Although there are only 5,000 soldiers in Huai'an City, there are 20,000 people in the city, which is more than enough to defend the city.

There are not many means of attacking the city, but the way to defend the city is a variety of tricks, the 80,000 troops of Bangzhou took turns to besiege for three days, but Huai'an City is as stable as Mount Tai.

Ji Bi personally led a large army to besiege, but he could not break through Huai'an, but instead lost his own troops, and the morale of the army became more and more low.

Attacked, could not break the city, suffered heavy casualties, withdrew the army, but this southern expedition was nothing. Ji Bi was unwilling, and more importantly, if he retreated, wouldn't this be telling the world that his expedition was in vain?

In the big tent.

Yu Ke advised again: "Your Majesty, the army has been fighting for two months, with heavy casualties, little gain, low morale, not weak and faded first, and wait for the next year to go on an expedition?" ”

"No way!" Ji Bi's face was gloomy and said: "My state Zhou Tianbing is invincible, how can I not conquer this little Huai'an?" ”

"There must be someone who did not obey the order of the widow, and tomorrow the army will attack again, and after the city is broken, the women in the city will let you take it for themselves!"

Hearing Ji Bi's words, the morale of Bang Zhou's army finally improved a little, but Yu Qing was pale. He knew very well that the army would not be able to conquer Huai'an at all, and if it was defeated again tomorrow, the morale of the army would definitely decline even more, and the army would be in danger at that time.

Just when the Bang Zhou army was besieging Huai'an, Wei Yi looked at the lazy Zhou army outside the city and sneered in his heart. Then he beckoned and said: "It has been a month since the Bang Zhou army left, and the Zhou army outside the city has no vigilance, so I ordered the army to make food for the third watch, and set out for the fifth watch, and break through the Zhou camp early tomorrow morning!" ”

"In addition, the navy is personally commanded by me, and I will inform the Xu State navy to join us and cut off the Huaishui pontoon bridge tonight! Leave all these 100,000 troops behind! ”

Hearing the military order of the guard, the surrounding generals were overjoyed, and immediately bowed down and said, "No! ”

That night, more than a dozen ships in Huaiyang City sailed into Surabaya, and at the same time, in a hidden water village in the lower reaches of Surabaya, 3,000 sailors also drove boats upstream, converging with Weiyi.

More than 4,000 sailors were dispatched, and the Huaiguo navy had long been very familiar with the rivers in Huaisi, and could sail even at night. What's more, the current Surabaya Huaishui is deep, and the army goes down the river and goes straight into the Huaishui.

And the Xu State Navy was also waiting on the Huaishui, and after the two sides converged, there were immediately tens of thousands of troops. Immediately afterwards, the army went down the river and marched towards the Huaishui pontoon bridge of the Zhou army.

The Zhou army set up a pontoon bridge over the Huai River, and left the army to guard it, at this time the army had already slept, only a small number of night watchmen were guarding.

It was only after the naval armies of Huai and Xu came close that they found out. It's just a pity that it's already too late. In order to destroy the pontoon bridge, Wei Yi and Xu Guo prepared dozens of small boats, which were filled with firewood, grass and oil, erected sails, and tied to the stern.

Wei Yi saw the sporadic lights on the Huai River in the distance, which was about two miles away from the pontoon bridge at this time, and immediately ordered: "Go and light the fire!" ”

Under an order, dozens of sailors who had been prepared for a long time cut the ropes, erected their sails, and quickly rushed to the front of the fleet.

Halfway through the journey, the fire was raised at the same time, and in an instant the fire rose, and the wind helped the fire just a breath, and dozens of boats ignited a fire.

The Zhou army camps on both sides of the Huaishui River sounded the sound of war drums, and a large number of soldiers ran out of the camp, trying to stop those fireboats, but the fireboats were extremely fast, but in the blink of an eye, they crashed into the pontoon bridge and quickly ignited the pontoon bridge.

The Zhou army could only watch the pontoon bridge be burned down, and at the same time, the Huaixu and Xu naval armies that followed behind quickly came, and tens of thousands of soldiers attacked the camps on both sides of the strait in two ways.

At this time, the Zhou army's camp was already burned by fire, and the two armies took advantage of the situation to attack. The Zhou army was scattered and unable to deal with it, and was easily defeated by the two armies, and countless people fled in all directions, and the fire stained the sky red.

By the time the sky was about to dawn, the Huaixu army had completely wiped out the Zhou army, and at the same time captured the logistics of the Zhou army on the bank of the Huaishui.

The Zhou army's 100,000 army marched south, and needed a large amount of grain and grass, which was provided by the surrounding states of Zhou Fangguo, and then transported here, as early as a month ago, the Huai army had already discovered that the Zhou army's grain and grass were stored here, and this was another goal after cutting off the Zhou army's retreat.

After the tens of thousands of troops defeated the Zhou army, they directly captured a large number of Zhou prisoners and slaves, carried these grains and grass to the ships, filled all the ships, and if there were still those that could not be loaded, they were all burned with a fire, leaving not a grain of grain for the Zhou army.

......

The sky was dark, and the white star rose in the east.

Outside the city of Siyang, the Zhou army camped.

"What did you say?"

"General, the Huai people navy took advantage of the night to sneak attack the Huaishui camp, the Huai people took the fire boat first, burned the pontoon bridge, and then the army captured, and the camps on both sides of the Huaishui were all lost...."

Hearing this, the marquis sitting on the throne looked discouraged, and then seemed to suddenly remember something, and hurriedly asked, "What about the grain and grass?" Is the grain and grass kept? ”

"The grain and grass were burned..."

The Marquis was suddenly struck by lightning, and the whole person stood on the spot.

"Quickly block the news, everyone who dares to speak, behead!" The Marquis has also experienced a lot of wind and rain, so he quickly reacted and ordered directly.

Then he took out a bamboo slip, quickly wrote some words on it, rolled the bamboo slip and put it into the bamboo tube, and summoned the herald

"You immediately rush to the king with the secret order, give the secret order to the king, remember, it can only be handed over to the king!"

After that, let a team of men escort it away quickly.

At the same time, in the city of Siyang, the army that had been well prepared stood in the school field, Chen Yue gave an order, the gate of Siyang City opened, and the army immediately rushed to the camp of the Zhou army.

Five thousand Huai troops poured out, and there was only one empty city left in Siyang City.

Five thousand Huai soldiers, horses wrapped their hooves, quietly touched the Zhou army camp, this is before dawn, the darkest hour, the Zhou army vigil also relaxed their vigilance.

Chen Yue asked people to tie five torches to the trunk of a tree, and when they were no more than a mile away from the Zhou army camp, everyone raised the fire together, and the 25,000 torches were like a fire dragon, rushing towards the Zhou army camp.

The killing shout sounded, in the camp of the Zhou army, the sleeping Zhou army was frightened inexplicably, a large number of Zhou troops rushed out of the tent in embarrassment, and saw a boundless 'fire dragon' rushing quickly, and suddenly thought that the Huai people were endless, and their faces turned pale with fright.

In a panic, the Zhou army was shocked, and the marquis heard the killing shouts and came to prepare the army as soon as possible, but the time chosen by the Huai army to attack the camp was too good, and a large number of Zhou troops were killed by the Huai army before they had time to put on their armor.

The Zhou army, which had no armor and was disorganized, was the opponent of the well-prepared Huai army, but it was scattered in a moment, and the Marquis had to escape from the encirclement with some soldiers.