Chapter 240
Qiao Sheng and his team estimated that it would take two days to reach Pei Hong's fleet, but the pirates delayed their progress. The originally planned two days were extended to three and a half days as they worked hard to clean up the pirate ships.
It's not that they didn't work hard, but there were pitfalls every three steps and obstacles every five steps. They had to stop the ship to fight from time to time.
In the end, they all decided to give up. In order to leave more supplies when fighting pirate ships, they rarely used artillery and used bows and crossbows since they became proficient. This time, because they were in a hurry, they all changed to artillery and catapults.
As a result, four or five pirate ships sank before they could loot them, and they only had time to take away the tokens on the pirate corpses floating on the sea.
They comforted themselves that they didn't lack a little supplies with their big family and big business, but they couldn't help but feel a little distressed when the ship started.
When they saw Pei Hong's fleet, they were still hiding in the corner to clean up the pirates who had come out of the pirate island.
It is said that they have been hiding far away and intercepting here for four days. There are really stocks on this island, and there are more than 20 pirate ships. However, what makes people curious is that after intercepting more than 20 ships, there is no large number of pirates collectively dispatched to check the situation.
Li Mu first communicated with Pei Hong, and learned from him the general situation of the pirates on the island, such as the guards on this island are two shifts a day, changing shifts at midnight and noon, and there are pirates guarding every direction.
"Then they didn't see you intercepting them from this position?" Li Mu was very surprised.
"That's the strange thing. You won't be discovered here, but you will be discovered if you get within 100 meters. The pirates on the island will blow the horn immediately and sound the alarm. We have also tested this distance. We let the ships of the large force stop at a safe distance. I have the accelerating oil on my ship. I took a few team members and went in. If they were discovered, they would row the ship frantically. After precise measurement, 100 meters is the limit. If you get close, you will be chased. The pirates will not give up until 300 meters away." Pei Hong told them all the situations they had summarized in the past few days.
"Okay, what are you going to do? Attack from one place or attack in different places?" Li Mu saw that the other party was well prepared, so he asked the other party about the plan with confidence.
"Your ship will circle the island at a safe distance to see the situation. I am also afraid that I have not observed everything here. If you are all right after the circle, we will attack in this direction. I have surveyed other directions and they are not good. The sea water flow in the west is too fast. I don't know why. The ship is a little out of control when it reaches there. Fortunately, I had many team members at that time, so only one ship passed by, otherwise it would have almost been stuck there. There are high mountains in the north and east. There is no need to climb the cliffs this time, right?" Although he had already surveyed the terrain, Pei Hong felt that he still had to be careful. After all, there would be frequent civil wars in the future, and it would be best if he could avoid reducing the number of personnel.
After discussing the general idea, Li Mu returned to the ship, turned on the driving equipment, and went around the island with Qiao Sheng and his team. Their ship was fast, and after one round, it was really just like what Pei Hong and his team said.
For the sake of safety, he also asked Ah Dai to go around the island, and found nothing unusual, so he returned to the south and prepared to attack together.
Qiao Sheng and his team's ship was still the first to take the lead. The reason was very simple. They had more firepower. Although Pei Hong and his team did not have artillery on the ship, some of the team members were good at bows and crossbows, and they also had catapults. When the players and the equipment cooperated in the attack, their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.
The battle started at noon. Qiao Sheng and his men rushed forward and launched a barrage of bombardment. However, because they would be discovered within 100 meters, they had to let the pirates on guard blow the horn to inform other pirates on the island.
However, they did not intend to attack in close combat. In fact, they only used bows and crossbows to shoot scattered pirates at the beginning.
It was not until a large number of supporting pirates approached that they activated artillery and catapults, which were also very effective. When the pirates came to support, they only saw the arrows shot at them, but did not see other weapons with greater lethality. They became a little braver and stood closer to the shore. They only needed to find some big rocks to cover themselves before they could fight back.
There were even crossbow carts that the pirates had retreated from. When Qiao Sheng and his team saw this thing, they reacted very quickly and immediately changed their target, making sure to destroy the opponent's crossbow carts as soon as possible.
However, the four of them operating the artillery were still not as fast as the dozen or so crossbow carts. Even if they destroyed ten of them at the fastest speed, there were still three crossbow carts that escaped and shot large arrows.
The killing power was also great. Two arrows hit Qiao Sheng's ship. Because of the strong enough force, they even shook a little. Another arrow hit the ship in Pei Hong's team. The ship was not big to begin with, and it didn't look like it was reinforced. Sure enough, the arrow hit the hull and immediately broke into pieces. If the guys on the ship hadn't run fast enough and avoided the attack, they might have turned into a white light at that time.
Qiao Sheng quickly ignited the cannon and blew up the last three crossbow carts as quickly as possible. Regardless of whether these pirates could come up with more crossbow carts later, at least it could buy time for the players in Pei Hong's fleet, otherwise those players without hull protection would soon be attacked again.
The two sides cooperated well, and Qiao Sheng and Li Mu's firepower attacks became more and more rapid. Pei Hong took the players with damaged hulls to other safe ships, and even moved his own ship to the front, calling on players who were good at crossbows to attack him.
After all, his ship was reinforced and safer.
