On the Xishui River, the warships lined up in long strings to the downstream Xikou, loaded with the soldiers and horses of the Zhou army and their baggage, were the Hulin army who boarded the ship in the upper Xishui City, and they returned to Xiyang City in Bazhou after defeating the Chen army in Qichang City, Qizhou.

There is an official road from Xishui City to Xiyang City, Bazhou Prefecture, but the road was flooded due to the previous heavy rain, and many sections of the road were washed away by the flood, and there were many sections of the road that were muddy and difficult to walk.

Board the boat in Xishui City and go down the river, turn to the northwest of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River at Xikou, sail up the river by the southeast wind and walk more than 20 miles by waterway to Bakou, and then take the land route back to the military camp outside Xiyang City.

It is also thanks to the safety of the Xikou River that they dare to be so bold, Wuzhou, not far from the upper reaches of Xikou, is firmly controlled by the Zhou army, and the naval warships stationed in Wuzhou are not afraid of the attack of the Chen Guoshui army, and it is precisely in this way that the fleet can act unrestrained.

The waterway distance from Xishui City to Xiyang City is about sixty or seventy miles, this distance is far closer than the land distance, and it is much easier for the Tiger Lin Army to return to the division with the advantage of boats and boats.

He was not allowed to be unhappy, and when he was in Xishui City, he received news from Xiyang: the river embankment on the south bank of the Santai River survived the torrential rain, and although there were many dangerous situations, there was still a thrilling way to tide over the difficulties.

There are also a series of water conservancy facilities that have played a role, and the newly renovated drainage facilities in Xiyang City are running smoothly, and although there is a short-term waterlogging under the downpour, the stagnant water is finally drained.

Yu Wenwen, who was on the verge of bankruptcy, breathed a sigh of relief, he had already prepared for the worst, and now it seems that the difficulties have been overcome, and there is no need to worry about the breaking of the capital chain to go to the death struggle, and the rush to overdraft money and food is considered a success.

Yu Wenwen, who was immortal in the future Yama King's cavalry battle, was very happy, and when he got the good news, he burned a bun and asked people to fetch mineral water to drink, and there was a good spring water in Lanxi near Xikou, so he had to taste one or two by the way.

"It's rare to pass by Lanxi and come to taste Qizhou Lanxi Spring, which is the third of the world's twenty famous springs." Yuwen Wen asked Zhou Faming, who was traveling with him, to share this 'specialty' together.

"Twenty famous springs? Three? Zhou Faming tasted the water in the cup and asked, this spring water was brought by Yuwen Wen Wen from somewhere on the shore, and it felt good to drink it, but he didn't understand what was going on with these twenty famous springs, "I don't know where this comes from?" ”

"Uh, crap on a whim, blah." Yuwen Wen said with a smile, of course he said this with a source, but it is impossible to say it, otherwise he will be regarded as a god stick.

Lu Yu in the Tang Dynasty was regarded as a tea saint by the world, a lifetime of tea love, good at tea ceremony, author of three volumes of the "Book of Tea", in the "Book of Tea" he recommended the world's 20 famous springs to tea tasters, including "Qizhou Lanxi Stone Water", ranked third after the curtain spring of the valley of Kangwanggu in Lushan and the stone spring of Huishan Temple in Wuxi.

Of course, this kind of thing can't be said, Li Yuan, who founded the Tang Dynasty, is now young and doesn't know what to do in Chang'an, Yu Wenwen said on a whim that it's okay if he leaks his mouth.

This Wednesday Lang in front of him is not a stupid person, if Yu Wenwen says something like 'Tang Dynasty', the other party will be suspicious, sure enough, Zhou Faming did not chase to the end, Yu Wenwen is not the only one who is happy today.

After the end of the Qichang War, Hengzhou Assassin Zhou Fashang naturally wanted to return to the division, and he and Bazhou Assassin Shi Yuwen Wen were half of the same road: the road from Xishui City to the west to Bashui was the same road, and the south of Bashui was the direction of Xiyang in Bazhou, and the northwest was in the direction of Hengzhou.

