In the north of Zhongli City, on the north bank of Huaishui, the Zhou army (Wei Chi's) Beida Camp, and the Southeast Dao Daxing Taishang Shuling Wei Chi Youqi are checking the map, Chen Jun is now concentrating his forces to attack Zhongli, and he has to find a way to defuse the opponent's offensive.

At this time, Zhongli, three sides of the enemy, but not besieged to death, personnel, grain and grass rely on the pontoon bridge on the Huaishui, from the Beidaying located on the north bank of the Huaishui into the city in an endless stream, and the grain and grass of the Beidaying is from the Bozhou Governor's Mansion in the upper reaches of the vortex.

The whirlpool water into the Huai is called the whirlpool, the whirlpool is located in the upstream of Zhongli, the grain ship from the north unloads the grain and grass at the whirlpool, and transports it to Zhongli by land through the North Daying and the pontoon bridge, there is this grain road, and the defenders of Zhongli have no worries.

The Chen army besieging the city will naturally try to besiege Zhongli to death, so they must cross the river to occupy the north bank, so that the two sandbars on the downstream section of the river after the Huaishui passes through Zhongli are the strongholds for the two armies.

The sandbanks are called Shaoyang Continent and Daoren Continent, which are controlled by the Zhou army at this time, and the Zhou army has set up camps on the sandbar, and the attack and defense around these two sandbanks have been carried out for many days.

Nearly 90 years ago, the battle between Wei and Liang Zhongli revolved around the two sandbanks of Shaoyang and Daoren, and the loss of the Wei army in Shaoyangzhou directly led to the defeat of Zhongli.

Now it is the Northern Army that guards Zhongli, and Wei Chi Youqi will never repeat the mistakes of the Wei army back then, and he has always taken the lessons of the Battle of Zhongli as a warning.

The reason why Wei Chi Youqi was not in Zhongli City was because as a major member of the Southeast Dao, he also had to take care of the war in other places, and if he was trapped in the city, he would not be able to give orders to the soldiers and horses in various places.

Now he is in the northern camp, and he can command both Zhongli's defensive battles and the garrison of Matoucheng upstream of Zhongli.

Matou is located on the south bank of Huaishui, upstream of the vortex, Matou City was besieged by Chen's army like Zhongli, as long as Matou was not lost, Chen's army could not control Huaishui, and could not set fire boats upstream to burn the pontoon bridge on the river north of Zhongli City.

With a pontoon bridge, Zhongli can be foolproof, so Wei Chi Youqi is in Beidaying and personally guards this pontoon bridge.

The defeat of Guangling made him suffer the biggest setback in his life, and he once had the idea of apologizing for his sins under grief and indignation, and was stopped by the left and right.

As the prime minister of the elder brother, Wei Chi Youqi knew that he was facing the reality, it was easy to kill himself, but it was difficult to clean up the mess, as the man of the Wei Chi family, where could he be so cowardly?

Therefore, Wei Chi Youqi gathered the defeated troops and reorganized the defense line, and it was helpless to lose Shanyang and Xuyi, but Zhongli, he would never let Chen Guo occupy it, because if Zhongli lost, Shouchun in the upper reaches of Huaishui would lose its barrier.

Zhongli and Shouchun are important places on the south bank of Huaishui, Zhongli is located one hundred and eighty miles east of Shouchun, and the Chen army occupies Zhongli, so it can attack Shouchun in the west.

And Shouchun south to Ruyin two hundred miles, once Shouchun is forced by the enemy, it is unable to reinforce the Ruyin defenders, Chen Jun is now in the east of Ruyin Qicheng eyeing it, if Ruyin has no foreign aid, how long can it be held is a problem.

If Ruyin is finished, and the barrier on the south side of Shouchun is gone, how long can he hold under the siege of Chen's army, Wei Chi Youqi is not easy to say.

Guarding Zhongli can hold Shouchun, Shouchun is stable, Ruyin is also stable, and Huaishui's defense line is also stable.

A general entered the account and saluted Wei Chi Youqi: "Shang Shuling, according to the confessions of many prisoners of the Chen army, the rebellion that broke out in Jiankang, the capital of Chen Guoguo, is probably true. ”

"Could it be that a group of people were pretended to be captured in advance to deceive our army?" Wei Chi Youqi cares about this the most, he was deceived by the envoys of Chen in Guangling, so he has always been obsessed.

"Probably not, these captives were all captured from different places, and the last general and other strict interrogations were not found, and no abnormalities were found in their identities, and there were many differences in the details of their respective Jiankang matters."

