Zhen Jie explored Yuting Town at night, not only found out the enemy's situation, but also found the two apprentices that Lin Baotong secretly accepted, and got a lot of valuable news from them.

But he didn't return from the enemy platform of West No. 1 (northwest corner circle) as agreed, and the judge hero Suo Tiangang found that Tatehuazi had sent someone out of the camp, so he quietly followed him, so he knew where the sentinel went, what he saw, and which path he took.

"In this way, it must be that Tatehanako heard the iron knife say that Nancheng's defense was weak, and he was in a hurry because he was short of military rations and demoralized, so he was moved."

Han An slapped his hands and smiled, "It seems that this time it is his turn to shout: I fell for Li Sanlang again!" The crowd laughed.

"The eagerness to break the city and change morale is indeed his weakness!" Li Dan told everyone: "Only by grasping the weak underbelly and beating hard, can you still indulge or be merciful to the enemy?" Then he turned to Shen Jie:

"The news brought back by the judge is very important, at least we know a few things: the enemy is demoralized, and even the generals are beginning to feel war-weary.

So if we make him suffer another big loss in this battle of the South Gate, will the voice of their internal retreat come out public?"

Juan Jie nodded and said, "Quite possibly! Now everyone is still in the way of face, and the descendants such as the wine trough account for the majority, and others dare not speak out. But it's hard to say if you lose another game."

"My lord, didn't you say that the officers and soldiers could cooperate? Shall we talk to Poyang and make an appointment to act together?" Master Ba asked softly.

He was still a little worried, even if he won, he would only defeat the opponent, and if he couldn't do all the annihilation, then there would still be a lot of remaining enemies. The regiment has more than enough training to defend the city, and it may be possible to fight in the field.

"That's right!" Li Dan nodded, then turned to Zhao Jingzi: "I will write a letter and ask Zhou Qin to immediately send 'Hot Wheels No. 1 to Poyang!'"

Chen Sanwen trial-produced a wide-body animal-powered waterwheel boat, which was about 200 materials (nearly 50 tons of displacement calculated by the method of the previous life), and the middle part was 1 zhang 4 feet wide at its widest point and 5 zhang 8 feet long.

Slightly wider and shorter than the sailor's river cruiser. The head tip and tail are narrow, and the bottom is oblique and flat, which has both wave-breaking and inland river seaworthiness.

There are two floors in the aft building, with a pilot, a helmsman (responsible for the direction and the clutch of forward, steering, and retreating) and a pilot (i.e., the captain), two pole operators (poles, sails and lookouts), and two donkeys (can be replaced).

The principle is similar to that of a donkey in the north, driving the left and right wheels of the waterwheel to move through gears, and the speed is four times that of an ordinary one-man fishing boat!

The first trial voyage frightened Zhou Qin, an old connoisseur on the water, and sat on the shore for a long time after getting off the boat before sighing and saying that this is simply Nezha stepping on the Hot Wheels, and since then this type of ship has its own nickname - Hot Wheels Type A.

A total of four ships were built, which were mainly used for short-distance transportation of supplies and the delivery of messengers. Zhou Qin sent one each in Leijiawan, Santang Town, Hakumadu, and Lake Biwa according to Li Dan, and it was only for official use.

Because it was so fast that even the fastest ships of the lake bandits could not catch up with it, they were not equipped with weapons other than knives, spears, shields, and crossbows for personal self-defense.

As he was talking, Li Biao came in, raised a folded piece of paper in his hand and said loudly: "My lord, the Gaojiawan Inspection Department has come to report that the enemy Mao Taigong's headquarters suddenly moved this morning, except for a few hundred people left, the rest of the brigade left the camp and came to the west!"

"Hah!" Zhao Jingzi clapped his hands: "I bet, this is Tatehanako concentrating his forces, and he feels that he is running out of manpower!"

Li Dan walked to the door and called Lu Jiu in, and asked him, "If Tatehuazi transfers Mao Taigong to take the main force elsewhere, and a few people continue to watch the movements of Leijiawan, which leader do you think is most likely to stay and lead the team?"

Lu Jiu opened his mouth wide and thought, "That might be Han Bazi!"

"Who is Han Bazi?" No one had ever heard of this man.

"He is the leader of Dushan Lingzhou, and there are only 200 men under his command. It seems that his original name was Qin Han, and he was sent to the Fujian Army to fill the army when he committed an accident, so everyone called him Han Bazi.

