Battle of Anantapur [2]
A few minutes earlier, the merchant union general hatched a plan for ambushing the army of Vijayarama Panicker. His plan was very simple but very effective.
"There is a small dam used by people to collect water a few hundred meters away."
"What does that have to do with luring him in?"
"My lord, a stream passes close to the road through which the army was marching."
Breaking the small dam would flood the road easily. The road, being relatively old, would just be washed away by the flash flood caused by the breaking of the dam. This also meant that the soldiers had to take a detour through the forest to reach the city to restock their supplies.
The flash flood would be relatively harmless for the locality as the dam was small and didn't have enough energy to cause ecological damage or any massive destruction to the surroundings.