Chapter 585: The road is difficult
readx;? When the soldiers and generals marched towards the front, the Longcheng soldiers and generals and officials behind also sent each other down. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The officials did not stop until they had sent the large army out of Gan Province, but they still looked at the distant army, and only when they saw that the army had become a blur, did they return to Longcheng one by one.
Xu Yang led the army to walk for a day and a night before he walked out of Gan Province and entered Shaanxi Province.
As Xu Yang walked, he looked at Gan Province behind him, and said to himself, "Finally repelled the enemy army in Gan Province." I didn't think about it, but I spent more than three years hereγγγγγγ β
"General Xu, now that our army has been walking for a day and a night, and has entered Shaanxi Province, do you think our army should rest first and then continue to advance?" asked one of the generals.
Xu Yang nodded, although his heart was full of urgency, but he also had to consider whether the soldier's physical strength was not. So, the soldiers were ordered to rest in place and then continue to advance.
Xu Yang and other generals sat together, looking at the map in their hands, while discussing how to lead the army back to Longjing as quickly as possible.
Although this issue has been discussed by everyone and can no longer be discussed, everyone still can't help but want to discuss, after all, time has passed, and the world is difficult to predict, so they can only take one step at a time and plan slowly.
On the way from Gan Province to Shaanxi Province, the railway naturally no longer exists, and the rails have long been gone, but the traces of the original rails can be vaguely seen.
Therefore, everyone discussed, if they could meet the iron car in Shaanxi Province, they would naturally have to take the iron car to return to Longjing as soon as possible.
And just when Xu Yang and other generals were discussing things, they suddenly heard the sound of war horses galloping from the east, and when they turned their heads, they saw a leading cavalry reporting the situation ahead to them.
I saw this cavalry flying horse whipping up in front of Xu Yang and the others, and arched his hand and said: "General, the boundless railway in front of you no longer exists. β
"What? The railroad built by the foreigners is gone?" shouted the crowd in shock.
The cavalryman nodded and continued: "General, the little one has been running along the tracks of the railway, and even saw the Yellow River, but he never saw the appearance of the railroad tracks, let alone the shadow of the iron car. β
The more everyone listened, the more shocked they became, which meant that they were going to walk out of Shaanxi Province on foot. And how to march next becomes a question that traps everyone.
Xu Yang waved his hand at the cavalryman, signaling that the other party could leave, then looked down at the map and said to himself: "If you go out of Shaanxi Province, I'm afraid it will take you five days to walkγγγγγγ After speaking, he said to the generals beside him: "It's not too early, continue to set off!"
The generals also obeyed the order in turn, turned over their horses, and shouted to the resting soldiers: "Stop resting, go out now!" After saying that, the black soldiers stood up and continued to walk forward.
Xu Yang and other generals looked at the map in their hands while leading the large army to the northeast, because walking in this direction was the shortest, and they could also meet the iron car.
When the army marched to the center of Shaanxi Province, they saw that the city of Shaanxi was located not far from the south, and the army had enough food and grass, so there was no need to go to the city to get comprador food.
However, when Xu Yang glanced at Shaancheng, he was startled, and vaguely saw auspicious clouds rippling above the city, as if there was a noble person living in it.
"When I passed by Shaancheng three years ago, why didn't this auspicious cloud and rui qi appear? Could it be that this character has just come to Shaancheng?" Xu Yang muttered.
Ah Bo, Xu Yi and others also saw the strange appearance in Shaanxi, and they were also curious about which character was in the city?
Curiosity is curiosity, everyone just looked at Shaancheng, and continued to walk in the northeast direction.
After Xu Yang and the others saw this strange appearance in Shaanxi, why didn't they go into the city to take a look?
It turned out that Xu Yang was now returning to Beijing under the pretense of a holy decree, so he naturally hoped that the fewer people who knew about it, the better. And if you run to Shaanxi City to see what is going on, if you bump into officials and generals, won't you expose your whereabouts, which will cause unnecessary numbness.
Coincidentally, Xu Yang passed by Shaancheng this time, if he really went to Shaancheng to have a look, it would be something unexpected for Xu Yang, and it would also change Xu Yang's series of plans.
Unexpectedly, Xu Yang missed out on two key figures, and he also missed the best opportunity to kill and save.
The army continued to walk in the northeast direction for three days, and saw that the official road it passed through was spotless, and the road was neat, as if it had been specially cleaned to welcome some kind of imperial relatives.
Gradually, the army came to the crossing of the Yellow River.
