This was the first time that Yang Rui had faced such a predicament when it came to food supplies. Due to the fact that he had been relying on Sky City, storage rings, and other items for a long time, Yang Rui had already developed a habit and had almost never followed the normal pattern of bringing food supplies. ±
Currently, the amount of rations Yang Rui had on hand was much lower than the average player.
If he could not replenish his rations, Yang Rui would have no choice but to withdraw from the current storyline.
As such, Yang Rui first sent out two battleships with his personal orders and tokens to go down the Yellow River and head to Yan Province, which was closest to him, to gather rations.
According to Yang Rui's speculations, although the current storyline had limited the registration process, it should be allowed to send people to gather rations and troops from Qing Province and Yan Province.
Secondly, Yang Rui was also thinking of seizing the rations nearby. Naturally, the target of the rations would be the enemy faction and not the ordinary NPCs.
In this aspect, he would need to rely on luck and good channels to obtain information. In a situation where he lacked scouts, Yang Rui could only rely on the scouting ships he sent out.
After an entire morning and half of the afternoon, more than half of the scouting ships Yang Rui sent out had returned.
According to the results of the scouting ships, Yang Rui chose Xinfeng County, which was closest to him, as his first choice to deal with the rations.
After Li Jue and Guo Si's quarrel, there were some conflicts in Xinfeng County. Li Jue's troops and Guo Si's troops had a huge fight. Although the two sides did not directly attack each other, they were already like fire and water.
Under such circumstances, Guo Si's troops, who were at a disadvantage, were pushed out of Xinfeng County and were on their way to Chang 'an City. Although Li Jue's troops controlled Xinfeng City, they felt that it was inappropriate to let their opponents go to Chang' an City.
As such, they sent out about half of their forces to follow the other side to prevent Guo Si's troops from gaining an advantage in Chang 'an City.
Yang Rui's scouting ship naturally didn't know all the details. However, the scouting ship managed to grasp the situation of Guo Si's troops retreating from Xinfeng, as well as a portion of Li Gui's troops chasing after them.
Yang Rui's ship obtained the relevant information from the fishermen. Because Yang Rui had already chosen the neutral faction, the fishermen viewed Yang Rui's ship as an enemy.
The so-called neutral faction in the storyline was not completely unrelated to Li Jue and Guo Si. Instead, it was hostile to both factions. If Yang Rui were to participate in the later stages of the storyline, his current faction status should be somewhat similar to that of the neutral faction.
The fishermen that encountered Yang Rui's ship only wanted to survive, so they truthfully told the soldiers on the ship what they had seen and heard. Two times in a row, the situation was similar.
As for the other two scouting ships that reached the river near Xinfeng County, the information they brought back confirmed this information. Although they didn't know the exact situation of Xinfeng County's defenses, they did know that two groups of troops had left from the west gate.
Because they were in the opposing faction, Yang Rui's soldiers couldn't casually go ashore to investigate. The information basically came from the ships in the river or the people on the shore.
Even if there were exploratory ships that were about to reach the city along the moat, they would only be able to get a rough idea of what was going on.
By the time night gradually fell, the scouting ships that Yang Rui had sent out had all returned according to the agreement. The information they obtained was also not very specific. At this time, Yang Rui's weakness in obtaining information was also exposed when he left Sky City and other tools.
Previously, Yang Rui had considered the military specialization for scouting, but until now, there hadn't been a suitable military specialization that appeared.
Putting aside these matters that couldn't be solved for the time being, Yang Rui's top priority was to solve the problem of food supplies. When night fell, Yang Rui took over 80 ships and sailed towards Xinfeng County's Yellow River.
Two hours later, the fleet under Yang Rui's command arrived at the Yellow River ferry located to the north of Xinfeng County. He anchored all the ships, and together with Taishi Ci, Zhang Ning, Han Dai, and Ding Yao, he led forty thousand Iron Guards and close to fifty thousand Scaled Armoured Water Soldiers ashore.
Only 2000 people were left behind to guard the 80 ships so that they wouldn't be attacked by the opposing faction.
In fact, during the day, the scouting ships had already figured out the situation. Apart from a small number of small and medium-sized warships near Chang 'an City, there were only a few scattered fishing boats near Xinfeng County. There was almost no possibility of them being attacked.
The distance from the Yellow River to Xinfeng County wasn't very far. Yang Rui and the other commanders once again spent more than two hours to secretly reach a location 30 li away from Xinfeng County.
Perhaps because there weren't enough guards in Xinfeng County, or because most of their attention was focused on the west side of the city, Yang Rui's troops didn't attract the attention of the city guards when they reached Xinfeng County from the Yellow River.
However, it wasn't surprising. At this time, Li Jue and Guo Si hadn't really started fighting. Even the participation in the storyline was still in the registration and teleportation stage. It was normal for the city guards to be unalert.
"Lord Governor, the plan I mentioned before is the water gate of the moat. The scaled soldiers will be able to infiltrate the city through the water gate and secretly open a gate. Then, they will lead the army to attack the city. We will be able to take them down in one fell swoop …"
As they neared Xinfeng City, Taishi Ci pointed at the canal that led to the moat and spoke to Yang Rui.
Actually, when registering to participate in the storyline, the heavy-duty trebuchets were allowed to be used. However, transporting them was not an easy task. By the time they reached Xinfeng County from the Yellow River, the sun would have already risen!
When the troops were deployed, Taishi Ci had suggested traveling light, saying that the scaled soldiers might be able to achieve success. At that time, Yang Rui was still doubtful. Now, it seemed that Taishi Ci's plan was indeed feasible.
Of course, this was under the premise that Xinfeng City wasn't far from the Yellow River. There were canals that connected to the nearby tributaries of the Yellow River, thus creating a moat.
Almost every city's moat was connected to the inside of the city. Basically, the waste water in the city had to be drained into the moat through these connected channels before continuing to flow to the river outside.
The current Xinfeng County was like this. The moat had two canals that connected to the tributaries of the Yellow River. It could easily maintain the water level of the moat and circulate the water.
"Pu! Pu! Pu … "
Taishi Ci had selected a thousand Scaled Soldiers, and when they were about ten miles away from the moat of Xinfeng County, they went down the aqueduct and silently swam towards Xinfeng County.
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