The big war is coming, and the sky is overcast.

Chai Rongzhi's army has always been rigorous, looking at the endless and heavily armed soldiers lined up on the other side of the river, the sons of the family are also in a mood.

This attack was launched by Chai Rong.

As before, there are five most suitable positions for attacking, but unlike the last time Chai Rong carefully selected those five positions, this time, he chose two levels and launched the whole army to prepare for the attack.

It was at this time that the sons of the family suddenly discovered that Chai Rong had gotten so many ships from nowhere, and these ships covered the sky and the sun, not to mention thousands.

At noon, with Chai Rong's order, the drums of the four fields beat loudly, and the Zhou army launched an attack on the Southern Tang army from two sections of river 50 miles apart.

When the drums of war sounded, flags flew and ships filled the sky.

Outside, "Knock Knock Knock-" in the sound of rapid and powerful snare drums, all the families gathered together again.

They were sitting or standing, looking silently at the Southern Tang Dynasty military defense map drawn by Cui Zixuan on the wall.

In such a battle, they have to think about what they can do, and what they have to do!

After the children whispered for a while, Lu Gan, the sister-in-law of the Fanyang Lu clan, turned his head to look at Cui Zixuan and asked, "Brother Zixuan, did you get anything from investigating the geography around the Huai River that day?"

The sons of the family turned their heads to look at Jiang Mi and the others.

Jiang Mi pondered for a moment, and said slowly in the expectant eyes of everyone: "If you say that you have a deep memory, there is really a place. Seventy miles up the river here, there is a tributary called the Yangshan River, which used to be a big river, but now it has dried up a lot, and it leads directly to the Bashan Lake. I heard from the locals that when there is an occasional heavy rainstorm, you can walk in a big boat in the Yangshan River. ”

Jiang Mi said this, and smiled apologetically at everyone, "I thought that this river might be of some use. But what is the use, but I still can't figure it out for a while. ”

The children nodded.

They quickly moved on to another topic, and only Lu Gan, after walking out of the tent, was still thoughtful.

After a while, he called the steward, "Go and call the third uncle." ”

After a while, an old man in his sixties came over.

Lu Yan asked, "Third Uncle, you watched the sky at night, and said that there might be heavy rain here today and tomorrow?"

The old man stroked his beard and said, "Not bad." ”

"How sure is Uncle?"

"More than sixty percent. ”

"Good!"

Watching the sky like rain and snow, although in the military book, it is a skill that generals are required to master, but this ability, in this world where the generals are not even literate, there are few people who really master it, and this old man of Fan Yang Lu can be said to be one of the best masters in this area in this era of cultural disconnection.

After Lu Yan got his third uncle's words, he thought about it for a while, and then turned to stride towards the barracks.

He stared at the map of the Southern Tang Dynasty, slowly stretched out his hand, and crossed the Bashan Lake. After a stroke, Lu Yan said in a loud voice: "Come on! Come on!"

"Lang Jun?"

"Mobilize all my Fanyang Lu clan's military horses, I want them to set off for Bashan Lake immediately!"

"Yes. ”

"Hurry up and invite Cui Zixuan and others, and say, I may have a plan, but I can bet on the will of heaven!"

"Yes!"

......

Across the river.

Looking at the endless Northern Zhou military ship, Li Jingjin's handsome and vicissitudes of life had no expression on his face.

An adjutant general hurriedly walked up behind him and said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, the Northern Zhou army has launched an attack on our Xiyudu and Dingkoudu respectively. How to deal with it, please give an order from His Highness!"

The generals of the Southern Tang Dynasty looked at Li Jingjin at the same time.

Li Jingjin lifted his chin.

He stared intently at the approaching fleet of boats on the opposite shore in his field of vision, and after a moment, he ordered in a dumb voice, "Release the boat!"

"Release the boat!"

With Li Jingjin's order, the Southern Tang Dynasty banner was happy, and the drums were beating. Not long after the drumming of Dingkoudu, where Li Jingjin was located, the drumming of Xiyudu, which was fifty miles away, was also loud.

Like the Northern Zhou army, the Southern Tang side also had a lot of ships, and at the beginning of the year, there were more than 2,000 ships sent by this Dingkou ferry alone.

Listening to the sound of drums, Zhao Kuangyi walked quickly behind Chai Rong and said, "Your Majesty, there are also two or three thousand boats in the Nantang Xiyu Crossing. ”

As soon as he said this, the faces of the generals changed color at the same time. Last time, Li Jingjin could be said to have anticipated their attack plan like a god, could it be that this matter was also expected by him? However, this time the two ferries that Chai Rong attacked were really temporarily chosen.

Just when the generals were talking and the fleets on both sides were approaching step by step.

Chai Rong suddenly thought of something, and he laughed loudly at Zhao Kuangyi: "Li Jingjin is really a rare general!"

Looking at the puzzled gaze of the generals, Chai Rong laughed again. After laughing, he shouted solemnly: "Since this is the case, then let's have a real chapter this time!"

Soon, the generals understood what Chai Rong meant.