However, to everyone's disappointment, there were only boats docked on the riverside, but there were no large groups of boats.
It turned out that Xu Yang's plan was to take a boat down the river, and when he arrived in Lu Province, he would go all the way north, so that he could also enter Longjing quickly and conveniently.
But who would have thought that the heavens are not beautiful, and there are only small boats on the bank of the river, how can they carry the army down the river and come all the way to Lu Province?
As a result, Xu Yang also had to change the route of the march, and the army had to cross the Yellow River first, and then make plans after entering Jin Province.
Xu Yang ordered the army to stop, turned over and dismounted, and walked slowly towards these boatmen.
And when the army came to the river, these boatmen were also startled, and their faces changed greatly, because the boatmen had never seen so many soldiers, and they couldn't help but stand on the spot, and they were even more puzzled what the army was doing here?
"Ladies and gentlemen, can you bring our soldiers to the other side? Rest assured, none of the boat's money will be lost for you. Xu Yang said with a smile.
These boatmen were surprised and delighted when they saw that Xu Yang was like a leader in the army, and heard that the other party wanted the boat to take the soldiers across the river.
However, when the boatman saw the black and oppressive soldiers, he became sad again, because the number of soldiers was too large, and his own boat was too small, and he could only go back and forth countless times to bring many soldiers to the other side.
"General, it's not that the grass people are unwilling to take their soldiers across the river, it's just that the boats of the small people are too small, and if you want to cross the river, you have to make countless trips back and forth to be able to bring all the soldiers to the other side. A shipman said with a sad face.
Even without the other party's words, Xu Yang knew very well in his heart, knowing that the ship really had to go back and forth countless times before he could bring the army to the other side.
Xu Yang looked at the boatman's face cloudy, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, as long as you cross my soldiers safely." As he spoke, he waved his hand to the generals behind him and motioned for the soldiers to start crossing the river in boats.
These generals also watched the conversation between Xu Yang and the boatman, and when they heard that Xu Yang was really going to cross, they hurriedly organized the soldiers and began to line up to board the ship in turn.
There were ten boats on the riverbank, and each small boat could carry twenty people. In other words, a group of soldiers could only cross 200 people, and it would take 2,500 times to cross an army of 500,000 across the river.
Everyone knew the urgency of the time, and the soldiers lined up and boarded the ten ships one by one. Then the ships gradually sailed off the shore and slowly headed towards the opposite shore.
The soldiers and generals watched the ten boats gradually become ten black dots on the river, and then gradually disappeared from view, nervous, wondering if the soldiers had reached the other side at this moment?
And just when the soldiers and generals looked at the river, Xu Yang and the others saw that ten black dots gradually appeared on the river, and they were slowly coming towards their side, and they were overjoyed.
"General Xu, these ten ships are back!" the generals shouted in surprise.
Gradually, the ten ships came to the shore, and the boatman said that he had transported 200 soldiers to the other side, and then the 200 soldiers boarded the ships in turn.
Ten boatmen shouted and rowed their oars, and the soldiers helped to paddle the oars, and they were almost off the shore.
Xu Yang watched the ten ships go back and forth, and he was silently calculated in his heart, surprised that it would take two hours for the ships to go back and forth, "If that's the case, this day will only be able to transport back and forth ten timesγγγγγγ β
"General Xu, ten ships are too slow to transport soldiers, if we finish transporting my army of 500,000, I am afraid it will only take two hundred and fifty days. In this way, is it too much to delay the march?" said the generals anxiously.
Xu Yang naturally didn't want to wait here any longer, and hurriedly said to the generals around him: "It's not okay to go on like this! Now, hurry up and organize soldiers along the river bank to find that there are no other ships nearby." If it did, it would be much easierγγγγγγ β
"Yes, we can't just wait here. The surrounding generals said with a smile.
So, the general hurriedly organized his soldiers to start along the bank of the river, and went separately to look for other boats nearby.
It didn't take long for everyone to see ten more black spots appear in the middle of the river, and ten boats returned. At the same time, the people were overjoyed to see boats on both sides of the river.
Gradually, there were no longer ten ships docked on the riverbank, but more than twenty ships, of different sizes and for different purposes. Not only that, but there were also ships 66 that continued to sail towards Xu Yang and the others.
While the soldiers were boarding, the boats were also sailing away from the shore, and there were also boats in the distance heading towards Xu Yang and the others.
Gradually, the wide river was filled with boats rushing back and forth.