The night was very quiet, and at the mouth of the Qiupu River in the northwest of Chizhou City, more than 1,000 officers and soldiers quietly landed in the middle of the river and went ashore, dragging those boats and rafts to the woods next to them, and everything was so quiet.

But it is not so quiet, the cicadas and insects are chirping in the woods and grass at the mouth of the river, and the cannon sound is endless in the distance due east, Hao Shaoqi and Ji Jike can stand on the riverside and look at Chizhou City, and see that there are only a few fires in the city, and they hear the roar of cannons, so they know that the city is empty at this time, and the thief army should meet the enemy in the east of the city at this time, as for the cannonball, it comes from the Shenji battalion: "It seems that the little overseer has launched an attack."

"There should be no more than 100 thieves in the city, let's take the city first or ......" Hao Shaoqi looked at Ji Jike with some hesitation, he was not inferior to Ji Jike in terms of bravery, but he was far from Ji Ji in terms of brains, which was also the reason why Li Yan asked Ji Jike to come with him.

"What's the use of this small broken city" Ji Jike shook his head slightly: "Listening to the sound of the cannons, when the attack of the Lord Overseer was fierce, we should immediately go to help, as long as the thief army is defeated, this small broken city is not easy to come, and there is no need to waste energy here at this time."

"Okay, just listen to you" Hao Shaoqi nodded vigorously, and the two of them sent several squads to open the way in front according to the plan, after all, this is already a thief war zone, and there are more light and dark sentinels, although their attention has been attracted by the eastern battlefield at this time, but if they are discovered in advance, there are still great variables, and they are all on the ground, Ji Ji doesn't want to make extraneous branches, so he is more and more cautious.

This time, the two of them came to lead more than 1,000 troops, some of them were Ji Jike's subordinates, some of them were Hao Shaoqi's subordinates, and some of them were Li Yan's subordinates.

The several squads that opened the road in front were Li Yan's old troops, they were all from the thief army, their words and deeds were no different from those of the thief, and they were familiar with the habits and way of speaking of the thief army.

"It's really a small broken city" Hao Shaoqi looked up more than 100 meters outside the city, and muttered with disdain, at this time he had no intention of taking the city, but hurriedly bypassed Chizhou City and went straight to the east.

"Hey, Wang Laosan, I really want to see a lot of people outside the city going east" A patrolling thief soldier in Chizhou City poked his head and squinted into the distance, but the night was too deep and the distance was too far away, and the shadows were too far away, and he couldn't see whether it was a person or a tree.

"Yes, there are thousands of officers and soldiers, I'm so afraid" Wang Laosan said exaggeratedly while covering his heart, causing the people next to him to laugh, but his attention was quickly attracted by the firelight on the battlefield in the east.

According to the intelligence, there is a big river in the east of the city, and after crossing the river is the rear of the thief army, as long as it can cross the direct ** unconsciously, the thief army will be defeated!

But I was afraid that there would be no one to cross the river, so everyone was ready to gnaw hard bones, and first sneaked to the river to find a remote place to swim across the river, and if they were discovered by the thief army, they would attack it.

As soon as they bypassed the city, Ji Jike and Hao Shaoqi were stunned.

Due east is full of fire, cannon fire, it seems that there is a fierce battle, of course, these do not cause them to be shocked, but there is a pontoon bridge on the river!!

Bridge! Pontoon! A pontoon bridge built by the thieves!

It turned out that Bai Wang, in order to facilitate the rapid transportation of manpower and materials from the city, made people build a simple pontoon bridge on the water, which was definitely an unexpected joy.

Since there is a bridge, who the hell still has to swim in the water, Hao Shaoqi and Ji Ji can look at each other and smile, and then ordered to rush to the bridgehead to cross the river, there are more than ten thieves on both sides of the pontoon bridge, but at this time all the attention is on the eastern battlefield, not knowing the danger behind him, when he notices that he has been shot, Ji Jike and his party quickly crossed the river with almost no effort, and then touched towards the back of the thief army, and encountered some thieves on the way, many of them were shot in a state of confusion.

The sound of artillery was still fierce, and all the hundreds of artillery pieces of the Shenji battalion opened fire, bombarding the earthen wall position of the thief army into a mess, and the thief army hiding behind it retreated in confusion.

Bai Wang's face on the high platform was terrifying, not because of the fierce firepower of the officers and soldiers, but because he couldn't understand what the little eunuch was going to do.

Because of the heavy thunder and small rain, the officers and men suddenly increased their firepower to suppress it, but it was only suppressed, and they did not launch an attack, and even the rafts put into the water on the shore of the lake on the opposite bank remained in place.

