Chapter 165: A Difficult Choice
"A group of people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, a small epidemic has exposed you for what you are. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
The loud voice suddenly shook the noisy crowd. Everyone looked over, only to see Yu Hong striding towards with a gloomy face, and his gloomy eyes scanned every troublesome crew member present.
The most prestige in the Southeast China Sea expedition belongs to Hong, which is the prestige that Yu Hong led his team to tear and kill with the natives on various large and small wild islands.
Although the crew members did not dare to take a breath, for the sake of their own lives, none of them retreated, and nearly two hundred people were in a stalemate with Yu Hong.
"Hong Niu, are your words right in your conscience? Several of your sick brothers fought alongside you in Liaodong. When they get sick, you just ruthlessly throw them on a desert island to fend for themselves? ”
Yu Hong's sharp eyes looked at Hong Niu, who was full of meat, and said word by word, Hong Niu's back felt a lot of pressure, and his companions around him suddenly became dumb and there was no one to help.
Hong Niu was helpless, he was one of the initiators, and he became the first bird for Yu Hong to vent his anger and suppress the dissatisfaction of the crew.
The hard-headed Hong Niu simply had a heart, and said loudly with the horizontal flesh on his face: "Captain Yu, what you said about my Lao Hong seems to be a ruthless, unrighteous and heartless person. Today's matter is the best way for everyone to come to Manager Zhang to make a decision, but it's not my Lao Hong who is instigating here, everyone is also doing this for the sake of the entire fleet. What are we doing on this wild island overseas? We are here to complete His Royal Highness King Yan's order to explore the overseas islands and report back on the situation. If it was because of these infected brothers who had contracted the epidemic that the entire fleet was lost in this overseas land, not to mention that everything that everyone had worked hard for in the past six months had been lost, and it had also failed His Royal Highness King Yan's high hopes for us, everyone, did you say? ”
"Yes......"
"Captain Yu, everyone respects you, but you can't find a personal favor and let everyone follow you to the funeral."
"If you don't complete the task ordered by His Royal Highness, will His Royal Highness King Yan blame the captain for taking on it?"
……
With Hong Niu's leading role, the crew members who were still silent just now all said with their mouths wide open, although they didn't directly scold Shangguan, but the big hat pressed down made Yu Hong extremely angry, but it was a little difficult to refute.
The purpose of their trip to sea this time was to complete the task ordered by His Royal Highness King Yan, but Nuo failed because of his personal feelings, even if Yu Hong was the personal guard of King Yan, he could not get good fruits to eat.
Yu Hong knew in his heart that in the eyes of His Royal Highness King Yan, the task of exploring overseas islands was not comparable to dozens of patients. As long as you can complete the assigned task, what is the death of dozens of people, at most you will make a gesture of regret in front of others.
This is the superior one!
The guards around Yu Hong glared angrily at the shouting crew, these guys now had no respect for humility, and they actually shouted at Shangguan. Looking at the angry and sad and helpless expressions of their school captains, the guards blushed one by one and scolded at these killers. Outside the manager's tent, it was as lively as a group of village women scolding the street.
"Hey!" Zhang Qin raised his forehead, it can't be good if things are like this, two groups of people are pointing and scolding here, and some old adult things have been turned out, used to accuse the other party of lack of character.
Wang Haichong was idle, alone, sipping freshly brewed black tea on the side, happily watching a group of strong men and shrews scolding the street, laughing twice from time to time.
"Wang Hao, you are so leisurely, just do it and watch jokes?" Zhang Mao sat beside Wang Haichong with a worried face and unceremoniously poured himself a cup of tea.
"Or else?" Wang Haichong chuckled.
"Isn't it common to hear Taoist monks and immortals ask, tracing the origin of the Heavenly Dao, practicing the medical skills of rejuvenation with a skillful hand, and curing all kinds of diseases? Although your cultivation is short, you are also a high disciple of Ge Xianshi in Sanqing Mountain, and what you pass on is the mantle of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Xiaoxian Weng Ge Hong. Don't you have a cure for the disease? ”
Wang Haichong rolled his eyes and said angrily: "You are a Taoist priest, and everyone is a miracle doctor?" Cure all diseases? Where did you hear about it? Also, my master didn't do his job all day long, either specializing in some thunder methods, or amusement famous mountains and rivers, all of which disappeared for two years. The medical books inherited by his ancestors are all half-, and the medical skills he taught me are just a cold and fever. What's more, this epidemic has never been recorded in the medical books left by the ancestors. You ask me, I ask who goes? ”
"You can't watch the fleet fight among themselves, can you?" Zhang Mao said worriedly.
