Bai Wu asked, "How much supplies and equipment are left on the ship?"

"Ten Feiyun ships still have five days of food left, twenty Haicang ships have three days of rations left, and the slightly smaller flying dragon boats have great consumption because they are on combat readiness cruises day and night, and at most there are two days of rations left. Generally speaking, if the grain is managed in a unified manner and some is saved, it can barely last for five days; all warships are in a state of perennial combat readiness, and all 54 warships, large and small, have enough swords, guns, bows and arrows to fight a decisive battle. ”

After hearing this, Bai Wu said indignantly: "The bases and ports of the naval divisions along the shores below the Bahu Lake have been destroyed, and when the news is transmitted back to the military department, the imperial court will organize a large-scale transportation of grain and replenish supplies, how can it be completed without ten days and half a month? Our army can no longer sit and wait for ten days." ”

Bai Wu sighed for a while: "Ten days and a half months is enough for the Northern Wei army to cross the Heng River and capture the strategic place on the south bank of the Heng River. The infantry of the Northern Wei Dynasty is strong, once it gains a firm foothold on the south bank, it is bound to quickly clear out the shore troops of our army, and if our naval division wants to counterattack and recapture the territory of the south bank, it is basically impossible.

The officers and soldiers present were speechless.

If there were no floods, the sailors could go ashore at any time and collect grain at will; no matter what, the local officials on the shore would be able to squeeze out the grain and let the sailors support it for 10 days and a half months, but now that the flood is raging and the people are displaced, where can they go to collect grain? The supply of more than 100,000 people in the eastern navy is not a small amount.

A flood is equivalent to cutting off the back road of the eastern water division and opening the eastern gate of South Vietnam.

Yang Shi's face was slightly pale, and the cold weather made his voice tremble slightly: "The nearest big port along the Qingjiang River that can dock warships is Tiepu Port, which takes five days to travel, and our army should immediately retreat to Tiepu Port to replenish supplies and rush back quickly." ”

Bai Wu shook his head.

Although Tiepu Port is a large port, it is only a town on its own and is not able to replenish all the warships, so even if it returns after replenishing supplies, only a small number of warships can return.

"If you don't retreat, you will definitely starve to death if you wait for the court's provisions, and if you retreat, it is also a capital crime to flee without a fight! The court doesn't care what your reason is. Bai Wu's heart palpitated.

"Wang Xiong!" Bai Wu shouted.

"Here!" next to him, Wang Xiong, the deputy commander of the naval division, replied loudly.

"Leave three warships with five thousand people and five days' rations, you lead the rest of the sailors to withdraw all the way along the Qingjiang River, rush back as soon as possible depending on the replenishment of supplies, replenish one and return to one. Remember, there are no defenders on the Heng River now, and the situation is extremely critical. ”

"Dashuai, what about you?" Wang Xiong said in a daze.

"Any one of you can retreat, as the commander-in-chief, guarding the country, without firing a single arrow or killing an enemy, I will lead the army to leave the front line, either as fleeing without a fight, which is a capital crime, or as a conspiracy against the enemy, and there is a suspicion of rebellion. I can't leave Henghe. ”

"But it's all caused by the flood that washed away the base......"

"Don't say it, as the commander of the country, the country is open, and I am guilty of a great crime! Bai Wu interrupted Wang Xiong's words, "Hurry up, otherwise your remaining supplies are not enough for the retreat, after replenishing the supplies, rush back as soon as possible!"

"Marshal, it will take ten days for our army to go back and forth at the earliest, and you only have five days to feed, how can you support it?"

"I don't believe that the Bahu Dam will collapse for no reason, it must be the ghost of the enemy army of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Some time ago, the destruction of the granaries of Nalan and Pingjiang was very suspicious, and although the information from the military headquarters and the localities said that it was the work of the Taiping army, I did not believe that the Taiping army had such ability! I will lead the army all the way to the direction of Bahu Lake to investigate. Bai Wu said in a deep voice.

Bai Wu stared straight at Yang Shi and asked, "What do you think about this?"

Yang Shi also looked puzzled and said: "After the destruction of the granaries of Nalan and Pingjiang, the traces left are very clean, and it is indeed not like bandits but like the work of the army! After the granaries were destroyed, the imperial court sent people to investigate the matter thoroughly, but they delayed and passed the buck, and it was not resolved. However, the Ministry of War has intelligence that there was indeed a team of about 2,000 people with suspicious identities moving towards the area around Bahu Lake.

"Is the number of people in a team of about 2,000 people determined?"

"Pretty sure! Because there were multiple eyewitnesses, and the spies repeatedly determined the size of the pot and the number of stoves based on some traces left by their digging and cooking along the way. ”

The number of people who ate was never false based on the fact that the sightings were probably wrong, and the reliability of the information was quite certain because of multiple indications.

Yang Shi added: "This team finally disappeared in the area of Bahu Lake inexplicably, and now it is very suspicious to think about it. ”

Yang Shi explained: "The granary was destroyed, the imperial court was very shocked, and all parties quarreled and passed the buck to each other, but no one sent people to confirm and encircle this team. ”

Bai Wu's face flushed slightly when he heard this.

Let the enemy cross the river and sneak behind the enemy, the sailor is undoubtedly responsible, in order to shirk the responsibility, Bai Wu himself did not say that it was the Taiping army, not that the enemy army had crossed the river, so that the imperial court did not pay enough attention to this team.

The Taiping army bandits have existed for many years, and everyone thinks that bandits are nothing more than robbing food and plundering people, what kind of storm can they set off?

Will the bandits destroy the dam?

The dam collapsed and destroyed all the people, what else did the bandits rob?

