Chapter Forty-Nine: Woe and Blessing
Surrounded by peaks, the sparkling edge of the Worry-free Harbor, the loyal and unswerving Five Dragon Flags of the Beiming Water Division spread in the heat of the sea breeze. If the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info is in Pengcheng, at this time it is already the fragrance of osmanthus, and the chrysanthemum brewing is very good in the mid-autumn season, but in Xiami Island, the humid and hot climate all year round is enough to make people forget the cold and summer, and the peach blossom spring-like forest that gallops for dozens of miles, the Dazhai of the sailor is stationed here by the port and the mountain.
At this time, the Chinese military tent was already immersed in desolation. Prince Li, who had been rescued from the flagship of the Xinming ship, had been scrubbed clean, taken off his blood-stained clothes, and changed into a clean goose yellow piping underwear, lying on the green jade pillow pear blossom couch, his teeth were clenched, his eyes were closed, and he fell into a coma. The two medical officers on the inside of the bed, one with a high nose and deep purpose for acupuncture, the little doctor behind him twisted a veil and was still wiping for the prince, while the other red-faced medical officer was drinking a mouthful of the decoction from his own mouth, and turned to the mouth of Prince Li to feed the decoction mouth-to-mouth. In this situation, if it were in Xinyue, it would have been an unwarranted act that would be reprimanded by the officials, but in Beiming, a country where practicality, legality and trade are paramount, everyone is safe and easy. At this time, there were still many generals and retinues standing on the outside of the bed, and the sentinels with armor and knives who came and went outside the tent were also on guard. Chu Caishuang was still lying on the side of Prince Li's couch and sobbing, his eyes were full of hatred and pain, and he was full of tears.
The curtain was lifted slightly, and a sentry saluted me, and motioned for me to leave the account, and I withdrew. When I walked out, I saw the black gold silk edge soft armor outside, the feet were pedaling the Beiming summer standard clogs, the helmet was not brought due to the heat, only the hair was roughly pulled up, and the blue tourmaline sheathed sword was worn around the waist, and the long-haired General Feng Wenqing stood with his hands in his hands, and there were Zhu Yinghong and Sheng Zheng and others on his side. I hurriedly saluted General Feng first, and General Feng signaled not to speak here, and led a few of us to the prismatic fortifications on the side outside the harbor. In the fortified harbor, all kinds of warships are being overhauled, and the craftsmen and military households are busy taking off their coats, revealing strong muscles and wheat-colored skin, and they are in full swing in a peach forest. The injured flagship of the Xinming ship was to be repaired here for preliminary repairs before sailing to the helmsman of the Nanyang Naval Division for further refit and repair. The fragments and shells of the Sakura human dragon bullet that had been inserted into the Xinming ship had also been dismantled, and together with the wreckage of the enemy ship that had been towed back, they were assigned to the relevant technical officers for inspection and analysis under the supervision of the shipwrights and the eunuchs of the Ministry of Works.
"This is the crow hang," the thin middle-aged general who came to explain to General Feng meticulously pointed to the same half-pierced small pontoon bridge style scrap railway road at hand, "The crow hanging is a special weapon created by the Semu people for stringing and coordinated operations, especially in the boarding operation, the effect is outstanding, and those Luo Wei warriors who broke through to the flagship of the Xinming ship were able to board the ship by relying on this thing." Saying that, he handed the document to General Feng on one side of his hand, and General Feng then handed it to us for circulation, and when Sheng Zheng, who was bound with a bandage in both hands, handed me the paperwork, I looked intently, and the picture on it should be the recovery diagram of this "crow hanging", compared to the sea magnet iron cable slide chain we use, this crow hanging is a kind of gangplank, with a pointed iron beak at the top of the outer side, and railings on both sides. When used, with the mast as the fulcrum, one end is lifted high and upward, and then the forward is lowered to "catch" or ram the attacking enemy ship's unguarded side, through the crow hanging, the marine soldiers can be directly transported to the deck of the enemy ship to fight, playing a stronger hand-to-hand combat, turning naval warfare into land warfare. I looked at the paperwork, and said softly to Sheng Zheng, "Luo Wei suddenly used this suicidal sneak attack and ramming, and even engaged in a broadside battle, you say, could it be that the enemy we probed out was deceitful?" If there is an equal force, it will not be done like this. Sheng Zheng pondered for a moment, not committal, but still had a hint of hard thinking. At this time, I picked up the fragments and shells of the Sakura human flesh fire dragon bullet, and when I looked closely, I felt suspicious for a while. When they followed forward, they went together to the abandoned warship that had been towed back.
