Seeing his bare-handed men, shirtless and struggling to pull the ropes to drag the warship in the river, Dong Chuan no longer had the high spirits he had when he took over the Qingyang Camp.
Yun Chao's idea of hitting three poles with or without dates came to nothing.
The owner of Qilu Trading Company had an extraordinary head. Not only did he not redeem shopkeeper Ma and the guards, but after a period of operation, he also promoted the Dongping Army to go to Qingyang County to suppress the bandits!
The owner of Qilu Trading Company, whose surname was Zhao, was of royal blood. With such a distinguished status, coupled with the money to clear the way, and the support of Dong Ping and Huang Tongpan, Magistrate Cheng of Dongping Prefecture finally relaxed.
The opposition of Qingyang County officials and the blood letter from all the people had long been forgotten by Magistrate Cheng.
Compared with the friendship between the owners of Qilu Trading Company, the people of Qingyang County are nothing!
Dong Ping is not Dong Chuan, he came prepared.
After absorbing the lessons from the failure of Dong Chuan and the Qilu Trading Company escort team, they not only brought the sailors of the Dongping Army, but also transferred all the few warships of the Dongping Army through the Qingshui River connecting Dongping Prefecture and Qingyang County.
Originally, the Dongping Army had no sailors.
As the number of bandits in Onozawa has increased in recent years, the Dongping Army established a water camp with the unanimous consent of Dongping Prefecture officials.
Magistrate Cheng also specially allocated a batch of money to purchase more than a dozen warships for the Dongping Army.
Although these are just small warships on inland rivers, carrying at most a few dozen soldiers, they are still many times more powerful than ordinary fishing boats.
Dong Ping is 10,000% confident that he will defeat the Nanhu water bandits!
In order to exterminate the Nanhu water bandits, the owner of Qilu Trading Company made great efforts. Not only did he encourage the Dongping Army to dispatch, he also used his own money to purchase a large amount of military supplies for the Dongping Army and sent 500 escorts to assist!
A trading company first lost 500 escorts, and now sent another 500 people. This shows how strong the Qilu Trading Company is.
Even Dong Ping couldn't help feeling envious and jealous after seeing the equipment of the trading company's escort team.
There are 500 guards, 500 horses, 500 suits of armor, and 500 pack horses. Such a majestic configuration is beyond the reach of even the Dongping Army!
Looking at the Dongping Army again, after being cheated by Dong Chuan twice, their equipment is no longer what it used to be.
There were only two to three hundred war horses left, and only five hundred large carts for transporting baggage could not be loaded.
In addition to basic swords and guns, even the bows and crossbows are not available, and there are not even 500 crossbowmen.
If there weren't more than a dozen warships and hundreds of sailors who had been trained for a period of time, Dong Ping felt that Qilu Trading Company wouldn't need them at all, and he would have wiped out the Nanhu water bandits!
The reason why Nanhu has so many wetlands must have water sources.
The water source is the Qingshui River flowing around Qingyang County.
There is a not too wide river branch connecting Qingshui River and Nanhu Lake.
Due to the drought, there is not much water in this unknown river branch. No matter how small the warship is, it cannot row across it. It can only empty it and let Lifu drag it forward.
Because the Qingyang camp repeatedly made mistakes and lost their weapons, they were punished by Dong Ping and reduced to low-status trackers, taking on the hard work that should have been done by corvees.
On a hot day, working as trackers dragging boats, the complaints of the soldiers of Qingyang Camp simply reached the sky.
Some people who originally had their hearts set on Dong Chuan suddenly swung to Yun County Lieutenant's side.
At this moment, the efforts of the undercovers bore fruit. Even a few guys who followed Dong Chuan from the Dongping Army completely accepted Yun Chao from the bottom of their hearts and wanted to join the brothers and join Yun County, which loves soldiers like sons. Under the command of the lieutenant!
Dragging the warship from Dongping Mansion to Nanhu was a hard journey, even for well-trained soldiers.
I have never done a job like a tracker. The skin on many people’s shoulders is worn out before they even get a third of the way!
Even though it was so hard, the instructor lurking among the crowd did not forget to carry out revolutionary education.
"Perhaps you just heard from your fathers how hard it was to do corvee work. Now you know what real corvee work is like!"
"Yes, when we all have enough to eat, we can still be so tired. If we are doing corvee normally, but there is no food to eat, we not only have to bring our own dry food, but also work hungry, so every time we do corvee , someone will die outside!"
"It's better to go to Lieutenant Yun County. I heard that if you work for him as a helper, you can not only eat three meals a day, but also receive two liters of grain every day. Save some food and feed the whole family!"
"..."
The instructors are all professionally trained, specializing in talking about the evils of those with vested interests and the sweetness of following Yun Chao.
Of course, these are facts and have been experienced by many people, so they are very convincing.
The reason some people don’t know is just that they didn’t expect it.
Now that I was reminded by the instructors, I suddenly felt like I had an enlightenment, and I suddenly realized that I had no idea!
"Oh, stop talking. Yun County Lieutenant is so good, when can we follow him?"
"Don't worry, as long as everyone is patient and united, the darkness will eventually pass and the light will come sooner or later!"
"At midnight, I look forward to the dawn. In the twelfth lunar month of winter, I look forward to the spring breeze. If you want to look forward to it, Brother Chao comes. The mountains are blooming, azalea, azalea..."
"..."
Trackers... no, it was the soldiers from the Qingyang Camp who were talking like this. It was impossible for Dong Chuan not to hear it.
With the bright sun on his head, Dong Chuan felt colder than if he had fallen into an ice cave.
terrible!
When did that guy Yun Er's appeal become so strong? Even the Qingyang camp that he worked so hard to cultivate worshiped him to such an extent. It is conceivable that the people of Qingyang County who divided their fields and divided their land... What it should be like!
No, I definitely can’t do it!
Dong Chuan made up his mind that after the Nanhu water bandits were wiped out this time, he would immediately ask that bastard Dong Ping to resign. Even if he beat him to death, he would quit working!
…
Qingyang County.
Nanhu Town.
Yun Chao was sitting in the inspection department with a very serious expression on his face.
"Li Xing, please report the current location of the Dongping Army."
Li Xing no longer smiled playfully, and the expression on his face was more serious than Yun Chao: "Brother Chao, half an hour ago, the Dongping Army entered the branch of the river, and it is less than twenty miles away from Nanhu!"
Yun Chao snorted noncommittally.
"Don't worry, Shitou. Let me tell you about your journey to Pingshan County so that the brothers can learn from it."
"yes!"
Wang Shitou no longer pretended to be low-key, cupped his fists with both hands, and raised his hands to everyone present:
"Brothers, time is limited. To make a long story short, when I went to Pingshan County this time, I almost capsized in the ditch..."
