Chapter 17 Section five

Tang Kai said that Jiaoyun was sending off the Bujun, and he was right, the speed of the Pojun now, probably even Ye Yuanwai, who designed the ship, had never imagined.It was too fast, and the hull made a "squeak" sound from time to time, as if it was about to fall apart.This Jiaoyun is here to send Po Bujun a journey, but this journey is sent to the gate of hell. Liu Fengwu yelled, and those soldiers seemed to come to their senses all of a sudden, and went to unload the jib sail one after another.Now, although the broken bugle was on its side, it was relatively stable, but the wind was so strong that the two jibs were blown almost like half a ball, and the cables were stretched tightly, and they couldn't untie them no matter what.Liu Fengwu was desperately trying to untie one side, but saw the soldier who was untying the front mainsail pull out his knife to cut the knot in desperation.Liu Fengwu turned pale with shock, and shouted: "Don't cut it!"

Before it was too late, the soldier cut the cable with a single knife, and the tightly stretched cable was thrown out like a whip whipped out by a giant with all its strength, and was lashing at the soldier.The deck was very stable at first, but the soldier was a little overstretched, and he didn't hold onto the handrail. The cable pulled on him, and his body was lifted into the air like a bean. He let out a scream, and fell immediately. Into the sea, the cable was exhausted, and it was pulled by the side of the boat, and a railing was broken, and then it hung down as if dead. A few soldiers rushed to the side of the boat to look out, but in this maelstrom, no matter how good a person's swimming skills are, he can't move an inch. What's more, the soldier was pumped first, and he might have been pumped to death before entering the water. up.

Liu Fengwu shouted: "Leave him alone, set sail!" He has untied the rope.As soon as the knot was untied, it was pulled out from the iron ring fastening the cable very quickly, as if being pulled by someone, and white smoke came out from the thick cable.Liu Fengwu quickly poured a bucket of seawater on it, as if splashing it on a burning stove, with a "hiss", a puff of white steam rose up. The rope was pulled too fast, if it wasn't watered, it might catch fire due to friction. At this time, the two auxiliary sails had also been unloaded, but the speed of the ship was only slightly slower, and there was no major change.He looked to the right, and the broken bugle was now at a wider angle. Fortunately, it didn't go straight to the center, but circled around the flood cloud.But just at this moment, the broken bugle has almost circled the vortex.

The Po Bujun still kept a distance of two miles from Jiaoyun, with a circle of three diameters and one diameter, so this circle is a full twelve li, and the moment when the auxiliary sail was unloaded just now, it didn't even take half an hour. If the wind is smooth and the water is smooth, it can only drive twenty miles in an hour.Calculated in this way, breaking the bugle is now twice as fast as the highest speed. Liu Fengwu is in the same class as Gaiyuan Kezhen, a mathematician from the Ministry of Industry, and has asked him for many things. He counts silently, feeling uneasy in his heart.

At this time Tang Kai suddenly got out from the bottom cabin and said: "What's wrong? How come you are so quick?" As soon as his head came out, he was stunned with fright.The flood cloud is two miles away, almost within reach, the lower part of what can be seen now is purely a water column, there is no white light shining in it, it must be some fish caught in the water column.He leaned on the handrail on the wall and walked to Liu Fengwu's side, exclaiming: "God! What is that?" "I don't know. General Tang, you watch here, and I'll go to the rudder cabin to have a look."

Tang Kai didn't return, he was still looking at the Jiaoyun raptly, and suddenly smiled and said: "I can see such a wonderful scene with my eyes, and I have no regrets in dying." This is old and unruly.Liu Fengwu cursed with a smile in her heart.In fact, although Tang Kai was ten years older than Liu Fengwu, he hadn't even turned thirty, so he couldn't be called an old man.But Tang Kai can still make jokes at this time, which makes Liu Fengwu admire.He said: "If you don't die, then you will have no regrets." He leaned on the handrail and walked towards the rudder cabin, just after taking a few steps, the broken horn suddenly shook again, this time it came from the left side of the ship.The broken bugle was still spinning around the periphery of the vortex, there were layers of thin waves on the right, but there were still big waves on the left.The wave was very strong, and the broken bugle was leaning to the right, but when it was hit by the wave, the whole ship tilted a little more, almost toppled over, and there was another exclamation in the cabin.But the bow of the broken warship turned to the right side, and regained its balance, but in this way, the ship took another step in the vortex.

