Chapter 151: Wujiang Travel

After daylight, the army will enter the Wujiang River valley. But someone left earlier than them, and that was the vanguard led by Qin Meng.

They were tasked with opening the way for the army and finding camps.

There are no roads here, and some are valley roads washed out by the Wujiang River for thousands of years, which have been along the slopes on both sides of the valley road.

When I first started, the valley was quite open.

But the farther you go east, the mountains are forced from both sides, and the large red rocks are all over the place, and there are many times when the cliffs on both sides of the strait are opposed, and there is only a line of scenery in the middle.

And these rocks are all red.

Even Jinji Ridge here is a typical Danxia landform.

It is even named the naming place of Danxia landform, Danxia Mountain in Guangdong, which is in Shaozhou, not far from here. From Pingshi to Lechang, it is a typical Danxia site.

The color is like Wodan, and it is as bright as the sun. With such brilliant colors and strange stones, even if you pass by on weekdays, it is worth seeing.

But such terrain made the march very difficult.

The two banks are shrinking more and more tightly, and there are even mountains and rocks breaking into the river, so that the Wujiang River detours. But the army is not easy to manage.

At this time, it was when Qin Meng and the others came in handy. They tied their rafts tightly against the stone wall, and then used the buoyancy of the water to create a corridor. The brigade can step on a bamboo raft and walk through this section of the cliff. Enter the next section of the river.

Because the water of the Wujiang River is shallow, and the flood season and the rainy season of the Wujiang River almost coincide, it shows a problem, what kind of Wujiang River is, once it rains, the river water will soar rapidly. As soon as it doesn't rain, the river quickly retreats. Because it is supported by the spring water in the mountains, even if there is little rain, the flow will not be interrupted. But when it rains heavily, it goes without saying. It quickly overflowed the river.

Therefore, it did not rain for more than ten days, and the water level of the Wujiang River dropped a lot, and large areas of river beaches on both sides of the river receded. Large expanses of pebble land, although there are problems of one kind or another.

For example, the stone clatters.

After all, most of Zhang Xuan's soldiers wore straw sandals. The defense of the soles of straw sandals against stones is almost equal to none. Walking on the cobblestones, it is probably not pleasant.

There is also the problem of silt.

The retreating river is sometimes not all pebbles, and there are many silt grounds. Although the water of the Wujiang River is shallow after all. But this shallow is relative.

This is shallow relative to the draft of the vessel. But for people, it's a different story.

In many places the silt is enough to drown one person.

This is where bamboo rafts come in handy again. The rafts were nailed together, placed on top of the silt, and secured with ropes on both sides, and the army walked up, perhaps a little sunken. But there are no big problems.

There are also such and such problems, many times even the soldiers have to wade through the water, but also put the burden on the bamboo raft and drag it in the river, relieving the soldiers of a lot of burden, otherwise it is almost impossible to get out of this mountainous area within three days.

By the time the army was dispatched in this way, many places had already been repaired.

Zhang Xuan walked on the cobblestones, not on horseback.

When I first entered the Wujiang Gorge, I could actually ride a horse.

However, Zhang Xuan expressed his attitude of sharing weal and woe with the soldiers and walked on foot.

Although Zhang Xuan was wearing military boots, he stepped on the cobblestones, and he didn't feel anything at the beginning. But after a long time, Zhang Xuan could only take off his boots.

There is no other reason. Wading in many places, the water may not be deep, but it is no problem to overflow the ankles, Zhang Xuan's boots suddenly became heavy, as if they had been poured a few catties of lead.

This extra weight made Zhang Xuan unbearable.

Immediately, Zhang Xuan changed to a pair of clogs.

Clogs, although native to China, were once very popular in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. However, in later generations, it mostly existed in Japan, and it was basically two wooden teeth under a wooden plank, and then two ropes tied to the face of the feet.

It bears some resemblance to sandals.

In the eyes of later generations, this is simply a shoe worn on the road. But it was common in ancient times.

