Chapter 36: Arrival
"Mr. Gai doesn't need to look at it, under such a storm, the boat is still in the middle of the river, it must not be spared, and it will feed fish and shrimp sooner or later, so it is targeted by the demon general under the command of Huaibo......" The bow of the boat also saw the abnormality, but there was no strangeness on the face.
"Huai Bo's demon general?"
Wang Yue was quite surprised to get this answer, and saw the huge figure in the river just now rushing out of the water and rushing towards the small boat at high speed.
With the sound of "Peng", the boat that had been broken could no longer support it, and the whole thing shattered, and more than a dozen people on the boat screamed in panic and fear, and were thrown into the river, with a sound of water, followed by a scream, and then there was no other sound.
Wang Yue saw clearly this time that it was a big fish that was more than five feet long that hit the boat, and it was not the only water demon that was moving underwater.
He retracted his gaze and asked the bow of the ship: "Huai Bo is the god of Huaishui, and he has been widely sacrificed for the Huai Shang people for thousands of years, so he should protect the sacrificers, why do he still connive at the demon generals under his command to attack the ship and eat people?"
"Mr. Gai hasn't been in Huaishang for a long time, so I don't know. The bow shook his head: "Before Lord Huai Bo came to Huai Shang in the past, there were many water demons in the entire Huaishui and various tributaries. ”
"It is said that monsters can increase their wisdom by eating people, so water monsters love to eat people. ”
"At that time, there were no boats in the entire Huaishang water, because anyone who dared to enter the water, or even just near the water's edge, could be attacked by water demons. ”
"Some powerful water demons can even stir up wind and waves, roll up the river and go ashore, making it extremely dangerous on the shore. ”
"All this until the arrival of Lord Huaibo. ”
"Lord Huaibo came from the East China Sea, and as soon as he arrived in Huaishui, he successively killed and subdued the large and small water demons of the entire Huaishui, and included them as the demon generals under his command, and made an agreement with them that except for those who would die, no matter what water demons were, but those who dared to hunt people died. ”
"With this agreement, there will be no water demons harming people in Huaishui on weekdays, and this is also the case, but I am a Huai Shangren. All of them were grateful for their merits, so they set up sacrifices for it, and gradually became a temple, which has been thousands of years now. ”
Wang Yue nodded. He has been in Huaishang for so long, and he only knows that Huaibo has existed for thousands of years, and today he knows the origin of Huaibo Temple.
While the two were talking, the demon general under Huai Bo's command found another boat that was up and down in the wind and waves, and could capsize at any time. Immediately, like a shark smelling blood, he swam to the small boat.
Since the water demon loves to eat people, he is controlled by Huaibo on weekdays, and it is rare to let go of the restraints today, but he is extremely excited.
"Ponto, pun. "There was no need for the big fish to make a move, all the water demons worked together, and the boat was easily overturned.
Another familiar scream, soon muffled by howling winds and waves on the river.
Wang Yue frowned slightly, his heart had long been forged like iron, but he saw that his kind of people were eaten like this by the water demon. It's also a little uncomfortable.
"Let's go back to the cabin. After a brief glance, he withdrew his gaze to the bow of the ship.
The bow glanced at Jiang Xin and sighed slightly.
He was indifferent before, but he felt a little sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox, and he just couldn't see it when he returned to the cabin.
"Bow of the ship, look at the demon general of Lord Huaibo, he is coming towards us. ”
When they reached the door of the cabin, one of the crew members exclaimed, pointing to a wave in the distance that had been separated by a huge fin.
The bow and the rest of the crew changed dramatically.
"How is this possible?" exclaimed the bow of the ship, "Isn't the demon general under the command of Lord Huaibo only attacking the mortal?"
Wang Yue's eyes froze, he pressed his hand on the sword, and said coldly: "Under such wind and waves. It is not strange that a big ship capsizes, the water demon deals with a small boat, but it eats more than a dozen people, and there are not many small boats on the river. Against our big ship, we can eat a hundred people. ”
"And only to eat up all the people on our ship, who knows if the ship was capsized by the wind and waves or overturned by it?"
"Impossible! Impossible! How dare the demon generals under the command of Lord Huaibo do such a thing?"
Wang Yue was about to return to the cabin, but at this time, the cyclone that was about to converge began to spread sharply.
He drew the bronze sword in his hand, feeling the power gather in the cyclone. The momentum of cutting the water towards the big fish is greeted by a slashing wave.
"The warrior of the Great Chen Zhao clan is listed here, and the demon dares to make a mistake?"
The thunder exploded, and the air chopping wave hit the big fish in front of it in an instant, causing the water surface to suddenly explode a water column several feet high, and the big fish charging towards the boat stopped immediately, and the whole body was carried up to the sky from the water by the air wave, and rolled in mid-air several times before falling back into the water.
The big fish struggled a few times, but it was extremely weak, and it had no ability to charge, so it could only barely paddle and swim.
With just one blow, Wang Yue severely injured it.
"Oh no, the flower fish will be injured by the human samurai. ”
The water demons vibrated the sound waves in various ways, and even spoke the human language of the land of Huaishang.
"This human warrior is so arrogant, such a storm, and in the middle of the Huaishui, he even dares to hurt the water general of my Huaishui Divine Palace, what do you say?" A huge crab controlled the waves and came out of the water, and said to the surrounding water demons.
