"Mute! Can you swim?" Taking advantage of the opportunity that everyone else's attention was on the pirate ship, Liu Laoliu quietly pulled Yu Xiaotian aside and asked Xiaotian in a low voice.
Yu Xiaotian nodded quickly.
"I'm afraid something bad is going to happen for me today. Sea Harrier is different from ordinary pirates. It is said that he and his several leaders are mostly gangsters. They are all desperadoes and are notoriously ruthless. Today, I met this person.
I’m afraid it won’t be easy for them to get over this hurdle!
I don’t have time to tell you more at the moment, but you have to remember not to follow Ma Biao and the others and fight to the death! If you don’t have a sword or a gun, no one will pity you if you die! We are not a ship escort. Under normal circumstances, as long as we don’t fight desperately, even if we don’t fight to the death.
Even if pirates attack, they won't kill people easily!
You will follow me in a while. If things go wrong and pirates come and want to kill people, you can follow me and jump into the sea and swim away! I guess if you are lucky, you can still survive!" Liu Laoliu whispered to him again.
As the oldest person on the ship, Yu Xiaotian believes in Liu Laoliu's vision. Since he said so, he is even ready to jump into the sea to escape. If this matter is not done well today, it will be really troublesome, but for
Yu Xiaotian still disagrees with the matter of diving to escape. They are still far from the shore at the moment, and the wind and waves on the sea are not very small at the moment. Even if they jump into the sea, they may not have a chance to swim.
Go ashore!
Besides, once the pirates really want to kill them all, even if they dive, they can't swim as fast as the boat. The pirates can completely chase them by boat. By that time, they will be in the water and have no power to fight back, so Yu Xiao
In my heart, I didn't want to take the road of jumping into the sea to escape.
Now that things have happened, Yu Xiaotian has begun to calm down a little. If he is really going to die, Yu Xiaotian really doesn't want to be slaughtered like a chicken but a dog. With his character, since he is going to die anyway
He was going to die. Even if he died, he would still have to take one or two people to support him so that he would not be lonely on the way to the underworld. If something like this happened, killing one person would be enough to make a profit, and killing two people would earn one. With his skills, he could also
Not necessarily for free.
But he was still very grateful to Liu Laoliu. Seeing that the pirates were approaching, almost on the verge of life and death, Liu Laoliu was still thinking about him, a stranger with whom he had nothing to do. Just because in the past two or three days, he
After helping Liu Laoliu with more work, Liu Laoliu could still think of him at such a time, which made Yu Xiaotian extremely grateful to Liu Laoliu.
So he nodded, shook his fist at Liu Laoliu, patted his chest, pointed at Liu Laoliu, and said to reassure Liu Laoliu that he would protect Liu Laoliu in a while.
Liu Laoliu roughly understood what he meant, and there was a trace of relief in his eyes. He shook his head slightly, patted Yu Xiaotian's strong arm and whispered: "I understand what you mean! Dumb! You have a good heart!
I’m not wrong about the person! Remember what I said, if you don’t succeed, you will have to dive to escape! You must not fight to the death!”
As he spoke, the pirate ship caught up to a distance of about sixty or seventy meters away from the Liu family's ship. The pirates' curses and roars could no longer be heard, and even their faces could be seen clearly, and they could even see each other.
With the cold light of the sword and gun in his hand, Yu Xiaotian also saw someone on the pirate ship actually holding a matchlock gun. He had already lit the matchlock. He saw a flash of light from the blunderbuss muzzle in one person's hand, and a cloud of smoke immediately rose up, and a blunderbuss appeared.
Zidang even flew to the Liu family's boat and hit the sail, making a small hole in the sail.
The boatmen on the boat were so frightened that they all involuntarily shrank their heads. At this moment, Captain Liu, who was standing at the stern of the boat, could no longer hold his breath and yelled at Ma Biao. Ma Biao
Standing next to the Wankou gun, after hearing Liu Shipong's roar, he immediately put a lighted torch in his hand and slammed it on the breech door of the Wankou gun.
As soon as he saw that Ma Biao was about to fire off the cannon, Yu Xiaotian subconsciously hid behind the mast, fearing that the bowl-mouth gun would explode on the spot, but he only heard a loud "boom" from the stern, followed immediately by the stern.
