Sure enough, failure is the mother of success, and it is common in ancient and modern times.

Gao Yue asked Li Yu to continue.

Li Yu said: "Before, we came from Gepi, and Cai Thief also broke through Hongchipi in the east of Runan, causing the water to spread for dozens of miles, so I had to make a detour to the south of the city. The reason why the water of the West Lake can irrigate and flood Lizizhou this time is because the terrain of Runan City is high, and the cofferdams of lakes everywhere are five to six zhang higher than Rushui and Lianshui. That's why we can't build a weir and flood Runan City, but then we can take Runan the other way! ”

"The other way around?" Gao Yue pondered for a while, then his eyes lit up, and he even said wonderful, "If the city was surrounded by rivers before, it was all blocked and the embankment was broken, and the city walls were won by water; What does Fu Zhi mean today, is it that our army will break the cofferdam of Runan Lake, turn the lake water in the opposite direction, and condescendingly decide to Rushui? ”

"Ji Gong is wise, if the lake water is discharged into the Rushui, the lake will reach the bottom, and the barrier of deep water will no longer exist, and our army will carry reeds, grass and firewood bundles on it, and if you are walking on the ground, you will be able to directly attack the Hanging Gourd City." Li Xian added excitedly.

"Good, good." At this time, Gao Yue felt that the whole game of chess came alive.

Zhou Ziping, who was silent on the side, also offered advice at this time: "Since the lakes are high, let's wait for the arrival of the flyships of Jingnan Yishen and Wang Yi, and rely on the giant ships to seize the fences outside Cai Thief City, and then calmly break the embankment and discharge the water." ”

Gao Yue immediately decided: "From now on, the officers and soldiers of all lines are required to draw out one-third of the soldiers and soldiers to cut grass and chop firewood within a radius of 50 miles along Runan City. ”

"Under the festival, where is the breakthrough in the siege?" The three of them asked for instructions together.

Gao Yue pointed to the map and said: "The east and southeast of the city, that is, Hongchipi and West Lake Lizizhou, have all been flooded by Cai thieves, but our army can't get close to the city wall, so Cai thieves can't kill them from here, so these two places don't need to be blocked by soldiers and horses." Fu Zhi, you go back quickly, and inform Xu Si and Supu's 2,000 elite soldiers that they are the main force of the siege of the city, and they will be transferred to the Duanji River in the west and northwest of the city. ”

In this way, the two thousand soldiers and horses of Xu Si and Supu have been mobile forces since they attacked Yingzhou, and the result is that the ghost makes the gods poor, and when it comes to fighting Runan, it is still a sharp blade in Gao Yue's sleeve.

Then Gao Yue asked Li Xian to go back, continued to lead thousands of Huainan town soldiers, and besieged Nanhu and Chaitan with Yan Zhen's Wuchang army.

As for Zhou Ziping, Gao Yue temporarily appointed him as a "grass mower", and his task was to urge the officials and soldiers on all sides to cut wood and cut grass in an all-round way. ”

In the next few days, Wu Shaoyang couldn't hold it back, and he repeatedly climbed the Zicheng watchtower and watched:

Officers and soldiers everywhere are roaming the mountains and fields, cutting grass, cutting wood, and demolishing houses.

Then he tied the straw into bundles, and the wood into bundles, and put up the wooden beams of the house in the same way, and laid them in rows before the barracks, and when the sun came out, they were baked, and when the rain came, they were covered with felt cloth, and they were very diligent.

"What does Gao Yue want, don't you want to use these to fill the lake around the city?" Wu Shaoyang asked.

The generals around them all burst into laughter.

It wasn't until the five huge flyships of the Jingnan Army crossed the Wengang Gate and began to appear on the Rushui River in the south of the city that Wu Shaoyang felt a trace of pressure.

The flywheel is a car ship, which is generally known as the warship used by Yang Mi during the uprising in Dongting Lake during the Southern Song Dynasty. Of course, the earliest flyships of Cao Wanggao were two-wheeled, and the size of the ships was relatively small, but they were highly praised at the time: this kind of ship did not use sails and rocking oars, had good stability and seaworthiness, and reduced manpower. So Cao Wanggao made persistent efforts to come up with a four-wheeled boat, which was four feet long and two feet long, one foot three feet wide, and there was a pair of wheels on each side of the ship, which entered the water one foot, and was stepped on by people, marching like flying, and made many meritorious contributions to Huaixi's combat effectiveness in the past.

