Chapter 6 Tides

Above the clear blue sky, the white clouds swim leisurely, and under the blowing of the sea breeze, I don't know where they will drift. Under the blue sky, there is a blue sea, the sea is undulating, and the waves are cascading onto the shore beach, washing this rarely visited beach. On the shore, a large ship was slowly moving, and it was pushed out of the dock, and countless ragged Japanese slaves were tied with ropes and driven by the overseer's whip to pull a large ship into the water. This big ship is more than 30 zhang long and more than 10 zhang high, like a towering mountain, and the ropes are pulled straight, and the thin bodies of these short Japanese slaves are like dead grass blown by the wind in the sea breeze, showing an angle less than 30 degrees from the ground.

Li Kuan stood on the seaside, looking at this sea ship made by Datang himself, and his heart was full of indescribable excitement, because this was all designed and manufactured by Datang's craftsmen, not by his own cheating. This allowed Li Kuan to see a bright avenue of the Tang Empire.

Boarding the boat, the oncoming sea breeze no longer feels fishy and unbearable, looking at the endless sea, the heart is full of feelings, these years to go around, went to a lot of places, on the plateau snow mountain, stepped on the grassland Gobi, the sea is really the first time to come. So at this time, Li Kuan still felt a little deeply, the seabirds were soaring overhead, and the waves were rolling under his feet. Anyone who has never seen the sea will not be able to understand the shock of the endless blue sky. Even if it is a slight wave, it is not a turbid wave. It also makes people feel vast and profound, in front of it. Everyone feels small. Whether it is in power or by force, this is an indescribable realm, on this planet, the most vast ocean, is the most small heaven and earth creation in nature.

"I'm here, from this day on, Datang Haijiang will not be violated by anyone!" Li Kuan stood at the bow of the boat, muttering to himself in his heart, thinking about a thousand years later. The First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, the history of humiliation, will be rewritten after this day. From now on, Datang will rise, whether on land or on the sea, as long as there is a place where this 'Tang' flag is located, it is Datang. As long as the horseshoe is tread, it is the land of the Tang Dynasty, as long as a thousand sails pass through. It is the Datang Haijiang.

The sea breeze blew the sails on the ship, and the whole ship shook slightly, and the wind rose. The sea breeze originally resembled the hands of a gentle lover. Slightly brushing over the bow of the ship, blowing the sails, letting the boat sail towards the depths of the ocean. It seems to be a reluctant lover, pulling the lover into his arms at the moment when the separation is imminent. But gradually, the wind became urgent. The waves began to surge, and the stacks of waves seemed to be white and white. From the far place between the sea and the sky, it surged towards the shore, like thousands of troops and horses galloping, and like a monstrous flood coming in a roll. The calm of the entire sea was suddenly broken at this moment. This is a common occurrence at sea, one moment it is calm, and the next moment it is a wave sweeping and a huge wave hitting. The weather at sea is more fickle than on land.

Li Kuan and they encountered such weather, speaking of which is also because they are not prepared, this group of people are not at sea to make a living, no one understands the vagaries of the weather at sea, they saw the morning glow in the early morning, and felt that today is a good weather, suitable for going to sea. So the group set off in high spirits, but who would have thought of the weather at sea, their experience was all useless. So the group was caught in a storm at sea.

"Put away the sails, turn around, we're going back to shore, it's a storm coming!" A master craftsman sent by the Ministry of Imperial Works shouted loudly, and he only felt bad at this time. But it seemed to be a little late, because the sea breeze before was slightly blowing, although they did not feel a great wind, but the sail was not a little bit of wind, so at this time they were already far from the shore, and it was too difficult to turn around at this time, and the sail full of strong winds was really difficult to put away.

A group of sailors were busy on the deck, and they were also in a hurry at this time, because they had been living on land before, even when they were on a boat, they were just cruising in rivers or inland lakes, who would have thought that the wind and waves on the sea would be so strong, and many things on the ship were shaken by the waves, as if they were drunk. At this time, they had to use ropes to fix these moving things, which was a huge and cumbersome project. It would have been even more troublesome if these things had not been tied, because in this short period of time, several people had been injured by the moving objects. So the sailors, who were already ill-prepared, hurriedly divided half of their men to the deck to put away the sails and untie the knots of the ropes, and then they felt a great force coming from the ropes in their hands, as if to pull them into the sky. At this time, these Tang sailors who don't know what it means to take you and pretend to take you to fly really feel this feeling.

