The pre-war negotiations broke up unhappily, and the battle soon began.

The battle situation can only be described as tragic.

Corpses sank to the bottom of the lake one after another, and the blood quickly stained the lake surface red.

One warship after another was scuttled by water thieves. Once the soldiers fell into the water, they would soon be dragged under the water by the water thieves, but before they died, they would definitely drag their enemies with them to be buried with them.

Even if you bite it with your teeth, you still have to tear off a piece of flesh from the water thief.

The water thieves had never seen such a ferocious battle. Many of them were frightened and could not move forward in fear.

The soldiers were fearless and became more courageous as they fought.

However, we were outnumbered, and the water thieves became cunning again. Instead of attacking directly, they turned to underwater warfare, sinking warships one by one.

"Dog officer, quickly put down your weapons and surrender, then hand over the looted wealth, make the uncles happy, and let me wait for a way out!" A bearded man holding a long knife stood on the mast of the warship and pointed at him from a distance.

Zhao Quan shouted.

Zhao Quan sneered and said: "Ignorant water thief, open your dog eyes and see clearly. After the battle so far, I, Yancheng Erlang, have a coward who is timid?

I tell you, the battle for Yancheng soldiers is only victory and death. Today, you will either be destroyed by you or we will destroy you."

When the bearded man heard Zhao Quan's words, his eyes twitched and his face looked a little ugly.

As Zhao Quan said, so far in the battle, he has indeed not seen a single soldier fighting timidly. This is very different from the group of Tuozhou officers and soldiers he knew who were greedy for life and afraid of death. The Yancheng soldiers in front of him who were not good at water warfare were all fierce.

Not afraid of death.

This is completely different from what the adult from Tuozhou said.

Who looks helplessly at the water of Yangyang Lake, who is so thin and sickly that he has no fighting ability, who will obediently flee back to the south with his tail between his legs after just two battles, what?

Damn it, it's all lies.

This is clearly an elite combat force with rich combat experience, amazing combat effectiveness, and a fighting spirit that will fight to the death.

The feeling tells men with beards that they have most likely offended someone they shouldn't.

It's not cost-effective to provoke such an enemy just for a little food.

But there was nothing they could do. If it weren't for the coercion and inducement of the master in Tuozhou, the eighteen water thieves would not dare to join forces to rob an official grain team guarded by 10,000 cavalry. Moreover, they alone would not be able to rob

Loot such a food team.

In the end, the majority was taken away, leaving only a fraction for them to divide among the eighteen families. Now they have to bear all the anger of the other party, and they feel unspeakably aggrieved and angry.

Seeing that Zhao Quan refused to surrender and had no intention of retreating. It seemed that he was really going to fight to the death today. The bearded man suddenly felt like he was riding a tiger.

Is it possible that these tens of thousands of Yancheng soldiers are really going to be wiped out on Wangyuan Lake?

While the bearded man was hesitating, a small boat leaned against the large ship, and a man dressed as a water thief climbed up.

If a careful person sees this person, he will know at a glance that he is definitely not a water thief, because this person has fair skin and thin flesh. Although he is wearing the clothes of a water thief, he does not look like a water thief at all.

The man walked straight to the mast and coughed twice.

When the bearded man saw him, he immediately jumped down from the mast and asked in a low voice: "I wonder what your instructions are?"

"My lord, I want you to go all out and leave no one alive. After the battle is over, quickly pack your bags and go home to farm. You can hide for two or three years and wait until the news has passed before coming back."

"As you command!"

After saying this, the man turned around and left without saying another word.

The bearded man smiled bitterly and shook his head. Knowing that it was now a point of no return, he issued an order to attack with all his strength.

At the same time, the other leaders of the Seven Route Navy also received the same order, and they all made the same decision as the bearded man.

Because they had wiped out tens of thousands of officers and soldiers in front of them, they would still have a chance to survive if they hid. But if they didn't follow the order of that gentleman, they would probably be dead.

After a cup of tea, the water thief's attack suddenly became fierce.

"Sir, withdraw."

"It's too late to withdraw now. If we wait a little longer, I'm afraid we won't even have the chance to retreat." The adjutant whispered in Zhao Quan's ear.

Zhao Quan's eyes were about to burst, and he sighed and said: "I underestimated the water war. Damn it. If this were on land, I would have wiped them out long ago. Send the order, retreat!"

Although helpless and unwilling, there is nothing we can do. We cannot let the soldiers fight to the death knowing that they are invincible.

"Guan Gu, you can't leave today!"

