Chapter 66: Besieged in the Heart of the Lake
After doing this for more than ten days, Shi Qi estimated that the military spirit on Fan Li's side should have become impetuous, so he felt that he had begun to plan on this day. That night, instead of beating gongs and drums as usual, the ships and soldiers of the rebel army quietly released one cargo ship after another, and let the soldiers carry sacks and sacks of things out of the city and put them into the cabins without a sound.
Moreover, when transporting, you will encounter some sacks that are not tied very tightly, and white rice will flow out of the mouth of the sack, and it will be dry until the early hours of the morning, so that the cargo ship will be full of sacks.
Then you've been thinking about it for a few days, usually the rebels start to beat gongs and drums at night, and Fan Li is of course very concerned about what they are going to do? As a result, one day these people stopped, but there was no movement and no movement, they were still acting secretly, which made these people who were in charge of sentry and lookout on Fan Li's side also felt very surprised, and then took a closer look, there was a sack of white rice flowing out of the cabin, and several boats were like such sacks, I went, this is all food!
So hurry back to report, Fan Li has heard this report: Huh? There were forty boats full of sacks, sacks of grain, so many! If you do the math, there must be seven or eight hundred thousand catties, which makes Fan Li's heart move instantly. Why? Because Fan Li's troops have been fighting here for more than a month, 20,000 soldiers on land and water have to eat tens of thousands of catties of grain a day, think about it.
For Fan Li, these grains are all raised, which is extremely precious. What's more, it is more difficult to raise food than to raise money, and if you force it, you can still get it. But as for the food, if you force me to give it to you, I will starve to death if I don't have anything to eat.
Coupled with the fact that more than a month has been spent here, there is less than a week left for food. Originally, Fan Liang was thinking that we would take a period of time to capture Jiujiang City, there must be food in the city, can't we just eat that food, isn't the supply sufficient?
But after such a long time, everyone felt uncomfortable, seeing that the food was gone, and everyone was on fire at the same time, there was no particularly good way! As a result, I suddenly heard what happened? This grain is going to be shipped out of the city!
Oh, this is a great opportunity, a godsend, I'm trying to get this food. But when I turned my head and thought about it, everyone was very afraid that this was a plan, to lure the other party deep behind enemy lines with food, to enter the encirclement, and then the other party would give you everything to retreat, and wouldn't we be dead!
This kind of strategy and this way of playing are not uncommon in history, so Fan Li is also more worried that this is Shiqi's strategy, what should I do? You have to gather your generals for a meeting and make a formal analysis to see if there is fraud here, or if this is really an opportunity.
Of course, it is not very common for people who can ensure that they are very firm when fighting, and analyze information and the situation with a peaceful heart, because Fan Li always has a problem in their hearts: the army will run out of food in a few days! Then once we run out of food, we will not be able to fight this battle.
So instead of not being able to fight in a few days, and then fighting with people hungry and being defeated, let's try it first. So in the end, Fan Li made a decision: our navy sent some people out, quickly decided, and sent the clipper out, after the clipper went out, the big boat followed behind, saying that once there was a problem, the big ship would hurry up to save it.
Everyone is holding on to such a fluke mentality, striving to snatch the food back and solve our urgent needs. As a result, two hundred and fifty mountain planks were sent out, ready to attack!
Then, Fan Li's side is ready to grab food, as the rebel army's side, this is a plan, this is a bureau they set up, that is, to attract Fan Liang to drive the boat over, and then they will block the back road for you.
So since it's a plan, you need to be orderly on the rebel side, and you can't be in too much of a hurry. Under normal circumstances, on the battlefield, when we transport food from one place to another, do we have to hurry up and act covertly, the sooner the better!
However, now the rebel army wants to lure Fan Li's side, so this rowing action is done very slowly, but slow is slow, this eyeliner cannot be lost, and the eyes must be smart.
The rebel army was rowing the boat slowly, directing the grain team to rush forward like a snail, and when I saw the boat on Fan Li's side from a distance, I knew that the other party was going to be fooled, and since I was going to take the bait, then I had to beat the side drum.
So someone on the rebel side stood in the bow of the boat, holding a canister as a megaphone and shouting: Brothers, hurry up and row, the enemy is coming to grab food!
As a result, everyone in the troops chasing after Fan Li was excited, and the other party's boat was really carrying grain, so they hurriedly rowed towards the rebel army's grain fleet.
And the rebel army's food team also increased the speed of the boat, and always maintained a certain distance from the boat chasing behind, so that the people on the boat on Fan Li's side saw that the boat full of grain was in front of me, so I had to chase forward, chasing each other one after the other, and the big ship behind me fell farther and farther away.
At this time, Fan Li's commander in charge of this grain robbery was already a little carried away by interests, and all he was thinking about now was to catch up quickly, and then take the grain, and finally everyone had food to eat at the same time, I could also make a great contribution, and the glory and wealth would come!
Because his mind was full of such beautiful things, he was not so rational when observing the military situation, and he did not notice that the speed of the rebel army's grain ships was much slower than normal, and he never noticed that his group of mountain planks followed the rebel boats to the mouth of a lake, which was the narrowest part of the lake, that is, a lake mouth that could only be entered by small boats, and could not be entered by large boats.
This is the mouth of the lake that Shi Qi found when he explored the terrain two days ago, just like that, the rebel army's grain transport fleet drove immediately, so that the mountain board fleet chased by Fan Li would not catch up, nor would it be lost, and slowly these small hillboards all sailed into the mouth of the lake, and a large group of people and horses had already been ambushed on both sides, just waiting for Fan Li's small hill to enter the mouth of the lake.
Just when all the small hillboards chased by Fan Li entered the mouth of the lake, more than N people suddenly rushed out from both banks, and then hundreds of warships appeared from the small waterways hidden on both sides, and they surrounded the hill slabs that entered the mouth of the lake at once, and the artillery, bows and arrows on the shore and the warships shot fiercely at these hills.
And when Fan Li drove these mountain boards around and found that he couldn't break out of the lake, he could only drive the mountain board towards the center of the lake, anyway, I stayed in the middle of the lake, and if you broke the cow, you would surround me with more than 200 mountain boards, and now we can't rush out of the mouth, but if you dare to come in and surround us, we may have a chance to rush out! But in any case, these more than 200 slabs are trapped here.