The southwest monsoon in the Bohai Sea usually lasts from May to September in the lunar calendar. Once it enters October, it will turn into a cold north wind.
At the end of September in the thirty-third year of Qin Shihuang, riding the last westerly wind, Heifu, the supervisor of the Eastern Expeditionary Army of the Great Qin Dynasty, finally left his home in Jiaodong after receiving the emperor's reply and went to visit the peninsula on the other side of the sea.
Already.
Supervisor Heifu was in a good mood along the way. He also used the crossbow equipped by the fleet to shoot a large whale in the sea. Unfortunately, although the ship was large, it was not a professional whaler. He could only watch the whale helplessly.
The large sperm whale sank to the bottom of the sea with a crossbow bolt inserted into its body.
Looking at the water jets ejected by the whales in the distance, Heifu was filled with regret: "With so much meat, if you catch one, you can feed a whole boat of people for several days."
He looked at Xu Fu: "When I return to Jiaodong, I will definitely build a large ship specially designed for hunting whales!"
In addition to whalers, there are also large nets that can fish in the deep sea. Heifu also hopes to make them soon. These days, the Yellow Sea is full of whales, seals, fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs. For the middle and lower classes, they cannot eat meat more than once a year.
For Jiaodong, it is simply a huge treasure house. At this moment, Hei Fu seems to be a poor man guarding the treasure house but has not yet been given the key.
Xu Fu agreed, but later talked about an unrelated matter:
"It took more than two months to go back and forth from Xianyang to Jiaodong, even if I used the fastest urgent letter and killed more than ten horses. His Majesty heard that Yang Duan and the old general passed away, but he was very concerned about the young master.
Fu Su, ordered the commander to go to a nearby place to supervise the army. To put it bluntly, he was asking you to help the young master to avoid trouble. But in fact, this edict was unnecessary..."
Xu Fu and Hei Fu stood on the bow of the boat talking, but Hei Fu glared at them.
"How can it be said that His Majesty's edict is unnecessary?"
"The grassroots made a mistake!"
Xu Fu quickly apologized, but secretly thought in his heart, weren't you the one who kidnapped me for deceiving the emperor in the past?
But what Xu Fu said makes sense. Due to the lack of Xianyang edict, Heifu could only watch the fire from across the Jiaodong coast in the past two months, and a lot of things happened in Fusu...
First of all, at the end of July, when the army was stationed in Manbanhan, five thousand Yan troops roared in the camp, trampling and killing each other. After Fusu led his troops to pacify it, more than a thousand people in Zuoying were killed and injured, and more than a thousand escaped. They were already at odds with the Qin army.
The suspicious Yan soldiers were completely disabled. Fusu did not even dare to bring them into Korea. He could only ask Ren Xiao to use the boat division to transport the remaining 2,000 Yan soldiers to Jiaodong and watch from the seaside.
Some labor.
Regarding this matter, Heifu suspected that Chen Ping was involved in it, but Chen Ping didn't mention anything about it after he came back. He still worked on the document with all his heart and he seemed to be much more honest than before. The emperor and his ministers couldn't agree with each other.
Announced.
After this series of changes, Fusu could only bring five thousand elite Guanzhong troops into North Korea.
Although the roar of the sweat camp showed North Korea that the Qin army did not seem to be as powerful as imagined, the warships in Liekou were real. The king of the capital city was facing threats at any time. With a knife pressed against his chest, he could only get out of the way.
Please help Su pass.
In early August, Fusu arrived at Wangxian, the capital of North Korea, located on the bank of the Lieshui River (Daedong River), and garrisoned outside the city. He also tried his best to defy all opinions, and at the invitation of Ji Zhun, he entered Wangxian City with only a few personal entourage, and met with
Hou Ji of North Korea met to discuss North Korea's tribute to Qin and the sending of civilians to transport grain for the Qin army.
Compared with the young man in charge of the army, Fusu performed very well in this kind of diplomatic situation. It happened that the Jiaodong Zhoushi was playing the bad side, and he immediately played the bad side. This "soldier first, then the ceremony" effect was good, and the Korean nobles were impressed by Fusu's
With an aristocratic temperament, he agreed to the conditions of the Qin Dynasty one by one, and the opposition voices in the court were also suppressed by Ji Zhun. The Ji family came out too early, and did not know the allusion of "the lips are dead and the teeth are cold".
The rest of the journey went smoothly without any further mishaps. In mid-August, Fusu led his troops to Liekou, and the navy and army successfully joined forces. After a few days of rest, they took a month's rations and accelerated their pace towards this battle.
The end of the long expedition is approaching!
The roads in North Korea are worse than those in Liaodong, and the population is even sparse. By the time Fusu and the others, led by North Korean guides, arrived at Canghai City, which is adjacent to North Korea, it was already early September...
In addition to the Ji clan and the aristocrats, North Korea is a remnant of the Yin Shang Dynasty. Most of its people are of the Hao Mo ethnic group. Therefore, there are many city-states and settlements established by the Hao Mo people scattered around North Korea.
Canghai City is obviously a famous one, because across the sea is Qi Di. In the past few decades, there have been many people from the six countries who came on the southwest monsoon. They brought the culture of the Central Plains and advanced production tools, which made
Canghaijun became the most civilized city-state in Haomo.
As Fusu's army arrived at Qindao (Jianghua Island) where Canghai City was located, a drama was about to begin in which Emperor Qin Shi Huang sent his eldest son to punish the assassins.
