Chapter 162: The Great Xia Water Army
"It's ...... Alligator? β
Looking at the six-meter-long giant beast in front of him, Xia Qi's tone was a little surprised.
Anyway, does this thing have such a big strip in Blue Star?
The crocodile's abdomen has a big opening, and the flesh and blood of the organs inside are gone, according to the city gate guards, it has been eaten by Chang Wei's three guys.
But it doesn't matter, Great Xia is not bad at eating this bite, but this scale armor, but it is a good thing.
In Bluestar, people will use crocodile leather to make leather bags and shoes, but Xia Qi is not interested in this so-called luxury. However, this crocodile skin is unusually hard, and it is a good material for making leather armor.
The ordinary bronze armor is sturdy and sturdy, but it is too heavy, and on land it is good to say, once it falls into the water, the soldier does not even have time to struggle, and in the blink of an eye, it will disappear into the water.
However, leather armor made of ordinary animal skins such as cowhide will swell again after encountering water, and the leather armor will not look like it will not be able to wait for a war, but the leather armor made of crocodile skin will not have this kind of trouble.
"Fate! Li Jun's subordinates immediately began to kill the crocodile in the lake and look for its source. β
"No!"
In a certain section of the river in Xiashui, Li Jun stood on the deck, with a touch of loneliness in his eyes that could not be relieved.
Because the scope of the Great Xia Navy was too large, the fleet often did not return to the Navy camp for several days. Therefore, Li Jun didn't know what happened in Daxia Lake at this time, and he was still complaining.
Although the Great Xia Navy is also a regular army, for a long time, every time a war breaks out in Great Xia, the location is on land, and it has no half-dime relationship with the Navy Army.
Therefore, their daily work is limited to patrolling the waters, preventing water thieves, and helping to transport some goods.
But the key is that he used to be the biggest water thief in Great Xia!
As a result, the dignified Great Xia Navy is now about to fall to the point of a cargo ship.
Because it was a return voyage, the fleet flowed down, and with the speed bonus of the Feiyan ship itself, the speed of the naval fleet was extremely fast, and it soon returned to the naval camp.
After receiving Xia Qi's order, Li Jun's whole body was cheered up.
"Sons, let's go with Ben, let's meet the crocodile of that Rausch!"
The entire naval battalion was moved when they heard the news, and it was not only Li Jun who was excited, almost all the naval soldiers were like this.
Because there was no war, since the establishment of the Great Xia Water Army, it was at the lowest level of the chain of contempt for the various troops in Great Xia.
However, the maintenance of warships and the construction of new warships are very money-burning projects, and the annual expenditure of the Great Xia Navy is the largest among the various troops in Great Xia, and it is strange that the other troops are not jealous.
Every time the navy went to the military headquarters to ask for money, they would be ridiculed by people from other troops, saying that the navy people didn't do anything all day, but only reached out to ask for money.
It was not easy to receive a task, and the soldiers of the Great Xia Navy Army cheered up one after another, and it was necessary to change the views of other troops.
The warships of the Great Xia Navy swarmed out, and when they saw the crocodile, instead of slowing down, they accelerated and hit it directly. These ships were fitted with ramming angles, and the front end was clad in bronze. Crashing into the crocodile's body at once, the consequences can be imagined.
The smaller crocodiles were directly knocked into the air, and even the larger ones were seriously injured and bleeding profusely.
Some crocodiles reacted quickly and dived directly into the water, but although the crocodile has the word "fish" in its name, it is not a fish after all, and it also needs to surface for ventilation. Even if there are a few crocodiles that resolutely do not surface, the water army has a way to deal with it.
In the face of such die-hard elements, the soldiers of the navy directly went to the net, and the fishing net with iron and rattan threads was called a sturdy one, and when the net went down, not only crocodiles, but also large and small fish in the lake were caught.
Crocodiles need to be killed, but these caught fish are an unexpected catch. Part of it was used to feed the soldiers of the navy, and the rest was pulled to the commercial area to be sold.
What all the sailors did not expect was that this time they made a lot of money by killing the crocodiles and catching the fish. Although there is still a big gap between the expenses of the water army for a whole year, it is also a big gain.
Li Jun's heart moved, don't you think that our navy spends a lot of money every year? Then we'll catch our own fish and make money, so you don't have anything to say, right?
Li Jun never imagined that it was his decision that made the navy become the richest existence among all the arms in Great Xia for a long time later.
Making money is making money, but Li Jun has not forgotten Xia Qi's task.
Now that the crocodiles have been killed, the next step is to find the source of these crocodiles.
After many traces, Li Jun finally targeted the downstream of Daxia Lake.
Because part of the cities of Great Xia are located in the upper reaches of Great Xia Lake, including the most important city of Great Xia, Great Xia City.
The waters are densely populated with boats, and the navy fleet often patrols the area, so if there were crocodiles, they would have spotted them.
Without affecting the patrol mission of the naval fleet, Li Jun selected five warships and personally led the fleet all the way east to the downstream of Daxia Lake.
Sure enough, after leaving the known area of Great Xia Lake, there were more dead wood-like figures on the surface of the lake. However, the fleet did not stop moving and continued to sail downstream towards Daxia Lake.
