Great Tang princess

Chapter 421: Butterfly in the Sea

After a whole day of fierce competition, more than [-] of the dispatched craftsmen were selected into the Academy of Engineering.

On the day they entered the Academy of Engineering, they became military members. They were technical officers who did not participate in wars. Their first job now was to build new ships for the navy.

In the office, Li Yuechen took out the design drawing of the queen's ship that he had drawn: "It's about like this, the length should be about twenty feet, the width is three to four feet, and the structure of the watertight cabin..."

After all, she is not a professional painter, so even if she thinks her drawings are very detailed, she still needs to dance around and explain what they don't understand.

The craftsmen became serious after entering the working state, and asked questions very enthusiastically, trying to understand all the things they didn't understand at once, so as to save mistakes and waste materials when the time came.

This kind of sharp-bottomed boat was indeed novel to them, but it wasn't incomprehensible. After asking, they almost understood it.

In the end, Li Yuechen clapped his hands: "Let's make a model of this palace about ten feet away!"

The craftsmen agreed in unison, and Ma Shan started to work. The academician of the Academy of Engineering who was in charge of the invigilation was responsible for leading these people and assigning them different tasks.

Although it is only a ten-foot-long model, the various parts needed are almost the same as the real ship, and it also requires a little bit of hand-made by craftsmen.

……

On July 23, on the turbulent sea, the decks of the two ships were full of naval recruits.

After nearly a month of training, this group of recruits who seemed malnourished when they first arrived, although their bodies have not become stronger, at least their complexions look refreshed.

At this moment, the recruits were standing on the deck one by one, stripped down to a pair of underwear.

To be precise, it is not called underwear, but a pocket cloth. In this era, except for Li Yuechen who invented underwear, there are no people outside the imperial court.

Li Yuechen was wearing a camouflage uniform, with long black hair coiled behind his head, standing on the edge of the deck less than one palm wide.

She held a brass loudspeaker in her hand, and put it near her mouth: "Starting from today, your training will enter a new stage. I sincerely hope that you can all persevere until the end!"

"Today's training is very simple, just jump from here and swim to the shore by yourself!" Li Yuechen smiled and raised his hand, pointing his thumb in the direction of the shore behind him.

Hearing the content, many people took a deep breath, some couldn't believe it.

Isn't this training too scary?Such a long distance to swim in this way?

In fact, this distance is not too far. Li Yuechen has carefully calculated it, and it is about ten kilometers. With the physical fitness of these boys today, it is almost possible to squeeze it.

Moreover, Geng Yunqiang and others will follow them all the way in a small sampan, and if they find signs of drowning, they will jump to save others. Of course, this means being eliminated.

While the soldiers were still in a daze, Li Yuechen suddenly spoke up: "In addition, after I go ashore, I can also go ashore within half an hour, and I can get a can tonight!"

Nowadays, the output of canned food is not too much, and the price is quite expensive, which is really unaffordable for ordinary people.

On the day they just trained, each of them was rewarded with one, and many people still linger on that sweet taste.

"Okay, let's go down!"

Following Li Yuechen's order, the soldiers looked at each other, then ran forward in unison, and quickly turned over the fence.

For a while, the sound of "plop plop" falling into the sea can be heard endlessly, just like dumplings.

After the soldiers jumped into the water, they swam to the shore without saying a word. Li Yuechen threw the loudspeaker in his hand to the soldiers of Qianniuwei, and stood on the fence to watch them.

Although Jiang Zheng'an said that they are all people who know water, but at this time people have not learned scientifically and are useful, basically they are similar to breaststroke or dog planing.

Humans first learned to swim, and this is the swimming style. Of course, some people can also lie on the water, but this posture is not fast.

More than a thousand years later, freestyle is recognized as the fastest swimming style, and it is generally used in Olympic competitions.

However, many people don't know that at first, the so-called freestyle was not crawling, but any swimming style.

But in the end they all found that crawling was the fastest, so crawling became synonymous with freestyle.

