The Three Kingdoms Voyage

Chapter 162 Sail Far Away Astronautics Gao Emperor Far Away

Just when the defenders were panicking, Chen Hai and Shuai Zeng rushed to Sun Shao's back, and the fierce soldiers behind rushed to the top of the city in a steady stream, and stood firmly. They formed a small attack formation, leaning on their bodies With the powerful protective ability of the heavy armor, you don't need to focus on defense, just let go of your hands and feet to attack, constantly expand the position, squeeze out the defenders, and cover the companions behind to climb the city. After a short time, they set up a five-step radius around the top of the city. formation.

Under the city, Zhao Xiu commanded his subordinates, and relying on the cover of the baggage truck, he tried his best to shoot arrows at the top of the city in order to relieve Sun Shao's pressure.At the same time, they were ready to enter the city. Once Sun Shao opened the city gate, they could rush in.

Li Jing was stunned by Sun Shao's ferocious attack. He didn't expect Sun Shao to rush to the top of the wall so quickly. Not only did the more than 800 people he prepared fail to stop Sun Shao, but they were beaten back by Sun Shao, almost In just one round, Sun Shao had gained a firm foothold at the top of the city, and expanded his advantage like a broken bamboo.Facing the forest of spears and halberds, the fierce soldiers rushing up to the top of the city behind him, one by one like tigers rushing into the flock, with overwhelming momentum, they rushed towards the defenders unstoppably, brandishing the sharp weapons in their hands, killing wantonly.

"Stop them——" Li Jingwu held the long sword in his hand, commanded his subordinates to surround them vigorously, and took advantage of the large number of people to squeeze forward, trying to squeeze Sun Shao and the others out of the city.The guard crossbow at the corner of the city roared from time to time, shooting and killing the soldiers climbing the city one by one, but the soldiers behind were not afraid, stepped on the corpses of their companions to climb up, and quickly joined the fighting team at the top of the city.The power of the city defense crossbow is great, but the shortcoming of slow speed is also fully exposed. It only takes two or three arrows to shoot, and half of the [-] soldiers who climbed the city have rushed up.

Zhao Xiu saw that the city guard crossbow was shooting at his robe, and his eyes were red with anger. He ordered more than a dozen strong archers to rush to the corner of the city, aiming at the direction of the city guard crossbow at the risk of being shot through by the city guard crossbow Carrying out mass shooting, the crossbowmen defending the city were in a state of embarrassment. While winding up the bow, they had to guard against the arrows from below the city. The already slow speed was greatly reduced.

Sun Shao heard Li Jing's voice, and he shouted: "Chen Hai, Ding Feng, cover me!"

Chen Hai and Ding Feng arrived at the sound, brandishing their long knives to stop Sun Shao. Sun Shao threw away a severed long knife, bit the other in his mouth, stretched out his hand and pulled out a bowstring from his waist, and looked at it. Li Jing in the distance changed the string swiftly with his hands and feet, and then pulled out a bronze 鍭鍭蝱 arrow from the quiver behind him.Most of the arrows in the Han Dynasty used iron arrowheads. Because triangular arrowheads were not suitable for forging, flat arrowheads were usually used. Although the sharpness increased, the killing effect was greatly reduced. On the contrary, it was not as good as triangular arrowheads. Arrowheads, and three-edged arrowheads are usually made of expensive copper.

The bronze 鍭睱 arrow used by Sun Shao is called the Sheep’s Head Bronze 鍭靱睱 arrow. It is much shorter than ordinary arrows, but the iron collar is much longer, so the arrow is heavier and suitable for strong bows. , and using Sun Shao's three-stone bow would be perfect.

Sun Shao's archery skills are very good. Usually he shoots people only with a slight glance, but this time, he held his breath very cautiously, his eyes fixed on Li Jing, and the noisy fighting sound in front of him In an instant, they all went away from him, and the swaying figures slowly disappeared into nothingness. Only Li Jing, who was running and shouting in the distance, became more and more clear, and his movements also slowed down, as if he was slowing down the camera.

"Middle!" Sun Shao, who was united with the bow, let go of his fingers, and the bowstring suddenly loosened. The copper-pig flying arrow left the string with an afterimage, and the bowstring did not make a "buzz" until it flew halfway.

