Ming Dynasty: Summoning game players at the beginning

Chapter 214 The mantis stalks the cicada and the oriole follows behind
The sound of hurried footsteps echoed on the deck. Players carrying bird guns came to the bow and set up their weapons, while those who had been resurrected more times bundled their gunpowder explosive packs on their own.

"The wind is blowing from the southeast!"

The Black Pearl moved forward with the wind, and more and more warships appeared in sight.

With the help of the telescope, the outlines of the ships coming from the distance became clearer and clearer. There were three large warships, seven medium-sized warships, and more than thirty small warships.

The enemy soon discovered their tracks, and a signal arrow was raised above the large ship and exploded, as if ordering the surrounding warships to fight in coordination.

Dozens of large and small warships slowly changed their formation, with the large ships providing support from the rear and the small ships like charging pawns, heading towards the Black Pearl.

As the distance between the enemy and us gradually closed, Huang Zilong could barely hear the enemy soldiers' shouts and roars.

"Oh no! We're being surrounded!" Wu Litou said solemnly, "We don't even have a single cannon."

"If we don't have any guns, we'll just charge up and board them! Wah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah--"

The breakthrough man rushed to the side of the ship and yelled at the enemy soldiers, as if competing to see who had the loudest voice. The enemy soldiers on the opposite side became playful and roared at him.

Dozens of small speedboats came quickly, and the cannons mounted on the bow had very poor accuracy. Dozens of shells were fired, but only 20% landed near the Black Pearl, splashing several columns of water.

The salty seawater doused his entire body. Lu Xiaobu turned to look at his teammates and laughed self-deprecatingly, "Now I'm a drowned rat."

"Don't be complacent—be careful of the shells!" Huang Zilong pointed behind Lu Xiaobu and exclaimed.

The speeding boat fired a second round of shells. Thanks to the shortened distance between the two sides, one shell hit the bow of the Black Pearl and broke through the fence.

The strong impact caused Lu Xiaobu to move sideways, and he accidentally fell off the fence and into the sea.

"Wow wow wow! I'm the first sacrifice..." Lu Xiaobu floated up and down in the water, gulping down the salty sea water.

The Black Pearl came at him at high speed without any time to change direction, and the earth-brown bottom of the ship pressed him into the water.

"Xiao Bu!" Huang Zilong stretched out his hand towards the vast ocean, but he could not grab his good brother's hand.

His acting skills have improved a lot, his eyes are red and tears are overflowing.

He looked at the approaching enemy ship, quickly took out his bow and loaded an arrow, "Don't worry, Xiaobu, I will avenge you!"

"I, I can still try to save him!" Lu Xiaobu suddenly emerged from the water and took a deep breath of fresh air.

"Oh my god, how are you still alive? All the anger I had been accumulating for so long was wasted by you..."

Before Huang Zilong finished speaking, a cannonball followed and landed on the side of the ship, and the splashing waves once again engulfed poor Lu Xiaobu.

"Is Xiaobu really dead this time? You all must die for killing my brother!"

Huang Zilong released the bowstring, and the sharp arrow drew a semi-arc and finally fell into the water. Then he shot the second arrow, and the third arrow, all of which hit the side of the enemy ship.

The explosion sound of the bird gun firing rang in his ears, and Huang Zilong suddenly smelled a pungent smell of gunpowder. The enemies on the opposite side gathered densely on the side of the ship.

The captain shouted, "The enemy is about to board, prepare for close combat!"

Huang Zilong dropped his bow and drew his sword, and a round shield instantly appeared beside him.

He looked up and saw that it was Liu Changsheng. He took the shield and responded with a smile and said thank you.

"I haven't gotten on the boat yet..." Lu Xiaobu's voice came from the water area at the stern of the ship, and the cry for help was weaker than before.

"Why aren't you dead yet?"

Huang Zilong suddenly heard a loud bang, as if a medium-magnitude earthquake had occurred. He took three steps left and right before he could barely stabilize himself.

The Black Pearl was rammed by enemy ships on both sides. The enemy soldiers threw out grappling hooks and firmly grasped the ship's side railings, and then laid several long wooden planks to assist in the attack.

"Brothers, kill!" The enemy leader took the lead, holding a scimitar and shield, and stepped on the wooden planks to rush towards the Black Pearl.

However, just as the little boss jumped onto the deck, he was hit on the head by a thick copper pipe. The saxophone player hit him several more times in succession, causing blood to splatter everywhere.

"Holy crap, what a great instrument! The magic of the saxophone is that it can play sexy music to soothe yourself, and it can also blow the heads off those who give negative reviews. It truly deserves to be the second most powerful killing weapon in China and abroad!"

Huang Zilong's commentary, transformed into a referee, attracted the attention of his brothers.

The good brother gave a knowing smile, as if he really knew what was going on, but was immediately stabbed in the stomach by the enemy soldier. "Damn, it's all your fault for attracting the attention of the teammates. You got me killed..."

"It's none of my business, I'm innocent!"

Huang Zilong almost had tears in his eyes. While swinging his sword to chop the oncoming enemy, he whispered, "It's none of my business." He looked like a "shameful soldier" who shed tears after killing the enemy.

"Wow, look who's the tough guy!"

"Ajie" held a steel knife in his mouth, grabbed the sailboat's rope and jumped into the enemy ship like Tarzan, rolling and hitting the enemy's side before stopping.

As soon as he stood up, he was surrounded and attacked by four enemy soldiers who had no moral integrity. Spears and short knives stabbed his abdomen from all sides.