After the soldiers jumped into the sea, they quickly waved their arms and gradually swam towards the shore. The people gradually spread out to avoid crowding together.

Geng Yunqiang and the others shuttled around them in a dozen or so sampans to prevent people from suddenly appearing.

Li Yuechen, who was standing on the fence, also used the binoculars handed over by his subordinates to roughly observe their speed and number of people.

Xiao He next to him handed over a cup of tea: "Your Highness."

After taking the teacup and drinking it down, Li Yuechen suddenly raised his arms and stretched vigorously.

Then he twisted his neck and waist, and shook his shoulders and arms, and the bones all over his body "cracked".

Speaking of it, it has been a long time since I let go of swimming, and I don't know what level my physical fitness can achieve.

She raised her hand and took off the hairpin on her head, her shiny black hair slid down her shoulders, then she reached out to take the hair from Xiao He and tied it into a ponytail.

Li Yuechen swimming in a camouflage uniform would actually slow down her speed, but there was no way, she was a woman after all, and she couldn't just wear a bikini in front of a group of big men.

Although she didn't mind it herself, it really didn't sound good to hear about this kind of thing.

After observing with the telescope for a while, Li Yuechen felt that it was almost done, so he took off his shoes, revealing a pair of white and tender feet, and shook them twice.

Then he bent his knees and jumped, his body opened an arc in mid-air, and plunged into the sea.

Receiving the gravity of the body's free fall, Li Yuechen plunged out of the water like a fish after entering the water. When her head appeared on the water again, it was already tens of meters away.

From the moment she jumped off the boat, the people on the boat and Geng Yunqiang and others in front were almost staring at her.

Just now a soldier asked: "Your Highness won't..."

"Shut up!" Geng Yunqiang turned his head and taught him a lesson, "Back then when the Eastern Capital was flooded, His Highness could gallop on the water, so what would happen?"

Sure enough, the next moment Li Yuechen's head floated on the water.

Just when they thought she was going to continue diving, she suddenly raised her arms from behind, made a semicircle and then inserted her palms into the water.

The next moment, her head was submerged in the water again...

Whether it was Geng Yunqiang and the others or the other soldiers watching on the boat, their eyes widened slightly, and Xiao He, who was holding a binoculars, also had a look of disbelief.

When she swung her arm just now, a large amount of water splashed like raindrops and fell on the sea surface.

Because the splash caused by raising her arm can even give people an illusion, as if she is not alone, but a butterfly that has been dancing.

It is normal to have this illusion, mainly because the moment the arm is raised to drive the water splash, the shape of the water splash is indeed like a butterfly's wing at a certain moment.

Ten seconds later, Li Yuechen's head surfaced on the water again, and while his arms were swinging again, the sparkling water splashes under the sun once again formed a pair of butterfly wings, which disappeared in the next moment.

……

In this way, Li Yuechen kept undulating and churning on the turbulent sea in the posture of butterfly stroke, like a butterfly looming on the sea, appearing from time to time to attract everyone's attention.

Her speed was very fast, and she caught up with the soldiers who were struggling to swim forward in less than 10 minutes.

The soldier swimming at the end was swimming forward in the posture of a dog planer, when he suddenly heard the sound of water splashing next to him, so he turned his head to look.

As soon as he turned his head, he couldn't help but open his eyes wide.

I saw the water spray carried by the arm spread out in mid-air, faintly forming a translucent butterfly wing, shining brightly in the refracted sunlight.

It was not until the next moment that he saw clearly that it was Her Royal Highness, and that was not a butterfly's wings, but a splash of water on her arm.

However, with just such a flash, her head had entered the water again and disappeared without a trace.

The soldier hadn't reacted yet. Ten seconds later, she reappeared not far in front, still like a butterfly's wings that flashed in an instant, and then disappeared again...

The soldier shook his head violently, then gritted his teeth and continued to swim forward with his arms waving!

He didn't know why he worked so hard all of a sudden. If he had to say the only reason, it was that he didn't want to be eliminated at this time. He still wanted to see this Highness every day in the future!
It's not that there are any unreasonable thoughts, it's just that as long as I can see her every day, it seems that my mood can be improved!He didn't want to see this princess who had great reputation among warriors all over the country again in the future.

