Of course Lin knew that after she made such a loud noise, the guards outside would definitely not pretend not to hear it.
So, even though her back hurt so much that she felt as if her lumbar vertebrae and ribs were broken into countless pieces, after successfully smashing the chair , she still gritted her teeth, endured the severe pain, stood up, and grabbed two chair legs that were dismembered from the chair on the ground.
Because she had no weapon at hand, Lin could only grab a chair leg with each hand to make do.
As soon as he ran to the door, he happened to run into the doorman who opened it.
No need to say more - left-handed Lin swung the chair leg in her left hand and hit the doorman who opened the door on the head.
Although he was seasick and had just struggled to free himself from the chair in a way that was tantamount to self-harm, and his back was aching badly, but no matter how bad his physical condition was, Lin's strength was definitely not something that ordinary cats and dogs could contend with.
A very relaxing feeling spread throughout Lin's palm.
While using the chair leg in her left hand to smash the head of the security guard in front, Lin multitasked by stabbing the chair leg in her right hand towards the throat of another security guard.
The man's Adam's apple, which had originally protruded outward, was stabbed into his throat by Lin's merciless thrust...
The man's eyes rolled back, white foam came out of the corners of his mouth, and his body trembled violently as if he had the hiccups, and he fell to the ground.
After quickly taking care of the two guards in the front with lightning speed, Lin used the step from the Wuwo Two Swords Style to slip into the middle of the remaining guards at the back.
The remaining four guards all reacted at this time.
As if it was a conditioned reflex, they subconsciously stepped back and put some distance between themselves and Lin.
As we all know, the Musketeers who were approached and the Musketeers who were not approached are completely two different "species".
The flintlock rifle was too long and difficult to use flexibly, so once the gunner was approached, the consequences would be extremely disastrous...
Muga's Two Swords Style: Cicada Rain!
Lin waved the chair legs with both hands as if dancing.
The two chair legs drew four different arc-shaped trajectories, accurately hitting the heads or throats of the remaining four guards.
From successfully getting out of the chair to knocking down the six guards at lightning speed - it took Lin less than 10 seconds.
“Ha…ha…ha…uuuu…!”
After a period of intense activity, Lin felt the urge to vomit even stronger.
She pursed her lips tightly and swallowed her saliva wildly, trying to suppress the turbulence in her body. At the same time, despite her poor physical condition and a slightly staggering pace due to her unfamiliarity with the shaking boat, she ran back to the room where she had been imprisoned and clung to the only window in the room.
The only window in the room is quite small.
Even Lin, who was already very petite, could only barely squeeze her head and one shoulder out of the window.
"No...I can't get out..."
Lin, who had tried several times but failed to squeeze herself out of the window, had no choice but to give up her plan of "escaping by jumping into the sea".
“I can only fight my way out for now… Ugh…! Guuuuu…!”
A "turbulent flow" surged in her stomach again, forcing Lin to bend down and retch.
Lin hadn't eaten anything since last night, so her stomach was empty and she could only vomit some saliva and bile.
The constant pain in her back and the urge to vomit that had been tormenting her since the ship set sail made Lin's face terribly pale.
Lin guessed that some of her ribs on her back were fractured. Every time she moved her back muscles, she grimaced in pain.
"Now is not the time to be vomiting bile here...!"
Lin spat on the ground without caring about her image. After spitting out all the remaining bile in her mouth, she raised the back of her left hand and wiped her mouth hard.
Even though his face looked horrible.
Even though I felt very uncomfortable.
Lin's gaze never changed.
Like a tiger ready to pounce, he burst with strong energy, without a trace of hesitation or confusion in his eyes.
After simply adjusting her breathing, Lin threw away the two chair legs in her hands and staggered to the bodies of the six guards to pick up their rifles.
Even if used as a blunt weapon, a musket is obviously many times better than a chair leg.
Lin is not in good physical condition now, and carrying too many heavy muskets on her body would be a burden.
Therefore, according to her current condition, she only took three muskets - two of which she carried on her back as spare weapons, and the other one was held in her hand.
After making all the preparations, Lin ran out of the room.
