Once the four pontoon bridges were destroyed, the army on the north bank of the Huai River would be completely in a desperate situation, and there would be no chance of escape at all.

Ji Ling's eyes were split, and while scolding Liu Ze for being despicable, he ordered his subordinates to hurry up to put out the fire, but under the dense rain of arrows, it was very difficult to get close to the fire point, and he was shot by a rocket before he could get close to the pontoon. Soon the first pontoon bridge was engulfed in flames, and the fire spread, and a long pontoon bridge almost became a fire dragon, burning fiercely on the Huai River, illuminating the Huai River as if it were day. Immediately after that, the second and third pontoon bridges also caught fire and were engulfed in flames.

Chen Lan felt very strange about Ji Ling's scolding, it is despicable and shameless for people to burn the bridge, it seems that you are not bright enough to sneak attack other people's camps in the middle of the night, in order to defeat the enemy on the battlefield, you will naturally do everything you can to defeat the enemy, what is the use of scolding others for being despicable now, seeing that the pontoon bridges are about to be burned out, it is really a dead end if you don't go. Chen Lan hurriedly said: "General Ji, withdraw quickly, if you don't leave, it's too late!" ”

Ji Ling also felt that the situation was not good, if the last one was also burned, it was estimated that the whole army would be wiped out, so he hurriedly rushed towards the last pontoon bridge.

The position of the archers was on the river embankment to the west, and the four pontoon bridges spanned the Huai River from west to east, the westernmost pontoon bridge was destroyed first, followed by the second and third adjacent pontoon bridges, and since the fourth pontoon bridge was at the edge of the range of the bow and arrow, only a few arrows could reach the pontoons, but despite this, the bridge deck caused a large fire.

In desperation, Yuan Bing still jumped into the water and desperately approached the pontoon bridge. He took the water of the river and poured it on the fire, extinguishing the fire.

Chen Lan, who had just escorted Ji Ling onto the pontoon bridge, had a flash of inspiration. shouted, "Quick! Wet the pontoon with water! ”

It dawned on the sergeants that even if a rocket hit the pontoon bridge after it was wet, it would not cause a fire again. So Yuan Bing struggled to splash water onto the pontoon, drenching the entire pontoon bridge.

Ji Lingwolf stepped onto the pontoon bridge and fled to the south bank in a hurry. The slippery bridge deck could not withstand the crowding of so many Yuan soldiers, many soldiers fell to the ground and were trampled to death, more people fell into the Huai water and drowned, and the remaining thousands of Yuan soldiers who did not have time to go to the bridge were taken prisoner by the Xuzhou army.

When the sky was bright, Ji Ling finally returned to the south bank of Huaishui, half of his robe was burned by the fire, and the whole person seemed to be burned by smoke and fire. Not to mention how wolf bèi is. Yang Hong and Zhang Xun led their troops to meet on the south bank, and they already knew how the battle was going when they saw Ji Ling's miserable appearance. Counting the number of people, 20,000 horses were brought out, and less than 10,000 returned, and more than half of the people and horses were lost.

Ji Ling sprinkled all his grievances on Yang Hong's body, and after returning to the camp, he lost his temper at Yang Hong and said, "Yang Changshi, you have a bad idea. Not to mention the loss of soldiers, even General Ben almost lost his life on the north bank of Huaishui! The general was entrusted by Yuan Gong to capture Xuzhou, but this division failed but lost his soldiers and horses. How do you want General Ben to treat Yuan? ”

Yang Hong couldn't help but secretly resentful, it was the duty of a strategist to make suggestions, but it wasn't you who made the decision in the end. The battle situation is ever-changing, and it is normal for misjudgments and misjudgments to occur. But as soon as something happens, he will shirk the responsibility and clean it up, is this Ji Ling worthy of being a general? But this can only be Yang Hong muttering in his heart. He didn't dare to say it anyway. Ji Ling was originally a slave of the Yuan family, and he was deeply valued by Yuan Shu, and he was Yuan Shu's most important confidant.

"The lower official never thought that Liu Ze would be so cunning, and after a long march, he actually set a trap secretly, and tired General Ji to lose his troops, this is the crime of the lower official, please deal with it according to military law." Yang Hong bowed his head and pleaded guilty.

Ji Ling snorted coldly, although he really wanted to punish Yang Hong and relieve the hatred in his heart, but thinking about the beginning of the war, the time to really compete with Liu Ze has not yet come, when it comes to charging into battle, Ji Ling is not scared, but when it comes to playing conspiracy, he really can't think of himself, and now the only one who can be regarded as a strategist in the battle is Yang Hong, and he really can't do it without him. He waved his hand, so he said generously: "Forget it, now is not the time to hold accountable, the top priority, you still have to discuss how to break the Xuzhou army, to take Xuzhou, you have to defeat Liu Ze first, you may as well speak out." ”

Zhang Xun, Lei Bo, Chen Lan and others hung their heads one by one, and they were all silent.

Ji Ling was furious and said, "What? You've just lost a battle, and you've lost your heart? Liu Ze only has more than 30,000 horses, even if Lao Tzu loses more than 10,000 people, there are at least 80,000 or 90,000 horses, are you still afraid of him Liu Ze? In front of Yuan Gong, this general has made a military order, and he can't take Xuzhou, so he goes to see Yuan Gong! Yang Changshi, what else do you have a plan? ”

Yang Hong said hesitantly: "The lower officials have thought of a plan, but they don't know if it is feasible or not?" "Yang Hong learned to be smart this time, and he didn't immediately offer advice to Ji Ling, but said ugly things in front, the plan is there, and I am not responsible if it works.

