Chapter 34: Killing Whales and Deterring the Enemy

The building boat is the sharpest weapon on the water of the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the melee lever, there are several large winch crossbows in the bow, also known as the car crossbow, the crossbow arm of this crossbow is more than two meters long, extremely powerful, and the shooting can reach two or three hundred steps, that is, four or five hundred meters, when used, it can be pulled away with the help of the winch behind. The bed crossbow of the Song Dynasty is actually an improved version of this winch crossbow.

When Li Su saw the whale, he wanted to shoot it with the crossbow on the bow of the ship, but after the order was issued, the soldiers who operated the crossbow looked at me, I looked at you, and no one dared to do it, they were the same as fishermen, they stayed at sea most of the time, and there was an incomparable awe in their hearts for the extremely dangerous sea, and the whale was a sacred object in the sea, so they naturally did not dare to provoke it, let alone shoot it.

Li Su saw the reaction of the soldiers on the ship, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, although he was a prince, he was not Liu Ju after all, and his order was not a military order at all, so the sergeants could not listen. However, he was not a person who gave up so easily, and turned to the palace guards beside him and ordered: "You go up, adjust the crossbow, this king will do it himself!" ”

Hearing Li Su's order, the head of the guard, Xi Junmai, agreed, and stepped forward with more than a dozen guards, and the soldiers next to the two-seater crossbow squeezed away, and quickly operated, they were all longer than the land, and naturally had no reverence for the sea. After a while, the crossbow bolt was well aimed.

Li Su walked to one of the crossbows and saw that there was a trigger on the crossbow, so he stepped forward and used his hand to pull it deadly, but what he didn't expect was that the trigger was not broken or something. He used his leg to kick the crossbow and use all the strength to feed, but the other party still didn't move.

Seeing Li Su's ignorant actions, Liu Ju and the soldiers on the ship all covered their mouths and snickered, Xi Junmai took a heavy hammer with an embarrassed face, stepped forward and handed it to Li Su, and said: "Your Highness, the crossbow machine of this car crossbow can't be wrenched, and it must be smashed with a heavy hammer!" ”

"Oh. I see! Li Su wiped the sweat from his face, didn't care about the teasing gaze of Liu Ju and the others, picked up the heavy hammer and smashed it down. Listen to the sound of 'Weng'. A huge crossbow bolt shot into the sea like a black line, and the whale was still breathing freely, unaware of the approaching danger. In addition, it was only a few dozen meters away from Li Su's ship, so it hit with one blow, and the two-meter-long crossbow arrow was submerged in most of it at once under the huge impact force.

The giant whale in the sea suddenly changed, and the great pain made its head and tail rise from the sea, and the whale mouth let out a painful neigh, and then everyone saw the whole picture of the whale, only to see that the whale's head was huge, and it looked no smaller than an ordinary house, and its length was estimated to be about four feet. The tail is a tail fin that is separated from each other, and the whole body of the whale is a black-gray color, but the belly is pure white.

When the whale's head and tail slapped heavily on the water, he just wanted to drag the seriously injured body and escape. The second crossbow arrow, which had been prepared on the ship for a long time, was shot again, but this arrow was tied to a rope by Li Su.

There was only a 'snort' sound, mixed with the sound of bones breaking, and the second crossbow bolt tore the skin and pierced deep into the whale's body, and the bright red whale blood spurted out. Immediately, a layer of crimson turned on the surface of the sea.

The wounded whale was still in a dying struggle, diving into the water to escape, but before it could swim far, it was caught by the rope on the crossbow arrow. The giant whale desperately tried to break free, but the barb on the crossbow arrow was already stuck in its body, and the other end of the rope was firmly tied to the building boat, the volume of the building boat was three or four times that of the giant whale, even if it was not injured, it would never be able to drag.

Li Su on the building boat looked at the dying giant whale, but there was no trace of smugness on his face, but he was still a little panicked in his heart, the center of gravity of the building ship was too high, the struggle of the giant whale made the building boat sway, Liu Ju They had long been used to it, but they didn't feel anything, but he and Xi Jun were frightened when they bought these landlubbers. Li Su, who pretended to be calm, swore in his heart that he would not take such a flawed building ship in the future.

The crossbow is usually used to attack the opponent's warship or city gate, and the destructive power is extremely terrifying, and the crossbow arrows with two arms thick are shot into the body, even with the strong vitality of the giant whale, it will definitely not survive, so after struggling for a while, it will float upside down and float on the sea.

An Yiluo on the opposite side just saw the Tang army shooting a crossbow, thinking that the other party had been treacherous after getting someone, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly asked people to prepare for war, but immediately found that the other party was actually shooting whales, which surprised all the Goguryeo soldiers, they didn't expect the Tang army to even dare to shoot such a god in the sea? And then right in front of their eyes, the huge whale went from being injured to struggling, then slowly passing away, and finally floating on the surface of the sea with a white belly.

