Chapter 63: The Iron Dragon
After this profound lesson, Xiao Chen no longer dared to play with fire easily.
But he also deeply realized the power of the flame palm, he is now in various crises, if he can learn this awesome martial arts, at a critical time, he can save his life!
So even though he didn't want to learn, he had to.
I feel that he has already learned this part of qi luck, and he said that he has practiced it.
What needs to be practiced now is the martial arts moves in the booklet, which seem simple, but are actually extremely complex.
For example, this move Fire Tree Star Bridge, only three changes are drawn on the map, but what is said in the annotation is implied in three three see nine, ninety-nine eighty-one changes!
Why are you making this move so complicated?
So every morning, the big guy can see Xiao Chen boxing in the yard, and no one can see what kind of punch he plays, but he feels quite awesome.
If you want to ask why you say that, everyone will say.
If it weren't very awesome, why was Lord Xiao Chen's expression so solemn when he stretched out his arms and legs?
Actually, they just didn't know that Xiao Chen was worried.
After all, he has a very high level of education and has read a lot of books, but his physical coordination is not good, and when he was in college, he failed many sports subjects!
Now you let him practice the peerless martial arts of the Flame Palm, which is like chasing ducks to the shelves...... Force somebody's hand.
But then again, his brain is smart, and after a period of hard training, although there has been no breakthrough in substance, he has also memorized a total of eighteen flame palm techniques.
According to Wu Fatian's deathbed instructions, the pamphlet was burned down.
From then on, he was the only descendant of the Flame Palm.
Spring is in full bloom, the auspicious day of Liu Guifei's provincial relatives has arrived, early in the morning farewell to the emperor, the queen mother, the queen, the mighty convoy from the Ende Gate out of the palace, after all the way to the loess paving, clear water dust, around the hour, finally out of the capital.
After walking all the way east for two days, I came to Haining Bay, which is the closest seaport to Beijing, and all passenger ships, merchant ships, and grain ships entering Beijing must pass through here.
Xiao Chen and his party are going to take a boat south here.
After discussion, they decided to go by water, and of course there are pros and cons to water.
The waterways are relatively safe, at least you don't have to worry about bandits along the way, and you don't have to worry about where to stay every day.
There is also the relative comfort, at least not the bumps of riding a horse.
This is the pros.
There are also disadvantages, sailing on the sea, there is a possibility of natural disasters with strong winds and waves, and there may also be man-made disasters attacked by pirates.
On the sea, there are no reinforcements that can arrive in time, so they can only deal with it themselves.
They were on the Royal Fengyi, which could accommodate seven or eight hundred people, which was already the largest ocean-going ship at present.
The escort was one of the most powerful warships of the Great Zhou Naval Division, the Shenlong, which was a three-story ironclad ship carrying more than 400 soldiers and more than 100 oarsmen.
There is a red-coated cannon in the bow and stern that fires large-caliber iron pills, and there are more than a dozen small tiger squat guns on each side of the ship.
The ship's floor is densely packed with archery holes, and the roof is surrounded by a women's wall, behind which dozens of motorized archers are located.
The commander of the Shenlong is called Lin Zirui, a dark-faced man in his thirties, extremely confident in his warship, and when he invited Xiao Chen to board the ship for review, his face was also full of arrogance.
"It's not a brother, I'm bragging to the adults, as long as my Shenlong is here, no pirates dare to harass me, please rest assured!" Pat your chest and swear.
Here's the fire.
"How far can you shoot with this cannon?" Xiao Chen asked with interest.
"Sixty zhang!" Lin Zirui said loudly, "If you don't wait for the enemy ship to come forward, let's bomb the fuck first!" ”
Sixty zhang, that is, 200 meters, this is not as far as modern rifles can hit.
"Your projectile is solid?" When Xiao Chen saw those big iron eggs, his face began to gradually become less good-looking.
"yes, or else?" Lin Zirui asked rhetorically, he regarded Xiao Chen as a layman who didn't understand anything.
"Isn't there any gunpowder in there?" No matter how layman Xiao Chen is, he knows the difference between iron eggs and fried eggs, okay!
"Oh, no, that thing is unstable, and it's used to fire projectiles for fear of exploding, so how can you put it in it? Besides, once our ship caught fire, didn't it explode first? Boom Boom! Lin Zirui's imitation is vivid.
Xiao Chen was speechless.
In fact, this is not to blame Lin Zirui for being ignorant, after all, the concept of naval warfare in this era cannot be compared with Xiao Chen's era at all, and it is not one generation or two generations that are worse.
Even if the weapon system is extremely backward, the power system is even more touching, and you use human paddles to maneuver such a large ship?
But for now, it's pretty remarkable.
Because many warships can only rely on sails to maneuver, the position of the wind direction in which the two armies are engaged is very important.
If you have your back to the wind, you have the upper hand, and if you are facing the wind, you are at a disadvantage.
This is the geographical advantage in the water war.
There are three hard conditions for winning a naval battle, the weapon system, the mobile system, and the other is the protection system.
Although the Shenlong is claimed to be an ironclad ship, it is actually only wrapped in a thin layer of iron on the hull, which looks like it can protect against rockets or the like, which is too fragile.
However, it should not be thickened, because if it is too thick, the draught will be much worse.
All in all, all three pieces of hardware are very backward.
In Lin Zirui's opinion, the ship has been outstanding, but in Xiao Chen's eyes, it is miserable.
But at least this Lin Zirui seems to be a fierce general, and the soldiers on the ship are also mighty and majestic, it is estimated that it should be more than enough to deal with a pirate.
Master, I'm not the governor of the Great Zhou Water Division, so I can't manage so many idle things!
As long as we go to Jiangnan, we can have a safe journey.
After leaving the palace, Liu Guifei is the biggest.
And Xiao Chen's task is to protect the concubine, so it's okay for him to follow him at any time, right?
Including in the evening.
After Liu Ruyun finished bathing, she leaned on the comfortable and soft bed like a hibiscus out of water, and watched Xiao Chen sit on the side in a daze.
"Why don't you speak? What do you think? I thought he would take the initiative to give him a hug, but he sat still like a wooden man.
Hmph, most of them just want Murong Danqiu, that little witch!
"I'm wondering if there's anything missing from our security measures." Xiao Chen really didn't think about the queen at this time.
"Aren't you very bold? Why are you still afraid of death? Liu Ruyun giggled.
"Slaves are very timid." Xiao Chen is modest.
"You are timid, there will be no bold people in the sky!" What Liu Ruyun means is that you even slept with the emperor's concubine, which is called timidity?
You're so daring!
"It's true that the minions are not very bold, but they are also quite big in other aspects."
Xiao Chen's words depend on how you understand them, maybe not what he meant?
Because his official son is quite big now......