Chapter 264

Zhao Yu nodded and said, "This king has also thought about this, but the bamboo tube is too heavy, a bamboo tube containing half a catty of water, let alone ten taels!" And have you thought about it? It took us three days to get to Longshui City, but we didn't have many troops, we needed to find the right fighters, and we needed to stay near Longshui City. The boiling water that needs to be prepared can't be used for three days! ”

The faces of the others also became solemn.

Li Shouzhong said: "Lord Wang, this is really a big trouble!" The soldiers in the army carried a lot of them, and they had to carry so much boiling water, not to mention that the marching speed was seriously slowed down! It's such a burden, I'm afraid it will make the soldiers complain and lower their morale! ”

Yang Wenguang touched his chin and said: "It's not going to be complaining, as long as you talk about it, the soldiers know that this is done to prevent the water and soil from adapting, and they will understand." It's just that the carrying capacity is so large, but the morale is bound to be lower! ”

Zhao Yu finally thought of a way that was not a solution. "Boiling water is a certainty, and now it is ordered to cut down the bamboo and make water cylinders. The morale of the soldiers is low, you generals should always pay attention, talk to the soldiers below a lot, gather the soldiers when you are resting, organize the veterans to talk about some battlefield experience, or reminisce about the bittersweet ones! ”

Yang Wenguang, Li Shouzhong and the others nodded, and said helplessly: "Yes, it seems that this is the only way now!" ”

Zhao Yu said to Dr. Luo again: "If there is a disease that is not adapted to water and soil, how many people can be supported for treatment with the medicinal materials in the army now?" ”

Doctor Luo thought for a long time, and then said cautiously: "Although there are medicinal materials in the army that are not suitable for water and soil, but because this march is fast and sudden. Therefore, there are not many medicinal materials that are not suitable for water and soil. After all, it is necessary to prepare a considerable amount of medicinal materials such as hemostasis and stasis. And I used it better before. There is not much stock of Zhengqi pills! If there is a situation where 100 people are not adapted, it is okay to barely do it, but if it exceeds this number, it can only be said that there is nothing that can be done! ”

Zhao Yu said helplessly: "It can only be like this!" ”

It's just that the follow-up things didn't go so well, not because of the drinking water, but because the road ahead was found to have been abandoned for too long and needed to be carved out by itself. The new road opened was narrow, and on the first day four soldiers fell to their deaths. This caused a lot of resentment among the soldiers in the army. They don't think they should go any further.

Fortunately, Zhao Yu's prestige is quite good, and the generals in the army pay close attention to the emotions of the soldiers, so they can find out in time. On the one hand, Zhao Yu came up with a way to deal with it, so that all the soldiers advancing on the mountain road should be tied to their waists with a long rope in a team (full of 25 people), so that no one would fall to his death if he stumbled. If there is no rope, this is even better, what kind of place is this? Deep in the mountains and old forests! It's not easy to find an old mountain vine?

On the other hand, Zhao Yu went to the soldiers. Talk to them and encourage them. This has restored the sluggish morale.

This march made Zhao Yu more deeply understand the hardships of leading the troops. When I rushed to Jingdong East Road, there was no great difficulty in pacifying the Mengshan bandits, all because they were all in the mainland of the Song Dynasty, and it was also an economically developed mainland. Supplies are not a problem at all, and the official roads are even smoother, and there are tall trees planted on both sides of the road, so you can rest if you want to cool off.

Finally got out of this mountain, a thousand raid troops, and only a combat strength of more than 900 remained!

Zhao Yu arranged for some people to send the wounded and sick to Liucheng to recuperate. At this moment, the number of people immediately became nine hundred, and it was still an integer, which really made Zhao Yu feel like he couldn't cry or laugh after reading the documents that were submitted.

It took half a day to cut down timber from the vicinity to build and collect more than a dozen fishing boats, and under the guidance of fishermen who are familiar with the nearby waters, they crossed Longshui smoothly.

In order to hide their whereabouts, as soon as the army crossed the dragon water, they immediately entered the mountains and forests. Although a lot of preparations had been made before, the non-combat attrition was still considerable, and after three days, only about 860 people were still able to fight hard. The rest of the soldiers were either bitten by poisonous snakes and poisonous insects, or they couldn't help but drink raw water with hunger and thirst, or mistakenly ate poisonous mushrooms.

No matter what, Zhao Yu also breathed a sigh of relief, when he arrived outside Longshui City, how could things be easier.

As is customary, a military council was convened immediately. This time it was a little strange, everyone came, but Zhao Yu didn't see Yang Wenguang. Zhao Yu frowned, and ordered Zhao Yingwu, who was standing near the door of the tent, "What's wrong with Zhongrong?" Haven't come yet? Ah Wu, you send someone to find it! ”

"Yes!" Zhao Yingwu promised and went out to explain to a palace guard outside the tent.

