Sui and Tang Dynasties: Killing Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty to sacrifice to heaven at the beginni

Chapter 588 Sail Battleship

The celebrity wailed in pain, and finally confessed, it seemed that something extremely frightening happened to him.

Li Mu glanced at this person, and said to himself, I really don't cry without seeing the coffin.

Don't ask questions carefully, you have to suffer a lot of torture before you are willing to speak.

"Bring people here!" Li Mu ordered.

After receiving Li Mu's order, the soldiers at the side removed the hemp rope that bound the prisoner's hands and feet, and then stretched out his hands to help him up.

However, as soon as he exerted force, the man did not move at all.

"what!"

"It hurts, it hurts!"

"It hurts!"

As soon as the soldiers on the side exerted their strength, the celebrity prisoner immediately wailed in pain, and blood flowed out on the ground.

"Blood, blood!"

"Bamboo, it's bamboo."

"This person's body has grown together with the bamboo!" At this moment, a sharp-eyed soldier shouted from the side.

The penalty Li Mu used was called bamboo punishment.

What is the bamboo punishment, it is to put the person on the bamboo that has just sprouted, and then tie the person up and fix it on the ground.

At this time, if the bamboo wants to grow upwards, it will drill upwards.Bamboo is a kind of occupation with extremely fast growth rate. Under the condition of suitable temperature and moisture, bamboo can grow tens of centimeters a day, or even one or two meters.

People are fixed on the ground, and bamboo will always drill into the flesh and blood of people in order to grow.

This kind of punishment brings people not only physical pain, but also the fear of the unknown.

Several soldiers used all their strength to pull this man off the ground.

That's right, pull.

In just one morning, this man's flesh and blood had already been penetrated by the bamboo as long as a finger.

In order to be able to lift him up from the ground, someone raised his head abruptly, someone raised his feet, and pulled him up.

To say that this kid is also very fateful, the position where the bamboo penetrates is not a vital point, nor did he hurt his internal organs.

It was nothing more than suffering a lot of flesh and blood, but it didn't hurt his life.

"Tick, tick!"

This person was carried up to Li Mu by two soldiers, blood was continuously flowing on the ground, it was not known whether it was because of fright or excessive blood loss.

"Stop the bleeding first!" Li Mu said with a wave of his hand.

I haven't asked this question yet, if this kid bleeds to death, then the loss outweighs the gain.

As soon as Li Mu gave an order, someone brought golden sore medicine to stop the bleeding.

Needless to say, this ancient golden sore medicine is really a good thing, and it is more useful than the Yunnan Baiyao of later generations.

Applying this golden medicine to the wound, the blood stopped immediately, and then some cloth strips were torn off to seal the wound, which was regarded as an emergency treatment.

These are all treatment methods in the army, which were discovered by soldiers on the battlefield.Although it looks very rude, it is simple, direct and effective.

After the man's wound stopped bleeding, Li Mu slowly asked, "Speak, anyway, sooner or later!"

"Falling into my hands is equivalent to falling into the [-]th level of hell. Even if you survive this level, you won't be able to survive the next level!"

"Since we have to talk about it sooner or later, why is it that the tortured person is not like a human being, and the ghost is not like a ghost?"

It's not that Li Mu doesn't know how to use interrogation methods. In his previous life, Li Mu read a lot of books, and he remembered all the ten tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

When it comes to real hands, Li Mu's methods are worse than those of unprofessional interrogators.It's just that Li Mu's status is not good enough to do such dirty and bad things.

However, he can't take care of these right now, he can only do it himself.

The celebrity prisoner was tortured very weakly, raised his eyelids with difficulty, and said weakly: "I've recruited, I've recruited them all!"

"I don't ask for anything else, I just ask the general to give me a happy death!"

Li Mu responded very straightforwardly: "Okay, as long as you have said everything, I will give you a happy one."

After getting Li Mu's promise, the man began to slowly narrate the whole incident.

This person didn't dare to hide anything, and told everything like beans poured out of a bamboo tube.

"General, this group not only contacted me alone, but also contacted the rest of the pirates!"

"This time the pirates went ashore, and it wasn't that family of pirates, but more than ten groups of pirates went ashore together!" The man replied honestly.