Liu Fengwu tightly grasped the handrail, and her clothes were also wet by the splashed sea water.He walked forward step by step, and once outside the cockpit, he shouted: "Xu Zhong! Xu Zhong!" From the cockpit, Xu Zhongweng answered in a low voice.Liu Fengwu walked to the side of the cabin and shouted: "Get the boat out of this vortex!" Xu Zhong was holding on to the steering wheel, while two assistants beside him supported him.Just now a big wave beat the three people in the rudder room to the drenching, Xu Zhong's hair and beard were all wet by the sea water, sticking together, he said loudly: "General Liu, you must have this ability!"

Xu Zhong spoke in a panic, without any respect for Liu Fengwu, and Liu Fengwu didn't care, knowing that life and death were on the line at this time, what Xu Zhong was thinking about now was how to get the boat out of the vortex.But the vortex was too fast, he pulled the rudder vigorously, but the broken bugle still slowly moved towards the center of the vortex. At this time, the boat swayed violently again, and an assistant beside Xu Zhong screamed, lost his tone, and pointed to the left side of the boat.Liu Fengwu raised her head, her heart sank suddenly. In front of his eyes, a wall of water suddenly appeared, which was almost upright and rose above the deck.But the surface of this wall of water was as smooth as it was still, with only slight undulations, and it didn't hit the ship as expected.Liu Fengwu went around the rudder cabin and reached the left side of the ship.

As soon as we got to the port side, we saw the five sailors on the left were stunned, clutching the handrails on the wall, like clay sculptures and wood carvings, motionless.At this time, the sky is completely dark, but the surrounding area is surprisingly bright. Looking around, the water wall is still rising. On the top of the water wall, there are waves coming from time to time, and the water splashes on the boat like raindrops, but there are not many. . Liu Fengwu already knew that such a strange sight was actually because the vortex became more and more urgent, making the center deeper and deeper.If the original vortex was still like a saucer, it has now become like a bowl, and the broken bugle is like a small bean rolling on the wall of the bowl, moving forward rapidly, and the water wall is rising, which means that the broken bugle It is sliding towards the center of the vortex in circles.All he could hear was the thunderous sound of water, which was extremely inconsistent with this calm wall of water, and the wall of water seemed to be within reach, right in front of his eyes.

The mighty power of heaven and earth, that is something that humans will never be able to conquer, Liu Fengwu's heart sank to the bottom of the valley. At this time, a soldier suddenly shouted: "No! No!" He let go of the handrail he was holding, and the man jumped out of the fence.Liu Fengwu was separated from this person by a few people, and Liu Fengwu couldn't react at all, so he saw that he was already holding onto the railing with both hands, and his upper body was leaning out. At this time, the broken bugle was almost parallel to the water wall, only one or two feet apart. The soldier's head had just touched the water when he suddenly let out a scream, as if he had got into a windmill spinning at high speed, and The blades of the windmill were extremely sharp blades, and a piece of the top of his head was immediately cut off, blood and brains splashed everywhere.