Because of his meritorious service in fighting the Japanese invaders, his commander helped him get rid of his crime and make a small banner.

Nine years ago, the commander committed suicide in anger after being falsely accused for some reason.

Han Bazi led more than 20 people to kill the man who falsely accused the commander, and was sentenced to 30 years in prison by the government.

He volunteered to go to the mine to dig and his sentence was reduced to fifteen years. Then somehow he was caught by an official and transferred him to work as a foreman in the ironworks.

The official was transferred to Wuyuan and brought him with him, and the next year he was very unlucky to encounter a mine trouble, and the official was killed, and it is said that he did it.

Han Bazi couldn't say clearly, so he had to flee, and after coming and going, he entered the lake."

When everyone heard this, they all said how could there be such an unlucky person in the world? Han An looked at Li Dan and half-jokingly said:

"Even so, it can be seen that he still has some ability, otherwise how can he always be promoted by his boss? It's a pity that his numerology is ominous, and he seems to be a little jealous of his boss, so he has to get mixed up in this step in the end."

Li Dan didn't continue the topic, he walked back and forth twice, stood in front of Lu Jiu and asked, "What is this person's character? How's it going? Does Ah Jiu understand?"

"This person is not intimate with anyone, faintly. But the 200 men under his command are all selected good men, and they never mess around." Lu Jiu said:

"Maybe it's because he has done it in the official army, but he occasionally has a humble position (Lu Jiu is now a long man. So he calls himself a lowly officer) to talk a few words, and rarely speaks to others.

Oh, and there's a strange thing about this guy who never gets close to women, but I don't know why?"

"Then why did you conclude that the Mao Tai Guild would keep him?"

"Steady." Lu Jiu said, "One of the seven leaders was killed in battle, and after removing Mao Taigong himself, he is the safest person among the remaining five. The rest are either impatient or courageous, and they are not the right people anyway."

Everyone laughed, saying that they didn't expect Ah Jiu to look at people, which made Lu Jiu embarrassed, and he blushed and smirked.

"Okay, I see." Li Dan asked Lu Jiu to continue to guard outside the door, and then said:

"I don't think I need to worry too much about Lei Jiawan, according to Fang Cai Ah Jiu, if it is really Han Bazi who stays behind, he is not aggressive, and most of the time he will not act rashly.

Just now, Master Ba mentioned the official army in Poyang, I think there is an obstacle for the official army to go south, that is, Dong Qi's lake bandits of about 1,000 people are still blocking the way, how can this road be broken?

I'm afraid I'll have to ask Zhao Tongzhi's opinion to find out." After speaking, he ordered Zhao Jingzi:

"The decisive battle is coming, inform the western city wall, and their seven catapults will begin to disassemble and send them to Pengzemen for concentration.

One-third of Hongsheng's team will rest normally from tonight, and two-thirds will be on guard in the city in shifts." This was done to allow the men of the western wall to get enough sleep so that they could be ready to reinforce the southern city at any time.

After the meeting, Li Dan sat down to write a letter, and he needed to sort out his thoughts. As soon as he started writing, he heard someone talking in the courtyard, and then Jujie appeared at the door with an excited face: "All the inspections, Brother Iron Knife is back!"

"Oh?"

Li Dan got up, and Li Tiedao had already arrived at the door: "My lord, there is not much time, I'm afraid I have to leave quickly after I finish speaking." Then he explained that Tatehanako had sent people to investigate the south of the castle and that he had decided to launch an attack on the south of the castle at midnight on the fourth day.

"At that time, the Gao Cang tribe would bluff under the northeastern section of the city to attract the attention of our army.

After arranging for the Huxi tribes to meet with Tao Shou at Liyuzui, Tatehuazi attacked the Water Gate under his leadership, and the main force of the Tatebube attacked Nanguan under the leadership of Jiujiaozi." After Li Tiedao finished speaking, he took out an oilcloth bag from his arms:

"This is a letter written by Tatehanako to the various departments of Kosai, and my lord has seen it."

took the letter and put it on the table to open the oilcloth, but Li Dan didn't touch it, but asked him, "Do you know that he also transferred some of the people in Leijiawan back?"

"Yes, I was in the house when Katekako said this." Li Tiedao wiped his beard: "However, he didn't ask Taigong Mao to go to Yuting Town, but ordered him to go to the wine trough camp.

