Chapter 160: Whaling (2)

Du Dalei asked, "Da Lang, what are you looking at us for?" Don't you know? ”

An Dalang said solemnly: "I really doubt that several of you are immortals, and many of your things are like immortal magic weapons. For example, binoculars, crossbows, camping shovels, liquor bottles, small mirrors, watches,*, there are so many magical things. Let's talk about it, what kind of gods are you? ”

Du Dalei kicked An Dalang and said with a smile: "The fairy is a fart!" If I were an immortal, I would have climbed into Fu Hongyu's bed a long time ago! You laugh at an eggplant, hurry up and eat, I'm going to starve to death. Have you ever seen a fairy who eats? The gods and goddesses are all spitting clouds and spitting fog, and they don't eat the fireworks of the world. ”

An Dalang breathed a sigh of relief, put his arm around Du Dalei's neck, and walked towards the cabin. As he walked, he said: "Scared Lao Tzu, I really thought you were immortals." If you kick Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will strangle you! ”

An Dalang strengthened his hand and spit out Du Darele's tongue.

Boris smiled and said, "Da Lang, do you want to kill the immortals?" If you let the gods in the sky know, they will kill you with thunder. ”

The three of them talked and laughed and walked into the cabin. Entering the eating place, the three of them lined up to get the food, walked to a table and sat down, and devoured it.

After lunch, the three of them went out of the cabin and went to the bow, where the children gathered around and let them continue to talk about astronomy and geography.

Du Dalei immediately started spraying, Boris added next to him. Many sailors and guards also came over and listened attentively.

For four days in a row, Du Dalei and Boris took turns lecturing the children, the guards, and the sailors about astronomy and geography. Then he switched to another warship and continued to speak to the sailors and escorts.

Four days passed, and no whales were found. The three brothers were in a hurry, so the warship kept changing course and roaming the sea.

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The second day of the fifth month of the first year of Qiande (963 AD)

At noon, An Dalang said: "If we can't find any whales in three days, we will go back." There is not much water left, and we can't hold it anymore. ”

The brothers are very helpless, the first time they went to sea to hunt whales, they returned in vain, what a shame!

At this time, a sailor shouted: "Look, there is a situation. ”

The water pointed to the sea in front of him and shouted loudly.

The three brothers immediately ran to the bow of the boat and looked into the distance.

In the distance, some water columns appeared on the surface of the sea, and there was fog-like water vapor around the water columns. Du Dalei shouted excitedly: "Rush up, it's likely that a whale is spraying water." ”

An Dalang took out his binoculars and looked at the water column. He saw several dark figures looming in the sea, constantly moving.

He handed the telescope to Du Dalei, who took it and immediately began to observe.

Du Dalei looked at it for a while, then handed it to Boris, and then said loudly: "Eighty percent are whales, and there are several." ”

Boris looked at it for a while and said, "That's right, it's a whale." Let's go. ”

An Dalang immediately ordered the warship to speed up and advance towards the whale. Then he ordered the guards to wind the bed crossbow and prepare the crossbow arrows.

The guards got busy, quickly wounding the bed crossbows, and a few of the guards fetched three huge bundles of crossbow arrows from the cabin. These crossbow arrows are specially made, and the arrows are triangular in shape, like the shape of a military thorn. There are also deep trenches that are used to bleed whales.

The guards untied the ropes that bound the bolts, placed them in the slot of the bed crossbow, and were ready to fire.

The children were so excited that they ran to the bow of the boat, looked into the distance, and then shouted loudly and jumped in a hurry.

An Dalang kicked the happiest children and told them to be honest.

The children stopped talking and stood obediently on the deck.

The ship breaks through the surface of the sea and keeps approaching the whale. After a while, everyone could clearly see the whales, about seven or eight whales, passing the front of the warship and swimming towards the left front of the warship.

An Dalang ordered the warship to turn and pursue the whale school. The sailors turned the sails desperately, and the warship arced across the sea, chasing the whales.

The two warships approached one after the other, gradually approaching the whale group.

An Dalang asked the sailors to fly the flag and let the other ship attack freely.

The warship was getting closer and closer to the whale group, and Du Dalei pointed to a whale about twenty meters long swimming in the middle of the fish school and said: "That's it, everyone aim, shoot hard!" ”

The bed crossbow in the bow of the ship was ready to be fired, and the guards nervously adjusted the launch angle of the bed crossbow, and slowly approached the whale.

One of the guards shouted, "Shoot!" ”

"Jump!"

The bolts shot out, making a graceful arc and heading towards the whale.

But it missed, and the crossbow bolt was about five or six meters away from the whale and plunged headlong into the sea.

Du Dalei shouted: "Go on, shoot it!" ”

The children also shouted and jumped to their feet and scolded the guards, saying that they were all stupid.

