Water Margin: Lu Bu sits on Mount Liang

The outer wheel of the strange sea eel boat began to turn, and the sail on the boat rose up. In the wind and snow, there was a loud bang, and it suddenly inflated, and the speed of travel increased instantly.

When there was movement on this ship, there was an immediate reaction on the Goryeo ship over there. It could be seen that those ships were a little panicked and were spinning in place.

Hu Yanqing leaned on the lookout with both hands, and narrowed his eyes as he looked outside: "Prepare the catapults and crossbows."

The messenger gave a signal, and the sound of the golden bell rang above the ship.

The sailor, wearing a water jacket inside and a leather coat outside, immediately ran out of the cabin door. The waves were smashed and thrown away by the wide panel of the bow. The foamy sea water rushed onto the deck, soaking the sailors' suede coats and the raw cowhide wrapped on the ship. A damp and cold smell of the sea penetrated into their nostrils.

A noisy scene unfolded on a ship not far away. The leader named Huang Chuanggen ran out of the cabin and just shouted a few words to stabilize the situation. When he looked up and saw a strange-shaped ship in the distance and the Qi flag blown by the wind, he immediately panicked: "Qi ship! Turn the rudder! Quick--"

Unfortunately, the ship he was waiting for was half the size of the oncoming sea eel boat, and its speed was no match for the sea eel boat with its outer wheel turned and sails hoisted, especially since the other side was heading straight towards them.

The pirates on the deck shouted in panic again. In the cold weather, beads of sweat appeared on their foreheads. The strange ship reflected in their pupils was getting closer and closer. Suddenly, they opened their eyes wide and saw a black shadow flying out from the other ship, drawing an arc.

"It's a crossbow arrow! Dodge quickly!"

"Turn the rudder! Turn it quickly!"

"Don't run over there, you idiot—"

A dark shadow appeared across the sky and approached.

bang-bang-bang-

Three thick crossbow arrows flew over, two of them missed the target, and one pierced the hull. Wood chips flew up with the fragments, and the violent vibration made even the man who had been on the sea for a long time unable to stand steadily, and he fell to the ground.

Someone's vision darkened for a moment. When he looked up, broken fragments fell and hit his face with a bang. He fainted on the spot, and blood gushed out of the wound.

"No...no more, right? Go!"

The people on the boat just breathed a sigh of relief and shouted to retreat quickly. The desperate voice sounded again: "There are flying rocks!"

The bandits looked back and their bodies suddenly stiffened. A chill rose from their backs. Stone bullets swirled in the sky, and the sound of bangs reached their ears. The waves splashed up to a height of several feet, but they all deviated slightly and crashed into the sea.

The man leading the team suddenly contracted his pupils, grabbed the man beside him and shouted: "Tell that damn helmsman to turn the rudder quickly. If he can't do it, kill him. Don't let him die here with a boatload of people!"

The crossbow arrows shot again during this interval. The pirate leader turned around with a look of despair on his face. It was clear why the Qi ships were acting like this. The crossbows and catapults were firing in turns, and the two ships on his side could not escape.

He gritted his teeth and drew out the long sword from his waist. "This won't work. The enemy is fast and well-armed. We can't run far on this sea. If we kill them, we still have a chance of survival! Guys, turn around and fight them—"

"Fight it! Fight it!"

The smart pirates immediately understood Huang Chuanggen's meaning, drew their weapons, roared with red eyes, and inspired the other pirates to get excited. The two small ships turned around, and the pirates grabbed the things around them and rushed towards the three sea eel ships on the opposite side.

"...Looking for death." Hu Yanqing looked at the pirate ship turning around with cold eyes, snorted coldly, and issued an order: "Charge it, archers, prepare to engage in battle."

The bed crossbow fired a final round of arrows, which broke the mast of a ship with a loud bang. A crossbow arrow sent several figures flying on the deck, leaving a pool of blood and flesh on the ground, causing a few timid ones to scream.

On the sea eel boat, an officer suddenly shouted, "Hold on to the railing!"

“It’s going to crash!”

On the frigate that was rushing forward, countless figures crouched and grabbed the ropes.

boom--

A loud bang erupted in the wind and snow, and the Qi warship directly crashed into the two tower ships. The entire ship tilted, and the wooden boards of the hull made a squeezed "creaking" sound. A figure was thrown out of the ship with a scream and fell into the sea with a splash.

"Get ready... hide!"

