Chapter 77: Immortal Island
"Why are you kidnapping her?" I asked with a frown.
"I'm afraid she'll shout." Shuang'er said expressionlessly, she has an excellent grasp of cause and effect.
Under this cabin, there is the cabin of the soldiers, only separated by a layer of wood, and I am also worried that Chen Meihan shouted - it's not that I'm afraid of these soldiers of the White Tiger Army, the main thing is that if they strike, whoever kicks the boat for me can't let us deign to go down and do such hard work.
"You know me, don't you?" I sat on the edge of the bed and asked Chen Meihan, her eyes were a little flustered, and she nodded.
"I also remember you, we fought side by side, under White Horse City." I said again, close to her, Chen Meihan nodded again.
"I helped you heal your wounds, otherwise you would have died in that wood." I also said to let her understand that if I wanted to kill her, I would not keep her until now.
Chen Meihan thought about it, understood the meaning of my words, and nodded again.
"We are heading in the direction of Koi Country, I am going to Immortal Island, take the portal back to White Horse City, and when we get to White Horse City, I will naturally let you go back to your Imperial City, and I won't be embarrassed for you." I said again, and she nodded.
"Now, I'll untie you now, don't shout, otherwise, none of us will be able to go back." After I finished speaking, I took the sock out of Chen Meihan's mouth, and she really didn't shout.
I breathed a sigh of relief, helped her untie the ropes from her body, helped her up, and asked with concern, "How do you feel?" β
"It's okay, it's okay, thank you, Lord Chen." Chen Meihan looked down at the cloth wrapped around her body, her face was slightly red, she understood how I treated her, her wound was a little above the abdomen, if I wanted to treat her, I would definitely have to let her show the state of taking a bath to do it, that is to say, I saw it, not to mention, it was quite good-looking.
"Shuang'er, go get some water." I saw that Chen Meihan's lips were chapped and I ordered that the ship should bring plenty of drinking water and food.
"Master, you should go." Shuang'er said coldly.
I glared at her, Shuang'er was unmoved, okay, Shuang'er was worried about leaving me and Chen Meihan alone, I was hurt by her, this maid is really personal, she doesn't give me face as a master at all, outsiders see it, and think I'm her slave!
I had no choice but to get up, went outside the cabin to get food and water, and came back to feed Chen Meihan, she was so hungry that she ate a leg of cow, and her face was slightly relieved.
"Have you eaten enough?" I asked, and Chen Meihan nodded.
"Now, I ask, you answer," I lit a cigarette and turned on the interrogation mode, "of course, you can not answerβ"
"If you don't answer," Shuang'er took my words, "I'll throw you into the river to feed the fish." β
I glanced at her again, smiling cruelly, baring out wolf teeth, nose and mouth, also slightly raised, turning into a half-human and half-wolf form, but Chen Meihan was frightened, holding the small quilt, and shrunk straight into the bed!
Shuang'er turned back into a human face: "You should know my strength, I will do what I say." β
Chen Meihan nodded again and again: "I said, I said." β
I shook my head with a wry smile and began to ask, "Whose plan was it to ambush me?" β
"Lord Ding."
"Who is Lord Ding?" I asked with a frown.
"My country's national teacher, Ding Chunqiu." Chen Meihan whispered.
I nodded, I've heard of it, it's actually a demon with high mana, who can call the wind and rain, I don't know if it's true.
"How does he know where I am in the Yang Realm?" I asked.
Chen Meihan shook her head, Shuang'er, "Huh? With a sound, Chen Meihan was so frightened that she hurriedly waved her hand: "I really don't know, I'm just acting on orders!" β
I grabbed Shuang'er: "What she said is true." β
"How does the master know?" Shuang'er asked.
"I can read minds, have you forgotten?" I smiled and said to Shuang'er, in fact, this is from Chen Meihan, where do I know how to read minds.
But Chen Meihan was frightened, and I didn't dare not believe it, I asked about the current battle situation again, Chen Meihan said that although the Qinglong Army has been winning, but on the whole, the battle situation between the two sides is still stalemate, inseparable, and there is not much change, the White Tiger Imperial City, Qinglong has attacked three times, but it has not been able to take it.
