Chapter 305: The Ode to the Yellow River (Part 2)
Chapter 305: Yellow River Fu (Part 4)
"What, Xu Da, where is Xu Da?" Zhu Chongjiu immediately jumped up from his seat, grabbed Li Mubai's neck tightly with his hands, "Tell me quickly, where is that person, how could he know about Xu Da."
"Uh, uh, uh" Li Mubai was so slammed that he couldn't breathe. His white face turned purple and black in a blink of an eye, "Big, big, big, big, big, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky."
"Huh!" Zhu Chongjiu pushed hard and threw Li Mubai on the ground like a dead body. "You, call him in for me. If the news is true, let alone a few positions, even if he wants a ship, the general manager can agree to him."
"Yes, yes, sir, sir, go now, go now." Li Mubai agreed loudly, rolling and crawling towards the door. At that moment, he already thought he was going to be strangled to death. At this moment, he suddenly escaped from the heavens. How dare he not escape from the dangerous place earlier? In a blink of an eye, he disappeared outside the gate and didn't even care about picking up the official hat that fell on the ground.
"You guy." Zhu Chongjiu cursed disdainfully, walked slowly back to the Shuai desk, and supported his hands on his face to prevent himself from falling.
In recent days, he sent ships to search everywhere, searching from Xuzhou to Suiyang City. Many red scarves were rescued by the flood, but no one was found belonging to the Third Army of Huai'an. Xu Da and the five thousand war soldiers led by him evaporated, and disappeared without a trace in this world out of thin air.
Not only Xu Da, but also the people he was going to pick up, Sesame Li and Zhao Junyong, still no one to live or dead. The rescued Red Turban soldiers just cried and said that Chahan Timur and Li Siqi were crazy and actually sent people to blow up the Yellow River embankment in the middle of the night, saying how fast the water came, so that everyone could not even get out of time to withdraw to the high place, so they could only run away. When asked about Sesame Li and Zhao Junyong, they said that when the water came, they were surrounded by cavalry and retreated eastward. As for where they finally retreated, no one saw it. When asked about Xu Da's whereabouts, their eyes were straight. Obviously, they didn't know that Xu Da had rushed to Suiyang.
After several days of succession, Zhu Chongjiu had an unknown premonition in his heart, and felt that he might be destined to be out of reach with this peerless general. Unexpectedly, today he suddenly changed his mind and someone wanted to exchange the qualification for the ship with the news of Xu Da, which made him not ecstatic.
Based on his understanding of Xu Da, this man would never abandon his brothers and run away alone before the disaster. Therefore, after finding Xu Da, the 5,000 combat soldiers of the Third Army would have a chance to retrieve a small part of them and be able to bring these soldiers back to Huaian. This man-made flood would not have a heavy blow to the morale of the Huaian army. With Xu Da, Hu Dahai, Lu Lu Zeng and others, he would have a chance to block Tutuo's 300,000 army west of the Huai River. In time, as long as he dealt with it properly, he might not be able to return today's hatred and profit.
Just as he was thinking happily, Li Mubai's coquettish voice came from outside the door, "Master, Master, Master, I have brought you, and I will always wait for your summons."
"Please come in." Zhu Chongjiu quickly rubbed his face twice, changed into a calm look, and gave a loud command.
"Yes, General Xie will see you." Li Mubai slapped another flattery, slanted his body, and slowly rubbed into the room. "This is my general manager. If you have any news, tell him truthfully. If you dare to lie, you will not only be you, but also one of your family will not be able to live."
"The grass-roots Feng Guoyong paid a visit to the chief executive." The visitor was not as charitable as Li Mubai. He calmly sorted out his clothes and knelt down to salute.
"Forget it." Zhu Chongjiu waved his hand and signaled that the person coming was not polite. "I, Huai'an Army, don't promote the kneeling ceremony. How could you know about Xu Da's news? Where has he been now?"
"You report to the chief executive, Caomin actually doesn't know where General Xu Da is." The visitor stood up straight and then responded loudly.
"What." Before Zhu Chongjiu could react, Li Mubai screamed and pounced on him, stretched out his long nails, and grabbed Feng Guo's face with his eyes, "You, you don't know why you lied to me, you, you have killed me. The surname Feng, I won't let you go even if I am a ghost."
"Stop." Zhu Chongjiu was ashamed and angry, and shouted loudly, "Hong San, please invite Prefect Li out for me."
"Yes." Xu Hong stepped forward three times, picked up Li Mubai's belt, and dragged it out like a chicken.
Li Mubai was so scared that he opened his throat and continued to shout loudly, "Master, Master, Master, please spare your life, villain, villain is really not intentionally teasing you, villain, villain, villain is also fooled by him."
"Don't worry, you are the person under General Zhao, and Zhu has no right to deal with you." Zhu Chongjiu glanced at him helplessly and explained loudly, "Go outside and continue to help. After all, you are also a prefect, don't be looked down upon."
"Oh, ah." Li Mubai's soul immediately returned to his body, agreed repeatedly, and was pushed out of the door by Xu Hongsan, shook his head at his back. Zhu Chongjiu turned his gaze back and landed on Feng Guoyong again, and his voice slowly became cold, "Since you don't know about Xu Da, why do you tease me? Do you think this manager will not kill people?"
