The firelight illuminated the entire surface of the water, and although it was in the icy water from a distance, you could still feel a blazing heat coming to your face when you looked at the blazing flames. More than a dozen Northern Zhou soldiers ran out of the hay field that was about to be engulfed by the fire in a panic, towards this side of the river, each carrying a bucket. This was the closest source of water they could find.

Before the leader of the team noticed the anomaly in the water and ordered him to stop, an arrow whistled through the air and pierced his chest. The general's eyes widened as he watched one enemy after another leap out of the water and pounce directly on his team.

The sudden fire in the forage field can be said to have taken the defenders north of Xiangyang into shock. After a day of hard fighting, the defenders in Xiangyang City were actually exhausted, so most of the soldiers who had fought for a day in the city were withdrawn and stationed in the north, where the enemy was least likely to attack, so when the forage field caught fire, there were still many tired soldiers still asleep, if it were not for the urging of their companions, I am afraid they would have been engulfed by the fire.

It's just that these soldiers only walked on the water, after all, the empty road did not show the figure of the enemy, but they did not think that the real enemy was not on land, but in the water.

Cleanly and neatly eliminated these Northern Zhou soldiers, the leader of the team waved his hand decisively, and the crossbowmen rushed to the front, holding bows and crossbows to several roads leading to this dock, while the rest of the soldiers hurriedly took off their armor from the corpses. After all, they all infiltrated the city almost naked, and if they didn't wear armor, they would definitely suffer in the fight with the enemy later.

"Let's go!" The lord of battle was not ambiguous, he directly picked up the spear and walked along the road, and several soldiers did not forget to light the fire fold that he carried with him, and threw it into the camp tent next to him, and soon the empty camp tent was burning, although it would not kill the enemy, but it was enough to create more chaos.

This is only more than 100 people, and the team of 800 people is different from the rest of the team, the number of generals who can command is only 50 people, and the battle master can command 100 people, which also reflects Li Xinchen's purpose of forming this army from the side.

The real elite is also the real elite, and it can be one against two or even ten with one at a critical time.

Because of the reason for transporting grain and grass and being close to the water, the northern part of Xiangyang City is covered with a dense river network, mainly the canals dug and drained by hand, although these canals are not deep, but they can be boated on weekdays, and it is easier for people to paddle forward at this time, and more importantly, compared with the rivers outside, these canals are smoother and safer.

Therefore, Cheng Feng decisively separated his forces after entering the city, his main purpose was to create chaos, not to take the city, since he wanted to create chaos, it must be the chaos that was over, the better, so the separation of these eight hundred soldiers was definitely more effective than together.

The eight hundred soldiers were divided into eight teams, half of which remained on one side of the forage field, while the other side went straight down the waterway to the city.

Li Xinchen did not tell Cheng Feng his ultimate goal. Therefore, Cheng Feng did not take igniting the forage field as his ultimate goal at all, leaving half of the soldiers and horses to deal with the forage field, and the rest of the troops had been dispersed.

The forage field behind him was already burning, and Cheng Feng was sticking to a bridge pier, looking at the Northern Zhou army that was urgently assembled on the shore.

Xiangyang City is also divided into the inner city and the outer city, but compared with Fancheng, this inner city is more simple, in fact, the old city was not abandoned and demolished, compared to the outer city, the inner city has been damaged in many places, and the city is low and even less than the outer city, and there is nothing in the inner city, mainly some warehouses and barracks, and even the mansions of Wei Chi Yuan, Cao Xiaoda and others are not in the inner city, but in the south of the city.

As the soldiers and horses fought along the outer city, the warehouses and barracks were empty. This is also why Cao Xiaoda defends the outer city so desperately, once the outer city of Xiangyang is breached, then this Xiangyang city really has nothing to hold onto, standing on the outer city, you can see all the arrangements and arrangements of the inner city clearly.

Of course, this is also to blame the people who built the city before, after all, it is really troublesome to build a city with inner and outer cities nested with each other, and there will be many twists and turns in management. Therefore, it is better to concentrate all the resources to build a taller outer city, and the original wall of the inner city has gradually become a walled wall of the military camp as it has fallen into disrepair for a long time, and it is more than enough to use the city wall as a walled wall.

It's just that I'm afraid that no one thought at that time that the enemy, who was originally attacking in the east and west directions, would suddenly infiltrate from the north gate, and at first Cao Xiaoda also thought it was a forage field running water, but soon he received the news that some of his subordinates had encountered the enemy.

It shows that there are really water ghosts entering the city.

Cao Xiaoda had to admit that Li Xinchen did give him a surprise, and at this time, the drums in the outer city were also telling Cao Xiaoda that Li Xinchen was doing this on purpose. The onslaught during the day had indeed made Cao Xiaoda do his best, and he naively thought that Li Xinchen's attack should end here, but who would have thought that the real attack would actually start now. Thinking of this, Cao Xiaoda understood why Li Xinchen ordered the withdrawal of troops at that time.

Before, everyone naively thought that it was because Li Xinchen felt that there was no point in continuing the attack, and it was better to withdraw first than to wait for the enemy to rush to the city and have to pay more casualties and have no way to move forward.

But now Cao Xiaoda realized that this was simply Li Xinchen's initiative to retreat, and he wanted to reserve a certain amount of physical strength for the continuation of the attack tonight, and he couldn't squeeze all the soldiers clean, and it seemed to be the same reason when he thought about it at this time.

Compared with Li Xinchen's usual vigorous and resolute action before, this time Li Xinchen's attack was really a bit muddy, and the army launched an overwhelming attack, but in fact, in the process of sending reinforcements and mobilizing the army in the city, Li Xinchen seemed to be a little procrastinating, and it stands to reason that after the soldiers at the head of the city ascended first, they should send enough reinforcements to rush up as quickly as possible to completely stabilize the position, especially when the enemy's reserves did not arrive.

This is also what Cao Xiaoda is most worried about today, mainly because there are too few defenders in Xiangyang City, there is only one reserve, and Xiangyang City is too big, so the speed of the reserve will definitely be greatly reduced, so if there is a first attack at the head of the city, the defenders will face a great risk. But the fact is that even if the leader of the team is Chen Zhishen, one of the best generals under Li Xinchen, this situation has still not been opened.

Now it seems that Li Xinchen is afraid that Li Xinchen did it deliberately.

More soldiers who weren't involved in the siege will play a role tonight.