Kai Fu Han

Chapter 73 Fighting Pirates 1
About half a mile away from the beach, Liujiabao's two ships began to lower their sails.
Chinese hard sails have an advantage over Western soft sails in that they lower the sail faster.

Because the hard sail is heavy, when the sail cable is loosened, the hard sail will quickly lower with its greater weight.

Of course, this also leads to a slower hoisting speed, which has advantages and disadvantages.

After the sails were lowered, the two ships relied on inertia to continue drifting toward the beach, and basically stopped when they were about a hundred steps away from the beach.The sailors below the deck stretched out the oars from the windows on both sides. Zhao Liang was already standing at the bow of the ship, ready to command the ship for combat.

Liu Xinqi saw the small boat following the fleet approaching first. When the small boat was a hundred steps away from the Liujiabao fleet, it began to slow down. He was probably preparing to wait for the big ship behind to come over and come up to fight together.

The three large ships are still three or four miles away.

Seeing this situation, Liu Xinqi felt that this was a good opportunity to "divide and annihilate them and defeat them one by one".

Liu Xinqi turned around and said to the five soldiers standing behind him.

"You take five sailors, row aboard the communication ship at the stern, and first deal with the enemy on the small boat. Then wait on the outside and wait for the enemy's big ship to dock with our ship. Then you will find the right opportunity to attack from the enemy ship. Attack from the other side, forming a pincer attack."

Previously, Liu Xinqi equipped four sand ships with communication boats. The two thousand stone sand ship was equipped with a ten-person boat, which was always tied behind the sand ship.

After the five soldiers took the order, they ordered five sailors, brought weapons, shields, crossbows and other equipment, got down from the stern of the boat, untied the cables on the boat, and the ten people rowed with all their strength towards the barge behind. Cross out.

After the boat rowed out more than ten steps, the boat behind Chaoyang also rowed out. Liu Xinqi could see that there were also five soldiers and five sailors on board.

It seems that Li Cang saw Liu Xinqi's intention and also sent soldiers as mobile combat power.

Seeing a boat rowing towards him, the people on the boat started to attack first, using bows and arrows to shoot at the boat. The sailor sitting next to the warrior raised two shields with both hands to protect himself and the warrior next to him, and the warrior Then row with all your strength.

The distance of a hundred steps passed in an instant. After withstanding two shots from the barge, the boat finally made it to the gang.

During this process, Liu Xinqi stood on the Penglai and saw that the arm of a soldier rowing was shot by a bow and arrow. He did not know how injured he was.

Although the hull of the communication boat is very low, only two palms high from the water, the deck of the walking boat is not high, less than a person tall. After the boat got on the side of the walking boat, the soldiers on the boat first used crossbows to shoot.
"Whizzing……"

Quickly shoot the two arrows in the crossbow to knock down all the enemies on the deck where the boat is next to the boat.

Taking advantage of the gap, the five warriors quickly put down their crossbows, held a knife in one hand, and supported the side of the boat with the other. With a strong push of their arms, they jumped onto the deck of the boat, swung their weapons and fought with the surrounding enemies.

The five sailors on the boat picked up the crossbows dropped by the soldiers, loaded arrows, fired, and prepared the formation for the soldiers fighting in front.

Just after two rounds of arrows were fired, the small boat sailing from the Chaoyang also approached from the other side of the boat.

Seeing this, Liu Xinqi knew that the battle on this ship was basically over.

It is estimated that there are only 30 people on the boat at most. Facing ten warriors and ten sailors using crossbows, the defeat is certain.

Liu Xinqi stopped paying attention to the battle situation on the small boat and looked in the direction of the three large ships.

I saw that the sail of the lucky ship had begun to lower, and it was estimated that it would stop about a mile away from the coast to avoid being stranded on the beach.

The other two sand ships were still moving quickly towards the two ships in Liujiabao, and the three ships gradually distanced themselves.

When the sand ship was about half a mile away from the Goge, the battle on the Goge finally ended. Ten sailors also climbed onto the Goge, and 20 people began to control the sail of the Goge and sail the Goge out of the battle area.

The two sand ships ignored the gondola and sailed straight towards the Penglai and Chaoyang.

"Go up! Prepare to fight!" Liu Xinqi shouted at Zhao Liang, and then nodded in the direction of the signaler.

After hearing the order, the signalman immediately began to wave the colorful flags in his hands to convey the order to the Chaoyang.

"Due east, paddle, full speed."

Zhao Liang shouted.

The oars on both sides of the Penglai began to paddle in a unified rhythm, and the rudder at the stern was adjusted, causing the Penglai to face the enemy ship in front.The Chaoyang next to it also followed.When the two fleets were about fifty steps away, Zhao Liang shouted again:

"Retract the paddle and prepare for impact!"

"Ready to shoot!"

The oars on both sides of the Penglai were quickly retracted into the cabin.

"Bah..."

The side of the Penglai and the enemy ship sailing in front rubbed against each other fiercely, and there was the harsh sound of wood rubbing against each other.

The distance was so close that Liu Xinqi could even see the hair on the faces of the pirates on the deck of the opposite ship.

The people on both ships were preparing for collision and had no time to fight.

"Throw the hook rope!"

The commanders on both ships shouted at the same time.

The sailors beside the two ships threw the hook ropes in their hands toward the deck of the opposite ship.

For a moment, above the sides of the two boats, iron hooks shuttled back and forth with ropes, and some of them were entangled with each other.

The two ships, which were originally going to separate based on inertia after the collision, were tightly "tied" together by these cables with iron hooks.

"shooting!"

Liu Xinqi shouted loudly.

The Liujiabao sailor standing in the middle of the ship's deck finally stood firm from the shock of the impact. Hearing Liu Xinqi's order, he took up the bow and crossbow in his hand and shot at the enemy pirates on the opposite ship who were about to jump. .

The pirate was instantly knocked upside down by the shot.

However, there was a coming and going, and the pirate archers on the opposite ship also fired a wave of bows and arrows. Most of them were blocked by the vine armor on the militiamen, and some arrows hit the unarmored parts of the militiamen.

Suddenly there were loud screams on both ships.

"Keep shooting! Don't stop!" Liu Xinqi ordered the fifteen militiamen using crossbows in the middle of the deck.

Then he pulled out his own knife with his right hand, and pulled out a short gun from his back with his left hand, first threw the short gun in his hand at a pirate who was about to jump, and shot him on the deck.

Then he took a step forward and jumped onto the opposite pirate ship.

The sailor who finished throwing the hook rope on the side of the ship also clenched the sword in his hand, jumped over the side of the ship, and killed the pirates.

One time
Swords and swords were coming and going, blood was flying everywhere, broken limbs were flying everywhere,

A piece of once-living flesh was chopped to pieces on the deck.

There are pirates and Liujiapu sailors. Of course, most of them are pirates. The rattan armor still plays a great protective role in cold weapon battles.

Just when the battle is stalemate,
Liu Xinqi felt the ship deck beneath his feet shake violently, and he almost lost his balance.The pirate standing with Liu Xinqi didn't pay attention and was shocked. Liu Xinqi quickly stepped forward and slashed the unbalanced pirate in the neck.

Then I looked up and found that on the other side of the pirate ship, Chaoyang was also posted,

The hook ropes flew and the three ships were connected together. The pirate ship was caught in the middle.

But on the other side of the Chaoyang, a second pirate ship was about to follow.

(End of this chapter)