The third batch of warships arrived in Pengze County, and at this time there were nearly 500 large and small Sui warships and 30,000 sailors on the river in Pengze County. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In a transoceanic boat, more than a dozen generals and several civilian officials gathered together to listen to the final battle plan deployed by the commander Zhang Xuan.

In the wide cabin, there is a sand table three zhang long and two zhang wide, which is a temporary model of Poyang Lake, although the workmanship is relatively rough and not accurate, but it is also for everyone to make a more intuitive combat deployment.

More than a dozen generals gathered around the model, grinding their fists one by one, eager to try, Zhang Xuan pointed at Qigong Island with a wooden pole and said: "According to the latest information, the enemy's naval army is currently hidden in the inner lake of Qigong Island, which is also the nest of Lin Shihong's naval army, which has been built for many years and has a very complete range of facilities. ”

"May I ask the commander, how many warships does the enemy army currently have?" Zhu Kuan, a general who had just arrived at Pengze Lake, asked.

"They have a total of more than 700 large and small ships, of which more than 200 are cargo ships, and now they are anchored in Yuzhang County, not in Poyang Lake, and the remaining 500 warships were heavily damaged by us in Pengze before, and there are still about 350 ships, 70% of them are small boats of about 500 stones, and there are about 90 thousand stone warships, this is more accurate information, specific combat plans, I asked the old general to deploy."

Zhang Xuan handed the wooden pole to Laihu'er, who pointed to Qigong Island with a wooden pole and said: "Although Qigong Island is relatively hidden, it is difficult to find it when hiding in it, and you can also avoid the winds and waves that often occur in Poyang Lake, but everything has advantages and disadvantages, the thief warship is hiding in Qigong Island, and at the same time, it is also putting itself in a desperate situation, once the exit is blocked by the enemy, it is easy to annihilate the whole army in the inner lake, I think we can use this terrain to annihilate all the thieves and sailors in Qigong Island." ”

Next to him, Zhou bowed and saluted: "Old general, I think the thief army should be on guard at this point and will not let themselves be in a desperate situation." ”

"That's true, so the thief army built a beacon on Sanshan Island more than thirty miles away, once Sanshan Island found our main force, they will immediately raise fire to inform Qigong Island, in addition, Qigong Island has also built thirteen guard towers to observe the water situation, even if we evade the surveillance of Sanshan Island, we will be discovered by the sentry tower on the island, which shows that they also know where their weaknesses are, but they are not invulnerable, to achieve my plan, the key is to have a proper strategy."

Lai Hu'er glanced at the generals and said, "I'll talk about it specifically, what should we do?" ”

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About five miles south of Pengze Lake, there is a small river that flows east-west, this small river has no name because it is too small, it originates in Xin'an County, and finally flows southwest into Poyang Lake, the small river is less than two zhang wide, and it cannot sail large warships, but can only sail small boats under 300 stones.

Just after Zhang Xuan made the decision to fight a decisive battle at Poyang Lake, nearly 50,000 Tang troops began to act, and they needed to dig a five-mile long canal to connect Pengze Lake, where the Sui army is currently located, with this unnamed small river.

Although the canal is five miles long, but the amount of work is not huge, the terrain in this area is low-lying, the land is soft, it is very easy to dig, and the Sui army only needs to dig a shallow ditch, 50,000 Sui soldiers work together, it only took three days, this five-mile long artificial canal was successfully completed.

On the afternoon of the completion of the canal, more than 100 500-stone worm boats set off from Pengze County, and under the pull of the soldiers, they sailed along the artificial canal to the small river five miles away.

At the same time, the warships of the Sui army almost poured out, and 400 warships, large and small, sailed along the Yangtze River towards the mouth of Poyang Lake.

Pengze County is about more than 100 miles away from the mouth of Poyang Lake, and the Sui warships arrived at the mouth of the lake after sailing for half a day, but they are not in a hurry to enter the lake, but wait patiently for news, Lai Hu'er is an extremely experienced veteran, he knows that Lin Shihong has been operating Poyang Lake for more than ten years, and will never easily trap himself in the inner lake of Qigong Island, they must have deployed a large number of early warning spies in various places in the lake, which is unguardable, once a large army is coming, they will immediately sail out of the inner lake, and will not give the enemy any chance.

Therefore, the other Worm fleet is the key to the success of this operation, and Laihu'er needs to get the news before he can start the operation.

Standing on the big boat and looking at the mouth of the lake, the mouth of the lake is dozens of miles wide and sparkling, and Laihuer can understand why Lin Zhengwei retreated the naval army to Poyang Lake and fought a decisive battle with the Sui army in Poyang Lake.

Because the Yangtze River is only a dozen miles wide and the activity area is not large, it is relatively easy for flexible and mobile boats to suffer, but Poyang Lake is different, even if they can't beat it, they can quickly evacuate and escape.

