Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1202 Horse City
The sky was overcast again, with dark clouds gradually blurring the line between day and night.

Lu Gonu slept all afternoon behind the small slope, and finally recovered.Seeing that the sky was getting dark, he hurriedly got up, ready to take the cattle and sheep grazing outside to go home.

The big yellow dog barked suddenly.

"Call you to bark, tell you to bark!" Lu Gou Nu lightly whipped his whip twice.

The big yellow dog whimpered twice, fled to the side with its tail between its legs, and then barked forward again.

Lu Gou Nu was puzzled and turned his head to look.

The sea breeze is blowing, and the reeds are swaying.

In the swamp and lake, gray figures loomed.

Their gait is slow, their movements stiff, and they walk like scarecrows.

"Mother..." Lu Gou Nu suddenly collapsed to the ground.

That's not a scarecrow, it's obviously a living person!

Lu Gounu bravely stood on tiptoe and observed intently.

Behind the reeds, there seemed to be someone rowing a small boat. It was not clear what was loaded in the boat, but it might be a weapon for murder.

"My mother, how did you bastards get here..." Lu Gou Nu rolled and crawled, and jumped backwards.

wrong!There are also cattle and sheep, which must be beaten back!

Lu Gounu immediately gathered the sheep in a hurry, and the big yellow dog followed behind him, barking non-stop.The sheep bleated, followed behind the head sheep, and walked north.

"Quick! Quick!" Lu Gounu kept urging, regardless of whether the sheep could understand or not.

As he walked, he turned his head and looked back.

There are more and more figures in the lake, densely packed from north to south.The ones in front have stepped into the knee-deep shoal, while the ones behind are still stuck in waist-deep water, pushing the boat forward.

Lu Gonu had never learned how to count people, but he subconsciously felt that there were many people in the lake, and their origins were suspicious, which was very dangerous.

"Go! Go! Uh..." An arrow pierced through the air and hit the vest.

Lu Gonu turned around in disbelief, but saw two men covered in mud, one tall and one short standing near the flock of sheep, and the short man had just lowered his bow.

"Boom!" Lu Gou Nu fell to the ground, his consciousness gradually dissipating.

Before dying, he saw the tall man walking towards his flock.

Don't rest your eyes!

"I didn't expect that there would be meat to eat just after landing. Is this man here to deliver sheep for us?" the short man asked with a smile.

The tall man also laughed, shot the big yellow dog to death with one arrow, and drove the flock of sheep away.

"Why hasn't the team leader come back yet?" He asked.

"How so fast? I don't think you will be back tonight." The short man also came over to help herd the sheep, and said, "These dozens of sheep can indeed be sacrificed by the brothers."

Nearly 2000 people landed, and dozens of sheep barely enough to eat.As for the other follow-up troops, they are not in good condition, and they probably don't have much appetite-yes, the small 2000 people who landed are all sergeants who have less obvious symptoms of seasickness or have recovered.

As the two were talking, the first group of people had already landed over there.They gasped heavily, their eyes filled with joy.

Walking in the mud and reeds is not an easy task, and it consumes a lot of physical strength.Mentally, I was also very nervous. Think about it, if there were defenders on the shore, they would find a good place to shoot and kill the Xia soldiers in the mud and shallows with their bows and arrows. How would they resist?

There was no other way but to watch them being tortured and killed one by one.This is why landing operations have been extremely difficult since ancient times.

The first priority of landing is to catch people by surprise, and everything else is false, because people can really block ten with one on the shore.

Only by being unexpected and making him unexpected, can you log in successfully.

In addition, it is still very dangerous after successful login.For example, tonight, it was impossible to camp for a while, the soldiers were not equipped with equipment, their physical strength was greatly reduced, and many people still suffered from seasickness.The enemy doesn't need to be many, just gather a group of local peasants, and they can kill your same number of elite soldiers.

To be honest, they might have to thank the strong wind for blowing them to this deserted place.If it is a prosperous county, it will be a lot of trouble.As long as the enemy reacts quickly enough, it can cause enough damage.

Liu Zhijun went ashore with a gloomy face, covered with mud from the waist down.

He is the deputy envoy of the Chishui Army, and personally led the first group of people to land.Now the login has been successful, but it is far from the time to be happy.

"Let the fleet send a few more horses," Liu Zhijun ordered.

"Sergeants who go ashore, regardless of whether they can hold on or not, immediately put on armor and hold weapons."

"The scouts that can still move, spread out in all directions, and guard for fifteen miles."

"The auxiliary soldiers searched around to see if there is a forest."

"Also, the sky will be dark, no fire is allowed, and everyone eats dry food."

This last sentence made the herd of cattle and sheep live another night.

After speaking, Liu Zhijun also slumped on the ground.

Things like seasickness have nothing to do with whether you are physically strong or not.He was indeed a little dizzy, but it was much better than the previous two days. This will be completely relying on willpower to endure the discomfort and give various orders.

The landing operation continues.

Among the reeds, the sound of splashing water almost rang throughout the night, and did not stop until the next day's sunrise.

