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"Makes sense." Wei Changfeng nodded. It seems that he is thinking too simply.

Ma Yong listened to Wei Changfeng and Bai Qi suddenly say that it was Sun Daochang, and suddenly said no, his heart was anxious, he grabbed the scroll brush and unfolded the painting, and said hatefully: "If you want to say anything, just say it clearly, and writing a few words is better than painting this thing...... Hey? He stopped talking abruptly, his eyes fixed on the bottom of the painting.

Bai Qi and Wei Changfeng immediately looked at the bottom of the painting. Fang Cai Wei Changfeng only showed the painting, and did not open the painting completely, so everyone didn't see what was painted at the bottom of the painting until this time.

Although the top half of the painting is incomprehensible, the bottom of the painting is understandable.

It was a raft. It is made of logs and ropes, and can float on the river like a boat, which has a relatively large bearing capacity and a lot of space, but it is not as safe and comfortable as a boat, and it cannot withstand strong winds and waves, and it is not very flexible. But if the flow is smooth, there is no big problem in the river.

"It's a raft!" Ma Yong's eyes lit up, "It's just that there seems to be something on it." ”

"That seems to be used as a rudder." Bai Qi said, pointing to the back of the raft in the painting.

"This is an oar, right?" Wei Changfeng also looked at the painting and studied it.

Ma Yong raised his head, his face flushed with excitement: "This old way really has a set!" We are now blocked by the river, and it is too late to build a boat, so he specially gave us a plan to build a raft! Five miles away is the Great Liao Mountain, there are so many logs, it is really a good way to build a raft! He didn't say that Sun Daochang was making a mistake this time.

Wei Changfeng and Bai Qi nodded in unison.

Sometimes the solution is really right in front of you. Although it takes time to build a raft, it is much faster than building a boat, but how to build this raft so that it can be strong and fast is a difficult problem, and now this diagram seems to be designed to solve this problem.

"Someone!" Ma Yong shouted excitedly, "Quickly send the armory!" Pull him out of the covers for me and see me! The herald agreed and turned to leave, and Ma Yong added, "The herald doesn't need to arrest the assassin, that person is not an assassin!" ”

"No!" Wei Changfeng and Bai Qi shouted in unison.

Ma Yong was stunned.

"The armorer must be able to understand this picture, and the armorer has to make this thing." Ma Yong explained.

Bai smiled and looked at Wei Changfeng.

"General Ma, that's not what we're talking about." Wei Changfeng replied, "I mean that this assassin still needs to be arrested." ”

"Huh?" Ma Yong's mouth opened wide.

Wei Changfeng also smiled.

He likes Ma Yong's character. Although this General Ma is indeed deficient in strategy, he is bold and does not have any conspiracy, such a person deserves to be patiently explained.

"Although we don't know what Sun Daochang did for Lu, since Sun Daochang refused to show up, of course he didn't want to be known that he did it, right?" Wei Changfeng began heuristic education.

"That's right." Ma Yong nodded. He also knew that he was really not good at strategy, so although Wei Changfeng was a general, he obediently accepted Wei Changfeng's education.

"So, if we don't catch the assassin, aren't we telling everyone that this assassin is here to help us?" Wei Changfeng broke the mystery.

Ma Yong patted his head, said "Hi", and said to the herald: "Keep catching the assassins!" Pass the armory! ”

The "Assassins" were caught all night, but to no avail.

In fact, the soldiers did not find anything, several soldiers reported seeing a man in black, but several generals did not pay attention to it with unprecedented "negligence".

The sky has not yet fully brightened, and the Chinese military tent is already brightly lit. But a group of generals had already gathered neatly in the Chinese military tent, and Fang Zhenhai had also sat in the middle. Although everyone got up super early, everyone's faces were shining.

This is really a desperate situation, no one thought that the problem of no road near the river would suddenly have hope of being solved, so everyone's fatigue was swept away.

In the corner of the tent, several armourers were arguing in low voices, pointing at the two paintings. One is naturally the picture of the raft, and the other is a strange painting that Wei Changfeng got from Sun Daochang. Wei Changfeng saw the raft map, and it has been determined that the strange painting given to him by Sun Daochang must also be an important ordnance manufacturing map, no wonder Sun Daochang said that because "General Wei is dedicated to the people" and sent him to paint, Wei Changfeng initially thought that there might be some great plan to stabilize the country in this painting, but now it seems that he was wrong, this painting should be an important ordnance, which is really helpful. So take it out and show it to the armory.

Several armorers studied for a while, and finally turned around, saluted Fang Zhenhai, and reported: "General Yu Fenwei, the first picture that can be determined to be a raft manufacturing map, we understand this picture, according to this way, fifty people can cut down trees and belts to make rafts, and two can be tied up in one day." ”

"Will it be strong?" Fang Zhenhai asked.

