Chapter 51 - Chapter 51 Infighting

Only now has he ruled out the possibility of an empty city plan. On the night of the Torture Abyss, the reason why Crab Claw had seen through Liu Qian's plan was that he let Liu Qian and others enter the Torture Abyss and then ambush. First, Crab Claw was confident that he could kill Liu Qian and others through an ambush. Second, Liu Qian only brought five ships into the Torture Abyss, and he did not have an advantage in numbers. But the third most critical point is that Crab Claw does not know that Liu Qian has a keel bow that can shoot flaming arrows. However, unlike Crab Claw, Kago has tasted the keel bow and knows the fate of being locked by Liu Qian in the open field. With the main port fleet and strong fortresses in his hands, it is impossible to give up these advantages and open the city gates. The only explanation is that there have been drastic changes inside the fortress that far exceed his control. Liu Qian made an instant judgment: "Kago is either dead or has lost control of the situation, this is a godsend opportunity, we must not miss it, and immediately attack the fortress." " He needed speed, and he needed to take advantage of the chaos within the Split Palate Island to completely crush the last foundation of Kago with thunderous force, without giving him any chance to breathe and regroup. At Liu Qian's command, all the paddle boats flew over and rushed to the main port pier at full speed for beach landing. The well-trained pirate infantry quickly formed a team under the scolding of the officers. The battering ram was unloaded from the transport ship. The simple but practical ladder was carried by the pirates. The Dragon Spirit Guard once again became the vanguard of the attack. They silently rushed towards the steep hillside below the fortress, their heavy bodies stepping on the gravel and dirt, their steps steady as machinery. Several ladders were quickly erected on the relatively gentle low wall sections. "Up!" With the officer's roar, the pirates of Torture Abyss let out wild shouts, holding sharp blades in their mouths, and began to climb up the ladder. As Liu Qian's army crashed through the crumbling city gates, and the Dragon Spirit Guards and Torture Abyss pirates poured into the smoky and fire-filled Split Palate Fortress, the scene inside was like a picture of hell. The narrow lanes and so-called "squares" were full of fallen corpses, dressed in the costumes of ordinary pirates, blood mixed with mud, and the air was so thick that it could not be dissolved, except for the smell of smoke. The remaining resistance was still fighting sporadically in some corners, and more were like frightened quails, curled up in the corners, shivering, or wandering in a daze. The focus of the battle was on the highest point of the fortress, outside the tower of Kago. The closer you got to the tower, the clearer the sound of the battle and the more tragic the scene became. In the open space in front of the tower, corpses piled up, and blood almost stained the ground into a red carpet. Two groups of pirates were fighting. The small number of people, about twenty or so, formed in a semicircle, backed by the bottom wall of the burning tower, all covered in blood and scars, but their eyes were full of the madness of a trapped beast. Protecting them at the core was the "shipbreaker" Kago. Kago's condition was extremely miserable. His naked upper body was stained with blood and black ash, and the dirty bandage on his shoulder-length severed left arm was already soaked with blood and pus, exuding a foul odor. His face was sallow, his eye sockets sunken, and he shimmered with a mixture of fear and rage. He held his trademark heavy double-edged battle axe in his right hand, but the movement of his swing was clearly sluggish and sluggish from the pain of his broken arm. He let out a beastly roar, constantly urging the last die-hard loyal around him: "Hold on, kill that traitor Hal, and I will reward him with an island!" " The other side besieging them was slightly larger, about thirty people, and the offensive was even more ferocious. At the leader was a middle-aged pirate with a strong figure and sharp eyes like an eagle. In his right hand, he had a cold iron hook in place of the missing palm. At this moment, blood was dripping from the iron hook. His left hand held a sharp scimitar, and there were many wounds on his body, but he was in full swing. He was the traitor in Kago's mouth - "Iron Hook" Hal. "Kago, your end has come, kill for the sake of your dead brother!" Howl's voice was hoarse, with bitter hatred and desperate determination. He wielded the blade of the iron hook and scimitar, deftly stabbing under the ribs of one of Kago's guards, moving fiercely and