The current was too fast, and the soldier held on to the railing again. When his head hit the whirlpool, half of his head was cut off immediately, and the rest of his body fell slowly, without a sound, and fell out of the railing Outside. With his screams, the other four soldiers also screamed.They were already terrified, and seeing such a strange and terrifying scene, they couldn't stand it any longer.Liu Fengwu knew that if any of them called down, then the four soldiers would collapse immediately and follow in his footsteps.He desperately restrained the desire to scream, and said loudly: "Don't scream!" But in the rumbling water, his voice could not be suppressed, and a soldier suddenly let go of the handrail and jumped out of the boat . The soldier didn't hold anything, he disappeared almost immediately after entering the water wall, not as scary as before, but Liu Fengwu knew that in this kind of rushing water, he would be torn to pieces as soon as he entered, I'm afraid Not even scum left. That was really broken.His heart was full of chills, he couldn't bear it anymore, his mouth was already opened, and that loud cry was about to come out. At this time, suddenly a person's singing came down from the mast: "I am dead, I will be buried in Shanyang..." This is the funeral song of the Imperial Army.Singing a funeral song at this time is really unlucky, but this funeral song is majestic and tragic, but it is like a stream of ice water pouring down on Liu Fengwu, and he suddenly wakes up. This is the soldier tied to the watchtower singing.The mast was still high, he was probably still above the sea surface, and he could stay awake only by not entering the vortex.Liu Fengwu was certain in her heart that the shout that was about to rush out turned into a singing voice again. The singing of the two people has already rang a lot, the other three soldiers on the port side were already crazy, and they were afraid that they would collapse completely soon, so they jumped out of the boat, their eyes lit up when they heard their singing, and they also joined in the chorus .After singing two or three lines, Tang Kai's voice could be heard from the starboard side, and immediately, the soldiers in the cabin also joined in. The remaining one hundred and ninety-seven soldiers on board, everyone is singing.Liu Fengwu's heart became hot, and her mind gradually became clear. Now, even the boys and girls brought by Yuqingzi joined the chorus.They were good at singing, at first there were only one or two male and female voices, after singing once, they probably knew how to sing, and eight hundred voices rang out at the same time. Since the body is dead, it will be buried in Shanyang. How towering the mountains are, how blue the sky is. Mountains have trees and countries have sorrows. The soul comes back to look after the family. When I sang it for the third time, I threw away all the previous ones, and only sang the last eight characters.For a while, the singing actually overwhelmed the sound of the water. Tears welled up in Liu Fengwu's eyes. "The soul is back, to look after the country." These eight words are like the call of the homeland, which makes people feel infinite courage. He seems to see the imperial capital in spring and flowers in front of his eyes. The proud smile of the son, besides, is the princess. At this time, a person suddenly fell out of the rudder cabin and fell in front of Liu Fengwu.Xu Zhong is now desperately turning the rudder to the right, but the current is too fast, the three of them are almost exhausted, they only loosen their hands, and the rudder made of iron and wood is brought straight by the current, this one is on the left His assistant was immediately knocked out by the tiller, and when the bugle was broken, he immediately swiped a few feet towards the center of the vortex. Liu Fengwu supported him and said: "Come outside!" He raised his voice again: "General Tang, help me at the rudder cabin!" He just helped Xu Zhong to hold the tiller, and pushed it to the right with all his strength, Tang Kai had already walked in.He jerked the right-hand assistant away and reached for the tiller.The strength of the two of them was far greater than those of the two assistants, and the rudder was abruptly turned back to the right. This rudder was made from a whole giant tree, and was tempered by Zhang Longyou, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, with a secret medicine. It was harder than iron, but under such a strong force, it also made a "squeaking" sound.Tang Kai grabbed the tiller and murmured: "God bless, don't break it." Those two lines are still being sung over and over again.With the voices of the eight hundred boys and girls joining in, this song is also somewhat beautiful. "The soul is back, to look after the country." These two sentences are not so much a funeral song, but rather like a call, with infinite hope and expectation. The broken bugle quickly surpassed the galloping horse, and made another circle in the whirlpool.But at this time, everyone could see that the water wall was slowly lowering.This shows that the broken horn is now slowly sailing out of the whirlpool. The iron-wood rudder trembled slightly in Liu Fengwu's hand, making a "squeak, squeak" sound from time to time.Tang Kai murmured on the side: "Don't break it, don't break it."