Let me ask again, is the Ma Yu army division of the Qinglong Kingdom injured, and has the White Tiger Army received advanced weapons funded by the Yang Realm?
Chen Meihan said that there have always been rumors of Ma Yu being killed or injured in the army, but she felt that it was deliberately deceived by the above in order to boost morale, after all, Ma Yu led the Qinglong Army to win successive battles, and the mental pressure on the White Tiger Army was very great.
As for when the Yang Realm funded the White Tiger to advance firearms, Chen Meihan said that she had never heard of this matter, nor had she seen any advanced firearms.
Then I'll rest assured, it seems that Ma Yu is fine, it's unlikely that he will come, Ma Yu's importance to the Qinglong Army, the Qinglong Army knows better than me, Ma Yu's side, there are thousands of personal guards at any time, and she doesn't know martial arts, she won't go into battle to kill the enemy in person, how can she be injured so easily? Therefore, the content of the forged letter from the third princess given to me by Xiaohong and Xiaolan should be that Ding Chunqiu, the national teacher of the White Tiger, fooled me.
"Okay, let's just ask so much," I saw that Chen Meihan's mood was a little unstable, mainly because her body had not fully recovered, so she took the initiative to end the interrogation, "You have a good rest, let me emphasize one more point, it is useless for you to run out now, it is useless to expose my identity, as long as you cooperate, I will send you back to the imperial city safely." β
Chen Meihan nodded: "Thank you, Lord Chen, I know that I will cooperate with you." β
"That's good!" I smiled and touched her head, got out of the cabin, went down to the bottom floor, greeted the brothers who were pedaling, cheered them up, and went to the wheelhouse to talk to the captain and first mate for a while.
Although the boat sailed westward, it could not catch up with the speed of the sun, and about two hours later, the sun set over the river, but the soldiers did not rest, and rowed in turn, continuing to break the wolf.
In the night, after walking for more than an hour, I felt that the night scene on both sides of the river was getting farther and farther away from the big ship, indicating that the river bank had become much wider, so I came to the captain's room and asked how far it was from the mouth of the river. The lookout asked, and the lookout said that there were still about ten miles from the mouth of the river, and the captain said to me: "General Liu, I'm sorry, we can only send another three miles, and further on, it is the boundary of the koi country." β
I nodded, indicating understanding, the boat slowed down for a distance, docked, there is a dock here, there is also the White Tiger Army stationed, I said I want to borrow a horse, the head of the garrison said, Lord Liu, it is useless to borrow a horse, the front is full of swamps, the black lights are blind, I advise you, stay overnight now, and it is not too late to go to the koi country tomorrow at dawn.
I have been at a strong speed, if I stay overnight, it will not be a waste of time, so I refused the good intentions of the garrison, and the three of them rode lynxes, crossed the border, and entered the land of koi carp. This side is still land, not a cross of the border is a swamp, go forward half a mile, there is a light in front of it, it should be the post of the koi country, soon, the post found us, sent a team of five, ran over, asked me for my identity.
"What do you think I am?" I asked the other person rhetorically.
The other party looked confused: "Where does the Sprinkle family know what your identity is!" β
"Hehe, the early princess of your country, call me brother-in-law, so what do you think I should be?" I laughed.
The other party was stunned: "Who are you!" β
"Is there a communication system," I said, "I'm going to get in touch with your king directly." β
The Koi Country is not large, but neither the Green Dragon Kingdom nor the White Tiger Country has marked the location of the capital of the Koi Country on the map - in fact, the Koi Country is a swamp on the map, and there is not even a city, so I don't know where their king works.
The other party didn't know the authenticity of my identity, so he didn't dare to slack off, so he invited us to the outpost, and the director of the outpost was a middle-aged man who looked very much like a carp, and that big mouth could swallow a can horizontally.
"Which princess are you the husband of?" The big carp asked me warily.
