In mid-July, the Chen army, which had been harassed by the Jiangbei Zhou army, finally made a move, and they took the initiative to attack the south bank of the Yangtze River after several months, and the target of the attack was Qizhou in the Jiangbei Zhou State.

First of all, two years ago, Chen Jun crossed the river to the north to attack Qizhou and Yizhou to the north when he took advantage of the internal scuffle in the Zhou State.

Secondly, Qizhou Prefecture is located in Qichang County, Qichang is just on the edge of Qishui, Chen Jun's small warships can enter Qishui from Qikou on the Yangtze River, and go upriver for more than 30 miles to Qichang, so that it is much more convenient to transport soldiers and horses or grain and grass, and if the war is unfavorable, then it is also very convenient for the warships to retreat downstream.

The most important point is that the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Qikou are the Xisai Mountain, the gathering place of the Chen army's land and water army, and there are Chen army's warships guarding the river, and the Zhou army fleet that is not afraid of the upper reaches of Xisai Mountain and anchoring in Wuzhou goes south, so that they can cross north or return to the south.

The Zhou army set up a garrison in Qikou, and in May, when the army of Chen Guo marched westward, it was uprooted and stood up in Xinzhai to guard Qikou, in order to prevent the Chen army from tracing back to the north of Qishui to attack the Zhou army, the Zhou army confronted each other in the upper reaches of the Chen army camp village ten miles upstream.

This time, the Chen army invaded the north in a big way, and at the same time, the Qizhou assassin organized the army and civilians to defend the city, and at the same time, they also sent a message and sent envoys to the states to ask for help, and Yizhou in the north of Qizhou and Bazhou on the west naturally received an urgent report.

Qichang was formerly known as Qiyang, located on the southeast bank of Qishui, the Qichang defenders who had been prepared for the attack of the Chen army learned that the downstream camp was lost, after digging wooden stakes in Qishui to prevent the Chen army's warships from approaching the city, and the trench had already been dug outside the city wall to introduce Qishui as a moat to resist the enemy siege.

Qizhou Prefecture Zhiqichang is 1670 miles away from Xiyang in Bazhou Prefecture in the west, and more than 100 miles away from Zhiluotian in Yizhou Prefecture in the north.

The warships that went up the water disregarded the arrows and arrived at the fence in the water, sent soldiers into the water to pull out the wooden stakes, and organized many soldiers to set up countless manpower catapults and immediately fired cannons, and the defenders of Qichang collected cloth from all over the city to make cloth curtains and erected them to resist the flying stones.

The Chen army sent archers to the vicinity and fired rockets to burn the cloth curtains, but the defending archers struggled to suppress them, and countless Chen soldiers took the opportunity to fill the trenches with soil and cross the ditch. When night falls, torches are lit and manpower catapults are used to attack the city overnight.

After a day and night of siege, the city of Qichang was scarred but still firmly controlled by the Zhou army, and the Chen army rushed a large number of ladders and pointed wooden donkeys overnight to cross the trenches that had been filled in dirt roads to the city.

There are also warships along the river that has been cleared to the west of the city, as the archers on the arrow tower, and the defenders of the city head shoot at each other, covering their own soldiers to climb the city, the Qichang defenders mobilized the people of the city to defend the city, and threw countless rolling wood and stones that have been prepared for a long time, and repelled the waves of siege soldiers of the Chen army.

The Chen army relied on the strength of the crowd to carry out a wheel battle, the soldiers took turns to attack, so that the defenders of Qichang could not rest, under the continuous attack, the fierce battle lasted from early morning to evening, until nightfall, the manpower catapult 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 unbearable. With more efforts, we will definitely break through Qichang tomorrow! ”……

At night, more than 50 miles north of Qichang, a mile outside Guo Mo City, on the official road, the Chen army was stationed in the road, blocking the way for the Zhou army to go south in Guo Mo City in the north and Qishui City further north, they had repelled several tentative attacks by the Zhou army, and tomorrow may usher in a greater challenge.

Counting the days, the reinforcements from Yiju further north should arrive at Guomo City, and it will be a fierce battle for them to face an enemy attack that exceeds their own forces.

The dark clouds covered the moon, the black lights of Chen's camp were silent, and the shadowy figure on the watchtower was a scarecrow. Behind the second wall in the north, soldiers were sleeping in their clothes.

