After some fighting, the Rong army that discharged the goose-shaped formation outflanked the Qin army from both flanks and surrounded the Qin army on three sides.

But then, the Qin army was under the impact of the cavalry led by Wei Mu several times, which loosened the formation of the two wings of the Rong army.

And the flexibility of the Qin army's phalanx was revealed at this time.

It seems that the countless small phalanxes in a large array are constantly changing left and right with the Chinese military order flag, and the troops are transferred to the places where they are needed at any time.

After the two wings of the Rong army were loosened, they quickly retreated back under the orders of their commander.

On the one hand, there are elite divisions that have defended the northern frontier of Great Qin, and on the other hand, there are cutting-edge soldiers who have won hundreds of battles in the past year.

It wasn't until Ji Linrong's army gradually gained the upper hand by virtue of the more familiar formations and the more outstanding ability of the soldiers, that Zhu Lihua ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

Seeing that the Qin army retreated in an orderly manner, Ji Linrong's army did not dare to be too careless, and instead of pursuing, they slowly retreated into the city.

By this time, four hours had passed since the war began.

After returning to the camp, Zhu Lihua shuttled through every corner of the camp with Wei Yuanqi, Wei Mu and others, in addition to personally checking the morale of the soldiers, he also visited the wounded soldiers.

Back in the tent, Zhu Lihua discussed with Wei Yuanqi and Wei Mu the gains and losses of today's battle.

In the end, the three of them came to a surprisingly unanimous conclusion, although the capture of Ji Lin this time may be a big loss, but the victorious side will eventually be themselves.

Because today's battle has made those recruits who have never fought such a battle bloody, and made those recruits who feel that the Rong army is invincible in the field have confidence, and judging from today's battle, those rebels in Ji Lin don't seem to be as desperate as the scout who captured half a year ago said, desperately working for Zhang Ren.

In today's battle, although the Qin army has the advantage in numbers, it has always been in a passive position, if it weren't for the thick phalanx so that everyone would not panic, if it weren't for the other battle formations, maybe the Rong army would have been overwhelmed by the Rong army several times in today's battle.

But the three of them are not worried about this, since the phalanx has an effect, then they will continue to use it tomorrow.

And Zhang Ren in Jilin City had a sad face at the moment.

Obviously, he underestimated these recruits who had been in the army for less than a year. Especially the more than 1,000 cavalrymen, they came and went like the wind, rushing to kill bravely and fearlessly, they were really brave.

In the past six months or so, he has also sent countless scouts to investigate the situation of the Qin army in Hanhai City, so it is also clear about the matter of Lihua taking the land of the six counties in Hexi and recruiting more than 20,000 new soldiers.

But what he didn't expect was that today's battle made him a little impressed by the main general of the Qin army, and he couldn't remember when there was a young man named Zhu Lihua in Great Qin who was so powerful.

In their twenties, who can be a school captain, except for the children of Yong, Zhao, and Fang, who else can be so successful.

What's more, judging from today's troop arrangement, General Qin is not an empty man, and the deployment of troops is quite methodical.

Although they were only lining up the simplest phalanx, under the command of General Qin, they couldn't please no matter how they changed the formation to attack.

In today's battle, they suffered nearly 2,000 soldiers, although it can be seen that the Qin army has more casualties than themselves, but they have never flinched, let alone a rout.

When he followed Edo to fight in the south and north under the leadership of Fang Yuanheng, the Qi people and the Shu people were killed and wounded, and most of them were only killed or wounded.

On the other side, these Qin troops were killed and wounded quickly, and they were always insisting on fighting.

I always thought that my Shuofang army was originally the iron army of Great Qin, although it was not as good as those elites who were taken away by Edo, but it was also a warrior of the three armies of Yongguan, but I didn't expect to meet an opponent today.

What's even more terrifying is that he knows about those Qin troops, and judging from the intelligence, most of the soldiers of those Qin troops have been trained for less than half a year.

In the days that followed, Zhang Ren continued to send his troops out of the city every day to engage the Qin army, but gradually he discovered something unusual.

In the phalanx discharged by the Qin army, it was not its most elite soldiers who were at the forefront, but as if they wanted to train new soldiers in the war, and they would change some newcomers who were not very strong in combat to serve as the front army in their daily engagements.

Therefore, in the daily battles, the Qin army would always order Mingjin to withdraw his troops when the soldiers at the forefront were about to lose their hold, which made him admire the boldness of the Qin army's commander.

It is necessary to know that the soldiers and horses of the front army are often the elite of the elite, and once the front army is broken, most of the whole army will lose its sharpness, and it will be defeated in addition to retreating.

However, the commander-in-chief of the Qin army dared to take risks and was able to accurately order the withdrawal of the army before the previous army showed signs of defeat, which made Zhang Rendu, who had fought step by step from a small soldier to today's point, a little amazed.

Although there were fewer and fewer casualties on both sides every day, Zhang Ren also found that the soldiers of the Qin army were no longer as careless as they had been when they first arrived.

Simply, Zhang Ren ordered that he would not go out of the city to face the battle from now on, but just stick to the city and wait for the Qin army to run out of food and naturally retreat.

When Lu Lihua found out that the Rong army was no longer out of the city, he sighed a little regretfully and ordered the whole army to rest.

