Chapter 38 [The Power of Gas Cylinders (Part 2)]
On the rocks on a mudflat seven miles away, Ding Xiaoyi's sights kept exchanging between his left and right hands. One eye was exhausted and then the other eye changed. Ding Xiaoyao beside him urged him to ask for it five or six times, but he refused to give it to him.
"Did you see it? Did you see it?" Ding Xiaoyao couldn't help but could only talk about this sentence over and over again.
Ding Xiaoyi was annoyed by the question and said unhappy: "I have no eyes, so I stare at your two holes."
Ding Xiaoyao stared at two holes, but didn't look at the warship, but stared at her sister angrily.
Ding Xiaoyi ignored her younger brother's resentment. Her palms were covered with sticky sweat, and she would not do anything no matter the sea breeze blows. Since the grandfather was killed, he has been the support of their siblings. He is too capable. Many times, she works hard to catch up with his footsteps, for fear of being pulled down. But for the first time in her life, she doesn't want him to be too capable. If a person is too capable, he will show off, just like this time.
When he broke into an enemy ship at night, the three of them faced thousands of troops, which was similar to the Tiger Cave. The leader of the Dark Claws was said to have fought many wars with the Yuan soldiers, and even sneaked into the Yuan army camp to investigate and make it easy to get in and out. But he said "sacrificing his life to accompany him", and the danger of this trip can be imagined.
Maybe, I shouldn't have tried my best to find that Bagan. I'd better follow him and follow him to sail after I got the boat, and go to the place he called "Meizhou". Is that place really that beautiful...
"Sister, do you think something will happen..."
When his thoughts were interrupted, Ding Xiaoyi said angrily: "Shut up, you crow's mouth. Do you really want something to happen to Brother Zhao and the others?"
"No, of course I don't want to... But they went there for a long time, and the big fireworks that Brother Zhao said did not appear."
"Then read more and say less, don't blink, otherwise you won't even see the fireworks after they are set off."
"Why, sister, please stop beating me..."
Behind the reef, there were several small sampans hidden. Ma Nanchun, Ouyang Guanhou and more than ten dark clawed team members were all leaning against water, tucking short knives, and half of them carried crossbows, rockets and turbulent oil. Everyone was waiting for the moment when the fire broke out. Although their eyes were sore and swollen, no one dared to close them.
The anxiety of the siblings can only be relieved by quarrel, while Ma Nanchun and Ouyang Guanhou could only talk in a low voice.
"Brother Ma, I'm not a brother, I'm hiding someone secretly, it's really..."
Ma Nanchun smiled bitterly: "Brother Ouyang doesn't need to ask me, I don't know."
Ouyang Guanhou was surprised: "Brother Ma doesn't know what is hidden in the wooden box?"
Ma Nanchun half leaned against the wet reef and spread his hands: "Don't say I don't know, even Shi Yang and Wang Ping'an didn't know."
Ouyang Guanhou touched the fashionable man, his eyes flashed, and he wanted to speak but stopped.
Ma Nanchun actually guessed what he wanted to say, shook his head and said, "It's not that Brother Zhao doesn't trust us, but... in his words, this is a strange thing and cannot be known to us."
Ouyang Guanhou was stunned: "Brother Ma has been a scholar for generations, and has also passed the imperial examination. He also lived in the Guanyuan to inherit the imperial edict. In terms of knowledge, few people in Fujian and Guangdong can match it. Brother Zhao actually said this..."
Ma Nanchun was humble and did not have any false expressions, but was very serious: "My virtuous brother is a strange man and has many strange things in his hands. He said that it was not what we know, so it must be that I can know."
Ouyang Guanhou remembered that he had only known Zhao Lie for half a day, and the young man had already made several things that surprised him, the old world. I have to say that he was really a strange man.
But he heard Ma Nanchun laugh and said, "This box was brought to this place by Brother Zhao from Yashan. If I expected it would be..."
"Shi Shi Ma, let this uncle give us a boat."
Ma Nanchun's guess was interrupted. Looking back, the Ding brothers wrapped the guns on wooden oars layer by layer with hemp rope. In the dark night, they were quite concealed. They put on straw raincoats and hats, looking like they were ready to go.
"What are you doing?"
"We want to go over and take a look." Ding Xiaoyi spoke quickly and crisply, giving people a feeling of being very straightforward and firm, "Brother Zhao and the others need help."
Ma Nanchun frowned: "What did you say before? Take fire as a sign, and it is not advisable to go ahead before fire rises..."
"It's been so long. If Brother Zhao and the others are in danger and need our help but we are standing here stupidly, and we can't do anything..." Ding Xiaoyi gasped, her bulging chests fluttered, and her eyes were firm, "We want to go over and help him."
"What can you do in the past?"
“Adapt to the point.”
Ma Nanchun was so upset: "Also adapt to the situation... Don't forget that Zhao Xiandi has already formulated rules, and those who violated the rules will be severely punished. Ding's little lady, you have violated them once last time in Yongji Temple. The rules were not decided at that time, so it was inconvenient to pursue them, but now military rules have been established. Do you know what is the seventeen ban and fifty-four beheadings..."