efficiently. The people around him also burst out with the last of their strength, frantically assaulting Kago's crumbling defenses. Obviously, the infighting had reached its final moment, and Howl's side had the upper hand, but Kago and his last diehard were also fighting back. Liu Qian's arrival was like pouring a ladle of ice water into a boiling oil pot. The heavy footsteps of the dragon spirit guards and the cries of the Torture Abyss pirates instantly attracted the attention of everyone on the battlefield. The fierce fighting was instantaneously stagnant. Kago's remaining right eye swept towards the entrance, and when he saw the familiar figure, his pupils suddenly contracted to the extreme. The extreme fear overwhelmed everything in an instant. "It's the Oriental kid from the Torture Abyss!" Kago let out a scream of despair and collapse, he even forgot about Hal in front of him, and subconsciously wanted to turn around and flee deep into the burning tower. However, at this fatal moment when Kago lost his mind and slowed down. Howl, who had been staring at him, burst into a beastly light in his eyes. This was the moment he was waiting for. Hal suddenly threw the scimitar in his left hand at Kago's face, forcing Kago to swing his axe in embarrassment. At the moment when Kago's attention was drawn to the throwing knife and his center of gravity was unstable. Hal's right arm, which had been ready to go, was like a poisonous snake coming out of a hole, and with the determination to die together and the long-standing resentment, it suddenly hooked the side of Kago's neck from the side with lightning speed. "Uh——!" Kago's scream turned into a bellows-like hoho, and the pain and suffocation made him bulge in one eye. Hal's iron hook was deeply embedded between his neck bone and trachea, and hot blood gushed out of the wound and Kago's mouth and nose like a fountain. Hal was also driven forward by Kago's dying struggle, but with a hideous ecstasy on his face, he used all his strength and weight to jam the iron hook on his right arm and tear it back frantically. "Click-poof!" The scalp-tingling sound of bones shattering and muscle tearing sounded. Kago's huge head was torn off his neck by Hal with an iron hook, and blood splattered on Hal's hideous face like raindrops. Kagona's burly body, which had lost its head, shook stiffly in place, blood gushed out like a spring of blood at the broken neck, and then fell heavily into a pool of blood with a "pop", convulsing a few times, and then completely motionless. The head that was hooked by an iron hook and hung in mid-air, its eyes widened and its mouth slightly open, as if it was still silently crying out of fear and unwillingness. The entire square in front of the tower was silent. Both Howl's people and Kago's last die-hard loyalists were completely shocked by this bloody and brutal scene that happened in front of them, and even the sound of burning flames seemed to have subsided. Hal gasped violently, and every breath was filled with a heavy smell of blood. He struggled to prop himself up with his left hand, his right arm still held high, and the iron hook firmly hooked Kago's bloody, dead head. He didn't even look at Kago's headless corpse under his feet, his bloodshot eyes with a kind of determination, through the pervasive smoke and fire, focused on Liu Qian. Howl's voice broke hoarsely: "Kago mutilated his brothers on the island, threw some brothers into the sea to feed the sharks, and the Split Palate Island was destroyed under his leadership, I, 'Iron Hook' Hal, personally took him to fruition, ending Kago's brutal rule, my lord, his head is yours." " He suddenly stretched forward the iron arm that hooked his head, and Kago's hideous head swayed in the firelight, and blood was still dripping from the broken neck. Hal knelt heavily on one knee in a pool of sticky blood, his head bowed deeply, and held the iron arm hooked on Kago's head in front of him, with a humble posture: "I swear allegiance to you and offer the remnants of the Split Palate Island, which is proof of my loyalty. " As Hal fell to his knees and roared, the surviving henchmen and men behind him, as if waking up from a dream, threw away their weapons stained with the blood of their companions or enemies, and fell to their knees, their foreheads touching the ground, and shouted tremblingly: "We are willing to surrender!" "Please forgive us!" "Willing to serve you!" The last few die-hard loyalists of Kagona looked at the bloody head of the leader, and then at the Dragon Spirit Guards and Torture Abyss Pirates silently approaching around, and the last trace of their will to resist completely dissipated. They glanced at each other, dropped their weapons in a despondent manner, and knelt down.