The armorer was also full of joy: "It is very strong, and it has rudders, oars and sails, it is simple to make, flexible to operate, and can be directly put into the Liao River below from the rapids of the Great Liao Mountain." A raft carrying twenty or thirty people, equipment, and food is no problem, and in the case of the Liaohe River, even if the raft is used for three or five months, there will be no major problems. ”

Fang Zhenhai patted the chair excitedly and said with a smile: "Where you need to use it for three or five months, it is enough to use it for ten days and eight days." What's the other picture? ”

(2) "General Yu Fenwei, we didn't understand. The armorer replied with some shame, "I can only roughly guess that this is a kind of mechanism." ”

Fang Zhenhai snorted. Although he was a little disappointed that he didn't understand the second picture, after all, it was very good that the first picture had such good news, so he waved his hand and said: "From today onwards, you will immediately start instructing the soldiers to make rafts, and tomorrow at this time, the rafts will be ready to be used at any time!" ”

The armorer was startled for a moment, and hurriedly said, "General, this is really difficult. It will take us half a day to go up to Da Liao Mountain. ”

Fang Zhenhai smiled: "Of course I know it." But we can stay up all night, can we? Since everyone is marching on a raft, you can rest on the raft, so let's all work hard tonight. ”

Only then did the armourer understand, so he had to say yes and leave with the other armourers.

The atmosphere in the tent immediately became warm. Now as soon as the armorymen left, all the generals immediately asked for orders, some asked to go up the mountain to cut wood, some asked for command to tie the raft, some asked the commander to prepare ropes, and everyone volunteered.

Fang Zhenhai was also in a good mood, discussing with the generals one by one, who would do what, and every time a task was set, a general hurriedly left the account.

You must know that this time the situation is a big reversal. Previously, it was calculated that it would take 12 days to travel 600 miles, and there was harassment and all kinds of unpredictable obstacles from the small Donghu army in between, but now, all this has changed. Traveling down the river on a raft is not a lot of work, and judging from the water potential of the Liao River, the raft in the water is not too slow, at least not slower than a person's walk. In this way, the Ministry of War said that it would take Dongfeng and Xifeng in 20 days, at least in terms of time and physical strength. The military strength of the Donghu army is now seriously insufficient, so the possibility of success in this battle is still not small.

In the bustle, Ma Yong was also asking for a task, and got a task of rectifying the shore defense and establishing a ferry, and when the raft was lowered along the rapids from the Daliao Mountain, he concentrated at the ferry, and then the main force of the army boarded the raft from the ferry and set off.

Ma Yong felt that his task was very important, he was extremely happy in his heart, and called Wei Changfeng with a smile, and the two hurriedly returned to the camp together.

Ma Yong also thought that his head was big, and he forgot the east and forgot the west, so he couldn't help but complain and regret fighting for this task.

Wei Changfeng said with a smile: "General Ma, there is no perfect person in the world. We don't have this ability, but it's not that others don't. The last will recommend a man who is ten times more powerful than the combination of you and me. ”

Ma Yong snorted, punched Wei Changfeng, and scolded with a smile: "There are such capable people, why didn't you say it earlier?" ”

Wei Changfeng laughed happily, feeling that it was really comfortable to cooperate with Ma Yong.

"Who is it? Say it! Ma Yong urged.

"White up." Wei Changfeng replied.

Ma Yong immediately instructed the guards: "Go, immediately pass on General Bai and let him be in charge of the command of the construction of the ferry!" ”

Wei Changfeng was a little surprised, and asked, "General Ma, don't you ask me how I can be sure that he has this ability?" ”

Ma Yong Ha laughed: "How can you not be accurate about what you will say?" If you also look at the wrong person, I believe I will be wrong too, what is there to examine? We don't have time to spend time on these troubles! ”

The two of them were happy to themselves, but they saw a herald rushing to the horse, and before they could get off their horses, they reported loudly: "General Bai Shen urgently report, the prince is missing!" ”

Ma Yong was taken aback and exclaimed, "What's the matter? While asking, he glanced at Wei Changfeng, and said in his heart, Could it be that Wei Yajiang really saw the wrong person? Even if you can't do such a trivial thing as taking care of your princess, how can you say that you have outstanding ability?

The herald had already received Bai Qi's instructions in advance, and he had already understood Ma Yong's possible problems, and replied immediately: "General Bai Shen said, the prince saw that the army was stationed, so he had to go out for a walk, and the white ginseng general was busy preparing materials, and he lost the investigation for a while, and the prince did not return for a long time, and the general Bai Shen was worried that the prince had an accident, so he urgently reported to General Ma, he guessed that the prince might have gone to the small village ten miles away, but he really couldn't find it there, so he asked General Ma to decide." ”

Ma Yong snorted angrily.

Where is this "out of the middle to go for a walk", obviously to have fun. There is neither good wine nor a band in the army, and people like Wang Gonggong, who are in the middle of the interior all day long, can stand it, and now that he has this opportunity, he is naturally looking for fun, and if he can't keep it, he will recruit a few courtesans. If it weren't for the fact that the prince was a eunuch, I was afraid that those ** things would be inevitable.

Bai Qi is not a failure to investigate at all, nor is it that he can't get out, he is considering the identity of the prince, and it is really difficult for a general to arrest the prince, so he reported to Ma Yong.

Thinking of this, Ma Yong looked at Wei Changfeng.