"Kill your ghost!" Ding Xiaoyi waved his oar. If Ma Nanchun hadn't flashed quickly when he saw the opportunity, he might have been hit in the head. "When I help, let's see who Brother Zhao killed!"
Ouyang Guanhou admired this straightforward girl very much, and smiled and smoothed out: "Okay, I'll give you this boat, but there's one."
"What?"
"Wait for another stick of incense."
"No! Half a stick of incense is not waiting." Ding Xiaoyi refused to compromise at all.
Ouyang Guanhou spread his hands: "Then there is nothing."
"Do you give it?" Ding Xiaoyi pointed the mouth of the wooden paddle at Ouyang Guanhou.
Ouyang Guanhou blinked, not understanding what threatened this.
Ma Nanchun was so scared that he hurriedly pulled him away: "Miss Ding's little girl, you have something to discuss, so you must not be reckless. The gunshot sounded, it was exposed."
"I count three times and shoot if I don't give it." Ding Xiaoyi ignored it, raised her palm, and then began to count it down, "One, two..."
boom!
"Brother Ouyang..." Ma Nanchun looked back and was about to persuade Ouyang Guanhou to agree to the ship, but a sudden loud noise made Ma Nanchun's knees soft and almost shouted, "You are really shooting!"
However, Ma Nanchun didn't say this after all, because he saw a huge ball of fireballs spewed out from the bottom of the coach's ship, like a giant dragon lying on the seabed, spraying angry dragon flames at the human toy that dared to disturb it.
The fire illuminated the sea, illuminated the night sky, illuminated the horrified faces of thousands of soldiers and sailors on the three warships, and illuminated the stunned expressions on the reefs.
"I hope they are not confused, remember to save people in the chaos." Zhao Lie floated out of the sea and spit out a large mouthful of salty and bitter sea water. Behind him, Shi Yang and Wang Ping'an floated out one after another, looking at the firelight that surged into the sky a hundred feet away, constantly smacking their tongues.
It’s not that they were so surprised. The explosion of a 10-liter gas cylinder is equivalent to 145 kilograms of TNT, and the power of TNT is more than ten times that of high-purity black gunpowder. Thousands of kilograms of black gunpowder explosions have few of them seen in this era.
The violent explosion blew the bottom of the ship half a house-sized hole, and the entire side of the ship was burning. For a ship, whether it was an ancient wooden ship or a modern armored ship, the deck or tower was blown up like this, but the waterline was blown up and sunk!
The explosion caused the coach's ship to shake violently, and a large amount of sea water poured into the hull, causing the hull to tilt. The defenseless Yuan soldiers, ship workers, sailors fell into the water like dumplings. The boatmen, sailors, were fine, either swam to the coast or hugged all kinds of pieces of driftwood. The Yuan soldiers were sad because they were armored soldiers.
Since sailing at sea does not require physical energy, and as a personal guard of thousands of households, one must wear a strong and hold a sharp hand to show his majesty. Therefore, most of the patrol guards on the ship are armored soldiers. Looking at the majestic and powerful armored soldiers on land, they sink to the bottom of the sea as soon as they fall into the water. Want to unload their armor? Go to the bottom of the sea to unload them slowly.
Because the gas cylinder exploded too quickly, Zhao Lie and the other two could not swim far. They dropped a lot of Yuan soldiers from front to back and forth. Zhao Lie was not interested in stepping on these guys who could only shout for help, so they could fend for themselves.
Pooh! Another person fell down, splashing Zhao Lie's face. Zhao Lie wiped his face, um, this time he was a young man, not wearing armor, in Confucian uniform, not a Yuan soldier. He was quite pretty, but he was not very good at water. He drank water while thumping. Seeing Zhao Lie on his side, he actually reached out to him.
Zhao Lie was hesitating whether to provide help, but suddenly a few poles stretched out to separate him from the boy - it was the first swordfish boat to arrive.
"General, catch it!" The sign on the ship shouted, and the soldiers worked hard for a while and finally rescued the young man on board.
General? Such a young general? It wouldn't be that coincidental, right? Zhao Lie subconsciously held the pistol in the oil paper bag on his waist.
At this time, several guards of the guard ship with shields climbed onto the dam boat, jumped onto the dam boat, and as soon as they got on board, they picked up the shield to protect the boy, and asked each other: "Master, isn't it okay?"
"Nothing is wrong... cough cough cough cough... I... cough cough, what can I do with this manager..."
Manager! Zhao Lie pinched his thigh meat hard, and trembled in pain. What a good chance, he was about to catch it - no, it was a big fish he bumped into, but he was carelessly let go.
If there is a boat now, there will be a chance to lean on it quickly, but there is no way to go in the water. At this time, I guess Ma Nanchun, Ouyang Guanhou and others have just set out and can't count on it.
Seeing that the Daoyu boat was getting farther and farther away, Zhao Lie spit out a mouthful of salt water in the direction of the Daoyu boat: "Zhang Gui, you are lucky." Wai Shui turned around and greeted Shi, and Wang and the others, "It's nothing to do." Just as they were about to dive into the bottom of the water, they vaguely heard Zhang Gui's voice coming: "Stop! Hurry up, pick up Wen Tianxiang!"
Zhao Lie was stunned, stopped the potential and turned his head.
Wen Tianxiang?! He also fell into the water!
Chapter completed!