Crash!
At this time, huge waves rolled in, and under the impact of the waves, the hull tilted nearly 20 degrees.
Just as the hull of the Hulucaru began to tilt, a large number of musketeers who had heard the news and came to reinforce appeared at the end of the corridors behind Ogata.
Ogata roughly counted the number of people - there were about 10 in total.
It was obvious at first glance that these musketeers who came to reinforce were quite familiar with life on the ship.
Even though the ship tilted so much under the impact of the huge waves, their feet were still firmly planted on the deck, and they arranged their guns in an orderly manner facing Ogata.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang…
At the same moment these musketeers opened fire, Xu Fang immediately and nimbly dodged to the side and hid behind a nearby cannon.
Snap, snap, snap…
The bullets hit the steel barrel of the cannon, making a sharp friction sound of metal colliding with metal.
At this moment, Ogata, who was using the artillery as a cover to temporarily avoid the musketeers' first round of shooting, suddenly discovered that the deck under his feet was tilted because the ship's hull was tilted by the waves.
He was standing directly above the tilted deck, while the musketeers who came to support him were standing directly below the deck.
The situation on the battlefield became very strange. These musketeers were attacking Ogata from above, while Ogata was attacking these musketeers from below.
The cannon that Ogata was using as a cover was facing the musketeers, right above their heads...
With such terrain, there is no reason not to make use of it.
Ogata raised the Daishakuten in his right hand and chopped at the two ropes on his side.
These two ropes are used to hold the artillery and prevent it from moving too far backwards due to recoil after firing.
The traction rope used to hold the cannon was cut, and the cannon that Ogata used as a cover immediately rushed towards the musketeers along the tilted deck like a wild horse.
Screams of terror replaced the sound of gunfire.
The musketeers no longer cared about the gun formation and fled in all directions.
Their escape speed was quite fast - only one unlucky guy failed to escape in time.
How heavy must a cannon be when it is made entirely of steel?
The unlucky guy who was hit by the cannon for not escaping in time was bleeding from all seven orifices while "hugging" the cannon and was "built" into the ship's wall behind him together with the cannon.
Although this cannon did not cause much damage to the enemy, Ogata still achieved his goal.
He originally only hoped to use this cannon to destroy their gun formation.
The ship was still tilting, and Ogata launched a physical dive from above.
He leaped forward, and with the help of gravity, he dashed at blinding speed to a lone musketeer who had just broken away from the group to avoid the falling artillery.
With a swing of the sword, he killed the enemy with one strike, all in one go.
Without the gun formation, the musketeers who were unable to shoot together could only fight on their own, and their combat effectiveness dropped exponentially.
"Damn it..." A musketeer cursed and raised the flintlock in his hand that had just been reloaded with bullets.
He just had time to raise the gun.
whoosh!
The sound of breaking wind, which was completely different from the sound of a flying bullet, poured into the man's throat.
"Ouch...!" Feeling a tearing pain in his throat, the musketeer raised his trembling hand and touched his throat. In his throat, there was a shuriken that pierced his throat directly.
He subconsciously wanted to see who threw the shuriken.
But his out-of-control limbs and rapidly darkening vision no longer allowed him to do so.
"Finally climbed up..." As he glanced at the direction where the shuriken that had helped him kill a musketeer just now flew out of the corner of his eye, a faint smile appeared on Ogata's face.
The person who threw this shuriken was none other than Hatsumitsu.
Hatsumitsu, who had just climbed up the chain thrown by Ogata, was now breathing heavily.
At the muzzle behind her, the sturdier Makura was constantly inhaling, trying to make his belly smaller, and struggling to get into the boat through the muzzle.
The remaining surviving musketeers also noticed that enemy reinforcements seemed to be arriving.
“Quick!” Someone raised the muzzle of his gun and pointed it at Mucun, who was still stuck at the muzzle, unable to move in or out. “Stop him…”
whoosh!
Before the man could finish his words, another shuriken was thrown by Chu Guang and pierced his throat, leaving him no chance to say the rest of his words.
Previously, when Hatsumitsu asked Ogata, Genichi and others to take her with them to chase Toyotomi, in order to convince Ogata and others, she said, "She is very confident in her own abilities and will not hold you back."
From what Ogata had observed so far, Hatsutsuki was indeed not lying.
Ogata didn't know how skilled Hatsumitsu was in other weapons, but based on Hatsumitsu's shuriken throwing skills, Ogata had to give him a very high evaluation.
