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Chapter 608: Pirates' Wupeng Boat

More than a dozen sloops of war had no lights on.

At the bow of each boat stood several masked men dressed in black, either holding knives or ignited arrows.

The next second, the flaming arrows shot towards the main ship.

The arrow landed on the deck and immediately caught fire.

"Protect His Royal Highness Prince Yi, protect His Royal Highness Prince Yi..." Jin Run shouted, ran a few steps away, blew the horn, and sounded the alarm.

Yang Yi was even more panicked: "How could there be pirates? The north is inland and not close to the sea. It has always been peaceful. How could there be pirates? How could there be pirates..."

"Woo-woo-woo-" As the horn sounded, the entire river surface suddenly became chaotic.

Zhou Chang rushed to the cabin under the protection of Gao Yuan, Shouhou and several officers and soldiers.

Jin Run turned around and rushed to the cabin with Yang Yi.

However, before everyone could get down to the cabin, the sailors below all rushed up. One sailor was horrified and fell to the ground when he saw Jin Run: "Oh no, Deputy Commander... The cabin is leaking."

Before Zhou Chang could react, he heard several official ships around him blowing their horns, and then shouts for help were heard everywhere: "Oh no, there's a fire... Put out the fire, put out the fire..."

Flames and thick smoke began to emerge from several official ships.

Under the night sky, the river surface turned into a sea of ​​fire.

Zhou Chang went to look for Yuan Qi's pleasure boat in a daze.

Yuan Qi seemed to have noticed something was wrong here, and the people on the pleasure boat pointed in this direction and shouted to warn people.

Seeing that the situation was not right, several civilian ships not far away began to turn around and move away, resulting in the ships not being able to take care of each other and colliding with each other.

"Commander Jin, where are the sampans?" Only Gao Yuan was quick-witted and reminded Jin Run, "Hurry up and have someone prepare the sampans. If the fire is too late to put out and the ship sinks again, we must consider using the sampans to reach the shore."

"Yes, yes..." Jin Run was the newly promoted deputy commander, and it was his first time leading a team. He was already panicking, but after Gao Yuan reminded him, he remembered, "Your Highness, Your Highness, I will go and prepare the sampan..."

As he spoke, he rushed towards the stern of the ship, but before he had taken a few steps, five or six dark shadows suddenly flipped up from under the side of the ship.

Jin Run was blocked and the two sides engaged in close combat.

An officer guarding the hatch also shouted: "There is an assassin..."

Immediately, a black-clad pirate jumped out of the cabin.

Gao Yuan stood in front of Zhou Chang in a second.

Shooting rockets, drilling holes in the bottom of boats, and even climbing aboard to assassinate people, are there really such bold pirates?

Are they deliberately robbing the official ship during the Lantern Festival?

In an instant, the whole world was in chaos.

The wind was strong, the waves were high, flames were shooting into the sky, the ship was unstable, but the assassins kept attacking.

From a few to more than a dozen, Gao Yuan and several soldiers were unable to resist at all.

Zhou Chang and Shouhou were forced to the side of the boat.

Gao Yuan kept his sword in front of Zhou Chang to protect him. He looked at Yang Yi and the officials huddled together beside him, and thought of another way: "Where is your boat? How did you get up there just now?"

Yang Yi was already panicking and had no choice but to turn around and look at his subordinates.

Bei Ji's subordinates were all quite drunk in the cabin just now, and now they were half-awake from the shock, and all looked mournful and terrified.

One of them even burst into tears: "Ah... just now, just now... someone got drunk and boarded the docked boat first. He has already rowed away and may not come back yet. Ah... are we doomed, ah..."

Zhou Chang's heart sank as well.

Today, Yang Yi brought quite a lot of people on board the main ship. As the number of boats was limited, and there were not only people but also food, musical instruments and other items, they had been using small boats to travel back and forth.

As for the navy camp, since today was a holiday, most people asked Jin Run to arrange for them to go ashore early.

Naturally, the small boats never came back.

If this is the case, the small boat cannot be relied upon, so what should those people trapped on the big ship do?

Gao Yuan still didn't say a word, but his brows were deeply furrowed.

Yang Yi was also at a loss: "Your Highness, Your Highness...what should I do?"

Jin Run couldn't rush to the stern of the ship, so he came back with a dozen soldiers.

In panic, he never forgot Zhou Chang: "Your Highness Prince Yi, it's dangerous to go down now. The cabin is flooded. It seems that someone deliberately set fire to the rear cabin. The deck..."

Before he could finish his words, there were two "whoosh" sounds and Zhou Chang instinctively dodged.

Gao Yuan had already blocked it with his knife.

Below the side of the ship, the pirates' Wufeng boats had surrounded it and were shooting rockets upwards from below.

Zhou Chang was still in shock, with countless thoughts popping up in his mind.

who is it?

Is this big fuss intended to put Prince Yi to death?

Or are you here for food and medicinal materials?

……

Gao Yuan and Shouhou protected Zhou Chang from the front and back.

Jin Runze led a dozen officers and soldiers to fight with the assassins.

After several attempts to break out, the number of black-clad bandits increased.

At the same time, Yang Yi and a group of subordinates tried to break out from the other side, but failed.

The longer the time, the more difficult it will be for us to continue.

Below the surrounded main ship, flaming arrows were still falling on the deck like meteors, and the ship was full of flames.

Zhou Chang gradually became desperate. What he feared was bound to come true.

I originally didn't want to take the ship because I was afraid that the nightmare would happen again, but I never thought that I would encounter such an unprecedented attack when I had already arrived in Beiji and thought I was in the safest port.

In the chaos, a shout suddenly came from the side of the ship behind me: "Jump down, jump down..."

Zhou Chang rushed to the side of the boat following the sound.

At some point, Yuan Qi's pleasure boat came closer, and several people accompanying him were shouting towards them.

Relying on its large hull, the pleasure boat squeezed out a path among the pirates' black-sailed boats and even released two pleasure boats from under the hull.

Telling her to jump down was obviously intended to make her jump onto the pleasure boat.

However, as soon as the pleasure boat shouted, black-clad pirates from their sloop-of-war boats fired rockets at the pleasure boat, and the pleasure boat immediately caught fire.

"Be careful..." Zhou Chang saw an arrow shot towards the second floor of the houseboat.

Gao Yuan and Shou Hou were always protecting on both sides, but they were also forced to the side of the ship.

Gao Yuan blocked the attack with one hand in his busy schedule, turned his head and glanced at Zhou Chang, then said, "Your Highness, if it doesn't work, we have to prepare to jump into the water. The fire on the deck is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more assassins."

Jin Run also moved closer while blocking, but he had another worry: "No, no, Master Gao... There are bandits all over the water, wouldn't it be worse if he jumped in?"

"Yes, yes... I can't swim..." Zhou Chang refused ten thousand times.

Gao Yuan killed an assassin in a few moves, and then shouted at Jin Run: "You let the brothers on the surrounding boats jump in with their men and scuttle their boats. Are the imperial navy worse than the little pirates?"

Once Jin Run was reminded, he became brave again: "Yes, Master Gao is right, I will send someone into the water right away."

It was obvious that the main ship Zhou Chang was on was the target of the wupeng boat's assist.

Although several government ships nearby were also on fire, they had not yet been attacked by pirates and were just busy putting out the fire.