However - just as she walked to the door frame, she suddenly seemed to remember something, her body paused, and then turned to look at... a large cabinet in Toyotomi Nobuhide's bedroom.
After staring at the large cabinet in the room with a thoughtful look for a while, Lin gritted her teeth and went back into the room.
——I remember... that bastard put that thing here... Got it!
After rummaging around in the large cabinet for a while, Lin pulled out a brocade box locked with an exquisite little lock...
After confirming that this was indeed the brocade box that Toyotomi Nobuhide had shown her before, which contained an extraordinary item, Lin subconsciously clenched the fingers of both hands that were holding the brocade box.
After muttering, "This thing cannot be left to a madman like Nobuhide," Lin tucked the brocade box under her armpit and ran out the door without stopping.
——I have to... find a window to escape quickly...
Lin's goal now is to find a window that can accommodate her body and allow her to escape overseas.
If she could find such a window, Lin would be confident that she could escape.
Lin is still somewhat confident about swimming.
Lin staggered down the corridor.
Unfortunately... before I ran far, the strong urge to vomit came again.
Lin's terrifying ruthlessness once again flashed with brilliant light.
"vomit……!"
She couldn't help but vomit again.
But she didn't stop.
She continued to move forward while vomiting.
Even as a dirty liquid mixed with saliva and bile dripped onto her clothes, she remained calm.
The urge to vomit is something that comes suddenly and goes away quickly.
After vomiting for a while, Lin felt that the "turbulence" in her body gradually subsided.
--good……
Lin wiped her mouth and chin casually.
——While you are feeling better now, hurry up...
Boom——!!
Lin suddenly heard a deafening explosion behind her.
Along with the explosion, there were also terrible vibrations and airflows.
The huge hull of the Hikari Maru shook violently several times.
A huge airflow like a hurricane blew from behind Lin, knocking Lin to the ground without any preparation.
——What’s going on? !
Lin quickly got up from the ground and cast a surprised look towards the corridor behind where there seemed to be a faint smoke spreading.
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Hikari Maru, on the deck—
"...Ogata Ittosai and Hakko, they really know how to give me 'surprises'."
"This feeling of having your plans disrupted... is really frustrating enough to make you want to kill someone..."
At this time, Toyotomi Nobuhide's hands were resting on the railing in front of him.
After he finished his whispered sigh, the railing he was holding with both hands... immediately made a "creaking" sound as if the wood was squeezed and broken...
Kasugabe, who was standing next to Toyotomi Nobuhide, now didn't dare to look at his master's face.
He looked at his nose with his eyes, and his nose at his heart, and buried his head low.
A few drops of cold sweat oozed from his forehead, then slid to the tip of his nose, and then dripped from his nose onto the deck.
Having followed Toyotomi Nobuhide for many years, he knew his master's character too well - Toyotomi Nobuhide liked to see things turn out according to his expectations and plans.
Simply put: Toyotomi Nobuhide had a strong desire for control.
He didn't like to see any unexpected deviations from his plans.
Once he sees that his plans are disrupted and things are beyond his control... Toyotomi Nobuhide's character becomes extremely terrifying.
The things that Toyotomi Nobuhide did in this state... Kasu Bee still remembers them vividly, and feels chills every time he thinks of them...
"...Kasuho." Toyotomi Nobuhide released his hands from the railing and put them behind his back.
"exist!"
When he heard Toyotomi Nobuhide calling his name, Kasugabe quickly responded loudly.
"Pull Hikarimaru closer."
"Lord Toyotomi, are we going to... go to the Hulumaru to fight a decisive battle with Ogata Ittosai and his men?" Kasuga Bee asked in a cautious tone.
"Now that Ogata Ittosai and his men have caught up with us, it will be difficult for us to shake them off."
The more Toyotomi Nobuhide spoke, the colder his tone became.
"Just now on Mount Koya, I temporarily avoided the battle, but they came after me... They are so annoying, I am a little disgusted with them."
"They want to have a good fight with us, so I will do as they wish."
"There won't be many enemies on the gourd pill right now... maybe only Ogata Ittosai will be there."
"It will take some time for Bogong and others on the sea to board the gourd-shaped gourd and meet up with Ogata Ittosai on the gourd-shaped gourd."
