When the ships on the sea were not gathered, when the soldiers and slaves were all on the deck, when the seabirds chirped in the sky, Yingxu set off. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

There are more than 50 large and small ships, including building boats, Ge boats, middle wings, and small wings, as well as some small sea vessels and inland river boats. It carried 8,000 liters of sauce, 20,000 stone of polished rice, 10,000 stone of wheat, 20,000 stone of beans, a total of about 60,000 stone of grain and grass, and a large number of ordnance. Zhang Feng's 500 captive army, Han Sui's 500 slaves, Zhang Hu's 500 people, and Wu He's 100 ambulance team led by others left the pearl diving in a mighty way.

Now the Qin Dynasty has not built a large sea ship, and the Lingnan war is urgent, so some river ships have been forcibly requisitioned as sea ships, river boats are generally relatively small, although the sail is added, but to be skillfully controlled, it is very difficult, not to mention that the river boat is not very suitable for sea navigation. Its draft is too shallow and prone to roll over.

Yingxu sat on a building boat, which was barely okay, and the sail was added and transformed. The speed of the voyage is also relatively fast, and there are seventeen or eighteen ships in the ship, accounting for one-third of the fleet. After the fleet left the pearl pier, the big ones dragged the small ones, and the new ones dragged the old ones, barely moving on the sea. The fleet was led by a young captain, and listening to Zhang Hu's disdainful tone that the captain was a Qi man who had surrendered, Yun Xu did not have much mustard in his heart, and his heart said that they were all Chinese. After the captain set out from the fleet, he rode the small boats one by one, and was busy until noon, guiding all the ships.

The early exploration tried a route along the coastline, so that as the fleet became orderly, the movement began to speed up and the hull of the ship did not sway.

Yingxu has been standing on the deck and watching the scenery, and every raised hill on the shore is green. Sometimes you can also see the Yue people living by the sea. More often than not, there are wide sandy beaches and rocky shores.

Hei Bo and Zhang Feng also stood on the side of the building boat, calmly looking at the coast, chatting with each other! From time to time, laughter came from time to time, and Chen Ping dragged the black boy and swayed on the boat. Soon after Zhang Hu got on the boat, he began to sway, and he must have vomited somewhere. Only the captain of the building ship was busy like a dog, commanding the fleet on the building ship.

The fleet sailed very quickly, and after five days it returned to search the scout ship and found the sign set by the former scouts on the shore, and the rear team of the ship turned into the front team and returned. The next day, on the building boat, Yingxu saw a black flag about one zhang wide and two zhang long being hung on a tall tree, fluttering in the wind. There is a camp on the shore, and you can see patrolling soldiers. When the soldiers saw the fleet on the sea, they all cheered loudly.

"Looks like we're here just in time!" Ying Xu frowned and said to the captain on the side.

"It's still the son's thoughtfulness, and the little school is ashamed!" Jiang Hai, who was pale and thin, should admit it.

Soon after the young lieutenant went to sea, he met Ying Xu, so Ying Xu knew that the young man's name was Jiang Hai, a former Qi nobleman, and his father was recruited as the captain of the building boat after the family descended to Qin. After a few days of getting along, they gradually became familiar with each other.

A day ago, after Ying Xu noticed that a piece of land had faintly appeared in the southeast, he arranged for Jiang Hai to send a scout ship to return to the north to find out if there were any markers set by the front army on the shore. The fleet also stopped advancing. Because Ying Xu suspects that the land that appears in the southeast should be the island of Taiwan in the previous life, then it means that the fleet has entered the hinterland of Minyue and crossed the royal city of Minyue. Fortunately, the scout ship found the Qin army mark the next day, and the ship returned.

The big boat couldn't get close to the coast, so Yingxu could only go ashore in a small boat. When he arrived on the shore, Yingxu found that there were not many Qin troops stationed on the shore, about more than a thousand people. Strange in my heart. Could it be that the war of the former army has reached a critical juncture, and the former general has only left a thousand soldiers to protect the grain and grass.

"Why do you only have these hands?" Ying Xu frowned and asked a general who came to pay homage.

