With a low curse, Lan Qiao finally understood Chen Yuheng's evaluation of Sakata Jiro as a cruel and easy-to-kill person.

There was no negotiation, no need to talk nonsense. When the gun exploded, Lan Qiao and Chen Yuheng changed positions at lightning speed, using their own bodies to block the incoming lead bullet for Chen Yuheng.

Even though Lan Qiao gathered all his energy in his chest, the moment he was hit by the lead bullet, it still felt like he had been hit by a giant hammer, and his vision turned black. The lead bullet also seemed to hit gold and stone, but it failed to penetrate Lan Qiao's chest.

The muscles and bones are only embedded in his superficial muscles.

"Master!" Chen Yuheng cried and hugged Lan Qiao's legs.

Lan Qiao endured the severe pain, caressing the wound on his chest with one hand, and pulled Chen Yuheng up with the other hand: "The space in the cabin is narrow, and it is easy to defend against swords, but not against fire. Let's go quickly."

"But..." Chen Yuheng looked at the wooden frames on the left and right and almost cried: "Where can we go?"

"This way." Lan Qiao pressed against the wooden frame on the left side, and Yin Li pushed him to the ground. He pulled Chen Yuheng across the wooden frame and ran towards the square hole on the port side of the cabin.

Jiro Sakata changed the lead bullets and gunpowder, and the gun exploded again.

Lan Qiao pulled Chen Yuheng hard, lowered his head to dodge the lead bullet, then stepped over two rows of low bed frames and came to the square hole on the port side: "Get out of here and climb back to the deck."

He asked Chen Yuheng to go first, while he blocked the Japanese pirates coming from behind.

When Chen Yuheng knew she was not her mother-in-law, she burst into tears.

The square hole used for paddling was actually not big. Chen Yuheng gritted his teeth and sucked in air, and it took a lot of effort to squeeze his body out of the square hole. As soon as he jumped onto the deck, he heard another gunshot from the cabin.

There was a loud sound, followed by the shouts of Japanese pirates and the clash of swords.

He had no time to think about how Lanqiao would survive, because six Japanese pirates immediately rushed towards him from the deck. At the same time, several Japanese pirates opened the cover under the mast and returned to the deck from the cabin.

Chen Yuheng used the Daybreak Sword Technique taught by Kai Lanqiao, first using the Wind and Cloud Surge to force the two men back, and then fought while walking, never giving the Japanese pirates a chance to truly encircle him.

He ducked from the edge of the ship's side to the middle, and circled around the mast. His sword moves were mainly defensive, and sometimes he could strike out unexpectedly. Although the Japanese pirates were large in number, they were still difficult to deal with at the moment.

However, this style of fighting consumes a lot of physical strength and cannot cause any real effective damage to the Japanese pirates. The enemy only needs to wait until his physical strength is exhausted to deal with him calmly.

Just when Chen Yuheng was sweating on his face and panicking in his heart, he suddenly heard a loud noise on the deck not far away, and a figure knocked a big hole in the deck and jumped into the air from under the deck.

This is of course the Blue Bridge.

Lan Qiao protected Chen Yuheng from drilling out the square hole. Just as he was about to drill out, he was hit by another lead bullet in the back. He knew that he could not avoid being attacked by the Japanese pirates before drilling out the square hole, so he simply turned back and entered again.

The crowd fought and fled in the narrow cabin. Although several people were defeated, he also suffered two new injuries.

There were too many Japanese pirates, and they soon occupied all the important passages in the cabin. Lanqiao lost its mobility advantage, and could only fight head-on with the Japanese pirates who kept advancing, and also had to guard against the lead bullets that Jiro Sakata might shoot.

At the critical moment, he suddenly remembered the water battle on Dongting Lake last year. Arutai also broke into the bottom cabin first, and then directly crashed through the deck and returned to the battlefield.

Since Arutai can do it, why not take a risk?

Thinking of this, Lan Qiao shouted loudly. He first used a move to push back the Japanese pirates approaching from the left and right, and then rose into the sky. In an instant, he stabbed twenty-six swords to the top of his head with Xiaman Dongfang's technique, and then arched his back and slammed into him.

On the deck where he had just stabbed twenty-six small holes with his sword energy.

There was already a lead bullet wound on his back, and when he was hit again, he immediately felt a sharp pain.

With the dazzling sunshine in front of him, Lan Qiao knew he had flown out of the cabin. When he looked closely, he saw Chen Yuheng spinning around the mast again.

"Climb to the top of the mast." Lan Qiao grabbed a cable with his hand and rushed down like a swinging rope. Wherever the shining sword passed, the Japanese pirates dispersed. One of the Japanese pirates had no time to escape, and his blood and flesh immediately spattered.

