Chapter 521: Splitting the Boat
Seeing Sun Li die, Zhao Xuhai was sad and indignant, everyone has blood, and as a sailor general, of course, he is no exception. If he had been bent on running for his life before, but now that no one helped him move the wooden boat, it was impossible to escape. Since there is only one dead end left in front of us, it is better to die in battle than to be slaughtered like a mouse!
It seems that he has no choice but to leave this old life here for his wife, who does not live at home and waits for him!
Dealing with a master like the "Qian Twin Demons", the swarming brawl is just for nothing, even if there is a person like Sun Li who is not afraid of death to go up and hug it, it will not play a big role, in fact, if Qian Jiukong was not careless and defenseless just now, Sun Li would not be able to hold him at all, and he would be killed with an axe.
For today's plan, the only way to defend is to form a battle formation and concentrate the strength of all the soldiers to resist together, and maybe it can be supported for a moment and a half! Zhao Xuhai, as the commander of Qian, has been in the army for many years, and his knowledge is stronger than that of ordinary soldiers, so he immediately ran to the center of the deck and shouted an order, and his shout was probably the first correct order he passed down in today's battle.
The circle formation is the simplest infantry military formation, and all the sergeants in the Daming barracks often practice, even the sailor soldiers. This kind of formation is actually to enclose several layers of concentric circles, arranged on top of each other inside and outside, to jointly resist the enemy, but the soldiers in the front and rear layers will have several offensive and defensive frames that cooperate with each other, which is much stronger than the melee and random fighting.
From the sides of the ship, more and more pirates climbed onto the deck of the three-masted gunboat, and the sailors and soldiers could not resist the enemy, and when they heard Zhao Xuhai's order, they immediately retreated to the center of the deck, and began to form a formation according to the arrangement of the circular formation.
Although there was some confusion, the circle formation was a formation they were very familiar with, and the soldiers quickly lined up and assembled. After the fighting on the deck just now, there were less than two hundred soldiers left on the ship, and some of them were caught in the struggle and had no time to retreat, and the soldiers who formed a formation at this time were about one hundred and fifty people.
The pirates who climbed onto the deck of the ship quickly killed the lone soldiers outside the formation, and then roared towards the circle to kill them!
Zhao Xuhai stood in the middle of the formation, and had already pulled out his waist knife in his hand, and at this time he raised it above his head and shouted loudly: "Brothers, hold on and stop the pirates!"
All of a sudden, fierce fighting broke out on the deck. Although the sailors and soldiers were not as fierce as the pirates of the "Black Dragon Palace", they used the momentum of the circle formation to cooperate with each other, and their defensive capabilities were improved, while the pirates were swarming up, rushing each other, but they were blocked for a while, not only failed to break through the opponent's formation, but also lost more than ten people.
The Qian brothers rushed to the front of the formation, swung a giant axe and slashed, killing and wounding only four or five sailor soldiers, but they were also stopped!
Once the enemy rushes closer, there are three layers of soldiers working together to resist, and several defensive moves are also very tight, even if someone is injured or killed, the soldiers next to or behind will immediately fill in to keep the defense intact.
Although Qian Badou and Qian Jiukong are strong, it is not easy to forcibly break through this formation from the outside, and it is to slash and kill for a while, although a few soldiers were injured, but compared to the previous melee when these two people raised their hands to kill and injure many people, and no one could stop it at all.
More and more pirates climbed onto the deck of the three-masted gunboat, and they had surrounded the middle of the circle of soldiers on board. Zhao Xuhai stood in the center of the circle, constantly shouting in his mouth, commanding the soldiers in the formation to resist the enemy.
The fighting on the deck lasted for a long time, and more than 30 pirates who rushed up were slashed and killed, and more than 30 sailors were killed and wounded, half of them at the hands of the Qian brothers. The soldiers of the Navy Division were negligent in training on weekdays, and their ability in close combat was far inferior to that of the pirates of the "Black Dragon Palace", and in this kind of hand-to-hand combat, the proportion of casualties on both sides was similar, which was very rare.
If this continues, even if the pirates can eventually kill all the soldiers on the ship and occupy the ship, they will have to pay at least hundreds of lives.
But at this moment, he only heard a loud roar, and two red shadows rushed into the sky, swept seven feet, flew over the heads of the third-layer soldiers, and landed in the center of the circle array, it was Qian Badou and Qian Jiukong! It turned out that these two demon eyes could not break through from outside the formation, so they actually performed light skills and directly plunged into the formation!
The circle formation is only a military formation, not a Qimen formation in the martial arts sect, although this array can cope with the impact of the brigade, for the martial arts masters with the ultimate light skills directly into the formation, but there is no way to defend.
As soon as the Qian Clan's two demons entered the formation, they each swung their giant axes and slashed several soldiers around them. The soldiers who formed a circle formation could cooperate with the enemy outside the formation to attack and defend, but they did not have such an ability in the formation, and the two demons suddenly jumped in, which immediately caused chaos in the formation.
Zhao Xuhai saw that the situation was not good, and shouted: "Don't panic, everyone! The brothers in the inner circle blocked the two of them together, and the others retreated to starboard!"