Huang Chuanggen pulled out the shining blade from his waist, raised the knife and shouted, at the moment, above his head, in his field of vision, rows of archers leaned out from the parapet of the hull, snowflakes flew past his eyes, and the crossbows in the hands of the archers seemed to flash with metallic light, which made his hair stand on end. Without waiting for the ship to stabilize, he rolled over and hid behind a wooden barrel, curled up his body as much as possible, sat against the barrel, and pressed his feet hard on the deck.

click-

Powerful crossbow arrows pierced the wood from above, followed by a series of trembling sounds all around. From time to time, people screamed and fell to the deck. As the ship swayed, many people rolled around and were shot to death on the spot. "Flagship, move forward and block their way."

Hu Yanqing stood at the lookout and watched the two escorting sea eel boats approach the opposite pirate ship. He immediately issued an order: "Shout to them to surrender. If they don't listen, shoot them on the spot!"

The tall ship turned in an arc and lay across the front. In the wind and snow, the sails were lowered. The sound of someone shouting could be heard intermittently, and then a word was answered from the other side. Rows of crossbow arrows flew out from behind the parapet of the ship.

Screams continued to echo over the sea. Liu Ti and Han Kai reached out to take the swords and hung them on their waists: "General, let's go aboard and take a look."

Hu Yanqing glanced at the two men and nodded, "Bring more people and be careful." Then he looked at the messenger and said, "Send the order to board the ship and tell the soldiers to be careful."

The sound of command flags and golden bells spread out.

……

"Damn it... you shouldn't have listened to Mando."

Huang Chuanggen had a bitter face, huddled behind a wooden barrel and listened to his companions' screams. There was a loud bang on both sides of the boat, and a head slightly showed up. The pirate leader suddenly had a miserable face. The Qi soldiers wearing water jackets and well-armed slid down the gangway, quickly formed small defensive formations, and then advanced forward. Those pirates who were still alive were hacked to death on the spot one by one.

The blade passed across his throat very quickly. Liu Ti inhaled the smell of blood with a fishy smell with some nostalgia, licked the blood stains at the corners of his mouth, ignored the blood spraying in the air, swung the blade, and an irregular trail of blood appeared on the deck.

Around him, his personal soldiers jumped over pulling the ropes and slid down the springboard, protecting his left and right sides and rear, and began to kill in the direction of their movement.

Oops……

Huang Chuanggen clenched the hilt of his knife and stood up suddenly: "If you don't want to die, go and kill these Qi soldiers. We have destroyed so many Qi villages, they will not spare us."

Seven or eight brave pirates immediately stood up and followed him, shouting "Oh oh oh--" in strange voices, and together rushed towards the figure who looked like a general walking towards them.

The rushing figure was stopped by the personal soldiers. Huang Chuanggen, with his flexible body, rolled forward from the opponent's knife edge, kicked the deck with his foot, and rushed towards Liu Ti from the side, holding the knife with both hands and chopped down with all his might.

"General, be careful!" A personal soldier blocked the pirate's knife in front of him and shouted in shock.

Over there, Liu Ti turned around and swung his sword upwards, fighting with the blade that was chopping down. Amid the sound of metallic clanging, the two swords froze in the air for a moment. He suddenly swung his sword sideways to remove the opposite blade, then turned his hand and swung it forward.

The blade swept through the air.

Huang Chuanggen didn't expect the opponent to change his moves so quickly. He was using all his strength to try to suppress the opponent's knife, but his hands loosened and he fell forward along the center of gravity. The blade that was coming over was getting closer and closer in his sight.

He only had time to utter a brief "Ah!" before the knife cut into his trachea and chopped off his cervical vertebrae. A huge amount of blood gushed out, filling the air with the smell of blood.

"Out of control."

Liu Ti kicked the corpse with his toes, wiped his face with the back of his hand, and rushed into the crowd with a knife.

……

Goryeo, an island somewhere in Ganghwa Bay.

Snow and wind fell in the inner bay on the north side of the island. The rugged rocks on both sides were covered with piled white snow. Torches were lit in the caves inside, and the sounds of ghosts and wolves howling came from inside.

Outside, the pirates on sentry duty rubbed their hands, picked their noses, wiped their fingers on their clothes, and said to their companions with a pout, "Damn it, they made us stand here in the cold weather while they were having fun with their women inside."

"Say less, the situation has been a little strange recently, and there is a group of pirates acting here. The peak master is furious."

"Humph - I wonder who is so bold as to cause trouble in our territory."

While chattering, the three of them rubbed their hands and stamped their feet, occasionally putting their hands on the campfire, and then inserting them under their armpits to warm them. As they were circling around the campfire, someone suddenly stopped and looked outside in a trance.

"What's wrong? What are you looking at?"

"Isn't it a sea siren? Hahaha——"

The two of them laughed and followed their companion's gaze. They gradually stopped smiling and frowned: "Boat?" (End of this chapter)