Chapter 243: Horror in the Water
Lu Wanwan joined the army as a military doctor, and at this time, he also followed the military doctor on the ship to treat the injured soldiers, but fortunately, all of them were some arrow wounds, and they were not injured in the vital parts, so as long as the arrows were pulled out and bandaged with medicine, Lu Wanwan's movements were very neat, and the wounds were treated quickly and well, and the other two military doctors worked together, and it took two hours to finally deal with all the wounded.
All the wounded were arranged in the middle of the cabin, and after drinking the boiled decoction, it should be fine, Lu Wanwan saw that there was nothing wrong with her, so she wiped the sweat from her forehead and walked out of the cabin with vague steps.
Lu Wanwan walked to the deck, and only then did she take a deep breath, and the breeze blew, diluting the lingering smell of blood on the tip of her nose, and finally relieved the boredom in her chest.
Suddenly, she smelled a faint fragrance of rice, which instantly aroused a burst of emptiness in her stomach, and immediately turned her head, and saw Jian Yu holding a bowl of white porridge and two white-flour steamed buns walking slowly.
Jian Yu walked up to Lu Wanwan, stuffed the white porridge into her hand, and said, "Eat something, I see that you didn't have time to eat breakfast, it's almost noon now, aren't you hungry?" ”
Lu Wanwan took the bowl, touched his stomach, and said with a wry smile: "I'm really hungry, I've been busy just now, and now I should be able to eat a cow." ”
Saying this, Lu Wanwan took the big steamed bun in Jian Yu's hand again, took a bite hard, and then drank another mouthful of porridge, only then did he feel much more comfortable in his stomach.
"Now the kitchen is boiling medicine for the wounded, and I don't have time to cook anything else, so I'll ask someone to cook some meat and vegetables for you to eat in the evening." Jian Yu looked at Lu Wanwan with some distress and said.
Lu Wanwan swallowed a mouthful of steamed buns, shook his head again and again, and said: "No, I just made an analogy, you know that I don't pick these, just eat some of them, and now it's important to take care of the wounded soldiers." ”
"Yes, I also planned to cook more meat for the uninjured soldiers to eat, so that I can save up enough strength to deal with the next hard battle." Jian Yu said in a deep voice.
Lu Wanwan listened to Jian Yu's words, and immediately lost his appetite, after all, their future is really uncertain now.
Jian Yu looked at Lu Wanwan's expression, and knew what she was worried about, so she immediately spoke to reassure: "You don't have to worry too much, I think those rebels will retreat so quickly, and they are not sure to fight with us, although they are numerous, but they are all small boats, sneak attacks are okay, if it is a head-on battle, I am afraid it is not our opponent, I have already transferred some troops from other ships, in the future, our ship will be the main force to enter the palace, and the rest of the ships will be used to collide, as long as we are not surrounded by them, we still have the strength to fight." ”
Lu Wan was not so pessimistic, she just thought of the man in the black robe that she saw at a glance last night, although the man was wearing a mask, she was almost certain that he was Meng Feiyang, if someone else led the troops, she felt that she still had a chance to win here, but if it was Meng Feiyang, she was bottomless, she had always known that Meng Feiyang was scheming, and now it was in their favor, she didn't know what kind of means Meng Feiyang would use next, but no matter what, she had to find a way to save Jian Yu's life, If it was all there was to it, she felt she could do it.
The day was as calm as the previous days, but as the sun went down and night began to fall, the atmosphere on board became more and more tense.
Jian Yu has been standing at the bow of the ship, watching the vigilant patrols around, and half of the people are on standby on the deck, and the rest are resting in the cabin to recuperate.
Lu Wanwan has also been staying by Jian Yu's side, although Jian Yu has been persuading her to go back to the cabin to rest, but she insists on staying by Jian Yu's side under the pretext that she is not tired.
When the sky was completely dark, Jian Yu lit many torches on the deck, illuminating the surrounding waters clearly.
In the second half of the night, the wind and waves were still calm, and the black clippers disappeared into the waters as if they were real ghosts.
