Zhuang Shaoyou didn't care about it so much, and flew over, ready to climb it himself. But as soon as he touched the mast, he slid down, and he was shocked, Zhou Tai seemed to be able to climb very easily just now? But when he looked down and saw Zhou Tai's bloody hands, he suddenly understood that this second goods was overexerted!

Zhuang Shaoyou quickly drew his sword and slashed towards the main mast, but it turned out that it was difficult to enter the wood except for splashing some wood chips?

Zhuang Shaoyou scolded: "Damn ink! What materials did you choose? Make it so sturdy? ”

"Boom!"

Another huge wave came, the hull was already a little unbearable, the sound of wood breaking came, and the hull was leaking! It's really raining in the house, Zhuang Shaoyou is shocked and angry, what should I do?

"Lao Tzu is the messenger of the god of the sea, beware of me going to the god of the sea to sue you!"

It's useless, the last time in the East China Sea, it was the Book of Heaven and the Qiankun Sun and Moon Sword that helped a lot, and only then did they repel the divine waves, and now Zhuang Shaoyou's title of the so-called Seagod Messenger doesn't work!

Zhou Tai finished breathing, stood up, wiped the blood on his hands on his clothes, walked to the mast, bent over, and roared: "Upside down the weeping willows!" Rise! ”

Under the stunned gaze of everyone, the mainmast began to tremble.

"Bang bang!"

A series of broken wood sounds, the mainmast was uprooted by Zhou Tai, bringing up a piece of sawdust, Zhou Tai let out a long howl, and threw the mainmast with most of the sails into the sea.

There was a burst of cheers on the deck! The people in the bilge didn't know why, but when they heard the voice, they knew that it must be a good thing, and they suddenly became more demoralized and shook the oars even more desperately.

Zhuang Shaoyou couldn't help but admire: "Good job! Born with divine powers! ”

Zhou Tai smiled innocently, spit out a mouthful of blood, and fainted to the ground.

Zhuang Shaoyou and a few soldiers took matters into their own hands and dragged Zhou Tai into the cabin, and the rest could only be left to fate!

The five-masted warship is nearly twice as large as the four-masted warship, so in order to ensure speed, Ink did not hesitate to sacrifice the cabin space, and added eighty groups of manpower oars to the bilge, and now the bilge nearly four hundred soldiers are divided into five groups, each group is a quarter of an hour, everyone uses all their strength, for their own lives, for the general, fight!

An hour later, the ship left the center of the storm, and two hours later, the ship finally left the danger zone, and the ship erupted in thunderous cheers.

Zhuang Shaoyou also breathed a long sigh of relief, he definitely couldn't die, but this boatload of hundreds of brothers and Cai Yan may not be fine! It's finally okay now!

Arrange the aftermath work, start to correct the course, and send a signal to Puyang, ordering them to send a ship to meet them.

In addition to the necessary personnel on duty, the other crew members were all asleep, Zhuang Shaoyou also returned to the cabin, and was suddenly shocked, seeing that Cai Yan had fainted on the couch, a pair of small hands still grabbed the railing by the couch, and suddenly felt distressed, and quickly rushed over, placed it, covered it with a quilt, and then waited quietly beside it.

After two hours, Cai Yan slowly woke up from the coma, opened his eyes, and saw Zhuang Shaoyou for the first time, and immediately cried aggrievedly.

Zhuang Shaoyou took Cai Yan into his arms and gently caressed her back, comforting her.

The next day, the warship arrived at the mouth of the Yellow River, and Puyang City, which received the news, immediately came to meet it with four five-masted warships.

After some discussion, Zhuang Shaoyou's ship was escorted by a five-masted warship and returned to southern Liaoning for maintenance, while Zhou Tai also returned at the same time to be treated by Zhang Zhongjing, and Zhuang Shaoyou and Cai Yan changed ships and went to Puyang.

On the seventh day of October, Zhuang Shaoyou arrived in Puyang City.

After arriving in Puyang City, Zhuang Shaoyou immediately met with Huang Zhong and Wen Ping, as well as six other talents, and asked for warmth, which made Huang Zhong and Wen Ping and others burst into tears, and swore allegiance one by one!

That Huang Zhong is about forty years old, and he is in the prime of life! Born to be powerful, and the speech and demeanor is not rough, although he has not learned the art of war, but he is still very familiar with military affairs, just came over this period of time is all to learn Zhuang Shaoyou's military system, these things are too different from the Han system, but Huang Zhong is not stupid, a few days down, under the influence of the ears and eyes, this military system is also highly respected! Look at his military rank again, although he is not a general, but this strange colonel comes from the captain, and he is the highest rank among the captains! Back then, Huang Zhong had only been a captain, several levels lower than the captain, and now that he has become a captain, he is also very excited.

Wen Ping was not in his thirties, and he was an unknown official in Nanyang, because he couldn't support his family, so Wen Ping had to resign and make a living. Now he was directly promoted by Zhuang Shaoyou to the deputy commander of the Second Infantry Division, and he also temporarily took over the position of commander, which is an investigation of civil recruitment, as long as he does a good job, of course he will be corrected! Wen Ping was so excited that he burst into tears, there were still a few people who came in at the same time, and the highest grade of the others was only seventh, several levels lower than himself! Obviously, it is the result of the general's exceptional promotion!

