As the leader of the thieves who specialize in transporting smuggled goods, Dogyu Cheng has a group of brothers, and most of them have practiced their night sailing skills extremely well. There is no way, the punishment is severe this year. Once the water thieves are caught, they will be beaten with a hundred sticks and exiled for 3,000 miles. Therefore, when the dogfish is trading with the upper and lower families on the shore, most of them should choose to be safe in the dead of night.

After more than ten years of smuggling, for Dogyu Cheng and his group, this kind of thing is not to say that they have practiced to the point of perfection, but at least they are familiar with it.

Moreover, when it comes to the degree of understanding of the waterways of "Zhaoyu Qi", even those fishermen who have accumulated years are not as good as Dogfish Cheng and his gang. Where is the water depth, where the water is shallow, and where can it be passed, Dogfish Cheng can be said to be clear. Especially now that the rainy season has not arrived, the water in "Zhaoyu Qi" is very shallow, and if you want to find a waterway that can still be passed at this time, it is really inseparable from the experience of Dogyu Cheng and his group.

With a group of more than 40 people scattered to various boats for navigation guidance, Li Yucheng's night sailing along the way can be described as uneventful. When the morning sun rose from the back of the fleet, Li even had the heart to look back and watch the sunrise in the east.

And from the moment they got on the boat, the county soldiers who were ordered by Li Wei to close their eyes and rest finally got permission to move freely. The soldiers on each boat took out the dried meat and dry food prepared by the Du County Order in advance for this battle, and began to eat breakfast for the day on the clear lake water next to the boat.

From the perspective of epidemic prevention in later generations, it is actually quite dangerous for the soldiers to drink the seemingly clean lake water directly. However, the people of that year, except for the Taixing army under the repeated emphasis of insolence, would boil the water every time before drinking. Others often drink raw water for convenience. This is also an important reason why plagues were often prevalent in ancient times.

Du Feng asked the women of the county to prepare dry food for the county soldiers, called "pot helmets", which is still a popular delicacy even after thousands of years.

Reputedly. In the world-famous "Battle of Changping" hundreds of years ago, the Qin and Zhao sides each mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops for a long-term standoff. In such a brutal and protracted war, the supply of grain and grass was easily interrupted. Due to the logistical constraints during the war, tens of thousands of soldiers could not eat cooked food, so they had to eat raw rice and noodles, resulting in insufficient physical strength.

In desperation, a sergeant had no intention of pressing the dough into his helmet, placing it on the fire, and roasting it a little. Baked into a cake, it is actually crispy and delicious! This bread is thin-edged, thick-hearted, and superficial, and can cope with hunger, and can survive for a long time, and is favored and appreciated by everyone. Because it is baked with a helmet, it is shaped like a helmet, so it is said: "pot helmet".

The battlefield of the Battle of Changping. It is in Shangdang County, near Taiyuan County. So, the practice of pot helmets. It is widely spread in the state. Due to the careful production, the batch of pot helmets that Du Feng asked people to make was not only mixed with enough salt to supplement the needs of the soldiers to sweat in battle, but also specially paired with dried meat and pickled vegetables as a side meal, and the quality was not high.

Even with the pickiness of the children of the Li family. This marching meal, although not delicious, can also be regarded as a unique flavor. While eating, Li Yan couldn't help but praise Du Feng, the county commander, for being "capable" a few times.

After a specially prepared breakfast, the morale of the boatmen and the county soldiers. I couldn't help but feel shocked. In the following hour, the speed of the convoy was twice as high as that of the night, so that it soon reached the landing site that Li Yan had chosen in advance.

The landing site chosen by Li Wei was near a settlement called "Shuibeili". Shuibeili is located on a hill at the waterside of "Zhaoyuqi", which is seven or eight zhang higher than the surrounding area, and just chokes the road from Zishi County to Pingtao County. From the soldier's point of view, this place is condescending, close to the water source, and is a good place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

What is even more powerful about Li Wei's plan is that although the area of Shuibeili is not large, it is enough to accommodate more than 1,000 soldiers to live in a short time. In particular, the place itself was surrounded by a wall, and when Li Xian's troops were on hold, there was no doubt that it could have an additional advantageous defense.

When the Taixing army invaded, that Haoqiang knew that with his strength, he would not be able to hold this place, so he withdrew into the county with the local residents. It was precisely because of Na Haoqiang's strong recommendation during the military discussion that Li Li would consider Shuibeili as an alternative location.

There are no wharves near Shuibeili. But with the draft of those small boats, you can just lean directly on the shore. When the first soldiers landed ashore, they were not hindered by any resistance. There are only a few heads poking out from the courtyard wall in Shuibeili, indicating that the Taixing army did not completely abandon this powerful stronghold.

When Li Yan set foot on the fixed land again, the first batch of Tunjun soldiers who landed had been reorganized. At this time, a thick cloud of smoke came out from the courtyard wall of Shuibeili, obviously conveying some kind of information to the surrounding Taixing army sentinels.