Looking at the huge whale corpse, this made all the Goguryeo soldiers feel a kind of awe in their hearts, and the momentum in the entire army couldn't help but be frustrated. Although the reaction of the soldiers of the Tang army was similar to that of the Goguryeo, after all, the whale was shot by their side, and it was the hand of the main general, so there was a kind of pride in awe. The behemoths of the sea all died at the hands of their generals, so what is so terrible about Goguryeo? Therefore, the momentum skyrocketed.

Under the advantages of the other, Liu Ju secretly said in his heart that it was a pity, if he commanded the warship to attack at this time, even if he could not let the other party's army be annihilated, at least he could annihilate most of them, but unfortunately now was not the time to fight.

Li Su saw that the giant whale was killed, and shouted happily, beckoning Xi Junmai and others to pull the whale to the boat, but this whale was at least dozens of tons, and with Xi Junmai and more than a dozen guards, it couldn't be pulled at all, and it was useless for Li Su to do it himself.

"Hey! What are you still looking at, hurry up and help this king pull together, this whale will improve your food today! Hearing Li Su's words, the sergeants on the ship still didn't dare to move, and they all looked at Liu Ju together, after all, this is in the army, without the permission of the commander, their duty is to stick to their posts, even if it is the order of the King of Qi, they don't have to pay attention to it.

"Help!" Liu Ju looked at the corpse of the giant whale, sighed and waved his hand, although he was very in awe of the whale in his heart, but now that the wood has been completed, and it is Li Su's own hand, he has a lot less burden in his heart, and looking at Li Su's appearance, he will not give up if he doesn't get this whale, plus he has no way to take Li Su, so he can only let people help.

With the help of 100 people on the boat, the whale was finally pulled to the side of the boat, but the whale was too large and heavy for the deck of the ship to fit at all, so in the end it could only be tied to one side of the boat, half of it was submerged in the water, and it was balanced by buoyancy. Then he made a circle outside Beisha City, and then began to sail back.

"Your Highness, the villain has something important to report!" It was only at this time that the smiling tiger and the one-eyed shark, who had been standing on the boat, found an opportunity to find Li Suyu alone to report.

Li Su climbed on the side of the boat, looked down at the loot in the water, and asked with a smile: "By the way, I almost forgot about you, what important things do you have, and listen to the other party's meaning, they seem to be looking for someone to arrest you?" ”

"Your Highness, these two questions are the same thing, both because we saved a person, so we were attracted to Goguryeo to arrest us, and tortured us, trying to find out where that person was, and even our ship was almost dismantled in order to find that person." The smiling tiger was still smiling at this time, but with a hint of bitterness.

"Oh? Who are you saving? Li Su turned his head with some curiosity and asked, that Yuan Jingwu almost caused a war between the two countries because of one person, it seems that the identity of that person is not simple.

Hearing Li Yu's question, the smiling tiger and the two looked at each other, and then the one-eyed shark replied: "Your Highness Qiqi, we are both clear and a little incomprehensible about the identity of that person, we only know that he should be a member of the imperial court." ”

"Huh? The king will not understand what you say, what do you mean by 'both clear and incomprehensible'? Li Su's attention was completely attracted by the two of them, and he no longer looked at the whales under the boat, but instead looked up and down at the two scarred people.

"His Royal Highness Qiqi, that person's name is Zhou Kun, he is the old acquaintance of the villain, he used to serve in the army with the villain, but later because of his outstanding performance, he was selected into the Qianniuwei Middle School, but last year, he suddenly came to Shandong and asked the villain to help him do something, and he provided the villain with a lot of high-quality weapons......" With the explanation of the one-eyed shark, Li Yu slowly figured out the ins and outs of the matter.

Zhou Kun in the mouth of the one-eyed shark provided a large number of high-quality weapons to the tiger shark slave catching team, and even provided a lot of convenience in other aspects, and their requirements for the tiger shark were also very simple, that is, let them secretly help him transport people or goods between the Tang Dynasty and Goguryeo, this matter was not difficult, the only difficult thing was that Zhou Kun asked for absolute secrecy.

The smiling tiger and the one-eyed shark discussed it, and felt that it was a good deal, so they agreed, and there have been no problems since last year, but this time they came back from catching slaves, but they met Zhou Kun, who was heavily tasked in Goguryeo, and was being hunted down by the Goguryeo people. Although the two of them didn't know Zhou Kun's specific identity, they were sure that the other party was doing things for the imperial court, otherwise they wouldn't have so much power in Datang, and they could even get weapons of comparable quality to military weapons. Therefore, in public and private, they would not leave each other alone, so they took the risk of hiding Zhou Kun on the ship and smuggled out of Goguryeo, but they didn't expect the news to be revealed, and they were caught up by Goguryeo's warships on the way.

After listening to the one-eyed shark's narration, Li Su already had some guesses about the mysterious Zhou Kun, but if he wanted to be sure, he still had to see himself before he could do it, so he asked again: "So where is Zhou Kun now?" (Site. Your support is my biggest motivation. )