When thunder breaks out in a calm place, Death is often hiding behind the angel.
Both Anle Village and the Centipede Mountain Mine have entered a healthy development track. Most of the villagers have entered the cat winter mode, and the mining team has entered the excavation stage at full speed. It is quiet on one side, and full of enthusiasm on the other. It is quiet and moving, and everything is peaceful.
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On this day, at the Laixi construction site, several miners pointed toward the sea in the distance and seemed to have discovered something. Soon, the team leader Zuo Yintang arrived and picked up a high-power telescope to look deep into the sea.
The offshore sea has long been covered with ice and snow, but in the distance there is still a slowly flowing sea surface. However, both the sea surface and the ice surface are covered with large groups of snow and fog, making it impossible to see what is on the other side.
Zuo Yintang held up the telescope and stared quietly. There were a few small black spots appearing and disappearing in the snow and fog. They looked like black clouds or windy sand.
A few miners were just curious, and actually did not identify these black spots as anything specific.
Zuo Yintang didn't either, and even had the idea of putting down the telescope and turning back to the mine. What would appear in such a foggy sea surface in the telescope? At most, it would just be a few hungry black bears.
But these black spots moved extremely fast, almost at a suspended speed. Therefore, in just a moment, the black spots became the size of black spots, appearing inadvertently in the thick snow and fog, and getting bigger and bigger.
More and more miners gathered, forming a semicircle around the coast.
Suddenly someone shouted: "Those are boats, several big boats."
But there was no response. How can there be a ship sailing on the ice that is nearly half of the sea? Is it really suspended?
Someone shouted: "It can't be a ship. It should be ice moving on the sea, right?"
This is very possible, but how can ice cubes be black?
Someone else guessed: "It's not ice, it should be broken sea reefs. Reefs in the sea surface, are broken by wind and waves, and then slide and move on the ice."
This guess has a very realistic basis and is very consistent with what they saw with their own eyes. Therefore, most of the miners gathered around the coast breathed a sigh of relief and quietly watched the moving scenery that was rarely seen in ordinary times.
Only the captain, Zuo Yintang, looked more and more solemn. Zuo Yintang was completely different from the miners. First of all, he had unusual experiences and unusually keen senses. More importantly, he held a high-power telescope in his hand. So, when
When the miners saw only a few black spots in the snow and fog, Zuo Yintang saw a few black shadows. But when Zuo Yintang could identify the objects in the telescope more and more clearly, the miners' eyes
All I could see were a few dark spots.
The corner of Zuo Yintang's cold and thin mouth twitched slightly, and then he shouted decisively in a commanding tone: "Go back to the work shed to get weapons!"
The miners did not react.
Zuo Yintang shouted again with a louder voice, saying: "Pirates, pirates!"
The miners were still as motionless as if they were frozen.
What Zuo Yintang saw in the telescope at this time was at least the prototype of a giant ship. The giant ship had a twisted shape and a slender body, which made it easier to reduce resistance and increase speed in sea water. Moreover, the hull was longer than that of ordinary ships.
It was much higher, which was convenient for setting up artillery and storing bombs, and was also a kind of bunker to resist shooting. Therefore, when Zuo Yintang gradually saw the slender giant ship clearly, he felt that danger was approaching.
Then, the huge sail was also revealed. The sail was divided into a main sail and an auxiliary sail. The main sail was like the back of a shark, fluttering in the wind. The countless auxiliary sails were used to adjust the direction and speed to keep the ship moving.
As time went by, it became more flexible and maneuverable. Finally, the entire giant ship was revealed in the telescope, especially the black skull flag flying on the mainmast. The black flag was dilapidated and exposed, but the skull on it was eye-catching and had empty eye sockets.
, looking into the eyes of anyone who stares at him, endlessly grabbing courage and confidence. Under the skull are crossed bone sticks, which means death and destruction.
Zuo Yintang knew that this was the exclusive flag of pirates, so he loudly ordered the miners to prepare for battle.
The miners were a little commotion, because at this time, they gradually saw clearly what the objects on the opposite side were.
