Daming kill

Chapter 100 Huge Fleet

In the past two days, He Zhuzi had done a good job and thought about everything carefully. On the way to the fleet, Li Ping praised him a few words.

He Zhuzi immediately became visibly excited, and he said ostentatiously: "Sir, do you know how expensive this food is now? Now, a piece of cake or a steamed bun can be accompanied by a young lady whether it is inside or outside the city." Once, some girls from good families are willing!"

"Really! Don't exaggerate in front of the chief." Hu Zhongshan, who was listening on the side, answered the question suddenly with some disbelief.

Li Ping also looked at He Zhuzi suspiciously.

He Zhuzi became a little anxious, and raised his voice a lot and said: "Director, I'm not lying, it's true. I don't dare to talk nonsense in front of our general. I have been investigating clearly for the past two days.

Some homes in Xiangyang City have half-opened doors, which is a public expression of this meaning. You only need to bring a bowl of rice or a steamed bun to go in and find happiness for the woman in that house. I saw someone go in with my own eyes. Yes, after I came out, I asked specifically because I was afraid that I might not get it right. "

"There are such good things!" Hu Zhongshan grunted out without thinking.

But right away, he was startled, and hurried to look at Li Ping, but what he saw was Li Ping's expressionless face, and he couldn't see his attitude towards this matter at all.

Therefore, Hu Zhongshan carefully added another sentence: "Little people are miserable! There is no other way, you have to live."

Li Ping turned his head and glanced at Hu Zhongshan, said nothing, but rode forward silently on his horse.

Li Ping felt a little heavy in his heart.

In fact, he is roughly regarded as an emotional person, even though he is used to cruelty and suffering in this barbaric world.But after staying in the villa for a few days, he encountered these human tragedies unexpectedly in the past two days. He was not used to it for a while, and felt very uncomfortable.

Seeing that Li Ping didn't speak, Hu Zhongshan, He Zhuzi and the others didn't dare to say any more. The three people on the horse rode forward silently and slowly.

Although there were more and more officers and soldiers along the way, and there were teams driving the weak people to carry wood and sundries everywhere, no one bothered Li Ping and the others.

Perhaps, seeing the mannerisms of Li Ping and his group's clothes, no one would think of it as a young general who was patrolling. But this Zuo Liangyu army has many soldiers and many new faces, and it is impossible for anyone to know them all. .

When they got close to the fleet, a little leader in a red coat stepped forward and asked politely. After He Zhuzi signed up, the little leader immediately retreated politely, without asking Li Ping and others' purpose.

It's one thing to look at from a distance, but it's really different when you look up close.

The closer to these ships, the more Li Ping was deeply shocked by the scene in front of him.It's not how tall and big the boat is, but too many boats are closely gathered together and connected to the sandbar in the river they are close to, like a floating city.

Li Ping has never seen so many boats either in reality or in various photos.

Most of these ships are large ships with a length of 30 to [-] meters. Many of the buildings on the ships have two or even three floors. It is probably the building boat mentioned in the book!Anyway, a building was built on the boat, so I don't know if Li Ping's understanding is correct.

Some of the largest ones also have battlement-shaped buildings on them, and they look like warships at first glance.There are also a large number of rows of small openings on the part slightly above the waterline of many ships. Li Ping knew that of course this could not be the muzzle of the gun, but the mouth of the oars.

If you look carefully, you can also see that there are large paddle wheels on both sides of some hulls (artificial propulsion devices, similar to pedal boats in the park, except that the propulsion wheels are not located under the boat, but on the side of the boat, and the diameter is as long as Several meters), Li Ping did not know that the shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty was so developed.

In short, these ships have different shapes, styles, and sizes. Those high and low masts stand up like a forest of guns, densely packed.

This is a very large fleet and a very crowded fleet.

The more Li Ping looked at it, the more strange he became. With such a fleet, why would he want to run away?How could the enemy cross the river? This fleet is simply invincible on the water!Even the heap also kills the enemy.

If Li Ping became more thoughtful and novel after being shocked, then Hu Zhongshan was always dumbfounded.

Hu Zhongshan's eyes were full of awe.

Hu Zhongshan had never seen so many ships, nor had he seen such a large ship, especially those tall and large ships that were easy to distinguish made him even more shocked.Although this guy is relatively old, even in this era, his knowledge still belongs to the group with relatively few.

After looking around the fleet for a long time, Li Ping was no longer a novelty, he wanted to know more about the situation of the crew.But after watching for a long time, I found that many boats were empty at all, and there was no one at all.

After asking a few soldiers, I found out that most people do not live on the boat. After all, it is not convenient to go on the boat, and many boatmen who were recruited by force were sent to build more boats. There are only a few people to take care of them.

Li Ping followed the directions pointed by the little soldiers and looked further away. Sure enough, there seemed to be a lot of people on the shore farther ahead, so he continued to walk forward.

After crossing the large sandbar on which the huge fleet rested, the water in the river began to slow down a lot.

I saw a vast construction site on a flat shore. The construction site near the water was full of half-completed boats, and countless people were busy around it. A vicious overseer who walks around with sticks and whips.

Li Ping could clearly hear the sound of whips and scolding from the side without going any closer, and clearly noticed that most of the busy people were all skinny, dull-eyed, and shabby.

It was both a huge shipbuilding site and a slave site.

Li Ping didn't intend to look in any further, since it was meaningless, he turned aimlessly around the edge.

