The sound of killing shook the sky, and the thieves were like a tide.

From the top of the city, you can see that more than a dozen bandits of various sizes are attacking along the canal and from the outer edge of the city wall, they hardly have any flags, but you can see from the clothes they wear and the weapons they hold, these are all water bandits from Fanliang Lake and White Horse Lake.

The two weapons of the plate knife and the water splitting spur are the most versatile, as well as harpoons and halberds

Gaoyou City, where only one battalion of defenders was stationed, never thought that after the ant thieves had already gone south, the water bandits of Fan Liang Lake and Baima Lake would dare to launch an offensive against Gaoyou City, which was beyond imagination.

In the past, although the water bandits of Fanliang Lake and Baima Lake did not cause much trouble and trouble to the canal, at most they robbed merchant ships and grain ships, and basically did not dare to confront the officials and soldiers head-on.

More than 2,000 water thieves launched an attack from several directions, and they also ambushed the inner line in Gaoyou City, and launched suddenly, which immediately made the water gate in the west lose its defense, and a large number of small boats rushed into the city along the water gate and began to ransack.

Fortunately, the garrison army also reacted quickly and immediately launched a block along the waterway.

The combat effectiveness of the water thieves ashore is greatly reduced, even if there is only one battalion of the East Navy, Wang Zhen is still very confident, but there are too many water thieves, and it is painstaking to completely eliminate these water thieves and avoid damage to Gaoyou City to the greatest extent.

Wang Zhen personally led a group of men and horses along the waterway to fight against the water thieves who drove a small boat into the city to land and loot, and after killing more than a dozen water thieves in one go, the momentum of the water thieves was contained.

And his own deputy firmly resisted the attack of nearly a thousand water thieves under the city wall on the city wall, with two hundred Eastern Navy and a battalion of garrisons, as well as some of the private troops quickly organized in the city to help resist the slightly chaotic attack of the water thieves, Wang Zhen felt that it should not be a big problem.

The trouble now is that the thieves who have infiltrated the city have caused chaos in the city, and once the situation in the city is in chaos, the private soldiers that the gentry had promised to draw will quickly retreat back to defend their own property, which is the greatest danger.

Wang Zhen has already sent a warning signal to Yangzhou, and it is believed that the navy from Yangzhou will soon be able to arrive quickly.

There were two houses and shops in front of them that were on fire, and there were still cries for help in the houses, and inside and outside the shops, all kinds of silk and cloth were scattered on the ground, and an old man who looked like an account room fell to the ground on his back, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

Wang Zhen ignored it, and instead directed the sergeant to look around for the water thieves who might be alone.

A corpse fell to the threshold, the door was still stained with blood, and a brazier was overturned and fell to the ground.

This is obviously the evil of the water thieves in order to make a breakthrough as soon as possible to create chaos, this time is the dry season, once the city is on fire, it is easy to cause a series of fires.

Thinking of this, Wang Zhen couldn't help but secretly scold, these water thieves who should have been settled down after the ant thieves went south, and they didn't provoke them, how could they suddenly start tossing again? Could it be that they are short of food?

Wang Zhen also couldn't understand for a while, they should also rob the canal when they were short of food, how could they take such a big risk to storm Gaoyou City? This is not in line with their style.

Caught off guard, the water thieves' inner should suddenly open the water gate of the West City, so that the water thief boats ambushed outside poured into dozens of boats, the large one of these small boats can carry more than ten people, and the small ones can also carry five or six people, two or three hundred water thieves poured into the city, plus the hidden internal response, can immediately create a big chaos in the city.

The question is, what does this mean for the water thieves?

Creating chaos does not mean that they will be able to take Gaoyou City, as soon as the navy from Yangzhou arrives, they will become the turtle in the urn, if it is just a simple robbery, their way is even more than worth the loss, which makes Wang Zhen even more puzzled.

There is definitely something here that he didn't expect, Wang Zhen is also a veteran of the Eastern Navy, and he has fought countless times with ant thieves, and he has accumulated combat merits and has been promoted to the current position of battalion commander, so he can naturally smell that the smell here is wrong.

When things go wrong, there must be demons.

These bandits from Fan Liang Lake and White Horse Lake can survive the previous conquests and suppressions of the Wu State Water Army, of course, there is a way to survive, they will not confront the official army head-on unless they have to, not to mention this kind of siege warfare that will obviously suffer huge losses, once the Wu State Water Army cuts off the way back, it will be the result of the death of the clan, but this kind of thing actually happened.

And from today's battle situation, it can be seen that the water bandits of Fan Liang Lake and Baima Lake are definitely pouring out, only from the scale and offensive strength can be seen, the two water thieves basically did not leave much spare strength, that is, they are sacrificing their lives and forgetting to die in the crazy attack, which has brought considerable casualties to their own defense of the city, and the chaos in the city has also greatly limited their ability to control the situation, if the naval army from Yangzhou can not arrive quickly, even if these water bandits can not capture Gaoyou City, Gaoyou City will also suffer a catastrophe.

