But Ji Ling underestimated Xuyi's city defense and the morale of the defending army, and even more underestimated the determination and perseverance of the guards, and after a day of fierce fighting, 100,000 Yuan soldiers were blocked under Xuyi City, and they could not enter an inch.

The battle on the second day was even more intense, Ji Ling invested more troops to attack the city, looking down from the battlements of Xuyi, Yuan's soldiers were densely packed, layer upon layer, like locusts crossing the border. The defensive pressure of Xuyi City increased greatly, the casualties of the Yuan soldiers under the city were heavy, and the price of the Xuzhou soldiers in the city was not light, and the attrition in the battle was also very serious.

Yu Poison has always been on the front line, inspiring his soldiers, the wall of Xuyi City is their last line of defense, if Xuyi City is broken, no one knows what everyone's fate is. All the soldiers were high-spirited, sworn to the death, and refused to retreat a single step. The people of the city also joined the queue to defend the city, the young and strong took up arms to fight the enemy, and the women, children, old and young carried water and food to rescue the wounded.

The battle has entered a white-hot land, unprecedented tragedy, and the corpses under the city are pillowing each other, and blood is flowing all over the field. After three or four days of fierce fighting, Yuan's offensive was contained, and it was never able to break through Xuyi's city defenses.

Just when Ji Ling was worried, a worse news reached the Yuan army camp, and Liu Ze, the pastor of Xuzhou, led a large army to reinforcements. Ji Ling gasped at that time, Liu Ze came so fast! Originally, Xuyi attacked for three or four days without taking it, but now Liu Ze's reinforcements arrived. It's even more difficult to take down Xuyi.

Changshi Yang Hong was appointed by Yuan Shu as the supervisor of the army this time, and seeing that Ji Ling was worried, he offered a plan: "Liu Ze led only thirty or forty thousand people, and he was exhausted. Liu Ze garrisoned Xu County, Linhuai Xiazhai, thinking that he could sleep peacefully with the Huaishui separation. Guards must be lax. Our army can take advantage of the night to erect several pontoon bridges on the Huai River. Send an elite army to attack the Xu barracks at night, and you can capture Liu Zeyun in one battle! ”

Ji Ling was overjoyed and said, "Yang Changshi really has a clever plan, Liu Ze Xiao'er." Tonight I will kill them! ”

The subordinate general Lei Bo admonished: "Liu Zeqi people." Extremely strategic. In the first battle of the plains, with 30,000 people, the army of 100,000 in Hebei was broken. Yan Liangwen, a famous general in Hebei, is ugly, not to be underestimated! The last general thought that Liu Ze was the best at trickery, stationed in Xu County at night, and must be prepared, and it would be difficult for our army to win the night attack. ”

Ji Ling snorted coldly and said: "Yan Liangwen's defeat is precisely the defeat of following the rules and following the rules, not to mention that my Huainan warriors are all elite journeys for the rest of their lives, how can they be compared to those weak Hebei soldiers?" I have made up my mind, tonight this commander will personally lead 20,000 elite soldiers to attack the Xu camp at night, since General Lei is afraid of the enemy like a tiger, you can stay here and guard the camp. ”

Ji Ling did not listen to Lei Bo's advice, in addition to leaving 25,000 troops to continue to besiege Xuyi, 70,000 troops moved to the south bank of the Huai River (a few days to storm Xuyi, the Yuan army also paid the price of thousands of casualties), and Xuzhou soldiers across the river to the village, far away confrontation. He secretly dispatched 20,000 elite soldiers, feasted on war meals, rested during the day, and prepared to cross the river overnight and attack the Xuzhou camp.

It was night, and at the time of the second watch, Ji Ling ordered people to erect a pontoon bridge on the Huai River. In the Han Dynasty, the flow of Huai River was not too large, the river was not very wide, the water system of Hongze Lake and Gaoyou Lake, which was densely covered with water network in later generations, had not yet been formed, and the lower reaches of Huai River were still a vast plain, and the terrain was quite flat. Although Yuan Jun erected the pontoon bridge in the middle of the night, it was quite smooth, and at the third watch, four pontoon bridges were erected. Ji Ling ordered Chen Lan to be the vanguard, and the 20,000 army rushed by, and soon crossed the Huaishui and went straight to the Xuzhou camp.

The Xuzhou camp was silent, except for a few sleepy soldiers guarding the gate of the village, there was no half of a figure. Ji Ling led the army to sneak to the front of the Xu army camp closely, and after sending someone to investigate, there was no secret post near the left side of the Xuzhou camp, Ji Ling couldn't help but snicker, and said secretly: "It is rumored in the world that Liu Ze is like a god with soldiers, and it seems that today it is not more than Erer, and he should be killed!" Immediately sent an order, the soldiers were divided into four routes, and they entered the Xuzhou military camp together, and killed Liu Ze by surprise.

General Chen Lanzhu received the order and immediately led all the men and horses to break through the fence and rush into the camp. Chen Lan was outside the camp, and by the light of the fire, she had already aimed at the largest camp in the village, and believed that it was Liu Ze's handsome tent. After Chen Lan, who was eager for meritorious service, rushed into the camp quickly, he went straight to the tent of the handsome, and led the troops to surround the tent, Chen Lan ordered the soldiers to open the tent, and all the personalities inside were killed.

As soon as those soldiers saw that they had a head to grab, they didn't care to enter through the door of the big tent, and the swords and guns in their hands swung together, stabbing and slashing at the big tent, countless fragments flew in the air, and the tent was torn to smash in an instant, but when they looked again, all the soldiers were dumbfounded, and there was no one in the big tent.