Li Jing, who was instructing his subordinates to intercept and kill, suddenly felt heart palpitations. He subconsciously swallowed back the shouts that he had not yet uttered, and turned his gaze to Sun Shao who was fighting. Yes, when did he retreat into the formation?Also, why is he biting the knife in his mouth, but holding the bow in his hand?
Li Jing didn't want to understand, but the county lieutenant beside him saw it, he rushed towards Li Jing with all his strength, and at the same time raised the shield in his hand, trying to protect Li Jing.His actions could not be described as unpleasant, and his judgment could not be described as incorrect, but unfortunately, it was too late.

The speed of the copper-pig flying scorpion arrow is much faster than ordinary arrows. Just as the county captain took a step, the flying scorpion arrow had already flown silently, and an arrow hit Li Jing's throat. Blood spurted out along the wound torn open by the triangular arrow, and sprayed the guards behind him head and face.

Li Jing tightly held the trembling arrow feathers, and made a "cuckoo" sound in his throat, but he didn't say a word. He took two steps forward, and suddenly felt his legs go limp, and fell to his knees with a plop On the ground, all the strength in his body disappeared quickly, his head slowly lowered, the three-edged arrow protruding from the back of his neck pointed directly at the sky, and the blood arrow sprayed into the air.

Li Jing's sudden death in battle dealt the heaviest blow to the defenders whose morale had been hit hard. After a short shock, the rest of the defenders immediately collapsed. Kneeling and surrendering with their weapons, the few defenders who resisted were quickly slaughtered under the attack of Sun Shao and others.

Chen Hai rushed down the city wall with his people, opened the city gate, and Zhao Xiu led his people to rush in.

Xijuan City announced that it had changed hands less than a quarter of an hour after the attack started.

Although Cui Qian and Su Chugui were far away and couldn't see each other's expressions, their expressions were exactly the same as if they had made an appointment.Cui Qian and Cui Wu looked at each other in blank dismay, Su Chuke and Wei Ping were relatively speechless, their mouths were opened wide enough to almost stuff their own fists.

Has Sun Shao breached Xijuan City?

Until Sun Shao sat in Rinan Taishou's mansion and called them over, they still hadn't recovered from the shock, which made them look very calm when they stood in front of Sun Shao.

"I won't be hungry anymore." Sun Shao casually threw a roll of pamphlets in front of them: "All the taxes of Rinan County this year are in the warehouse, a total of 32 shi, enough for us to go back to the South China Sea, right?"

Cui Qian came to his senses at this moment. He lifted up his battle skirt, knelt down in front of Sun Shao, and said, "The general is brave, I admire you."

Su Chugui was ashamed, and he also knelt down on the ground, saying that he was a capital offence.What he admired Sun Shao before was only his scheming, but he never really took Sun Shao's bravery into his heart.In his mind, only a fierce man like Guan Yu can be called brave, capable of beheading generals and capturing the flag, and taking the head of a general in an army of ten thousand horses. Although Sun Shao is considered brave, he is just an ordinary warrior. Fighting, may not be able to do anything.But today he gave in. Although there were only 2000 people in Xijuan City, and he and Cui Qian restrained more than half of their strength, Sun Shao broke through Xijuan City at lightning speed with only 300 people. It shocked him very much.

Even if Guan Yu is here, it is probably nothing more than that.

"Get up, today's battle is nothing more than a small trial, not worth mentioning." Sun Shao waved his hands and smiled disapprovingly: "Immediately send someone to notify Yu Changshi to receive the army rations."

"Here." Cui Qian replied loudly, got up and went out to deliver the order.

"Brother Su, please get up." Sun Shao stepped forward to support Su's thick leg, and patted him on the shoulder: "If you hadn't attracted a part of Li Jing's troops, I'm afraid there will be some delay. I'm sorry for your trouble this time."

"Su Yu doesn't dare to take credit for it." Su Chukugao said seriously: "This kind of battle should have been fought by Su Yu and others, but today it is really Su Yu's crime to let the general himself take the blame."

"Hahaha..." Sun Shao laughed loudly: "Jun Su is wrong, today there is a target but no stone. Although Li Jing has prepared some rolling stones at the top of the city, most of them are useless."

"That's because the general's attack was too sharp, and Li Jing didn't have time to react at all." Su thick legs said with a smile all over his face.

"It's a fluke." Sun Shao waved his hands modestly.

Yu Fan was shocked when he heard the news, and immediately rushed to Xijuan with the cargo ship.When he strode into the prefect's mansion, Sun Shao was shirtless checking the documents, and saw him coming in.Sun Shao immediately showed a smile. He raised the document in his hand and before he could speak, he saw that Yu Fan was so angry that his eyes seemed to burst into flames. He couldn't help but froze for a moment: "What's wrong, sir?"

