Chapter 91: Accidents
Ten days later, Ye Zhao took Dian Wei and Guan Yu and ten guards on the flying boat to Zhuti.
Although it can not be used on a large scale, but the flying boat still has epoch-making significance, such as reconnaissance, such as the emergency dispatch of officials, the transmission of some important and urgent letters, the flying boat has important significance, and now each county in Shuzhong has a workshop dedicated to the maintenance of the flying boat, after each flight, the interior of the flying boat will be cleaned and reinforced, so that the flying boat is kept in the state of the agent for a long time, which greatly reduces the probability of the flying boat falling.
In order to avoid igniting the oil when adding the oil, Ye Zhao also specially asked the potter to create a design similar to a U-shaped tube, which can add oil from the other end.
"My lord, further on is the territory of Zhuti, a subject country of Qianwei, where the mountains are steep, the woods are cats, and it is difficult to find the specific location of Zhuti County from the air." The boatman at the helm reminded.
"Then find a flat hilltop and land." Ye Zhao nodded, although Zhu Ti is a subject country of Qianwei, but the distance is thousands of miles, and the flight distance is difficult to measure, but it is five or six hundred miles, in fact, Zhu Ti has entered the sphere of influence of the Southern Barbarians, and it is a buffer zone between Qianwei County and the Southern Barbarian forces, Guan Ping can open up the situation in this kind of place, and his ability is already good.
Chopping hands found an open mountainside nearby and stopped, and said to Ye Zhao: "Lord, this should be Zhuti Mountain, about seventy miles away from Zhuti, but there are many mountains and forests around, if you walk, it will take three days to say less, and there are many poisonous insects and beasts in the mountains and forests, so the lord should bring more antidote pills." ”
The helmsman is a Shu person, who is quite familiar with this area, and has been specially trained to drive a flying boat, and his estimation of the distance is quite accurate.
"Well, you should be careful yourself, this is already a place where barbarians live, be cautious, if there is a situation, you can take off on a flying boat first, and try to inform me and others." Ye Zhao nodded and said, Guan Yu, Dian Wei, including Ye Zhao himself, are not weak in means, plus ten elite warriors, even if they encounter wolves, they are not afraid, but in this undeveloped land in the south, poisonous insects and miasma are the real nightmares, even if Ye Zhao, Dian Wei, and Guan Yu are hit by miasma, they have no way to live.
However, this place is close to Juti, and these dangers are not great.
"Whoa!" The helmsman agreed, took two deputies who were responsible for controlling the flying boat to stay on the flying boat, and sent Ye Zhao and his party away.
In this wilderness, there are few people, although there are Nanban people, they are also separated from some places that are more suitable for human survival, most places, almost uninhabited, the dead branches and fallen leaves on the ground are piled up, stepping on them, making a creaking sound.
The old trees have grown for many years.
"My lord, it seems that there are traces of someone passing by here, it should be in the past two days, and the number of people is about 100." The person who is responsible for pathfinding is one of Ye Zhao's ten personal guards, who can be selected as Ye Zhao's personal guard, in addition to being good at martial arts, these people also have their own strengths, and the person who spoke is a person who is good at pathfinding next to Ye Zhao, who used to be a scout, and then was selected into the special operations camp, and then because of his unqualified physique, he was brushed down, but this does not mean that he is not good enough, but his physique cannot adapt to the high-intensity training of the special operations camp.
Later, when Ye Zhao chose a personal guard, he fell in love with this person and recruited him to be a personal guard.
"This place is adjacent to Zhuti, and it is normal for mountain people to pass by occasionally, but there are hundreds of people, are they not Zhuti officers and soldiers?" Guan Yu on the side frowned and looked around, puzzled.
"I don't know if it's a lowly position, but it's just that it is against Zhuti Mountain here, and generally except for Orion, few people will take this kind of road, and I think that I should be a barbarian." The guard bowed.
"Barbarians, appearing here, I'm afraid they have other plans!" When Guan Yu heard this, he snorted coldly, he has been allergic to the word Nanban in recent days, think about it, when he was in Youzhou, he followed Gongsun Zan outside the horse race, and killed the Hu people, and he also saw the tragedy caused by the collective southward movement of the Hu tribe who couldn't survive in winter, because he didn't look down on these foreigners in his heart, but his son married a woman of a different race, even if the other party was the princess of the Laoshzi barbarian tribe, in Guan Yu's eyes, this is also something that can never be forgiven.
"Hundreds!" Ye Zhao sighed and glanced at Guan Yu, this time, I am afraid that Guan Yu is really right, leaving the road and not going, coming over the mountains and mountains, it is clear that he wants to avoid the Han army at various checkpoints.
You know, Guan Ping also served as the military commander, and he only brought two hundred people over at the beginning, even if he recruited some of his subordinates, he only had five hundred soldiers and horses in his hands, and he had to garrison various key roads, and in Zhuti City, I am afraid that it would be good to have three hundred, and these are just a batch of them inadvertently discovered, whether there are others is still difficult to say, such a team, if there are three or five teams, assembled and suddenly attacked, even if Guan Ping's army is slightly good, suddenly attacked, I am afraid it is also dangerous, if more, Zhu Ti is likely to be captured.
