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- The dull sound of artillery firing rang in the ears of the two men.
Meng Tianxiong was raising the hammer and slamming it down on the chisel. Due to the shaking of the ship's hull, the hammer actually hit his finger. Fortunately, the strong resistance of the sea water slowed down the speed of the hammer, otherwise his fingers would have been broken.
A few wisps of bright red blood floating in the sea floated past his eyes. Meng Tianxiong ignored the severe and heartbreaking pain. He swung the hammer and continued to hit the chisel.
The pirates suddenly fired artillery, clearly indicating that the pirates had discovered that the "Huanxi" was resisting them. The angry pirates would never give up. They would never give up until they bombed the "Huanxi" into a pile of pieces. stop.
With all hopes pinned on them, Meng Tianxiong couldn't help but remind himself that he should be calmer so that he could complete the task more quickly.
Amidst the dull and intensive sound of artillery, the two began to use chisels to pry the cracks in the bottom of the ship to create holes. This time they chose to cooperate. They inserted the chisel into both ends of the crack, then held the chisel tightly with both hands, kicked hard towards the bottom of the boat with both feet, and concentrated all the strength of their bodies into the chisel.
"One, two, get up! One, two, get up!" The two people shouted slogans in their hearts while exerting their strength.
Under the constantly swaying sea water, there are two of their faces that are distorted by excessive exertion. On these two distorted faces, you can see something called perseverance.
On the deck of the "Happiness". The pirates' cannonballs continued to fall, and the rumbling explosions were heard endlessly. Soldiers were constantly hit by artillery shells, and blood and flesh were scattered on the deck. Thick smoke was everywhere, and it was terrible to see.
At this time, Wei Dong rushed out of the medical cabin. He bandaged the wounds of the injured soldiers to stop the bleeding.
Long Zhantian ordered the soldiers with crossbows and fire guns to shoot at the pirates on the boat, and other soldiers killed the pirates who climbed onto the side of the ship.
However, due to the small number of crossbows and muskets, the lethality is obviously not enough. The pirates on the boat used crossbows instead. More than a dozen crossbows cover the climbing pirates. As long as the soldiers on the "Happiness" dare to stick their heads out from the side of the ship, the fast and powerful crossbow arrows will shoot through the soldiers' heads. Under the cover of the pirates' artillery and crossbows, Down. Pirates kept boarding the Joy.
Long Zhantian led the soldiers to engage in hand-to-hand combat with more and more pirates. He held the Xiuchun knife tightly in his hand. His knife had not killed anyone for many years. Today he finally had the opportunity to try his knife. The taste of human blood was palpable. Thinking of this, Long Zhantian's eyes turned as cold as frost.
He also has to protect Lin Jinjia behind him. He is just a scholar. In Li Dongsheng's words, he is powerless. He does not allow Lin Jinjia to have any danger or mistakes.
The pirates obviously saw the specialness of the young man in front of them. After the three pirates killed the two soldiers in front of them, they licked the blood from the corners of their mouths. They rushed towards Long Zhantian with great tacit understanding.
Long Zhantian stared at them vigilantly. Suddenly, the pirate shouted and rushed over. His knife was cut high from the top of Long Zhantian's head. His ferocious face was filled with a kind of madness. Long Zhantian dodged, and the blade grazed Long Zhantian's body and cut it down. The pirate lost his balance due to excessive force and leaned forward. Long Zhantian lifted his right foot to his knee. The pirate immediately leaned over and fell to the deck. Long Zhantian didn't even look at it. A knife penetrated his back. The pirate raised his head and screamed in pain, and died soon after.
The other two pirates with red eyes slashed hard from the left and right sides of Long Zhantian. Long Zhantian crouched down to avoid their attacks. The two pirates' knives collided violently and made a "‡R" sound. . Long Zhantian held the knife in both hands and turned his whole body in a full circle. He only heard two "chichi" sounds, blood spattered, and the pirate fell motionless on the deck.
"Whoever dares to come up, I will immediately let his blood splatter on the spot." Long Zhantian shouted at the pirates while holding the bloody knife.
The pirates didn¡¯t know what he was talking about, but just now three of their companions died under Long Zhantian¡¯s sword in an instant. The pirates couldn¡¯t help but feel frightened. They surrounded Long Zhantian in the middle, hesitating and not daring to rush in front of him.
Lin Jinjia had never seen a battle formation before. When he looked at the soldiers and pirates fighting on the deck, his face looked a little pale because of nervousness.
