The northeast exit of the swamp is already shouting and killing, Chen Meng led two thousand troops to block the exit here, and is fighting fiercely with the first three thousand Jianghuai soldiers to rush out, arrows are like rain, swords flash, thick smoke is billowing, the two sides are fighting together fiercely at the exit that is only dozens of zhang wide, and soldiers continue to fall into the swamp and be ruthlessly swallowed up by the quagmire.

At this time, the seven thousand Jianghuai soldiers who withdrew from the north bank killed at the exit, and the war drums behind were like thunder, which was the main force of the Sui army chasing from behind, Chen Baoxiang was in a hurry, and shouted: "If you don't want to die here, rush out for me!" ”

At this time, Zhou Meng suddenly found that a black line appeared in the east in the distance, and he was rushing towards this side, he was overjoyed, and immediately ordered: "The whole army evacuates, let them go out!" ”

He immediately took 2,000 Sui soldiers to the west and quickly evacuated, without the Sui army blocking, the 10,000 Jianghuai soldiers who were blocked in the swamp surged out like the tide of the embankment, and rushed to the wilderness in the north, but ran out of less than a few hundred steps, the soldiers in front were so frightened that they turned around, shouted and fled to the west, only to see a cavalry from the west to kill, 10,000 horses galloping, dust rolling, the earth was trembling, the head of the general silver helmet and iron armor, holding a horse lance, it was the cavalry general Pei Xingyan.

Pei Xingyan's 10,000 cavalry was the vanguard, and he came to meet the ships ashore, but he happened to encounter the Jianghuai soldiers breaking through, and he shouted, "Kill me!" ”

The cavalry galloped like a storm, and in a moment they caught up with the enemy, waving their swords, stabbing their spears, flying flesh and blood, rolling heads, and constantly being swept under the iron hooves, screams, wails, and a bloody massacre staged in the wilderness on the north shore of Chaohu Lake

Three days later, Zhang Xuan led the army to arrive at the newly built camp of the Sui army, and the Sui army still chose the northeast entrance as the main entry and exit point, driving wooden stakes on both sides of the soil and pulling ropes to form a passage about ten miles long to prevent soldiers from entering the swamp by mistake, and built a camp gate at the entrance of the passage.

Zhang Xuan looked at the water in the distance, pointed at the water with his horsewhip and asked, "If the enemy army uses the water to launch a water attack, will our camp be submerged?" ”

Lai Hu'er smiled: "Please rest assured, we have taken this issue into consideration, the terrain in this area is high in the east and west, and the water level is everywhere, especially the water level of Chaohu Lake is much lower than that of Daying, if the water is intercepted to flood us, the water will leak directly into Chaohu Lake, and it will not affect Daying." ”

Zhang Xuan nodded, urged the horse into the passage, not long after, then came to the camp station, only to see that the woods covering an area of thousands of acres only left a little bit of the northwest corner, the rest of the woods were razed to the ground, erected a huge cargo tent, the tents are in a row in a row, neat and orderly, there are camp fences around the camp, the water village is also close to the camp, hundreds of warships and cargo ships are moored on the shore, forming a coordinated and unified water and land linkage Dazhai.

At this time, Zhang Xuan found that there was no fence outside the water village, and his brows couldn't help frowning, and Lai Hu'er immediately understood the boss's worries, and hurriedly explained: "Marshal Qiqi, Du Fuwei's warships have been wiped out, and the only threat to us is the Jiangnan Hui or Lin Shiqu's naval army, but the Yangtze River leading to Chaohu Lake has been tightly sealed by us, and there is still a beacon at the mouth of the river, as long as there is any hostile situation, we will receive news here." ”

Zhang Xuan shook his head, "When I came over, I found that there were still fishing boats on Chaohu Lake, if these fishing boats were used by Du Fuwei and attacked the fleet at night, a few small boats could burn the entire fleet, and there are not only fence water connections between Chaohu Lake and the Yangtze River, there are many unknown small river ditches, we don't know, it doesn't mean that the enemy army doesn't know, old general, we can't be careless!" ”

Lai Hu'er was ashamed in his heart, and hurriedly said: "I understand my humble duties, and immediately build a fence in the water village to not give the enemy any chance." ”

The north shore of Chaohu Lake is just a logistics center, mainly storing grain and grass and various military supplies, guarded by the navy, here is also the garrison of the navy, the big ship transports the materials and grain and grass from Jiangdu, temporarily stored here, and then transported by small boat to the Sui army camp in Hefei City, Zhang Xuan visited the logistics center, and then led the army north to the Sui army camp.

There was no suspense in this war against Du Fuwei, although Du Fuwei had a large number of troops, there were 120,000 people, but most of them were soldiers recruited from the victims in the past year, with backward equipment, low training, and not strong combat effectiveness, while the real elite soldiers of the Jianghuai Army were only 20,000 people, and they were still the army that survived after Du Fuwei fled to Huainan County.