"Can you trace the whereabouts of these people?" Ye Zhao looked at the scout and asked solemnly.
"Yes." The scout nodded, the other party probably didn't expect such a group of Han people to appear from behind them, and they didn't hide their tracks.
"Whether it's friend or foe, take it first!" Ye Zhao said in a deep voice.
Although there are only thirteen of them, Guan Yu and Dian Wei don't say that just these ten relatives can be used as special operations camps at critical moments.
"Whoa!"
The scout rushed away, Guan Yu and Dian Wei directly showed their weapons, after Guan Yu said an angry word, he also felt that what he said was quite likely, and his expression suddenly became serious, but Dian Wei didn't think so much, since Ye Zhao said that he wanted to kill people, then he would never beat people.
Traveled until night, everyone has not completely walked out of Zhuti Mountain, the first group of people, but has already gone out of Zhuti Mountain, although it is inconvenient to travel at night, but Ye Zhao is worried about Zhuti, and Guan Yu is also worried about his son, did not rest, continued to let the scouts lead the way to search, and finally found the whereabouts of that group of people and horses at dawn.
A group of people wrapped in rattan armor, with nothing under them, wearing nothing under them, burned the rattan armor soldiers, Ye Zhao still remembered, but he was not sure if these rattan armor were the kind of rattan armor among the burning rattan armor soldiers.
In the middle of Ye Zhao's personal entourage, a Qianren was summoned and asked in a low voice: "How is this rattan armor defense?" ”
"Back to the lord, this rattan armor is made of rattan, which is quite tough, but it is not invulnerable, and it is not much different from the plate armor in the army."
It doesn't seem to be the kind of rattan armor that has been soaked in oil.
"Leave a few alive!" Ye Zhao stopped Guan Yu and Dian Wei's impulse to kill directly, these things should be left to their relatives.
In Guan Yu's surprised eyes, he saw that Ye Zhao's ten relatives were shuttling between the jungles one by one like light civet cats, and soon approached those barbarians.
These southern barbarians lay on the ground in all directions, did not set up a tent, and smeared with a layer of oil on their bodies to expel mosquitoes, and the smell of this oil is unpleasant, and the tigers and leopards will not have any interest in smelling it, in this southern barbarian land, the enemies of human beings are always poisonous insects, tigers and leopards, and the art of war or something is not important to them.
Covering their mouths and cutting their throats, ten relatives cleanly killed a sleeping barbarian, but the bloody breath soon aroused the vigilance of other barbarians, although there is no vast culture and art of war of the Han people, but they are accompanied by poisonous insects and beasts all the year round, and they also have a keen sense of smell and perception that the Han people do not have.
The sound of fighting sounded, and a personal attendant was caught off guard, and was pulled by a barbarian who pretended to be asleep, and the two scuffled together, and the short knife of the personal attendant pierced the other party's heart along the gap in the rattan armor, but the throat was torn out alive by the other party with his teeth, and he couldn't live when he saw it.
The other entourage quickly took out their crossbows and shot at the barbarians who pounced on them.
Ye Zhao, Dian Wei, and Guan Yu also arrived.
Ye Zhao took the lead in making a move, and no one even saw how Ye Zhao made a move, but when he saw the flashing light in front of him, the three barbarians fell to the ground in response.
Dian Wei roared, and the two iron halberds split the two barbarians with the rattan armor, and kicked out with flying feet, and one of the barbarians flew out with a scream, and the sternum on his chest was dented.
Guan Yu did not bring the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, and wore a one-handed knife with him, but the momentum was still fierce, and the three keys of the knife technique, fast, accurate, and ruthless were brought into full play.
With the addition of the three of them, the battle quickly came to an end, and the few remaining barbarians spoke a language they didn't understand, knelt down towards Ye Zhao and the three of them, and kept kowtowing.
Although I don't understand it, this posture is common in ancient and modern times, the more backward the place, the law of the jungle of the jungle, the more rough it is interpreted, without the slightest cover-up.
Immediately, a guard stepped forward and tied them with rattan.
"What did they say?" Dian Wei listened to the noise of seven or eight barbarians in his ears, but he couldn't understand a word, and he was a little irritable.
Ye Zhao frowned, and the scout beside him bowed and said, "Lord, the language of the Southern Barbarians is mostly learned from Zhu Ti and Qianwei, so it is similar to these two local dialects. ”
"Okay, ask them, which tribe is it from? Who is the boss here? Ye Zhao nodded.
"Whoa!" The scout stepped forward and negotiated with the gang.
After a while, the scout came back and said to Ye Zhao: "Lord, it is the people and horses of Zhurong Cave, and the strongest one is their leader." ”
"Ask him, why did you go over the mountain so far?" Ye Zhao nodded and looked at the barbarian strong man.
"They said that they were ordered by the Lord of Zhurong Cave to prepare to attack Juti."
"Zhurong Cave Master?" Ye Zhao frowned and said: "I remember that the woman Guan Ping married was the princess of Zhurongdong, so why did Zhurongdong Zhu come to attack Zhu Ti?" ”
"He said he didn't know about this, he was just the leader of Zhurongdong, and he didn't know the specific things."