Chapter 127: Naval Battle (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
Early in the morning, Ah Yue came to give Sun Xiangfu lychees as usual, because every time she delivered lychees in the past few days, Sun Xiangfu would praise her and take her to the sick camp to see her father.
Sun Xiangfu didn't know how a six or seven-year-old girl climbed a tall lychee tree to pick lychees, and she also suffered a lot.
Today, Sun Xiangfu saw that the corner of her linen skirt was torn off a large piece, which should have been hung by a tree branch, so he turned around and went back to the house, cut a piece of silk cloth, and wanted to help her make a simple dress.
When Sun Xiangfu was about to put on a new dress for Ah Yue, he found that the little girl's body under the torn linen dress was actually covered with skin and bones, and there were many bruises.
"Did you climb a tree and pick lychees?"
"I don't hurt."
Ah Yue knew that Sun Xiangfu was a good person, and she was afraid that if this good man didn't let her give him lychees, she wouldn't be able to see Daddy.
Sun Xiangfu smiled and touched her head, draped a long strip of thin silk on her shoulders, tied a knot under her armpits, and then used scissors to open a cuff for her, and tied a bow around her waist with the cut strip of cloth.
"Don't climb trees by yourself in the future, if you encounter difficulties, you have to learn to find someone to help, picking lychees, the guards and uncles can help you, and they can eat a lot along the way."
Ah Yue was very satisfied with her new clothes, and turned around a few times in place, and suddenly she didn't feel any pain in her arms and legs, and showed a happy smile.
Sun Xiangfu took her to the pharmacy to find Li Chunfeng and asked for a jar of plaster to remove bruising, and helped Ah Yue apply it, and she grinned in pain.
"The Dao Master and the Master are inseparable now!"
Seeing Xuanzang, who was also following Li Chunfeng, Sun Xiangfu joked.
"This monk doesn't know what is crazy, he has to follow the poor Tao to learn medical skills, and he is not willing to apprentice, so he blatantly steals learning, if it is not for these Lingnan people, the poor Tao will not let him take advantage of such a advantage." Li Chunfeng said angrily.
Xuanzang smiled when he heard this, "The poor monk is learning scriptures from Li Daochang!" ”
He used to be in the temple, only read a few medical books and pharmacopoeia, relying on strong memorization, to write down the pharmacology of many medicinal materials, this treatment of patients, but he has not been systematically studied, but he has a good brain, very studious, and he learns surprisingly fast, in the case of more and more other types of patients who come to the door of the patient camp every day for treatment, he has to make this decision to help Li Chunfeng share some pressure.
"It's really rare for a master to be able to understand this." When Sun Xiangfu heard this, he smiled meaningfully.
"Hmph, Poor Dao is too lazy to pay attention to you, today's patients are still waiting for Poor Dao to see!" Li Chunfeng saw Sun Xiangfu and Xuanzang eyebrows, so he was very unhappy to flick his sleeves and leave, Sun Xiangfu took Ah Yue and followed Xuanzang together.
"The first batch of drug testers have been using the medicine for three days, and the effect is obvious, and now everyone regards us as miracle doctors, not only the big belly patients in the patient camp, but also some patients with other diseases have come here to seek treatment, and even the people from the surrounding villages and tribes have come, and our pressure is getting bigger and bigger." While walking, Sun Xiangfu sighed.
"Yes! The most pressure is still Yue Gong, and now he is looking for medicinal herbs everywhere, and even his beard is gray with worry. Xuanzang said worriedly.
Historically, Feng Ang was considered to have lived a long life, living to more than seventy, but now, the whole has changed, the Tang Dynasty defeated Jieli in Guanzhong, Li Shimin's intercourse is much more frequent, many princes and princesses who should not have appeared will appear this year, and the princes and princesses who were born after Zhenguan may not appear, including Gaozong Li Zhi, who was born in the second year of Zhenguan, who knows if Empress Changsun can successfully conceive him in the second half of this year.
"Yue Gongren's life is good, the master doesn't have to worry, I just hope that Jun Mai can get the medicinal materials quickly, I will solve this matter, so I can go to Jiaozhi to get food seeds quickly, and I can send the master to Tianzhu to learn scriptures."
When it comes to Tianzhu, Xuanzang's expression is a lot more indifferent, he is no longer so entangled in the scriptures, Tianzhu's scriptures may not all be good, he feels that he should take useful scriptures, this is the impact of living with Sun Xiangfu during this time.
At this time, after three consecutive days of sailing, the Happiness finally arrived here, but it failed to turn into the dock smoothly.
"Captain Xi, those ships seem to be waiting for us here early in the morning."
Zhao Gang pointed to the six large ships that had been outflanked from the left and right sides.
"Well, these are not the warships of the army, they should be the private ships of those families, the people on board are all good at the rivers and lakes, let's not be careless, tell the boatmen, drive the ship into the sea, if they come to pursue, let's kill them at sea."
