Chapter 268: Sea Disciples (Text)

And no matter how Guangfu is, because of this assassination incident, how chickens and dogs jump, and how to deal with and compensate for the aftermath.

Facing the scorching sun and sea breeze, I am already on the sea journey to the north.

The so-called levy period is like fire, and it has priority over one qiē, so the follow-up has nothing to do with me for the time being, and can only be left for the future.

This assassination incident also reminded me that more reliable personnel were transferred from my hometown in Borneo to strengthen the screen for the remaining core of my family, such as the mysterious creatures.

In a certain sense, the importance of the front and the rear is incompatible. Even if I leave, the follow-up investigation will continue, so we have to take precautions.

Moreover, after I went north, my whereabouts were classified as military secrets, and I had to stay in the barracks for a long time, and obviously there was no safer place than surrounded by a large army.

The sound of ping-pong shooting brought my mind back from Canton, where my subordinates were on the side of the ship, conducting their daily shooting training, using gulls or swimming fish, or even empty bottles and cans as targets.

Shooting on a rocky deck and dropping floating objects in the sea is undoubtedly quite challenging, not only to improve eyesight, feel and reaction efficiency, but also to develop a kind of small group coordination.

But once you get used to this frequency and rhythm of shooting, you have nothing to fear even when you encounter a shipwright in a naval battle.

As the chief officer, I even specially allowed them to conduct some kind of small-scale gambling game according to the shooting rate, and then according to the ranking, some small items were distributed as rewards to stimulate the enthusiasm for conscious training.

Three battalions, about 5,000 men and horses of the 11th regiment, were scattered in groups of 16 on the sea, and more than 2,000 armed auxiliaries and baggage were on the latter regiment, which had to start one step later.

But we are only the tip of this huge fleet, and the undulating sea is full of sailing ships, mighty like schools of fish swimming back, driven by the puffed sails, trying to go north, dragging out dense trails of wakes and waves.

Behind the huge group of ships are all kinds of official and private ships, moving with the flames of war, seeking benefits between swords and swords, which is already a great beam influenced by maritime culture, and has always been a common tradition.

Even the Northern Expedition launched by the national dynasty with all its strength could not avoid these powerful businessmen who chased the smell of copper and blood.

Although letting these inevitably affect the discipline and morale of the army, on the other hand, these "volunteer businessmen" who bring their own money, food, and materials to be active in front of the army can provide some kind of substitution and supplementary effect in logistics and equipment.

Therefore, it has always been a mixed reputation, and there are those who severely denounce the ban in the court, but there are also many people who fight to defend it.

As one of my designated military businessmen, Zheng Zhou also brought a group of veterans to the north with me.

In the words of his self-recommendation, Zheng Zhou has been unfavorable all these years, running a few places all over the world, but he has not been able to do a similar business, and he also folded his old book into it, until he met me, he completely stopped the loss and began to improve, so the business of traditional dealers is really unable to continue, so I hugged my thighs tightly and said more about it.

There is also a companion, I don't know where I got the fat hole that changed to a pair of "Litong Firm" vests, he said that he hoped to be able to see the scenery of the Northland, and by the way to see what new market opportunities there were.

The expedition was imminent, and that Guo team was also returning to the team, bringing a group of gunners who had begun to take shape, and finally filled the shortage of my artillery team that did not match the name.

It's just that after he changed back to his real name, I struggled for a while. Because his original name was "Guo Yaoshi".

Your sister, I'm not so bad when I don't read much, he is actually called Guo Yaoshi?

I pondered all day long about collecting historical celebrities, and accidentally stored such a strange thing, in normal time and space, he is a strange person known for being good at changing the master and the object of allegiance, "three family slaves".

As a general of the Youzhou Han army recruited by the Liao State to defend against the Jin, he was first bribed by Houlu, a high-ranking official in the south, and surrendered to the Song Dynasty with Liao, and was about to attack Liao.

