Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1359 Grandpa wants to eat fish

The fighting in Buyeo City ended in the evening.

When Liu Rengong saw that the general situation was over, he ran away on horseback and headed towards Bohai Kingdom, but was chased and beheaded by Xia Bing.Afterwards, more than a dozen people argued endlessly over who killed Liu Rengong. Shao Chengjie laughed, and everyone rewarded him with a lot of money.

Du Guangyi rushed in from outside the city and immediately counted the grain, grass and goods in the treasury, but he was naturally disappointed.

Liu Rengong is really poor.But it's this kind of poor ghost who still wants to separate himself and stand on his own, making people wonder what to say.

"There are only more than 17 dendrobiums of grain, [-] bundles of hay, [-] pieces of money, and [-] pieces of cloth." Du Guangyi looked at the account books reported by the people below, still not convinced, and after checking it again, he finally believed it. Very helpless.

"Why should the governor of the Du family sigh." Shao Chengjie said with a smile, "If you don't have any money, just grab it."

"Even if we rob it, we won't be able to get a few pennies." Du Guangyi smiled wryly, "Fuzhou and Xianzhou have been plundered by the Khitan so badly that they are already poor and have nothing to offer."

"Fuyu Mansion doesn't have it, but Changling Mansion has it. Changling Mansion doesn't have it, but there are Xijing and Nanjing in Bohai Sea." Shao Chengjie said: "The governor is in Fuyu to take care of the aftermath. I'm going east."

"What?" Du Guangyi was a little surprised, and asked, "Fuyu is coming down, and you are in a hurry to attack Changling Mansion?"

"Why not?" Shao Chengjie said strangely: "The Flying Dragon Army has entered the border of Beijing on the Bohai Sea. Most of the rebels have been transferred to the north, and the south is empty. It is easy to get. I have sent people to search for horses and water. , hit the east, and hit as much as you can."

"Your Majesty is still on his way to Fuyu Mansion, why don't His Highness wait for the Tianxiong Army to arrive before making a decision?" Du Guangyi remonstrated.

"Your Majesty has given me the order to go east, why wait?"

Du Guangyi choked, and asked tentatively, "When did His Majesty give the order?"

"I told you before sending out troops." Shao Chengjie said with a smile, "Your Majesty has something to say, 'Erlang, Grandpa likes a kind of fish called 'salmon'. When it's cold in September and October, groups will migrate from the sea to rivers." , my son can grab some and offer them.'"

Shao Shude was actually talking about salmon.

This fish is a kind of Pacific salmon. It is widely distributed in the range of 35 degrees to 70 degrees north latitude and 110 degrees to 140 degrees east longitude. It is a rare cold-water migratory fish.

Among them, the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, the coast of Sakhalin Island and the waters of the Kuril Islands are its key production areas.The fish has delicious meat and high nutritional value. Every summer and autumn, schools of salmon that grow in the North Pacific Ocean begin to collectively migrate to freshwater rivers on the shore to lay eggs, forming a fishing season.

This kind of fish is huge in size, generally weighing seven or eight catties, and the big ones are twenty or thirty catties.

They are born in rivers, grow up and enter the sea to live. After 3-5 years of sexual maturity, they return to the place of birth to lay eggs.

The whole process is extremely spectacular. The migratory salmon do not eat or drink, and go upstream in order to return to the birthplace to reproduce.

The road is extremely dangerous, with numerous shoals and waterfalls.Whenever encountering such a situation, the salmon always exerts all its strength and moves forward with difficulty.In many shallow places, they turned sideways and even moved over the gravel at the bottom of the water step by step.

When encountering a waterfall or a broken stream, they will even jump up and jump over this dangerous place.

Along the way, predators such as foxes, brown bears, and eagles are even more guarded in the shallow water, and regard the migratory salmon school as an annual feast.

Many salmon died halfway due to physical exhaustion, human fishing, animal predation and other reasons, and only about [-]% of them finally arrived at the spawning ground covered in bruises.

When they finish laying eggs, the big fish die of nutritional depletion (and lose their food value at this time).The leftover corpses become one of the food sources for the young fish after birth, for their growth, and then return to the sea safely.

Du Guangyi had never heard of this kind of fish, so he was stunned for a moment.

In fact, he couldn't prove the truth of the matter.

Are there schools of fish migrating in the sea?what fishDo they have to migrate after the cold weather?Can fish in the sea survive in freshwater rivers?
No, why did the King of Qin get in?Is this a fish thing?Even if there is, it's just a casual joke between father and son. Do you take it seriously, King Qin?Or use this as an excuse to go east?
"Your Highness..." Du Guangyi took a step forward, waiting to persuade him earnestly, but he saw that Shao Chengjie's personal soldiers had brought their horses.

"It's absolutely true." Shao Chengjie said with a smile, "I have led three thousand soldiers from the government, one thousand soldiers from the prefecture, and two thousand warriors from the Qing Sai army to the east. With these six thousand fine soldiers, why can't things be done? Don't worry about Du's governor. Please feel free to welcome Shengjia. My father may think that the prefectures and counties of the Bohai Kingdom are too small, and they are going to be merged and reorganized. You'd better review your homework in advance, so as not to ask three questions."

The warriors laughed.

Du Guangyi also laughed.

He has worked with Zhao Wang and Qin Wang successively, and the styles of the two are really completely different.

King Zhao is thoughtful and meticulous, and he is familiar with government affairs. He often visits the fields and fields, and he is very concerned about every plant and tree in Anton Mansion.Only martial arts are lacking, and ambitions were exposed too early and too hastily.

