Chapter 499: Who can be better than the two of them in terms of mind?
“After I fell into the sea, I happened to meet Senior Liang who was passing by the coast and was about to return to Wuzhou. After being rescued by him, he went to a mountain , I saw a Japanese man wearing a strange robe worshiping at the Japanese altar, and there were heavy soldiers guarding the area. "
"So, Senior Liang and I adopted the strategy of attacking in the east and attacking in the west, and the last general killed the man. The Japanese..."
It was luck that Lu Meng survived the catastrophe, but later he destroyed the altar of the Japanese and killed the Japanese who were offering sacrifices. That was not luck, it was an unexpected encounter.
Su Chen and even the generals in the tent thought carefully, how could they not understand that the strange wind outside the island suddenly disappeared that day, which may be related to Lu Meng's destruction of the opponent's altar.
"General Lu, this is a great achievement!"
Su Chen raised his hand and asked Wu Zixun to bring two empty bowls to Lu Meng and Liang Guyuan. Then he personally raised the wine jar and poured the imperial wine for them. .
Putting the wine jar on the table, Su Chen touched the wine bowl and saluted the two of them: "If it weren't for you two, our soldiers might still be trapped by the strange wind at this moment. I am a soldier of the army. Here’s to you both!”
“To your Majesty!”
Lu Meng and Liang Guyuan were both military commanders and martial arts masters. They were bold and touched Su Chen’s wine bowl politely. , and drank up the imperial wine in the bowl in one gulp.
Immediately, after showing the bottom of the bowl to the others, Lu Bu, Xiang Yu and others gathered around, asking Wu Zixun to continue filling up the drink for him.
"When my old friend passed away, I had no regrets in my heart. I could only entrust the old man to take him back to his hometown and lay him to rest."
Lü Meng also felt something about this. People were very happy about his change, so they drank with everyone who came, until he drank the seventh bowl, and his whole body felt dizzy.
"Of course!" Everyone said in cheers, especially Lu Bu, whose voice was the loudest: "If Guan Yunchang doesn't drink with you, a certain family will kidnap him, together with Zhang Yide."
Su Chen looked at the old man and pursed his lips.
"The four famous masters in the world... now only the old man is left. You should live a good life. If the old man wants to pass on the mantle in the future, you can come to Yanjing and I will open a boxing gym just for you!"
"I had some misunderstandings with Senior Du before, but unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to meet and resolve them in person."
This has two meanings. The first one is to tell him that the four great masters only If there is only one person left, don't do any more dangerous things, including becoming an enemy of the imperial court.
Lü Meng’s previous sacrifice of his life has made the generals accept him in their hearts. He survived the disaster and destroyed the Japanese altar to worship Yao Feng. For such a feat, they naturally wanted to toast him to express their congratulations. It was regarded as a great achievement. A statement.
Su Chen closed his eyes and nodded.
After joking, Su Chen asked people to take Lu Meng down to rest, and explained some things about the barracks. Then he talked with Liang Guyuan in the tent. When he heard that Du Yichu, the master of swordsmanship, died, he couldn't help but sigh.
Lu Meng's face was red and his steps were a little sloppy. He handed the bowl to the old man next to him, then raised his hand and bowed around him.
When he reached the tent, Su Chen suddenly stopped him again. Liang Guyuan turned around and raised his hands in confusion.
"What else does your Majesty have to say?"
In his ears, the curtain opened and then closed again. He knew that the old man had gone out, so he returned to his seat, thinking about the next expedition. Things about Yunguo Island.
Liang Guyuan looked at the emperor opposite for a moment, then slowly raised his hand.
Now that the army has reached the Japanese island, the rest is left to the soldiers. As a martial artist, he will no longer interfere.
The second level is naturally to hope that the old man can come to Yanjing to take care of himself and pass on his skills.
"I will reassure your majesty. After sending my old friend back to his hometown, I will get up and go to Yanjing."
"Generals, I will not drink today, and I will keep my stomach to change." I'll have a drink with Guan Yu once a day. Then you can help me and give me some advice."
Su Chen was silent for a moment, and then asked someone to take the old man in front of him down to rest. "Tomorrow, I will arrange a ship to take you to Tsushima Island. There are many logistics ships going to and from Wuzhou there. Then the old man can take the ship from Return to Wuzhou there."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
The situation there is not clear yet. It is not clear who the big name is, what the soldiers in his hands are, and what their strength is.
This is an obvious drawback of fighting against islands. Scouts cannot detect very far away like they can on land.
Although the sea area leading to the opposite Yunguo Island is only seven or eight miles away, the depth of the sea and the reefs need to be explored one by one. Finally, scouts can be sent to the opposite side to investigate.
However, now that Shikoku Island and Tsushima Island serve as outposts and places for injured soldiers to recuperate, the pressure on soldiers and horses fighting on the front line has been much reduced. There are also sea ships around to help transport food and supplies, eliminating the fatigue of carriages and horses during the journey. loss.
So the advantages and disadvantages of fighting against the island can be reflected one by one.