The official road that was destroyed by the flood for several sections was mainly between Xishui City and Ba Shui, Yuwen Wen was in a hurry to return to Xiyang, naturally leading the troops to take the waterway, Zhou Fashang led the main force to stay in Xishui and wait for empty ships to pick up, and let Zhou Faming wait with him from the landing in Xiyang.

Zhou Faming, who is in charge alone, is naturally full of confidence, although the battle of Qichang has not yet been enjoyed, but he has also gained knowledge, and seeing that the war will continue in the future, he will definitely have the opportunity to lead the troops to fight alone.

"Then again, Xishui and Xishui City, why are they not the same?" Yu Wenwen asked, as the name suggests, the county governance of Yong'an County Xishui comes from the river on the edge of the city - Xishui, but one is 'Xi' and the other is 'Xi', and he doesn't understand.

"When I was in Xiyang, I heard my father say that this Xishui City was a county in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was called 'Xishui County' at that time." Of course, Zhou Faming knew what the other party asked, because he also asked this question back then, "When he arrived in the Southern Dynasty Liang, it was renamed 'Xishui County', although the river was also renamed Xishui, but after all, it was not so easy to change the word by convention." ”

Zhou Faming's father, Zhou Jiong, was a general of Chen Guo, and served as the Taishou of Xiyang about nine years ago, so Zhou Faming and Zhou Fashang, together with his eldest brother Zhou Faseng, lived in Xiyang City for a short time.

"At that time, as soon as the rainy season came, Xiyang City was flooded, and of course most of them were in the low-lying areas where ordinary people lived." Zhou Faming recalled, "This time you vigorously rectified the drainage ditch, which really benefited the people. ”

It is common for the rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River to have a big flood, and Zhou Faming, who grew up in the south of the Yangtze River, has become accustomed to all kinds of waterlogging and floods, but Yu Wenwen, a northerner from Guanzhong, attaches so much importance to drainage that he is very surprised.

"Waterlogging can easily lead to epidemics, and the number of households in Bazhou cannot withstand the toss." Yu Wenwen said that for Zhongyuan Prefecture, the population of Bazhou is the size of a county, not to mention frequent floods.

Zhou Faming nodded yes, he didn't pay much attention to state affairs before, and only after assisting his second brother Zhou Fashang in handling state affairs did he have a deep understanding, of course, fighting a war is happy, but if the civil affairs are not good, then the war is not easy to fight.

"Soldiers are needed to fight a war, if you are afraid of delaying the agricultural time, you need to recruit soldiers, recruit soldiers to pay money and food, and raise soldiers also need money and food, a full-time recruit needs several families to support, and then the war has to levy and distribute young and strong food, and people are needed everywhere" Yu Wenwen began to complain like Xianglin's sister-in-law.

Now it is the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, not the Song Dynasty five or six hundred years later, the place with more people in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is the Sanwu area in the lower reaches, and most of the households in the rest of the prefectures and counties are not much, and there are hundreds of households in one extreme county.

Taking Bazhou as an example, there are many lakes bordering the Yangtze River, and in the rainy season, either the lake overflows and floods the farmland, or the Santai River floods and affects the lake.

There is also schistosomiasis, in exchange for decades ago, there were all kinds of mountain barbarian rebellion, thanks to the Three Kingdoms, several imperial courts of the Southern Dynasties and Jiangbei Wushui Barbarians fell in love and killed each other for hundreds of years, if it was replaced by the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the territory of Bazhou was not very peaceful, and the mountain barbarians in the territory alone could toss the official government with a headache.

"This time, the envoy has brought many prisoners of the Chen army, and even Hengzhou has benefited." Zhou Faming said with a smile, "Not to mention anything else, there are a lot of Chen Jun captured by Qichang this time. ”

"If it weren't for the fact that Qichang City suffered a lot of losses, I really didn't want to keep so many prisoners for them." Yu Wenwen sighed, with some regret between his words.

The Chen army under the city of Qichang had more than 10,000 troops, but the retreat that evening turned into a camp and was almost wiped out by the Zhou army, and after deducting the backbone of the soldiers, those conscripted soldiers accounted for the majority, of course, the prisoners of the devastated Qizhou also accounted for the majority, but even so, Yuwenwen also brought back more than 2,000 people.

There are also more than 2,000 mouths for eating.