Wang Haichong took a sip of tea and said leisurely: "The best way now is to leave all the crew members infected with the epidemic here, and the fleet will leave immediately, otherwise it will be a matter of time before there is internal strife." ”
"No other solution?"
"Unless someone can cure a person in a matter of days."
Zhang Mao shook his head, even Dr. Xiao was infected, and it took two doctors who were not famous doctors to cure a person in a few days on this wild island that was short of medicine? Forget it.
Wang Haichong looked at the two sides of the quarrel and became more and more excited, fearing that the situation would change, and pulled Zhang Mao, who was at a loss, and said solemnly: "It's not that Manager Zhang doesn't want to leave the sick people here, but the main reason is that Captain Yu can't let go of those subordinates who share life and death with him. Let's persuade Mr. Zhang to make up his mind and force the lieutenant to compromise with reality. Otherwise, if this development continues, one of the two sides will not control it, and the situation will get out of control. ”
"Okay, let's go and persuade Manager Zhang together." Zhang Mao nodded in agreement.
The two entered the manager's tent, and Zhang Qin saw the two coming, and said with a wry smile: "Right now, what do you two have any good opinions?" ”
Wang Haichong said with a serious expression: "Steward, the only way to do this is to agree to the request of the crew." ”
Looking at Zhang Mao's expression, and then looking at the meaning of the other two captains sitting there, they all had this idea.
"But Captain Yu, hey!"
Yu Hong is the personal guard of His Royal Highness King Yan, otherwise he would not be valued as the deputy commander of the fleet, which makes Zhang Qin reluctant to offend him.
"The chief can't think about it so much now, and if it is interrupted, it will be chaotic."
Wang Haichong's firm eyes made Zhang Qin stunned, and he came back to his senses and said helplessly: "Okay, someone will come in to discuss the current way out of the fleet." ”
"No"
Yu Hong's face was red and red when he was fighting outside, his chest was rising and falling, and he was obviously angry in his heart.
Zhang Qin reluctantly showed a smiling face and said, "The fleet is about to return to the sea, and now it is in danger of capsizing the fleet due to this plague." I have consulted with the captains of the ships that the sick will be left here, and the fleet will ......."
"No, you're trying to take their lives!" Yu Hong immediately roared.
"Captain Yu, is it the task of His Royal Highness King Yan or the lives of your subordinates?"
"You ......"
Wang Haichong is the only person in the fleet who is not afraid of Yu Hong, although he is young, he is very important to Li Yu, far from being comparable to Yu Hong's personal guard.
Wang Haichong pressed down the high hat of King Yan, and Yu Hong didn't dare to refute it if he was unconvinced, unless he stayed on the desert island and didn't return to Datang.
Zhang Qin, Zhang Mao and the other two captains broke their hearts, and under the suppression of Wang Haichong, Yu Hong agreed angrily and helplessly, and went out with the guards angrily with the big tent curtain.
After subduing Yu Hong and no longer interfering, Zhang Qin went out of the tent and announced to the crew gathered outside: "The infected people stay here, and the fleet sets sail." ”
The crew members who heard the news yelled excitedly, only Yu Hong and his guards felt uncomfortable, and silently prepared food for the sick subordinates who were left behind.
"Leaving the sick behind is not the fleet abandoning them, the fleet will prepare all kinds of necessities for them before leaving," Zhang said. When our fleet returns to Anton, His Highness will definitely send a fleet to pick them up......"
"Mr. Zhang's name is ......," the crew members who were not sick happily complimented Zhang Qin.
In the following days, the fleet burned all the clothes used by the sick and found a small island with fresh water, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack not far from the large island where the camp was stationed, and built a strong camp for the patients who remained. They also left two swords, guns, bows, and crossbows, and two small boats, and half of the arrows left in the fleet, and half of the remaining grain was hoarded in the camp, so that they could live here for three months.
After March, they either died of illness or survived.
The sick Dr. Xiao was also left behind, and the thirty-three patients lay on the tower of the camp, watching the farther and farther fleets from a distance and were silent.
Dr. Xiao left two lines of tears and said bitterly: "The old man can't go back!" ”