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Chapter 496: Reaching the Other Shore

"Come on, bring them here!"

When Sima Xin heard this, a light appeared in her eyes. It was his usual practice to send a small boat in front of the fleet. However, before, those small boats came back to report their messages and reported their safety. This was the first time they wanted to get on the ship.

Soon, a soldier who was already very dark by the sunlight on the sea came to the deck. It was obvious that his breath was not breathing well. As soon as he saw Sima Xin, he hurriedly reported: "General, we finally discovered a continent. According to the previous description of the emperor, this continent should undoubtedly be the Mauryan Dynasty!"

"Oh? How far is this place from where we are waiting?" After hearing this, Sima Xin forced herself to suppress the excitement in her heart and pretended to be very calm and continued to ask.

"It's about dozens of miles. If the wind is good, you can arrive within one day!"

After understanding these, Sima Xin finally let out a long breath and could arrive within one or two days. What does this mean? It means that by this time the remaining soldiers can basically be saved to the end.

Although Ying Gaodao was inspecting Nanhai County before departure, he had clearly told Sima Xin that there would definitely be losses on the way from the sea, and the amount of this loss would not be small. Ying Gao repeatedly emphasized to Sima Xin that sailing at sea is necessary to prevent the occurrence of large-scale infectious diseases. Sometimes, appropriate sacrifice of a small number of people is to protect most of them.

At that time, Sima Xin agreed to Ying Gao with full promise, and did not take Ying Gao's words too seriously at that time.

But when Sima Xin really sailed with the sergeant on the sea for a long time, he finally understood Ying Gao's advice at that time, storms, and long-term navigation, he could not see anything other than sea water. The pressure on the soldiers was something Sima Xin had never expected at all.

When they encountered some relatively large storms, even a whole warship was overturned by the storms. Under such circumstances, the sergeant who was overturned into the sea could climb onto other warships with their skillful water and good physical strength and be saved without even one-third.

When such a thing happened at first, Sima Xin was quite sad, but gradually, he found that it was exactly the same as what Ying Gao told him before that these natural disasters could not be avoided at all, and this was the necessary casualties that Ying Gao repeatedly emphasized before.

Although Ying Gao had already reminded him, the risks and casualties over and over again made Sima Xin's patience almost disappear. Without this discovery, even Sima Xin would not know how long he could last.

"You have to go to the land to observe to see if there will be any risks after we land there. If you find an enemy, you will get it immediately."

Although he was very excited, Sima Xin's thoughts were still clear, because he also remembered another instruction from Ying Gao to him before he set out, that is, logging in is just the simplest step in this war. After logging in, the real test may have just begun.

It is very likely that they will be directly attacked by the enemy when they are still very tired. In this case, they must be prepared to fight before getting off the ship. Otherwise, the time when they get off the ship is the most spiritually relaxed time for these soldiers. Once they are subjected to fierce attacks, the consequences will be absolutely unimaginable.

After the boat disappeared in front of the warship again, Sima Xin gave an order like his own fleet that everyone should eat and drink enough on this day. Don’t calculate whether fresh water is enough, don’t calculate how many days the food can last. Everyone should eat and drink enough, and then have a good sleep. The purpose of doing this is to meet the challenge of the enemy when landing.

"In this way, I am about to reach the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty?"

"It should be true this time. Although the general comforted us many times before, he never asked us not to worry about the amount of food and fresh water. Since we said this this time, I think it is impossible to be wrong."

"That's good. When we really reach the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty, we will have to fight with them even if there are enemies, and take revenge for the soldiers who fell into the sea!"

The sergeant who said this was the warship he had been riding on before, which was directly overturned by the wind and waves. Then he fell into the sea and then grabbed a wooden board, and then he persisted until he was rescued by the soldiers on other warships.

But those warriors who fell into the sea with him were not so lucky. There were basically very few rescued. By this time, he had attributed the deaths of the warriors on the same boat with him to the people of the Mauryan Dynasty.

This atmosphere slowly spread across the various warships. For a moment, there was no need to mobilize at all. All the soldiers ate large pieces of meat and fish on this day, drinking fresh water in big mouthfuls.

After doing this, they put their armor on their bodies and wiped their weapons very brightly. Then they almost fell asleep holding their weapons. If Ying Gao saw this scene at this time, he would definitely be moved and thought of a word that was often used in later generations: "Ping Ge Waiting for Day."

The same situation also happened to the navy led by Peng Yue. Although the chart he got was slightly different from Sima Xin's, it was the result of Ying Gao not wanting their warship team to land at the same place. The actual distances of their voyage were different, but the distance was not much different.

They were actually not slow to sail for these dozens of miles, but in Sima Xin's eyes, the day passed very long. He almost went to the deck every less than half an hour to see if he could see the outlines of the shore and the city.

Like Sima Xin, Peng Yue also sent several small boats as outposts and regularly sent him news from the front. It was a small boat that discovered the land before, and they were also moving forward at full speed like the land.

But just when Peng Yue predicted that it was still a little bit short of land, a small boat came back quickly and brought back a piece of news that surprised Peng Yue.

