The Battle of the Kingdoms Chapter 43 From the North (The community has just had a power outage and the network has just arrived)
He was lying still on a high place, observing the new city in front of him from a distance, this city was built by the lake, the scale was not large, only enough for a hundred and ten people to live, the city walls and houses were made of trees, judging from the peeling of the skin of the trees, the construction time was not very long, the west of the city was a residential area, the east of the city was a working area, where a huge support was erected, several warships had begun to take shape, the work of all the people in the city was to build warships, the battleships that had been built were piled up on the lake, connected and fixed with ropes, and would not flow away with the waves.
Zeng Jing's eyes turned into the distance again, in the extreme distance clouds and mist, the continuous mountains loomed, across the entire northern continent, blocking the cold northern airflow in the north of the mountain, and this small city is located in the south of the mountain continent has become a warm climate, lush vegetation and livable place, from the foot of the mountain range to the south thousands of miles are vast primeval forests, grasslands and lakes, the residents of this wooden city are from the forest logging, pull to the lake for processing, this primeval forest is estimated to be thousands of years no one entered, hundreds of years of thousands of years of giant trees countless, All of them became the main materials for the construction of giant warships.
This forest, Zeng Jing once saw from afar, but the mountains in the distance, Zeng Jing once stepped on.
Mount Optimus, the highest mountain on the continent of the Five Kingdoms, it is said that the top of the mountain is connected to the sky, it is the birthplace of the male mountain on the mainland, the mountain range that spreads out from the center of the mountain is majestic and magnificent, snow-capped all year round, the danger is poor, and people and beasts are forbidden. Dong Guo Nan took Zeng Jing, who was only 14 years old at the time, to complete a study tour to the northwest of Yan along the border of the mountains in a year. The grandeur of nature left a great impression on the young Zeng Jing at that time, and it was the shadow of Longmen Gorge that he saw in the light cave of the Zhanghe River that day, Zeng Jing rushed into it desperately, and was hit in the back by a knife from the golden knifeman, and when he crossed into this forest, he fell from the air again, and fell to his death.
Through the calculation of the position of the stars at night, Zeng Jing roughly determined his position, and then gradually approached Mucheng. This wooden city is basically unguarded, in fact, such a remote place is already difficult to find, and it is basically isolated from the world.
Zeng Jing slowly searched along the city wall and found a small gate for entering and exiting, which should be a passage for people in the city to enter the forest for hunting, and a gate, which should be for transporting wood. Now it is all closed, and there are no guards at the head of the city. So Zeng Jing, under the cover of the woods, continued along the city wall to the waterfront side of the wooden city, where the city wall was interrupted like a bowl buckled on the shore, compared to the waterside there were many more soldiers. Zeng Jing observed that these soldiers and the craftsmen who built the ship did not seem to be of the same clan, the soldiers were responsible for supervising the craftsmen to cut wood and build ships, the craftsmen were under surveillance, and the two sides did not communicate during the day, and there was a faint hint of hostility.
The soldiers were wearing the common attire of the soldiers of the Qin State, and their eyes stared coldly at the craftsmen working on the scene, and the craftsmen couldn't tell whether they were from the Qin State, but the Qin State was inland, and there were basically no shipbuilding craftsmen, Zeng Jing speculated that it was very likely to be a Qi person, after all, the shipbuilding skills of the Qi State were world-famous. Qin and Qi are separated by the Jin State, although there are not many wars, but the Qin State has always regarded the Qi State as the biggest enemy to unify the continent, and the secret war between the two sides continues.
Now that the shell of a giant ship has been erected on the shore, craftsmen are working on the tool rack to process the internal structure of the giant ship, and then install it inside the giant ship after it is built. Zeng Jing looked into the middle of the lake, where more than a dozen huge ships were already moored, exactly the same as the last time he saw them in the Zhanghe River.
Seeing this, Zeng Jing has already understood the general reason, the Qin State secretly established a shipbuilding base here, and then sent the warship to the battlefield far away at the junction of Qin and Jin through space teleportation technology, the space teleportation technology is the super weapon of the Qin State to fight, and the technology used surpasses the current entire era, as for where this technology comes from, it has always been a mystery. Although Zeng Jing was a famous man in the Qin State, he was still unapproachable about this core war technology.
Just as Zeng Jing was about to leave, there was a sudden commotion on the shipbuilding site, an old craftsman suddenly collapsed, and the other craftsmen put down their work and went over.
The Qin soldiers on guard violently pushed the craftsmen away and scolded them to return to their places and continue their work. The craftsman excitedly confronted the soldiers, and neither side budged. The soldiers of the Qin State who came one after another drew their swords one after another, and forcibly separated the craftsmen. The old man who fainted was leaning on the arms of a young man at this time, and the people around him dispersed, and the soldiers of the Qin State faced the young man directly, but they didn't dare to step forward, only one of the soldiers walked up to the young man and said something excitedly, the young man replied calmly, the soldier shook his head angrily, took a few steps forward and stopped, waving his knife and shouting, the young man was still fearless, holding the old man's arm without moving. The captain finally gave up, turned his head and walked away swearing, and the young man took the old craftsman in his arms and walked towards the resting camp surrounded by everyone. The soldier looked at the young man's back in the distance, his eyes cold.
