Chapter 28 Charge the Ironwood Ship
After leaving Donghai Longcheng, Yun Chen rushed to the third address without stopping, but was disappointed again.
After half a year of hard work, I ended up with nothing.
Yun Chen realized that it was time for her to return to the Huo Gang.
She had agreed with Huo Gannian that if she found her benefactor, she would not return.
If she can't find it, she will go back to the Huo Gang.
She was very grateful that Huo Gannian was willing to accept a guard like her who was grateful to him, and even asked her not to tell anyone else about this to prevent other guards in the Huo Gang from rejecting her.
After much thought, she decided to write a letter to Huo Gannian.
But she can only read but not write, so she is a little worried about how to write a letter.
And she didn't know what to say.
She crossed her arms and thought for a while, then she found a pen and paper, scribbled a letter, went to the post office, chose a fast horse, and mailed the letter.
Coming out of the post office and looking at the warm autumn sun, she suddenly felt free and relaxed.
Unfortunately, just a moment after she relaxed, she saw two Yu family guards walking past her in a dignified manner.
Thinking of Huo Luyu's revenge, she thought for a moment and quietly followed the two Yu family guards.
This is the middle estuary of the Luozi River, the largest river in Nan State.
Its water transport is the lifeline of all industries in Nan Kingdom. It is almost equally divided between the Yu family and the Huo Gang, and the docks of the two families are everywhere.
Thinking that this place was not far from one of the Huo Gang’s docks, Yun Chen became bolder and followed the two guards into the Yu Family dock.
The dock at the estuary was filled with large and small ships of the Yu family. Among them was a giant ship with nine sails standing tall, which was quite spectacular.
The deck of the giant ship was densely packed with layer upon layer of small boats.
Yun Chen recognized it. It was the iron and wood assault boat that the Southeastern foreign island nation was best at making.
The ship's hull is light, hard and corrosion-resistant. It can carry people and cargo, and can even break through the waves and engage in naval battles. It travels at a very fast speed.
Yun Chen remembered Ye Yan saying that the time when she and Huo Gannian first met in a fight in the deep courtyard of the bamboo forest was an assassination carried out by the Yu family to disrupt the Huo Gang's sight and distract their attention.
Yu Yangji, the head of the Yu family, personally went to the foreign island country to negotiate the sale of assault iron and wooden ships.
Now, the ironwood assault ship has arrived at the Yu family. As the only merchant group in the territory of Nan Kingdom that owns such excellent ships, the Yu family will surpass the Huo family in the water transport on the Luozi River.
Yun Chen looked at the huge ships and counted them. There were eight layers of iron and wooden assault ships neatly arranged, about a thousand in total.
At the dock, hundreds of farmhands were laying straw on the ground layer by layer, apparently in preparation for unloading the ship.
Yun Chen looked at the huge ship and thought for a while. She felt that if she broke through the bottom of the ship and let the Yu family's thousand expensive ships sink to the bottom of the river, it could be considered as revenge for Huo Luyu.
It takes some time to drill the bottom of the boat, about three months.
By that time, the Yu family's iron and wood assault boats will have sailed all over the Nan Kingdom, and she might still be soaking in the water.
No, I have to change my thinking.
"Clatter--" The sharp sound of an iron chain falling to the ground interrupted Yun Chen's thoughts.
The iron chain that opened the gate of the giant ship fell heavily to the ground, and the first iron and wooden assault ship slowly emerged from the deck, slid down the high iron cableway, landed on the soft straw, and then was pushed into the sea.
It can be seen that the Yu family treasures this ship very much. Looking at the way they unload the ships, it will take more than 20 days.
Yun Chen began to think again whether he should steal a boat and bring it back to show Huo Gannian.
Let the Huo Gang see what this famous ironwood assault ship looks like, what its advantages and disadvantages are, so that they can make plans for the future.
Yun Chen did it right away and quietly moved under the rocky reef at the pier.
According to her plan, when the Yu family unloaded more boats, she would take advantage of the situation and quietly row one away.
Unfortunately, plans were not as good as changes. As soon as she approached the water, a guard knife was placed across her neck.
"Who dares to act so rudely at Yujia Wharf?" the visitor shouted.
Yun Chen's neck was pressed against the cold blade and he turned around cautiously.
A man wearing the uniform of the Yu family's personal guard was standing on the dock, holding the sword in his hand tightly.
Seeing Yun Chen's face clearly, the Yu family guard's eyebrows immediately darkened:
"It was you? Yun Chen, the guard of the Huo Gang—it was you who killed Zhou Li!"
It's really a narrow road for enemies to meet. I happened to run into someone who knew her and knew her record.
Yun Chen cursed in his heart, but remained calm on the surface and said:
"Yes, I was the one who killed Zhou Li. I'm here to offer him a memorial service on the seventh day after his death!"
"The seventh day?" The Yu family's personal guards were subconsciously stunned, thinking that Zhou Li's seventh day had already passed.
