?In mid-July, the Chen army, who was attacked by the Zhou army in Jiangbei, could not bear it, finally took action. They changed the situation of shrinking to the south bank of the Yangtze River for several months, and the target of the attack was Qizhou of the Zhou army in Jiangbei.￥℉,

The reason why I chose this position is naturally very particular. First of all, two years ago, Chen Jun took advantage of the multi-party melee in Zhou to cross the river and attack Qizhou and Yizhou to the north.

Secondly, Qizhou Prefecture is located in Qichang County, just off the Qishui River. Chen's small warships can go from Qikou on the Yangtze River to Qishui upstream for more than 30 miles to reach Qichang. This makes it much more convenient to transport troops and horses and food. If the war is not conducive, it will be very convenient to retreat along the river.

The most important point is that the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Qikou is Xisai Mountain, where the Chen army's water and land army gathers. Chen army warships guard the river surface without fear of the Zhou army's fleets moored in the upper reaches of the Xisai Mountain, which can move south so that they can cross north or return south calmly.

The Zhou army set up a garrison in Qikou. When the Chen army advanced westward in May, it removed it from its own new village to guard Qikou. In order to prevent the Chen army from going up the Qishui north, the Zhou army set up camp ten miles upstream of the Chen army camp to confront each other.

This time, the Chen army launched a large-scale invasion in the north and was aggressive. The governor of Qizhou organized military and civilians to defend the city and also sent out postmen to various states for help. Yizhou in the northern border of Qizhou and Bazhou bordering the west naturally received urgent reports.

Qichang used to call Qiyang located on the southeast bank of Qishui. Qichang's defenders, who were prepared for the Chen army's invasion, learned that the downstream camp was lost and laid wooden stakes in Qishui to prevent Chen's warships from approaching the city. Trenches had been dug outside the city wall and introduced Qishui as a moat to resist the enemy's siege.

Qizhou Prefecture was governed by Qichang, which was 1670 miles from Xiyang, Bazhou Prefecture, which was 100 miles from Luotian, which was 100 miles from Yizhou Prefecture, which was rushing to take Qichang before the reinforcements arrived, so Chen's army divided the troops to defend the west, blocked the reinforcements of Zhou and gathered forces to attack the city.

The warships that were surfing the water, regardless of arrows, sent soldiers into the water to remove wooden stakes, and organized many soldiers to build countless mandatory stone casting cars and immediately sent them to the fore. The Qichang defenders collected cloths throughout the city and made cloth curtains to erect them to resist the flying stones with softness and hardness.

Chen's army sent archers to approach the rockets and burned the curtains, but the defenders were suppressed by the archers. Countless Chen's soldiers took the opportunity to fill the trenches with earth and cross the ditch. After nightfall, the torches were lit and used human-powered stone casting vehicles to attack the city overnight.

After a day and night of siege, Qichang City was covered with scars but still firmly controlled in the hands of Zhou Jun. Chen Jun made a large number of ladders and pointed wooden donkeys overnight and crossed the trenches that had been filled with dirt roads and went straight to the city.

Another warship followed the cleared river channel to the west of the city. The archers on the archers on the tower shot against the defenders on the front of the city to cover the soldiers climbing the city. The Qichang defenders mobilized the people of the whole city to defend the city and threw countless wooden rocks that had been prepared to be repelled by Chen Junyi's siege soldiers.

The Chen army relied on the large crowds of people to launch the wheels and soldiers. The soldiers took turns to attack the Qichang defenders could not rest. The fierce battle continued from morning to evening under the continuous attacks. When night fell, the manpower catapulted cart rested for less than half an hour and continued to attack the city under the command of the general.

"The Qichang city wall is almost impossible to hold back. If you work harder, you will definitely break through Qichang tomorrow!"

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At night, one mile outside Guomo City more than fifty miles north of Qichang, Chen army set up camp on the official road to block the way south of Guomo City to the north and Qishui City to the north. They had repelled several tentative attacks of the Zhou army and may face greater challenges tomorrow.

Calculate the days, the reinforcements from Yizhou further north should arrive in Guomo City. At that time, they will face an enemy attack that exceeds their own forces.

The dark clouds covered the moon, and the Chen Jun camp was dark and silent. Looking at the shadows on the building, there were scarecrows. The soldiers behind the second-level village wall in the north were sleeping with their clothes.

