Half Moon Bay is a crescent-shaped lake that stretches across the road to Sanlihuai.

On both sides of Half Moon Bay, there are dense woods.

Spring is in full swing, and the surrounding trees have been stripped, dyed with layers of green, bursting with vitality. After Yang Banhou and his party arrived at Half Moon Bay, they were located at one end of Half Moon and needed to take a boat to drive forward along an arc to cross the lake. At the ferry port on the shore, civilian boats are neatly arranged.

Yang Banhou roughly swept through it and found that there were hundreds of small boats.

Each ship can only carry thirty or fifty people.

Yang Banhou looked at Li Xiucheng and asked, "General Li, you have more than 2,000 soldiers. I also had more than 2,000 soldiers under my command, and the boats on the side of the ferry were too small. More than 4,000 people marched in small boats with great fanfare, which was too eye-catching. If you ask people to look for civilian boats, don't you have big ships that can carry hundreds of people? ”

Li Xiucheng stretched out his hands, shrugged his shoulders, and explained helplessly: "I spent a lot of effort on these civilian boats to raise one hundred and twenty small boats. Although the ship was small, it was enough to transport soldiers across Half Moon Bay. This is a lake, not a water army fighting. Besides, the foreigners have Zhang Shu, the general under my command, watching, and nothing will happen. We have to go early, we don't have time to set up if we go late. Although the civilian boat is small, it is still possible to endure it. ”

Yang Banhou sneered in his heart, but said, "Okay, just endure it and it's over." ”

When Li Xiucheng heard this, the smile on the corner of his mouth suddenly bloomed.

Immediately, Li Xiucheng waved his hand at the small boats on the edge of the ferry, and said loudly: "All the civilian boats were found by the soldiers, in order to avoid suspicion, you choose the boats first." ”

"Okay, I'll be disrespectful."

Yang Banhou waved his hand, looked at Lu Shaochuan who was standing next to him, and ordered: "Battalion Commander Lu, you take a hundred soldiers to select civilian ships." It should be carefully inspected and there should be no omissions. ”

"Yes!"

Lu Shaochuan came down and stepped forward with the soldiers.

When Lu Shaochuan came to the edge of the ferry, walked into a small boat, and carefully looked at the situation inside and outside the boat. Not only that, Lu Shaochuan turned his back to the people on the shore and quietly knocked on the edge of the hull. The frequency of Lu Shaochuan's beating was to beat twice in a row, pause for a moment, and then beat three times in a row violently.

Although there is a thumping sound, it can be seen as a test of the ship's sturdiness.

After the tapping sound, a head was revealed underwater.

Due to the obstruction of the hull of the boat, coupled with Lu Shaochuan's burly body blocking the view of the people on the ferry, no one noticed that the head came out. The people under the water are the pirate soldiers under Lu Shaochuan.

The soldier didn't speak, just nodded, and then sank into the water with a grunt and vanished. A ripple came out, and the water gradually calmed down again, as if nothing had happened.

In about ten minutes, Lu Shaochuan selected sixty civilian boats.

The remaining 60 civilian ships all belonged to Li Xiucheng.

Lu Shaochuan returned to the shore, walked to the opposite side of Yang Banhou, nodded with his back to Yang Banhou, and smiled with a smile, and said seriously: "Deputy head of the regiment, all the ships have been inspected and are all intact. I have selected sixty civilian ships for our more than 2,000 soldiers. ”

Yang Banhou nodded and said, "Okay!" ”

Li Xiucheng found that the names between Lu Shaochuan and Yang Banhou were a bit weird, but he didn't have time to think about it.

Yang Banhou said: "General Li, our ship will go behind, you go first!" ”

Li Xiucheng rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll lead the troops to drive in front." Immediately, Li Xiucheng led 2,000 soldiers to board 60 civilian boats in turn and ordered rowing forward.

Seeing this, Li Zhen asked, "Shaochuan, are the soldiers ready?" ”

Lu Shaochuan said: "Don't worry, everything is ready." ”

Yang Banhou said: "Dashuai, let's get on the boat too." This time, Li Xiucheng got into the urn he had laid out, and it was easy to catch him. Yang Banhou ordered more than 2,000 soldiers to enter the civilian boat and began rowing forward.

On the surface of the lake, the waves are sparkling and the water is clear.

The civilian ships are moving, and when viewed from the air, it constitutes an excellent scenery.

Fifteen minutes later, 60 civilian boats led by Li Xiucheng had entered the center of the lake and walked half the way. Li Xiucheng sat on the boat with a serious expression, and when he saw the civilian boats carrying the officers and soldiers behind him, his face suddenly turned cold, and he ordered the people next to him: "Tell the underwater water ghosts to chisel through the bottom of the officers and soldiers." ”

"Yes!" The soldier immediately went to give the order.

Li Xiucheng commanded again: "Let all the soldiers cheer up and prepare for battle." ”

A series of orders were passed on one after another.

In an instant, the mental outlook of the Taiping soldiers changed.

This situation all fell into the eyes of Li Zhen and Yang Banhou.

Li Zhen said with a smile: "Banhou, the soldiers under Li Xiucheng's command are all holding guns and ready, it seems that they have already given the order to do it." It's a pity that the water thieves in the lake can compare to the pirates who make a living at sea? It's like a common man who has learned a little bit of crop control and wants to fight a properly trained soldier, and he will definitely lose. ”

Lu Shaochuan interjected: "Marshal, this time you have to give credit to my soldiers!" ”

Li Zhen nodded and said, "If you defeat Li Xiucheng in this battle, you will definitely be rewarded." Well, I stopped playing games with Li Xiucheng, and ordered the soldiers in the water to scuttle through the bottom of the other party's boat. ”

When Lu Shaochuan heard this, he immediately asked people to give an order.

"Chirp! Chirp!! ”

Suddenly, a crisp birdsong sounded on the water, crisp and pure, very beautiful. This voice sounded, and dark shadows could be faintly seen swimming around the civilian boat in which the soldiers under Li Xiucheng's command were riding.

"Ding! Bite!! ”

A series of chiseling sounds came from the bottom of the ship.

"General, the bottom of our boat has been scuttled through, and there is already a leak in the lake."

"It's leaking, it's leaking at the bottom of the boat!"

……

Among the soldiers of the Taiping Army, noisy roars rang out one after another. The soldiers shouted hysterically, with a hint of trilling in their voices. Although some of the Taiping soldiers knew how to swim, and even if they fell into the water, there was not much danger, but most of the soldiers could not swim, and falling into the water was equivalent to being killed.

Li Xiucheng sat on the boat, looking at the soaked soles under his feet, his face was pale.

The body trembled slightly.

His hands shook uncontrollably.

Li Xiucheng advocates that he has no last resort, and has always planned before acting. Now he finds that everything seems so absurd, because the trap he laid has been seen through, and the trap has been set by others.

What to do?

Li Xiucheng looked left and right and found that the boat was in the center of the lake, and it was difficult to dock.

The bottom of the boat was still seeping into the lake, and the boat itself was shaking, making it difficult to maintain balance and not be able to carry dozens of soldiers sitting in it. Li Xiucheng took a deep breath and shouted: "Plug the leaking place, hurry forward, as long as we cross Half Moon Bay, we will land and evacuate." ”

At this moment, Li Xiucheng had no thoughts of fighting. His boat began to leak, and even if he ordered to be killed, the hull could not hold out, and once he fell in love, he would all be buried in the lake.

The only way is to leave Half Moon Bay quickly.

ps: Two of the four birds, begging for flowers.