Xi Junmai is a person who is born with a fighting mind, when he sailed before, Sun Xiangfu told him some stories of naval battles, he listened to them seriously, thinking that the whole ocean is like a grassland outside the gate, and the ship under his feet is like a war horse under his crotch, and now, his war horse runs faster than the other party, endurance and explosiveness are stronger, and it is also equipped with a bed crossbow with a long range, then, Sun Xiangfu once mentioned a tactic called kite flying, which can be used completely.
After a while, the Happiness turned its bow and headed out to sea, and the six big ships were in hot pursuit, and on the deck, many people in different clothes shouted at them with their weapons, meaning that they should not run, or they would be killed if they were caught.
"Hmph, you want to kill me? No way, lower the three-pole sail down, keep up to the same speed as them, and don't stretch the distance too far. Xi Junmai gave the order again, and the sailors quickly did as they were told, leaving only the mainsail and the wing sails, and the speed of the ship suddenly dropped by more than half, but even if the speed was reduced by more than half, it was still slightly faster than the big ships behind.
The bottom of these traditional big ships is very wide, and the help of sailing on the sea is great, and the sails are not tall enough, and the installation is not scientific enough, and the maximum effect of the use of wind power cannot be used, so even if there are dozens of boatmen on both sides of the oars, in this vast sea, the speed is less than half of the happiness, but under the deliberate control of the happiness, they see a glimmer of hope for pursuit, so that they will not even be able to see the butt of the ship.
Half an hour, enough for the boatmen on those big ships to shake their arms sore, and from a distance, seeing that the frequency of the ups and downs of the oars is getting lower and lower, and even many of them are not moving, Xi Jun Maicai said, "All the armor, lower all the sails, let them approach, and after entering the range of the bed crossbow, run the water wheel around them." ”
As soon as Xi Junmai gave the order, the big guys were busy, and soon, the water wheel at the stern of the ship began to turn, and more than forty guards in full armor carried a dozen small bed crossbows to the deck and arranged them, and in groups of two, they pulled the strings and arrows.
"Well, listen to the boat in front, stop the ship and surrender, you can avoid death, otherwise, grandpa will spare you, and grandpa's knife will not spare you." A stout man with a beard shouted loudly at the bow of the ship, which had gradually stopped, and looked at him with tendons and flesh, but he looked like a simple man.
"Zhao Gang, give this guy an arrow." Xi Junmai hates others being arrogant in front of him, if he wasn't worried about the damage to the Happiness, he would dare to kill a ship by himself, because even if it is a big ship that can sail on the sea, a ship is actually only one or two hundred soldiers, and he is confident that he can destroy them by himself with an invulnerable armor.
"Okay!"
Zhao Gang, who had set up the crossbow, got the order and began to adjust the angle of the bed crossbow, and after a while, he felt that he was almost aiming, and then struck the trigger of the bed crossbow with a hammer, and suddenly, a bed crossbow arrow with an arm thick and an arrow shining with cold light flew out.
"Poof, poof, poof······"
In a few seconds, the sound of the flesh being hit hard sounded on the pursuing ship, because of the waves, both ships had different frequency fluctuations, even if they were not far apart, the crossbow arrows could not do a precise strike, so they did not shoot the bearded man in the bow.
However, the arrow flew by his side, but it instantly pierced the body of a person next to him, and the blood splashed his face, and then looked at the arrow rod, where only one person's body penetrated, and the three people standing in a straight line on his side just now had a transparent hole in the body at this time, and after the arrow pierced the body of the three people, it could even pierce the deck of the ship.
"Bed crossbows, they have bed crossbows on board." A frightened minion exclaimed.
The bearded man whose face was covered with blood only reacted at this time, and scolded, "Damn, it's not an army warship, how can it be equipped with a bed crossbow, everyone be careful, go to the cabin to find a place to take refuge, and when we get up, let's kill it together." ”
The bearded man obviously had experience in water combat, but he didn't think about how he could catch up with the Happiness with the speed of his existing ship.
"We have a lot of bed crossbow arrows on the ship, anyway, as long as you don't shoot empty, you can take them back and use them again, shoot them hard for me! Lose their spirits, and the rest will be easy. ”
The arrows of the bed crossbow arrows are all made of fine iron, and each crossbow is equipped with a box of arrows, which is about a hundred, so there are more than a thousand bed crossbow arrows on the Happiness, even if one arrow only kills one person, it is enough to kill all the people on the six ships that are pursuing.
"Hehe, I haven't practiced at sea since this thing was made, so it's just right for the big guy to try his hand."
Zhao Gang smiled, and the people in the escort team also knew what it meant, they were not newcomers who had never been on the battlefield, on the contrary, they were old soldiers who had fought many white-knuckle battles with the Turks, and they were experienced in battle formations, and they were not soft at all when they killed people.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh······"
More than a dozen bed crossbows fired together, and suddenly the big ship that was chasing at the front was shot like a hedgehog, even if many people were hiding in the cabin, they were nailed to death by the fine iron arrows that penetrated through the wall, and suddenly, the ship screamed, and in the interval of this battle, several ships behind also followed, Xi Junmai ordered, and the happiness once again pulled the distance away.