Just when Chen Lan was stunned, his soldiers hurriedly came over to report: "General Chen, the camp tent here is empty!" ”

"Report to the general, there is no one in the camp here!"

This is clearly an empty village, Chen Lan immediately realized that it was not good, it was a trick! He hurriedly gave the order, the front team became the rear team, and the back team became the front team, and quickly withdrew from the camp.

Just when Yuan Bing turned back in a mess, he heard the rums of war roaring, shouting and killing, a group of men and horses suddenly killed, under the light of the fire, a general jumped out of the horse, but it was Liu Ze's account under the leader of the army Captain Gao Lan, shouted: "Sure enough, as my lord did not expect, you wait for this group of young people to dare to steal the camp and rob the village!" Now that you're here, don't think about going again, look at the guns! ”

Gao Ran took Chen Lan with a gun, Chen Lan saw the ambush, and was frightened, where he dared to fight, he fled, and his soldiers also fled, Gao Ran took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and killed countless enemies.

When Chen Lan was defeated and retreated, he bumped into Ji Ling, and Ji Ling also heard the sound of killing in the camp, I don't know what the situation was, and the troops came to respond, seeing Chen Ying retreating in a hurry, he asked why.

Chen Lan said angrily: "General Ji, the big thing is not good, Liu Ze has already taken precautions, there is no one in the camp, there is an ambush outside the camp, we have been tricked, retreat quickly!" ”

Ji Ling's eyes widened angrily, and he said: "Liu Ze's guy is really treacherous, don't be alarmed by the army!" General Chen, you will lead the army to retreat first, and then you will break off! ”

At this time, Guan Yu also led an army to kill, saw Ji Ling from afar, patted his horse and rushed over to this side, raised the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, and shouted: "Ji Ling'er, Hugh go!" ”

Ji Ling relied on his own bravery, and he didn't take Guan Yu, who was ugly, in his eyes, and took a three-pointed two-edged knife and rushed up against Guan Yu's blade. With a "dang" sound, the Qinglong Glaive and the three-pointed two-edged knife collided together, bursting out in the dark night.

Ji Ling's three-pointed two-edged knife weighed more than fifty catties, which showed that Ji Ling's strength was amazing, but it was still slightly inferior to Guan Yu's Qinglong Yanyue Knife weighing sixty-four catties. The two power-type brave generals fought against each other, and naturally walked the road of the stormy waves, and the two weapons were tiger and tiger, ping pong sounded, and sparks splashed everywhere.

After fighting for more than ten rounds, Ji Ling was a little overwhelmed, knowing that he was not Guan Yu's opponent, so he picked up a vacancy and turned his horse away. As soon as Ji Ling was defeated, Yuan's army immediately scattered and fled, Guan Yu sneered slightly, and waved his army to cover up.

After Ji Ling and Chen Lan converged, they fled in the direction of the pontoon bridge without a single breath. Now the entire north bank of the Huai River is shouting and killing, and there are torches shining everywhere, and I don't know how many soldiers and horses Liu Ze has ambushed, and Ji Ling doesn't have time to count how many 20,000 horses he brought with him, and he is thinking about how to escape from Huaishui.

Seeing that the pontoon bridge was in front of him, Ji Ling secretly breathed a sigh of relief. After the pontoon bridge was built before, Ji Ling specially left a team of men and horses here to guard the bridge, thinking that in case the war was unfavorable, he would still have a way out. I can't imagine that this arrangement really saved his life, if the pontoon bridge is broken, his retreat will really be gone, and he will be blocked by the Huai River on the north bank, then it will really be called heaven and earth. Ji Ling was complacent and a little frustrated at the same time, at that time, Lei Bo's suggestion to stick to the camp and not to take the risk of attacking seems to have some truth, this Yang Hong, and also boasted that he was the first strategist under Yuan Shu's account, with this crooked idea, the loss was not counted, and he almost lost his life on the north bank of Huaishui.

Ji Lingxia immediately crossed the river and escaped Huaishui, which was his own territory.

It is easy to come and difficult to return, the same is four pontoon bridges, when crossing to the north in an orderly manner, the speed is fast and there is no accident in the water, but now tens of thousands of people and horses are crowded at the Huaishui edge, a chaos, all vying to cross the river first, naturally it is crowded, how can the narrow pontoon bridge carry so many people rushed up, many people were squeezed into the river, the noise, the scolding, the sound of falling water, the cry for help resounded on the river, and the chaos became a pot of porridge.

At this time, Guan Yu, Tai Shi Ci, and Guan Hai all came in pursuit, and Tai Shi Ci rode a jade lion that illuminated the night, which was particularly eye-catching in the dark night, and shouted: "Ji Ling Xiao'er, leave your life and go!" ”

Tai Shi Ci commanded three thousand archers, and when he gave an order, arrows rained down. At this time, the arrows fired by the archers were not ordinary arrows, but were wrapped in strips of cloth, soaked in grease, and ignited before being fired. At this time, thousands of arrows were fired together, like a meteor crossing the sky, just like a waterfall of flames.

The target of these rockets is not Yuan Bing, but four pontoon bridges on the Huai River. Most of the arrows fell into the water, but many of them hit the pontoon, and once the wooden pontoon was hit by the rocket, it immediately burst into flames.

When Ji Ling saw it, he was so shocked that his soul flew away. (To be continued......)