Sure enough, things went as Li Mu expected, this matter was not so simple, someone was secretly plotting, scheming!

Of course, since Pei Yun and Yuwen Jackie Chan didn't reveal their real identities, Li Mu didn't know who was scheming.

"Take him back first!"

"Bring the rest of the people over, interrogate them one by one, and corroborate their words with each other, there will definitely be other clues!" Li Mu ordered.

After Li Mu made a sample of these soldiers in charge of interrogation, these soldiers also knew how to interrogate.

All in all, bring the rest of the people over one by one, and then give them the bamboo punishment respectively.

With such a punishment, he can pry anyone's mouth open.

In this world, there are people who are not afraid of death, but life is worse than death, but it is more terrible than death.

Under this kind of punishment, many people have their mouths pried open, and it can be said that they know everything and say everything.

This truthfully recruited more people, and more useful clues!
Soon, these officers and soldiers in charge of the interrogation targeted the Lucky Lai Inn.

"Continue to interrogate those who have not finished interrogating, and I will report to the general!" said the general in charge of the interrogation.

Huating County, Li Mu's Mansion.

"General, the interrogation has been made, that group of people can stay in the inn temporarily!" The general in charge of the interrogation reported.

After getting the news, Li Mu immediately sent someone to call Qin Qiong, and ordered him to lead a group of people to surround Haozailai Inn.

However, Li Mu was one step too late after all. At this time, Pei Yun, Yuwen Jackie and others had already withdrawn.He had already left Huating County a long time ago.

Qin Qiong had no choice but to come back and report to Li Mu.

"General, the last general is incompetent and let people run away!" Qin Qiong said helplessly.

Li Mu thought for a moment, then said in a deep voice: "Very vigilant, it seems that our opponent is not an ordinary person!"

Immediately afterwards, Li Mu said again: "Since this clue is broken, let's start with these pirates!"

As the saying goes, persimmons have to be picked softly!
The black hand behind this scene is obviously not simple. Since this clue has been broken, Li Mu can only target the pirates.

There is no perfect crime in the world. Since the black hands behind the scenes used pirates, they must leave clues in this regard!
While ordering his men to continue to trace the whereabouts of the pirates, Li Mu quietly came to a secret shipyard.

Why is it said that this shipyard is a secret shipyard, because this shipyard is completely blocked for more than ten miles around.

Li Mu has a shipyard by the sea in Huating County, which is a shipyard specializing in the production of Fuchuan.

After several years of hard work, it is now as easy as finding something out of a bag for shipyards to produce Fuchuan.

However, Fuchuan is a merchant ship, and it is more than enough for doing business, transporting goods, and conducting maritime trade.

Even, it is not impossible to use Fuchuan as a troop carrier.

However, Fuchuan has a large cargo capacity and is relatively bloated.Not to mention the treasure ship, which is bigger and slower than the blessing ship.

It can be said that whether it is a lucky ship or a treasure ship, even if it is equipped with weapons, it is not suitable as a military ship.

The navy and the navy are different. The navy fights on inland rivers, while the navy fights on the sea.

Inland rivers are restricted by the water basin of the Yu River. Once a water battle occurs, the two sides will almost always meet on a narrow road and the brave will win.

Because, in the middle of the inland river, the two sides of the general naval battle are blocked by ships, and you have nowhere to run, so you can fight.

But sea battles are different. The sea is boundless and extends in all directions. If you can't fight it, you can run wherever you want.

Therefore, in water battles, the ship on one side is larger and stronger, and that side can win.

However, the most important factor for ships in naval battles is speed.

Fast, must be fast.

Faster ships can gain an advantage on the sea.

Li Mu's secret shipyard was built in a recessed coast, the front notch was directly sealed by ships, and a large number of troops were stationed on the shore.

It is said to the outside world that this is an official salt factory, but in fact, what is built here is not salt, but naval warships.

There are not many people in this secret shipyard, and the shipyard is not as big as the shipyard in Huating County.

However, what is concentrated is the essence, and the craftsmen who can be selected to build ships here can be said to be one in a hundred, one in a thousand.

Let's put it this way, in this secret shipyard, the best shipbuilders of the entire Sui Dynasty are gathered.

