Power and Empire Chapter 107: Scarlet Dawn (6)
On the broad Mosuri River, merchant ships are like weaving. From time to time, you can see a merchant ship with a large body and a round belly. The big belly is full of cargo and goes down the river. The large four-cornered sails of the merchant ship are like white clouds floating by. These are all cargo ships departing from the upstream Riwading Main Terminal,
This kind of merchant ship is more than 20 meters long and more than 10 meters high. It is like a big belly man with a round belly. The upper layer is a driving sampan, and the lower layer is a wide four-frame cargo warehouse, which can carry more than ten tons. Cargo, this is a double-decker merchant ship built uniformly by the business alliance, Samor’s enlightened and unified release policy, and the unique upper-class advantage of the Rivadin General Wharf, allow these round-bellied merchant ships to easily wholesale their cargo to the lower reaches of the Mosuri River. Therefore, the Samor Merchant Ship was also affectionately called by the merchants as "the coachman on the Mosuri River"
Since the Samorians settled in Florence, in order to strengthen the role of the north-south hub of the region, two large freight transfer terminals have been added on the right bank of the Mosuri River, and the low-tax opening to Kyoto and the North Lagerburg’s trade route, the ships that dock here every day, up and down, reach hundreds of objective ships, leather goods in the north, gems in the south, gold ornaments of the barbarians in the west, and knight armor of the Swadian Kingdom in the east, traded in Zivadin. After the transactions, they all flooded into the prosperous places near Kyoto through this convenient channel.
"Crack" a pot-bellied merchant ship twice the size of an ordinary merchant ship, swaying and docking at the upper Frundi pier, like a big fat-headed fish squeezing into a calm school of fish, squeezing a few small merchant ships nearby, Squeezed and wobbly,
"Wow" the crew threw the heavy anchor into the river, and a burst of white water splashed out, bubbling to the bottom of the water, fixing the huge merchant ship firmly, 02
"Pop!" The sampan on the boat was put down, and a simple fat man appeared on the bow, his face was pale and he was holding on to the handrail of the bow, his eyes a little dull
"Huh! I finally got to the place!" The fat man took a long breath, trying to spit out the suffocation in his heart, but there was still a pile of fluffy stuff in his chest stirring in his stomach, bursts of acid water. Throat surged "I was such a hero, I would be seasick!" The fat man wiped the white foam from the corner of his mouth depressed, his mouth was dry and bitter
"All disembark! Hurry up, hurry up! Get off the ship now!" The loud voices of the captains of each team resounded through the sky on the pier, and a group of hundreds of Samorian soldiers got out of the potbelly boat and let them onto the pier. The merchants who were still unloading were taken aback and guessed what happened
"The first team went to the pier, the second team went to the pier, immediately notify the pier garrison, block the upper and lower piers, today all ships are not allowed to dock at the pier!" Guard Squadron Captain Chico Huli said loudly, "The third team immediately Clear all the boats moored at the pier and clear the obstacles for the subsequent fleet." Seeing that the guards of the squad have been assembled, Chico Huli glanced sharply and said categorically, "Our brother is fighting with the enemy in Dato Fortress, you guys. Every minute of Dato’s fortress’s brothers used their lives in exchange. Those who couldn’t complete the task were executed by wartime decree! Don’t say that my new captain is not affectionate at that time."
"Yes, Captain!" The guards below responded together, and they quickly turned into three teams and rushed to the dock.
"Chico Huli!" The fat man told Chico Huli, who was instructing the clearing of the ships at the pier, "I will leave it to you here. The situation at Dato Fortress is very urgent. I must rush over! Salon's The Second Banner will come with the ship soon, and the cleanup work here must be fast"
This time the Kyoto nobles’ raid plan really caught the fat man a bit caught off guard. Although we have received news that the nobles might attack, I didn’t expect the scale to be so large.