"I said, will the Zhou army really come to attack the night tonight?" asked a soldier from Chen Jun who was looking north. Tonight, everyone was organized by Shangguan in armor and weapons to wait for the rabbit and said they wanted to "stop the head of a blow" to the attacking camp. As a result, a group of people squeezed together to feed mosquitoes.

"Of course, soldiers are the devil, just as the saying goes, attack them without preparation..."

"Tsk tsk, I'm pretty good at listening to the story, hey!"

"Don't believe it, I'll tell you..." The man shook his head and said. Calculated the date until tomorrow, the reinforcements from the Yizhou Kingdom in Zhou Kingdom should arrive. According to the instructions, Sunday is the time of a great war, so both sides must rest and maintain their spirits tonight. That trick came.

According to common sense, our side must rest and prepare for war. So if the Zhou army attacks at night at this time, the success rate will be very high. Our side is sleeping soundly, but there are no one who wants to get attacked. At that time, there will be darkness everywhere and people everywhere and we cannot tell the enemy. It is easy to be fished by troubled waters.

Especially tonight, dark clouds cover the moon, which is a good opportunity to attack at night. If the moonlight is bright and you can see the figure in the wilderness, it will be difficult to attack at night. The Zhou army will definitely be unable to hold back to the night to attack tonight.

"You can still fish in troubled waters, and dark clouds cover the moon... It seems that when there is a moon, you can see the distance." The listener naturally didn't believe it. Many people can't see the distance clearly at night at night, that is, the bird's eyes. Although not everyone is like this, it is rare to fight at night. Most of the troops that can attack at night are raised by generals, so they don't believe that the Zhou army can gather so many people to steal.

"Don't believe it! There are signs today!" The man was anxious when he saw that everyone didn't believe it, and gritted his teeth and shook out something that happened today: in the afternoon, the general's flag suddenly blew and blew it off. This is the sign that the enemy's attack camp was coming tonight.

"Didn't all the stories tell? Anyone who is blown off by the handsome flag must have an enemy attack that night!"

"Then, what should I do? I can't see clearly when fighting at night!" Someone was anxious. Everyone knew the allusion that the handsome flag was blown by the wind and someone would attack him. So now I believe it. It would be a bad idea when I think of the two gangs of people who were slashing each other when they hit their own people.

What's even more unlucky is that you're chopped or shot by your own people and you're really crying and you have nowhere to cry.

"Are you stupid? The camp ahead was specially free to lead Zhou Jun in, waiting for them to chop over the scarecrows, and we were lit up to shoot arrows wherever we could run away!"

"Don't make a noise, there is something happening ahead!" A soldier ran over and shouted in a panic, "If the thief army is scared away, you will be beheaded!"

Hearing that Zhou Jun came as scheduled, everyone was in high spirits while the night touched the camp. The soldiers who were dozing off instantly felt sleepy and they all held the weapons in their hands tightly to let the Zhou army attack at night, "steal the chicken but lose the rice."

A moment later, there was a movement in the front wall. First, a few faint sounds of bowstrings sounded, as if someone had shot arrows at the straw soldiers on the tower. Then several black shadows climbed over the wall and sneaked towards the camp gate.

The Chen army soldiers who were ambushing behind the second row of village walls watched the black shadows slowly moving the horses behind the camp gate away through the gaps. They were sweating. They felt that something was wrong with their stomachs and wanted to fart, so they tried their best to lift their buttocks, for fear of alarming Zhou Jun, who was stealing the camp.

Amitabha, come in quickly, you can’t help it!

The soldiers who were holding their farts hoped that Zhou Jun would open the camp gate and rush in. Seeing the black shadows gently pulling the camp gate, they were almost anxious to rush forward to help the handle. As they saw that, they couldn't hold it in their eyes and tried hard to hold it in tears.

However, he still couldn't hold it in. A long sound of aura burst out and attracted countless sword-like gazes. Just as he was completely disappointed, he saw the black shadows on the opposite side open the camp gate and then a large number of figures poured in.

When the other party rushed into the open space of the camp, the general Chen army commanding the ambush was filled with joy, and he pulled out his sword and shouted hard at them, "Shoot the arrow! Light the torch!"
Chapter completed!