Chapter 247: The Sinking of the Warren
It turned out that there were also several cannons on the deck of the warship, including shells, gunpowder packets, etc., Wang Jiuxuan and others took advantage of Li Xian to go down, and also started to scatter gunpowder on the sails, and buried gunpowder at the bottom of the rudder, just waiting for Li Xian to come out.
As soon as Li Xian said this, Wang Jiuxuan and the others knew that Li Xian had already succeeded, and hurriedly ignited these gunpowders.
There was a loud bang, first the rudder was blown up, and then the sail began to catch fire.
These sails are specially treated canvas, which is not easy to catch fire, and if it is not sprinkled with a lot of gunpowder powder beforehand, it will not burn for a while.
At this point, Bruce had already jumped out of the cabin with a bullet, and Li Xian laughed and used a seven-wound fist to entangle Bruce.
Then, Thor, who used a hammer, and Stark, who wore red steel armor, also jumped out with the defensive power of the battle armor, and even the warrior Wonder Woman, who was entangled with Li Xian just now, used a round shield from nowhere to defend her head, came to the deck, and attacked Li Xian with red eyes.
These people are all wearing battle armor, and they don't know what material they are made of, and their defense is amazing, even if they are rifled guns, they can be prevented from shooting at close range.
However, Li Xian and the other four were not too afraid, threw down useless muskets, and fought with these Western masters in close quarters.
Western masters and ordinary soldiers ran to the deck one after another, some tried to attack Li Xian and the others, and some tried to put out the fire, and the scene was extremely chaotic for a while.
At that moment, there was a sudden loud explosion in the cabin, and then flames soared into the sky, and the entire Warren tilted to one side.
Just as everyone was trying to stand still, a second explosion suddenly remembered, and the entire Warren began to sink.
"Got it. Li Xian laughed, and when the masters besieging him were panicking, he took the lead in running to the bow of the boat and jumping down, and Wang Jiuxuan and the other three naturally followed suit and jumped into the water one after another.
During the day, Rogers, Brian and others continued to jump into the water to escape, so that Li Xian's side failed to achieve the results it deserved, and this time it was Li Xian's turn to escape by water, the so-called thirty years of Hedong and thirty years of Hexi, but that's it.
After Li Xian entered the water, he swam far away in one breath before he surfaced and looked behind him, only to see the fire on the Warren, the figures on it were shaking, but the whole ship was slowly sinking.
Captain America Rogers ran to the bow of the ship, his face blushing as he watched the daring pirate escape by water.
"I've decided," Rogers said coldly to his companions, "our group will be called the Avengers." ”
"That's right!" said British captain Brian, who had been at odds with Rogers tonight, to agree with Rogers.
Bruce Wayne was beside them, frowning, but didn't speak, just looked at the four dots in front of him and swam away.
Li Xian waited until he reached the shore of the Kowloon Peninsula, joined the men and horses who received him, and returned to the base camp where the escorts and warriors were located.
The next night was spent safely, and Li Xian waited for it here, and he didn't see those Western warriors come to find the field.
Starting the next day, Li Xian led his subordinates and got busy again.
There were originally hundreds of Qing soldiers stationed in Guanchong and other places on the Kowloon Peninsula, so they sent people over at this time to ask where Li Xian's group came from and what their intentions were.
Li Xian ordered people to get these people's weapons, and also put on a big official show, scolding the defenders of Guanyong The day before, they obviously saw the imperial court soldiers fighting foreign devils, but they couldn't shrink, and they didn't have the slightest intention of helping when they saw the soldiers losing troops here.
Li Xian also released a small soldier to go back, and asked the leader of the soldiers in Guanyong to come over and ask for the guilt and receive the punishment, otherwise he would be good-looking.
Guanyong's Green Battalion Baizong was so frightened that he wanted to come over and salute this seemingly tall court official and military leader, but finally there was someone who understood the matter, and stopped him, saying that these people had extremely high combat effectiveness, but they acted a little strangely, and it was by no means the way of serious officers and soldiers.
Li Xian ignored the soldiers of Guanyong, and sent people to the surrounding villages to collect cattle, horses, mules, donkeys and other livestock and vehicles, or rent or buy, and pull away a bunch of things on his side.
Li Xian had more than 80 artillery pieces, nearly 10,000 shells, a large amount of gunpowder and various materials, and the things of several ships together were 1,000 tons, nearly 20,000 quintals, which was definitely a big project in terms of land transportation capacity in this era.
Fortunately, Li Xian was willing to spend money, hired hundreds of vehicles, and hundreds of villagers, together with the guards, to transport things to the people little by little.
Wang Jiuxuan proposed that there was a heroic man at a bend in the Wutong River (a tributary of the Shenzhen River), with more than 100 young men under him, and he had always admired the Sanyuan Temple, so he could borrow boats from the other party and hire manpower or something.
Li Xian himself is also known as Haojie, and he knows this, but he feels that there should be a common language among his peers, and if he can borrow a boat from others, it will be very beneficial to transport things, so he took hundreds of his subordinates to Wang Jiuxuan to ask for a meeting.
As a result, this heroic man was also a good dragon of Ye Gong, and directly sealed the four gates, preventing Wang Jiuxuan or Li Xian and others from coming in.
However, this reaction is also understandable, and whoever sees hundreds of men armed with foreign guns and cannons coming to their own village must also have this reaction.
Wang Jiuxuan and Li Xian both felt embarrassed, and in a fit of anger, they rushed in with their masters, subdued this heroic man and his men, and captured dozens of ships.
These things are a bit exaggerated to call the boat, at most they are small boats, many of them are inferior to the lifeboats on the thousand-ton ship, but Li Xian is not picky at this time, and happily accepts it.
also let the hero go, and let the hero take his subordinates to help him transport things.
Hong Kong and the Kowloon Peninsula are both places where smuggling gangs are very rampant, and there are many organizations and institutions that do business or smuggle (mainly opium).
Then, it was to take these boats, from the Wutong River to the Shawan River (later the Shenzhen River), into the Pearl River, and then to the boundary of Guangzhou, and then find a way to transport it back to Leizhou by river.
In any case, Li Xian did not dare to take the sea route now.
By the time Li Xian got hundreds of small boats, hired or coerced hundreds of locals, and entered the Shenzhen River with the escorts and warriors, it was already two days after the original naval battle.
Li Xian had always had a slight paranoia of persecution, otherwise he would not have taken the risk to attack Haiyan Luo that night after knowing that Hai Yan Luo was against him; after Zhu Jiu had attacked him, he immediately sent troops the next day, and he did not dare to delay at all, for fear that more Diao people would jump out and plot to kill him.
Thinking that these two days were enough for Bao'an County to send people to transmit the news to Guangzhou Mansion, and with the hostile attitude of Governor Lin and his subordinates towards the Mixed Yuan Sect, the Guangzhou side would inevitably lay a net of heaven and earth, just waiting for his hundreds of people to crash into it, Li Xian's heart was like a knife, or he was anxious.
It's just that at this point, nothing else is enough, let Li Xian give up the military artillery and a variety of commercial artillery that he finally obtained, that is a fantasy.
"If the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, if those people in Guangzhou want to rely on more people to block the road, don't blame me for being polite, let you know why the flowers are so red. Li Xian gritted his teeth and commanded the fleet to enter the Shenzhen River and then head west.