Chapter 65: Fish Scales (I)
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Closing the door of the guest room, Li Xin hurriedly took out a sheepskin album from his arms, and before coming to Haizhou, he asked the painter to copy a few portraits of sea beasts according to the fishermen's description. Just now in the Haizhou Thorn Mansion, he found that the concubines played with the fruit horses were very similar to the water-sheltering mounts of the divine beasts, although the water-sheltering mounts had a terrifying head, but the height and size were about the same.
If these water-sheltering mounts are really dismounted, then who can use them as mounts? Li Xin frowned, he was Li Chengzong's absolute confidant, he was deeply influenced by Li Chengzong, and he never believed in the power of ghosts, gods and monsters.
He looked closely at the album, only to see that under the heavy fog, a group of terrifying sea beasts really ran from the bottom of the sea to the shore on the waves, this group of sea beasts had human bodies and limbs but only a strange head, and then looked at the side, it was really a huge turtle back shell.
Li Xin couldn't sleep at night, so he simply put on his clothes, mounted on Guo and dismounted, ready to walk around the city. Sure enough, getting off the horse was really only suitable for petite women and children to play, and Li Xin's dignified eight-foot man stepped on, and his two feet were about to paddle on the ground, like two wooden pulps in a small boat. It was not at all difficult for Naguo to get off the horse and carry Li Xin, it ran forward happily, Li Xin put his two feet on the horse's back, and let the horse run, so comfortable.
Besides, why did Qin Song send a swordsman to destroy Li Xin? Woe to this sea beast! A few months ago, a large number of sea beasts came ashore to slaughter and plunder coastal fishermen and rob ships in the Yellow Sea.
His uncle, who is an official in Qindao, is a high-ranking official of the Han Kingdom, and not long ago he just used means to get a hat for him to assassinate history, and the new official took office three fires, and this fire has not been lit to make a mess of sea beasts, if it can't be leveled, isn't it to prove to His Royal Highness the King of Han that he is a wreck?
Qin Song didn't think of any other ideas, and the only one he thought of was to close the city gate as soon as dusk, because he had heard that sea beasts would only come ashore from the sea when it was foggy and dark. He didn't expect that the people outside Haizhou City would flee to Qindao, a hundred miles away, and led Li Xin over.
Li Xin is the henchman of the King of Han, and the criminal officer of Qindao, he is upright, worried about the country and the people, and the oil and salt are not soaked, now Li Xin has become suspicious, if he is not killed, the matter of the sea beast in Haizhou will soon spread to Qindao, and the consequences will be unimaginable!
The swordsmen wore night clothes and lined up to follow Li Xin, ready to take them by surprise and seal their throats with a knife, so that the opponent would die a painful death. He dismounted and circled, and as he approached the gate of the city, he suddenly slowed down, and the beast stretched out its neck as if it were mad and let out a few unpleasant neighs.
There were several corresponding screams from the opposite side of the city gate, and Li Xin understood that this was the cry when Guo dismounted and was in heat. There are horses ahead! He quickly looked up at the city gate, and saw that the city gate had been opened, and by the moonlight, he could see several rows of black and black teams neatly lined up at the gate.
There was a "flutter" sound, someone lit the flint, and the teams had an extra torch in their hands. In the firelight and moonlight, Li Xin's eyes were as big as copper bells, "Sea Beast Gods!" "It's exactly what the picture book is in!" The sea beast has entered the city! Li Xin exclaimed, like a thunderclap in the quiet night sky, and several exclamations sounded one after another in the houses on both sides of the street, followed by the sound of moving tables and chairs against doors and windows, and then there was no sound. Even the swordsmen behind Li Xin were petrified as if they had been pointed, obviously frightened and suppressed!
The only thing that didn't have a sense of fear was the mare under Li Xin's crotch, which screamed desperately like a spring, and with every cry, the water refuge beasts under the sea beast seat opposite showed signs of rushing forward, but they were stopped by the sea beasts' tight reins. Li Xin seemed to see a little bit of fame, he didn't want the sea beast to take the lead, so he had to fight to the death, and his legs slammed into the horse's lower abdomen, and the mare immediately jumped up. Those water-avoiding beasts couldn't control anything, and rushed towards Li Xin with the sea beasts in an orderly manner.
The beasts were menacing, and the light of the fire shone on their heads, making them look more and more terrifying. Seeing that the beasts drew their blades, Li Xin also pulled out the dagger he carried with him, and he stabbed it on the back of the little mare, and the sudden stabbing pain made the little mare let out a deafening wail, and it shook violently, trying to throw Li Xin to the ground.
Seeing that their sweetheart was being punished, the water avoidance beasts suddenly stopped their hooves and began to wail in a panic. A sea beast rolled off its mount carelessly, its head falling from its neck and rolling all the way to Li Xin's feet. Having lost his head, he hurriedly got up from the ground and got back on his mount.
