Chapter 253 It's a pity

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The closer the Dragon Boat Festival gets, the more intense the sun in Lingnan becomes, shining on the body like a fire, and the skin feels like a pinprick in the sun.

In addition, there was a heavy rain two days ago, and now under the effect of high temperature, people seem to be in a steamer, and sweat keeps flowing down their backs and foreheads.

Here is about 100 miles southeast of Ninghai County (Fangchenggang), a large army meanders on a not wide official road, listless and low-hanging fiery red flag also has the big character of 'Chen' written in seal body, disappearing from time to time in the big trees on both sides of the official road.

A soldier named Chen Jun held his weapon and followed the large army listlessly on the road, but there were also some soldiers chatting very energetically, one of the soldiers pointed to a group of soldiers on the wasteland near the road in the distance, and said to the other soldiers who were on fire: "Look, those northern barbarians are burying their horses again!" ”

In the wasteland on the side of the road a few hundred meters away from these soldiers, dozens of soldiers dressed as East Navy sergeants dug out a large pit with a length of more than ten meters and a width of more than two zhang with good shovels, and dozens of cavalry-like soldiers carried the corpses of several war horses into the pit like old women.

There were also a few cavalrymen beating their chests and stunning, and they were very excited, while other soldiers were persuading these people on the side, and the scene was very sad.

Seeing such a scene, the other Chen soldiers were already surprised, and they didn't have the slightest idea of stepping forward to watch, of course, if they wanted to watch, they would be punished if they didn't get the permission of the officials, and they were more likely to cause conflicts between themselves and the other party.

A tall but somewhat thin soldier of the Chen army said regretfully: "It's a pity, they are all good horses in the north, and they are all seen by the princes and the Jiangmen family in Jiankang City, at least they are all priced at hundreds of thousands of yuan, even if they can't be sold at a high price in our Lingnan, they are worth tens of thousands of dollars!" ”

This tall soldier had relatives who used to work as horse dealers in Liangzhou, and often sold horses from Tuyuhun to Jiangdong and other places, so he knew the price of horses very well, and some other soldiers also sighed after hearing this price.

However, not all soldiers have a sympathetic mentality, and a young soldier of the Chen Army with a smooth appearance said disdainfully: "Hmph, I think they deserve it, these northern barbarians are very arrogant, before Lao Tzu wanted to go up to see those good horses, but they didn't let us people get close at all!" This time it's retribution! ”

Before the soldier finished speaking, a veteran dressed as a commander immediately reprimanded: "What nonsense, these are friendly soldiers who are here to help us fight, don't talk nonsense, our brothers say it's nothing, if the people above hear that there is good fruit for you to eat!" ”

As soon as Shi Chang finished speaking, several other soldiers were immediately silenced, the military law in the army is not a joke, and they have to cut off their heads at every turn, even the lightest military stick has to be rested for two months to get better after ten blows, and it is very easy to leave sequelae.

Therefore, these soldiers were alert when they heard Shi Chang's question, but on the contrary, after the Shi Chang finished speaking, he also looked at the distance and whispered: "Such good meat is wasted, if it is used to cook it, it will be the best meat!" A horse is a thousand pounds! ”

He didn't dare to let others hear this, when these Xia Jun Yu Lin Wei first appeared dead horses, they were going to bury these war horses, but a few Chen Jun soldiers who didn't know the severity felt that it was a waste to bury them, so they said that if you don't want it, just give us food!

Where did these Chen soldiers want to get the feelings of Yu Linwei's cavalry and their war horses, they immediately provoked those cavalry, and the two sides fought without saying a word, if the generals of both sides found out and stopped it as soon as possible, I am afraid it would be a large-scale conflict.

Not far behind Chen Jun is Wang Ze and Mrs. Xian's army, Mrs. Xian is in front of Wang Ze, Wang Ze is with Zhao Yong and Guo Erlang while leading the horse forward, Zhu Bofu and Cheng Hu are no longer running around because of the large number of cavalry horses under their command, and they are honestly with the cavalry.

The weather was too hot, Wang Ze had to take off his helmet, and immediately the guards around him handed over the towel that had just been soaked in the fresh mountain spring, wiped it on his face, and suddenly a cool breath of the mountain spring came up, and the original irritable mood calmed down a little.

"Little Marquis, we have three more war horses killed today!" Guo Erlang, who was guarding Wang Ze's side, said to Wang Ze a little depressedly, "If you think carefully, since we came to Lingnan, there have been more than 600 horses that have died of illness alone!" Coupled with the sick war horses, half of the cavalry of Yulinwei alone has to move forward like the infantry! ”

Wang Ze carefully wiped his face with a wet towel, and then looked at Guo Erlang with a smile and said: "It's already good, you see that in the first few days before, we lost dozens of war horses in one day, and now in the past two days, we have lost less than ten horses in total, which shows that the condition of the war horses is under control!" ”

In fact, for the serious loss of people and horses during this time, Wang Ze is also very helpless, the excellent war horses in the north after adapting to the bitter cold climate on the Saibei grassland, can not adapt to the tropical environment of Lingnan with high temperature and high humidity, in the seventh day after Wang Ze came to Lingnan, there began to be a continuous illness of war horses, and then a large area of war horses died.