"Let me sink them all into the lake to feed the fish!"

"Lean in! Come in!"

The water thieves were going crazy, either directly steering the big ship to ram the official ship, or throwing iron ropes, hooks and sickles to catch it. At the same time, a large number of water thieves jumped into the water with chisels, dived into the bottom of the ship and worked hard to chip away at the ship.

The water thief's madness made Zhao Quan and other generals turn pale.

In the past three days, they caught the water thieves off guard. Their successive victories made them think that water battles were nothing more than that. However, the battle in front of them made them realize the dangers of water battles. This was a battle completely different from land battles.

One by one, the pirate ships collided with each other, and the hooks of the iron cables were hooked up. The warships were pierced and slowly sank.

Water thieves are like sideburns, they won't let go.

"Ha ha"

Zhao Quan glanced at the battlefield with a pair of red eyes, suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, shouting: "You guys, if the thieves don't let us retreat, then let's kill them!"

"Anyway, I won't be able to see the people of Yannan when I go back, so why not just throw this useless piece of skin into the lake and feed it to the fishes!"

"kill!"

The brutality of the battle escalated again, and both sides were furious.

The soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the water thieves suffered even more casualties.

But there are many water thieves.

"Guan Gu, it's just a little food. If you throw it away, just throw it away. Why is this?!"

"Are you happy with the killing like this?"

"ah?!"

A water pirate leader saw that the power he had worked hard for decades was destroyed in one day, and that he would have to leave Wangyuan Lake and hide in the next few years. He was almost furious and roared angrily at Zhao Quan.

"Haha, it's just a little food!"

"Thieves, do you know that just because you robbed this food, millions and even more poor people in Yannan will starve to death."

"Are you robbing food? What you are robbing are the lives of Yannan people!"

"Just wait, hundreds of thousands of troops from Yancheng will come over soon. I guarantee with my head that each of you will pay the most painful price for your stupid behavior!"

"Young men, kill! Let these young men see the iron-blooded style of our Yancheng men and kill their courage!"

Zhao Quan roared while killing like crazy.

"cut!"

“Alarmist!”

"Even if Yancheng's hundreds of thousands of troops really come to fight, they will have to go back in despair with their tail between their legs."

The leader of the water thieves sneered disdainfully and did not believe Zhao Quan's words at all.

They have never been to the Southern Territory and have no idea what kind of disasters the Southern Territory has experienced. Naturally, they have no idea how important food is to the people in the Southern Territory.

"It seems that we are bound to die on Wangyuan Lake today. Before we die, can you please let us know who has robbed our food?" The major who suspected that the food robber was someone else shouted loudly.

asked.

"You're dead, why do you know so much?" the leader of the water thieves shouted.

"Oh, it seems there really is someone else!" the major sneered. Although the leader of the water thieves did not answer his question, he was telling him in disguise that someone was indeed instigating the water thieves to steal food from behind.

He rolled his eyes and asked: "I can guess even if you don't tell me, it must be Guang Jingshuo, the envoy of Tuozhou, who ordered you."

"How did you know?!" a leader of the water thieves who knew no tricks asked, his face changed greatly.

The major was stunned when he heard this.

He just casually announced the name of a high-ranking official to see the reaction of the water-thief leader. If the water-thief leader didn't respond, he would go on to talk about Tuozhou Futai. If there was still no reaction, he would talk about other high-ranking officials. Unexpectedly,

As soon as I opened my mouth, I accidentally found the real person behind the scenes.

"Guang Jingshuo in a dog's day!"

"This thief must be a Da Ya spy!"

Zhao Quan cursed loudly. He couldn't believe that Guang Jingshuo would do this for money, so his first reaction was that Guang Jingshuo was a spy disguised as Da Ya and wanted to harm the people in the south.

On the shore of Wangyuan Lake, in a secluded location, Guang Jingshuo was sitting in a sedan, with the curtain open at a corner, looking at the fierce battle on the lake in the distance through the gap.

His face was extremely ugly, because the current situation was completely beyond his expectation.

He felt that everything was done perfectly. Only when Zhao Quan arrived in Yancheng and unwrapped the sacks did he discover that the grain had been swapped. He never thought that Zhao Quan would find out so quickly.

He thought that Zhao Quan only had 10,000 cavalry, but he never thought that the drivers who drove the carriages were all elite soldiers.

He thought that Zhao Quan would be looking away and sighing, but he never imagined that Zhao Quan was so murderous that he would go to the lake to kill the water thieves at the slightest disagreement.
To be continued...