Yu Wenwen has no penchant for abusing prisoners, as long as he can, he has to feed the prisoners, this is a strong man and a qualified labor force, and it is a 'scarce resource' that he got at the risk of breaking the capital chain.

While he was talking, the fleet had already left Xikou, and a small boat approached in Wuzhou not far upstream, and a herald reported the latest battle report to Yuwen Wen: The Chen army attacked Yanji the night before and was repelled by the defenders who had been prepared for a long time.

Yu Wenwen took out the battle report and looked at it carefully: on the same day, the Chen army besieging Yanji retreated, and the generals such as Chen Wudi of the unified army decided that the other party was fraudulent after discussion

That night, the soldiers of the Chen army really took advantage of the night to attack the camp, and the defenders deliberately made loud noises to drink and have fun, and the Chen army thought that the defenders were paralyzed and careless, so they attacked hard, and the Zhou soldiers who were waiting for them beat them to the ground.

Because the soldiers had good night vision, they did not light the torches and were not waited by the archers of the Chen army outside the camp, and the Chen army suffered heavy casualties after the two sides took advantage of the moonlight to shoot each other.

"After the fact, the corpses at the scene were counted, and there were more than 3,000 casualties in the Chen army," Zhou Faming looked at the battle report and said, "Hey, at least 3,000 soldiers who can fight at night have died, and Chen Jun has suffered a big loss this time!" ”

In these years, there are not many soldiers who can fight at night, but not everyone can do it, some people are blindfolded at night, and most of the soldiers who can fight at night are generals, or experienced veterans.

The biggest difficulty in night operations is still command, and many generals can have a headache just by not getting lost during a night attack, and when the two armies are in a scuffle, they have to avoid accidentally injuring their own people, so those who can fight at night or command night battles are the backbone of the army.

Zhou Faming looked at the direction of the south bank and smiled: "More than 3,000 backbones will die in this one, and the generals of the Chen army will vomit blood in their hearts." ”

"I thought it was a piece of meat but it turned out to be a stone, didn't this break my teeth?" Yuwen Wen spread his hands, Yanji is a 'tower defense' important place that he has invested heavily in building, although it is not a fortress, it is not so easy to deal with.

Even with the five continents on the five continents, Chen Jun wanted to swallow it, but he also had to break his teeth.

Good news one after another, Yu Wenwen's mood is naturally even better, Chen Jun invested a lot of troops in Yanji but made no progress, he only used two or three thousand people to hold the only stronghold on the south bank of the Yangtze River, although it was a long time to come to Japan, but it was finally a good start.

After the strength of Chen Guo's water army recovers, there will be fierce battles, but he will not be idle, and the scale of Yanji camp will be larger at that time, which is not comparable to today's camp.

The fleet sailed up the river with the wind, Yuwenwen and his entourage successfully went ashore at Bakou, and was just about to arrange for the Hulin Army to return to the camp to rest and settle the prisoners, but saw several men in official uniforms come to the dock.

"Envoy! The lowly rank is about to take a boat to find the envoy! Seeing Yu Wenwen, those people said with relief, and seeing this situation, Yu Wenwen asked what was going on.

Yu Wenwen had already informed the state government in advance about returning to Xiyang by water today, and the other party was going to board the boat in Bakou to find him, and when he saw the main lord in front of him, he told him all about the situation.

"Crops lodging?" After listening to this, Yu Wenwen repeated in his mouth, and the person who came to tell him that the state government had received a report from the people that some crops had fallen because of the previous heavy rain.

The state government sent officials everywhere to count the situation of crop lodging, and the final results were not optimistic, and they were ordered to pass it on to the assassin Shi Tong first, and Xu Shao and Hao Wubo had already convened the officials to discuss the countermeasures.

Yuwen Wen calmly said "I know", with a look of Mount Tai collapsing in front of him and not changing color, everyone was quite impressed when they saw this: this Yuwen envoy is really calm and calm.

'Lodging? I've seen the news before, but what is the end of the word? Yu Wenwen was puzzled in his heart, he had never farmed, so he didn't understand it very well, but he couldn't show timidity, looking at the anxious expression of the official, a sense of uneasiness arose in his heart. (To be continued.) )