Chapter 32: Upstream
?A river on the south side of Jiangjin was divided into the Yangtze River and winding down the southeast. On a mound of soil by the river, several Chen soldiers were grilling fish. They were sentries sent by the Chen army camp in Jiangjin to guard against someone who crossed the river and attacked.????
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Lianggang Jiangjin, located on the north bank of the Yangtze River, was a must-fight place for military strategists. This time, the Chen State first attacked and captured Jiangjin and controlled Jiangjin. Then mobilized a large army to attack Jiangling.
"Is there any movement on the other side of the river?" A soldier who was eating fish looked up at the river. When others heard the sound, they looked at the riverside. They saw the river water gurgling under the twilight and there were no suspicious figures in the wilderness on the other side.
"You blindfolded and suspicious!" Another soldier cursed with a smile. Seeing that he was still looking around and reaching out to catch the grilled fish in his hand, the two started fighting.
"I have been fed by the river for more than ten days, but I can't even see the figure. The trash of Liang Kingdom's wastes have no courage to come and attack!"
After a while of play, no one cares if there is anything wrong by the river. For these sentries, mosquito bites are so painful that they are staring all over the world. How can they still be loyal to their duties?
There were many reeds growing by the long river like curtains. Zhang Yu was quietly lying in the reeds with a sharp knife in his mouth and looked at the group of Chen Jun soldiers who were more than twenty steps away. Seeing the other party relaxed his guard, he waved gently behind him, and saw black shadows on the water surface sinking into the water.
The black shadows were floating upstream like big fish in the river. Zhang Yu waited for the black shadows to swim here and then looked at the large ocean not far from the upstream of the river and took a deep breath and dived into the water and swam forward.
The Xia River in the south of Jiangjin was called Canglang Water in ancient times. It was divided into river water and flowed eastward through Jianli County and then turned northeastward into the Han River. The Chu State dug and communicated with Hanjin. The ancient canal in Jiangjin is the Xia River south of Jiangjin and enters the Yangtze River. The ancient canal passed through Changhu in the northeast of Jiangling halfway, and went westward through the eastern end of Changhu and directly reached Jiangling and the Yingdu of Chu (Jinan City).
The cool breeze is coming, and the river flows eastwards. Countless lights lit up on the shore of the ship mooring on the Jiangjin side of the ship, like stars falling on the north bank of the Yangtze River. Many black dots suddenly appear on the river surface dozens of steps away from the Jiangjin Wharf.
"Little Yuer, I thought you had been away from Xiangyang for more than a year and forgot all the skills in the water." A man whispered beside Zhang Yu, and they and dozens of people around them slowly moved closer to the bank of the river.
"Brother Liu. I can swim in my dreams."
"Little Fish, is this thing really powerful to set fire?" the man asked, gently rubbing a small jar hanging on his chest with one hand.
"Brother Liu, if you pull the rope, you will even be able to water it, and you will become a fireman." Zhang Yu turned out that the sharp knife in his mouth had been inserted into his belt, so he could speak. He looked back at a dark shadow around him and added: "Everyone should be careful later. Whether this success will be with us will show! If you burn Chen Jun's food and grass, it will be a top-notch achievement!"
"Xiao Yuer followed Commander Yuwen to see this, and he said something a little bit." Another man said in a whisper. These people were quite familiar with Zhang Yu in words. Because they were all soldiers of the Xiangyang naval army, they just went up from the Xia River to escape several Chen army posts and sneaked into the Yangtze River.
Zhang Yu was picked up by Lao Zhangtou, an old soldier of the Xiangyang navy, who grew up eating a hundred families in the water village and wearing hundreds of families. Everyone recognized him. After Lao Zhangtou died in the battle, Zhang Yu and Li Guzheng's family lived together. A year ago, Li Guzheng died in battle. When Xiangyang City broke, Zhang Yu chopped the heads of the high-ranking officials who forced the navy to go south to die and handed them all over to Li Guzheng's widow to raise his young son, and he himself joined the command of Yuwen Wen, the Duke of Xiyang County.
"Everyone rests on the riverside first, take a breath and then go there." Zhang Yu whispered to his companions and swims to the riverside. The shore of the Yangtze River is steep, and they climb the stone wall to rest in the water. The way upstream and several dives consume a lot of physical strength.
Taking advantage of the break, a man asked Zhang Yu a little embarrassedly: "Xiao Yuer, I heard that under Yuwen Tongjun's account, not only does he have enough money, but also has a consistent amount of money every month?"
"That's right, the more you get, the more you get. The Lord will go to Bazhou on the Yangtze River in a few months to be the governor. At that time, the navy will definitely be recruited." Zhang Yu looked mysterious and added a sentence later: "Don't spread this to the outside!"
"I know, I won't tell you." Many people's eyes lit up when they heard Zhang Yu's words. The Xiangyang Navy's deduction of military pay was reduced and the treatment was improved after the rectification of the envoy Yuwen, but it was still much worse than being in the army under Yuwen Tongjun.
General Manager Yuwen, Yuwen Envoy, and Yuwen Tongjun are the most direct names for ordinary soldiers to Yuwen Liang, Yuwen Ming, and Yuwen Wen, father and son. General Manager Yuwen, commander An, Xiang and Huang Sanzhou General Manager Yuwen was the governor of Xiangzhou, and Yuwen Tongjun spent money to train a new army.