Fortunately, the doctors who accompanied the ship not only had the ability to treat people, but also several doctors were skilled full-time veterinarians, which allowed the two brothers Zhu Bofu and Cheng Hu to escape the doom of turning from cavalry to infantry. The whole book

But even so, after more than 20 days of torture, hundreds of war horses still died, in addition to the war horses not adapted to the water and soil, the climate continued to die, even the soldiers of the Central Protector Army under Wang Ze also had a large number of diseases that did not adapt to the water and soil.

This is still Wang Ze's previous method of dealing with the heavy heat in Lingnan, and Nan Chen also used these methods when he moved the people before, which proved that these methods were very effective.

But unexpectedly, the Yangtze River Basin and the Huaihe River Basin, where the people of Nanchen were originally located, were also high temperature and humidity in summer, and the climate was no worse than that of Lingnan, which made Wang Ze's methods very effective.

However, most of Wang Ze's soldiers were northerners, and although these methods were useful, after all, they still could not make the Han people who had been in the north for a long time immediately adapt to the environment in Lingnan, which caused a large number of soldiers to fall ill.

Under the careful care of the previous doctors, all the soldiers survived, but there were still dozens of soldiers who were not suitable to follow the group because of their serious illness, and were finally sent back to the East China Sea by Wang Zetong.

In addition to these soldiers are very concerned by Wang Ze, war horses are also the focus of Wang Ze's concern, whenever a war horse dies, Wang Ze is distressed and trembling, these good horses have spent a lot of money to buy back from these places in the Khitan.

At that time, the Central Protector Army was formed, and it can be said that Hu Bingchang, these cavalry generals, sent almost all the good horses, and if Hu Bingchang's generals knew that so many war horses had died at once, I am afraid that they would be distressed to death.

The only thing that comforted Wang Ze a little was that the dead war horses were mainly purchased from the Khitan, and most of the war horses produced by the Jeju Island Horse Farm, which accounted for the majority, were safe and sound.

When Wang Ze and Guo Erlang were talking, Zhao Yong also led the horse and walked behind Wang Ze, looking at the dozens of cavalrymen of Yulinwei who were burying their war horses on the side of the road with sad faces, he was also very sad in his heart.

He knew that the cavalry's war horses were brothers and comrades-in-arms to them, and if they died in battle, they would die without regrets, but now the war horses that are sick and dead even die on the battlefield is a luxury.

Looking at Wang Ze, who was also in front of him in order to save horsepower, leading the war horse to walk like himself, Zhao Yong took two steps forward and said: "Little Marquis, I don't think we should get involved in the war between Nanchen and the aborigines of Jiaozhou, anyway, those natives can't beat Chen Jun, and they can't threaten our industries in these places in Lingnan, why do you have to get involved?" ”

Wang Ze glanced at Zhao Yong, who had always been old and respectful, and knew that this middle-aged general was also thinking about his own interests, so he paused and walked side by side with Zhao Yong, looked at Zhao Yong and said with a smile: "This time, we are dealing with the natives of Jiaozhou, not only to help the Nanchen army, but also to consider other aspects!" ”

"It is precisely because of the Nanchen army as the main force that we are not under much pressure, so we can take this opportunity to observe the strength of the Nanchen army and the indigenous heroes of Jiaozhou, and we will have an estimate when we encounter such an occasion in the future!"

Seeing Zhao Yong's thoughtful appearance, Wang Ze continued: "In addition, we can find out through this march that we have taken all the combat ideas of Lingnan too seriously in the past, so this time your task is very heavy, not only to investigate the situation along the way in Lingnan, but also to be prepared for all the situations encountered in the future march in Lingnan!" ”

Zhao Yong and Guo Erlang listened carefully, and from time to time Guo Erlang would take out a delicate sheepskin book from his coat pocket, write and draw on it with a charcoal pen, and record all the things he thought were more important.

For this attitude, Wang Ze nodded appreciatively, and let Zhao Yong on the side see it and muttered in his heart that he was too satisfied with the status quo? I thought that when I went back, I would find someone to get a small notebook.

Since Wang Ze knew that the Jiaozhou indigenous Haoqiang Mei clan took the lead in the rebellion, he made some preparations, and most of the dark piles and shadows he had arranged in Lingnan were activated, and then he was ready to put his forces in Jiaozhou.

As Wang Ze expected, within a few days, Zhou Wenhua, the old general who pacified Fujian and Zhejiang with Wang Ze, led an army of 20,000 to Lingnan, and when the army arrived in Guangzhou, Mrs. Xian prepared 10,000 troops to accompany her, and Wang Ze also set off with his army when Zhou Wenhua passed by.

At first, Wang Ze only cared about the economic damage caused by the war, and there was not a single merchant ship in the waterway between Zhuya County and Qikang County (Leizhou Peninsula), which was quite prosperous, and all of them were intercepted outside the sea area controlled by the warring parties.

But within two days, the war horses under Wang Ze's command began to die of illness one after another, and then there were various problems among the soldiers, which was still because of a large number of doctors, so there were no big problems, otherwise it was possible for Wang Ze's entire army to be wiped out this time.

In this regard, Wang Ze felt distressed and felt that he had gained a lot, no wonder although the emperors of the ancient dynasties coveted the wealth of the South Seas, but in the end they still did not collect this land into their own hands, and the price of the phone bill was too great.

Just as Wang Ze was giving Guo Erlang and Zhao Yong a big lesson, he suddenly heard Shen Sanshui shouting in his throat: "Little Hou Ye, General Zhou sent someone to send us medicine to relieve the heat!" ”