That night, Hong Tao's team set up camp by the canal, seven or eight kilometers north of the Daimyo's Mansion, and spent the night peacefully, nothing happened. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 But when I set off again the next day, there was a big problem, and the canal was blocked. Early in the morning, only two hours after the march began, the troops in charge of the security of the transport ships came to report that there was a silt in the canal and the fleet was impassable.

"Uncle, do you think it will be caused by disrepair, or let's leave the reserve camp and dig it here, just make do with the boat, and wait until we get to the place, and then see if we need to organize people to re-dredge the entire section of the canal that is not very smooth. This river is still very important, and Lao Kong and I have already discussed it, and we must inform the imperial government to send additional troops to strengthen the defense of this river. A military fortress should be set up every ten kilometers north of Huaishui, garrisoned by hundreds of ten people, echoing each other, and according to the intensity of the bandits here, it is enough to deter them. In this way, it is possible to rely on this river to transfer materials and personnel from the south to the north, and the whole problem cannot be solved by sea alone. ”

Hearing the news, Hong Tao did not dare to slack off, and personally ran to the edge of the canal to take a look. The silted section of the river is not long or severe, except that there is a hidden dam in the water through which the water can pass and the small boats are not in the way, but the large ships with heavy loads cannot pass. Bo Jiao probably heard Hong Tao talk about this canal, and also knew that it had not been officially used for more than 100 years, especially in the north, which had fallen into disrepair for a long time, and it was reasonable to silt up. He is more concerned about how to make use of this canal and contribute to the future construction of the north, and his vision is not insignificant.

"I'll talk about it later, but now I want to know that the banks of the river here haven't collapsed, and there are no tall buildings on either side, so how did this dam come about? Is it really natural? How could it not be elsewhere? Have you checked before, and are there any similar sections of the river ahead? "Bo Jiao thinks long-term, but Hong Tao's vision is very, very short-sighted. He deliberately dismounted, walked along the shore, and then went to the other side in a small boat to look, and began to be cautious.

"Report to the Prime Minister, we usually go one kilometer forward, and we have not found anything like that so far......," the captain of the Imperial Army answered Hong Tao's question clearly.

"Uncle, do you suspect that someone deliberately blocked the river to prevent us from passing?" Bo Jiao understood what Hong Tao meant.

"What do you say? I don't think it's like a silt caused by disrepair, which has accumulated over the years, and there must be traces of aquatic plants on the shore, but I don't see anything here. The river bank is very neat, there is not even grass, why is there an extra dark dam in the river? It doesn't make sense! "Hong Tao doesn't know much about water conservancy projects, but he has fished around a lot in his life, and he has come into contact with various reservoirs and rivers more than once. Whenever he went to a body of water, his first task was to find a fish passage, that is, to find a place where it was easy to silt up, and it didn't look like it was a natural formation.

"You're saying someone is planning to ambush our convoy! However, the local tyrants should not allow such a large-scale bandit to appear, so they themselves ...... You don't suspect that these local giants are going to attack us! We are under the banner of the Great Song Dynasty, will they have such courage? Kong Pei somewhat understood what Hong Tao was worried about, but he still couldn't figure out why the local Haoqiang would attack the imperial court's fleet, and it was a bit risky to do so.

"People's courage increases with their profits, and the things on our dozens of transport ships are enough for some people to take risks. As for the banner of the imperial court, this thing works south of Huaishui, and after crossing the Yellow River, it is like a child's fart curtain, and it can't even cover its belly, where is the face. If there were, it wouldn't go anywhere and no one would care. I'm guessing, I'm not sure anyone will actually attack us. But there is a sentence in the Royal Navy that you should not forget, what did I say back then? Hong Tao picked up the binoculars and looked around, the north in winter was really desolate, there was nothing.

"Danger is a big beauty, as long as you feel a hint of her taste, you must try your best to find it, otherwise you will not be able to marry a daughter-in-law for the rest of your life." Bo Jiao blurted out without even thinking about it, which caused a group of army soldiers around him to laugh. They hadn't heard of this famous naval saying, and they couldn't understand how such a skinless and faceless sentence could become a famous quote of the Royal Navy.

"Laugh ass! When will it be the turn of the army to laugh at the navy, there are still some rules! Stand upright and turn backwards...... Bad luck! But their ridicule angered Bo Jiao, and although he was no longer a naval officer, he had always thought that he was still a navy. The prime minister and mayor are just his job, and others can laugh at his job for not doing a good job, but he must not laugh at the navy, that is his belief.