After two hours of long-range attacks, Li Mu also asked Ah Dai to go around the island. He had knockout drugs on his claws. He flew all over the island and threw some drugs on pirates when he saw them. He came back after all the pirates were knocked out by the drugs.
Ah Dai came back quite quickly. In less than half an hour, Qiao Sheng and his team had almost completely eliminated the supporting pirates from the south, and Ah Dai came back with an empty bag in his paw.
Originally, Qiao Sheng and his team were going to go to the island with Pei Hong to clean up, but Ah Dai's strange behavior made them decide to follow Ah Dai. This guy actually took them to the west of the island. Pei Hong and his team did not follow them, and decided to clean up the pirates at the south gate first.
When Qiao Sheng and his team arrived at the strange sea area in the west, they found that the turbulent water when they came here before was gone, and it was very smooth when passing by.
When they arrived at the west shore, they saw four pirate ships, and Yang Fan was about to leave.
"What's the situation? You want to run away after the fight?" Xia Beibei asked curiously after seeing the situation outside through the wooden window.
"It's impossible to run away. After all, Ah Dai led us here. He must have been drugged. Let's go. We can go to work on the boat." Qiao Sheng shrugged, took out some snacks from his wrist bag and fed them to Ah Dai, then got off the boat with the others.
In order to avoid accidents, the four people took the cassock cubs and they all acted together. They got on the boat to make up for the first time. Qiao Sheng and his team made up for the first time, Xia Beibei and Lin Haiyang were responsible for searching for tokens, and the cassock cubs followed behind and were responsible for throwing the pirate corpses off the boat. Their assembly line was running very fast, and because Su and Simba were smaller in size, the three of them pulled and dragged together.
The cassock cub was indeed a considerate bear. After throwing away his own corpses, he would also throw the three corpses that were transported into the sea. Qiao Sheng looked back and saw it inadvertently. He thought that he was indeed a clever little kid raised by them, each one smarter than the other.
When Pei Hong and his team came, Qiao Sheng and his team had already dismantled two pirate ships and were struggling on the third one.
"Have you finished dealing with Pei's side? Just cleared that ship as well. Remember to make up for it. All the pirates on the ship have been knocked out with knockout drugs." Li Mu said, and continued to do his own work.
After they looted and dismantled the ship, Pei Hong's side was also done.
After the two sides communicated, they found out why there was no more support from the south. It turned out that this group of pirates was preparing to escape when the situation was not good. Those who stayed behind to hold back Qiao Sheng and the others were all abandoned. The other pirates had already boarded the ship. Fortunately, Ah Dai flew over quickly.
In order to ensure that all the pirates were knocked out with the drug at once, it also hovered over the four ships for a while to attract all the pirates out before starting to use the drug. The effect was also very good. It really knocked out everyone.
Pei Hong was originally planning to return the same way, but after hearing Li Mu say that the strange phenomenon in the western sea area did not appear when they came here, he decided to get on the boat and follow them to investigate.
The strange sea area was actually not far from the shore. It was calm when they just came, but now there are turbulent currents when they go there. Fortunately, Qiao Sheng and his boat drove the propulsion equipment and quickly drove the boat away from that place.
"This should be the natural barrier on the west side of their island. There should be some every day. No wonder another group of support came later. That group was not here to fight us, but to delay time. If we hadn't let Ah Dai go to the island for a tour, these pirates would have really run away." Qiao Sheng finally understood what was going on.
Back to the south, Fang Yueyi had already taken the remaining team members to the island to search for supplies. The island was big enough that they even stayed on the island for two more days, until there was not even a tree left on the island.
When leaving, Pei Hong looked at the bare island behind him and really wanted to say that there was a reason why Li Mu and his team were rich. Not all players could loot wherever they went.
Especially since they were fast. So many of his team members went to the island to cut wood at a speed similar to that of the four of them.
It was a pity that these people were lone wolves, otherwise if they were recruited into his fleet, they would be able to travel across the sea.
After leaving the pirate island, Qiao Sheng and his team got a lot of wood. Pei Hong didn't want the pirate headquarters flag, so he gave it to them directly. The rest of the food and supplies on the island belonged to Pei Hong. Anyway,
both sides took what they needed. When collecting supplies, whoever collected the most got it. Pei Hong had more people, but Qiao Sheng and his team were fast, so the two sides split it in half.
What they didn't expect was that there was actually a small mine on the island. Qiao Sheng and his team didn't stop, and they blew it up directly with explosives. After taking the ore, they asked Pei Hong and his team to choose it. After all, the other party also contributed when occupying the island.
However, Pei Hong didn't want anything, and the reason was simple. They didn't have the diagrams of the smelting furnace and artillery until now. Li Mu wanted to help them make them, but the materials needed were really a lot. After consideration, Pei Hong's fleet decided to do it this way first, and then bother Li Mu and his team when the materials were gathered.
Not long after drifting on the sea, Qiao Sheng heard the reward notification from the system, but the reward this time was not as much as the last time, only one diagram.
But this diagram was exactly what he wanted [Large Arrow Diagram], which meant that in the future they could replace the musket with the cannon, and replace the long-range weapon such as the catapult with the crossbow cart, which would increase the lethality by several levels.
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