Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 259 Heading to Sichuan and Shu
However, the information sent by the intelligence department from Sichuan and Shu a few days ago cast a shadow over his heart.He always felt that the shadows of Maitreya School Building Yanming and Shangguan Bingyun were behind the recent chaos in Sichuan and Sichuan.He doesn't know Lou Yanming well, but he has a deep understanding of Shangguan Bingyun's level of conspiracy.He has ordered the intelligence department to further investigate the chaos in Sichuan and Sichuan, and sent two groups of Huaxia guards to Sichuan and Sichuan.

Zhang Daneng is a capital under Yang Yanping's command, with 100 people under his command.When the Song Dynasty was founded, he joined the army and fought for more than ten years. He has experienced many battles and is also a veteran.Since the army was launched, several orders have been issued successively, all of which are different from the past.Except for the semaphore order that he praised in front of his subordinates, he didn't take the other orders seriously.However, after hesitating for three or three years, he thought that it was the order from above after all, and he heard that it was the rules set by the famous Lord Xiangfu himself, so he obeyed obediently and told the people below, but the people below He didn't pay too much attention to how it was implemented.

On this day, the troops arrived in Chenzhou and rested on the side of the road at noon.

"Dutou! It's not good, there are more than a dozen people with diarrhea." Ten Generals (equivalent to the squad leader of later generations, with ten people under his command.) Li Fa came over to report to Zhang Daneng.

Zhang Daneng scolded immediately after hearing this: "What do you eat, you are going to continue marching soon, you will have diarrhea, isn't this asking for trouble?"

Li Fa said again: "Dutou, I just asked, those bastards who have diarrhea are all because they have been lazy to go to Huotou Army to pour boiled water and drink unboiled water in the past two days."

Zhang Daneng said: "What... because of drinking raw water, the water in the **** south is really different from Kaifeng. I still have diarrhea after drinking raw water. Fortunately, I drank boiled water, but the fire head army is fucking Just those few pots, the boiled water always smells of oily smoke. If it weren’t for this rule set by Lord Hou, I would have to drink unboiled water. Sigh... these days are just disobedient, Lord Hou He is a genius doctor, what he said in his hometown can still be wrong, pass on the order, and if someone drinks unboiled water, I will scratch his skin."

Li Fa agreed and ran away to deliver the order.

Phenomena like this have been happening in Ye Chen's army for the past few days. After all, as they continue to go south, the weather in April and May is getting hotter and hotter. The climate is humid. The troops march sixty miles a day, covered in sweat and dust, Sometimes it is cool to take a sip of clear stream and river water, but the boiled water boiled by Huotoujun has a smell of oily smoke.But in the end, a few people proved the correctness of Ye Chen's rules with a painful price.

Li Fa ran around passing orders, the heat was unbearable, watching the river sparkling in the sun more than ten steps away from the roadside.Li Fa cursed secretly in his heart: "Damn, what kind of broken place is this, it's so fucking hot."

He finally couldn't bear to leave the resting place, ran to the river and poured a handful of water on his face, and there was a pleasant coolness, and he wanted to drink a handful of water, but when he thought of the dozen or so unlucky people with diarrhea Egg, I held back.He raised his head and let out a sigh of "ha", then simply lowered his head, soaked his whole face in the cool river water, and then wiped his face with his hands.

At this moment, Li Fa noticed a bloodstain on the palm of his hand, and he froze there.

After a while, he felt numb and itchy on his face. He stretched out his hand and touched something soft and slippery. He hurriedly pinched it and pulled it out, but it was very slippery and could not be pulled out.
"Damn it, what the hell is this?" Li Fa yelled in horror. He suddenly remembered another order from above a few days ago: It is strictly forbidden to enter small rivers, small lakes, and ditches to wash your face and hands.Is it because there is this thing in the water.

Li Fa ran to the queue in three steps and two steps, and called ten of his men to come and help.Ten subordinates quickly surrounded him, all staring at his face.Li Fa said: "What are you looking at, quickly find a way to get it down for me."

The dozen or so people suddenly chattered, and even the other teams looked sideways.Someone said: "Don't worry Li Shi, this is a leech, it's nothing serious."

"Fuck! This thing is digging into the flesh, how do you get it out?" Li Fa's voice changed.It doesn't hurt to drill into a person, but the thought of drilling into the flesh of the face feels very creepy.

The man seemed to have been to the south just now, so he hurriedly said: "We need to use wine, it will come out after marinating."

"Fuck your mother, there is alcohol in this army." Zhang Fa scolded.

At this time, someone yelled again: "It seems that you can use urine."

After saying this, the man untied his belt and took out the ugly thing. Although Li Fa was quite frightened, he wouldn't let anyone pee on his face if he was killed.He took out a bowl from a backpack, and let the subordinate piss into the rice bowl regardless of the mournful face.

The man was not polite, and after sprinkling, he couldn't help but splash it on Li Fa's face.

"Fuck you!" Li Fa was about to cry, but he wasn't ready yet, his mouth was still open, and some part of it went into his mouth, and the taste was really fucking bad.

It was already like this, Li Fa couldn't say anything, he just asked, "Did you get that broken thing out?"

