When Li Xiaofei arrived at the south bank of Lishui with more than 3,000 people, there was no new garrison in Liyang City opposite, but he had collected all the ships on the north bank. Li Xiaofei took Xiang Xiaoyu and Murong Ling around a radius of ten miles from the shore, and finally chose to start digging and building the city three miles from the shore.

When Xiang Xiaoyu was the chief of Sanshui Pavilion, he often helped repair houses for the villagers, and also took people to Huaiyang and other places to repair the city wall. To build a new city, he first led people to dig around to see the quality of the soil, but the sand could not build the city, and there was too little clay here, so he couldn't find suitable soil for a while.

Xiang Xiaoyu went to Li Xiaofei to get an idea: "Lord Li, it seems that we have to change places to find suitable soil to build the city, there is too little clay here, the sand is too heavy, the mud can't be pinched together, and the wall can't be tamped." Li Xiaofei looked around: "But it's almost the same everywhere, even if you retreat for a few dozen miles, the soil quality won't be much different." Brother Xiang, I often hear people say that gathering sand becomes a tower, let's try not to die a horse as a live horse doctor? ”

Xiang Xiaoyu looked at the river and suddenly had an idea: "Lord Li reminded me well, there must be silt at the bottom of this river, and it may be useful to mix it in the sand and stir it." Besides, the water of this river is also wonderful, so it's up to me."

Xiang Xiaoyu divided the team of more than 1,000 displaced people into two teams, each of which opened 200 zhang and dug a ditch three miles away from Li Shui to bring water. He also asked Murong Ling to take a thousand soldiers to collect dead branches and firewood from trees. The remaining 500 men set up their chariots between the two ravines, set up tents, buried pots, cooked food, and guarded them.

After the first day, the ditch five feet deep and one zhang wide was dug for half a mile, and Xiang Xiaoyu transferred another 500 soldiers to dig the ditch, and the other 500 people piled the soil dug out of the ditch outside the tent outside the tent. Li Xiaofei looked at the unformed earthen wall outside the tent, pulled out a knife and poked it a few times, and immediately dispersed. Xiang Xiaoyu told Li Xiaofei not to worry, the city could be built in five days.

On the fourth day, the ditch had been dug for four miles, and Xiang Xiaoyu asked everyone to stop digging the ditch, and asked everyone to disassemble the wooden planks on the military vehicles, mix the soil and straw, and clamp it with a template to dry it. By this time, everyone understood what Xiang Xiaoyu was going to do, so they stepped up to make adobe bricks from the newly cut trees.

On the fifth day, everyone began to set up firewood and burn adobe bricks, and by the afternoon, there were thousands of adobe bricks three feet square. Under the guidance of Xiang Xiaoyu, everyone built a brick wall, one brick inside and one outside, poured mud and firewood ash in the middle, and built a one-zhang high city wall to surround the outside of the tent overnight.

On the sixth day, a new garrison came from the opposite side, and many cavalrymen looked at the low new city by the river. Li Xiaofei was also puzzled, how the one-foot-high city wall could resist the enemy. Xiang Xiaoyu was not in a hurry and asked people to dig the two sides of the city wall less than half a mile in front of the city wall and divert the river water in, so that the enemy army could not attack from the front even if he crossed the river.

In the next three days, the new city was added by another zhang, the surrounding river ditch was dug up, the river overflowed, except for this new city, the area within a radius of dozens of miles was soaked by the river, and it was difficult for people and horses to pull out if they fell into it.

On the tenth day, Li Xiaofei erected Chen Hongyi's handsome flag, and the Qin army on the opposite side suddenly became nervous. Having seen the Liang army's ability to build the city for a few days, now that Chen Hongyi's handsome flag was erected, the Qin army was even more convinced that the Liang army on the opposite side was led by Chen Hongyi himself.

There were more and more Qin troops gathered by the river, the Qin army beat drums and gongs in the middle of the night every day, and the Liang army also beat drums against each other in the middle of the night, and the two sides scolded each other during the day and drummed at night. After three days, Xiang Xiaoyu led people to set up a formation outside the city wall to build a ship, and the Qin army on the opposite side was secretly happy, and in a few days Li Shui would freeze, and when Li Shui froze, the cavalry could take down this small city from the Bingyuan.

Li Xiaofei and Murong Ling disappeared with a hundred people for a few days, and they went to the upper reaches a hundred miles away to buy sheepskin and cowhides. When he returned to Huaiyang from Lishui, Li Xiaofei pestered Chen Hongyi and asked Chen Hongyi if there was any way not to cross the river by boat. Chen Hongyi told him that he could float on the river by making airbags of sheepskin and cowhide and tying them tightly, and then fixed them with wooden frames, and people could cross the river by putting them on them.

Moreover, the 1,000 soldiers from Shou County also have an advantage, that is, the water is good, although it is winter, as long as there is something that can float on the river, crossing the river will not be a problem. After Li Xiaofei and Murong Ling tied their skins and tied them to the wooden shelf, they took a hundred people to cross the river upstream at night.