It turned out that the wealthy Emperor Song was just a weak and middle-looking goods, and he wanted to pick up cheap and go all out for the Northern Expedition, but he was slapped back by the bloody Liao State, and immediately changed his course and surrendered the Jin people, becoming the vanguard of the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the end, as a Han general, a generation of traitors who were given the surname Wanyan by the Jin Emperor, personally participated in and witnessed the ups and downs of the three dynasties of high-end speculators, and finally died peacefully.

I thought about finding an opportunity to throw him into the sea to prevent future troubles.

In the end, I still pressed this thought, to say that the historical celebrities, plus the two new kidnapping, my subordinates are almost more than half a dozen, no matter how many such places come, I am not afraid of turning over any waves, but the corresponding officers who can artillery and command, for me, it is really a bit precious.

This voyage also gave me a glimpse of the mobilization efficiency under the national system of Daliang, thanks to the well-developed straight road system outside the ridge and the well-preserved cable telegraph network.

Almost every time we docked, we had correspondingly prepared soldiers and horses, ready to go, boarded the ship and joined the group, like a snowball, so that our ship group was expanding day by day.

This situation also reached a critical point after the boat group crossed the sea off Chaozhou and could overlook the Meishan Pass, which divides the inner and outer mountains, and the huge ship group began to shrink gradually.

Almost every day, boats full of soldiers leave the group and go ashore separately, or change to sand boats that are more suitable for inland rivers near the shore, and go up the river from the estuaries where they go to sea.

We were the only ones on the boat, continuing to move towards the unexpected.

According to the requirements of the dynasty and the instructions of the Privy Council, the seven generals of the new army had different tasks to go north, and the places they put into the army were also strictly kept secret, and they would only be informed when they arrived at the place.

"General, the tide is getting urgent, and I am afraid of a surge"

The head of the ship hurriedly walked over and reminded him,

"Please go back to the cabin and take shelter for ......"

According to the tradition of the Daliang Naval Division, with a single ship as the minimum establishment, with the head of the leader, corresponding to the corresponding position of the land division, my ship, including the navy and sailors, maintained a hundred or so manpower on weekdays, so he commanded these people with the rank of a team leader.

I sighed, looking at the sky that had darkened a little, but it was already overcast, and the wind flowing in the air became a little rapid and cool, I am afraid that there is a wind and wave.

Then I realized that I seemed to have underestimated the scale and power of this storm, and the so-called turbidity waves emptied and rippled like mountains. The huge sea ship is like a toy in a bathtub, undulating between the peaks of the wave wall.

And we, the passengers, could only be quite helpless, turned upside down in the cabin, as if on a roller coaster, with those jingling utensils and the wind outside whistling, let out one exclamation after another.

From time to time, there are soldiers who fail to be fixed, so they fall to the ground, and their noses are bruised and their faces are swollen and even their heads are bleeding.

And the deck outside was already a call sign rushing to ride a piece. The sailors who accompanied the ship were struggling to adjust the sails, inspect and secure the items on the deck. It seems that I have long been accustomed to this.

The waves of the canopy, with the swaying and undulating hull, poured in through the portholes of the waterline, or slapped directly on the deck, making a kind of dull sound, and then turned into a trickle of seeping water in the overhead cracks.

The person who was a little outside was already wet, and his mouth and nose were full of the salty smell of the tide. It was also mixed with the smell of vomit and blood, which filled the relatively cramped and closed cabin with an unpleasant feeling of suffocation.

The squeaky planks and compartments swayed violently between the crests and valleys, as if they were wailing and moaning under some powerful external force, as if they did not know when the next moment would be overwhelmed and shattered.

The unpredictable nature of the sea has taught us a good lesson, and I have even heard some people samming and muttering that as long as we can get through this experience, no matter how hard the land march is, we will not be able to cross the sea by boat.

I was only halfway through the expedition, and God immediately gave me such a dismount.