Chapter 159: Calling for Wind and Rain
Five days later, Tian Feng was dragged by Zhao Kong to a large sand boat, and when he saw hundreds of clansmen, including his wife and children, his whole face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
However, this trick used by the dog-headed military master Wu is really effective against the people of the Gu family.
The next day, Tian Feng reluctantly accepted Zhao Kong's appointment, and returned to Taiwan Island with his clansmen and some of the people of Qu County to officially serve as the county leader.
Although Zhao Kong did not pretend to be too guarded, the appointment of the officials under his command was basically in accordance with the system of the Central Plains County, so as not to change the official system in a hurry and make the officials at a loss.
Now that Tian Feng, a great talent in internal affairs, has taken over Cai Yong's position as the county leader, Zhao Kong is also relieved.
After all, Cai Yong's talent is in education and literature, and he was forced to work as a county for most of the year.
As the population of Taiwan Island grows, Cai Yong is already a little tired of coping.
A month ago, Cai Yong solemnly approached Zhao Kong, hoping that he would find a talented person to take over the post of county leader as soon as possible.
Moreover, dozens of Dongying leaders who were canonized by Zhao Kong have sent more than 100,000 young and strong Japanese people in the past two months.
In addition to more than 20,000 widows, they were distributed by Zhao Kong to the sergeants of the army.
The other young men were all sent to the southern part of Taiwan Island to open up the wasteland, and it is estimated that it will not be long before the second big city on the island can be built.
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At that time, it will be necessary to take into account both the north and the south, and the difficulty of government affairs on Taiwan Island will rise again.
Zhao Kong also knows this problem, but there are too few talents in his bag now, except for Xun Zhan, at most there are some talents in a hundred miles.
And Xun Zhan thinks too much, and he is from the Yingchuan Xun clan, Jun Cheng is currently the head of the civil officials on Taiwan Island, and Zhao Kong really doesn't dare to hand it over to him.
It is precisely for this reason that Zhao Kong brought Tian Feng with him on this expedition.
He even did not hesitate to let the navy risk attacking Bohai County and captured Tian Feng's entire clan, which broke the insistence in his heart.
(There are two versions of Tian Feng's origin, one is Julu County, and the other is Bohai County, and the latter is taken here.) )
Although the means are a bit bad, Tian Feng is also reluctant, but Zhao Kong's trust in Tian Feng is still far beyond Xun Zhan, and he did not hesitate to push him to the position of county leader.
"It seems that people in this era really don't attach much importance to their families."
"Gao Shun is still a bachelor, and his parents have long since died, so this trick is basically ineffective."
"Yu Ban's hometown is in Tai'an, Shandong Province in the future, and the inland area is not convenient for the time being."
"On the contrary, Cheng Yu's family is in Dong'e County, Dongjun County, close to the Yellow River, and he can do a vote!"
Zhao Kong looked at the map and pondered, and immediately placed the next target in Dong'e County, Yanzhou East County.
If he only attacked the coastal areas, Liu Hong might not have cared much.
If even Dongjun, which is not far from Luoyang, is plundered by Zhao Kong, it will definitely make Liu Hong sober up a lot.
The Yellow River in this era and later generations are two concepts, although not as spacious as the Yangtze River, but the first half of the river can still pass large ships.
Moreover, now that the Yellow River has just entered the flood season, a 1,000-ton sand boat has entered the Yellow River, and there is no pressure at all.
Therefore, this section of the river between Qingzhou and Yanzhou cannot be blocked in a short period of time, and as long as the fleet does not stay for a long time, the officers and men along the coast can only look at the ocean and sigh.
In the following seven days, more than 60,000 people were transported from Qu County one after another.
When the reinforcements from Donghai County arrived in Qu County, Zhao Kong had already led the fleet deep into the Bohai Sea, and even the coastline of Qingzhou was clearly visible.
However, after entering the Yellow River, the fleet's speed still decreased a lot, which made Zhao Kong on the ship subconsciously vigilant.
The two banks of this section of the river through which the fleet is passing belong to the Qingzhou Plain Country.
At present, the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans are making trouble in the southern part of the Plains Country, and the defenders of the cities have no time to be distracted, even if they know that the Yellow Turban Fleet on Taiwan Island is passing by, they will treat it as if they have not seen it.
Out of the river of the Plains Country, it entered the range of Yanzhou Jibei Country, this section of the river is relatively short, and before the coastal defenders can come up with countermeasures, the fleet has already left the territory of Jibei Country.
To the west of Jibei is Dong'e County of Dongjun, which is also Zhao Kong's destination this time.
However, the county seat of Dong'e was more than forty miles away from the Yellow River, which prevented them from raiding as quickly as they did in Qu County.
Although Dongjun is a large county in Yanzhou, Dong'e County is only a medium-sized county, and the defenders in the county seat are less than 800 people.
Although when the Yellow Turban Army arrived at the city, there were already many young men who had come to the city to assist in the defense, but this hastily organized manpower could not provide much combat power at all.