Day 1, Day 2, Day 3......
It can only be said that the area of Daxia Lake is too large, and the fleet has been sailing on the lake for three days, but there is still no edge in sight, let alone its outlet. The number of crocodiles in the lake is increasing, but none of them are where they come from.
On this day, Li Jun stood on the deck as usual and watched.
"General, let's eat." A cook-like man stood behind Li Jun with a tray of food in his hand, and said flatteringly.
Looking at the tray full of fish, Li Jun's face was full of disgust, and he had eaten fish for several days in a row, and it smelled of fish every time he intervened.
Seeing this, the cook immediately said: "Now that the conditions are limited, please ask the general to take a moment, and when we go back, we will definitely cook a large table of noodles to treat the general." β
Li Jun's face was slightly pale, because he knew that what the cook said was the truth, so he didn't intend to embarrass him.
He nodded, and was about to open his mouth when there was a sudden commotion on the lake not far ahead.
When the fleet got closer, it turned out that there were several rafts floating on the lake, and in the middle of the raft, the water was splashing, Li Jun took a closer look, and then found that the place where the water was splashing was actually a crocodile.
At this point, the crocodile was trapped in a fishing net. The man on the raft, with a stone spear in his hand, stabbed at the crocodile with no life.
However, it is clear that even the scale armor that a bronze weapon can't pierce, let alone a dozen stone spears.
The crocodile finally got impatient, and after a few simple struggles, broke the net made of vines and slammed into one of the rafts.
In the face of an angry and monstrous giant crocodile, the simple little raft could not resist, but it was overturned in just a few strokes, and the people on the raft struggled in the water, and the people on the raft around wanted to rescue, but before they could react, the person was dragged into the water.
A moment later, a cloud of blood emerged from the water.
But a single human life could not appease the crocodile's anger, and soon it rushed towards one of the rafts.
On top of the raft was a small boy, and when he saw the crocodile rushing towards him, the boy immediately jumped off the raft and swam into the distance.
"You guys get out of here!"
During the procession, the boy turned his head and shouted to his companions, who wanted to lure the crocodile away so that some of his companions could escape.
The speed of the boy's parade was extremely fast, and at the beginning of the period, he also dropped the crocodile out of a distance, but he was still young after all, and after a while, he lost his strength, and seeing the crocodile getting closer and closer to him, a trace of fear appeared on the boy's face,
At this moment, a swift ship came galloping and crashed into the crocodile with an unstoppable momentum.
And this warship is Li Jun's car, this guy has a heart of love.
Although it is very reckless to dare to hunt crocodiles with just a few simple tools, it is also not for anyone to dare to face these giant beasts head-on.
The crocodile was directly hit by the warship and flew out, and at the same time, the raft that the young man was riding on was also overturned by the waves brought up by the warship.
The boy didn't pay any attention to this, his body floated in the water, and he looked at the warship in front of him in a daze, his eyes full of incredulity. Think of him, a boy from a primitive tribe, where has he ever seen such a creation?
Not only him, but also the people on the raft were already kneeling on the raft, and they were still chanting words, as if they had mistaken the warship for a god.
Just when the boy was in a daze, Li Jun on the warship leaned out half of his body and shouted at him: "What are you still doing in a daze, do you still want to feed the crocodiles in the water?" β
In fact, the boy, like his companions, thought that some god had come to save him, but when he saw Li Jun, he dispelled this idea.
Although Li Jun on the warship also looked majestic, the young man just felt that he was not a god.
Looking at the soft ladder in front of him, the young man had no teacher and climbed up.
Li Jun looked at the young man with an appreciative expression, and then asked, "What's your name?" Which tribe is it from? Why round up crocodiles? β
Faced with Li Jun's inquiry, the young man asked rhetorically, "Who are you?" β
Li Jun smiled, and at the same time, he became more and more pleased with the young man.
"My name is Li Jun, and I am the commander of the navy army in Great Xia."
"Great Xia?"
The boy thought for a while, but he, a teenager who had never been far from the tribe, was very unfamiliar with the outside world, and he also didn't know anything about the name Da Xia.
"My name is Tsuga."
The boy told Li Jun that his name was Yan and that he was a member of a small tribe nearby, but this small tribe no longer existed. Some time ago, it was raining heavily, and a group of crocodiles came out of nowhere, broke into their tribe, and ate many people. Only six people, including the Queen, escaped.
Well, now it's five, and one has been eaten by a crocodile.
Speaking of crocodiles, he gritted his teeth for a while. In that attack, many people were not caught up and killed, but they treated the crocodile as a god, knelt on the ground and prayed sincerely, and then were eaten by the crocodile.
What they did before was to avenge their people.
However, it turned out that they were still too naΓ―ve, if it weren't for Li Jun and them passing by, I was afraid that none of them would be able to escape, and they would all be bitten to death by crocodiles.
In the end, he said that it was Li Jun who saved him, and he was willing to follow Li Jun.
Regarding this, Li Jun naturally nodded and agreed, after all, he also admired this kid.
Subsequently, Li Jun asked the cook to cook this crocodile, and invited him and a few of his friends to eat a crocodile feast, which can be regarded as indirectly avenging his people.