..."There is no way they don't know that Nagano Castle on Shikoku Island has been breached. How will the Japanese on the other side react and what countermeasures will they take?"
Su Chen stayed in the imperial tent and wrote down the next plan one by one, marking the important points. The next step was to wait for Zhou Yu, Qi Jiguang and other naval generals to come and join them.
However, the next day, not long after Su Chen got up and was having breakfast in the tent, Wu Zixun hurried over from outside to report.
"A ship hit the rocks and ran aground?"
Su Chen put down his bowls and chopsticks, got out of the tent in military uniform, immediately got on his horse and galloped towards the outside of the military camp, with Dian Wei riding on him The long-haired war elephant followed closely behind, making a slight tremor and dull sound on the beach with every step.
When we arrived at the place where the accident occurred, there was a port built on the beach with more than ten ferry bridges connecting the deep water area. At this time, five cargo ships and three warships were docked there.
Zhou Yu and Gan Ning were giving orders to the soldiers under their command on the dock. When Su Chen came over, the messenger who received the order quickly boarded a nearby warship.
"There are many rocks in this sea area?"
Su Chen watched the warship slowly sail away from the ferry bridge, and turned his head to look at Zhou Yu, who was frowning, and the latter nodded hesitantly.
“Maybe, but it shouldn’t be in that water area!”
Zhou Yu is the commander of the navy on the river, and sailing on the sea does not take a day or two. In fact, there are many similarities between the two. In this area, we can more or less predict which waters have reefs.
Not to mention that there are soldiers on board who specialize in observing the rocks.
"Could it be that the Japanese on the opposite side are causing trouble for our ship?" Gan Ning crossed his arms, leaned back slightly, opened his mouth and spat outside: "In order to prevent us from landing on Yunguo Island, we have set up a covert in the nearby waters. Zhuang, after all, they are more familiar with this place than us."
Su Chen agreed, "General Gan is right, the Japanese are indeed more familiar with this place than us. In order to prevent the warships from approaching the coast, they attacked dozens of them. It is not impossible to find hidden piles. First send a small boat to cruise in this area to explore the water and see how many can be found.” We can only pull out the hidden piles one by one. It also requires a lot of tools. We don’t have them on the boat or in the camp at the moment, so we can only go back to Tsushima Island.”
Underwater operations are not as simple as later generations. , almost entirely relying on water sergeants to dive.
But to be on the safe side, Su Chen decided to send a ship back to Tsushima Island. If there was nothing Zhou Yu needed there, then he would do it.
Just waste a little time, it's better than the entire fleet being stuck on the sea.
After returning to the military camp, Su Chen asked Zhou Yu to write down what he needed and give it to the two unloaded cargo ships that happened to be returning to Tsushima Island, so that they could bring it to Zhuge Liang and Jia who were staying behind there. brag.
In less than half a day, the letter fell into the hands of the two of them.
"Prime Minister...do you think anything is wrong?"
Jia Xu is a good person. What he pays attention to is often not what is needed in the letter, but what is revealed behind the letter. message.
"Liang also noticed it, but he didn't see it thoroughly enough. It's better for the Taiwei to speak first." Zhuge Liang is not as good at analyzing people's hearts as Jia Xu, but he doesn't pretend to understand.
On the side, Yuwen Chengdu read the letter over and over again two or three times, but could not see anything. "What can this letter reveal?"
"Haha, the Japanese are setting up hidden stakes. It is obvious that we want to trap our three Daxia troops on the other side of the sea, but this is just a stopgap measure. After all, it is just delaying the landing. The Japanese must also understand. Therefore, the only way to solve the disaster of breaking the island is to completely solve it. My Daxia soldiers and horses are replaced by generals, what will you do next?"
Jia Xu smiled and looked at Yuwen Chengdu opposite, who frowned and tapped his fingertips on the table.
"If I were a Japanese general, knowing that I was outmatched, but still fighting head-on, that would be a pig's brain! Since I have laid a hidden stake to trap Daxia..."
Having said this, Yuwen Chengdu suddenly opened his eyes wide, and the tapping of his fingertips turned into a slap on the table, "I understand, kill to Tsushima Island, cut off my Daxia supplies, and trap 60,000 soldiers and horses in Shikoku Island !”
Whether it was Zhuge Liang or Jia Xu nodded and smiled, it was obvious that what Yuwen Chengdu said was exactly what they had seen from the letter.
"But what if it's not?" Although Yuwen Chengdu was a general in charge of the army, in terms of intrigues, he was definitely not as good as these two counselors of the Three Kingdoms in the late Han Dynasty.
Zhuge Liang and Jia Xu looked at each other, and he pressed the crane fan.
“If it’s not, then it’s not.”
He then said the same words as Su Chen, "You must be careful to sail a ten thousand year ship."
The oil lamp swayed, and the dim yellow light illuminated the faces of Jia Xu and Zhuge Liang, and an atmosphere of conspiracy gradually appeared on their faces. .
(End of this chapter)