Died on the spot.

Lan Qiao pulled Chen Yuheng up, and the two climbed up the thick mast together until they reached the top of the pole, which was nearly nine feet high, and then they rested like apes hugging the mast.

This was beyond the effective range of the firecracker, and it was condescending. Jiro Sakata shouted angrily and called on the Japanese pirates to prepare their bows and arrows.

Chen Yuheng said in shock: "We are like this now, and we can't hide. Are we going to be shot by arrows and become hedgehogs?"

Just as Lan Qiao was about to speak, he saw that the Japanese pirates on the deck had changed their formation again. The longbow in their hands was originally aimed at the top of the mast, but now it was aimed at the distance outside the starboard side.

"Have they encountered the enemy?" Lan Qiao was already at a high place. When he looked towards the sea in the distance, he immediately saw another ship, sailing towards their Japanese ship through wind and waves.

The size of that ship was similar to the length of this Japanese ship, but the hull was slightly narrower by two points and the draft was much shallower. It was obviously a fast ship design.

At this time, the clipper was riding the full sail of the wind, and was indeed faster than an arrow. It quickly approached the Japanese ship with only half of its sail.

After the clipper approached to a distance of about 500 steps from the Japanese ship, it did not continue to approach, but circled around the Japanese ship, as if a shark was preparing for the final blow before hunting.

"Aren't the Japanese pirates all united together? How can anyone go against them?" Lan Qiao looked at the nervous Japanese pirates on the deck and asked in confusion, "Is it because the gangsters eat the gangsters?"

"I have only heard rumors about this matter." Chen Yuheng recalled, "I heard that in addition to Dalu Island, there is also a group of pirates who specialize in robbing pirates. Because I mainly operate in Taizhou, and I have no control over the sea.

I don’t know much about what happened on the coast. I only know that this is indeed a group of strong men who like to fight against others. The Japanese pirates robbed the people along the coast, and they robbed the Japanese pirates.”

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend. It seems we have a chance to be saved." Lan Qiao clung to the mast with one hand and looked at the clipper in the distance with some excitement.

The clipper continued to circle around the Japanese ship. When it turned to the right rear of the Japanese ship, a rocket shot from the clipper into the air.

Judging from the number of arrows, the number of people on the clipper ship was smaller than that on the Japanese ship, only twenty or thirty people. However, the arrows had a longer range, and since they were rockets, their power was incomparable.

The rockets first flew into the air, and then rained down like fire. The Japanese pirates who were hit by arrows on the Japanese ship screamed in agony. Some rockets fell on the deck, but they were quickly extinguished.

The Japanese pirates immediately fired arrows to fight back, but due to the difference in maneuverability, the clipper had already circled the stern of the Japanese ship and was out of the range of the Japanese pirates' bows and arrows.

The clipper quickly circled around the port side of the Japanese ship and once again entered the firing range, firing another rocket salvo.

Several more Japanese pirates were hit by arrows and fell to the ground.

"This tactic is wonderful. You first establish yourself in an invincible position, and then use your mobility and range advantages to consume the huge enemy bit by bit." Lan Qiao almost exclaimed.

After this round of arrows, the clipper suddenly turned sharply, with four long oars sticking out from each side to paddle the water. The hull suddenly accelerated and hit the Japanese ship's port side. The clipper's bow was equipped with a sharp and hard

The angle iron seemed to be intended to directly hit the fragile port side of the Japanese ship.

The clipper has a shallow draft, a lower deck than the Japanese ship, and is constantly increasing in speed. Once the bow of the ship hits, the angle iron will mercilessly smash the Japanese ship's port side, allowing seawater to pour directly in from the cabin.

Jiro Sakata was obviously aware of the dire consequences that were about to occur. While ordering the sailors to adjust the sails, he desperately pulled the wheel, trying to avoid the fatal collision by steering.

"Let's help them." Lan Qiao said, picking up the light sword, enduring the pain of two lead bullets in the body, and severed the two cables used by the sailor to control the angle of the sail, and completely ruined Jiro Sakata's ability to avoid the impact.

intention.

The Japanese ship failed to turn, and its fragile sides faced the sharp angles of the clipper. Jiro Sakata had no time to pay attention to Lan Qiao and Chen Yuheng on the mast. He shouted in despair and ordered the Japanese pirates to shoot round after round of arrows.

Clippers.

The clipper was well prepared. All the sailors on the deck squatted down and each raised a thick wooden shield. Although the shields were all pierced with arrows, no one was injured.

