The officers and troops who climbed the city attacked very fiercely, because Shi Kefa did not convey Hong Chengchou's order, and the news about Hong Chengchou's departure with the cavalry had already been tightly blocked, but only a few generals knew. Therefore, those officers and troops are still storming the city vigorously.

Li Yan commanded the Qin army to resist desperately at the head of the city, Ziyi also led the main force to reinforce it, the official army attacked for a long time, did not climb to the top of the city, and suffered two or three hundred casualties.

The officers and soldiers retreated, returned to the camp, and began to rest.

Li Yan breathed a sigh of relief, he knew that this day was over, but it was necessary to prevent the official army from sneaking up at night, so the fire could not be broken at the gap, so he ordered to prepare more firewood at the head of the city to keep the fire in the gap not extinguished.

This order is quite popular, because it is very cold at night, and it is not bad to roast your body with such a big fire.

Li Yan ordered the meal to be served, and the men of the Qin army in the city had already prepared it and brought up the rice steamed bun and egg soup.

At this time, Li Yan stood at the head of the city, looking at the little fires in the official and military camps in the distance, and he was a little puzzled. He felt that the situation of the official army attacking the city in the afternoon was a bit unusual. Although the attack was fierce, it was a bit of a strong crossbow. He knew that the officers and troops had just attacked for two days, and the first day was only an artillery bombardment, not an actual attack.

From this point of view, the official army has only attacked for one day, and it is a little difficult to catch up, it really does not look like Hong Chengchou's men and horses, and even the thieves' men and horses.

Could it be that the officers and soldiers are deliberately showing weakness, and what new tricks will not be able to be achieved at night?

Li Yan instructed the Qin army at the head of the city not to sleep at night, change shifts every half an hour, stay awake at all times, and shoot arrows and light fires immediately when there is a situation.

After the order was finished, he returned to the residence of the king of Qin, Ziyi also came, and the king of Qin ordered someone to have a meal, and everyone studied countermeasures while eating.

Ziyi praised Li Yan: "If it weren't for Li Gongzi's wisdom in a hurry and retreating from the enemy with fire, it would be difficult to say whether Xi'an City could be preserved at this time, come, Li Gongzi, I will replace wine with tea and give you a bowl." ”

This is wartime, and you can't drink alcohol, so everyone drinks tea.

Li Yanxun thanked him a few words and said to King Qin: "My lord, I see that the attack of the official army in the afternoon is a bit of a strong crossbow, I don't know if the morale is not good, or something else is happening, of course, this is just my feeling." ”

King Qin nodded slowly: "Strengthen your vigilance at night to prevent the enemy from sneaking up." ”

Li Yan said: "I have already commanded, you don't have to worry. ”

Ziyi said: "King, we are worried that the officials and troops will come to sneak attack, why can't we sneak attack them all at once?" ”

Li Yan said: "Don't act recklessly with this, Hong Chengchou is well versed in the art of war and is accustomed to sneaking up on others, as for his own camp, how can he be easily attacked by sneak attacks?" I don't think this can be done! ”

Ziyi said: "But it's not a way to always shrink in the city and be beaten, and if it goes on like this, the morale of the army will also be affected." ”

Li Yan felt that this was also reasonable, and looked at King Qin.

King Qin drank half a bowl of tea and said slowly: "Ziyi listens to the order, after the third watch tonight, you take a thousand cavalry out of the city and attack the officers and soldiers, pay attention to the attack, do not rush into the official army camp, in case of a plan, you can shoot rockets and throw torches outside the camp, in short, you can't let the officers and soldiers sleep peacefully, once the officers and soldiers rush out, you will withdraw." ”

Ziyi was overjoyed: "Take the order!" ”

Everyone quickly finished eating and went to rest.

Ziyi came to the camp in a hurry, ordered a thousand cavalry, and told them to go out tonight to attack the officers and soldiers, these people were also very excited, everyone hurried to sleep, and prepared to go out of the city in the middle of the night.

Soon after the third watch, Ziyi woke everyone up and prepared to go out of the city, and these people's war horses had already wrapped their hooves and put on chewing mouths so that they could not chirp, in case the enemy would find out.

At this time, the cold night was silent, Ziyi first climbed to the top of the city, looked into the distance, and saw that the fire in the official camp had not been extinguished, but compared to the fire before dinner, it was much less, and it seemed that most of the people had fallen asleep. So he gave the order, the city was locked and locked, the drawbridge was lowered, the sandbags blocking the city gate were removed, and a thousand cavalry quietly fought out of the city.