At this time, a soldier hurriedly stepped forward and reported: "Old General Qi, General Qu has caught a exploration ship." ”

Laihu'er was in good spirits, and hurriedly ordered: "Bring me quickly!" ”

Not long after, a young general walked up quickly, the soldiers behind the two thieves, the young general is about 20 years old, called Qu Wu, is an eagle Yang Lang general, this is also the characteristics of Zhang Xuan's army, do not look at qualifications, only talk about military merits, so a large number of young generals from a poor family stand out, there are a lot of 20 Xiao Lang generals, 40 old captains of the phenomenon, Qu Wu was born in poverty, he joined the army at the age of 16, brave and good at fighting, not afraid of death, so he repeatedly made military exploits, at the age of 20 he was promoted to the Eagle Yang Lang general.

On this expedition to Lin Shihong, he was ordered to lead more than 100 sentinel ships to block the mouth of Poyang Lake to strictly prevent enemy spies from entering the Yangtze River.

Qu Wu stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and saluted, "Qu Wu see the old general!" ”

"General Qu is exempt!"

Lai Hu'er asked with concern, "What kind of sentry ship did you catch?" ”

"Old General Qiqi, this is a sentinel ship that has just returned from Pengze County, there are five people in total, they were intercepted by our ambushed ships while they were driving along the shore, three of them were shot dead and two were captured alive."

Qu Wu turned around and ordered, "Bring it up!" ”

The two thieves were escorted up, knelt down and begged for mercy, and came to Hu'er to squat down and say to them: "If you want to live, give me an honest explanation, if I find out that you have half a lie afterwards, I will kill you and sacrifice the flag!" ”

"We don't dare."

"Let me ask you, how many ships have been sent to Pengze County, and how many more have come back to report the news?"

"Altogether.... Five ships were sent to Pengze County to investigate, and as is customary, three ships continued to stay behind to investigate, and two ships came back to report the news, and we were one of them. ”

"Where else is it?"

Lai Hu'er suddenly became nervous, if the enemy army learned of the large-scale dispatch of the Sui army, it was likely that he would not stay in the inner lake of Qigong Island.

"We don't know, but we're the first sentinel ship to come back and report the news."

Laihu'er stood up and said, "Take them down and continue to interrogate them strictly!" ”

The soldier took the two spies down, and Laihu'er pondered for a moment before saying to Qu Wu: "To strengthen the interception at the mouth of the lake, be sure to intercept another sentry ship!" ”

"Obey the order!"

Qu Wu saluted, retreated, came to Hu'er pondered for a moment, and wrote a warrant for his soldiers to give Qi Liang an order, the mouth of the lake is too big and may not be able to block it, and it is necessary to block another river, no matter what, it must intercept another sentry thief ship.

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There are hundreds of tributaries of Poyang Lake, the largest tributary is Ganshui, followed by the larger tributaries Yishui, Xiushui, Poyang Water and so on, but more are countless unknown small rivers, only from the east into the Poyang Lake small tributaries there are as many as thirteen.

One of the small rivers quietly flows into Poyang County from a forest, even fishermen do not pay attention to its existence, the most important feature of this tributary is that it makes a bend to the north, only five miles from Pengze Lake, but does not flow into Pengze Lake, just rubs the edge and continues to wind south, and finally flows into Poyang Lake.

In the deep night, a fleet also quietly sailed out of the small river and entered Poyang Lake, this fleet was the southern assault team of the Sui Army's naval division, they were ordered to approach Qigong Island from the southeast, the fleet entered Poyang Lake intermittently, the hull was very narrow and long, and the thirty crew members rowed their oars at the same time, extremely fast, like a worm running fast on the water.

Judging from the initial information, there are no guard towers on more than a dozen islands in the southeast, and judging from common sense, the threat of Qigong Island also comes from the north, so Laihu'er has to bet that this time, the Worm fleet will not be discovered by enemy guard towers on the way to Qigong Island from the east.

Of course, an unfounded bet can only be called luck, and the bet of a real celebrity is to bet on the remaining half of the unknown under the certainty of 90%.

Laihuer knows that there is a passage more than ten miles wide on the lake in the southeast, and there are no islands on this channel, and there is no fixed watchtower.

Zhou Meng stood on the bow of the first ship, watching the movement on the lake with all his attention, the lake was very quiet, and there was no shadow of any enemy sentry boats, not even fishing boats.

At the time of the third watch, the fleet safely arrived at the uninhabited island about three miles away from Qigong Island, and they hid behind the uninhabited island, watching the entrance of Qigong Island from afar, near the entrance, there were more than a dozen sentinel ships patrolling back and forth.

Zhou Meng observed for a moment, and then said to the two water ghosts who had explored Qigong Island before: "You go to the mouth of the lake immediately and tell the old general that you can enter the lake." (To be continued.) )