The river-turning dragon Jiang Ang roared and stood on the bow of the boat struggling, grabbing the covering fishing net with great strength, and with a "squeak" sound, it broke from it.
At this time, two Chushan elites came from the side holding swords and shields, and the swords struck down sharply.
Jiang Ang no longer had any weapons in his hands, so he turned sideways and raised his hands to block. Using the cushioning of the cowhide arm guards, he turned his hands over as fast as lightning, grabbed the spine of the knife, and snatched away the two straight-ridged knives.
Jiang Ang was about to break out from the restraints of the fishing net and start killing people, but he felt a strong wind blowing behind his head. He had only time to turn his head a few inches, and his ears were hurt by the strong wind. The next moment, his left shoulder felt like iron.
Hit with mace.
The armor Jiang Ang wore, the tiger head shoulder pads, were forged from fine iron and lined with a layer of cooked cowhide.
However, at this moment, the shoulder armor and the inner lining were torn apart like thin pieces of wood by the edge of an iron mace.
The shoulder bones, which were as hard as forged from fine iron, seemed to be broken by this heavy blow.
Jiang Ang watched the two Chushan elites in front of him attack again, and wanted to resist, but his muscles were throbbing in pain, his hands and feet were stiff, and he was slapped hard on his head and face by two iron shields, one on the left and the other on the right.
I was buzzing from the beating, feeling dizzy and almost unable to stand.
"Keep him alive!" Someone reminded him, and the spear that came from behind the two sword and shield men was deflected away from Jiang Ang's waist and armpits in time, and did not pierce Jiang Ang's chest.
Jiang Ang turned sideways, his eyes a little blurry, and he saw a black-faced man like an iron tower standing behind him like a glaring King Kong holding a mace.
Jiang Ang roared angrily: "You dog | attack from behind, you can't win without force!"
"Don't force your mother! Spare your life, you are talking nonsense!" Niu Er reached out and grabbed Jiang Ang's shoulders, kicked him in the calf, and forced him to kneel down on the bow of the boat.
"Your mother! Grandpa, kneel to the sky and the ground, you have the guts to fight me alone!" Jiang Ang struggled to stand up despite the severe pain in his left shoulder.
The generals on the left and right came over with ropes, tied him up, tied him up tightly, and then threw him into the cabin like a dead dog and imprisoned him.
At this time, the sky was already bright, and the pale morning sun shone through the early morning mist. The tidal flats on both sides of the river and alleys were covered with white frost on the withered reeds.
Xu Ling stood on the bow of the boat, looking at the rippling blue waves ruffled by the cold wind under the mist.
"Xundu, the bandit troops from the two Meidu villages have been dispatched, and hundreds of boats, large and small, are rushing towards the mouth of Panlong Lake to our south..." A red horse boat was like an arrow that escaped the side, and its row of oars stirred up fine waves.
, sailing towards the boat where Xu Ling was, a junior high school student stood on the bow and raised his voice to report.
"All warships immediately stop chasing the defeated ships in the Panlong Lake area, and use all their strength to block the river lanes and branches coming from Xundu Lake!" Xu Ling ordered.
Chushan is very short of resources. It is necessary to maintain naval forces in Xinyang, Luoshan, Zhaoling and other places to prevent enemy ships from entering Ru River and the upper reaches of the Huaihe River. Naturally, it is impossible to organize and train large-scale naval forces in Nancai.
; The warships built in Nancai are sufficient.
Simply looking at Chushan's navy in Nancai, no matter how strong the newly built warships are, and even if they are equipped with crossbows and other war weapons, there is a serious gap in absolute numbers. In addition, there are still deficiencies in the water quality of the generals and the control of the boats.
, it is difficult to compete head-on with the bandit army on Panlong Lake.
The strategy drawn up early in the morning did not include a decisive battle with the main force of the rebel army on Panlong Lake or Xundu Lake. Instead, it concentrated its forces and attacked Panlong Village from land first with lightning speed, forcing Panlong Village to retreat.
The bandits fled in panic into Panlong Lake.
The timing of capturing Panlong Village and forcing the rebels to flee is also extremely important.
Darkness is not only the best cover for surprise troops and ambushes, but it will also aggravate the chaos of the bandit troops who fled hastily from Panlong Village.
Dare to act rashly.
Xu Ling led the Nancai Navy to sneak into the ambush waters under the cover of night. Finally, before the reinforcements from the Xundu and Meidu villages arrived, they further severely damaged the Panlong Village bandits who fled into Panlong Lake in a panic.
, to ensure that this battle can reap the most abundant results and not give the rebel army a chance to escape through the waterway.
Panlong Lake leads to Dujin Lake. There are seven or eight naturally formed river lanes and bay branches. No matter how wide the river lanes and bay branches are, the actual water depth is extremely limited, and there is too much siltation carried down from the upstream.
Silt, naturally formed river lanes, and bay branches are also twists and turns.
Although most of the rebel warships were modified from small fishing boats and awning boats, it was usually easy to pass through these rivers and bays, but at this time Xu Ling ordered a blockade, which was not difficult.
Of course, the main reason was that the timing of the capture of Panlong Village from the land was extremely good. Fan Zongqi even deliberately delayed his official dispatch of troops into Panlong Village until dusk, causing the thieves in Xudu and Meidu Villages to mistakenly think that there was someone in Panlong Village.
Twenty to thirty thousand young men could defend the stronghold no matter what.
