Chapter 135 Giant Turtle
The messenger's "emergency report from the fleet" scared Chen Mu very much. In his impression, his "fleet" was the Deng Zilong fleet of Panama. The latest news after the army occupied the entire territory of Panama was to build a port and a shipyard to Dalian Bay on the east coast.
If that fleet encounters an accident, it will greatly damage the morale of the Ming army.
However, the fleet reported by the messenger was not Deng Zilong, but Chen Ju's fleet, who had lost the news for a long time, was back.
The Nantang ship weighing 1,000 tons arrived at the port, and the Spanish Garen ship was also traveling with a huge shape like a tower ship.
The generals on the ship were Luo Shangzhi, the general of the Shenji Battalion. The troops were less than half of the Nantang ship maintained their combat power. Everyone seemed to have suffered a defeat when they docked, with a strong smell of sea. Even Almansa, who had just received the permission to release, said: "They smelled like a ball of rotten seaweed."
No one would beat him up for this disrespectful sentence, because the flag army on the shore felt so, and even Luo Shangzhi felt like a ball of seaweed.
Luo Shangzhi was too strong and was called "Luo Qianjin" as early as the same time.
Others supported the armor to bulge the people, but he was just the opposite. He supported the armor to bulge the people. The connection between the two breastplates was too strong, and the leather surface was two inches wider than others. Two steel plates were added to protect the ribs. He carried a long halberd on his shoulder with a big shield in one hand, and walked down the trestle with his nose wrinkled.
Seeing Chen Muhuo, who was wearing a robe, come over quickly, Luo Shangzhi was so shocked that he waved his hand: "No, no, the general, don't come over, it's too smelly! It's so fumigated that I shed tears!"
Chen Mu also smelled a very heavy smell of dead fish. He had already been holding back his breath. Now, when he heard Luo Shangzhi say this, he cooperated to walk forward two steps forward - he still knew that the smell was not serious, which means the situation was not serious.
"What's going on? What about the military officer Chen? And your fleet, there are only these people left?"
With all the plans, there were less than 300 people from the two large ships. Deng Zilong had hundreds of imperial guards, and only a thousand people were added. In this way, the casualties of the imperial guards in the shipwreck were greatly affected.
Luo Shangzhi waved his hand and said, "There are more, 3,800 miles south to the east, there are Lizard Island and Turtle Island. There are more than a thousand soldiers on the island, and the military supervisor is fine."
The stone in Chen Mu's heart has fallen to the ground. In this way, there are only more than 300 flag troops missing due to the shipwreck... More flag troops have been confirmed to be dead after the shipwreck.
No one could avoid such a sudden storm. Chen Mu had already prepared many deaths and wounded subordinates in his heart. He had only one requirement for himself, and he had to see people alive and die.
"Then what happened to your ship? Is it leaking?"
"There is no water leakage. The Western plywood ship was captured by war. There are three more ships on Turtle Island, which are smaller than this." Luo Shangzhi said, looking back at the two giants parked on the sea, and explained to Chen Mu: "There are all fish on the boat, turtles, and the water flows north and south of Turtle Island converges. There are a lot of fish, but it's too far away."
Luo Shangzhi no longer needs to explain the following words. The sea water smelled and the fish died, but the result was that the stench was extremely odorous, making Chen Mu unaware of what to say.
This ship is called the Nantang ship, not the pond ship!
When Luo Shangzhi reported the situation, Qianhai had already started unloading the ship. The sailors inside moved out of the bottom warehouse live fish and huge turtles in wooden barrels. The live fish fell directly into the boat from the porthole. The giant turtle that was more than four feet long needed four or five flag soldiers to carry it together and slid along the boat board to the boat.
A small boat can hold more than a dozen barrels of fish, but if you put down two giant turtles, you can't walk anymore. The scene is extremely spectacular.
Luo Shangzhi explained: "I don't know how that turtle grew, weighing only four or five hundred kilograms, and there were more than twenty in the boat."
Chen Mu:???
He really wanted to ask Chen Ju, why did someone catch these big turtles? To be honest, such a big thing can't be stewed in a pot.
"There are thousands of Turtle Island, which can be seen everywhere. They lick the dew and make the stones on the shore concave."
Luo Shangzhi pointed to the giant tortoise that had just been unloaded on the pier and said to Chen Mu: "It is better to put twenty of these at the bottom of the boat than to put down the warehouse. There are 200 people in a boat, and they can hold on for twenty days if they have no food."
"The military supervisor asked me to come and pass on the message to the general's fleet to be safe. In addition, exchange fish and turtles for some food... It's not a big deal to eat fish and meat all day."
Chen Mu frowned and asked, "Why can't the military supervisor come?"
It was very strange. It was a good thing. The storm had subsided, the sea roads were smooth, and the war was no longer fought. Why was Chen Ju still staying there?
Addicted to playing with turtles?
"There are still 160,000 kilograms of smoked fish. The salted fish was not prepared well. The military supervisor asked me to come over and inform the general to see what to do."
"160,000 jin?"
Chen Mu paused and blinked his eyes and was stunned. How long has it been since Chen Ju passed by? It took less than two months to complete the whole process. It took Luo Shangzhi nearly one hundred thousand kilograms of fish to come back. Before that, Chen Ju caught more than one hundred thousand kilograms of fish. What was he doing?
"It was only 30,000 kilograms, but only a thousand people couldn't finish it. So I made some salt and smoked it. After the salt was made, all the fish that had been put in the past, I caught more than 100,000 kilograms... I don't need to catch fish there, just catch it."
When fishing, making salt, and making bacon, Chen Ju is a lonely gourmet.
Chen Mu was thinking this way when he heard Luo Shangzhi praising him, saying, "Thanks to the Grand Marshal bringing fishing gear on the stern of the boat, otherwise we would have no fish after eating the food, and the turtle would have suffered."
In fact, Chen Mu felt that even if there was fishing gear, the turtle over there would be a disaster.
Changsheng County was constantly in trouble. Luo Shangzhi and his subordinates put down the live fish, smoked fish, salted fish and giant ghosts on the boat. A group of Beijing troops followed the flag army to find the river to take a bath. News came from the north again. This time, even Zou Yuanbiao, who was having a wedding banquet, was brought back.
As soon as Chen Mu walked back to the port government, he saw Zou Yuanbiao and Bai Tao, the chief of the White Horse Division, come together. Chen Mu said, "You are here just in time and are about to tell you about food. The county no longer has to worry about food..."
Before Chen Mu finished speaking, Zou Yuanbiao sighed and said, "You really don't have to worry about food. The merchants from the Baima tribe came back and brought food and people. There was still a lot of food and many people coming here one after another."
The magistrate's expression when he said this was not like a thing that was worthy of happiness. Instead, he cried and said, "Slaves had infected smallpox from somewhere. The small county wanted to block the roads and the doctors wanted to feed them acne. Do the marshal remember the ships of people who came from Shandong before, where are they?"
From Shandong?
"Is it called Wang Chaozuo? Is it? Is it a mat in the county, why are they..."
Chen Mu couldn't continue talking as he spoke, as if he was hit by a thunderbolt. Yes, the hundreds of them were smuggled over and did not grow acne in Tianjin!
Chapter completed!