The twenty-person boat immediately raised its plank half a person's height, and one after another, it gradually approached the reed swamp.
The reeds in spring and summer are already very dense, with flocks of wild ducks and egrets everywhere. It is not difficult to pick up dozens of eggs a day with a casual search.
For the savages from "Baisha", when collecting food in the wild, the reed swamps will never disappoint.
In addition, this densely packed reed swamp is an excellent hiding place. Once you get in, you won't be afraid of local "healthy travelers" coming to hunt you down.
Times have changed. The "Baisha" savages who once wanted to hide in the reed swamps have now changed their skins and are going to the reed swamps to encircle and suppress the Yihu people who are stubbornly resisting.
"Arrange the spear——"
Another command came, and the spearheads were protruded from the gaps in the wooden rafters on both sides of the boat, but they were not fully extended.
In the middle of the river in the distance, a large ship is slowly drifting forward with the current. The sails have been furled. High on the mast, sailors on the observation deck are holding binoculars and constantly searching the reeds.
Not long after, birds scattered in all directions and wild ducks screamed.
On the side of the ship, Yun Zhenlu, who had a white beard and beard, frowned slightly: "Zhongha, the barbarians are hiding among the reeds, so it's not easy to find them."
"no need to worry."
Shah's eyes were calm. After seeing the flag in the distance, he immediately gave the order: "Eject!"
"yes!"
The trumpeter immediately blew the trumpet.
Then the sailors on the mast began to signal again.
The small boat, which was originally like a long dragon, gradually dispersed into two rows around a body of water.
Seeing this change, Yun Zhenlu was very surprised, and even more admired Li Jie's training methods.
I didn't think the discipline training and cultural classes were of any use before. After getting in touch with them for a long time, I realized that Li Jie's elites were able to command with ease. This kind of achievement can definitely be considered as a rich reward.
There was a noise from the group of small boats in the distance, and then short spears were continuously thrown out. These short spears were strange in shape, and they did not pretend to be metal spearheads, and they were also tied with strange bamboo tubes.
"What does this mean?"
Yun Zhenlu was very surprised.
"Listen to the sound."
Shaha smiled and waited quietly for a while, "bang", "bang bang"...
Several explosions made Yun Zhenlu startled, and birds flew wildly in the reed swamps in all directions.
The sky was full of birdsong, and feathers flew down from time to time.
"how--"
Shah raised his head and shouted at the observation deck on the mast.
"A moment south by east!"
After the sound came, Shah immediately looked at the compass on the ship.
"Send the order! Gather and annihilate these barbarian tigers!"
"yes!"
The bugler sounded the howl again, and the observer on the observation deck sounded the semaphore again.
The flag language this time was a bit complicated, and Yun Zhenluo didn't understand it, but he only needed to understand the two rows of small boats in front of him, and they were all surrounding in the same direction, which was enough to shock him again.
The battlefield was changing rapidly. Yun Zhenlu thought to himself that he was also good at military affairs. In terms of command and dispatch, he could not be said to be a famous general within the Chu State, but he was not mediocre either.
But compared with Shaha in front of him, Yun Zhenlu had to admit... neither the Chu State's boat master nor the mausoleum master had such qualities.
The "escape doctor" also didn't believe that the King of Gusu had such ability. This kind of temporary battlefield mobilization ability was simply not something that the princes of other countries could master.
Is it... really destiny?!
Yun Zhenluo's heart became more and more shaken. After he often doubted his life under Li Jie, he had actually been submissive for a long time. Even the Yun family and the Yunzhen family were deceived into coming to Huaizhong City, which was equivalent to being kidnapped to death by Li Jie.
on this chariot.
Whether the chariot fell apart and everyone was killed, or whether he took his whole family and pretended to fly together. In the past, Yun Zhenlu had no idea, but now he is willing to break the sky for Li Jie!
