CHAPTER XXXVI

Because he was worried that something would really happen to Bai Zizong, after Feng Li left, Zhong Lei's heart could not be calm.

He was dumbfounded at the bow of the boat for a while, and then went into the front hall to drink tea alone, thinking about what kind of situation Bai Zizong and them should be at the moment if it was just like what he had analyzed to Feng Li.

"Damn! This is the capital of the young master's struggle for the throne, and it can't be smashed in the hands of pirates in vain. ”

The more he thought about it, the heavier his heart became, and after drinking a pot of tea, he got up and paced back and forth in the hall, and then went out of the front hall to circle around the deck.

Thinking about Wang Bao and Bai Zizong, what would happen if Feng Li went there, but he met Zhao Hu at the hatch of the ship, so he said anxiously: "Boss, somehow, my heart is always up and down, uneasy, as if something big is going to happen. ”

Zhao Hu is a thoughtless person, even if someone cuts off a left arm, he just smiles, and his brows are not wrinkled.

At this moment, after listening to Zhong Lei's words, he said: "The third child, the third child, how can you learn that the second child will be sad." Hey, the sky won't fall. ”

Zhong Lei shook his head and sighed lightly, dragged Zhao Hu to the front hall, and after the two of them were seated, he sighed and shook his head again and said: "General Feng's strategy should not be wrong, but why didn't those turtle grandsons take the bait? I wondered, it must be something happened to the second child and Zizong." Boss, if there is really something wrong with Zizong, then this matter will be a big deal, I am afraid that General Feng and they will only have a vicious battle in the past, and they may not be able to save Zizong and them. Come to think of it, that's a nest that pirates have been operating for hundreds of years. Once the nest was blown up, there were hundreds of or ten guns on forty or fifty clippers, and the rain of shells fell on the three small islands, which was no joke. ”

Seeing that Zhong Lei said so heavily, Zhao Hu was also a little worried, so he said: "Third brother, our brothers are the best to count your brains." Let's see what happens, lest the second child not come back. ”

Zhong Lei didn't say anything, but his face became heavier and heavier, as if the sky was about to fall, and his eyes looked out the window.

After pondering for more than half an hour, he suddenly stood up and said, "Boss, this dragon ship and the young master, the county lord will be handed over to you and the Flying Demon Girl, I have to go there myself." ”

Zhao Hu was stunned for a moment, and exclaimed: "If you want a boat without a boat, if you want a soldier without a soldier, how can you go?"

Zhong Lei laughed and said, "The rower is also a boat." ”

After saying that, the people had already arrived outside the hall, and turned around and said, "Don't let people touch the dragon ship, boss, the capital of Tianbo Mansion is all here." ”

He hurried out of the cabin.

"If any brother is not afraid of death, follow me to board the dragon boat and kill the pirates. ”

Zhong Lei's shout sounded like thunder, and the brothers and their men in the upper and lower cabins all ran out, shouting loudly that they would go with the chief manager to kill the enemy.

"You. You. And you. ”

Zhong Lei picked out ten tall and burly men and asked them to change into black clothes, carry grappling hooks, and carry large knives on the deck.

He himself went back to the wing, changed into a white shirt, and returned to the deck with a long-handled broadsword in his hand, and had the drum on the platform removed and lifted to the paddle along with the drum rack.

Then he said to the ten big men: "Brothers, today I will go with me Zhong to help kill the enemy, maybe there is a ghost messenger who will go to the sea without returning to bury, I don't know if you are afraid or not?"

The ten big men shouted in unison, raised their arms, and shouted: "With the chief manager, why be afraid, not afraid." ”

He nodded with satisfaction and smiled: "Okay, this is like a man." ”

So he brought ten bowls of wine, and told them to do a great thing, and then raised his sword and shouted, "Ten brothers, let's go." ”

Ten men drank wine, dropped the wine bowl, left the dragon ship and boarded the row, five people sat down on one side, put the grappling hook in the middle, pinched the oar handle with both hands, and only heard Zhong Lei's order.

"Scratch. ”

At the same time, the paddle turned from slow to fast, and then pierced out like an arrow, rowing towards the endless sky.

I don't know how long later, a brother suddenly asked, "Boss, I heard that your kung fu is very good, is it true?"

Zhong Lei didn't want to mention the past again, but he didn't want to spoil everyone's interest, so he said: "This is true." If I fight alone, I can't find a hundred masters in today's martial arts who can beat me with fifty moves. I haven't met anyone who can beat me in twenty years. ”

Immediately, someone shouted: "Chief Administrator, if we can follow you through the Ghost Gate today, and return to the Dragon Ship when we have a life, I beg you to accept us as apprentices, and let us honor your old man." ”

Zhong Lei laughed wildly when he heard this.

"Good. To have ten disciples who are not afraid of death is also exactly what I want. ”

After hearing this, the ten big men shouted "Master" in unison

After that, he was overjoyed and laughed.

"Wait and listen, to be my apprentice must be soft and not bullied, hard and not afraid, and dare to draw a knife when encountering injustice, no matter how strong the ...... is"

He was teaching these apprentices, and suddenly there was a fierce cannon sound in front of him, so he closed the conversation and listened quietly for a while, and then shouted: "Disciples, whoever doesn't give Lao Tzu a long face today and be his mother's turtle grandson, Lao Tzu will cut whoever he wants." Give me my life, and I can't stop until I die. ”

When he finished speaking, he put down his broadsword and beat the drum fiercely.

