Jiang Shuo was very amused when he first saw Dugu Xiang chasing and cutting spider silk, but he did not step forward to help. When he saw Dugu Xiang being chased by Cui Tian's two envoys, he hurriedly stepped forward to help with his sword. Cui Qianzhen shouted: "The spider web array quickly stops the little thief named Jiang!"
Everyone from the Demon Cult opened up their formation and surrounded them after the order. Jiang Shuo suddenly remembered that he also had a black iron dagger given by Li Huaixiu, which he had been wearing on his waist. He thought to himself: Xiang'er's gold tooth dagger can cut spider silk. I don't know. Can my black iron dagger be used? So he pulled out the black iron dagger with his backhand and cut it towards a spider silk. This black iron dagger was made with the leftover scraps of Li Huaixiu's black iron sword. It was much shorter than the ordinary dagger, and it looked like a slightly longer one. Some daggers.
Jiang Shuo cut the spider silk with his knife, like a finger touching a string. There was a "clang" sound, but the spider silk was not damaged. He laughed to himself and said: "Sure enough, the gold tooth dagger is still sharp, not because of the length of the thing."
However, everyone in the Demon Sect was frightened by Dugu Xiang. They saw that Jiang Shuo actually had a dagger-like weapon. Moreover, Dugu Xiang's gold tooth dagger was white, while Jiang Shuo's black iron sword was black. Everyone took it for granted. He believed that the black and white double blades were a male and female pair. Although Jiang Shuo did not cut off the thread, the people in the Demon Cult still retreated like an ebbing tide, not daring to come forward to surround him anymore.
Jiang Shuo was amused in his heart and did not chase. He turned around to help Dugu Xiang. Although Dugu Xiang's kung fu was not as good as the two Guangming Envoys, her lightness kung fu was far superior to the two of them. She led the two of them running left and right. It was so lively that they were stunned for a moment. There are also near misses.
Just as Jiang Shuo was about to step forward, he suddenly heard a huge roar, and then the ground shook. A huge boulder flew from nowhere and landed next to the demon cult disciple. The boulder fell to the ground and shattered, splashing out countless fragments. Several members of the Demon Cult smashed their heads to pieces, and before they could recover, another boulder flew towards them, and this time it landed among the crowd, causing even greater casualties.
These two loud noises stunned Dugu Xiang and the two envoys of Guangming. At this time, huge boulders flew in one after another, not only from the Spider Web Formation, but also from the Xuanji Formation of the Erhe brothers on the coast and Yin Ziqi and Da Qi at the top of the mountain plateau. Cannibals were attacked.
Jiang Shuo, Jing Zhencheng and Dugu Xiang met at a place, and Dugu Xiang said: "Oh my God, what kind of strange phenomenon is the falling stone from the sky?"
Jing Zhencheng pointed to the sea and said: "It's not a rock falling from the sky, the boulder was launched from the island."
Jiang Shuo and Dugu Xiang still didn't know what was going on, so Jing Zhencheng explained: "It's a pirate! A big pirate!" Seeing that the two of them still looked confused, Jing Zhencheng felt very strange and said, "You don't know? Beidao Road has always been there. It's not peaceful, there are giant sea pirates who often plunder all the ships along the way. They rob all ships except one, and they never rob Han ships."
Dugu Xiang clapped his chest and said, "We are Han people. Why are they throwing stones at us?"
Jingzhen Cheng said: "The pirates must have been attracted by the three large black ships anchored in the fjord. It seems that the ambush here was not prepared for us... Look! Here they come..."
The three of them looked at the sea and saw several black spots gradually separated from the shadows of the islands in the distance. They turned out to be several giant ships. It was now a headwind. None of these ships had raised their sails, but they could not see the sides of the ships. There are oars and paddles, and two huge waterwheel-like wheels are installed outside the sides of the ship on both sides of the center of the hull. They are rolling rapidly. The waterwheels smash the floating ice on the sea to pieces, and can actually push the giant ship forward. The bow is equipped with There was an iron-clad collision angle that could easily break through the ice. While several giant ships were speeding towards Wuhu Island, several trebuchets on the ship launched one after another, throwing huge rocks over.
Dugu Xiang said: "What a big ship, much bigger than the man-eating black ship." Dugu Xiang had never gone to sea and had never seen a sea ship. When he saw the man-eating ship, he thought it was bigger than the man-eating ship on the river. The ships in the ship were much bigger. Unexpectedly, these pirate ships were much bigger than the big black ships.
Jing Zhencheng said: "Not only are they big cannibals, they are even more powerful than the navy of the Tang Dynasty. The names of these ships are "loach". Loach is a giant fish in the East China Sea. The name of the ship means that it is huge and fast." These loach boats are all five-story high-rise boats. Dozens of people in the cabin step on the pedals to drive the water wheel outside the boat to rotate and push the boat forward. Therefore, they can come and go on the sea like the wind regardless of the cold or heat. "
Jiang Shuo asked curiously: "Then why didn't the Tang Dynasty naval forces destroy them? Did they let the pirates grow so strong?"
Jing Zhencheng said: "These pirates are hiding on overseas islands, and the Tang army does not know where they are hiding. Moreover, they specialize in plundering various places in the past.
Chinese merchant ships never attacked Tang ships, so the Tang navy would not destroy them easily. "
Dugu Xiang said: "Then it seems we are safe."
Jiang Shuo said: "You are blind, how can those pirates tell whether you are from the Tang Dynasty or from another country?" As he was talking, he heard a dense sound of piercing the air. It turned out to be the pirates on the loach boat shooting dense missiles. Feather arrows.