"Let's use this little time to defeat them one by one."
"While the old man and his men are still floating on the sea, let's first kill Ogata Ittosai on the gourd ball."
"After Bogong and his men board the ship, we will deal with them one by one."
"...I understand." He Xufeng nodded solemnly.
"Ah, Kasugabee, please help me call Yoshihisa over later."
A smile slowly appeared on Toyotomi Nobuhide's face...a smile that made people feel creepy.
"If we want to get rid of Ogata Ittosai before the uncle and his men arrive, I'm afraid it will require the combined efforts of me and Yoshihisa."
"I see."
After He Xufeng nodded solemnly again, he prepared to turn around and give orders to the entire ship.
But... at this moment -
Boom! !
A huge explosion suddenly sounded behind the Hikari Maru!
The huge ship trembled slightly due to the sudden explosion.
The gun deck below seemed to be affected by the explosion as well.
Toyotomi Nobuhide clearly felt that many of the artillery pieces below seemed to have misfired.
"What happened again?" Toyotomi Nobuhide turned his head to look at the stern where the explosion came from, and his brows, which had just relaxed for a short while, frowned again.
He Xufeng was also confused and shocked now: "This sound... seems to be the gunpowder magazine storing gunpowder at the stern of the ship exploding!"
He Xufeng, who has been dealing with ships for many years, instantly recognized that the explosion just now was not the sound made when the ship was hit by a bullet.
Since he wasn't shot...then there is only one possibility left.
As soon as Toyotomi Nobuhide and Kasuga Bee finished their speech, a dusty crew member ran towards them in a hurry.
"Lord Toyotomi, Lord Kasugabee! It's bad! The gunpowder magazine at the stern has exploded!"
This person said exactly the same thing as Kasugabee's previous speculation.
"How did the explosion happen? What are the victims like?" Although his brows were furrowed so tightly that they could pinch a fly to death, Toyotomi Nobuhide's tone remained calm and his voice was composed.
"The cause is still unknown!" the crew member answered quickly. "The known damages are: the stern rudder is damaged! Some gun muzzles near the explosion point are damaged! The number of casualties is conservatively estimated to be around 30!"
"Tsk... Is the stern rudder damaged..." Toyotomi Nobuhide, who knew how important the stern rudder was to a ship, clenched and unclenched his hands behind his back, repeating this action over and over again.
Simply put, the stern rudder is an important component that assists the ship in steering and navigation.
Once damaged, the control of the ship... especially for such a large warship, the difficulty of operation will increase exponentially.
"Kasu-ho," Toyotomi Nobuhide asked in a deep voice, "Now that the stern rudder is damaged, is there any way to get the Hikari Maru to approach the Hulu Maru?"
"That depends on the extent of the damage to the stern rudder..."
Ta-ta-ta!
Before He Xufeng could finish his words, he was interrupted by the sound of hurried footsteps.
Another crew member hurried towards Toyotomi Nobuhide and Kasuga Bee.
"Lord Toyotomi, Lord Kasugabee!"
"What happened again?" Toyotomi Nobuhide asked calmly.
"The person who was imprisoned in your room... escaped!"
He Xufeng's expression froze.
The cold sweat that had just stopped broke out again on He Xufeng's cheeks.
Since Yuan Yi and his companions appeared, all kinds of annoying accidents have occurred one after another...
Kasuho... I don't dare to imagine what expression Toyotomi Nobuhide is having right now...
He carefully and slowly turned his head...
When he caught a glimpse of Toyotomi Nobuhide's face behind him out of the corner of his eye... Kasugabe was stunned.
Toyotomi Nobuhide did not look as ugly and scary as he had imagined.
Not only did he not show a scary expression, but he even showed... a smile.
"Ha, hahaha." Toyotomi Nobuhide smiled comfortably, "Troubles really come one after another..."
"Oh, that's fine."
"I want to see... Is it these successive difficulties that knock me, Toyotomi Nobuhide, down, or is it me, Toyotomi Nobuhide, who overcomes these difficulties!"
Toyotomi Nobuhide loosened his hands which had been behind his back.