The King of Qin is extremely brave, bold and generous, and he is as good as the palm of his hand when it comes to military affairs.He hunts and drills with the warriors twice in three days, and entrusts most of the government affairs to his subordinates. He only cares about military resources, money and food, and whether the civilian officials he appoints are loyal to him.

Both of them have the shadow of a saint, but they are not complete.

"Let's go!" Shao Chengjie took the lead and galloped out.

What he was carrying in his hand was a walking bow.

Du Guangyi shook his head and laughed again.

Immediately cast the step bow, King Qin's martial arts is really extraordinary.Looking at the expressions of admiration on the faces of the soldiers of An Dong's government and the soldiers of the Qing Sai Army, perhaps only such brave people can hold down this gang of Qiu Ba.

Zhao Wang has been in Anton for many years, and the warriors have never had this kind of expression.

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Traveling eastward from Fuyu Prefecture, there are a total of more than [-] li, half of which is flat grassland and half of which is mountainous.

They had [-] soldiers and more than [-] horses, and they moved very quickly.And the places they passed were indeed very desolate, highlighting a sparsely populated area—Changling Mansion, which was plundered by Khitan many times, causing huge losses of people and property.

But no matter how few people there are, there are still people.

Every time the Xia army went to a village, they requisitioned food wantonly to support war with war.Perhaps the soldiers were conscripted to go north, and the two prefectures of Changling Prefecture were extremely empty. They traveled for several days and looted dozens of villages, but no one came to stop them.

On August [-]th, the army arrived a few miles west of Changling Mansion and took a short rest.

After five consecutive days of rapid march, the team has already stretched out.There are only more than 5000 soldiers and more than 2000 horses following Shao Chengjie.More than a hundred miles to the west, there are still [-] people resting and grazing, and further west, there are still people resting and grazing...

Kang Fu, a soldier from Yingkou County, came over and reported: "Your Highness, I just received the news that General Wang has conquered Hezhou."

"So fast!" Shao Chengjie was picking out the maggots in the dried meat, and was greatly surprised when he heard this.

"General Wang" is Wang Yanzhang.He rushed back to Anton Mansion a while ago, conscripted thousands of local peasants, and even released a group of prisoners from the reclamation prison. He gathered tens of thousands of people and marched northward to collect supplies from Gaoershan City. After that, he marched all the way along the mountains and conquered Hezhou (now Shancheng Town, Meihekou City, Jilin Province)——Changling Prefecture under the jurisdiction of Xiazhou and Hezhou, and governing Xiazhou.

In fact, Changling Mansion is no stranger to Xia people.

Back then Zhao Wang Shao Siwu led his troops to the north, and successively captured Xincheng, Gaimu, Gaoershan City, Liaoyang and other places.At that time, Changling Mansion was the one who provided food and grass for them.

"Wang Yanzhang is indeed a brave general. He won Hezhou, and the rear is settled." Shao Chengjie stuffed the jerky into his mouth and said while biting.

Kang Fu grabbed a white meat worm, stuffed it into his mouth, crunched it and chewed it, and said with a smile, "Actually, so what if the Hezhou pestle is there? Your Highness, the Bohai people are weak, and our army can count as ten."

"On the battlefield, you'd better not think so." Shao Chengjie glanced at him, and said, "Although I don't look down on Bohai people, when I do my homework before the battle, I dare not deliberately belittle their combat effectiveness."

Having said that, he stopped talking and continued to eat meat, obviously unwilling to say more.

In the valley, the cold air is overwhelming.The warriors in sweaters didn't feel the cold very much. They ate dried meat and cheese and drank some rice wine to warm up their bodies.

An hour's rest is over.

Shao Chengjie walked up to the war horse, and the horse moved his head close to him.

"Horse, horse, charge for a while, but you can't retreat." He said.

The horse snorted and shook its head.

A moment later, thousands of people joined the battle, jogging in small steps from the hillside, then slowly accelerating, and rushed towards Xiazhou City.

A carriage was parked outside the city gate of Xiazhou.The situation is not peaceful recently, scholars and gentry from the countryside have poured into the city to take refuge, so the gate of the city is very busy from morning till night.

Today is no exception.

The sergeants guarding the city smiled happily when they collected the money, winked at each other, and joked about where to go to be happy after going straight down.

But at this moment, the sound of hurried hooves sounded in the distance.

The guard stared blankly for a while, but by the time he realized something was wrong, it was already too late.

Someone rushed into the city and shouted warnings.But halfway through the speech, a feathered arrow struck and hit the back of the heart.

Shao Chengjie held a step bow and shot repeatedly on the horse.In a short while, four people were shot to the ground by him - everyone who tried to approach the city gate was shot dead on the spot without exception.

Someone in the city rushed out ignorantly, but before he could ask questions, he was hit by a rushing horse.

Kang Fu laughed strangely loudly, and smashed the iron in his hand up and down, causing ghosts and wolves to howl everywhere he passed.

Not to be outdone, Zhao Jing swung his iron spear vigorously and swung away the spears of the Bohai soldiers who stabbed him desperately, becoming more and more courageous.

Behind them, hundreds of riders had rushed through the city gate and entered the street.

Shao Chengjie was stopped outside the city by his subordinates.

He was not in a hurry, and after dismounting from his horse, he held a step bow and shot down a captain of the Bohai Navy who was looking over the top of the city, which immediately aroused applause.

More and more warriors rushed into the city, and there seemed to be no fierce fighting from the sound.

Shao Chengjie was a little tired, this Changling mansion was too easy to fight!
(End of this chapter)