At this time, there were more than 11,000 people left in the army.

The fierce battles that had taken place for many days had caused the soldiers of Lihua to lose nearly 4,000 men, but everyone understood that except for more than 2,000 killed on the first day, in fact, the damage on their side was not too great in the daily battles that followed.

Despite this, Lihua still did not order the whole army to attack the city, because Lihua did not plan to attack the city wall of Jilin from the beginning, and it was his most important purpose to nourish the war with war, and only by fighting against the strong army could he improve the combat ability of the soldiers under his command as soon as possible.

This strategy was the fundamental purpose of the discussion he had discussed with Wei Mu and others for half a year.

But after all, Zhang Ren was a famous general who had followed Fang Yuanheng, and after seeing his purpose, he immediately reacted, which made Zhu Lihua not only feel a little disappointed, but also had the idea of wanting to fight quickly for the first time about capturing Ji Lin City.

After a few days of thinking, Zhu Lihua came up with a solution, which was a story in the ten volumes of "Pingrong Strategy" taught to him by Chu Jieyuan, which tells the story of Wang He's capture of a county occupied by the Rong people with very few troops.

This plan can be used for your own use.

In the following nearly ten days, Zhu Lihua ordered people to build ten earthen platforms outside Jilin City every night, and these earthen platforms were only about 100 steps away from the city wall.

Although there were cold arrows from Ji Lin City from time to time in the erection platform, because of the darkness of the night, it did not bring much substantial damage to the soldiers who built the earthen platform in the fortification.

Ten days later, in the early morning, Zhang Ren just heard the rooster crow, and immediately woke up from his sleep to Ji Lin Chengtou, these days he naturally knew what the Qin army was doing, but he did not understand the motive of the Qin army to build the earthen platform.

If you want to build a commanding height to cooperate with siege operations based on the earthen platform, then it is obviously too underestimating yourself.

After all, Zhang Ren was not an idle person, so he was not too careless, and still came to see the progress of these earthen platforms every day, and he wanted to know what the Qin army would do with these earthen platforms.

Early this morning, he saw that the ten earthen platforms had been built.

I saw that the earthen platform was one zhang higher than the city, and the earthen platform could accommodate more than 20 people standing at the same time.

It is conceivable that once the Qin army attacks the city, the more than 200 archers on these ten earthen platforms will definitely give a certain amount of damage to the soldiers at the head of the city.

But that's what their function is, and what is the role of so many earthen platforms that are laboriously and time-consumingly made?

Zhang Ren looked at the earthen platform and smiled, and then ordered the generals on this section of the city wall to erect some wooden frames in the corresponding place of the earthen platform. The side of the wooden frame facing the earthen platform is thickly wrapped in cooked cowhide.

Once the Qin army attacked, it sent long shield soldiers on the wall opposite the Tutai, and at the same time concentrated archers to shoot at the Tutai Qin army.

He believed that although the formation combat ability of the recruits of the Qin army was enough to impress him, when it came to archery, it would not be possible without three or two years of practice.

Zhang Ren was still quite confident in the archery ability of his soldiers, at least compared to the recruits on the other side, it was definitely a lot higher.

If the same twenty people shoot at each other, Zhang Ren believes that it will only take a moment to make those archers on the high platform suffer.

Therefore, this is also the key reason why Zhang Ren did not go out of the city to attack when the Qin army was building an earthen platform.

"Do you want to learn from Wang He? It's a pity that you are Wang He, but I am not one of those uncivilized barbarians. ”

After making these arrangements, Zhang Ren walked down the city with a smile.

Sure enough, in the afternoon of the same day, the Qin army organized two sieges of the city, and the outcome was as Zhang Ren expected, under the accurate shooting of his own soldiers, the ten high platforms did not play a suppressive role, and the besieging army dropped hundreds of corpses in one shot.

Compared with Zhang Ren, who watched the Qin army laugh "haha" after the defeat and retreat, Ji Lihua outside the city also smiled and led the defeated soldiers and horses back to the camp.

Nearly 1,000 people were left under the ten earthen platforms to guard at night to prevent the Rong army in the city from going out of the city to attack and destroy the earthen platforms.

So on this day, there were bonfires flickering above and outside the walls.

One reason is that these ten high platforms are indeed far away from the city gates, and once the Rong army leaves the city, it is likely that the Qin army camped not far away from the way back, and they will be caught in one go.

Second, Zhang Ren also felt that there was no need to demolish these earthen platforms, as for the reason, everyone saw the siege battle in the daytime today.

Therefore, every day, in addition to the scouts who secretly observed the movement of the city in the dark, the rest of the soldiers fell asleep peacefully behind the earthen platform.

At least, that's what the soldiers at the head of the city think.

Even the soldiers at the head of the city could hear the snoring of the Qin army behind the earthen platform in the dead of night.

After experiencing a defensive battle today, the soldiers of the Rong army at the head of the city were also relieved.

Although Zhang Ren had already told them that these earthen platforms were not to be feared, as soldiers with their heads tied to their belts, they could only believe Zhang Ren's words completely if they had verified them in person.

But after a victory, they admired their commander even more, and were convinced that under the command of Zhang Ren, they would definitely push back those Qin soldiers.