"What else can I do, General Crab, if you want to be like General Huayu, just take care of it. "The strength of the flower fish general is quite extraordinary among the water demons, even he was seriously injured by a blow, this water demon is obviously afraid.
"Yes, just now it was the general of the flower fish who was dizzy, and now there are many small boats on the entire Huaishui that have come to the shore and are bound to sink the river, and they actually hit the big boats on the shore, which is against the rules of the master. The other water demon chimed in.
"Chen Guozhao's clan, isn't it the same Zhao clan that brought a large army to Huaishang twenty years ago? No wonder there are such powerful warriors. ”
When the water demon said this, the other water demons suddenly remembered, and they all stopped talking, and then they each urged the waves, and they all stayed away from this section of the river together.
Seeing the water demons go away, the bow of the ship breathed a sigh of relief and said to Wang Yue: "Isn't Mr. Gai afraid of offending Huaibo? ”
"Huai Bo is also reasonable. Wang Yue replied, adding in his heart, especially for the strong, he is extremely strong, and now there is a name of Chen Guozhao behind him, which is undoubtedly the object of Huai Bo's reasoning.
Thinking so, he said: "And what happened just now was that the fish broke its rules first, and the bow of the boat looked at it, I'm afraid this fish won't live long, not because of eating my sword and being seriously injured, but by Huai Bo and then taking it out to show the public." ”
The bow listened in surprise.
Wang Yue just said casually, and when he saw that he didn't understand, he didn't say more.
As long as Huaibo is not stupid, most of them will do this, not only to do it, but also to do it in a big way, and the momentum is extremely great, but this is not what the bow of the ship can know, and the cyclone was collected at the moment, and they returned to the cabin together.
The deck of the ship was repaired, and the Huaishui Demon General also left, and the ship never encountered anything else.
The gale lasted for nearly five days, and the ship was on the shore of the city, tossed with the wind and waves for five days.
For five days, more than 100 people on board were crammed into a small and confined and dimly lit space that was bumping up and down all the time.
In terms of eating, because there is no way to make a fire normally, it is all dry food, and some of it is blistered into the bottom warehouse, and the water can only be drunk by river water, which does not avoid polluting the cabin space in the cabin.
However, some things cannot be avoided.
The guards who accompanied Zhao were all from the north, although they had been in Huaishang for a long time, and they had been on a boat on weekdays, but they had never been on a boat like this, and many people had not even survived a day in the cabin with all kinds of nausea and vomiting.
The weather was bad, eating and drinking were not good, the temperature also dropped under the storm, and the nausea and vomiting made the body even more unable to get enough nutrition, on the second day, more than a dozen soldiers became ill, and on the third day, the number of sick soldiers increased, increasing to more than 20.
It was also thanks to the bow of the ship that some herbs were prepared on the ship to cure the wind and cold, so that most of the soldiers could barely survive, only four of them were weak and could not hold on, and they could not die in the battlefield fighting, but died of illness here, and in order to prevent the plague from breeding, their bodies could only be thrown out and buried in water.
This made many Chen Guo's soldiers depressed, worried that they would also die like these soldiers.
Fortunately, five days later, the sky cleared again, the storm gradually weakened, after all, it was slowly gone, almost everyone on the boat had a sense of escape, and hurriedly went out of the cabin to breathe, everyone looked at the river at this time, but it was much wider than before, which was the rise of the river.
The position of the ship, which was originally fixed to the shore, is now floating above the big trees that are tied to the ropes.
Looking at both sides of the Huaishui River, there is damage caused by strong winds and torrential rain everywhere.
The fields were flooded, and many houses in the distant villages were also damaged by the wind and rain.
But the people here may have already adapted to the presence of the strong wind, and as soon as the strong wind is gone, they will come out of their hiding places, repair their houses, or dig the mouths of large ditches and ditches in their own fields, and speed up the drainage, and there is a busy scene everywhere.
As for the boats that were destroyed by the Huai Water Demon a few days ago, they had already disappeared from even a plank.
After this strong wind, neither the samurai, nor the warriors, nor the crew of the ship, who wanted to stay on the ship any longer, were anxious to find a place to rest, so they quickly cut off the ropes that bound the ship to the big trees, and sailed down the swelling water.
This is going quickly, in less than half a day, the capital of Huai Shangyong is already in sight.
Looking from the river in the direction of Shangyong, you can see the huge port outside Shangyong City in the distance, and see the countless ships stranded at the port due to the strong wind to take shelter from the wind and rain.
Next, the bow of the ship told the crew to steer the boat and go to the port to find a place to stop the boat.
Sho Pier also told the samurai to hang the flag representing Chen Guo in a prominent position on the ship and announce his arrival to Shangyong City.
In the distance, his flag was seen, and when the port was neutral, a large galleys shaped like a warship withdrew from its berth, and with the efforts of many oarsmen, it quickly approached Wang Yue's ship against the current.
Zhao Chuan stood at the bow of the boat and looked at it from afar, and said: "This is the big wing warship of Dr. Haixi's family in Yongguo, Dr. Haixi is my old friend, presumably when he saw my banner and knew that I had arrived at Shangyong, he personally greeted him." (To be continued.) )