As soon as they attacked Taihu Bezha again, the Sui army dispatched all the "Wuya" giant ships, led by Yang Su, the marching marshal himself, and slaughtered the Taihu Bezha in an overwhelming manner.

Li Ling heard the news of the Sui army's comeback in the Taihu Lake Gate, and ordered the Beizha Water Gate to be tightly closed and strictly guarded, deliberately avoiding a frontal battle with the Sui army on the river, intending to block and resist the Sui army's powerful offensive by relying on the solid Beizha and the reef waters in front of the Beizha Water Gate.

However, to Li Ling's surprise, this time, the main fleet of the Sui army dropped anchor and stopped on the river that was still five or six miles away from the Taihu Lake Bezha, and only sent more than 100 grasshopper clippers to rescue the Sui soldiers trapped in the "Five Teeth" giant ship stranded in the waters of the reef.

"Let them go. As long as the Sui army's 'Wuya' giant ships can't get around the reef waters and can't get close to my Taihu Lake fence, there is no need to go out of the fence to meet the enemy. When Li Ling heard the news that the Sui army had sent a grasshopper clipper to rescue the officers and men of the Sui army on the "Five Teeth" giant ship stranded in the waters of the reef, he pretended to be generous and instructed his generals.

But then he got a report, saying that the Sui army had sent two barges under the cover of more than 100 grasshopper clippers, apparently to tow away the stranded "Five Teeth" giant ship.

"Wait for me to see what's going on?" This news aroused Li Ling's curiosity, and he immediately led dozens of generals under his command to climb the lookout platform of the Beizha Water Gate and raise their eyes to look at the waters of the reef.

Seriously, under the escort of more than 100 grasshopper clippers, two barges with huge hulls were slowly approaching the reef waters, and a sergeant of the Sui army could be vaguely seen using dozens of ropes to connect the stranded "Five Teeth" giant ship with the two barges, as if they were going to use the barge to tow away the "Five Teeth" giant ship.

At this time, when the water level was rising in the evening, Li Ling stared at the reef waters, and suddenly realized: "Yang Suding is worried that our army will take advantage of the rising river level at night to tow this 'Wuya' giant ship from the reef waters for our use, so he dispatched all the ships to attack the Taihu Lake fence and tow it away from the reef waters at all costs." It can be seen from this that the 'Five Teeth' giant ship is so important in Yang Su's mind! ”

Thinking like this, Li Ling changed his previous idea of not going out and guarding the fence, that is, he ordered his general Wu Lun to lead twenty Qinglong warships out of the fence to stop the Sui army, and be sure to leave the 'Five Teeth' giant ship.

Wu Lun received the order, led twenty Qinglong warships, opened the Beizha Water Gate, and rushed towards the Sui Army's grasshopper clippers gathered around the reef waters.

The more than 100 grasshopper clippers who served as the escort of the two barges did not expect that the rebels would send the Qinglong warships to attack them, and they were caught off guard by Wu Lun with twenty Qinglong warships, and they didn't care about protecting the two barges, so they scattered and fled immediately.

Among them, more than a dozen grasshopper clippers actually fled in the direction of the Taihu Lake.

The reef waters were not far from the Taihu Lake Fence, and the dozen or so grasshopper clippers seemed to be in a hurry to escape, and in a blink of an eye, they approached the water gate of the Fence.

"Shoot the arrows and stop them from approaching the Bezha Water Gate!" It wasn't until the dozen or so grasshopper clippers of the Sui army sailed less than 100 feet away from the Beizha Water Gate that Li Ling suddenly became alert, fearing that the Sui army would deceive him, and hurriedly ordered the sergeants to release arrows to prevent the grasshopper clippers from approaching the Beizha Water Gate.

However, when he realized that this was Yang Su's time, it was too late. But seeing that these dozen grasshopper clippers were suddenly set on fire, they turned into more than a dozen fireboats in an instant, and crashed into the gate of the other gate.

The Taihu Lake Gate was built at the mouth of the Taihu Lake, which was not easy to be attacked by fire, but these dozen or so clippers were loaded with flammable tung oil, and once the clipper hit the water gate of the gate, the full load of tung oil poured out, and in the blink of an eye, it ignited the river inside and outside the water gate.

With the light of the fire rising from the Beizha Water Gate, Li Ling saw in a panic that there were countless Yellow Dragon warships of the Sui army on the river in the distance, riding the wind and waves, and sailing towards Beizha.

"Yang Su'er, I didn't expect me to fall for your trick." Li Ling scolded viciously, and immediately ordered someone to open the water gate leading to Taihu Lake, and urgently summoned all the rebel warships moored in the other gate to abandon the other gate and retreat to Taihu Lake.

Pity his general Wu Lun, after leading twenty Qinglong warships out of the gate to kill for a while, he looked back and saw the fire at the water gate of Beizha, and found that the signs were wrong, and he was about to order people to turn the bow of the ship and withdraw to Beizha, but the Yellow Dragon fleet led by the vanguard of the Sui army to Hu'er caught up from behind and was completely annihilated near the reef waters.

Lai Hu'er was not satisfied with just getting the result of destroying the rebels' twenty Qinglong warships, and led one hundred and ten Yellow Dragon warships through the fence non-stop, closely chasing Li Ling into the waters of Taihu Lake.

The Taihu Lake sluice was broken by the Sui army, Li Ling lost his last garrison stronghold, and in a panic, he didn't know where to lead the remnants of the defeated army to retreat, so he had to lead hundreds of Qinglong warships to circle with Laihu'er on the vast Taihu Lake water.

Originally, according to the comparison of the military strength of the two sides at this time, the rebels, whether it was a warship or a number of sergeants, were more than twice that of the Sui army led by Laihu'er.

However, this rebel army is a rabble, most of them are formed by Yang Guang's army to destroy Nanchen and hide in the rivers and lakes of the Southern Chen Water Army stragglers and soldiers who escaped the Sui army's arrest by luck, and at this time, its leader Li Ling had no intention of fighting with the Sui army, and the combat power was greatly reduced. Less than a hundred warships followed Li Ling around Taihu Lake in a daze, and finally turned back to Taihu Lake and got into the encirclement of the main fleet of the Sui army, including the rebel leader Li Ling, all of whom obediently became prisoners of the Sui army.

Yang Su led the main force of the Sui army, although he suffered a small setback in the battle of Taihu Lake and lost a "five-tooth" giant ship and dozens of grasshopper clippers, but he used the strategy of fire attack to break through the Taihu Lake Fortress in one fell swoop and completely annihilate the rebels of Li Ling on the East Road, which can also be called a complete victory.

On the day after leading the naval army to break through the Taihu Lake Bezha, Yang Su received a report that Li Che led the army to set up an ambush in the middle of the road, and defeated the Maoshan rebels who were deceived and rushed to reinforce the Taihu Bezha.