"General, I waited to investigate near the coast and found that there were many warships docked by the sea, and there were many warships under construction. Judging from the scale of the warships, all of them were not inferior to the warships we were riding on. Warships of this size were probably indispensable to nearby naval forces."

Peng Yue did not expect that he might have touched the base camp of the Mauryan Dynasty. According to the soldiers under his command, if these warships were really prepared with a full load of naval forces, their strength might reach at least 100,000. Although the number of soldiers under his command was not small, Peng Yue also knew that after such a long time of sailing, even if they had eaten enough for one or two meals and had a good sleep, their combat effectiveness would still be 80% normal.

Peng Yue thought about it in his mind, and then asked silently: "When you go to investigate, have the Mauryan navy discovered your existence?"

"Don't worry, General. After we discovered the warship, we did not get close. The Mauryan navy did not have any patrol ships on the sea. It was all about building warships in full swing. We guessed that we might want to rush to build the warships and then send troops, so we guessed that there might be more than ten naval armies nearby."

"Okay, I will continue to check from afar. Once there is any new discovery, I will immediately inform me. I will also change the original login location, bypass these ships, and find a place that will not allow these people to discover me at the first time before logging in!"

In the first half of the sentence, Peng Yue said to the scout who had just come to repay, and the next sentence was to the deputy general behind him.

"General, if we landed there, we would probably not have a safe docking place, once we got ashore, we would become infantry."

"According to the emperor's decree, we were originally intended to use it as infantry after landing. And no matter whether our attack was successful or failed, this general can tell you that we would not have to return to the Great Qin from the sea! The emperor had already found a land route from the Great Qin to the Mauryan Dynasty before going to war. At this time, the Xiongnu Shanyu Xiang Yu and my Great Qin General Han Xin led 100,000 cavalry into the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty on land, and they entered the Mauryan Dynasty earlier than us! Although we encountered the Mauryan navy again, once we attacked it, the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty would be flat! Therefore, whether these warships docked safely is not the first thing we need to worry about!"

When Peng Yue learned about the army of Han Xin and Xiang Yu, he chose not to inform his soldiers of this matter as soon as possible. According to what they knew, this time they attacked the Mauryan Dynasty, there would be only two naval armies of them and Sima Xin. So if they thought, if they couldn't defeat it, they would have to run back the same way, otherwise if they were blocked in this strange place, it would basically be annihilated.

But now, they learned that the Qin Dynasty actually had a large army, and it was led by Han Xin, a general who was stronger than Sima Xin and Peng Yue, and the cavalry of the Xiongnu were also involved, which greatly enhanced their confidence.

In this way, according to Peng Yue's plan, the warships of Daqin changed direction, and their purpose was not to prevent the navy troops on the shore of the Mauryan Dynasty from discovering their whereabouts, but to give them enough time to prepare after they get ashore.

Compared to Sima Xin, Peng Yue's luck was indeed much worse. The place where Sima Xin landed was so smooth, but what Peng Yue encountered was the naval army that was about to go to the Qin Dynasty, which was about to go to the imperial court.

At this time, the navy armies of the Mauryan Dynasty basically focused on building the warships in time. They did not patrol. One was because their attention was not on this, and the other was because they did not believe that enemy troops would land here from the coast in front of them.

Because according to Sharishuga, they went to the expedition this time to receive a dynasty that was quite weak, although the territory was quite large. After they captured that dynasty, they could be rewarded with all the treasures of that dynasty or the women of that dynasty.

In addition, Xu Fu, a friend from that dynasty, had provided a chart from the Mauryan Dynasty to the Qin Dynasty, so these soldiers did not have much pressure. They thought this was like a trip and it was not too difficult.

But what they didn't know was that on the narrow coastline of the Mauryan Dynasty, two Qin troops were about to land at this time.

After two days, the navy led by Sima Xin had successfully landed on an unmanned beach. The place they landed in was really very comfortable. The beach was deserted, and not far from the beach was a small hill.

Sima Xin decided not to march rashly at that time, but sent a small team of scouts to investigate whether there were enemy troops or villages nearby. Then, he directly ordered his soldiers to transport all the food, grass and supplies on the ship to the hill, and set up camp under the hill.

Sima Xin still knew the truth that sharpening a knife will not delay chopping wood. He found that the terrain after he landed, and at that time he knew that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to restore his soldiers to normal levels. When the physical strength of these soldiers recovered, Sima Xin was confident that he would go directly to the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty.

Once Han Xin and Xiang Yu really went out according to Ying Gao's plan, Sima Xin was completely confident that he would complete this matter beautifully. Of course, because both he and Peng Yue led the same number of naval troops and only set out from two different directions, Sima Xin was holding her breath before she set out. Not to mention anything else, he just wanted to do better than Peng Yue.

Peng Yue and Sima Xin's situations are different, but Han Xin and Xiang Yu can only rely on their own strategies to achieve their goals. Time has passed day by day, and Han Xin has actually calculated a rough idea. According to the normal journey, Sima Xin and Peng Yue should have already logged in.
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