Chapter 137: Scarlet Dawn (6)
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On the wide Mosuri River, merchant ships are weaving, from time to time you can see a merchant ship with a wide body and a round belly, with a big belly full of goods down the river, and the wide sails of the merchant ships are like a piece of floating white clouds, these are all cargo ships departing from the main wharf of Zhivading upstream.
This kind of merchant ship is more than 20 meters long, more than 10 meters high, just like a belly belly round belly man, the upper deck is to drive the sampan, the lower deck is a wide four-compartment warehouse, can carry more than 10 tons of goods, this is the business alliance unified construction of the double-decker merchant ship, Satour enlightened and unified release policy, and the unique upstream advantage of the general wharf of Rivading, so that these round belly merchant ships can easily wholesale goods to the lower reaches of the Mossouri River, so the Satour merchant ships are affectionately called "coachmen on the Mossouri River" by the merchants
Since the Samori people settled in Frundi, in order to strengthen the role of the north-south hub of the Frendi region, two large freight transit terminals were added on the right bank of the Mossuri River, and the trade routes to Kyoto and Fort Lerag in the north were opened at low taxes。
"Squeak" a big-bellied merchant ship twice as big as an ordinary merchant ship, swaying and docking at the upstream pier of Frendi, like a big fat-headed fish squeezing into a calm school of fish, squeezing several small merchant ships docked nearby, squeezing and swaying.
The crew threw the heavy anchor into the river, and there was a white splash, which bubbled and sank to the bottom of the water, fixing the huge merchant ship steadily, 02
"Smack!" The sampan on the boat was lowered, and a simple fat man appeared in the bow of the boat, holding the bow handrail with a pale face, and his eyes were a little dull
"Whew! It's finally here!" The fat man let out a long breath of turbidity, trying to spit out the suffocation in his heart, but his chest was still like a fluffy thing stirring in his stomach, and bursts of sour water surged in his throat, "I didn't expect that I would be so heroic, and I would be seasick!" The fat man wiped the white foam from the corners of his mouth depressedly, and his mouth was dry and bitter
"All dismount! Hurry, hurry, get off immediately!" The loud voices of the squad leaders of each team resounded in the sky at the dock, and a group of hundreds of Samoriel soldiers came out of the pot-bellied boat, startling the merchants who were still unloading their goods on the dock, and they all guessed what was going on
"The first team will go to the dock, the second team will go down the dock, immediately notify the dock garrison, block the upper and lower docks, all ships are not allowed to dock at the dock today!" Chico Huli, the leader of the guards squadron, ordered loudly, "The third team immediately clears all the ships moored at the dock and clears the obstacles for the follow-up fleet", seeing that the guards of each squad have been assembled, Chico Huli glanced at it sharply and said categorically" Our brothers are fighting the enemy in the Dato Fortress, and every minute of your life is the life of the brothers in the Dato Fortress, and those who fail to complete the task will be executed by wartime decree!
"Yes, Captain!" the guards below replied, and soon formed into three teams and ran towards the docks
"Chicohuli!" the fat man instructed Chicohuli, who was directing the ships to clean up the docks, "I'll leave the matter here to you, the situation at Dato Fortress is urgent, and I must rush over at once! The Second Banner Regiment of Salon will soon be coming with the ship, and the cleanup here must be done quickly."
This time the raid plan of the nobles in Kyoto did catch the fat man a little off guard, although he had already received the news that the nobles might attack, but he didn't expect the scale to be so large,
The main force of the northern army was transferred to the south, plus the remaining troops in Kyoto, the main force of nearly 60,000 aristocratic private armies, like two iron pincers wrapping the relatively weak defense of the Frendi area in the middle, as long as it broke through the barrier of the northern mountains of Frendi, the main force of the private army going south could go around the back of the Omr area, form a circle with the private army in front, and attack back and forth, giving the three most elite flag regiments of Samori a fatal blow......
It is undeniable that the huge plan of the Marquis of Duicles is close to the strategic scope formulated by later generations, in this era when the lords of various places are in their own ways, it is the first time that the fat man has encountered such a big and excellent strategic thinking opponent, if it is not for the fat man is also a master who understands the strategic layout, maybe this time he will lose the bottom of the sky
The unexpected punch of the Marquis du Ikeri almost did not swell the fat man's left cheek, but it was only a swollen blow, not a death or a knockout, the fat man's good habit of taking precautions finally paid off, and the waterway transport line that he had worked hard to develop played a life-saving role at this time, and when developing the waterway transport line for commercial purposes, the fat man had already hidden the military use in it, and the two cargo stations at the Frendi Wharf could not only dock small cargo merchant ships, but also large troop carriers for the Samori army
At this time, the three main banner regiments of the fat man were still far away in the Omre area to fight against the private army, once they retreated in a hurry, not only would it cause the private army to chase and kill, even if they reached Frendi, the Dato fortress with only 3,000 people stationed in it had already been flooded by tens of thousands of private troops, and the northern barrier of Frendi was all lost
The only way was to transfer troops from the fortress of Satimour along the waterway, because of the urgency of time and the limitation of the number of ships, the 20,000 new troops trained by Zhivading quickly assembled and prepared to go north to Frundi by land, while the 2,000 elite infantry who remained at the fortress of Sathero and the 3,000 light cavalry of the corps headquarters were mixed into the second banner regiment, which boarded the ship from the pier of the fortress of Sator and went down the river.
It only took half a day to reach the Frendi Pier, which was only two hours away from the Dato fortress where Samorel guarded the choke point, and the fat man did not know that the favored Thornwa longbows, at the cost of blood, had stopped the private advance in the northern mountains for a whole morning, which bought precious time for Samor's counterattack.
The war horse galloped on the earth, the whirring wind blew past the fat man's ears, and the beautiful and vast southern plain of Frendi galloped under the horse's hooves, but the fat man was not in the mood to admire, and his eyes were anxiously staring at the mountain pass in front of him, and when he came there, it was the Dato Fortress that guarded the southern passage,
There was no billowing smoke, no loud and earth-shattering fighting, not even the drumbeat of the army assembly, and the silence of the mountain pass in front was terrible, and this abnormal phenomenon made the fat man even more anxious
"Could it be that the fortress of Dato has been lost?"
This thought made the fat man break out in a cold sweat, and he couldn't help but whip the war horse more urgently, because in a hurry, this time the fat man only brought two guards with him, and he only wore a simple chain mail on his body, and he was about to rush across the mountain pass.
"Whoosh" A white shadow shot from a tree on the side of the road to the fat man's war horse, "Not good!" The fat man anxiously pulled the war horse, but it was too late, the crotch war horse made a long neighing and rolled to the ground, throwing the fat man out, fortunately, the fat man was good, and he quickly turned over and fell to the ground in the air, and several people behind the tree were stunned.
"Dead old man, look," a beautiful voice like a yellow warbler came from the tree where the arrow was shot just now, "that stupid fat man is still not a man!
"Whatever, grab the horse first!" Vedul was happy to kill with the scout dagger and the two guards,
"Isn't it!" The fat man looked at the four unlucky people who were covered in dust and incomparably wolf, and opened his eyes in disbelief, "What is this?
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