While Long Zhantian was struggling to fight the pirates, Lin Jinjia suddenly saw a pirate carrying a bloody knife and rushing towards Wei Dong who was bandaging the injured soldier. There was no one around who could stop the pirate. Wei Dong was in an extreme state. In danger.
In desperation, Lin Jinjia opened the hand of a dead soldier, picked up a firecracker in his hand, and prepared to shoot at the pirate who was rushing towards Wei Dong.
?To fire a fire blunderbuss, you need a fire twister to light it, but he didn't have a fire twister in his hand. In desperation, Lin Jinjia shouted: "Wei Dong, be careful behind you!"
Wei Dong suddenly raised his head and looked back, only to see a large, dark-skinned pirate holding a knife and slashing at his head. Wei Dong's expression changed drastically, and his instinctive reaction was to roll forward. The pirate's knife struck the hard deck, leaving a deep mark.
This knife did not hit Wei Dong, and the pirate was very angry. His face became extremely twisted, his mouth was open and he was shouting something, and his teeth, which were blackened by chewing betel nut too much, looked terrible.
The pirate ship continued to fire artillery, and a mast of the "Happiness" was directly hit by the artillery and broke into two pieces. There was a loud "bang" and the mast fell in front of Lin Jinjia. The huge vibration made his whole body tremble. . On the fallen mast, the sail also burst into flames, and thick smoke billowed from the ship.
Fortunately, Lin Jinjia grabbed it tightly because the inscription "Shark Character No. 169 Bronze Gun" was engraved on this fire gun, which was a bit rough to the touch. Otherwise, in the panic just now, the fire gun He might have gotten out long ago.
Lin Jinjia held the firecracker, put the wire over the flame, and heard a "chichi" sound. He aimed the musket at the pirate who was chasing Wei Dong with a knife.
Suddenly, there was a "bang" sound. Lin Jinjia's hand holding the gun suddenly felt a searing pain, and the gun fell to the ground.
at this time. Wei Dong had been forced to the side of the ship by the pirates. He had no way to escape except turning over and jumping into the sea. Even if he did jump, the pirates would not give him time to turn around, and he would kill Wei Dong with a single blow.
Wei Dong looked at the pirate with a grin on his face in horror, his shadow cast on his face. Wei Dong closed his eyes. His death has come.
However, the knife in the pirate's hand was not cut off for a long time. Wei Dong opened his eyes and saw the pirate in front of him shaky. His face had already turned to the other side. His expression was so desperate and unwilling.
After Wei Dong hurriedly rolled to the left twice, the pirate fell over the side of the ship he had been leaning on, and then fell into the sea. The moment the pirate fell, he saw that there were more than a dozen bleeding holes on the pirate's back.
Wei Dong gasped and looked in the direction where the pirates were looking just now, and saw the blunderbuss in Lin Jinjia's hand smoking. Wei Dong understood that it was Lin Jinjia who saved him this time. He smiled at Lin Jinjia, but Lin Jinjia was indifferent to his smile and looked down at the gun on the deck.
"Do Ming soldiers use weapons that are difficult to operate? I must improve this small firearm." Lin Jinjia's deep voice drifted into Wei Dong's ears.
The fight between soldiers and pirates continues, although the Ming soldiers are well-trained. However, due to their lack of weapons, they were unable to exert their fighting power in front of the ferocious pirates. There were more and more pirates on the deck, but fewer and fewer soldiers.
At the bottom of the pirate ship, Meng Tianxiong and Li Dongsheng finally pried open two holes. Seawater poured into the bottom of the pirate ship continuously, and bubbles popped up.
In the pirate's cabin, a pirate in charge of inspection was inspecting the bottom cabin, and the sea water had reached the top of his feet. Then he saw two holes where water was pouring out.
The pirate immediately ran to the place where the sea water came up. The sound of the board breaking suddenly sounded. One of the pirate's feet suddenly sank, and he sat down. The pirate raised his feet in horror and found that there was a bigger hole in the bottom cabin, and sea water kept gushing out.
The pirate shouted loudly and ran out of the hold.
Meng Tianxiong and Li Dongsheng didn't know what happened in the bottom of the pirate ship until they pried open the third hole, and a foot covered with hair suddenly sank from the hole. They knew that the pirates had discovered them, and they were at the bottom of the ship. It is no longer safe.
"What should we do next?" Li Dongsheng asked after taking a breath.
