The Three Kingdoms Voyage

Chapter 154 Set Sail and Suicide Attack

At dawn the next day, Cui Qian called everyone up. After breakfast, he gave the pirates a combat order. Today, no matter what, they must catch up with the merchant ships and defeat the navy. All merchant ships will become trophies.Facing countless pirates whose eyes were reddened by the lure of wealth, Cui Qian declared that he would only take [-]% this time, and the other [-]% would be divided equally among all the participating pirates.

The pirates rejoiced, the ratio was fair. Although Cui Qian only had more than 3000 people, almost all of them came this time with medium-sized warships and a large ship. Although there were many others, most of them were in small boats. Mainly, all the medium-sized warships added up do not have as many people as anyone else, let alone large ships.

This is strength. The pirates don't believe in benevolence and morality, but only in strength, so they are very satisfied with Cui Qian's generosity.Cui Qian looked at the flattering smiling faces of the pirates, feeling very bitter. The pirates didn't know that Cui Qian had become a bereaved dog. After winning the battle, he still needed to use the [-]% of the booty to buy them off. What happened in the end? , is still unknown.However, he has no way out, he can only slap his swollen face to pretend to be fat, and risk his life.

Brothers Cui Wen and Cui Wu stood behind him, silent, but their mood was completely different.They have no objection to robbing the merchant ship now, but they have different opinions on whether to use all the loot to buy the pirates to fight Sun Shao to the death after the robbery. Cui Wen thinks that Cui Qian did it out of anger and lost his mind because of face. , Cui Wu raised his hands in favor, and if he didn't take revenge, how could he be a human being?
But those are later things, now, they are consistent.

"Let's go!" Cui Qian waved his hand, and the only large ship in the fleet sailed southeast under the escort of a dozen medium-sized warships.Eighty giant sculls are shaken by 400 sailors, and the building boat cuts through the waves and moves forward bravely.Cui Wu was impatient, he boarded a medium-sized warship and rushed to the front.Thirty miles away, on the vast expanse of blue sea, the merchant ships that were afraid of fleeing seemed to be just a few small black spots, but he seemed to be able to hear their rapid breathing and see their frightened eyes.

All these made him very excited.Since he was transferred to Laozhai three years ago, he hadn't gone out to fight for a long time. In fact, not only him, but Cui Qian hadn't gone out to fight for a long time. Now they can complete the task of looting while sitting in the general village, so why bother to do it themselves.But Cui Wu didn't think so. He felt that robbing was the true nature of pirates. If they stopped robbing, what kind of pirates would they be called?The three years in Laozhai made him decadent, his brain slowed down, and his skills became poor. That's why he was taken advantage of by that boy with a bell on his knife.

But now, he needs to arouse his bloodiness through a big battle.

"Hurry up!" Cui Wu yelled loudly, with his feet spread apart, and he stood firmly on the bow of the boat, looking fiercely into the distance across the vast expanse of waves.The rising sun shines on the surface of the sea with gold dots floating on it, making people's eyes shine.

Somewhat unaccustomed to it, Cui Wu raised his hand to cover his eyes, feeling old again.

"Ho-hey! Ho-hey!" The neat chant sounded majestic and powerful, and the warship galloped forward quickly under the urging of sixty sailors.Cui Wu was a little depressed, the building boat was mighty, but it was too slow, seriously affecting the speed of the entire fleet.But even though he was Cui Qian's uncle, he didn't dare to suggest to Cui Qian to give up the building, and he could only keep his opinions in his stomach.

"There is a boat, there is a boat ahead!" The helmsman suddenly called out.Cui Wu turned his head and glanced at him, and saw that he was holding the rudder with one hand and pointing forward with the other, his eyes were wide open, revealing surprise. "A building boat!"

Cui Wu turned his head to look, the sun and the reflection of the sea surface were mixed together, it was very dazzling, it made his eyes swell and hurt, and he couldn't see anything. After he finally got used to the bright light, the building boats in the distance were already approaching.

Many people have seen a building boat coming in the distance, a lonely building boat.

