After dawn broke, Ye quickly arrived with reinforcements. Only some residual trees were left floating on the river. Tai Buhua and his five thousand remaining troops were stationed on the bank.
Yesu stared at him and asked: "Prime Minister Zuo, where is the food?"
Taibu Hanamichi: "Burned!"
After the soldiers guarding the grain escaped ashore last night, Jiangdu's army stopped attacking without hearing the screams, slowly sailed over, set fire to all the ships, and sailed away.
After they were far away, Tai Buhua dared to lead the remaining army back to the shore.
Yesu said angrily: "There are only three days of food left in the army. Do you want all the soldiers to starve to death?"
Tai Buhua's face sank and he said: "Yesu, can this be blamed on the truth? I would like to ask you why Jiangdu naval forces appeared behind Gaoyou City!"
Yesu gritted his teeth and said: "There is a lot of water in Yangzhou. It is estimated that they entered Gaoyou Lake through a certain waterway, and then went around here through Gaoyou Lake!"
Taibuhua crossed his arms and said, "Why didn't you guard the waterway in advance? Now you're blaming me!"
Yesu sighed and said: "At first, Chahan Timur's 40,000 West Route Army guarded Ximen and Gaoyou Lake, but then the situation changed and his people were transferred away, and then there was an oversight!"<
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Tai Buhua waved his hand and said: "In short, you have to deal with this navy army as soon as possible, otherwise I won't be able to transport food!"
Yesu hesitated for a moment and said, "Come with me to see the Prime Minister. Food is in short supply right now. It's up to the Prime Minister to decide how to solve it!"
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Gaoyou Lake is one of the top ten largest lakes in the world. There are many small islands in the north, dividing the lake into many small pieces. The easternmost one is called Lu Lake.
After Li Er and Fang Yuan burned the grain once, they moved to a small island in the Luhu area and sent out scout boats to constantly monitor the canal situation and wait for opportunities to attack the grain transport team.
The next day, the dispatched boat came back in the morning, and Yang Baihu came back with the boat. His expression was very solemn, and he said to Li and the other side: "Two generals, the situation is not good!"
Fang Yuan asked: "What?"
Yang Baihu said: "Yesterday, after the two generals burned the Yuan army's food, they stopped attacking the city!"
Yu Tonghai said: "Isn't this a good thing?"
Yang Baihu said solemnly: "No, they stopped attacking the city to deal with us!"
Fang Yuan smiled and said: "Are they going to send warships to come over and have a water fight with us?"
Yang Baihu shook his head and said: "Chahan Timur's right army has already headed for Shao Bo Town!"
Fang Yuan was stunned for a moment and said: "Shao Bo Town is within Jiangdu, do they want to attack Jiangdu again?"
"No, after they entered Shaobo Town, they built fortifications there and seemed to plan to defend there!"
Fu Youde changed his tone and said: "Shaobo Town is the only way back to Jiangdu, they want to block us!"
Everyone's expressions changed. There was only five days of food on the ship. If they didn't get supplies, everyone would starve to death!
Li Er quickly asked: "Are the 40,000 people from Cheluo Town entering Shaobo Town, or all the right-leg troops?"
"Everyone!" Yang Baihu said: "The right army attacking the city merged with the right army in Cheluo Town. There are more than 60,000 people in total, and they are all stationed in Shao Bo Town!"
Yu Tonghai thought for a while and said with a smile: "That's okay, we can ask Zhang Shicheng for food!"
Yang Baihu said solemnly: "I'm afraid it won't work. Tuotuo personally led the Chinese army to guard the water gate to the west!"
Everyone gradually realized the seriousness of the problem, and Fang Yuan said coldly: "They want to cut off our food, so we will rob their food!"
Yang Baihu added: "The enemy's front army marched urgently last night and has already headed to Baoying. It is estimated that they will personally escort the grain and grass, and may take the land route!"
Fang Yuan and Li looked at each other. After a long time, Yu Tonghai said: "General Manager Zhang will know about our predicament soon and will definitely lead the army to attack the Tatars in Shao Bo Town!"
Fang Yuan said sternly: "This will play into the enemy's hands!" He turned to Yang Baihu and said: "You immediately send a message to Jiangdu and tell the general manager not to lead troops out of the city. We will find a way!" p>
Yang Baihu bowed his hands to several people and accepted the order.
Fang Yuan sat cross-legged on the deck, looking thoughtful. Everyone else said nothing, silently thinking about how to overcome the predicament!
Fu Youde suddenly said: "General Fang, take out the map and take a look at it again!"
Fang Yuan nodded and spread the map on the ground. This map was a gift from Lu Zhen. The topography of the Gaoyou area recorded on it is more detailed than the Jiangdu map.