On the night of the operation, Mao Taigong must occupy the three bridges on the river bank to prevent the men coming down from Mian Mountain from attacking his siege team."

After hearing these words, Li Dan could already be sure that Tatehuazi was going all out to fight the battle of Nancheng, rather than simply attacking the city gate.

"Hmph, he wants to take the south city wall, and then take the Yufeng Gate (East Gate)." Zhao Jingzi and others

The person was summoned again, and after listening to the briefing of Shen Jie, he made such a judgment and agreed with Li Dan.

"He's coming, we're going to have a surprise for this guy inside and outside the southern walls!"

After discussing with everyone, first of all, Li Tiedao immediately set off to Santang Village with an order, and he was ordered to transfer most of Zhou Qin's naval army back to Yugan to participate in the battle, and then go north to cut off all the ferries in Yuting Town on the Buhe River.

At the same time, Song Qian led Liu Qi and Liu En to immediately exterminate Yangfang Village. It was the old nest of Lu Jiutang, the niece and son-in-law of Tatehanako, who was afraid of alarming the opponent so he didn't move it, but now it's time!

After breaking Yangfang Village, Song Qian and Liu Qi had to rush to Lulu Harbor without stopping to cut off the passage for the northward return of Tatehuazi.

Hot Wheels No. 1 was responsible for sending the black flag from the East River, and rushed to Poyang City with Li Dan's letter, and after getting the reply, the order was to take this boat and return.

Lu Jiu took the Hot Wheels No. 1 to the north with a secret mission, got off the boat at Gubu Ferry on the way, changed into cattle and went straight to Leijiawan.

Xie San'er, who had just reported to the General Staff Headquarters, took Baimadu to Yangbu with another order, and he was responsible for transferring the five Crab Kings with two sentinels and twenty post guards of the White Horse Station, and secretly went to Woniu Mountain outside Nanguan to ambush the enemy from behind.

Carrying the waves of the mountain, legend has it that Yue Wumu was the place where the general Yu Hualong was surrendered. Li Dan's memory of it in his previous life is the national war between Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang, but the story of this life has never happened, and Kanglang Mountain is still called Carrying Lang Mountain.

At the beginning of the founding of this dynasty, almost all the major wars took place in today's southern and northern Zhili, and it was not until the Zhao family set the capital of Jinling that the two families fought in Guazhou.

Unfortunately, Chen Youliang suffered a sudden stroke and died of illness. The two sons of Chen Shan and Chen Li competed for the throne, forming two regimes of the Southern Han Dynasty and the Northern Han Dynasty. The powerful Chen clan fought infighting for three years, which greatly damaged their vitality.

Chen Youbo and Chen Youzhi persuaded their nephew Chen Li, who had retreated to Nanchang, to join the emperor, and the official army later defeated Chen Shan at Jiujiang and invaded Wuchang, and the Chen regime all disappeared.

It was very little affected by the military disaster, which is an important reason why Jiangxi South Road is currently a first-class wealthy place.

It is not big to say that it is not big, but it is not small to say that it is not small, and the area is equivalent to three and a half times the Forbidden City in Beijing that Li Dan had seen in his previous life. The topography is slightly low in the north and high in the south, and it is an island that runs north-south and has the highest point about eight zhang above the water level.

In the past, when it was used as a nest of knotweed seeds, there were more than 3,000 people and more than 2,000 family members here, but now it is different, only 300 old and weak people are left behind, and the strong and strong all followed to Lion Rock.

That morning, a veteran guarding the docks woke up from his slumber with his knife in his hand. The successor had not yet arrived, and he got up impatiently and prepared to go back and call this guy to get up.

Suddenly, he saw something faintly behind the veil of mist on the surface of the lake. Did he think he had spent his eyes, or hadn't woken up yet? I rubbed my eyes vigorously, but I didn't see anything.

"Hey, Mom, I'm not even fifty years old, why are I dazzled?" He turned and walked back.

After taking a few steps, he hesitantly stopped and slowly turned around. Behind the fog, a large ship of five hundred materials appeared. The man above shouted something, but the guard didn't hear it clearly.

He walked along the boardwalk towards the big boat, scared and ignorant.

A few people jumped off the boat, and at first glance they were young men with vigorous skills, and they were veterans on the water. They ignored the idiot, and just straightened and tightened the cables that had been thrown from above, and tied them to the pillars one by one.

