In the battle of Yancheng a month ago, Miao Haichao wiped out Gongsun Shangzhe’s five thousand Sui army without a single soldier. Miao Haichao, who tasted the sweetness, re-used the same trick and prepared to use the same method to deal with Zhang Xuan.

However, there are still many details here, such as not only using food to tempt, he must really lead his army to hide in the reed marsh, but he cannot let Zhang Xuan know that Zhang Xuan must be tempted by food.

However, the key point here is that he can quickly withdraw from the reed marsh. Once the Sui army goes deep into the reed marsh, it will be difficult for him to retreat. He will eventually die in the sea of ​​fire. Even if he cannot be completely wiped out, even if the Sui army dies thousands of people, he will be able to extricate his anger.

But Miao Haichao was still a little nervous. After all, he was not facing Gongsun Shangzhe, who was born in a noble family, but Zhang Xuan, who had been through many battles. The last time Zhang Xuan wiped out two thousand of his elite soldiers, putting a shadow in his heart.

He felt that his plan was not comprehensive and there were many loopholes in it, but time could not allow him to think about it carefully. The Sui army had already reached the point, so he could only deal with it with it.

At this time, a spy rushed over and knelt down on one knee to report: "General, the Scout of the Sui army has entered the reed marsh!"

Miao Haichao was excited and asked quickly: "How many people are there?"

"About two hundred people."

Miao Haichao immediately understood that this must be Zhang Xuan's intention to determine the authenticity of the food. He was secretly glad that he had placed 30,000 stones of official grain on the boat, otherwise it would be difficult to deceive Zhang Xuan.

A side general next to him suggested: "General, why not surround this scout and force the main force of the Sui army to come and rescue!"

"Fool!"

Miao Haichao turned around and scolded: "Do you want our army to fall into danger?"

The general dared not say anything. Miao Haichao looked at the depths of the reed marsh. Even if the Sui army was unwilling to fight with him, they had to transport the food. He had released 30,000 stones of food, and at least a few thousand Sui soldiers came to transport it. If he was lucky, he could take advantage of the chaos of the Sui army to lead the army out.

The general Shen Guang led 300 Sui army scouts into the depths of the reed marsh and soon found the 300 ships hidden in the reed marsh. The water here was slightly deeper. But it was only at the thighs. Three hundred flat-bottomed ships were densely packed together. Each ship was neatly packed with hundreds of bags of grain, according to the official standards of the Sui Dynasty. Each bag of grain weighed one stone, about one hundred and twenty kilograms.

"General Shen, it's all food!"

The scouts quickly tested the grain bags, and it was indeed full of real food. Shen Guang immediately made a decision: "Come overturn the ship!"

Generally speaking, the grain cannot enter water, and even if it is transported by ship, it must be covered with oil cloth, otherwise it will easily become moldy. Therefore, Miao Haichao believes that the only way for the Sui army is to dispatch thousands or even tens of thousands of people to transport the grain out, which is his chance to set fire.

But Miao Haichao never expected that the Sui army scouts turned upside down the ship and sank all the food into the water.

Three hundred scouts fought together, and in less than half an hour, all three hundred grain transport ships were overturned. Thirty thousand stones of grain sank into the water.

Shen Guang looked at the movement in the distance. He felt the enemy spies discover them. Shen Guang immediately made a decision, "Light up and retreat!"

Sui soldiers lit a fire around the shipwreck. The fire took advantage of the wind. The fire was extremely rapid and spread rapidly towards the northwest wind. Dozens of spies spies peeping at the Sui army were so scared that they turned around and fled. The fire was so burning that they were chasing the escaped soldiers behind them. More than a dozen soldiers fell to the ground and were engulfed by the fire before they could get up.

Miao Haitide, who was ambushing on the edge of the reed marsh, saw thick smoke rising from the distance, and obviously a fire was lit. He was a little stunned. Could it be that the main force of the Sui army had entered the depths of the reed marsh?

Although the fire in the distance was one or two away from them, he soon discovered an abnormality. A fire suddenly ignited about fifty steps away from them. The fire suddenly burned in their direction. Miao Haichao was shocked. Someone mentioned it. If he didn't withdraw, he would be surrounded by the fire. He hurriedly ordered: "Retreat! Retreat!"

Without his orders, thousands of soldiers of the thief army were already stunned. Seeing the fire spread rapidly, thousands of soldiers jumped up like rabbits and ran outwards. The soldiers were in chaos and rushed to escape.

Although the soldiers of the thief army were in chaos and in a mess, they were very close to the edge of the reed marsh, less than two hundred steps away. They quickly escaped from the reed marsh and gathered in the open space.

