Nie Chen crawled under the iron railing, his eyes peering upward in the dark, his eyes passed through the iron railing, and the scene on the deck was clear at a glance.

I was lucky, but no one was guarding the iron fence.

Zheng Yiguan and Zheng Mang squeezed beside him, and the strip of cloth stained with the strong smell of urine was pinched under the noses of the three of them. However, they didn't care and peeked out from the gaps in the iron railing with their vigilant eyes.

"What are these pirates... what are they going to do?" Nie Chen glanced across the deck and couldn't help but frown and whisper.

Under the bright moonlight, the dark-skinned pirates shrank beside the bulwarks, holding long swords and short guns in their hands, and looked nervously at the sea. Some people climbed on the high mast and kept saying loudly. Nie Chen couldn't understand the Minnan language in his accent, but his tone was urgent and fierce. Several tattooed men with naked upper bodies were fiddling with an iron cannon fixed on the bow of the ship, and shells round like small watermelons were piled up together, and the brazier had been lit.

"Want to fight?" The space in the iron railing was narrow, and Zheng Yiguan had only one eye exposed in the gap. When he saw this scene, he exclaimed in a low voice.

"The ship has been here for two days. Could it be that they are waiting for the passing merchant ship?" He whispered: "There must be a narrow reef nearby. Fujian pirates often use this trick. This is how the boat we were on was ambushed by them."

"How do you know that they are ambushing the merchant ship?" Nie Chen glanced at him.

"My uncle runs business at sea. When he was a child, he often heard adults talk about it. He knew a little bit. Originally, our brothers went to Macau to surrender to him." Zheng Yiguan explained.

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a loud bang on the bow of the ship, a thick smoke rushed up, and the entire ship suddenly bounced back, and the iron cannon on the bow started.

The sound of cannons in the night sky was dull, the shells roared, and the echoes from afar were shocking. It seemed that the sound of cannons was echoing from all directions. This cannon fired four or five cannons late at night.

"Here, I first fired fire and intimidate, and then sailed to block the way. The sea route outside must be very narrow. Now the south wind blows, the merchant ships cannot retreat and cannot turn. They can only rush to the point. These pirates are all veterans." Zheng Yiguan commented and looked very calm.

"What then?" Nie Chen tightened his hands tightly as he pinched the clothes wrapped in a belt.

"Then I chased after me and put on the sidelines, threw flying claws and swung the long ropes, jumped into the ship and killed people, and it was soon over." Zheng Yiguan said. The three of them had experienced this process and were familiar with it. "I don't know where the ship was, and there would be no one left in a boat."

After saying that, Zheng Yiguan and Zheng Mang both looked pale, and the rabbit and fox empathized with sadness.

Nie Chen's eyes were brilliant, and he silted his head and wrapped the cloth around the iron railing.

"Brother Nie, what are you doing?" Zheng Yiguan said in surprise: "The deck is full of pirates, and you will be killed when you go up!"

Nie Chen wrapped the cloth belt on the iron railing into a twisted shape, and twisted his hands hard.

"The pirates are now focused on the hijacking ship. No one will bother to visit us who are guarding the bottom cabin. The night is dark, and it is difficult to find it if they jump off the boat. If it is close to the coast, it is a great time to escape. It will be too late to leave after they are done."

"But...what if I guess I was wrong? If it was far from the coast outside, wouldn't it be like jumping..."

Nie Chen glanced at him, and his dark eyes were extremely resolute: "Then let's take a gamble, you're not wrong."

Zheng Yiguan and Zheng Mang looked at each other after hearing the sound, and were silent for a moment. When they bit their teeth, they both tried their best. The wet clothes were twisted into a straight stick shape, wrapping the iron railings, and soon, the two iron railings were bent and twisted, revealing a space that could be allowed to pass through.

The three of them were overjoyed. Zheng Mang was impatient and got into the gap first. Unexpectedly, he was too big to get in. The loophole in the iron railing just stuck his head, unable to move forward and retreat, and he was so stuck that he screamed and felt pain.

