Under the starlight in the sky, the valley whined through the cold wind, bringing the scent of grass from time to time.

Li Yan stood on the wall of Turbid Deer City, looking at the Yan army that was still attacking under the city wall, and the vigilance in his heart was half a point more, and he couldn't even feel the cold at night. This was already the third large-scale assault launched by the Yan army in the past five days.

After the siege on the first day was foiled, after the sub-period was adjusted, they launched a larger-scale attack on the turbid deer, although it was still a bow and arrow to open the way, and the foot soldiers attacked, but this time, they used rockets.

When thousands of rockets flew towards the head of the city and lit a raging fire on the top of the city, the entire sky seemed to be shrouded in flames that could not be extinguished for a long time. But at this moment, if the soldiers guarding the city head are a little confused, it will give the Yan army who are ascending the ladder to the city tower an opportunity.

At this critical juncture, Li Yan had to take out his precious cavalry and assist the infantry in defending the city. And these majestic cavalry soldiers on horses are obviously not to be outdone on land, many of them were foot soldiers before, but this time they just returned to their old professions, and they are still very used to it.

Therefore, a group of foot soldiers stood at the mouth of the city wall, preventing the Yan army from boarding the city gate, and some cavalry helped to put out the fire everywhere to prevent the fire from spreading.

Not only that, Li Yan summoned the county commanders and the three old patriarchs in the city, and demanded that they must provide strong men, otherwise they will be punished for the crime of collaborating with the enemy. In this era, there is no so-called absolute concept of home and country. In the eyes of the common people, as long as they can live, it is the greatest happiness. Therefore, in addition to the city occupied for many years, it is rare for people to help defend the city in many places, and this time Li Yan threatened with his life, but he was not afraid that they would not obey.

Sure enough, under the leadership of the three old patriarchs, a group of two or three thousand strong men soon gathered, all of whom were from Fu. Such a number is already very impressive in the barren place of Turbidity Deer. Li Yan mixed them with the cavalry, divided them into three parts, and took turns to rest and defend, making the most of all the soldiers' energy.

Hastily calculated, in the past five days, the Yan army has attacked from the four city gates in turn, and there have been more than a dozen battles, large and small, Li Yan has to do a good job of coordination on the one hand. No matter what tricks Yan Jun played, he couldn't stick to it, so all the intrigues and tricks of the sub-period were ineffective. This saved Turbid Deer City.

"General, the Yan army has retreated again." Looking at Yan Jun, who was retreating like a tide, Xu Yuan, who was already covered in injuries, said happily.

Li Yan landed on the ground with his sword, looked at the situation of Yan Jun leaving, leaned on the pillar beside him, and said with all his might: "This kind of attack has been three or four times, and next time I come, I'm afraid it will be serious." ”

"Yes, the Yan army's fast and slow attack is really too tiring." Xu Yuan wiped the blood on his face, "Brothers haven't slept for a long time. ”

"yes." Li Yan looked at the soldiers of the Zhao Army on the city wall, and watched the Yan army retreat one by one, and immediately lay down under the city wall, and hurried to sleep for a while, not even realizing the pain when he was stepped on, which made his heart twitch a little. "But I can't help but cheer up, I'm afraid that after a while, the Yan army will attack again."

"This general of the Yan army is really calm."

"The more this happens, the more we have to be calmer than each other." Li Yan said slowly.

"I don't know what happened to General Zhao's side?"

"Yes, if they are tighter on their side, we will be looser on our side. The more they played, the easier it was for us. As long as I can threaten the safety of Yi County, I am not afraid to consume it with the other party. As he spoke, he regained some vigor and said to Xu Yuan, "Pass my order, the first team of soldiers will stand by to rest, and the second team of soldiers will come up to defend." Buy time for the first squad of soldiers to rest. ”

"Alas!" Xu Yuan shook his head, sighed fiercely, and went down to give the order.

At the same time, Zi looked forward to the turbid deer city wall that was still on fire, and was speechless for a long time.

This is the fifth day of coming to the muddy deer. In the past five days, Ziqi has continuously commanded the Yan army to attack Turbidity Deer City. In addition to the normal means, fire, assault, equipment and harassment are all taken to the extreme. In order to enhance the suddenness of the attack, he also carried out the tactics of harassing the Zhao army during the day and attacking the city at night. However, until now, Turbid Deer City is still under the jurisdiction of Zhao Jun, and it has not changed hands at all.

Moreover, the five-day attack had no effect, not only the morale of the army was greatly reduced, but even he had no confidence, he couldn't help but wonder, how many Zhao troops were on the chassis in the opposite Turbid Deer City, why could they not finish the battle? Why do they have so much energy to withstand their own attacks?

What particularly gave him a headache was the cavalry troops opposite. Every time this side began to charge, the cavalry troops on the opposite side would rush out of the city, moving in and out around their own formation, without the slightest fear. Since the siege of the city, his own chariots have also been humiliated by him repeatedly.

It is no wonder that other countries use cavalry as an auxiliary force, but Zhao Guo, a general, uses cavalry as the main force. Although they didn't have chariots, it was really the first time they had encountered this kind of tactics with cavalry.

