The Liangshan Army's food and supplies were indeed transported by water. This was not to deliberately avoid the enemy's interception, but the Liangshan Army did not have enough livestock trucks to transport food and supplies, so they were stationed on the shore of Liangshan Lake and could transport supplies by water at any time.

When Li Yanqing led his army to ambush the 20,000 troops led by Chai Jin, the Liangshan Army had large trucks of food, supplies, which gave Li Yanqing an illusion that there were also food, supplies and supplies teams this time.

When Li Yanqing realized that he had made a mistake in his judgment, he immediately led his army to rush north. He must completely destroy this batch of logistics supplies before the food and supplies were transported into Xucheng County.

The cavalry rushed north along the path, and rushed to the estuary of Liangshanpo and entered the Jishui River that night. Generally, the fleet entered the Jishui River at this estuary, and went north along the Jishui River, and finally entered the Bohai Sea.

Xucheng County is just 40 miles north of the river estuary. A few months ago, Li Yanqing once took a boat to pass here. There was originally a Liangshan Army checkpoint here. Now the checkpoint is still there, but there are no people.

Li Yanqing asked the army to rest and have dinner in the woods hundreds of steps away from the estuary. He looked at the empty estuary and frowned. Judging from time, the fleet should have arrived here, but now they have not seen any trace.

At this time, Niu Gao walked up and whispered: "Will the food, supplies be sent to Liangshan?"

Although this is possible, the intuition told Li Yanqing that the fleet would still go to Xucheng, otherwise the food in Xucheng would not be enough for the army to eat.

"Let's wait for news from Wang Gui first!"

Wang Gui led a team of cavalry to the dock of Xucheng County. The fleet could not enter Xucheng County directly. It had to unload the goods at the dock ten miles away from Xucheng County, and then transport it to Xucheng County by a large truck. This would take at least one day at the fastest time. As long as there was no movement in the Xucheng Wharf, it could be concluded that the fleet was still in Liangshanpo.

Half an hour later, Wang Gui led the cavalry back from Xucheng. Wang Gui stepped forward and clasped his fists and said, "The commander of the capital, no enemy fleets or food and supplies were found in the docks of Xucheng County and along the way."

Li Yanqing nodded, then there are two possibilities now, either the fleet has not reached the mouth of the river, or Niu Gao's guess, the fleet has gone to Liangshan

After another half an hour, the soldiers surveillance at the mouth of the river finally found a fleet of ships sailing from Liangshanpo to Jishui. They were sailing and traveling with the wind. The wind was very strong on the lake surface in Liangshanpo, and wind could be used as power. Li Yanqing immediately ordered the army to hide to avoid being discovered by the enemy.

The moonlight at night was particularly bright, spreading the entire earth with a layer of silver. Hundreds of steps away, Li Yanqing clearly saw a fleet of 120 flat-bottomed tugboats sailing into the Jishui River. The waterline of the tugboats was very deep, which meant that the fleet was loaded with various supplies.

There are only a few types of boats on the inland river. One is a double oar, with a long oar on the bow and stern of the boat. Each oar is rowed by eight crew members, and a boat requires sixteen crew members to row oars. This kind of boat is clearly visible on the Qingming River Map. In fact, it is powered by man and is generally used as a passenger ship. The cost of being used as a cargo ship is too high.

There is another type of ship with three masts, which sails by wind blowing sails. This kind of ship mainly sails on the Yellow River or the Yangtze River. The water surface is wide and the wind is strong. It is suitable for sailing. It can also be used for fiber drawing when sailing in small rivers.

Another type is a towboat that has nothing, which relies entirely on human resources to pull fibers. These ships usually sail in fleets and dilute the cost of pulling fibers for each ship.

The Liangshan Army's tugboats were actually the third type, but in order to facilitate navigation in Liangshan, they specially added masts, which seemed a bit out of place. Each ship could carry 500 stones of cargo.

After entering the Ji River, due to the influence of land, the wind power on the river surface dropped sharply, and the fleet could no longer rely on the wind power to navigate. The guards on the ship went ashore one after another, temporarily acting as boatmen, pulling the fleet to continue sailing north.

At this time, Wang Gui whispered to Li Yanqing: "It's a pity that these materials are burned. It's better to sink them into the Ji River and you can pick them up again in the future!"

Li Yanqing looked at the fleet carefully again. It seemed that the food and other soldiers and armor were transported separately. He nodded, "Burn the food and grass, and other materials can sink into the water!"

Wang Gui was overjoyed. He knew that Old Li was not that pedantic. When the fleet walked away, Li Yanqing waved his hand and the soldiers followed silently.

When there were more than twenty miles away from Xucheng County, the cavalry suddenly appeared by the river. They divided into two groups. Wang Gui led 300 cavalry to kill the soldiers who acted as boatmen, and the remaining 1,700 cavalry shot arrows into the ship together.

