The Wu army has lost the power to control the Yangtze River, so crossing the Yangtze River will no longer be as free as before. It is a casual matter when you want to cross and how you want to cross.

Now, crossing the river must be completed before the Wei army's warships arrive. Otherwise, if you encounter interception by the Wei army, not only will crossing the river cannot be completed, but you will also suffer considerable losses when you encounter an attack.

So when Bu Xie saw the ships prepared by Baqiuling, he was very displeased. Most of these ships were fishing boats, and each ship had a few people. These were hundreds of such fishing boats, and they could not ride many people at once. If you ferry back and forth, it would take a lot of time. God knows when the Wei army's fleet will come. Once the Wu army cannot cross the river, it will be a catastrophe.

On land, Lu Kang arranged some teams that were cut off from behind to block the Wei army's pursuit, but on the water, the Wu army really had no strength to guard against the Wei army. They could only grab the time to cross the river and strive to cross the Yangtze River before the Wei navy came.

Facing Bu Xie's ugly face, Baqiuling could only smile embarrassedly. Lu Kang gave him too hasty time, and he did his best to collect so many fishing boats. He was really powerless to find more and bigger boats.

Bu Xie also knew that it would be useless to blame Baqiu Ling now. After all, in this situation, Baqiu Ling was considered to be conscientious. If it were other prefectures and county magistrates, when they heard the Wei army attack, they either surrendered or fled. They could not find more and larger ships, which was not his fault. Therefore, although Bu Xie looked a little ugly, he did not get angry at Baqiu Ling.

After a few simple questions, Bu Xie headed straight to the ferry terminal. The army led by Lu Kang was behind him and would soon arrive in Baqiu. As the vanguard, Bu Xie naturally played the role of opening roads across mountains and building bridges across water to create conditions for the advance of the main force. If Lu Kang's army arrived in Baqiu, Bu Xie had not started crossing the river and a large number of people were crowded in the narrow Baqiu ferry, then something big would happen.

In this regard, Baqiuling did a relatively careful work. Although there were fewer ferries, they were all neatly arranged in a row, close to the shore to facilitate the Wu army to ride.

Taking the middle of the dock as the boundary, to the left are the fishing boats that have just been recruited. In order not to let these boatmen slacken off, Baqiu ordered Xu Chun to specially allocate hundreds of stones of food and grass from the treasury, and each ship gave five dou of rice, claiming that as long as the officers and soldiers cross the river, there would be rewards after the event.

The forced recruitment for no reason has aroused the indignation of the fishermen, but under the pressure of the government, these fishermen have to follow, but secretly they have their own plans. Even if they are recruited by the government, they plan to work but not work hard.

However, Xu Chun took out rice to give each fishermen five buckets, which surprised these fishermen. In the past, the government had always had countless taxes. These fishermen worked hard to fish for a day, and most of their income would be confiscated by the government, and the remaining money and grain would be very difficult to support their families.

If you cannot go into the lake to fish in some bad weather, the whole family will be hungry.

Now the government suddenly made a big turn of 180 degrees. Not only did it distribute the food, but it also promised to give some rewards later. This was simply a pie that fell from the sky.

Although five dou of rice is not much, it is enough for a family to eat for ten days and half a month. The people's income is meager, and the government gives them some small favors to make them cry.

As the magistrate of Baqiu County, Xu Chun naturally knew this truth. If he wanted these people to work hard, he had to give some favors. A hundred stones of food was nothing to the government, but it was a real benefit to the people. Only in this way can these fishermen work hard to support the boat and ensure that the Wu army brigade could cross the Yangtze River smoothly.

Although Xu Chun's understanding of the current situation is not so clear, he still heard about the heavy blow of the Wu army's fleet in Pengze Lake, so he was not surprised by the request of Lu Kang to recruit civilian ships to cross the river. It is estimated that the losses of the Wu army in Pengze Lake water battle were quite large, otherwise there would be no shortage of ferries.

That's why Xu Chun used all his skills to collect more fishing boats and distributed food to win the hearts of the people, so that the Wu army could cross the river smoothly.

Isn’t Xu Chun working so hard to curry favor with Lu Kang? If Zi died today, General Lu Kang is the real lord of Jingzhou. If he could hold Lu Kang’s thigh tightly, then he would definitely have an unlimited future.

But what Xu Chun didn't know was that it seemed too late to curry favor with Lu Kang now. Lu Kang himself was already in a state of burning fire. The situation was dangerous. No one could predict how the final situation would evolve. So Lu Kang was really unwilling to support him at this moment. Even if he promoted him to be a prefect, it would have no meaning, because the county where Baqiu belonged to would soon fall.

To the right of the dock are the Wu army's warships. These warships fled from Wuchang to Baqiu. In fact, Xu Chun was just a small county magistrate and could not command these warships at all. The reason why the warships were parked at the right side of the dock was also the result of Xu Chun's initiative to negotiate with the navy generals.

Obviously, this navy fleet also received the order from Lu Kang, so it was still very cooperative with Xu Chun's requirements.

However, most of the remaining warships in Wu State are just Mengchong ships. The Mengchong ship has a long and narrow body, and the crew and oarsmen alone occupy most of the positions, so Mengchong's carrying capacity is not as good as the fishing boats of Dongting fishermen.

Even the three remaining tower ships in Wu Jun were of course no ship can compare with them in terms of capacity, but there were already a large number of crew sailors on the tower ship, and they would occupy a lot of space on the tower ship to ensure that the tower ship could sail.

Whether it is the fishing boat on the left or the warship on the right, they are ready to cross the river. After the Wu army boards, they can set off immediately and cross the Yangtze River.

Bu Xie did not dare to delay any more and immediately ordered the vanguard troops led by him to board the ship immediately. The Wu army scattered and took different ships respectively. After each ship was full of people, the ships swayed away from the pier on the south bank and sailed towards the north bank.

The river surface was filled with ships, densely packed, like crucian carp crossing the river, filling the Yangtze River waterway.
Chapter completed!