Li Xinchen pondered and said: "If Cao Xiaoda is really like this, then X should be honored that he can choose X as his opponent?" ”

Pei Zilie looked at Cao Xiaoda in front of him, and said in a low voice: "You see that Cao Xiaoda's military formation has never been biased, which means that all this should be expected by Cao Xiaoda." It can even be said that Cao Xiaoda had already thought before the attack that we would quickly rush over to block his retreat, so not only himself, but also Xiangyang City was ready to respond, and all the arrangements were made for the purpose of blocking us. ”

"We don't have enough troops, once Cao Xiaoda relies on the city to line up, we can't rush up," Li Xinchen nodded, "Dashi, you're right, Cao Xiaoda's goal this time is very clear, obviously he wants to repel the general, at least let the general withdraw from the battlefield, but then again, this is not without benefits to us, at least it can make the current battle situation outside Xiangyang City more 'balanced'." ”

"Balance?" Pei Zilie chewed on these two words.

Indeed, at least from Cao Xiaoda's point of view, the situation under Xiangyang City is indeed a little unbalanced, although Li Xinchen has the courage to directly face Xiao Maha to open the formation, but after all, it is not Li Xinchen's main force on the south bank of the water, there are only half of the troops in total, in comparison, Xiao Maha does have too many advantages over Li Xinchen, so the final outcome should be that Li Xinchen has to take the initiative to retreat.

Xiao Maha attacked Xiangyang, and Li Xinchen took Fancheng, which was naturally a good ending for onlookers, and obviously Cao Xiaoda had to prevent this ending, so the best way was to appropriately weaken Xiao Maha's strength, so that Xiao Maha could only form the current stalemate with Li Xinchen under Xiangyang City, so that the two sides were left with only two choices, one was to take a step back, and the other was to fight, no matter which one it was, it was obviously beneficial to the defenders in Xiangyang City.

In fact, Cao Xiaoda did this, that is, he made a copy of what Li Xinchen did to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and now Li Xinchen and Xiao Maha under Xiangyang City, Cao Xiaoda obviously wanted them to become Yang Jian and Yu Wenxian at this time in the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

If Li Xinchen and Xiao Maha can fight inextricably, it will naturally be better, and Xiangyang City may be able to see the head for a longer time, otherwise under the outflanking of these two guys, Cao Xiaoda does not have much confidence in his ability to hold the city.

Li Xinchen said coldly: "No matter what Cao Xiaoda is thinking, this Xiangyang City can only be so-and-so, give an order, collect the troops!" ”

After a pause, Li Xinchen immediately ordered Li Ping behind him: "The guards are assembled, and we will go to visit Chun Yuliang." ”

Pei Zilie was stunned for a moment, everyone already knew the relationship between Li Xinchen and Chun Yu's family, but at least Li Xinchen had not clearly gone to meet with Chun Yuliang before, it can also be said that this was the last tacit understanding between Li Xinchen and Xiao Maha, if Li Xinchen dug the wall so blatantly, Xiao Maha would definitely not be able to bear it.

Noticing the change in Pei Zilie's expression, Li Xinchen said in a deep voice: "Originally, I had to think about it for the general, but in tonight's battle, the general has no ability to attack Xiangyang City in a short period of time. ”

"Okay, I'll be optimistic about this one." Pei Zilie nodded solemnly.

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Cao Xiaoda was actually not as easy as Li Xinchen and Pei Zilie imagined at this time, Xiao Maha's counterattack came quickly, obviously for a general like Xiao Maha, who was used to pressing the enemy after the war, such a sudden attack and breakthrough can be said to be a shame for Xiao Maha.

This loss must be revenged, Xiao Maha personally led the forward rush up, but the arrows on Xiangyang City were dense like rain, successfully intercepting Xiao Maha's advance, and Wei Chi Shun, who went out of the city to support, led the army to outflank Xiao Maha's flank, and in the case that Ren Zhong and Lu Guangda's troops had not kept up, Xiao Maha had no way to advance rashly, so he could only retreat in a hurry.

In this way, tonight's melee finally came to an end, although Xiao Maha had already taken precautions, but he still paid a great price, of course, Cao Xiaoda did not achieve the goal of defeating Xiao Maha, and even Xiao Maha's counterattack almost put Cao Xiaoda in danger, if it wasn't for Wei Chishun to come to support in time, I'm afraid Cao Xiaoda would have to pay a very heavy price to repel Xiao Maha.

However, the final result turned out to be like this, Cao Xiaoda did not feel sorry, but quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and Wei Chishun also walked over quickly, the face of the young general was at least much better than before.

If Cao Xiaoda really chooses, in fact, he doesn't want to attack tonight, after all, Li Xinchen and Xiao Maha are not easy to deal with, even if their attention falls more on each other, they will not give up their vigilance against Xiangyang City, after all, their real enemies are the Zhou people in Xiangyang City.

Therefore, it is almost reasonable for Li Xinchen and Xiao Maha to be on guard, which is why Cao Xiaoda chose one side as the target of the assault at the beginning, and it is already thankful that these soldiers and horses of the Northern Zhou army can launch a night attack can break through a defensive line, let alone completely disrupt the entire battlefield.

After all, Li Xinchen and Xiao Maha obviously expected this situation when they arranged their troops before, and the ones in front were not their own Chinese army, whether it was Chen Zhishen or Lu Guangda, they were both masters who could fight and dared to sacrifice, if they really fought, the two sides were more likely to fall into a stalemate.

So although it was a night attack, Cao Xiaoda fought very conservatively, when it was found that Xiao Maha began to organize a counterattack, Cao Xiaoda decisively withdrew his troops, and finally successfully withdrew into the shelter of Xiangyang City.

Of course, for Cao Xiaoda, in addition to weakening Xiao Maha, so that Xiao Maha can be on par with Li Xinchen, there is a more important reason, that is, the relationship between the generals in Xiangyang City, or more precisely, the relationship between Cao Xiaoda and the Wei Chi brothers.

In any case, the commander of Xiangyang City is Wei Chikuan, and Cao Xiaoda is just a deputy, but the previous situation is that Cao Xiaoda controls the entire Xiangyang City, even including the transfer of soldiers, horses, grain and grass in Xiangyang City, and the Wei Chi brothers are all obedient to Cao Xiaoda, especially after the fiasco of the last Battle of Danxi, which led to the prestige of the Wei Chi brothers among the defenders in the city has been significantly affected.

Wei Chikuan and Wei Chishun must have also been aware of this problem, so Cao Xiaoda obviously felt that these two people had been a little bit at odds with him in recent times, and some of the Wei Chi family's cronies and generals were also a little disobedient when they accepted orders.