Soon it was that night, after the peasant army entered the city, the four gates were closed, and 40,000 horses were arranged outside the city, and 10,000 men were stationed outside each gate to prevent the official army from attacking. It can be said that the arrangement is quite appropriate. [Full text reading. 】

The peasant army outside the city was also drinking to celebrate their success, and they drank until midnight, when it stopped.

In the peasant army camp outside the north gate, a small leader drank too much wine, staggered out of the camp gate, and found a small forest to pee. But as soon as I unbuttoned my pants, I heard the sound of water.

The little leader wondered, thinking that I hadn't started to pee yet, why was there a sound of water? Didn't you already pee your pants? Looking down, there is no indication that I have opened the floodgates to release water, what is going on?

He inadvertently raised his head and looked north, only to see a bright white line not far away, mixed with some strange sounds, moving towards here. Before he could react at first, he took a few dozen steps forward, trying to see more clearly.

At this time, the white line was less than a few hundred feet away from him, and the little leader saw clearly that the white and bright line was a surging flood.

His eyes widened, and when he looked at the water not far away, he was already like tens of thousands of galloping wild horses, swooping towards here with unstoppable power.

The little leader was so frightened that he couldn't take a step, and a pair of eyes widened as he watched the waterline rush in front of him, and the head of the water that came from a high man immediately swept him into it and threw him away.

The peasant soldiers in the camp, along with the horses, were all submerged in the water, some struggled a few times, and then disappeared, and some people hugged the trees and shouted for help in the flood, but to no avail, they had to drift down the river.

For a time, the peasant army's camp in the north city had been washed to the ground, and the flood continued to surge, and after surging to the bottom of the city, it divided into two groups and threw itself around the city wall to the east and west gates, and the peasant army camps at these two gates also suffered the same bad luck.

The entire Huainan city has become a complete ocean, with countless corpses of people and horses floating on the water, as well as flags, tents, grain, grass, clothing, and vehicles......

Only the peasant army in the south of the city was lucky, they got the news, immediately ran to the city gate, called for the city gate to be opened, and fled into the city of Huainan, avoiding the flood.

Although the people entered the city, the camp did not have time to move away, and when the flood had passed, the camp was washed away.

Of course, this flood did not come for no reason, and this plan is what makes Fan Ju so special.

After he arrived in Huainan, he had already checked the topography early in the morning, and he found that the Huai River not far from the north of the city had a huge amount of water and could be used. As early as the previous life of King Qin, the Qin army once flooded the city of Daliang and captured the Wei State.

When the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution Zuo came violently, Fan Ju had already made arrangements, he asked Li Guoqi and other generals to sit with him in the city, and let the deputy generals of these people leave with a large group of men and horses, creating the illusion that the officers and soldiers did not dare to meet the battle and fled in a hurry, in fact, most of these horses went west, went around in a big circle, and stopped on the side of the Huai River. Just waiting for Fan Ju to give an order, he dug up the Huai River and flooded Huainan City.

So after Fan Ju broke through, he immediately ordered the men and horses on the side of the Huai River to dig a hole in the Huai River and bring water over.

After all, this is not the Yellow River, just open the embankment, the river water can be poured down, the flow of the Huai River is not too urgent, if you want to divert water, you must dig a deep ditch.

Fortunately, at this time, the Huai River had just passed the ice period, the amount of water was very large, and 100,000 officers and soldiers, many people, did the work much faster, so in one day and one night, a big ditch with a width of five zhang and a depth of more than one zhang was dug. It leads directly to the edge of the Huai River.

In the middle of the night, the last of the riverbed was dug and the water finally poured in.

Since ancient times, water and fire are ruthless, when the soldiers are fighting, there are many examples of water and fire, Xu Yu offered a plan to flood Jizhou, Cao Mengde flooded Xiapi, the battle of Chibi burned the warship, Guan Yunchang flooded the Seventh Army, Lu Xun burned the company camp for 700 miles, and Zhu Yuanzhang burned Poyang Lake......

Because attacking the enemy with fire and water is the most time-saving, labor-saving and labor-saving practice, it can be said that there is no capital to buy, and the loss is very small, but the gain is very large, so from ancient times to the present, it has been valued by soldiers all the time.

This time, Fan Ju flooded Huainan, and it also received miraculous results.

At this time, Fan Ju and Ziyi generals stood upstream, looking at the ocean under their feet, their faces were very proud, Li Guoqi and other generals admired Fan Ju so much that they threw themselves to the ground, and said one after another: "My lord, this trick is comparable to the famous generals of the Three Kingdoms back then." ”

Fan Ju smiled slightly: "If it weren't for the generals who used their lives to defend Huainan for a day, how could this plan succeed?" You all have credit for winning this battle. ”

Li Guoqi said: "My lord, what should we do next?" It's a good thing that Huainan is flooded, but we can't attack the city. ”

Fan Ju said: "You don't need to attack the city, you just need to besiege the city." Hundreds of thousands of people in the fifth battalion of Gezuo, plus the people in the city, how much food do they have to eat in a day? By the time we left, we had brought out as much grain and grass as we could, and there wasn't much left in the city. Even if the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution brought more food by itself, it would not be able to support it for a few days. As long as the Huai River continues to flow for a day, the fifth battalion of the left side will not be able to leave Huainan City for a day. Trap them and trap them. ”

Everyone applauded.