Cui Qian stood up from his own upstairs, feeling a little proud.His big boat was a three-story boat snatched from Bu Zhi, while the opposite one was only a two-story boat. Invisibly, he felt as if he had the upper hand.The other party is not an enemy, but a subordinate who came to visit him.What can a building do?Is it surrender?
"Uncle, what do you think they are here for?" Cui Qian turned his head, a smile appeared on his face that had been cloudy for many days.

Cui Wen narrowed his eyes, and smiled lightly: "It wasn't the one who surrendered, but the one who came to negotiate a peace. It's just that it's too far away to see the flag clearly, and I don't know if it's crossing the sea."

"It should be. Wei Jing's status is not enough to get on the upper boat." Cui Qian said with some complacency.In fact, he really guessed wrong, Wei Jing had a two-story building boat in his hand, but he left it at the gate of the cliff and did not bring it with him.

They were relaxed, and so were the others. Facing nearly a thousand large and small warships, a large ship was coming. What else could there be except surrender and peace talks?This answer should be obvious, and considering the current strength comparison, everyone thinks this is expected.

"Beat the drums, let Uncle Wu ask." Cui Qian waved his hand and said lightly.Cui Wen nodded, and ordered people to beat the drums and send out semaphore.When Cui Wu heard the sound of the drum, he ordered the helmsman to adjust his direction and sail straight to the building ship.

"Later, I will humiliate and humiliate him." Cui Qian sat down on his big couch, gritted his teeth and said.

Yue Hai saw the expression on Cui Qian's face, he smiled disdainfully, swung the clairvoyance in his hand hard on the railing, the brass barrel was deformed, and the colored glass lens fell out, Yue Hai picked it up Got up, looked at it regretfully, raised his hand, the lens drew an arc, and threw it into the sea far away.

"Ready?" he shouted.

"General, everything is ready." Captain Li Nong replied, his voice trembling.Yue Hai turned his head and glanced at him, his mouth twisted: "Scared?"

"Afraid." Li Nong replied honestly.He thinks that crossing the sea is crazy, and he wants to attack [-] pirates with a large ship. Does he want to learn from Sun Shao?Sun Shao used to do this in the East China Sea, but how can ordinary people learn that.Besides, how many medium-sized warships do the pirates in the East China Sea have?And Cui Qian's building boats had at least ten medium-sized warships lined up in front of them. This alone made Hunjianglong Zhouqun pale in comparison.But when Yue Hai's order came down, he didn't dare to resist, otherwise he didn't die in the hands of the pirates, he would have to die in the hands of Yue Hai first.

"I'm afraid." Yue Hai yelled, "You're dead. If you become a sailor, you must be prepared to fight to the death with pirates." He turned around and shouted loudly at the soldiers with serious expressions: "Brothers, Today we are going to play a trick, rush up and turn over this reminder, let them see, what is a navy, let the pirates with Su thick legs see, the sailors of our Houguan Shipyard are not his mother's counselors Egg."

As soon as Su's thick legs were mentioned, the soldiers became angry.It was a shame in their hearts that Su thick legs robbed the Houguan shipyard. Now they are under Sun Shao's subordinates, and Su thick legs' subordinates often humiliated them with this incident, which made them quarrel for a long time.

"Damn it, don't care about the pirate king of the East China Sea or the pirate king of the South China Sea. It's all done." A burly military lord raised his knife and shouted loudly.

"Fuck him." Another military marquis in charge of Thunderbolt Cannon blushed, stomped his feet and screamed wildly.

"Damn it, watch me turn him into a toothpick with a stick later."

Yue Hai was very satisfied, he glanced at Li Nong, and shouted loudly: "Everyone pay attention, we will rush directly in front of Cui Qian's boat and follow my orders. When the time comes, we can use the crossbow, thunderbolt chariot, or shoot the pole. , Give me a hard call, and try to kill the reminder sign at once, and the remaining pirates will not be enough to follow behind and eat farts."