Li Xin wanted this effect, he laughed and picked up the head from the ground to look left and right, and shouted: "The sea beast is fake!" The swordsmen behind listened to the order, quickly took down this group of pirates, and made up for the merits to spare you from death! The swordsmen saw the mask in Li Xin's hand clearly, and then they shouted and pounced on the sea beasts a zhang away. The sea beasts wanted to fight, but the mounts did not listen, and they were looking sweetly at the little mare in front of them, and the sea beasts had to dismount to meet the enemy.
They flexibly removed the turtle shell on their back and used it as a shield in their left hand, and raised their scimitars in their right hand to slash and slash, the swordsmen were precise in their swordsmanship, and all of them were highly trained assassin guards, which was more than enough to deal with the sea beasts. However, because the sea beasts are too short, the swordsmen feel particularly difficult to fight, and there is a feeling like a child hitting a groundhog, if there are multiple holes, I don't know which hole the groundhog will poke its head out of. However, the master is a master after all, after a few back and forth, none of the sea beasts escaped, all of them were captured alive, and the swordsmen knelt down to ask Li Xin for their guilt.
Suddenly, Li Xin shouted, "Take down their swords!" But it was too late, and a few sea beasts took advantage of the swordsmen to kneel, picked up the scimitar on the ground with lightning speed, and cut into their abdomen, and the sea beasts who cut their abdomen convulsed and fell to the blood. Li Xin sighed, and ordered the swordsman to take a good look at the remaining sea beasts, and wait for dawn to make a judgment.
In Haizhou City, outside the gate of the Assassin's Mansion, Li Xin personally uncovered the masks on the heads of the sea beasts, and the people inside and outside the city were still hiding far away at first, but later saw that the masks on the heads of the sea beasts were really pulled off, so they came close to watch. It was the faces of a few mature men, but they looked like fierce gods, and the funny thing was that those men were all short in stature, and this height and physical appearance were very similar to the islanders of an island country near the sea.
"I see, this must be a Japanese slave!" Qin Song clapped his hands and smiled. Coldly, he was suddenly bitten by a Japanese slave on the opposite side who opened his mouth and bit Qin Song's finger: "Bagaya Road!" Qin Song exclaimed, and then threw it over with a slap, "Straight lady thief!" As soon as you opened your mouth, grandpa, I knew you were a Japanese slave! But someone saw them coming out of the sea, what's going on, Brother Li, do you know? ”
"It is clear that the fact that the Japanese only chose to land in the fog or at night means that they wanted to create an atmosphere of mystery and horror, and in fact they came in a big boat, and they put on rafts side by side, hid them in shallow water, and then put on this mask sewn from pig urine bubbles, and stepped ashore on the raft. Under cover of night or in the fog, people on the shore cannot see the ships on the sea, but they can only see them running on rafts, from far and near, as if they were emerging from the water. If you accidentally fall into the seawater, you can't drown, and the mask is connected to 8 ventilation tubes, like tentacles. They sewed a layer of skin out of the skins of some big fish and wrapped them around the males......," Li Xin explained.
"Despicable! Drifting across the ocean is just for Shanghai Prefecture to plunder and kill, and pretend to be a divine beast? Who told you about the legend of the mythical beast? Qin Song said puzzled, and stepped forward a few more times.
"These Japanese people are very shrewd, and they are learning our Chinese etiquette and culture all the time, and the money and goods looted from Haizhou have been returned to their land from the Yellow Sea through big ships." Li Xin said with a worried face, "I used to think that His Highness's sentence that danger also came from the sea was an empty talk, but now it seems that His Highness is very correct.......
Now that the sea beast has been identified, Li Xin returned to Qindao, and when he reported the situation to Li Chengzong, Li Chengzong's face changed suddenly, "It turned out to be a good thing done by the Japanese people, hehehe, I haven't freed up my hands to get you, Ya actually came to provoke me, mother, little gourds, I think you are tired of being crooked......"
After the Haizhou Sea Beast incident was investigated, Li Chengzong was furious, Haizhou Assassin Shi Qin Song was negligent in his duties and intended to assassinate the court officials, the most important thing is that as a landlord, he actually disregarded the safety of the people, how can such a traitorous and evil person be worthy of the high position of the assassin history? And I was also dizzy, and I forgot to arrange coastal defense in Haizhou, but now it's okay, and I was educated by the Japanese to be a man.
While actively deploying defenses, Li Chengzong also ordered Jinyiwei to work hard to collect information about the Japanese State and make preliminary preparations for the landing of the army on the Japanese Island and the complete conquest of this most despicable and shameless country......
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