea, and the moment it burst into flames, it lit up a large area of the sea. Just in front of the bow to the right, a group of tiger sharks are cruising, waiting for an opportunity to rush the boat. He pointed to the iron chain that fixed the bowl mouth, and shouted to the murderous finance minister Huang Qian: "Cut off the iron chain!" Huang Qian picked up the big knife without hesitation and cut the iron chain a few times.

Liu Guan checked the charge, the copper gun weighed 183 catties, the charge was 10 taels, the inner chamber of the gun was filled with 50 pieces of gravel, and a sealed iron bullet at the mouth of the bowl weighed 1 catty. The loading was correct, he pushed the four-wheeled gun carriage to aim at the sea in front of the right, adjusted the backing plate under the gun mount, determined the elevation angle of the gun port, everything was ready, and shouted at Huang Qian: "Ignition!"

With a roar of rage, a large cloud of orange flames erupted, and the huge recoil pushed the cart backwards violently, and was firmly held by the chains. Fifty cannons and a barrage of iron bullets screamed over the sailor's head, and rushed towards the tiger shark group a hundred paces away with strong kinetic energy, and the sea boiled like a boiling pot, and the dorsal fins of the group suddenly fell in disarray. The severity of the bombardment could be felt on the ship, and some people seemed to hear the screams of people coming from the sea.

After a few moments, the churning sea returned to calm, and the nervous warriors still shouted and fired arrows at the sea. The battle just now was terrible, they had never encountered such a crazy sea beast attacking the ship, not one, but a group. Liu Guan shouted: "Stop it, don't you see those guys running away? Stop!"

Captain Li Qiqian ran over to report: "Two were killed in the battle, five were wounded, and one arm was bitten off in half and was crippled." ”

Liu Guan said: "The dead are put on the deck first, cleaned up, and the injured are carried to the cabin for Ah Qian to treat." Can't disarm, who knows when the Kraken will come again, everyone rests on the deck and eats some dry food. ”

Li Qiqian crossed his hands and saluted: "Huh." ”