And because of the deep inland, Zhao Kong was worried that things would change for a long time, so he personally led the army to rush to the head of the city, and there was no enemy at all in the direction of the long knife.
After a meal, Dong'e County was easily taken by the Yellow Turban Army, and all the city gates were blocked.
It's a pity that the speed is still a little slower this time, and the Dong'e County Commander has already sent a messenger to report to the county seat.
However, Zhao Kong didn't care about this, Dongjun was set up along the Yellow River, and the terrain was long and narrow, hundreds of miles away from east to west.
However, Dong'e County is in the eastern part of Dong County, but Puyang County, the county is in the western part of Dong County, and even if you hurry up, it will take nearly two days to arrive.
In addition, Dongjun is located in the Central Plains, and there is no large-scale cavalry in the local area at all, and it will be at least five days before those county soldiers rush to the east to rescue.
However, out of prudence, Zhao Kong still accelerated the progress of the relocation, especially the Cheng family where Cheng Yu was located, and they were all sent to the ship as soon as possible.
The total population of Dong'e County is about 60,000, but only more than 8,000 people live in the county, which cannot be compared with large counties such as Qu County, Pengze and Wuhu.
In addition, because of the limited time this time, Zhao Kong was too lazy to talk to the only two small families in Dong'e, and quickly swept away the population of the county and the surrounding towns and villages.
Three days later, Zhao Kong led a large army and drove more than 30,000 civilians back to the ship, preparing to leave this risky inland area.
For some reason, since entering the Yellow River a few days ago, Zhao Kong had a faint sense of foreboding, in order to achieve such a realm as him, his whim would never be untargeted.
It's just that they have already gone around so far, there is no reason to run in vain, and Zhao Kong can only be as cautious as possible to avoid possible troubles.
"Qu Shuai, it's not good, there are a large number of small boats blocking the front, according to the formation they are arranging, it is very likely that they are all arsonist boats!"
Just as the fleet was about to sail out of the Jibei River, a Yellow Turban soldier hurriedly ran into Zhao Kong's cabin and quickly reported to him.
"Is this guy crazy? Who gave him the audacity to provoke me? Zhao Kong slammed the table, got up and shouted angrily.
Although the fleet under Zhao Kong's command is not a chain ship, this section of the river in Jibei is relatively narrow, and it is headwind at the moment, and it is difficult for large ships to avoid small boats that are impacted by the tailwind.
Once there is a large number of fireships and a shock fleet with casualties, even if most of them can be sunk before they get closer, the few remaining fireships can be wiped out along with many large sand ships.
And these sand boats are loaded with either soldiers or civilians, even if only some of them will suffer, it is difficult for Zhao Kong to accept such consequences.
When Zhao Kong walked to the bow of the boat, a small boat suddenly sailed out of the array on the opposite side, and a man on the boat shouted:
"The Yellow Turban thief in front of him will be arrested immediately, otherwise he will let Er wait for death and have no place to be buried!"
Seeing that the other party's attitude was so arrogant, Zhao Kong suddenly lost the mind to negotiate.
The officers and men on the opposite side did not know the combat strength of their fleet at all, thinking that as long as there was such a wall, the Yellow Turban Fleet could only wait for death.
In this case, if you don't wake up the other side, you won't be able to negotiate the conditions at all.
"All the catapults of each ship have been fired for me, and the ballistas have also been put into a state of readiness, so that these grandsons can know what a navy is!"
Zhao Kong squinted his eyes and gave the order, ready to let the other party see the cross-era play.
Although Zhao Kong can't make artillery in this era, he can install the optimized "return cannon" and "ballista" on the sand boat.
Even if the range of these two is incomparable with modern artillery, the attack range of more than 100 zhang is enough to become a nightmare for the navy in this era!
It's a pity that the enemy this time is all small ships, and the return cannon has a long enough range, but the hit rate is impressive, and the hit rate of the ballista is very high, but it is not guaranteed to sink the ship.
The generals on the opposite side probably didn't expect Zhao Kong to dare to resist, and in anger, he immediately ordered the ships to ignite and charge.
A moment later, the fire flickered on the river, and more than 500 small boats rushed forward like arrows from the string.
Fortunately, the navy under Zhao Kong's command is not a fledgling, it has participated in many battles in the past year, and it has been tempered by strong winds and waves, and it has long been different.
Even in danger, he still calmly controlled the return cannon and ballista, sinking and destroying a large number of fireships.
A moment later, there were only about a hundred fireships that actually rushed to the vicinity of the Taiwan Island fleet.
When these fireships approached, another big killing weapon of the fleet, the slap stick, also began to show its own majesty.
The strange pillars that were originally erected on the deck and had a hammer-shaped tip were now gradually tilting down under the control of the ropes, pulleys, and bottom mechanisms.
When the fireships approached, the whole slapstick was smashed down, and almost all of the fireboats hit by the hammer were spared.
Especially at this moment, no one was controlling the fireboat, and the imperial navy that was originally rowing the boat jumped into the Yellow River before they approached the Yellow Turban Fleet.
