The officers and men who crossed Weishan Lake at night originally went straight to the north shore in their boats, but when they reached the halfway point, they strayed into a patch of broken lotus stems, and the officers and men thought that they had arrived at the north shore, but they felt that it was wrong to calculate the distance and time; The two boats rowed forward, but suddenly in the darkness, the arrows burst into a hornet's nest.

The soldiers on the other boat jumped into the water urgently, and with the cover of the side of the boat, the wolf was out of the range of the arrows, and at the same time issued a warning to the reconnaissance ships behind them not to approach. The officers and soldiers on the other boats did not dare to get any closer, but they slowly checked from a distance, and found that it was a huge island in the middle of the lake, and the island was actually full of thieves.

Song Nan, who received the news, didn't know whether to be happy or scolded, and his own governor was also so-so, leading troops to fight and actually knowing the terrain of the battle. A small circle in the Weishan Lake was indeed seen on the military map, but no one marked the name on it, and no one in the accompanying group reminded it, and no one mentioned it, which became a big joke.

The good news is that the thieves did not land on the north bank, and the states and counties on the north bank were safe for a while; The bad news is that the thieves occupy the island in the middle of the lake like the heroes of Liangshan, if they are naturally not afraid in the future, they will level this island in minutes, but this is in the Ming Dynasty, they don't even have decent warships on hand, how to deal with the thieves entrenched on the island?

Why the thieves landed on the island in the middle of the lake instead of choosing to flee to the north shore to break out of the siege, this Song Nan is very puzzling, because no matter how steep this island in the middle of the lake is, it is obviously unwise to choose to defend here, because it is difficult for officers and soldiers to besiege the entire Nansi Lake, but it is still very simple to besiege a small island, even if the waterless division is here, Song Nan does not feel that there is nowhere to go.

After dawn, Song Nan personally boarded the boat to check, this time Song Nan learned to be obedient, brought the local fishermen to go with him, and listened to the old fisherman chatter about the situation of this Weishan Island.

The area of Weishan Island is really not small, more than 178 miles long from east to west, about 10 miles wide from north to south, tens of thousands of people are enough to be stationed, and the old fisherman said that there is not only the former residence of Weishan Lake, the famous minister of the Shang Dynasty, but also the tomb of Zhang Liang, the good minister of the Han Dynasty. The topography of this island is not very dangerous, the north is high and the south is low, there are actually mountain peaks standing in the north of the island, although it is not precipitous, the altitude seems to be only more than 100 meters, but if you want to land the island from the north cliff is still impossible.

The terrain of the east also belongs to the mountains, the water is more than ten zhang of cliffs, so it is difficult to break through, and the west and south have the shallows of sediment accumulation, the people on the island are planted in the shallows according to local conditions, and over time they spread all over the place, and every summer day it has become a beautiful scene; But this brought about another problem: the ships could not land directly on the shore, and all the people had to abandon the boat and wade through the water three or four miles from the edge of the island, and the spikes on the rotting branches of the lotus would make the trekking suffer.

The people of the island naturally opened up small docks for boats to dock, and there were two small docks in the south of the island, but it was obvious that it was impossible to land directly from these opened waterways, and the thieves would defend these places since they occupied the island.

Listening to the old fisherman babbling about the situation of Weishan Island, Song Nan's boat also circled Weishan Island almost a circle from a distance, what he saw and heard was exactly what the old fisherman said, Song Nan's head flowed a few black lines, and when he was thinking about how to break through this island, he suddenly heard Hou Dabiao on the boat in front of him shouting: "Turn around, the thieves are chasing you." Fuck. ”

Song Nan hurriedly looked, only to see that dozens of small boats had sailed out of the island, and they were chasing this side violently, clearly looking at Song Nan's side, only four or five small boats were approaching and watching, and they wanted to teach them a lesson.

Song Nan was depressed to death, and while scolding, he ordered to turn around and leave, but he was chased by thieves and chased by his buttocks, which was unimaginable.

Leaving several reconnaissance ships to monitor the movements on the island from afar, Song Nan returned to the camp on the south bank to convene the generals to discuss.

Lu Wan was determined to make up for his mistakes this time, and he was the first to ask for orders: "Governor Dadu, wait for the Xuzhou soldiers and horses to come tomorrow with the ferry of three hundred Feiyun Ferry, and I am willing to take the lead in taking Weishan Island, and capture the bandit leader Liu Liu alive and present it to my lords." ”

Xu Tai rolled his eyes and said: "Lord Lu, everything is your first share, this will be my Xu Tai to lead the troops, last time you asked you to lead 4,000 cavalry to block the way of the thieves, you are good, you are dizzy, almost broke the big thing, this time you just stand aside." ”

Lu Wanzi puffed up and wanted to argue, he was the only one in the army who was not Song Nan's descendant, but he was not angry, and the Metropolitan Governor gave him a chance but almost messed things up.