Ji Lingzheng was suffering from having no plan, and when he heard that Yang Hong had a plan, he was overjoyed and said, "You said come and listen." ”

Yang Hong said: "This time Liu Ze came, it was to relieve the siege of Xuyi, although our army failed to take Xuyi, but the Xuyi defenders are afraid that they have also reached the end of the crossbow, as long as we increase the intensity of the siege, Liu Ze will inevitably be anxious and want to cross the river to relieve the siege." At that time, we can send a war letter to Liu Ze and ask him to fight a decisive battle on the south bank of Zhunshui. As long as he dares to cross the river, we will give him a half-crossing attack, and we will definitely kill him without leaving a piece of armor. I don't know if this plan can be done, and I ask General Ji to consider it. Yang Hong added such a sentence at the end, okay, you can make your own decision, don't rely on me if something happens.

Ji Ling had forgotten Yang Hong's stinky basket idea yesterday, and when he heard that he had another "clever plan", he slapped his thigh excitedly and said: "It's a good half-crossing attack, and if you attack it unprepared, you will definitely be able to destroy Liu Ze on the south bank of Huaishui this time." ”

Yang Hong said cautiously: "The strategy is good, but I don't know if Liu Ze will take the bait?" ”

Ji Ling waved his hand and said: "It doesn't matter if you don't take the bait, our army's strength is twice as strong as Liu Ze, even if it is a dignified fight, this general is not afraid of him, just act according to Yang Changshi's plan!" Ji Ling immediately issued an order, ordering Zhang Xun to personally command the siege of Xuyi, the camp retreated ten miles, and ambushed the elite soldiers on the south bank of Huaishui, and ordered Yang Hong to write a war letter, and sent a messenger to the Xuzhou military camp to write a letter, agreeing to fight to the death on the south bank of Huaishui.

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In a counter-sneak attack war, the Xuzhou army won a complete victory, and the Yuan Warlock soldiers captured on the north bank of Huaishui alone amounted to more than 3,000 people, and those who were killed by swords and guns, shot by bows and arrows, and drowned in Huaishui, are innumerable. The generals praised Liu Ze for his exhaustive strategy, anticipating the enemy like a god, and calculating Ji Ling's accuracy in stealing the camp and robbing the village, ambushing people and horses, and killing him happily.

To say that the enemy is like a god, it is really too much to praise Liu Ze, in fact, Liu Ze really didn't expect Ji Ling to dare to come to steal the camp and rob the village, the layout of the anti-robbery camp is completely a conventional arrangement, even if Ji Ling does not come, Liu Ze's arrangement must be carried out, if he does not come, he will only be considered unlucky, and he can only consider himself unlucky. The sneak attack was originally a high-risk combat operation, and the probability of success was very low, Liu Ze really didn't expect Ji Ling to dare to cross the Huai River at night to sneak attack, as for sending Tai Shici to use rockets to burn the pontoon bridge across the river of Yuan Jun It was Liu Ze's stroke of genius, and it did have miraculous results, annihilating most of the troops sent by Ji Ling.

Liu Ze ordered the camp to be repaired, the battlefield was cleaned, and the scouts came to report, and the Yuan army launched a fierce offensive against Xuyi City, and the battle in Xuyi City was unprecedentedly fierce. Liu Ze immediately convened the generals to discuss the next battle plan.

Xu Shu first said: "Ji Ling besieged Xuyi with a part of his troops, and deployed a part of his troops on the south bank of Huaishui, in a vain attempt to encircle and send reinforcements, and wanted to take advantage of the main force of our army to go south to rescue Xuyi, relying on the advantage of its large number of troops, waiting for an opportunity to have a decisive battle with our army on the south bank of Huaishui. ”

Guan Yu said: "Xuyi's strength in defending the city is limited, and it has already withstood the repeated attacks of Yuan Shu's army for four or five days. ”

At this moment, the Chinese officer came to report, and Yuan Jun sent a messenger to come to the war letter, Liu Ze opened his eyes and laughed: "It seems that this Ji Ling is really impatient, and he is trying to fight to the death with our army with superior forces." Well, since he has this mind, I have fulfilled him. Someone came, a messenger who replied, about two days later, on the south bank of Huaishui, our two armies fought it out. ”

Jia Xu looked at the map and said with a solemn expression: "Lord, the Yuan army retreated ten miles and vacated the south bank of Huaishui, intending to fight with me here to the death, according to the opinions of his subordinates, I am afraid that things are far from being as simple as imagined, Ji Ling is likely to ambush soldiers and horses on the south bank of Huaishui, and attack it while our army is halfway crossing, my lord, I have to guard against it." ”

The allusion to the half-crossing attack comes from the "Zuo Chuan Spring and Autumn Period", in the summer of the fourteenth year of King Xiang of Zhou, Song Xianggong and the Chu people fought in Hong, the Song people were both in columns, and the Chu people were not in the same place. Sima Ziyu said: "He is outnumbered, and he has not helped, please hit him urgently." "Gong Fu Xu. That is, if the money is not listed, the fish will be re-invited. The public has not been reinstated. and fought in columns, and the Song division was defeated. "The Art of War" has clouds, don't welcome it in the water, so that it will be hit halfway. Song Xianggong paid the price for his stupidity, and also provided a negative teaching material for the art of war in the past dynasties.

"Half-crossing...... Halfway across and hit ......" Liu Ze looked at the map and muttered a few words, suddenly a strange look flashed in his eyes, and he smiled: "Okay, just give him a plan." (To be continued......)