Among Li Bai's poems, there are: "With Xie Gong's clogs on his feet, he climbs the green cloud ladder, half of the wall sees the sea and the sun, and the air smells the -------- chickens" and other words, it can be seen that the ancients even wore clogs for mountaineering. Don't be harsh on Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan couldn't even replace the straw sandals of the whole army with clogs.

A clog is not counted, but once it becomes the equipment of the whole army, it will have to prepare tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands. This becomes a big problem.

Zhang Xuanzhu carried a wooden stick and walked between the mountains and rivers.

I saw the peaks on both sides of the strait coming and going, welcoming the comings and goings. Flowing water flows around you, and there is even time to step on the bamboo raft, and there is flowing water rushing above the clogs from below. Spread over the top of your feet.

The clear water that looks like it is suspended, and the green vegetation on both sides of the river, with bare red rocks, looks green and red. There are even many unknown birds standing on the branches watching the large number of Homo erectus action below, and they may not be able to guess what these self-standing apes are doing. Then they flapped their wings and flew away, and they had a life of their own.

This winged bird is not afraid of the crowd, but it just flies away.

But the fish in the water, the little beast that has come to drink water in the mountains, is unlucky. The fish were fortunately hidden in the water, and only a few unlucky ones were stabbed. But those beasts that drink water, after encountering the army, are only a few.

This pristine scenery of hundreds of years makes people forget that they are even on the march.

During the lunch break, Zhang Xuan also ate wild meat that he had never eaten before. It's nothing else, it's a leopard, Zhang Xuan doesn't know what breed it is, it was shot by a bow and arrow when he was drinking water by the river. At the same time, Zhang Xuan was also given a complete leopard skin.

Although there was no chef cooking during the march, it was just cooked over charcoal, but the unique taste of leopard meat left a deep impression on Zhang Xuan.

However, after the afternoon, Zhang Xuan didn't have the heart to take a second look at these scenes.

First, I'm used to seeing it.

Second, I was tired.

After walking more than ten miles in the complex terrain in one breath, Zhang Xuan felt that his physical strength was a little unbearable. He secretly said in his heart: "I often laugh at Zhang Yingyuan, but I don't want my own physical strength to drop a lot." ”

Zhang Xuan still hasn't been with the soldiers for a long time. Many times when marching, it is just a horseback. Under pampering, physical strength naturally declines.

In fact, Zhang Xuan is not too hard. The hardest thing is the logistics of the slender man.

These porters don't have to pull the raft, but they have to drag it.

There is no other reason, the speed of the Wujiang River is much faster than that of Zhang Xuan and their march, and all kinds of situations in the water emerge in endlessly, so these slender men can only pull the bamboo raft and let them not float away. Otherwise, the army has not yet arrived in Lechang, and the baggage of the army has already arrived in Lechang.

On the first day, I walked up and down fifty miles. Zhang Xuan was physically and mentally exhausted. At night, Zhang Xuan stayed in a camp to rest.

Zhang Xuan's camp is one of the best.

It is in a karst cave, the ground of the karst cave is not small, and there is flowing water flowing into the Wujiang River in the middle. Strange stalactites, in the firelight. Scattered endless shadows, at first glance, although the firelight jumped and jumped, as if it were ghosts.

The cave looks like it can accommodate hundreds of people to rest. Zhang Xuan and his entourage rested here.

There are not many such caves. This kind of terrain is called the Rust terrain, and in the Chenzhou area, this terrain is more obvious. And here is not far from Chenzhou. Therefore, there are many large and small karst caves.

However, there are many of these caves, and they are not enough to accommodate all the soldiers.

Therefore, most of the soldiers lit piles of bonfires on the ground of the river beach. A team of ten people huddled together and covered with a layer of mattresses. Snuggled up to each other and entered the sleeping country.

All the way to the campfire, it winds along the Wujiang River to the east. When viewed from the sky, it looks like a string of pearls that glow.

Zhang Xuan was tired, and he had to hurry tomorrow, so he slept very early. I thought I would sleep until dawn, but I didn't want to wake him up in the middle of the night.

Zhang Xuan opened his eyes and asked in a daze, "What happened?" ”

Zheng Lian said with a little panic: "General, it's raining." ”