If the dam burst was man-made, the only possibility was that the Northern Wei army did it!

Bai Wu's heart suddenly inexplicably rose a bone-piercing cold, if the dam collapse was done by the Northern Wei army sneaking in, then the consequences of this matter would be too terrible!

This means that the Northern Wei Dynasty made all preparations and only waited for the dam to break and cross the river.

"Yang Changshi, you immediately go to the imperial court, saying that the dam failure may be man-made, and you must immediately mobilize troops outside the flood area to prepare to intercept the Northern Wei army, and quickly organize combat readiness supplies for the naval division in the ports along the Qingjiang River, so that the naval division can quickly replenish supplies and return. Bai Wu Zhengse.

"I will immediately lead five thousand people to Bahu, whether it is the Taiping army or the enemy army, I will let them die without a place to bury!" Bai Wu said viciously.

"Do you want to leave more supplies for you? How can you survive with five days' provisions? Now that the south bank of the Henghe River is flooding everywhere, the local officials have no way to quickly replenish the supplies of 5,000 people. ”

"Our army is all in civilian clothes, pretending to be the Taiping Army, going all the way, replenishing itself on the spot along the way!" Bai Wu said coldly.

Hearing this, everyone shuddered in their hearts.

The so-called supply on the spot is nothing more than looting and looting grain on the spot, otherwise why would they pretend to be the Taiping Army? However, the people have already been displaced, and most of them have some grain left in their hands, so can they still survive after being robbed?

The Northern Wei Stinger troops pretended to be the Taiping Army, attacked Yangcheng, destroyed the granary, dug the embankment and broke the dam, such a large-scale military operation, one day the truth will be revealed, after all, the Taiping Army does not have such combat power, and the Stinger troops march mostly day and night, and there is a team pretending to be the South Vietnamese Army on the surface to cover, which the Taiping Army cannot do, and all kinds of signs cannot be completely covered.

However, now that the 5,000 elite sailors of South Vietnam are also impersonating the Taiping Army, then the truth behind it will no longer be clear, because the South Vietnamese officials themselves have to try their best to cover up the fact that they are posing as the Taiping Army. The behavior of the sailor pretending to be the Taiping army to plunder the people is no worse in nature than the act of attacking Yangcheng and destroying the granary, because what the Northern Wei army did was a military operation and a war, and the South Vietnamese sailor was a robber!

Therefore, the South Vietnamese court will no longer be able to thoroughly investigate who is pretending to be the Taiping army, so as not to expose the scandal of the sailors pretending to be the Taiping army and plundering the people.

The sailor pretended to be the Taiping army to rob the people and use it as military funds, causing the consequences of the evil strategy and far-reaching impact, which Bai Wu did not even expect to die, and invisibly freed Lei Shaoxuan.

However, the passage of the fake 5,000 elite Taiping troops invisibly also made the Taiping Army famous, and it was in the limelight for a while.

July is the rainy season of Henghe, rainy and continuous, day and night, accompanied by thunder and lightning from time to time.

It has been many days since the dam burst of Bahu Lake, the water level has dropped completely, revealing a hideous wound at the bottom of the lake, and between the continuous valleys, the mountain torrents keep roaring and pouring into the bottom of the lake.

Lei Shaoxuan was speechless, letting the wind and rain blow on his face, feeling a little hesitant and panicked, looking at the misty wind and rain under the Bahu Dam in the distance.

The endless fields under the Bahu Dam are now soaked in water, and in July the rice will turn ripe golden yellow into turbid translucency, which is the water that has submerged the rice fields, and there is sparse green in the translucent, which is just the weeds on the ridges, or the treetops on the outcrops.

The confused rain and fog blocked Lei Shaoxuan's sight, but it couldn't block the divine thoughts comparable to Jin Dan, Lei Shaoxuan's heart was as confused as the rain and mist, and the pain in his heart was as clear as divine thoughts.

Lei Shaoxuan was undoubtedly extremely disgusted with killing, and extremely indignant at the injustice and suffering of the turbid world, however, the killing that Lei Shaoxuan himself had created was unprecedented, which couldn't help but make him feel palpitations.

In the sound of wind and rain, behind Lei Shaoxuan, 10,000 soldiers stood quietly in the rain and waited, as motionless as sculptures. In the dark dawn night, the pouring rain washed over the armor and blades of the Northern Wei soldiers, making countless noisy and loud sounds.

The pouring rain washed over people's faces, making people almost unable to open their eyes.

Lei Shaoxuan sighed, turned to face the team, and stood solemnly!

"Brothers, our army has gone deep alone, destroying the granary of Nalan, destroying the granary of the Pingjiang River, destroying the embankment of Bahu Lake, flooding the division, destroying the base of the South Vietnamese Naval Division, destroying the natural danger of the Henghe River, and letting my army cross the river in the south, which is a great achievement! At this time, our army has successfully completed the strategic task, and as the commander-in-chief, I thank you! The King of Wei thanks you! The Northern Wei Imperial Court thanks you!" Lei Shaoxuan roared!

Lei Shaoxuan's voice was attached to the divine thoughts, and it clearly passed through the wind and rain into everyone's ears.

"Drink, drink, drink!" Everyone in the team instantly clenched their fists and beat their chests, and a neat roar erupted, and the sound shook the sky.

The captains in front of the battle were all smiling!

"The army is about to cross the river, we have to leave here to join them, as a lone army, in danger, how can we join them and leave here safely?"

"Kill, kill, kill!" the lieutenants shouted as they led the soldiers, their voices exploding and their blood boiling.

"Let's go!" Lei Shaoxuan roared.