653 Fear of death, naval battle

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"Fuck, I can't take it anymore."

On the construction site of Freshwater City, Henry threw the basket he was carrying directly to the ground, which was filled with stones, and shouted angrily.

"It's unforgivable that these damned yellow-skinned monkeys should make our great Dralanes do such hard and tiring work.

Moreover, it is still with these, this is a humiliation to us, and Lao Tzu will not do it. ”

After Henry threw the basket to the ground, he roared loudly, venting his frustration to the other companions around him.

"That's it, Lao Tzu doesn't want to do it for a long time, these yellow-skinned monkeys are really hateful."

"yes, quit."

"yes, let's stop it, let's see what they can do!"

With Henry taking the lead, a fierce rhetoric suddenly aroused the resentment in the hearts of dozens of red-haired ghosts around, and these red-haired ghosts also learned from Henry one by one to pick and choose.

"Hey, hey, what are you doing, hurry up and work, don't be lazy!"

At this time, a white dragon sergeant on the construction site who was in charge of patrolling this area saw Henry's movement on their side, and walked over and shouted.

Immediately, an interpreter translated his words to Henry and the other red-haired ghosts.

"We've been working for hours, it's already noon, we've had a bowl of porridge in the morning, and now we're hungry.

Let's not keep working, we're going to eat, we're going to rest, and we're not going to be with these anymore.

Being with these is simply an insult to us, and we will never accept it. ”

Henry roared at the white dragon soldier who walked over.

As a result, the white dragon sergeant heard the interpreter next to him translate Henry's words to him, and a cruel smile appeared on his face.

He looked at Henry, and directly used the leather whip in his hand to whip him hard, making a 'pop' sound.

Then, the soldier warned Henry: "If you want to eat, then you will all work obediently for Lao Tzu, and when it is time to eat, you will naturally be allowed to eat."

It's you who took the lead in making trouble, and now I'll give you a chance to continue working with them, or I'll loosen your muscles. ”

The soldier stepped in front of Henry, looked at him coldly, and said with a look of abuse on his face.

"Fuck, dare to smoke Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu slaughtered you."

Henry, as the colonel of the red-haired ghost, had been subjected to this kind of treatment of being whipped with a leather whip, and at this time he couldn't help it, and launched an attack on the white dragon sergeant standing in front of him.

Peng!

Henry's strong body suddenly exerted force, punched the white dragon soldier in the face, and violently raised his leg and kicked it out.

"It's the opposite, it's the opposite, the red-haired ghost is the opposite, come and support!"

The white dragon sergeant was also blinded by Henry's sudden attack, and after being kicked out, he was in severe pain, and he fell to the ground and couldn't get up for a while, but he shouted loudly.

"Doot toot!"

Sure enough, as the shouts of this white dragon sergeant spread, several other white dragon sergeants who were in charge of supervising the work immediately discovered the abnormal situation here and blew the alarm whistle.

Around the construction site, there were more than 300 white dragon sergeants, and at this time, two teams of white dragon sergeants immediately rushed in after hearing the alarm.

One of the men was a group of foot soldiers, all of them in full armor, armed with guns and knives, holding shields, and in a neat formation, rushing to Henry's side.

The other group, belonging to the musketeers, was light after all, and in addition to the cotton armor on their bodies, they also rushed to this side with flintlock pistols in their hands.

Whoa!

The two white dragon soldiers ran forward, which frightened many of the around, and they knelt down to the ground one by one, trembling all over, and they didn't dare to breathe.

After a while, the two teams of white dragon sergeants and fifty soldiers rushed directly to this area and surrounded Henry and dozens of other red-haired ghosts.

"Everyone understands and kneel with their heads in their hands, immediately!"

A white dragon army commander, with a cold voice, shouted at Henry and dozens of other red-haired ghosts.

As a result, the dozens of red-haired ghosts, including Henry, glared at the white dragon soldiers one by one, and they didn't seem to have the intention of kneeling down with their heads in their hands, and they kept shouting in their mouths.

"If you are determined to be a troublemaker, according to the general's order, anyone who makes trouble and rebels and tries to escape will be killed if they are discovered!

Musketeers, raise guns, prepare! ”

At this time, looking at these dozen red-haired ghosts who were full of hostility and didn't seem to intend to give in, the commander of the White Dragon Army directly ordered like this.

Whoa!

Suddenly, the surrounding foot soldiers raised their shields in front of them, and the musketeers raised their flintlock muskets one after another, aiming at them, making a sound of brushing in unison.