A large cloud of thick smoke rose up, and the gun with its clumsy wooden frame jumped violently. It was shaken back a few feet and almost fell over on the board of the ship.
Yu Xiaotian was startled by the roar. After he saw that the bowl-mouth gun was still intact, it did not explode on the spot as he feared. He was somewhat relieved now. Although the thing was crude,
It seemed that it was not as useless as he thought. At least after firing, the barrel remained intact, indicating that the casting quality was just so-so.
The thick smoke from the cannon suddenly enveloped the stern of the ship, and the air was suddenly filled with a strong smell of gunpowder smoke. It also blocked everyone's sight, so that the people on the ship could not see clearly what was going on on the pirate ship behind. But fortunately, there was a big
At sea, there was enough sea breeze to quickly blow away the smoke, revealing once again the pirate ship chasing after it.
The range of the bowl-mouth blunderbuss is indeed very limited. The distance of sixty or seventy meters is really a bit too far for this thing, not to mention that the barrel is filled with some broken iron nails, iron sand, stones, porcelain shards, etc.
It can't hit very far. At this distance, even if it flies to the pirate ship, the power will definitely not be much better!
Sure enough, when the smoke dissipated, everyone saw that the pirate ship was still intact, but the pirates were obviously frightened, and they all lay on the ship. Now one after another started to stand up, and they were not killed.
Injure someone.
Yu Xiaotian secretly thought that it was a pity. If the pirates were allowed to fire closer, the killing effect of aiming at the target would be much better. If he was lucky, he would be able to kill several pirates at once and scare them away.
indefinite!
He secretly cursed Captain Liu and Ma Biao for being idiots. They were still too timid and fired the gun too early. It was better this time. With their reloading speed, they didn't even know it would be in time to fire another shot.
That's too late!
However, after the cannon was fired, the pirates on the pirate ship were probably startled and seemed a little noisy, as if they were discussing whether they should continue the pursuit.
After a while, there was a burst of screams and curses on the pirate ship. They continued to wave their weapons and chased the ship. It was obvious that this shot did not play a role in deterring the pirates.
, this gang of desperadoes chased after them regardless.
What surprised Yu Xiaotian was that he discovered that the level of armament on the pirate ship was not as high as that on the Liu family's ship. There was not even a broken cannon on the pirate ship, only some muskets and matchlock guns.
Such light firearms, otherwise they would be more dangerous now. Yu Xiaotian didn't know whether he should be grateful or not.
When Captain Liu and Ma Biao saw that they had failed to kill a few pirates with one shot, they both felt disappointed and a little disgraced. So under Liu Captain's scolding, Ma Biao and several other escorts hurriedly surrounded the ship.
He got busy again with the bowl-mouth gun, and was busy loading the bowl-mouth gun at the stern again.
At this time, the pirates were chasing even closer, and within a short time they reached a distance of about fifty meters. Several pirates began to hold single-barreled fire blunderbuss or three-eyed blunderbuss or bird blunderbuss, and bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang.
A merchant ship came and attacked. The boatmen on the Liu family's ship were so frightened that they all had pale faces and lay down under the side of the ship to avoid the bullets.
Fortunately, the pirates' accuracy was not very good. After one round of firing, they only hit the hull and sail, but failed to hurt the people on the boat. So they temporarily ceased fire and started loading again.
Immediately afterwards, a few pirates took bows and arrows and shot them desperately towards the ship here. And sure enough, some people used rockets with oilcloth tied to the arrows and lit. In an instant, these arrows swished down.
On the Liu family's boat, the targets were not the people on the boat, but they rushed towards the sails and shot at them.
Two rockets hit the main sail here and were hung on the sail. The flames licked the sail made of bamboo strips, and a fire was about to break out soon. Captain Liu jumped to his feet in a hurry and shouted to order the boatman.
Let's put out the fire quickly.
Only then did the boatmen start to take action. They grabbed the pumps and buckets in a panic, poured or sprayed seawater to extinguish the rockets that landed on the sails. Several other rockets that landed on the deck were quickly destroyed.
It was stamped out and the fire was not ignited.
It was at this time that an arrow flew from the pirate ship and was inserted into his waist. The boatman screamed and covered the arrow wound on his waist.