Wei Heng is very dissatisfied with his current situation, as a member of the Wei clan, at this time, he should be charging on the battlefield of Qin and Jin and fighting for fame, he didn't want to be sent to this broken place bitten by insects and rats, escorting a group of Qi people to build ships, every day except for standing under the sun like a donkey day to monitor the work of Qi people, just sleeping, it is too boring. And these Qi people are becoming more and more restless, especially the young man named Lu Yu, who seems to have become the leader of this gang of Qi people, and he is the leader of every trouble, and he is also the one who started today's strike. Wei Heng hates Lu Yan's eyes the most, they are always so calm, no matter how angry they are, they are like a bowl of water quietly placed on the table, not moving at all, sometimes Wei Heng really wants to dig out those eyes to see if they are really so heartbroken. Fortunately, the news sent last month that there are five days to evacuate this ghost place, it is said that it is sent to the frontal battlefield, and then it will be able to tear apart directly face-to-face with those soft Jin people, thinking about the knife in his hand, he has not drunk blood for a long time, and Wei Heng stroked the scabbard with some hunger.
As for what to do with these Qi people, although the above ordered them to be teleported together with the ship, according to what Wei Heng learned privately, several other similar shipbuilding bases had some small accidents during the transmission process, and several manned boats exploded inexplicably, and it was very coincidental that the ships were carrying Qi people who were shipbuilding, obviously these coincidences were not coincidences, and Wei Heng decided to learn from the advanced practices of his colleagues.
So Wei Heng quietly called a few close guards, and carefully commanded a few words in their ears, and these cronies looked at the boss with admiration after hearing this, and they all showed expressions of understanding.
Although Zeng Jing, who was hiding outside the house, didn't hear what Wei Heng said, she guessed that it was not a good thing to look at everyone's expressions, and she wanted to leave early, but she thought about it and found a hidden place to hide herself deeply.
The sky gradually darkened, except for a few guarded sentinels, everyone had gone to bed, Zeng Jing, who was hiding in the depths, suddenly woke up, and at the same time sneaked out of the Qin soldiers' barracks, showing an unusually bloated appearance in the unclear moonlight, Zeng Jing followed closely to the shadows, until they were very close to them, they found that they had all changed into a few strange clothes similar to cotton clothes, but in order to ensure that the movements were soft and not to wake up others, so they walked a little shaky and unstable. Zeng Jing recognized the purpose of this strange costume at a glance, Mr. Dongguo once took him to visit a place, and he also wore this kind of clothing before entering, because the things to be visited are extremely harmful, and direct exposure to it will cause a great physiological reaction, the more common is dizziness and nausea, and after a long time, there will be dehydration and internal bleeding, and even death. Even in that thick protective suit, Zeng Jing still felt a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart, Dong Guo Nan took him to stand in the middle of the secret room, just stood there quietly, did not make any movements, just let Zeng Jing feel it in his heart, and then took Zeng Jing out of the secret room without saying a word, Zeng Jing let out a long breath of turbidity when he walked out of the secret room, and all the negative feelings in his heart slowly disappeared, and suddenly he understood what it was like just now, that is, the frustration and anger of watching himself die, but unable to do anything.
Seeing this kind of protective clothing again, Zeng Jing felt a little uncomfortable in his heart again, no wonder there is such a thing here?
The first few Qin soldiers avoided everyone, came to the lake, groped around on a hidden shore, and then there was a slight sound, as if something had been opened, and several people disappeared from the ground one after another, Zeng Jing didn't dare to get too close, so he could only continue to wait in the distance.
After about a quarter of an hour, several people crawled out of the ground again, holding their hands on their chests, although they were far apart, Zeng Jing was still very sure that what they were holding in their hands was the thing, emitting a faint green light in the darkness, jumping like a miserable ghost fire on a mass grave.
Qin Bing got on the boat tied to the shore and rowed quietly into the lake in the middle of the night, only the sound of animals perching in the distance of the forest in the heaven and earth, intertwined, like a song of death. Zeng Jingqiang held back the uneasiness in his heart, dived into the water, and followed behind Qin Bing's boat.
There are a large number of battleships that have been built moored in the lake, and the small boats are parked under the northernmost battleship, these Qin soldiers carefully climbed up the ladder, and suddenly the soles of the people in the middle of the ladder slipped, and the things in their hands swayed left and right, bumped a few times, and almost fell, and the people up and down were scared enough, and couldn't help but curse a few times.
Zeng Jing didn't know what the consequences would be if this thing fell, but from their reactions, it was surmised that the consequences would definitely be serious. Several Qin soldiers stayed on the boat for a while, and then returned along the boat ladder, but at this time their hands were empty, as if nothing had happened, and when they returned to the camp, there was only the sound of insects chirping all night.