"Okay, just listen to the general." Li Nong also got excited.So far, the only hope is this. If the reminder can be killed at once, maybe they can still rush out when the pirates have not regained their senses.

Yue Hai turned a deaf ear, he stared anxiously at the pirate ship rushing out of the fleet, and raised his hand.The sailors were engrossed, the drummer was staring at him closely, the crossbowmen and gunners were in their positions, and stared fixedly at Cui Qian's building boat in the distance through Wangshan.

Five hundred steps, four hundred steps, three hundred steps, 250 steps, two hundred steps.

Yue Hai waved his hand and shouted loudly: "Set sail, speed up!"

The drummer who had been prepared for a long time slammed the war drum, and the passionate drum sound soared into the sky. Dozens of strong soldiers exerted their strength at the same time, and quickly raised the half-hanging sail to the top. At the same time, the four hundred soldiers below the deck The sailors shouted in unison, urging the warship with all their strength.There was a violent sound of water, and white waves rolled up behind the ship. Like a wild horse that had escaped from the frontier, the boat suddenly accelerated, and became faster and faster, rushing straight towards Cui Wu's warship.

The triumphant Cui Wu was taken aback, and was dumbfounded when he saw the Lou Chuan galloping towards him. This...is this a Lou Chuan?

Before he could react, Lou Chuan had already rushed in front of him with unstoppable power, and hit his bow fiercely. There was a violent shaking, Cui Wu turned over and fell into the water, and the bow of the boat he was standing on was caught by Lou Chuan. The stern was lifted, exposing the long rudder board behind, the helmsman turned pale with fright, flew from the stern to the bow, and hit hard on the side of the tall ship, making a loud noise. Screaming, then fell into the water.The sailors yelled in horror, watching the warship being knocked over by the building ship, but there was nothing they could do. They waved their hands in vain and fell into the water one after another. fell into the sea.

But Lou Chuan ignored all of this at all, and quickly approached Cui Qian's Lou Chuan with an indomitable murderous aura.

Cui Qian stood up abruptly and looked at the rushing Louchuan in horror. He was stunned by the speed of the Louchuan. Is this a Louchuan?This speed is almost the same as that of a walking boat, how can a huge building ship be so fast?
"Jianzhong be careful, this is coming for us." Cui Wen was the first to react and shouted loudly.

Cui Qian also came to his senses, and he yelled, "Order the frigate to come forward and intercept him, stop him!"

Before Cui Qian could give an order, the fighting ships in charge of the escort had already taken action subconsciously. More than a dozen fighting ships turned around one after another and rushed towards the building boats, intending to block the front of the building boats to prevent him and Cui Qian's building from collapsing. The boat collided.They all saw that the people on this big ship were crazy. They didn't come to surrender, negotiate peace, or fight. They came to commit suicide. Before they committed suicide, they had to kill Cui Qian. Drag into the water.

"Boom—" a fighting ship crashed into the left front side of the building.The building boat swayed for a while, and its direction was slightly deflected, but it still rushed forward, and then hit the second boat.

"Accelerate!" With a ferocious face, Yue Hai drew his knife out of its sheath with a bang, and held it high above his head, the bright blade gleaming in the sun.

The sound of the drum was loud and urgent, like fried beans.

Although the sailors in the bilge couldn't see the outside situation, they could feel the shock caused by the impact. They ignored it and used all their strength, chanted in unison, and turned the cranks in their hands. faster.

Lou Chuan's speed did not decrease, and continued to rush forward, approaching Cui Qian quickly.

One hundred steps, eighty steps, fifty steps...

"Boom!" "Boom!" Another two fighting ships collided with the right front side of the building, the building shook violently, and the direction was slightly deviated. Yuehai stared at Cui Qian's boat not far away, calm and calm The order was issued: "Turn left for three minutes."

"Turn left for three minutes—" Li Nong hissed loudly.

"Turn left for three minutes!" The chief in charge of the rudder responded loudly, ten soldiers pushed the huge rudder, and the building boat adjusted its direction again in a hurry, and turned the bow of the ship to face Cui Qian's building boat again.