After placing the recruited talents, Zhuang Shaoyou began to think about how to deal with the Central Plains War in the coming year.

First of all, the weather in October has been cold, the rivers of eastern Liaoning have gradually begun to freeze, and the water volume in the Yellow River basin has also begun to decrease sharply, at most it will freeze in another month, so you must prepare for winter before freezing!

Puyang City originally had a population of more than 300,000, but in recent years, the Yellow Turban thieves broke into the city several times, and the population loss was serious, and there are still 240,000 people. In addition, the garrison of Puyang City reached 40,000 people, of which 10,000 were cavalry! This man consumes a lot of horse feeding, especially in winter, and the consumption of food increases dramatically.

Therefore, after preliminary estimates, the city's grain consumption will reach 1.2 million Hu in the next six months, and Qiao Mao has a lot of grain in Puyang City, and the number is also 400,000 Hu, so Zhuang Shaoyou ordered to mobilize 1.2 million Hu grain from southern Liaoning to Puyang, of which 200,000 is corn to feed the horses!

As soon as this cavalry battalion grew, I didn't feel anything in the summer, but in the winter the problem became prominent, and the consumption of war horses was several times that of people! Although some forage has been stored, but the war horses used in the war are not enough to eat forage, and the weight will be sharply lost in a winter, and how will a group of skinny horses charge into battle at that time?

Therefore, although Zhuang Shaoyou is also a little distressed about feeding the precious grain to the horses, he can clearly foresee that this cold winter will be a cruel test for the princes of the world! After the spring of the coming year, the 10,000 iron horses under the command of Tai Shi Ci will shock the Central Plains with a new attitude! Let them see what it means to be strong!

200,000 hull corn can save a lot of people, but it is still a drop in the bucket for all living beings in the world, so the long pain is better than the short pain, and concentrate resources to do big things! Strengthening the army first, eliminating other forces, and establishing a new unified regime as soon as possible is the greatest salvation for the people!

The second thing is to immediately recruit strong men in Puyang City to repair the city, and take advantage of this winter to strengthen Puyang City again, Zhuang Shaoyou can't be like Qiao Mao, shrink in the city lord's mansion as a turtle, and abandon the people in the city, Zhuang Shaoyou can't do this kind of thing, and he can't afford to lose that person!

In order to cope with the big war in the coming year, he invested 40 million yuan to repair the city at one time, and recruited a total of 40,000 strong men, and the recruitment conditions were very simple: the food tube was full, and two liters of food were distributed a day!

For a time, the people of Puyang, who were tortured by high grain prices, enthusiastically signed up, and a strong man worked for a day, and the problem of eating for the whole family was solved! This kind of good thing doesn't happen every year!

The third thing is the winter training, Puyang City has 40,000 soldiers, Zhuang Shaoyou is out of the crowd, recruiting strong men to repair the city, but he refuses to use his soldiers, just to seize the time to train and prepare for the upcoming big war.

The new military system has just been implemented for a month, everything has just started to operate on the right track, there are still many internal problems, and there are still many problems in coordination and cooperation between them, those elite veterans are better, but there are still more than half of the recruits, so I would rather spend more money and food, but also save time to run in and train them.

The biggest casualties on the battlefield are the recruits, and the childishness of the recruits who do not experience the tempering of blood and fire can never be taken off, and after this battle, many people will die, and those who are eliminated are qualified, but there is still a long way to go from the elite! Although Zhuang Shaogu's army mainly focuses on long-range strikes, and the casualty rate has always been relatively low, from Jizhou to southern Liaoning, to Luoyang, and then to Puyang, there have been dozens of large and small battles, and there are 20,000 or 30,000 dead soldiers!

And now the Puyang garrison seems to be numerous, but in fact, the good and the bad are mixed, the elite soldiers will not exceed one-third, the first and second brigades of the first infantry division are the elite of the Praetorian Guard and the Tiger Ben Army brought from Luoyang, and they have experienced at least five major battles, and they are the elite of the elite; The 1st and 2nd Brigades of the 1st Cavalry Division under Tai Shi Ci were brought from southern Liaoning, and only half of them participated in two battles against Goguryeo, but they were ** by Tai Shi Ci in southern Liaoning for two years, and it is not an exaggeration to call them elite.

The rest of the infantry and cavalry are mainly recruits, and most of them have never seen blood or participated in a not fierce battle, so their combat effectiveness is not optimistic!

And the weakest is the sailor, so far, the sailor has never experienced a fierce water battle, every time relying on the advantage of the warship to press the enemy to fight, and half of them have no combat experience. A month later, the Yellow River would also freeze, and most of the naval divisions would have to return to southern Liaoning, leaving only three army divisions in Puyang.

Zhuang Shaoyou ordered while thinking, while Cai Yan was writing next to him, listening and writing, his beautiful eyes were full of brilliance, although Zhuang Shaoyou was a little anxious, but he was quite handsome when he was serious!

With the issuance of one order after another, Puyang City moved, and a large amount of grain was mobilized from southern Liaoning to Puyang and Juye County; The people in Puyang City were enthusiastic and responded to the recruitment to repair the city; And Le Jin and Tai Shici are intensively arranging large-scale military training, and Huang Zhong and Wen Ping are also very busy.