697、The drought is coming
Dong Ying said seriously: "What's the use of having such a high combat power? Our ancestors' combat power is almost invincible in the world. Only one or two people in the world deserve to be her opponents, but she is not as comfortable as me. You should live a comfortable life first, and then consider your strength."
The girls were quite surprised when she said this. This guy looked like he was silly, but he was actually a smart guy.
"Speaking of this, although the descendants of Emperor Taizu's lineage all have all kinds of unreliable things, their brains are not completely broken. They are at least better than the scum of the Donglin Party." Yi Yun couldn't help but say.
"Yeah, feel the same!"
Everyone walked through the streets and alleys and ran back to the edge of the dock. Yi Yun's five thousand army had been waiting for a long time. Yi Yun ran to the front of the army and shouted, "The whole army is pulled up and left!"
"Yes!" Five thousand slave soldiers quickly pulled out the camp. Their movements were not as slow as Dong Ying's subordinates. As soon as they talked about pulling out the camp, they stood up and left. The speed of tents and other things was closed was just a moment.
When Yi Yun was in high school, he went to military training. One of the military training events was to fold quilts and wash and set off at the fastest speed. Later, when he formed the slave army, he also added this event, which led to his army's speed of detachment.
Dong Ying looked at Yi Yun's army's magical speed of camping, and couldn't help but scream: "Wow, your female soldiers are so powerful... they are very fast. If I have them, the speed of preparation for traveling will be increased at least several times... Stinky cousin, as compensation for you to break into my underwear room and touch my arm, you have to sell these female soldiers to me, and I will pay a thousand taels of silver each!"
"Don't sell it to you, they are my important soldiers." Yi Yun hummed.
"Don't be so stingy. You have obviously touched my hand. You should make some concessions." Dong Ying shouted.
"I will not get pregnant after touching your hand. I am not taking any advantage. I will give in." Yi Yun was unhappy.
"What? Will you get pregnant if you touch your hand?" Dong Ying suddenly covered her and took a few steps back: "It's so miserable, I don't want a child yet."
"Damn it. What I said is that you will not get pregnant if you touch your hands, not that you will get pregnant if you touch your hands. Why are you listening to people? No wonder your maids are spreading messages randomly." Yi Yun was sweating profusely, and the upper beam was not straight and the lower beam was crooked.
"Anyway, you are a stinky man. When you touch me, my hands will become stinky. I want to take a shower. Get a bath water for me."
"Go to yours. Now you want to march! Do you understand the march? When you march, you can take a shower and wash it after you finish it."
"No? I can wash while marching. Prepare a stable sand truck and put a bathtub or something in it?" Dong Ying said.
"Come on! There are no such luxurious conditions in my army. Give me a little more reliable." Yi Yun said to Zhao Yunxuan and Cai Ruo: "Two cousins help me watch this guy, oh by the way... The Emperor girl is actually your cousins, let's talk together."
He stuffed Dong Ying to Zhao Yunxuan. Cai Rou and the Emperor girl watched and stuffed the four of them into a big sand truck. Without Dong Ying clamoring next to him, his forehead finally became a little clearer.
After the entire army set off, they began to set off to the north and went from Xiangyang to Shaolin Temple. There was still a long way to go. It would not be possible to arrive in one or two days. Everyone walked out of the prosperous Xiangyang City, crossed the Han River on the Cao Gang ship, and arrived on the other side. Zhou Lanye said goodbye to everyone here. The Cao Gang people would never move too far away from the river, and she could not get involved in the matter of entering Shaanxi.
After crossing the river, I came to a small oasis city called Fancheng, which was across the river from Xiangyang City. Although this oasis city is small, it is built very prosperous. The buildings in the center of the city were obviously funded by the imperial court and were built neatly and uniformly. There was a giant statue in the center of the city. It was made about five times the ratio of the real person.
The statue is a one-armed woman wearing armor that is about the Han Dynasty style. She is a one-armed woman with her only hand waving a huge hammer, and it seems that she is fighting with a bloody battle with people.
Yi Yun was quite curious and couldn't help but run to the carriage where Dong Ying was and asked, "What's going on with this statue?"
Dong Ying replied solemnly: "This is a great hero of the founding country of Dameng Kingdom. The statue of the general. In order to cover his friends' team to cross the river, this general brought only a small number of troops to the palace. He was eventually destroyed by the enemy and died bravely... Because her hometown is Beihai, it is also called the glory of Beihai!"
"So that's it." Yi Yun saluted the statue.