However, what the Tai marching army can do, that's the end of it. When Li Tan ordered the whole team to launch an attack on Shuibeili, the four or five Taihang soldiers stationed here rode on their horses and fled all the way without waiting for the officers and soldiers to engage the officers and soldiers.

Li Yan sent troops this time, but he failed to transport horses, and when he saw the enemy fleeing on horseback, he naturally had no choice. However, this is also expected for Li Wei. He asked his brother Li Tun to supervise the soldiers and carry the baggage he carried from the medium-sized flat-bottomed boat, while he himself entered Shuibeili first to conduct an on-the-spot assessment of the location that would be guarded in the coming period.

The population of Shuibeili is not large, and there are only more than 20 houses in it, with a total of more than 100 houses. Residents have largely moved out and vacated their premises. As long as you squeeze it, there are enough people in it to stay.

However, in Li Yan's plan, 2,000 people had to be stationed here in the end, so that he could be sure to hold it in the stern counterattack of the Taixing army.

Therefore, after seeing the interior of Shuibeili, Li Yan took a turn around the periphery of the courtyard wall, and began to instruct the soldiers who disembarked to build a small camp for 500 people in the direction of one south and one north outside the courtyard wall in Shuibeili. In this way, the three strongholds are at the corner of each other, and they have the advantage of being on a high position, and it should be easy to defend against twice the enemy's attack.

Before Li Yan's camp plan was completed, his brother Li Tun came over to report that all the heavy grain and grass had been unloaded. According to the plan in advance, next, Commander Li Tun will lead the fleet to and from Shuibeili and the temporary wharf. Before the Tai Xing army could react, Li Wei had to race against time to transport as many soldiers and supplies as possible to Shuibeili.

Moreover, throughout the course of the battle, the fleet had to travel back and forth between the two places from time to time to transport grain, grass and military supplies for Li Wei's army. If there is a chance, Li Tan asked his clan brothers to take advantage of the mobility of the water army to harass the front of the Taixing army. Thinking about the shallow foundation of the Aether March, there is no way to form a fleet in a short period of time to compete with the officers and soldiers.

If the fleet can successfully complete these tasks, according to the evaluation of the clan brother Li Tuan and the county commander Du Feng, Li Tunchang will have the first credit for winning this battle!

With this credit, Li Tunchang believes that in a few years, he will be able to have the current status of his brother Li Yan. This is already an extremely desirable prospect for Li Tunchang, who is not a descendant of the Li family in Jinyang.

For the bright future of the future, Li Tunchang did not hesitate to spend his money. No, the military salary of 1,200 yuan plus one stone of rice grain per boatman received from the county temple was deducted by Li Tunchang for the first time in one person, and the rest of the money and grain were really distributed to those boatmen!

The second trip went even more smoothly than the first. Not only did the fleet move faster, but even the two small boats that had fallen behind last night managed to keep up. In less than four hours, Li Tunchang completed his second round trip, bringing new personnel and supplies to the Shuibeili camp.

When the second batch of 500 county soldiers arrived in Shuibeili, the county soldiers who came first had already dug most of the ravines in the outer ring of the two camps, one south and one north. By the time the third batch of county soldiers arrived, the defense line in Shuibeili must have been constructed, which was enough to make the Taixing army who reacted suffer a big hardship.

After unloading, the returning fleet was obviously much brisker because it was not carrying people and cargo.

By this time, the sun had set in the west, and it was almost time for dinner. Li Tunchang got into the cabin of a medium-sized flat-bottomed boat, took out a bottle of wine and some cooked meat from a hidden compartment, and beckoned Dogfish Cheng to sit down and share. The two of them ate, drank and chatted like this, and spent the waiting time for the return flight.

Anyway, the Taixing army is an army, and there is no enemy on the water. It's daylight again, and it's a waterway again, and the two leaders of the navy are not worried about what will happen.

However, is it true that there will be no accidents on this waterway as the two expected?

The answer is no.

When a personal soldier of Commander Li Tun broke into the cabin in a panic and reported to the two that there was an unknown fleet that suddenly appeared on the channel, the faces of Commander Li Tun and Dogfish Cheng were immediately written with panic and incredulity.

"Where did the enemy come from?"

Drilling out of the cabin and seeing more than 20 small clippers suddenly appearing in front of him, Li Tunchang couldn't help but ask.

These boats, which suddenly burst out of the reeds, were loaded with armor men armed with swords and crossbows. Seeing this scene, how can anyone not know that these intruders are friends and foes?

"It's a walker! Oh my God! ”

Walking is the name of a small military ship in the world.

Although Dogyu Cheng is a water thief, after all, he has been mixed in the water for so long. He has also been to the southern region and seen the regular navy of the Han Dynasty, and he is a well-informed figure on the water surface of Bingzhou.

Although the style of the small boat in front of you is not much different from that of civilian ships, it is equipped with basic anti-arrow baffles and mats, which is a typical military ship. Moreover, the relatively narrow hull is obviously in pursuit of higher sailing speed. Such a ship, in the mouth of those big Han sailors in the south, is called a boat! (To be continued......)