This is a warship such as the "Great Harry" artillery sail warship. Although this ship seems to be not updated at the right time, it is not as good as the current "Prince" and "Sea Sovereign" artillery sail warships of the Semu Empire, but the overall structure and ingenuity can still be seen. The general continued to hand over another document, and then briefly stated: "This is the earliest type of sail and sail warship of the Shenwei Human, and it belongs to the same sail and artillery warship as my Xinming ship. This Shenwei artillery warship has a very deep draft, a high freeboard, a cocked bow and stern, and a multi-masted sail, with sails as the main power, supplemented by oars. It was equipped with 32 bronze guns with a firing range of more than 1,000 meters, which were mounted on multiple decks. In wartime, the barrels of artillery protrudes from the round portholes of this row of ships; In normal times, the gun carriage equipped with wheels is pulled into the cabin, and the porthole is opened during the battle," as he spoke, the general pointed to the various locations and wreckage of the broken wall and explained to us, while General Feng looked at the document with a deep brow, and looked at the ship from time to time. "This ship is arranged with a tall war tower, three masts, the middle of the warship, the mainmast, the bow and stern are the foremast and the back mast, the rear mast has a total of two, and there are five triangular soft sails hanging from this kind of sail, compared with the hard sails of our Xinming ship, the advantage is that the flexibility and speed of operation are better, and the disadvantage is that it is slightly inferior in terms of wind and wave resistance."
General Feng watched while slowly moving towards the past, and from time to time he also whispered a few words to Zhu Yinghong next to him, Zhu Yinghong came this time, and General Feng promoted him to the deputy general of the Chinese army, and he also tried his best to promote it, in order to give face to the Zhujia family and Princess Yaoyue. It's just that General Feng, who is so transparent, would transfer the warship led by Chu Caishuang, the deputy general of Prince Guard, when the flagship of the Xinming ship was shot, even if the battle situation was urgent, and it didn't seem entirely reasonable. However, after thinking about it again, most of the army is Prince Jing who has followed the old man for many years, although Prince Li is a noble prince, but after all, he has only been the commander of the Praetorian Guard for many years, compared with the border army, the Praetorian Guard is mostly the children of high-ranking officials and dignitaries, that is, the young master soldiers in the mouth, although they have also experienced the civil strife in Pengcheng and the street fighting of the peasant army, but after all, for these border generals who are accustomed to seeing strong winds and waves, it is inevitable that it is difficult to convince the public, and the war is urgent, this matter is not the fault of General Feng, and Prince Zhili is not a favored prince, And because of the relationship with the eldest prince and the two ends of the first rat in the internal problems of Beiming for many years at that time, these border generals are even more faint, but no matter how unfavored, the prince is the prince after all, General Feng should do the scene is so inadequate, but it also makes me secretly worry about him in my heart, this wartime, he has no time to take too much care of Prince Li's serious injuries, just send enough medical officers to take care of him, leave enough Prince Li's cronies to accompany him, and hand an emergency military report to Pengcheng, and there is no sign of pity, which is very correct in the resolution of the matter, However, military affairs are also a continuation of politics, and such a gesture of no mercy will inevitably arouse the dissatisfaction of the small people in the army under Prince Li. Although I also sympathize with Prince Li, but in my Fu Yannian's heart, but I don't think highly of his talent, sympathy and admiration are two different things after all, in the army, admiration can only be established by real swords and real guns, and with his princes and grandchildren, they have to rely on their own ability to get admiration, which is completely different from the sycophancy on the face, the praise of some official articles, and the sympathy and pity from the heart, compared with admiration and love.