"That being the case..... Could it be that Jiankang is really chaotic? ”

"Shang Shuling, the last general, etc., all think that it is true."

Wei Chi Youqi groaned, if the news he got from the captives was true, it meant that his bad luck had come to an end.

If this rebellion lasts for a long time before it is extinguished, then the soldiers of the Chen army in Huainan during this period will inevitably be unstable, and the next offensive of the Chen army will be weakened, and Wei Chi Youqi will have a precious respite.

The defeat of Guangling was too miserable, and there were many problems with the defense line organized by Wei Chiyou Qi in a hurry, not to mention that there were demon monks in Qingzhou, and even the situation in the Xuzhou Governor's Mansion was a little bad.

Wei Chi Youqi asked the servant to shoot Sima to eliminate difficulties and sit in Xuzhou, resisting the Chen army that took Shanyang and Xuyi, he himself was in Zhongli, withstanding the onslaught of the other party, and the Ruyin defenders had to face the attack of the third Chen army, which was under great pressure.

Now, he just barely maintained the defensive line, but there were changes in the Yuzhou area behind him: the defeat of Shaoling, and the more than 100,000 troops of the imperial court were almost wiped out.

The situation is critical, and his brother is seriously ill, Wei Chi Youqi only feels that there are fires everywhere, and he feels a little anxious, but now that he is okay, there is a problem in Chen Guo, I am afraid that he will have to stop for a while, so he can free up his hands to deal with Xiyang Wang Yuwenwen, who led the troops into Gwangju.

This is a ferocious man-eating tiger, the layout of Yu Chi's clan can be said to have been broken by this person, Yu Chi Youqi knows that his half-brother Yu Chi Shun has been sitting in the Yingzhou area, Yuwen Wen went south, not because he was afraid of his father-in-law, but because he wanted to covet the land of Lianghuai.

In other words, the enemies that Yu Chi Youqi has to deal with are not only the wolf in front of him (Chen Jun), but also the tiger (Yuwenwen) behind him.

If it was before the defeat of Guangling, Wei Chi Youqi was not afraid of Yuwen Wen at all, but now the situation is different, Yuwen and Chen Guo have joined forces, and he has been defeated again, and the troops are very tense.

Even so, Yu Chi Youqi gritted his teeth and had to hold on, Yuwen said, the previous dangerous situation was just survived, so it was his turn Yu Chi Youqi, there was no reason why he couldn't hold on.

Not to mention that Yuwen Wen was arrogant and arrogant, and he actually acted perversely to arouse public resentment, and Wei Chi Youqi was full of confidence in whether he could defeat the other party in the end.

According to the scout's report, Yu Wenwen, who was sitting in Gwangju Prefecture, sent an army to the east, wantonly squeezing the strong clans in various places, demanding that these local wealthy families send protons, pay money, grain, and labor for them to use, and attack those who did not obey at all.

Many wealthy clans could not bear the atrocities of the other party, and they guarded the fort one after another, drawing in each other's reinforcements to fight against Yuwenwen's soldiers and horses, and also sent envoys to the neighboring states and counties to ask for help from Wang Shi.

Even Shouchun received such an invitation for help.

The hearts of those who were originally a little loose, and those wall grasses that originally intended to fall to the Yuwen clan, were now forced to return to the court by Yuwen Wen's evil deeds.

Yu Chi Youqi felt that Yu Wenwen might be arrogant and arrogant because he had won the battle, and he didn't take the powerful in various places in his eyes, thinking that he could tame these heroes and subordinates by the threat of force alone.

However, the consequence of this is to force most of the heroes to the opposite side, so that the two Huai official armies do not have to divide their troops to resist Yuwenwen, and those heroes themselves will unite and play with Yuwenwen.

Such a change made Wei Chi Youqi quite excited, he felt that the storm was about to pass, and the sunny day was coming, but the more this time, the more he could not relax, Yu Wenwen's move also had the intention of luring him to divide his troops to the west, so he couldn't be led by the other party.

All over the country asked for help, and if they didn't send troops to save the people's hearts, they should be careful to be taken advantage of by Yuwenwen if they sent troops to rescue.

Of course, reinforcements had to be sent, and cavalry was sent.

In the defeat of Guangling, the strength of the cavalry in the hands of Wei Chi Youqi is still there, and according to the news obtained by the scouts, there are not many cavalry under Yuwen Wenqi entrenched in Gwangju, so...

Who made you have fewer cavalry?