Soon the drums on the river surface were loud, and the shouts of "cross the river and rush across the river" resounded throughout the Xixi River Valley!

Yang Zuo, the governor of the right capital, who thought that the Xixi River valley was full of rain and fog, and the officials and troops would never cross the river today, finally fell asleep with peace of mind, but not long after lying down, the rumbling drums on the Xixi River woke him up from his sleep.

"What's going on? Where does the drum sound come from? Is there a movement between the officers and the army?! ”

As soon as Yang Zuo was awakened, he hurriedly shouted and asked under the wooden building where he was staying.

The Shuixi Yi soldiers guarding downstairs outside were at a loss, but suddenly saw a few Tusi leaders hurrying over, and after more than a dozen steps, they rushed to Yang Zuo's accommodation above the wooden building, shouting: "Yang Dudu!" Yang Dudu! Big things are not good! Xu Chengming's officers and troops crossed the river and attacked! They crossed the river and attacked! ”

When Yang Zuo heard this, he was very unhappy, and said in his heart, you are not a good fucking thing!

It's just that the name of the person who shouted this is Huasha, which sounds like a barbarian name, of course, it is actually a barbarian, but the surname is An, which is a branch of the Shuixi clan.

Among the people of the Shuixi clan, who have a relatively high status, they all enjoy the surnames given by the imperial court, as well as the names that are more handy, but at the same time, these people also have the name of the Shuixi Yi tribe.

For example, this Huasha, although it enjoys the surname of the imperial court, that is, the surname An, but it also has the name of the Yi people, which is called Huasha.

Yang Zuo was panicked by these toast leaders, and he was very unhappy.

It's just that he was originally from the lowest level of the Yi slaves in Shuixi, and now although he is deeply respected by An Bangyan and is in the high position of the right governor, he does not dare to attack these noble Tusi heads.

Yang Zuo hurriedly got up and went downstairs, led these toast leaders, and quickly rushed to the river with the guards around him.

Before I reached the river, I heard the drums in the valley, and the shouts of "cross the river" and "cross the river" resounded across the riverbank.

There was rain and fog on the river, confused, and I couldn't really see it, only the drums and shouts were heard getting closer and closer, and it seemed that it was not far from the shore.

Yang Zuo was about to speak, when he suddenly heard an exclamation from the side of his riverbank: "Bamboo row!" Bamboo raft! Their bamboo raft is docked! ”

Hearing this, Yang Zuo did not hesitate anymore, and immediately gave a loud order: "The official army has crossed the river to attack!" Bring in more troops! ”

After saying this, Yang Zuoyu felt unsafe, and then said: "Go and give an order, and transfer everyone from the waterwheel dam and Huangnitang!" All of them are transferred! We must strictly guard against it, and we must not allow an officer or soldier to go ashore! ”

After passing the order, Yang Zuo thought to himself, Xu Chengming, Xu Chengming, Lao Tzu wants to see if there are more people sent over by you with bamboo rafts, or if there are many people on Lao Tzu's shore!

Yang's strategy soon worked.

With the help of the turbulent water in the Xixi River, most of the bamboo rafts of the officers and soldiers could float over and lean on the riverbank, but the horses on the riverbank, as well as the sharp poles and wooden stakes laid by the river before, played a role, and none of the officers and soldiers on the bamboo rafts could jump onto the riverbank.

Only a few of the lassoes thrown from the bamboo rafts were able to pull down horses or sharp poles and stakes on the riverbank.

As soon as many lassoes were caught on the banks of the river, they would be cut with machetes by more and more Shuixi Yi soldiers who rushed over and were intensively deployed along the river.

Hearing the cheers of the Shuixi Yi soldiers on the riverbank, and knowing that his strategy had worked, dozens of huge bamboo platoons of the official army could not dock, and finally could only drift down the river, Yang Zuo was very happy in his heart.

Because he knows that more than ten miles away is the Liuchong River, the Liuchong River flows from the southwest to the northeast, the water is deeper, the flow is more rapid, and both banks are high mountains and valleys, once rushed in, it is difficult to say where it can go, but it is absolutely impossible to reach the west bank of the Xixi River.

Huasha and the others who followed closely around also knew this truth, and at this moment, seeing Yang Zuo's strategy for the way, they were full of praise, and they praised the "Right Governor Gaoming"!

Although Yang Zuo was happy in his heart, he did not take it lightly, because the bamboo platoon of the official army was forced to cross, and it was endless, and twenty more were washed away, and twenty more came!

What they didn't know, however, was that the officers and soldiers who were shouting and shouting across the river were just bluffing.

Throwing the lasso to pull the horses and stakes on the opposite bank is also for the sake of making a full set, in order to make this feint appear more realistic.

And those bamboo rafts that seem to have lost control and drifted down the river have already explored the approximate landing point, and the landing point is not far away, just at the northeast corner of the T-shaped estuary where the Xixi River joins the Liuchong River.

The turbulent water of the Liuchong River rushed from southwest to northeast, and the bamboo rafts drifting from the Xixi River were just washed by the water of the Liuchong River to the side where the officials and troops were located.

And this time, now there is Shi Yongan leading the camp to repair the post road there, and by the way, they can be fished up to the river bank with bamboo rafts.

Next, it is only one or twenty miles of mountain road to return to Xixipu to board the bamboo row to "forcefully cross" the Xixi River again.

