10. Aunt Yu's giant boat
The girls let out a burst of exclamation, and Ming Huaiyi continued to vomit, looking like he was about to pour out all his bile.
At this time, thanks to the clever girl, she knew that this burly soldier would be seasick, so she brought Ming Huaiyi a piece of okra from the restaurant, plus a pickled gourd seedling, Ming Huaiyi screamed, and was still there in dizziness, shouting What I must not eat.
Now it was the girls' turn to laugh, saying that they were not even afraid of knives, guns and arrows in the battle array, but they were afraid of eating vegetable seedlings.
The two brothers of the Ming family clamped him to death, forcibly raised his neck, and pried his mouth open, so that the girls stuffed the vegetable seedlings in.
Then Ming Huaiyi got better, hunched his back, sat on the edge of the embankment, the surging Yangtze River passed under the embankment, a pair of long legs hung down, trembling for a while, before slowly recovering.
Before leaving, Ming Huaiyi reluctantly stood in front of the Dadi restaurant, spent money to buy a lot of sunflower vegetables and gourd seedlings, and stocked them up to meet the next voyage.
At the end of the half-day rest, Zhang Xi stood at the head boat, fired several cannons, and the officers and men of the three armies left the embankment one after another, and then went down the stone ladder to board the boat.
Bypassing Xiangyang, the Han River turns to the south, along both sides of the river bank of the road, continue to be a high embankment, the buildings on the embankment, the mansions of Zhumen are lined up one after another, behind the embankment is the flat field, the south goods, the north goods, the Sichuan goods are everything, even all kinds of herbs of Xingyuan Mansion are sold here, the fleet passes through it, and it is very convenient to obtain supplies.
In the end, Yicheng County, where the old capital of the Chu State of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was located, there was a long fleet of extremely large ships heading on, which was a big ship that cut the waves, especially the big ship at the head, which was several times the size of the Xingyuan Qianhu ship, and on the square sail on the mast, a giant "Yu" word was written in vermilion ink, which kept turning in the wind.
"Brother, what is the origin of this ship?" Seeing that the two fleets were walking opposite each other, and the distance was only one or two miles, the brothers of the Ming family, who felt the oppression, hurriedly shook Ming Huaiyi, who had a gourd seedling in his mouth and a blue face, and asked him.
Ming Huaiyi was dizzy, raised his eyes, and only saw the bow of the big ship with the word "Yu", under the undulations of the waves, like a mountain pressed over, and "vomited" in fear, the gourd seedlings suddenly fluttered with the wind, and the body was lying on the side of the boat again, and it was flying straight down.
"It's Aunt Yu's boat, it's ...... to get down," Zhang Xi stood firmly on the bow of the boat and raised his hand to shout.
"Oh!" All the sailors on the ship stopped their pennies, and the bamboo bundles on both sides of the ship were also hoisted by ropes in the dripping water, and then all the ships sank the stone pillars into the water one by one and anchored them on the side of the Yicheng embankment.
At this moment, the sailors and soldiers of Zhang Xi's head ship saw that on the big ship with the word "Yu", there was a woman wearing a half-arm shirt and combing a man's bun, who was heroic and sassy, and her head was flying in the river breeze.
"You are so weak, you are the infantry of Xingyuan Mansion!"
Ming Huaiyi rolled the whites of his eyes, looking up at this person weakly and angrily.
Presumably she is the so-called Aunt Yu.
Aunt Yu, in Jingnan, Shannan Dongdao, Eyue until the east and west of the south of the Yangtze River, are famous figures, yes she is a woman, but has a huge fleet, south to Jiangnan West Road, north to Huainan Weiyang, is her original business route, as the saying goes, the boat in the river should follow the rule of "water does not carry ten thousand", and the carrying capacity can not exceed 10,000 stones, Yu Auntie's boat deliberately built nine thousand stones, in comparison, Xingyuan Mansion to Xiangyang, the boats that travel on the Han River, most of them are only about a thousand stones, that is, the so-called "thousand boats", Compared with Aunt Yu's boat, it is really a small thing.
But since Huaixi Wu Shaocheng used the river thief to cut off the river transportation, Aunt Yu's business has suffered a lot, so under Xiao Yi's matchmaking, she got in touch with Gao Yue before, and boldly agreed: As long as Gao Gao Lang is willing to conquer the Huaixi Cai thief, I will listen to all the large and small ships in Jiangling Mansion.
So at this moment, Aunt Yu led the fleet and came here from Jiangling Mansion, so that the soldiers of Dingwu, Yining, and Baoda could change to her big ship and rush to Eyue Town.
"Oh, this ship is huge!" Unexpectedly, after boarding Aunt Yu's boat, Ming Huaiyi was no longer dizzy, and he was able to climb the bow of the ship.
Aunt Yu laughed and told him, "Because this is a ship of 9,000 stones, the bigger the ship, the more stable it will be." ”
Hearing this, Ming Huaiyi looked back and saw that there were rows of nurseries and corrals separated by wooden frames on this boat, which not only planted vegetables and fruits, but also raised pigs and sheep.
"My ship has hundreds of sailors, and their health care, death, marriage, and marriage can all be handled in the cabin." Aunt Yu proudly crossed her hands in front of her chest and said to Ming Huaiyi, "It turns out that before Wu Shaocheng was rampant in Huaixi, my ship only traveled once a year along the Yangtze River and Huaishui with the tide letter, and the profits could exceed 100 million yuan by trafficking goods. But now it has been reduced by more than half, so that my children follow me, but I let them not have enough food and clothing, what face does they have in this world? So when Gao Gao Lang said that the Holy Lord was determined to suppress Wu Shaocheng, I knew that even if the family was bankrupt, I had to help the officials and the army succeed. ”
Ming Huaiyi couldn't help but secretly admire this woman in his heart, and there was also empathy between him and her.
At this time, Aunt Yu glanced at Ming Huaiyi obliquely, remembering his weak appearance on the ship just now, so she was not angry and then asked: "How, immediately the official army and the Huaixi Mule Army will fight, are you like this?" ”
So Ming Huaiyi's little temper suddenly came up, "You are just on this river, have you ever seen the snow mountain?" That year, I followed my father to conquer Xifan, and the thieves ran away on horseback, so we ate snow and chased after them, chasing them for more than a thousand miles before cutting off all their heads; Have you seen the water over there in Nanzhao? No boat could float there, only cowhides, and when we crossed the river, we blew the rafts with our mouths, and then I rode on the cowhides and floated over like leaves, and the river was terrible, and it was full of huge waves in the shape of a mountain, but when we got ashore, not even a single horsehair was wet. I've seen ......" Just as Ming Huaiyi continued to rap, there were bursts of drums on the river.
Under the flag, the sailors were all rejoicing, pointing to the southern waters, and shouted: "It's the official warship of Gangneung Province, and it's also coming!" ”
Aunt Yu put her hand on her eyebrows, "Yes, it's Jingnan's flyship - we will also set off!" ”
In the distance, a warship with a red flag passed by like lightning, they all came from the direction of Xijingshui, and the side of each ship had two wheels, turning like flying: this was the invention of Cao Wanggao in Jingnan Jiedu, and now after Fan Ze succeeded him, it was the scale of the expanded flyship.
On the flywheel ship in Jingnan, in addition to carrying the foot soldiers from Jiannan, it was also responsible for escorting the troops through the Huaixi River bandits-controlled area and transporting them to Jingkou, led by Yi Shen and Wang Yi.
"Priestess, let's go." Aunt Yu waved her hand and said majestically.
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