"You just need to tell you the king, my name is Chen Yang, I am from the Yang Realm, and I am the head of the thirtieth generation of the Ziyang Sect." I said that Su'er was the goddaughter of the current king, and she must know her identity in the Yang Realm.
The big carp hesitated, nodded, let's wait a moment, he came out of the outpost, I saw him outside through the window, brushing and brushing something on a piece of animal skin, and then wrapped in an arrow, shot into the air, it was a crossbow, very large, the sound of the strings was super loud, the estimated range was not close, and the crossbow was fixed and fired, and there was no need for someone to pull the string, just use a twisting mechanism to pull the string to a fixed position, that is, the range of this crossbow should also be fixed in windless weather.
Could it be that they are using this to convey their message?
For example, shoot a thousand meters from this outpost (you will definitely reach this range, only a little), shoot to another outpost, and that outpost picks up the crossbow arrows, and then shoot them to another outpost, one by one, and finally pass the crossbow arrows, or the animal skin letter, to the king?
If that's the case, I've roughly estimated that in an hour at most, the news can cross the territory of Koi Country, and the speed can be described as fast!
Sure enough, moreover, I underestimated the efficiency of information transmission in the koi country, and twenty minutes later, there was a sharp whistling in the air, boom, a huge arrow, shot on a grass outside the house, I could see by the light, on the grass, there was a big cross, the landing point of the giant arrow, just in the center of the cross, but it was really accurate!
This arrow was much larger than the one shot before, the director ran over, pulled out the huge arrow, pressed a mechanism at the tail, the shaft of the arrow opened a small door, the director took out a piece of animal skin paper from it, ran in, and knelt down on one knee: "Chen Horse!" Li Guoshi has an order, please hurry to the battlefield of Xianren Island! β
"What? National teacher? I frowned, "Su'er is here too?" β
Xu'er has always been the national teacher of the Koi Country, but in recent years, she has been working in the Netherworld Mansion, I thought Xu'er was still in the Valley of the Dead, but I didn't expect her to return to her own country.
"The national teacher is leading my Koi Navy to engage the enemy!" The director said.
"Enemy? Which enemy? Green Dragon or White Tiger? "I asked, the information that was given to me early ago was that the White Tiger Country and the Green Dragon Country were fighting for Immortal Island, and the Koi Country was holding its troops and no one was helping, but that was the information from nearly half a month ago.
"Neither," replied the director, "the one who is at war with our navy is a whale pirate." β
"Pirates?" I can't help but ask the black man, why are you still talking about pirates, "What about the navy of the Blue Dragon and the White Tiger Country?" β
"They're fighting on the other side of Immortal Island." The director replied.
I scratched my head and asked him, "Do you have a detailed map?" β
The director nodded, took out a map of animal skins from a bamboo tube, and unfolded it, it was a map of their koi country, including some overseas islands.
After the director's introduction, Chen Yang understood that Xianren Island was in the south of Koi Country, and the battle between Qinglong Country and White Tiger Country mainly occurred on the south side of Xianren Island, where it was easier to land on the island and then grab mineral resources.
On the north side of Immortal Island, there are mostly dangerous shoals and cliffs, which are difficult to land, and there is an aboriginal armed force on the island, which is the dangerous whale pirates just mentioned, and there are not many of them, only more than 30,000 people, but their combat effectiveness is very strong, and they often come to the Koi country to plunder.
This time, they didn't know how to convuls, the soldiers pressed the border, smashed the Yellow Dragon, and actually kidnapped the king of the Koi country, saying that they would exchange 10,000 catties of gold, and Xu'er got the news, and immediately rushed from the Valley of the Dead to rescue the driver, personally commanded the army, and attacked the military port of the whale pirates, as a retaliation.
It is impossible to give money, 10,000 catties of gold, the economy of the koi country is not developed, there is not so much money in the treasury, where to get it for the pirates, Su'er wants to conquer the pirates through war and force them to return to the king.
"Isn't it a mess," Chen Yang couldn't help frowning after hearing this, but soon his brows widened again, and he said to himself, "This is an opportunity......