After Cao Wang Gaoxu, the successor Jingnan Jiedu made Fan Ze also focus on the improvement of the flyship, and his goal was to "faster, bigger and stronger", and entrusted it to Yi Shen and Wang Ye, who had rich practical experience.

Now Yi Shen and Wang Ye drove five flying ships, each of which is 12 zhang long, 4 zhang high, the bottom of the ship is 3 zhang wide, and there are five large wheels with rotating shafts on each side, and their decks are set up with three floors, carrying 300 people, and there are beating poles on the left and right sides of the front end, hanging boulders, breaking the waves.

Soon, the five flyships were moving around the Ru water, directly within the line of sight of the Runan horse wall and the embankment.

Cai soldiers ran like ants on the horses and at the barracks, catapulting ballistas, firing rockets, and even throwing rope hooks to deal with the flywheels.

However, the planks on the sides of the flyship and outside the building were seven inches thick, and ordinary arrows could not reach them, and the ballistas were lost one after another because of their lightning speed, and the rope hooks were cut off by iron axes as soon as they were thrown into the ship......

"What, what is this Jingnan ship going to do? Send someone to swim through the water, tie the wheel with twine, and they're finished! Wu Shaoyang, who was watching the battle in Zicheng, ran and jumped, commanding hard.

But at this time, the flying steamer had already followed the Rushui, crossed the embankment in the north of the city, and went directly to the west of the city......

On the Tianshan Mountain, Gao Yue stared at these large ships, nervously not saying a word, lest they run aground or encounter other accidents.

You must know that this spring water is born, Yi Shen and Wang Yi didn't even carefully probe the hydrological situation around Runan, and they came in recklessly!

"This woman's dog, whether she is in Beijing or in Huaixi, how can she remember to hang up with her master? Now that I am sending a letter, I must be asked to be a servant who is leaving, and to deliver a message to the forbidden house. At this moment, in the women's crown garden of Chang'an Fuxingfang, the peach blossoms have bloomed brilliantly, Princess Lingxu is drawing Taishan Langjun under the tree, several petals of flowers are stuck to her bun, and she said hatefully to the maidservant who came to report the news.

On the same day, Princess Lingxu, who entered the palace, told the emperor: The Xuanwu military officer came here, secretly took Wu Shaocheng's head, and was ready to ask the imperial court to end the crusade against Caizhou.

Previously, the emperor was accompanied by Wei Zhiyi, a scholar of Hanlin and Pei Yanling, who judged the degree of Zhizhi, to have a pastime at the water pavilion of Penglai Pavilion, and listened to the report of the national economy.

Liu Taizhen, the secretary and supervisor, Shi Muzan, the servant, and Liang Su, a scholar of Jixian Academy, were outside the Guangshun Gate, saying that they had something to play.

"If it's a matter of Huaixi, go and tell them on my behalf, if there are casualties in the army, I will recruit and replenish them, and if there are incompetent generals, I will punish and replace them - but if you want me and Caizhou to stop fighting, let them retreat as soon as possible." The Emperor said directly.

Then he said to Wei Zhiyi: "I will wait for the fifth Shouyi to come back and bring back the good news of Gao Lang, presumably Runan City is also crumbling and precarious, since the fall of the Cai thief is imminent, how can I give up halfway?" ”

At this time, Pei Yanling's face suddenly became sad, and he said to the emperor with anger: "Chen Yanling has heard rumors, and it is all suspicion and slander against Gao Gao Lang. ”

Lucky Sura said

How can a large group of people say anything about returning to the historical line?

What does this have to do with the historical line, go and see how Li Yu defeated Caizhou in history, Li Yu himself was already the envoy of Tang Deng Suijiedu, the commander of the Western Front, and replaced Gao Xiayu who had been defeated before, he entered Caizhou on a snowy night at the end of October in winter, and attacked Zhang Chaizha from Wufang County (then called Suiping), and then went to the north of Runan City to capture the city. This is not the same thing as Gaoyue surrounding Runan City on all sides, breaking the water (read this chapter carefully, it is the reverse decision, draining the lake outside the city, not breaking the embankment to irrigate the city) to attack the city is not the same thing at all, now you let Li Yu surprise attack is impossible, Li Yu's surprise attack environment is that the main force of Huaixi was all in Huiqu at that time and confronted Li Guangyan and Wu Chongyin of the imperial court, and the city was empty, okay。。。。。。

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