The enemy camp was six or seven miles away, and the cavalry could run there in the blink of an eye.

Ziyi ordered his cavalry to spread out the formation, not to rush, and to trot forward, so that the sound was much quieter.

When approaching the enemy camp, Ziyi first sent two horsemen to check to see if there was an ambush, and the two people rode away, and they came back after a while to report, from here to the enemy camp, there was no ambush, and the enemy camp was quiet, and there was not even a sentry post at the door.

Ziyi was stunned for a moment, secretly thinking that Hong Chengchou was cautious in using his troops, and would never be careless and negligent, why didn't he even have a sentry post at the gate of the camp, could it be a trick to lure the enemy?

Thinking of this, he sneered and instructed Qin Jun: "Don't get close to the camp, just shoot rockets around the camp, I want to see, the camp is on fire, you can't sit still, how can you lure the enemy." ”

With a wave of his hand, a thousand men and horses scattered on both sides, running around the enemy camp, and when they ran, they were about two or three zhang away from the fence of the official army, and they were never close to the front. Then these Qin soldiers took off their bows and arrows, and lit the strips of oilcloth on the tips of the arrows.

As soon as the strips of cloth were raised, all the Qin troops shot arrows in unison, and the sound of swishing was endless, and countless rockets were thrown into the official army camp like flying fire harriers.

The rockets landed on the tent and immediately burst into flames.

After a while, at least dozens of large tents were lit in the entire official barracks, and the flames were bright, and the tongue of fire that soared into the sky was mixed with the sound of being peeled off, like a towering giant candle, illuminating for ten miles.

After the fire broke out in the official barracks, Ziyi ordered the men and horses to be gathered, and the thousand cavalry retreated back to the three-mile road, and then everyone gathered together and watched the excitement with laughter.

Don't say it's the enemy army at this moment, I'm afraid even the land lord won't be able to sit still.

But after burning for a while, there was still no movement, could it be that those officers and soldiers were so tired that they couldn't even wake up from the fire? Ziyi quickly dispelled the idea that this three-year-old child would not have it, and the only explanation was that there was indeed no one in the camp.

He looked around, silently, dead silent, not like a man and a horse movement, and no one came to surround him, it seemed that this camp was indeed empty.

Ziyi naturally didn't know that at this time, Shi Kefa had already led the official army out of the ten-mile road, and was walking, when someone came to report, and the camp behind was on fire.

Shi Kefa looked back, and sure enough, the fire in the distance behind him was flourishing, illuminating half of the sky, he sneered, ignored it, and ordered the front army to move quickly, while he led five hundred archers and five hundred javelinmen to break behind.

Ziyi watched the enemy camp burn for a while, and even a figure did not appear, he felt bad in his heart, and hurriedly ordered to return to the city, he returned to the city and hurriedly came to see the king of Qin, at this time the king of Qin was also worried about his actions, and did not sleep, but recruited Li Yan and Fan Ju to wait for him together.

At this time, when I saw him running back like burning his buttocks, I knew that it was unusual. As soon as Ziyi told the matter, Li Yan stomped his feet: "I understand, no wonder when they attacked in the afternoon, they had no stamina, and they wanted to withdraw in a hurry." ”

Fan Ju frowned: "Why do you want to withdraw?" Hong Chengchou can receive the holy decree, could it be that something big happened that made him have to go? ”

Li Yan nodded: "There is only one possibility." ”

King Qin sat on the couch, and had vaguely guessed in his heart that this must be a plan for Bai Qi, he must have led his troops to reinforcements, Hong Chengchou went to meet Bai Qi in order to avoid being attacked.

So he ordered Ziyi: "Quickly find out where the officials and troops are withdrawing, and what is the purpose?" ”

Ziyi received the order, sent four probes, and went separately.

Before dawn, those scouts came back, and the people sent to the south, west, and east roads did not find anything, but the scouts on the north road found some information: "Thousands of officers and soldiers went north, and it seems that they are in a hurry, and they are in a hurry, and there are many archers behind them." ”

King Qin was puzzled: "Retreat to the north?" What's there? So Hong Chengchou has to take care of it? ”

Li Yan and others didn't understand, but in short, it was a good thing that the officers and troops withdrew. There is a lot to be done at the moment, and the most urgent thing is to repair the walls first. There were two big gaps in the city wall, and it was not a matter of always blocking it with fire, it had to be repaired. Then there is the treatment of wounded soldiers, the burial of the dead, the mobilization of people, the rectification of weapons, there are many things to be busy with, because Hong Chengchou and the court will not leave Xi'an alone.