Chapter 170: The Sheepskin Raft
"Huh?" Yang Shuo frowned slightly, he heard Liu Ji say that Fenshui would be full of corpses in a few days, but he didn't expect Liu Ji's strategy to be related to Fenshui, but he didn't know how to make Feng Ji vomit blood on Fenshui, this is not the glory of Jiangnan that cannot stage the Battle of Chibi.
Zhao Yun was also confused by Liu Ji, scratched his head, and looked at Liu Ji suspiciously.
Liu Ji turned around and pointed to the Fenshui River, "Lord Gong and Zilong have seen those sheepskin rafts by the river!" ”
The sheepskin raft is a raft made of sheep cowhide, which is an ancient ferry tool preserved by the folk along the Yellow River, and it is also a ferry tool that has been used in ancient times to the present. In ancient times, the people "sewed leather into a bag", filled the air and used it for swimming. Before the Tang Dynasty, this tool was called "leather sac", but in the Song Dynasty, the skin pouch was a complete skin that was hollowed out of internal organs after slaughtering cattle and sheep, and was no longer sewn together, so it was renamed "muddy". Do the "full" solution, and peel off the skin. At first, people used a single leather bag or muddy to swim across, and later in order to increase the load capacity, a number of muddy joints were put together, put on the wooden raft, and then tied with a small rope to form a whole, that is, "raft". It is the main means of transport in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. Ancient poem: "Where a reed is, Ling Wan is at a loss". It refers to the scene of the raft breaking the turbid waves and crossing the dangerous beach.
China has a long history of using rafts as a crossing. According to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, when Captain Huqiang led the soldiers to cross the Yellow River in Guide, Qinghai, he "sewed leather bags for boats"; "Water Jing Note? Ye Yushui Chapter", "In the twenty-third year of Han Jianwu (47 AD), the king sent troops to the south by leather boat"; (Old Tang Book?) Dongnu Guo Biography) contains, "use leather cattle as boats to ferry"; Bai Juyi in "Changqing Collection? The poem in "Barbarian in the Dynasty": "The pan-leather boat crosses the rope bridge, from the Ezhou road"; History of the Song Dynasty? The Biography of Wang Yande contains, "With sheepskin as a bag, blowing air really floats in the water". It can be seen that since the Han and Tang dynasties, rafts have been used along the Yellow River from Qinghai to Shandong, and have endured for a long time. Its characteristic is that it can only go down the river, not upstream, which can be described as "the person who enters the water takes the raft, and the raft on the water takes the person".
Sheepskin raft, Yang Shuo is no stranger, the Yellow River crosses Hedong, Hongnong, Luoyang three places, as long as you walk on the bank of the Yellow River, you can see a large number of sheepskin rafts of different sizes, when you went to Hedong from Hongnong Maojindu, there are a large number of sheepskin rafts in addition to ferries, Yang Shuo originally wanted to go up to feel it, but due to time constraints, he finally gave up, and the biggest feature of the sheepskin raft is that it can only go down the river.
"The sheepskin raft can only go down the river, can the military advisor still let the sheepskin raft go against the current?" Yang Shuo said with a wry smile.
Liu Ji smiled secretly, "Of course it's impossible, but I can send someone to ......!"
Listening to Liu Ji's slowly speaking strategy, Yang Shuo nodded again and again, laughing, "Good move, Jiang Taigong fishes the wisher to take the bait!" ”
Liu Ji's strategy has a strong operability, if it succeeds, Yuan Jun will die, even if it is not successful, it will not have a big impact on Yang Shuo, Yang Shuo immediately sent a few soldiers who are well versed in water and know how to know sheepskin rafts in disguise and go north to Taiyuan, and at the same time ordered Xu Huang and Yang Zaixing to lead the army back to Yong'an to prepare for the next battle.
The soldiers and horses sent by the Yuan army in Huo Dashan and Tongtian Mountain were discovered by Yang Shuojun, and the news that they were completely annihilated one after another soon spread to the camp of the Yuan army in Jiexiu. For a while, the Yuan army exploded in the camp, and lost 20,000 soldiers and horses at once, plus the men and horses lost in the previous Fengji to Yong'an battle, a total of 25,000 people were lost, that is to say, before Yang Shuo's army really fought, Yuan Jun had already lost half of his men and horses.
Even if it is a strong attack, it will not be able to lose so many people and horses with human lives, and the dissatisfaction with Feng Ji and unworthy words gradually came out of the mouths of the soldiers, which made Feng Ji, who was originally preparing to wait for the news of Ma Long and Jin Xiang's success, lead the army to besiege Yong'an in one fell swoop, and kill Yang Shuo's Feng Ji was the first to drink, and the rumors of the soldiers made Feng Ji jump like thunder.
Compared with Feng Ji's depression, Pei Qian was heartbroken, the three brothers hugged each other and cried, thinking that they would defeat Yang Shuo with the help of Gao Gan's strength, and even behead him personally, but now he didn't even touch a single hair of Yang Shuo, and two of the five brothers had been killed by Yang Shuo.
"Yang Shuo copied my family and killed my brother, this revenge is not shared!" The fifth Pei Wan was furious, and his eyes were full of sparks of hatred.
"The fifth brother is right, this hatred is not shared, and if you don't kill Yang Shuo, you swear not to be a person!" The second Pei Jun waved his arms and roared.
"The family is in trouble, the third brother and the fourth brother are poisoned again, and the eldest brother and I are also heartbroken, but Yang Shuo has tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and you and I can not compete with it!" The boss Pei Qian couldn't cry when he said.
Speaking of sadness, the brothers held their headaches and cried, but they also understood that it was difficult to get revenge with their meager strength alone, and the three brothers cried and cried together and walked out of the Yuan army camp to the bank of the Fenshui River, feeling the cool breeze of early summer, and the three brothers gradually stopped crying.
At this moment, it is dusk, the sparkling Fenshui River seems to be plated with a layer of gold, and a row of sheepskin rafts in the distance flows downstream, and the speed is extremely fast and soon disappears at the end of the Fen River, only the melodious and loud mountain songs echo over the Fen River.
With the swift disappearance of the sheepskin raft, a vague idea suddenly flashed in Pei Qian's mind, but no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't think of it, at this moment, another sheepskin raft drifted and complemented the afterglow of the sunset, almost blending into the golden Fen water, the same sheepskin raft was extremely fast, and it disappeared in Pei Qian's field of vision in the blink of an eye, and the idea in Pei Qian's mind was instantly formed.
"Figured it out! Figured it out! Suddenly, Pei Qian waved his arms and shouted excitedly.
"Big brother, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that the eldest brother, who had always been calm, was like that crazy woman, the second Pei Jun asked puzzled.
"I finally came up with a plan to break Yang Shuo!" Pei Qian said excitedly.
"Then don't hurry up and give it to the godfather!" The second child, Pei Jun, was also excited that the eldest brother could come up with a plan to break Yang Shuo, and he was anxious to persuade him.
The plan was something they came up with, but they couldn't make the decision to implement it, Pei Qian couldn't hold back his eagerness anymore, and strode towards the big tent where Gao Gan was, and suddenly Pei Qian was stunned, turned around and walked in another direction.
Pei Jun, who was following behind, was confused, and hurriedly caught up with Pei Qian and asked, "Aren't you going to give advice to the godson, why did the eldest brother go to the Fengji camp!" "It can be seen that if it weren't for Gao Gan accepting and appreciating their five brothers, they would still be wandering around now, and in Pei Jun's subconscious, this good strategy to break Yang Shuojun's great benefactor should be dedicated to their great benefactor, Gao Gan.