According to the script, the soldiers of the Qin army who have traveled thousands of miles and the benevolent people with lofty ideals who would rather go to the ends of the earth than surrender to Qin will have a battle. Either you die or I live.
But the result was unexpected. The Jiaodong Marine Corps who arrived first found that not even a single fisherman could be found on Qin Island with a radius of hundreds of miles, not to mention Canghai City.
The expeditionary force delayed for too long. Canghai City had learned the news of the Qin army's invasion early, and all the people and animals had disappeared. Fusu and the others were in vain, and only occupied an empty city and a city that had run out of food.
islands……
A few days ago, Heifu's first reaction after hearing the news was: "Canghaijun is not stupid..."
If it had been him, he would have definitely gone ahead with the Thirty-six Strategies.
Although the Haomo people are the only indigenous people in the Northeast and Peninsula who engage in farming, they also have a strong tradition of fishing and hunting. They are not officials of the Qin Dynasty. They have to defend a city and a pond. It is not difficult at all to abandon the city and escape.
A problem that he had never thought of before was suddenly placed in front of Fusu: Lord Canghai escaped with his men, but what should the expeditionary Qin army do?
To pursue? To defend? To withdraw?
Heifu knew that there was no battle on the front line, but he still braved the sea crossing just to help Su solve this problem. "Junjun, Qindao is here!"
There were several stern ships waiting to greet them at the outer sea. The leader was Wei Yang, who boarded the ship happily and saluted Hei Fu and Xu Fu. Hei Fu found that he had been running on the sea for several months and had become as tan as himself.
Now, the two of them are more like uncles and nephews...
Wei Yang began to point and tell Heifu about this island. He said that he measured the latitude of this island according to Professor Xu Fu's star-finding technique, and it was almost exactly the same as Zhifu Island!
Heifu looked at it and found that the climate and scenery here were not much different from those in Jiaobei. It was just that compared to Yantai, which was becoming more and more populated, many places on Jianghua Island were deserted.
Not long after, they began to enter the narrow waterway. Wei Yang introduced: "This island is only two miles away from the mainland. Because of the narrow distance, it is called the Salt River by the locals. Even though it is narrow, the hydrology is extremely complicated, the tidal range is large, and there are many rivers.
When the army crossed the reef, it took a lot of effort."
Judging from Heifu's many years of experience in leading troops in battles, this island is indeed a natural danger that is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Unfortunately, once there is no control of the sea, the natural danger becomes a smooth road. This may be the reason why Canghai Jun abandoned the island and fled.
They circled in the narrow waterway for several hours, carefully avoiding the rocks and reaching the other side of the island, where the so-called "Canghai City" is located.
Seeing the simple and low "city", Heifu burst out laughing:
"I kind of know that Lord Canghai wants to abandon this city for the sake of it."
It turns out that the so-called city is nothing more than a small village in the Central Plains, no more than ten feet high. The lower part is built with stones and the upper layer is covered with mud. Regular troops can easily break through it!
Later, the group disembarked at the makeshift port along with a boat full of cabbage and radish army coats.
Young Master Fusu came to pick him up in person. Heifu saw the slender and tall Fusu coming with someone from a distance, so he went up to meet him, cupped his hands and said, "General Fusu!"
Fusu was stunned and returned the greeting: "Wei Supervisor Army!"
I'm really not used to this title.
Hei Fu couldn't help but feel a little emotional. A few years ago, he was a general and Fusu was a prisoner. Now, his status is easy to change.
Heifu heard that Fusu had experienced many things in the past six months. His face became thinner, and his beard was no longer trimmed neatly, but grew randomly, giving him a bit of the temperament of a general.
But those melancholy eyes are still the same as before, just less compassionate and more weathered...
To be honest, judging from Fusu's performance after pacifying the camp, he has performed very well, at least bringing the entire army to its destination.
After the two of them arrived and sat down in the camp, Fusu said that he had sent people to search for the enemy within a hundred miles but found nothing. He showed a dejected look and said with a wry smile: "Fusu is not polite to Mr. Wei either."
In other words, there is just one doubt that has not been solved for a long time. In the past in Beidi County, Fusu questioned whether the Northern Expedition to the Xiongnu was necessary. Wei Jun said to Fusu, Hu people are a serious problem in the Central Xia Dynasty. Your Majesty is thinking about this.
We decided to eliminate the Xiongnu in one fell swoop and nip it in the bud, not just to show off our merits, so no matter how expensive the Northern Expedition is, it is still worth it."
He spread his hands and said: "But now, in the name of punishing treason, more than 10,000 people have traveled a journey of 4,000 miles. There have been thousands of casualties and losses along the way, and they have also spent countless money and food. The two counties of Liaodong and Jiaodong have been destroyed."
I was restless, but in the end, it was all in vain. Fusu was indeed incompetent, which hampered the three armies and caused the enemy to flee. Until now, I can no longer understand what the purpose of this battle was."
Although a lot has changed, Fusu is still Fusu. His doubts are also the doubts of this empire. His confusion is also the confusion of thousands of people in this empire. At the beginning of child's play, his helpless general made people laugh and cry.
The result, if this is the ending... "Of course it is because Da Qin has a brave and brave young master, and this..."
Hei Fu answered the question incorrectly, pointing to the vast land east of Qin Island, as if he wanted to hold it in his palm:
