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The water thieves in Gaoyou Lake are also approaching, and various mines in Yangzhou Mansion are beckoning to them......

After Yang Tingjian arrived in Gaoyou County, he directly summoned Liu Tong, the deputy commander of Gaoyou Guard, and the commander had already gone to the Huben Military Academy to study, Yang Tingjian found that this Gaoyou Guard was not too bad, at least more than 2,000 soldiers, more than 30 old warships, this is already a very good guard, and it is also the water thieves in Gaoyou Lake who forced them not to eat too much.

Gao Youwei's command envoy Yamen is on the edge of Gaoyou Lake, next to Gao Youwei's water village, in fact, Gao Youwei is already an inland naval division army, but their warships are too dilapidated to be used.

Of course, Gao Youwei can't be blamed for this, the imperial court simply doesn't have the money to build new warships.

Gao Youwei commanded the yamen to temporarily become Yang Tingjian's festival hall, and Gao Youwei's deputy commander Liu Tong knelt down to Yang Tingjian under the festival hall:

"Liu Tong, the deputy commander of the lowly post guard, see my lord."

"Commander Liu doesn't have to be polite, get up and talk back and give me a seat."

Liu Tong immediately said with sincere fear:

"I don't dare."

Yang Tingjian still said amiably:

"Commander Liu, let's talk about the specific situation of Gaoyou Lake! It's good for this official to refer to it. ”

Liu Tong sat on the stool with only half of his buttocks and began to introduce some information about Gaoyou Lake.

Gaoyou Lake is a number of small lakes connected in series, among which the larger ones are 36 lakes such as Zhu Lake, Yongshe Lake, Ping'a Lake, etc., and the lakes are connected, with a total area of 760.67 square kilometers, including 648 square kilometers of water area, 112.67 square kilometers of reed beach and embankment area.

There are more than 40 large and small islands in the lake, all of which can be inhabited. There used to be more than a dozen water thieves in the lake, but at the beginning of this year, only three went to the lake, and the rest were merged, and these three water thieves counted the jute stalks as the largest, with nearly 20,000 people, and the remaining two water thieves were under the deterrence of the jute stalks. I had no choice but to recognize the jute pole as the leader of the alliance.

Just now, I looked at the warship brought by the adult, and the warship with more than 1,000 materials was mighty, but it could only drive in the lake, not close to the island, otherwise it would run aground, but the more than 1,000 old flat-bottomed warships brought by the adult were of greater use in Gaoyou Lake. ”

Yang Tingjian thought about it and felt that Liu Tong was right, the average depth of Gaoyou Lake was only 5.5 deep, and the warships of more than 1,000 materials were slightly loaded with key points. It will also run aground in the lake, but it is more flexible and convenient for boats with 100 to 500 materials. (10 materials equals approximately 1 ton of displacement.) ）

"I understand,...... Later, the officer ordered someone to move the cannons of the big ships to other small ships, and there is no problem with a small boat with a hundred materials, right? ”

"No problem."

"Tell me there, this should prove that these tens of thousands of water thieves have been exterminated?"

"Ahh Liu Tong felt that the world-famous god of war in front of him was really amiable, gentle and elegant, not the legendary fierce god at all, and he was able to be courteous and virtuous, even his own rough martial artist. can get such respect, which really touches Liu Tong. At that moment, Liu Tong was okay, and Liu said his plan.

"My lord, this water thief has excellent water quality, with reeds in his mouth, he can be in the water for a day or two, even if he dives breathlessly, some water thieves can also stay in the water for a long time. I don't know how these water thieves do it.

In the past, we sent boats into the lake to encircle and suppress the water thieves, and these water thieves with excellent water characteristics dived under our boats and scuttled through our boats.

So I've been researching ways to deal with those water ghosts. After more than a year of research, the lowly finally found a way to deal with those water ghosts.

This thing is called a water cannon, it is made of four sections of Nanzhu with a thick bowl mouth, we occasionally have Nanzhu everywhere, first divide Nanzhu into four sections and a section, and then use an iron drill to open the diaphragm of Nanzhu, the prime minister poured a bamboo tube stone into Nanzhu, which is to increase the weight of the bamboo tube and increase the lethality, and then pour gunpowder into the middle of the two sections, and place it on the ignition after tamping, and put it on the ignition in the last section of Nanzhu, and finally seal it with wax, and the water cannon is done.

The lowly duty once lit the water cannon and threw it into the water, and after the explosion, it could blow up the fish fifty meters away, and the lowly thought that the water ghost would not be able to bear it. ”

"Okay, okay...... Commander Liu should be the first meritorious, and when this battle is over, Commander Liu will go to the side of the official to be a guard! In the evening, I went to study at the Tiger Ben Military Academy. ”

At the moment, Liu Tong was very surprised, he couldn't imagine that his gadget, which was not valued by the command, was extremely appreciated by Lord Yang, what an unexpected surprise!!

"Humble thanks to Lord for your cultivation...... In the future, only adults will be the first to look forward. ”

"Let's go to your water cannon now......"

Liu Tong immediately took Yang Tingjian to the water village, and then trotted to his bedroom and took out a few four-section Nanzhu from under the bed. This thing is really heavy, the artillery alone is four catties, and the bamboo and stones are about seven or eight catties.

Soon Liu Tong came to Yang Tingjian with a few water cannons, Yang Tingjian reached out and picked one up and looked at it, this thing is simply a large grenade!

"Yes, hurry up and get down, and see the effect."

"Obey the order, please retreat a hundred steps away from the shore, this water cannon has stones in it, and the splash is very powerful."

Of course, Yang Tingjian understands the role of this stone, it is simply the effect of shrapnel! Yang Tingjian didn't dare to pretend to be forced in front of this thing, and honestly retreated a hundred steps away.

After Liu Tong saw that Yang Tingjian had retreated, he took out a fire fold and blew it off, and lit a water cannon, and the fuse burned rapidly with a sneer, Liu Tong immediately saw the water cannon thrown into the water, and a puff of white smoke kept coming out of the water.

Liu Tong turned around and ran, Liu Tong ran out of more than ten meters, immediately lay on the ground, suddenly a column of water rushed on the water surface, and then a muffled sound of "boom" came, countless stones drilled out of the water and splashed away violently, and more stones shuttled in the water.

The smoke on the surface of the water was filled, and everyone immediately ran to the lake to check the situation, the place where the explosion just now was full of yellow muddy water, and more than a dozen fish of one or two catties floated on the surface of the water with their belly facing the sky, and countless small fish and shrimp were too many to count.

Yang Tingjian sighed that this ancient gold is really good, just one shot to blow up so many fish, of course, because of the rampant water thieves, countless fishermen dare not go to the lake to fish, but also the reason why this cannon can blow up so many fish!

"Liu Tong, immediately make this kind of water cannon in large quantities, Gao Youwei's manpower is as you move, how many artillery pieces are needed, just go directly to the logistics department of the Huben Army to get it."

In the afternoon of the same day, Wan Shun of the Intelligence Department sent a man named Duan Ren, who used to be the largest water thief in Gaoyou Lake, and was a small leader under the jute pole, because he missed the last time he went to do business, he didn't dare to go back to the water thief, and was dug out by the Intelligence Department. (To be continued......)