Taking advantage of the moment when the Yu family guard was stunned, Yun Chen did a neat backflip to break free from the restraint, then supported himself on the ground with one hand, performed a flying swallow wing move, and at the same time drew his sword and stabbed it fiercely at the Yu family guard.
The Yu family's personal guard leaned back to avoid the sword, suppressed his surprise, and quickly gathered his strength to deal with it.
"Excellent skills! Zhou Li deserves to die under your sword! I am Xu Zhan! Nice to meet you!"
Yun Chen swung his sword with all his might and attacked, "I won't tell you my name. I'll tell you when I visit your grave!"
The two men soon fought fiercely, attracting a large group of Yu family guards and thugs from the canal transport.
Seeing that more and more members of the Yu family were surrounding him, Yun Chen did not dare to fight any longer. He found a place with fewer people, quickly withdrew, and swung his sword to clear a path.
This is the Yu family’s dock, and there are people from the Yu family everywhere.
Yun Chen flew around and hid here and there, but he couldn't escape.
In desperation, she could only grab the iron chain hanging from the huge ship and climb onto the deck like a monkey.
There were only a few hired unloaders on the boat. She grabbed one of them by the collar and said anxiously:
"Hurry up and unload a boat into the water! Otherwise I'll beat you into a pig's head!"
The mercenary turned pale with fear, and tremblingly picked up a double-hooked short axe from the deck, inserted it into the iron chain buckle that tied the charge iron and wooden boat, and applied force lightly, and one of the iron chains broke.
The hired hand was shaking badly and his movements were a bit clumsy.
Seeing Xu Zhan jumping onto the deck with a dozen Yu family guards and charging towards them, Yun Chen became very anxious.
She snatched the axe and spear from the mercenary's hand, ran two steps forward, slightly increasing the distance between herself and Xu Zhan and others, then aimed at a charging iron and wooden ship and chopped down the iron chain with all her strength.
I never thought that these foreign islanders were really smart in building ships, and the special rope-breaking halberds they equipped were very useful.
Yun Chen chopped down, and it felt like cutting tofu, and he split the three iron chains in one go.
She was overjoyed and quickly rolled up her sleeves to continue working. After clearing most of the iron chains around the assault iron and wooden boat, she began to pull it out with all her strength.
Accompanied by the sound of iron chains rubbing against each other.
The next moment, the small boat was seen sticking out most of its hull and hovering in the air.
An iron chain as thick as a wrist was tied to the stern of the boat and stuck on the next layer of iron chains.
Without thinking too much, Yun Chen jumped onto the stern of the boat and jumped hard, trying to fall down.
In the distance, the hired man unloading the ship was shouting something at the top of his lungs, his hands raised high and waving them across his body.
Yun Chen just thought that the hired lady was very kind-hearted, as she still waved goodbye to her at this time.
While she was pulling the boat with a grunt, she freed one hand, waved at the hired man, and shouted:
"I know you're just an employee of the Yu family, not a bad person! So don't be polite! See you later!"
So, amid the mercenary's terrified screams, there was a loud "creak" sound, and Yun Chen completely pulled out the assault iron and wooden boat and jumped into the air.
It was like pulling out the most crucial brick in the middle of the city wall.
It was like a knife cutting open a bulging bag of rice.
It's like pulling out an inconspicuous thread that should not be pulled out.
It was like... it was like the ancestors of the Huo family took turns kissing Yun Chen hard on the head, which allowed Yun Chen to suddenly have an idea and pull out the most deadly one from among the thousands of iron and wooden assault ships as if assisted by God.
And he completely forgot that there was an iron rope tied to the tail of the small boat, connecting it to the other small boats head to tail.
Amid the howls of fear from the mercenary, Xu Zhan, and all the Yu family guards, the entire eight-story ship, which had been securely tied together, suddenly collapsed like a city wall, slowly opening a huge crack.
Everyone watched helplessly as the Huo Gang's clueless "young" guard, aboard a wooden and iron assault boat, fell into the river. The iron chain at the stern of the boat pulled down a second boat...
The second one pulled the third one.
The third one dragged the fourth one...
Xu Zhan closed his eyes in despair.
He knew that his career as a guard was over.
For a moment, the only sound was the rattling of iron chains and the wooden boat falling down with a crackling sound, breaking into pieces one after another.
After a series of earth-shaking smashing sounds, a total of eight floors and a thousand assault iron and wooden ships were instantly turned into a pile of scrap wood.
On the entire Yujia Wharf, only the first boat that was unloaded was still standing...
Yun Chen realized that something was wrong as soon as the second boat fell. He quickly dived into the deep water and climbed ashore from another direction.
Looking at the scene that was getting out of control, she was also stunned.
Then she realized that she had caused a great disaster - no, she had made a great contribution to the Huo Gang.
She was very happy and wanted to go back quickly to tell Huo Gannian the good news, but when she turned around, she was met with Xu Zhan's ashen face.
The next moment, Yun Chen felt a sharp pain in the back of his head, his eyes went black, and he fainted.
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