The method of judgment by observers is to look at it comprehensively. The entire swamp is densely packed with reeds, as well as wetlands and metasequoia forests. The metasequoia forests also overlap with shrubs. If you want to easily distinguish whether there are humans hiding in it,
This is very difficult to do.
However, it is best to have a gunpowder can explode twice from time to time to scare people out. If people rely on reason to suppress their instincts, the beasts in the forest will always run and jump.
Wherever humans are hiding in large numbers, the number of birds and beasts will be greatly reduced.
With a "crazy bombardment", countless rows of egrets in the reed swamps all climbed into the sky, and wild ducks pounced directly on the water. Only in a place close to the wetland and metasequoia forest, only a few small sparrows flew out.
Only.
In the chaos, this is very eye-catching.
At this time, if you use a telescope to search carefully, you can finally distinguish some of the humans hiding in it.
"This tribe of barbarians is the majority of the people who live east of Chaoyi. In the early years, there were once more than 10,000 people. The barbarian chieftains were descendants of the surname Yan and had an old relationship with the Luzi state."
Regarding matters in Huainan, Yun Zhenlu, the former state doctor, was quite familiar with it.
"Can you persuade me to surrender?"
"I'm afraid I can't."
Yun Zhenlu shook his head, "If the old chief is still alive and his father was killed at the hands of Wu Jia, he is a mortal enemy; if the old chief dies, the successor... no matter the eldest son or the second son, all have their wives kidnapped by the Wu people, which is also a big enemy.
With you."
"Well……"
Although he had already analyzed it and knew that the Yihu people in this part were difficult to deal with, Shaha still found it troublesome when he heard that he could not be persuaded to surrender.
The arrangement given to him by the boss Li Jie was to minimize unnecessary losses. Although it was fun to kill, Shaha still followed Li Jie's orders first.
"Pass the order!"
Shah thought for a while and suddenly issued another order, "Take the prisoners to the bow of the ship and order them to persuade the barbarians in the forest to surrender!"
"yes!"
Soon, a canoe was lowered into the current, and the sailor paddled quickly. The uniquely shaped canoe immediately moved forward at an extremely fast speed.
Not long after, the canoe arrived at the group of small boats.
Yun Zhenluo saw Shaha's plan and said: "If the Yihu people hesitate in the forest, the barbarian chief will definitely hide among them; if it is an ordinary Yihu people, surrounded by a large army and persuaded by relatives, the morale of the army will definitely be unstable, and it will definitely be
Go out and be surrendered."
Hearing Old Yunzhen's reminder, Shaha was stunned for a moment, thought about it, and suddenly felt it made sense: "Yunzhenjun is awesome!"
"Don't dare to take it seriously."
After cupping his hands, Yun Zhenlu smiled, and he was in a very happy mood, "All the barbarians and tiger tribes around Juchaoyi have been wiped out. As long as this last chief is killed, Juchaoyi can run his business with peace of mind."
He had been to Juchaoyi before, but this place was really in serious decline. Even though he felt that the land was of good quality after coming here, the population was scattered and the facilities were in ruins. Many tools and materials for production activities had to be brought in from outside.
Only then can large-scale production be resumed.
However, in the external environment of Wu and Chu's struggle for hegemony, Juchaoyi's position was extremely awkward. It happened to be at the confrontation between Wu and Chu. Even if Yun Zhenlu had the foresight, he did not have the ability to let Wu and Chu fight.
Twist here.
Nowadays, things are completely different. Order has been restored in Juchao Yi, and Li Jie is the real owner here. In addition, there are relatively abundant tools in Huaizhong City, and it is not difficult for Juchao Yi to become rich at all.
It can even be said that when entering Huaikou, Li Jie also wanted to "drain water and increase farmland" to expand the grain planting area.
But in Juchaoyi, even though there are grasslands, wetlands and the like around, it was actually very high-quality farmland a few decades ago. As for those shrubs and metasequoia forests, they were used more than a hundred or even two hundred years ago.