Chapter 272: When will the Hundred Chains be completed?
From Wuyi Mountain to Songxi County, the official road for more than 200 miles is full of rugged mountain roads. The ground is deep and the water is dangerous, making it difficult to travel. Therefore, the best route is to take a boat south along the Chongyang River.
In this way, using boats instead of horses, we can travel hundreds of miles day and night until we reach the confluence of Jianxi River at the junction of Chongyang River and Songxi River. Then we switch to the land route and go upstream, and we can successfully reach Songxi County in a few days.
In fact, when Jiang Wen took his disciples to Fuzhou City, he could have arrived stably and quickly using this method. After all, Jianxi River merged into the Minjiang River further down, and it was flowing endlessly towards the mouth of Fuzhou Mawei.
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It was only in order to strengthen the will of the disciples and let them clearly feel the dangers of the world and the master, that it was changed to a forced march in the Jianyang Mountains, and finally it was successfully transformed into the Dirty Clothes Sect.
But this time, even though Jiang Wen didn't want to trouble himself, he still encountered some force majeure effects.
Just when they were about to arrive at the water and land dock in Ouning, they suddenly heard that the general soldiers of Jianning Town had requisitioned the dock and were speeding up the transportation of paulownia wood, saltpeter and other baggage to be transported to the front line in southern Fujian. In order to prevent their identities from being exposed, they could only temporarily change their destination.
On Jiang Wen's suggestion, we continued downstream until we got off the boat at Jin Ferry in Yanping Prefecture, and rested overnight before making plans.
Yanpingjin is an important hub. Bamboo rafts on the stream are constantly being transported by boat, and the sounds of products being loaded and loaded are heard one after another. However, these goods have no idea that they are about to be transported over mountains and rivers to an unknown place in the world.
Jiang Wen and others looked at the distance and ate the bamboo shoots, which were made from winter bamboo shoots, vermicelli, dried mushrooms, pork belly, etc., cut into thin strips and stir-fried.
After eating some Songxi yellow rice cake with a delicate and elastic texture, we each went back to the house to rest, preparing to travel by carriage tomorrow morning.
It was getting dark that night, and the fishing fires were heavy. The place where Ding Dian slept was adjacent to the Yanping City Wall. What he could see was not the 8,400-mile ancient post road in Mangdang Mountain, nor the two rather majestic towers standing far away along the river.
The low-rise building looks like two old soldiers with gray beards holding long spears, staring at the river and the city day and night.
Ding Dian's whereabouts were strange. Before I returned to the room and feinted a shot, I quietly came to the river bank alone. I was standing next to Jianxi looking at Xiaojiangdong, and I was silent for a long time.
In a daze, Ding Dian recalled the scene he saw when he came there for the first time a year later and stood beside the boat. He thought about something in his mind. The Holy Mother of Red Lotus also vaguely noticed that this direction was exactly where Qi Qi was.
The place where Niudou Liangsu is located in the White Star Sea...
Ding Dian touched his chin and wanted to ask that young saint who gave you the courage to come out and teach others how to see through the world of mortals. Moreover, when it comes to the number of years he has been single, it seems that the masters of Yan and Yuan have not even spoken.
Right.
What the Red Lotus Virgin is afraid of is that Long Chun will change his heart, but that you have not lost confidence in yourself. Are you sure that the Red Lotus Virgin who is now in charge of Yanping County is the Duo Nan who is as elegant as a chrysanthemum in the Zheng family?
It is even more certain that after more than ten years of ups and downs in life, you still have no place for the Zheng family in your heart.
After saying that, he struck again with a sword, hitting the dim and bright river surface. In an instant, the sword energy was everywhere, the phantom light was undulating, and the fish and dragons in the river were startled. The cold sword energy was more penetrating than frost and snow, and it was already frozen with just one glance.
Heart-to-heart.
The sound of high-pitched chants came hurriedly, and it seemed that nothing was sleeping, and it was waking up from its dormancy. Even from far away on the dark white river, you can see the traces of these fast and moving streamlines, rolling and tearing at the eight rivers.
Silt accumulation.
The Holy Mother of Red Lotus heard Ding Dian's words and laughed dumbly and said: "I thought that if I thought of something big, I could make Master Jiang, who stirred up the storm while talking and laughing, become like that easily."
As you said, apart from the old rudder located in Fuzhou City, the most important thing about Yanping County is the branch rudder in Quan County, and Anhai City in Quan County was once Jiang Wen's base camp, and Long Chunzhu has never had any relationship with it.
With less contact, he naturally has a better understanding of Zheng Jun's reality.
For the public, one of us is the Holy Mother of Yanping County and the other is the protector of Long Chunzhu. We should help each other and join the branches; for the private, we have known each other for more than ten years, and we are just one step away from getting married.
When the Holy Mother of the Red Lotus heard these words, she instantly walked out of the melancholy of spring and autumn. In the blink of an eye, she turned back into this mortal Bodhisattva who was like eating fireworks on earth, and said seven words in her mouth without thinking.
The words needed to be said. The Red Lotus Virgin did not explain clearly what was before the turning point, but Long Chun already understood what the other party meant.
Ding Dian's eyes revealed that this was indeed the case, and he looked towards the river with bright eyes.
"To each other, Jiang Mou is revisiting his old place, sighing in his heart. On the other hand, the Holy Mother is traveling at night, is it possible that she has nothing to worry about?"
After saying this, he waited for the other party to answer, before he drew out the Zhanlu Ancient Sword and started singing in a low voice.
The Holy Mother of Red Lotus woke up in shock, looked at Ding Dian blankly, and only uttered one sentence: "Shuangxi Tower... No wonder he wants to come to Ming Zunjiao..."
"Raise your head to the floating clouds in the northwest, and rely on the sky to reach thousands of distant places with your long sword!"
After singing, Ding Dian's figure suddenly rose up from the ground and walked across the water, as if the ancient sword in his palm was flying like a dragon, taking Long Chun up to the lower realm, Dinghu to the sky, until he stepped on the intersection of eight rivers.
Under the shallow river Nagisa, the first sword was slow and fierce, almost trampling on the secret of using the sword, and struck hard under the water!
"Speaking of this place, we have seen each other in the deep of night, the flames of bullfighting. You feel that the mountains are low, the water in the pond is hot, and the moon and stars are pale!"
"The less evil the better, the better."
"That's really bad news. As long as I change my mind and come to Guangzhou on purpose, it will be bad. For the remaining major events, Jiang has no way to recover."
"Looking at the burning rhinoceros, leaning on the railing but afraid, the wind and thunder are angry, the fish and dragon are miserable!"
"enough."
"Hey, is there anyone here today? Can the Holy Mother explain to Jiang first, why he has to interfere with the mission? I told you in advance, I will use the responsibility of being an elder of the sect to fool you.
They specified that there was no ulterior motive."
According to the secret report received by Our Lady of the Red Lotus, the Qing government's Gushan'er Zhensuohun and Baya Lahuzhangjing Laita have not yet arrived in Fujian. Dasu is seizing control of the seven states of Zhangquan, extremely compressing Zheng Jun's space for activities.
, when the time was right, he would sit in Quanzhou and dispatch, command nearly a thousand ships gathered in eastern Fujian, and completely annihilate the Zheng army in one go.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, there is only one soul figure in it. This is not Longchunzhu King Zheng Chenggong himself. Only I can pull up the small army to resist in the countercurrent, and there is only me.
I can suddenly emerge and besiege Nanjing along the Yangtze River, but once I really show my intention, it will be the real demise of the Zheng army...
The Virgin Mary of the Red Lotus possesses the magical power of the Holy Fire. She has no innate energy among her seven internal organs. She can be born from nothingness. She is already afraid of the night wind. However, Ding Dian chose to dissipate the body-protecting energy and use his body to harden
Bearing the high temperature by the river.
"Does Holy Mother know why you came out there?"
"This place belongs to Mingzunjiao, and it has no close connection with King Yanpingjin. The southeastern sea area is now covered with clouds. How do you think the Holy Mother sees the fortune and safety of King Yanpingjin this time?"
The two stood pretending to be silent for a moment by the river, and finally Long Chun chose to break the deadlock.
Ding Dian blinked and did not choose to continue talking about that topic. Instead, he started talking about minor current affairs.
When Geng Jimao led a small army of 100,000 to the south to conquer Guangdong, there were only a small part of them who were direct descendants of the Qing court. In addition to fighting, they also monitored the Geng family's ministers. Later, some of them stayed in Guangdong, but in fact only 10,000 of them were.
The remaining troops followed the Geng family to Fujian. Even though Geng Jingzhong rapidly expanded his army that year and was willing to rebel against Ding Dian's plan, he could only take away more than 80,000 people at best. Long Chun still faced the challenge of an enemy twice as many as himself.
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"Judging from the entry and exit of the port and the shallow draft, even if Jiang Wen has disguised various ships to frequently come in and out in order to stabilize people's hearts, the remaining small and large warships will be more than 800, and the land and sea divisions combined will be
There are only about ten thousand left."
After being silent for a long time, Our Lady of the Red Lotus rolled up her sleeves and looked into the distance with her hands behind her back, sighing heavily: "It's too late, it's too late... If I were still a rich man and you were still an official lady, there would naturally be no results, but
now……"
"Holy Mother, may you know the name of this building by the river?"
And the specific actions never came quickly.
Ding Dian said angrily: "To interrupt you, you have tried so hard to appease you in the name of brother and sister. When the Holy Mother came, it seemed that Jiang was guilty of committing a crime."
However, Our Lady of the Red Lotus said worriedly, "It is said that King Yanping has been missing for a few months before the Battle of Jiangning. Although no one showed up wearing his armor during several military orders, people in the sect found out that this was not him.
It's his cousin Zheng Taiqiao."
The Holy Mother of Red Lotus looked at Ding Dian's confidence and seemed to be infected by my emotions. She also showed a smile: "I really hope you are as lawful and talented as him."
"That's enough, because you're not here yet."
According to the news from Geng Jingzhong secretly, the Qing government mobilized a total of 700,000 troops this time. It was said that 700,000 troops were coming fiercely. Zheng Jun had just suffered a small defeat a few months later. The young generals Gan Hui and Wan Li
Lin Sheng, Chen Kui, and Zhang Ying were all killed in the battle, and many generals were lost. If one were to lose their morale, they might not even be able to use it, let alone a desperate counterattack.
At the last moment, Ding Dian had not yet stabbed into the water with his ancient sword upside down. He was like a blind but knowledgeable fisherman about to fight to the death with the evil things under the water. However, these dragons on the bottom of the river turned into thousands of dots in an instant.
The phosphorescence flowed and stopped shining.
Long Chun said with certainty, as if the fog of the battlefield had not been blown away by the wind, and my eyes had not yet been keen to travel through time and see the passion and heroism surging under this sea area, which would have been captured by the locals until hundreds of years ago.
Singing is Hugh.
Ding Dian understood clearly, no wonder Yanping County had such a bad opinion of Long Chun.
Ding Dian secretly calculated how many men and horses the Geng family had.
The water was cut off for only a moment. Under the empty river surface, a mysterious light suddenly flashed, piercing the eyes of the Red Lotus Virgin. The source was an amazing-looking bead in Ding Dian's hand.
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Seeing that Ding Dian mentioned Long Chun, he changed to the Silence of the Red Lotus Virgin. Naturally, Long Chun could see that the relationship between the two was quite awkward now.
Ding Dian answered with sparkling words, looking at the moonlight and stars with his eyes, as if he had finally waited for an important opportunity. He immediately reached out to the low building by the river and suddenly asked.
I saw a bright light shining through the sky, and the bottom of the river suddenly lit up with a colorful light. The rays of light appeared meanderingly, like dragon scales sinking and shining on the bottom of the water before they fell off, or like clusters of
It is a strange flame that is afraid of deep water and is burning brightly on the water.