Li Xiaofei and Murong Ling took a hundred people out day and night, and at the fourth watch of the next day, they touched the Qin army camp outside Liyang City and set it on fire. Xiang Xiaoyu saw that Li Xiaofei had succeeded on the other side, so he took the rest of the people to cross the river on the raft that had been set up before.

At the fourth watch, although half of the Qin army was monitoring the other side, but they didn't expect that the enemy army had arrived at the gate of the camp, the Liang army set fire everywhere, Murong Ling stabbed to death when he saw the appearance of the general, and for a time the group of dragons was leaderless, and the Qin army was in chaos, I don't know how many Liang troops came, most of them fled north on horseback, and they didn't even dare to enter Liyang City.

By noon, all the men and soldiers from the south had crossed the river to the north bank. Murong Ling and Li Xiaofei took advantage of the chaos to attack Liyang City and seize the city. After all of Li Xiaofei's men entered Liyang, Li Xiaofei told everyone that the next thing was the real test, and they had to stick to Liyang City. Sticking to Liyang means giving up even the way to retreat, once the enemy counterattacks over, he will definitely surround Liyang City, and it is impossible to say what the outcome will be at that time.

Li Xiaofei didn't want to hide it from everyone, so he let his son, who was in the army, go home, and his brother, who was in the army, go home. So only 1,200 of the 3,000 were still in Liyang, and most of the rest crossed the river and went home.

Xiang Xiaoyu was extremely sensitive to money and grain, so he went to seal Liyang's treasury as soon as possible, and sent people to buy the accumulated grain from large households in the city. There were also people in Liyang City who were panicked and wanted to escape from the city, Li Xiaofei looked at the crowd and made a decision: "Let all the people go out of the city." The people of the city rejoiced, packed their luggage, money, and drove the wagons out of the city, leading the pigs and sheep.

Xiang Xiaoyu frowned, leaving the people, the difficulty of defending the city will increase greatly. Letting the people go means that the troops are not replenished, the wounded are not cared for, and when the time comes to run out of food, there is no one to find a target to scavenge for food. Li Xiaofei looked at the crowd out of the city, but he still couldn't bear it in his heart, so he asked Murong Ling to escort them with thirty heavily armored cavalry. It was this decision that saved many people, as well as Li Xiaofei and themselves.

The people in the city walked out for more than ten miles, and the cavalry of the Qin army made a comeback, and they killed the people like chopping melons and vegetables. Murong Ling was furious and led thirty heavily armored cavalry to set up a formation and rush over. The forward troops of the Qin army were not prepared at all, and there was still a heavy armored cavalry hidden in the crowd, which was quickly dispersed, and the vanguard officer was also cut off by Murong Ling in the first round of fighting.

The people saw that they would die faster when they left the city, so they turned around and went back to Liyang City. Li Xiaofei saw the people returning to the city at the gate of the city, thinking that he had moved them, but after asking, he learned that he was killed by the Qin army and did not dare to run out of the city for his life, so he couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

Xiang Xiaoyu saw it clearly at the head of the city, and he was secretly happy in his heart, what he was afraid of was that the Qin army would open up to the people and even give a small favor, and then the people would help the Qin army to attack the city. At this time, the Qin army killed indiscriminately, not to mention the vanguard officer, and pushed the people to the side of the Liang army, even if 100,000 troops besieged the city at that time, they would not be afraid.

The defeated Qin army encountered the heavy armored cavalry and the people who led the troops on the front line, and it can be said that it was a lot of flowers, and Hu Jian was even more convinced that it was Chen Hongyi himself who arrived in Liyang. However, Hou Dong had a little more heart, and asked the defeated soldiers: "What is the person who killed the vanguard officer of our army like?" Isn't it an old man? ”

The soldier was stunned for a moment: "He moved too fast, he didn't see his face clearly, and none of the people who saw his face clearly could come back." But the martial arts are so terrifying, there is no one else but Chen Hongyi"

Hu Jian was once a defeated general under Chen Hongyi, but he also knew that Chen Hongyi's shots had always been wide open and closed, and his movements seemed slow, but there were almost no dead ends, at least he could make people understand that the person who came out of the battle today had a sharp and fast knife technique, and it would never be Chen Hongyi. But at this time, many people came to report that Chen Hongyi's handsome flag was planted on Liyang City, and Hu Jian couldn't help but believe it.

Now that it is determined that Chen Hongyi is in Liyang City, it is still possible to besiege Chen Hongyi and trap Chen Hongyi in the city with a strong bow and crossbow. Hu Jian and Hou Dong then ordered 100,000 horses to drain the periphery of Liyang City.

Although Li Xiaofei had experienced the siege, this time the number of enemy troops made him break out in a cold sweat. But fortunately, the enemy army did not directly attack the city with ladders, but only surrounded the city and released arrows, so that the city would not be broken all at once. Xiang Xiaoyu looked at the handsome flag on the head of the city and couldn't help but admire: "Just relying on the handsome flag of General Chen here, the enemy army will not dare to attack the city rashly, if you don't see it with your own eyes, you really can't believe it."