"Okay, let's come and find this big beauty now and see if she's here! However, all big beauties are generally more reserved, and she doesn't dare to show up when there are too many of us. So let's divide half of the reserve battalion to dig the dam here, and I'll stay with the soldiers who were supposed to guard the fleet and my guard, and you two find someone to ride my horse and pretend to be me, and then continue north along the canal with most of it. Don't deliberately walk too slowly, so that the big beauty will find out, and she should be suspicious. After you marched for twelve hours, you immediately turned around and returned quickly, I am here to guard, there is really a big beautiful woman coming, my body can still make do with a day, if she doesn't come, I don't want to, okay? Hong Tao felt that this big beauty was likely to come, and that would be a bit interesting. Instead of scaring her away from meeting, it is better to hook her up and lie down on the spot, lest she go elsewhere in the future to attract bees and butterflies and harm people, who will enter if I don't go to hell?

Bo Jiao is right, this canal is very important for the new government to pass through the north, and the local tyrants cannot be allowed to be too arrogant. Although he hasn't freed up his hands to deal with them, he has to let the other party understand when he should give some color, the current court is not a soft persimmon, whoever wants to pinch it, the current court is a big durian, smelly and hard, so that they can converge and converge.

"That's not going to work, and you can't be a bait. Captain, I'll leave you five hundred men, and all the marines on the ship are under your command, and you need to hold on here for twenty hours, can you complete the mission? As soon as Bo Jiao heard that Hong Tao wanted to stay by himself, he immediately quit, stretched out his hand and grabbed Hong Tao's arm to prevent him from dismounting, and then began to give tasks to his army.

"If the opponent is the Great Song New Army, I can't complete the task, and I think the other armies are fine." The captain's answer was not impassioned at all, he and Bo Jiao were like buying vegetables in the vegetable market, and they bargained with each other.

"The new army of the Great Song Dynasty is all south of the Yangtze River, and the people who come are similar to them, are there any problems?" Bo Jiao was not in a hurry, and clarified the task for the captain.

"No more!" This time, the captain stopped talking nonsense, and stretched out his hand to salute Bo Jiao Lizheng, indicating that he accepted the task.

"I have! Don't be in a hurry to salute first, what will you give to five hundred? Let me ask you, if you were to add 100 people, you might face thousands or tens of thousands of bandits, and you were asked to hold on for 20 hours, would you be able to complete the task? Hong Tao wrapped his wrist around Bo Jiao's arm, broke out of his control, and stopped the captain who was about to run away.

“…… I really can't guarantee this amount of troops. I have only two hundred, and three hundred with a hundred. If a fight really breaks out, I will assign at least fifty men to guard the reserve camp of more than 500 people, so as to prevent them from fighting back or taking advantage of the chaos to escape. In addition, I assigned dozens of people to guard each ship, and there were only more than 200 mobile troops in my hands, and I also scored points for defense on both sides of the strait, which is not too difficult for me. ”

The officers of the Imperial Army and the Navy have a moral character, and they will not accept orders that they cannot complete in advance, and will never accept them with gritted back molars. Because it means that after the war, the division of responsibilities is a problem, and if it is a reasonable order, the responsibility for not completing the task lies with the commander on the field, and that is to go to court-martial. If it is not a reasonable order, it does not mean that it will not be carried out because of fear of death, but it must be explained in advance, so as not to be charged with delaying the fighter plane after the war, and then tried in absentia by a military court, it will be too unfair, everyone will die in battle, and the reputation will be ruined.

"So, I have to do this job, and none of you can do it. You can't command my guards, and you won't use their weapons. With more than 100 of them here, you can beat 300 of you, especially in defensive battles. Don't pout, you'll understand when the fight starts. You can't suddenly add too many people here, if the other party really wants to come, then it's not staring at us for a day or two, people are also expected to have a telescope, and our every move is estimated to be hidden. If you want a big beauty, you are afraid that your body will not be able to bear it, and you plan to ask a few more people to wheel rice together, but it will not work. The two of you don't have a woman's relationship, so let's wait to see the Spring Palace paintings, I have to do this job. Let's go steadily, I want to come back soon, my body bones, that is, the ability to resist a night, I am old, and my waist is not strong. Hearing the captain's answer, Hong Tao was happy, and he knew that this task could not be accomplished by the Imperial Army alone, and the firing density and lethality of their weapons and equipment were far from enough. If this is changed to 300 Mexika Marines, as long as the food supply is enough, it will be no problem to hold on for a week. Regardless of whether the opponent is cavalry or infantry, mortar bombing, medium and long-range sniper shooting, medium- and long-range shotgun shotgun shotguns, and pistols and grenades at close range are far away. The troops that can break through the blockade line with such intensity of fire have not yet been born in this world.

(To be continued.) )