"Kasu-ho, follow the plan we just made. If the stern rudder is still usable, move the Hikari Maru towards the Hulu Maru."
"If it doesn't work, forget it."
"I'm going to go meet...my disobedient sister."
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At this moment, at sea——
"Master Genichi! The gunfire from the other ship... seems to have died down a lot!" Makimura Asahi Terumaru pointed.
Genichi followed the direction pointed by Makimura and glanced at Hikari Maru, who was the farthest from them. He frowned slightly and said, "There seems to be smoke coming out of their side."
"Did something happen on that ship?" asked Makimura.
"Who knows." Mamiya on the side responded indifferently.
"Forget it, let's not worry about it!" Genichi turned his gaze from the Hikari Maru to the Hulu Maru which was not far away from them, "Why bother about that ship! Anyway, as long as we know that their gunfire has stopped, it will be in our interest!"
"Push harder! We're almost at the ship ahead!"
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Huluwan, upper gun deck——
The cabin is not spacious, and it is the perfect battlefield for those who are good at close combat.
Sakakibara Ittoryu, Bird Thorn!
Ogata did not use his Daishakuten or Daijizai to stab the enemy in front of him away.
Instead, he used a flintlock rifle that he had just picked up.
Ogata thrust the flintlock in his hand forward, and the tiny tip of the gun pierced the belly of the enemy in front of him.
The powerful force contained in the tip of the gun is like an invisible cannonball.
After being stabbed in the stomach by the gun tip, the man immediately seemed to be hit by an invisible cannonball. His eyes rolled back and he fainted. Then he flew backwards and hit the wall behind him hard.
Not only was he knocked unconscious by the invisible artillery shells, he was also blown away.
"Huh..." Ogata let out a long breath and then threw away the flintlock in his hand.
After looking around the messy gun deck, he murmured:
"Finally, everything has been cleared..."
At this moment, Ogata was on the upper gun deck of the Hulumaru.
Both the Hikari Maru and the Hulu Maru have two gun decks.
The place where Ogata had just landed was the lower gun deck closest to the sea.
Therefore, Ogata just now could only be considered to have killed the gunners on the lower artillery deck of Hurumaru and only eliminated half of Hurumaru's artillery.
In order to silence all the guns on the Hulumaru and minimize the pressure on Genichi and his men in crossing the sea, Ogata had been looking for a way to get to the upper gun deck since a while ago.
This road is not difficult to find.
Although Hulucan is a huge sailing warship, it is precisely because it is a military sailing warship that the layout inside cannot be as complicated as a maze, making it difficult for people to find the way.
Ogata found the stairs to the upper deck effortlessly and successfully reached the upper gun deck.
The man that Ogata had just stabbed with his flintlock rifle was the last gunner on the upper artillery deck who had not yet had time to escape.
At this point, Ogata had finally completely destroyed all of Hulucamaru's firepower points.
Crackle, clackle...
Ogata heard the sound of dense footsteps approaching.
Most likely, it's the other combatants on this ship, coming here to reinforce.
Ogata ignored the footsteps.
After completely clearing all the firing points on the upper gun deck, he immediately leaned over the gun muzzle next to him and looked out at the sea.
As soon as he stuck his head out of the muzzle of the gun, Xu Fang immediately found what he was looking for.
"Master Genichi!"
Ogata stretched his hand out of the muzzle of the gun, waved vigorously at the several people clinging to the wooden board on the sea not far away, and shouted the name of one of them.
Thanks to the efforts of the people on the wooden board, they are now only a few meters away from the gourd ball.
With such a short distance between them, the people on the wooden board heard Ogata's voice and discovered Ogata's location at the first moment.
"Ogata-kun!" Genichi waved to Ogata in response.
"Come to my side!" Ogata said, "I'll find a rope for you to come up!"
After saying that, Ogata withdrew his head from the muzzle of the gun and looked around.
Soon, he successfully discovered a bunch of iron chains.
He quickly grabbed the chain, tied one end to a heavy cannon, and threw the other end out of the muzzle towards Yuan Yi and others outside the ship.
And just as Ogata threw down the chain——
"Quick! Follow me! Up! Up!"
From behind Ogata came a loud shout that he was already tired of hearing.