You must know that in the ordinary joint operation of many bandits, Wang Zhen knew very well that these bandits would go to the advantage and give way when they saw difficulties, and it was impossible for this strange phenomenon of the two bandits rushing to attack, and this also increased the anxiety in Wang Zhen's heart.

Wang Zhen has a hunch that there is definitely some reason behind this that he doesn't know, and who can make these water bandits cooperate and even attack at any cost?

Just when Wang Zhen was restless in his heart, the Third Army of the Wu State Water Army, which had received a call for help, had already quickly attacked from Shao Bo and came quickly to the north.

The Wu Navy had a total of nine armies, including the First Army and the Second Army stationed in Chuzhou, the Third Army and the Fourth Army stationed in Yangzhou, the Fifth Army stationed in Jiangning, the Sixth Army stationed in Dantu, the Seventh Army stationed in Wuxi, and the Eighth Army and the Ninth Army stationed in Taihu Lake.

This time, Li Yu transferred the Second Army of the Navy stationed in Chuzhou and the main force of the infantry army stationed in Chuyang to the south of the Yangtze River, in order to quickly defeat the ant thieves and completely solve the threat of the ant thieves to Runchang Erzhou.

The governor of the Wu State Navy is Li Yu's third son Li Jingsui Yaoling, the actual military affairs are in charge of the deputy governor of the Navy Zhou Ye, Zhou Ye is the son of Zhou Ben, accustomed to water warfare, has always been personally in Yangzhou, but Zhou Ben has always opposed Li Yu, and then died of grief in Yangzhou, Zhou Ye's position of deputy governor of the Navy was also removed, idle at home, the military affairs of the Navy and Yangzhou defense are all in charge of Li Yu's eldest son Li Jingtong.

The worry between his eyebrows still lingered, and Gao Hongchuan sighed softly.

The river wind blows strongly, but Gao Hongchuan does not feel comfortable at all, the water bandits of Fan Liang Lake and White Horse Lake have been in trouble for decades, and they have come back to life, and in the past ten years, they have relied on Fan Liang Lake and White Horse Lake to respond to each other, so that the Wu State Navy has not been able to really cut off these water thieves.

Fortunately, these water thieves are also some interesting characters, and they rarely have direct confrontation with the official army, so they can only be regarded as ringworm scabies, but as the ant thieves went south, these water bandits became elbows and armpits because of the entanglement of the ant thieves, until the ant thieves crossed the river in a big way, but these water bandits did not follow the ant thieves to the south, but returned to Fanliang Lake and Baima Lake to hibernate, and now the Wu State Water Army does not have too much energy to exterminate these guys, so they can only let it breed.

Gao Hongchuan also wrote several times, asking to guard against this gang of water bandits who may become a big trouble at any time, especially when Jiangbei is seriously short of troops, and it is necessary to be more careful, but the heart is that the governor of Zhou Ye was demoted, and the power of the navy is actually in the hands of Li Jingtong, the eldest son of the king, so there is no follow-up.

Of course, Gao Hongchuan also knew that even if the above agreed with his opinion, Wu Guo did not have the strength to exterminate this gang of water bandits, as long as this gang of water bandits did not come out to make trouble, drag on for a period of time, and wait until the Jiangnan matter was settled, before he could draw his strength to deal with this gang of water thieves.

In fact, after the ant thieves went south, Wu Guo's side also went to appease the water bandits in Fanliang Lake and Baima Lake, it is said that these water bandits were also a little moved at that time, but I don't know why these water bandits were silent again, Wu Jun's side was also helpless, so he could only maintain a high degree of vigilance, but he didn't expect that the water bandits that Gao Hongchuan had been worried about really launched an attack on Gaoyou City today.

Gao Hongchuan doesn't think that the water bandits have the strength to attack the city, you say that they set up an ambush on the canal to fight the autumn wind and engage in raids, Gao Hongchuan believes it, but to say that it is impossible to attack a county town and it is a big city, so Gao Hongchuan was also extremely surprised by the call for help from Gaoyou, if it weren't for the person who came to ask for help was a familiar person in the Eastern Navy, he would definitely not believe it.

The garrison of the Third Army is Shao Bo, which is only more than ten miles away from Yangzhou City, and the main defense is the canal, of course, including Gaoyou City, but with the Second Army of the Navy stationed in Chuzhou being transferred south, the Third Army also has to undertake the defense of the canal including the line of Anyi in Chuzhou, which is also quite a huge pressure on the Third Army.

Shao Bo is not far from Gaoyou, which is also the reason why Gao Hongchuan is puzzled, the water bandits in Fan Liang Lake and Baima Lake of course know that the main force of the Third Army is stationed in Shao Bo, except for a battalion of the Navy Army patrolling the front line of Anyi for a long time, the remaining four battalions are stationed in Shao Bo, once something happens, the main force of the Third Army can quickly arrive, just dozens of miles of waterway, for the Navy fleet, it is not a problem at all, just a few hours, and Gao Hongchuan does not believe that Wang Zhen will not be able to hold even a few hours.

What is the point of the water thieves' actions? Are they killing themselves? Or are they supported by some other force?

Thinking of this, Gao Hongchuan's heart became more and more nervous,

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