Shuriken, a throwing weapon, is one of the most suitable weapons for women like Chu Guang, whose muscle strength is relatively weaker than that of men.
For this type of smaller throwing weapon, "skill" is far more important than "strength".
There is no need to engage in face-to-face combat with the enemy. Even if your muscle strength is weak, as long as you throw accurately enough, you can still pose a great threat to the enemy.
Throat, eyes... These parts of the human body are difficult to exercise, so they are equally fragile regardless of whether you are strong or weak.
Even if the shuriken is thrown by a woman, as long as it can hit these parts, it can still cause huge damage to the enemy.
Even if Ogata was the only one fighting alone, there was no way these musketeers could win, not to mention that there was also a Chuguang who could provide long-range support?
With the cooperation of Hatsumitsu, Ogata quickly knocked down all the standing enemies within his field of vision with the force of a raging storm.
After Ogata and Hatsumitsu cleared the surroundings, Makimura, who had been stuck at the muzzle due to his large size, finally squeezed into the cabin under the joint push of Genichi and Mamiya, who were waiting to enter the ship behind him.
“Hahaha!” Genichi, the last one to board, said to himself half-jokingly as soon as he entered the cabin through the gun barrel, “Luckily it’s spring now and the weather isn’t too cold, otherwise I’d be soaking wet and freezing to death.”
"Master Genichi." Ogata raised his two swords and walked quickly towards Genichi and the others. "You are not hurt, are you?"
"Except for accidentally drinking too much seawater, which caused me to feel a little nauseous now, we are all fine." Yuan Yi said lightly, "For some reason, many of the guns on the other battleship were silenced just now, which made our crossing a lot smoother."
"Many of the other warship's guns have misfired?" Ogata frowned slightly, looking puzzled.
"Yeah. I don't know what happened." Genichi shrugged, "But no matter what - it's good for us."
After briefly discussing the topic of "some of the Hikari Maru's guns misfiring for unknown reasons", Genichi changed the subject and asked Ogata:
"Ogata-kun, before we boarded the ship, did you find anything on this ship?"
"No." Ogata shook his head. "I didn't find anything. I didn't run into anyone who looked like Toyotomi Nobuhide, nor did I find Miss Lin."
"...Ha." Genichi laughed at himself, "Xiao Lin and Xin Xiu please don't be on the other boat. I've already drunk enough sea water. If conditions permit, I don't want to drink any more in the short term."
…
…
It was naturally impossible for Ogata and the others to know the internal layout of Hikarimaru and Hulucimaru.
Chu Guang had never been on these two ships before.
So their way of finding the way is very simple and crude: they go where there are many people.
Although this path-finding method is crude, it is surprisingly effective on a warship like this.
As they rushed to every crowded place, they kept shouting Lin's name, trying to find Lin's location. Yuan Yi and his friends knocked on the door of every room along the way, trying to find the figure that was extremely familiar to them in any of the rooms.
Ogata + Genichi + Mamiya + Makimura + Hatsumitsu... close combat and long-range combat, they have everything they need. On this gourd pill, they can basically kill anyone who stands in their way.
Of course - they wouldn't be so stupid as to just go looking for someone.
After Genichi and his companions successfully joined Ogata, they tried to capture a lot of people and asked them: Where is Toyotomi Nobuhide? Have you seen a short young girl?
In response to the question asked by Ogata and his colleagues, the answers given by these captured people were almost exactly the same: Toyotomi Nobuhide had never seen a short girl on the Hikari Maru.
Hearing their answers, Ogata and the others felt as if their hearts had skipped a beat...
Toyotomi Nobuhide was not on this ship, and they had never seen a short girl... This answer was the last thing Ogata and his companions wanted to hear after they had gone through so much trouble to get on this ship...
However, to be on the safe side and not to miss the possibility that "Lin might be on this ship", Ogata and his team decided to conduct a thorough investigation on this ship.
They started looking from the bottom floor, and worked their way up layer by layer.
A warship is not a hotel and does not have that many rooms, so Ogata and his team searched very quickly.
They searched Huluwan's cabins layer by layer at a rapid speed.
But until now... they have not been able to find the person they are looking for...
"Look!" Chu Guang, who had been using her superb shuriken throwing skills to provide long-range support to Ogata and the others, suddenly raised her hand and pointed diagonally across the distance, "There seems to be another room over there!"
After Hatsukuni's reminder, Ogata, who was rushing in the front with Genichi and who, like Hatsukuni, had mistakenly thought that this was the door of another room, quickly quickened his pace and ran to the wooden door with Genichi one after the other, and pulled it open.
call!
