It is disrespectful to come back but not reciprocate. Since the bandit army took out all the ancestral-level long-range weapons and almost injured Lu Daqi and others, Chang Yu had to retaliate, so he ordered the Shenji Battalion to bombard them.
Wu Weiying then mobilized 20 squatting tiger artillery to bombard the rammed earth platform on the opposite bank, which was more than a hundred meters away.
This time, the rebels were offended. After searching, dozens of powerful crossbows came through the air. Several of the gunners from the Shenji Battalion were injured when they could not avoid it. Lu Daqi and others were shocked. They guessed that there were at least dozens of rebels.
Zhang Foot Crossbow or Divine Arm Crossbow, the range of this thing is only slightly weaker than that of Crouching Tiger Cannon.
Wu Weiying hurriedly ordered the gunners to withdraw from the opponent's range and start bombarding. However, this distance was almost the limit of the Tiger Crouching Cannon's range, and it caused very little damage to its position. Of course, if the two captured red cannons were brought into range,
It was definitely enough, but it was overkill, and the two cannons were still lying on the north bank of the Qingtong River because they were too heavy and the officers and soldiers did not have large boats to cross the water.
How could Wu Weiying, who had suffered a hidden loss, just let it go? He ordered the General Zhankou Artillery to be brought in to bombard the enemy. This had a slightly stronger range than the Tiger Crouching Artillery, which could fire dozens of cannons at the opponent in one go.
After all this trouble, it was already dark, and all the ministries were still busy setting up camp, lighting fires, and making meals. Chang Yu summoned the generals to arrange precautionary matters. Each ministry took turns, and Chang Yanling was in charge that night.
Setting up camp is never a trivial matter, not to mention that the terrain here is too complicated. To the north is the Yangtze River and to the south is the Great Lake. The bandits have boats and can sneak attack from the waterway at any time, so camping cannot be done by the water. The north bank of the Great Lake is almost entirely covered with hills.
A narrow strip of water has been dug through by the bandits to connect it to the Yangtze River.
Even the lake behind the hills may be attacked by the bandits, so we cannot camp close to the hills. It can be said that there are empty doors almost everywhere for the bandits to take advantage of, which makes Chang Yu and others have to be careful.
Finally, they decided to set up camp on the east bank of Shangxiao Lake.
Shangxiao Lake is a small lake between the Yangtze River and Hepingtian Lake. It is a few miles away from the cutoff that was cut off by the rebels in the west. It is also a few miles away from the Yangtze River and Hepingtian Lake in the north and south. They can camp here regardless of the rebels.
There was a buffer for sneak attacks from any direction, so Chang Yu ordered the main camp to be stationed here, and Wang Tizhong's deputy camp to be stationed on the west bank of Shangxiao Lake to monitor the cutoff area, which was considered the front line.
At the same time, multiple light and dark sentries and patrols were set up along the rivers and lakes. If the thieves came ashore from the waterway for a sneak attack, a warning would be sent out immediately, giving the camp time to respond.
It can be said that this camp was the most careful one that Chang Yu took since he went south, because he knew that Bai Wang would never let him have a good sleep and would definitely come to disturb him. He would do the same if he changed places from another angle.
Sure enough, in the dead of night, when the generals were about to break up their meeting in Chang Yu's tent, they heard faint shouts coming from the north and south. The one after another soon woke up the camp. The pro-troops came to report, and the thieves came from the waterways on both sides.
Landing and sneak attack!
The generals did not panic but looked at each other and smiled. They had expected the actions of the thieves and had made complete preparations. They also expected that they would never attack the camp with all their strength because they did not have the strength at this time and were just harassing them.
To put it bluntly, although I can't kill you, I won't make you feel comfortable either!
On the high watchtower several miles away, Bai Wang squinted at the stars and fire in the distance. Those places were the camps of officers and soldiers. Gradually, the fire flickered in the sky, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth. A few hundred people could kill him.
The tens of thousands of people in the camp made the chickens and dogs restless, and I felt really happy!
But he also knew that this was the only way and time he could make the officers and soldiers unhappy at the moment. Once it was daytime, he could only watch the officers and soldiers make various preparations for attack.
Perhaps within three days at most, the officers and soldiers will attack. What tactics will they use to attack?
Bai Wang couldn't guess.
In a frontal attack, the officers and soldiers would have to fill the hole with at least a centaur.
Attack by water on both wings? You have hundreds of boats in your hands, and all your soldiers are good at water. How can you use rafts if your officers and soldiers don't have boats?
It is not impossible to use a raft. Bai Wang thought about this and frowned. The soldiers in the king's body are water-resistant, and from the confessions of the officers and soldiers, it is also known that most of them are Nanjing soldiers and horses, which are also water-resistant... maybe next time
The main battlefield is on the water. It seems that I have made more preparations...
The bandit army did not stop all night long. They either suddenly landed from somewhere at Pingtian Lake in the south and rushed towards the camp, or they broke out from somewhere on the riverside, or they launched attacks from both places at the same time. Although the officers and soldiers were fully prepared, they could not
Those who were tossed about by it were in a hurry and exhausted.
