Chapter 100: Artificial Islands
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It's been an hour, and the bandits' lair on the other side hasn't moved at all.
Could it be that the bandits simply didn't plan to go out?
Yang Liu picked up the walkie-talkie and reported his guess to Yang Ritian.
On the other end of the walkie-talkie, Yang Ritian thought for a moment, "If you really attack the island, the battle will be over for such a long time." The bandits will definitely not come out, I'll pull all the people over! ”
Yang Ritian planned to change the reinforcement to a strong attack.
At the command of the order, the rafts flashed in the reeds, and the willow whistles sounded.
Dozens of rafts formed a formation and went straight to the bandits' lair.
On the open water outside the bandits' nest, there was a murderous atmosphere.
Yang Liulang asked for an order, "Lord Commander, the last general is willing to fight the vanguard!" ”
Yang Ritian said fiercely, "Okay! Knock these shrunken kings to death! ”
Yang Liulang led a group of militiamen, drove three rafts, and went straight to the reed ditch leading to the bandits' nest.
After entering dozens of zhang deep, Yang Liulang retreated again.
"The waterway inside is too narrow and crooked, and the thieves have sunk the barricades, and our straw raft can't fall in the direction at all! Only on a sheepskin raft. ”
The Ironwood Battalion originally had a few sheepskin rafts, and with the ones captured today, they could make up eleven or twelve.
Yang Ritian waved his hand, "Change the raft!" ”
The sheepskin raft is really agile, and it can advance and retreat from front to back, left and right.
Yang Liulang led people in the reed ditch, like walking on Huarong Road, one step to the left, one step further, one step to the right, and one step further.
Five or six rafts lined up in a line.
Yang Liulang washed his face anxiously, the speed of progress was too slow! After a while, I will fight with the bandits, and I will not be able to help the follow-up people, so I am afraid that I will suffer a loss.
Sun Yi came on a banana raft.
He heard that Yang Ritian was going to launch a general attack on the bandits' nest, so he came to see the excitement.
A dragon stood on the bow of the banana raft, took a penny, and rowed a little bit, and a banana sailed fast, leaving the stuffy eggs on the raft behind and Jia Daoist far away.
Sun Yi listened to Yang Ritian's report and scratched his head. The plan couldn't catch up with the changes, but I didn't expect to fight a gang of bandits, and the sneak attack, strong attack, and attack all came into place.
Lin Shuai, who invented the "three-three system", has a classic tactic of "one point and two sides", "a few fast and one slow".
"One point and two sides" means that to start a war, it is necessary to concentrate elite troops on one point and cut through the enemy at once;
"How fast and slow" is what kind of fast Sun Yi forgot, anyway, it is necessary to launch a general attack slowly, first patiently uproot the peripheral strongholds, and do not launch an attack even if he is not ready even if he is urged by his superiors.
Since his old man's tactics are classics, they always make sense, and now such a way of playing, it is obvious that both principles have been violated.
Sun Yi suggested, "Let's withdraw first." Anyway, the time is on our side, and it makes no difference one day earlier or one day later. The more prepared we are, the more confident we will be in the fight. ”
Lideer Ye made sense, but Yang Ritian was very reluctant, "Just withdraw like this, give the bandits a long face, and lose their prestige!" ”
Sun Yiyi: "How to withdraw is your business, you think of a way not to lose your prestige." ”
Yang Ritian really figured it out.
As soon as Yang Liu's men and horses withdrew, drums and whistles sounded on the water, and a group of militiamen rushed into the reed ditch and dismantled the underwater barricades.
The underwater barricades are basically wooden stakes and wooden fences, and many of the logs are about to rot because they are too old.
As soon as the militia came out with the logs, another group of militiamen rushed in on the raft with a shout.
Several groups of militia were like ants, clearing the waterways little by little.
The lookout tower built on the reed platform was dragged over by several rafts, and Yang Ritian ordered it to be placed outside the reed ditch.
Sun Yi and Yang Ritian went to the watchtower.
Viewed from a high place, this reed ditch zigzags and turns, winding around several large S-shapes, blocked by reeds.
In the distance, among the reeds, scattered shack roofs can be seen.
Ordinary reeds grow in swamps and shallow water, and it is impossible to build a shack. It should be a field of land, a nest of bandits.
The distance of the bandits' nest is six or seven hundred meters in a straight line, and the distance of the reed ditch waterway is at least twice as long.
No wonder these water bandits don't come out of it, this terrain is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Yang Ritian was ruthless, "Cover them inside!" ”
Two militiamen went up to the watchtower platform and fixed the rotten wood that had been dragged out around the platform.
The militiamen on the two rafts began to cut the reeds, which were easily transported to the platform.
The militia on the platform made reeds into bundles of reeds like rafts, and then laid them horizontally and vertically onto the wood.
The platform expanded, several more militiamen went to the platform, and the platform became a workbench.
There are people in the water who cut the reeds, someone who transports the wood, and people on the workbench who work and assemble it.
As the area of the workbench increases, more people go up to work, and the area of the workbench increases faster.
A circular reed island with a diameter of five zhang was formed. The militia jokingly called it "Wuzhang Yuan".
Yang Ritian was not addicted to it, and ordered to make another one.
With the experience of the first island, the second reed island is more elaborate.
Using wood as a skeleton and reeds as filling, the militia soon built a floating island four feet thick and four feet square.
Wang Erniu brought reed foil, and the militia built four more simple houses on the floating island, back to back, shoulder to shoulder.
A water barracks was formed, stuck at the exit of the bandits' lair.
Wood is still being transported out of the reed ditch, and I don't know how much money these bandits have put in the waterway.
Yang Ritian felt that it was almost over, withdrew the people and horses in the reed ditch, and gave an order, using wood and reeds to stubble the exit of the reed ditch to death.
"Brothers, it's not early, leave the soldiers on duty, and the others go back to the camp for dinner!"
Ga Li Guang led a team of soldiers to the barracks, the soldiers of the three corps were in one room each, and Ga Li Guang was alone.
Yang Ritian sent someone to the watchtower, left two sheepskin rafts and walkie-talkies, and said to Ga Li Guang: "After dinner, I will send someone to replace you!" ”
Ga Li Guangmei smiled, "Don't worry, this is much better than the barracks, I haven't lived in a room alone when I'm so big!" ”
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References (not related to the plot, skip for uninterested readers)
The reed islands of Lake Titicaca
Lake Titicaca (Spanish: Titicaca) is the largest freshwater lake in South America, located in the Andes Mountains on the border of Peru and Bolivia, with dozens of artificial floating islands covered with reeds and grass. Legend has it that 1,000 years ago, the Uros, the indigenous people who lived in the area, built floating islands to isolate them from the rest of the world in order to escape the invasion of the Incas. Floating islands are about 1.5 meters thick and range in size from 60 to 100 square meters. Larger floating islands can even build churches, schools, shops... wait
The means of transportation on the lake are reed boats and newer small fishing boats (about 1/2 the size of the small fishing boats usually seen in the harbor).