"The general is so brave, he really has the tradition of rebelling against the general." Yu Fan gritted his teeth and sneered, "Three hundred warriors attacked Xijuan City, and they will surely become famous all over the world in the future. You really are a good man."

Sun Shao touched his nose, glanced at the freshly bandaged wound on his body, and smiled awkwardly.He is not stupid, of course he knows that Yu Fan's words are not sincere compliments, nor does he really care about him.Yu Fan cared about him, probably mostly because of the hope of the Kuaiji family in him.He hurriedly ordered someone to serve tea to Yu Fan, and then politely greeted Yu Fan to take his seat, and patiently explained: "Sir, as you know, we don't have enough food for the return journey, and if we just return like this, then we will be in a hurry to return to the country." Wasn't this trip in vain? So I didn't have time to discuss it with my husband, so I decided to take advantage of Li Jing's lack of preparation to storm Xijuan City. The husband also saw that Xijuan City is only one foot and five feet high, and the guards can't match Jiangdong. Compared with our city, we should still have a chance."

Yu Fan drank his tea angrily, his heart was still beating wildly.For a long time, although Sun Shao was a little frivolous in his eyes, he was still a relatively cautious person on the whole, which was very different from Sun Ce's negligence back then.But no one thought that Sun Shao would either not play, or play a big one if he wanted to play. He actually left Cui Qian and Su Chuleg with four 5000 people and only picked 300 people to storm Xijuan City. What's even more outrageous is , He didn't even prepare the battle tools for the siege, so he just attacked like that.Although Sun Shao's adventure has succeeded now, and his reasons are indeed reasonable, Yu Fan still feels terrified. If you are hit by a stone, you will either die or be injured even if you are wearing heavy armor.If Sun Shao makes a mistake, this seemingly powerful navy will collapse in a blink of an eye. Besides Sun Shao, who else can subdue the two big pirates Su Chuleg and Cui Qian?

"General, this kind of thing will never happen again." Yu Fan got angry, and seeing that Sun Shao had been with him in a good temper, he felt a little embarrassed, and finally said earnestly: "Such things as charging into the battle, Just hand it over to ordinary people like Chen Hai and Ding Feng. Even Cui Qian and Su Yu can be the same. The status of generals is noble, and you can never do such things again. You must know that you are a general in the army, yes The soul of an army is not a man who fights bravely and wins."

Sun Shao nodded again and again, and then sent the warehouse account books that had just been cleared to Yu Fan's hands.Yu Fan picked it up and flipped through it, and then turned his anger into joy: "I didn't expect such a remote Rinan County to be so rich?"

That's right, even Sun Shao didn't expect Rinan County to be so rich at first.

There were originally five counties in Rinan County. In addition to the county government Xijuan, there were Xianglin, Bijing, Zhuwu, and Lurong. Xianglin has now established itself as Linyi State. There are only four counties left in Rinan County, a total of 340 950 Erhu, with 32 people, is supposed to be equivalent to one county in Wu County. However, after checking the warehouses, he found that the warehouses in Rinan County were only stronger than those in Wu County. There were 2000 stone grains in the warehouse. It is the land tax just received this year, which is slightly stronger than Wu County. Besides food, the amount of money is beyond Sun Shao's imagination. There are more than [-] million yuan, [-]% more than Wu County, Sun Shao At first, Shao thought it was Li Jingqiao who set up a name and extorted money. He wanted to do something gratifying, but later he called the relevant personnel to ask, and he realized that although the money was a lot, most of it came from legitimate sources.The reason why the money far exceeded Sun Shao's expectations was because of Nichinan's special geographical location-most of the money was business taxes.

Rinan County is the first stop from the barbarian merchants to Jiaozhou, so the barbarian merchants who pass by from then on have to pay taxes according to the size of the ship and the value of the goods. This is an important source of income for Rinan County. On the other hand, Xijuan is still Rinan County The east starting point of the trading channel with Funan Kingdom is only fifty or sixty miles westward along the Donghe River in the south of Xijuan City. After crossing a canyon about ten miles away, you can cross the Changshan Mountain and enter the territory of Funan Kingdom.This is a commercial road that has been in use for hundreds of years. It is said that along this commercial road, you can go westward, pass through hundreds of small countries, large and small, and reach the sea.If Funan and its vassals want to obtain goods from outside, they must either travel east to west along this trade route, or go west along this trade route. When possible, they will choose to go east to west for many reasons. Simple, here you can not only trade with barbarian merchants, but also with a large number of Han merchants. Compared with barbarian goods, all kinds of goods from big Han are not only practical, but also relatively cheap, and are easier to be bought by kings of all sizes. accept.

