They are all cavalry, but how many landlubbers know how many of them know water? There are very few people who have ever been on a boat. For the turbulent Yellow River, I am very afraid in my heart. Some people are secretly complaining in their hearts at this time, why didn't they come a few months earlier? Taking advantage of the fact that the Yellow River is frozen, it will pass directly, so why bother like now?

It's hard to take a boat, but the question is, what if the boat capsizes in the middle of the river? To be drowned here is a terrible wrong.

But no matter how scared you are, you have to get on the boat, and Liu Ruozai can hold it at the critical moment, and he is the first to get on the boat and cross the river.

For the rest, I can't say anything anymore - no matter how expensive you are, how expensive are you, and how expensive is Lord Liu?

Everyone crossed the river in turn, and as a delay, Dong Ce and his team were the last to pass. Many people were shaken on the boat, lying on the side of the boat and vomiting with meat and vegetables, and their feet were soft after they got on the opposite shore. Dong Ce was fine, a little dizzy, but not so much that he wanted to vomit. When I got off the boat, I was just a little vague.

When stepping on the land on the other side, Dong Ce looked up at the lofty Fugu City, felt the solidity under his feet, and exhaled a deep breath of turbidity.

As a result, I finally entered Shaanxi!

Embarked on this land that was war-torn at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

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Crossing the river had a great impact on the soldiers, but if it was just a human being, it would be better, and it would be able to support it. But the problem is that many war horses have also suffered some adverse reactions, perhaps because of physical reasons, or frightened. It was the team that recuperated in Fugu City for three days before starting again.

When you enter the territory of Shaanxi, you can immediately feel the difference.

In Dong Ce's eyes, compared to Shaanxi, one is more desolate here, and the second is: the whole of Shaanxi seems to have become a world full of fortresses.

There are a large number of military forts, and almost every village is a civilian fort. There are also civil forts in Datong Town, but they are generally mostly like goods, and the precautions are not very strict, but here it is different. Not only is the wall tall and strong, but there are people patrolling the wall all the time, and there are almost no people moving outside the village. They were also very vigilant, although Liu Ruozai and his party knew at a glance that they were officials and soldiers, but after the villages along the way saw them, they immediately closed their gates.

However, Dong Ce came along the way and found that the combat effectiveness of Shaanxi's army was just like that, not much stronger than that in Shanxi. In fact, not only the two provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi, but also the entire Ming Dynasty were like this, the military households were eroded, and the combat effectiveness of the recruited soldiers was also extremely poor.

Besides, the location of Dong Ce and others now is Yansui Town, when Hong Chengchou was the governor of Yansui, he really trained a strong army, but it is a pity that the current strong army in the current Ming Dynasty is following Hong Chengchou in Henan, and I don't know if he has returned to Shaanxi.

On March 18, he arrived at the sacred tree of the Quno River, and then went upstream along the Quno River, and arrived at Yulinwei.

According to the original plan, it was to enter Yulinwei from Yan'an Mansion, and then go west along the military forts south of the side wall. The reason why it was planned at the beginning was because it was considered that there were a lot of soldiers in the military fort after all, and it was always safer to rely on it. And it traverses the northern part of Shaanxi, which is also relatively close.

But after entering Yulinwei from Yan'an Mansion, Liu Ruozai found that this was not the case at all.

First, the soldiers of Yulin Wei are not enough to rely on at all. The financial situation on the three sides of Shaanxi seems to be worse than that of Datong Town, or the officials have embezzled too much, anyway, along the way, what they have seen is so-called, and it feels that their life is more bitter than that of the military households in Datong Town. Correspondingly, their combat effectiveness is only much worse than those in Datong Town, and they really expect to be rescued by them in case of danger? It's a good thing not to add to the chaos!

The second is that it's too difficult to walk.

This is a factor that Liu Ruozai ignored, he had never been to northern Shaanxi before, and he was not familiar with the situation here, he really never expected that the road here would be like this. In stark contrast to the vast plains of the Datong Basin of the Northern Shanxi Province, this is the Loess Plateau, and due to the erosion of flowing water for thousands of years, there are extremely deep ravines and valleys everywhere, and the roads are basically distributed in these valleys.

