The sky became overcast again, with dense 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 and prepared to go home with the cattle and sheep that were grazing outside.
The big yellow dog suddenly started barking.
"I told you to bark, I told you to bark!" Lu Gonu gave him two gentle whips with his whip.
The big yellow dog whimpered twice, ran away with its tail between its legs, and then started barking forward again.
Lu Gonu was confused and turned around to look.
The sea breeze blows strongly and the reeds sway.
In the swamp and lake, gray figures are looming.
Their steps are slow, their movements are stiff, and they walk like a scarecrow.
"Mom..." Lu Gonu suddenly collapsed to the ground.
That's not a scarecrow, it's obviously a living person!
Lu Gounu plucked up the courage, stood on tiptoes, and observed attentively.
Behind the reed marsh, there seemed to be people rowing a small boat. It was unclear what was loaded on the boat, but it might be a murder weapon.
"My mother, how did the bastards get here..." Lu Gonu rolled around and jumped back.
No! There are still cattle and sheep, we have to fight them back!
Lu Gonu immediately hurriedly gathered the sheep, and the big yellow dog followed him and kept barking. The sheep bleated and followed the leader, walking north.
"Hurry! Hurry!" Lu Gonu kept urging, regardless of whether the sheep could understand.
As he walked, he turned his head and looked back.
There are more figures in the lake, densely packed from north to south. The ones in front have stepped into the knee-deep shallows, while the ones behind are still in waist-deep water, pushing the boat forward.
Lu Gonu had never learned to count people, but he subconsciously felt that there were many people in the lake, and their origins were suspicious, making them very dangerous.
"Go! Go! Uh..." An arrow shot through the air and hit his vest.
Lu Gonu turned around in disbelief and saw two men, one tall and one short, covered in mud standing near the sheep. The short one had just put down his bow.
"Bang!" Lu Gonu fell to the ground, and his consciousness gradually disappeared.
Before he died, he saw the tall man walking towards his flock.
Die with your eyes open!
"I didn't expect that there would be meat to eat as soon as we landed. Is this man here to deliver sheep to 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 sheep away.
"Why hasn't the team leader come back yet?" he asked.
"How can it be so fast? I guess I won't be back tonight." The short man also came over to help herd the sheep, and said: "These dozens of sheep can really be beaten by the brothers as a sacrifice."
Nearly two thousand people landed, and dozens of sheep were barely enough to eat. As for the other follow-up people, they were in poor condition and probably had little appetite. Yes, the two thousand people who landed had less obvious symptoms of seasickness.
Or a sergeant who has recovered.
While the two were talking, the first group of people had already come ashore. They were breathing heavily, and their eyes were filled with joy.
Walking in the mud and reed swamps is not an easy task. It consumes a lot of physical strength. It is also very stressful mentally. Think about it, if there are defenders on the shore, they will find a good place to shoot at the mud shoals with their bows and arrows.
How to resist the Xia soldiers among them?
There is no other way but to watch one by one being tortured and killed. This is why landing operations have been extremely difficult since ancient times.
The first priority for landing is to be unexpected. Everything else is just illusory, because people can really block ten with one on the shore.
Only by catching him by surprise can you successfully log in.
In addition, it is still very dangerous after a successful landing. For example, tonight, it was impossible to set up camp for a while, the soldiers lacked equipment, their physical strength was greatly reduced, and many people suffered from seasickness. The enemy does not need to be large, just gather a group of local peasants, and then
It can kill the same number of your elite soldiers to a rout.
To be honest, they may have to thank the strong wind for blowing them to this uninhabited place. If it were a prosperous county, it would be a lot more troublesome. As long as the enemy reacts quickly enough, they can definitely cause enough damage.
Liu Zhijun landed on the shore with a gloomy face, and his waist was covered with mud.
He is the deputy envoy of the Chishui Army and personally led the first group of people to land. Now that the landing has been successful, it is far from being happy.
"Ask the fleet to bring up more horses." Liu Zhijun ordered.
"The sergeants who come ashore, regardless of whether they can hold on or not, should immediately put on armor and weapons."
"The scouts who can still move should spread out in all directions and be on alert for fifteen miles."
"The auxiliary soldiers searched everywhere to see if there was a forest."
"Also, the sky is getting dark, no fire is allowed, and everyone needs to eat dry food."
This last sentence allowed the herd of cattle and sheep to live one more night.
After saying that, Liu Zhijun also collapsed on the ground.
Seasickness has little 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. It was all about his willpower to endure the discomfort and issue various orders.
Landing operations continue.
Among the reeds, the sound of paddling sounded almost the whole night, and it did not stop until sunrise the next day.
After dawn, some more ships appeared from the intersection of the sea and the sky. These were the ships waiting on the outer sea. At this moment, they were approaching one after another, releasing batch after batch of people and supplies ashore.