When I went to visit Prince Li's wounded wounds in the tent in the evening, the atmosphere in the tent was even more depressed, and the medical officer who served the decoction tried his best, but the soup could not be fed. Chu Caishuang circled around the account, and when he saw me coming, he pulled me to sit in the tent with everyone. Seeing that Prince Li was already unconscious, the soup did not enter, and he was angry, I had to persuade, "General Chu has not rested since the war, but you have to take care of your body so that you can take care of the prince, why don't you go to dinner first." ”
Chu Cai, who had a worried face, was about to speak, but saw the medical officer on the inside of the couch suddenly shouting, "Lord Wang! Rajah! ”
When everyone hurriedly stepped forward, they saw that Prince Li's eyelids moved, opened his mouth slightly, and opened his eyes again, there seemed to be a trace of clarity in his eyes, everyone had a trace of joy, and hurriedly held their breath, staring at Prince Li to listen to him, the silence in the whole tent was like a dark underwater abyss, and countless undercurrents were surging, but they were silent. However, Prince Li, who opened his eyes and saw everyone in the tent, did not have any last words to explain as in the play, but suddenly stretched out his right hand, and a close-fitting jade pendant in his hand slid to the ground and shattered a few pieces, and then, he saw Prince Li close his eyes, and everyone hugged him, crying. I hurriedly asked the sentry to inform General Feng, and I also wept on the side. When General Feng came to arrange the funeral, I handed over the jade pendant that was broken into a few sections to Sheng Zheng, Sheng Zheng saw this thing, stunned for a moment, Fang and I went out of the account, and when we walked outside the peach forest, Fang said in a low voice, "The prince is on his deathbed, and this thing should be treated well?" ”
I saw that he also recognized this thing, so I traced the posture of Prince Li before and after his death, and then sat under the tree, sighed and said, "I also hesitate, I don't know whether the prince wants this piece of jade in the end, or to protect this person, in terms of reasoning, Wei Fu is extremely evil, and he should have been killed a long time ago." When the rebellion of the eldest prince had her Wei Fu, if it weren't for Prince Li's recommendation to the eldest princess to make meritorious contributions, how could she have lived to this day, that day when we first used the iron chain to the Xinming ship, we saw the person dressed as a small school, isn't it, Prince Li actually took her with such a big event, for fear that something would happen to her stay in Pengcheng, and she was worried about her life, which can be seen that most of them have a lot to do with it. I'm just afraid that if I keep her and can't get to the bottom of her, the kindness of the woman will be a big deal, so I took advantage of the grief of the people around Prince Li, and quietly took away the jade pendant, and when the time came, it was replaced with a piece that everyone couldn't recognize the intention, so as not to let the generals around Prince Li save this person for Prince Li's last wish, and become a disaster. ”
"What General Fu said is true," Sheng Zheng also sat down slowly, and the two of us lay on our backs on the grass under the peach blossom tree, quietly looking at the incomparably distant canopy and the flickering canopy in the smoked wind. The volcano on Chami Island can only faintly see a few shadowy torches on the mountain peaks and mountainsides in the night, which is the scout lookout built by Prince Jing when he was in Haiphong here, and it is said that the lookout on the summit has a very elegant name: Lingmi. The mountain peaks stretch vertically and horizontally, the stars are trampling one day, the peach blossoms are falling, and the sound of Sheng Zheng is like a clear spring, "This is the summer oleander flower, which is very easy to flourish in this rainforest climate, and has the medicinal effect of curing volcanic sores and carbuncles, but it also has its toxicity." General Fu, you say, since Wei Fu has been entangled with Luo Wei many times, can we use this Wei Fu to cover the net? ”