As the bamboo rafts of the official army floated across the river wave after wave, wave after wave approached the opposite bank, pulled down one or several horses to reject the horse, and then swept away along the river wave after wave, there were more and more Shuixi Yi soldiers gathered on the other side of the Xixi River.

In this way, the bamboo platoon of the officers and soldiers forcibly crossed, and the Yi soldiers strictly guarded it, and the morning soon passed in the "fierce battle" on the bank of the Xixi River.

The waves of forced crossings of the official army one after another shocked Yang Zuo and others at the strength of the official army, and at the same time, it also made Yang Zuo feel faintly uneasy in his heart.

Two or three hours passed, and none of the officers and soldiers on the rafts switched down and rushed to the opposite shore when they approached the shore.

As time passed, both the offensive and defensive sides were a little overwhelmed, but the drums and shouts of the officers and soldiers never stopped.

"Could it be that the officers and troops on the other side are making a feint?!"

As soon as this thought was born in Yang Zuo's heart, it grew irrepressibly and widely.

"If Xu Chengming, a treacherous dog official, is a bluff feint in Xixidu, then where is his real killer weapon?!"

The rain and fog that permeated the Xixi River valley made Yang Zuo unable to see the situation on the other side clearly, so he could not make timely judgments.

However, the deeper Yang Zuo thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and the deeper he thought about it, the more panicked he felt.

Just as he was about to send an order to summon all the local officials to discuss the enemy situation again and renegotiate the defensive measures, he suddenly heard a shout from the rain and fog in the distance.

Yang Zuo hurriedly listened attentively, but the more he listened, the clearer it became, the voice was actually shouting: "There are officers and soldiers on the shore, where is the right governor?!" The officers and soldiers have come ashore, go and report to the right governor! ”

"There are officers and troops on the shore?! Where did they come from?! ”

The doubts in Yang Zuo's heart were almost blurted out, but before he could ask, he heard a scream of "ah"!

The voice of the officers and soldiers on the shore also stopped abruptly, as if it had never existed.

Since the official army arrived in Xixipu, Yang Zuo has not slept well for several days, at this time he thought he had heard it wrong, shook his head vigorously, and then asked the people around him: "Did you hear it?" That voice just now? ”

Before Yang Zuo could answer, he heard a sudden commotion on the shore: "Officers and soldiers?!" There are officers and soldiers?!

"The officers and soldiers have crossed the river! There are officers and soldiers! ”

At this moment, Yang Zuo was shocked, and there was only one thought in his heart, he was tricked, Lao Tzu really hit the scheme!

Of course, Yang Zuo was tricked.

Luo Ganxiang, Mo Keji, and Wei Ang each led their own departments, with Luo Ganxiang as the main general, and arrived at Yina Dam on the afternoon of the 16th, rested for a while at the location of Yina Zexi, replenished fresh water, and arrived at the Zhiga Aru Lake in the evening.

There are a large number of small fishing boats and patches of old and new bamboo rafts on the shores of Zhiga Aru Lake.

Some of the Yi people living by fishing and living on boats or bamboo row houses for many years.

Now, those Yi men were killed by Mo's and Wechsler's wolf soldiers just two days ago, and the remaining ones who were lucky enough not to die have now fled and disappeared.

Relying on these fishing boats of different sizes and countless bamboo rafts, the three of Luo Ganxiang lit torches and boarded the fishing boats or bamboo rafts prepared in advance in groups just after midnight the next morning, and rowed towards the opposite shore of Zhiga Aru Lake with the rattan cards in their hands as oars.

Like a willow leaf-shaped Zhiga Aru Lake, it is dozens of miles long from north to south, and the widest place between the east and west shores is only a dozen miles, and the narrowest place is only a few miles wide.

Luo Ganxiang was not a local, and the locals were either killed or fled in the previous burning and looting of the wolf soldiers in Guangxi, and they couldn't find a few guides to lead the way.

Therefore, the boat they chose to take the boat was the middle section of Lake Zhigaaru, which was not the widest nor the narrowest.

In this way, more than 800 small fishing boats of various types, as well as more than 1,000 large and small bamboo rafts, carrying more than 8,800 people, floated on the surface of Zhiga Aru Lake in a dense area.

In the smoke and rain, there was no wind or waves in Zhiga Aru Lake, only the sound of oars sounding from rattan paddling.

If the Han officials and soldiers took a bamboo raft and walked through this vast rain and fog, they would probably not be able to distinguish between east and west, north and south, and finally lose their way, but the Mo and Wei wolf soldiers and local officials and generals who grew up in the dense forests of Guangxi since childhood did not have this problem.

In particular, Luo Ganxiang, who was born in the land of Yongning Xuanfu Silin Prefecture, which is connected to the mountains and rivers of Shuixi, and the soldiers under his command who wear green seedlings are also familiar with this weather and know how to identify the direction in such weather.

Between the time and the hour, when the smoke and rain were the thickest and heaviest, and even the torches could not be lit, Luo Ganxiang, Mo Keji, and Wei Ang spent two hours and led a team of more than 8,800 people to the opposite shore of Zhiga Aru Lake one after another.

More than 8,800 people rested for a while, and after eating the dry food they carried, they threw away all unnecessary things except their weapons, and then divided into three routes, marched in unison, and rushed in the direction of the luxury incense station.