When Geng Qing crossed the Yellow River with the main force of the Dreadnought Army, he went north to Xiayang, and from here he took a boat to Lishi County, where the Southern Xiongnu Yufu Luo Department was located.

More than 500 miles with a little wind to sail against the current, its hardships and hardships are by no means imaginable now, but fortunately, the yellow water level is high in this season but not very turbulent, and it has been smooth for a few days.

Geng Qing set out from the familiar summer sun, with mountains on both sides of the river, and the scenery is pleasant.

Passing through Mengmen Mountain and waterfalls, you can see the surging yellow water and stormy waves falling from the sky, roaring with thousands of sounds, the water mist fills the sky, and white smoke and fairy gas emerge from the water. This waterfall is the famous Hukou Waterfall in later generations.

Looking at the majestic immortal aura rising from the waterfall, Geng Qing sighed in his heart, the Yellow River, which raised the Han soil, had all fallen since the north of Xiayang, and the two sides of the river were actually controlled by the two divisions of the Southern Xiongnu.

It is for this reason that it is convenient to take the land route, but there are constant disputes and divisions in various places, and I am afraid that without thousands of soldiers and horses, it will not be possible to reach Lishi safely.

When passing through the Hukou Waterfall, which later became famous in the world, it was necessary to transport goods and ships by land, and the accompanying 50 sergeants and 50 people were all dispatched, and it took half a day to push, pull and drag three of the ten ships to get up to them.

Everyone had to take a short rest, admiring the majestic and torturous fairyland on earth, and for a while their minds were out of the mundane body and flying in the rainbow and the sky.

"That ...... on the mountain" A loud and long voice broke through the sky, and even the sound of the monstrous Hukou Waterfall rushing was overshadowed.

Geng Qing and the others went to look at it, only to see a few figures emerging between the mountains in the east, all shirtless and dark men, singing trumpets and coming over.

Everyone came back to their senses and sent a few people from Bingzhou, who were good at traveling in the mountains and wilderness, to contact those men. When I inquired, it turned out to be a villager from Beiqu County, although Beiqu County is located in Hedong County, but it is deep in the mountains, adjacent to the Yellow River, and did not participate in the war between the Dreadnought Army and the Baibo Army.

Geng Qing found a few of the leading people, and a man who seemed to be in his thirties or forty but was actually more than fifty introduced: "Thirty years ago, there were more than 1,000 Han people in Beiqu County, and there were no less than 500 Hu people. But these days, I really can't say it......"

Geng Qing knew that he couldn't say that he was suffering, and he didn't want to mention the sadness of others. After introducing the official army to restore Hedong and pacify the people, he asked: "Dare to ask the strong man if there is a way to help me go upstream?"

The old man replied: "We are the slender men who pull the fiber on the river. Because only by relying on this skill and body to help the merchant travelers to and from the dry land can they live. ”

Geng Qing was overjoyed and said: "At this time, our army happened to be carrying grain, grass and money, please rest assured, I will give two more than usual."

The slender men were moved to kneel on the ground and thanked them, and expressed their support for the Dong family to come to Hedong and promised not to let the boats and property be damaged at all.

Fifty slender men, shirtless, stepped into the rocky roads of the beach, and even stepped into the rocks in the water, and the ropes on their bodies bit deep into their thin flesh, arched their green tendons and iron backs, and slowly dragged them forward.

Although there are some round logs laid under the boat to help, the stony banks are still difficult.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, ......hey,

The neat trumpet coordinates the strength of the slender men, which is much stronger than just now with twice as many people. And they didn't walk completely on the shore, at least half of them walked in the river and climbed up the reef step by step.

Everyone was shocked, but they admired it beyond words, this fiber pulling is really amazing, it must hurt to the bone, but it is still in order, it seems that it will take more practice to go back to the hook, that is, the tug-of-war.

In less than an hour, the slender men had finished pulling the two boats one after another, and judging by the situation, they would definitely all pass before sunset.

When pulling the third ship, there was a sudden change. A slender man's foot on the reef in the water was hit by something in the river, and his body fell down, and the surging river swallowed him without a trace in an instant.

"Uncle Feng! Uncle Feng! One of the young men in the stretch roared sadly, but he just turned around and didn't stop.

All the slender men did not stop at all, because everyone was stepping on the reef, and the current was so strong that if they did not work together, I am afraid that more people and goods would be washed to the bottom of the waterfall.

Although doing this business serves wealthy businessmen and has gained something, the danger is very high, and once an accident occurs, it will be disabled or killed.

That Uncle Feng just now was an old fellow among the slender men, and he was very skilled, and he was familiar with every reef and whirlpool of this waterway. I never thought that I would be hit by something rushing downstream, or attacked by a murderous object in the water, and fall into the waterfall and disappear.

A moment later, the towel of Uncle Feng just now appeared in the lower reaches of the waterfall, but there was no human figure. Two soldiers who are well versed in water and have strong blood and strength begged to tie ropes and carry wooden rafts down to save people.

Geng Qing of course agrees, in such a moment of crisis, although it is dangerous, it is also necessary to see people alive and dead to see corpses.

The two soldiers went into the water, and after swimming a little far, they were obscured by the yellowing waves, so that they could not be seen from the shore. Geng Qing just wants to ask God to let the river not be so turbulent, slow down, and let the rescuers and the drowning slender man come back alive.

In the face of the majestic forces of nature, human beings always seem so weak, but with the development of human technology and cooperation, it will inevitably go through the process of human overcoming nature.

More dialectical thinking and generous planning can reduce some senseless destruction, which is also one of Tong Yuan's goals in ancient times, that is, to develop rapidly, but not to create a few large deserts or wastelands.

At this time, a little downstream to a calm place, three figures helped each other to appear in the eyes of everyone.

It turned out that after the slender man surnamed Feng fell into the water just now, he did not give up trying to survive, he has been fighting in the waves, but due to the long distance, the waves are high and not seen by others.

Thankfully, the Dreadnoughts went down to two soldiers with ropes and wooden platoons, and they helped the wounded Feng Xianfu to stabilize his body, and Feng Xianfu led the way to swim to the place where the water was gentle. In the end, all three were successfully rescued.

Geng Qing hurriedly went to inquire about the situation and see if there were any injuries.

Feng Xianfu replied: "A certain name is Feng Bin, a native of Beiqu County, Hedong County, forty years old, and has been doing fiber pulling for more than 20 years. This time, I stepped on the familiar secret passage on the reef, and I never thought that there would be a big turtle that bit me hard, so I encountered a disaster. Fortunately, it only hurt his ankle, and it was not life-threatening. ”

Feng Bin was grateful to the Dreadnought Army and Geng Qing, and after being checked by the medically trained doctors who accompanied the army, the ankle injury was serious, and it was estimated that it was not suitable for long-term water pulling.

But he said that it was not in the way, and that he still needed personnel replacement and shouting trumpets to command, and he would still do it in the future.