I thought of the design that the eldest princess had designed on Yushan Island, so I sighed deeply, looked at the sky farther away, and said, "You're right, we can plan this matter well, when I look at the Sakura human flesh fire dragon bullet today, there are also a lot of doubts, this thing seems to be made of the fire dragon water made by my Beiming Emperor, and the fire dragon water is my Beiming confidential object, why did it fall into the hands of Luo Wei, in addition to Wei Fu, there must be more important people involved." Sheng Zheng, just call me Fu Yannian," after speaking, I put a hand on his shoulder, and suddenly smiled, "It's also a person who has been born and died together, and we still stick to those common names, and we are not in the officialdom, so there is no need to do this." ”
"I'm not formal," Sheng Zheng put an arm on my shoulder on the side, and said softly, "I was called General Fu when I first saw you, and I was used to it, since I was at ease in my heart, why bother with what to call you." General Fu coincides with me, and the strange way is a friend of life and death. It's a pity, Prince Li is gone, and we have to speculate and judge many things rigorously and carefully, and then we can make a plan, after all, we don't know anything about Wei Fu, if there is someone who understands and acts cheaply, then I do have a plan to achieve. ”
The mournful music that sounded in the distance suddenly floated in, the purple flute sorrowful wind that was like crying and complaining rushed up and down, together with the mountain galloping like an eagle's beak, a goose head, a camel, a lying lion, a BMW, a tiger head, a phoenix tail and many other beasts all crisscrossed the sound of the world, synaesthesia and transference, indescribable, the flute sound covered the cliff by the harbor, sprinkled with peach forest, leisurely winding around the beam, which whimpered with the meaning of pain, let people not feel that there is also a sense of tears.
"We can discuss this matter slowly, let's go back to the funeral first." As soon as I pulled Sheng Zheng, both of them got up, patted the dirt on their bodies, and strode into the tent.
However, when we returned to the tent, there was no one blowing the flute, only the purple flute sound full of mountains and fields was still full of the three mountains and the sea was heavy, and the blue bird went to the feeling that the green clouds were short, and the timbre was high-pitched after rendering, all of them were a sad lyric, such as beautiful mountains, small bridges and flowing water, the tranquility of the past, the stars scattered in the notes, forgetting the sin and ugliness, the meaning of the haggard body was more and more rushing, but suddenly I heard a woman singing, "At that time, Luo Pa wrote about the palace business, thousands of mountains and deciduous rocks and rocks were thin, and the sorrowful moon was photogenic in the sky, Hundreds of knots are soft and sorrowful. Discuss the orchestra to make a group fan, a thrilling growth trick, love and love are not enough, empty wind and moon sickness, have the heart to make up for the ruthlessness of the day, the ring is willing to fly in the next life, thousands of miles of old people are closed, who writes plum blossom lane? and tears to seal the intestines, bells, drums and pianos know each other. Sijun is like the moon, where to find, extinguish the candle and pity the light and remember the gentleman"
It was probably the love of the people, and when Sheng Zheng and I came back to our senses and followed the sound to find someone, we only saw the self-hanging body of Wei Fuwei who died in front of the horse. We put her down from the luxuriant, vibrant, and brilliant oleander tree, but Zhu Yinghong's young voice behind him also floated over, only to hear him sigh, and said softly, "Sad Fengfu, I only said that this song sung by my mother is the best, but I don't know that there are such strange women in the world, and they are even more moving than my mother's singing." It's a pity, is this a martyrdom for Prince Li? ”
"In terms of talent, it is natural that Mrs. Zhu Yaoyue's rhythm is more moving, but the music is a part, with love, with love, the stone becomes gold, Wei Fu is a song, the love is as deep as the sea, but I don't know that she and Prince Li have such affection?" Sheng Zheng looked at me while talking to Zhu Yinghong, I nodded with him, and waved our hands helplessly, "Burial" I put down Wei Fu's gradually cooling corpse that I had carefully looked at, and instructed a soldier behind him.
The night spreads out endlessly on the seashore, straight to the sky.