Just when Yuan Yao led the army to rectify Yuzhang County, the rest of the battlefields were also fighting vigorously and inseparably, and the situation was unpredictable and ever-changing!

Jingzhou battlefield.

Jingzhou general Cai Mao led 100,000 soldiers and horses to attack Zhang Dingbian garrisoned Jingling City again, Zhang Dingbian defended the city, Cai Mao personally led 100,000 soldiers and horses to fight for three days, and finally failed to set foot on the city wall, Jingzhou army suffered heavy casualties and morale declined, Zhang Dingbian spied the fighter plane, personally led a thousand fine cavalry out of the city, killed nearly 20 Jingzhou army generals in a battle, defeated the siege soldiers and horses of the Jingzhou army, Cai Mao had no choice but to retreat a few miles to gather soldiers and horses, Zhang Dingbian rushed to kill for a while after the soldiers and horses were tired, and the Jingzhou army was also assembled again at this time, Seeing this, Zhang Dingbian could only lead the army to retreat into the city, but failed to build a complete battle in one battle.

After the defeat of the Jingzhou army, the spirit has been broken and the morale is even lower, Cai Mao saw this, he could only put away the idea of breaking the Jingling City in one fell swoop, and began to fight steadily, Cai Mao personally led 60,000 soldiers and horses to besiege Jingling City, and ordered Zhang Yun to lead the rest of the soldiers and horses down the river to attack the county of Jiangxia County Xiakou City, wanting to force Zhang Dingbian to send troops to a decisive battle.

Fortunately, Zhang Dingbian also saw through Cai Mao's intentions, and was not moved, but just asked the scouts in the army to use carrier pigeons to convey the news to Jiangxia Taishou Di Renjie and Yuan Yao.

After Di Renjie sent 2,000 county soldiers to Chaisang, he felt that it was dangerous to have only 3,000 county soldiers stationed in Xiakou City, so he shrank most of the defenders in the counties in the county to Xiakou City, so he got more than 2,000 soldiers and horses, and then he transferred 2,000 soldiers and horses from Anlu City and recruited 3,000 strong soldiers in the county, and the number of garrisons in Xiakou City came to more than 10,000 people unconsciously.

After Di Renjie received Zhang Dingbian's letter, he first sent an urgent report to Yuan Yao, so that Yuan Yao did not have to worry about the situation in Jiangxia County, he would definitely be able to repel more than 30,000 soldiers and horses under Zhang Yun's department, Yuan Yao naturally did not doubt Di Renjie's ability, there were almost no prime ministers in the Han and Tang dynasties who did not know military strategy, Di Renjie also had several times to lead the army and fight against the Turks, and now it was just to deal with a small Zhang Yun, and Xiakou City was extremely dangerous, with 10,000 soldiers and horses garrisoned, even if Di Renjie could not defeat Zhang Yun's troops and horses, It was also easy to defeat it and protect Xiakou City, and after Yuan Yao received Di Renjie's report, he did not continue to pay attention to the battle on the front line of Hanshui, and continued to preside over the affairs of Yuzhang County.

Di Renjie was the first to learn the news of the Jingzhou army's attack, and he ordered 2,000 soldiers and horses to stay in the city, and he personally led 8,000 troops to Shiyang to ambush him.

According to the intelligence obtained by the Jingzhou army, there were only three or four thousand soldiers and horses stationed in Xiakou City at this time, and Di Renjie, who was too guarded, was just a scribe, and in the face of more than 30,000 Jingzhou troops, there was no strength to fight, Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng did not expect that Di Renjie had already known about the fact that they led the army to attack Xiakou, and they did not expect that Di Renjie still had the courage and ability to take the initiative to attack and trouble them.

Di Renjie led 8,000 soldiers and horses to set up an ambush in a valley in Shiyang County, the vanguard of the Jingzhou army entered the ambush circle of Di Renjie's soldiers and horses without any notice, Di Renjie gave an order, all the soldiers fired 10,000 arrows together, and directly shot the Jingzhou generals Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng to death with arrows, after a few rounds of arrow rain, 5,000 Jingzhou troops were shot by Di Renjie's soldiers and horses, and the rest of the soldiers and horses also surrendered.

The Xiakou defenders directly annihilated the 5,000 soldiers and horses of the Jingzhou Army's vanguard without spending a single soldier, and the morale of the generals was immediately high. The people in the city also let go of their fears and began to actively participate in the defense of the city.

The Xiakou defenders were overjoyed, but the Jingzhou military headquarters was extremely sad.

Half a day later, Zhang Yun led more than 20,000 Jingzhou army rear army to finally arrive at this valley, only to see that the valley was full of corpses of Jingzhou army stripped of armor and the banner of Jingzhou army, all the soldiers saw this tragic scene, suddenly their hearts were shocked, what is this special situation, and what special nothing to do, even folded 5,000 soldiers and horses first, doesn't it mean that there are only 3,000 soldiers and horses and a scribe in Xiakou City?

The army has also arrived at Xiakou City, and it first folded nearly one-sixth of the soldiers and horses, Jingzhou Army was suddenly panicked, and before the war started, it had already broken its sharpness, and began to think about doubting how many soldiers and horses there were in Xiakou City, and whether their more than 20,000 soldiers and horses could capture Xiakou City.

However, the army has already advanced here, and Zhang Yun can't do nothing and shoot back, in his opinion, since the Xiakou defenders only ambushed the vanguard army under his command and did not take advantage of the situation to fight with him, it can be seen that there should not be many soldiers and horses in Xiakou City, and there should not be much danger for him to go to Xiakou.

Zhang Yun ordered the soldiers to bury the corpses in the valley, and then found a place to rest for a night, and then continued to lead the army to Xiakou City, Shiyang County is not far from Xiakou, Zhang Yun's army marched again for a day, and finally came to Xiakou City, Zhang Yun saw the dense defenders on the city wall, and suddenly felt shocked, only the defenders on the city wall have four or five thousand people, which shows that there are not a few soldiers and horses in Xiakou City, plus the people in the city are strong, With only more than 20,000 soldiers and horses under his command who were demoralized, how could they attack Xiaxiakou City?

The news that there are only 3,000 defenders in Xiakou City is found out, it is really a special waste, and when he returns to Xiangyang, he will definitely cut it with a thousand knives!!

Zhang Yun's more than 20,000 soldiers are his descendants of the soldiers and horses, before the loss of 5,000 elites, has already made him feel a little distressed a little sleepless, in the case of knowing that it is impossible, he naturally will not let his soldiers attack the city with all their strength, after a tentative attack, Zhang Yun saw that there was no flaw between the dispatch of soldiers and horses in the city, he also extinguished the idea of storming Xiakou, and began to garrison outside the city to slow down the good strategy.

A few days later, the information that Yuan Yao had destroyed Li Shu and Sun Ben's two troops and horses was finally transmitted to Zhang Yun's army, which finally gave him a step down, and Zhang Yun began to withdraw from outside Xiakou City on the grounds that Yuan Yao's war drum Yuzhang County might enter Jiangxia and Xiakou defenders at any time to attack his own troops and horses.

A few days later, Zhang Yun's troops and horses returned to the camp of Jingling, and Cai Mao's strategy completely failed, so he could only besiege Jingling City again......