"Long live the Emperor!"

Ajie vomited blood and used his last bit of strength to light the fuse in his chest. There was a loud bang, and the iron bullets thrown by the explosion of gunpowder injured dozens of people around him. The upward-surging fireworks bit into a corner of the sail.

Then several more players repeated Ajie's tactics, not hesitating to sacrifice their own lives to kill the enemy, or even to ignite the sails of the warship.

As they lit the gunpowder bags, they all laughed wildly with excitement and passion, as if the suicide fire attack was not a way to seek death, but a pleasant game.

Shang Kexi, observing the enemy through a telescope, couldn't help but have a thought: Crazy!

This group of lunatics are obviously the fearless Black Flag Army as rumored.

Shang Kexi originally thought that dealing with a small civilian ship would be a piece of cake, but he didn't expect to meet a madman who didn't even care about his life.

The three speedboats and the civilian ship all caught fire. Several Black Flag soldiers, covered in flames, ran to the bows and roared at the large ship where Shang Kexi was, "Traitor Wang Shang Kexi, we will meet again. Open your dog eyes and watch carefully! Hahahahahahahahaha..."

The terrifying laughter seemed to spread thousands of miles away, and Shang Kexi felt as if his chest was hit by a hammer.

They are not afraid of the excruciating pain of burning, nor of death by flames, just like a demon locking onto the soul of its enemy before escaping.

Shang Kexi suddenly remembered the strange story of the Black Flag Army told by Dorgon—

The eight hundred demons were surrounded by the elite Qing soldiers. Instead of fleeing, they broke through the encirclement and attacked the banner where Dorgon was. Abatai was unfortunately killed in the battle, and Dorgon himself was almost killed.

He didn't quite believe this anecdote at the time, but now that he saw it with his own eyes, he realized the overwhelming hatred. It was simply the human incarnation of an evil killer god.

When the three captives were knocked unconscious, captured alive, half-naked and brought to him, he still could not believe his eyes.

Just for such a small civilian ship carrying grain, he lost four speedboats. If it was a normal blockade operation, he would not have lost a single speedboat.

The prisoners were stripped naked, leaving only their underpants, and their mouths were stuffed with rags to prevent them from making any noise.

They all have two eyes, two arms, and two legs. Apart from being a little stronger than the average person, with more toned muscles and handsome and tough faces, they have no special organs compared to ordinary people.

Shang Kexi ordered his men to cut the palms of his three hands one by one, and the blood flowing out of the wounds was also red.

They are mortals!
Then why weren't they afraid of pain? Even when he scratched their palms just now, they didn't frown. Instead, they looked at him calmly, with a look of gloomy contempt on their faces, as if they were looking at garbage.

"Let them talk." Shang Kexi sat back on the throne embedded in the deck and looked at the three captives coldly.

Unexpectedly, the three of them reacted indifferently and ignored him at all.

One person fell down with his head tilted back as if his soul had left his body and was motionless. Although he was still breathing and his body temperature did not drop, no external stimulation could wake him up.

"Do you have any good lines to tease him?" said the prisoner with a lightning scar on his face.

"Ah, I'm not very good at scolding people, why don't you tell me?" The prisoner with thick eyebrows raised his eyebrows.

"Why don't you check Baidu?"

"Alas, if I exit and come back in, I'll definitely choose my next life right away. How can I have the time to chat with him..."

"Shut up!" Shang Kexi slammed the armrest of the chair. "You two are whispering to each other, do you think I can't hear you?"

"Hey, he's angry." Scar Brother smiled happily, turning his head to look at Shang Kexi with contempt, "It seems that scolding him directly is not effective. Only using cold violence will break his defense."

"Tsk tsk, it turns out that no one can tolerate cold violence. He must be so angry that we ignored him in front of so many people."

"What kind of rations did you eat before the battle today? They smelled delicious when I first saw them."

"I made my own improved steamed bread. How about I make it for you next time?"

"Great, great, I admire strong men who can cook the most..."

"Paws!"

Shang Kexi roared.

He thought they would curse loudly, or remain silent, or even bite their tongues to commit suicide...

Unexpectedly, they didn't choose anything and simply ignored his existence in front of everyone.

The crackling sound of slaps continued, but the two men seemed to be fine. Even though their cheeks were flushed and blood was oozing from the corners of their mouths, they still chatted happily one-on-one.

Even though Shang Kexi used benefits and lives to persuade the two to surrender and serve Emperor Huang Taiji, they still chatted casually.

The two of them seemed to have entered a state of ecstasy, as if the hundreds of elite soldiers on the ship were no longer there, and only the two of them were left.

Don’t be afraid of death, don’t be afraid of death, live as much as you can for every moment you can.

This kind of firm willpower made Shang Kexi feel mentally broken.

"Cut out their tongues. Then tie them both to the bow! I want them to watch carefully as I destroy their allies' ships one by one!"

His men did as he asked, but the moment the two men were tied to the bow of the ship, they lost their vitality.

But they were not dead. They were still breathing normally, but there was no movement at all. They were hanging quietly on the bow of the ship like two human statues.

Shang Kexi couldn't figure out the secret of the Black Flag Army. Where did their bravery and fearlessness come from?

He pondered on his own but could not find the answer, until an even more worrying question arose -

The Ming army's warships suddenly appeared in the south.

If there were no living enemies escaping and reporting, how did the enemy ships know that they were operating in this sea area?

(End of this chapter)