Under such a situation, the only way to do this is to let the soldiers fight hard to resist the twin demons for a while, let the others retreat first, and then try to form another formation, otherwise they will be attacked by the Qian brothers and the pirates outside, and the circle formation will be broken immediately.
However, this shouting order was also heard by the Qian brothers in the array. Qian Badou saw Zhao Xuhai as soon as he turned his face, and immediately saw that he was the leader of the officers and soldiers on this ship, and sneered: "What a dog officer, if you dare to bark here, I will take your life first!"
In a flash of cold light, the two soldiers who were blocking Qian Badou's body were already in a different place under the giant axe, and then he strode forward and rushed straight towards Zhao Xuhai! Several soldiers on the side stepped forward to block, but he swung a few axes and cut them to the ground.
Without the help of the battle array, the soldiers of the sailor division are almost like mustard in front of masters like the Qian brothers!
Although Zhao Xuhai had already realized that he had died in battle, he still felt a trembling when he saw Qian Badou walking towards him with a blood-stained giant axe, and the palm of the hand holding the steel knife was also oozing sweat.
However, he didn't retreat, but stepped forward with a knife to face Qian Badou! Zhao Xuhai knew very well that in front of this demonic pirate master, he was afraid that he would not be able to survive even a round before he was killed, but at this time, this general Qian had already made up his mind, and he would never show weakness until he died!
Damn, let's die! Today's battle is lost, it is all his responsibility, he is already a damned man!
What's more, Sun Li is also dead, and he is probably not far on Huangquan Road now, so it is better for everyone to be a companion if he catches up!
Zhao Xuhai stepped forward and met Qian Badou in the center of the circle, he raised his knife and chopped, but was swept away by the giant axe, the blades intersected and the steel knife flew out of his hand and fell several zhang away, and Qian Badou's steel axe had already slashed down towards the top of his head!
Zhao Xuhai watched the axe blade fall from his head, but suddenly heard a heavy wind behind him, and a black shadow had broken through the air!
With a "click", Qian Badou's giant axe had split an object in half, but it was not Zhao Xuhai's head. It was much bigger than a human head, and it was a whole wooden boat!
The wooden boat flew into the air, was split in half and fell to the ground with a loud noise. This is exactly the wooden boat that Zhao Xuhai wanted to escape, he couldn't drag it alone before, so he had to stay on the deck behind the ship, but he didn't expect someone to throw it over, just blocking Qian Badou's axe and saving Zhao Xuhai's life.
This wooden boat weighs nearly 300 pounds, and it needs to be thrown straight from the back of the boat!
Zhao Xuhai had been facing Qian Badou, but at this time, he saw that the face of this demon-like master actually showed a look of fear, and said in a trembling voice: "God of War......"
God of War?Is this the person that even pirates like Qian Badou would be afraid of?
Zhao Xuhai looked back, but saw a gray-clothed young man with a figure like half an iron tower and a square face and big ears ten zhang away behind him, walking towards the circle array.
In the stern of the three-masted gunboat, leaning against a small sampan, it was clear that the boy had come on a sampan.
The last time he went to Okura City, Zhao Xuhai didn't stay in the city for a long time, so he hadn't heard of the "God of War" Zhu Hong, but the "Troll King" Hu Liuyang was killed by the "God of War", but no one in the Dragon Palace knew about it.
Qian Badou grabbed Zhao Xuhai's shoulder, the blade of the steel axe pressed against his neck, and shouted to the young man who came over: "Don't come over!
Zhu Hong didn't stop, he still walked towards Qian Badou step by step.
Qian Badou's voice became even drier, and he shouted: "Zhanzhu! I will definitely kill him if I take one more step!"
Only then did Zhu Hong stop, but he was only three feet away from Qian Badou and Zhao Xuhai.
From the moment he greeted Qian Badou just now, Zhao Xuhai had put life and death aside, and at this time he had no fear, and shouted: "Little brother, if you can kill this pirate, just do it, don't worry about me!"
Zhu Hong stared at Zhao Xuhai and said, "Okay, I don't care about you, I will kill this pirate!"
Qian Badou said sharply: "He is the chief general of this fleet, do you dare to care about his life or death!"
Zhu Hong's gaze moved to Qian Badou's face, and said: "This battle was defeated, he was unfavorable as the commander-in-chief, it was originally a capital crime, why should I care about his life or death?"
Zhao Xuhai said: "That's right! It's better for Zhao to die here than to go back and ask for a beheading." Pirates, kill if you have the guts!"
Qian Badou's face turned a little pale, and the steel axe in his hand shook, and the blade of the axe had cut through the skin on Zhao Xuhai's neck, and shouted: "Shut up!"
In the gate of Okura that day, Qian Badou saw Zhu Hong slap Hu Liuyang to death, and today Zaijian came to this young man, he knew that he was not an opponent, and he was already timid in his heart. He took Zhao Xuhai as a hostage, and wanted to make the other party have some scruples, but in the current situation, he didn't know if Zhu Hong really cared about Zhao Xuhai's life and death, and from the face of this young man, there was no look that could make him make a judgment.