Then the side door opened, and the ladder was lowered, and down stepped a middle-aged man in a black cloak, who looked behind him with a gloomy face, and then at the front, and fixed his gaze on the guard.

The guard slowly moved his gaze to the flag at the top of the sail and saw the terrible word "Jiang". He wanted to run, but his legs seemed to be filled with lead, and it was too late, and the man was striding towards him.

"Gollum", the guard swallowed and spitted, knelt down on one leg with one heart, closed his eyes and clenched his fists and said loudly: "Gong, Gong, Gong welcome the leader of the Jiang Alliance, the little and villain Lang Xian, please say hello to the leader of the alliance!"

"Oh." The porpoise was a little surprised, he wanted to come over and send the veteran to the west with a knife, but he actually knelt down for himself. Hey, have the guts! A slight smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, "You're the guard here?

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"Yes, yes, the little one, the little one is in the middle of the night, and I don't want to be lucky enough to meet the big driver!"

"Lucky? Aren't you afraid that I'll cut you?"

"The alliance leader is famous for his kindness, and the little and small people have long intended to defect, and they ask the alliance leader to accept it!"

"Okay, then tell me, how many defenders are in this stockade, where do they live, and who is leading the team?"

"There were three hundred and twenty-seven defenders, but all the families went home to live, and only sixty or so were the ones who lived in the third way above, and in the fourth and seventh rooms of the squatters. The leader of the team is called Wu Jia, and he lives in the fourth house in the west of Wenchang Temple."

Seeing his answer, the porpoise shrugged in surprise: "Have you been on this island for a long time, you seem to be very familiar?"

"Back to the alliance, the villain was originally a herald of the big boss, and he has been running on this island for three years, and he even knows where the cracks in the stones are. Later, because of his age, his leg fell into a damp and painful problem, so he ......."

When the guard saw that the porpoise was speaking kindly, his mouth gradually became smoother.

"I see." The porpoise nodded. At this time, a large number of soldiers kept jumping out of the boat, rushing past them and towards the shore.

Seeing this scene, no matter how stupid the guards were, they could understand what had happened. He bowed his head respectfully: "The alliance leader has come to our island, and it is shining. Uh, are you going to the mansion of the big boss? The villain will lead the way."

"Okay." The porpoise took a few steps forward, turned back and asked, "What's your name?"

The guard hurriedly followed and replied, "Lang Xian. Lang Jun's Lang, the constitution of the French Constitution."

"Huh? Are you literate?"

"Back to the League, the villain was originally a treasurer (accountant), because he stole the silver, fought with people, and accidentally beat the guy to death, so he fled to the lake."

The porpoise looked at him again in surprise, nodded and asked, "Say, if you follow me, what will you do as a greeting gift?"

Lang Xian was overjoyed, and his eyes rolled: "Several ladies of the big boss are all ...... on the island."

"This is nonsense, I've already gone to the island, and it's like a sniff!"

"Uh......, there's a vault in the big boss's mansion ......."

"I'll send someone to find it!"

"Then, the alliance leader probably doesn't know that the big boss is doing business outside, and the accounts, bills and deeds of those businesses are ......."

The porpoise stood still, staring back at him, "These things...... Can you get it?"

"The villain is presumptuous, and he has not yet started a family. Alas, no queen is great! For this, you can do anything for the alliance leader!"

"Yo, waiting for me here?" The porpoise smiled, "Okay, who do you like? Tell me to keep it for you, but what if you can't give it to me when it's done?"

"You cut me down and threw me into the lake to feed the fish!" Lang Xian's face was firm: "I want Liu Ping'er in the third lady's house."

The porpoise was stunned for a moment when he heard the first half of the sentence, and then agreed loudly: "Okay, deal!"

"Slow down, what if the villain is handed over to the alliance leader?"

"Don't you have a queen? Have a litter of fat cubs with that Ping'er."

"But the villain still wants to make a mistake."

"What messenger?"

"The Red Oriole Tower in Jiujiang is the property of the big boss, and the villain wants to ask for your grace to take over and take care of this business for you."

The porpoise laughed, "No problem!"

Lang Xian was full of joy and hurriedly guided in front: "Alliance leader, please come here. Usually at this time, the big boss should not have gotten up yet, even if someone gets up early, they are still grooming.

There were no guards in the house. However, the two dozen guards and some family members have to be guarded against, as long as they are subdued, the rest will not be a problem......