The moment the door opened, a gust of sea breeze immediately brought with it a large number of raindrops, soaking Ogata and Genichi who was standing behind him.
After opening the wooden door, Ogata did not see the room.
He only saw the sky, the ocean, and the sea breeze mixed with rain blowing in his face.
"Oh..." Yuan Yi raised his hand and wiped the rain that had just drenched his face, "Have you reached the top floor of the ship..."
The wooden door that Ogata had just opened did not lead to any room.
Instead, it is connected to the top open deck of the ship.
“Have we reached the open deck…?” Chu Guang, who was a little slower than Ogata and Genichi, was stunned when he saw the sky and sea outside the wooden door.
"Ah! They are on the weather deck!"
"Anyone who can hold a weapon, follow me!"
Although the flintlock is much more advanced than the matchlock, the former is not much better than the latter in terms of "environmental limitations".
Both are equally afraid of rain and snow. Once they encounter rainy or snowy days, both will become worse than fire sticks.
Therefore, on the open deck where strong winds and heavy rain were blowing, the flintlock rifles of the Huluwan crew were completely scrapped.
However - perhaps because the crew members received more rigorous training, they all had extremely high military qualities.
Even though they could not use flintlock rifles on the open deck, they could still see a large number of crew members holding spears and other weapons in various places on the open deck, launching a fearless counterattack against Ogata and his men.
"Tsk... it's endless..." Chu Guang cursed inwardly, then took out several shurikens from his waist, rushed out of the cabin first, stepped onto the open deck, and went to meet the enemies that appeared from various places on the open deck.
…
…
Hikari Maru, inside the cabin——
"Quick! Quick! Over here! Over here!"
Teams of crew members hurried towards the place where the explosion occurred.
Lin, who was hiding in the darkness not far away, quietly observed the movements outside, and said to herself:
——It seems...something unexpected happened at the stern...
——May God help me... While this ship is in turmoil, let’s leave here as soon as possible...
After confirming that the teams of crew members rushing to the explosion site had gone far away, Lin quickly slipped out from her hiding place.
——Damn it… Is it my bad luck or is this the design of the ship? How come such a big ship doesn’t even have a window big enough to jump out?! Gu… Here it comes again…!
Just now, the Hikari Maru shook violently a few times due to the beating of the waves, and Lin's stomach and abdomen once again surged with strong "turbulence".
This time the "turbulence" was very serious. Lin could no longer walk while vomiting like before. She could only lean to the side and lean against the wall of the ship to rest temporarily.
After taking several deep breaths and swallowing a few times , Lin finally felt a little better.
——Okay… hurry up and take advantage of this opportunity…
"Hey! Who are you? What are you doing here?!"
The sudden roar from behind Lin made Lin's pupils shrink suddenly.
She turned her head and looked behind her - behind her were three musketeers pointing their flintlock rifles at her.
The three men acted as if they were facing a formidable enemy. While pointing their guns at Lin, they slowly walked towards her and continued to shout angrily:
"Throw away all the muskets you have on you! Then lie down on the ground and don't move!"
——Tsk…
Lin, with the corners of her mouth drooping slightly due to her bad mood, estimated the distance between herself and the three men , and followed the orders of the three men to throw away the flintlock rifle she was carrying and the brocade box tucked under her armpit.
Then...
“Woo… wooo…!”
Linda pulled the corners of her mouth, bit her lower lip lightly with her upper teeth, sniffed hard, then knelt on the ground and sobbed.
“No, don’t be mean to me… these… these cannons my father asked me to keep for him… wuwuwu…!”
Lin, with a lovely blush on her eyes and nose, raised her hands and used the backs of her hands to wipe away the tears that were flowing from her eyes.
Although Lin is already 20 years old this year, she still looks very young due to her petite figure and youthful looks. Judging from her appearance alone, everyone would mistake her for a little girl of 13 or 14 years old.
Suddenly, they ran into a little girl with three muskets on her on the ship . After they asked her to put down her muskets and lie on the ground, the little girl immediately threw away her weapons and cried while whispering "Don't be mean to me" - the scene was too complicated and beyond the comprehension of the three musketeers...
The three musketeers looked at each other involuntarily, filled with doubt and... an inexplicable desire to protect such a young girl crying.
The man standing in the middle cast a puzzled look at his companion on his right.
Just as he turned his eyes to his companions——
call!
Out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a dark shadow flashing right in front of him.
He quickly turned his gaze back to himself—the hard butt of the gun had hit him right in the face.