Now they are completely relying on wind and inertia to impact, more than a hundred fireships, a round of beatings down more than half.
There were less than twenty fireships that actually hit the Yellow Turban fleet.
There were a total of 12 Yellow Turban sand boats set ablaze by these fire boats, four of which were loaded with Dong'a people, and at this moment the ship was in chaos, and the Yellow Turban Army on the same boat could not control the situation.
Seeing that the fire was about to burn the decks of those sand ships, Zhao Kong stomped his feet violently, then turned around and returned to the cabin, driving everyone inside.
Then he took out a magic sword and prepared to use the wind and rain in "Taiping Technique".
This spell is largely ineffective in the Monk's battle, but it is extremely important for warfare.
When Zhang Jiao dealt with Dong Zhuo, he used to call for wind and rain, turning the area around the Xiliang Army barracks into a muddy pool.
The powerful impact of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was completely abolished, and finally the Yellow Turban Lux chased and slashed all the way, and even Dong Zhuo almost died under Guangzong City.
However, calling for wind and rain in this realm, vaguely disobeying the mandate of heaven, although Zhang Jiao defeated the Xiliang army in battle, but the backlash afterwards also made him more injured.
When Huangfu Song waved his army north and approached the city of Guangzong, Zhang Jiao's injuries still could not be relieved.
But the situation forced him to cast the spell again, and in the end, because the vitality was too badly damaged, he was eaten by the spell, and he died.
And the situation that Zhao Kong is facing now is even more difficult than Zhang Jiao, Zhang Jiaokeng Xiliang Army can at least slowly cast spells and slowly rain.
Zhao Kong had to complete the spell in an instant, and he had to summon a heavy enough rainstorm to quickly extinguish the fire.
Although this matter is difficult, with Zhao Kong's character, it is even more difficult to watch the lives of nearly 10,000 soldiers and civilians die in the flames.
Even if he knew that the backlash would be serious afterwards, he could only grit his teeth and call for wind and rain.
However, Zhao Kong is not the only one who is uncomfortable at this time, Yuan Yi, the governor of Jibei who has gone ashore, is also blue at this moment.
Originally, he wanted to take advantage of the geographical advantage to force the Yellow Turbans on Taiwan Island to surrender, so as to grab these floating sea boats.
At that time, whether it is the rich Taiwan Island or Dongying, which has a large number of copper mountains, it will be in their Yuan family's pocket!
But what he didn't expect was that Zhao Kong actually ignored the threat of hundreds of fireships and forcibly fought him to the end.
I didn't expect that the warships of the Yellow Turbans on Taiwan Island were so powerful, and the fireship array that he carefully prepared had almost no effect.
At this point, Yuan Yi has to worry about whether these Taiwan Island Yellow Turbans will be angry and land ashore to kill the northern country.
Although he doesn't care about the life or death of Jibei at all, once the Yellow Turban Army goes ashore to start a war, no matter what the result is, I'm afraid that he, the captain of Jibei, will be difficult to do anymore.
As far as the imperial court is concerned, he ambushed the Yellow Turban on Taiwan Island, and he did exactly that.
But for Jibeiguo, he was sparking a war for no reason, leading to a senseless war.
And at this moment, Zhao Kong in the cabin finally finished casting the spell, and his whole face turned white in an instant.
Although the strength of his soul was close to that of an immortal, he compressed the wind and rain that should have been cast for half an hour to be cast within a minute, and the pressure and backlash he suffered during this period far exceeded that of Zhang Jiao's time in Guangzong City.
Compared with mental exhaustion, the physical backlash is more troublesome.
Originally, Chen Luo's physical background could only be regarded as above the middle-class people, but after more than a year of adjustment and strengthening by Zhao Kong, it was barely comparable to the world's top generals.
But this time, the spell backlash burned almost half of the essence blood in his body, and it would take at least three or four years to raise it back.
This is still the case of not using force during the period of recuperation, otherwise it is very likely to cause permanent damage to the body that is difficult to repair.
Although Chen Yu's body Zhao Kong is only for use, it is very likely that this will be used for more than thirty years, and if it is crippled now, I am afraid that it will be very uncomfortable in the future.
However, Zhao Kong paid such a heavy price, and the effect of calling the wind and rain was also quite amazing.
At this time, the wind was strong within a radius of 100 miles, and the rain was pouring down. The sand boats that were originally on fire were doused in an instant, and the raging fire struggled for less than ten seconds before being extinguished one by one under the torrential rain.
And because Zhao Kong's casting speed was fast enough, the surface of the burning sand boat was only burned black, and the overall performance was not affected much.
On the contrary, in a panic, the people of Dong'a on the boat were killed and injured by pushing and trampling.
However, at this time, Zhao Kong didn't have the energy to care about these things, and he didn't even care about the Jibei Army on the shore.
Simply ordering the fleet to return to Taiwan immediately, he closed the door to the ship's bedroom and began to retreat and recuperate from his wounds.
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