This time, the army of Yuwen Tongjun went south and everyone heard that the treatment of the other soldiers was a bit unbelievable: they were full, and each person had an average monthly salary of 12 coins, and they were also given a pension of 12 coins after they were killed. Now, Zhang Yu, who was so moved that he could not help but hear that "his own people" Zhang Yu said this.
Now I heard Zhang Yu say that Yuwen Tongjun is going to be the governor of Bazhou, and he also becomes Yuwen Envoy and intends to train the navy. Everyone thought that Yuwen Envoy and Yuwen Tongjun's brothers would not speak the two families and would not work hard to do their best, so they thought about joining the army in Bazhou.
As the saying goes, there are both blessings and difficulties. When they think that the comrades in the navy are so familiar with each other, they are all people on the same boat. If they say to their own people, then it is not a spread.
Now this battle is the time to show off! Before leaving, Yuwen Tongjun said that if he was killed, he would have a pension of twelve jin of money, and this alone would be worth working hard.
The crowd was full of energy thinking about making contributions. After the rest, they swam upstream along the river bank and the terrain was steep on the shore, and there were bushes moving forward without a trace under the cover of the dark shadows of trees on the water by the river.
The Yangtze River is turbulent but it slows down a lot on the bank of the river. Swimming against the river is no problem for them who are from the Xiangyang Navy. A group of people slowly approach the bank of Jiangjin like crucian carp crossing the river.
There were many warships mooring on the shore, but they floated in the water and didn't rush to get closer. After carefully observing the surroundings, they swam forward carefully. These warships were the targets.
"As it is agreed to divide it into several teams. Everyone is careful and order these boats!" Zhang Yu whispered.
Someone looked at several large ships and saw that they had a deep draft. After discussing for a while, he judged that it might be a grain transport ship that had not been unloaded. Zhang Yu decided that his team would be responsible.
"It's a pity that if all the brothers come, they can all go up and set fire to burn them all!" He murmured to himself with regret at the sandbank in the river not far away. There were countless warships gathered on the sandbank.
The main warships of the Chen State Navy were not moored in Jiangjin on the north bank of the Yangtze River, but on the side of the sandbank in the river. There was a city walle called Fengcheng, which was an important place to guard the upstream and downstream of the Yangtze River.
The northeast of Shazhou is Jiangjin on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and the southwest of Shazhou is Matouban on the south bank of the Yangtze River. Both are important wharfs on the Yangtze River. The Chen State army boarded the ship from the Matouban on the shore and crossed the Shazhou and climbed the north of Jiangjin. Most of the Chen State naval warships were moored on the sandbank to control the river surface.
"Everything is careful and do it!"
There were not many soldiers on the night-time warships tied to Jiangjin. The Chen navy defeated Liang and Zhou navy in succession and dominating the Yangtze River. Given this, the navy soldiers probably did not think that there were enemy navys who dared to attack from the water.
Zhang Yu and a few fellow comrades shuttled through the water like loaches to the side of a big boat. After confirming that there was no movement on the boat, they climbed up with a sharp knife like a gecko. Because they had to swim in the water for a long time, Zhang Yu and others were all naked with a bulging waist bag around their waists. In addition, they were covered with a loin cloth.
Ordinary people will make more or less sounds when climbing a boat from the water. The most difficult thing to avoid is the various sounds of water when leaving the water surface. However, these problems are nothing to these veterans in the Xiangyang Navy. Then the regular sounds of water aroused by the river slapping the hull and they successfully climbed onto the deck.
A Chen Jun soldier on duty in the cabin just came to his senses and touched Zhang Yu, who was the first to rush in, and the unlucky guy fell to the ground and died before he could shout.
Touching the boat is a common activity that the navy forces on both sides do. If you don’t touch the boat carefully, you deserve it. When you doze off while guarding the boat, you touch the boat and cut the head. It is also worth it.
The soldiers on duty were dealt with neatly and neatly. Zhang Yu and others took out the arson objects wrapped in oil paper from their belts and lit the sails. Seeing the fire rising, they grabbed the mast and swung the ropes over another warship next to them.
The wooden boat floating on the water swayed slightly with the river water, but it was no different from the plain in front of Zhang Yu and others. They had been making a living on the water since childhood, even if they walked on the swaying boat boards.
"What are you doing? Um?" The soldiers on duty on the boat were shocked when they saw someone appearing on the deck and said that they were slapped on their necks before they finished speaking. Zhang Yu and others immediately lit the sails without delay.
The other ships 6 continued to light up the fire, and the lit sails were burned like torches. The Chen Jun soldiers stationed on the shore were excited to see this: "I'm leaving the water, I'm leaving the water, which bastard is making fire on the boat!"
The sound of gongs sounded, and many soldiers rushed towards the riverside with wooden barrels in panic to try to put out the fire. Although this was not the main warship of the navy, if it was really burned by a fire, no one could afford the military law.
"Someone, someone is setting fire on the boat, it's the enemy attack! Report to the general!" In the panic, someone finally shouted at the top of his throat when he was not in a state of trouble.
Zhang Yu stood on a burning warship and looked at the crowded shore in front of him and sneered. Looking around, more than half of the ships moored on the banks of Jiangjin had burned and the spread became more and more obvious.
"In this way, you can't dock." Zhang Yu looked back at the sandbank in the river, and with the light of fire, he saw that there were crowds of people there, as if several warships had begun to untickle the cables.
But the excitement is not only here. The shouts of killing on the north side of Jiangjin Shu on the shore suddenly exploded, mixed with the neighing of people and horses, as if cavalrymen rushed into the camp.
Chapter completed!