The sunset shines on the rippling lake surface, illuminating dozens of corpses and broken oars floating in the lake water. The bright red blood has long been blown away by the lake water without any trace.

Xu Huai stood at the bow of the big wing ship and looked at the end of the water battlefield.

In the distance from the sight, dozens of black pirate boats were hiking into the reed marsh in the distance. Many pirate boats splashed and stained with scent oil. The fire was not extinguished. In the rising black smoke, the thief army was scooping water into the fire.

"The tiger's mouth is in front of it. The waterway inside and outside are like a big trumpet. During the flood season, the Jingjiang River floods and waves rush, just like a group of wild tigers, which the locals call it the tiger's mouth or tiger's den."

Zhou Jing, who had been to the front line many times, pointed to the trumpet-shaped waterway in front of the warship, and introduced the nearby terrain to Xu Huai, Han Gui, Tang Pan and others who were visiting the battlefield to see the terrain.

"From the entrance of Tiger and cross the vast Jingjiang River for more than ten miles, it is Chishan Bay, the old nest of Chishan Village. Tiger and Shikou can be said to be the northern gateway of Chishan Village. Hu Dangzhou built a tiger village in the sandy land on the west side of Tiger and Shikou to control the left and right sides of Tiger and Shikou two years ago. He also built a lot of wooden stakes inside and outside the Tiger and Shikou, and sank a batch of boats carrying stones to the bottom of the water, making the nearby Tiger and Shikou like a maze array, leaving only a narrow and winding waterway for their own boats to pass through. Now the water has risen, and the wooden stakes and ships are submerged under the water. We have lost a lot of people, and the boats have not figured out the waterway. This is not ruled out that the repeated impacts after the flood comes, and there will be many changes. Our army really wants to enter Jingjiang from Tiger and Shikou, and the tiger village must have taken it down..."

They were quite far from the Tiger Village at this time, so they could only see a rough idea. Even though the water has risen now, the Big Wing Ship could not enter and exit as much as they want in Sangchi Lake.

The Dawing Ship is currently the largest and most equipped warship that the Nancai Navy entered Sangchi Lake.

The warships are twelve meters long in front and back. In addition to hanging sails with double brigs, there are eighteen oar holes on the side of the ships on both sides. During the water battle, seventy-two oars are used to row thirty-six large oars to drive the ships together to walk. The ship's side is covered with armored women's walls, and there is a second female wall and a battle shed five feet to the inner side - the battle shed is two feet wide and six feet long, and can hide fifty or sixty armored soldiers. There are also women's walls on the top of the battle shed, bed crossbows, whirlwind crossbows and other combat weapons.

A large-winged ship consisted of a total of 200 people, including naval soldiers, ship workers and sailors.

Xu Huai knew that Zhou Jing and others would not allow him to transfer to the Red Horse Boat to approach the enemy camp, so he looked at it for a while and nodded to return.

After the Nancai naval army entered Sangchi Lake, the foreman led by Fan Zongqi had also built camps on the west bank of Sangchi Lake.

Back at the camp on the west bank of Sangchi Lake, Fan Zongqi, the deputy commander of the rear army who had been in charge of the battlefield of Sangchi Lake, Han Qihu, the third-quarter capital of the rear army, and Zhou Quan, the commander of the navy, reported to Xu Huai the combat plan for the forced attack on the Tiger Village.

After April, the water level of the Han River in Jingjiang increased, and the passageway approaching the Tiger Village from the west facing the river area was also flooded; the Tiger Village was surrounded by water, and there was only a circle of shallows outside the village, and there was not much room for troops to spread.

If you want to launch a strong attack on the Tiger Village from the direction of Sangchi Lake, it will be difficult for all the generals and soldiers to gain a foothold in the narrow shallows in front of the Tiger Village after landing. You need to break through and break into the Tiger Village in one go.

Once the attack fails, the generals who land on the land will not have the opportunity to retreat calmly, and will inevitably cause unpredictable tragic casualties.

