The anxious Li Zi looked at the endless reeds in the branch of the lake, and an idea suddenly came to him.
This lake is called Luyang Lake, and it is a freshwater lake connected in the middle section of Hangou.
The lake is less than half a mile deep, making it difficult for large ships to navigate, but it is vast and vast.
The lakeside and the lake branches with ravines are covered with reeds.
Now in the middle of winter, although these reeds have long since withered, the dead branches and leaves are still densely packed and airtight.
The area of these reed beds is tens of thousands of acres.
As long as one gets in, it is impossible to find it.
Now, more than thirty centipede ships of the Sui Army have sailed into Luyang Lake and implemented a blockade on the southern area of the lake.
In addition, there are hundreds of centipede ships conducting reconnaissance along the lake shore day and night.
Li Zitong's bandit army wants to escape from the lake.
Sneaking through is almost impossible.
In the early morning of this day, in the Sui Army's large tent on the west bank of Hangou, a middle-aged man was discussing something with Du Fuwei and Chen Jun in front of a sand table.
A Xiaoguo imperial guard entered the tent and reported: "Your Majesty, early this morning, our army's scouts responsible for surveillance suddenly discovered that Li Zitong's bandit army had disappeared.
However, General Lai Hu'er in the east and General Sima Dekan in the south None of the troops noticed that a large group of troops passed through their defense area at night, and there was no movement. " "In Hangou to the west, is there any change in the direction monitored by the light-armored flying cavalry?"
Chen Junfa next to Yang Guang asked.
"No."
Du Fuwei pondered for a moment, pointed to the sand table and said: "This thief must have escaped into the reeds of Luyang Lake."
Chen Jun immediately said: "In that case, let's let the friendly forces on the southeast and southeast block this reed swamp, and then send out a large army to search the reed swamp."
"It's not feasible.
This reed swamp has a radius of a hundred miles and it is impossible to block it.
Moreover, there are ravines in the swamp.
The army is afraid of ambushing if it goes deep.
What's more, it is the middle of winter and the sky is dry.
This reed is flammable.
If Not familiar with The road conditions in the reed swamp meant that once a fire broke out, there was no way to escape.
Maybe Li Zitong was not trying to escape through the reed swamp, but was luring our army deep into the reed swamp and setting fire to attack.
Then our army would die without a trace. place.
Back then" Du Fuwei paused for a moment, then turned to Yang Guang and whispered: "Back then, I lured Jiangdu Colonel Song Hao into the reed swamp and set him on fire to death."
Chen Jun groaned and said: "This is too bad.
If we go into the reed swamp to search, we might have fallen into the trap of this thief Li Zitong.
If we don't enter the reed swamp, we might let him go.
We finally caught him."
If you kill him, all your efforts will be wasted.”
Yang Guang frowned and said, "In that case, why don't we set a fire and burn this reed swamp completely."
After hearing this, Du Fuwei hurriedly said: "This reed swamp is not all closely connected.
If we want to burn all the reeds with a radius of a hundred miles, we still have to send troops into the swamp and set fire to it.
If we only Send a small group of soldiers in , they will definitely be annihilated by their concentrated forces.
If the army goes in, the problem will be back to the original point.
If we just burn the reeds one by one, the enemy will have already escaped. " Yang Guang smacked his lips and said: "I have my own way to set fire.
The most important thing now is not to let Li Zitong use the reed swamp to escape the siege.
I sent my order and sent in a nurse.
Shen Guang's troops went north and stayed around Luyang Lake day and night.
Patrol and alert, light armor flying I also rode across Hangou to perform the same mission.
As long as you give me one day, I can burn the reeds around Luyang Lake.
You also quickly mobilize your troops to go south to protect the children.
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Just try your best to blockade Luyang Lake."
Du Fuwei and Chen Jun took their orders and left.
That afternoon, a large number of ships from Tianxing City brought a large amount of supplies along Hangou.
These materials are all special clay pots.
Also accompanying the ship were two thousand longbowmen.
Several armies of the Sui Army were dispatched in full force and were divided into numerous patrol units to patrol and guard the southeastern shore of Luyang Lake.
Dozens of neighboring Dan people's boats were mobilized and went deep into the reed marsh at the northeastern end of Luyang Lake to monitor whether the rebels had passed through and escaped to the north shore of Luyang Lake.
All the light-armored flying cavalry were concentrated on the north bank of the lake, and thousands of Xiaoguo Army cavalry were gathered with them.
If Li Zitong emerges from the reeds on the north bank, he will be pursued by them.
Although they cannot annihilate Li Zitong, they will still cause him heavy losses.
In the evening, when the sun is about to set.
Under the personal command of Yang Guang, the Sui army was well arranged.
A loud arrow with a trailing flame suddenly shot into the air, and then more such arrows lit up the sky that was starting to darken one after another.
Li Zitong, who was hiding deep in the reed swamp, waited for a whole day but did not wait for the Sui army to arrive.
He concluded that the Sui army must not dare to enter the swamp.
So the next plan was adopted, moving around the lake along the reed swamp to the north shore of Luyang Lake.
At this time, he discovered flickering sparks rushing into the sky one after another, with a sharp whistle.
"What the hell is that?
What does the Sui army want to do?"
Li Zitong said to himself in fear.
Suddenly, there were several loud rumbling sounds from a little distance, and then flames rose into the sky, quickly igniting the dry reeds.
On the lake, rounds of explosive bombs fired from the Centipede ship flew towards the reed marsh.
This is another new type of explosive bomb.
If the previous explosive bombs were used here, they would probably not be effective.
Because there are mostly shallow puddles or mud under the reeds, even if the fire oil can burn on the water, these pots cannot be broken and the fire oil inside cannot spill out.
As for today's explosive bombs, the clay pot is divided into two layers, with black powder in the middle layer.
Although this primitive gunpowder explosion was not lethal, it was enough to shatter clay pots.
When the explosive bomb hits the ground or is about to hit the ground, the igniting powder just burns out, explodes the clay pot and ignites the fire oil.
The deck of the centipede ship was full of soldiers, and they kept shooting rockets at the reed swamps.
This is a special kind of rocket.
A gunpowder bag is hung on the front end of the arrow.
When it lands, it can just hang on the reed branches instead of falling into the water.
At the same time, the gunpowder burns violently and ignites the reeds.
The same is true on the shore.
In addition to ordinary archers, those long archers will throw light arrows with gunpowder bags over a distance of more than 400 meters, deep into the reed swamps.
At this time, the sky was completely dark, and countless large and small "flying meteors" on the southeastern shore of Luyang Lake were thrown into the huge reeds amidst bursts of thunder.
These reeds burned in pieces, and the fire turned the sky red, as if it were daytime.
The sound of people screaming and screaming began to be faintly heard in the reeds, and they became more and more numerous and dense
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