These soldiers standing on the high lookout platform happened to see the scene of the encounter between the Zhou army and the ships of the Southern Tang Dynasty. I saw that when the fleets on both sides were only less than 500 meters apart, all of a sudden, all the Southern Tang ships stopped advancing, and then, one after another, the Southern Tang Army pushed off the ships and threw them into the water.

In the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of pieces of wood were thrown on hundreds of ships of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the number was still increasing!

Unexpectedly, the Southern Tang people had such a plan, and a general of the Zhou army shouted: "It's not good! No wonder he, Li Jingjin, can send 2,000 boats to each checkpoint, it turns out that he plans to use this trick to attack our army!"

Yes, Li Jingjin is indeed resourceful, his more than 2,000 boats are carrying some wood, in the blink of an eye, these tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of pieces of wood fell down the Huai River, and hit the ships of the Zhou army along the wind!

Just when the faces of the generals of the Zhou army were like dirt, Zhao Kuangyi found that Chai Rong, who was secretive about the plan of this campaign, was still calm.

He suddenly came to his senses and stabbed the yelling lieutenant next to him hard.

The lieutenant turned his head and understood.

Slowly, all the Zhou generals looked at Chai Rong with expectant eyes. At this moment, Chai Rong categorically ordered: "When the time comes, let's go!"

The generals were stunned, and at the same time replied: "Yes!"

On the Huai River, changes came slowly, just when the wood thrown down by the Southern Tang Dynasty Navy rolled towards the Zhou Army mixed with the surging river, suddenly, one by one the Zhou Army jumped off the boat, they abandoned their boats, held the woods, and continued to swim in the direction of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

It was only at this time that the generals of the Southern Tang Dynasty discovered that these Zhou soldiers were all wearing water supports, and there was no armor on their bodies, and judging by their proficiency in the water, they were obviously all good swimmers.

At this time, the surface of the Huaihe Lake was actually in chaos, and the wood of the Southern Tang Army hit the ships of the Zhou army one after another, and many Zhou ships sank as a result, and some ships were trapped in the wooden array. And those Zhou soldiers who jumped into the water, because they had been prepared, there were few casualties, and some were struggling to swim towards the side, but the vast majority of Zhou troops just swam in the water with driftwood, and did not have much desire to attack.

Suddenly, Li Jingjin woke up in shock, and he shouted in a deep voice: "It's not good, I've fallen for Chai Rong's trick!" He suddenly turned his head and shouted hurriedly at the generals: "Hurry, hurry, play the war drums, notify several other checkpoints, and prevent the Zhou army from attacking!"

The generals have not yet understood.

Li Jingjin reminded loudly: "Everyone, have you forgotten Chai Rong's camel army?"

A general hurriedly replied: "But Your Highness, Chai Rong's camel army is only 5,000, even if it carries people, it can only carry 10,000 people at most." ”

Li Jingjin's face sank, and he shouted angrily: "What if he used those camels to build a pontoon bridge?"

Almost as soon as Li Jingjin's words landed, he only heard the rapid sound of military drums at the Wuling ferry not far away. When the generals heard it, the sound of the snare drum was the sound of the drums for help. It represents that the naval army at Wuling Ferry is being attacked and killed by the Zhou army!

But it turned out that this time, because Li Jingjin couldn't predict which ferries Chai Rong would attack from, he divided his 50,000 sailors into five ferries, and each ferry was covered with 2,000 boats that he had secretly obtained for a while. The ship was all filled with wood. He was thinking that no matter where Chai Rong's ships attacked from, the wood on the two thousand boats at these checkpoints could make Chai Rong drink a pot!

He just never thought that Chai Rong was not ready to confront him with a naval army this time, and the naval army and ships he sent were purely used to cover up the public. His real main force, leaning on the pontoon bridge built by camels, crossed the shore unsuspectingly from the shallows beyond the five ferries, and was attacking his navy!

It's an uphill battle!

This time, no one can win more with less, and no one can rely on the advantage of the water army!

Li Jingjin blushed and burst into anger, and quickly adjusted his mentality. He picked up the military flag and waved it, and ordered sharply: "Order the Eastern Route Army to fully support Wulingdu!"

Fortunately, for the sake of safety, he divided his 100,000 troops into three routes, eastern, central and western, and placed them not far from the five ferry crossings to prepare for war, and now it was the right time to use them to support the naval army.

"It's an uphill battle. ”

Not far away, on the way towards the camel pontoon bridge, Chai Rong said in a deep voice: "I have never been accustomed to grinding with these people with water troops, if you want to fight, you will see the truth on land!"

The generals next to him all nodded secretly, knowing that Chai Rong's tactics had arranged them, and at the same time thought in their hearts: This is indeed a tough battle.

At present, it seems that the Zhou army has the upper hand for the time being, because the Zhou army relied on the surprise of attacking the enemy, and suddenly caught Li Jingjin off guard. But then again, the naval army he put in Wulingdu was only 10,000, and even if it was wiped out by the Zhou army, it would only annihilate 10,000. I am afraid that when the Zhou army attacks the next ferry again, Li Jingjin's army has already reacted, and the next thing is a frontal army encounter.