"You ......"

Seeing the White Dragon Army musketeers aiming their guns directly at them, even Henry was directly frightened at this time, and his heart was furious.

He was really worried that these White Dragon Army musketeers would shoot at them, although he was brave and rebellious, he didn't want to die.

"Now give all of you another chance, I'll count to three, and when the time comes, anyone who hasn't knelt down with his head in his hands will be shot."

Shi Chang shouted coldly at Henry and the other red-haired ghosts.

"One!"

With the first sound of this chief, there were already a few timid red-haired ghosts, who immediately chose to kneel down with their heads in their hands.

"Two!"

Shi Chang stretched out his second finger and continued to shout, at this moment the surroundings were very quiet, and Shi Chang's shouting brought great pressure to the dozens of red-haired ghosts who were making trouble.

Crash!

At this time, the red-haired ghosts around them knelt down with their heads in unison, but they were still afraid and chose to save their lives.

"Three ......"

When the chief shouted three, his voice was deliberately lengthened, and Henry felt that his heart was about to beat out.

He was still standing at this time, looking like he would never succumb to the power of Shi Chang, in fact, Henry was also very worried at this time.

He was also afraid of death, and just after Shi Chang shouted 'three', Henry, who was standing at the front, saw those White Dragon Army musketeers and really wanted to pull the trigger.

At this moment, Henry's heart was completely frightened, and he knelt down with a swish, and then hugged his head with both hands, that movement was simply too skillful.

As a result, Henry's sudden submission directly stunned the five red-haired ghost soldiers who were still planning to stand.

These five red-haired ghost soldiers are Henry's staunchest supporters, and they just saw that Henry was still standing, so they followed until now, but they refused to hold their heads and kneel.

"Fire!"

As a result, these five red-haired ghosts were finally pitted by Henry, and the commander of the White Dragon Army directly ordered to shoot after shouting 'three'.

And the musketeer behind him was not ambiguous, and after hearing the order to fire, he directly pulled the trigger.

Bang bang bang!

After the gunshot, the five red-haired ghost soldiers screamed and fell down one after another, while Henry escaped death because he knelt down at the last moment.

Shi Chang looked at the five red-haired ghosts lying in a pool of blood, glanced at Henry with disdain, then looked up at the surroundings, and shouted: "Everyone can see clearly, this is the end of the trouble."

All of them are for Lao Tzu to go back and work obediently, if anyone dares to make trouble again, Lao Tzu will shoot him. ”

Immediately, the chief took the people away, and dragged away the five unlucky ghosts who had been shot.

And at this time, the eyes of the surviving red-haired ghosts who looked at Henry all changed, some were angry, some were disdainful, and some were hateful.

Syllable!

With a loud voice, I saw the white dragon sergeant who had been kicked down by Henry before, and at this time he walked up to Henry again, raised his leather whip, and whipped it down on him.

"What are you still grinding, hurry up and work, don't you want to live!"

At this moment, Henry no longer had the arrogance he had before, obediently lowered his head, picked up the basket, and worked honestly.

"Cut, this group of white-skinned pigs, I still think how tough they are, they are not afraid of death, they are afraid of death and pretend to be tough guys, and they deserve to die."

This white dragon sergeant said disdainfully.

The repair work of Tamsui City, with the overtime efforts of two hundred red-haired ghost soldiers and other, completed the repair of the city wall in just a few days.

All that remains is the repair of the castle buildings, the reconstruction of the forts, the expansion of the port, and the construction of several roads.

And just two days after Lu Yuan took Tamsui City, the fast bird boat he sent out to inquire about the intelligence also returned and reported an important news to him: the Zheng family had attacked the red-haired ghost in the south of the Ryukyus.

Lu Yuan, who heard the news, suddenly became excited in his heart, he knew that as long as the Zheng family's fleet and the red-haired ghost fought a decisive battle, they would also have the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.

Immediately, Lu Yuan ordered the fleet to be on standby at any time, preparing to go south, and at the same time sent a small fleet of ten warships in advance, led by Lu Hai, to go south in advance to explore the specific situation in the south.

…………………………………………

At noon on the 18th, after Bruce sensed that something was wrong last night, he decisively evacuated at night and got rid of the entanglement of the fleet led by Zheng Hongkui.

After dawn, Zheng Hongkui found that the red-haired ghost fleet on the sea in front of him had disappeared, so he had to order the fleet to return to Anping Port again, and wait for Zheng Zhilong to join up before making plans.

