In the big tent of Chen's military camp, in order to continue the siege or shrink the defense, the generals quarreled into a pot of porridge and finally made a decision: shrink the defense. The drop in the water level of Qishui indicates that the upstream is impounding, and the reinforcements of the Zhou army have approached Qichang, so it is prudent to stop the siege.

It is true that the city wall is about to collapse, but if you break into the city and fight with the defenders, the other side will be killed, then it will be a dilemma, and in the end, most of the soldiers who will attack the city will be finished, and your own side will be defeated and retreat to the camp.

In case the Zhou army chased the rout all the way to cover the killing, whether they could hold the camp at that time is still two words, as the so-called defeat of the army is like a mountain, in case the rout cannot be stopped and the rout is rushed backwards, it is not a joke, so they decided to seek stability.

The siege of Qichang was immediately stopped, and the soldiers of the Chen army dismantled all kinds of siege equipment and retreated to the camp south of the city.

In the display of the flag, everyone could clearly see the word Zhou on the banner, first stunned, and then burst into a wave of cheers, many people had already fallen into despair, thinking that they could not survive today, but the reinforcements actually arrived, and they couldn't help but burst into tears.

Although the stone bridge across the river had been destroyed before, but the reinforcements arrived on the north bank, so Chen's army did not dare to besiege the city unscrupulously, and Qichang was saved.

The city wall of Qichang was damaged in many places, although the west gate next to the water was not attacked by catapult artillery, but the Chen army warship anchored on the water also suffered heavy casualties, although the defenders burned several enemy ships with rockets, but the city tower and several arrow towers were also burned, and the casualties of soldiers and young men were not light.

If the city is broken, then everyone's choice may not be the same, but now that the reinforcements have arrived, then all the thoughts that have arisen have all disappeared invisibly, seeing the Chen army retreating to the south side of the camp, there are also Zhou army generals who want to go out of the city and beat the water dogs, but they measure the strength of both the enemy and us, and finally give up.

Chen's army took the initiative to retreat instead of routing, and if there were fewer troops, I was afraid that it would be meat buns and dogs, and it would never return, and if there were more, there would not be much more, because the defenders were also insufficient. After thinking about it, it is better to wait for reinforcements to arrive before thinking about it in the long run.

Reinforcements approached, but before they could reach the edge of the city, when the defenders heard a roar from the upper reaches of the water. When I looked up, I saw a white wall moving rapidly downstream from upstream to downstream on the river. In the blink of an eye, he rushed to the city.

"It's a big flood, and the upstream barrage has released water!"

"It's a good time, wash away all the thieves!"

The people at the head of the city watched as the roaring water swept away the Chen army's warships on the river with the soldiers who had no time to dodge on the shore, but unfortunately the Chen army's camp was stationed on the south bank and was not affected.

"It's a pity, if only they camped by the river," someone said regretfully, Chen Jun had camped at the present address since he arrived in Qichang City, and it seemed that the generals who led the troops were not incompetent, and had long been prepared to guard against upstream water attacks.

The south bank was dusty, and a large number of Zhou cavalry galloped from the upstream, and they rushed to the eastern outskirts of the city after following the flood, and saw their own reinforcements directly from the upstream through the Qishui to the city to boost the morale of the defenders.

It's a pity that Chen Jun shrank back to the camp ahead of schedule. If this water attack can take them away in half in one wave, and then the cavalry will clean up the mess, then there will be no more fierce fighting, but everyone also understands that it is unrealistic to pin the victory or defeat on the other side's stupidity.

In any case, if the reinforcements arrive in time, then everything is easy to say......

The camp of the Zhou army in the eastern suburbs of Qichang City, Zhou Fashang, the assassin of Hengzhou, listened to the latest military situation and frowned, as the commander of the reinforcements who was ordered to reinforce Qizhou this time, he had to have a clear judgment on the current situation.

His side arrived at the time of the destruction of Qichang City and stopped the deterioration of the situation, but even so, Chen Jun still had no intention of withdrawing his troops, and according to the latest military information, the other side increased its troops.

Chen Jun is still confronting his own side outside the city, except for spending money and food, there is no benefit, his own troops are deployed on both sides of the Qishui River, it is impossible for Chen Jun to have the possibility of success, under normal circumstances, Chen Jun is now impossible to take Qichang.

Therefore, Zhou Fa was still thinking about what the abnormal situation would be, if the other party attacked Qichang simply in retaliation for attacking Wuchang several times and uprooting the sentry fort along the river, then there was no possibility of achieving the goal now. The use of soldiers is not child's play, so he thinks there must be something strange in it.

"Zhou Envoy Jun, could it be that Chen Jun is using a plan to attack the east and the west?" Yizhou Sima Yang Xin asked. He led the soldiers and horses of Yizhou to join Zhou Fashang and went south to reinforce Qizhou, and according to the orders of the governor's office, he had to obey Zhou Fashang's command.

"Sound the east and attack the west, before pulling out the five continents, Chen Jun can't attack the west" Zhou Fashang pondered for a moment and said, he knew very well what the Wuzhou soldiers on the five continents had become now, "They don't have a chance." ”

Some generals said that Chen Jun would not take the trail to outflank the grain road or something, but after discussion, everyone judged that this was unrealistic, Chen Jun was a lone army into Jiangbei, and they wanted to hold the road of Qishui without being cut off, and if they divided their troops into the country, it would basically not last long.

There are Wuzhouka guarding the Yangtze River waterway, Chen Jun wants to cross the river from Wuzhou to the upstream Xiakou/Hankou waterway is basically impossible, of course, if you gather ships in the Wuchang area to cross the river hard, but don't want to return to the south of the Yangtze River, and so on, except for this time from Qikou into the Qishui north, there is only one way to go.

The southeast direction of Wuzhoushu is Xikou, from Xikou into Xishui to the north, you can reach the Yongan County of Qizhou to govern Xishui City, Yongan County is located in the northwest of Qichang, if the other party can take it, it can really cut off the back road of Qizhou.

Yizhou, north of Qizhou, has now sent men and horses to Qichang to send troops and then it is impossible to send troops, and if the Huangzhou Governor's Office wants to send reinforcements, it can only transfer troops from the direction of Bazhou, west of Qizhou, and the first to bear the brunt of the reinforcements westward is Xishui City.

The naval warships of the Chen army were stationed in Xisai Mountain, and the positions of Qikou and Xikou on the Yangtze River were exactly on the east and north sides of Xisai Mountain respectively.

"Xikou, Chen Jun will definitely not be able to take it down." Zhou Fashang said categorically, he had been to Wuzhou not long ago, so he knew that he had a great advantage, "The Yuwen envoy of Bazhou has already taken precautions, you don't need to worry." ”

"That being the case, Chen Jun must be planning something." Yang Xin frowned, "It seems that our army sentry scouts should pay more attention, and we should also be more vigilant on all roads." ”

"Especially those places that are absolutely impossible to bypass." Zhou Fashang said, the word 'absolute' in it specially accentuated the tone, "Last night, our army was able to send people to travel over the mountain at night, and Chen Jun may not be able to find such a fierce pawn." ”

The generals looked at the map and discussed for a long time, and determined that several 'high-risk' areas needed to be investigated, and after the meeting was dismissed, Zhou Fashang turned to his big tent and called several people to listen to the order.

"You choose two teams of people to come out, have a good rest today, and tomorrow you will go to two local outposts to investigate the military situation."

"Lord Lang, where is it?" One of the first asked.

"Here, and here." Zhou Fashang unfolded the map and pointed at it, "These two places are not trivial, and the people sent out must be veterans!" (To be continued.) )