Chapter 32: Strong Walls and Clear Fields (Continued)
There is Yeyu County in the Han Dynasty on the banks of Dianchi Lake in Yizhou, which is the old land of the former Yeyu Kingdom. There is Yeyu Ze to the east of the area. The Ze water winds to the southeast and is called Yeyu Water. This river passes through the mountains and valleys and enters the boundary of Jiaozhi County, and is divided into five.
It was merged into the three rivers in the county. One river flowed through Longyuan, the county's capital, and merged with the water in the north of Longyuan City outside the eastern suburbs of the city. During the Jian'an period of the Later Han Dynasty, Jiaozhou was established. Panlong appeared in the two rivers, and it was woven at the confluence. Therefore, Longyuan was renamed Longber.
After the two waters merge, they wind and flow eastward through Quyi, and then flow eastward into the sea. This sea is called Langyu or Yuhai by locals.
There is a big port at the entrance of the sea, where ships from various countries berth here waiting for Hyacinth, either heading northeast to Hepu, Fanyu or Jiankang further north, or heading southeast to Linyi and other southern countries, and then sailing westward to the southern Haiji River, and you can head to the Lion Kingdom, India, and even Persia.
For hundreds of years, the maritime merchants from Fushen, Persia and India from the extreme west, and traveled to the distant Central Plains with rare treasures, all of them had to berth in this big port. Because the upstream was the Longbian, the port was also called Longbian Port.
The sea ships of various countries have been repaired at Longbian Port. When the weather is right, they set sail and head to the next stop, Guangzhou Fanyu, to complete this difficult long journey.
In summer every year, when the sea ships come to the south the most, after they supply fresh water at Longbiao Port, they can take advantage of the southeast wind to go to Fanyu in the northeast direction.
In Fanyu, maritime merchants purchased large quantities of silk, raw silk, porcelain and other in the Central Plains, filled all the cabins. When the northeast wind blows in autumn and winter, they can set sail and return home. Of course, after leaving Fanyu, they have to pass by Longbiao Port to berth and repair it.
Because of this, the prosperity of Jiaozhou Longbian Port is no less than that of Guangzhou Fanyu Port. In summer, the docks of Longbian Port are also extremely lively, but today's lively but a bit bloody.
The dense ships of various countries rushed to leave the pier, and the sound of killing on the shore was shocking. Li Puding, a Sima of Jiaozhou, who had just arrived at the port, fell in a pool of blood, with an arrow in his chest.
The arrow had penetrated his armor into his chest. Every time he took a breath, some blood was overflowing from his mouth.
Instinctively crawled outward, Li Puding was unwilling to be buried in this way. He was the Sima of Jiaozhou on the surface, but in fact he was the General of Wanchun Kingdom. He was young and strong and had a bright future. He could not die here.
King Li Fozi ordered him to come here to buy seafarers and organize desperate people to attack ships in Song Shou, Anzhou and Hepu Seaport in Yuezhou, and try to delay the speed of Zhou's crossing the sea.
There is nothing that crew members who are seeking life at sea dare not do. The so-called reward must be a brave man. Li Puding brought a lot of gold and silver according to Li Fozi's wishes, and used them to buy outlaws to lick blood on the head of Wanchun Kingdom.
The country has begun to strengthen its walls and clear the fields. As long as it can successfully buy outlaws to attack Zhou's ships, it will have a chance to force the other party to recognize Wanchunguo's actual control over Jiaozhou. Li Puding is very confident about this trip, but as soon as he arrived at the dock, he...
There was a sound of fighting around, and the soldiers brought by Li Puding were slaughtered like killing chickens and pigs. Those people rushed out of the sea boat that had just been berthed by the dock. They were extremely brave and had no way to stop them.
The incident happened suddenly, before Li Puding could react, he was shot at a close distance. The armor he was wearing could not protect his chest and vomited blood and fell to the ground.
