Chapter 538: Drawing Salary from the Bottom of the Cauldron

Huilong Town is located in the north of the city of Beilu, about 20 miles away from the city of Beilu, close to the sea, its predecessor was the Han Dynasty's Dongyu County, Dongyu County has long been extinct in the long river of history, but its excellent location has been retained, inherited by Huilong Town.

The superior terrain is a natural deep-water wharf by the sea, which can moor 5,000 stone warships, and it is this natural wharf that has made Huilong Town a prosperous business.

However, like other settlements on the Liaodong Peninsula, after the First Goguryeo Campaign, all the inhabitants of Huilong were relocated to Pyongyang, turning Huilong into a deserted and empty town.

On the sea northeast of Huilong Town, a fleet of 100 thousand-stone cargo ships was heading towards Huilong Town, they were the supply cargo ships that came to support the 10,000-stone Goguryeo army, loaded with 20,000 stone grain and countless siege weapons.

After three days of sailing, they are about to arrive in Huilong Town, and all the crew members are talking and laughing, ready to get a good night's sleep, and then unload and return home.

At this moment, the alarm bell on the ship headed by the big ship suddenly 'dang! While! There was a knock, and a lookout shouted in terror from the mast: "Boat! An enemy flotilla has appeared ahead! ”

The soldiers rushed to the side of the ship, only to see hundreds of Wuya warships appear on the sea a few miles away, with sails like clouds, covering the sky and the sun, and surrounding them from two directions.

The people on the cargo ship were shocked, they were cargo ships, not warships, mainly boatmen, each fleet only had twenty soldiers, and the total was only two thousand, how could they resist the real warship, just the head collision at the front of the warship could smash their cargo ship to pieces.

Everyone's eyes were on a general, this person was called Lian Qi, the deputy general of this attack on Beilu City. He was responsible for transporting supplies and grain from the waterway to Huilong Town.

Lian Qi's face was pale, and he looked blankly at the Sui warship in the distance, and at this time, the fleet steward couldn't hold back any longer, and stepped forward and said, "If we don't retreat, we won't be able to escape." ”

Lian Qi sighed and said helplessly: "Retreat!" ”

"Retreat!"

The blue flag of retreat was hoisted on the large ship at the head. A hundred cargo ships began to turn around, ready to retreat north, but before they could evacuate, another fleet of more than thirty warships appeared to the north of them, blocking their retreat.

To the west was the rocky coast, and to the east, north, and south were Sui warships, surrounding them.

Lian Qi was so anxious that he shouted: "Break out!" ”

The steward and several old boatmen advised him: "General, the back road has been cut off. There is really no way to break through, and the cargo ship can easily be sunk and shattered. ”

"Nonsense!"

Lian Qi was furious, drew his sword and pointed at everyone, "Give me a breakthrough, whoever dares to surrender, I will kill him!" ”

Although Lian Qi was anxious and angry, he was very clear-headed, and he knew that once he surrendered. The army on land was all finished, and it broke out. There may be a glimmer of hope.

No matter what everyone could do, they had to hoist the sea flag of the breakout order, but the other cargo ships hesitated, and no one was willing to lead the breakthrough.

The Lianqi cargo ship took the lead all the way and rushed to the northeast, where there was a big gap. It was two miles wide enough for them to pass, and the cargo ships behind followed suit, hoping to rush through in one go.

But they didn't expect that the two-mile-wide gap turned out to be a trap. As the lead cargo ship approached the gap, three huge warships, all over 3,000 stones, with steel heads at the nose and a black blue glow in the sunlight.

Lian Qi was so frightened that he shouted, "Flash! Get out of the way! ”

The cargo ship desperately turned to the right, but it was too late, only to hear a loud bang, the steel head hit the port side of the cargo ship fiercely, and suddenly the broken wood flew wildly, and a crack appeared in the hull of the cargo ship, and the sea water poured in.

The freighter also capsized, and sank into the sea with a series of screams, and the bottom of the freighter's fusiform floated on the sea, and in a matter of moments, the whole cargo ship sank into the sea.

The cargo ships behind all slowed down, I don't know that the cargo ship was the first to hang the white flag of surrender, and after a while, all the cargo ships were full of white flags, and the tragic image of the sinking of the first ship made everyone die of the heart of breaking through.