Waiting has always been the most tormenting, Jian Yu has been tense, and he is already a little tired at the moment, Lu Wanwan looked at the cyan marks in his eyes, and persuaded on the side: "Brother Jian, you go first and rest for a while, if you keep holding on like this, your body will collapse." ”
Jian Yu shook his head stubbornly and said, "No, I'm fine, but you, let's go into the cabin and rest for a while, it's going to be dawn soon, you don't have to stay up all night with me." ”
"How can I sleep at this time, wait for dawn, and I'll go back to catch up on sleep." Lu Wanwan said like this.
Jian Yu didn't persuade anymore and returned his attention to the surrounding waters.
Although Jian Yu and the soldiers on the deck had already inspected very carefully, they still did not notice a few faint ripples slowly approaching their ship, and there was a thin, extremely inconspicuous reed on top of those ripples.
As the sky slowly whitened, Jian Yu and the others began to slowly relax their vigilance, at this moment, the hull of the ship shook, and then the soldiers who were in the control warehouse ran out in a panic, and said to Jian Yu with a pale face: "General, our ship doesn't know when it will enter the water, we must get off the boat immediately now, otherwise it won't be long before the ship will capsize!" ”
Jian Yu's face immediately changed, and he asked in disbelief: "How can the boat leak!" It's all good during the day!? ”
"Subordinate...... The subordinates didn't know that just now, water seeped under the bilge of the ship, and the specific ...... I don't know why...... my subordinates," the soldier stammered back.
"Could it be artificial?" Lu Wanwan suddenly asked.
Jian Yu was stunned for a moment, and when he figured it out, he immediately commanded the soldiers on the ship, "Quick, everyone will move to the other three ships." Then he singled out a dozen soldiers who were good at the water and asked them to dive to the bottom to check for suspicious people underwater.
"Let them go and inspect the remaining three ships first, and don't let people take advantage of them and scuttle them." Lu Wanwan reminded on the side.
Jian Yu immediately instructed those people, and watched them go into the water, but his face became more and more ugly.
"This rebel leader is so cunning that he has come up with such a poisonous plan!" Jian Yu's fist slammed on the railing of the boat, and said hatefully.
"The main reason is that our ship target is too big, they can easily find us, but it is difficult for us to find them, the enemy is in the dark, we are in the light, and it is very unfavorable to us." Lu Wanwan still analyzed very calmly.
"Wanwan, what are we going to do next?" Jian Yu rarely fought on the water before, and he had no idea at the moment.
"Let's take one step at a time, now I can't think of any good way to fight the enemy, the other party's generals are not simple, this time we are really lucky, it really can't work, we will retreat first, leave the green mountains here, don't worry about no firewood." Lu Wanwan said like this.
Jian Yu nodded sullenly, now, this is the only way to do.
Jian Yu commanded the soldiers to loosen the wounded first and put them on the life-saving boat, there are not many such boats, only five, so it will take some time to send all the wounded away, seeing that the boat is slowly sinking, the soldiers are sweating on their heads.
"Put all the wounded on the boat, and all the soldiers jump off the boat to escape!" In the end, it was too late, so Jian Yu gave this order. He pulled Lu Wanwan, pushed her to the side of a wounded man, and instructed: "You go with them in a small boat, and I will come to you in a while." ”
Lu Wanwan thought about it, but she didn't leave, according to her understanding of Meng Feiyang, he must still have a backhand, if he waited until all the soldiers on this boat jumped into the water, then in the water, they had almost no ability to resist, as long as Meng Feiyang sent a boatload of people over, then they would become fish and meat, and they would be slaughtered.
"Brother Jane, we may not have to dive into the water, you just need to pull the ropes on the masts of the two boats, and let the soldiers row along the ropes, which is much safer than going into the water." Lu Wanwan told Jian Yu about the method he thought of.
Jian Yu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he nodded again and again: "This method is good, I'll let them try it right away." Then he ordered the soldiers to bring long ropes, and set up ropes between the two boats, but fortunately the two boats were close together, and the ropes were not long enough, and tied the two ends of the ropes, one high and one low, to the masts of the two boats, the higher of the other and the other much lower.
After completion, Jian Yu immediately sent a soldier to grab a strip of cloth and follow the rope to slowly slide towards another big boat, because of the falling force from top to bottom, the soldier quickly arrived at the opposite big boat.
Jian Yu was very excited when she saw that this method was really useful, and immediately asked the soldiers to go from the rope to another big boat one by one.