There are more than thirty ships gathered in the outer sea, carrying nearly 5,000 soldiers and a large amount of supplies. The entire landing operation is expected to last several days.
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The Fan River landed on the evening of August 25th.
He asked in advance to come up. Although the sailors arranged a rope hammock for him in the bottom cabin, he still felt uncomfortable and went ashore.
He came ashore in a small boat.
The landing lasted for a day and night, and at this time there were still many people wading directly to the water. It was very good to have a boat ride, because the precious boat capacity was used to transport food, weapons, other supplies, and even horses.
"In the future, we must train a team that will not get seasick." After landing on the shore of the Fan River, he said with lingering fear.
He always felt that cross-sea landings were too professional, and professional matters should be left to professionals.
Just like the Feilong, Heigui, and Jindao armies, they are highly mobile mounted infantry. They have frontal combat capabilities that surpass the cavalry and have the maneuverability of the cavalry. As an offensive force, they are simply sharp weapons.
For cross-sea operations, it would be great if we could train a force with combat effectiveness comparable to professional infantry and familiar with the maritime environment.
This kind of troops does not need to be large, 10,000 or 20,000 people are enough. Their task is to surprise them, land on a deserted beach, and then build a defense line on the spot, waiting for the follow-up large troops to come ashore.
To be honest, a landing like today is too rough. Fan He took his place in the Jin army. If he could mobilize several thousand troops, he would definitely be able to block them from reaching the shore, and even kill them in large numbers.
I will take this as a warning in the future.
"Military Envoy, the imperial court is in the process of disarmament, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to allow it." Kang Huaiying, the envoy of the Chishui Army, followed behind him and almost cried when he stepped on the solid ground.
You cannot understand the landlubber's fear of the ocean. It is a feeling of emptiness from the heart, which is very uncomfortable.
"The saint is wise and powerful, and he knows which troops should be eliminated and which ones should not be eliminated." Fan He said: "Twenty years of fighting and the acquisition of such a large territory are all due to the wiseness of the saint."
Fan He was so serious about going online, what else could Kang Huaiying say? He could only nod in agreement.
"How many ships have not yet arrived?" Fan He found a dry place to sit down and asked.
"There are nearly thirty ships that have been blown away. We haven't contacted them for a while. We 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 could be predicted in advance, most of the shipwrecks from ancient times to the present would disappear. Unfortunately, it cannot be done, and the experience of this old fisherman near the coast cannot solve it, because they themselves are
There are endless numbers of victims of shipwrecks.
"It depends on their luck. We 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 you at sea. Once you are separated, you have to rely on luck to make contact again. Unless you can fly to the sky to search for other people's movements, or you can send messages thousands of miles away to tell others your location.
The most embarrassing thing is that they don’t even know where they are, and it is very difficult to agree on a meeting point. Thinking about it carefully, the flight from Dengzhou to Lushun is really much easier.
The islands are dotted all over the place, and many of them have supply stations for the Ping Navy or fishermen and farmers arranged there, so they can easily determine the direction. In other words, offshore navigation is the easiest, and deep-sea navigation is as difficult as heaven and earth.
"Military envoy." Liu Zhijun walked over from a distance and saluted.
"Have you found out where this place is?" Fan He stood up and returned the greeting and asked.
"The scouts quietly arrested some people and have figured it out." Liu Zhijun replied: "This place should be in Pingzhou, probably at the junction of Macheng and Shicheng counties."
"Ma City?" Fan He asked someone to bring a map and looked at it carefully.
Macheng is actually a port, which is located along the Ru River (Luan River) and has access to the sea. The Xia people should be lucky that the wind did not blow them near the entrance of Ru River. There must be many people there, and they can be seen directly.
In this way, the landing operation will lose its suddenness and the probability of failure will be greatly increased.
"It turns out it blew here..." Fan He sighed, and then he closed his eyes and started thinking.
Kang Huaiying subconsciously slowed down his chewing speed so as not to disturb Fan He.
"I have made up my mind!" Fan He suddenly opened his eyes and said, "After all the personnel and materials have been landed, the entire army will rest for the night. Tomorrow we will march in force to attack Macheng."
Macheng is the ancient Haiyang City. It is a port city with a military town nearby and a large population. There is also Qianjinye, which is an important iron smelting base in Youzhou. Seizing this place will provide food and weapons, as well as
Controlling the dock will facilitate subsequent ships to transport personnel and supplies.
In fact, after a successful landing operation, the first priority is to control the port facilities and let the large forces follow up. After all, the landing efficiency of the dock and the beach is not at the same level.
Liu Zhijun and Kang Huaiying also subconsciously became nervous, as if they were stealing someone there - in fact, it was almost the same.