In the past three or four months, Fan Zongqi and his team have continuously launched small-scale water wars in the waters of Sangchi Lake, expelled many thieves from Sangchi Lake and nearby areas, and also figured out the terrain and water situation near the Tiger Village, and formulated a detailed plan of attacks launched from the Sangchi Lake side.

Of course, there is another safer plan, which is that Dongzhou Village will accept recruitment immediately. They can allow the naval forces stationed in Shixiong near Changlin Town to cross Bailu Lake, go south from the waterway controlled by Dongzhou Village to enter Jingjiang, and launch a raid from the south facing the Tiger Village.

Tiger Village is closer to Jingjiang. After the Jingjiang water rises in April, part of Tiger Village is submerged in the river water, becoming a veritable water village.

Some of the navy forces launched a surprise attack directly from Jingjiang. In addition to catching the bandits' army off guard, the whirlwind cannons installed by the warships can also throw turbulent oil tanks directly into the enemy camp.

At that time, they will attack the Tiger Village from the north and south sides. If they cannot take down the village, which is located outside the Chishan Army and has only more than a thousand defenders, Fan Zongqi will not have the face to be the deputy commander.

Faced with the combat plan proposed by the front army, Xu Huai did not give a clear reply. He returned to Changlin Camp overnight surrounded by Wang Ju, Tang Pan, Zhou Jing, Han Gui, Wu Chihai, Shi Hu and others.

Xu Wujiang accompanied Shi Zhen, Xu Wuli, Su Laochang, Pan Chenghu, Guo Junzong, Fan Yong and others to arrive at Changlin Camp today, waiting for Xu Huai's return.

Xu Huai was in charge of Jingbei during this period, and the headquarters was dominated by Shi Zhen, Xu Wuli, Su Laochang, Pan Chenghu, Guo Junjian, Fan Yong and others, while the three major defense lines were led by Chen Zixiao, Wang Xian and Xu Xin'an, who actually replaced Xu Wuli as the commander of the left army.

In addition to Liu Qiong'er, Wang Xuan came to gather with Xu Huai Xiao every once in a while. At this time, the rivers such as Ruying also entered the Fengshui period one after another. Xu Huai summoned Shi Zhen, Xu Wuli, Su Laochang and others to Jingbei to discuss subsequent countermeasures.

Xu Huai returned to Changlin Camp and was almost in the early morning. He slept for two hours before getting up to meet everyone.

Xu Huai's military affairs and living place was a house left by a wealthy gentry who had escaped from Changlin Town with his family. It was a garden-style building, quite luxurious. The book hall was a two-story wooden building opposite a small lake.

In mid-April, the weather was warm and everyone was wearing robes and sitting in wooden buildings with windows on all sides, allowing the breeze to blow, but it was freehand.

Xu Wujiang first introduced the recent resettlement of refugees in the Nancai Zhaodansi.

After spring, the grass and trees along Dongting Lake and Jingjiang were lush. For ordinary people, they might consider how to survive the spring famine, but for hungry people, it was the season with the most abundant food sources of the year. At the same time, the number of refugees in Beitou, such as Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou, and others secretly strengthened their control, and the number of refugees in Hubeitou in Bailu was reduced sharply.

Of course, this aspect has also reduced the pressure on the Nancai Zhaobing Office to resettle refugees.

As of mid-April, in addition to moving 80,000 people from Nancai County to resolve the land pressure in Nancai County, Nancai County, it recruited 250,000 hungry people from Dongting Lake and along the Jingjiang River.

Due to the extremely weak physical condition of these hungry people, a total of about 40,000 people died for various reasons.

In addition to the Changyan and Zhangfanxin River in Jingbei, the river channel was dug and repaired before mid-April, and the lateral canals were more than 200 miles long, further strengthening Jingbei's ability to resist floods, and more than 220 new villages were built.

Although it is not yet possible to completely eradicate the floods in Jingbei at this time, and the vast majority of the hungry people in Beitou still need five or six people to squeeze into a shed to live in, the most difficult time has passed. Before mid-April, the reclaiming and cultivation of a total of 300,000 grain fields were completed, and even a batch of grain fields cultivated last fall was soon harvested to make up for some of the grain shortage.

