A Clash of Gods Chapter 1308: Private transaction

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 Marine Division appeared on the Huaihe River, the traffic between North and South was completely cut off.

Dongqi Navy is known as the No. 1 sailor today. If there were any suspicious suspicions before, but after defeating Donghai Marine Division, Qi State Marine Division became a veritable strongest naval force. There is no water in the world. The army can be 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 are mainly composed of local guards and guards, plus temporary Recruiting civilians also gathered tens of thousands of horses, and watchtowers were built at intervals along the south bank of Huai Shui to guard against the harassment of Dongqi naval engineers.

Although the sailors of Dongqi are invincible on the water, every sailor is worth one to five on the water, but the strength is 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 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 of a small country, he eats, lives, and lives. However, it is extremely extravagant. 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 monarch Qi. If it is not Linghu Xu and other officials who try to discourage him, Qi has already begun to increase the taxation of the people. The monarch costs It was huge, and it could not increase too much tax to increase the burden of the people and provoke popular unrest, so the state treasury of Qi was always very empty.

The maintenance of the navy 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 Dongqi Marine Division. Maintaining these warships every year is a huge sum of money. Expenditure.

If it were not for Shen Tuluo, the Dongqi naval forces even 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 because the Qi Guojun did not want to Because the Dongqi naval division increased the burden on the country, it was also because Shen Tulu's use of troops was never expensive.

The sailors of Shen Tuluo are all water-based, and they are brave and combative. Every sailor must undergo rigorous training to become a real Dongqi sailor.

Although Shen Tuluo is rigorous in training, he is like a soldier. Although he is the governor of the Eastern Qi Navy, he lives on a ship all year round and lives with his officers and soldiers. The prestige in the army, after the city of Linzi was broken, the navy 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.

It's just that the sailors knew that they were in a very bad situation.

There are fewer and fewer foods distributed every day. These sailors are strong and vigorous. That little bit of food is difficult for everyone to eat. 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 are no supplies for the court and no docks for docking. It looks like a group of people on the water. The bandits drifting around in general.

No matter how brave and loyal you are, you have to 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 it for too long, otherwise the governor will not send a few teams to the shore to find food.

But 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. More than a dozen sailors even went deep into the territory of Chu in order to find food. But they were discovered by the Chu people and all were killed.

It is rumored that the imperial court of Chu State issued a decree that, whether it was the Chu soldiers or the Chu people, if they killed or even arrested the Dongqi sailors who landed on the shore, they would not only have a reward, but they could even get one official and half duty. Because of this, many daring civilians have begun to search for sailors on the south bank, just like hunters waiting for their prey to throw themselves in the net.

The governors have not sent people to land these days. Obviously they know that it is impossible to find food when they land on the shore. One accidentally would have to lose manpower. The Dongqi sailors are all good soldiers on the water, but they really want to land on the land. There is no ability to show.

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.

Dongqi sailors blocked the Huaihe River in order to cut off the logistics supply of the Qinhuai Legion, but many people were worried that by then the Qinhuai Legion had not starved to death. People on their own side were starved to death.

As the governor of the Marines, Shen Tuluo can naturally feel the low sentiment of his soldiers. He knows clearly that if it is not for his prestige in the Marines, in this situation now, this sailor only I am afraid that it will not exist anymore. He is a soldier. He knows that to make the soldiers truly loyal, the first thing to do is to make everyone satiate.

The loyal soldiers will lose loyalty a little bit because of hunger. When one day hunger completely gains the upper hand, even if you have unparalleled prestige in the navy, there is absolutely no way to stop the mutiny.

The great governors who watched the subordinates were calm and comfortable every day, but only Shen Tuluo knew how heavy his pressure was.

It's already past midnight. Although he hasn't closed his eyes for a few days, he still doesn't feel sleepy, without armor, standing on the side of the ship, staring at the dark south bank of the Huaihe River, stunned.

"Dadudu.....!" I don’t know how long it took, and suddenly I heard a voice from my side. Shen Tuluo felt a grief, thinking that he was actually distracted, even if someone approached him, he was not prepared. If the opponent is an assassin, I am afraid that he will be assassinated before he even reacts. Although the Shenhou Mansion came to assassinate the whole army before, the Chu people will never let go easily, and there will be new assassins at any time.

Fortunately, it’s not the assassins who spoke in ordinary sailor clothes and a round sailor hat on their heads. They looked at Shen Tuluo. Shen Tuluo turned to see the person coming and quickly arched his hand: "His Royal Highness! "

This unobtrusive man is actually Prince Dong 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 took people to action, I think there wouldn't be too much Question."

Duan Shao carried his hands on his back and also looked at the South Bank. He said, "Is the governor worried about the future?"

"His Royal Highness...Shen Tuluo stopped talking, but he finally said: "There is no difference between the Northern Han people and the Chu people, they are all capricious and forgetful. Beitang Feng This person has no talents, and his character is really bad, and he doesn't trust this person..."

"This palace knows that Linzi Chengpo has a great relationship with this palace." Duan Shao's eyes sternly said: "This palace did not expect that the Chu people were so cunning, they thought they were married with Chu, they were one heart I wanted the Northern Expedition of the Han Kingdom, but I didn't want to... Although this palace didn't expect them to be so capricious, it still made some preparations to leave Su Zhen in Qi, just to make the Chu people scrupulous. Su Zhen is one of the four hereditary Hou of the Chu Kingdom. He is in our hands, thinking that the Chu people will try their best to cooperate with me...."" The hand behind him shook his fist and sneered: "I just didn't think they were so cruel, they didn't care about Su Zhen's life and death."

"The Northern Expedition is false, and the attack on Qi State is the real purpose." Shen Tuluo said: "Chen and Linghuxiang did not expect the Chu people to come like this."

"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. , He became the abandoned son of Chu people."

"The Chu State attacked my Qi State. It must have been a long plan and a careful deployment." Shen Tuluo said with a solemn expression: "And there must be very few people who know this matter. Although Su Zhen is hereditary in Chu State, but Among the four hereditary princes of Chu, the weakest and the most incompetent, this person was not qualified to know about the military affairs of Qi State. The people of Chu State had been deliberate, they had already been married, and Su Zhen personally sent them to Qi. China, this is just to confuse us, only hate.....We actually fell for them."

"So Su Zhen was supposed to be damn, and he also caught his daughter." Duan Shao coldly laughed: "Lin Zicheng broke, that woman even begged me to take her away, I thought about using her as a hostage at first, But the Chu people don’t even care about Su Zhen, would they care about such a woman? Taking her around with him would not be of any benefit~IndoMTL.com~ is cumbersome, but a sword stabbed to death is clean."

Shen Tuluo didn’t change his face, apparently indifferent to Su Zixuan’s life and death.

"Dadu Du, 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 eyes of Meiyu were full of worry.

"Worried that the palace was put under house arrest or killed by a knife?" Duan Shao laughed: "Although Bei Tangfeng is incompetent, he is not an idiot. Chu is not dead. He will never kill me." Against the night sky, he said softly: "If we can block the food road and make the logistics of the Qinhuai Corps unavailable, we can allow tens of thousands of troops of the Qinhuai Corps to die on the land of the Northern Han Dynasty. The Northern Han Dynasty promised that we will help us as long as this battle wins. Restoring the country, hey, this time the Qinhuai Legion was defeated and the defeat of the Qinhuai Army’s granary was decided. I should also find Bei Tangfeng to fulfill my promise!"