When passing through a small yard hastily fenced with broken wood, the unsightly sounds and women's panting sounds from several small thatch-and-earth houses in the yard immediately attracted Li Ping's attention.

This small courtyard is located on the side of a small road, and there are always people coming and going on the small road, and even a small group of exhausted laborers are sitting and resting in a place next to the courtyard.

But no one seemed to be surprised by what happened in the yard, only occasionally someone looked around or smiled lewdly.

Li Ping took a closer look, and it was easy to see what was going on inside through the dilapidated and cracked fence.

At this time, there were a few thin women in the yard being teased by seven or eight soldiers, and the room was full of dirty noises...

A thin man sitting next to the group of workers saw that Li Ping looked at everything inside in disbelief, and he teased: "Why, Mr. Jun, haven't you seen it? Be curious!"

Li Ping turned his head and glanced at this bold guy, and asked back: "Isn't it novel! Those girls are pretty cute no matter how I look at them?"

"Some are for stuttering, and some are for working men so that they don't get beaten to death or starve to death. Who doesn't want to live! It's like this every day, only you who have never been here are so curious." The man said without hesitation.

Li Ping nodded in agreement, then casually said, "That's right." Then he asked the man curiously, "I don't see anyone watching, why don't you run away?"

"The people watching went to play inside. Aren't there two more in the back? Lying down. Besides, where to run, we will be watched by the soldiers as soon as we are ordered, and we will surely die if we catch them. If you can run, you will starve to death, but if you don’t die of exhaustion here, you can always have a mouthful of porridge.” The man grumbled at the courtyard, and then looked back.

Following the man's gaze, Li Ping really saw a guy who seemed to be carrying a weapon lying on the ground at the end, and another half-lying side by side was propping up his body on his elbows and looking sideways at Li Ping.

But the guy who was half up didn't say anything, and didn't do anything else. Li Ping's words obviously caught his attention, but he didn't want to interfere at all.

When Li Ping was talking to that bold man, Hu Zhongshan, He Zhuzi, and a few guards kept looking around the yard in bewilderment. They didn't know what to say, and they didn't dare to say anything. They just Look at the yard and look at Li Ping.

At this time, Li Ping really didn't want to go on, he was afraid that he couldn't help it, he was afraid that he would fill more obstacles for himself, and he didn't want to be angry.

In this world, being too compassionate will only make you die faster.

So, after he shouted "Let's go", he got on his horse and walked back without looking back, and the four guards immediately followed.

But Hu Zhongshan and He Zhuzi were left behind, and the two couldn't help looking back with some reluctance.

When passing by the fleet on the return journey, Li Ping muttered: "The people are already like this, and the war is still a fart! Don't let someone set fire to Chibi."

Li Ping was really thinking about a problem, that is, so many boats were tightly packed together, with countless layers inside and outside, what to do if they caught fire, and they couldn't get away even if they wanted to.

Soon, they arrived at the original disembarkation place again, and the several boats were waiting for them. After seeing Li Ping and the others from a distance, a dozen people disembarked early to meet them.

However, after boarding the boat, Li Ping let the boat walk along the river. He wanted to see the beauty of the river and experience the feeling of walking along the river.

After sailing along the river for half a day, it was already past noon, so Li Ping asked all the boats to find a place to dock together.Then he asked He Zhuzi to bring out all the food, and invited the boatmen to have a "light meal" together.

The men, women, old and young boatmen were so happy that they couldn't close their mouths.

After eating, the half-sized children in the boatman even went into the water to fish without fear of the cold.

A woman with a good figure also went into the water, and Li Ping noticed that the woman looked more pleasing to the eye, a little dark, a little porcelain, and the thin clothes she wore when she went into the water were soaked by water, and it was really charming to stick to her body .

After a long time, those half-sized fish finally caught two small fish, and they must offer them to Li Ping as a taster. Of course, Li Ping would not refuse.

At this time, the stooped old man suddenly knelt down to Li Ping, begging Li Ping to accept his little grandson and the woman as servants.It is true that they are good at water, and Li Ping will ask them to catch fish if he wants to eat fish in the future. He just wants to have a way to survive.

Otherwise, his little grandson would be beaten to death if he didn't starve to death if he was still stubborn when he was growing up.And the woman guessed that the soldiers in the morning would go looking for her again, and she would be worse off than dead if she went back. It would be better to follow the general, and it would be good to be a rough envoy.

After the old man cried, all the boatmen knelt down and begged together.

Li Ping's heart softened, and he agreed somehow, and also promised to take in the other half-sized boys and girls.

In an instant, all the boatmen cheered up.

Seeing that He Zhuzi was in a daze in a daze in surprise, Hu Zhongshan went up and patted him and said, "You are still too immature to understand the general."

In the afternoon, when we returned to our residence, the third company and the transportation company also arrived.

While settling down his subordinates, Li Ping received a piece of news: During the two days he left, a theft occurred in the security camp, and a lot of gold and silver were lost. The incident had already spread in the villa.

Li Ping, who was already in a bad mood, finally couldn't help but raged loudly: "Let me know who did it, I'll chop him up. Go back tomorrow!" The surrounding soldiers all looked sideways, and they all saw a man who was very angry. the officer.

Li Ping didn't want to visit Zuo Menggeng any more, he was suddenly annoyed by the kid who was flattering him for no reason, and he cursed in his heart: "Fuck him."

(End of this chapter)