The three of them hurriedly wielded their weapons to strike at the eagle feathers. Fortunately, the loach boat was far away and the arrows were spread over a wide area, so it was not a big threat to the masters. Looking at Yin Ziqi, Brother Erhe, the Second Envoy of Guangming and others They were all knocking down arrows one after another, but many of the big ogres and demon cultists were hit by arrows.
Cui Qianyou shouted: "The wind is blowing hard!" and led all the believers back towards the mountain. In his busy schedule, he forgot to ask everyone to extinguish the flames on the swords in their hands. In the dark night, he was simply giving instructions to the other party. The target attracted a volley of fire from the pirates, resulting in heavy casualties.
Jiang Shuo and the others ran towards the coast. They saw a small boat being lowered from a large ship in the middle. Eight people were rowing the boat. They were flying on the ice sea. Standing on the bow of the boat was Xu Lai, but Xu Lai was not there. When he saw them, he shouted out loud: "Young Master Jiang, where are you?"
Jiang Shuo shouted: "Brother Xu, we are here!"
Xu Lai hurriedly asked the rower to adjust the direction, and the boat rushed onto the beach. He rushed to Jiang Shuo in three steps at a time, crossed his hands and said, "Young Master, I'm scared."
Duguxiang laughed and said, "Brother Xu, why did you change your career to become a pirate?"
Xu Lai said: "Miss Dugu is joking, I am not a pirate, I just travel by sea all the year round and have some friendship with the leaders at sea. It just so happens that today, Chief Feng of Yazhou rarely comes here to do some business, so he gave us a ride." "
The three people from Jiang Shuo boarded the small boat, and the eight people on board pushed the boat back into the sea. The oars shook together, and soon they were back under the loach boat. The deck of the loach boat was extremely high from the sea, and rope ladders were thrown from the boat to let them go. Everyone climbed up, and Jiang Shuo and Dugu Xiang jumped up. The two of them only stepped on the rope ladder twice before getting on the two to three feet high loach boat, which attracted all the pirates on and off the boat to cheer and applaud.
Xu Lai and Jing Zhencheng climbed up the rope ladder obediently. Dugu Wen was already waiting for them on the boat. Dugu Xiang said: "Grandpa, it turns out that you have already boarded the big boat and didn't come to pick me up. Brother Shuo and I were almost trapped in some spider web formation of the demon sect, and it was thanks to my gold tooth dagger..." She kept talking, but omitted the causes and consequences. No one except herself could understand it. , Dugu asked and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, if Xiang'er has anything to say, we'll talk about it later. Let's see how Chief Feng deals with the big cannibal."
Jiang Shuo saw that Chief Feng was a short and lean old man. He was wearing a fur coat, a fur hat, and fur-lined leather boots. His hands were folded in his sleeves. Looking at his face, he seemed to have a kind face and kind eyes. With his snow-white beard neatly trimmed, he looks like a wealthy man who has just arrived in the North and is afraid of the cold, and also like a shrewd and cunning businessman. It is hard to imagine that he is a giant pirate in the sea. .
Leader Feng nodded to Jiang Shuo and said with a smile, "Is this the young hero Jiang Shuo? I only heard that the new leader of the Jianghu Alliance and the leader of the Cao Gang is a young young man, but I didn't expect him to be so young."
Xu Lai crossed his hands and said, "Chief Feng, don't underestimate my young master. Although he is young, he has a handsome character and his martial arts are superb."
Leader Feng said with a smile: "Okay, okay, future generations are to be feared." But he didn't agree with it in his heart. He thought that his handsome character was just empty talk, but in terms of martial arts, even if this young man is talented and has been practicing martial arts since he was born, he can How successful is it? He had always known that the four canal transport gangs were constantly at odds with each other, and he didn't know what had happened this time to make such a young boy the co-leader. But at this moment, he had no intention of asking for details, so he just said a few casual words, and then turned to Asked his subordinates to order: "Helmsman, turn around, the big eater is about to come out."
As the ship turned eastward, the lookout on the mast shouted: "Coming!"
Jiang Shuo and Dugu Xiang also followed the sound and saw three big black eaters turning around the headland of the South Island of Wuhu Island and heading towards the loach boats. The two were approaching. The big eaters took the lead in firing their longbows. The pirates They raised their wooden shields covered with cowhide to resist, but did not fight back. They just adjusted the direction of the bow and rushed towards the big black ship.
At this time, the big man-eating man had fired another volley, but the wall panels of the loach boat were very thick, making it difficult for bows and arrows to penetrate.
Everyone on the deck was protected by shields, so it was difficult for the cannibal's bow and arrow to cause any real damage.
Dugu Xiang said: "Leader Feng, why don't you fight back? Is it because your bow and arrow range is not as good as the cannibal?"
Leader Feng laughed loudly and said, "Little girl, you don't know how to fight at sea. Look, the wind is blowing again now. The ship is bumping on the sea, and the accuracy of the bow and arrow is extremely poor. Trying to win with arrows is nothing more than a dream."
Dugu Xiang pouted and said, "Then you can't just take a beating and not fight back."
Xu Lai saw that Dugu Xiang's words were neither big nor small, and he might have angered Leader Feng, so he hurriedly said: "Xiang'er, don't worry, Leader Feng is powerful all over the world and has his own fighting methods."
Jiang Shuo also tugged at her and said, "Xiang'er, you don't understand naval warfare. You'd better read more and ask less."
Only then did Dugu Xiang stop talking. He picked up the wooden stacks on the boat and watched the big food boat fire a few more rounds. He could only rush and use up his strength, but it was true as Leader Feng said. It was a cross wind at the moment, and the big food boat fired a few more rounds. The incoming feather arrows were blown to pieces by the wind, and most of them fell into the sea. The few that hit the loach boat had become limp and weak.
Several loach boats still did not fight back, and the water wheels on both sides were spinning rapidly, approaching the big food boat rapidly.
