After such a stalemate for five or seven days, Lu Qian "sat back and watched". Looking at the headquarters of Yang Wen, Xiang Yuanzhen, and Liu Menglong, they entered the middle waist of the east bank of Liangshanbo along the canal, and there was a name there, called Shigou Town. The warships thus sailed from the canal into Liangshan Shuibo.

The South Road Officers and Soldiers Water Village and Lu Zhai relied on the shore of Shigou Town to stand for days, and the three flags were waving in the wind, as if they were afraid that Liangshanbo would not be able to see it. At the same time, the combined forces of Yannan, Yi and Mi began to fight Yanzhou Prefecture and go north to Gong County, but if they entered Laiwu along the Wenshui River in Gong County.

Wenshui originates in the Taiyi Mountains, passes through Laiwu County, turns to the southwest in Jingfeng Town, flows through Gong County, and then enters Yuncheng, and begins to enter Liangshanbo.

It has been a while since Liangshanbo withdrew from Yanbei, but the situation in Laiwu County has not improved at all.

Xu is because in the past, there were too many prisoners, and the officials and owners were too greedy, and when they were detonated, they were like bandits.

Liang Shanbo spent a lot of time in Yanbei not long ago, and was ridiculed by local officials who didn't know the general trend, but now they can't laugh. The imperial army was in the midst of using troops, but the Laiwu Rebellion removed one of the arms of the Eastern Route Army.

Otherwise, whether these three coalition forces converge into the Southern Route Army commanded by Xiang Yuanzhen, Yang Wen, and Liu Menglong on the east bank of Shuibo, or directly enter Yuncheng and join forces with the Ma Zheng Department, they can play a role. In the battle to eliminate Liangshanbo, he shared a little credit. But now it is going to be used to quell the chaos in Laiwu. The other place is compared with Liangshan Bo, like the light of fireflies and the bright moon.

It's just that in the overall situation, this is all a trivial matter and should not be used.

Lu Qian was in the cottage, and he heard that the sentry posts from all walks of life kept reporting that the South Route Army had entered the middle of the east bank, and there were only seventy or eighty miles left from Liangshanbo. Gao Yu's banner is still not moving, but all the soldiers and horses under his command are marching towards Hecai Town.

There is also Liu Zhen in the northwest, who has been connected with the Zhang Kai Department of the North Route Army, and then Ma Zheng of the East Road, who also carried water and land soldiers from Dongpyeong Province to Pingyin, Jeju, and Yuncheng is only separated by a Dong'e County.

"This Gao Yu is really calculating." Lu Qian looked at the series of official and military symbols on Liangshanbo North Road, and he was about to laugh out loud.

The defense line of this northern road is very weak, but Gao Yu still has 30,000 water and land elites in the vicinity of Liangshan Dazhai, so there is an extra layer of protection. Unless Lu Qian doesn't want Liangshan, it will be difficult to break the soldiers and horses of the official army on the north road while leaving enough troops to garrison Liangshan Dazhai.

In the same way, the same is true of the Ma Zheng Department in Pingyin.

"Looking at it this way, if the cottage wants to be comfortable, it must first break the 30,000 naval army here." Otherwise, it will be like having a dagger in the heart, so that he will not dare to use force recklessly no matter how he moves.

In the Juyi Hall, all the leaders looked at the official and military barracks in the middle of Shuibo East Road. At the beginning, more than one person proposed that the shipwreck blocked the place, but it was vetoed by Lu Qian. He didn't think it was necessary.

In his heart, he didn't believe in the so-called elite of the ten knots of soldiers and horses. In the whole of Middle-earth, there is no second army except the Western Army. The imperial court gathered the elite soldiers trained by the ten knots, but it was not from the western army in the northwest that 100,000 troops were transferred, and he was afraid of wool.

If it weren't for the fact that the Liangshan Boshui Division had already formed an army, and the shipyard and storage yard [wood] were at the water's edge, there would be no loss. He dared to let go ashore ten knots, and then shut the door and beat the dogs. Just like in the original book.

You must know that in the depths of this Liangshan Bo, there are vast and swirling, full of reeds, densely covering the harbor. In terms of location, cottages have the upper hand. Is it difficult to ambush ships in the reeds, and win an ambush battle?

But he has a hard time. Lu Qian was scared, very scared. If a fire is lit in the reeds, and the wind blows, Liangshanbo will become a pile of ashes.

As a perennial plant, Lu Qian did not know the growth cycle of reeds in later generations. He only knew that in the current season, the large reeds outside Liangshanbo were still withered and yellow, and it would take another month for the emerald green reeds to completely replace the golden yellow at the moment.

Lu Qian hadn't tried whether the reeds that connected to the sky in Liangshanbo could be burned out with a fire, but he was just afraid. Liang Shanbo under his command does not have a cloud dragon that can call the wind and rain like in the original book, and if a fire burns in the war, he can't find a timely rain.

