Vol 4 Chapter 1308: Private transactions

After the beginning of spring, the water level of the Huaihe River rose and expanded a lot on both sides. Since the fleet of the Dongqi Mariners appeared on the Huaihe River, the traffic between North and South was completely cut off.
The East Qi Marine Division claimed to be the first largest naval division today. If there were any suspicious suspicions in the past, but after defeating the East Marine Division, the Qi National Marine Division became the veritable strongest naval force. Looking at the world, no navy can compare Comparable, and after the defeat of the East China Sea Division, the Huaihe River became the back garden of the East Qi Navy Division.
After the defeat of the East China Sea Division, the main force of the Chu army was trapped in the north of the Huaihe River. The court immediately mobilized a lot of soldiers and horses from the Huainan area. In fact, these soldiers and horses were mainly composed of local guards and city guards, plus the temporary recruitment of civilians. It also gathered tens of thousands of horses, and built watchtowers at intervals along the south bank of Huai Shui to guard against the harassment of Dongqi sailors on the shore.
Although the Dongqi naval commanders were invincible on the water, every sailor made one to five on the water, but the force was not too much.
After all, Qi has a small number of small people, and its national strength is far from being comparable to that of the other two countries. The tax received every year is limited, but the monarch Qi is a very serious person. Although he is only a monarch, he is extremely extravagant in food, clothing and housing. The Qi State Palace in Linzi City has cost a lot for many years. Every year the treasury has to bear the huge expenses of the Qi State Monarch. If it was not for Linghu Xu and other officials who tried to discourage him, Qi State had already begun to increase the taxation of the people. The tax cannot be increased too much to increase the burden of the people and provoke popular unrest, so the state treasury of Qi is always very empty.
The maintenance of the naval forces requires huge amounts of money. It takes a lot of money to build an ordinary warship. There are dozens of warships of various sizes in the East Qi Navy. It is a huge expense to maintain these warships every year.
If it were not for Shen Tuluo, the Dongqi naval forces even once faced a situation of reduction. Under Shen Tuluo ’s insistence, the Dongqi naval forces maintained a strong force, but the force has not increased for many years. This is certainly because the monarch Qi did not want to because of Dongqi Luo. The sailors increased the burden on the country, also because Shen Tuluo's use of troops was never expensive.
The sailors of Shen Tuluo are all water-based, and they are brave and good at fighting. Every sailor must undergo rigorous training to become a true Dongqi sailor.
Although Shen Tuluo was strict in training, he treated his soldiers like a son, and although he was the governor of the Eastern Qi Navy, he lived on the ship all year round and lived with the officers and soldiers under his command. Prestige, after the city of Linzi was broken, the army still followed him. Even if the country was broken, he still insisted on following the metropolitan governor to strive for the restoration of the country.
Only the sailors knew that they were in a very bad situation.
The food allocated every day has become less and less. These sailors are strong and vigorous. It is difficult for a little food to make everyone full. Some people can only drink more water from the Huaihe River to fill their stomachs.
Everyone knows that although this navy army still hangs the name of the Dongqi naval division, it is no longer the original Dongqi naval division. There is no court supplies and no docks to dock. It seems like a group of drifting on the water. The water bandits are average.
People who are brave and loyal must also have a full stomach.
But everyone knows very well that the fleet's supplies are getting less and less, and the food that has survived has not been able to support for too long, otherwise the governor will not send a few teams to go to shore to find food.
However, the Chu people have withdrawn from the south bank of the Huaihe River to the north. The villages left behind are empty, not to mention food, and even a chicken feather is difficult to find. In order to find food, more than a dozen sailors even went deep into the territory of Chu, but they were The Chinese found that all were killed.
It is rumored that the court of Chu State issued a motive, whether it is the Chu soldiers or the Chu people, if they kill or even arrest the Dongqi sailors who landed on the shore, they will not only have a reward, but they will also get one official and half duty, because of this. Many daring civilians have already started searching for sailors on the south bank, just like hunters waiting for their prey to throw themselves in the net.
These days, the Governor-General has not sent people to land again. Obviously knowing that landing can not find food, one accidentally would have to lose manpower. The Dongqi sailors are elite soldiers on the water, but if they really want to land, they will appear on land. Not capable.
No one is going to land to find food anymore. The distribution of food is decreasing day by day, and no one knows how long it will last.
The Dongqi naval forces blocked the Huaihe River in order to cut off the logistics supply of the Qinhuai Army, but many people were worried that the Qinhuai Army would not starve to death.
As the governor of the navy, Shen Tuluo can naturally feel the low sentiment of his soldiers. He knew very well that if it were not for his prestige in the navy, in this situation now, this navy was afraid No longer exists, he is a soldier, knowing that to make the soldiers truly loyal, the first thing to do is to make everyone full, even if their stomachs are full, and what can they use to loyalty?
