Chapter Eighty-Five: Strange Stones
The road ahead has never been easy. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info worries, worries, and boredom will follow, and if you don't move forward bravely, you will only be depressed and do nothing.
At this time, Yingxu was on the way forward, and God seemed to be intent on testing his will. At noon, dark clouds were gathering between heaven and earth, and a black wind was playing tricks on the west side of the river. Ying Xu had a big mouth, Hei Bo looked calm, and the other people on the boat knelt on the ground and kept begging for the sky. Shenmu still said the words in his mouth, and read it. Wu Yu squinted his little eyes.
The black wind followed the world and landed on the ground, and walked on the left side of the west side of the shore and the right side of the road, and the big trees, grass huts, people and animals were sent to the sky everywhere they passed. Ying Xu was shocked, and he also planned to appreciate this tornado. But before he could sit down, he felt the hull of the ship start to shake. It seems like I'm about to fly. Look at it again, Yaya's, the black wind is coming towards the river. This is okay, Ying Xu kicked Jiang Hai, who was still kneeling on the ground and kowtowing.
"I want to die, hurry up and sail!" Yingxu doesn't want to be blown into the sky. Jiang Hai also woke up from the shock and roared to let the fleet move forward. The wind is getting stronger and stronger, and a small village of Yue people not far from the shore is in ashes in a blink of an eye. The gate was also sent to the sky. Not to mention other pots and pans.
Fortunately, Ying Xu's reaction was relatively fast, and Hei Feng could only reluctantly pass by the fleet. Even so, three small boats in the back were blown off by the black wind and sank into the water. If it's gone, it's gone, just be filial piety to the river god! Ying Xu held his mouth and comforted himself.
Suddenly, Hei Bo dragged Yingxu, and a boulder smashed into the front of the deck where Yingxu was standing just now. The stone is black, black throughout. A large hole was smashed into the deck. What's the situation? It seems that the stone is coming for itself. The guards on the side were all pale with fright, they were all veterans of a hundred battles, and they had seen any scene, but this kind of scene was definitely the first time they had seen it. And the swords in their hands began to rattle. It seems to have been summoned somehow.
Finding that no stones had fallen, Ying Xu moved his steps to see what was going on. At first glance, Ying Xu was also frightened into a cold sweat, the stone is black, yes, but the key is still very smooth, as if someone has cut it. And he was completely sucked by the stone and couldn't move his body. Could it be a youkai? No way! Ying Xu suddenly felt that the world he was in was so terrifying, and suddenly a stone flew in and could absorb people.
Just when Ying Xu was about to shout for help, Hei Bo pointed to Ying Xu's waist with an ugly face, and Ying Xu looked down and saw that the grass turned out to be a magnet. I'm scared to death. Ying Xu, who had recovered his righteousness, untied the thin strap that tied the Zhan Lu sword, and then stood up straight. Let the trembling guards turn the stone over and put it away. The swords of the same guards were also sucked on the magnet, so frightened that the faces of the guards who carried the stones turned green, Ying Xu couldn't joke with them, and told them to untie the swords, the guards reluctantly abandoned their swords on the stones and turned around and ran aside. So Yingxu began to carefully study this strange stone blown by the black wind. The stone is indeed a magnet, and it is a very regular hexahedron.
Looking east and west, looking at Hui Yingxu, he didn't find anything unusual about this stone. The guards saw that there was nothing magical about the boulder, and they all started to caress it. Chen Ping dragged the black boy and wanted to feel it. But the blackboys just don't go to the magnet. No matter how hard Chen Ping tried. Yingxu studied the magnet and found nothing peculiar. Let the guards move the magnet aside and get the ship repaired quickly. The broken magnet was kept first, and that day he was in a bad mood and sank him into the river so that it would never see the light of day.
The stone was simply and rudely handled by Yingxu on the bow of the ship, and rumors began to circulate in the fleet that Yingxu's bow descended a piece of heavenly stone, but **** iron conducts divine power, and then it is necessary to absorb the essence of people to conduct sword divine power, and finally ....... So every curious sergeant would quietly climb onto Yingxu's building boat for an experiment, and finally pedal on a magnet with both feet to pull their sword back.
After Chen Ping settled the black boys, he also came once, but his copper dagger had no effect at all. So I went back sadly. Yingxu, who is used to taking a nap, is always awakened by the sound of footsteps, and when he came to the deck, he saw a group of big men caressing around the stones, some desperately drawing swords, and some holding Changge disappointed.
Just a stone made a fuss, Yingxu was enough, ignoring the boredom of the sergeants, and began to observe the river intently. After entering the upper reaches of the river, even the Yue people camp can not be seen, let alone the Yue people, both sides of the river are all reeds and dense forests, there are no humans, but it is a paradise for animals, tigers, lions, rhinoceros, elephants, wild deer, and the most wild boar. Freely spreading joy by the water, if it weren't for the rush to transport food, Yingxu would definitely have to hunt for a while, these big guys are basically not afraid of people here. There is no need to worry about species extinction and whether it is a protected animal.
From his sketch, Yingxu found that the Oujiang River was originally in Zhejiang in the previous life, but in this era it still belonged to Minyue, which was really a vast land, and the territory of Minyue was not much different from Guanzhong. But one established the Tang and Tang Great Qin Empires with such a large place, while the other was about to be wiped out. When you think about it, it's still a question of population. The population is not enough, the development is not enough, the development is not enough, the population cannot be increased. It's an endless loop. It's a shame that such a large area. Now Yingxu is extremely eager for territory, but he also understands that having land is not a big problem, but population is the biggest problem. Now I can only slowly assimilate and absorb some Yue people. As for the site. When the Min-Vietnam war is over, he will make some contributions. Get a knighthood. Find a remote place in the south to mark a piece of land where birds don't, and no one will object to it.
It wasn't until the afternoon that Yingxu found that there was a Yue camp around the riverbank, although it was very small, but there was nothing, and the scout boat was also released to explore the surrounding situation. The speed of the fleet began to slow down. In the evening, Yingxu directly ordered the fleet to stop in the water. Because the river is getting shallower and shallower. If you go any further, the boat will run aground in the river.
Now that he has reached the upper reaches of the source of the Oujiang River, where did Zhao Zhao go. Could it be that the scouts sent by Zhang Heng did not deliver the letter, it is impossible, there are six teams of nearly sixty people lined up in front and back, at least one team should be able to reach the front army. The victory or defeat of a local war is too fortuitous. Ying Xu was very worried that such an accident would happen on the Minyue battlefield. So take more insurance for any action. If the army has been annihilated, he will definitely run away with the fleet immediately, and the waterway is undoubtedly the fastest, with the river. Protect yourself first, and then you can do it later. If you want to blame, you can only blame Zhao Zhao for this ****.
Maybe God opened his eyes, and the dog brought news in the evening that the Yue people in the camp in the west were abandoning the village and fleeing. Moreover, the dog caught a Yue man who was left alone because of his escape, and from his mouth, Yingxu learned that there were rumors in the west that there were Qin people who wantonly burned, killed and looted. They had no choice but to abandon the village, intending to take refuge in the wilderness to the east for a while.
Ying Xu was very grateful to this Yue man, so he organized him into a deep 300 people along with the previous Yue captive. At the same time, Zhang Heng was sent to lead a hundred people to the west overnight to investigate the situation.