He is not to blame for this. In fact, the harm of arson to Liangshanbo is too great, and the green and juicy reed leaves are very popular fodder for livestock, which casts a veil of mystery on Liangshanbo.

Even he was afraid that under this fire, Liangshanbo would not only become a pile of ashes, who would dare to guarantee that people and animals would be safe?

And rockets and fire cans are precisely the two magic weapons that water warfare is inseparable. [It's strange that when Liangshan was defeated three times, it was in winter, and the reeds should be dry and yellow, and they were extremely flammable. A few rockets go down, and I'm afraid they can ignite a big fire. Didn't Mr. Shi think of it? 】

"Big Chief, more than 30,000 people in this Southern Route Army are proficient in water. Yang Wen's department is next to the Yangtze River, and Xiang Yuan's town is next to the Huai River. Most of his soldiers can go on ships to fight. Zhu Gui got up and introduced these two soldiers and horses, and from the reconnaissance of the spy department during this time, it can be seen that the soldiers under the command of the two sections of the envoy there are probably mostly land and water battles. Although Liu Menglong's division is only 10,000 people, can the combination of 10,000 naval troops and 20,000 land divisions be the same as the combination of 10,000 naval divisions and 20,000 marines?

"Everyone should not underestimate the Dengzhou Water Division." The official army is not only a water division, this Dengzhou water division is far from being a threat to Liang Shanbo now, Lu Qian even needs to give an order, he can make the Dengzhou water division block the water, and he is in a dilemma. With this water division, it seems dispensable.

In the past few days, Lu Qian has discussed the battle situation with Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen, Yang Zhi and others more than once, and he has a feeling that Gao Yu's idea is probably to use 30,000 people from the Southern Route Army to fight with Liangshan.

As long as the naval division of Liangshanbo can be defeated, no matter how heavy the losses of the 30,000 people of the Southern Route Army are, and Gao Yu of the Dengzhou naval division in hand, he can use this to lock Liangshanbo to death.

If there were no sailors, the mighty Liangshanbo would no longer be an obstacle in the eyes of the officials and soldiers, but would become their most effective helper.

Gao Yu may not have any plans to land on Liangshan in the short term, and the first thing he has to do is to tightly surround the people of Liangshan. Of course, this was because he was afraid that the army of Liangshan would abandon this small depression and go south, west, east, and north. When the time comes, it will not be inferior to the dragon returning to the sea and the tiger entering the mountains and forests.

"Brother. Regardless of whether the Gao Yu really planned to do so, what if we destroyed the 30,000 soldiers. ”

Ruan Xiaoer stood up and said. How much grain has been swallowed by their sailors since last year, but they have not made many achievements in the war, and they have only been transported behind the mat after repeated dispatches. The three heroes of the Ruan family had long held their breath to make meritorious deeds, and they were Lu Qian's earliest team.

Looking at the others at the beginning, Zhu Gui's ranking has always been in the top ten in the Juyi Hall, and the Liu Tang brothers are a little behind, but they are also among the twenty. Only their brothers pulled back, and now they are all down to thirty.

Seeing that Hu Sanniang's little girl's skin was catching up, the three brothers were not ashamed. It was Ruan Xiaowu who had the idea of going to the sea off Dengzhou to work. And now there are more Baitiao Zhang Shun in the cottage, Li Jun and Tong Wei Tong Meng, these four water generals. In this way, there were always two battalions vacant in the sailors, and the positions of generals were settled. It is also known as the Ruan brothers, who have always been the only ones in Shuibo Liangshan, and they also have a sense of crisis.

Ruan Xiaoer started, and Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi naturally followed. Even Zhang Shun and Li Jun, Tong Wei and Tong Meng, who had just gone up the mountain, also asked for battle. The stakes are high, but isn't it time for them to build their feats?

Even if Li Jun led people to Liangshan, it was a speculation under helplessness. But if Liang Shanbo can really succeed, he is naturally willing to serve.

"How many large and small warships do you have under the Naval Division? How much is it different from the Jinling Sailor? Lu Qian asked.

"My naval division is not much inferior to the Jinling naval division. Earlier, he was still trapped in a shortage of soldiers, but now many of the auxiliary soldiers under the Transshipment Division who can float through the water can fight as long as they board the warship. ”

A flash of heat flashed in the Nguyen brothers' eyes. How many days and nights have their sailors been training, and what they are pursuing is to show their style one day?

The Liangshanbo army has repeatedly defeated the enemy, and their sailors have dragged on? For more than a year, compared with the glory of the army's repeated defeats of the officers and troops, the sailors were too gloomy. If the Ruan brothers, as the main generals of Liang Shanshui, could still be calm, they would not have followed Lu Qian into Liangshanbo in the first place.

Lu Qian was also silent for a while, and then agreed.

Since there is a reason why he can't afford to take the initiative to attack the officer, army, and naval division, it is better to strike first.

It has been more than a year since the formation of the naval division, from the lack of men and ships at the beginning, to the current warships and personnel. How much effort Lu Qian has put into it, the whole cottage is obvious to all.