Nie Chen and Zheng Yiguan Khan were both down, fearing that they were discovered by the pirates, and they didn't bother to scold the rash man. One of them pushed his butt desperately, and the other was trying to pull him out. However, they suddenly heard a loud rumbling sound. There seemed to be thunder and lightning in the distance, and the sound came to the world like a thunder sound, and it was like a hit from the clouds. The sound was like a giant elephant rushing incomparable.

The three of them were suffocated at the same time. Zheng Mang, who was stuck in the iron railing, was so scared that he even stopped breathing. Zheng Yiguan and Nie Chen looked at each other, and both saw shock, panic in each other's eyes.

"What's the sound?" Nie Chen licked his lips.

Zheng Yiguan shook his head: "It seems like it was a cannon, but it was not fired by this ship. This ship only has one cannon, so it cannot be fired so quickly..."

Before he finished speaking, the thunder that had not yet ended, turned into a harsh roar, hitting the hull and turning into a ping-pong iron bullet, hitting the pirate ship in the thunder-filled iron and wood junction.

The hull jumped around and shook left and right, and several shells hit the hull at the same time. Nie Chen even saw a big watermelon-like iron bomb smashing one side of the bulwark, smashing a pirate hiding behind into blood mist, and then jumped all the way, leaving one big pit after another on the deck, with wood chips flying across it, and finally bounced under the mast in the middle of the hull, knocking out countless cracks to the mast, which was as thick as two people, and then stopped dripping with blue smoke.

Nie Chen and Zheng Yiguan hugged Zheng Mang's body firmly, so they were not thrown out of the bottom cabin by the violent impact. Zheng Mang was pulled to the point of being screamed, but by chance, he was pulled out of the iron railing.

The three of them fell on the bottom deck together, and fell to their senses.

"This is not a merchant ship. Merchant ships don't have so many cannons. They are a navy! They must be a Ming navy!" Zheng Yiguan growled in ecstasy and reported the good news before he could get up.

"How dare pirates rob the navy warship?" Nie Chen was shocked and asked with his hair in his hands.

"Of course I don't dare. They must have kicked the iron plate because Ye Hei didn't see the appearance of the warship clearly!" Zheng Yiguan struggled to stand up and helped Nie Chen and Zheng Mang: "Brother Nie, this opportunity is really here. The Ming Navy warship is much stronger than this pirate ship. It will definitely defeat the pirates. We are saved!"

"What are you waiting for? Let's go up!" Zheng Mang jumped up again, raising his foot to rush up the wooden ladder.

"Slow! Now the battle is just started, and the arrows are flying everywhere. When we go up, we are easily injured by enemies and us. If we die at the hands of the navy, it would be too unfair. Moreover, if the pirates are anxious and jumped over the wall and chopped us up, it may not be possible." Nie Chen grabbed his arm and pulled the tall and burly boy in a circle.

Zheng Yiguan also said: "Brother Nie is right. It's too dangerous to go up now. It's not too late for us to escape when the fight is almost done."

As the three of them whispered, the others in the bottom cabin could no longer hold back. Nie Chen and the other people's actions just now fell into their eyes. When they heard the Ming navy, they immediately became excited. Once the hope of survival was lit, it would arouse instinctive action. Twenty meat tickets jumped up like rushes and ran towards the exit, crowding into a ball at the iron railing.

"Get out of the way, I am a gentry in Fuzhou, let me go out first!"

"Get out, I'm an old man in Quanzhou, so I should go out first!"

"Go to yours, let me go first!"

These people have been lying silently in the bottom cabin like dead people, but at this moment they burst out with amazing force, shouting and urging, as if the sound of cannons outside gave them endless power.

But the iron bar was just a hole that could barely be released by a person. How could so many people squeeze out at the same time? After you pushed and rubbed me, several heads were stuck there together, and no one could get out.

Suddenly, these people screamed, like flocks of sheep frightened by wild wolves. In an instant, they rolled and crawled down the wooden ladder, and they fell down, and there were two bloody heads.