In this way, this trade route brought a lot of money to Xijuan.Although the population of Ri Nan County is small, Li Jing is not the kind of corrupt official who scrapes land. It can even be said that apart from the crime of colluding with Lin Yiguo, he has no other bad deeds.

So what is the concept of an annual income of more than 2000 million?A figure can be used to illustrate. When the Han Kingdom was in Huanling, the population was about 6000 million people, and the annual treasury income was about 80 billion yuan. That is to say, although Nichinan only accounted for less than [-]% of the country It has a population of [-]%, but it has [-]% of the national treasury income, which is much higher than the average level. It should be noted that Rinan County is located in a remote area with a large area and few people. It is far from the densely populated Central Plains state like Yanji Yuqing. .

This is called Shan Gao Emperor Yuan. Who would have thought that Nichinan, which is far away from the farthest point of the Han Dynasty, would have such an attractive financial income?

"It's a pity that Li Jing is such a talented person." Yu Fan sighed, and then asked, "How is the general going to arrange it?"

Sun Shao hesitated for a moment: "Jiaozhou is pacified this time, Lord Bufu has already controlled the six counties. Normally, I should also get some benefits. Rinan is a good place. However, Cui Qian killed the Prince Chu of Linyi Kingdom. , the district company of Linyi Kingdom will probably not bow their heads easily. Linyi is not a big place and its strength is limited. I am not very worried, but Linyi is said to be a vassal state of Funan. There are hundreds of vassal states in Funan. Will the Funan Congress raise troops? Harassing the frontier? Nichinan has a long and narrow terrain, and it is not easy to defend with only this little force in our hands."

Yu Fan stroked his beard and nodded: "The general is right to be worried. We are not familiar with the terrain here. If we stay, we will probably bear a lot of pressure in the short term. This is not only the pressure brought by Linyi and Funan , and the pressure brought by Buzhi and Zhizun. The general has already asked for Zhu Ya, will they hand over Rinan to the general?"

Sun Shao nodded, but he was a bit reluctant. Nichinan seemed remote, but the annual income of two thousand gold and the grain of 30 shi were still very attractive to him.What's more, he still has an ambition, that is, he hopes to drive straight along this commercial road, going west all the way to the Indian Ocean.In his vague impression, the location of Funan Kingdom is roughly equivalent to the area around Thailand in the future. If he can occupy this area, not only will he have a foothold, but he will not need to go westward through the Straits of Malacca, saving a lot of time. of a journey.

But Yu Fan's worry may not be unreasonable, not to mention that they are not familiar with Funan's situation now, the terrain conditions in Nichinan are also very different from the Jiangdong they are familiar with, even Bu Zhi and Sun Quan may not let him be so stable That's got Nichinan.Buzhi has now taken over Hepu, Jiaozhi, and Jiuzhen. The commercial tax revenue of these counties will not be worse than that of Nichinan. Buzhi should be able to easily guess Nichinan's actual income. Swallow a piece of fat in your mouth?

This is a good place, but right now my strength is not enough to occupy this place, so I have to endure for a while, and when I am stronger, I will come to seize this place again, and now I should give Bu Zhi another trick.

"Well, let's report the situation here to Lord Bufu." Sun Shao quickly made a decision, "Mr. Yu, hurry up and take away the grain in the warehouse. If we don't have enough ships, we will Go to requisition merchant ships. If the master's prediction is correct, then Jiangdong will soon fight the Central Plains, and the food will be of great use."

Yu Fan smiled and said nothing, Sun Shao's words were half true, half false, and the last few words were even more hypocritical.He didn't believe that Sun Shao would be so kind to hand over the 30 shi of rice to Sun Quan. He would most likely want to keep it for himself in case of emergency.But it is enough for everyone to know these words, there is no need to point them out.Yu Fan was also very disappointed with Sun Quan, otherwise he would not have agreed to let his two sons work under Sun Shao.

"General, since the business tax is so considerable, why not attract more businessmen to go directly to Zhuya in the future." Yu rolled his eyes and said calmly: "With such a business tax, Zhuya will be able to pay in a very short time. It will become a new big city.”

"That makes sense." Sun Shao nodded again and again, "Leave this matter to the master. In addition, please see how to write to Mr. Bufu. We have done so many things, and we should ask for some rewards." Ah, or the soldiers under him should be dissatisfied again."

Yu Fan understood, and laughed repeatedly: "It's well deserved, this matter is on me."

(End of this chapter)