Chapter 388: Chartering a Boat
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Some people chatted with their companions, some people simply covered their heads and slept with their heads, but mosquitoes were not very interesting, and from time to time they came out to disturb people's dreams, and the sound of slapping on their bodies was endless.
After making a round of inspections, Wang Ji walked under a big tree.
The lower end of a halberd was inserted into the earth, half a foot deep, and the upper end leaned against the tree.
Qu Chen crossed his hands behind his head, closed his eyes and lay on a large bluestone under the tree, habitually holding grass stalks in his mouth, chewing unhurriedly. He had apparently been bitten for a long time, and most of the round stalk had been bitten flat by his teeth, like a sugar cane he had eaten.
Hearing the sound of footsteps approaching, Qu Chen's eyes didn't open, and he asked vaguely, "Haven't you come yet?" ā
"Hmm."
Wang Ji responded, found a place to sit down, frowned, and said: "Second general, we have been ambushing here for three days, and it has not yet opened, is it a change of place?" ā
"In another place, are you sure that the Xianbei people will pass by?"
Wang Ji said that choosing one of the three routes is a chance to try, and no one knows whether the Xianbei people will come or not.
"Why don't we divide up our forces and set up an ambush? Cast your net wider, and you'll have more chances of catching fish. ā
"Don't even think about it!"
Qu Chen opened his eyes, sat up from the bluestone, and said angrily: "Do you think Xianbei people are easy to deal with?" I promised Mr. Xun not to venture, Xianbei people are not fish, even if they are fish, you should have heard of what it means to break the net of a fish, divide the troops and set up an ambush, and you dare to guarantee that the ambush can win them? ā
Wang Ji was speechless, Qu Chen was telling the truth.
The Panshi Battalion dared to go to Pinggu to find trouble with the Xianbei people, mainly relying on Qu Chen's superior combat power, without Qu Chen's suppression of the formation, the Panshi Battalion did not have the confidence to challenge the Xianbei cavalry.
Wang Ji smiled bitterly: "The Xianbei people don't come, but the wolves smell it." We didn't catch a single horse, and the wolves we killed here were eight hundred, if not a thousand......."
Qu Chen understood Wang Di's anxious mood, just smiled, got up and picked a grass stalk again, threw away the one that had been chewing in his mouth for a long time, and returned to the bluestone slab to continue chewing, looking calm and relaxed, and he didn't seem to be impatient at all.
Wang Ji admired Qu Chen very much.
Qu Chen is more jumpy on weekdays, sometimes like a childlike child, giving people a sense of not being in shape, but at the critical moment, Qu Chen is calmer than anyone else, and he is calmer than anyone else.
"Second General, there's something I've always wanted to ask you."
"Say."
"We changed from Baiqiu Town to Miyun Town, have the more than 200 war horses in Baiqiu Town been transported back?"
After Wang Ji returned to Baiqiu Town after inspecting Pinggu, the troops walked north on the same day and fostered more than 200 war horses that had been captured in Baiqiu Town. At that time, Qu Chen told Wang Ji that the territory would be responsible for the transportation of war horses, and the Panshi Battalion only had to fight well, and Wang Ji didn't think much about it.
It's been idle for the past few days, and the more he thinks about it, the more wrong it becomes.
He had thought that the territory would use fishing boats to transport horses back, after all, the Flying Fish Territory had a tradition of transporting them by fleets. However, the mid-level fishing boats of the Flying Fish Collar are limited to one war horse per boat, and for such a long distance, the boat must be equipped with a groom to take care of it, so as not to have an accident if the war horse is frightened.
The question is, how can there be so many grooms in the Flying Fish Territory?
When starting from the deer collar, there were a few grooms, and after arriving in Jizhou, they cleared out the thieves, plundered the territory of Montenegro, and received refugees, etc., the number of grooms has been increasing, and Su Shuang also sent two senior grooms to the flying fish collar when he gave the horse, but the full count, the groom of the flying fish collar should be less than twenty people.
According to the existing capacity, the flying fish leader needs to run more than ten times to transport all the war horses back.
The war horses are fostered in the town and consume a lot of food every day, and it is hard to imagine that the territory will drag on for so long.
"Mr. Xun didn't say what he would do in this matter, but with him to deal with it, what do we care."
"That's the same, what about Mr. Xun......"
They would not doubt Xun Yan's ability.
When Qu Chen and Wang Ji were chatting, the cloth soldier leader ushered in an uninvited guest.
The Deployment Division has just finished a sea training.
The commander of the navy reported to Haohao: "My lord, my subordinates led my subordinates to go to sea for training, and they passed through Moon Bay to shore for supplies, and this flying fish commander said that he wanted to do a business with us, and his subordinates brought him back." ā
The transferred official waved his hand and said: "In Xia Ni Yi, the deputy city lord of the Feiyu Leader has seen a good city lord." ā
looked at this transferred official with great interest, and said after a while: "It turned out to be the deputy city lord of the Flying Fish Territory, and there has been a lot of commotion in your territory recently, which can be described as being in the limelight." ā
"It's good that the city lord has a good reputation."
