Nine days after Duan Si sent the Qin family's letter about the celestial changes of the "three-legged black hidden" to Shangjing, Shang Cheng's reply to him was delivered to him.

In the letter, Shang Cheng first affirmed this climatic phenomenon. He told Duan Si that this is not nonsense, but climate change with a cycle of 10 to 12 years, and that during the peak period of the trough when sunspots are commonly known as "three-legged black in the day", the ocean currents and wind directions in the sea will become very different from usual, the southeast monsoon will weaken, the northwest winds will even blow in the low latitudes and areas south of Zhenla, and the equatorial currents in the Pacific Ocean may even change from east-west to west-east. Changes in the climate will definitely affect the implementation of the Eastern Wei strategy, therefore, when deciding the departure date in Duan Si, we must pay attention to listening to the opinions of people like the Qin family and their sons who have been active at sea all the year round, and if they feel that the time is not ripe or uncertain, then the military operation in the direction of Mingzhou can also be suspended.

Duan Si was very cautious after receiving the letter. He couldn't be more cautious. He knows his own affairs, and he is a good hand when he is ordered to carry a knife into battle and fight hard, but when it comes to leading troops to fight, this is the first time he has opened the world. It's just that this thing is not something that will definitely be able to see immediate results if you have the heart and energy, if your eyes are red, you wave your hand and lead the people below to copy the house, it doesn't matter if he dies or not, but as long as this battle is lost and lost, what is lost is the face of the commander!

He only received a reply from Shang Cheng on the front foot, and the back foot Fang did come to tell him that in the past two days, "the southeast sky has been connected with the sea and the sky, and the water mist has been diffuse", and "the sea water can be moist and humid and hot when tested by the elbow three miles from the shore", so they judged that the south wind would rise within three days; The squid, which was still in the tail flood season, suddenly became scarce, while the number of sea squid increased all the time, which shows that this wind must not be weak. If you go out to sea by the direction of the wind, you can reach the east in ten days.

After listening to Fang Qu's announcement, Duan Si immediately called someone to bring Su Po and Hou Ding, the land and water generals, over to the meeting. Rao in his Sanjiang command yamen as early as four days ago moved to the Chinese army camp on Wengzhou Island, Su Pohou determined that they did not go to sea today, but the various troops and horses were stationed in more than a dozen wharves on the four large islands under the jurisdiction of Wengzhou, and several people immediately set off after receiving the military order, and arrived at the Chinese army's big tent two hours later. Two days ago, the first three people who had just escorted the last batch of 130,000 Yongning Tongbao to Mingzhou rushed to Mingzhou, and they didn't know where they heard the news, and they came to the meeting in a monk's robe.

Duan Si introduced the changes in the celestial phenomena observed by several maritime merchants, and said: "...... That's the case today. The strategy drawn up by the Ministry of War is for us to send troops again at the end of June. But our luck is not good, this year happened to run into a strange thing that we saw once in ten years, and the three-legged black in the sun disappeared. As soon as this strange incident happens, it is very likely that the southeast wind will not blow at the end of June and the beginning of July. He drooped his eyelids and paused for a moment before he said dryly, "This means that if we miss this southerly wind, we may not have the opportunity to send troops until August or September." Another possibility is that if we miss this wind, we won't have another chance this year. ”

Nowadays, the summer has passed, it is the hottest time of the year, the sun outside the big tent is like a bucket of fire, the heat in the big tent is like a steamer, everyone is so hot that they sweat, but they are all sitting on the drum bench with straight chests and backs, listening to him intently. After Duan Si's words were finished, the corners of the school's mouth twitched, and the corners of their eyes jumped, only to feel that the tent was suddenly a little colder, and even a hot heart in the chest was also cold.

There are no words.

There was silence in the tent.

Duan Si waited for a while, and saw that no one was willing to take the initiative to say a few words, so he simply named him. He first asked Su Po and Hou Ding: "What is the situation over there?" ”

Su Po and Hou Ding were bitter at that time. Speaking of which, these are all elite soldiers selected from various battalions in Gyeonggi, and at that time, considering that this was a sea-crossing operation, the military department also specially added an item when selecting: You must know the nature of the water! But how did those people in the military department know that this vast sea could be compared to a small river in the Shangjingluo Water District and a small pond like Biluo Lake? As a result, Duan Si brought more than 2,000 soldiers from Shangjing, and after boarding the sea boat for the first time and turning around the sea for two hours, less than 500 were able to walk down by himself in the end. Until now, half of the people have weak legs and feet when they get on the boat, let alone lying and standing, even if they stay on the boat for a while, they will get dizzy and vomit......

