Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

After Yang Hongyu pretended to be Yang Hongqian and boarded the ship, everyone on the ship had long lost the joy of surviving the disaster and became depressed.

Seeing that everyone was not in high spirits, Chu Mo frowned:

It is not possible to continue like this. The fleet does not know how long it will sail on the sea. If everyone loses their fighting spirit, it will not be too far away from destruction.

So, he cleared his throat and drew everyone's attention to himself:

"That Jun Xian, because I left in a hurry, I didn't have time to ask how many people our fleet brought with us on this trip, and whether the supplies on the ship are enough for us to sail for a long time."

Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, everyone's attention was attracted.

Li Junxian and Warrior Xun looked at each other, and both looked at Chu Mo with troubled expressions:

"Sir, we brought a total of 10 three-story ships, 11 two-story ships, 21 ordinary warships and 37 supply ships on this trip."

"There are a total of 17890 combatable soldiers and less than 3000 logistics and supply personnel."

"Due to the rush of this trip, we only loaded all the combat supplies onto the ship, but the supplies didn't even arrive in time to be loaded onto the ship. They were all placed in the warehouse at the dock and we set sail."

"Now we can hold on to everything else. If we save a little food, it will be enough for us to last for about ten days. However, there are some problems with fresh water. No matter how much we save, we can only last less than five days."

Originally, Chu Mo asked Li Junxian and Warrior Xun to report in front of everyone. He wanted to wait for them to finish speaking and then find an excuse to boost military morale.

But what he really didn't expect was that it would have been better not to say this, but once he said it, the morale of the people around him would drop another degree.

Seeing that the morale of everyone who had just left the sea had dropped to the lowest point, Chu Mo felt anxious.

Chu Mo hurriedly asked Li Junxian to bring him the navigation chart. Chu Mo didn't shy away from it and started reading it in front of everyone.

My current location is just past the South China Sea Island. There is nothing else around. There are many large and small islands.

He coughed and once again attracted everyone's attention.

Chu Mo pointed to an area on the chart and said:

"The problem of fresh water is easy to solve. As far as I know, there are islands around here. As long as we get close, we will be able to get supplies when the time comes."

"The only thing I'm worried about now is that the ratio of logistics personnel to combat soldiers in the fleet is out of balance. This is the most worrying thing at the moment."

Hearing Chu Mo's words, Warrior Xun hurriedly explained:

"Sir, there were originally more than these logistics personnel on the ship, but due to the rush of time, many people stayed on the shore and did not have time to get on the ship. If we can be given some more time, the situation will definitely be much better than now."

Chu Mo curled his lips, I am willing to give you time, but is that crazy woman willing?

Not seeing him leaving, the other party reluctantly boarded the boat to threaten him.

He now also wants to understand that Yang Hongyu's ultimate goal is just to drive him away. Now he is exiled by the other party in disguise.

But before he could complain, Li Junxian on the side immediately said:

"Sir, the fleet is not only under-equipped with logistics personnel, but also under-equipped with combat personnel on board. Many soldiers were abandoned by us before they even had time to board the ship."

"We now have to not only find an island to replenish the water supply, but also make a large-scale adjustment as soon as possible."

"Otherwise, the current fleet will not be able to form an effective combat force at all, and will be just a group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered."

After listening to the two people's reports, Chu Mo sighed, slapped his forehead and said:

"Any other bad news? Please tell me all."

These two pig teammates, who have been working hard to improve the morale of the soldiers, are here to contradict themselves.

If I hadn't had no one in my hands now, I would have thrown them all into the sea and used them as bait for fishing.

"Well, sir, there is one more thing that my subordinates have never dared to say before."

He could clearly feel the unhappiness in Chu Mo's heart, but Warrior Yu still gritted his teeth, looked at Chu Mo cautiously and said:

"Sir, didn't you ask us to equip some material supply ships before and wanted to transport the property obtained from the Yang family on board?"

"Well, why, is there something wrong with this too?"

Chu Mo looked at Samurai Yu in confusion.

He remembered that the goods and money had already been transported as early as when he issued the order to go to sea.

Seeing Chu Mo's unkind look, Warrior Yu lowered his head and replied with eyes closed:

"Sir, when my subordinates were doing the inventory just now, they discovered that the ships carrying the goods did not travel with us. Except for a few supply ships with some living supplies, the rest were empty ships. Only a few logistics personnel were loaded.”

"Cough cough cough..."

Chu Mo couldn't catch his breath and almost choked himself to death.

Seeing this, Chu Ruowan hurriedly stepped forward to help him pat his back.

"You...you..."

Chu Mo, who finally regained his breath, pointed at Warrior Xun and Li Junxian. His face turned red and his neck was thick with anger, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.

After calming down and calming down his excited emotions, Chu Mo also figured out that they couldn't be blamed for this.

To blame, I can only blame myself for having fallen into Yang Hongyu's scheme without knowing it.

All of this had long been planned by Yang Hongyu, and he was able to take away these ships and soldiers. It was probably Yang Hongyu's instruction. This was deliberately left to him by the other party.

Thinking of this, Chu Mo felt depressed.

He stood up, looked around at the people around him and sighed:

"Everyone must be aware of our situation now, and I won't say more."

"Li Junxian, please tell everyone our original route and purpose. Tell everyone what we were originally going to do on this trip."

Li Junxian was stunned for a moment, and then he understood what Chu Mo meant. He wanted to improve morale.

After looking around at everyone, he said:

"Your Majesty ordered us to gather before, and the apparent purpose was to use the name of trade to go all the way north, via Ryukyu, across the East China Sea, to Silla, and finally to the Japanese islands."

"According to reliable information, a silver mine worth enough to buy half of the Tang Dynasty was discovered on the Japanese island. Our real purpose this time is that silver mine."

Hearing Li Junxian's words, the expressions of everyone around him were lifted up.

Everyone looked at Chu Mo with burning eyes, hoping to get a positive answer from him.

Chu Mo did not disappoint everyone, nodded and said:

"Yes, our main purpose this time is indeed to go to the silver mine."