Chapter 269: See you at the poor dagger
This kind of thirty or forty zhang long, six or seven zhang high giant boat, the bottom is wide, the draft is extremely deep, originally by Liangzhou, which is adjacent to both the river and the South China Sea, began to build, in order to meet the dual needs of the river and sea navigation, because its specifications are huge, like a high-rise building floating on the water, so it is also called Wang Lianglou ship.
With the improvement of shipbuilding technology and technology in various parts of the human race, the Wang Lianglou ship is no longer unique to Liangzhou. However, because of its high requirements for materials, it is difficult to build, and the cost is high, so the number of buildings is not much.
No matter in any fleet, the Wang Lianglou ship can be called the absolute flagship, when Yu Zhongqian's brothers and sisters and Shi Zhiyi returned to Kyoto from Puzhou, the giant boat they took was also a Wang Lianglou ship.
And the fleet that appeared in front of him was actually composed of about seventeen or eighteen Wang Lianglou ships, and the size of each one was not weaker than the one that Yu Zhongqian and them were riding in the first place. Rao is a person who makes a living from the Fubo Pier who has been dealing with ships all day long, and is used to seeing all kinds of ships, but when they see this fleet, they can't help but stop and talk to each other while looking around, guessing its origin.
Because in everyone's impression, even the royal Yu family does not seem to have such a fleet composed entirely of Wang Lianglou's ships, if it had existed before, I am afraid that all the docks on both sides of the entire river would have known in detail.
Squinting his eyes, looking at this extremely rare and huge fleet, Ji Lao Liu couldn't help but think of the body that made him sink last night and the five hundred taels of gold that he hid in the dark compartment under the bed, and his heart warmed slightly.
He was the only one on the scene who "really" knew the origin of this fleet, and the owner of the fleet named Sun Fatzi, who had hosted him at the banquet last night, told him that the real owner of this fleet was the Jian family of Wulai Island, one of the eight great families.
Kirai Island is the largest known island, rich in pearls, red blood corals, fog condensation grass and other precious ornaments and medicinal herbs, which are extremely popular on the mainland. However, due to the fact that the Luqiu family in Hailing Prefecture, which is across the sea from Wulai Island, has always had a bad relationship with the Jian family, and there are often conflicts between the two sides, so the Jian family sometimes has to bypass the sphere of influence of Hailing Prefecture and enter the hinterland of the mainland through other means to sell their products.
Therefore, when Sun Fatzi told Ji Lao Liu the true background of this fleet, Ji Lao Liu was not surprised at all. To be able to have such a number of Wang Lianglou boats, only the Jian family of Wulai Island, who lives by the sea, can make it up.
With such a large fleet of ships and fleets, its docking, berthing, and unloading are all extremely complicated things, if it weren't for the accommodating care of the wharf, it would not be possible to complete the whole process for two or three days, so Sun Fatzi deliberately found Ji Laoliu, the real manager of Fubo Wharf, and asked him to help him a lot to save the time of docking.
took four steaming beef buns and a pot of soy milk in Maixiangju, and Ji Lao Liu walked towards the dock while eating. Under his command, a total of seventeen Wang Lianglou ships had all docked in less than an hour and a half, accurately anchored, and stopped in the berth. Although Ji Lao Liu is greedy for money and lustful, after decades of training, even if he looks at the whole of Yongzhou, he doesn't think about it as a second person.
Once the ship is moored, the next step is to unload the cargo. Generally, this work is handed over to the stevedores on the wharf, and in this small town of nearly 10,000 people centered on Fubo Wharf, one-third of the people make a living by loading ships and unloading goods. But yesterday, Sun Fatzi specially explained that the materials transported by this fleet were expensive, so there was no need for porters on the dock, but his own sailors would complete the unloading. The porters who thought that business was coming to the door rushed in, and then they all went away disappointed.
The bellwels of these Wanglianglou ships opened one after another with the sound of the rolling chains, and began to slowly lower the side of the ship, turning into a bridge between the ship and the dock, while revealing the space in the belly. Due to the light, looking at Ji Lao Liu's position, it was pitch black in the belly of the ship, and nothing could be seen.
At that moment, the sound of horses' hooves sounded in the belly of the ship. This kind of transportation from the river to the land often puts the horses in the hold of the ship, which is very common, so Ji Lao Liu did not pay attention to it. However, only a few breaths had passed, and only the sound of horses' hooves coming from the cabin had become more and more intense, and it seemed that it had exceeded the needs of ordinary transportation.
Just when Ji Lao Liu was about to step forward to see what was going on, a black spear tip appeared in his sight first, and when he looked back along the tip of the spear, what caught his eye was a lion-headed antler, covered in scales!
"It seems that the Jian family is really interested in this cargo, not only did they come up with such a fleet composed of Wang Lianglou's ships, but even the guards accompanying the ship were so elite. But I don't think I've heard of this strange beast somewhere......"
The Shi family of Yunqi City has relied on the glorious record of destroying half of the Daxi family with five thousand moon dragon horses in the people's word of mouth, and has spread all over the continent, known as the first horse in the world, although Ji Lao Liu is not at the wine table or in the fat powder bush all day long, but he has also heard of the prestige of the moon dragon horse. However, everyone in the world knows that the Swinging Moon Dragon Rider is dealing with the Daxi family in Yuzhou, so Ji Lao Liu did not react at the first time that these antlered lion-headed beasts are the world-shaking Moon Swinging Dragon Horse's mount.
With the appearance of the first Howling Moon Dragon Horse, from the belly of the seventeen Wang Lianglou ships, hundreds of cavalrymen wearing dark black black iron essence armor and holding spears and halberds of the same material poured out at the same time, instantly crowding the entire dock. And the cavalry did not mean to stay on guard, but rushed towards the shore, and behind them, the cavalry in the same costume was still pouring out of the boat.
Now, even a fool knows that these seventeen giant ships are not carrying any cargo, but hundreds of ironclad cavalry. The docks of Fubo have not experienced war for more than a thousand years, let alone the officials and porters on the docks. Including Ji Lao Liu, everyone was petrified, watching these cavalry occupy the entire dock and key positions on the shore in just over ten breaths, without any reaction.
Of course, under the deterrence of those glowing spear tips, no one dared to react.
"Howling Moon Dragon Horse, this is the Moon Swinging Dragon Rider of Yunqi City!" In the crowd, someone finally recognized the identity of the comer, but after recognizing it, everyone was even more silent, not daring to make any moves.
It's these cavalry who wiped out half of the Daxi family, and all the people in this town by the Fubo dock are combined, I'm afraid it's not enough for them to kill in half an hour, right?
"Gale rode only ten miles from the docks, and they should soon find out what was going on here, and come as soon as possible. Ji Lao Liu comforted himself while slowly retreating, squeezing his somewhat fat body into the middle of those porters.
The moon dragoons who disembarked first occupied various positions that were easy to defend and difficult to attack at Fubo Pier, but the cavalry who disembarked later did not sit on the dock for any reason, but went directly to the west.
"The direction in which they are heading seems to be...... The barracks where Gale Riders are stationed?"