The layout of the slave army was adjusted, and the Huainan army was quickly aware of it.

Although the current Huainan Army has a slight advantage in terms of the overall trend of the war, the rescue of Runan is indeed imminent. Therefore, in the past few days, although the naval army was surrounded around Rukou and was not allowed to go north, there would be small-scale light boats every day to test the impact, wanting to break through the blockade of this section of the waterway by the slave army, even if the people of Runan could not be brought out, the news of the arrival of the Wang Shi's army in the past to calm the people's hearts.

Generally speaking, the peach leopard's various responses to the Huainan Navy are well versed in the art of war, and the waterway of Rushui is slightly farther away from Shouchun than Yingshui, and the land of Runan has been dilapidated for a long time, and the navigation conditions are slightly worse than Yingkou.

When the water rises in midsummer, because of the backfilling and replenishment of Huai Shui, the navigation condition of this section of Rukou is quite good. But more than ten miles away, Rushui began to diverge, and there is no lack of villagers who flow here privately built slopes to divert water to irrigate the reclamation, and the river has no camp all year round, and occasionally the water overflows, so a large area of tidal flat swamps has been caused along the river basin.

Due to this geographical situation, the Peach Leopard army dug a number of ditches criss-crossing the area, which were not wide enough to be a few feet deep, making it difficult for even simple rafts to float in between, but they also intensified the diversion of the Rushui water, creating a larger tidal flat along the coast. Moreover, if they set up a rambut in the shallow land, and dig into the river where the current is not turbulent, they will not only be equipped with a large number of soldiers, but also accumulate a lot of firewood, and if the boat is blocked and slowed down, most of them will be killed in the fire.

The Huainan Army has been stuck here for a few days, and it is not that it has done nothing, and it has organized civilian ships to salvage sediment and sand little by little along Rukou, and the waterway is deep. However, Xia Japan is not a good time to repair waterways, and the current confrontation between the two armies is simply difficult to invest in large-scale manpower. Therefore, this has little effect, and it is more to demonstrate the attitude of the Huainan Army that is not arrogant or impetuous, and that it is steady and steady.

Moreover, this time, the Huainan army gathered its boats and ships and made a big move to the western border, which was also to reflect the posture of saving the people of Runan. In this way, it will undoubtedly increase the weight of the bait of the hanging gourd in the minds of the slave army. The slave army does not have an advantage in the waterway, and it is difficult to intercept the Huainan army on the Huai River, if the peach leopard wants to collect the intention of containing the Huainan water army, of course, it needs to maintain the existence of the bait.

If he breaks the hanging gourd first, then it will be meaningless for the Huainan army to be entangled in Runan, and it will naturally have to retreat and hold each other for a long time. This was undoubtedly the worst possible outcome for the slave army. If it was the previous army, Xu Tui could still create a state of strong enemy pressure, but Shi Huying's defeat made this plan lose the deterrent power it should have.

In the early morning, several Red Horse Clippers from the Rukou Water Camp sailed north into Rushui, each carrying more than a dozen men and soldiers to carry out routine temptations. Seven or eight miles out of Shuiying, the river becomes wider, but except for a short section of extremely narrow deep water in the middle, there are large shallow tidal flats on both sides, which are difficult to drive at all.

At this time, on both sides of the river, there had begun to appear sporadically people who were enslaved and served, either carrying baskets to carry soil to fill the river, or using rudimentary tools to catch fish and shrimp for military use. The slave army had no sympathy for these people, and most of the laborers were immersed in the water day and night, and even began to fester, and many people died directly in the river, and the corpses were not collected, floating on the river surface and gradually being eaten by fish and shrimp.

At this time, when they saw the appearance of the Huainan military boat, some people who could not bear the pain of abuse shouted for help and swam towards the center of the river. In the days before, there had been such a situation, and the fleeing crowd was often shot in the river by the slaves of the overseer on the shore at the first sign of fleeing.

Today, however, the situation is different, and the slaves do not react in a timely manner, or there are not many slaves who oversee the work at all. Although the speed of those laborers was not very fast, a few of them managed to swim to the deep water of the river, but they were weak and gradually disappeared below the surface. On the shore, there were only a dozen or so slave soldiers running and shouting, and they did not go into the water, but only verbally intimidated.

The Red Horse Light Boat had its own mission to investigate the enemy's situation, but after all, it could not bear to see the people drowned in the river, so it divided two boats to turn to rescue the few laborers who were about to be flooded by the river. As they approached, the servants had weakened their struggles, and their bodies were washed away by the undercurrent of the river.

When the person was salvaged, his abdomen was swollen, and his breath was weak, and he lay on the side of the boat, and the river water was left along the corners of his mouth. Two of them snorted and became apparent, but the rest did not wake up after all, only the corpse that had been rotted by the river mud lay across the plank, as if to indict the cruelty of the world.

Seeing that some people had successfully escaped, the remaining servants saw a glimmer of hope for life, and rushed to the river, and hundreds of people on the left and near were without exception. The slave soldiers on the shore were already roaring angrily when they saw this, but they did not dare to go into the water to stop them, and the camp of the slave army farther away did not pour out more soldiers.

