After another day, the road to the Shanjiang River Basin was opened.
The army packed up their tents and set off. Ren Baqian was still thinking about how to keep Ning Caichen behind. After all, the situation in Tianjing Land still needs to be kept secret for a short time.
It turned out that Ning Caichen not only didn't leave after taking the electric baton, but he didn't seem to want to leave.
"Are you going to stay here?" Ren Baqian asked casually.
"The slave's family is like this, how can I go back home? How about letting the adults take in the slave's family?" Ning Caichen twisted his body and said in a charming way.
Not to mention, his little butt is so coquettish that Ren Baqian wants to pinch him.
"Amitabha!" Ren Baqian's face was solemn.
But with Ning Caichen like this, he really can't go back to Ning's house.
Ren Baqian felt that if his son became like this... he would have to beat him to death.
Although it is understandable as a modern person to have gender cognitive impairment, it is understandable to other people's sons, but it is absolutely incomprehensible to my own son.
Let alone in this world.
What's more, although I have some friendship with him, I don't think he will keep it secret for me. It would be best if he would take the initiative to stay.
"If there's no place to go, and I'm still short of manpower, what do you think Brother Ning will do?" Ren Baqian thought for a while, and this Ning Caichen knew a lot about Daxia, and he also had a lot of information about various places. There is still some use for such a person.
"Isn't the slave family someone who is an adult?" Ning Caichen laughed and trembled.
"Snapped!"
Ning Caichen drew an arc and flew into the distance.
The empress walked away from Ren Baqian without looking sideways, without even looking at him.
Ren Baqian grinned, feeling that the empress's whereabouts have become more and more strange recently, as if she was everywhere, with thousands of copies.
Moreover, the problem of the Empress' food protection has become more and more serious.
Even so, there is still a little sweetness in my heart, after all, I have a considerable position in the heart of the other party, so I have such a performance.
"This old man's girlish heart... has been melted by His Majesty recently!" Ren Baqian sighed while clutching his chest.
Then he was kicked over by the empress from behind.
Riding a horned bull up the hill full of rocks and looking forward, there is a farmland several miles ahead, and a river more than 100 meters wide lies in front of the farmland.
Across the river is a large plain, full of well-groomed farmland, a vibrant scene.
Under the sunshine, it looks like a beautiful pastoral scene.
And a few miles across the river, there is a not-so-big hill on which an army is in formation, with flags fluttering in the wind.
Ren Baqian knew about this army a long time ago. After all, they have been entrenched here for two days, and they still made a posture to meet them.
"They want to stop us with this little force?" Xi Wanya said contemptuously.
"Your Majesty, Flying Cavalry, please order to attack and destroy this rebel army so as to show off our military prestige." Justice asked for an order.
"Sure! Xi Wanya, you send people to attack with the flying cavalry." The empress said lightly.
"Yes!" The two went down excitedly to prepare.
As soon as Ren Baqian descended from the mountain to the plain below, hundreds of households came to report: "My lord, the water level of the Lijiang River has dropped a lot compared to the last time I passed by."
"Oh?" Ren Baqian took a look at this hundred households. They came from the south to seek refuge, so their surname should be Qiao. If it was just a drop in the water level, they probably wouldn't have reported it like this, for fear that something wrong had been discovered.
"How much has it dropped?" Ren Baqian asked.
"It has dropped by at least one meter! Some of the shallower river beaches on both banks have been exposed." The hundred households said in a deep voice.
Ren Baqian thought for a moment.
Although I don't know much about this aspect, I also know that the water level will drop by one meter within a month. There may be some problems in this situation.
It's okay if it's a small river, but the Lijiang River is at least a hundred meters wide, and the water volume of such a wide river is quite a few decimals. If you drop one meter, there will be more water with less water.
"My lord, this subordinate was also thinking about this before, guessing that it is because there is little rain these days, so the water level has dropped." Another hundred households approached with a smile, his surname was Xu, and he also came from the south.
