As expected, failure is the mother of success, and it is common to all ancient and modern times.

Gao Yue asked Li Su to continue talking.

Li Jue said: "Before, we came from Gebi, and Cai Bids also opened Hongchi Pond east of Runan, causing the water to spread for dozens of miles. We had to take a detour to the south of the city. The reason why the West Lake water flooded Lizizhou this time was because the terrain of Runan City was that the cofferdams of the lakes were all higher than Rushui, and the water was five to six meters higher than that of Liushui. This is why we could not build a dam and flooded Runan City. However, Ji Gong - we can conquer Runan on the contrary!"

"The opposite way?" Gao Yue pondered for a while, then his eyes lit up, and he kept saying it was wonderful, "If the city was surrounded by rivers, it would have been blocked and the city walls were destroyed by water to win. Today, Fu Zhi meant that our army would break the cofferdam in the Runan Lake, turn the lake water in the opposite direction, and turn it into the Ru River from a high point?"

"Mr. Ji is wise. If you cut the lake water into Ru water, the lake will reach the bottom and the deep water barrier will no longer exist. Our army will carry reeds and firewood bundles to lay it on it. It will be like walking on flat ground, and you can directly attack Xuanhu City." Li Xian added excitedly.

"Good, good." At this time, Gao Yue felt that the whole game of chess came alive.

Zhou Ziping, who had never spoken, also offered advice at this time: "Since the lakes are high everywhere, then wait for Jingnan Yishen and Wang E's cabship to arrive, first rely on the giant ship to seize the forts outside Cai Zhe City, and then you can calmly break the dam and drain the water."

Gao Yue made a quick decision: "From now on, the officials and troops on all sides will be asked to draw out one-third of the soldiers and cut grass and firewood within a radius of fifty miles of Runan City. Each time they get a circumference of firewood and grass, they will be rewarded with fifty cents."

"Where is the breakthrough in the siege during the festival?" The three of them asked for instructions together.

Gao Yue pointed to the map and said, "The east and southeast of the city, namely Hongchibei and Xihu Lizizhou, were all flooded by the Cai thief. However, our army cannot get close to the city wall, so the Cai thief cannot fight out from here, so these two places are completely blocked without military defense. Fu Zhi, go back quickly and tell Xu Si and Su Pu two thousand elite soldiers that they are the main force of the attack of the city. They will be transferred to the Duanji River in the west and northwest of the city. The road will immediately drain the water from this river first and capture this place, so that the Dingwu, Yining army and Yu Yunyuan's troops will be connected in a line."

In this way, Xu Si and Su Pu's two thousand troops were mobile since they attacked Yingzhou. As a result, they were in a vain. When they attacked Runan, they were still a sharp blade in Gao Yue's sleeve.

Then Gao Yue asked Li Xian to go back and continue to command thousands of Huainan Town troops, and with Yan Zhen, the Wuchang army besieged Nanhu and Chaitan.

As for Zhou Ziping, Gao Yue temporarily appointed him as the "grass mowing envoy". His task was to urge all officials and soldiers to cut wood and mow grass in full. "The Cai people surrounded the houses in Runan Township, so they didn't have to be polite. They all demolished them for wood to be used for spare."

In the next few days, Wu Shaoyang couldn't hold on anymore. He repeatedly climbed the Zicheng Viewing Tower and saw:

The officials everywhere are mowing grass, cutting wood, and demolishing houses.

Then tie the grass into bundles and firewood into bundles, and erect the wooden beams in the house, and put them in rows in front of the camp. The sun comes out and the rain comes out and the felt cloth is covered with it, and it is very thoughtful.

"What is Gao Yue's intention? Could it be that he wants to use these to fill the lake water that is surrounded by the city?" Wu Shaoyang asked.

The generals and schools around him burst into laughter.

It was not until the five huge flyships of the Jingnan Army crossed the Wengangzha and began to appear on the Rushui River in the south of the city that Wu Shaoyang felt a little pressure.