These ten apprentices can also be regarded as a struggle, hearing the sound of drums, they paddled hard, as if they were racing a dragon boat, only to see the rows flying forward, and in an instant they sailed into the naval battle area, fell into the rumbling cannonballs, shuttled between the fierce waves, can be said to be a hundred times more dangerous.

Besides, after leaving Feng Li and William, Bai Zizong looked forward to the Ryukyu pirates going out to rob the dragon ship, so that he and Wang Bao could take the opportunity to smash their lair, and then fight with Feng Li and them back and forth to exterminate the pirates.

But after three days of waiting, the pirate did not make the slightest movement, and he was wondering, and at noon on the fourth day, three Western clippers suddenly came to the shore and "chirped" on his island

He shouted something.

Since the general matter went with Feng Li, none of the brothers who stayed with Bai Zizong could understand what the foreigner was saying, so he didn't care, all of you foreigners were "chattering and wow"

Fart indiscriminately.

Perhaps no one answered, which made the foreigners see some flaws, and a dozen foreigners disembarked from a clipper boat with muskets in hand and waded into the island.

Bai Zizong saw that something was wrong, and only when he was in a hurry did he think of the slave trade, thinking that these three foreign ships must have come to the island to pick up people, so he ordered the foreign ships to open fire, and then led people to jump out, and unexpectedly cleaned up those foreigners who went to the island.

As soon as there was an exchange of fire here, the rumbling cannon sound attracted the Ryukyu pirates, and they gathered in this direction.

At dusk, there were as many as fifty or sixty pirate ships, and the cannonballs on the ships fell on the island where Bai Zizong lived, killing and wounding many brothers for a while, and they were completely powerless to fight back.

At the time of crisis, it was also God who helped a lot, first the fog was heavy, and then the night was dark, and the shells on the clipper ship had no direction, and the pirates wanted to take advantage of the darkness to touch the island, but they all let Bai Zizong and them fight back, and the battle came to an end.

Bai Zizong knows too well that he can escape today, that is because God has eyes, what will he do tomorrow?

Even if it was foggy, it was a sunny day, and the pirate would inevitably shoot all the shells on the clipper ship on the island where he was located, and it would not take half an hour for his brother to finish playing.

"Damn! Now I can only hope that General Feng and them will come to their rescue. ”

Looking at the little lights on the sea, those are all pirate clippers, Bai Zizong can't break through if he wants to break through, and if he wants to go back alive, he can only rely on Feng Li and they can come in time.

After thinking about it, he hurriedly let the brothers eat something and drink a few sips of wine, and comforted the injured brothers, so he let everyone take the opportunity to rest, and found a hidden place on the shore with his musket, and watched the sea to prevent pirates from attacking.

Wang Bao, who was lying on the neighboring island, was worried that Bai Zizong's side would suffer heavy casualties and would not be able to stop the pirates' night attack, so he took fifty brothers on board the ship and landed on the small island on the left from the sea area between the two islands.

"Zizong, Zizong, I'm Wang Bao, where are you. ”

After going ashore, he shouted softly all the way.

Soon, someone answered in a loud voice, "It's Lord Wang." ”

Then a man appeared in front of him.

"Please come with me, Lord Wang. ”

After saying that, he was leading the way, and after a while, he brought Wang Bao and others to Bai Zizong.

"Zizong, you're not injured, how many brothers have been killed or injured?"

Wang Bao asked when he met, and his words were very concerned.

Bai Zizong hurriedly said: "Thank you for your concern, the little ones are fine." Fourteen people died, twelve were seriously injured, and twenty or so were lightly wounded. Alas, these are good brothers who have followed me for many years. However, I didn't find the adults and Zhao Chong, which is also a great luck in misfortune, otherwise the casualties would be greater. ”

Wang Bao patted Bai Zizong's shoulder with a light sigh and said, "Zizong, how can there be immortals in the war, don't be too sad." I want to ask you, will the pirates on the clipper wait until dawn, or will they retreat to their lair?"

Bai Zizong pointed to the light on the sea and said, "Adult, the little one is also a pirate, and he knows a little bit about pirate habits. They were afraid that I would escape at night, so they naturally stayed there and sent two more ships to patrol the left and right. ”

After hearing Wang Bao laugh, he said: "Zizong, this is really God helping you and me." ”

Then he suppressed his laughter and whispered, "Since the pirates are all here, the lair must be empty, and there is such a good opportunity, why don't you and I go and serve it." ”

Bai Zizong suddenly woke up after hearing this, and hurriedly gathered his brothers in one place, let the seriously injured brothers continue to rest, and the lightly injured brothers guarded the fort, and he took the remaining brothers to sit in two clippers, and Wang Leopard's three clippers were in one place, and went south from the water city in the middle of the two islands, and unknowingly touched the pirate's lair from behind the island.

"Tear down the cannons and take muskets except treasures. ”

In order to save time, Bai Zizong only allowed his brothers to take treasures and firearms every time they touched the next island.

As a result, five nests, including the one-eyed dragon, were eliminated one after another before dawn, and then they returned, and parked the ship in the sea area between the two islands, which was out of the range of the pirate artillery, leaving more than a dozen people to guard.

Wang Bao left forty brothers to help Bai Zizong defend the island, and he only brought ten people back, and then found Higashino Suo, and moved the four cannons on the island to the left side of the island, saying that when the battle was fought tomorrow, he could bombard the pirate clipper to attract some pirate ships, so as to reduce the pressure on Bai Zizong's side.