At this time, a bed crossbow on the starboard side was launched, and the crossbow arrow flew out and hit the whale in the back, piercing it dozens of centimeters deep.

The whale's blood flowed down the blood trough at the tip of the crossbow arrow, staining the sea red.

An Dalang shouted excitedly: "Great, keep shooting, don't stop!" ”

The ship continued to pursue the whales, and the bed crossbows continued to be fired, and soon several crossbow bolts were hit. The whale had five crossbow arrows pierced into its body, and it was bleeding non-stop.

Another ship also found a suitable target and began firing crossbow bolts.

Du Dalei ordered: "Tie the crossbow arrows to the ropes, then tie the large wooden barrels, and the warship continues to get close to the whale and fire at close range." ”

The guards got busy, tying the rope to the end of a crossbow arrow, and then tying the barrel to the end of a bundle of ropes, estimated to be hundreds of meters away.

The guard took out another bundle of rope, one end tied to the large barrel, and the other end firmly tied to the mast.

The warship got closer and closer to the wounded whale, only about a few dozen meters.

The guards took nervous aim, and after finding the best angle to fire, the crossbow bolts shot out and pierced the whale's back.

The whale struggled desperately on the surface, and the rope on the deck was quickly dragged away by the whale. The ropes were getting scarcer, and the four guards hurriedly lifted the huge barrel and threw it into the sea.

The whale dragged the rope down to the deep sea, the rope gradually straightened, and the mast made a 'creaking, crunching' sound.

Many of the children were so frightened that they moved away from the mast.

The big barrel was at this point, and due to the buoyancy, the whale could no longer dive into the deep sea.

The whale gradually surfaced, struggling in pain, and after the whale breathed, it began to dive into the deep sea again.

After tossing back and forth a few times, the whale slowly lost its strength, floating on the surface of the sea, and kept bleeding.

The children cheered and threw themselves on the side of the boat, watching the whales in the sea.

Another warship also succeeded, chasing a whale more than ten meters long, driving not far away.

The whale gradually stopped moving, and Du Dalei said loudly: "Put down the boat, send someone down, tie up the whale, and we will return immediately." ”

The guards lowered a small boat, carefully descended the four men, and rowed the boat close to the whale.

The guard picked up an iron hook with a bundle of rope tied to it. One of the guards hooked the iron hook to the whale and tugged at the rope, which he felt was very secure.

They took a few more iron hooks, hooked them to the whale's body, tied several large wooden barrels to the whale's body, and rowed back to the warship.

When the guards climbed onto the warship and hoisted the boat up again, An Dalang shouted in high spirits: "Return!" Go back and we'll eat whale meat! ”

The ship began to turn, ready to return home.

At this time, another warship also got the whale and began to tie up the whale.

An Dalang asked the sailors to wait for a while, and after the other warship tied up the whale, the two warships went one after the other and headed in the direction of Qishan Island.

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The fourth day of the fifth month of the first year of Qiande (963 AD)

At noon, two warships dragged the whale back to the pier in the north of Qishan Island.

When Du Dalei was still a few miles away from the pier, he thought about it and said, "We can't just get to the pier, the whale can't drag it up at all." A few small boats should be lowered and the guards should be rowed up to the beach, the ropes tied to the whales should be lowered, and then more people should be found to drag the whales to the beach. ”

Boris said: "We have to send someone to find Cui Zhaorong immediately, and we must ask him to send hundreds of people, otherwise we can't drag the whale up at all." ”

Everyone split up, and a few guards put down the boat, rowed ashore, and ran to the camp. The ships began to turn in search of a suitable beach.

More than three miles to the west of the pier, a gentle sandy beach was found. The guards lowered several small boats, and several people went up to each boat, pulling the ropes tied to the whales, and rowed towards the beach.

The boat slowly approached the beach, and the guards jumped into the shallow water and dragged the rope to the shore.

The boat rowed back, and more guards jumped into the boat and rowed towards the beach.

After several transports, most of the escort went ashore.

They finally went ashore with the child, and then everyone pulled the rope and tried to pull the whale up.

Everyone tried their best to feed, but the whale did not move.

Everyone was deflated and sat on the beach panting.

At this time, a large group of people lined up in a neat line, singing songs, and ran here.

Everyone shouted happily that it was the convoy that had arrived. Zhao Zizhong took hundreds of rookies from the escort team to the beach.

The rookies were stunned when they saw the whales floating in the sea. Many exclaimed, unable to believe their eyes.

Du Dalei ran to Zhao Zizhong and said with a smile: "Boss, we are back safely!" How's that, that's enough, right? We caught two big whales. ”

Zhao Zizhong was very happy, he beat Du Dalei's chest vigorously, "Great, such a big whale, it's so shocking!" You've worked so hard, and when we're done dealing with the whales, I'll give you a reward! There's a bonus for everyone! ”