Chapter Eighty-Four: Drifting across the river
Fukamu didn't know why he was brought on the ship, and at the same time, the young men of the Mushen clan were also brought on the ship, and they were assigned to dozens of large and small ships. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Shenmu is very worried about the clan, so he wants to see Yingxu.
Ying Xu will sleep very hard, so Shenmu can only wait on the deck. Thinking back to what happened last night, Shen Mu really couldn't understand what this little general of the Qin people planned to do. In the middle of the night, he was taken onto the ship by the Qin army, who were fighting in open fire. When he woke up in the morning, he found that Mufukahara was gone. After washing his face and sobering up, he realized that he was going to be transported elsewhere. From the bottom of my heart, I think that my old bones seem to be like the Central Plains people say that they are going to die in a foreign land, but I must fight for the opportunity for my people to return as soon as possible.
It was already noon when Ying Xu woke up, and he was busy in the middle of the night yesterday, and he didn't find a cabin to sleep until the sun was about to rise, and he woke up refreshed. Full of confidence. It is not feasible to take the land route from Mushen Plain, so Lao Tzu will take the water route. From the Ou River upstream. It takes as many as seven or eight days, and as little as five or six days to reach the upper reaches of the Oujiang River. As long as Zhao Zhao doesn't want to die, he must lead the army to retreat north to the bank of the Oujiang River, waiting for him.
Although the road ahead is difficult and dangerous, this time he has to fight, and he Yingxu should also fight for the sake of 60,000 Qin troops. Three thousand stones of grain and grass cannot solve the problem. But 30,000 stone of grain and grass is definitely enough for 60,000 people to eat for more than a month. That's the solution. As long as he can eat his stomach, Yingxu doesn't believe that the 60,000 army can't beat tens of thousands of Yue people, and he can't reach Mushenyuan.
"Childe, have you been here in the morning? I see you're sleeping, wait a while and leave," Zhang Feng walked into the cabin and said to Yingxu.
"Oh, don't worry about him for the time being, the captives of the Mushen Clan didn't make trouble!" Yingxu moved his muscles and bones.
"No, they were very obedient after being separated, and now they are obediently practicing their oarsal skills!" Zhang Feng followed Yingxu who walked out.
"After entering the Oujiang River, I will look at them. How was the captive army drilling? Ying Xu stood on the deck and did a few sets of movements that Zhang Feng couldn't understand.
"Childe, since the wounded soldier was appointed as the commander, the captives have trained very hard, but the weapons are too rudimentary," Zhang Feng said bitterly when he saw Yingxu asking about the combat strength of the captive army.
"Haha, Zhang Feng, Zhang Feng, why are you as scoundrel as you Zhang Hu now, don't worry about weapons, I will allocate it to you when the fleet enters the Oujiang River." Yingxu closed his eyes and inhaled the fresh air on the sea.
Since the formation of the captive army, Zhang Feng has always hoped to have standard weapons, and today's goal has been achieved, and he is happy in his heart, and he has made a strong statement on the side, how will the captive army make meritorious contributions to the killing of the enemy in Daqin. Yingxu found that it is not easy for everyone. The higher the status, the heavier the position, and the greater the pressure. Zhang Feng, as the person in charge of the captive army, is his natural responsibility to fight for the interests of the captive army. Zhao Zhao asked for food for his army of 60,000 regardless of whether others were dead or alive. If it weren't for Hei Bo, who had been standing silently behind him, Yingxu would have thought that there were only interests in this world.
Zhang Hu's five hundred people were left in Mushenyuan by Ying Xu, and he planned to leave Zhang Heng behind, but after seeing Zhang Heng's pleading gaze, Ying Xu could only take Zhang Heng with him. Leave some boats behind. Before leaving, Yingxu told Zhang Hu that he couldn't do anything to burn the grain and grass and bring all the soldiers back alive, and he would have no merit.
Two days later, the fleet saw the mouth of the Ou River. Sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat, Yingxu really understands this sentence. It is almost impossible for the building boat to sail into the Oujiang River by relying on the sea breeze. So slogans began to sound. The pulp drags the oarless. The boat is in the front and the boat is in the back. It took a lot of effort for the fleet to sail through the shallow waters of the mouth of the Ou River.
After entering the Oujiang River, the fleet became much more flexible. Fortunately, all the river boats were chosen, and the sea boats were all lost in the deep plain. When the pulpher and sailor are complete, it will take nearly ten miles in a while. Ying Xu also distributed the standard weapons of the Qin army to Zhang Feng's captive army, citing insufficient defense, replacing all their previous messy weapons. These weapons were not idle, and Ying Xu selected nearly 300 people from the Mushen clan who performed well, understood and spoke some Huaxia language, and advanced the formation in accordance with the way of escorting the formation. and the deep eyes are the five hundred. War is brutal. Yingxu promised that as long as they had the capture of the Yue people's heads, they would return to their homeland and redeem their wives and children. Qin Jun will also send him the exquisiteness of the three stones. Ying Xu doesn't know what enemies he will encounter on the road ahead, but as long as he can increase his own combat power and mobilize more people, this is fundamental. Iron also needs to be hard. Money and means must be used.
The surface of the Oujiang River is getting narrower and narrower, and sometimes you can see the Yue people camps scattered on the bank. Living by the water seems to be the common feature of people choosing to live in this era. In the past few days, there have been Vietnamese people spying on the fleet, and even Vietnamese people on small boats are watching. Ying Xu didn't see it, the speed of the ship did not decrease, speed up the process, it was not difficult for Ying Xu to defeat these small villages, but now finding the army is the most important thing, so everyone on the ship has increased their vigilance.
After the fleet turned westward, Ying Xu would send people to the vicinity to find out the news, and the escort boys were also quietly sent by Ying Xu to inquire about the news, intelligence is very important, very important, especially in this kind of unfamiliar place. Knowing the enemy's deployment one step earlier, it is completely possible to turn the passive into the active.
"Childe Wu Jian, they're back!" Yu Ziqi stood on the deck and watched Wu Jian and the others sail towards the building boat in the small boat that met him. Wu Jian went out with the four escort boys yesterday morning and didn't come back all night, and now he came back to say that there might be news of the army, Ying Xu pressed the restlessness in his heart. Waiting for Wu Jian.
Wu Jian not only came back by himself, but also took a prisoner, and the captive was tied up very strongly by Wu Jian. The mouth is also stuffed with weeds. Kneeling on the splint shivering.
"Childe, he said that he had seen the former army in the northern part of the mountain." Wu Jian said in Huaxia language, which was not very proficient.
"Oh, you go into detail!" Ying Xu hurriedly asked when he heard the news that there was a large army.
It turned out that Wu Jian and the escort boy searched for a day before yesterday and did not learn about the news of the army, and in the evening they heard a Yue man boasting in the market of a relatively large Yue village, saying that he had seen Qin Jun and said that he was talking about it. So Wu Jian led people to quietly follow this Yue man, captured him while he was looking for a place to pee, spent the night in the grass to make do, and hurriedly escorted this guy back to the fleet the next day.
After Ying Xu asked a few words, the Yue people were escorted down, and according to the description of the Yue people, the former army should have arrived at the source of the Ou River. After roughly determining the position of the front army, Yingxu immediately ordered all the scouts to return to the team, and the fleet hurried westward.