The road is not easy to walk, and it adds a lot of distance to the detour, and more importantly, the safety issue. In the valley where the road is located, there are many ravines leading to both sides, and if there are hundreds of people hidden inside, they will not be visible from the outside, and it will be miserable to be caught off guard by then.

Standing on a high ground outside Fort Berlin, Liu Ruozai looked at the thousands of ravines in front of him, and his brows were deeply twisted.

They spent the night outside Fort Berlin yesterday, and since they entered the ground of Shaanxi, except for the few days in Fugu, where they lived in the city, the rest of the days have basically been spent outside the city. After all, it is not his own territory, Liu Ruozai's rank of Northern Hebei Military Reserve Officer does not have much deterrent effect on these generals who belong to Yansui Town, and the Governor of Xuanda or the Governor of Datong can't control this side. And Liu Ruozai was inconvenient to publicize his errand, so he had to nest outside the city every night, but fortunately, the city would send some food and drinking water, but he was not thirsty and hungry.

If Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, hadn't fought everywhere, he would have done everything much easier with an official letter, but now even if Hong Chengchou knew about it, I am afraid that he would not have time to deal with it.

Dong Ce stood aside, also sighing.

He was quite dissatisfied with himself at this time - Liu Ruozai didn't know the terrain of northern Shaanxi, so why did he ignore it? In later life, I have learned this more than once, and I have taken the train to northern Shaanxi many times in my previous life, and I have seen it with my own eyes. How do you forget about this when you make a plan?

He smiled bitterly, bowed his waist and pleaded: "My lord, it is my subordinates who are not thoughtful. ”

"It's not your fault."

Liu Ruozai waved his hand and said: "You have been staying in Datong Town, and you have never been to Yansui Town, so naturally you don't know the situation here." ”

After pondering for a long time, Liu Ruozai suddenly turned around, pointed to the south, and gave an order very decisively: "Go south, all the way out of Yan'an Mansion and into Xi'an Mansion." ”

Although Liu Ruozai didn't say it in detail, Dong Ce immediately understood what he meant, Liu Ruozai's meaning was to enter Xi'an Mansion, enter the vast and smooth Guanzhong Plain with a developed road network, and then go west. This is the best way at present, if you still insist on going west in Yansui Town, even if you don't encounter any danger, I'm afraid that you will have to walk for a month or two just by a short distance!

However, if you enter the Guanzhong Plain, the possibility of encountering the rogue is too great.

Dong Ce thought for a while and said: "My lord, why don't we go south along Luoshui, take Ganquan, pass through Yanzhou, and enter Xi'an Mansion, but we don't have to go too far south, when we reach Baishui and Chengcheng, even if we enter Guanzhong, the road will be much easier, and we can stop." ”

The Luoshui in Dong Ce's mouth is not the Luoshui in Cao Zijian's mouth, which is located in Henan, and the Luoshui in Dong Ce's mouth is a big river that runs through the entire Yan'an Prefecture from north to south, but the common thing is that it is all injected into the Yellow River.

Liu Ruozai glanced at Dong Ce in surprise, raised his eyebrows, and beckoned: "Take the map." ”

The coachman hurriedly took out a wooden box from the carriage, opened it carefully, took out a scroll from it, and handed it to Liu Ruozai. Liu Ruozai unfolded the map and looked at it, then glanced at Dong Ce again, and asked, "How many times have you looked at this map, and you have memorized it all?" ”

Dong Ce hurriedly said humbly: "The subordinates are just a fluke. ”

Liu Ruozai doesn't believe in any luck, but Dong Ce doesn't take the opportunity to brag about himself, this attitude makes him very satisfied, he doesn't say it, but in his heart he is much more satisfied with Dong Ce.

He stared at the map for a while, and according to Dong Ce, after reaching the northern edge of the Guanzhong Plain, it was no longer difficult to get down, but immediately went west, which was also safe.

Dong Ce looked at the map, and said next to him: "Take Baishui from Chengcheng, pass Pucheng, and go all the way west to Qianzhou, and then you can turn to the northwest." However, Qianzhou is not far from Xi'an, so you have to be careful when the time comes. ”

Liu Ruozai nodded and said, "Just go!" "The large army turned south and went south along Luoshui, because they were marching on the bank of the river, and they were not afraid of getting lost, and the road was much easier. On March 29, I finally arrived in Chengcheng County.

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