Su Po arched his hand and said, "General, the situation is very bad. He did not dare to say big things, but he could only say: If we go to sea now, it would be nice to have 1,200 people on board. ”

Duan Si grinned and didn't make a sound. Actually, he is well aware of these situations. Even among these 1,200 people, he didn't dare to guarantee how many people would be able to come in handy after arriving in Dongwei. You know, after going to sea this time, I will no longer train for half a day and rest for half a day like now, but eat and live on the boat day and night. After ten days and a half of tiring sea journeys and bumpy boats, as long as half of these 1,200 people can still enter the battle array immediately, he will go to burn high incense and thank the gods and Buddhas! But no matter how clear he is in his heart, he must ask this question in front of everyone, and he must let everyone know that the situation is far more difficult than everyone expected!

He turned his face and asked Qin Gan, the leader of the generals of the water division: "Old Qin, how is your water division there?" ”

"General, rest assured, there is no problem with the sailor!" Qin Gan first said a more exciting good news. This person was originally also a brigade commander of Yan Shanwei and one of the famous fierce generals, but when Huo Shiqi killed Li Shen last spring, he hesitated a little, although he also reined in the precipice in time, but after all, he was still implicated in Li Shen's case. However, the Ministry of War considered that he did not go all the way to the dark at that time, and he also showed repentance, Huo Shiqi and others said good things for him again, so Mingsheng secretly descended, and sent Yanshanwei to Dongting Lake to be a god knows what it was Nankang Naval Commander. Last month, he came to Minzhou on official business and happened to bump into Duan Si. Duan Si was worried about the fact that several sailors who had been dispatched over did not listen to orders, since he had this sailor commander here, there was still a reason not to arrest him for a long time? An eight-hundred-mile official document was sent to the capital, and in the blink of an eye, Qin Gan's Nankang Naval Division Admiral became the Sanjiang Naval Commander, although the title has not changed, he is still a guerrilla general from the fifth grade, but the authority and majesty are completely different. Now he has more than a dozen ships of more than 1,000 stones, more than 100 ships of 100 stones, and two or three thousand officers and soldiers alone, not to mention nearly 100 civilian boats and tens of thousands of boatmen and boatmen who have been temporarily recruited. If you say who is the most majestic among the various water divisions of Dazhao at the moment, there is no doubt that it is the Sanjiang Water Division that has just been formed for less than a month! Qin Gan, who has been fishing for fish and shrimp in Dongting Lake for a year, is now also in high spirits. He said very proudly, "As long as the general gives an order, within three hours, the Sanjiang Naval Division can be dispatched!" ”

Duan Si grinned. There's a fart for the sailor to go out! The sailors have no opponents at sea, but their combat effectiveness after going ashore is very questionable. According to Su Po and Hou Ding, with the level of the two or three thousand sailors, as long as they go ashore and dispatch a few hundred men and horses at will, a single charge can make these guys collapse. As for the boatmen and sailors under the control of the sailors, he didn't think about it at all. He has seen those sailors of the Fang family and the Qin family, and there are a few who have seen blood, but the number is too small, and there are no more than a hundred people together, and they have not gone through the training on the battle array, and it is almost the same to fight in a group with a blood and blood.

There is also the issue of food. More than 10,000 people were dispatched, not to mention anything else, just people eating horses and chewing horses is an incredible number. The grain mobilized by Zhedong Road is still forty percent short of now, although it can also be levied on the spot when it comes to Dongwei, but the first three will be the king of Wa in the future, and the court will also have some arrangements in Dongwei in the future, so you can't offend all the Wayi now, right? There is also the Kagoshima area to build a castle and find Kanayama. The officials and craftsmen who had promised to be sent to Zhedong Road earlier have only come two or three so far......

The more he thought about it, the more he felt a headache. Suffer from the sissy plague! Could it be that this gust of wind will not be able to send troops?

He thought about it, but he couldn't make up his mind. Qin Gan Su Po didn't speak these bastards, let alone help come up with some useful ideas, which made him feel angry. Finally, he gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "I am determined, this time I will send troops!" ”

Hey, if there are not enough soldiers and horses, it will not be enough, I'm afraid that he will have an egg! The tradition of Yanshan has always been to fight more with less, Guo Cousin Sun Fu They can use 30,000 against 100,000, and he Duan Si will use this 1,200 troops to conquer the East today!