"My sailor general said that you want to negotiate a deal with us, but is there such a thing?"
"That's right," Ni Yi said with a smile, "We want to rent some boats from the Cloth Soldiers, and if the good city lord can sell us some grain, then it would be great." ā
"Chartering a boat? As far as I know, there are quite a few fishing boats in the Flying Fish Territory, so why should they seek to lease them? ā
Ni Yi sighed: "There are indeed many boats in the Flying Fish Territory, but they are all medium-sized fishing boats, and we need big boats. ā
Ni Yi explained the reason to Haohao: the purpose of renting a ship was to transport back the war horses.
There are only two options for transporting horses back to the territory: by land or by water.
There were wolves on the land route, and a large army was needed to escort them, but the Panshi battalion went to Pinggu and could only choose water transportation.
Although the shipyard of the Flying Fish Collar has been working hard to upgrade, it started late, and so far, the largest type of ship that can be produced is a medium-sized fishing boat, which can barely make do with transporting people and materials, but if it is carrying war horses, it can only carry one horse at a time.
Some horses are afraid of water, and if the Flying Fish Leader wants to transport back the war horses that are fostered in Baiqiu Town, they must be equipped with grooms on board.
With the number of horsemen in the territory, it would take more than ten trips to bring all the horses back.
Now that the wolf plague is continuing, they dare not drive the war horses outside the town to graze and eat, Baiqiu Town is affected by the wolf plague, and its own food is relatively tight, and the flying fish collar can only transport food from the territory. The population of the Flying Fish Territory has increased sharply recently, the two subsidiary territories have not yet completed the upgrade, the food consumption is far greater than the output, and the rations of the front-line soldiers must be guaranteed, all of which are supported by the food stored in the early stage, and they are really unable to withstand the consumption of long-term foster care of war horses.
With so many war horses fostered in a township stronghold for a long time, Xun Yan was also worried about long nights and dreams.
The horses could not be brought back quickly, because the Flying Fish led the ship small, and if a large ship participated, a ship could carry several more horses, and a groom with the ship could take care of it.
So Xun Yan decided to borrow external forces.
The Flying Fish leads the ship to be small, so don't there be big ships in other territories?
Not to mention anything else, the Deployment Commander often docks at Crescent Bay for training at sea, and the level of dock manufacturing in this territory is much higher than that of the Flying Fish Territory. Ni Yi, who often negotiates with infantry sailors on behalf of the territory, once heard from the generals of the infantry and sailors that the territory has an intermediate dock and has the ability to produce medium-sized ferries.
The cabin of the ferry is much larger than that of a fishing boat, and a medium-sized ferry can carry about 4 to 5 horses.
If you can rent a medium-sized ferry, Flying Fish will only need to make three trips to transport all the horses back!
This is the reason why Ni Yi came to the infantry collar.
Ni Yi does have the title of "Deputy City Lord of the Flying Fish Territory", of course, this is just a cover for the Flying Fish Territory to negotiate with the outside world, so that he can represent the territory and negotiate with the outside world, and the real principal of the Flying Fish Territory is always Xun Yan. Ni Yi did not run directly to the infantry collar, but waited until the infantry sailor docked in Moon Bay to replenish supplies, and came over with the ship of the infantry sailor, and was introduced by the more familiar sailor general, which would not seem too presumptuous.
agreed to Ni Yi's request.
The Flying Fish Leader was in a hurry to bring back the horses, and the rent offered was not low.
The infantry leads the dock to spend money like running water, there is money to be made, and there is no reason to refuse.
Okay and readily agreed to sell a batch of grain to the flying fish collar, which solved the urgent need of the flying fish collar, which made Ni Yi feel a little surprised.
Food is an important strategic commodity, but its value is not high.
As soon as the two territories dealt with each other, they agreed to sell grain, and the intention of showing goodwill was very obvious.
Ni Yi, who had successfully completed the task, was very happy and said, "Thank you for being a good city lord!" ā
"Deputy City Lord Ni doesn't need to be polite, the infantry leader and the flying fish leader are on the shore of the Bohai Sea, everyone is a neighbor, and the infantry and sailor training often pass through your land to replenish, and it is also appropriate to take care of each other."
Hao's eyes narrowed into a slit, and he changed his words and said: "This kind of trivial matter, in fact, just let your lord contact me directly, Deputy City Lord Ni will personally make a trip, not only will it take a lot of trouble, but if you can't talk about some details, it will waste a lot of time to ask for instructions back and forth." After Deputy City Lord Ni goes back, you might as well tell your lord, add a friend with me, and if there is anything in the future, you can contact you directly, how about it? ā
Ni Yi smiled bitterly in his heart, the most feared thing still came after all.
I'm testing the identity of the Flying Fish Lord!
If you can contact you directly, why should you let me make this trip?
