A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 20

Bang Zhou's army's siege skills are still old-fashioned. Although there are only [-] armored soldiers in Huai'an City, there are [-] civilians, which are more than enough to defend the city.

There are not many ways to attack the city, but there are many ways to defend the city. Bangzhou's [-] troops have been besieged for three days, but Huai'an City is as stable as Mount Tai.

Ji Bi personally led the army to besiege, but he was unable to break through Huai'an. Instead, he lost his troops and lost his generals. The morale of the army became more and more low.

The attack failed to break through the city, and the casualties were heavy. With the withdrawal of the troops, this southern expedition had nothing to gain.Ji Bi felt unwilling, and more importantly, if he retreated at this point, wouldn't this be telling the world that his conquest was futile?

in the big account.

Yu Ke remonstrated again: "Your Majesty, the army has fought for two months, with heavy casualties, little harvest, and low morale. If you are not weak, retreat first, and then go on an expedition next year?"

"No!" Ji Bi said with a gloomy face, "Our country's Zhou Tianbing is invincible, how could it be impossible to conquer this small Huai'an?"

"There must be someone who didn't obey the order of the widow. Tomorrow, a large army will attack again. After the city is broken, the wealth and women in the city will be left to you!"

Hearing Ji Bi's words, the morale of Bang Zhou's army finally improved a little, but Yu Qing's face was pale.He knew very well that the army would not be able to conquer Huai'an at all, and if they lost again tomorrow, the morale of the army would definitely decline even more, and the army would be in danger by then.

When Bang Zhou's army was besieging Huai'an, Wei Yi looked at the lazy Zhou Jun outside the city and sneered in his heart.Then he beckoned and said: "It has been a month since Bang Zhou's army left, and the Zhou army outside the city has lost its vigilance. Order the army to make food at the third watch and go out at the fifth watch. We will break through the Zhou camp tomorrow morning!"

"In addition, I will be the commander of the water army. I will inform Xu Guo's water army to join us and cut off the Huai River pontoon bridge tonight! Keep all the [-] troops behind!"

Hearing Wei Yi's military order, the surrounding generals looked happy, and immediately bowed and said, "No!"

That night, more than a dozen boats from Huaiyang City sailed into Sishui, and at the same time, in a hidden water village downstream of Sishui, three thousand sailors also sailed upstream one after another to join Weiyi.

More than [-] sailors were mobilized, and the Huaiguo sailors were very familiar with the rivers in Huaisi, and they could sail even at night.What's more, the Huai River in Surabaya is so deep that the army is going down the river and directly into the Huai River.

And Xu Guo's navy was also waiting on the Huai River. After the two sides converged, there were tens of thousands of troops immediately.Immediately afterwards, the army went down the river and marched towards the Zhou Jun Huai Shui Floating Bridge.

Zhou Jun set up a pontoon bridge on the Huaihe River, and left the army to guard it. At this time, the army had already fallen asleep, and only a small number of night watchmen were guarding it.

It was not discovered until the water armies of the Huaihe and Xu countries came close.Unfortunately, it was too late.In order to destroy the pontoon bridge, Wei Yi and Xu Guo prepared dozens of small boats. The boats were filled with firewood, kerosene, sails were erected, and tied to the stern.

Wei Yi saw the sporadic lights on the Huai River in the distance, and it was about two miles away from the pontoon bridge, so he immediately ordered: "Go Ke and light the fire!"

With an order, dozens of sailors who had been prepared for a long time cut the ropes, set up their sails, and rushed to the front of the fleet. arrow.

Halfway through the journey, the fire was raised at the same time, and the flames rose instantly. The wind helped the fire, and dozens of boats ignited the fire in just a breath.

The battle drums sounded from the camps of the Zhou army on both sides of the Huai River, and a large number of soldiers ran out of the camps, trying to stop those fire boats, but the fire boats were extremely fast, but in a blink of an eye, they hit the pontoon bridge, quickly The floating bridge ignited.

Zhou Jun could only watch helplessly as the pontoon bridge was burned. At the same time, the Huaixu and Xuzhou navies who followed quickly rushed up, and tens of thousands of troops attacked the camps on both sides of the bank in two ways.

At this time, Zhou Jun's camp, which had already been burned by fire, was torn apart, and the two armies took advantage of the situation to attack.The Zhou army was scattered and unable to deal with it, and was easily defeated by the two armies. Countless people fled in all directions, and the fire dyed the sky red.

By the time it was about to dawn, the Huaixu army had completely wiped out the Zhou army, and at the same time captured the logistics of the Zhou army on the bank of the Huai River.

Zhou Jun's [-]-strong army marched south and needed a lot of food and grass. These food and grass were provided by Zhou Fangguo, the surrounding state, and then transported here. As early as a month ago, the Huai Army had detected that Zhou Jun's food and grass were stored here. Another goal after cutting off the Zhou army's retreat.

After tens of thousands of troops defeated the Zhou army, they directly captured a large number of Zhou army prisoners and slaves, carried the food and grass to the boats, and filled all the boats. Don't leave a grain of food for Zhou Jun.

The sky is dark, and the Eastern Taibai Star rises.

Outside Siyang City, the Zhou army camped.

"What did you say?"

"General, the Huai people's navy took advantage of the night to attack the Huai River camp. The Huai people went first with fireboats, burned the pontoon bridge, and then the army captured them. All the camps on both sides of the Huai River were lost."

Hearing this, Ruo Hou, who was sitting in the main seat, looked ashamed, and then he seemed to have suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked: "What about the food? Have you kept the food?"

"Food is burned"

Ruo Hou suddenly felt as if struck by lightning, and he stood on the spot in a daze.

"Quickly block the news, everyone who dares to speak, beheaded!" Ruo Hou also experienced a lot of wind and rain, so he quickly reacted and ordered directly.

Then he took out a bamboo slip, quickly wrote some words on it, rolled up the bamboo slip and put it into the bamboo tube, and summoned the messenger to say

"You immediately rush to the king with the secret order, and give the secret order to the king. Remember, you can only give it to the king!"

After finishing speaking, let a team of people escort him to leave quickly.

At the same time, in Siyang City, a well-prepared army stood in the school grounds. Chen Yue gave an order, and the gate of Siyang City opened, and the army immediately rushed to the Zhou army camp.

Five thousand Huai troops rushed out, leaving only an empty city in Siyang.

Five thousand Huai army titles, horses with hoofs bound, quietly touched the Zhou army's camp. It was the darkest hour before dawn, and the night watchmen of the Zhou army also relaxed their vigilance.

Chen Yue asked people to tie five torches with tree trunks, and when they were less than a mile away from Zhou Jun's camp, everyone raised the fire together, and [-] torches rushed towards Zhou Jun's camp like a fire dragon.

The shouts of killing sounded, and Zhou Jun who was sleeping in the camp of Zhou Jun was inexplicably horrified. A large number of Zhou Jun rushed out of the tent in a panic, and saw a boundless "fire dragon" rushing fast, thinking that the Huai people were endless, and scared Paled face.

In a panic, the Zhou army was in shock. Ruohou came to prepare the army as soon as he heard the cry of killing, but the timing of the Huai army's attack on the battalion was too good, and a large number of Zhou troops were killed by the Huai army before they had time to put on their armor.

The unarmored and disordered Zhou army was a well-prepared opponent of the Huai army, but it was dispersed in a moment, and Ruohou had to take some soldiers out of the encirclement and escape.

(End of this chapter)