In the morning light, an army of more than a thousand people left Longbian, boarded the ship at Nanjin outside the city and went downstream to Quyi downstream. They wanted to drive away the thieves who attacked the county town and demonstrate the military power of Wanchun Kingdom.

There are lush reeds on both sides of the river, swaying with the breeze. From a distance, countless people seem to be hiding in it, but the soldiers are not nervous at all. Many people doze with the boat gang.

Today, somehow, the general had someone blow the trumpet before dawn to make everyone get up. Before he could come back to his senses, he was dragged to the schoolyard to gather, saying that he was going to Quyi to suppress the bandits. Everyone just went out of the city and boarded the boat with sleepy eyes, and the genius had just dawned.

In this era, people eat two meals a day. Ordinary people never eat breakfast and have no energy to maintain a living standard of three meals a day. Therefore, the soldiers had to sleep after getting on the boat so that they could keep their energy and kill the enemy.

"These thieves are so brave, why did they start to think about Qu Yi?" Someone complained and cursed the thieves who attacked Qu Yi, "It made us unable to sleep well."

"They want to go to Longbiangang to make a fortune, but they can't beat them, so they can only grab Qu Yi... Bah! What's the matter with Qu Yi's broken city?"

"What's there to grab? Women!"

Someone started to talk about it. When they heard the "woman", everyone became energetic, but then sighed and continued to take a nap.

If it weren't for the government army, when we attacked villages or even county towns, we would have to steal a few women to be happy. But since we became an official army, we had to take face and control it more strictly, the soldiers would have completely lost their thoughts.

After entering the city, the leaders of all sizes were all powerful and benefited. The soldiers occasionally ate some residue, but were not qualified to rob women in a noble way. Compared with the thief who attacked Quyi and robbed Quyi, the treatment of the other party was really enviable.

They are the official army, so they have to abide by the "laws". The other party is a thief and do whatever he wants. If the city is destroyed, there will be women. However, they have no benefit in regaining the county town.

All the benefits are taken by the officials, and they have to risk their lives to kill the enemy. Why are they so hard...

"Don't go to sleep, don't go to sleep! A bunch of lazy people!!" The little leader shouted, holding a wooden stick to hit the boat gang, making a "bang bang bang" sound, "Everyone is cheered up so that no one will be ambushed!"

"Boss, who would be ambushing this early morning... Is it still far from Quyi..."

Everyone complained, and they were reluctant. Seeing this, the little leader wanted to find an unlucky person to establish his power. He raised his wooden stick and acted as a torture, but was shot into the door by a feather arrow.

He covered his face and took a few steps back and fell on the deck. Blood splattered everywhere and died on the spot. The soldiers had not yet reacted to the changes. They heard the sudden noise on both sides of the straits, and then their ships were shrouded in the rain of arrows.

Many people were caught off guard and fell into the water. People in each ship were shouting "Enemy attack". The generals braved the arrows to command the counterattack, but the ships were shot left and right by ambushing soldiers on both sides of the strait and suffered heavy casualties.

Soon after, the ambush even shot rockets to ignite the ship. Many people dived into the water and tried to escape downstream along the water, but were waiting for many enemy ships upstream.

The people on the ship held spears and bows and arrows, hunting survivors like hunting. There were more and more corpses floating on the river. The originally spectacular fleet turned into torches to illuminate the two sides of the strait.

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In the afternoon, Longbian and Li Fozi led the civil and military officials of Wanchun to stand at the top of the city. They all looked up at Nanjin not far away, with their expressions both nervous and hopeful, hoping that their troops could defeat the invading Zhou army.

Early this morning, the army that was rushing to Quyi was caught in a halfway road, with heavy casualties and almost all the troops were wiped out. The ships behind were running back when they saw that the situation was not good. The big ship did not run away, but finally a few small boats ran back to report the news.

The location of the burial was only more than twenty miles away from Longbian. According to the description of the survivors, the people who ambushed them were obviously not thieves.

There is only one possibility, that is, the Zhou army arrived, and the opponent's actions were unexpectedly fast. It was less than ten days before the envoy of the King Xiyang of Zhou State left the Dragon Wreath.