The sails swelled, and a powerful force blew towards the depths of the sea, taking Li Kuan and their ship towards the depths of the blue sea. The sailors on the deck, who were battling with the sails, all had their arms bulging at this time, and they were all trying to feed. But the results were minimal, and their efforts did little except to make themselves sweaty and exhausted.

"No, some more people, if we go on like this, we will be blown into the depths of the sea, this is the first time that this ship has been launched, we can't rush into the open sea like this, and our food and fresh water are not well stocked, we must rush back before the storm comes!" The master craftsman of the Ministry of Industry shouted loudly, hoping that more people would come. But on this ship, in addition to these sailors, there are only Cangzhou officials left to board the ship and come to get a fresh Cangzhou official, how much power do these people have even if they join in? That's just a bunch of helpless scholars.

"Why, haven't you eaten enough? Hurry up and ......" On the big ship, the master from the Ministry of Industry was so anxious that his head was covered with sweat, and the storm was getting closer and closer, and he could already see the black lead cloud like ink sweeping in the depths of the sea. And the rumbling thunder also sounded in his ears, and the heavy rain would come down at any time, and it was the most dangerous thing to be trapped by the misty rain and lose its direction on this sea.

"Let me come!" At this moment, Li Kuan stood up, he was wearing a goose feather armor in a military uniform, and a pair of beast heads on his shoulders looked particularly hideous. It was a pair of lion heads, with their mouths wide open, and the big lion heads made a roar in the sky. There is a circle of iron armor on the arm, which is designed by Li Kuan himself, and the armor in this era has no arm armor, so when fighting on the battlefield, many generals will be attacked by the enemy on the arm under carelessness, and then lose the strength to resist and be stabbed under the horse. Therefore, before Li Kuan went to the battlefield, he ordered a group of skilled craftsmen to forge such a pair of arm armor for himself. In the entire Tang Army, Li Kuan's armor was the tightest, like a layer of iron clothing, almost covering his whole body. This is also because his strength far exceeds that of ordinary people, so he can fight with such armor, and ordinary people can't move even if they wear this armor, let alone fight. I saw Li Kuan striding out of the cabin, and then grabbed a sail rope nearby, his whole legs were slightly parted, and then he squatted down like this, and a jack fell tightly on the deck.

The wind blew the sails, stretching the ropes straight, and a strong force continued to surge to pull Li Kuan away. But Li Kuan's legs seemed to have taken root on the deck, and they didn't move. A solemn look on his face flickered, and then he began to move. He was wearing a pair of half-cut gloves on his hands, his fingers were exposed, and he saw his five fingers move flexibly, and then firmly grasped the rope that was the thickness of a child's arm, and then suddenly the muscles on his right hand tensed, and slowly retracted. The force and wind were so strong that the ropes creaked.

Li Kuan alternately grabbed the rope with both hands and pulled it back. The rope he pulled was getting tighter and tighter, and the end of the sail on the largest mast in the center was slowly retracted, which surprised everyone.

On the other side, three sailors pulled a rope, but they were pulled by the strong wind and staggered with their feet, and they could only ensure that they were not pulled up to the sky by the wind, and on this side, Li Kuan easily pulled the rope of a sail alone, is this still a person? At this moment, everyone sighed in their hearts. Is such a powerful force really something that one person can have? These people include sailors born in Cangzhou, officials from all over the world, and master craftsmen from Beijing. Some of these people are well-informed people, and they have seen a lot of people with divine powers, but none of them can be compared with Li Kuan, especially the master craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry, the strongest sailors they have ever seen are just pulling the sails on a five-tooth ship in the river wind on the river without being blown off, where is there Li Kuan who directly pulls up the sails like this.

But this is not the time to be surprised, because the tide is coming, and the tide that rolls in like a white line is a wave of oversized waves, and such a tide seems to be just a white line from a distance, but when you get closer, you will find that it is a monstrous wave three or four feet high, compared to these waves, the wind and waves on the river are just ripples caused by children peeing.

The power of the tide is incomparable, no one knows whether this big ship can resist the past, and no one dares to do such a real thing, and even a trace of luck does not dare to survive, because once it can't resist, it will fall into the sea and be swept away by this rolling tide, which is a complete death. (To be continued......)