"Little Colonel, Zhang Heng sees Childe. Childe doesn't know ......!

Ying Xu knew too much that the battle at the front was fierce, and the Yue people refused to defend by the mountains, blocking layer by layer. The advance was unusually slow, and most of them could not reach the sea in advance, so several waves of Qin troops were sent over the mountains and jungles to meet them.

"Where is the army now? How long has it been since this place? Ying Xu noticed that the army had not arrived and hurriedly asked.

"The army should have crossed Wuling by now, and it took us fifteen days to get to the beach. After our department entered the plain, it took a big circle to come to the son on the shore," Zhang Heng replied.

"Oh, what did you find?" Ying Xu was obedient, and Zhang Heng asked suspiciously.

"Childe didn't know anything, we found that there were small groups of Yue people patrolling and monitoring the coastal areas of the Minyue Plain. The Yue people seem to be guarding against the sea? ”

"It seems that Yue Ren is not stupid? This place is not very suitable for parking the building boat, and the more people are not very vigilant, can you find a suitable place? Yingxu found that the water here was too shallow, and the larger boats could not dock, let alone the building boats, and the inland river flat-bottomed boats could barely ferry people. It is impossible to transport grain, and as for the army before it arrives, it can only find a good natural dock and then negotiate.

"Young man, this morning the Colonel has sent scouts to find the nearby terrain, and I think there will be news soon. In addition, when the colonel came, the former army's grain and grass were in an emergency, and the former general instructed the colonel to supervise the transportation of grain and grass with the grain transportation team after receiving the grain and grass. ”

"It's important to find a wharf now, and the matter of transshipment will be discussed tomorrow!" Ying Xu stared at Zhang Heng and said,

Zhang Heng wanted to say more, but when he saw Ying Xu's unhappy face, he had to give up.

The south is basically still wild, only a few plain areas are inhabited by Baiyue people, most places are basically uninhabited, and there are no place names, Yingxu can only rely on the general geographical form to judge his location. Now I should be in the west of Wenzhou in my previous life, south of Wuyi Mountain, close to the Fuzhou Plain. If Zhang Heng's speculation is correct, the 60,000 people in the former army should have crossed the Wuyi Mountain in the later generations. Marching from the northwest of Fuzhou. From the topographical point of view, he is now in the U nature with the former army, both of which are at the exit of the U, and the army of Minyue Wang Wuzhu should be in the middle.

The grain and grass transporting tens of thousands of stones across the border must not be able to hide from the Yue people, and it is really incompetent and exhausting the three armies. Why is the former general Zhao Zhao marching so slowly, the agreed front army will eat on the shore, and now he himself has not been able to break through the defense line of the Yueren, and he also asked the grain transport team to transport tens of thousands of stones of grain and grass over, and the grain transport team he brought is only 1,600 people, which is to transfer some of the water army pulp men to make up to 3,000 people, and one person can only use 3,000 stones to carry one stone, not to mention that it is completely impossible to guard against the Yue people.

After a while, a scout sent by Zhang Heng came back and reported that there was no suitable dock nearby, but found that there was cooking smoke on the west side. There is also a relatively wide road, and there should be a Yue camp. Two of them had already gone to check it out, and there should be news in the evening.

Now I can't manage so much, I must first find out the terrain and find a suitable dock, and the dock can be close to the plain, so that we can receive the army. Thinking of this, Yingxu immediately decided.

"Ordered Captain Jiang to send a flat-bottomed boat along the coast to the west to find a wharf. Other boats get out of the shallow water! Yingxu didn't know about the tidal changes in this area. It is safest to let the ship float on the sea first. At the same time, he said to Zhang Heng:

"Time is pressing, you can't delay, you order five hundred people and go with this son!"

So Ying Xu led his guards and Zhang Heng and other more than 500 people, led by the scouts who came back, into the jungle, Ying Xu didn't know whether the Yue camp found by the scouts was big, but to put food and grass in this area, this camp could not stay, beat down and catch some prisoners, from their mouths can understand the nearby situation faster.