At the same time, Ma Shouying stood at the head of the city with his plate in his hand, looking at the flood outside the city, and his face was almost overcast.

Ma Shouying stomped his feet again and again, and scolded: "Be careful every day, always be careful, I still fell for Fan Ju's tricks, but I didn't expect him to dig up the Huai River and flood Huainan City......"

He Yilong also said angrily: "It seems that he defended Huainan for a day, it was premeditated, if he abandoned Huainan without a fight, we may not enter the city and will not be fooled." ”

Ma Shou responded: "Exactly, if he abandons the city and flees without a fight, we will most likely send a team of men and horses into the city, and then a large team of men and horses will pursue behind, alas! Fan Ju is too cunning, he is trying to trap us here. ”

He Jindao: "There are no ships in the city, and there is not much food, hundreds of thousands of mouths have to eat, we can't support half a month, and we will run out of food." ”

Liu Xiyao said: "It doesn't matter, this is the plain, the flood comes and retreats quickly, I don't think it will take two or three days, the flood will recede, and then we will kill it again and find Fan Ju to settle accounts." ”

He Yilong sighed: "How can there be such a good thing? Fan Ju has already dug up the Huai River, flooding Huainan City, the Huai River has a large amount of water, it is entirely possible for him to block the original main stream, then the dug opening will become the main stream, and the water potential will only get bigger and bigger. ”

As he spoke, everyone looked at Ma Shouying to see what he could do. Before Ma Shouying could speak, the city shouted one after another: "The city is flooded, the city is flooded......"

It turned out that after the peasant soldiers knew that the flood was coming, they immediately blocked a lot of sandbags behind the four gates, but the water outside the city was too big, and it continued to seep in along the cracks in the city gates, and those sandbags could not be blocked at all.

Huainan City was in a hurry, and Ma Shou hurriedly commanded the soldiers to rescue food and dry firewood in case they were washed away.

After a few days of this, the peasant army in the city began to show signs of collapse. Because at this time, the walls also began to collapse.

Although the city wall of Huainan is made of green bricks, it is only an outer layer, and after the one-foot-thick green bricks are soaked through, the water begins to seep into the mud inside, and it is not visible from the outside, but the rammed earth on the inner side of the city wall is falling down one by one.

In addition to the tight city walls, there was no dry wood left in the city to light a fire, and all the houses were demolished to light fires for cooking, but they still could not last a few days. There was no dry firewood, so the people had to eat raw, and the wells in the city were also flooded, and the residents and soldiers could not drink clean water, and many of them vomited.

Outside the city, however, the water did not decrease. Fan Ju really blocked half of the main stream, increased the water potential here, and made up his mind that he would rather turn half of Anhui into a Zeguo country, and trap the fifth battalion of Gezuo in the city.

Ma Shouying and the others climbed to the top of the city and looked far away to the north, where there were countless fires, reflecting half of the sky.

He knew that it was the camp of the official army, and at this time, Fan Ju and his generals were probably drinking wine, enjoying singing and dancing, and talking about the tragic situation of the peasant army, talking and laughing.

They knew that the officers and soldiers were happy there, but they had no way, and there were enemies everywhere in front of them, but there was no way to kill them, because these enemies were water and had no life.

Now the water without life is going to take their lives.

Ma Shouying looked at the other people and sighed: "I didn't expect that our Fifth Battalion of the Left Wing had been in the world for nearly ten years, and in the end we would be buried in this Huainan City." ”

Liu Xiyao also lost his previous momentum, lowered his head and said: "In the current situation, the army has begun to run out of food, and in a few days, I am afraid that people will eat people." ”

He Yilong said: "Even if the people of the whole city are eaten, it won't last for five days." We've got to figure out a way to get out of the city. ”

He Jin said: "But there is no boat in the city, how can you kill it?" ”

He Yilong said: "It's really not possible, I can only send people with good water to swim out of the city and find reinforcements." ”

Ma Shouying sneered: "Reinforcements? The nearest rebel is King Li Chuang, who is also a thousand miles away, waiting for him to bring people to arrive, we will already starve to death. ”

He Yilong said: "Then what do you say?" ”

Ma Shouying sighed: "Now if you want to keep the fifth battalion of Gezuo, there is only one way. ”

Everyone asked in unison, "What way?" ”

Ma Shouying said: "Surrender Fan Ju." ”

Everyone looked at each other a few times, and they were all a little worried, He Jin said: "Fan Ju is not one of those Beijing officials, and the trick of fake surrender will definitely not be good for him." ”

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