Chapter 063: I'll Make a Coffin
Charlemagne's bones were carried back by Zhu Shuiqiang and others, and placed in an open space in front of Gong Changyu's Chinese military tent, and the pungent smell immediately attracted many onlookers.
Everyone was very puzzled by Zhu Shuiqiang's approach, and blamed one after another: "What are you doing when you are full of food and holding on, carrying a headless corpse crawling with deworming back?" ”
"What's the hard place to put in the camp?"
"Well, the master bookkeeper is probably sick in the brain."
"Disgusting, this Western devil!"
"A fire has burned!" ……
Sure enough, someone really brought firewood and oil, lit torches, and came over angrily, ready to burn Charlemagne's body, and the scene was noisy.
Gong Changyu, who was weak, was silent, he knew that Zhu Shuiqiang did it according to General Liu Tianyou's wishes, so he asked Liu Tianyou to come forward and deal with it: "My lord, please explain the reason to the soldiers." ”
"Everyone, listen to me......" Liu Tianyou cleared his throat. However, the soldiers could not control their emotions and began to pour fierce fire oil on the shroud and bones, and the scene was chaotic for a while. Feng Jiao'er saw that the soldiers couldn't stop at all, so she quickly pulled out her musket and fired a shot into the sky: "Stop it!" Otherwise, military justice will deal with it! ”
As soon as the gun rang out, the soldiers immediately fell silent. Feng Jiao'er scolded: "Lord Liu didn't listen to his lectures, are there any military regulations?" ”
"Strategist, this yellow-haired blue wolf corpse is highly decomposed, why should we return it to the Eagle Strike Li people?" Li Dayu stepped forward and took a few big steps, and three or four soldiers followed.
"This is a question, and Lord Liu will give you an answer." Feng Jiao'er looked at Li Dayu seriously, "Stand down!" ”
"Yes, Strategist." Li Dayu hugged his fists and said, "Brothers, don't be impatient." Several people returned to the crowd, and their anger was still not gone.
After Li Dayu retreated, Liu Tianyou raised his hands and said, "Everyone, be quiet." Charlemagne, the captain of the mercenaries of the Blue Wolf Alliance, although he was extremely vicious, each his own master, died in the valley of death, and he deserved it. We can despise the enemy, but we cannot despise the enemy. In addition to being a member of the Eagle Lebanese royal family, Charlemagne has another identity worthy of respect......"
"What is there to respect the enemy?" Liu Dawei said contemptuously.
"Charlemagne is a world-renowned biologist who has studied the rare flora and fauna of our country." General Liu Tianyou ignored the smell of the corpse, picked up a small notebook wrapped in sheepskin on the shroud, and then opened it, there were many hand-drawn pictures of creatures on it, with the text description of Eagle Strike Li, of course, these words Liu Tianyou did not recognize.
"My lord, what can a pamphlet say?" Wei Chaohui walked up, "Can I take a look at this booklet?" ”
Liu Tianyou pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Do you also know the characters of these ghost drawing talismans?" ”
"General Hui, I have studied the Eagle Strike Li Wen a little bit, maybe I can interpret one or two." Wei Chaohui replied.
"Then you can take a look, and tell Master Liu what he said later." Gong Changyu said.
"Yes, General." Wei Chaohui took the small book, turned it page by page, and read it quickly.
Don't underestimate Wei Chaohui, he was born in a landlord family in western Guangdong, his family is well-off, since he was a child, under the influence of his tutor Jia White (Eagle Strike Li Missionary), he has studied the language of the Eagle Strike Li people for nearly ten years, so it is not a problem to read general Eagle Strike Li books, and he can also have barrier-free language communication with Jia White.
Originally, Wei Changhui specially met with the governor of Yuexi County after learning to attack Li Wen, and asked for a recommendation to be a translator in the Foreign Affairs Department of the Beijing Division. Unexpectedly, the governor saw that the gift money was too small, and his attitude was extremely arrogant, so he disdained Wei Chaohui, beat him thirty boards, and blasted him out of the governor's office. Since then, he has completely given up his fantasy of serving the Qinghe Kingdom, and Jin Chuan did not hesitate to join the Blue Wolf Army with his eldest brother after the incident......
Wei Chaohui flipped for about a quarter of an hour, didn't say a word, his face was solemn, and the audience was terribly silent.
"Wei Chaohui, what is written on this note?" Gong Changyu pointed to a page painted with a silver fir tree and said.
"General Hui, this is a notebook on the geography and folklore of our country, which records many strange species and is of great academic value. If it is sorted out and published, it will inevitably bring considerable royalties. Wei Chaohui closed the parchment notebook, "We can't give this note to the Eagle Strike Li people. If you want, take three warships in exchange. ”
"Wei Chaohui, a small note like this, only a few dozen pages, is also worth three warships? You're fooling us, aren't you? Gong Changyu couldn't help but smile.
"General, do you know that this notebook records that Charlemagne took many precious photographs, which are kept somewhere. Western devils are very attentive to the cultural relics of our ancestors and everything in the mountains and forests. Wei Chaohui was about to hand over the notebook to Liu Tianyou, when a photo slipped out of the mezzanine of the parchment cover and fell to the ground.
"Wow, isn't this the picture of Dong'an when he was crowned king! Where did Charlemagne get this? Wei Chaohui exclaimed.