Flying ships are vehicles and ships. Generally, it is well known that Yang Yao used the warships during the Dongting Lake Uprising in the Southern Song Dynasty. However, there were already vehicles and ships in the Tang Dynasty, which were created by Cao Wanggao. Of course, the earliest casing ships of Cao Wanggao were two-wheeled and the ship was relatively small in size. However, they were highly praised at that time: this kind of ship does not require sails and rowing, with good stability and seaworthiness, and reduced manpower. So Cao Wanggao continued to work hard and created four-wheeled ships, which were four feet long and two feet wide, and had a pair of wheels on each side of the ship. They entered the water and were trampled by people and moved like flying. They made many contributions to the combat effectiveness of Huaixi in the past.

After Cao Wanggao's death, Fan Ze, the successor of Jingnan Jiedushi, also focused on improving the flyship. His goal was to "faster, bigger and stronger", and entrusted it to Yi Shen, who had rich practical experience, and Wang E.

Now the five flying ships that Yi Shen and Wang E drove are twelve meter long and four meter high. The bottom of the ship is three meter wide. There are five large wheels on both sides. The deck is set on the three floors, carrying 300 people, and there are poles on the left and right ends, with huge rocks hanging, breaking through the waves.

Soon, the five flycraft walked around the Rushui River and directly passed through the sight of the horse-faced walls and embankments of Runan.

The Cai soldiers ran like ants on the faces of horses and camps, ejecting crossbows, launching rockets, and even throwing rope hooks to deal with the cassette.

However, the wooden boards on both sides of the cassette and outside the building were seven inches thick, and ordinary clusters of arrows could not be shot in at all. The crossbow was also lost due to its lightning speed. As for the rope hook as soon as it was thrown on the boat, it was cut off by an iron axe...

"What, what is the Jingnan boat going to do? Send people to swim over and twist the wheel with hemp rope, and they are done!" Wu Shaoyang, who was watching the battle in Zicheng, ran and jumped and commanded hard.

But at this time, the flyship had already followed the Rushui River and passed the embankment in the north of the city and went directly to the Duanji River in the west of the city...

On the Tianzhong Mountain, Gao Yue stared at the several large ships and said nervously, fearing that they would run aground or encounter other unexpected events.

You know, the spring water is just around the corner, Yi Shen and Wang E came in without even careful investigation of the hydrological conditions around Runan!

"Whether this woman's dog is in the capital or conquering Huaixi, why did she remember to worry about my master? Now that I am sending a letter, I must be a servant who is leaving and sending words to the ban." At this moment, in the girl's crown garden of Fuxingfang, Chang'an, the peach blossoms were blooming brightly. Princess Lingxu was picking up a stroke of painting under the tree, and several petals of flowers were stuck to her hair bun, and she said this hatefully to the maid who came to report the message.

On the same day, Princess Lingxu, who entered the palace, told the emperor that the Xuanwu Army's press officer was here and secretly took Wu Shaocheng's head, preparing to request the court to terminate the attack on Caizhou.

Previously, the emperor was in the company of Hanlin scholar Wei Zhiyi and the judge Pei Yanling, and was in the water pavilion of Penglai Pavilion and listened to reports on the national economy. As a result, the envoy of the Pavilion and the general of the Supervisor came to report:

Secretary-General Liu Taizhen, Censor Muzan, and Jixian Academy Liang Su, etc., were outside Guangshun Gate and said that they had something to file for the request.

"If it is the Huaixi incident, tell them for me that if there are casualties in the army, I will recruit and supplement them. If there are generals incompetent, I will punish and replace them - but if you want to stop the war between me and Caizhou, you should let them retreat as soon as possible." The emperor said this directly.

Then he said to Wei Zhiyi: "I just wait for the fifth Shouyi to come back and bring back Gaolang's good news. I believe that Runan City is already shaking and the day is in danger. Since the destruction of the Cai bandit is about to be destroyed, how can I give up halfway?"

At this time, Pei Yanling suddenly looked sad and said to the emperor with anger: "My minister Yanling once heard rumors, all of which were suspicion and slander for the high school boy."
Chapter completed!