Now that the decisive battle is coming, it is naturally time for the sailor to serve Liang Shanbo. "Raising soldiers for a thousand days is a while. Now that the official army is pressing, it is the autumn of my Liangshanbo's life and death, and the people of my cottage should serve everyone. ”

asked Fan Rui again, but instead of asking the Xuanzheng Division he led, he asked about Liang Shanbo's recent ups and downs. There is a way that the downwind is better than the headwind, and the downriver is better than the countercurrent, and among the many essentials of water warfare, this meteorological relationship is very important. As early as when Fan Rui went up the mountain, Lu Qian instructed him to pay attention to the wind and rain in Liangshan, so as to facilitate the use of the army in the future.

In the past, the relationship between astronomy and meteorology was not great, but now it is a water war, and it is inevitable to ask.

"So that my brother can rest assured. I watched the heavens, and the next few days were sunny and windy. "The battle of the water in the inner lake is not comparable to the battle of the sea, the battle of the sea, all by the power of the wind, the wind is not smooth, although the distance between dozens of miles is like thousands of miles, it is difficult to reach ten days. However, in the battle of the inner lakes and rivers, in addition to the wind and water flow, it relied more on manpower paddling.

Lu Qian was relieved, so he ordered the army of water and land and sent it to Shigou Town together. At the same time, he secretly summoned Shi Qian and commanded him to do this and this.

As soon as the Liangshan army moved by waterway, the momentum could not be concealed from Shigou Town. Yang Wen, Xiang Yuanzhen, and Liu Menglong gathered in one place, headed by Yang Wen, because Yang Wen was born in a famous family, although he was a remote family, but he was the queen of the Yang family. And that Yuan Town is much more ordinary.

I only asked Du Niang to ask, and Yang Wen has a book [origin], like Wang Huan and Xu Jing, "The Legend of Yang Wen Blocking the Road", or "Qingping Shantang Words", which is the earliest existing published book in the collection. Early storytellers all had a detailed setting for the character of Yang Wen: a person from Hedong, born in Bianliang, after Yang Linggong, the distant brother of the blue-faced beast Yang Zhi. Grandfather Yang Wensu is Yang Wenguang's cousin, father is Yang Chongli, he is an old man, known as Yang Sanguanren, nicknamed the roadblocker, and strong in martial arts.

And what about Xiang Yuanzhen. Xu also has a famous background, but Du Niang doesn't contain it, and the author doesn't know about it. also ranked him below Yang Wen. Although this guy was one of the four generals who broke out of the encirclement in the original book, Yang Wen was captured.

Hearing the report from Xizuo, Liangshanbo's army operated with soldiers and horses, and a group of cavalry troops landed from the Lijia Road crossing. The three of them each lifted their spirits.

The sentry boat was released, so that by dawn the next day, none of the thieves in Liangshan had been found, but Yang Wen and the others had received a warning from the back road first. However, it was the canal channel fourteen or fifteen miles south of Shigou Town, which was blocked overnight.

Liu Menglong jumped to his feet angrily and scolded that the Jeju territory was full of traitors, and it should be all punished. Yang Wen and Xiang Yuanzhen also turned pale.

The canal waterway is one of their back roads, and if the battle of Liangshan Bo is unfavorable, it is not a bad idea for them to retreat into the canal to rest.

Hugh thought that it was the Southern Route Army that was killing itself, but in fact, the warships entering the canal could be the Great Wall on the water. This warship was a combination of cities, strongholds, chariots and horses. The battle is brave, the code is solid, the pursuit is fast, and the rush is strong, and the party is a good warship. Although the water surface of the canal is narrow, and the warships are afraid of arson, as long as the soldiers and horses of Yang Wen and Xiang Yuanzhen are properly arranged on the shore, they will wait to meet the enemy in the city. Who called the canal shallow, the embankments on both sides of the bank were low and tight, and the warships were lined up like a wall. And if it is in the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, it is a joke in the world.

They only need to retreat inward to the vicinity of Rencheng County, and divide a group of soldiers and horses to defend Rencheng, and the other road of soldiers and horses to prepare for battle in the canal, forming each other into horns, so how can it be broken for the enemy?

Yang Wen and Xiang Yuanzhen are both conceited people, but they don't think that the elite soldiers under their command will be inferior to a gang of bandits. On that day, Xiang Yuanzhen also fought with Xu Ning's department, but Xu Ning was afraid of his large number of soldiers and did not dare to fight, but it made Xiang Yuanzhen have a trace of contempt in his heart.

In addition, they fought and retreated, retreating to Jeju City. This is also a law;

Then there is Liu Menglong's department to retreat to Jeju City alone, and Yang Wen and Xiang Yuan's town department to retreat to Rencheng, which is still the same law.

The three generals are full of conceit, believing that their own soldiers are not inferior to others. Now that I heard that one of the back roads has been cut off, and the battle has not yet come, isn't it that the thieves are calculating them and want to annihilate their own army?

They were all angry, thinking that they were being despised by thieves.