The bridge of his nose was broken, and more than a dozen teeth were either broken or knocked out. The man fainted instantly.
First kill!
Lin now no longer looks like the "poor little loli" she was just now.
On her face, there was only the expression of a swordsman.
Lin first used the posture of a little loli to confuse the enemy, and then suddenly jumped up, catching the three people off guard.
After using the butt of the rifle to take care of the man in the middle, Lin immediately jumped to the left and hugged the hands of the musketeer on her left.
She didn't use this simple method to control this person.
Instead, he wanted to "kill someone with a borrowed gun."
The moment after she hugged the man's hands, Lin immediately controlled the gun in his hand, pointed the gun at the other gunman, and then pulled the trigger.
Bang!
Double kill!
After successfully "killing with a borrowed gun", Lin let go of the man's hands, used her left foot as the axis, and launched a fierce "turning side kick", with her heel hitting the throat of the "tool man" who had just "helped" her to eliminate an enemy.
Triple kill!
It took Lin less than 5 seconds from suddenly attacking to quickly dealing with these three people.
The speed was so fast that these three people probably didn't even know what happened until they were killed.
“Ha…ha…ha…luckily Jiulang and the others aren’t here…if they had seen me like that just now…I wouldn’t be able to live…”
Lin covered her stomach, which was a little uncomfortable due to the intense activity just now, and staggered quickly towards the brocade box and rifle she had just discarded.
But at this moment...
"Ms. Lin! Please don't move!"
Another loud shout came from behind Lin.
But... the difference from before is that this shout is... very familiar to Lin.
Lin was stunned for a moment, then turned her head slowly and calmly, looking at someone standing not far behind her, pointing a flintlock rifle at her...
"... Humph." Lin sneered, "Seeing you in this place... is really not surprising at all..."
…
…
Gourd Ball, on the open deck——
The weather that Mamiya hates the most is rainy and snowy days.
Because this kind of weather is really unfriendly to a bespectacled guy like him.
With his vision blurred by raindrops on his lenses, Mamiya knocked down an enemy with a spear in front of him, and then he heard familiar footsteps behind him.
Along with the familiar footsteps came the familiar heroic voice:
"Mamiya, are you okay now?"
As he finished speaking, Mamiya felt something broad pressed against his back.
He turned his head and looked back—Genichi, who had just run towards him, was standing with his back pressed against his.
Although they were back to back, Mamiya could feel that Genichir was watching him out of the corner of his eye.
"To be honest - no. I'm so tired that I want to go to sleep quickly." Mamiya panted and laughed at himself.
Physical strength——this is the only weakness of Mamiya besides eyesight.
Holding onto a piece of wood and crossing such a rough sea was a difficult challenge for Mamiya, whose physical strength had always been a weakness.
Even now, after being on board for such a long time, Mamiya's breathing is still disordered.
"Do you want to take a break now?" Yuan Yi asked.
"It's my business, whatever happens is fine." Mamiya wiped the raindrops from his face, "Instead of talking about my body here, I might as well take this time to think about what to do next."
"We have searched almost every part of the ship's cabin, but we can't find the lord anywhere."
"It looks like the lord is probably on another ship."
"Yes." Genichi said softly, "The next thing we have to do is... rush to another ship."
"Do we have to go swimming again..." Mamiya rarely showed a helpless smile.
Genichi no longer looked at Mamiya out of the corner of his eye.
Instead, he turned his head and looked straight at Mamiya.
"… Mamiya, please don't force yourself."
"If you are too exhausted to cross the sea again, you can stay on this ship."
“…Ah.” The helpless smile on Mamiya’s face slowly turned into a bitter smile, “This is the first time I hate this body of mine that can’t improve its physical strength no matter how much I train…”
Boom——!!
At this moment, the thunder in the sky suddenly cut the sky apart.
The bright lightning made the world under the dark clouds as bright as day for a moment.
Because the thunder and lightning were so fierce and loud this time, Mamiya couldn't help but look up at the sky subconsciously.
And just as he raised his eyes to look at the sky——
"Um?"
Mamiya suddenly noticed... a towering object that reached into the sky - the main mast of the Hulumaru.
"..." Mamiya looked thoughtful, staring straight at the towering mainmast. After a moment, he turned his head to look at Hikari Maru, which was only tens of meters away from Hulumaru.
"...Master Genichi."
"Hmm? What's wrong?"
Mamiya tightly grasped the Vairocana in his hand.
"Do you think... there is a way for me to truly surpass my father?"