But what they never expected was that when they returned to the voyage, in the afternoon, they were more than ten nautical miles away, and ran head-on into the red-haired ghost fleet waiting for them there.

It turned out that the red-haired ghost Far East Fleet led by Bruce, after evacuating overnight, made a circle and went around the back road of Zheng Hongkui's fleet to return, and set up a formation to wait for them.

Obviously, Bruce was fully aware of the Zheng family's actions at this time, making him determined to defeat Zheng Hongkui's fleet before the Zheng family's two fleets converged.

Otherwise, when the Zheng family's two huge fleets, all of which were hundreds of warships, converged, and they fought a decisive battle with others, the chances of victory would become extremely slim.

At this time, the red-haired ghost could still take the advantage of surprise and take the lead, so Bruce decisively chose to intercept Zheng Hongkui on his way back.

When the fleet of the red-haired ghost found the returning Zheng Hongkui fleet, Bruce immediately ordered that the fleet that had been lined up in advance on the sea accelerated and rushed towards Zheng Hongkui's fleet.

By the time Zheng Hongkui found the red-haired ghost fleet that suddenly appeared in front of him, the entire red-haired ghost fleet had already completed acceleration and was rushing towards Zheng Hongkui's fleet at full speed.

In this case, Zheng Hongkui had already had a choice, he could only order the fleet to meet it head-on, and it was impossible to make other U-turns, or divert to avoid them.

In other words, at this moment, the decisive battle between the two fleets of the two sides is inevitable and imperative.

"Let all the warships speed up and rush over, the red-haired ghost wants to fight a decisive battle, and Lao Tzu will fulfill them."

Zheng Hongkui stood on the tower of a three-masted gunboat, looking at the red-haired ghost battleship rushing over on the sea in front of him, he also had a cold face, and ordered.

Thundered!

Soon, the warships of both sides rushed closer to each other, and while they were still far away, the two sides began shelling.

"Fire!"

Thundered!

On this sea, it was suddenly shrouded in gunsmoke, and with a loud bang, sawdust flew and bombarded the warship, and the naval battle began.

Compared with the more than 120 large and small warships on Zheng Hongkui's side, there are only about 30 ships on Bruce's side, but their warship tonnage is larger.

After the sea ship started, the advantage of the big firepower of the red-haired ghost side of the ship was initially revealed, and several small warships of the Zheng family's fleet were sunk.

Several red-haired ghost warships rampage with a brutal attitude, but they soon fell into the siege of the Zheng family's fleet, and they also suffered heavy losses.

Thundered!

The artillery rang out, and the warships of both sides rushed to each other, firing shells at the enemy ships.

In the past, when the Zheng fleet fought with other enemies, such as pirates, the artillery bombardment was only in front, and once their warships rushed close to each other, they would jump to the other ship.

But this kind of close-quarters tactics equivalent to naval battles, the Zheng family didn't dare to use it on the red-haired ghost, because they had suffered such a loss before.

Compared to those pirates, the soldiers on the red-haired ghost warship are all equipped with muskets, and the soldiers who jump into the opposing ship will be shot by muskets.

As a result, the battle between the Zheng family's fleet and the red-haired ghost's fleet turned into a battleship artillery battle, which is more suitable for the red-haired ghost's fighting style.

The 'Sea Pioneer', which Bruce personally sat in, personally rushed into the Zheng family fleet and shot at the Zheng family warships on his left and right.

There were forty-eight guns on the 'Sea Pioneer', and the firepower was extremely fierce, and the bows were fired left and right, which also caused a huge impact on the Zheng family fleet for a while.

Fortunately, Zheng Hongkui is also experienced in naval warfare, and he adjusted his tactics in time and did not let this naval battle become a show of red-haired ghosts.

The battle lasted all afternoon, and it was not until the sun set in the evening that the battle between the two sides was over.

The Far East Fleet of red-haired ghosts led by Bruce voluntarily withdrew from the battle and disappeared again with the help of night.

And in this battle, Bruce took the initiative to find fighters, so that the red-haired ghost achieved a good result, and dealt a big blow to Zheng Hongkui's fleet.

It's just that due to the size of Zheng Hongkui's fleet, with the strength of the red-haired ghost fleet, it is obviously very difficult to defeat it completely.

As the battle between the two sides ended, the sea was littered with wrecked ships, and many of the ships were half-sunk and would soon be completely submerged.

The Zheng family fleet was also busy salvaging the crew members who fell into the water, and Zheng Hongkui did not order to pursue the red-haired ghost fleet.