Early the next morning, Pei Qing got up early to practice martial arts, but it didn't take long to hear the earth-shattering sound of horses' hooves outside the city, and then he saw that the black-pressed Xiliang army surrounded the entire Xinfeng City, and the tens of thousands of troops didn't say anything, and they came up with a crazy attack.

Without Pei Qing's orders, the alarm bell on the head of the city had already sounded, and many soldiers opened their sleepy eyes, wore armor in a panic, and ran towards the city with weapons, originally they were all immersed in the joy of last night's victory, but now, everything doesn't matter, maintaining today's undefeated is the most necessary thing, once the city is broken, their previous efforts are all in vain.

"It seems that the Xiliang Army has no other way, this is a desperate gamble." Looking at the enemy soldiers who were working hard to attack the city, Pei Qing said slowly.

"If we hadn't returned to the city yesterday and had chosen to camp outside the city, the situation would probably not have been so bad." Beside Pei Qing, Zhang Chao said in a low voice.

However, Pei Qing shook his head and said: "It's not that simple, I think this time the other party has also done a good job of various countermeasures, they have gathered several times the strength of our army, even if we are stationed outside the city, we will only be divided and surrounded by them, at that time, we will be more dangerous, I thought that Jia Xu was a cautious person, even if Li Wei Guo Yan and they really made this kind of decision, he would definitely dissuade him, it seems that I still underestimated Jia Xu, since this person is a poisoner, naturally he will not care about the lives of the soldiers, However, the enemy army has lost the support of siege weapons, and they want to capture our Xinfeng City just by relying on the escalator, which is really underestimating us, right? ”

So Pei Qing ordered, let Xu Rong garrison the north gate, Zang Ba garrison the south gate, Zhang Chao garrison the west gate, Li Su garrison the east gate, in order to make up for the lack of ability of the generals, Pei Qing sent Deng Dang to assist Zhang Chao, Xie Yingdeng to assist Li Su, and he himself led his own soldiers as a mobile force, where there is danger, go wherever there is.

Among them, Xun You and Cai Yong sat on the tower and observed the overall situation of the siege soldiers, so as to grasp the enemy situation in time and respond quickly.

In fact, as early as last night, many of the equipment in the city defense were almost used, but fortunately, Pei Qing had the mentality of being prepared, and ordered the soldiers to pick up those rolling wood and stones and other equipment back to the city overnight, and these instruments came in handy today.

Since it was daytime, the line of sight was no longer a problem, so the soldiers were able to hit the enemy more accurately, firstly, to save the equipment to defend the city, and secondly, to relieve the pressure of defending the city.

After all, there are 30,000 troops in the city, even if the enemy army has more troops, but at most it can only surround and attack the city, and the siege equipment is seriously insufficient, so the real siege is limited after all, so today's defense of the city is not dangerous, although there are thousands of soldiers casualties, but after fighting for two hours, the Xiliang army left four or five thousand corpses, and finally retreated.

"Whew...... Finally retreated" Looking at the figure of the enemy army gradually moving away, Zhang Chao couldn't help but sigh softly, now he has become a little different from before, the previous arrogance is no longer there, but has become very calm and calm, but his ability is a little insufficient, which limits his achievements.

"It's a pity that this is Zhu Jun's general, I just cultivate talents for him, if he can be loyal to me, I will definitely be able to train him into a generation of peerless talents."

Pei Qing looked at Zhang Chao in front of him, and secretly sighed in his heart, but he still said in a deep voice: "However, we can't relax yet, this Jia Xu has always been cunning like a tiger, and he has no last resort, we can only strengthen our vigilance, keep it airtight, and we must not let him take advantage of the loopholes." ”

"What the Metropolitan Governor said is that the last general will give an order to let the soldiers go out of the city to pick up the city defense equipment, and at the same time strengthen the city defense and be on guard, our soldiers will take turns to be on guard, no matter what, they are not iron-clad and need to rest."

Pei Qing nodded when he heard the words and said: "That's it, the soldiers under my command will be in charge of guarding today, and when the city defense is almost ready, you will go down to rest, as long as the alarm bell rings, immediately come to the city head according to the designated position to gather." ”

"Good! However, I have to say that the method of the Metropolitan Governor is quite effective, once there is an emergency, the soldiers do not have to line up, and directly run to the fixed position on the city wall to gather, which greatly improves the efficiency of our team assembly, and at the same time, we can find out who did not arrive in the shortest possible time, although no one was late, not even those Xiliang soldiers who had just surrendered......"

Zhang Chao was sincerely amazed by many of Pei Qing's practices, and had to say that if Pei Qing was much worse than the previous general Zhu Jun in terms of experience in leading troops to fight, but if he talked about these strange methods, Zhu Jun might not be able to catch up with Pei Qing when he lifted his shoes, and this young man could always think of some unbelievable but very useful methods.

Pei Qing smiled faintly when he heard this, the responsibility is to the person, this is a very common management method in later generations, but it is indeed the most effective method, the first implementation, can achieve satisfactory results, after discovering the enemy's sneak attack, it is very timely to put in place, and immediately start defense.

And it turned out that the other side did not give them much time, and at the third watch of the same night, the soldiers on guard at the head of the city found that the enemy was coming, and they immediately sounded the alarm bell.

At this time, the soldiers were sleeping with their heads covered, and immediately got up again after hearing the alarm bell, this time they did not even remove their clothes and armor, so it was easier to get up, because the resting place was near the castle tower, so they moved very quickly, and only a stick of incense was already completely in place.

Then there was a tense offensive and defensive battle, but the soldiers in the city were already familiar with it, so they were also methodical defense, killing the enemy, after holding on for two hours, I saw that the Xiliang army was throwing down more than 3,000 corpses again, and Mingjin withdrew.

"What is this Jia Xu doing? It is common to know that the overnight siege is not only unfavorable to us, but also even more unfavorable to their besieging side, if you want to talk about casualties, or the number of their casualties, since the first confrontation last night, to now have three siege battles, a field battle, the total number of casualties of our army is nearly 4,000, but the other side has about 10,000 casualties, even if the Xiliang army is rich, it can't be so tossed, right? ”

After the victory, looking at the retreating enemy soldiers, Pei Qing's face was not proud, he looked at the vast night, and couldn't help but fall into thought, there was a trace of uneasiness in his heart, and he always vaguely felt that there was a conspiracy around him.