"Dong'an is the king?" Gong Changyu snatched the picture, recognized the kings on the picture, and stood his finger on the avatar in the middle, "This guy has a long beard and empty eyes, can't it be Feng Quan, the lord of the Blue Wolf Country?" ”
"No, he is the king of the sect, Feng Zun, Feng Quan's father." Wei Chaohui said with a smile.
"And who are these five people wearing the banner of the wolf's head?" Gong Changyu asked.
"The east is Yang Xiuhao, the king of Qi, the west is Fang Yunshan, the king of Han, the south is Xiao Chaodong, the king of Chu, and the north...... My brother Yan Wang Wei Changhui. The last one is Wei Wang Shi Xianda. Wei Chaohui gave Gong Changyu the right number one by one.
"General Ben heard that these six kings are almost dead, and only Wei Wang Shi Xianda is left, is it true?" Gong Changyu narrowed his eyes and deliberately remembered Feng Zun's appearance.
"Yes, one by one they were either hit by artillery fire or died in civil strife. Only the king of Wei was still alive, and he fought everywhere with an army of 100,000. Wei Chaohui sighed and said, "The early kings of the Blue Wolf Country can't escape the fate of being killed and scraped, and the king will die." ”
"Wei Chaohui, you have broken away from the Blue Wolf Country, what are you sighing about?" Gong Changyu drew a circle on Wei Changhui's portrait in the photo.
"If it weren't for my brother's participation in the power game of the Blue Wolf Country, our whole family would not have died tragically under the chaotic knife of the Blue Wolf Army. Hey, power is a pig-killing knife, and it will slaughter people like pigs at any time. Wei Chaohui threw the photo in his hand, a gust of wind blew, and the photo floated onto the shroud, and Wei Chaohui was sad.
"Brother Wei, it's all over. Stop thinking about those worries. Gong Changyu comforted Wei Chaohui, "In time, General Ben will capture Feng Quan alive who is entrenched in Shicheng, and he will definitely skin him, pull his tendons, and then crush his bones and ashes, so that he will never be able to live beyond his life." ”
"Brother Changyu, it's not enough to capture Shicheng and be close to the infantry army. We can only build a fleet equipped with new artillery, train for a few years, divide and encircle the important military towns occupied by the Blue Wolf Army on the water surface of the river, and then launch an attack with heavy artillery to destroy their fortifications, and fight with infantry troops......" General Liu Tianyou gushed endlessly.
"My lord, we can't even make a rifle, let alone a few feet thick steel plates and ship-based rapid-fire machine guns." Wei Chaohui interrupted Liu Tianyou's words.
"Boy, you are destroying your own prestige and growing the ambition of others. I Qinghe has a vast land and a lot of talents, and I can't even build an ironclad warship. Liu Tianyou scolded Wei Chaohui.
"General Liu, do you know where Qinghe was the first to open his eyes to the world?" Wei Chaohui can be regarded as a scholar who is a general, and he is arrogant.
"The ...... of Boseong Province I am the twenty-ninth year of the Taoist calendar, and Jiang Changyuan of the same county is a friend, and I once worshiped under the old master of Wei Yuanda in Baocheng Mansion. Although I have never traveled abroad to study, I have heard about the skills and ideas of Westerners. As long as I select a group of outstanding craftsmen and give them military positions, I will go to Yingzheng Li to learn the technology of building ships. The Eagle Strike Li people are not so friendly, and they are worried that we have mastered the technology and will no longer buy their warships......" Liu Tianyou changed his words, "I submitted several copies to the imperial court, but they were all muddy and muddy, and there was no news......"
"The first time we fought with the Eagle Strike Li Shui Division, the other side only sent 2,000 expeditionary forces, and they controlled the sea control and cut off the sea communication lines of the Qing and the country. The Eagle Strike Li Shui Division launched an attack from Panyu, but the Qinghe there put up stubborn resistance and was repulsed. The eagles attacked the Li people and fled northward, destroying the southeast coastal defense batteries of the Qing and the country one by one...... Warships were the hard wounds of the Qinghe Empire. Gong Changyu squatted down, flicked the head with his sword, and saw that the front teeth were gone, and knew that it was Charlemagne. It's just very puzzled how Zhu Shuiqiang concluded that this head was Charlemagne's when the skull was highly eroded.
"Brother Changyu, it's not too early, we have to get a coffin as soon as possible, bury Charlemagne's body, and send it to the Eagle Strike Li Embassy in Jingbei." Liu Tianyou looked at the Patek Philippe Fire Dragon pocket watch.
"This Lenghu Mountain is all some miscellaneous trees, where can I get a coffin board, my general?" Gong Changyu looked sad.
"Then cut down the miscellaneous trees, and get a wooden box at will." Liu Tianyou hurriedly said, "General Ben has to rush back today." ”
"Okay." Gong Changyu nodded, and then glanced at the onlookers, "Do any of you know how to make a simple coffin board?" ”
For a while, there was a small commotion in the crowd, but no one answered. Gong Changyu had no choice but to say again: "A pair of coffin boards, this general gives five taels of silver, is there anything that will be done?" ”
"General, I'll do it!" Someone in the crowd shouted with their hands raised.
Gong Changyu followed the prestige, and the person who spoke was Captain Yu Qian, Gong Changyu frowned unconsciously: "Captain Yu, you're not joking, right?" ”