It is a bit unreasonable for a former official to take the initiative to contact a lord, and it is reasonable for the other party to find an excuse to tempt. Fortunately, Ni Yi was prepared, and said apologetically: "When my lord comes back, I will definitely convey the meaning of the city lord." ā
The essence in his eyes flashed, and he said in surprise: "Your lord is not in the territory?" ā
"My lord has been out for many days, and I don't know when he will come back......"
"It's okay, what's the name of the lord of your family, I have a way to add him."
"This ...... Without the permission of the lord, he really did not dare to trespass. ā
He remained silent and asked again: "Don't your lords know about renting a boat?" ā
"Exactly."
"The Flying Fish Army went north to Pinggu, and the lord of your family doesn't know either?"
"I don't know."
When I heard this, I was immediately angry.
In the absence of the lord, a transferred official went to another territory to negotiate the charter of a ship to buy grain, even if you are the deputy city lord with some authority, but this kind of behavior involving diplomacy is something that ordinary people can make? What's more, the troops of the Flying Fish Leader have just gone north to Pinggu, and the transfer of troops is not a trivial matter.
Is the ability to make complex decisions involving foreign affairs, domestic affairs, and the military what a demobilized official should have?
Looking at your serious nonsense, my brother almost believed it!
You think you're a historical figure!
This guy is a bit condescending to be an official, he should go to filming and complete the Oscar winner......
How do you know, most of what Ni Yi said is the truth, but the leader is someone else.
However, this result is not surprising.
The sudden rise of the Flying Fish Territory is a recent thing, and before that, this territory has been unknown for a long time, and a lot of information picked up by players on the forum shows that this territory is very mysterious. The Flying Fish Lord was reluctant to show up, and Ni Yi, who came forward on behalf of the Flying Fish Leader, deliberately concealed the situation of the territory, which was expected.
Take the opportunity to tempt, it's just a matter of personal curiosity.
It's gratifying, but it's okay if it doesn't.
In any case, the money is still earned.
Moreover, the Flying Fish Collar has performed amazingly recently, especially the Flying Fish Army, hundreds of people dare to swim in Yuyang County, and even take the initiative to fight the idea of the Xianbei cavalry, a little more sensible, and it is not a bad thing to make friends with the Flying Fish Leader.
The cloth leader is in Yuyang County.
It was agreed with Ni Yi that the fishermen and horsemen of the Flying Fish Leader would go to the infantry leader first, and then set off directly from the infantry leader to Baiqiu Town. The batch of grain sold by the infantry leader was transported by its own fleet of Exocets. The agreement was signed, and Ni Yi paid off the rent and food in advance, and returned to the territory after thanking him again.
A day later, the Flying Fish fishermen and the horsemen came to Bubing Territory to fulfill the agreement signed by both parties.
As the medium-sized ferry boat headed for Whitehill, the Rock Camp finally got its prey.
Hundreds of war horses galloped from the direction of the Great Wall, with a large bare area on their heads, clearly Xianbei people.
The Xianbei cavalry was running very fast, and they should have traveled a lot to get here.
Nomads live on grass by grass, and various tribes are scattered across the vast steppe. Some tribes are close to the border and come faster, while others are far away from the border and will spend a lot of time on the road, and this group of Xianbei people obviously belongs to the latter. When they came late, they were inevitably worried that the first invading ethnic groups would steal all the benefits, so they rode their horses along the way, just hoping to get to the Han settlements as soon as possible.
The Rock Battalion soon went into combat mode.
Even the recruits who were recruited later had more or less dealt with wolves these days, had seen blood, and their fear of battle had faded a lot. And everyone fed mosquitoes on the mountain for a few days, and finally waited for this opportunity, and the whole Panshi camp was as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
Legionnaire skills exploded in the cavalry group, and the ambush battle began.
More than 500 arrows were shot from the hill, and with a terrifying whistling sound of breaking through the air, they fell towards the cavalry. The arrow attack was very powerful, but the actual effect was not good, a round of arrows down, the cavalry who fell off the horse was only more than 10 people.
Qu Chen and Wang Ji looked at each other, both of them a little helpless.
It takes far longer to train a qualified archer than a sword and shield soldier or spear soldier, and the archer values talent more. Although there are 2,000 people in the Jizhou Panshi Battalion, the 1,000 recruits recently recruited in order to quickly improve the elite, basically did not train archery well, and most of the qualified archers were veterans who were brought from Zhulu, with a total number of less than 200 people, and the Panshi Battalion was ambushed in batches, and the qualified archers who participated in the battle at this time were not even 100 people.
More than 500 arrows looked imposing, but most of them actually missed the target......
In addition, the Xianbei cavalry fully demonstrated the characteristics of the steppe people's proficiency in horse archery.
The steppe people grew up on horseback, everyone can shoot arrows, although there is a little panic in the sudden attack, but at the moment of life and death, these cavalry instincts are especially there. With their superb riding skills, they can minimize the risk of being shot, and they can also use their sabers to hit arrows that they can't avoid, without any mud and water.
The damage was limited, and Qu Chen was not discouraged.
Technology doesn't work to make up for quantity!
The second round of arrows flew into the sky!