After dawn, some ships appeared from where the sea and the sky meet.These are ships waiting in the open sea, approaching one after another at this moment, releasing batch after batch of personnel and materials ashore.

There were more than [-] ships gathered in the open sea, loaded with nearly [-] soldiers and a large amount of supplies, and the entire landing operation was expected to last for several days.

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The Van River landed on the evening of August 25.

He requested to come up in advance.Although the sailors arranged a rope hammock for him in the hold, he still felt uncomfortable and went ashore.

He came ashore in a boat.

The landing lasted for a day and a night. At this time, many people still waded directly to the shore.It is very good to have a boat, because the precious ship capacity is used to transport food, weapons and other supplies, even horses.

"In the future, we will train a team that won't get seasick." Fan He said with lingering fear after landing on the shore.

He always felt that things like cross-sea landing were too professional, and professional things had to be left to professional people.

Just like the three armies of Feilong, Heizhu, and Jindao are extremely mobile cavalry infantry. They not only have the frontal combat ability beyond the cavalry, but also have the mobility of the cavalry. As an offensive force, it is simply a sharp weapon.

For cross-sea combat, it would be great if we could train a unit with a combat effectiveness comparable to professional infantry and familiar with the maritime environment.

This kind of army does not need to be many, 2 or [-] people are enough.Their task was to land on the desolate beach by surprise, and then build a defense line on the spot, waiting for the follow-up large forces to come ashore.

To be honest, a landing like today's is too rough.Fan He put himself into the Jin army. If he could mobilize thousands of troops, he would definitely be able to block them from going ashore, and even be massacred.

We should take this as a warning in the future.

"Military envoy, the imperial court is disarming the army, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to approve it." Kang Huaiying, the commander of the Chishui army, followed behind him, almost crying when he stepped on the solid ground.

You can't understand the landlubber's fear of the ocean, it is a feeling of emptiness from the heart, which is very uncomfortable.

"The sage is wise and powerful, and he knows which troops should be cut and which ones cannot." Fan He said: "After 20 years of fighting, he has won such a large territory, thanks to the wiseness of the saint."

Fan He is so on-line, what else can Kang Huaiying say?He could only nod in agreement.

"How many ships haven't arrived yet?" Fan He asked after finding a dry place to sit down.

"There are still nearly [-] ships that have been blown apart. I haven't been in touch for a while. I don't know where they will land." Kang Huaiying also sat down, took out dried meat and cheese, and handed a piece to Fan He.

The power of the sea lies in its unpredictability.If the weather can be predicted in advance, more than half of the shipwrecks from ancient times to the present will disappear.It's a pity that it can't be done, and it can't be solved by relying on the experience of the old coastal fishermen, because they themselves are victims of shipwrecks that emerge in endlessly.

"Look at their luck, I don't know where they will land." Fan He sighed and forced himself to start eating to replenish his strength.

There is no way to send scouts to contact at sea. Once lost, it depends on luck if you want to get in touch again.Unless you can fly to the sky to search for other people's movements, or you can transmit voices thousands of miles away to tell others where you are.

The most embarrassing thing is that they don't even know where they are, and it is very difficult to agree on a meeting place.Thinking about it carefully, the voyage from Dengzhou to Lushun is really much easier. There are dotted islands along the way, and many islands have supply stations of the Ping Navy or arranged fishermen and farmers, so it is easy to judge the direction—or how Said that offshore navigation is the easiest, and the difficulty of deep sea navigation is almost the same.

"Military envoy." Liu Zhijun walked over from a distance and saluted.

"Where is this place, have you checked it out?" Fan He got up and asked in return.

"The scouts have quietly arrested some people, and we have figured it out." Liu Zhijun replied, "This place should be in Pingzhou, probably at the junction of Macheng and Shicheng counties."

"Macheng?" Fan He asked someone to bring a map and looked at it carefully.

Macheng is actually a port, along the bank of Rushui (Luan River), which can be connected to the sea.The Xia people should be thankful that the wind didn't blow them near the mouth of the Rushui. There must be a lot of people there, and they can be seen directly, so the landing operation will lose its suddenness and the probability of failure will increase greatly.

"So it came here..." Fan He sighed, then closed his eyes and began to think.

Kang Huaiying subconsciously slowed down his chewing speed so as not to affect Fan He.

"I've made up my mind!" Fan He suddenly opened his eyes, and said, "After all the personnel and supplies have landed, the whole army will rest for the night. Tomorrow, we will make a large-scale attack on Macheng."

Macheng is the ancient Haiyang City, a port city with a military town nearby and a large population.At the same time, there is Qianjin Metallurgy, which is a relatively important iron smelting base in Youzhou.To seize this place, we have food and weapons. At the same time, we also control the docks, which will facilitate the transport of personnel and supplies by follow-up ships.

In fact, after the landing operation is successful, the first priority is to control the port facilities and let the large troops follow up.After all, the landing efficiency of docks and tidal flats is not at the same level at all.

Liu Zhijun and Kang Huaiying also subconsciously became tense, as if they were going to steal someone - in fact, it was almost the same.

(End of this chapter)