The next day, Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo's two teams set out one after another, heading towards the east, and cavalry continued to come and go between the teams, exchanging news with each other.

Although Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo belonged to the same lineup, they had concerns about each other, and neither of them refused to march with the other.

Along the way, from time to time, there were sentinels flying horses, reporting the news of the fleet, when the army marched to the canal only more than 20 miles, it was nearly dusk, Gao Jie ordered the army to stop, and at the same time, Liu Liangzuo's army also stopped a few miles away.

It can't go any further, any further will attract the attention of the fleet.

Taking out a rudimentary map, Gao Jie observed it carefully, and moved his finger to the lake next to the canal, this lake is called Shao Bo Lake, with a radius of 100 miles, and like Hongze Lake, it is formed by the water of the Yellow River, and is only connected to the canal at the mouth of the lake.

At the speed of the fleet, it should have crossed Lake Shaobo and camped more than ten miles ahead. With such a large fleet, the ships are connected first, and there is a risk of collision and capsizing when sailing in a relatively narrow river at night, so the ships will anchor at night.

Now that we have determined the location of the fleet to anchor at night, it is easy to do it next, launch an attack at dawn, block the river in front of and behind the fleet with sunken ships, trap the entire fleet in the canal, and then use rockets to send fireboats to launch a fire attack, and then block the two banks and wait for the emperor and a group of officers and soldiers on board to go ashore!

After making up his mind in his heart, Gao Jie rode towards Liu Liangzuo's army, since it was a joint operation of the two armies, he had to communicate clearly with Liu Liangzuo.

"Here we are." Looking at Gao Jie, who was striding over, Liu Liangzuo nodded and threw the wine jug in his hand.

Liu soldiers were sitting or lying on the roadside in groups, and some men were hurriedly lighting fires and cooking, which was twenty miles away from the canal, but they were not afraid of being discovered by the fleet in the river.

"General Liu, I'm here to discuss with you about attacking the fleet." Gao Jie grabbed the wine jug and didn't drink it, but Zhengsedao.

"Okay, you're the commander, you just say how you want to fight." Liu Liangzuo ordered his men to go farther away and invited Gao Jie to sit down and talk.

"The idea is good, but I have to add that if we want to attack the fleet in the canal, at least we must have our own ships, so this night will not be easy for both of our armies." Liu Liangzuo grinned, unlike Gao Jie, who was mostly a member of the northern army, most of Liu Liangzuo's subordinates were soldiers from the Lianghuai area, and they were more familiar with rivers and water than Gao Jie.

The canal on this side is much wider than the northern canal, and it is not so easy to burn the other side's fleet.

"Please also ask Mr. Liu for advice." The stakes are very high, and Gao Jie's attitude is very humble, which makes Liu Liangzuo very satisfied.

"Have you seen it, not far from the north is Shao Bo Lake, there are more than ten fishing villages on the shore of Shao Bo Lake, each village has dozens of hundreds of fishing boats, we attacked the fishing village at night, collected all the fishermen and fishing boats, and then quietly went south along the lake, and at dawn, the fishing boats carrying soldiers suddenly launched an attack on the fleet, according to what you said, first block the river with sunken ships, and then launch a fire attack, and then take advantage of the chaos of the fleet to attack the boats, and will definitely be able to occupy all the ships and kill Chongzhen."

"Well, but we can't kill people this time, it's better to go into the fishing village and not kill anyone, you can use the fishermen's families as a threat to force them to drive boats to help attack, after all, most of my brothers are not very familiar with water." Gao Jie said.

"I know the weight." Liu Liangzuo nodded, "But this time the escort of Chongzhen in the fleet is Pingnanbo Chen Yue, I heard Liu Zeqing say, this Chen Yue is very powerful, let's not attack on both sides of the strait, or concentrate forces to attack from one side, and send a small number of troops on the other side of the canal to attack the enemy army crossing the river." ”

"Okay, just do as you say!" Gao Jie nodded.

The two chatted for a while, agreed on the details of the operation, and Gao Jie took his leave and returned to his team.

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The so-called south boat and north horse, here already belongs to the south, rivers and lakes are dense, especially in the west of this canal, the Yellow River seizes the Huai into the sea, but also caused a large number of lakes and swamps, the people here almost every family have boats, to farm and fish for a living.

The sky gradually darkened, and the many villages on the west bank of Shao Bo Lake gradually became quiet, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, which was the habit of the farmers of the Ming Dynasty.

However, at the last moment, groups of officers and soldiers rushed into various fishing villages. There were so many soldiers that the villagers had no way to resist and could only wait sadly for a miserable fate.

However, this time the officers and soldiers were not as cruel as the legend said, but all the women, children, old and weak were taken into custody, and all the men were gathered together.

The leader of the general told them that as long as they were willing to use their own ships to help transport the officers and soldiers, the officers and soldiers would not kill anyone, and they would give them a reward of silver afterwards.

The villagers did not dare to hope for the reward, they only hoped that the official would be true to his word, and only hoped that his wife and children would be spared from being slaughtered, so they did not dare to disobey the orders of the officers and soldiers.

In the night, fishing boats carrying officers and soldiers rowed in this Shao Bo Lake, heading towards the enemy fleet in the south, although it was rowing at night, but for the fishermen living in this lake, they only needed a little fishing fire on the bow of the boat, and they would not worry about going the wrong way.

In the mighty Shao Bo Lake, hundreds of fishing fires ripple on the surface of the lake, and they look like stars in the sky under the reflection of the lake.

In the middle of the night, the fleet was about to arrive at the canal, and all the fishing boats were docked on the shore of the lake, and the fishermen on board were shocked to see an army of tens of thousands of people parked on the shore of the lake.

"All the lights are out, everyone is resting in place!" Orders came from the shore, and the lights on the ship were gradually extinguished. It was less than ten miles away from the fleet in the canal, and it would have been discovered by the other side any further.

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Countless lights flickered in the canal, and it was the windproof lights hanging from the bow of every ship. It was already the middle of the night, and most of the officers and men in the flotilla had already fallen asleep.

In the center of the fleet, near the largest second-story official ship, there was a larger boat, but candles were still lit in the cabin.

In the darkness, a small boat silently approached the boat, and a figure turned over on the boat.

"How?" Under the light, Chen Yue was dressed in a military uniform, looking at the visitor with blazing eyes.

"As Hou Ye expected, the two armies of Liu Liangzuo and Gaojie were combined and hid in Shao Bo Lake, ten miles to the north, and General Yang also took the brothers back to their positions, just waiting for the other party's attack to begin." Liu Neng looked at Chen Yue with admiration, and his voice was full of agitation.

"Well, let's go!" Chen Yue blew out the candles, got out of the cabin, and jumped onto the boat. The oars rowed, and the boat quickly disappeared into the night.