The soldiers cursed and stomped their feet in anger. It was obvious that they wanted to burn the Sui army, but in the end they turned into the Sui army to burn them. If they hadn't been ambushed on the edge, they would have all died in the sea of ​​fire.

At this moment, the sound of drums suddenly appeared in the woods behind them, and countless Sui soldiers rushed out of the woods. The two generals were led by two, one holding a large iron spear, with an extremely majestic figure, and the other was very young, with a heroic appearance, and a golden-backed tiger-toothed sword in their hands. They were the general Yuchi Gong and the young general Su Dingfang.

Zhang Xuan ordered the two of them to lead 5,000 people to go around the foot of Bolonggang Mountain to the back of the bandit army. Although this was Su Dingfang's first time joining the army, he had killed bandits in Guanzhong before and was not afraid of war. He was eager to try, so he wanted to urge his horse to rush forward.

Yuchi Gong yelled, "Brothers, kill me!"

"Kill!"

Su Dingfang took the lead, and five thousand Sui soldiers rushed towards the bandits like a tide. The bandits were unprepared and suddenly became a mess and were stabbed and cut down.

Miao Haichao was anxious and ordered: "Don't be confused, fight me!"

However, the bandit army had been rushed into two sections by Sui soldiers. The narrow and long area made the bandit army unable to open the battlefield and had no way to resist. The fire behind it had gradually burned to the edge. The bandit soldiers were even more panicked, screaming, and running to both sides. In just a moment, the whole army collapsed, and countless people kneeled down and surrendered.

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Miao Haichao turned his horse's head and ran northwest, but he only ran for dozens of steps. He heard a bowstring and a quick shot, with a strong force. "Puff!" The arrow shot into Miao Haichao's neck from behind, and the tip of the arrow came out of his throat. Miao Haichao let out a muffled groan and turned over and fell off the horse, and he was almost unable to survive.

A hundred steps behind, Su Dingfang drew another arrow and shot it out. The arrow shot into Miao Haichao's temple from the side, and Miao Haichao died of anger.

"Good arrow technique!" Yuchi Gong praised with a thumbs up.

Seeing that the main general was killed, Miao Haichao's personal soldiers were all red in anger. They carried his body and rushed to the outside to urge the horse to escape. Su Dingfang urged the horse to chase him, but was stopped by Yuchi Gong. "Don't chase the enemy, let them go, we will deal with the thieves here."

Su Dingfang nodded and followed Yuchi Gong to surround thousands of thieves soldiers from both sides. Seeing that the main general was killed and had no hope of escaping, the thieves soldiers knelt down and surrendered, "Let's surrender! Surrender!"

At this time, the entire reed marsh that was more than ten miles long was engulfed by the fire. The wind blew from the southeast, and thick smoke covered the sky and the sun. Seeing that the smoke was too strong, Yuchi Gong led his army to escort thousands of prisoners of war and quickly left the woods and retreated to the shore of Huanshui.

The fire burned for a whole day and a night. It was not until the next morning that the fire was completely extinguished. The reed marsh, which was originally more than one person, had disappeared. It was covered with darkness everywhere, revealing the puddles and mud on the ground. It was not until this time that Zhang Xuan ordered thousands of Sui troops to enter the depths of the puddle and carry out the 30,000 stones of grain that were soaked in the water and not affected.

Although many of these grains have been soaked in water, they can still be eaten as long as they are turned and sunburned in time, at least not wasteful.

Yuchi Gong pulled Su Dingfang forward and smiled and said, "General, Miao Haichao has been shot to death by General Su. Although the body was stolen by their personal soldiers, I can testify that Miao Haichao has been killed!"

Su Dingfang was a little embarrassed to scratch his head, "Although Bei Zhi has been staring at the opponent's commander, if General Yuchi had not created the conditions, Bei Zhi would not have succeeded."

"It has nothing to do with me!"

Yuchi Gong smiled and said, "Don't pull me in, I don't want this credit either."

Zhang Xuan nodded with a smile, "This is the first battle to win, and everyone has made contributions, including Luo Shixin. I believe he will not disappoint me."

Luo Shixin led 3,000 people to head north along the Tongji Canal. Zhang Xuan's slow marching bought time for Luo Shixin. Almost at the same time when the main force of the Sui army arrived in Linhuan County, Luo Shixin also led his army to Luergou.

It was already three o'clock in the morning, and it was around twelve o'clock in the evening. There was a silence around. There was no ship on the wide river surface, and there was no light around. It was pitch black everywhere.

"General, let's go here!"

The person who led Luo Shixin was the scout Xie Zhiping. He once followed several cargo ships into the depths of Luergou and knew where the other party stopped.
Chapter completed!