Song Nan waved his hand and said, "That incident has passed, what is the old man doing?" However, when Xu Tai said this, I remembered that there were still 3,000 remnants of thieves in Zhaoyang Lake, and I didn't know if there was any news. ”

Xu Taidao: "I was about to report to the Governor of Dadu that I found its traces in the Nanyang Lake Wetland, and it seems that I want to go west; These 3,000 thieves are estimated to be half dead when they climb out of the lake, and it's not too late to turn around and clean them up, the main force of the thieves is on Weishan Island, and the thief leader Liu Liubi is here, so let's solve it here first. ”

Song Nan thought for a while and said: "Although the three thousand remnants are not worried, they are also keeping an eye on them, they can't just let them go ashore, it is best to be sealed in the lake, and the weather will become colder and colder after ten days, they naturally can't stay in the lake, anyway, there is no island in Nanyang Lake, right?" ”

Xu Tai said honestly: "This ...... Don't hide it, there is a Nanyang Island. ”

"Huh?" Song Nan almost went crazy, frowned and thought about it: "Lu Wan, I ordered you to take three thousand soldiers and horses to the north and find the whereabouts of those three thousand thieves; If you also land on a small island, I will allow you to mobilize the troops and horses of the Shenwu Guard and the Yingzhou Guard on the north shore to surround it; As long as you take care of the thieves and don't let them go ashore and escape, the governor of Pontus will be considered a meritorious service. ”

Although Lu Wan was reluctant, he also knew that he had nothing to do with attacking Weishan Island this time, but after all, he was unwilling, and asked: "If there is a chance, will you order an attack?" ”

Song Nan nodded and said, "The task I gave you is to keep an eye on them, and you are not allowed to go ashore, and you can do the rest at your own discretion." ”

Lu Wan was overjoyed, since the Metropolitan Governor did not object, and he was able to mobilize the remnants of the Shenwu Guard and the Yingzhou Guard on the north bank, then how could he annihilate these 3,000 people, and he would not dare to underestimate them.

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Although it was a correct decision to retreat to Weishan Lake, it was not easy for the thieves led by Liu Liu to live in the past ten days; Caught by a fire of the officers and soldiers, he lost his hiding place on the south bank, and Liu Liu had to admit that the officers and soldiers were ruthless in leading the troops this time.

However, before the officers and soldiers did this immoral deed, at least Liu Liu had time to rob dozens of fishing boats from the fishing villages on the shore, and he also had time to make thousands of simple reed boats with reed poles; Fishing boats are used to load grain, which is the lifeline, while reed boats are used to carry people, and at this time, food is more important than people.

When a fire burned on the south bank of Weishan Lake, Liu Liu ordered everyone to board the reed boats that would sink at any time and evacuate to the north shore.

On the night of crossing the lake, all the thieves were cold in their hearts, although there were raging flames behind them, but they could not warm their cold hearts, many soldiers drowned in the lake halfway without obeying the call, and the straw boat gradually sank slowly due to the lack of buoyancy due to the full water; Just when Liu Liu thought that all the people were going to be buried in the icy waters of this Weishan Lake, someone found a life-saving straw, which was the island in the middle of the lake.

Liu Liu knew that without a ship, he didn't want to reach the other side, and could only go ashore on the island, so he ordered the soldiers to go ashore immediately; Wading through the chest-deep shallows, and the hands and feet were bloodstained by lotus leaf stalks, more than 20,000 thieves landed on the island in the middle of the lake like ants, and the nightmare of the hundreds of residents of this island began, and the thieves almost killed the people on the island.

Liu Liu soon discovered that the island was in a good position for defense, and only a small number of archers were stationed on high cliffs to the north and east to prevent officers and soldiers from landing on the island; To the south and west, on the other hand, there are shoals and mudflats formed by miscellaneous lotus leaves, stems and weeds, and the officers and men who want to land on the island have to pay the risk of being exposed to bow and arrow fire. If you can build some wall-like fortifications in the south of the island, it will be an excellent place to defend.

However, Liu Liu's scheming is very incomparable, he summoned Liu Hui to inform Liu Hui, one of the five tiger generals, of the various benefits of the island, Liu Hui was naturally overjoyed, and dreamed of occupying the mountain as the king and sitting in the second place.

Liu Liu took the opportunity to propose that Liu Hui and his soldiers immediately start building the fortified city wall, and he wanted to attract thousands of brothers scattered in Zhaoyang Lake to this island to defend the island together.

Although Liu Hui was a little puzzled, this kind of thing only needs to send a small leader to do it, why should Liu Liu go to the danger in person, but the explanation given by Liu Liu almost made Liu Hui cry: "Brother, the brothers in Zhaoyang Lake acted as a death squad because they wanted to cover us and wait for us to enter Weishan Lake, and now that we have found an excellent defensive foothold, how can I not personally lead them back?" This is my Liu Liu's righteousness, understand? ”

Liu Hui's eyes moistened and said: "Tianshuai is really a benevolent and righteous person, I, Liu Hui, followed you to rebel, with the benevolence and righteousness of Tianshuai, there will be a day when we will occupy the capital and ascend to Dabao in the future." ”

Liu Liu laughed, patted Liu Hui on the shoulder, and appointed him as the acting generalissimo of the soldiers and horses in front of all the leaders, with jurisdiction over all the soldiers and horses on the island, and then boarded a small boat and left Weishan Island at night.