Zuo Yintang put down the telescope, which was no longer needed at this time. He not only saw clearly the giant ship on the opposite side, but also several small boats on both sides of the giant ship. These boats, which were several times smaller in size, were actually the frigates of the giant ship in the middle.
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Zuo Yintang had already turned around and ran towards the work shed, loudly ordering the miners to retreat and pick up weapons.
The entire pirate fleet has been completely exposed on the ice, moving at an alarming speed. At this time, all the miners can see the skull and black flag on the mainmast of the pirate ship, and can even see the faces of the people standing on the side of the ship. These people are wearing colored clothes
They are all different, some tall and some short, holding weapons and looking ferocious, like a group of ghosts from the underworld.
Then, everyone saw the gun mount raised on the side of the ship. Only then did the miners realize how great the danger was, and turned around and ran as fast as they could.
The cannons on the bows of large and small pirate ships began to ignite the fire, and then fired together. With booming sounds and crackling fireballs, they exploded among the fleeing miners. The cannons were very primitive, but their power was not small at all, especially for people at close range.
The concentrated place. The miners were blown to pieces with their flesh and blood flying everywhere. The miners who were not hit by the shells began to flee aimlessly. This somewhat reduced the accurate impact point and huge lethality of the shells.
However, the pirate ship stopped shelling. The ship gradually slowed down and docked not far from the coastline. Then, hanging ladders were set up on the side of the ship, and the pirates on the large and small pirate ships ran along these ladders to the ice, and then
While shooting, he charged towards the mining team on the coast.
At this time, Qin Xiao and Chen Xiangmei never dreamed of what happened in the Centipede Mountains. Therefore, when the miners who escaped, disheveled and covered in blood, reported the situation in a panic, Qin Xiao and Chen Xiangmei were unable to react for a while.
The two of them just grabbed the guns and followed the miners to the mine in the Centipede Mountains. When they arrived at the construction site, it was also the time when the pirate attack was at its craziest. Only some of the miners stayed in the work shed, and they didn't know for a long time.
What happened, and then they frantically looked for weapons and fired back. Everything was in a panic and seemed unprepared. Because the main enemy of the mining team was the bandits of Mrs. Shang in Zhupo Ridge on the other side of the sea. The mountain was blocked by heavy snow, and people
The bird disappeared, and the safety index was almost 100%. The swords and guns were put into the warehouse, and the horses returned to Nanshan. For a while, no weapons could be found.
Fortunately, the direct team members led by Qin Xiao and Zuo Yintang were experienced in hundreds of battles and remained calm in the face of danger. They found weapons and bunkers as quickly as possible, immediately entered combat mode, and fired back. The pirates in the front row fell down one after another, and those behind them fell down one after another.
The pirates filled in at a faster speed and still charged frantically towards the work shed.
At this time, Qin Xiao and Chen Xiangmei arrived with a few miners. They couldn't believe their eyes. The picture of large and small pirate ships in the distance on the coastline and hundreds of pirates charging towards the mine was a bit too shocking.
But Qin Xiao and Chen Xiangmei instinctively aimed their guns and fired continuously at the pirate group. Other miners also fired. The miners who had been scattered earlier and found weapons also shot at the pirates from different directions.
The attack on the flanks of the attacking pirates greatly relieved the pressure on captain Zuo Yintang and the miners in the work shed. A commotion broke out among the pirates, who were somewhat at a loss.
Qin Xiao and Chen Xiangmei looked for a place to hide while shooting with their guns. Then they approached the work shed, hid again, and shot again.
Qin Xiao and Chen Xiangmei, like Zuo Yintang, never expected that the danger to the mining team would come from the frozen sea. Therefore, they only carried pistols as a token of their presence. The bullets were quickly used up because there were only a few rounds in the gun.
Bullets. The two of them threw away their empty guns, grabbed weapons from other miners or pirate corpses on the snow, and continued shooting at the pirates.
Qin Xiao and Chen Xiangmei finally approached the construction site, then went around to the back of the work shed, looking for weapons first. Chen Xiangmei's leopard-print sniper rifle had already run out of bullets, so they grabbed a homemade sniper rifle. Qin Xiao found a handheld
Short machine guns, other miners who followed also found relatively handy weapons, and then they shot at the pirates together.