"General, urgent military situation!" Just as he was about to reflect on the battle situation, a soldier appeared in front of him, his face was bloody, his breath was short, and he said urgently: "General, Yi County is in a hurry, we have been besieged by Zhao soldiers for two days. If you don't come back to help, I'm afraid it will be difficult for Yi County to keep it! ”

"What!" Ziqi grabbed his collar, his eyes widened angrily, and said viciously, "Say it again." ”

"Yi County is in a hurry, the Zhao army has besieged us for two days, if we don't come back to help, I'm afraid Yi County will be difficult to hold!"

Ziqi let go of his hand in a dejected manner, threw the soldier to the ground, and looked at the turbid deer city in front of him, he finally knew why he couldn't break the city, everything was a conspiracy.

In the big tent of the Yan army, Sima Xun, who already knew the cause and effect, walked in, looked at the sub-period gathered around the marching map, and hurriedly asked, "What's going on now?" ”

"We were fooled." Ziqi said without raising his head. He didn't have a good face for Sima Cheng at the moment, if it weren't for Zhongshan Guoli's main attack on Zhao, he wouldn't be in such a predicament now. "I'm afraid that Zhao Guo has already learned the news of our attack on Turbidity, and he has come to take care of him, and he has made a detour from other places to attack Yi County. It's been two days, I'm afraid it's a little later, and Yi County will be breached. ”

"Yixian County is an important logistics place, and there should be no problem with grain and grass. If they stay together, Zhao Jun may not be able to fight even if he wants to. Sima Cheng analyzed the sub-period.

Ziqi shook his head, "That's not the case, the purpose of Zhao Guo's attack this time, if it is not bad as expected, is to attack me and save it." As he spoke, he pointed to the marching map and gestured, "From Turbidity Lu to Yi County, there are no villages around, so there is no problem of supply. Our army is now quite abundant in grain and grass, because the replenishment had just been completed the day before yesterday, and if we run out of food from today, it will not exceed three days in total, and we will have to surrender because of the lack of food. ”

Of course, Sima Xun knew that the reason why he attacked Turbidity Deer before was to see that this place was lonely outside the territory of Zhao State, even if Zhao State wanted to rescue this place, there was only Flying Fox Valley to go, and Flying Fox Valley was dangerous, and it was naturally very difficult to replenish it; The second is that although Turbid Deer City relies on passes, it is not a pass itself, and the advantage of this is that once this place is captured, it will inevitably be the base of the next attack and grasp the initiative in the war. But he didn't expect that the two coalition forces, attacking in turn, still failed to capture this city. In this way, the promised raid war has become a protracted war, so that it has dragged down to this day, and if you want to leave, you really can't.

"What does the general mean?" Sima Xun asked cautiously.

Ziqi turned the map in a direction, spread it in front of Sima Cheng, and said: "Zhao Guo hopes to besiege Yi County and force our army to return to help, just like when Qi saved Zhao Guo, and if we return to help at this moment, it is no exaggeration to say that there must be an ambush of Zhao State waiting for us to go back." ”

"Yes, this plan is similar to the old story of besieging Wei to save Zhao." Sima Xun also nodded cautiously in agreement.

"Therefore, no matter how urgent the military situation is, we must advance cautiously and never rush lightly."

"However, Yi County's ....."

"Yi County's side, it's not that it can't be cracked." Ziqi said, "It's just that I still need Xiangbang's help." ”

"It's my duty to shirk it, I don't know the sub-general's clever plan."

Ziqi pointed to the map and said, "This place is Tang County, where the border between Yan and Zhongshan is located. A certain hope that Xiangbang can give an order to dispatch the soldiers of Tang County and rush to the aid of Yi County. At the same time, a certain will also give an order to mobilize the soldiers of the surrounding cities of Yi County and rush to the aid of Yi County. It is hoped that the siege of Yi County can be temporarily lifted. ”

"And then?"

"The front team of our army has changed to the rear, the two wings have become the forward, the cavalry has opened the way, the chariots are second, and the foot soldiers are again, and the three teams of the front, middle and rear have driven to Yi County. This arrangement is also in the hope that the cavalry can quickly find out the enemy's situation and clear the obstacles for our army. ”

"If so, of course it would be the best." Sima Xun nodded, I have to say that the general of the sub-period really didn't become by going through the back door, but he was a bit really talented. Otherwise, if you change to someone else, you may be able to return to the aid and repeat the old things of Pang Juan. "However, I think that even so, I might as well let me wait for a small plan to make Zhao Jun suffer a loss, how about it?"

Ziqi's eyes lit up, and his eyes immediately changed when he looked at Sima Yun. In the face of the military situation, a general who can be in danger is considered a qualified general, and in the face of the military situation, he can still talk and laugh freely, even if he is the last famous general. Sima Cheng really deserves to be the prime minister of Zhongshan Kingdom, and he has a special talent in leading troops to fight.

"Will the plan be released?"

Sima Xun searched for a long time, and suddenly as if he had seen a treasure, he smiled and pointed to a place north of Yi County and said, "This place will be the place where you and I will break the enemy." ”

Ziqi looked at his fingers, and there were two words clearly written on it, "spoon beam"