Everyone stared and shook their heads.Du Zhang Da Neng was attracted by the movement here, and when he arrived, he shouted the others away, cursing: "Li Fa, you bastard, the Marquis has already ordered you not to go down the river at will when you arrive in the south, even if Wash your face and take a good look at the water in your hands. You bastard just won't listen."

While cursing and slapping twice, Zhang Daneng slapped Li twice hard.

Li Fa was beaten a little dizzy, but at this moment everyone shouted happily: "Come out! Come out!"

"Dutou's slap is good! Could it be that he went to the Chinese army to discuss matters a few days ago, and Master Hou taught Dutou some unique skills." Someone said.

Zhang Daneng felt a little emotional in his heart, thinking that what that person said were all words of wisdom, every rule set by the old man now seems to have a purpose.Thinking of this, Zhang Daneng shouted: "Pass down the order, from now on, whoever drinks unboiled water or enters the water casually, I will cut off his head."

After finishing speaking, he suddenly remembered that a few days ago, everyone distributed a wooden barrel of mosquito repellent plaster, and asked everyone to wipe their faces every morning before marching, saying that this way mosquitoes would not bite.But in such a sweltering weather, it was uncomfortable to put this thing on the face, so some soldiers didn't want to use it.

"Also, the anti-mosquito plaster that Lord Hou gave everyone will be wiped on my face later. I see that there are more and more mosquitoes these past few days. It is estimated that the further south you go, the more mosquitoes there will be. Oh! There are three more Du's silly just fell ill, and I heard that he was bitten by a mosquito. Lord Hou said, the mosquito sucked the blood of a sick person first, and then came to suck your blood, and the disease of the person in front would infect you body." Zhang Daneng left after finishing speaking, and he also went to apply the mosquito repellent plaster.

Before dark, Ye Chen's army finally arrived outside the city of Chenzhou. They divided the site, set up camp, and cooked food. A lot more.

Ye Chen, Wang Chao, Cao Wei, Luo Yaoshun, Yang Yanping, and Zhan Xiongwu watched from a distance at the entrance of the tent of the Chinese Army. Ye Chen felt mosquitoes flying around him, and ordered: "Go! Let people take wormwood, pitcher plant, mint , star anise, and white orchids are all lit. Be careful not to light too much, it will be useless after you use it up.”

Luo Yaoshun scolded with a smile: "These bullies! After some cases of diarrhea, everyone rushed to pour boiled water tonight."

Ye Chen said with some dissatisfaction: "It can be seen from this matter that our army is still unable to enforce orders and prohibitions. After you go back, you must emphasize the implementation of orders. I don't want anyone to question my orders on the battlefield. .”

What Ye Chen said was official business, the five of them immediately looked serious, clasped their fists and said yes, feeling a little awe-inspiring and ashamed.Ye Chen also knows that the ancient army is incomparable to the professional soldiers of the later generations who take obedience to orders as their vocation. In fact, it is almost impossible for every soldier to truly obey the orders and prohibitions in any matter in an army of later generations. .

At this time, a fast horse dismounted from the gate of the camp, and after the sentinel at the gate of the camp asked and checked the token, he led it to Ye Chen.

The visitor, dressed as a Song Army spy, came to Ye Chen and the others, knelt down on one knee, took out a secret letter from his arms, raised his hands, and said respectfully: "General, this villain is under the command of General Pan." Spy Wu Liang, under the order of General Pan, sent the general military information."

The soldiers next to Ye Chen stepped forward to receive the secret letter and handed it to Ye Chen.Ye Chen ordered Wu Liang to get up first, and asked the soldiers to bring him a bowl of water first, but he was not in a hurry to let him go down to rest immediately.

After Ye Chen opened the secret letter and read it, he handed it to Cao Wei and five people next to him, and everyone passed it around to read it.Yang Yanping turned around and clasped his fists at Ye Chen: "The general admires the general so much. Now it seems that if the general hadn't been far-sighted, forced the soldiers to drink boiled water, strictly prohibited the soldiers from going into the river, and prepared mosquito-proof plasters and mosquito-repelling herbs for the army. I'm afraid it will be the same as General Pan and General Zhao."

"Isn't it! The letter says that nearly half of the other two armies were not acclimatized, and a third fell ill. A few of them even died. No wonder General Pan wanted to send someone over to inform them to attack the south. The Han time has been postponed for half a month, so that their people can rest and get used to it." Cao Wei also said.

Ye Chen waited for the spy Wu Liang to finish drinking the water before asking, "How long have you been away from General Pan's camp, and where were they when you left?"

Wu Liang said: "General, the villain has been away from General Pan's camp for five days. He changed horses at the post station along the way and came here at a speed of [-] miles. When the villain left, General Pan's army had already approached Hengzhou. Also received information from General Zhao's spies, at that time General Zhao's army was approaching Jizhou."

Ye Chen nodded, and said to the soldiers next to him: "Take him down to eat and rest, I will write a letter tonight, and you will send it back to General Pan tomorrow."

After spy Wu Liang left, Ye Chen blamed himself a bit and said, "When the army left Kaifeng, I should have sent someone to tell General Pan and General Zhao how to prevent acclimatization. This was my negligence."

(End of this chapter)