The commander-in-chief of the Southern Expedition was Fei Ruhe, and he did not respond to the officers and soldiers crossing the river.
Huang Yao, Li Zheng, Jiang Dashan and others led the troops, and they would definitely act immediately, recruit local farmers as auxiliary soldiers, and then fight a big battle with the officers and soldiers to prevent more people from being slaughtered by the officers and soldiers.
Who is Fei Ruhe?
The eldest son of the Ehu Fei family, the young master of the Fei family!
To this day, although Fei Ruhe agrees with the Datong theory, he thinks that doing so can win the world. But deep in his heart, he is still the son of that family, no matter how many people die, it doesn't matter to him.
What's more, Fujian soldiers ran to the countryside to plunder, and the real victims were those landlords, and the small people were just killed incidentally.
Gu Jianshan, Li Hui, Fan Chao, Wan Bangyan and other naval generals were called to a meeting by Fei Ruhe.
Fei Ruhe pointed to the map and said: "Officers and soldiers secretly crossed the river in the upper reaches of the Gongshui River, and their main force swaggered across the river, and sent troops to loot the villages everywhere. If we don't take us seriously, the local generals are either fools or do it on purpose." I'm trying to lure me over. I'm not worried, Master Lu, how should your navy fight?"
Wan Bangyan is the son of a concubine from a wealthy family in Linjiang Prefecture. His family volunteered to donate two boats to be converted into warships, and he became an officer of the navy because of this.
Although this man was not a scholar, he was still a boy, and he immediately analyzed: "If the officers and soldiers only want to rob property, they can cross Zhangshui and go to the west to rob. There is no army in the west, and there is no peasant association we formed. Since the officers and soldiers crossed the Gongshui River and came to the east, they robbed incidentally, and their real intention was to lure us to send troops."
Li Hui was born as a fisherman in Yongyang Town. He scratched his head and said, "The terrain of the river here is exactly the same as that of Linjiang Mansion. Will the officers and soldiers learn from what we did last time?"
"It must be," Gu Jianshan said with a smile, "Prepare to attack the ship on one river, and ambush the navy on the other, just wait for the enemy to come, and immediately attack from both sides. I was fully prepared on the Gan River and Yuan River, Wang Siren¡¯s officers, soldiers and sailors were not fooled, and in the end they had to take advantage of the swollen water to force a fire attack. The Ganjiang River here is wider, so a forced fire attack will not work, and our navy must be lured there.¡±
Wan Bangyan pointed to the map and said: "Fujian soldiers are good at naval warfare, but their sea ships cannot be transported to Jiangxi. The ships recruited in Fujian cannot reach Jiangxi. Therefore, the number of warships of the officers and soldiers is very small. At least, they were all compiled and practiced in Jiangxi. The officers and soldiers swaggering across the river are nothing more than luring our sailors into the Gongshui. , We were rammed by fireboats in front of us, and blocked by officers, soldiers and sailors in the rear, and we couldn't escape even if we wanted to."
"So," Fei Ruhe understood, "there must be a large number of fire attack ships in ambush in Gongshui, and the main force of officers, soldiers and naval forces in Zhangshui."
"It's obvious," Fan Chao sneered, "We Poyang water bandits have used this kind of little trick a lot, and how can we still be fooled and run to our death? The commander of the officers and soldiers treats us as fools."
Li Hui said: "Then let's do the opposite, regardless of the officers and soldiers in the direction of Gongshui, only go to Zhangshui to destroy the main force of the officers, soldiers and navy!"
Wan Bangyan shook his head and said: "You can't go directly to Zhangshui, otherwise the officers, soldiers and sailors will definitely flee, and all the hard work will be in vain."
"Then bring out the officers, soldiers and sailors!" Gu Jianshan said.
"How to lead?" Wan Bangyan asked.
Gu Jianshan said: "Send thirty or forty grain transport ships, disguised as warships, and sail into Gongshui. The fire attack ships with officers and soldiers are released. When the officers, soldiers and sailors come from behind, our navy will kill them again! The officers and soldiers copy Let's go back, and let's copy the officers and soldiers' back!"
This is equivalent to sending thirty or forty grain ships to let the officers and soldiers burn slowly, and those boatmen don't know how many will survive.
Fei Ruhe immediately made a decision: "Call the boatmen, I want to recruit dead soldiers. Anyone who is willing to lure the enemy by boat, whether he dies in battle or escapes, will be rewarded with thirty taels of silver. Military achievements will be counted separately, and pensions will be counted separately!"
Wan Bangyan said: "Just sailing into the Gongshui, nine boatmen are enough for a boat."
That also requires two or three hundred dead soldiers.
Gu Jianshan, Wan Bangyan and others immediately conveyed the military order.
There are really many boatmen who came to sign up, because it is not a mandatory task. When the opponent's fire attack ship is sent out, they can jump out of the ship and escape for their lives after a long distance. Although it is the high water season, there is no flood, and the speed of the water flow is not difficult for the boatman.
Of course, swimming back to the shore quickly is not enough. It is easy to swim and be attacked by the officers, soldiers and sailors who rushed out from behind.
It can only be said that these death squad boatmen have at least a 50% chance of surviving.
And in their own opinion, the hope of living is more than 90%, because they all rely on their superb water skills.
In early July, Fujian soldiers crossed the river to plunder.Go around to the southwest at full speed and outflank, preventing any enemy ship from escaping into Zhangshui.
Chen Tingdui, the general soldier of Fujian Province, looked at the battle situation with binoculars at this moment, and he was already stupid.
Once the navy was destroyed, he personally crossed the river as a bait, and the tens of thousands of Fujian soldiers he brought over would not be able to cross the river and return to Ganzhou City. Although he still had more than a dozen troop carriers left, he didn't dare to go by boat at all. He would definitely be attacked by the rebel navy on the way.
More than 10,000 Fujian soldiers will not be able to return to Ganzhou City
Of course, before the water battle is over, if you start immediately, you can still pass thousands.
But who goes and who stays?
The soldiers who were left behind may mutiny on the spot.
Son-in-law Huang Hanliang quickly said: "Master Taishan, you must make a decision as soon as possible. First, abandon the 3,000 defenders in Ganzhou City, and immediately retreat to Xingguo County or Yudu County; second, quickly send troops to attack the main camp of the rebels!" The entire navy of our army has been wiped out, and we can no longer withdraw to Ganzhou City, and there is no third option at all, and if we drag it on, our morale will collapse sooner or later."
"beat!"
Chen Ting's eyes are red, he has more soldiers, and he has a thousand firecrackers.
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