The Red Chamber begins with a bastard

Chapter 254 Brothers in Suffering

"It's not good, my aunt is injured." A young female guard in black clothes next to her screamed in panic when she saw Qin Hongyu's calf bleeding.

Qin Hongyu raised her eyebrows and pulled out the wooden thorn inserted into her calf without even frowning. She was really more aggressive than a man, and she yelled: "What are you calling me? I'm not dead yet." Here, bandage it quickly."

"Let me do it!" Chou Nu, the leader of the female guard, rushed over, pushed the young female guard away, and quickly bandaged Qin Hongyu's wound.

Fortunately, it was just a splintered wooden thorn and did not penetrate deeply. If it had been a metal fragment from the cannonball, one of the female gangster's legs would have been destroyed. Now, after being bandaged, she can still stand up.

I saw Qin Hongyu standing up with the help of the ugly slave. She saw that the main mast was broken and the ship was in a mess. Several of his injured men were still screaming in pain, and the pirate who happened to be crushed by the mast was even more miserable. He was already dead, and he couldn't help but be shocked and angry.

The ugly slave gritted his teeth and said: "Look, grandma, the cannon fired over there seems to be a Western ship. Only the heavy cannon of the red-haired foreign ship can shoot so far."

Qin Hongyu hurriedly raised a telescope to observe. As an experienced female pirate, she naturally recognized it as a Western armed merchant ship at a glance. However, at this moment, the flag of the Jin army was hoisted on the ship. She couldn't help but be secretly surprised. Where did the officers and soldiers come from? Armed merchant ships? Could it be that they were robbed?

While Qin Hongyu was thinking, there was another loud blast of a cannon, which shocked her and she hurriedly fell down. Fortunately, this shell did not hit, but hit the rear of the ship, causing a huge water column.

Qin Hongyu is also well aware of the power of these Western armed merchant ships, which are equipped with a large number of artillery, and the range is far beyond the old-fashioned Franco machine artillery. Unfortunately, her ship only has four Franco machine cannons, and the range is only two or three. One hundred meters is several times worse than the opponent's Hongyi cannon with a range of four to five miles. At this distance, you can only be passively bombarded.

"Retreat!" Qin Hongyu weighed it for a moment before decisively ordering a retreat. The three-bow pirate ship immediately turned around and sailed away.

On the Western ship over there, Jia Huan saw the three-pronged pirate ship sailing away. He was surprised at the other party's decisiveness, but also secretly glad, because there were actually not many cannonballs on his ship. If the other party came up regardless, who would win in the end? It’s unknown.

Soon, the Jin army ship with the bow on fire sailed nearby. Jia Huan had already recognized the stone Xingwei on the deck through the telescope. He was relieved and ordered the sails to be lowered and scanned.

When the two boats docked side by side, Shitou, the boy, flipped over the western boat nimbly without waiting for the gangplank, and said in surprise: "Who is the Bodhisattva who saves the suffering? It turns out to be the Third Master, Brother Hu, where did you get it?" The boat is so damn cool."

"I'll fuck you up!" Tiehu angrily grabbed Shitou's collar, clenched his fist as big as a casserole and tried to beat him.

The stone guy immediately held his head and yelled, "You can hit him, just don't hit him in the face."

Upon hearing this, Tiehu hit Shitou with his cannon knee on Shitou's lower abdomen. Shitou squatted down in pain on the spot, his face turned pale, and he almost vomited out yellow bile, which showed that Shitou was very strong.

Seeing that Tie Hu was still going to take action, Jia Huan shouted: "Huzi, that's it!"

Tiehu gritted his teeth and said angrily: "Third Master, don't stop me. If you don't do something cruel, this kid doesn't know how to remember. I'm sure he will do whatever he wants next time."

Xing Wei obviously knew what was wrong. He squatted there and said with a stern expression: "Brother Hu, don't be angry. I won't dare to do it next time. Third Master, please spare this subordinate's life. Moreover, this subordinate has made meritorious service." Woolen cloth."

Tiehu laughed angrily and said: "You still made meritorious deeds. If you hadn't met us, you would have died a long time ago, and even dragged a whole boat of brothers to death in the sea with you."

Xing Wei said a little dissatisfied: "If it weren't for me, Commander Yi Hong of the Jinyi Guard, and Commander Dai Li of the Yangzhou Guard would have burped long ago." Jia Huan's heart moved, and he asked quickly: "Yi Hong and Dai Li are on your ship? "

Xing Wei nodded and said: "Their ship was sunk by pirates. Fortunately, I rescued them in time, otherwise they would have to report to the Dragon King of the East China Sea." After that, he briefly recounted his experience after encountering the storm.

"The storm at sea was so terrible. Our eight-bow ship sank with six bows. All six to seven hundred Yangzhou Guard brothers on board perished in the sea. Although my ship did not capsize, we lost seven brothers and injured more than ten people. "One." Xing Wei said with lingering fear, and continued with a bit of self-blame: "It's all my fault for being too impulsive. I'm obviously not familiar with the sea, but I blindly chased and killed pirates."

Tiehu's anger suddenly rose again after hearing this, and he raised his hand to hit him again. Jia Huan hurriedly held him down and said: "Unexpected things happen in the sky, and this cannot be entirely blamed on the stone. But as the saying goes, never forget the past, never forget the future." Master, Shitou, you must learn from this lesson and stop acting on impulse, Huzi will be worried about you in the past two days."

Shitou lowered his head in shame and said, "Don't worry, Third Master, it won't happen next time. Brother Hu, I'm sorry."

Tiehu just snorted coldly. The two of them had grown up and shared life and death together, and their relationship was not as deep as usual.

Jia Huan asked: "By the way, who were the pirates who were chasing you just now? Was it Kang Dayong and his group?"

Xing Wei immediately said: "It's Qin Hongyu, the fifth leader of Dulong Island. This female bandit has a nickname called Red Lady."

Jia Huan recalled what he saw in the telescope and asked quickly: "Is the female bandit wearing a red cloak?"

Xing Wei nodded and said, "That's her. This thief's skills are quite powerful."

Tiehu raised his eyebrows and said, "Have you ever fought against her?"

Xing Wei shook his head: "That's not true, but when Yi Hong's boat was about to sink, my boat came close to rescue people. The female bandit also took the opportunity to jump on the boat and tried to rob the boat, but was repelled by the brothers. Although I didn't have the chance to fight with her at the time, this female bandit's skills were indeed powerful and she injured several of our brothers. She was very fierce."

Upon hearing this, Tiehu's eyes flashed with cold light, and his fighting spirit was revealed. He thought that if he met the female bandit next time, he would like to meet her for a while.

At this time, the springboard between the two ships was finally set up, and Jia Huan crossed the ship on the springboard.

Xingwei's bow ship was also a three-masted pirate ship captured that day, but now it was in a mess. Although the fire at the stern was extinguished, it was burnt to black. In addition, after being shot just now, a gun was left on the bow deck. There were big holes and broken pieces of wood everywhere. Fortunately, the opponent's cannonballs were not very powerful and did not penetrate the bottom of the boat.

Jia Huan entered the cabin and saw Yi Hong and Dai Li. Both commanders looked defeated and embarrassed, and both were injured. Yi Hong was hit by an arrow in his left arm and was now bandaged with gauze. When he moved, it happened that Dai Li's head was also injured by the falling mast in the storm. Now it is also wrapped in layers of gauze, just like Brother Asan.

These two commanders, one with an injured left arm and the other with a broken skull, looked like a pair of brothers in distress. When they stood together, they made people want to laugh inexplicably.

(End of this chapter)