Dragon shark is also a unique water beast in the vast waters of Ten Thousand Worlds.
They are slender, like dragons without claws, but with a jagged mouth like a sea shark, and are one of the top hunters in the 100,000 wild waters. They swim very fast, and their endurance is far inferior to that of river cattle, but in a short sprint of three to five hours, their speed can reach more than three times that of river cattle.
Six dragon sharks came in a rush of waves, and on the ship they were towing were also two identification cards.
'Prefect of Mangzhou', 'Mo'.
"Lord Mo Yu, the governor of Mangzhou, has arrived. Oh, their presence is quite impressive, with thirty escort ships accompanying them!"
At the fish market pier, a fisherman climbed up a big tree by the river and looked into the distance while shouting loudly.
"Can you bring more people with you? The stretch of river between Mangzhou and Minzhou can be considered the territory of the Three States. If you don't bring more guards, it would be a disgrace if the governor of Mangzhou was kidnapped by the bandits who controlled the Three States!"
Amid the sharp cries of dragon sharks, the ship of the Mangzhou governor slowly approached the dock. Wearing a loose green robe, holding a rattan staff, and with a silver beard that made him look quite otherworldly and elegant, the Mangzhou governor, Mo Yu, was supported by two maids and tremblingly walked up the gangway to the dock.
Standing on the dock and taking a breath, Mo Yu narrowed his small triangular eyes and naturally placed his left hand on the tender waist of the maid beside him.
"Everyone, haha, haha, Dragon Gate Banquet, a giant golden carp over ten feet long! Good, good, good, this time, we came at the right time!"
He hunched over and coughed heavily a few times, then slid his left hand down half a foot. Mo Yu's cloudy eyes turned twice and he said slowly, "Mr. Zhou Liuyun, the learned master of Bailu Academy, good, good, good!"
After saying a few ambiguous words, Mo Yu stopped talking and got on a carriage. Surrounded by dozens of guards, the carriage headed briskly towards Qizhou City.
Behind Mo Yu, dozens of people from aristocratic families who were powerful enough to call the shots in Mangzhou got on the carriages with gloomy expressions and hurriedly followed Mo Yu's team.
Like the Minzhou fleet, the thirty warships accompanying Mo Yu did not dock, but were also lined up in a row on the surface of the Baimang River.
The people at the Baimang River fish market dock and the commercial dock had not yet recovered from the shock of the successive arrivals of the prefects of Minzhou and Mangzhou, when the loud and clear sound of birdsong was heard in the air again.
Large shadows quickly passed across the ground. People on the dock looked up and saw giant birds with wingspans of several feet, gathered in groups of three or five, or more than a dozen, like dark clouds quickly passing across the sky.
There were three or five people sitting on the backs of those giant birds, including men and women, all of them dressed in gorgeous clothes.
Many managers of wealthy families in Qizhou at the dock rubbed their eyes. Even at a distance of more than a hundred feet, they vaguely recognized the origins of these people riding on the giant birds.
The top family figures in Minzhou and Mangzhou followed Zhu Jie and Mo Yu and rushed to Qizhou on their flagship.
As for the representatives of the middle and lower class families, they were obviously not qualified to be invited by Zhu Jie and Mo Yu, but they also received invitations to the Longmen Banquet, so they could only rush here in their own special way.
These small and medium-sized families do not have the financial resources to tame and raise giant beasts like river cattle and dragon sharks, but there are countless giant birds in the Hundred Thousand Wilderness that can be ridden. These giant birds fly far faster than river cattle and dragon sharks.
In the vicinity of the Ten Thousand Wilds, except for the fact that the wind is a little strong at high altitudes and makes people uncomfortable, riding these giant birds for long distances is much safer than taking a boat.
Waves came from the left and waves from the right. Everyone on the dock held their breath as they watched representatives of hundreds of small and medium-sized families in Minzhou and Mangzhou flying through the air on giant birds. The scene they saw today was enough for them to brag and discuss for the next six months.
Suddenly, a low sound of war drums came from the direction of the Baimang River mouth.
"There are more people coming! Wow, what a big ship! This, this, what kind of ship is this?" A fisherman lying on a big tree looked in the direction where the drum sound came from. He shuddered and almost fell from the tree.
The masts are like a forest, the sails are like clouds, and on the sails of strange colors like the clouds in the sky, there are huge symbols shining. The wind on the river is very small, but these huge sails blow air on their own, pushing the giant ship upstream.
The battleships of the Minzhou and Mangzhou navies were already top-notch giant ships in the surrounding areas of the Ten Thousand Wildernesses. The warships, which were five meters high and more than thirty meters long, were enough to roam the rivers and lakes of the Ten Thousand Wildernesses.
However, compared with the huge ships that were sailing side by side in front of them, like huge mountains, the warships of the two states suddenly seemed dwarfed.
Ten huge ships were lined up in a row. Ferocious animal heads were carved on the bows of the ships, which were more than ten feet high. No one knew what the mystery of these animal head sculptures was. Thick smoke and strong light constantly spewed out of their mouths and eyes, which made people afraid.
The nearly 100-meter-long hull is made entirely of riveted black steel plates. The thick steel plates are engraved with dense and strange marks. From time to time, strange streams of light follow these marks, flowing quickly from the bow to the stern.
The huge ships lined up in a row were like a mountain pressing down on one's head, pushing away the huge waves and roaring against the current. The warships of Minzhou and Mangzhou were in a hurry to avoid them and did not dare to block the path of these huge ships.
Even though they dodged quickly, the waves raised by the giant ship still pushed their ship to shake violently, and the waves even hit their deck.
At a glance, large and small ironclad warships stretched for nearly a hundred miles, with at least three hundred of them. Many of the warships had huge war drums on their bows, and shirtless men holding drumsticks jumped and danced beside the war drums, beating the drums continuously, with the sound shaking a hundred miles away.
On the sails of those huge ships, complex and beautiful family emblems faced the sun, emitting dazzling light.
Below these family crests are family deeds written in ancient seal characters. On the sails of the dozens of giant ships in the lead, one can see the six surnames of "Li", "Zhao", "Lin", "Shi", "Qiao" and "Han".
The six young masters of prominent families, including Li Qian and Zhao Kuo, who were killed by Chu Tian yesterday, all had the same surnames as these six.
These giant ships come from the heartland of Dajin!
These giant ships are assistance to Zhou Liuyun from the major families that have secret cooperation agreements with him!
These huge ships had already headed for Qizhou before Zhou Liuyun set out to return to Qizhou. However, Zhou Liuyun traveled light and returned to Qizhou a few days earlier, so these huge ships arrived just in time today!
Was it a coincidence, or perhaps it was God's will, that at the critical moment less than two hours before the Longmen Banquet, the joint fleet from the thirty-two powerful families in the heart of Dajin arrived in Yizhou in a mighty manner and came to the commercial dock only thirty miles away from Yizhou City.
The first batch of ten giant ships approached the dock roughly, and one of them even smashed a pier at the commercial dock into pieces.
Gangways made of steel plates extended from the open cabin, and a large group of fully armed family soldiers wearing armor filed out.
With the sound of "rustling", one family flag after another rose up and fluttered vigorously in the morning breeze.