What kind of ship is Li Mu going to build for the navy?
What Li Mu wanted to build was a battleship with sails. The era when battleships with sails appeared should have been in the middle of the seventeenth century.

Converted to China's time, the morale of the appearance of sailing battleships is the era of the end of the Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty.

Li Mu's research on sailing battleships in the Sui Dynasty was equivalent to asking sailing battleships to ask questions more than 1000 years in advance.

The sail battleship is the last glory of the wooden sail battleship. After the sail battleship, it is the era of the iron-clad steam ship.

We must know that the times are gradually progressing and developing gradually.Li Mu researched sailing battleships more than 1000 years in advance, which contained many technical barriers.

These technical barriers need to be gradually overcome one by one, one by one, before the sailing battleship can be launched.

In fact, sailing battleships have been secretly researched two or three years ago. The reason why Li Mu tolerated pirates was because he was waiting for the advent of sailing battleships.

Once the sailing battleship comes out, eliminating these pirates is as simple as picking something out of a bag.

At this time, the ten sailing battleships being manufactured by the secret shipyard have been initially completed.

The ship in front of me is different from the bloated lucky boat and the treasure boat. This boat looks much smaller than the lucky boat and the treasure boat. It is very slender, like a sea fish.

This ship is only about [-] feet long, its height is about ten feet, and its tonnage is only about [-] tons.

The full load of this ship is only 1000 or 100 people, but there are more than [-] artillery pieces on both sides of the ship's side.

Cannons, like sailing battleships, are weapons that do not belong to this era. After the combination of the two, pirates are just playthings in Li Mu's hands.

The prototypes of the more than ten sailing battleships built by the secret shipyard are the "Galen" type sailing battleships of Britain in the [-]th century, known as the empire on which the sun never sets.

Looking at the entire history of sailing battleships, the "Galen" type sailing battleships can only be regarded as small sailing battleships.

Although the small sail battleship does not carry many soldiers and its firepower is not strong, it is faster and more flexible.

You must know that the sailing battleship "Galen" is not strong in firepower, which is against the sailing battleship of the seventeenth century.

The Great Sui Dynasty was an era more than 1000 years ahead of schedule.In this era, there is a lack of long-range firepower on ships.

With the long-range firepower of artillery, the sailing battleship is absolutely able to block people and kill people, and Buddhas to block and kill Buddhas. It is unrivaled in the sea.

Li Mu came to one of the sail battleships, this sail battleship was built with teak.

Teak is the best boat-building material, not one of them, even slightly better than cypress.

Teak is rich in iron and oil, and it has the least shrinkage and swelling deformation among all woods.

You must know that in addition to sailing in the sea normally, the ships of the navy have to withstand the huge impact brought by the artillery fire.

The sail battleship made of teak can sail at sea for 50 years.

In 50 years, Li Mu believes that after 50 years, the Sui Dynasty will definitely be able to cross the era of sailing battleships and enter the era of steam engines and giant steel wheels.

Although these sailing battleships already have the ability to sail, they have not actually been formally completed.

One is that the final overhaul has not yet been carried out, and the other is that the weapons on the ship have not been fully assembled.

When Li Mu boarded the ship, the craftsmen were installing the cannons on both sides of the ship.

From the current point of view, Li Mu is very satisfied with these sailing battleships.Although there are not many, there are only a dozen or so ships, but they are enough to cross the sea.

Li Mu sent someone to summon Li Chun, who was so busy, and asked in a deep voice, "The news about the pirates coming ashore is quite telling!"

Hearing Li Mu's question, Li Chun's complexion changed, revealing an expression of indignation, and said in a deep voice, "I heard about it!"

Li Mu then said: "As long as these ships are fully equipped with weapons as soon as possible, I may use them at any time."

Li Chun understood that the general was going to take these pirates under his knife.

Once these sailing battleships are launched into the water, they are like dragons in the water, and even the most powerful pirates have nowhere to escape.

"Don't worry, General, I'll keep an eye on it myself, without resting day and night, and within three days, I will guarantee that all the artillery pieces will be installed!" Li Chun solemnly promised.

As a Sui man, how could he watch his compatriots being killed by these barbarian pirates, Li Chun was also full of hatred for pirates.

Li Mu nodded and patted Li Chun on the shoulder, expressing his approval for his work.

(End of this chapter)