After crawling for a few more times, he felt that his chest was hurting severely, his breathing became more and more difficult, and his strength was disappearing.
Footsteps sounded, and several men in armor walked up with one person. Li Puding reluctantly looked up, but saw that the man was his personal soldier.
"It's him, it's him, he's our general, called Li Puding, the general... No, no, no, it's Sima of the State."
Li Puding was almost out of reach. He struggled to beg for mercy and begged the other party to save his life, but before he could speak, he saw a middle-aged man wearing a wardrobe walking up to the soldiers.
"Give me...Give me your life, save me..." Li Puding stretched out his right hand, his arm trembled, and then fell to the ground with a depressed breath.
"He is your general?"
"Yes, yes, yes... don't kill me! I'm willing to lead the way, I'm willing to lead the way!"
The personal soldiers' retelling about the information, and heard the middle-aged man's speech, he was so scared that he knelt down and begged for mercy.
Murong Sanzang saw that the man was wet even with his crotch, and snorted coldly and walked forward. A young man was next to him, but Feng Xuan, the second son of Feng family.
"Mr. Murong, next?"
"Feng Fujun, how long will it take to return to normal after the war horse is onshore?"
"Well, if you take good care of ordinary horses, it will take about an hour."
"Then you can bring as many horses as you like now, without further ado." Murong Sanzang looked at the corpses in front of him, waved his head left and right slightly, as if he was moving his cervical spine and warming up.
Feng Xuan had some concerns: "Mr. Murong, now there are probably only a small number of war horses that can recover from seasickness. There are not many, I'm afraid..."
"Feng Fujun, the essence of cavalry combat is not the number, but the time." Murong Sanzang turned around and looked at Feng Xuan and smiled, "Soldiers are so fast. Didn't the king tell you and me?"
The marshal of the Lingnan Road, Wang Yuwen Wen of Xiyang, was on Feng Xian's sea boat and patrolled the coastal prefectures and counties along the Lingbing were well known to everyone, while the marching chief Murong Sanzang took his elite soldiers to accompany him quietly on a boat, but not many people knew about this.
When Yuwen Wen's fleet passed through Xuwen Port in Nanhezhou and headed to Anzhou in the northwest, Murong Sanzang and Feng Xuan, who were accompanying his troops, went to the southwest of Xuwen, and berthed in Zhuya County, Yazhou opposite the sea, waiting for the next order.
Zhuya County is the territory of Feng Xian’s family. Unlike the lively Xuwen Port, there is no "outsider" fleet berthing, so Murong Sanzang’s whereabouts are still unknown to outsiders.
Once the Ning family in Anzhou was ungrateful, he and Feng Xuan led their troops to sail north on a boat and rushed to Anzhou with the southeast wind. They could reach the entrance of the Qin River that day, which was only more than a hundred miles away from Songshou City.
Now, the one who is ignorant of the matter is Li Fozi, the governor of Jiaozhou. Jiaozhou is located just west of Zhuya County. It is a good time to take a boat west, so it is a bad luck for this person!
The sound of horse hooves was heard, and some war horses that had recovered from seasickness were led over. Murong Sanzang explained some important matters to Feng Xuan, then turned over to the horse, and called the cavalry to move closer to him.
Looking up, countless ships were sailing upstream at the estuary. These ships were just inland river boats berthed at Longbi Port, all of which were Zhou army and Feng clan soldiers who had just come down from the sea, with the same target as Murong Sanzang's cavalry.
He raised his whip and pointed to the northwest: "The next target, Qu Yi!"
Qu Yi is only fifty or sixty miles away from the Dragon Weaving. Once it is lost, the Dragon Weaving will inevitably fall into panic.
The elite troops led by Murong Sanzang and Feng Xuan came across the sea directly, and were the Fish Intestine Sword that stabbed Long Weaving. At this time, Yuwen Wen, who was making a big fuss in Anzhou, was just a pretext to attract Li Fozi's attention.
Chapter completed!