"Fucking crazy?" Cui Qian panted quickly, looking at everything in front of him, feeling a little unbelievable.How dare a large ship challenge [-] pirates?Aren't the sailors under Sun Shao officers and soldiers? Why are they more deadly than pirates in fighting?

"Turn the rudder! Turn the rudder!" Cui Wen yelled loudly, not caring about answering his question.The helmsmen shouted in unison and pulled the huge rudder vigorously, but the speed of their building boat was far from that of the suicide building boat. Although the bow slowly adjusted its direction, it still Can not escape the danger of being hit.

"Rush up and stop him!" Cui Wen lay on the railing, yelling at the chaotic pirates beside him, his usual gentle appearance was gone.The pirates drove their small boats and tried to get closer to the sea, but something happened suddenly, and they were in a mess for a while. Those dozens of ships who could really control their own direction, most of them could not step forward to stop them, but were instead being adjusted. The building boats in the direction capsized, one pirate after another fell into the water, and the sound of "plop" was endless.

"Boom!" "Boom!" Several battleships collided with the building boat one after another. Although the building boat was still moving fast, its speed was inevitably affected, and it could no longer run as fast as it did at the beginning.When the speed slowed down, the impact force was greatly reduced. After knocking over five fighting ships in succession, the sixth fighting ship only swayed violently for a while, and finally stabilized its footsteps, avoiding the misfortune of overturning.

"The helmsman turns seven minutes to the right, the sailor speeds up, the thunderbolt cannon, the strong crossbow, and the shooting pole are ready--" Yue Haijian screamed wildly.

"Seven minutes to the right—" the helmsmen pulled the tail rudder.

"Speed ​​up—" the sailors gritted their teeth and held their breath.

"Ready to fire—" The gunners, crossbowmen, and rod shooters clenched the triggers in their hands.

The building boat exerted its strength again, like a giant plow, it plowed away the pirates crowded in front of them, and rushed forward persistently.

Thirty steps!Twenty steps!Fifteen steps!
When the building boat rushed to fifteen steps away from Cui Qian's building boat, its speed was finally exhausted, and several pirate ships squeezed between them also firmly blocked them.Cui Qian's building boat was also turning with all its strength, and when the distance between them narrowed to about ten steps, it could no longer shrink any more, but tended to increase slowly.And the archers on Cui Qianlou's boat also pulled their bows forward like crazy to prevent them from getting closer. The dense rain of arrows caused the soldiers to hide behind the wooden parapet.

Yue Hai sighed regretfully. It would be great if he could go in a little more. This distance is not good for the pole. The iron ball on the pole can hit it, but the pole itself cannot hit it, and its power is greatly reduced.But Yue Hai also knew that the current result was the best he could get, so without saying a word, he issued the order he had already prepared.

"Full left rudder, launch!"

"Launch!" With an order, first the three powerful crossbows and four thunderbolt chariots at the bow roared, and the three spear-like crossbow arrows and four stone balls the size of human heads flew past in a blink of an eye. Fifteen steps away, they smashed towards the same target: the command cabin, the flying hut on the top floor.

"Click!" Click! "Crack!" "Three huge arrows penetrated the deck of the Feilu almost at the same time. With a distance of fifteen steps, there was almost no loss of speed. The sharp arrows shot through the deck like piercing paper, and then penetrated another layer. The deck stopped, and the two pirates in the cabin were shot through by the giant arrows without even a chance to react.

"Boom!" The four thunderbolt cannonballs hit the flying hut that had just been pierced by the giant arrow in no particular order, and there was a loud noise from the cabin deck of the flying hut, and the sawdust flew away, and it disappeared in an instant.

At the same time, a hundred archers hiding behind the parapet fired a dense rain of arrows, covering the direction of the flying hut, and the shattered flying hut immediately grew a dense layer of feathers.

As soon as Cui Qian saw the black shadow flying from the upstairs boat, he felt that something was wrong. Without saying a word, he jumped off the flying hut. He had just landed, and before he had time to stand up, he heard a loud noise above his head. Unceasingly, looking up again, the Feilu, which was originally decorated magnificently by him, has become a pile of rotten wood.