The more than 300,000 new people in Jingbei are mainly young and strong men and women.

In addition to the more than 10,000 soldiers who were assigned to the Nancai Zhaojian Division - the households who moved from Nancai County to Jingbei were also mainly composed of the generals and soldiers who were assigned to the Later Army and the Nancai Navy Army. After moving to Jingbei, they were directly allocated to the land - Jingbei added more than 300,000 new citizens, with a whopping 100,000 young men.

These young and strong men were previously abandoned by the Dongjing Alliance. After experiencing the cultivation of winter and spring, although too many people could not survive, most of the people who survived have recovered.

Xu Huai organized all 100,000 young and strong men into the largest number of baggage soldiers under the Chushan Camp, and established three major inspection departments, including Zhangshan, Fantai, Changlin, 12 inspection departments, and 221 villages were responsible for training, settlement and other matters. He transferred Shi Zhen's eldest son Shi Xun, Xu Xin and Ji Zhongtang as inspectors of the capital, and temporarily accepted the jurisdiction of the Nancai Recruitment Department and reported to Xu Wujiang.

Xu Huai also threw Xu Yan and Su Chong to Xu Wujiang to assist in the training of the baggage soldiers. Xu Huai asked them to choose Jianrui during the training of the baggage soldiers and form an elite army that they can command as an arm to go to the battlefield, rather than handing the ready-made elites to them.

In addition, Dongzhou Village has truly expanded in the past six months, attracting more than 100,000 people, as many as 40,000 young men, and more than 8,000 trained soldiers.

In addition to Zhao Shan, Liu Fujin and others, Jiang Ping also led a group of generals to join Dongzhouzhai in the name of the affiliated school. Jiang Ang and others also cooperated very well to promote the group of generals to military officers at all levels to preside over the training of Dongzhouzhai's troops.

In fact, even if the Dongjing thief army did not accept the revenge, it would not be possible to pose a threat to Jingbei; even if Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and other thieves led their direct troops to Ge Boyi, the court would not force Chu Shan to withdraw from Jingxiang.

However, Xu Huai officially submitted a letter in early March, requesting to place Nanyang, Jingbei and Xiangyang under the jurisdiction of the Chushan camp in order to better resist the enemies in the west of Jing and Heluo, but the court still did not respond.

"Chihu is stranded in Yanshan. The main cavalry near Yinshan will go south again as soon as autumn begins, which means that the Dongjing bandits must be completely resolved before winter begins, and it is also necessary to attack the strength of the thieves such as Sun Yanzhou and Hu Dangzhou to prevent them from surrendering to the court first, and turn to the Chihu people..." Shi Zhen frowned slightly and asked, "How about the raising efforts here?"

Xu Huai personally told Shi Zhen and others about the preparations for Fan Zongqi's side and the planned combat plan against the Tiger Village.

"Even if Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and other bandit generals prevented Dongzhou Village from entering Chushan, they would never have expected that Dongzhou Village was actually under our control," Shi Zhen frowned and said, "This move finally revealed its true face. It was just used to raid the Tiger Village garrisoned by more than a thousand bandits. It was really useless!"

Dongzhou Village has been publicly accepting Chushan’s money and grain funding since mid-September last year and has been negotiating for reunification. It is not unimaginable that Jiang Ang and others finally chose to join Chushan, but this is very different from Chushan’s fact that he has actually mastered the troops of Dongzhou Village.

The former means that it is difficult for Chushan to trust Dongzhou Village without reservation in a short period of time, not to mention that through the areas controlled by Dongzhou Village, the back of the Dongzhou Village will be completely exposed under the eyes and noses of the soldiers in Dongzhou Village to carry out a raid on the Dongjing Alliance downstream.

Raids are originally military adventures. Generally speaking, all kinds of accidents and uncontrollable factors need to be reduced as much as possible to achieve success.

Chu Shan has actually mastered the troops of Dongzhou Village. The surprise troops emerged from the controlled area of ​​Dongzhou Village, which means that Dongzhou Village is no longer an uncontrollable factor, and even a reinforcement force of the surprise troops.
Chapter completed!