The soldiers who were pulling silk were frightened by the sudden cavalry. They had nowhere to escape and knelt down and begged for mercy. Wang Gui did not ask the cavalry to kill them, but ordered them to pull the ship to the shore. At this time, the cavalry were arrows like rain, and the boatmen on the boat were shot one after another. Fortunately, they were not shot and jumped into the water to escape.

The fleet was quickly dragged to the shore, and Niu Gao led 500 soldiers to jump onto the ship to search the ship. Soon, Niu Gao came back and reported, "The first fifty ships were of various military supplies, and all the ships behind were food."

Li Yanqing immediately ordered the fleet to be separated. The fleet behind was poured with tinder oil and began to set fire to the ship. The ship in front was pushed to the center of the river by dozens of soldiers with good water, drilled the bottom of the ship, and sank all fifty ships to the bottom of the Jishui River.

The fire on the river surface was burning like a fire dragon floating on the water. Li Yanqing silently watched the towboats being burned through the bottom of the ship and sank into the water. It took half an hour to burn the last ship and sank into the water. As the last ship was burned and sunk into the water, the last ray of fire on the river surface disappeared.

"Go to Dong'a County!"

The cavalry had already dismissed three hundred slim soldiers. They turned their horses and followed Li Yanqing to the northeast, targeting Dong'a County, where there were also three thousand stones of grain stored by the Liangshan Army.

Zhong Shidao took the camp step by step, and before the summer grain matured, he forced the Liangshan army back to Yunzhou step by step.

Three days later, Song Jiang's 30,000 troops entered Xucheng County. Less than half a day later, Lu Junyi led 7,000 troops to Xucheng County.

At this time, the 20,000 army led by Zhong Shidao also rushed to Xucheng County and joined Li Yanqing's army.

"Give orders to the general!"

Li Yanqing bowed deeply to Master Zhong and handed over the arrow.

Zhong Shidao patted Li Yanqing's shoulder heavily and praised him sincerely: "It is worthy of being my right-hand man. You are a little immature in the Battle of Xixia, and this time, you can already stand alone."

"Thank you for your praise, you are still far from being wise."

Li Yanqing said sincerely, and it was not long before he gradually understood the strategy of Zhong Shidao to destroy Liangshan, what is the use of the pressure of food, and ultimately forced Song Jiang to surrender. If he had been the food weapon that he had temporarily thought of in Hebei, that kind of teacher had already planned it.

With the limited grain in Xucheng County, how can it withstand the consumption of Song Jiang's 50,000 troops? At most one month, the Liangshan Army's food will be cut off. However, most of the people in the city are the families of Liangshan Army. You can imagine the food pressure that Song Jiang will face.

Li Yanqing also suggested: "In order to prevent the Liangshan army from leaving the city to grab grain, we must strengthen the walls and clear the fields. Beizhi suggested that all the wheat fields within 20 miles of Xucheng County be destroyed, and all the people will be moved away, and no chance will be given to the Liangshan army."

Zhong Shidao nodded. Li Yanqing's suggestion was just right for him, so he turned around and said to Zong Ze: "I will leave this matter to you."

Zong Ze quickly saluted, "I will start immediately!"

Only then did Zhong Shidao invite Li Yanqing into the big tent, but saw that the big tent was filled with cages of various sizes and cages, and the hand-made desk was filled with documents, "Sit as you want! You haven't had time to sort it out yet." Zhong Shidao smiled and said.javasript:

Li Yanqing pulled a chair and sat down. Zhong Shidao also sat down in his seat. At this time, the personal soldiers came in and served them with tea. Zhong Shidao smiled and said, "A few days ago, His Highness the Crown Prince sent someone to condolence the army and encouraged us to use this battle to completely annihilate the Liangshan Army and not leave any troubles. His Highness the Crown Prince is the head coach. Since the head coach has an order, we should certainly obey. I want to hear your ideas and how to completely annihilate the Liangshan Army?"

Li Yanqing pondered and said, "The key is Liangshan. As long as Liangshan is destroyed, the Liangshan army will lose its cohesion. The two factions of Song Jiang and Lu Junyi will inevitably have internal conflicts. Lu Junyi is likely to be in a city immediately. We might as well let him leave first, and then wipe out Lu Junyi's army in a different place. Without Lu Junyi's constraints, Song Jiang's possibility of surrendering will be high."

Mr. Zhong was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "How to conquer Liangshan?"

Li Yanqing thought about this question more than once, and he smiled and said, "We must first have a naval army. When Beizhi leads his army to attack Liangshan, the main force of the Liangshan naval army will go up the mountain to rescue. At this time, we dispatched the naval army to take the opportunity to catch the Liangshan naval army's nest in one fell swoop, and then use the thunder to capture the Xinjian City, and Liangshan is out of sight."

Zhong Shidao pondered for a moment and said, "This is indeed a good idea, but mobilizing the imperial naval army requires the emperor's approval, and I'm afraid it will take time!"

"We just need time to siege the city. Why don't the general write to the emperor as soon as possible?"

Mr. Zhong nodded, "Okay! I'll write tonight."

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Chapter completed!