At this moment, in front of the crossing crowd is a very rough sketch of the waterway and topographic map of Fuluzhou.

"Everyone." This time, it was not Young Master Lan who was talking, but Shen Hanlin. As the only commander in the navy with practical experience, he naturally took over the task of formulating a combat plan for suppressing bandits on the water. There are many harbors and shoals in the area of Fuluzhou, and slightly larger ships will completely lose their ability to maneuver in them. Therefore, the question before us is how to send enough troops ashore in a short period of time, and how to maximize our superiority in firepower. ”

"Most people in this plane have no concept of modern firepower theory, and they do not have a direct understanding of the power of artillery. Thanks to our Huang Dashao, the only group of our enemies who have seen the power of artillery has all been sunk to the bottom of the river to feed Wang Ba! ”

When he said this, Captain Shen --- now that he had officially taken over the command of a gunboat, the title had become "Captain", ---and he didn't forget to glance at the young master Huang Huan who was sitting on the side playfully.

Young Master Huang's child's temper suddenly came up: "Hey, I said Lao Shen, what do you mean?" You still have to blame me for doing things too neatly that day, and I didn't leave a single job?! “

"Okay, okay, stop arguing! Today, we're here to discuss the battle plan, not bragging! Before Lan Wang could open his mouth to maintain order, Director Li had already taken the lead in cooling down the scene--- Li Changting was really afraid of the navy's two living treasures, one big and one small, other people's families are the navy and the army call each other red deer, the crossing of the plane is good, the navy has only two commanders, and they have to call each other red deer internally!

Shen Hanlin also cleared his throat: "Then I'll continue." ”

"According to the information we have obtained in advance from the fishermen and the former sailors of the Huang Jiashui Yong Middle School, the lair of the Fuluzhou bandits is built on the only solid flat ground in the middle of the sandbar. The hard ground is surrounded by wetlands, shoals, swamps, mud pools, and large expanses of reeds. If a large ship with a deeper draft wants to enter and exit Fuluzhou, there is only one available passage, and this is it. “

Shen Mengze pointed to a small winding waterway on the map from the river outside Fuluzhou to the inland of Fuluzhou.

"This small river is naturally formed after the river washes away the sandbar, and it is called Heron-necked Bang. This waterway is more than three meters deep, so it is the only place that can accommodate the troop transport ships of the former Yangguan Town Water Division. It is precisely because of this that the Fuluzhou bandits have the tightest defense here, not only setting up a lot of breastworks and fortifications in the reeds on both sides of the bank to cover the crossbowmen, but also burying a lot of sharp wooden stakes and sinking a lot of abandoned ships underwater. If there is no one who knows the details of the bandits when passing through here, the big ship that comes in to suppress the bandits will run aground 100 percent. After that, the people on the ship will naturally become live targets for the bandit crossbowmen! “

The civil director, who was not good at military affairs, frowned at this time: "Old Shen, according to what you say, there is only one import and exit of this bandit's nest, and this import and exit has been blocked by the bandits themselves?" This is not in line with common sense, a large group of bandits in Fuluzhou want to go out to rob the nest, it is impossible to get out of this extremely difficult to pass heron neck, right? Besides, the cunning rabbit still has three caves, is there really no other exit for this Fuluzhou bandit's nest? “

"You let me finish first!" Shen Hanlin spread his hands, "Of course, there is more than this one entrance and exit in this place, but the key problem is that we can't use the remaining entrances and exits at all!" “

"What do you mean by that?"

"Except for this heron-necked river, there is only one passage that can lead from the outer river to the inside of Fuluzhou on the surface--- you look at this tidal flat."

Shen Hanlin also pointed to an open area in the opposite direction of the heron's neck that is marked in the legend without reeds: "This is the old road of the Old Stork River, which used to have water flowing through, but then the runoff decreased and the river was silted, and this place became a complete swamp and mudflat, and even the reeds were very scarce. In detail, if you go inside from the outskirts of Fuluzhou, it will be the closest way to pass through this mudflat, and sailors with better eyesight can even vaguely see the bandits' 'Juyi Hall' in the center of Fuluzhou when they stand outside! “

"However, this place is a muddy pond at all, with an average depth of only one and a half meters, and the silt underneath must be three meters thick, to say the least! Even if you are particularly good at water, if you want to swim from here to Fuluzhou, you will be stuck in the mud and unable to move! If you want to get in, you have to use a very small boat that can only carry two or three people, and paddle in little by little with a single oar. “

"If you want to send troops in from here, it's basically a fantasy!"

"So what about the bandits' defenses here?" Young Master Lan, who had been silent, finally opened his mouth.

"This place is arguably the weakest point of the bandits' defenses. The Fuluzhou bandits knew that it was basically impossible for people to enter this place, and the shooting range was also very good, so the defensive forces deployed here were mainly based on guard posts, and there were not too many troops. ”

Lan Wang pondered for a while: "As the saying goes, there is no fortress in the world that cannot be attacked, and if there is, it is only because the attackers did not discover its hidden weaknesses...... Xiao Huang, how deep is the draft of the artillery raft we just built recently? “

"Boss, if you only load two guns, plus the weight of the crew and the weight of the ammunition, the draft is one meter when you are fully loaded. Our rafts are very wide and were originally designed to shoot near shore in shallow waters! Huang Huan's eyes lit up--- he probably guessed the general idea of Lan Wang's battle plan.

"Good. Then our breakthrough is this mudflat! Young Master Lan slammed the three chess pieces representing the artillery raft on the map where the old stork river was located, "These XX people in Fuluzhou definitely can't imagine that we won't send soldiers in here, but cannonballs into it!" Our artillery rafts have a shallow draft, so we can drop anchor close enough to the shore, and then the cannons will blow the damn blow! “

"The swamp is a few hundred meters wide at the top, and the steam paddle steamer barges we have just built can easily push the artillery rafts to the designated positions. The operation could be carried out at night without moonlight, so that even the black smoke from the steam engine would not be detected by the opponent. At that time, we can send the artillery platform and barge to the predetermined starting point of the attack before dark, and when it gets dark, we can light the navigation lights at a specific position on the river bank, and the barge only needs to push the artillery raft a few hundred meters in the direction of the navigation lights at low speed, and the six guns will reach the firing position. When the time comes, hehehehe...... “

Young Master Lan began to laugh evilly again.

"Six 32-pounder guns just need to rain ammunition into the nearby bandits' lair! Explosive and incendiary bombs first, then shotguns; After the fire is lit in the bandit camp, our gunboats gathered at the entrance of the heron neck can take the fire as the target and use the mortar and karon guns to aim at the location where the flame was ignited and shoot, so that we don't have to worry about not being able to indicate the target to the artillery in the dark! “