……

At this moment, nearly half an hour had passed since the soldiers jumped off the boat. Li Yuechen started about 10 minutes later than them, but he had already caught up.

From time to time, the beautiful butterfly stroke splits the tumbling waves, looming on the sea surface, swimming forward among a group of scattered soldiers.

Many soldiers were a little dazed when they saw His Highness walking past them gracefully.

However, Li Yuechen's full attention was on his target at this time, he didn't turn his head to look at them at all, let alone communicate with them, he just walked past them.

Seeing this scene, many soldiers who felt that their physical strength had bottomed out continued to grit their teeth and swim forward, feeling that they could hold on for a while longer.

Li Yuechen's speed was very fast. It didn't take long for him to reach the first echelon, and then he passed them steadily.

When the soldiers of the first echelon came to their senses, she had surpassed No.1 and reached the front. At the same time, her head was looming on the sea, getting further and further away.

While many soldiers behind continued to grit their teeth, many others tried to imitate her movements, but butterfly strokes do not only rely on hands to swim, and their leg movements cannot keep up, so they still cannot do it to her level.

Some clever soldiers had dived into the water and opened their eyes to observe how her legs moved.

The ocean in this era has not been polluted and is extremely clear. Many people have seen her swinging legs like fish tails.

Afterwards, many soldiers began to imitate his movements. Of course, not everyone could do it. Even if they knew the principle, they might not be able to keep up without training in body coordination.

But with such a large number of people, there are always a few people with extraordinary talents. After watching it, after thinking about it for a few seconds, they immediately made it.

Perhaps the posture is not very standard, but at least it is right.

Several soldiers who changed their swimming styles immediately showed amazing speed, almost instantly pulling away from the others around them.

The other soldiers yelled and asked them to share their experience. These soldiers didn't speak, but let them observe by their side, and then swam forward.

Although the movements came out, they were not standard on the one hand, and their physical fitness was far inferior to Li Yuechen's, so they were still inevitably pulled further away.

At this time, Li Yuechen seemed to have returned to the days when she was an extreme athlete. Her mind was empty at the moment, and she didn't think about any messy things, only staring at her goal.

……

I don't know how long it has passed, but her figure is getting closer and closer to the shore, and she can even see the Qianniuwei soldiers waiting on the shore.

They are all in the army, and they have also undergone arduous training. Now that they see the recruit training in the navy, they naturally have to sneak over to watch the excitement.

"Look! There is a transparent butterfly in the sea!" A soldier shouted.

Others squinted their eyes to see it, but they didn't find it after scanning around. They were about to speak, but they were slightly taken aback, as if they had seen it too, and then searched more seriously.

After a while, a soldier suddenly froze slightly: "That seems to be... Your Highness?"

As the distance drew closer, of course they also saw Li Yuechen's black hair and arms swinging in the sea in camouflage uniforms.

This distance is actually very close, and Li Yuechen gradually swam to the shore.

When she was about to touch the shore, she stopped, and suddenly raised her upper body in the waist-deep sea water.

The jet-black ponytail drove a transparent spray of water to form a crescent shape on her head, and then scattered water droplets fell around her.

At this time, Li Yuechen was covered in water, and the camouflage uniform was tightly attached to his body, which outlined Miaoman's body line like casual clothes.

The drops of water that were still dripping from the hem of the clothes almost formed a line, filling up the footprints being stepped on the sand by those smooth, white and tender feet.

The soldiers on the shore ran over to help her, but she waved her hand and refused: "Go and make a cup of tea!"

When she was completely out of the range of the sea water, she took a few deep breaths to make up for the physical strength lost by the strenuous exercise just now.

She has been counting in her heart, ten kilometers, she should have swum for less than an hour, and it should be about [-] to [-] minutes.

Of course there must be errors, but Li Yuechen is sure that it will not exceed 10 minutes.

(End of this chapter)