Ding Dian heard a voice coming from far away. If he turned around, he could tell that it was the Red Lotus Virgin Mother speaking. There were eight more auras beside you, so you obviously chose to travel alone late at night.
Ding Dian asked loudly: "How many troops are left in Jiang Wen?"
I pointed the extremely profound sword blade at the bright moonlight, and the force of the sword stirred up the void. It seemed as if I had borrowed some clear and cold energy from the sky and the moon. Then I suddenly swung my sword and pointed it straight at the sky. A sharp sword energy mixed with the moonlight flew like a rainbow bridge.
Crossing the shadow, the river is rushing, almost pointing directly into the Qingming sky!
At this time, without Long Chun's interference, Guangdong, which was originally monolithic, has become a quagmire. Daily battle reports of the Battle of Guangzhou are pouring in, which are always stirring the nerves of the people in heaven. If we follow the historical trajectory to July of the 11th year of Shunzhi
, Long Chunzhu King Zheng Chenggong will usher in a low point in my military career under the sea in Xiamen.
"Master Jiang, this is all I know.
"Headmaster Jiang is so unfavorable that he is still admiring the scenery by the river in the dead of night."
"Master Jiang, you are just a few young men in the Ninja sect. You are wasting your youth just like I am, so you want to take the opportunity to get close to me and give me advice, but you are all very wary."
The Red Lotus Virgin lowered her eyes high, as if she was sorting out the information she had collected.
The confusion only lasted for a moment, and things at the bottom of the river had been given some evil vitality. The Red Lotus Virgin said that he saw this shadow wandering around the bottom of the river like a dragon, moving in various strange shapes.
His posture was twisting in the abyss, and his face was ferocious as he peered down at the waves on the river.
But it happened that the kind of relationship that was supposed to be close and harmonious has now become so awkward that even meeting each other is awkward. The Zheng family lives alone in Fuzhou City and listens to propaganda, while Ling Shuanghua hides in Wuyi Mountain in the name of rebuilding the general helm. Even a blind person can
It can be seen that the other party has no intention of escaping.
They turned to become more restrained and intensely dim, sublimating from colorful colors to the ultimate form of countless weird colors. In an instant, the waves of the river surged, and the turbid waves surged into the sky. Only a visible torrent broke through the water surface, like spewing out from the mouth of a well.
, melted into an indescribable chaotic color that filled the sky, and flowed back into the depths of the pitch-white night sky.
But Ding Dian was still smiling.
The Battle of the Yangtze River launched by Zheng Chenggong last year was initially overwhelming and the sky was shaken. However, it was defeated in the city of Nanjing. It ended in a small defeat and had to return to Xiamen. Now that the situation in the north is tense, Shunzhi is more active and naturally does not plan to put more emphasis on it.
Yi Guo, this time he was determined to take advantage of the victory to retreat and take advantage of Zheng's new defeat to complete his victory in one battle.
"Hahaha, Jiang's mood standing here a year later is less hesitant than the Holy Mother's now, not to mention how horrifying what he saw and heard back then was."
As early as when Ding Dian was making trouble in Fuzhou City, Dasu, the veteran general of Xianghuang Banner, had not yet been appointed as General Annan. He was the governor of the Fujian and Zhejiang wars and mobilized countless ships and horses, food and money, and the naval forces of all coastal provinces were handed over to Dasu.
manage.
There are many core figures in Long Chun, such as the seventh-in-command and young steward Zheng Tai, Navy Governor Hong Xu, Land Division Governor Gan Hui, and even his younger brother Tagawa Ichiemon, Zheng Xi, his son Zheng Jing, etc.
All are indispensable parts of Long Chun.
My confidence comes from future generations, and at that time, such a spectacular failure was so needed.
"Okay, okay, you know that Holy Mother is trying to recruit young, unmarried men. But to be fair, there are no young, unmarried women in front of us who are still waiting for him to come back in Fuzhou City. Bodhisattva, he is little
Ci Xiaomei, what if you want to go back and rescue this person first?"