"Oh?" Ren Baqian responded lightly, and asked the hundred households who had reported earlier: "What do you think is the reason?"
"I don't know, what Xu Baihu said is also possible, but the water level has dropped too much, so it's a bit strange." Baihu said in a low voice, "Or, my lord can send someone to go upstream to have a look!"
"That's right!" Ren Baqian nodded, and then said, "Come on!"
"My lord!" The two guards followed him, and hurriedly rode forward two steps.
"Take him down!" Ren Baqian said, pointing to the hundred household surnamed Xu not far away.
"My lord!" Xu Baihu's expression changed dramatically.
"If this subordinate says something that shouldn't be said, please forgive me!" Xu Baihu didn't dare to resist, and was captured by two guards in front of Ren Baqian, with a miserable expression on his face.
"I heard that when you go to the sea, you have to sacrifice to the god of the sea, and when you go to the river, you have to sacrifice to the god of the river. It's fine if nothing happens for a while, but if something happens, you can chop him up and sacrifice to the god of the river!" Ren Baqian said flatly.
That Xu Baihu's face suddenly changed tragically.
"My lord, this subordinate is just talking unintentionally!"
"Don't be nervous, if nothing happens, you will be fine." Ren Baqian said with a kind smile. "Unless, you think something will happen?"
When some hundreds of households around heard Ren Baqian's words, they were shocked.
"Put him down to watch, if he escapes, I will sacrifice the two of you to the river god!" Ren Baqian asked the guards to hold him down, and went to see the Empress himself.
"Your Majesty, tell Xi Duhu and Gongdu Wei not to rush, let's go to the front and have a look."
"What did you find?"
"A little conjecture! You have to see it with your own eyes." Ren Baqian said.
"Okay!" The empress knew that Ren Baqian must have discovered something, so she said such words.
After a while, they called Xi Wanya, Zongshen, and Gonggong, and they went to the river bank to check.
Ren Baqian stood by the river and looked, and immediately saw what he wanted to see.
"Your Majesty, Xiduhu, Zongfuduhu, and Gongduwei, you see, the river here used to be near here, but there are still traces, and only here, indicating that the water level here has always been stable.
At this time, the water level has reached here, a full meter less. "
"What did you find?" the empress asked directly.
Ren Baqian pointed to the two completely cut bridges on the river: "Originally there was a bridge here, and the other party cut the bridge not to prevent us from crossing the river, but to allow us to cut down trees and build boats to cross the river.
If the other party builds a dam to store water in advance, and then breaks the dyke to release water when we cross the river, when the flood rushes down, our army will naturally suffer heavy losses. Your Majesty, just send someone upriver to check it out. "
"Master Ren is right." Justice said immediately, and then smiled: "But this person underestimated my flying cavalry. Is this river still used to build boats? Just throw tree trunks into the river, and my flying cavalry can cross the river .”
"Then the flying cavalry charged into the enemy formation by itself? Now there are 700 flying cavalry, so they can't be easily damaged." Ren Baqian said. Now the number of flying cavalry has reached a very dangerous line, if it loses a part, it will be difficult to fight in the future.
"Justice, send people to investigate upstream!" the Empress said.
…
At this time, on the hill opposite to everyone, a young man watched dozens of horsemen rushing upriver in the army by the river.
These savages found out? It seems that they are a little smarter than they think! But that's all.
Everyone thought they wanted to break the dike when they crossed the river.
But in fact, according to his own plan, even the two sides of the river will be swept away.
Including the current location of the ancient clan.
Unless you return to the mountain now, it will be too late when you find the raging river!
Even if you can't annihilate your entire army, at least half of you can be lost!
Lost half of the army, no more food and supplies, let's see how you fight this battle!
The young man made a gesture while thinking, and a person next to him opened a bag at his waist, and a small bird with a finger length circled in the air and flew towards somewhere upstream.