Sancha River Wharf, a place nominally called a wharf but actually a water village.

Shuizhai holds the "double sword book protection scroll" pennant of Jinghua, but due to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, the entire Shuizhai is just such a flag on weekdays, similar to the meaning of the merchant hanging a "Xinglong" and "Xingsheng" pennants, to some extent, it is a "trademark", as for other types of flags, it is not allowed to hang casually.

But now it is different, since Tumen and Fried Flower sent troops, the Jinghua gunboats at the Sanchahe Wharf have also raised the "Gao" banner in addition to the "Double Sword Protecting the Book" pennant - this means that they have now been requisitioned by the imperial court, and the current commander is surnamed Gao.

Jinghua belongs to the private property of Gao Pragmatic, and a large number of people with the surname Gao at the bottom are basically changed after becoming a family member, so even if the banner of the word "Gao" is hung, outsiders can't figure out who the commander is.

But in fact, the "high" referred to by the banner of "high" in the wharf of the Sancha River is Gao Pragmatic himself.

Yesterday, Gao Shishi had personally rushed from Gaizhou to the Sanchahe wharf, and he came quietly with him, as well as the 1,000 Buding that Jinghua had transferred to Liaodong in advance and the 800 cavalry he had brought with himself.

Originally, this batch of Buding was scattered and arranged, and at several key nodes of the Liao River and Taizi River, the main task was to guard the warehousing and operation of goods, but now he was transferred to the front line.

In this way, coupled with the "amphibious force" of several hundred people in Shuizhai itself, the number of available armed men at hand has reached more than 2,000, and the strength is not weak.

At the same time, Gao Pragmatic arrived with Ma Chengen and the 600 Ma family soldiers under his command, as well as more than 3,000 guards belonging to the Fuzhou Guard-in fact, Gao Pragmatic himself came hidden in Ma Chengen's team, but some of the Gao family's family members entered the water village in batches through various hidden channels.

From this arrangement, it can be seen that Gao Pragmatic is concealing his strength, and he wants to give the Tumen and Fried Flower coalition forces on the other side a false impression, that is, the Ming army reinforcements at the Sanchahe Wharf are from Fuzhou Wei, and the number is about 4,000.

When Zhang Wanbang attacked the logging team, Tumen and the Fried Flower Battalion were slow to react, and one of the reasons was that they received the news of the increase in the strength of the Ming army at the Sanchahe Wharf and were discussing countermeasures.

Night, two o'clock.

The small building in Hegang, where Gao Shishi is located, is brightly lit, and Zhang Wanbang is recounting in detail the various information he has obtained from his seven river crossings in the past few days, and the ambush battle just now.

Outside the small building behind him, several large bamboo baskets were filled with Mongolian Tatar heads brought from the other side, and the Gao family was helping him deal with them - in fact, it was to keep them fresh, so that they would not be all rotten and difficult to "enter the account" at that time.

Gao Pragmatic really did not blame Zhang Wanbang for attacking the Mongols' squad on his own initiative, but he was not angered by the Mongols' actions, so it made sense to acquiesce to Zhang Wanbang's anger at the crown, but because his command habits have always been more hands-off.

Since the task has been handed over to you, then you only need to complete the task, and everything else is easy to say, as for whether you choose to use tactics or choose to "exert force" in the process of performing the task, that is your business, as long as you do not violate military law.

Killing the Tartars obviously did not violate military law, so Gao Pragmatic did not say a word, but asked people to help him deal with the first rank, and record it in the book, and then discuss it together after the war.

Zhang Wanbang's investigation was very meticulous, and he listened to it for half an hour, of course, he also asked a lot of questions, and Zhang Wanbang replied one by one.

In Gao Pragmatic's view, this guy who has done the general army with his own skills in history does have some skills, the investigation is very detailed, and in terms of content, his exploration is also relatively in-depth, and what is even more rare is that he is exploring the Mongols who are almost all cavalry.

Although the terrain near the Liaohe River is conducive to a small group of elites like him to engage in concealment, as the son of Jiangmen and a promising young general, daring to take only a few dozen people to explore the Mongolian army at close range is itself a double test of courage and wisdom, and Zhang Wanbang obviously passed the test.

"So, they cut down trees only about size, and don't look at the varieties at all?" Gao Pragmatic asked at this time.

Zhang Wanbang replied without hesitation: "Yes, Bingxian." As I saw with my own eyes, the trees they cut down were of all types, and the only thing they had in common was that they were all thicker. ”

"Very good, Sanxi has worked hard." Gao pragmatically smiled and nodded, turned his head to Ma Chengen, who was standing aside, and said, "How?" ”

Ma Chengen smiled and arched his hand, and said: "The soldier's eyes are like a torch, this shipbuilding is really fake." If they want to build a ship, even if the time is urgent, and there is no time to dry the wood, at least the material still has to be picked. ”

"And guess what they're going to do with all this wood?" Gao asked with a smile.

"It's a bit hard to guess." Ma Chengen thought about it and said: "If you want to attack with fire, these thick logs are not easy to use, and they are not as good as ordinary branch bundles...... However, if you only build a raft according to the Mongol custom, it seems that you will not need so much wood. ”

Gao pragmatic waved his hand: "Don't guess, most of them are going to engage in some tricks of wooden people...... Ha, if it weren't for the late autumn and the windy Liaohe River, I think they might be able to save some trouble, just the straw man. ”

"Hiding from the world?" Ma Chengen and Zhang Wanbang asked questions at the same time.

Gao pragmatic nodded: "It should be almost the same, it's nothing more than hiding from the sky and crossing the sea, attacking the east and the west, repairing the plank road in the open, and secretly crossing Chencang." ”

He paused, and then said: "Didn't Sanxi say just now, in addition to cutting down trees in the past few days, the department of the fried flowers is sending people to wander upstream, judging from the scope of their main 'wandering', it is expected that they want to suddenly cross the river somewhere between Dongsheng Fort and Changning Fort...... As for the camp side, it's nothing more than a cover.

And behold, when they light a large bonfire in the camp, and even set up a drinking party and blow and blow, it means that they are going to launch a raid across the river. ”

Zhang Wanbang was surprised: "Why do you light a lot of bonfires, and even blow and blow?" ”

Gao Pragmatic laughed and said: "Because they are not confident, some people use strategies, it's not that they use tactics wrongly, but they don't have a good grasp of the heat."

It's like someone going to learn cooking, when they first learn, they always think that they can make some water and land treasures to be the chef, and when they show their skills to others, they can't wait to use the dragon liver and phoenix marrow to cook.

As everyone knows, the real cooking skill lies in the fact that any ingredient can be used for you, not only can be used, but also used to the extreme, using the most common ingredients to make delicious dishes, which is worthy of the chef's words. ”

Zhang Wanbang said suddenly: "Bingxian said that they were afraid that we would not be fooled, so they had to make some big moves to attract our attention, but this instead exposed the time when they launched a surprise attack?" ”

Gao pragmatic nodded and said: "Yes, so let's plan it well, and when they make a big move, the water village will also be brightly lit, and continue to send people to the front to 'investigate'...... By the way, did I get you to get the wood cannon ready? ”

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