After leaving the city, he stepped into the desert with one foot. The mild oasis climate disappeared and began a long journey of yellow sand. The sandstorm was swept wildly, and the yellow sand was everywhere. The army walked hard in the desert for a day or two and saw a small oasis appearing in front.
Dong Ying introduced: "This is Xinye Green State."
"Wow, Xinye?" Yi Yun had a little impression of this name. The place where Zhuge Liang burned Xinye in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" should be considered a famous city.
The army came towards Xinye, intending to rest here for a while, but unexpectedly, when he walked to the oasis, Yi Yun was shocked. He saw that Xinye Oasis looked very dilapidated. The trees here hung their heads weakly, looking malnourished. The fields in the oasis were also abandoned and there was no crop planting. The people in the oasis looked at Yi Yun and his party with their unscrupulous eyes, obviously they had no good feelings.
"What's going on?" Yi Yun couldn't help but be surprised.
"I don't know, I haven't left Xiangyang City for a long time." Dong Ying spread her hands: "In the past, there were green crops everywhere. I don't know why it looks a bit like a wasteland now."
Yiyun sent soldiers to call a farmer over and asked in a nice voice: "What's wrong with you here?"
The farmer sighed: "Ah... a big drought! The crops cannot be planted."
"Shrimp? A severe drought?" Yi Yun was a little confused: "The whole world has a desert climate, so what else can there be no drought?"
The farmer said bitterly: "The desert doesn't matter. Every oasis has its own spring. It relies on the water gushing out of the spring to irrigate and grow crops. However, in recent years, the water gushing out of the spring has become less and less, and the water level of the small lake in the center of the oasis has been decreasing year by year..."
"Oh? There is something like this?" Yi Yun was really shocked this time. He quickly ran towards the middle of Xinye Oasis and soon arrived at the center of Xinye Oasis. There was indeed a small lake here, but rather than a small lake, it was just a small pool... Many residents lined up to fetch water by the pool.
Yi Yun understood at a glance that there was a problem with the water supply mechanism in this oasis. Now the water provided to the residents is only enough to drink, and there is no way to plant crops: "It turns out that this is a drought, and the situation is indeed very serious."
The farmer smiled wryly and said, "It's not just our oasis. There are many oasis in the south of the river, the west of the mountains, and the west of Shaanxi. There are droughts and no crops to plant. I heard that the Li Zicheng peasant uprising in northern Shaanxi was also caused by the fact that he could not grow crops and could not survive."
After hearing this, Yi Yun quickly recalled the history he had learned. If the time in Dameng Kingdom is similar to that in the Ming Dynasty, then at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he did suffer a very serious drought. What is that? Little Ice Age... It took more than ten consecutive droughts, but the peasant uprising overthrew the Ming Dynasty.
This is a very serious situation! Very serious!
He was wandering around, thinking about another thing in history, Li Chengyu suddenly walked up and whispered: "Prince, the situation is not good... Look at how much water is in that small pool? It is already at its limit to supply local residents to drink. If we, five thousand soldiers, go to get water..."
When she said this, Yi Yun suddenly gasped: "Damn... something is wrong. This small pool is not enough. If our army goes to fetch water, it will dry the oasis in an instant. Although the spring will slowly soak out, I don't know how long it will take to accumulate another pool of water."
"Well! It seems that I can't replenish water today. The soldiers' water bags are not much water left, so I'm afraid I won't last for a few days." Li Chengyu's brows frowned deeply.
The situation is very serious!
Yi Yun pulled a farmer over and asked, "Apart from Xiangyang, there are no large oasis nearby, which is the kind that doesn't worry about water!"
The farmer thought for a while and pointed northward, "Nanyang Oasis, it is a very large oasis, and there is a Baihe River next to it. The Baihe River is not a Liusha River, but an ordinary Qingshui River. As long as you can walk to Nanyang, you will not have to worry about water."
"How far is Nanyang from here?" Yi Yun asked.
"Not too far, one hundred miles."
"One hundred miles? I'll do it!" Yi Yun almost jumped up. His army's marching speed was about sixty miles a day, or thirty kilometers a day. If you walk at this speed, it will take at least one and a half days to get from here to Nanyang. Considering that it will take two days to spend the night in the middle, can the soldiers' water bags that have been flattened have been able to survive?
If you can't hold on, you have to hold on!
Yi Yun waved his hand and said to Li Chengyu: "You send orders to let the soldiers save water, tell them that it will take two days to find the water source, and don't waste your water bag."
"Okay!" Li Chengyu turned around and sent an order.
Yi Yun also walked to the big sand truck where the girls were riding, and told them softly that they would save water in the past two days and could not wash their faces and brush their teeth.
Chapter completed!