When things go wrong, there must be demons, what does the little eunuch mean by this, is he waiting for nothing but not attacking, or is he deliberately making such a big move to cover up something?

Big moves? Dissemble?

Mo didn't mean to attract my attention, Bai Wang suddenly felt his scalp tingle, yes, he was attracting my attention, this side was just a feint, he must have started somewhere else.

Where could it be?

Bai Wang was a little panicked, would he enter the mountain from the south and go around behind him? Impossible, there is no road in the mountains and he has already arranged several light and dark sentinels, once a large army enters, he will immediately use fire as a signal, and there is no movement at this time.

Is it a detour from the river again? It's even more impossible, firstly, he has no boats, and secondly, he has more than 100 boats in the river on standby, not to mention his roundabouts, it is good to be able to cross the pass of the sailors in the river, Bai Wang was puzzled in his heart and looked at the river with a clairvoyant mirror, it was dark...... Hey, no, there were fires on the other side of the river, one, two, three, three fires, about a few dozen meters apart......

It's a code!

No wonder the firepower of the officers and soldiers suddenly increased, and it turned out that they received a code.

Why the code, and it's on the other side! Bai Wang panicked all of a sudden, could it be that reinforcements were brought in from the other side again? But think about it, it's impossible, there is no intelligence to show that there are officers and soldiers on the other side, and he has eyes and ears on the riverside and on the riverside, and there is no movement there at this time, which means that it is a false alarm.

This is so weird, there is no attack in front, there is no movement on the wings, is it possible that he is still flying behind from the ghost unconsciously, Bai Wang subconsciously turned his head to look behind him in doubt, nothing...... No, I can vaguely see that there is a group of people rushing in the distance, and in the blink of an eye, it is in the rear!

Oh! Bai Wang was suddenly stunned and angry, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Enemy attack! Back, back! ”

The thief army under the high platform heard the boss shouting hysterically from above, and couldn't figure out the situation for a while, and when they heard the sound of killing rolling up from behind, they immediately panicked like falling into an ice cellar.

And at this moment, the thief army on the watchtower shouted: "The officers and soldiers have attacked, the officers and soldiers have attacked!" ”

Sure enough, the officers and men attacked, the frontal artillery was more powerful, the sound of killing was everywhere, and hundreds of rafts on the lakeside began to advance in unison...... Bai Wang, who was on the high platform, looked around and patted his head with both hands: "Heaven will kill me!" ”

Everything is in an orderly manner in the plan, maybe this is the so-called strategizing, Chang Yu calculated that the surprise soldiers would arrive tonight, so he used a feint to attract the attention of the thief army, and Hao Shaoqi immediately sent people to the other side of the bank to light a fire and release the signal according to the agreement after taking the secret post of Jiang Xinzhou.

Seeing the firelight, he was sure that the strange soldiers had arrived, so Chang Yu ordered to increase the momentum, and at the same time ordered all departments to prepare to attack, just waiting for the strange soldiers to enter the thief army, and immediately start to attack the dumplings before and after.

This is the most important part, and it is also the most nervous time for Chang Yu, because at this time he doesn't know who Li Yan sent over, how many people he sent, and whether the thief army has any precautions in the rear, and whether the strange soldiers can successfully kill behind the thief army...... If you can't kill him, he can only surprise the enemy at most, and he will have to work hard to fight him.

There are so many uncertainties in this that everyone's hearts are tense.

Until the soldiers at the lookout spot discovered the movement of the thief army and shouted that it was done. Everyone was overjoyed and breathed a sigh of relief, and then Chang Yu ordered to attack!

And Bai Wang originally thought that the frontal fracture was the main attack point of the officers and soldiers, but in fact, it was a big mistake, the fracture was wide and long, the water was turbulent, not to mention, there were earthen walls and other fortifications on the opposite bank, Chang Yu was not willing to take human lives to fill the pit, but moved the main attack point to the lake!

That's right, by water!

The front is equipped with artillery, so that the thieves think that the officers and soldiers want to attack from the break, but in fact, they use a raft to cross the lake to kill the opposite bank, the raft is far more than the size of the thief army found nearly a thousand, at this time even across more than ten miles in unison to advance towards the opposite bank under the cover of night, the small fishing boats of the thief army are really not enough to see.

A foot-mounted crossbow on the opposite shore?

This is indeed tricky, but the premise is that it can exert its power when it has no worries, at this time, I don't know how many people came in the dark night of the enemy, only to hear the sound of killing everywhere, where does the thief army still have the heart to fight again, you must know that the real thief army at this time is only more than 3,000, and the rest are cannon fodder and people who were forcibly recruited.