Meng Tianxiong glanced at the "Huanxi" in the distance and saw thick smoke billowing from the "Huanxi". The hull was also leaning a little. It seemed that it would not be able to support it for long.
¡°We finally dug three holes, and we must not let them block them back.¡± Meng Tianxiong¡¯s tone was firm.
Li Dongsheng nodded and followed Meng Tianxiong into the bottom of the sea again. As expected by Meng Tianxiong, the pirates in the ship had already begun to look for things to seal the holes in the bottom cabin. Naturally, the two of them couldn't let them get what they wanted. As long as the three holes were blocked, they would use iron chisels to dig in harder. After several rounds, water continued to pour into the cabin.
Both of them knew very well that pirates would never justIt's to block the holes they made. Sure enough, not long after, four pirates appeared in the sea. Each of them held a spear in their hand, and pierced towards them as they swam.
Meng Tianxiong was secretly complaining. He had exhausted a lot of energy in order to dig holes, and now he had to deal with pirates who often fought in the water. He felt a little powerless.
He was thinking about countermeasures when a spear was already stabbed at his neck. Meng Tianxiong kicked hard to the bottom of the boat, tilted his head and went backwards. The pirate did not give up, but the spear followed him closely.
Meng Tianxiong's speed was getting slower and slower, and the spear was getting closer and closer to his neck. Just when Meng Tianxiong felt that he could not avoid it, Li Dongsheng suddenly swam over and grabbed the spear that was stabbing Meng Tianxiong with one of his big hands. A long spear.
The pirate was stunned, and he quickly drew back his spear, but how could Li Dongsheng let him do so. Li Dongsheng also kicked hard on the bottom of the boat with his feet, and his whole body was shot out. He used this force to snatch the pirate's spear.
At this moment, another pirate stabbed Li Dongsheng with a spear in both hands. Li Dongsheng had no intention of evading, but stepped forward to meet him, holding the spear in one hand. At the same time, Li Dongsheng handed the spear he had just captured to Meng Tianxiong.
Meng Tianxiong seized this fleeting opportunity. He held the spear and stabbed the pirate who had been caught with the spear. He accurately stabbed the pirate's neck, and blood immediately spurted out, like a red stripe. ribbons floating in the water.
When the other three pirates saw this, they did not retreat because one of their companions was killed. They swam over again with their spears in hand.
After several rounds under the water, the chests of the two of them were already extremely stuffy, so they had no choice but to raise their heads from the sea to take a breath of fresh air. But as soon as they showed up, the archers on the ship who were already ready immediately launched an attack on them.
The arrows shot down from above their heads with a "whoosh", and the two had no choice but to dive back into the water, but Meng Tianxiong was still a little slower, and an arrow hit his shoulder.
The water was even more dangerous. After the three pirates came to the surface to breathe, they dived back into the water and attacked them again.
The sea water violently stimulated the wound, and Meng Tianxiong felt severe pain. However, the arrow left on Meng Tianxiong's shoulder was the real hidden danger. The existence of the arrow slowed down Meng Tianxiong's swimming speed. When he swam under the water, the arrow kept shaking from side to side. It felt like he was being stabbed with a stick.
Meng Tianxiong could only grit his teeth and endure the pain. He could not give up the fight because of the pain in his body. He was very aware of what his mission was. Only by getting rid of the pirates in front of him could he stop the pirates on the ship from blocking the three holes, and then the pirate ship would sink to the bottom of the sea and lose its ability to attack.
He must be patient, and he can only be patient.
Another pirate held a spear and stabbed Meng Tianxiong. This time he did not choose to retreat. He also held a spear and rushed towards the pirate.
"The brave will win when they meet on a narrow road. Meng Tianxiong has no choice to retreat. Dealing with the pirates immediately is his only choice, otherwise all his efforts will be wasted.
The distance between the two was getting closer and closer. When the spear was only a few inches away from his head, Meng Tianxiong suddenly turned his head to avoid the pirate's spear. The sharp spear tore open his ear, and he frowned slightly. , he continued to hold up his spear and stabbed the pirate in the face!
With death right in front of him, Meng Tianxiong raised a smile, but he soon discovered that he had been complacent too early and had made a fatal mistake.
After the pirate saw that Meng Tianxiong had dodged his attack, he actually gave up his spear and freed his hands to firmly grasp Meng Tianxiong's spear. Then with a strong tug, Meng Tianxiong's body suddenly lost his balance, and he was pulled over by the pirate. (To be continued: Gone with the Sky. Registered members of literature recommend this work. - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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