This is especially true for the soldiers in the camp. Every time the alarm sounds, they have to stand up and prepare for war. They do this several times overnight, which really makes people panic and miserable.
It was not until daybreak that the cover of night disappeared, and every move of the rebel army was under the surveillance of the officers and soldiers. They were unable to carry out a sneak attack and they withdrew the troops back to the camp. The officers and soldiers were able to breathe a sigh of relief. At this time, both the soldiers in the camp and the soldiers on duty were all
Exhausted.
Unexpectedly, Chang Yu slept well. When the rebels withdrew, he had already gotten up and washed up. Seeing Wuzhong sharpening his knife with red eyes outside the tent, he was very puzzled: "Why are you so angry?"
"How can I not be angry after being harassed and couldn't sleep well all night? I have to kill a few of these stupid thieves today to lose my temper!" Wu Zhong said through gritted teeth.
"Weren't you on duty last night? When you were on duty, you couldn't sleep even if they didn't come to disturb you." Chang Yu raised his eyebrows. Wu Zhong was stunned for a while and touched his head: "It seems so."
"You usually sleep when you are on duty?" Chang Yu was furious: "I lost my head and I don't know what happened!"
No, no, no, no, Wu Zhong waved his hand vigorously, stood up, held the knife and ran away: "It's dawn, I'm going to catch up on some sleep."
Chang Yu didn't argue with him anymore. He was cursing and just wanted to go to the lake to wash his face. He saw Wu Sangui, Ma Ke and others outside the tent, frowning at the pirate ships on the river in the distance.
"I haven't slept yet, I just got up." Chang Yu called out, drawing everyone's attention back, and they all came to greet him: "It's been a long night, even though the thunder was heavy and the rain was light, it was so noisy that I couldn't sleep," Wu Sangui said with a wry smile.
"Then just catch up on your sleep during the day and go back to sleep!" Chang Yu chuckled: "He can do the first grade, and we can do the fifteenth grade!"
"What do you mean, Lord Governor, when we wake up and have enough rest, we can launch a feint attack to make them nervous?" Marco asked with a smile.
Chang Yu shook his head lightly: "What's the point? Let's fuck him at night too." Everyone was startled, then looked at each other and laughed.
The army was approaching, and Bai Wang couldn't sleep well. He would wake up almost every hour. He was woken up by a nightmare in the middle of the afternoon and was sweating. He got out of the tent and took a shower by the lake. Yuan Sanzhong came over with a dark face: "
It seems that the commander-in-chief’s expectations are not bad.”
Bai Wang was startled: "The officers and soldiers want to attack from the waterway?"
Yuan Sanzhong nodded: "He has been cutting trees since early in the morning and has done nothing else. Apart from building rafts, he really can't figure out what to do with cutting down so many trees."
Hearing this, Bai Wang's face suddenly darkened: "If this is the case, we should be more prepared..." He suddenly sneered: "Since he wants a water battle, we have no choice but to accompany him to the end. Although he has many soldiers and generals,
However, wooden rafts are different from bamboo rafts. They are heavy and easy to sink and cannot carry many people. They are far less flexible than our boats."
Yuan Sanzhong snorted: "And there are more than 20,000 people. Even if you cut down all the trees in Pingtian Lake, you can't build so many rafts. Even if you can, it won't be done in three or two days. It will take at least more than a month.
Above, it cannot take that long, so if it attacks from the waterway, it can only attack with three to five thousand at most, and we can still cope with it."
"That means that the two-wing waterway is only one of its attack routes. The dog eunuch still has to attack both ways!" Bai Wang kept sneering on his face: "No matter how he attacks, let's give him a hard fight and then retreat to Qingxi Henan
Block him a little longer and see how many people are left when he touches the city wall!"
"But if he still has strength after touching the city wall, what is the commander-in-chief going to do? Defend the city or..." Yuan Sanzhong frowned and asked, Bai Wang laughed: "Didn't the defenders let the dog eunuchs surround the urn to catch turtles?
Since we have to retreat further south to the south of Qiupu River to fight him, we have a boat in our hands to come and go freely, so we will take advantage of these waterways to bury him here!"
"What about Chizhou City?" Yuan Sanzhong looked back at the not-so-high city wall, and Bai Wang narrowed his eyes: "Take away whatever you can, and don't leave anything you can't take away with them. What's the point of being pretentious now that things have come to this?"
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Yuan Sanzhong grunted: "Robbing, burning, and killing them all. If we were in another place, who would know what we did? Even if they knew, it was done by the officers and soldiers."
Bai Wang glanced at him: "You know everything, but you still ask what to do!"
Yuan Sanzhong smiled bitterly and shook his head: "We are back to the old path again."
Bai Wang looked at the lake and fell into deep thought.
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I have a stomach bug, so I apologize for stopping the update for a few days.