A loyal soldier will lose loyalty a little bit because of hunger. When one day hunger completely takes the upper hand, even if he has unparalleled prestige in the navy, there is absolutely no possibility to prevent the mutiny.
The subordinates who watched the subordinates were calm and comfortable every day, but only Shen Tuluo knew how heavy his pressure was.
It was long past midnight. Although he hadn't closed his eyes for several days, he still had no trace of drowsiness, without armor, standing on the side of the ship, staring at the south bank of the Huaihe River in black, stunned.
"Dadudu .....!" I don't know how long after that I suddenly heard a voice coming from my side. Shen Tuluo felt a grief, thinking that he was actually distracted, even if someone approached him, he had no precautions. Assassins, I am afraid that they have been assassinated before they even responded. Although the Shenhou Mansion came to stab the whole army, the Chu people will never let go of them easily, and new assassins will appear at any time.
Fortunately, it was n’t the assassin who was wearing ordinary sailor clothes and a round sailor hat on his head. His eyes were looking at Shen Tuluo. Shen Tuluo turned to see the person coming and quickly arched his hand: "His Royal Highness!"
This seemingly inconspicuous man turned out to be Prince Tang Shao of Dongqi.
Duan Shao looks very bad, his eyes are slightly swollen, and he seems to have not rested for a few days, but his lips are smiling: "What are you worried about? Are you worried that the ninjas cannot complete the task?"
"This ...!" Shen Tu Luowei hesitated before sighing: "His Royal Highness, since it was His Royal Highly Deployed, and Fei Chan Danfu personally led people to action, I think there wouldn't be too many problems. "
Duan Shao, with his hands on his back, also looked at the South Bank and said, "Is the governor worried about the future?"
"Your Highness ...!" Shen Tulu stopped talking, but finally said: "There is no difference between the Northern Han and the Chu people. They are all capricious people who forget the benefits. Not talented, and the character is really not good, I do n’t trust this person ... "
"This palace knows that Linzichengpo has a great relationship with this palace." Duan Shao's eyes sternly said: "This palace didn't expect that the Chu people were so cunning, they thought they were married to Chu, they wanted to go northward. The Han Kingdom did not want to ... Although this palace did not expect them to be so capricious, they still made some preparations, leaving Su Zhen in Qi, just to make the Chu people have some scruples. Su Zhen is One of the four hereditary Hou of Chu, he is in our hands, thinking that the Chu people will try to cooperate with me .... "" The hand behind him shook his fist and sneered, "just unexpected They are so cruel, they don't care about Su Zhen's life or death. "
"The Northern Expedition is false, and the attack on Qi State is the real purpose." Shen Tu Luo said: "Chen and Linghuxiang did not expect the Chu people to come in such a way."
"Su Zhen is really stupid and unattainable." Duan Shao's eyes showed anger: "He was sent to Qi by the Chu State as a chess piece, and he was complacent. In Qi State, he was awesome, but he didn't know that from the beginning, he Became the abandoned son of the Chu people. "
"The Chu Kingdom attacked my Qi State. It must have been a long-term plan and made a careful deployment." Shen Tuluo said with a solemn expression: "And there must be very few people who know this matter. Although Su Zhen was hereditary in Chu, he was in Chu. Among the four hereditary princes, the weakest and the most incompetent, this person has no qualifications to capture the military affairs of Qi State. The Chu people have been thinking about it, and they have already been married, and Su Zhen personally sent them to Qi State. It ’s just to confuse us, just hate .... We ’re actually fooled by them. "
"So Su Zhen was supposed to be damn, and he also caught his daughter." Duan Shao coldly smiled: "Linzi city broke, that woman even begged me to take her away, I thought about using her as a hostage, but Chu People do n’t even care about Su Zhen, how would they care about such a woman? Taking her around is not only helpful, but EbookFREE.me ~ is cumbersome, and it ’s clean to stab him. "
Shen Tuluo didn't change his face, apparently indifferent to Su Zixuan's life and death.
"Great Governor, if the action is successful, I will go to Luoyang in person." Duan Shao said: "Everything here will bother you."
Shen Tuluo frowned: "Your Highness is really going to Luoyang? The minister is only worried ...!" Did not go on, but the eyebrows between them were full of worry.
"Worried about the palace being put under house arrest by them, or killed with a knife?" Duan Shao laughed: "Although Bei Tangfeng is incompetent, it is not an idiot. Chu is not dead, he will never kill me." Looking up at the night sky, Lightly said: "If we can block the food road and make the Qinhuai Corps logistics unavailable, we can allow the tens of thousands of Qinhuai Corps to die on the land of the Northern Han Dynasty. The Northern Han Dynasty promised that as long as this battle is won, we will try our best to help us recover our country. Hey, this time the Qinhuai Corps has been defeated by burning the granary of the Chu people. I should also find Bei Tangfeng to fulfill my promise! "