Chen Yuheng exclaimed: "Well, not only did he avoid the arrows, but he also 'borrowed' all the arrows and could 'return' them to the Japanese pirates in the future."

The sailors on the clipper hid from the arrows, but the speed of the ship was getting faster and faster due to the force of the wind. However, with a loud "boom" sound, the angle iron slammed into the port side of the Japanese ship, causing the Japanese ship to tilt sharply to the right, causing an earthquake.

It trembled violently.

The Japanese pirates staggered around, and few of them could stand firm under such a violent impact. Even Lan Qiao and Chen Yuheng were almost "shaken" from the nine-foot-high mast.

The sailors on the clipper fired arrows again, this time at a very close distance. More than a dozen Japanese pirates who had no power to resist were hit by arrows and rolled on the deck wailing.

Because they were so close, Chen Yuheng suddenly exclaimed, almost in shock, pointing at the clipper and reminding Lan Qiao: "Master, look, this clipper is full of women!"

Without waiting for him to say anything, Lan Qiao had already discovered that the crew of the clipper ship, whether it was the oarsmen, archers or sailors controlling the sails, were all women. The oldest of these women were in their thirties or forties, and the younger ones were only in their teens. Most of them were women.

Women with strong physiques wear short clothes that are convenient for movement, revealing strong arms and legs.

Their captain stood in the middle, wearing a brass mask with a ferocious expression on his head, holding a stainless steel halberd as tall as a person. There was also a female helmsman in her thirties with a black face, standing behind the roulette wheel at the stern of the ship, controlling the ship.

The ship moves forward and backward.

But when they saw the copper-faced captain raising his halberd, as if shouting a slogan, the sailors immediately pursued the victory, threw down their long bows, picked up their swords, and jumped onto the Japanese ship, shouting to kill him.

Except for those injured by rockets and those injured by Lan Qiao and Chen Yuheng, the effective combat strength of the Japanese pirates was only about twenty people. As soon as these female sailors of the clipper jumped on the deck, they slashed and killed many of them.

The Japanese pirate was knocked down by the impact just now, and before he could even stand up again, he was chopped down by the sword again.

The captain wearing a brass mask also jumped on the Japanese ship at this time, dancing his halberd to a whirring sound, and fought among the Japanese pirates, but there was no general under his command.

Among the Japanese pirates, some were knocked off their weapons by the overwhelming force of the halberd, some were thrown into the sea by their companions with knives, and some were hit by the halberd because they couldn't resist. Of course, their waists were broken and their bones were broken, and they fell to the ground seriously injured.

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"Women are not inferior to men, this girl is really capable!" Chen Yuheng looked at the mast and was speechless. "It would be really fun to fight her."

Lan Qiao cautiously analyzed: "She has extraordinary physical strength, maybe her internal strength is not bad, and she has the advantage of heavy weapons. It is really difficult for minions to get close to her, but it will not be useful against a master with exquisite moves."

Soon, there were no more Japanese pirates around the copper-faced captain who dared to fight. She slammed her halberd on the deck and slowly walked towards Jiro Sakata, who was standing alone at the stern of the ship.

Jiro Sakata raised the musket and pointed it at the captain. The two sides froze for a moment, and no one took any further action.

"What should I say?" Chen Yuheng whispered to Lan Qiao, "No matter how powerful they are, they are still made of flesh and blood, and there is no way they can block lead bullets."

"Look at me." Lan Qiao said and jumped down from the mast, and the flowing light sword struck at Sakata Jiro's head like thunder.

When Sakata Jiro heard the sound of the sword blade breaking through the wind, he hurriedly raised his head, his expression suddenly changed with fright. Taking advantage of his distraction, the copper-faced captain took a step forward and swept the stainless steel halberd towards his calf.

With a "bang" sound, the fire gun exploded in Jiro Sakata's panic, but the shot missed due to his unsteady footing. Then he felt a chill on the back of his neck and was stabbed by the light sword.

Although Lan Qiao killed Sakata with one sword, the wound caused by the sword move made it difficult to maintain balance when he landed. Although he tried his best to stand still and staggered a few steps, he still fell on the deck in an extremely embarrassing posture.

, so painful that I almost fainted.

He saw the captain's two leather boots coming in front of his face, and just as he was about to force himself to stand up, the captain suddenly squatted down and reached out to caress his cheek.

Behind the ferocious brass mask, the eyes revealed are full of tenderness.

"You..." Lan Qiao didn't understand what this affectionate touch meant until the captain took off his mask, revealing a beautiful face that he could never believe.

"Hello, husband."
Chapter completed!