The main force of the Northern Army is transferred to the south, plus Kyoto’s remaining troops, the main force of the private noble army of nearly 60,000, like two iron tongs to wrap the relatively weakly defended area of Flundi in the middle, as long as it breaks through the northern mountains of Flundi With this barrier, the main force of the private army going south can go around the back of the Omr area and form an encirclement with the private army in front, flanking it back and forth, giving a fatal blow to Samor's three most elite banner regiments. .
There is no denying that the mammoth plan of the Marquis du Acre is close to the strategic scope formulated by later generations. In this era when the lords are independent, this is the first time that the fat man has encountered such an opponent with such a large-scale and excellent strategic thinking. , If it weren’t for the fat guy, but also a master who understands strategic layout, he might have lost the money this time
Marquis du Acry’s unexpected heavy punch almost didn’t swell the fat man’s left cheek, but, instead of killing or fainting, the fat man’s good habit of taking precautions finally paid off. The hard-to-developed waterway transportation line played a life-saving role at this time. When developing the waterway transportation line for commercial use, the fat man had hidden military use in it. The two freight stations of the Frundi Wharf can not only dock small-sized cargo terminals. Cargo merchant ships, and can also dock large and large troop carriers dedicated to the Satsuma army
At this time, Fatty’s three main flag regiments are still facing the private army in the Omr area. Once they retreat in a hurry, it will not only cause the private army to chase and kill them, even if they reach Flundi, only three thousand people are stationed. The Dato fortress was also inundated by tens of thousands of private troops, and the northern barrier of Flundi was completely lost. At that time, not only Samor would lose the Flundi area, but even Omr would not be able to protect it.
The only way is to transfer troops from the Samor Fortress along the waterway. Because of the time emergency and the limitation of the number of ships, the 20,000 new troops trained by Zivadin quickly assembled and prepared to go north to Flundi along the land route, while staying at the Samor Fortress. The 2,000 elite infantry and the 3,000 light cavalry from the headquarters of the regiment were mixed into the second banner regiment. They boarded the ship from the pier of the Samor Fortress and went down the river.
It takes only half a day to reach the Frundi Pier, which is only two hours away from the Dato Fortress where Samorale guards the throat passage~IndoMTL.com~The fat guy doesn’t know yet, the blessed Thornwa tribe longbowman The price of blood, blocking the private forwards in the northern mountains for a whole morning, bought precious time for Samor’s counterattack.
war horses galloped on the ground, the whistling wind blew past the fat man’s ears, and the beautiful and vast southern Florida plains galloped under the horse’s hooves, but the fat man was not in the mood to appreciate, his eyes staring anxiously more and more Near the front mountain pass, come over there, Dato fortress guarding the southern passage,
There is no thick smoke billowing up, no clamoring noises of fighting, not even the drumbeat of the army gathering, the silence in front of the mountain pass is terrible, and this abnormal phenomenon makes the fat man even more anxious
"Did the Dato fortress have been lost?"
The thought of scared the fat man into a cold sweat, he couldn't help but whipped the horse and smoked more anxiously, because in a hurry, this time the fat man only brought two guards by his side, and he only wore a simple chain armor. Across the mountain pass,
"Swish" a white shadow shot from a tree on the roadside at the Fatty Warhorse, "No!" Fatty pulled the warhorse anxiously, but it was too late, and the warhorse made a long hiss down to the ground. He threw the fat man out. Fortunately, the fat man was good at it. He turned over and fell to the ground quickly in the air. The few people behind the tree that he looked at were taken aback.
"Old man, look now" a beautiful voice like a yellow oriole came from the tree where the arrow was shot just now, "That stupid fat man is not a human! You can't fall him like this!"
"Follow him, grab the horse first!" Wei Dule was very happy to kill with his scout dagger and two guards.
"Isn't it!" The fat man looked at the four whole bodies of dust, extremely embarrassed, and opened his eyes in disbelief. "What's this? I encountered a robbery at my door?"