The man cried for his father and mother and fell on the board of the boat. The boatmen were so frightened that they started to panic again and ran away one after another.
But at this moment, no one had time to take care of the injured person. Everyone was in a panic to avoid the arrows. Only Yu Xiaotian couldn't see it and rushed forward to drag the injured person to the side of the ship to avoid letting him go again.
Hit by an arrow.
At this time, the scene on both ships was very chaotic. In order to interfere with the boatman's firing of cannons again, the pirates accelerated and chased after them, while desperately firing arrows at the ship, and stopped firing guns for a while.
It rang again, and clouds of white smoke rose from the pirate ship.
Arrows and muskets landed on the boat from time to time. Yu Xiaotian felt that adrenaline began to secrete in large amounts, and his muscles all tightened. Although the pirates' bows, arrows and muskets had limited accuracy, they still posed a certain threat.
Once he was hit, even if he was strong enough, he would definitely not be able to bear it, so he hurriedly picked up a simple shield on the ground, covered his body, and nervously observed the situation on the two ships.
At this time, Ma Biao also led his guards, started to light the match rope, picked up the prepared blunderbuss, and started to fire at the pirate ship. Some people grabbed bows and arrows and began to shoot arrows at the pirate ship in a hurry.
Try to shoot the pirates who get closer and closer.
Ma Biao and the others were busy working for a long time, as if they were reloading the blunderbuss. They shouted loudly for Yu Xiaotian to help. Although Yu Xiaotian was very unhappy with them, it was not him at the moment.
When the matter was not about him, but now it was about his own life and death, he still rushed to the stern of the ship under the cover of his shield, and helped a few people to lift the bowl-mouth blunderbuss to the side of the ship again.
The mouth pointed at the pirate ship.
Seeing that the pirate ship was very close to them, Ma Biao showed a grin on his face. He grabbed the torch of one of his men next to him and pressed it towards the fire door on the blunderbuss at the mouth of the bowl.
Yu Xiaotian stirred up his energy and ran away. He was afraid that this guy would explode on the spot, so he took him in with him. However, when he ran back to the middle of the boat, he didn't hear the sound of the cannon behind him, so
He quickly turned around to take a look, only to see Ma Biao and the others with frustrated and anxious expressions on their faces, spinning around the bowl-mouth gun.
It turned out that there was something wrong with the loading because they were in a panic. This time, the gun didn't click. Angrily, Captain Liu jumped on his feet and yelled at them. Ma Biao hurriedly took another gun loaded with primer.
The medicine gourd added medicine to the fire door and pressed the torch on the fire door again.
As a result, a puff of white smoke was seen rising from the fire door, but the gun still didn't go off. At this time, everyone almost collapsed. Captain Liu was even more angry and jumped up and cursed, but there was nothing he could do.
At this moment, Yu Xiaotian was so angry that he wanted to go up and kick Ma Biao to death. The chain fell off at the critical moment. It must be that they failed to load the gunpowder in the panic just now, causing them to be unable to fire. This time
They were in big trouble. Under these circumstances, they had no time to dig out the ammunition from the barrel and reload it.
While cursing, Liu Shipong waved a single knife he had grabbed from somewhere in his hand, and ordered Ma Biao and others to quickly think of a solution.
Ma Biao didn't have time to deal with this broken cannon anymore. He immediately called a few of his men to grab the prepared fire blunderbuss and bird blunderbuss. He placed them on the stern side of the ship, lit the match rope in his hand, and began to aim.
Pirate ship gets angry.
Now both sides became lively, and they started fighting each other with firecrackers from a distance. After the firecrackers were fired, Ma Biao picked up a bow, nocked an arrow and started to use arrows to fight back against the pirates.
Even Captain Liu jumped over the wall in a hurry. He grabbed a bow himself, grabbed arrows and shot at the pirate ship. This was to protect his own ship. It would be strange for him not to risk his life at this moment. Fortunately, neither did this guy.
He is a coward, but at least he has the determination to fight to the death, instead of hiding behind and supervising others to work for him.
The two boats were chasing and escaping on the sea, fighting with arrows. When Captain Liu saw Yu Xiaotian doing nothing on the boat, he rushed to Yu Xiaotian's side and asked loudly:
"Mute! Can you use a bow and arrow?"
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