Volume 1, Chapter 1026 of the Late Han Dynasty, Preliminary Calculations

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Fortunately, the collapse of the small city of Hewu in the water started from a better location near the riverbank, after all, the center of the city was burned relatively tightly.

When the collapse gradually spread to the deep-water city wall, there was still a slight buffer in the middle, and most of the surrounding Yang Rui scale armor water pawns also had some preparations.

The most important thing is that the collapse progressed from the center to the periphery, generating a huge squeezing force, which dispersed all the personnel in the inner water, including the scale armor water pawns, to the depths of Weishui for a long distance, and the scale armor water soldiers who participated in the rescue on the periphery did not fall into it due to the collapse of the small city.

The collapse of most of the small cities in Hewu caused some NPCs in the city to be directly dumped to death, but it allowed a larger number of NPCs to get out of the danger of fire in an instant, which can be regarded as the favor of the game system to the trapped NPCs in the city.

A large number of NPCs that fell into the water, even if they couldn't be rescued by the scaly soldiers who were far away for a while, it wouldn't be too much of a problem.

The small city of Hewu was originally a wooden structure, and at this time, there was no shortage of a large number of wooden blocks and planks in the water.

There are only a very small number of old and weak people, who are directly swept away by the current due to the violent impact after the collapse, which is like the previous collapse situation, which belongs to a small number of them.

When the big waves caused by the collapse of the city receded, Yang Rui's scales and armor water pawns began to exert their excellent water properties and salvage the surviving NPCs that fell into the water one by one.

After nearly an hour and a half of busy work, the Scaly Water Pawns rescued most of the NPCs from the chaotic surface of Weishui to the nearby ships and shores, and finally filled the dozens of small and medium-sized ships captured, and more than half of the NPCs could not be loaded.

Yang Rui sent a small half of the ships to escort the dozens of ships full of shipwrecked NPCs to the stronghold of Xinfeng County, while the remaining warships and sailors stayed behind to guard the shipwrecked NPCs temporarily settled on the shore.

As for the Li Dao troops who retreated, Yang Rui did not have time to pursue, and at the same time, he did not have enough land strength.

Although the scaly armor is very brave in the rivers and rivers, it may not be good at fighting on land, especially when facing Xiliang soldiers and horses with a large proportion of cavalry, Yang Rui is not sure.

In the final analysis, the limited function of Sky City still brought a lot of inconvenience to Yang Rui, and in participating in the current series of plots, Yang Rui's strength was greatly affected, seeing that there were many soldiers and horses in Sky City, but he couldn't use them.

In this case, Yang Rui can almost expect that the process of participating in the plot this time will be difficult to be as efficient as the previous plots, and the harvest will be relatively natural, but it is also a normal thing.

For this reason, Yang Rui has already made a general judgment, and he will not be unprepared because of the change in the situation. And under this circumstance, Yang Rui has also had a new plan, but he has not yet fully considered maturity.

For most of the remaining half a day, Yang Rui's remaining Scaly Armor Soldiers waited for the ships to be sent, and at the same time explored and cleaned up the upstream waters until they reached the river bank near Chencang.

The water flow of the Weishui River above Chencang is very different, it is very turbulent and the width of the river channel has suddenly become much smaller, and it is no longer suitable for the navigation of large and small boats, so Yang Rui's troops have stopped.

Of course, since the upstream waters are no longer suitable for navigation, then there is basically no possibility that other forces will have water forces, and the threat from the upper reaches of Weishui has basically been ruled out by Yang Rui's naval army.

In the process of exploring and cleaning up, Yang Ruishui's army encountered some scattered resistance, but under the oppressive attack of many big ships, these scattered forces naturally couldn't make much waves, and they were all defeated by Yang Ruishui's army.

At the same time, Yang Rui's navy once again collected more than 100 ships of all kinds, although most of them were fishing boats, but it was almost the same to carry the remaining shipwrecked NPCs on the shore.

On the morning of the second day, Yang Rui's navy found some small fishing boats around the location of Yiwu, and reluctantly loaded all the remaining shipwrecked NPCs, and without waiting for the ships returning to Xinfeng to come to pick them up, they set sail directly down the river and rushed to Xinfeng.

The total number of fallen NPCs rescued by the scaly sailors did not exceed 10,000, and the previous batch had already transferred more than 4,000 people.

At present, the NPCs who have been rescued from Hewu City are convinced and grateful, and they are willing to surrender to Yang Rui, so they naturally completely obey Yang Rui's greetings, and are willing to follow Yang Rui to leave the current land of right and wrong.

Because it was going downstream, the speed of the ship was naturally a lot faster, and it met the big ship that came to meet it halfway, and all the surviving NPCs were transferred to the big ship, and the journey was naturally a lot faster.

By the time Yang Rui's troops arrived at the section of the Yellow River near Xinfeng County, it had only been dark for a short time.

Under such circumstances, Yang Rui did not disturb the NPCs in Xinfeng County, so he ordered the Scaly Armor Water Pawns to set up camp tents on the nearby shore, and placed all the surviving NPCs in them, and then settled in the city on the second day.

Time passed quickly, and it was already the afternoon of the second day in a blink of an eye, and Yang Rui had just settled all the surviving NPCs in Hewu.

These NPCs are different from the original NPC residents in the city, most of them are maids, slaves and maids, etc., basically unable to survive independently, and after being attached to Yang Rui, they need to be supplied with grain and grass from the government treasury.

As a result, the already small amount of grain in Xinfeng City is naturally even more stretched, and Yang Rui's demand for grain and grass is urgent again, and Yang Rui has already thought of this at the beginning.

Putting aside the factor of shortage of grain and grass, Yang Rui also intends to control the section between Xinfeng County, including Xinfeng County, together with the downstream Zhengxian County, Huayin, and Tongguan.

Topographically speaking, the line chosen by Yang Rui is the place where Chang'an City must pass through the corridor to enter Yongzhou to the east, and as long as it is controlled, it is almost equivalent to holding the passage of Chang'an City to the east.

At the same time, this long and narrow area is all distributed near the Yellow River, which is also convenient for Yang Rui's strong naval strength to be brought into play.

If you can control Tongguan in your hands, you will undoubtedly gain the initiative in the series of plots in the region.

In any case, in the future, the little emperor Liu Zheng will definitely return through Tong Guandong, and if Yang Rui can hold Tong Pass, he will definitely occupy a great geographical advantage. (To be continued.) )