Yang Huairen was overjoyed, and praised it, "The idea of the Seven Staff Generals is good, and it is very good to burn Badger Island." ”

Ke Xiaochuan was also one of the people who accompanied Yang Huairen with Xiao Qi to burn Liangshan, and he also agreed, "Yes, we burned Liangshan back then, and now let's burn Badger Island again and burn this group of people!" ”

General Yang Shihu is familiar with military books, so he naturally knows the beauty of fire attack, but he is more cautious than Xiao Qi and Ke Xiaochuan's casualness.

"Lord Wang, it's not impossible to attack with fire, but we must first survey the terrain around Badger Island and the immediate wind direction and speed, and we must not bring fire to the riverbank, if it affects the ordinary people on the riverbank, it will not be good."

Brother Hei Niu said, "General Yang is right, everything must be careful, and there is also one point to prepare in advance, the fire on Badger Island, the water bandits on the continent will definitely be prepared, and it is located at the intersection of three rivers, they may extinguish the fire if it is small, the fire is too big, and there is a risk of burning to the river bank." ”

Yang Huairen nodded and thought about it, understanding that the ancients had a kind of awe for fire for no reason, and he said, "What everyone said is good, the method of fire attack is feasible, but we must also be careful, and we must not be careless, damaging the safety of the canal and the safety of ordinary people on the riverbank." ”

Brother Tianba seemed to think of something, and whispered, "Brother, didn't Liangwei bring a lot of newly developed gunpowder with him when he went out of Beijing this time?"

Before, these gunpowders were only secretly tested in a small area, but now that they have been brought out, why don't we try these water bandits with some real characteristics? ”

"That's right!"

Yang Huairen slapped his thigh violently, "If it weren't for Tianba remembering it, I would have forgotten about it." This time, we should use actual combat to test the actual combat ability of this batch of firearms and gunpowder. ”

After the strategy was formulated, Yang Huairen immediately ordered Yang Shihu to draw out the soldiers with good water characteristics among Long Wuwei and Hu Benwei, and temporarily organize a thousand-person naval army to monitor Badger Island from the water.

Brother Hei Niu, Ke Xiaochuan, and Huang Dayin each led a thousand infantry troops to surround Badger Island from the land on three sides to prevent the water bandits from escaping under the fire attack.

Yang Huairen led Tianba's younger brother, Xiao Qi, Lu Jinyi, Lin Chong and others to attack from the front with the gunpowder battalion and the bow battalion, and Xuanshen stayed at the dock.

After the arrangement, the army set off immediately, ten miles is not too far, half an hour later, the team of men and horses has appeared on the bank of the Badger River, Huang Dayin led the men and horses to cross the river from the upstream bridge, and then returned to the opposite side of the downstream to intercept.

The relevant officials in Suzhou were very cooperative and active this time, and it seems that Yang Huairen's words still played a role, the mouth of the Badger River is facing the canal, and this side can use big boats to block the possible way of the water bandits.

On the Badger River, the Suzhou Yamen requisitioned 60 or 70 fishing boats from nearby fishing villages, and the fishing boats dragged the fishing nets and spread out a large hunting net on the upstream river, but they did not approach the Badger Island.

Badger Island is the upstream part of the confluence of the two rivers, the island in the river formed by the alluvial silt for many years, it is triangular, the opposite river channel is relatively wide, there are nearly 100 steps, and the side close to Suzhou is relatively narrow, only 50 or 60 steps.

However, this close distance should not be underestimated, as the banks of the river are overgrown with reeds and aquatic weeds of various colors, and in fact the width of the river channel may be wider than visually judged.

Such a big battle, and so suddenly, Yang Huairen believed that the water bandits on Badger Island must have noticed that the officers and soldiers were coming to round them up.

It's just that they really have no way to go except to stay on the island, and downstream is the Bianhe River, and on the river is the big official boat of the forbidden army, if they rush out in a small boat, I am afraid that they will be shot into hedgehogs by the archers on the big boat.

Even if the water ghosts with good water character among the water bandits wanted to organize the attack of officers and soldiers by digging boats, Yang Huairen did not take the liberty of letting the boats land on the island, the boats were lined up upstream, and the fishing nets connected together were still dragged behind, and the river was not too deep, even if the water characteristics of the water bandits were good, they could not escape the fishing nets.

Yang Huairen saw that everything was arranged, so he sent the loud voice of the palace guard to the shore and shouted loudly at the badger island, but he ...... It's a bit strange.

"Listen to the people on the island, you have been surrounded, surrender immediately, disarm and bind you to leave a whole corpse, and stubbornly resist to make you a roast pig!"

The water bandits on Badger Island hid in the reeds and looked over here, saying in their hearts who are these people? It doesn't seem to be the local people in Suzhou, and the dress of those soldiers doesn't seem to be right, different from ordinary van soldiers, and the soldiers are much more powerful in temperament.

However, the water bandits have not been cleared by officers and soldiers, knowing that Badger Island is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if the officers and soldiers dare to cross the river to arrest them, they have all kinds of ways to resist.

And from the meaning of the shouting, these people don't plan to give them a way to live, both positive and negative are death, who will surrender?

In fact, Yang Huairen didn't expect them to really surrender, and ordered someone to speak Chinese to Badger Island, just because he did his best, after all, the last time Liangshan was burned, that scene was still fresh in his memory, and hundreds of people were burned to death, and this sin was still a bit heavy.

The loud voice shouted for a while, his voice was a little hoarse, Yang Huairen asked him to stop, and there seemed to be no reaction on the badger island, but Yang Huairen still saw some movement in the reeds.

He walked to the shore himself and shouted, "The opportunity has been given to you, but you are so bold that you don't even want a whole corpse, no wonder I am it." ”

After saying that, he gestured to the firearms battalion behind him, and the soldiers of the firearms battalion stepped forward one after another with their own things.

The firearms battalion was established not long ago, and it was only used to test new firearms, and both Long Wuwei and Hu Benwei selected 500 ingenious soldiers and formed a firearms battalion.

The new firearms made by gunpowder craftsmen are not guns and cannons, and the current steel smelting is not up to the standard of weapon level, and even if a cannon is made, the reliability cannot be guaranteed.

Therefore, the special equipment of the firearms battalion is just some special large-sized artillery battles, but don't underestimate these things, the craftsmen's minds are still very ingenious, although Yang Huairen is not very proficient in technology, but the effect is simple and rude, which is enough.

"Drag out the Italian cannon designed by Ben King."

This name was given by Yang Huairen, in fact, he was a bit of a spoof, but the craftsmen and soldiers didn't understand the meaning of Italy, they just felt that there was a big word, and it sounded very powerful.

A row of small carts was pushed out, and on the cart was mounted a barrel thick with an arm-thick barrel designed to adjust the elevation angle of the barrel......