Due to the pressure of the Sui army from three sides, Du Fuwei was forced to constantly shrink the defensive line, and he knew very well that his army could not compete with the elite and powerful main force of the Sui army, and he could only rely on superior forces to defend Hefei City to delay the change.

At this time, Du Fuwei's army has all retreated into Hefei City, the city gate is closed, the suspension bridge is hung high, the city head is full of defensive soldiers, Hefei City is the second largest city in the Jianghuai region in addition to Jiangdu, since the Three Kingdoms period here is the military town of Jianghuai, the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the former Qin King Fu Jian led 800,000 troops to invade the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the south, it was in Hefei that the famous battle of Weishui broke out, the Eastern Jin Dynasty defeated the enemy army ten times its own with 80,000 troops, created a miracle in the history of war.

Since then, the city of Hefei has been repeatedly repaired, and eventually became a fortified city that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and also became a bridgehead for the southern regime to resist the attack of the northern army.

The reason why Hefei is called the first fortified city of Jianghuai, there are three main reasons, one is that the city wall is tall and wide, all made of granite, extremely strong, and the city wall can not be shaken by trebuchet attack, and secondly, from the city area is very large, the circumference is nearly 40 miles, at least 80,000 soldiers are needed to hold the key points of each place, and similarly, the attacker wants to conquer Hefei City, and at least 200,000 troops are needed, and the troops are too small, and the siege will be useless.

The third reason is also the most important reason, that is, the moat of Hefei can be called the first in the world, as wide as 100 zhang, and even Xiaoyaojin this kind of lake covering an area of thousands of acres, a stone bridge was built in front of the four city gates, for people to enter and exit the city, at present the three stone bridges have been demolished, only a stone bridge outside the west city remains, that is the back road left by Du Fuwei to himself.

The moat is part of the water system of the Chaohu and Chaohu lakes, and ships coming from Chaohu can sail directly into the moat, which puts great pressure on the defenders because the Sui army can attack the city with the help of warships.

The Sui army camp is located outside the southern city, it is a half-moon shaped board wall type camp, close to the river, the camp stretches to the south for more than ten miles, there are nearly 8,000 tents, can accommodate 100,000 troops to settle in.

Du Fuwei stood at the head of the city, looking at the Sui army camp with complicated eyes, he didn't see this camp yesterday, it was like a mushroom that grew overnight, although Du Fuwei knew that it would appear one day, but when this day really came, it still made him tremble.

At this time, Chen Baoxiang stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, if you want to defeat the Sui army, I think we should start with their logistics battalion, as long as the Sui army's logistics are not guaranteed, they have to retreat." ”

Chen Baoxiang led more than 1,000 remnants of his army back to Hefei two days earlier, he was the first general to engage the Sui army, although the Sui cavalry was almost wiped out, but Du Fuwei still listened to his advice.

Du Fuwei sighed lowly, "Zhang Xuan is a veteran of attacking other people's logistics places, how can he let us get it easily, and the Sui army has a strong fleet, which can send a steady stream of logistics supplies at any time, even if we succeed for a while, we can't cut off their logistics supplies, unless we destroy their fleet." ”

"Then why didn't His Highness look for foreign aid, the humble position is to say Lin Shiqu, didn't His Highness sell him a million catties of pig iron last year? I remember that he said that if His Highness is in trouble, he will definitely help him. ”

Du Fuwei sneered, "Let's talk about it, will he still set himself on fire at this time?" ”

Fu Gongyou next to him walked over and said with a smile: "Your Highness, General Chen is right, we should ask Lin Shiqu for help, Lin Shiqu also has a strong naval army, they can completely block the Yangtze River and cut off the logistics and transportation of the Sui army." ”

"Big brother thinks it's feasible?" Duvowe asked.

"Why not?"

Fu Gongyou said solemnly: "Lin Shiqu and the Sui army have a deep enmity, his righteous brother Cao Shi begging died in the hands of the Sui army, but more importantly, the lips are cold, if we fall, how long can Lin Shiqu hold on, he will not understand this truth, His Royal Highness should give it a try, in fact, not only Lin Shiqu, Xiao Milling should also send someone there, once the Sui Army captures Lujiang County, it will directly border Xiao Mill's territory, isn't he in a hurry?" We should do everything we can to get foreign help. ”

Fu Gongyou said that Du Fuwei was moved, and he should give it a try regardless of whether he succeeded or not, even if he failed, it would have no effect.

Duvowe nodded, "Then give it a try!" ”

Half an hour later, several fast horses rushed out of Hefei City from the west gate at a gallop and galloped away in the southwest direction, but the Sui army did not stop them, and let them gallop away in the distance. (To be continued.) )