The warship of the Sui army led slowly approached the cargo ship, and the chief general was Zhou Meng, the general of the navy, who rushed to support the city of Humility with Zhang Xuan's order, and Zhang Xuan's order to him was to intercept the grain cargo ship.

The Sui scouts had been active on the Liaodong Peninsula for more than two months, bringing a lot of information that made Zhang Xuan very aware of the situation on the Liaodong Peninsula, and if the Goguryeo army came to storm the city of Beixu, they would definitely not have a way to carry military supplies and grass, so they could only solve this problem by ship.

Zhang Xuan deduced that there were three stops, Huilong Town was the most suitable stop, although the Bay stop in Humble City was also good, but it was guarded by the Sui army, and they couldn't go up, and the third stop could not be unloaded, and at the same time, it was too far away from Humble City to be ruled out.

Therefore, Zhang Xuan deduced that the Goguryeo fleet would definitely dock at Huilong Town, and the Sui fleet ambushed in the nearby waters, just surrounding hundreds of cargo ships.

Zhou Meng really admired the judgment of the big handsome, and he was like a god, and the Goguryeo cargo ship really wanted to dock in Huilong Town.

When he saw that the cargo ships were all flags and surrendered, he immediately ordered: "Order all the cargo ships to turn around and go to Beihai County!" ”

The first warship issued a flag on the mast, and the hundred cargo ships did not dare to disobey, so they turned around to the southwest, and under the escort of hundreds of warships, they followed the warship in the direction of Beihai County.

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A few days later, 10,000 Goguryeo troops arrived in Huilong Town, and the soldiers were exhausted, and they sat in the wilderness outside the town to rest and eat dry food, and many soldiers' dry food bags had bottomed out.

Although most of the soldiers carried ten days' worth of dry rations, a mudslide forced them to divert more than 200 miles along the way, and the high-intensity march caused them to consume a lot, and the ten days of dry food were exhausted in less than seven days.

In fact, when they found that the food consumption was greater than planned, they still had a choice, they could immediately turn back, but Han Qiming's stubborn and unwilling to admit defeat made him choose to move on.

The opportunity to choose is gone, and now he has no choice.

Han Qiming led hundreds of his men into the town, the town has been uninhabited for several years, it has long been dilapidated, the wild grass grows taller than people, several wooden buildings have also collapsed due to the perennial sun and rain, and from time to time wild foxes burst out of the grass and run quickly in front of Han Qiming.

But Han Qiming didn't have the heart to look at this abandoned town, he really felt uneasy in his heart, it stands to reason that the town is less than five miles from the sea, he should have met the soldiers who came first by boat, but no one has seen it so far, haven't they come yet?

Han Qiming finally realized that he had committed the taboo of going deep alone, it stands to reason that he should send a few cavalrymen to explore the road first, if the ship does not arrive at the appointed time, the cavalry will immediately return the same way and stop the army halfway, so that even if the army turns around and goes back, the dry food is barely enough, that is his first choice, but he did not choose to return.

Han Qiming had already realized that he had made a big mistake, he did not send cavalry to explore the way, which caused the army to face great risks, and once something happened to the grain ship, they would quickly fall into a desperate situation.

Han Qiming walked through the town and came to the seaside, his heart suddenly fell into the abyss, there was no trace of people on the seaside, and there was no trace of the fleet that should have arrived two days ago, the sky above the natural dock was empty, and there was no food, supplies, and nothing.

Everyone was stunned, and for a while, they looked at each other, not knowing what was going on?

"General, this... What's going on? A lieutenant asked in fear.

Han Qiming shook his head, "Don't ask me, I don't know, I don't know anything!" ”

At this time, several generals ran towards the dock, they turned around, and suddenly pointed to the sea and cursed, there is no food, what should they do?

It didn't take long for them to slowly recover from their shock, and almost all of them realized that they had no way out except to attack the city of despicable luxury and fight to the death.

Han Qiming seemed to have stepped into the air and fell into the abyss, he was completely in despair, and he didn't even know what he was talking about, but the generals heard it.

"Pass my order, and the army will immediately slaughter the city of lowly luxury!"

……… (To be continued.) )