"Don't dare." The guy who claimed to be Feng Guoyong was very brave. He bowed his hand gently and responded with a smile, "Although Caomin didn't know about Xu Da, he knew who he left Xuzhou with in the end. That person was the most familiar with the terrain in this area. With him there, it should be no problem to find General Xu Da to take refuge."
"Yeah." Zhu Chongjiu frowned, and the clouds on his face slowly dissipated. Although the smoke from Xuzhou to Suiyang is now thousands of miles away, there will definitely be some areas with relatively high altitudes that have not been swallowed up by floods. If someone around Xu Da is familiar with the surrounding landforms, the chance of escape can undoubtedly increase several times out of thin air, and it is possible to take the entire team to a safe area before the water head arrives.
Thinking of this, Zhu Chongjiu quickly came out from the back of the case and respectfully saluted the visitor, "Mr. Feng, don't blame me. Zhu was anxious just now, so he took a slow response. If he could tell Xu Da who the person familiar with the terrain was, Zhu would be grateful."
"Mr. Zhu, you are polite." Feng Guoyong turned his body sideways, avoided Zhu Chongjiu's front, and then bowed back. "More than 100,000 robes were killed in the torrent. General Zhu was not anxious, so it was unreasonable. It was the one who led the way for General Xu. He was originally a personal soldier leader under General Guo's account. General Guo wanted to make friends with General Xu, so after hearing that the Huai'an army arrived in Xuzhou, he sent his brother back to lead the way for General Xu. Unexpectedly, General Xu and his brother had just left for two days, the flood rushed into Xuzhou City."
"Your brother, then you?" Zhu Chongjiu was stunned again, looking at Feng Guoyong up and down with some suspicion. This man was very brave. After entering the door, he behaved calmly. Obviously, he was not a mediocre person. In addition, there was a younger brother who was highly valued under Guo Zixing's tent. How could he not have been pulled into anyone's shogunate yet?
"Caomin is a scholar and does not know any martial arts skills, so he didn't dare to come out to play for General Manager Guo." Feng Guoyong reacted very smartly and immediately guessed what Zhu Chongjiu was suspicious. He smiled and explained loudly, "Caomin came to Xuzhou by chance. He was originally invited by a few friends to travel to the north together. Who would have expected that Tuotuo blocked the ferry and trapped us all here."
"Yeah." Zhu Chongjiu nodded with a smile. Feng Guoyong may not be all the truth. Nowadays, there are chaos and a few scholars who are powerless to go to the north to travel together. They simply think that they have a long life. But now they are not concerned about Feng Guoyong and others' real intentions to go to the north. As long as he can help him find Xu Da, even if they are scholars who want to assist Tuotuo, the Huai'an army will respectfully send them onto the boat and will never make any difficulties.
"My brother has been restless since he was a child and likes to make friends with heroes from all over the country and five mountains." Feng Guoyong was frank and added loudly without waiting for Zhu Chongjiu to continue asking questions. "So before joining General Guo, he had moved all over Xu Su's area. With him by his side, even if General Xu could not retreat in the entire army, it would not be difficult to find a place to hide from the flood with his confidants."
"Oh." Zhu Chongjiu was overjoyed and quickly bowed down and saluted Feng Guo again. "As the truth is true, as the teacher said, I will be the benefactor of my entire Huaiyang General Office. My benefactor is above and I will be worshipped by Mr. Zhu."
"I dare not, I dare not." Feng Guoyong once again opened his body and refused to accept Zhu Chongjiu's courtesy. "The chief manager is so arrogant. It is not that he is convinced that his younger brother can share the worries of General Xu. The chief manager must not be polite. At this moment, the key is to find a way to bring them all back."
"Please give Zhu a clear way. Zhu can arrange a big ship for him. Who will take on the boat and where to sail, Zhu will never ask." Zhu Chongjiu took action again and made a solemn promise.
The reason why the personnel he sent in recent days could not be found in Xu Da was that the area of the disaster was too large. On the other hand, the maps in everyone's hands were too rough and could not reflect the details between Suiyang and Xuzhou, so he didn't know where to start.
If Feng Guoyong could point out a specific direction for everyone to find, the next work would be much easier. At least, everyone would no longer have to drive around the water without any clues, like looking for a needle in a haystack.
"Caomin does not dare to ask for the ship of the Grand Chief Executive. Caomin only wants the Grand Chief Executive to have two things. If the Grand Chief Executive can agree, Caomin is willing to board the ship in person to guide the way for the brothers." Feng Guoyong smiled and responded very frankly.
"Sir, please tell me that as long as Zhu can, he will respond to his requests." At this time, Zhu Chongjiu would not hesitate to twenty things, and immediately agreed loudly.
"First, make a few seats immediately, send my companions to Suining, and then find a way to send them to Yangzhou and get out of the dangerous place." Feng Guoyong was not polite, and stretched out two fingers in turn and said one after another, "Second, if you can recover General Xu Da by chance, please ask the chief general to take his younger brother under the tent. He is both civil and military, and the grass-roots people can't bear to stay with General Guo, and it will be a waste of his life."
Chapter completed!