Chapter 343: Whaling
Zhao Yu has never seen a live whale in his previous life except in the aquarium, and can the whale in the aquarium still be called a whale? It was difficult for Woqu to turn around in a glass case not much bigger than his body, except that his breath was almost as bad as death. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info And the group of giant whales in front of them are churning and jumping in the sea, and the huge body of more than ten meters long can actually burst out of the water surface, and when it falls on the sea, it can stir up a splash several feet high, which is really a little panicked.
"Your Majesty, let's go back, it's too dangerous!" Zheng Yong also climbed into the watchtower, and watched more than a dozen loaches spewing clouds and mist on the sea, and he was also a little timid.
"Go back? Let those two guys laugh at our protectors! Zhao Yu pointed to the two boats that followed.
"Your Majesty, if this life is gone, I am afraid that they will laugh at it, and they will have the ability!" Zheng Yong looked at the two boats hanging far behind, and said unconvinced.
"Have you ever eaten whale meat?" Zhao Yu saw that this trick was not good, so he changed his angle and asked.
"My subordinates have eaten it." Zheng Yong replied honestly.
"What does it taste like?"
"It's cooked, and it tastes like beef!" Zheng Yong replied.
"Damn, you dare to lie to me!" Zhao Yu said viciously when he heard it.
"Your Majesty, it's really the taste of beef, and my subordinates don't dare to talk nonsense." Your Majesty hasn't exploded a dirty mouth for a long time, Zheng Yong was taken aback, and quickly explained.
"I didn't say anything about you, I ordered the bow guns of each ship to load their guns with arrows, and the gunners to load with long arrows." Zhao Yu glanced at Zheng Yong and said angrily. But what he scolded just now was really not Zheng Yong, but the black-hearted boss in his previous life. He once got a piece of meat, saying that it was whale meat, and specially invited several of their executives to taste it together, and they felt that although the meat was added with various seasonings, it still had a fishy smell that could not be concealed.
At that time, whales became protected animals, and no one had ever eaten them, let alone what they tasted like, so they could only eat them as whale meat. And in this era, there are as many whales as pigs on modern pig farms, although they are equally rare, but they are not fake, and Zheng Yong will not lie to himself. Therefore, Zhao Yu concluded that what he was eating might be something, maybe it was zombie meat older than his age, no wonder the kid let them eat it vigorously, but he refused to use chopsticks. It's disgusting to think about it now, but at the time I still thought of him as a good person.
"Your Majesty......"
"If you are afraid, even if you hide in the cabin, although the whale is big, it will not damage our dragon boat!" Zhao Yu saw that Zheng Yong opened his mouth again and wanted to persuade him, so he simply blocked him back first, he must have been a lot of what this whale meat tasted like today.
"Your Majesty, your subordinates are still here to accompany you!" Zheng Yong didn't want to be looked down upon by His Majesty, so he could only stay above to protect His Majesty.
Zhao Yu ordered to change the formation and insert a column into the whale group to disperse them, and he was also worried that this intelligent animal would attack his own group after being attacked, and eat himself as a dish. Animals are animals after all, and they disperse immediately after being disturbed, some dive into the water, some avoid it far away, but some are so stupid that they think that someone is going to play with them, and they still haunt the fleet and do not leave!
"Lao Tzu wants to eat meat, since you refuse to leave, don't blame me for being ruthless!" Zhao Yu selected a large fat whale and waved the command flag, so that the Brave Horn was to the left, the Brave Horn was to the right, and the Warrior was centered in a V-shaped formation like a big net. The whale was huge, but it was not slow to swim, and the three dragon boats chased after it at full speed. The whale has not yet woken up, and is still playing, sometimes diving into the water, sometimes jumping out of the water, but not knowing that the danger is gradually approaching.
"Warrior, bow gun fire!" The Intrepid and the Brave overtook the whale with full acceleration, keeping them at a distance of about fifty paces on both sides. The trailing Warrior was less than seventy paces away, and after the whale resurfaced, Zhao Yu ordered to aim and launch.
The spear and arrow are more than a foot long, the arrow is a thick and long, long and a half spear tip, the shaft of the arrow is made of hardwood, and the tail of the arrow is inlaid with an iron tail. A large ballista fired at a distance of seventy paces could penetrate a foot-thick plank, which was generally used to destroy the gunwales of enemy ships, kill sailors, and if it happened to hit the keel, it would be a decisive shot. Zhao Yu chose to consider that the whale has rough skin and thick flesh and huge size, and it can only be fatal if it hurts its internal organs or arteries, and it is difficult for ordinary crossbow arrows to inflict heavy damage on it, and only guns and arrows can do it.
'Whoosh, swish, ......' two spears and arrows roared out, and in an instant they arrived, and the oblique spikes were inserted into the spine of the giant whale, and the end of the arrow ended. The giant whale that was playing this game was suddenly hit hard, jumped up and slammed into the sea under the pain, and swam forward at an accelerated pace.
"Two ships of gunfire in a row, and the bow gun of the Warrior is equipped with guns and arrows!" Seeing that the giant whale was still alive and not dying, Zhao Yu ordered the launch again. The giant whale was injured and swam forward quickly, but it happened to enter the range of the two ships, and the guns on one side of the two ships were fired at full speed, and the dense crossbow arrows rained down on the giant whale without money, and it was difficult to shoot such a large target.
"Stop firing and keep an eye out!" After a rain of arrows, the whale disappeared from the water, and a bright red color appeared on the surface of the sea. Zhao Yu knew that the crossbow arrows fired by the broadside guns could hardly cause fatal damage to the whale, but they could hurt its surface and the inside, and speed up its blood loss, so that bleeding could kill it.
"Your Majesty, it's diving underwater, I don't know when it will come up!" The giant whale dives into the water and can dive for hundreds of miles, but it will be difficult to find it again, Zheng Yong reminded.
"It has been injured in dozens of places, and it can't run far, so pay attention not to wait for it to suddenly float and overturn the ship!" Zhao Yu considered the angle but different, they have already surveyed this water, the deepest place is only more than ten zhang, and the shallow place is only two zhang. And in this era, there is no pollution, the noon sun is also sufficient, the visibility of the sea water can reach six or seven feet, and the wounded whale bleeding not only leaves a pink track in the water, as long as it stares at death, it cannot run. His biggest concern was that the injured whale would surface more frequently to ventilate and knock over his boat due to excessive blood loss.
At first, the frightened whales swam so fast that the boats had to catch up at full speed, but as time went by, they lost more and more blood and their physical strength became worse and worse. The dragon boat only needs to travel at a medium speed for more than two hours to keep up with it, Zhao Yu is a little anxious at this time, the sky is getting dark, the visibility will be worse, he regrets not leaving a buoy on the whale, so he is not afraid of losing it.
"Your Majesty, it's floating again!" The first two whales had a short time to breathe, so they couldn't react, and Zheng Yong noticed that a cloud of blood foam suddenly gushed out in front of them on their left, like a red fountain rising into the sky, and he hurriedly shouted...... (To be continued.) )