"I said, Zhou Jun will really come to attack at night tonight?" A soldier of the Chen army, who was looking north, asked, "Tonight, everyone was organized by Shangguan, dressed in armor and holding weapons, and waited for the rabbit, saying that they were going to give the Zhou army who attacked the camp a 'head drink', and as a result, a group of people huddled together like this to feed the mosquitoes.

"Of course, soldiers, treacherous ways, the so-called attack is unprepared"

"Tut-tut, after listening to the story, it looks like it's talking!"

"Don't believe me," the man said, shaking his head. Calculate the date to tomorrow, the Yizhou reinforcements of the Zhou State should also arrive, according to the statement, tomorrow is the time of the big war, so both sides must have a good rest tonight to recuperate. And so came the deceit.

According to common sense, your side must rest and prepare for war, so if the Zhou army attacks at this time at night, the success rate is very high, where do you want to get someone to attack the camp, when the time comes, it will be dark and full of figures, and you can't tell the enemy from me, it is easy to be fished in troubled waters.

Especially tonight, the dark clouds covering the moon is a good opportunity to sneak attack at night, if the moonlight is bright and the wilderness can see the figure is not good for a night attack, Zhou Jun will definitely be impatient tonight to make a 'attack unprepared'.

"It's still fishing in troubled waters, and it's like you can see the distance when there's a moon." Naturally, the listener is not convinced. In these years, many people can't see clearly in the distance at night, that is, they are blindfolded, although not everyone is like this, but it is rare to fight at night, and most of the people who can attack at night are the troops raised by the generals, so they don't believe that the Zhou army can make up so many people to steal chickens and dogs.

"Don't believe it! It's a sign today! When the man saw that everyone did not believe it, he became anxious, and shook out an incident that had happened today: in the afternoon, a sudden wind blew and broke the banner, which was a sign that the enemy was coming to attack the camp tonight.

"Aren't they all told in those stories? If the flag is blown off, it must be that there will be a sneak attack by the enemy that night! ”

"Then, what should I do, I can't see clearly in the night war!" Some people are in a hurry, and everyone knows the allusion that the handsome flag will be blown off by the wind, and someone will sneak attack, so now I am convinced, and when I think of the two groups of people who are blind in the black light, it will not be good if they cut their own people.

What's even more unfortunate is to be cut or shot by your own people, and there is really nowhere to cry.

"Silly, isn't it? The camp in front was specially vacated to bring the Zhou army in, and when they cut down the scarecrows, we lit up the torches and shot arrows anywhere, and there were still people who could run away! ”

"Don't make noise, there's movement ahead!" A soldier ran over and scolded in a low voice in anger, "If you scare away the thieves, you will be beheaded!" ”

Hearing that the Zhou army really came as scheduled, and touched the camp at night, everyone came to the spirit, and the soldiers who were originally dozing off were instantly sleepy, and they all clenched their weapons in their hands, ready to let the Zhou army who attacked at night come to 'steal chickens and rice'.

A moment later, there was movement on the front wall, first a few faint bowstrings sounded, as if someone had shot an arrow at the scarecrow soldier on the watchtower, and then several black shadows climbed over the wall and sneakily touched the camp gate.

The soldiers of the Chen army, who were ambushed behind the second row of walls, watched through the cracks and watched these black shadows slowly move the horses behind the camp gate, all sweating, having a bad stomach, and wanting to fart desperately lifting their buttocks to hold back, for fear of alarming the Zhou army who stole the camp.

Amitabha, come in quickly, I can't help it!

The soldiers who were holding back their farts wanted Zhou Jun to quickly open the camp gate and rush in, seeing those black shadows pulling the camp gate lightly, they were almost so anxious to rush forward to help the handle, and they couldn't hold back the tears in the corners of their eyes desperately.

However, he still couldn't hold back, a long sound burst out, causing countless eyes like knives, just when all thoughts were lost, he saw those 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 of the Chen army, who commanded the ambush, was full of joy and drew his saber in ecstasy, pointed at them and shouted vigorously: "Release the arrow!" Ignite the torch! ”

The sound of breaking the sky sounded, and arrows rained down on the crowd that rushed in, and then countless lit torches were thrown at them, reflecting the open space as if it were day: "Surrender or kill!" (To be continued.) )