Chapter 155: The Might of the Tang Sect (Eight Watches)
Seeing the fireship approaching, Pei Gang was shocked in his heart, but he immediately commanded calmly: "Ballista fire!"
The disciples and boatmen on the ship hurriedly pulled the mechanism of the ballista, and the crossbow arrows, which were as thick as the arm of an adult man, were fired out like the wind. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The bolts shattered some of the ships, but the dragon still didn't stop, and shattering a few of them didn't stop the dragon from moving forward.
And what's even worse is that after that fire dragon, there is a new chain fleet of ships, and even if this wave is blocked, the next wave will come.
The fire dragon approached only a few dozen feet away from the fleet at an alarming speed, and the elevation angle of the ballista could no longer reach the boat.
The disciples and shipwrights on the ship were in a mess, seeing that the ship was about to be swallowed by the fire dragon.
Seeing that the situation was urgent, Pei Gang shouted: "Don't panic, the fire dragon cannon is fired!"
The dragon cannon on the hole in the lower part of the five boats spewed out tongues of fire one after another, forming a grand scene above the river scenery at night:
Like a rainbow of flames, it kissed the chain of small boats on fire, and turned the boats touched by the tongue of fire into ashes.
The fire dragon cannon was full of power, but the range was only less than twenty zhang away, and there were still some fireships that had slipped through the net, and they crashed into the ship, and for a while thick smoke was everywhere, and it was obvious that it was on fire.
The situation on several ships became even more chaotic, and although there was no danger of capsizing for the time being, in this case, if the enemy boarded the ship and attacked, I was afraid that it would suffer losses.
Pei Gang was so remorseful that he didn't take his previous doubts into account, seeing that this was about to become the second "Battle of Red Cliffs".
"Don't panic, my Tangmen steamship, the planks are covered with non-combustible things, and the smoke is just produced by the burning of fire oil!" At this moment of crisis, Tang Beiyi jumped out of the cabin, stood on the bow of the ship, and roared: "If there is a flame in the cabin, extinguish it with all your might!"
"Door Master!" Pei Gang looked ashamed, but Tang Bei didn't care at all, "It seems that the other party has a powerful strategist who is giving advice!"
"Turn the bow of the ship and go all out to break through the chain of fire ships!" Tang Bei gave an order one by one, and in those words, the majesty of the door master was fully displayed, "Xiaoxiao also wants to damage my ship by such a means!"
Tang Beiyi looked at the river calmly, he was not worried that this series of fireships would cause damage to the ship, and he was more interested in the initiator of this plan.
"I actually thought of a chain of iron cables, a fireboat attack, this kind of strategy, not a river thief on the river can think of it, this person from the south of the Yangtze River has the style of an ancient wise general!"
As Tang Beiyi said, although the ship caught fire, it did not burn to the deck, but only burned in the lower part of the ship that was contaminated with fire oil.
Several ships turned their bows at the same time, and then the wheel slurry was in full swing, and at once it ripped off the chains that were used to link the boats, and then continued to accelerate in the direction of Ulin Beach.
The second wave of fireships also ignited, and under the wind, they rushed towards the fleet of Tangmen at high speed.
"Speed up, rush over with all your might!" Tang Bei did not change his color, standing on the bow of the boat, constantly watching the movement on the other side of Wulin Beach.
The high-speed breakthrough ship collided with the second "fire dragon", and the second wave of serial fire ships was also instantly torn apart, although two steamers were still carrying the burning serial boats to move forward, and it seemed that the entire hull was on fire.
On the other side of Wulin Beach, the river pirates who were ready to go seemed to think that these ships were already on fire, and they pushed off the boats one after another, ready to go forward to fight.
So those river thieves who wanted to take advantage of the chaos carried normal ships and went down to the river like dumplings.
There was only a commotion, and dozens of small boats, appearing from the rear of the steamer fleet, as if they were about to be attacked from both sides.
"All staff, prepare to fight, let these river thieves who don't know the height of the sky and the thickness of the earth see, I dream of the Tang Sect, the real force!" Tang Bei waved his arms, and the Tang Sect disciples on each ship lined up on the deck with thick smoke.
The boatmen and the housekeepers and others controlled the ballistas and were ready to go.
Those small ships, because of the advantage of lightness, soon approached the fleet of steamers.
And what greeted them was not the panicked lambs waiting to be slaughtered because the ship was on fire, but rows after rows of capable disciples of the late Tang Dynasty.
As soon as these elite disciples of the Tang Sect made a move, hundreds of hidden weapons were fired together, accurate and ruthless, and most of the river thieves who approached first were shot down into the water by hidden weapons, and for a while the wails resounded on the surface of the Chibi River.
But this was not the end, the Jiang thieves behind saw that the vanguard was frustrated, and did not rush forward, but returned fire with a machine crossbow.
However, what was waiting for them was the dragon cannon on the ship, and the tongue of fire of the dragon cannon kept gushing out, and the river pirate boat that was a little closer was swallowed up by the flames in an instant, and the people on board were all gone.
"The enemy on the Qing River!" Tang Beiyi turned a blind eye to the wails of countless river thieves who had fallen into the water, and instead ordered the fleet of steamships to be wiped out.
The river pirate ships farther away, seeing most of the dead and wounded in front of them, wanted to evacuate urgently, but they found something even more terrifying.
The ship was faster than a boat with full sails, and as it went, it spat tongues of fire and burned the river pirate boats on the river to ashes.
And those who are lucky enough to escape will be caught by the Tang Sect disciples on the ship, and they will use accurate secret weapon kung fu to catch all the fish that have slipped through the net.
"Sect master, isn't our plan to drag down the army of Jiang thieves and wait for the Flying Fire to take Sun Bofu's life?
"The Flying Fire Young Man should have a way!" That Gao Liancheng appeared very suitably, and then flattered Tang Beiyi and said: "It's still the steamship of the Tang Gate that is extremely powerful, and it is reasonable to control it at this time, and it is also a reasonable thing, run a few river thieves back, he should deal with it!"
"You...!" Pei Gang couldn't attack, at the moment of crisis, it was the master of the Tang Sect who appeared, stabilized the situation, and took away his command.
And this Gao Liancheng just caters to Tang Beiyi's wishes.
Although most of the river thieves on the river were killed or wounded, nearly one-third of them still fled to the edge of the Ulin Shoal and fled back to the dense forest in a panic.
Pei Gang saw the dozens of people fleeing back, but there was no way, although Feihuo took the initiative to ask for help, but without the cooperation of the fleet, there was no way to kill people in the full river thief lair~ no matter what.
Even if he had, Spitfire probably wouldn't have a chance to come back alive. (To be continued.) )