Fu Youde looked at it for a while and said: "There is only one way now!"
Li Er hurriedly asked: "What can I do?"
Fu Youde moved his finger slowly on the map and said: "We enter the canal from Pulukou and go downstream for a while. There is a tributary here that leads to the Xinghua Canal!"
Fang Yuan's eyes lit up and he said: "You mean to go to Xinghua?"
Fu Youde said: "Yes, Xinghua has not been captured yet, and there is a waterway connected to Taizhou. We can go to Taizhou through Xinghua, then go to Tongzhou via Taizhou, and finally return to Jiangdu!"
Fang Yuan looked at Li Er: "What does General Li think?"
Li Er thought for a while and said: "As of now, this is the only way it can be!"
In order to prevent the enemy from intercepting it, the navy headed towards the canal that night, turned into a tributary along the Hangou Canal, and entered the Xinghua Canal.
Heading eastward along the canal, in the afternoon of the next day, the fleet moved at full speed and broke through the water!
While we were walking, we suddenly saw a fleet of ships appearing in front of us. They were all large cargo ships, and the ships were densely packed with soldiers!
The two armies met unexpectedly. They were stunned for a while, and then attacked each other at the same time!
The enemy was unprepared for battle, and most of the soldiers did not even have weapons or weapons, but Jiangdu Army was well prepared to fight the Left Army.
At the beginning of the battle, there were only sporadic arrows on the opposite side, and the distance was too far, so most of them fell into the water. Jiangdu's army fired a salvo of artillery, quickly sinking the first two large cargo ships.
Fang Yuan is experienced and has seen that the enemy is using cargo ships to transport soldiers, so the ships are filled with people. There are at least two thousand soldiers in one ship.
How can you miss this opportunity to eliminate the opponent's main force!
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He immediately gave the order. In addition to the four four-masted warships that continuously fired artillery, the other three-masted ships also moved closer and greeted each other with arrows.
There are more than thirty enemy troop transport ships in total, more than twenty of which are full of soldiers, and the remaining ten are full of grain, grass and ordnance. Because they are fully loaded, as long as a hole is made by artillery, they will sink very fast!<
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Moreover, the enemy commander seemed to be frightened and did not make any reaction for a long time. He was shooting at the Jiangdu navy like a target!
It was not until the fifteenth large cargo ship was sunk that the enemy ships began to move towards the shore. After two more ships were sunk, all enemy ships moved towards the north shore.
The soldiers swarmed ashore and ran away without looking back, leaving only a few empty ships and ten ships full of supplies!
Fang Yuan laughed and was about to give the order to go ashore to pursue him when Li Er suddenly came over and called him out.
"General Fang, stop chasing, we need to rush to Xinghua's aid immediately!"
Fang Yuan was stunned and said: "What?"
Li Er said solemnly: "I just ordered someone to pick up a prisoner from the water. The prisoner is a senior general. According to him, they are the Left Route Army. They were ordered by Tuotuo to transport a batch of grain and grass to Gaoyou!" Fang Yuan was surprised and said: "Were they Dong Tuanxiao's troops just now?"
Li Erdao: "It is indeed the Left Army, but it is led by the King of Xining. Tuotuo ordered the Left Army to be divided into two. Dong Tuanxiao led more than 50,000 people to continue to attack Xinghua, and King Xining led more than 60,000 people.
Escort a batch of grain and grass to Gaoyou!"
Fang Yuan frowned and said: "Since Xinghua has not yet fallen, why rush for reinforcements? Why not kill this group of troops first? This kind of good opportunity will never happen again!"
Li Er said in a deep voice: "Xinghua has been lost!"
Fang Yuan was shocked: "What?"
Li Erdao: "It is said that King Xining's troops had just left Xinghua. Dong Tuanxiao captured the north gate that night and are currently fighting in the streets with the defenders!"
Fang Yuan glanced at the remnants of King Xining's troops who were escaping. There were still many people fleeing from the river to the shore, and sighed: "What a pity. If we pursue them at this time, we can completely eliminate these 60,000 people in one fell swoop!"
Fu Youde reminded: "The remnants of King Xining's escape will soon spread the news to Tuotuo. He will definitely send people to encircle and suppress us from the rear. We need to act as soon as possible!"
Fang Yuan smiled and said: "Don't worry, I know the importance. Let's set off immediately, but we have to bring this batch of supplies with us!"
Li Er laughed loudly and said: "Of course." With this batch of food and grass, even if Xinghua has been captured, they can return to Gaoyou Lake and hold on for a while.
After taking all the grain transport ships with them and adding a batch of arrows, the navy continued to move forward. Due to the existence of the grain transport ships, the speed was inevitably much slower.