strictlysupreme Chapter 139 Departure
Chapter 139 Departure
"The plaster only uses cloth, and then you put gold wound medicine inside, and it becomes a large Band-Aid."
Zhou Dajiang... that's fine too. Then he asked Xu Wu to send a copy to Song Zhao as well.
Zhou Dajiang thought that the matter with his wife was over, but he didn't expect that this was just the beginning for Chen Xiuying.
Then she started tinkering with the distiller. This time, however, she didn't make a ceramic one. Instead, she had Zhou Dahe make her two small barrel-sized pots with a connector on the top. "If you run out of water at sea, use these. Just connect the two pipes, add water no higher than the connection point, close the lid, and there's water in the other pot."
Zhou Dajiang thought about it and thought, "Well, this is also very practical at sea. Each ship should have several." It just so happened that he was in charge of the ship modification and could reimburse the money, so he asked Zhou Dahe to arrange for someone to make more, at least two for each ship.
Zhou Dajiang thought his wife should take a break, but he was overthinking it. Chen Xiuying started working on the water filter again.
After washing sand, pebbles, and charcoal, she abandoned the pot this time and had Carpenter Tian modify a bucket for her. A connector was installed on the side of the bucket, and the sand, charcoal, and pebbles were placed in the bucket one by one. Then, a corrugated pipe was taken out, stuffed with cotton strips, and installed on the connector. "Once we get ashore, we can use this to filter both river water and rainwater."
Zhou Dajiang, your wilderness survival index is better than mine! Okay, make a few more and have the firefighters carry them when the time comes, just in case.
Chen Xiuying didn't care about his arrangements, she still had a lot to prepare.
After she finished packing the water and first aid kit, she went to work on her luggage. The luggage shouldn't be too bulky, ideally something that could be easily rolled up. So she sewed a piece of oilcloth onto the quilt, then folded it up to make a sleeping bag. Seeing her do this, the Zhang and Li families also made sleeping bags out of their own men's luggage.
The sleeping bags were ready, so next came the food. It was a lot of food, so we brought along my sister-in-law, my brother-in-law, and the two sisters-in-law from the Tian family, along with Da Zhuang and Pang Dong's wife, to pick the lightest, driest, and most durable items. We had dried fruit, meat, instant noodles, and some compressed biscuits.
Soon she had finished all the arrangements and the day of departure had arrived.
The port in Qingshan County was in the direction of the military camp, quite far from Qingshangou. It would take two days by oxcart. So Zhou Dajiang didn't let his family see him off. Why would they send him off? They were all staying home. There were a lot of us going together. Besides, we were going to the rear, and the general had sent people to protect us. The military doctors and I were all key targets, so don't worry!
Chen Xiuying: "Pack up what I wrote to you last night and read it on board. It would be best if you could memorize it."
Zhou Dajiang: "Got it, it's ready. I'll take a look when we get on board. I'll make sure you know it by heart!"
Zhou Sisi: "Dad, you must protect yourself. If you can't beat us, just run away."
"Just take care of yourself and don't let your mother worry too much."
"Got it!"
On the other side, Zhou Dahe said: "Wife, if you have any problem, go to our mother. If you are afraid, go back to the old house."
"Zhiliao Zhiliao, don't worry about me. Once you get off the boat, follow Second Brother closely and don't fall behind. He will definitely have someone by his side. As long as you're together, you'll be safe, okay?"
"I know! You've said it several times and you've memorized it by heart."
Zhang said, "Dad, did you hear what your sister-in-law said? Stay close to your second brother. You two will be fine together."
Zhou Dahai, "Don't worry! I know what's going on."
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County Magistrate Lin specially sent three horse-drawn carriages to pick up these technical personnel. So, after Zhou Dajiang and others said goodbye to their families, they got on the front carriage. The two carriages at the back carried various things and luggage prepared by Chen Xiuying.
On the day of departure, Song Zhao gave the soldiers a pep talk, and then they boarded the ship with ample supplies. Everyone was excited once aboard, for no other reason than that Donghua had been waiting for these weapons to be manufactured for the past six months and hadn't made any official announcement. The coalition assumed Donghua was afraid, and after their initial surprise attack, they launched another. Although they were repelled, every soldier was filled with anger. Damn it, now our ship is fully renovated, and we'll definitely defeat you.
As the commanding general, Song Zhao sailed in the front on the commander-in-chief's ship, while Zhou Dajiang and his men and the military medical battalion were guarded in the middle of the fleet. After getting on the ship and settling in, Zhou Dajiang took out the note his wife had given him. It said, "The place names of Japan may be different from those of modern times, but it's best to memorize them, just in case they are the same?"
So in the next few days, everyone saw Zhou Dajiang holding a piece of paper and reciting. No one knew what he was reciting.
"Nagoya: Nakoya, Hokkaido: Hokadichi, Osaka: Ohosaka, Edo: Aito, Okinawa: Ohkanaso..."
The more I look at it, the more it looks like someone chanting sutras.
Fortunately, after a few days of sailing, the ship arrived safely at its first destination, an island near Qingyuan Prefecture. Everyone began unloading the cargo and setting up camp, and everything proceeded smoothly.
However, when night fell, a sudden storm hit the camp. The wind was howling, the rain was pouring, the tents were blown to pieces, and the food and water were seriously damaged.
Faced with this unexpected predicament, Zhou Dajiang remained calm. He led everyone in seeking shelter from the rain and, using the water filtration tool his wife had prepared, quickly purified some of the available water. Meanwhile, Song Zhao organized everyone to reorganize their food supplies, trying to conserve as much as possible.
With the calm response of the two, everyone gradually calmed down and waited for the storm to pass. This accident also made everyone more aware of Zhou Dajiang's ability and wisdom.
Everyone arrived at this destination just to wait for the supply ship and to meet up with the southern navy, because the 500,000 troops did not all set out from Qingshan County, but were drawn from the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and then a part of the navy camp was sent to Qingyuan Prefecture, and the three parties jointly formed a navy to attack Japan.
Therefore, in terms of difficulty, this was undoubtedly the largest joint naval operation in the history of the East China Kingdom. As the commander-in-chief of the entire army, Song Zhao also bore the greatest pressure.