The bandit armies of Xundu and Meidu villages were not in a hurry to send reinforcements to Panlong Lake during the day yesterday. Instead, they sent a large number of soldiers and horses by boat to go around the Han River via the Jingjiang River, thinking of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao, and harassing the area west of Nancai.
Reduce the pressure on Panlong Village.
The bandit army's idea is good, but all strategies need to be based on corresponding strength.
Otherwise, everything is a joke.
In the name of ensuring the smooth progress of the wedding, Wang Fan transferred 3,000 Jingbei soldiers and horses to garrison near Shuangliuzhuang. How could there be a chance for the thieves from Xundu and Meidu villages to land and harass?
After nightfall, when they saw Panlong Village engulfed in a sea of fire, the bandit armies of the two villages tried to mobilize their troops and generals to reinforce Panlong Lake, but it was already too late.
First of all, in addition to a large number of soldiers and horses, the two villages' bandit armies only have a few large warships and slightly more formal warships, and they have all entered the Han River - the river lane and branch road connecting the Han River to the east of Suolong Lake.
Being blocked, if you want to be transferred back from Jingjiang, in addition to taking time, you are also worried that you will be intercepted by the Ezhou navy.
However, the number of boats left in the village was limited and the boats were small, so how could they dare to rush across Xundu Lake for a night battle?
One after another, broken boats were dragged into the shallow and winding river lanes between Panlong Lake and Xudu Lake. In the bay branches, they were filled with earth and rocks and scuttled. Three to five, seven or eight warships were behind the blockade.
Stand ready to prevent reinforcements from the rebels from towing away these sunken ships, and to clear rivers, alleys, and branches.
Xu Ling also organized a group of elite warships to search for and annihilate those decent-looking thief warships in Panlong Lake, sinking or capturing them one by one...
Following Hu Dangzhou, Jiang Ang and other thieves will enter Qianchapu. The Dongjing bandit army has strong combat effectiveness. In addition to having the foundation of veteran bandits who have been rampaging in Dongting Lake and Jing Lake for many years, they have also frequently fought against officers and soldiers in the past three or four years.
The armor is relatively complete, but in Panlong Village, there are only more than 4,000 of these bandits.
In addition, there are 112,000 people in Panlong Village, mainly the boat owners and fishermen who used to live in Qianchapu or the hungry people who have nowhere to go and whose livelihood is in dire straits.
Also because of the topography, Xundu and Meidu villages have relatively more elite bandits, but their combined capacity of fishermen, boat households, and hungry people heading south is not as good as that of Panlong village.
Xu Huai used his wedding as a cover to build a plank road in the open and secretly crossed Chencang to attack Panlong Village. In addition to opening up the reclamation space of Nancai eastward to the Jianshui coast, this move also had a more important goal, which was to capture
There are 112,000 people in Xiapanlongzhai, including Qianchapu boat owners, fishermen, and hungry people who went south. Among them, the most precious young and strong men are as many as 30,000.
The terrain of Xundu and Meidu Second Village was special, and the bandit army was on guard at this time. It was difficult for them to capture Panlong Village with lightning speed within a day or two by means of a surprise attack. However, after seeing Panlong Village and several
Tens of thousands of troops were vulnerable to attack and were defeated. Seeing the Chushan army waiting in formation outside Panlong Lake, the bandits from the two villages did not have the guts to charge into Panlong Lake.
It took only three days for Nancai's soldiers and horses to defeat and annihilate almost all the rebels who were still resisting in Panlong Lake and nearby areas. More than 100,000 hungry people with sallow faces and skinny faces who had been suffering from hunger were naturally helpless.
Surprisingly, he accepted the captivity obediently.
Of course, as many as six to seven thousand people were caught in the sea of fire, made a hasty mistake, capsized their boats, and drowned in Panlong Lake. With the flow of water, a large number of drowned bodies even blocked the waterways at the mouth of Panlong Lake into Xundu Lake and West Branch Lake.
live.
War is always so cruel and ruthless.
However, for those hungry people who had left their hometowns and went south even during the first southern invasion of the Chihu people, they had suffered from hunger in the past few years, and many of their relatives and relatives could not survive until now, and their bodies could only be exposed after death.
The wasteland has also become indifferent to life and death - entering the temporary prisoner-of-war camp east of Nancaicheng, finally eating a hot meal, huddled in a warm haystack in an enclosed house that can protect you from the wind and rain.
After a good sleep, I no longer wake up in the cold night, but instead arouse the desire to survive.
Next, in addition to continuing to build the city and ferry wharf, Nancai needs to build more than a hundred villages between Nancai City and Panlong Village to accommodate so many hungry people; at the same time, it is necessary to build a larger-scale
The outer embankment encloses an area about ten miles deep in the south and south and about thirty miles in the northeast, including Nancaicheng and more than a hundred embankments.
Only in this way can the land between the embankment and the outer embankment be reclaimed and planted, without fear of being invaded by floods during the flood season.
Nan Cai was not worried about the lack of money and food at this time.
Lifengtang has currently raised nearly 600,000 yuan in money and grain. In the early stage, the construction of Nancai City and 16 forts, plus the training of more than 3,000 Nancai soldiers and horses, only consumed less than a quarter. The rest was purchased from grain.
Cotton cloth and other supplies were stored and prepared to accommodate the hungry people.
After the Chihu people invaded the south, the vast majority of the people in Hehuai and other places fled south with clans and communes as the core. At this time, 112,000 hungry people were captured, and initially they were organized and resettled in clans, communes and communes.