"Uncle Wen—" Cui Qian called out anxiously.

Before he could hear Cui Wen's answer, there was an unpleasant sound from the side. He was shocked, and rushed to the side to see that the stern of the suicide boat slowly turned around. Now the two boats are facing each other. They were parallel, but with different heads and tails. He looked at the heavily armed general on the flying hut opposite him, his teeth itched with hatred, and he yelled, "Shoot him to death!"

Several pirates drew their bows and arrows, and shot angry arrows towards Yuehai.The guards around Yue Hai immediately stepped forward and set up a shield wall in front of Yue Hai.Before Cui Qian could see the result, the pirates beside him raised their heads and exclaimed.

"Jianzhong, run." Cui Wen rushed out from nowhere and pushed Cui Qian away.

"Huh-boom!" A few winds whizzed by, and three iron balls hit the left deck of the building, and then disappeared. Three black holes appeared on the deck that had just been painted by Cui Qian. Below decks came the terrified screams of the wounded sailors.

Cui Qian's ears were buzzing. An iron ball was only two steps away from his head just now. If Cui Wen hadn't pushed him away, he might have been hit in the middle. Even so, the violent shock when the iron ball hit the deck was still The shock made his ears ring, and two flying sawdust pierced his cheek, but he didn't feel any pain.

"Let's go!" Cui Wen, whose face was covered in blood, swooped over again, dragging Cui Qian across the right side of the bulwark, turning over and jumping into the water.As soon as they jumped out, a rain of arrows nailed the place where they were standing just now, and a dozen dumbfounded pirates were shot and killed on the spot.

"Speed ​​up, speed up, go!" Looking at the messy buildings and boats, Yue Hai yelled loudly. He didn't know if Cui Qian was killed in the Feilu, but this violent beating had completely wiped out all the killing moves he had prepared. If he used it, he would be surrounded by pirates if he didn't leave. At that time, even if he could fight, he would be torn to pieces.

"Speed ​​up!" The sailors exerted their strength again, and the boat slowly started, leaving the disabled Cui Qian's boat.The archers kept drawing their bows and shooting arrows, only picking at the helmsmen and sailors of the pirate ships that collided with them head-on. The crossbows and thunderbolt guns also roared from time to time, sinking one pirate ship after another.The six poles kept rising and falling, overturning one pirate ship after another and smashing them into pieces.

Although they escaped quickly across the sea, it was not easy for a huge building ship to accelerate again. During this period, more and more pirate ships surrounded them, and they used large and small boats to hold the building firmly. The boat didn't let him move forward, the building seemed to be struggling, like a bison surrounded by wolves, although it struggled hard, it was still difficult to escape the siege.

Cui Qian was rescued on a fighting ship, his eyes turned green with anger, he ordered his battle flag to be raised, and commanded the pirates to encircle the sea.If Yue Hai is not killed today, he will not be in the South China Sea in the future.A huge team of nearly a thousand ships was almost killed by a large ship. If it got out, what kind of reminder would Cui Qian be for his life?

"Get rid of him and reward him with a thousand gold." Cui Qian screamed wildly and handed out a huge reward.Seeing that his ship was smashed by officers and soldiers, the pirates thought he was beaten to death, and their morale was a little low. Now they are very excited to see him safe and sound. Hearing this big reward again, they all feel like they have been beaten. Yes, their eyes were red, and they yelled and smelled it, facing the huge threat of the shooting pole on the tall boat, climbing the boat with iron hooks near, and shooting with bows and arrows at a distance, in a blink of an eye, on the tall boat crossing the sea It was full of people.

"Damn it, hit me, the crossbow on the port side, the thunderbolt gun, don't worry about others, hit that kid hard and kill him." Seeing that Cui Qian didn't die, Yue Hai was very angry and violent, Regardless of disregard issued the final order.

"Whoosh!" With a sharp whistle, a huge arrow shot towards Cui Qian.

(End of this chapter)