This place is not too far from the Rukou Water Camp, and it is difficult for the Red Horse Light Boat in charge of spying on the enemy's situation to pick up and save all the people, so they split a ship to quickly return to communicate. As for the rest, they scattered to salvage the suffering who had long since lost their strength and were about to drown.

The water camp responded in time, and soon a civilian boat sailed out to pick up the hundreds of people who had successfully escaped, most of whom were already weak and were quickly sent into the camp for treatment. There were still a few who were quite sensible, and after a little food and clothing, they intermittently talked about the movements of the slave army.

Lu Yong and Xu Mao in the camp also received a report and learned that the slave army had shown signs of retreating, and even guessed that it should be to intensify the attack on the Hanging Gourd. So he sent more Red Horse Light Boats out to spy on them, and at the same time began to dispatch troops, and soon organized a team of 1,000 men, divided into seven or eight warships, led by Mo Zhong, who had been promoted to the lord of the building, and began to sail further north of Rushui.

Although the peach leopard was forced to weaken the blockade of this section of the Rushui waterway due to the overall battle situation, in order to avoid doing too much of it, it did not withdraw all the soldiers. There is still a part left along the way to protect the many obstacles such as earth dams and wooden fences that have been set up before.

Mo Zhong and other more than 1,000 sailors rushed straight to the north from Rushui, and encountered a lot of interceptions along the way, but they were not very tough, and some places only erected some simple wooden fences, not even the basic guards, and those wooden fences were also smashed away by boats, and the driftwood fragments were swept away by the current, which was not the same as the previous interception.

This way rushed, and after more than ten miles of water, it was already more than twenty miles away from the Rukou Water Camp, and Mo Zhong and the others could only encounter some slightly effective obstacles. The channel of the Rushui River was tightened, and there was a diversion near the bank to connect the Shenshui. The slave army has built several earth and stone embankments here, and is about to close the dragon, and only a narrow stream less than three zhang wide is left in the middle, and the big ships cannot pass at all, and if the small boats are not careful, there will be a risk of capsizing.

There are several arrow towers on the left and right sides of the embankment, and at the same time, there are thick beams and timbers across the river, and there are still thousands of slave troops here to draw bows and wait for the enemy. As soon as the warships of the Huainan Army approached, the slaves on the arrow tower of the embankment began to shoot condescendingly, and the arrows soon covered the waters within nearly ten zhang on the left, and the arrows that went out of the air stirred up a stirring splash.

The speed of the warship also slowed down sharply, and the soldiers on the warship all raised their shields for protection, and the inclined arrows contained a strong force to chisel on the shield surface, and the force of the shot was pressed by the wooden shield to the soldiers, and then transmitted to the boat carrying the soldiers, and the momentum of the warship was thus canceled, and a large area of water rippled violently along the surface of the water with the draft of the warship as the source.

A slight victory in a water battle would result in a much greater advantage than in a land battle. The slaves stood on the ground, the arrow towers towered on the heights, and they shot condescendingly. The Huainan army was already distracted by the waves, and it was difficult to arrange troops on the river, so after a little temptation, they did not love to fight, and immediately turned around and returned home. Of course, if you really want to attack, it is not without tactics, such as soldiers swimming across the river to attack, or directly ramming the embankment, but it is still in the tentative stage, and it is not necessary to attack the position immediately.

At this time, the peach leopard was standing in the camp on the high post not far from the embankment and watching the battle, and saw that the Huainan army withdrew after a little temptation, and his brows couldn't help frowning. The Huainan military boat was violent, and the general trend was coming, and it was mistaken by Peach Leopard for a decisive battle with him. However, after the two sides came into contact, they found that the Huainan Army's style of play was completely not to seek merit, but to make no mistakes, and would rather anchor the boat at Rukou and delay the advance than launch an attack without taking advantage, which was really extremely conservative.

If this is the Huainan Army's consistent way of playing, then it is conceivable that the defeat of the King of Zhongshan at Yingkou is completely self-inflicted, and it is simply that he pushed the soldiers up and gave the Huainan Army a chance to break the water.

After contact in the past few days, Taobao also deeply felt that the real tactics of the Huainan Army were completely different from the posture it showed, the posture was extremely unrestrained, but in terms of specific tactics, it was more than conservative, and it has been avoiding any tough battles. Such an opponent is undoubtedly extremely difficult, although thanks to the thorough preparation of the peach leopard, the disadvantage of the terrain in this area of Runan has turned into an advantage, but the Huainan army is not in the army at all, so he is completely unable to attack.

In fact, this kind of fighting style is extremely demoralizing, but the Huainan Army has achieved a great victory before, and there is no need to worry about morale at all, but it is the Qianhu army that needs to be worried.

"Get out of the embankment......"

After pondering for a long time, Peach Leopard still reluctantly ordered. At the moment, although he won in the tactical arrangement, he lost in the strategic arrangement. Assuming that he came south to confront the Huainan army for a long time in this war, then his arrangements were undoubtedly correct, but this was not the case. In this way, the arrangements he made became an obstacle to the enemy's entry. Such an unbelievable battle, even he has few experiences.