When Li Fozi heard this news, he could no longer maintain the king's demeanor. He was so scared that his face was pale on the spot that he had to support him before he could barely stop. The main force of his army was not in the Dragon Mars, and the Zhou army had already touched the vicinity of the Dragon Mars silently.

As if his throat was pressed by an enemy's dagger, Li Fozi could hardly breathe. His first thought was to abandon the city and escape, and to escape from the Zhou army's edge. If Longbian was to let others guard him first.

But then I thought about it, the Zhou army came so fast that there were probably not many people. Otherwise, after taking Qu Yi yesterday, I would have rushed to Longbian to attack overnight, but in the end, I took a mysterious shot and misled him by the silk book. It must be because of insufficient troops and the strength was not captured.

As expected, as noon approached, the other party sent a few prisoners back to Longbian, and brought a letter of persuasion from the commander of Zhou's army. In the letter of persuasion, the other party said that the army was about to be at the city, and advised him to see the current affairs and surrender quickly, so that the whole family could still save their lives.

Li Fozi and Wenwu thought about it for a while, and felt that this was the commander of the Zhou army bluffing and trying to trick them into surrendering. Otherwise, if they were sufficient troops, they would definitely have surrounded the city before shooting the letter of surrender into the city.

The main force of the Wanchun Kingdom's army was still there, but it was not in Longbian at this time. Li Fozi felt that it was the commander of the Zhou army who didn't know the situation of Longbian, so he wanted to scare him to surrender. As a result, this letter of persuasion to surrender was a superfluous and exposed the other party's nature of being fierce and cowardly.

So Li Fozi decided to take the trick and sent an envoy to Quyi to see that Zhou army was willing to surrender, but many of his subordinates were reluctant. He hoped that the commander of the Zhou army would be lenient for two days and let him handle related matters well. At that time, open the city gate and welcome the king's army into the city.

At the same time, he sent people out of the city to mobilize troops from all over the country to "go to Beijing to serve the king."

This is a delaying strategy, but Li Fozi also knew that the other party might not believe it, so he did the third thing: set up ambush on both sides of the Nanjin River section, and once the other party goes upstream, it will fall into the trap.

Li Fozi is confident that he will defeat the enemy in Nanjin in the future, because there is a precedent.

That happened a long time ago. When the Jiankang court was still surnamed Sima, there was a Tianshi Dao Sun En and Lu Xun who caused rebellion one after another. Later, after Lu Xun occupied Lingbei Guangzhou for several years, he suddenly rose up and went north. Finally, the troops arrived at Jiankang City and almost broke into the city and became the emperor.

However, Lu Xun failed and was defeated by the Jin army. In the end, he could only lead his troops to attack Jiaozhou Longbian, trying to reorganize his team. As a result, he was defeated by the Jiaozhou governor set up an ambush and killed. Lu Xun had no choice but to jump into the water and commit suicide.

Li Fozi hopes to reproduce the scene back then and defeat the Zhou army that is most likely to attack. So will the Zhou army come? Surely.

The envoy he sent had returned to report, saying that the commander of the Zhou army agreed to enter the city in two days to accept the surrender of civil and military officials in Jiaozhou, and also agreed to let the past go without complaints. Anyway, it was very clear that he did not make any harsh demands at all.

The other party was so "tolerant and generous", in Li Fozi's opinion, it was to stabilize him. He felt that the commander of the Zhou army was using this to paralyze himself and did not take precautions, and then immediately sent troops to attack the Dragon Band, so he must have entered the trap he set up near Nanjin!

"King, King! Zhou Jun is here!"

Li Fozi looked at Nanjin after hearing this. Sure enough, the fleet appeared in the downstream direction, and cavalry also appeared in the wilderness on the opposite side of the south bank.

"The king's divine calculations, Zhou Jun is indeed here to attack!"

Li Fozi enjoyed the flattery of others, but he was more concerned about whether his ambush would be successful in the next step.

Everyone watched quietly with their breath, and when the other fleet entered the ambush zone, they heard the sound of trumpets. The soldiers lying in the reeds on the shore stood up and bent their bows and shot arrows at the ship.

The arrows were like rain, and someone lit a torch to ignite the rockets. The ambushers on both sides shot and ignited the ships in the river. The Zhou army's ships were in chaos in the midst of thick smoke, and the cavalry on the south bank were also shot by arrows and ran away.
Chapter completed!