Zhao Yu said: "Although Zhong Rong has not come yet, we can't delay time because of him alone, let's discuss the situation of each department first!" By the way, Zijing, how much military rations are there now? ”

Zhao Yu looked at Du Xiansheng as he spoke, Du Xiansheng frowned, and said: "The situation is a little tense, now there are only forty stones left in the food, and the soldiers still have the instant food powder they carry, and it is estimated that there should be two more days' supply." ”

"Forty stones! One stone is only ninety-two and a half catties (Song catty, equivalent to 640 grams), and a person needs half a catty a day, and he needs four hundred and fifty catties a day, about four stones and eight buckets. In this way, even if you add instant powder, it will be used for ten days. There is indeed some tension in terms of food! Zhao Yu nodded.

"The morale of the soldiers below is okay, but if the time drags on too long, I'm afraid it will be low! After all, we have less than 900 men, and the enemy is tens of thousands. Once discovered, the consequences will be unimaginable. This pressure is too much for the soldiers below, especially since there are a lot of new recruits! Li Shouzhong said.

Zhao Yu said: "It seems that we must fight quickly!" ”

The generals below nodded in agreement.

Zhao Yu frowned fiercely and said, "Ah Wu, why hasn't the person you sent come back yet?" And what about Zhongrong? As a pioneer, he has the heavy responsibility of investigating intelligence, and he has not returned, how can the military discussion below continue? ”

Zhao Yingwu arched his hand towards Zhao Yu with some stupidity, and said, "Back to the prince, someone has already come back to report just now, but this news is ......"

"That's it! Let's just say it! Zhao Yu frowned and said.

"Yes!" Zhao Yingwu said slightly apologetically: "The guards came back to report, Commander Yang took people out to investigate the situation when he was just set up camp, and he hasn't come back yet!" ”

Zhao Yu asked, "When was Zhong Rong going out?" ”

"Shen Shi Shi two o'clock!" Zhao Yingwu replied.

Zhao Yu said: "It's unitary time now, right? ”

"It's already three quarters of the hour!" Zhao Yingwu said: "It's been more than an hour since I went out!" ”

Zhao Yu muttered, "Something must have happened, right?" ”

As soon as the words fell, a person broke in at the other end, looking panicked. "Lord Wang, something is wrong!"

"Who are you?" Zhao Yu shouted.

Only then did the man come back to his senses and hurriedly report his identity. "Back to the prince's words, the villain is General Yang's personal soldiers."

"Where's your general?" Zhao Yu's heart tightened, and a bad feeling welled up in his heart.

"Lord Wang, you save my general!" The pro-soldier, a dignified iron man, couldn't help crying at this time.

From the sobbing answer of the soldiers, Zhao Yu slowly knew the reason and process of the incident.

Yang Wenguang was not going to go out to explore the road in person, but a soldier came back to report and found a team of Anhuaman's scouts. However, after following the distance for a while, the Song scouts found that this pair was not an ordinary Anhuaman, because they were in charge of guarding, and there was an Anhuaman general hunting nearby.

The Song army scouts naturally did not dare to delay, and immediately told Yang Wenguang the news. Yang Wenguang probably wanted to take the credit alone, or maybe he was afraid that the Anhua barbarian general would take the lead, so he didn't have time to report it. Whatever the reason, Zhao Yu didn't know about it.

After Yang Wenguang left the camp with his soldiers and horses, he immediately pounced on the general. When he arrived nearby, someone around Yang Wenguang recognized the identity of this general, who was Shi Fukuang, the former assassin of Jincheng Prefecture and now canonized as the king of Jincheng by Feng Changqi. It's a great fish!

Yang Wenguang led people to kill him at the moment, because of hunting, and there were tens of thousands of troops nearby. Shi Fukuang thought that there was not much danger nearby, and bringing too many people and horses would scare away the prey, so there were only five or six people around, and even if the nearby guards were added, they were only in their early thirties!

The total number of troops under Yang Wenguang's command is more than 120 people! And he is still in the Guangzhou Forbidden Army, not to mention the martial arts, the equipment alone is several levels higher than Shi Fu Kuang's personal soldiers.

With just one charge, he defeated Shi Fukuang's personal soldiers. However, because of Shi Fukuang's resistance from his own soldiers, he was able to have time to escape, and Yang Wenguang also knew that it was powerful. If Shi Fukuang ran away, wouldn't it expose the whereabouts of the Song army?

Therefore, he chased after him all the way, and finally caught Shi Fukuang halfway. It's just that at this time, An Huaman also came back to his senses, and a team of people arrived. If it is really a success, Xiao He is also defeated, and the equipment of the forbidden army is famous! Question: What is the best equipment? Naturally, it's ironclad! The heavy iron armor protected the Praetorian soldiers, but it dragged them down during this retreat.

Unable to escape, Yang Wenguang had to lead his troops to retreat to a small hill fourteen miles away from Zhao Yu's temporary camp to defend.

Although An Huaman couldn't help Yang Wenguang, Yang Wenguang also fell into this small hill.

The pro-soldier suddenly knelt down at this time and said, "Lord Wang, General Yang has a sentence here that the villain must say." But the villain has been hiding it all along! ”

Zhao Yu frowned, and said dissatisfiedly: "Say it!" This king looks at him Yang Wenguang, what has something to say at this time! ”

In anger, Zhao Yu didn't use the affectionate title of "Zhongrong", but used the title Yang Wenguang. It was rude for ancient people to call other people's names directly, and you can imagine how much Zhao Yu's senses for Yang Wenguang had been reduced at this time. (To be continued......)