A pirate cursed on it, kicked off the headless body, and threw it on the floor. The surviving meat tickets retreated to the walls in fear and didn't dare to scream.

"I've been discovered, I can only fight to the death!" The Zheng brothers clenched their fists and glared. Nie Chen pulled them and hid in the shadow behind the wooden ladder. Once the pirates came down, they could attack them.

Fortunately, after the pirates slashed the two people squeezed at the door, they had no time to take care of these meat tickets. They kicked the iron fence a few times and cursed them for a few words, and there was no intention of opening the door to kill people. The sound of cannons at sea roared, and the ship began to move, as if the battle had begun to heat up.

Zheng Mang spat at the meat tickets huddled in the corner, cursing that it would be better to succeed than to make trouble, and then asked: "What should I do now? I can't escape, there must be someone above to be on guard."

Zheng Yiguan looked at Nie Chen. Now the three of them were naked and truly unarmed.

"Wait first, the ship moves. It seems that the pirates are going to escape. If the navy catches up with us, we can be saved. If the navy can't catch up with this ship, we have to rush up even if there is a knife on it." Nie Chen grabbed the wooden ladder's steps with both hands, looked up at the top and said.

The iron fence above the head was as big as a small window, revealing a night sky, and the firelight flashed in the sky, and the shouts of killing in the light and shadow rose and fell, and the hull jumped from time to time, which was the vibration of the shell hit.

After a while, a fat man came over from the corner and approached Nie Chen and said anxiously: "A few heroes, I can see that you are brave and powerful. If you can escape later, can you bring me with you? I am Mingzhou Maritime Businessman, and my family has money. As long as I can take me away, I will give you as much money as I want."

Nie Chen looked back and frowned. He couldn't protect himself at this time, so who cares about money?

Moreover, this fat man seemed to be one of the most fierce people just now. Such people are forgetful of their righteousness when they see profit and have no value in saving them.

Zheng Mang sneered: "We can't take care of ourselves, where can we care about you?"

Seeing that the three of them refused, the fat man was afraid of making mistakes. He hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and fumbled out for a while, and found a piece of crystal clear jade. The jade was as smooth as vermilion, and the whole body was transparent, and it was a priceless treasure at first glance.

But I don’t know where the fat man hid it, but he actually avoided the pirate’s body search.

"This piece of jade is priceless and is considered a down payment. When I escape, I will thank you very much. Please take me with you!"

The fat man was quite reluctant to leave with the beautiful jade, but Nie Chen still didn't say anything, but Zheng Yiguan took it over, wiped the fat man's clothes, and replied with satisfaction: "I'll accept it first, and follow us later."

The fat man was overjoyed, nodded repeatedly, stood tightly beside the three of them, and then watched Zheng Yiguan put away the beautiful jade, his eyes full of reluctance and loss.

Everyone in the bottom cabin was silently motionless, and there were crying sounds in the darkness, only the Zheng brothers stood behind Nie Chen. Nie Chen counted silently in his heart. When the ninth iron bomb hit the hull, the entire ship paused suddenly, almost overturned as if it was hit by some giant object.

Nie Chen and the other two fell down, but Zheng Yiguan laughed loudly and shouted ecstaticly: "It's up to the help! The navy is catching up!"

The three of them turned over and got up, climbed the wooden ladder and carefully approached the iron fence. They dared not to lean up, so they could only hide a little farther away and listened carefully. The sound of firecrackers like fried beans sounded on the deck, and there were sounds of unrecognizable voices shouting, footsteps were chaotic, mixed with the roars of pirates, the sound of weapons entering the flesh and the dying screams were thrilling.

Zheng Yiguan whispered in Nie Chen's ear: "The navy sounds like he's on board, can we get out?"

He felt that Nie Chen was very brainy and subconsciously wanted to ask for his opinions.

"Just wait here, now it is the safest place." Nie Chen said decisively, staring at the window above without blinking: "When the navy boards the ship, the savior will come!"
Chapter completed!