According to Liu Xi's judgment, three ships are obviously not enough, and at least double the number is needed to barely drag it.
So he cautiously made a request to Jiagu Asu.
"Commander, the transport capacity of three ships is not enough to tow the sunken ship. I am afraid that the number will have to be increased to six."
"Is six ships enough?"
Jiagu Asu looked at Liu Xi with a bad expression.
Liu Xi was surprised and nodded repeatedly.
"Enough, absolutely enough, we can definitely pull the sunken ship away... Of course, if there are helpers on the shore to help pull it out, it will definitely be faster."
Jiagu Asu looked at the three ships that had not moved much and thought for a moment.
"I'll give you eight ships, and the troops will be mobilized as you wish. Hurry up, we can't waste any more time."
"Here!"
Liu Xi was surprised and happy, and immediately started making arrangements.
While mobilizing more than 500 signers to work as trackers to pull the boats on the shore, he quickly ran back to the boat, took the boat back to his "flagship", and dispatched the remaining five boats that Jiagu Asu gave him. .
After a series of preparations, he sent people to dive into the water to lock the iron rope. After all the preparations were completed, he gave an order and the civilians on the eight boats and the signing troops on the river bank worked hard together.
The rowing, rowing, and dragging all took a lot of effort.
Despite this, Liu Xi was still worried that the civilian husbands and the signing troops would not work hard and be lazy and slippery, which would affect his popularity with Jiagu Asu.
In order to prevent the laziness of the civilian husbands and the soldiers who signed the army from threatening his own future, he sent Jurchen soldiers as supervisors to watch aside with whips.
As long as they see someone who seems to be slacking off, the regular soldiers can just whip him up without any unnecessary nonsense, just whip him.
"Don't worry about being killed or injured. Anyway, there are enough soldiers and civilians to beat them to death until they dare not stop trying their best."
Liu Xi told the soldiers this.
The officers nodded together and showed cruel smiles.
The civilian husbands on the eight ships and the soldiers on the shore could only cry blood and tears, desperately squeezing the little energy left in their already malnourished bodies, hoping to drive the damn shipwreck at the bottom of the river.
The sound of whips coming and going, and the screams never stopped from the beginning of the salvage operation until the damn sunken ship was finally towed to its destination.
The first sunken ship was finally towed away, but this was just the beginning, and the signing troops on the shore and the civilians on the ship were already half dead from exhaustion.
However, Jiagu Asu and Liu Xike, who were in a state of excitement, did not take into account their intentions. They had no idea of taking turns to salvage for the time being, but immediately started the salvage operation of the second sunken ship.
The time when people are sent to the water rope structure is the rest time.
When the time passed, the work continued, and the sound of the whip also sounded.
Some of the soldiers who were responsible for pulling the ships had been beaten so badly that their already weak bodies could not hold on.
Not long after the towing operation of the second ship started, he finally lost all strength and collapsed. He was paralyzed on the ground and could not get up at all. He could only breathe.
But in the eyes of the "supervisors", this can be directly equated with being lazy and not working.
Their thinking leaps particularly rapidly at this stage.
The status of these female real soldiers in the hierarchical military camp is not as high as imagined.
They are like ants in front of their parents. Being beaten, scolded and even starved is commonplace.
The money they should get could not be obtained in full, and the rations they should get could not be obtained in full. They were all taken away by the officers, and by the time they got it, there was not much left.
Their lives were not that easy either.
But compared to these civilians and soldiers, they seemed noble and incomparable. They exuded a noble aura from head to toe, and their every move was noble.
They had the power of life and death over these people, just as their superiors had similar power over them.
Then the fear and resentment towards the superiors instantly turned into emotions, and the thick and long whips mercilessly struck the thin bodies of the civilian husbands and the soldiers.
In the face of the superiors, he was obedient, but in the face of the civilian husband and the signing army, he struck hard.
It seems that through such behavior, you can get back what you can't get.
It's just that the bodies of these civilian husbands and signing soldiers are too thin.
The intense work just now had drained the last of their strength.
The blood marks one after another and the severe pain that followed could not even make them stand up and run away. They just made them groan like earthworms that were just dug out of the soil and left to bask in the afternoon sun. While twisting his body weirdly on the ground.
The twisted ground was stained with blood.
The yellow and red ones stick together and become black.
But this still did not make the noble overseers feel any mercy.
They still waved the whips in their hands and enjoyed the pleasure of doing whatever they wanted brought by their status and status.
The people who were still standing looked at them with fear mixed with a tiny bit of sympathy and sadness.
Then he looked at the "overseers" who were roaring and waving their whips unscrupulously, hoping that their whips would not hit him.
They should have been so numb that they had no emotions, but the scene in front of them was too bloody and cruel. Those roaring overseers probably really wanted to beat those unlucky ones to death without mercy.
So they began to fear being treated in the same way, and thus recovered some emotions that should not have existed.
It's just that this method is too cruel and sad.
After a while, the unlucky ones finally became unresponsive no matter how hard they were beaten, and the roaring supervisor finally stopped what he was doing.
They all stepped forward and kicked the bodies of the unlucky ghosts to see if they were really dead.
"Really dead?"
"You're not pretending, are you?"
"Kick it and see."
A few regular soldiers stepped forward with a few words, kicked them in the stomach, or stamped their hands with their heels, but they didn't react at all.
It does look dead.
When they found out that they had been beaten to death, the noble "overseers" spat with displeasure on their faces, as if they were annoyed by the unlucky ones who couldn't help but beat them.
They died before they could feel refreshed. It was so useless!
So they casually instructed a few soldiers from the signing army to come forward to deal with the bodies of those unlucky guys, and then continued to scan the remaining civilian husbands and signing soldiers with their bloodshot eyes.
That noble posture is like an advanced predator standing at the top of the food chain searching for prey.
The weak prey can only lower their heads and bend their waists to move forward desperately, for fear of making the slightest mistake that is not a mistake at all, so that the noble predators will target them.
Under the deterrence of the advanced predators, this group of weak prey successfully dragged the three sunken ships to the predetermined location before they were finally drained of their physical strength and could no longer move. But what happened next was life or death. It depends on their luck.
Those who are lucky may still be able to survive, but those who are unlucky may be overtired, their vision goes dark and they fall to the ground, and their lives are gone, and their lives will be miserable for the rest of their lives.
Well, in this case, it’s hard to say who is the truly lucky one.
But no matter what, those who are alive still want to live.
Liu Xi's plan and actions finally worked. This made Jiagu Asu see the possibility of clearing a channel and continuing on the road within three days. He was very happy and gave Liu Xi a big meal and a jar of wine in the evening. Liu Xi was overjoyed.
When the interest arose, Jiagu Asu didn't care too much. Although he personally ordered that the entire army was not allowed to drink unless there was a celebration party, but perhaps a successful operation was the same as winning a battle in his eyes, so he I drank a jar of wine by myself.
Being half-drunk but not drunk is the best way to help Jiagu Asu sleep. It is also one of the rare ways to get a good night's sleep on hot nights. It's not that he can't afford ice cubes, it's just that he can't afford it. How could he have enough reserves if he sent out troops in a hurry?
Just make do with sleep.
With such emotions, Jiagu Asu fell into sleep when night fell, and soon he was snoring like thunder.
As night fell, a group of about ten soldiers who were responsible for burying the bodies came back from outside the military camp.
When passing the camp gate, guard Liu Jinshui saw Ma Miaosheng, an acquaintance from his village in the team, and quickly said hello and called him over.