It was quick and easy, but in half an hour, most of the soldiers were already on another large ship intact.
And where Jian Yu and Lu Wan couldn't see it at night, the man in the robe held a "clairvoyant" in his hand, observing the actions of everyone on the boat, and when he saw Jian Yu erecting a rope between the two ships, he let out a chuckle almost inaudibly.
The soap-clothed man beside him heard this laughter very keenly, and immediately asked, "Young Master, the generals sent by the imperial court seem to have some skills, what should we do next?" ”
The man in the robe put down his "clairvoyance" and said slowly: "It's just a little clever, you let those frogmen continue to stand by, and use the captured big ship, now is the time to go head-to-head." “
"No!" The soap-clothed man respectfully agreed, and ordered the people below to go down and arrange his subordinates.
The man in the robe picked up the "clairvoyance" again and aimed at the slightly slender young man, he looked at her for a moment, and the corners of his lips hidden in the mask rose slightly.
At this time, Lu Wanwan, who was still on the big boat, only felt a chill on her back, and a feeling of being stared at spontaneously arose, she subconsciously looked around, and did not see any suspicious characters, so she withdrew her gaze suspiciously.
"Wanwan, hurry, this ship is about to sink, let's leave quickly." At this time, Jian Yu had already grabbed Lu Wanwan's arm and led her to the front of the rope, at this time, the deck had begun to seep water, and the entire hull had sunk a lot.
"Wanwan, I'll take you with me." Jian Yu was obviously not worried about Lu Wanwan, hugged her waist and said.
Lu Wanwan was not used to such an intimate posture, but now that the situation was urgent, she couldn't help but twist, nodded, hugged Jian Yu with her backhand, and moved along the rope to another boat, but I don't know if it was because the weight of the two people was too heavy, or because the boat had sunk a lot, the rope that was originally from top to bottom was almost flat, and the speed of the two of them moving forward was much slower.
Jian Yu gritted his teeth, relying on the twisting of his body, and desperately moved forward, just as the two were about to reach the opposite boat, suddenly an arrow from nowhere shot straight towards the two of them.
Jian Yu found the arrow first, and immediately hugged her around, protecting her in front of his chest, seeing that the arrow was about to hit his back, Lu Wanwan pushed Jian Yu violently, and then let go and fell straight into the water, the arrow just stuck to Jian Yu's chest, and then he was weak and fell into the water.
Jian Yu saw that Lu Wan fell into the water at night, so he didn't care about anything, and jumped into the water.
Lu Wan can swim in the water at night, but the water is not very good, when she just fell into the water, she was still a little panicked, after drinking a few sips of water, she finally eased up, fluttered her hands a few times, stabilized her body, and swam to the big boat not far away. Suddenly, she felt something under the water grab her feet and drag her down, and she immediately kicked her feet desperately, trying to shake off the thing, but to no avail, and her body was gradually sinking. At this moment, Jian Yu happened to jump to her side, and seeing that she was sinking, he immediately hugged her and lifted her to the water.
Lu Wanwan was rescued by Jian Yu, her mouth and nose finally reached the water, she coughed lightly a few times, and then shouted in a panic: "Hurry, go quickly!" Someone down there is tugging at my feet! ”
Jian Yu's expression froze, hugged Lu Wanwan tighter, and swam to the big boat not far away.
And the person who dragged Lu Wanwan's feet under the water did not stop there, and after one person, another one appeared, dragging Jian Yu's feet and dragging them down desperately.
Jian Yu let out a low roar, almost using all his strength, but he was still slowly dragged into the water, his hand was still holding Lu Wanwan tightly, trying to send her to the water, but to no avail, the two of them slowly immersed themselves in the water, through the river, Jian Yu finally saw clearly, who was grabbing their feet below, it was a few frogmen in strange clothes, holding reeds for breathing in their mouths, dragging him and Lu Wanwan down.
Jian Yu gradually lost consciousness, his heart was a little sad, he didn't think that he would die, but when he saw the face of Lu Wanwan, who was already unconscious next to him, he felt guilty in his heart, if he hadn't softened his heart and brought Wanwan with him, she wouldn't have to die with him now...... (To be continued.) )